skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thus, even if the vaccine harms you in some way, COVID itself will do worse.

And that’s the TL;DR folks. Seriously, this distillation makes the choice very easy.
I think they should be called Runbook Scripts. They basically walk you through a procedure with a text interface. I bet they would work even better as a slide deck.
> alcohol already kills more people than heroin.

Yeah and it kills more people than nuclear bombs and pet tigers combined. But unlike nuclear gonna, pet tigers and heroin, alcohol is used by perhaps a majority of adults, so the numbers need to be adjusted accordingly.
I interpreted it as referring to the spike proteins generated after receiving the mRNA vaccine. They were supposed to have been modified to not be bio-active.
> just giving him a goddamn prescription.

You think we should just give them free drugs in addition to the housing and food we already give them? Because the drugs are cheaper than the robberies?

Look, the simple fact is many people are not entrepreneurial. They work instead of doing drugs because they know they have to in order to have a decent go at life. If you just make being high all day and acceptable and low cost life decision, you could easily see 90% of people in some communities choose that option.

We do actually exist on earth in the pitiful condition that if we all just sit on our asses and do nothing, we'll die.
I agree about experimenting (and I do that). Feeling bad is a strong indicator, perhaps, but less so feeling good: People can spend decades eating things that make them feel good and lead to heart attacks. I could smoke cigarettes, which make people feel good.
Yikes. This is an incredibly tone-deaf take.

You cannot "deracialize" a discussion while simultaneously framing the situation in fundamentally racial terms like "the crime problem has a racial coloration", or while repeating racist tropes like "those boys killing themselves over sneakers".
The engineering error was on the part of the vaccine designers, choosing the spike protein as the thing to "train" our immune systems without fully understanding what the spike actually does.
I actually think they could continue to do well in this market because they've persevered long enough to become the last surviving company offering an unlimited backup product in the consumer space (afaik, if there are others I'd love to hear about them). They're basically a monopoly at this point, and can dictate the price.

They could double their prices tomorrow, and their customers (myself included) would likely complain loudly, but ultimately very few of them would actually cancel because there is no real alternative to switch to since every one of their former competitors have given up on this model and either introduced caps/usage-based pricing or pivoted to businesses.

I certainly would keep paying my subscription at double the price because I'm backing up more than enough data to justify the cost. In fact I currently also subscribe to Crashplan's "Business" backup product at $10/month in addition to Backblaze in order to get an extra level of redundancy in my backups. (Crashplan markets to businesses but there's not much stopping any individual from signing up and using it the last time I checked).
There are several TV shows that show house flippers. You think that's immoral?

For each property, they engage in two transactions for which all parties involved are willing participants. How is that immoral?
If they are truely an asshole or barrier to productivity then that's a nonstarter, they need to be dropped. All things being equal, certainly the friendlier the better.
> Searching for a means by which the vaccine might meaningfully damage your adaptive immune system is ill-advised. Frankly, we've got terrifying amounts of information about the deleterious effects of catching and surviving serious COVID, and administration of a vaccine tends to uncontroversially downgrade the seriousness of the COVID infection that you will almost assuredly get eventually. Thus, even if the vaccine harms you in some way, COVID itself will do worse.

Explicitly saying nobody should look into a potential negative side effect of vaccines because they might actually find something is down right scary. Much scarier than any fears of “misinformation”. This kind of thinking is why there is mistrust.
Go to LinkedIn and see how many employees work for each company. You can often see a breakdown by type of role on the company page as well.
It looks like only the mRNA vaccines. That said, the mRNA vaccines seem better at preventing serious COVID cases for longer, so even if they do screw up one's B and T cells, the serious COVID one might catch once one's J&J runs out will screw them up that much more.
First, density is obviously cheaper, and many people already begrudge homeless people sleeping outside even though that doesn't cost anything. Second, even if a person is addicted to drugs, they still need a place to live. So evicting them doesn't actually solve anything except your business risk. Third, NIMBYism is almost omnipotent as a political force in most parts of the US worth living in. You aren't going to convince people to let poor people or people with problems live near them. They will fight like hell to stop it, and many will be wealthy or influential.
Instead of the thinly veiled ad hominem of trying to paint the user as a troll by crying "bad faith! bad faith!" Why didn't you provide some killer examples instead? This omission is as frequent as it is telling.
Sounds like he earned that free advertising, though.
From reading the paper, it'd be all of the vaccines, or at least all that build on the spike protein as the target for our immune systems to focus on.
How does that explain the cases of myocarditis?
> I'll again point out that however the spike might fuck with B and T cells, the full-blown virus will surely do more.

Sure. And the full-blown virus trigger the same immune response and create the same spike protein..

BUT, this is all about risk management.
If you live alone in somewhere very low infection rate and don't meet people, there is no point taking this risk.

If you need a vaccine, there are safer (but less effective) alternative vaccines.
So we should ignore everything published by MDPI but take as gospel something stated by a PhD candidate in molecular biology who livestreams on Twitch under the name Homozygoat and has 329 followers there?
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Why do you trust them?
To me the focus on insulin for processed foods may be very incomplete.

While refined carbs are bad, the problem is probably more related to the entire gastrointestinal pipeline and immune system.

Processed foods are not just high in refined carbs, but also low in fiber, involve emulsifiers, stabilizers, preservatives, pasturization, and more.

Fiber is needed for healthy intestines, and may be essential for limiting overall systemic inflammation.

High temperatures denature molecules, create a large number of carcinogens: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, advanced glycation end products, etc.

Preservatives like sodium benzoate combine with molecules like citric acid to form benzene and is a problem for many soft drinks.

Emulsifiers, i.e. many stuff labelled as "gums", may literally be gumming up your works, making it difficult for your intestines to do their job, causing heartburn, inflammation, etc.

I'm not opposed to highly processed things because they are processed with advanced technology. But profit-seeking companies selling things to ignorant shortsighted consumers will maximize for shelf life, taste, and appearance over health almost every time.

And it is our fault because deep down we know this.
I read the paper.
Well, before IPOs became a way for founders to cash out, they actually served a purpose for raising money for the kinds of companies that won't be profitable for a while.
Prospects have dramatically dimmed for fed legislation to help local journalism
The problem with talking about DAWs and workflows is that there are so many distinct workflows that it becomes almost meaningless.

Watch a discussion between e.g. an Ardour user and a Reaper user about how to do something, and it will often seem like they are in different worlds. "Well, I would never even begin to do it that way" will almost certainly come up.It would be even worse if you listen to, say, a Logic user and an FL Studio user. So many "basic concepts" that one of them uses every day, but that don't even appear on the other user's radar.

That means that a given "most flexible and advanced workflow" that matters a lot one user will probably be awkward for another, but it won't matter to most people, because they do it a different way.

Like I said, I'm glad for DAW users that there are so many choices, and I'm fairly sure that for the vast majority of people, there's one out there that will make them happy. What it is matters much less.
They could work with a large property management company, or buy it outright. The demand for single family home rentals in the US is quite high.
I’ve recently learned how important a health gut flora is. I took a course of antibiotics and had a month of severe depression, anxiety, constipation and general sense of hopelessness. It was fucking awful. I’ve completely cut out sugar and processed foods and refined carbs. I’m starting to feel genuinely good. That month was the scariest period of my life.

The experience has also shown me how ignorant we still are in terms of nutrition and medicine. My surgeon basically gaslit me, and handed me 5 different prescriptions. Hopefully we get to a place where nutrition is taking seriously, and we get proper tools to evaluate our body’s health
> the harm would be orders of magnitude greater than alcohol.

This is something of an assertion.
We can certainly anticipate some effects, by looking at countries that have had opium problems in the past. But that would have to be countered by looking at the deaths, physical and mental health consequences, violence and all sorts of other problems caused by alcohol, and doing so honestly.

There is a huge tendency to write it off as "just a beer" and think "I can handle it" and then compare your relationship with alcohol to the worst addicts of another drug, neatly ignoring the many millions who end up on a dark path through booze.
And that made targeting the spike protein with the vaccines a good idea? No. The spike protein itself is the problem, regardless of its source. The vaccine designers picked a bad target.
Why is SCS US’s business? No I’m not from 50cent army.
I like this list. I don’t agree with every choice but so what: they are all thoughtful choices (except why do you need `recur`?) that reflect an opinionated position which I appreciate.
American English dialects trace back to the various British groups that settled the different colonies. Tangier Island[1] for example has an ancient Cornish dialect. Ocracoke Island[2] has what is probably the closest thing to a living Elizabethan English speech community. Those are extreme examples, but the stereotypical New England and Southeastern dialects have similar origins, they're just considerably watered down due to the lack of isolation.

Meanwhile, the standard "BBC English" Received Pronunciation is actually quite the novelty, comparatively speaking.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180206-the-tiny-us-isla...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-th...
Vertical tabs on edge and sleeping tabs have ruined my tab discipline and that's a compliment. I keep so many more tabs open than before and they don't get in my way. Collections are also an actually useful feature for recording browsing "sessions".

Just 2 things bother me a bit:

1. With vertical tabs on, quite a few sites switch to mobile layout for some reason. This is really annoying and makes me turn vtabs off sometimes. Is there a way to stop sites from doing this? My screen should be 16:9 so I don't understand how adding the little side bar should trigger the switch

2. Please give us a native tab search! Vscode has ctrl-p, windows terminal has ctrl-p, even GitHub now has ctrl-k. Inbuilt tab search will feed my habit of keeping 50 tabs open. I currently use vimium which works okayish but the main caveat is it doesn't work in pdf viewers, and half my tabs are pdfs
>Explicitly saying nobody should look into a potential negative side effect of vaccines because they might actually find something is down right scary.

You didn't read the article. Or what I wrote about it. The vaccine can't do any worse than the virus, and this study, that does look into a potential negative side effect, found that the virus does indeed do worse!

Scaremongering while putting words into someone else's mouth is why there is mistrust.
When people wonder why a large corporation would pay to be on AWS/GCP/Azure rather than running their own infrastructure this is one reason why.
The choice ain't that simple... There are multiple vaccines..
They varies in effectiveness and safeness.

Depends on where you are, the risk of getting inflected varies too.

It is good to stay informed, not blindly take anything you can get.
Their "backup credits" system has helped mitigate churn from price increases (and they've gotten very good at using it), but agreed that there are a lot of turned down / discontinued offerings in the unlimited backup space.
Aren't inactivated virus vaccines (like Sinovac's) also expressing the full-length spike protein?
I can't imagine having Zillow's financial resources and losing money in the Miami market, of all places. Dear god that place is hot (real estate and weather!).
> There are no geopolitical concerns which prevent the US Navy from doing side scan sonar bathymetry in the international waters portion of the South China Sea. In fact they do this on a regular basis.

China, a powerful country, says it's their territory and threatens those who disregard it. Many think it's the most likely place for a US-China war, besides Taiwan. That's a geopolitical concern.

The US chooses to handle it in a certain way, including by operating in the area. The US says that legally there is no concern. But that doesn't preclude a geopolitical concern.
> You think we should just give them free drugs in addition to the housing and food we already give them? Because the drugs are cheaper than the robberies?

Does that not seem pragmatic to you?

While we give them those drugs we can make sure they're not getting anything nasty or weird in there so they don't just up and die, and we can help them recover when the opportunity presents.

But if you'd rather live with more petty crime, and more expensive policing, more or less for the sake of being spiteful... well you get where we are today.

> If you just make being high all day and acceptable and low cost life decision, you could easily see 90% of people in some communities choose that option.

I think that would be a damning verdict on how unfulfilling and hopeless those communities have become regardless of drugs.
I believe it was due to limitations of the JVM at the time.

Edit: https://www.windley.com/archives/2008/11/tail_optimized_mutu...
Backblaze B2 is significantly cheaper than R2. I don't think Cloudflare will be stealing many of their customers.
Please re-read my comment.

I never advocated for a "pacifist approach", but if we want housing to be affordable we need to pick the right battles.

Advocating for things like tax reform, financial restrictions which limit the utility of residential property as an investment vehicle, incentives for empty nesters to downsize, less restrictions on property development, or even high-speed rail between metro areas and regional hubs will all put downwards pressure on property prices.

Misdirected frustration, unfortunately, will not.
How so? No matter how you get the spike proteins in you (virus, mRNA vaccine, or traditional vax using the spike protein as target) the preferential targeting of the virus for immune system cells, combined with the properties being exhibited by the spike protein, means that the immune system isn't able to properly develop the immunity you should be getting from infection or from vaccination.

If a different target from the virus was chosen, perhaps it'd be a different story, but going for the spike protein without having a fuller understanding of what it does in our cells has made the vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 questionable given the findings in this paper.
Was looking for someone to say don’t read Binderman’s translations because he’s a hack.
Hah, I was the one that played along and made you keep going ("May you be gifted with a long, healthy life and an exquisite taste in ties"?). And I think SAD was one of the teams that occasionally helped us find resources in this or that cluster, along with Analytics and, later, Social.

AAAAA+ GREAT CUSTOMER WOULD SELL TO AGAIN
You're doing it wrong.

Use Homebrew only for tools and not for critical services like databases and use a cloud server or local virtualization like VMware Fusion (which is free these days for personal use) to run services because major distro packages have far more eyes to check for stability issues.

I never understand people trying to run every parts of the development environment through a local machine's third party package managers which would forbid anyone else being able to check your work right then as you're only running it as localhost, not to mention the power can be down at any moment you're not using your machine and you can't even switch machine yourself to work from easily.

And then when deploying, you'll be running it on Linux anyway which would likely bring little consistency issues.

Do yourself a favor, either spend $5/mo for a cloud Linux and run your stuff remotely or run a locally virtualized Linux and stop using third party package managers no one is using to run on production.

And you can happily keep Homebrew and also install Homebrew on Linux to have unified tool sets on your Mac and Linux CLI tools.
Dark data discovery: How and where to find it
Google “APRS digipeter setup”, you’ll find lots of solutions which fit your needs (mobile, home station, etc).

This video explains a raspberry pi setup with Dire Wolf (software TNC): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YqTpyPLtjUA
I miss the internet where people just created what they wanted and organically found users
Depends on the deer. Mule Deer here that you can find the front yard of your house can be 200-300lbs. And depends on what you mean by, "deer". Are you think about reindeer? Elk? MOOSE? Hitting a moose is gunna be a bad day.
Came here to write the same comment. The points/measures selected as “data” seem incredibly arbitrary - and seem more likely to be created to fulfill the hypothesis. Closed window, moved on.
Combining this technique with an automation website like Jenkins and a "no code" programing language could be an interesting product. I imagine having a UI where prompts can be specified and predefined components like send X an email can be dropped into the workflow. Acknowledgments that steps and complete can be tracked, and long running workflows could be shared between users.
I especially want to understand the effects on developing immune systems. There are obvious no long term studies and kids are rarely seriously sick from the virus itself.
Never been able to install in macOS is one of the difference.
People get attached to their machines. It's like a car.
The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas
Methinks we won't really know about the consequences of mRNA (or COVID itself for that matter) until many years later. And currently we're flying blind, and a lot of people are driven by heavily politicized, semi-religious fervor, to the point of giving this stuff to healthy 5 year olds who are not in danger of severe disease at all.
I had an HR guy once that said everyone thought I was an asshole. I asked around. Turns out he was the only one that thought that and many felt the same about him.
I am not sure. It feels new to me. I think the level of coordination and organization by fringe activists is likely greater today than ever before thanks to the Internet. I also think that there has been a clear leftward swing in bias in colleges that may be fueling this shift against free exchange of ideas. Is it possible there were biases in the past, potentially in the other direction? Sure. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the level of such pressures is greater today than in the last 100 years. I’m curious if you see it differently or if you have data/evidence saying otherwise.
Generally the U.S. leads a coalition of western nations that protect international shipping via freedom of navigation exercises. So if some country like India declares it owns the Indian Ocean, or China declares it owns the SCS, or Egypt announces it owns the Mediterranean, then the U.S. (and other nations like the U.K., France, etc) will sail through the area as well as acommpany shipping traffic to demonstrate that, no, these are really international waters that anyone has a right to use, and that no one can claim for themselves.

This is an important and useful exercise in order to keep important shipping lanes free. This is critical to the functioning of the global economy, on which the U.S., U.K., and other nations depend. It is in their interest to ensure that no nation claims ownership of these global transit routes.
> Together with Seagate, we decided to remove these drives from service over the coming months.

>both Seagate and Dell were looking into the possible causes for the unexpected failure rate.

Someone is finally starting to feel PR hits from their terrible products.

>HGST MegaScale DC 4000.B HMS5C4040BLE640 4TB

$60 Amazon refurbs! Wonder how many of 12K listed were refurbs, how old were those when purchased, and if Backblaze got Smart wiped drives.
It feels like you're using "state actor" as a motte and bailey. It usually means targeted espionage affecting very few, with strong motives for why security services are interested in them specifically. Whereas that article is ultimately talking about a dragnet surveillance system, which is technically a state actor but affects literally everyone.
So you think Dave Chapelle is the most conservative person in the world today?
I was kinda upset when backblaze raised their prices again, but after doing a price and features comparison I realized they’re still way cheaper than the competition with (imho) a better product. The only thing they don’t have is name recognition and they’re not as ruthless about going after customers, if I had to guess, it’s for the reasons you mention, trying to court new customers is a losing battle in this space.
I have no experience in blogging/newsletter let alone monetizing. If you see the overall trend of content across the board: movies, music, tik-tok videos, learning material/courses, they are increasingly getting commoditized from consumer point of view. The kind of content "its-so-awesome-it-sells-itself" is very rare.

Newletters are essentially curated content for specific audience. Even if there is a content profitable for a while then it will be made into a commodity soon because it will attract so many folks.

Also, the issue with content from individuals compared to content from companies: Scale. The dynamic of working alone vs making money is hard to pull off if not impossible.
You have the right take here - the Metaverse is basically the internet with a Z axis in the DOM - and anyone is free to do with that as they may.

Its been around for longer than Second Life in pancake kvm forms but the latest iteration is based on Immersion or Embodied experience facilitated by the new hardware price/performance advances.

VR hardware is just about over the chasm and proper wide fov AR is on the horizon although semi AR/MR is possible today (e.g. Pokemon Go as a shared overlay of digital world space on to a shared real world space).

The Immersive Embodied Metaverse is available over the internet using open W3C WebXR standards today and this will get better as the space and infrastructure matures.
That won't work. It'll just turn into who has the most money can afford the best genetic modifications.