skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't efficacy originally defined as preventing symptomatic covid infections?

> The mRNA-based Pfizer1, 2 and Moderna3 vaccines were shown to have 94–95% efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19, calculated as 100 × (1 minus the attack rate with vaccine divided by the attack rate with placebo). It means that in a population such as the one enrolled in the trials, with a cumulated COVID-19 attack rate over a period of 3 months of about 1% without a vaccine, we would expect roughly 0·05% of vaccinated people would get diseased.

Even if you consider Delta variant, we were originally told the vaccines were very effective:

> The study said the Pfizer vaccine was 88% effective against the B.1.617.2 variant, first found in India, 2 weeks after the second dose. The Pfizer vaccine was 93% effective against the variant found in the U.K., known as B.1.1.7, two weeks after the second dose.

> Two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were 60% effective against the B.1.617.2 variant and 66% effective against B.1.1.7, the study said.

It's fine if preliminary results didn't hold up, but lets not gaslight the public into thinking vaccines were never about not getting infected.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

[1] https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021052...

[EDIT] Updated link 0 to one that more clearly states the definition of efficacy
The tool is not your problem, your task prioritization is. if you have dependent branches, you have specific order you have to merge them or split the shared code into a separate branch that gets done before the 'branchoff'.

1. analyze your work properly

2. Break down work to smaller parts

3. prioritize what comes after what
If the publisher shuts the servers down, it doesn't matter if a Blockchain days you're the owner of an item.
It's not keyboard-driven, that's a bummer.

In the past, I used an extension called Put Windows that was perfect for my need, but that stopped working on Gnome 40.
What Rust Could Learn from Kotlin
I happen to be reading “racing the beam” and it analyzes computer space’s non-success like this article, almost word for word. Reading the article I was like “oh I know where this is going” and I wasn’t wrong. I guess the research the author describes did include reading “racing the beam” :)
This is exactly the kind of attitude I'm talking about. You're pushing people to the edge of society and calling on the government to take away everything they have and still expecting them to fall into line.

There's going to be a VERY angry, VERY desperate underclass that's going to overrun to indolent elite in society if they keep going down this arrogant path.
UPDATE: in the two days this was up, having combed through the comments on three separate occasions – the following seems to be the general consensus, in rough order of relative importance:

1. S3 standby/sleep support required

2. low weight for luggability, 2.5lb maximum

3. survives table-to-floor falls

4. always-on-AC battery deaths unacceptible

5. survives being in a bag, accidental activation

6. Linux support for all hardware

7. trackpads on par with Apple, at least

8. keyboards with clear actuation, spill resistance and backlighting

9. kill switches or modular hardware for camera and mic

10. bright matte screens, with vertical space

11. memory and I/O performance approaching Apple's M1 SoC

12. HDMI, USB-A, 3.5mm, 10gbE, SD, USB-C periferals are what people own, support that

13. trackpoints are great for text-editing

14. quiet operation, no blinken-lights

15. prefer no webcam over shitty webcam, no BT/WiFi over shitty BT/WiFi

After the Apple event streams I shall post a list of laptops people seem to have a history of enjoying.

Cheers.
Biology is always a little more complex than expected.

For example, have you heard about Ring species?

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Ring_species_seagull...

Until orcas learn how to teleport is not probable that they would mate with another whale that will never share the same space with them at the same time. Not speaking about the different size, "culture" and language that could be an obstacle if they would eventually meet. This planet is big enough to have more than one species of orca adapted to different habitats. If you lose one, don't expect the other taking its place in the same ecosystem necessarily.
Eh, Fukushima had a western reactor design. And it sort of blew up.
Currently this is the only dead-virus vaccine that is being tested in Europe. Since this is a more traditional vaccine I hope that it could pursue a few more people to get vaccinated who might be hesitant to try out newer mRNA- or vector-based vaccines
Granted... but if you look at the neoclassical architecture which is present all over Washington and which this “Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again” order seeks to promote, it's also difficult to tell where a building is located if you aren't already familiar with it. For example, the United States Supreme Court building (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St...) and the building of the Bavarian State Collection of Antiquities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstareal#/media/File:Staatli...) look eerily similar, because they are both modeled after ancient Greek or Roman temples...
Yeah, but at least the Irish regulations are now involving Revenue, which means they'll be implemented.

A common strategy in Irish government is if there's a problem, and you don't really want to do anything but want to make it look like you're doing something, then you give it to local government to implement, as they won't have the resources to do it.

As a bonus, you get to point to the law, secure in the knowledge that it won't be implemented.
Psilocin/Psilocybin content can vary radically between mushrooms of the same species or even the same harvest. Microdosing lsd or mushrooms also runs into potential cardiovascular problems (from the same mechanism of action that made fenfluramine dangerous,) and recent studies cast doubt on whether there's any benefit.

https://ecfes.net/science/why-chronic-microdosing-might-be-r...

https://www.drugscience.org.uk/psychedelic-microdosing-lsd-o...

Infrequent, responsible tripping is definitely more beneficial than microdosing, and medical science is finally being allowed to study psychedelics, so not microdosing until the heart health questions are answered seems a smart course of action.
The cancellation of new nuclear power plants in the US was overwhelmingly due to economics. In the first nuclear buildout, reactors came in more expensive than promised, demand growth slowed, and then the grids were opened to non-utility generators. This happened again more recently with the nuclear renaissance: projected demand growth again failed to materialize, reactor construction was more expensive than promised (Watts Bar 2, V.C. Summer, Vogtle), and large quantities of fracked gas became available.
What are your thoughts on the 9550? Personally I think it is the worst laptop I have ever used. The battery life was abyssmal, the graphics card constantly had issues. At one point plugging anything into the USB-C port caused sparking..

The worst bit was how loud the fan used to run.. if it had spun any faster you'd think it would start hovering.
That is one of the given reasons the municipality pursues this. There is a housing crisis in the Netherlands, so that gives some context to this.
Yep crypto is not at all independent from the stock market. Too many hedge funds are playing in it.
Which is great because both those games are hobbled on modern platforms. For example, if you want to play Oblivion with analog sticks you'd have an easier time emulating the 360 version than adding them to the PC version.
So, the thing you didn't think was going to happen happened, and you don't care what happens to Microsoft, but you care that the thing happened because Microsoft lost?
Thanks for your explanation.
I see a discussion but it's not too harsh to me. Do you come from a Western country? People coming from Western countries tend to be more demanding about discussion friendliness sometimes for my experience
Then why isn’t the article framed that way? Why is it 60% ethics in journalism and 30% “Springer’s been a naughty boy”?

As Goethe wrote: So fühlt man Absicht, und man ist verstimmt.
Yeah in the article there is an example of a video that was downloaded multiple times. That is so inefficient because "HTTP".

Solution for it becoming more efficient is that someone else should host it for you ideally for free.

It is just exercise in throwing big numbers and utter ignorance to impress people but downloaded megabytes are not magically going away.

Just like torrents - no one wants to seed or pay hosting costs everyone wants to download. There is no protocol that is going to fix that. Why is everyone mining BTC like crazy, because they get money for that
So how is there housing for people to rent? Does the government build and maintain all rental property?
Third-party search comes at a huge price for me. Crawler bots kick the shit out of my websites, introducing tons of unnecessary noise and load.

I've chosen to block them all and only spread the word organically instead.

I have yet to begin tackling the search problem :)
This report makes no attempt to control for lockdowns or other restrictions. Countries with high levels of vaccination relax those restrictions, increasing COVID infection rates.

And of course focusing on infection rates is really the wrong thing. We know antibody immunity declines over time, but protection against serious illness stays strong.
The reason the US still has a steel industry is because it's essential for any future major war.
I wouldn’t want to rely on your idea not also being treated as a serious offence, even absent any new laws in the UK specifically about this. I mean, using a fake ID to get something you would otherwise not be entitled to does sound like “fraud” to me… but I’m not even close to being legally trained.
Weekends, as Tomte said. No testing for 2 days then a backlog to clear during the week.
>In the US, I remember the insurrections following the trials related to Rodney King, the Branch Dividans being burned to death, and the milita movement blowing up an FBI building (among many other kinds of things).

Yes, but those are par for the course throughout modern US history, nothing to write home about (in the sense they wouldn't affect the average citizen anyway, and they'd just be off the news in a month or so).

For the former USSR areas true - was mostly describing US/Western Europe.
> I can assure you it’s absolutely possible, and wouldn’t take an average person that long to get fit enough to do it either.

I'm sure some people do but I'm not sure about "the average person". Having heard how average people adjust to cycling in Edinburgh and still complain about the hills, I reckon fixies will stay rare in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Interesting about the brakes tho - thanks. I've never tried that kind and it doesn't sound good. Also for a nervous cyclist who suddenly finds themselves bombing down a hill far to fast I reckon pulling a hand leaver is probably less scary to do then start trying to cycle backwards.
My laptop has a 14 inch 1080p display which is ~157 PPI so it needs around 1.2x scaling. My external monitor is 27 inch 4K which is ~163 PPI so it needs at least 1.5x scaling.

The most obvious solution that fixes all of these problems is to buy displays that work with 2x scaling. A combination of 15 inch 4K or 13 inch 3000x2000 laptop display and a 27 inch 5K external display is the ideal combination because both of them would work with 2x scaling.
I remember this project. Their first implementation was actually in D. Later on they transitioned to C++ because it was easier to find C++ devs and the D ecosystem was less mature than it is now.
i think may be a lot of people assumed initially, that the covid vaccine is gonna be like other vaccines - it prevents the virus from spreading by making it unable to take hold in your body to spread.
> Onyx hardware

Yeah, IIRC, those were the high-end of the SGI line, very beefy machines for that time, especially for I/O and graphics, so I stand by my comment.

[EDIT]: And thanks for clip mapping reference. For anyone interested in dynamic LOD algorithms, here's the paper:

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1145/280814.280855
> the headlight friction generator

The dynamo? :-) I did wonder when it said about them in the video. I've heard old models were bad for this but again have never tried a modern one.
pulling things out the ether my guess is that during normal operation news.ycombinator.com constantly creates and propagates new content ids as new comments are added (the front page simply fetches the newest ids, and there is a system for querying for updated ids which simulate how browser refresh works now), if news.ycombinator.com dies it becomes impossible to create new ids or post comments, but all already propagated pieces of contents are still accessible (possibly refresh still works on outdated content).

This is just a guess, though.
Legendary Namco pixel artist Hiroshi ‘Mr Dotman’ Ono has died
At my work place we switched to `main`, but we still have databases called `xyz-slave01`...
Or like other commenters noted, it's a click-and-bait fantasy piece. Maybe even meant as dark humor, dunno...
In other news, snow is still white. Not sure how they expected to deal with a trustworthy partner.

Though the reason for the issue (artificially inflated exchange rate for propaganda purposes) was something I wasn't aware of. Thanks for the insight.
Your statement isn't contradicting the study, infections and deaths are different things and the study also mentions that in its interpretation:

>Even though vaccinations offers protection to individuals against severe hospitalization and death, the CDC reported an increase from 0.01 to 9% and 0 to 15.1% (between January to May 2021) in the rates of hospitalizations and deaths, respectively, amongst the fully vaccinated [10].

Any study that helps us understand the pandemic better is always welcomed in my book, however I agree that the study seems to be quite opinionated:

>In summary, even as efforts should be made to encourage populations to get vaccinated it should be done so with humility and respect. Stigmatizing populations can do more harm than good.

I don't see how the study proves that last point, even though I don't necessarily disagree with the statement.
Crazy! Looking just now, there are a bunch on eBay around AU$8!
> both

does that mean steamos and non-steamos linux or steamos (which is a linux)? it would be nice to know whether playing this required installing a new operating system.
Yes, 99% they don't do anything, but the 1% of cases in which you want to add something extra, you're glad you're using properties. For example if you want to convert the data to other format/unit before returning, or to log all usages of a variable.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page there are some prices as well:

"Varjo XR-3 now available for €5495 + XR Subscription"

And the subscription seems to be 1.5k/year. :o
I think a good text game is actually incredibly complex compared to the simplest types of graphical games.
> Demagogues who want "classical architecture" are reliably fascist

dedinitely the ones who are, well, demagogues, and want state aggrandizing statement "classical" buildings, yes

but saying the only choice is between that or modern eyesores is kind of a false dichotomy, there's plenty of space for normal people who just want pleasant urban spaces for humans to happily exist in without taking it to either extreme
Isn't that what the clinical trials are for? I guess 3 months wasn't enough as places like Israel saw their infection rate go down a lot only to shoot back up recently as immunity wore off.

Again, I'm okay with new finding. What I'm not okay with is this constant gaslighting. The media tries to pretend I don't remember what was reported 6 months ago.
Will tell the same story.

This analysis is of change, not of level. Say you have one country with 90% vaccination and one with 9%, and much higher incidence in the latter, but both are stable during the summer. Then the weather grows cold and people move indoors, and the number of infections double in both countries.

This report says that's so: The number of infections double in both countries. It doesn't say "they arrive at the same number" or "this is an equally big problem in both countries" or anything of the sort.
The Bertelsmann Foundation wants to promote social integration and diversity. It advocates for creating a "comprehensive and long-term migration architecture" for Germany. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann_Stiftung#Society

But as the sibling comment notes, in other areas they're not at all left-leaning, e.g.:

Arvato, a division of the Bertelsmann Group, declared the privatization of public services a strategic business area.

It should not surprise anyone that characterizing their politics on a one-dimensional left-right spectrum is inaccurate (findings such as https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12320 notwithstanding).
My mom had an yellow "Pinguin" in mid 90s. I think she had it short before the first smart came out. For short trip to the city it was nice and easy to park anywhere :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli_(car)
D kinda fixed this issue by adding a concatenation operator ~. When you see a ~ b ~ c you know you are concatenating, not adding.
I don't get it. Dill pickle dog?
Netlify Leaking User Data in Querystrings (Again)
Wow, damn. I was being facetious, though, if a product has "talk to sales", you know it's expensive :P
Raise funds to hand out cash to poor people to play games. Point at the growth rate to raise more funds.
When there is 150 mil to throw at poor people naturally some of them are going to make thousands a month. No reason to get excited and breathless about it unless you are a paid shill.

#ponzi

Standard model of mindless shit.
From childlessness to the climate crisis, why is the blame always on us?
To me, the ideal design for an electric car has always been: not a Lexus with a battery, but an electric bicycle with a roof and some storage.
It has been a while since I used vanilla Ubuntu, so I apologise if some of my answers are outdated. Last I remember the Grub menu was still there. But yes for point 2 my view on Snaps was largely based on third party comments about the safety/usefulness of them compared to Flatpaks, much of which is may not be accurate any more as I've seen large projects (like Certbot) switch exclusively to Snap.
I don't think a Pi 4 would be fast enough to provide a enjoyable experience.
I just tested OpenMW on a Pinebook Pro (RK3399 SOC, should be slightly faster than a PI 4) and I do get like ~30-40 fps with lowest draw distance in Morrowind. Fallout 3 should be even slower due to far more and more detailed objects.

edit: Rendered at a meager 800x600 px
I just replayed Morrowind and tried both OpenMW and also the original with Morrowind Code Patch and Morrowind Graphics Extender, and ended up playing with the latter (mainly because of the much nicer graphics, due to longer render distances and also some features OpenMW doesn't have which now I forget...)
Some cultures don't distinguish between green and blue and don't have a word for blue. That doesn't mean that blue is the same as green.
Travel on Airless Worlds Part II (2014)
It's obvious the CDC data shows weekly periodicity but I've never really understood why. Are testing centers really closed on weekends ? What about the death data, that also shows a similar periodicity ?

My guess is that it has more to do with how the data is getting collected, like maybe some states don't report cases/deaths on weekends.

It seems odd that for as long as this has been going on no one in the media has thought to ask this question.
Could you share some of your ideas?
It's no more magical than anything else. It just turns out that j has an operator that does exactly what you want.

Having such operators and functions is far from an uncommon experience in j.
I used to use GNU parallel to run big data tasks on supercomputers. There's nothing special about "production". It's all just computers.
Anyone who watched the hour long video want to summarize? I dropped out after five minutes of pseudophilosophical rambling.
I enjoy Spotify's "Weekly Discovery" which promotes new artists and new songs to new listeners, but I REALLY don't like how they don't have "Don't recommend this podcast" button.
I listened to 10 minutes of one podcast ONCE in a long car drive, and now my homepage is filled by podcasts which I NEVER listen to. And there's no way to tell Spotify to remove them.
>The energy density of nuclear is so high it beats literally everything.

Exactly. Look at the tonnage that needs to be moved around for X GW generated for Y yr. Unless you make X and Y really, really small nuclear wins handily.

The cost of dicking around with uranium ore is not apreciably different in cost than the resource extraction needed for solar panels. The amount of concrete you need to pour for a nuclear power plant isn't that different than you need for windmill footings.

The difference is that any idiot can weld up the anchoring structure for your wind turbine or wire up your solar panels whereas everyone loses their shit if the f-ing employee kitchen sink in a nuclear facility isn't assembled by someone with a special certification and checked by two more.
NixOS: Tmpfs as Root
> Is there still a performance win?

Sometimes. Rarely. Specifically, it's a performance win when you don't need 32 bit of precision, when 8 or 16 bits is enough in these integers. When it happens, you can pack twice as many lanes in the SIMD vectors, and use instructions which view 16-byte vectors as 8 int16_t lanes, or 16 uint8_t lanes.

FP32 is much faster to multiply and especially to divide, compared to Int32.

> Do games and similar software use them today?

Image and video processing code which for some weird reason runs on CPU definitely does.
One think I noticed when getting my vaccine shot was the line going in was very socially distanced with everyone wearing masks. That changed the moment someone was vaccinated. They would come out of the centre, take off their mask, walk right next to the queue, their behavior instantly changed from getting the jab. Almost everyone did this. There is a social impact of having the vaccine that increases transmission behavior in my experience and it was almost everyone that did this.

These social impacts, from countries opening up more due to high vaccination rates are very important factors as clearly they do and have controlled the spread throughout this pandemic and if you don't control for them you can't compare transmission. Even if you compared countries measures you would still end up with this behavioral change meaning people were more likely to spread and catch once vaccinated.
Technical analysis of a high-performance block I/O platform for the cloud
The world is never that simple, and to put that simplistic lens on it will be a net negative.

These types of regulatory burdens further serve to consolidate the world in the large corporations as they are the only ones that have the resources to either navigate them, or pay for loop holes to them for their particular business.

The unintended consequences from that would be far worse than the security issues you hope to address
Not really, it takes too much time writing a simple email as it is haha.
In defence of the maintainer. With this sort of project there is a real possibility that there is 1 person in the whole world who will keep the thing alive. If that person happens to have particular standards for what code looks like then good luck to them.

Perfect is the enemy - the active and vigorous enemy - of good when it comes to OSS maintenance.