skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These loose groups of people can indeed influence the public, and are using this ability to promote vaccines.

There is nothing loose about the US media and political establishments. If you watch mainstream media with any regularity you'd think it was two departments of one corporation.

> The problem is that some folks are jumping to the conclusion that they are doing this because they want to sacrifice their own interests to increase profits for big pharma.

I didn't see anyone make that claim. There are many extensively documented cases of collusion between government and media. 9/11 coverage, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars, virtually any coverage of foreign adversaries (Russia, China, Iran), vaccines, etc. being some obvious examples.

> I know it's comfortable to think that the world's largest economy is entirely under control of three companies, but I see no compelling evidence that this is the case.

Oh yeah, can't think of anything more comfortable to think of!
As we saw when mask mandates were dropped for the vaccinated, the unvaccinated just lied and said they were. Same here - everyone who has neither been vaccinated nor infected will just claim they’ve had Covid. That is, unless we start testing everyone for antibodies.
> I reject on principle the reasoning that X must undergo unnecessary medical procedure to lower hypothetical odds of Y being afflicted by some negative outcome.

It sounds like you reject the entire concept of public health. That is going to be a bit of a problem when you are engaging in a debate about public health policy.
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From my anecdotal evidence (+ research on the web), charging in car is the worse thing you could do to any phone.

* charging in hot environment

* charging in GPS mode with sunlight on the phone (very bad)

* unstable current due to the way car alternator work

* power charging with QC or USB-PD

As a result, I have avoided all this and only charge with a genuine "low" current standard 2A Apple charger at night. Only exceptionally I will use a QC charger. I also avoid wireless charging with the excess heat.

It has been 6 months and my battery health is still at 99%.
If you mean anti-bodies, then they've been sampling the population and know the percent of people who've got anti-bodies.

If you mean something else, you're a victim of fake news.
I took the word "anything" too literally.

I interpreted "conclude anything from" as "have a different posterior probability distribution" rather than "have a significantly different posterior probability distribution". This was an error on my part.

Thanks for the elaboration.
Yes eating a healthy diet and getting to a normal weight can have a huge positive impact on your QoL. We can do that along with vaccination; they aren't exclusive. And both will significantly reduce your COVID-19 risk.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm
40B valuation for a collaborative design tool?
> a huge segment of the population [might just] get infected purposefully

This made sense as a fear before vaccines were available. If immunity passports existed, and the only way to get one was to be infected - sure some people would do they.

Howver now it would be much easier to get vaccinated than finding an infection and get it registered. The policy would save a bunch of people from a couple of vaccine induced sick days without any reasonable downsides. Seems like an easy decision to make.
The source perpetuates this motherflowing trend: Tensorflow, Airflow, MLflow, Metaflow, KubeFlow, Timeflow.
> flu vaccines are based on weakened viral particles, not mRNA transcriptions of key viral proteins

Thankfully this is changing. Moderna is entering trials for an mRNA vaccine for seasonal flu. The faster development time for mRNA vaccines will mean more time to study the emerging flu strains before committing to which to include in the booster.
They briefly mentioned “choose focus after the shot”, so I imagine there will be pretty good UX for editing on-device.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what I need (and what the data team at my company spectacularly fails to deliver) is fast access to post-ETL data as well as pre-ETL data. I need the raw data sometimes, I need the processed data sometimes. What I get instead is no access to the raw data, and broken/slow/uninsured access to the processed data. I don't know about other people but in general I think a decent data warehouse would make me happy and the aspiration to be a datalake is what causes the data team to make me unhappy - they fail to provide the basics because they've heard too many buzzwords.
I think the asset price inflation is a secondary benefit (and may help if it makes people feel wealthier and more likely to spend/invest). The main goal of the Fed's asset purchases is to lower long term interest rates (they can only directly control short-term rates). This makes borrowing more affordable for everyone.
Thanks for the tl;dr! The one-word refutation was a nice touch. Very persuasive and compelling argument.
I largely agree with most everything that you said, regarding enforcement pragmatism and the like.

But I must remind that, at least in this particular conversation, we're talking about people who've just had the illness in question. We don't know how many of the 1,500/day are people who have previously contracted the illness or else contracted the illness from someone else who previously caught the illness, but in all likelihood the proportion of such cases is likely very low. So referencing the 1,500/day likely has very little relevance to a discussion of natural immunity.
From Malthus through the Club of Rome and now this Chatham House there is an ongoing stream of dire predictions of apocalyptic events, none of which have come to pass. The same will be true for this report and - and this is the unfortunate part - nothing will be learned from yet another failed prediction of doomsday which evens the path for the next iteration of this cycle. In 20 years the world will mostly look like it does now, give or take the results of a few international conflicts and natural disasters. Some parts will have progressed in some way, other parts will have regressed in some way, the rest will be comparable to the way it looks now. The temperature will be different, possibly somewhat warmer unless an as of yet unknown factor ends up playing a role in the fluctuations of the climate - e.g. an increase in albedo due to an increase in cloud cover, changing ocean currents, etc.

Meanwhile the public has to absorb yet another failed prediction of doomsday, leading to an even lower trust in these types of predictions.

What was gained, other than giving Chatham House a place at the table? What is to happen if there is some real emergency - an incoming asteroid is detected, there ae real signs of a supervolcano on the verge of eruption - and people ignore it as yet another piece of panic porn?
What a foolish idea. Buy everyone in cities an electric scooter. They are far more compact, cheaper, easier to run and also they are a lot cheaper. And you don't need to mess around with licenses and stuff They only weigh max 20kg and go 15mph. Also electric bikes. Electric mopeds are a waste of money but scooters can really help.
I was surprised how easy the upgrade process is these days. You more or less hold your old phone near the new one and click allow.
That's an awfully generous viewpoint to take. One might imagine that the world's largest, highest valued company would find a more elegant solution than turning my phone into a portion of their botnet.
Yeah I've never used Nix so I don't know how it relates to cloud systems. As a developer, how would I use Nix to develop an app on my machine, and ship it to 1,000 cloud-orchestrated systems, using the same immutable image? Is there any reason why one would use Nix with Docker instead of Debian with Docker?

Keep in mind that all large-scale systems work based on deploying container images. If it's not in a container image, it's not getting deployed.
I wouldn't think of Black Swan events as tail events, so much as model failures or regime-changes. As in, 'we modeled this as a time-invariant gaussian distribution, but it's actually a mixture model where the second hidden mode was triggered in the aftermath of an asteroid strike that we didn't model for, because of course we didn't.'

In re, the arguey-person you were responding to, frequentist modeling is just as bad or worse for these sorts of situations.
Ah SAS, the one language that makes R look good.
People's opinion of the trustworthiness of authorities wasn't a blank slate when COVID began. Some people already believed (based on their life experience) that authorities are untrustworthy, and therefore chose to be skeptical of their claims during early COVID. Then examples of authorities lying about COVID/masks came out, which convinced those people that they were right all along. They'll be even more skeptical of the authorities next time.
A-frickin-men

It's absurd, really, how ads have become such an invasive part of our lives. To the point where you're looked down upon as abnormal for not appreciating ads.
Vaccines help prevent transmission. They are not 100% effective - the effectiveness depends on the vaccine and variant and study but quite high. That's a long way of saying that they "don't prevent transmission"
You in a top price area like SF or NYC? Then you’re in local competition with other top 1-10%ers.
Some of the high profile hosted sites are fairly objectively fascist. Yes, the hackers should have filtered their leak to those clients, but the word is being used pretty truthfully.
It resolves via DoH and also offers a DoH server, so the ISP cannot.
Gibraltar isn't an island in the middle of the ocean. It's a tiny peninsula attached to the Spanish city of La Linea de la Concepcion. Many Gibraltarians interact with Spaniards on a daily basis. And indeed, the spike in Gibraltar cases coincides exactly with a much larger spike in cases in Spain:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain
You have no power over them if they choose to keep it this way forever. Especially in Australia. What are you going to do to the contrary? And how can you guarantee they won't choose to keep it this way forever?

The quaranting itself is not the enslavement. It's how they are going about it and what kinds of systems they want to build.
If you were the king of science, I'd kindly ask you to think about replacing grant financing and all other financial incentives that go along with publishing. Now that would be efficient. 'Cause I currently make .05-barely-significant-results but if you force me to up my game I will provide .0001-barely-significant-results no problem, even with 'preregistration' or whatever hoop you hold in front of me.

As an aside, could you also please make medicine a real science, so I can finally scientifically demonstrate that my boss is wrong?
Ah, fair enough - thought you meant over time.
Is "verification of eligibility" really what the gun-control people want? Aren't they trying to argue that even people who can 100% prove that their record is squeaky-clean still shouldn't be allowed to own guns?
Some vaccination rates[1]:

Democrats: 88%

Republicans: 55%

Republicans who support party more than Trump: 62%

Republicans who support Trump more than party: 46%

Biden voters in 2020 general election: 91%

Trump voters in 2020 general election: 50%

Let's not "both sides" this issue. It should be obvious who is to blame for the US's less than stellar vaccination rates and it isn't well-intentioned but manipulative messaging coming from health officials.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-news-pol...
Yeah I was shocked to read that too. Sounds like if it's true an epic intelligence failure and maybe a reason not to put death by drone control into lower level field decision makers.

But I would think murder war crime implies intent not negligence.
Someone with only a distant view of the space industry said to me, 'I don't understand they excitement over the new private launch companies (Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, etc.). They are doing things that were accomplished 50 years ago; they are just money-making ventures, not exploration.' I think it's a good point to think about (try to restrain yourself, as I do, from picking at their point-of-view).

They will be happy to hear about Woz's project; Woz is doing something useful with the opportunity for commercial space.
N95 have a warning they aren't meant for asbestos which is fifty times larger than corona virus. Cloth masks? As effective as stopping flies with a chain link fence. The studies that purport masks work use mannequins with sealed surgical masks. It doesn't work irl that way unfortunately.
If you’re going to force the vaccine if persuasion fails then why bother with persuasion?
That was my first and last important thing running off SD. And I too have had a few uSDs die in RPis. Though at work I have a Beckhoff PLC in a machine with a uSD running in a control cabinet. Still running fine after 2.5 years and I've not heard of issues with them. I'll have to find out which brand it is.

I run both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. FreeBSD for recently built home server as it has first class zfs support, bhyve works well, and excellent docs. OpenBSD as I know a few hard core users, and I've been using it on old hardware for years (have an imac G3 running it :). VPS for webcrap. OpenBSD is clean and they have good documentation as well. At the bottom of the following link is the pf router how-to I want to give a go, https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/
Oh, but then you change the character of my neighborhood and I can’t stand that (even though my house was built on an earlier open space, messing up someone else’s bucolic preserve, and I conveniently forget that fact).
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Yes I know since I look askance at modernity too. But he was seldom serious (in a literal sense) about anything except sports. The seriousness was in the inferences, usually. This tweet (since deleted) if serious, was at least out of character.
I missed your link in the parent - if there's plenty of evidence that getting the vaccine is actually more risky for a certain group than not getting it, sure, let's avoid giving them the vaccine. It should be obvious that when I say "willingly unvaccinated" I mean people who aren't at risk or have a condition that prevents them from getting vaccinated who refuse it.

>If you're not simply ignorant to history and being tricked by the narrative, at least be honest about what you actually want - which is to control others.

I want to keep myself and my loved ones safe - I've got 3 different family members who are both vulnerable to COVID and require in-home care. It's not feasible for them to self-isolate.
I mean if we all just stopped using advertising based products then they couldn’t afford to pay our best and brightest.
>Is information from these social programs a necessity for filing taxes? If so, the fix is simple: have them report these numbers into the IRS.

You misunderstand. The IRS implements the social program via the tax system.

For example, most European countries operate some kind of universal child benefit for parents. So maybe parents can receive a weekly payment of some kind.

In the U.S. this program does not exist. Instead, there is a refundable tax credit (the Child Tax Credit). When you file your taxes, you tell the IRS how many children you have, how old they are and so on and if your taxes are low enough that the credit offsets your taxes, the IRS sends you a check for the difference.

Similarly, many European countries have some form of government income support for low earners; again typically paid by some social security agency.

Although there is a program called TANF that does this for the most needy, the majority of benefits are delivered through another refundable tax credit (the Earned Income Tax Credit). Again you end up sending the IRS all the data necessary about why you qualify for this social program and maybe you get a check back at the end.

Basically, a significant amount of the transfer payments for social programs in the U.S. are implemented directly in the tax code, so the "tax filings" that people have to make combine both income information as well as qualifications for social benefits.
I wish I could get a third dose. She in effect has had a booster.
cool now do obesity
Adjusting information density to the desired audience is a very real thing. I've also had a lot of success (and fun!) with internal tools that display a lot of stuff but would be terrible for consumer software
Reading the wikipedia page, I'm highly skeptical of the validity of anything that comes out of that org.
Maybe https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2MltCiKcgP8
Seems unlikely, Databricks used the term in a blog post January/2020[0], while the linked paper suggests it was published January/2021. Edit: Given databricks was involved in this paper, perhaps this is the first.. although both Databricks and Snowflake (and to a lesser extent Google which favours lake/warehouse convergence) have been using the term for a number of years

[0]: https://databricks.com/blog/2020/01/30/what-is-a-data-lakeho...

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/data-l...
sure, but apple trying to claim popular/inclusive cred for an affluent product is still tone deaf, akin to exploiters trying to claim the moral high ground.
I think the explanation may be even more low level than that. Iirc, even with a single neuron (or maybe if it was very small clusters, sorry recollection is a bit hazy) you can see that it learns to tune out a repetitive signal.
Apple's refusal to allow alternative payment methods is (and has been) the issue. They can take 99% for all I care, but their smug refusal to allow alternative payment methods all but confirms that it's a ripoff.
While I support the idea of breaking up big tech, I don't think it'll be the panacea everyone is hoping it'll be. We need real, substantive change with regards to privacy, security, and business ethics; if they're broken up as is, we'll have N*X companies seriously good at abusing us and the competition instead of just N.

We need to take firm steps to outlaw the practices that got us to this point in the first place. Ban dark patterns, mandate data-use as opt-in outside of a TOS, require breach disclosure within a set period of time, grant exclusive ownership to user generated content to the user, et cetera. There is a lot we can do here!
The oscilloscope-as-wire idea is one of those rare ideas that seems obvious in hindsight, yet no one (to my knowledge) has done it before, at least in a box-and-pin UI.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see it start popping up elsewhere, similar to how Ableton made everyone realize they had somehow been living without retrospective MIDI capture.
So that's a job best left to private insurance companies excluding coverage?
That's wild. Would there ever be a usecase for this in a normal web app? I.e. would it be possible that decoding could take less time than downloading the extra data?
I don't know if legal. But probably against the terms of service of the credit card issuer.

At least one of my cards has "non-transferable" text on the back.
Party on Highway or the Keyboard Driver?
EU recognizes natural immunity for travel to/in EU and national health pass checks.
You want entrepreneurs who don't fail? Then they aren't entrepreneurs.
Don’t forget you’re on a tech-enthusiast forum. Your “old phone” is most likely less than three years old.

My mother will be thrilled with the new camera, coming from her iPhone 6.
California is ahead of the rest of the country on Delta. Rates have fallen considerably there. They are only just starting to fall elsewhere; in some places they are still rising.
I'm no expert in this field and was genuinely asking, but if someone knows of better things then please go for it!
I don't believe in any of that, personally. I was simply responding to "he's the funniest man alive" or such.
Like my dad, who was initially admitted for pneumonia. Which can be caused by COVID, which he tested positive for.

He might not still have COVID from the “test positive” perspective, but he still has greatly reduced lung function.

No clue how that would show up in the stats, but goes to show stats can be misused to tell different stories, such as our response to COVID being overblown.
I read the last sentence as "Just my 2°C". I blame it on the over use of 2°C in all these reports.
Isn’t the point of building stuff on top of blob stores is that it’s too much data to be housed in normal RDBMSs and the performance expectations are vastly different (run this report that needs to return results in days/weeks not ms) so you can go way way cheaper and slower with the storage?
Completely agree.
I was on to them around 2007-8 and embraced them completely. My first device was Bold with BIS. Subsequently, I realised BES was better and experimented with that. It was a superior experience to the present devices. The keyboard was my second brain. The devices made me super fast, efficient and useful.
So many people don't fully grasp the concept of liberty.
“Nothing kills more Americans than heart disease and stroke. More than 868,000 Americans die of heart disease or stroke every year—that’s one-third of all deaths. These diseases take an economic toll, as well, costing our health care system $214 billion per year and causing $138 billion in lost productivity on the job”

If we legislated based on cost to healthcare we would have already gone after heart disease. Heart disease is mostly avoidable and it’s caused by choices we make over our lives.

https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm
That does not follow..
For a non-Nix user, what do you mean by "app state"? Things like config files?
California is an import-consumer-product route for the US.

SCS is an export-everything/import-food-energy-also-basically-everything route for China.

Gulf of Mexico + Caribbean would be a far closer comparison with whatever non North American US exports that exist going out through there, and eg Cuba, Venezuela & all the other nations vs California’s fish.
If smoking were contagious with an R-factor of 3-6, overflowing hospitals and ICUs, and could be cured by two shots a year, it might not be a bad idea.

A better example, actually, is someone refusing free treatment for lung cancer at stage 1, because they believe that cancer isn't real and Big Onco is trying to kill them, and then barging into the hospital, and demanding treatment when they hit stage 3. I'd have very little sympathy for that person.
Productivity is a function of both labor and capital. The owners of a factory might invest in machines that are 10x more efficient, but if they're no more difficult to operate, then the labor won't be any more scarce (and therefore won't command a higher wage). In fact, it might actually reduce demand for labor, because companies won't need as many people to maintain the same level of output.
Esoteric branches of mathematics do not have a long and ongoing history of being used to marginalize and take advantage of groups of people.

And I notice you cannot answer any of my questions as to how you would define races.
Mark Twain - “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
I happened to read it already.

Are you willing to bet that the tweaked Moderna vaccine (the trials of it was announced, right?) shows worse efficacy than the original? Odds 51:49 in your favor, null hypothesis of the same efficacy is a tie. That's generous I think, if nobody knows.

If not - why not?
> I have also noticed that touch sensitivity has increased and decreased based on which app I am using.

...no way, really?! Could any iOS developers chime in on whether their are actually ways for apps to control this?
I'd put the whole censorship of debate and deplatforming dissenters in the left leaning media and tech companies. That made compliance very difficult for me personally as all trust was gone after that.
The vaccine against obesity is a healthy diet. It's cheap, it's easy, it's all about choice.