skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always an 'explanation'. I take it you're not lurking certain Facebook groups. Take your pick:

- lockdowns drove people into a lifestyle that favored bad health choices ultimately leading to early deaths (not going outside, not doing sports, etc..). Probably some truth to that.

- lockdowns led to loss of jobs which drove people to suicides or killing others

- antifa killed a lot of people during the blm riots

- mask wearing made people breathe their own germs thus leading to said germs to multiply more and kill people

- people were scared of covid and did not go to the hospital for minor stuff that ended up being major and ended up killing them. Probably some truth to this one also.

- it was just a bad year, no relation to covid. Just more people died, what's the big deal? Population numbers are like a cycle, ok? And we just went through some sort of adjustment, which was unrelated to covid.

- gay frogs became poisonous (!!!)

- And ultimately, the data is broken, see the article above, it turns out it wasn't that bad, right? RIGHT? Same with the excess deaths. The data was misinterpreted, there are no excess deaths

TLDR: don't worry about it. Go outside and consume, the pandemic is now over. It wasn't even a pandemic, it was a 'plandemic'.
They've been having lots of issues lately. Broke our entire login flow by setting multiple set cookie headers.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/30ptcb3b0s2w

Support taking days to get back to us.

Not sure what's happening but it's leaving a bad taste
Not one mention of phytoplankton, responsible for between 50 and 80% of oxygen in the atmosphere.

We're doomed.
Some children are at greater risk from the vaccine than covid so it seems reckless to just push vaccines. You will quite possibility kill more kids by pushing the vaccine on them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...
Let's start with the person who pushed without verifying that the targets were truly ISIS and work our way upwards
We know from die shots that the M1 chips aren't disabling CPU cores, or any GPU cores other than the 7 vs 8 binning.
There is/was a UK government "Help to Buy" scheme aimed at people who can only afford a 5% deposit, where the gov basically took part of the equity and then charged you rent on the portion you don't own. Never seemed like a good idea to me; just skews purchases to more expensive areas (ie London) and leaves the taxpayer with an even bigger share of the risk in the event of a house price crash. The only upside is political - the government gets to say they are helping first-time buyers.
I'm running Debian 11 and it still doesn't run.

Thought I'd try build it and...

> Use the "Projucer" from https://juce.com/ to generate solutions/project files/makefiles for building on your platform. [0]

eh?

https://juce.com/get-juce

Is this really a FOSS project?

[0] https://github.com/awwbees/BespokeSynth
Your assumption is wrong. Any medical insurance plan regulated under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is not legally allowed to deny coverage or raise premiums based on vaccination status.

According to the CDC, obesity is a significant risk factor for COVID-19.

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm
I have been called a fascist for voting for Biden and disagreeing with extremist beliefs. The term has been so diluted as to have no meaning which is a shame, because the fascists were a terrible blight upon the 20th century.

Even if someone was a self declared fascist, that is still not justification.
there are more millenials than boomers:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_living_adult_gene...
How can they know that figure (80%) without knowing % of people with natural immunity? We can guess but there hasn't been much of an effort made to track this.
They would reduce transmission of the virus in the same way that locking everyone in temperature-controlled air-corrected 24/7-monitored government housing pods would reduce the transmission. Maybe those pods are better, because they could ship us food and let us out for exercise at times determined by an efficiency algorithm!

The question is, is the cost worth it?

There's no need for a "sacrifice of individual liberty for safety." That's Orwellian talk for going along with tyranny. By this point, the majority of Americans are going to have antibodies before long from a combination of vaccinations and past covid. Over 100 million already had past covid and I already shared links about how those antibodies are superior to two shots of Pfizer. So how is it necessary for those people to have to subject to a "papers please" tyranny? No thanks.

Implementing these passports will cause something even worse than some covid spread to happen. A two-tiered society where one segment of society is viewed as unhealthy, unclean, even dangerous. History is replete with examples of this being a bad thing.

And philosophy aside, there's also newer evidence showing that for some segments of the population it may be riskier to vaccinate.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

So why start enforcing passports? To accidentally find out later on, after creating a two-tiered society, that there may be unintended long-term consequences for the teenagers? Nope. Time for YOU, reader, to say no and realize that these passports are just about control. They don't care about your health. It's about power. Think critically about the system being built. It's about the control.
Lets start with the people who physically killed them.
That is one factor, but it isn't everything, there are still other factors so don't overstate it
Also what the SF Bay Area lacks is family oriented high density housing. High density housing is built for the young and single. Family oriented means easy access to fenced in playgrounds and parks, small but numerous bedrooms with large living rooms, etc.
> China still has the official plan to introduce socialism by 2050

Where did you get this?

Socialism is installed in China in 1960s, as we were told in text book.

If there was such a plan to start socialism in China in 2050, that must be invented after 2008 after I left China.

As for what is really socialism, the definitions I see so far are as colorful as capitalism. You might be referring some definition of socialism you saw from Chinese source, or some translated sources?

It's becoming more and more clear that China is more of a political imagination for venting, at least on HN.
If there was a safe and effective vaccine against lung cancer and obesity do you think your argument would be as strong?
If you're not going to make money off it, my opinion is you can use cracked VSTs without any concerns of "is it right".

In fact, as with a lot of pirated soft/media the experience is superior. Licensing and DRM of music software is a headache - dongles, software centers and other bloat. Scene groups like R2R even optimize performance and patch out bugs in addition to cracking protections, making their releases superior than that of the original developers.

Otherwise have a look at Splice rent-to-own plugin licensing.
I remember reading in the immediate aftermath that the area was declared safe enough from contaminants to work in. A nice fairy tale.
It is extremely relevant to provide context for what the baseline/expected behavior is when discussing a particular instance of it.

Otherwise, false assumptions replace the facts: "US allies would never interfere with our domestic education system, only bad guys do that!".
If AMD at at 100% production capacity, why would they want to increase demand? Surely supplying validation samples could only hurt AMD in that situation (technical costs, disappointing the customer when the customer want to shift to production).
So in reality they were earning $40 000 and just doing two jobs with hours like that.
Genuine question: Do we have data on hospitalization and mortality rates of unvaccinated but previously exposed?
Is the average per capita really as useful as looking at the median per capita between generations? Also, millennials above the mean likely live in areas with higher housing prices.

Furthermore it is really hard to adjust for inflation over long period of times (especially when productivity has increased as much as it has in the last one hundred years).

EDIT: It looks like the same author of the above post also wrote about the median trend in the following post. However it looks like the original with the data this post is based on doesn't exist anymore...

https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2020/09/30/ok-millennia....
Choice of device is mostly useless. They're all the same re. Security. Which is to say their only as good as the jurisdiction their being sold/used in. And given the laws Australia has implemented, if a company sells their product here or has operations registered in Australia you can't guarantee it hasn't been backdoored.
It would be very easy to hypothesize that many or all of these excess deaths were from Covid, but what if many of the excess deaths are from some of these causes?

* Extra suicides that occurred because people felt isolated and hopeless due to lockdowns and their living situation.

* People accidentally overdosed on various drugs or engaged in other self-destructive behaviors because no other entertainment options were available for a long time.

* Many people under lockdowns neglected exercise and good eating habits, and gained a ton of weight and harmed their health. On a population wide scale, how many extra heart attacks were achieved? Or how many people who might have otherwise survived a bout with Covid ate themselves into a bad outcome? I'm a fit person, and I know I struggled with my fitness during this time period and gained some weight. I can't imagine how many normal Americans didn't easily gain in excess of 10-20 pounds during this time.

* Many people couldn't have other health procedures like cancer screenings or other procedures during the Covid panic that might have easily otherwise extended their life.

What if these are some or many of the excess deaths? I'm not sure about that, but I can't believe that the last 18 months hasn't led to numerous unintended second order effects that are not properly measured when society is only fixated on 1 variable.
Freedom of speech isn't just a part of the US constitution - it's also a human right and ethical value.

You can disagree with someone and still think they have rights.
But where's the lie? If it's true that public health would be better if nearly everyone got the vaccine, then it isn't a lie to say that nearly everyone should get the vaccine in order to improve public health.
It seems pretty clear that just about every government has a large bank of exploits on just about every single system. We only hear about the ones that get exposed and fixed and not the 30 others in storage or active use.
Wow, that’s disappointing, but not surprising for American healthcare (don’t cover everyone, but no personal responsibility expectations from those who are covered). We’ll just have to let the fire burn through the forest I suppose and eat the costs from these people until travel and employment vaccination mandates kick in.
In your threat model take into consideration that there was a "secure phone" sold with an IM app that turned out to be backdoored by the author in cooperation with FBI.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/fbi-sold-phones-...
I don't care so much about justice as nobody does it again. If the lawyers make a ton once and there isn't a next time I'm happy. Well better would be it doesn't happen again
> The problem is just one of "efficiency". The production is not perfectly aligned with where people are willing to spend money. A purely efficient market exists only in theory / textbooks / Adam Smith's Treatise.

Destroying wealth is not appropriate the market mechanism to deal with disequilibrium. Producers should either lower the price to meet the market or hold inventory if they anticipate increased future demand. However, the latter may be harder to do in the CPU business because inventory depreciates rapidly.

Intel has hitherto been minimally affected by market pressures because they held an effective monopoly on the CPU market though that is fast changing.

So, there is nothing necessarily "efficient" about what Intel is doing. They're maximising their returns through price discrimination at the expense of allocative efficiency.

> The chips that roll off a fab are not done. They aren't "burning crops". Perhaps they are abandoned (not completed) perhaps because they need to recoup or save resources to focus on finishing and shipping the working (full core) products. They aren't driving their trucks of finished products into the ocean.

That may be true in some cases, but not in others. I'm speaking directly to the case where a component is deliberately modified to reduce its capability for the specific purpose of price discrimination.
You can't learn much from a sample size of 1. In particular, there are people who have been vaccinated who have also died of COVID. The question is whether or not natural immunity affords comparable (or better) protection to the virus than the vaccine, and it seems that the data are indicating that it does. This should be a good thing--instead of being angry that it takes away our justification to force others to do something, we should be happy at the prospect of combatting covid without having to force people to do anything.
I see, I guess I don't know either way, seems like something that isn't particularly difficult to study though so I'd be surprised if it wasn't known at this point.
No one said anything about multiple cards, nor about any databases whatsoever.

Single-mindedness is not a rationale for imposing medical treatment on people.

I'll circle back to my driver's license analogy - the bouncer does not need to know that I was docked 3 points from my driving test for failing to signal - he only needs to know that some granting authority, with expertise in the realm being licensed, granted me the license. (or that I'm old enough to enter the bar, etc.)
Is that normalized by the number of people under 40 in 1989 versus the number of people under 40 in 2021? There are a lot of baby boomers (first group).
Wheeler also postulated that all electrons had indistinguishable properties because they were the same electron (moving back and forward through time). So in some sense Wheeler is treating time like a stack. (cant remember if Feynman convinced him otherwise)
Imagine this scenario: You have one ICU bed and two people with gunshot wounds. One got the wound because he played with a gun and shot himself. The other got the wound because he was shot accidentally by the first person. Only one person gets the bed. Which one do you give the bed to?

Let's make it a little more topical: Both people were told not to play with the gun and that there were insufficient ICU beds. The first person still played with the gun and shot himself and another person. This was a personal choice he made. His luck was against him (and the person he shot).

Let's make it more topical still: The two people were told, "Look, we know you want to play with guns. We really don't want you to. Receiving treatment for gunshot wounds is less likely to lead to long life than simply not getting shot, and we have other illnesses we need to treat.
Here's an additional incentive: if we don't have sufficient medical resources to treat everyone, the people who ignore this warning will get treated after those who don't." Yes, this is coercion, inasmuch as it is influencing their decision, but under this definition of coercion, coercion hardly seems like something to worry about, certainly not as much as getting shot.
Obviously lockdowns decrease transmission. But they make fragile immune systems. There's 200 other respiratory virus out there that we need constant exposure to or our immunity to them wanes. Then you get NZ which right now is overrunning their hospitals with children inflicted with severe RSV which never really happened in the pre-lockdown world.

And I agree vaccination even with this leaky vaccine is appropriate for vulnerable groups bit it creates a shit storm of hurt down the road when you apply it to an entire population and in the context of an easily mutating virus. See the chicken story: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-m...

Applying it to a hard to mutate virus and the entire population makes total sense - see polio!
it's usually b/c getting into your GP can be hard if their schedule is packed and the emergency room can't turn you away.
i really don't understand why booster shots are a "political discussion"

i have normal flu booster shots ever year -- and that's fine. why not for covid?
I was explaining why there's potentially a difference between natural immunity and vaccine-mediated immunity, and why one of these may well be preferable if the goal is to generate maximum immunity to a widespread virus. But that's not the actual goal, and as a result policy decisions may differ. Is the risk associated with vaccinating people who have some degree of natural immunity justified by any improvement in immunity they gain as a result? I don't know! I have opinions on the matter, but I'm not qualified to make that determination.
Maybe I'm not understanding? But my point is in both cases - unless there is really huge news I missed - both China and the US did not enter actual territorial waters with military vessels. The US transits the strait so China's large claims don't have legitimacy. It'd be like the us claiming any ships sailing around cuba are in our waters.
The lies have been coming for decades, these are just new lies.
> This is false.

Suffice it to say that it's non-obvious to me where to start to go about getting a stable and mobile (ie laptop) experience. I'd like nothing better than to receive a response that makes me feel sheepish for thinking that Linux is the problem, and if anyone can give out good pointers I'd imagine you can.
is this going well for you
Second for vcv rack. Waveform free has been working well as a DAW for me recently, and it has a linux version.
To mix a metaphor, all good serves are the same; all bad serves are bad in their own way. A model might work well for people who generally serve well, or for an individual person who serves badly in a particular way. But how do you make a model that works for many different types of people, and many different types of serves?

It would be great to see if the data that the Apple Watch generates is similar to what speed guns show. That would make a great experiment for a high schooler!
Not all viruses are created equal; some are much more prone to mutation than others. And indeed, vaccines for highly mutation-prone ones do "fail" in some sense -- that's why we need flu shots every year but one or two doses of the chickenpox vaccine are preventative for a lifetime: the flu is an RNA virus and also has a mechanism for swapping genes between different strains infecting an individual organism (including animals), so it changes a lot, and vaccines only last until the in-the-wild flu changes out from under them, whereas chickenpox/varicella is a DNA virus that's much more genetically stable.
Especially in Israel, where their coronavirus spread reaches new heights [1], despite 78% of their population being innoculated! [2]

1. https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-ministry-chief-says-cor...

2. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-vaccine-data-how-...

They have to do something because the vaccine just isn't stemming the tide!
Did you attend?
I'm sure it's quite difficult to study, but no less so than studying the vaccine. I'd be surprised if we didn't already know at least as much about natural immunity, but whether the media are effectively communicating that information is another question.
I don't know, has it really "blown up in their face," or do people just use supposed examples of "strategic messaging" to support their preexisting commitments? In other words, are people actually changing their decisions based on specific examples where public health officials allegedly lied or used strategic messaging, or are they simply using those examples to justify their own actions?
> The pandemic is largely over culturally and mentally for pretty much all of the country - I'm in the middle of San Francisco and the only real remaining enforced anti-COVID measures are flashing your vaccine card before going into bars, masks inside of gyms, and masking and demasking when you enter restaurants - although I remember a friend with kids telling me there's still some strangeness at schools.

That's a real understatement. Here in Maryland, my 8 year old is still in a mask at school both inside and outside. She's been a trooper with all the precautions over the last year and a half, but started crying when she heard her school was going to do masking again in the fall, because it means probably another year of social distancing in schools (not being able to play with all your friends, etc). The masks really interfere with her gymnastics class, because of O2 restrictions as well as difficulty hearing/understanding what instructors are saying.

My 3 year old is masked all day in preschool, as well as at his extracurriculars. He does a "toddler crossfit" type class where all the kids and instructors are masked, and it's a disaster. At this age their ability to comprehend instructions is marginal to begin with. Add the muffled speech and inability to see facial expressions and it means the kids have a lot of trouble understanding what's going on. I've done A/B testing helping my kid with the activities. With a mask on, he has a much harder time understanding me, and also mistakes my mood--e.g. he can't see me smiling so he interprets my giving him directions as yelling (it's loud in the gym obviously).

Wearing a mask, as we did for 4-5 hours on a flight recently, weirds out my 2 month old since he can't see my face. We are not going to even try to send him to daycare with masked caregivers. I hate to sound like a nutter--I'm a STEM major, I know how to "science"--but I don't trust that they actually have considered the developmental effects on infants not being able to see faces for 8 hours a day at daycare.
> 10 papers were included. Most of the selected studies showed significant correlation between psilocybin and DMT use and reduction in depression symptom intensity. By analyzing qualified studies, it can be concluded that psilocybin and DMT could be useful in depression treatment, but further observations are still required.
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I have nothing further to say to you.
Thanks for the encouraging words! Agreed that there are many areas to explore.
One aspect we're exploring is how to establish clear rubrics, and even share it with candidates ahead of time.
Any areas that you think would be interesting to look into?
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what?!?! you have clear bias so this is pointless. A descriptive - factual - term has nothing to do with excluding one race or class of people.

I'm gay. That does not mean that every non gay man is excluded ffs
Here on HN: cancellation by the left is widely panned every time. Cancellation by the right... is also an excuse to rail against the evil left again. Cute, indeed.
I audibly said "no way" when I read your last sentence.

Wow, this is bad.
Eh, I had it on Saturday, and had a nice sleepy Sunday. Definitely fatigue, but nothing to remember on Monday.
> The usually bandied figure is 80% immunity to stop the pandemic.

That was pre-Delta. The higher the R0, the more mitigation we need to do. The question is what gets RE below zero.

At this point, with Delta's R0 and the vaccine's effectiveness, it looks like mere vaccination without masks is going to be insufficient in large groups (e.g. at a giant concert, a big play). But, since all the precautions have a multiplier, that's fine. It means we can keep doing those things as long as we take precautions while we do it and not assume vaccine = ignore COVID.