skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the province where she lives, it is

https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/vaccin...

> For people who have had COVID-19 confirmed by a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT), a single dose of the vaccine is required. The infection triggers the immune system's response the same way a 1st dose of the vaccine does. The dose of vaccine given to someone who has had COVID-19 has a booster effect the same way a 2nd dose of the vaccine does.

But the vaccine passport doesn't seem to reflect that, it's frustrating when the communication is ambiguous.
that's definitely got a lot of stuff too, though from what I've seen the PPOOLL stuff seems a bit more high level closer to bespoke synth, I guess the ideal thing is something that spans both, though bespoke is one of the easiest to use ones I've seen yet which is nice
This is very similar to a modular synth that I used in university.
Seriously consider a risk-based approach to your security posture.
All pop music is terrible.

As one sci-fi writer once wrote, "99% of everything is crud."

20-30 years down the track, the ones that are still around become 'classics', the other 99% just fade away.

If you aren't familiar with a genre, you don't have the experience to tell you what's 'good' and what's 'bad', so you ascertain that it's ALL bad. You're normal.
Then we agree - these are are healthcare choices where people fail to make the right one?
I can't help but idly wonder what humans are doing when they are eyeballing the tails, to see if things look good. Like lets say we wanted to do the eyeball test but automatically. Would the best way be to use an image classifier on the plot? Is there something magic about the plot representation that would make it good even for computers to use?
Didn't Apple already lock up the 'good stuff' from TSMC?
A few years back the FB app reached Android’s limit for the number of classes defined in the codebase (2^16), so the FB engineers wrote a hack that ran before the app to somehow bypass this limit. Apparently they don’t delete anything and just keep adding stuff to the codebase.

What kind of app needs 65536 classes?
Sure, we'll be "fine" under our fascist dictators who will be fine mass murdering refugees on the border.

You are familiar with the "everything is fine" GIF I linked, right?
"Lying" implies malicious intent.

Are you really sure you want to go down that road? Are you really saying you're fine with someone telling you falsehoods so long as it's in what they believe to be your best interest?

It is not lying to communicate via the channels of public health the strategies that would optimize our utilization of public health resources.

Is the strategy actually working? It sure doesn't seem like it. In fact, it seems to be eroding trust in public institutions on a massive scale with very little other benefit.
Can you explain what you think your link is showing? I honestly can't tell. First off there is this disclaimer:

>These demographic data represent the geographic areas that contributed data and might differ by populations prioritized within each jurisdiction’s vaccination phase. Therefore, these data may not be generalizable to the entire US population.

That page also shows the overall percentage of the population with at least one shot is 75.7% and yet no demographic group reaches that number except those over 50 years old. It seems clear that the CDC data is incomplete enough to not be fully trusted, but even if we do trust it, it doesn't do anything to disprove that the highest contributor to a person's vaccination status (besides potentially age) is their personal politics.
they have lots of funds to buy 0days on dark web and to hire the best.
Bought it based on the feature matrix, which is worth $15 for honesty\comedic value alone. Probably no time actually to use it
As far as I can tell, that's misinformation.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid19-vaers-idUS...

> According to CDC guidance listed on its page reporting adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines, seen here , there have been 6,340 reports of death (0.0019%) recorded from December 14, 2020, to July 26, 2021 "among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine." It is important to note that the "FDA requires healthcare providers to report any death after COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, even if it is unclear whether the vaccine was the cause.”

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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> This isn't lying, it's results-driven communication.

It's hard to believe you wrote that with a straight face.
>it's results-driven communication

I can not believe you think this, earnestly.
The people who work at McKinsey are, in the context of the American class system, members of the elite. They are not the oppressed proletariat. They're soft-handed, Ivy League educated elites fighting to climb the top rungs of the status ladder. That's always been difficult throughout human history, and if the biggest hardship of our elite is 2 AM Zoom calls, we should find a more deserving elite.

Don't get me wrong. I certainly don't want to be on any 2 AM Zoom calls. But I also don't aspire to be a member of the elite. And if I did, I would probably be willing to endure hardship in order to achieve that goal.

But there's another level to this. At one point, the left advocated for the working class, and a leftist rag like Mother Jones wouldn't be caught dead publishing entitled whining from members of the soft-handed elite class complaining about how difficult their lives are. But now, for some reason, the McKinsey class has managed to co-opt the left and cast themselves as the victims.
The analogies are good to help people see that government debt is bad. When a person is in over their head, they can possibly file for bankruptcy. When a government gets in over their head bad things happen too, up to and including wars. Comparing government debt to personal debt is just a way to make it more comprehensible how bad the situation is.
Yeah I would assume the cause and effect are reversed. They lost technical dominance but still had a road map that counted on all of those people still being there and on the ball.
The often-repeated phrase is
"The vaccine is safe".

We (as in the world) do not yet have data to say that
"The vaccine" is safe.

Nor is there one vaccine, there are many.

That all work equally well and have the same side effects and
outcomes is unlikely.

We are living in a gigantic experiment at the moment.

Should we not be treated that way?

15 % get vaccine A
15 % get vaccine B
..
.
20% get no vaccine.

Then we watch and learn.

The specific number are not important since much smarter brains
than mine would have to work it out.

If one vaccine turns out to be terrible for whatever reason
we have mitigated the risk.

There is a couple of datapoints now that one vaccine -may-
cause a reduction in fertility for men. I am not saying
it does, but -if- it should turn out to be true having it impact
a controlled portion of the population would be prudent.

We are also continuously learning more about Covid and how it impacts those who do get. As it evolves and mutates, we may find
better way of targeting treatment and vaccinations.

I mean what are the odds that the first "alpha" vaccine gets it all right?

If people start getting boosters or re-vaccinated with a better
vaccine in a year, the possible outcomes of mixing vaccines within
a singel person will also be interesterting and unpredictable.

In my opinion we will have enough data in 10 - 20 years.
Or maybe longer.

I am a pessimist and I spend too much time writing code to handle all edge cases (which I never manage to).

So far the roll out, of all the vaccines that are presently in circulation appears to have been a huge success.

How can that be?

Billions of people.
Not well tested vaccines.

Each person with different immune systems, different medical histories, different medication, different genetic makeups,
some fat, some skinny, some anorexic, diabetes, there are
a staggering number of different permutations that you will
hit in. population of 3 billion people.

I would have expected more people to die and more people to have
severe reactions.

We seem to have been incredibly lucky or just insanely great at
creating safe and effective vaccines. More people have adverse reactions to sleeping pills, suntan lotions, ibuprofen etc

I am fully vaccinated, to shots of Pfizer myself
Are you talking about American citizens residing in Canada, or Canadian citizens? Issuers are required by law to know certain things about you, which includes where you reside. Some US issuers will allow you to apply with an ITIN instead of a social security number but if you have no credit history in the US, your chances of approval are slim.

You cannot use a PO box as your residential address when you apply for a credit card. Assuming you have an SSN or ITIN, if you use a private mailbox as your residential address on a credit card application in the US, your mileage will vary. Some financial institutions maintain databases of private mailbox addresses and flag these if you use them but no matter what, falsely representing that you reside in the US on a credit card application by using a private mailbox with a US address will always put you at risk of an account closure.

Many issuers will allow you to set a mailing address that's different from your residential address. This can typically include a PO address. That's not the same thing as lying about your country of residence.
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I think you're overcomplicating things.

The reason governments are reluctant to act is because most tax payers don't support higher taxes or prices to respond to the problem. There were protests that lasted months in France over higher gas prices [0]. In the US, only 57 percent of Americans are willing to pay a $1 monthly fee, 23 percent are willing to pay a monthly fee of $40. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement

[1] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/americans-arent-willing-...
This might be a 300 level curriculum, but: The DevOps Handbook and the Google SRE Book
> tracking how much time they spent on their breakfast with a stopwatch.

I know this is a serious forum. But the last line had me in splits.

And yeah. He made contributions larger than anyone will ever do. End of the sentence.
When I signed up for Instagram, I was quite careful to follow and like a bunch of accounts that feature Corgis. Now I get all sorts of dog recommendations on my Instagram and love it.

Disclaimer: I work for Facebook.
Yes. When he goes to those hearings, Zuckerberg fixes a spot and begins all of his answers with "[pause] Senator... [pause] [Generic reassuring statement] <very clever and deceptive answer>. (https://youtu.be/XXuk-WSDDRw?t=111)

There's a conspiracy theory stating that he's wearing AR contact lenses such as those (https://www.wired.com/story/mojo-vision-smart-contact-lens/) and we know he's been working on this since 2017 (https://www.dezeen.com/2017/04/20/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-e...).
Also, the nix expression you build an image with is deterministic, unlike Dockerfiles, which by-design aren't.

(Dockerfiles are not the only way to build images, of course, but they are a common one).
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iPhone 13 starts at $699 for the mini and $799 for the non-mini, not $1000.
> But 6-12 months I think is probably too long in a crisis situation.

Yes and therefore it stands to reason that they probably already have weapons ready (but maybe in a disassembled state) and simply don't disclose it.
https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...

Found the old explanation, it seems I had misremembered some details but it’s still super insane.
I’ve always understood photons as being “stuff” in it’s all energy no mass state.

What is “stuff” as all matter no energy?
It's not a binary.

Sure, you should be able to take the risk (if an adult and mentally competent, and maybe also fully informed). It's a free country (or so they claim).

But when your choices rack up huge medical bills that the rest of us have to pay, then your freedom to do what you want collides with our freedom to not have to pay for it. If you're free to spend my money, then I'm less free.

But that isn't absolute, either. We let people drive, and emit carbon dioxide, and play loud music, all of which impose negative externalities on others. We even let people be obese and smoke, which impose financial costs on the rest of us. (And yet, there's been a massive anti-smoking campaign over the last 10 or so years...)

Societal costs is a slippery slope, or something like it. As a society, we're trying to find a place to stand on it that isn't "no healthcare for you because you make stupid choices", and also isn't "here's the public's checkbook for you to make full use of to try to undo the consequences of your bad choices". There are no simple answers. (And it's not just Covid.)
An equally radical example would be a Wealth Tax, which would have a similar justification if one considers the wealthy to have a disproportionate amount of influence on the government (and the government has a monopoly on sovereignty in its territory). Another way to look at it is that those who benefit the most from a society (measured by their wealth) should pay back to that society in proportion to that benefit.

In fact, many successful countries already have a Wealth Tax, so it isn't such a radical idea[0], but I would argue that the tax rate for such a tax should be equal to the equivalent tax rate that the median citizen pays, as a percentage of their wealth. For example, in the US, the median household pays about $10k in taxes per year, and has a net worth of about $120k. That means that an equivalent Wealth Tax rate would be about 8% per year (with maybe a tax free allowance on the first $10 million).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Current_examples
40B valuations on website making tools, the taleban is back in town, it's 2000 all over again.
He’s a gaslighter.
HN, truly a place with a diversity of opinions spanning the entire political spectrum, nonetheless has sadly taken to leaning net-alt-right over the past few years. Anti-anti-fascist sentiment trumps pro-hacker sentiment in this case.
I took a look at the data, and it looks like deaths after 1 dose go up by ~3x vs unvaccinated, while deaths after 2 doses go down ~3x vs unvaccinated. Am I reading that right? Any idea why that might be?
I sincerely hope you get to meet one some day. When one has a personality you click with, they are a blast to be around.
That's an argument against paper currency, not for Monero.
just curious: Why are you so confident that the vaccine is the solution? There are countries or populations with very high rate of vaccination that still see community spread (Israel, that UK ship, etc).

Are you mentally prepared for the possibility that this is not true? What evidence would convince you that the vaccine won't 'solve' the pandemic?
I'm not sure if I'm interpreting you correctly, but I think the answer is no. It's best to think of it as the creation of new money, which cannot significantly be reversed. The way the Fed prints money is by buying Treasuries, which increases the money supply in two ways:

1. It allows the government to spend more money, which ends up going to a bunch of places that can't be "unspent" (government worker salaries, contractors, equipment, etc.). That money goes into various banks and ends up getting irreversibly multiplied.

2. In order to fill bids for Treasuries, the Fed front-runs other market participants with artificially low interest rates (below market), forcing other major Treasury participants (like banks) to lower their commercial interest rates in order to do something with their deposits, resulting in more borrowing.

It should also be noted that the Fed sets the Fed Funds Rate, but my understanding is that this has a less pronounced effect. And it sets the minimum fractional reserve ratio, which as of COVID, is ZERO (infinite multiplier potential, although most big banks are pretty conservative with their reserves. Although IMO they do not need to be, since the odds of a run on the bank in an approaching-cashless society is nil).
It doesn't sound like Intel has been competetive on salaries for quite some time. Last time this came up, it sounded like Intel thought they could get away with Oregon salaries, meanwhile they're now competing with Cupertino salaries, among others. I suspect that they've had a captive audience for so long that they don't have a 'playbook' for a seller's market. All of the people who remember are either fat and happy or long gone.

Love of the work is one thing, but if you can love the same work somewhere else for 40% more you'd better think pretty hard about the wisdom of staying.
Social networks have become the gateway to the seven deadly sins.

We know which one IG represents.
Fun question: if photons do not experience time as they travel at the speed of light, do we know that photons are stable? Maybe they would decay if they were subject to time. Or maybe the concept is meaningless as they are massless.
> The bottom line: The only thing that's certain when it comes to federal tax policy is uncertainty.

People compete, it's deep in their nature, so rules of the game get adjusted. Within boundaries, which overall beneficial for everybody, but still - the details of such thing as taxes, usually being imprecise, allow for gaming, so they don't survive long. So - it looks like uncertainty here is by design.
This is a fair critique. In cases like Stripe, I’m sure there are viable ways to have humans involved.

More generally, the big problem is that most internet companies are trying to achieve growth and user numbers which aren’t incompatible with having humans moderate everything. For example, everyone likes to hate on social media companies doing a terrible job moderating. But the reality is that you cannot hire enough humans to manually moderate billions of things daily. So algorithms are a necessity, unless we are willing to part with platforms which cater to extremely large audiences.
We shouldn't give the benefit of the doubt. We should define what an acceptable post-infection antibody level is, have people get blood tests, and issue something similar to the CDC vaccination card that attests that the bearer has natural immunity. Those should be accepted as equivalent to a CDC vax card where one is needed.

I do agree that doing this would likely further slow down vaccination rates, even among unvaccinated people who have not yet gotten COVID. Many will just accept the risk of getting the virus, and then some will end up in the hospital, and some will die.

So while I'm uncomfortable with the lack of acceptance around post-infection immunity when appropriate, I do think it's understandable.
It's not an accidentally two tiered society it's an entirely conscious effort to exclude those who won't protect their fellows and it's unlikely to be limited to the present crisis. When this crisis is gone someday there will be another and we will want to be prepared to handle it better than we have this one.

Incidentally boys have an outsized share of the risk of complications but still less than the risk of covid. The correct thing to do is take the minimum effort to protect yourself and others and stop complaining.
High prices are not by themselves evidence of a shortage

High prices prices in conjunction with specific restrictive policies that create shortages are by themselves great evidence of a shortage: https://www.nber.org/papers/w21154.

We see the results of shortage policies all around us: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/12/27/why-did-cities-freeze-in-...
It's not nearly that simple. See the Nova episode "The Truth About Fat" for a good summary of the current science. It may be available for free online here [1], although Nova episodes go in and out of free availability (unless you are a donor to a PBS station then I believe you can get them all).

[1] https://www.wgbh.org/program/nova/the-truth-about-fat
Not only that, but it is part of the concerted campaign by the right to downplay Covid. They would very much prefer the poors to suffer and die quietly - without stopping work of course.
Force ISPs to roll out IPV6, give customers static addresses for all of their devices, and let people self-host internet services (http, gopher, gemini, imap, smtp, ssh, irc, etc.) on residential connections. Then make appliances that let people have their own private clouds so they can subscribe to their favorite propaganda and bullshit with their friends without making Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, etc. richer.
I would pick up a late model i3, put it into a mini-ITX board and case.

This is what I did for some NAS servers that I wanted to be compact, support QuickSync transcoding for Plex, and support a SAS PCI card that breaks out to (8) 10Tb HDDs in a ZFS configuration. Not that the Pi is bad or anything but I see people trying to use them as routers and NAS and the performance isn’t fantastic, maybe on par with an intel chip from 10 years ago. You’d be much better grabbing some old PC hardware on eBay and throwing parts together.
His role portraying Bob Dole during the Clinton years use to be one of my favorite skits on SNL
> Sponsored by AWS.

The latency on Aurora is incredibly bad, it's much much faster (and cheaper!) to just run your own database, even on an EC2 instance.
Jan 6th affected like .001 percent of the population
https://archlinuxarm.org has some great alternatives.
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The point of the masks isn't that they're 100% effective, but that they reduce the probability of spreading a virus-laden droplet to someone else. The difference between having a pandemic and not having a pandemic is the question of whether the average infected person infects more than one other person or less than one. N95s or basic cloth masks are a relatively straightforward way to get a population on the other side of that threshold, even if some people wear them incorrectly were just unlucky.

If there are better masks than N95s for dealing with carcinogens like asbestos, you should use those for that application. Maybe they would work better for Covid too, but providing super high-quality fancy masks to hundreds of millions of people in a pandemic isn't really practical, though. You use the tools you have on hand. Even distributing N95s was challenging.
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> At least some of the control group will be in old age but still alive when we know it woris.

The anti-aging serum could work (i.e. make you older), but have strong negative side effects.
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I only want free-range Irish babies. Nothing but the best for my dog.
Well this is what “tax the rich” means. If you don’t like it don’t vote for people who advocate tax increases. This is exactly what was promised.
I would argue that laws are imprecise, and taking advantage of the law, as opposed to intent, is questionable. So they probably reduce planning horizon for some and expand that for others, so I'm not sure the efficiency ultimately suffers.
I've only actually worked for one company (1/5) that emphasized productivity and graded people on it. My default answer would be most of them. I would say the majority of tech companies are work/life oriented, especially compared to other industries.

Software Engineers and Data Engineers have one of the best leverage positions in the work force. If you don't like your current employer's practices, find another one.