skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the vaccination can also have side effects, but data seems to be hard to come by. When I read "unvaccinated people have ten times higher odds of being hospitalised because of covid", apart from wondering about the absolute odds which are notably missing from the article (ten times more than one in a hundred is different from ten times more than one in a million), I wonder how many become hospitalized because of vaccines. It may well be that the number is low and vaccinated still comes out ahead, but it would be nice to know. (Also have to factor in the risk of getting Covid to begin with - while they say everybody will get it eventually, will that eventually be in time to be a variant the vaccine still works against? And why bother with masks if everybody will get it anyway?).
Imagine getting your news from NPR.
Causality if far more complex than perceived by the subconscious mind.
I agree with the premise, but how do you see Reddit as an example?
How many decibels to start fires that firefighters wouldn't be able to touch?
Not paywalled ... you don't need to pay.

You do need to register, but that's different.
Governments' have been known to be in the spying game since humans formed societies and kingdoms emerged. ( https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24749166 ). Even our modern postal system are somewhat developed on the Roman model of its own messenger service, which was mainly created for easy spying and to protect the rulers from espionage. ( https://www.historynet.com/espionage-in-ancient-rome.htm )

Pegasus is just a tool, and we shouldn't be shocked that a government owns or even uses such a tool. Our only concern should be whether the use of such tools are well-defined and legal, and upholds our democratic values.

A functional and thriving democracy ensures that those voted to power cannot abuse their privilege. Or those who do abuse it cannot do so without repercussions.

We can see this in action in India today, where the current Modi government in power is accused of abusing this very privilege and using Pegasus to spy on activists, journalists and opposition leaders that the Modi regime considers a threat to itself ( https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/explained-pegasus-and... ).

If true, that's a gross abuse of power, and a threat to India's democracy. Pegasus isn't the worry here - if a government in power doesn't have any respect for democracy, that threat will remain whether Pegasus exists or not.

Opposition politicians have already raised the issue in the Parliament. Some of the concerned citizens, who believe they were the target of such surveillance, have already filed petitions in the Supreme Court of India, and the court has summoned the government to explain and defend itself ( https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/pegasus-case-supreme-cour... ).

If the allegation are true, this case will reveal how much the "checks and balances" of Indian democracy have failed (indicating that it has become a dysfunctional democracy). Or the revelations of this case may just strengthen indian democracy, with more checks and balances by the court and (who knows) maybe even stronger privacy laws.

Germany (or any other country) too should have the same concerns - worry about your democracy and stronger privacy laws. Pegasus is irrelevant in the larger scheme.
> (is?)

Yes, it still is. It's no longer supplied separately and instead is included in Visual Studio (or in the "Build Tools for Visual Studio"), but it is still there. Newer, 64-bit, version is called ML64 but still referred to as MASM/Macro Assembler.
Einstein can help: https://books.google.com/books/download/Relativity.pdf?id=3H...

His book was intended to help people understand these exact questions, without getting into any complex math.

Regarding "how is this possible?": This was experimentally verified in the 70s in the Hafele–Keating Experiment. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele%E2%80%93Keating_experim...
Agreed. Firefox's userbase is moronically hostile to anything that might give the company legs and a non-Google revenue stream. They want a pristine, moral FOSS project that just makes amazing software and subsists on donations.
> I had loosened up with wearing masks and social distancing

Moron

> We had flown across the country, seen friends [without masks], stayed at a hotel, eaten indoors [without masks]

Moron

People don’t think N95s and social distancing are worth the effort and then they act like other people’s shitty behavior excuses them. They knew all of this but want to feign ignorance now because of consequences.

I’m glad they got sick because they can evangelize the correct behavior but they knew all along. What a stupid fucking idiot.

Please flag and downvote me Floridamen, you only further prove the point.
Looks to me like the short answer to the question posed in the headline is that matter is composed at an atomic or subatomic level of energies similar to light and so it would be quite inconvenient to try to propel the mass as a whole faster that its constituent parts can go. A similar principle may well be true for straight-line inertia, which might be caused by the same as the force that makes gyros stay on course. In general the scientific discussions seem to touch these ideas but approach theories in reverse of intuition so it's hard to know if they align.
>> Is heart disease exponentially contagious with the potential to strain medical resources in a matter of days?

> How is this relevant when vaccinated people are still contagious?

Because while still contagious, they are not exponentially contagious. It's not like I left out that important qualifier in the statement you are replying to.

Vaccinated people can spread in case of a breakthrough infection and infections are less likely to occur in vaccinated individuals.

> Just like banning encryption isn't against social freedoms...

Way to go attacking a straw man, and not even a particularly clever one at that. What does encryption have anything to do with vaccination and vaccination passports?
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I'm trying to lose a little weight - so far, so good.

But the literature on nutrition as it relates to saturated fats is conflicting. Newer research seems to suggest that sugars and ultra-processed carbs contribute more to negative health outcomes than saturated fats. In essence, you'd be better off ditching junk food than bacon.

Enjoy your diet. Eat some bacon. Do a fry up with bacon fat every so often. Ditch the Twinkies. A well rounded diet with enjoyable flavors, and a little daily exercise is more tenable, healthier and enjoyable than going puritanical about bacon.
Only when they do something reckless, like look at their cellphones or sleep on rhe wheel. Or speed or blow a red light.

Otherwise it’s civil penalties at most
Not in case of vaccinations.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exe...

Medical data does have various protections in the US, but it’s far more limited than just blanket protection.
Also an important pigment (white lead), which was not only widely used in paints until the 20th century (though the US amongst others still hasn't signed the 1923 white lead convention), but also hugely popular cosmetics (skin whiteners): lead powder, lead paints, lead/mercury, lead/vinegar (venetian ceruse).
The cost was quite high (financial, US lives lost, local lived lost). Perhaps there were better ways of preventing large-scale attacks on the US?
If they were to wait a year and then come find you far away, would it net out and you’d be the same age?
Is there any study to back this up?
I don't think most "small charter operations" would be General Aviation (unless I understand what's being chartered here?) and although most GA planes are pistons that's not part of the definition. What matters is why you're flying, not what you fly.

The categories (for non-military use) are generally Scheduled or Air Transport (any time you buy tickets for a flight, that's the category, you don't know or care who is flying, you paid for the journey between a specific origin and destination at a specific time; a FedEx plane is also Transport), then Commercial (not Transport but somebody is getting paid to fly aircraft, maybe it's crop spraying, TV news copter, police, or just another TV priest being flown around in his private jet), and only if nobody was getting paid is it General Aviation.

If your cosmetic dentist can afford a brand new Vision Jet so that he can live 100 miles away and fly in to do $5000 appointments without sitting in traffic, that's General Aviation. The authorities don't care that he's getting paid to be a dentist, he's not getting paid to fly his plane.

If your airline uses a relatively tiny PA-42 to get customers to an obscure but important airstrip with maybe 3-4 passengers per day that's still Air Transport.

On the other hand if some oil sheik owns their own A320 with their own custom decor and has a team of pilots to fly it wherever they want, that's still only Commercial, not Air Transport because nobody is buying tickets, it just goes wherever he wants.
The whole quote was "As a book I recently reviewed explains in great detail, elites are selected primarily for their prestige and status, which has many contributions, including money, looks, fame, charm, wit, positions of power, etc.".

The book is Lauren A. Rivera’s 'Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs' https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691155623/pe... which gives the tagline "How social class determines who lands the best jobs".

Robin Hanson's review of the book: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/11/what-makes-prestige.h...

I completely disagree money is all that matters. I expect the book explains why other markers of prestige/status are deeply important. We can all name influential people that are not wealthy - which proves that money isn't everything.

I think it is rude to selectively quote someone who has gone to the effort to point to what backs up their statement. You are disagreeing with a book, not Robin.
I know what Pipewire does ... I wrote JACK :)

I was describing what macOS does not not allow, and that's routing audio between applications. When I say that, I don't mean that it is impossible - there are numerous tools (including JACK) that will allow it - but it doesn't come with just CoreAudio itself.
I have worked for over 20 years in IT development and consulting while loosely making my own original (self produced) music and (occasionally) performing live. I decided the past year (mid 2020 until now) after all of the pandemic issues and shutdowns to see how far my music would go and I incorporated my record label and released more music than I ever have before. My plan was always to be practical first before being adventurous. Many of my musician friends who were adventurous are stuck trying to recover financially and catch up skill-wise now that they have families and health care needs, so practicality simply has to be a part of any plan in my opinion unless you are born with a silver spoon (which i wasn't)

I found that may others had the same idea, and that I was instantly competing with many others that had a lot more resources than me, including major industry record labels. Conversely, I had more time to realize that a lot of the statistics were not realistic because of taking the time out to investigate with my knowledge of IT and development.

A lot, probably of the majority of musicians that look successful are in reality not. Most are discovered based upon their geographical location and connections they have (especially family connections and sheer luck or favoritism that I really can't be jealous of). Success (real honest success) is a very steep uphill battle for everyone in any career field.

Based on my experience though, I'll never stop creating music and doing things my way, but social media is of little help and lots of hype in terms of music discovery, so I stopped investing heavily in it, developed my own web site, and I spend time producing video content to accompany my music rather than posting monologues and skits. I love what I do, and no longer have dreams of it paying off, but regardless I'm very fortunate to have work that pays very well as a back up plan. No regrets on my end.
We do this. We're only a small 12-person software agency, we have two Elixir developers right now.

When we hired the 2nd, we looked for someone who had good knowledge of Node, Rails, Laravel or whatever and were excited to learn Elixir/Phoenix. Then they completed a Udemy course and started practicing. It worked out pretty great!
Name checks :)

The content is informative (within the poster's partial opinion) and the epithets can just be interpreted as colourful language to lighten up. Is it possible you interpreted it differently? In some cultures that post has the style intentionally used to elicit a warm laughter - styling is legitimate when applied to a valid (promoting "intellectual curiosity") content.
The plural of anecdote is data, though. That’s the original expression [1]; unclear why it became popular to flip it around.

[1] http://blog.danwin.com/don-t-forget-the-plural-of-anecdote-i...
I’m trying to imagine a building or office manager using these stats as a defense against his or her failure to protect employees from a trespasser. “That assault happened but it was really unlikely so I should be in the clear”

You do not allow a situation like this to occur. If it does, there is a serious problem with your security. Period.
Frankly though, I not sure why they couldn't just use a simpler correction: postulate that moving charge only creates magnetic field with regard to objects moving relative to it. Which is also basically true?

This way, the stationary observer will sure notice that there's F_B, but will also know that the charge moving alongside the (also moving) rod does not experience it.
conspiracy theory**
> Because while still contagious, they are not exponentially contagious.

All contagion is exponential, but they have a much lower exponent.
Thanks. NPR used to have a pop-up asking if one wants to be tracked or go to the text-only version. Now they only offer getting tracked or some convoluted guide on “other options”.
> Unfortunately the vaccination can also have side effects, but data seems to be hard to come by.

Data is not hard to come by. It is being closely monitored, leading to short pauses in administration of the J&J and Astrazeneca vaccines while small clusters of rare side effects were investigated.

We can very comfortably say it's nothing like the 600k Americans dead of COVID, despite more Americans getting vaccinated than have gotten COVID.
The vaccine card is to prove you are vaccinated. In both cases they're merely after a boolean (is_over_18? vs is_vaccinated?).

But we're clearly accepting the idea of giving up way more information in the former case even though all that's needed is the boolean, so why the fuss around the vaccines when they're ultimately also after a boolean?
All correct, though the progression from “a couple of cells” to “person” obviously has a lot of interpretation that will be different for different people.

An interesting thing is that the law is, as I see it, allowing civil protection for being offended at another’s actions, since the citizen plaintiffs otherwise have no standing. Should SCOTUS uphold this mode that’s a messed-up principle that can be gamed by every legislature to create chaos in our courts.

I also wonder if companies will simply put big centers in red and blue areas to allow employees to pick the place they’d rather be. In a remote-first era, HQ location matters less than it did.
"Next, a headache clamped down on the back of my skull. Then my eyeballs started to ache. "

Why do I feel like this was written in an alarmist tone with some kind of an agenda?
Toxic fumes from burning unleaded gasoline are actually a big problem and your car has a lot of expensive catalytic stuff to limit them.
Your premise is that people are not suggestible? I think the past decade of social media has conclusively origen that wrong.
No mention of testing for flu, only multiple negative tests for covid. There is more than one disease.
I suppose I should have read all of the comments before posting my response to another comment. There has been a study on this:

2018: https://cssl.osu.edu/documents/cpds-key-findings-2018.pdf

2015: https://cssl.osu.edu/posts/632320bc-704d-4eef-8bcb-87c83019f...

In 2015 18.6% and in 2018 15.9% of respondents admitted to misusing stimulants for non-medical reasons

Perhaps adjust the Twitter link to an actual study instead of being removed altogether. It does seem there is something to discuss even if the reported anecdotes are flawed.
San Francisco is on track to spend about $1.1 Billion dollars on homelessness this year, and $600M next year.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-has-an-unpre...

So it's not for lack of spending. But 40 years ago, we decided to downzone the city because we don't like even mid-rise buildings, and then we got a massive jobs boom.

Combine a huge amount of wealth creation, with a very constrained housing supply, and you're going to have price shocks, which will push the most vulnerable out on the streets. That's what we see.

And I happen to live in the neighborhood that that used to be much more light industrial, and happens to have the most shelters and services for anyone experiencing homelessness. Generally the others parts of the city fight against any kind of shelters or services... so it all ends up here.
There’s a lot of conflicting data about the vaccine effectiveness against reducing symptoms of breakthrough infections.

It’s interesting though, that the author’s symptoms sound about average for someone of their age group if unvaccinated, which is around the same or slightly worse than what all of the people under 50 I know who got Covid reported, whether vaccinated or not.
> Perhaps the government should open companies that are meant to lose money

Canada used to have crown corporations (until conservative governments sold them off to do a one time balancing of the budget).

When done well the crown Corp. serves a valuable purpose. The government no longer needs to rely on industry to tell them what is needed.

Eg. In this scenario the crown Corp. refinery would have their own scientists doing research to stop the engine knock and those scientists would have the expertise to know of safer alternatives and would use those as additives. Creating a more competitive environment.

The government can also use those industry experts to get honest answers on what the industry needs. Eg. “Mr. lobbyist, If these safety standards increase your industry’s costs too much then how come our own government plant is seeing net cost savings due to lower worker injuries?”

It’s a crime that in short term interests crown corps have largely stopped being a thing.
CO₂ could be candidate. Perhaps the effect will be even at a grander scale than leaded gas.
He did a PCR that returned positive
Architecting GenServers for Testability in Elixir
I don’t know a single person who was hospitalised from the vaccine, and almost every adult I know has got it.

Conversely, several people I know were hospitalised from COVID, one of whom was killed.

Anecdotal, of course, but in the absence of better data, I’d be interested in other peoples’ experiences.

I’ll also note that in my country someone dying of the vaccine is a news-making story. Someone dying of COVID isn’t, because, sadly, it wouldn’t be “new” at all.
Sounds like Little America on I-80 in Wyoming.
PSA: Unlike the soundly unconstitutional measures that followed 9/11 (eg:bulk warrantless surveillance), Covid measures sunset.

That is all. Thank you for your attention.
> It is a project [/ PITA]

Agreed, although the only PITA for me was buying a phone that was OEM / Dev unlocked. I was buying on eBay and the sellers just couldn't understand, despite my explanations, that I wanted a phone that was Developer unlocked, not carrier unlocked.

> I personally couldn't stomach getting a pixel 4a

Yea, I considered getting a Pixel newer than the '4' but I didn't see any advantage

> Most painful tradeoffs is the camera app

I don't take a lot of pictures but I did notice the photo quality is inferior now. I'm not sure what 'magic' the software was doing before, but it was a lot

> I replaced YouTube with NewPipe

Yea, NewPipe works well. I imported all my subscribers from YouTube. The lack of discoverability doesn't bother me though

> ..have to find it on a search engine

If I couldn't find it on f-droid I got in the habit of just searching for <app I want> + "apk"

> boot loader is unlocked..I'm not sure all the security implications of that

Security implications are.. no security

Also, some of my infrequently used apps will have a pop-up at the first about requiring Google Play Services but I just hit 'ok' and continue to use the app

There is some site that shows apps that "for sure" work, but I'll add a summary of my apps:

* Browser: Bromite

* YouTube Replacement: NewPipe

* 2-factor app: Authy

* Maps (discoverability): Organic Maps

* Maps (directions): Magic Earth

* Pictures: Open Camera

* Mail: Proton Mail

* Messaging: Signal

* Music: Spotify (glitch-free)

* Audiobook Player: Smart Audiobook Player

* Podcasts: Pocket Casts
> This is an authoritarian model that makes the local despot the bottleneck for the team: Decisions end up being routed through the "leader", individual growth and development and team value is constrained within the scope of the "leader".

This isn't an absolute conclusion, I don't think. I can speak for my own organization -

I lead 2 functionally-aligned teams, meaning they own internal product/systems for two different partner orgs. I also have a technical program management function which owns initiatives related to the above when they span more than a single team or are company-wide initiatives. I also have an engineering team with its own EM who roughly cover the scope of whatever my organization is doing - could be single-function, could be company-wide.

In my model, decisions from Principal/Director/Manager team members don't wait on me. They can if they want extra eyes or extra air cover, but otherwise, my job these days is less about setting technical direction and more about unblocking via executive alignment, budget, people, etc.

So far you might be thinking this is uninteresting and just means that my individual managers are the local despot, but I've done two things to (so far) eliminate that -

1. The TPM is responsible for getting us through the design stage, and they manage no one (or maybe other TPMs). This means they herd the cats and work with engineers and SMEs to get aligned on whatever design will make us functionally and technically successful.

2. This one is more on my qualities as a leader, but I also ask the managers on my team to err on the side of delegating more and letting their staff impress them, and being there as a resource when they need help. I think this is called servant leadership, but I don't read a lot of management stuff.

Team composition (experience and horsepower) plays a large role in whether this model can be successful and how hands on you'll have to be, but in trying to distill a decade+ of experience into a couple of paragraphs, this is generally how I like to run things. YMMV of course, I don't hold myself out as an authority, just offering a counterpoint.

> The best managers don't have a hard time finding talent for open positions on their teams: They already have networks of former employees and peers that they can use. Indeed, the employees of the best managers recruit for their teams as soon as positions open up.

If you adhere to the standard 1 year non-solicit, this isn't true right away. Hiring in my first year at a new company is one of the hardest parts of my job. But I'm probably a bit of a rule follower when it comes to the non-solicit - moreso than others, I've observed.
If that seat would remain empty otherwise, is it not more moral to fill it? After all who wants a concert with no fans
- sit at home 24/7

- wear a mask

These 2 things seem rather different in magnitude.