skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there have been couples together getting heart issues.

E.g. Daniel Shep who had it with his partner and then he decided to call around his social circle to urge anyone feeling chest pain after vaccine to go get it checked out and his cousin got this as well.

Given 1 out of 100,000 chance for it, having any couple in the world to have both these side effects would be 10% if there were 1 billion couples.

And according to anecdotal reports, heart issues are only on 3rd spot with frequency, with fatigue and brain fog being before it, which are quite impossible to link back to the vaccine based on anecdotal reports.
It's almost like the existence of vaccines places evolutionary pressure on a mutating virus.

This whole pandemic has highlighted something that I really prefer not to think about, which is just how irrational, selfish, incapable of assessing risk and prone to confirmation bias too many people are.

The vaccine isn't 100% effective in stopping transmission? Or stopping you catching the disease? Or dying? Each of these becomes some pseudo-gotcha moment that leads some down an invermectin-taking path with Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan as the pied piper.

It's basically equivalent to arguing that people wearing seat belts can die in car accidents therefore seat belts are ineffective. Worse, you can suffer an injury from a seat belt so they're net harmful.

What many non-Americans may not understand is that there are a nontrivial number of Americans who still doggedly and genuinely believe that about seat belts to this day and view laws requiring their use as impinging on their ffeedom.

And we want people to make sacrifices for climate change? Yeah, never gonna happen.
That's why I hope the global community shifts the focus from periodic vaccination to finding an efficient and safe cure.
Nice, mine is a 2D engine. http://github.com/ensisoft/gamestudio
Maybe in your city? In Japan train drivers are basically forced to act like robots. There's actually an ongoing lawsuit over 56 yen (about $0.50 USD) because a train was 1 minute late.. not arriving at a station, but just entering the yard.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/05280713556b763ef4f8cf28fa...
Google staff squirm as remote workers face pay cuts
It's not due to the evolution / delta variant.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-10-04/pfizer-covi...
> All existing DEs suck, partly because programmers don't know how to design UI/UX, partly because the one project with actual graphics designers (GNOME) wants to do something completely different than what most end users want.

I guess that here we really need to figure out which end users we are talking about, to understand what they actually want.

To me, and perhaps some others, DEs like XFCE are pretty close to perfection - low resource usage, good performance, good usability, decent customization (as long as you don't want to do anything fancy, just get your windows to show up in a panel or two, and add a few widgets for resource display, clock, language switching etc.).

To users like me, the finer points of the DEs out there that have more fancy graphical elements or in depth customization, like KDE, are pretty much lost or are not really relevant. In my experience, most of the problems with the modern Linux desktop experience are created by the software, that has inconsistent element placements, varying button sizes, different UI frameworks altogether and so on. However, as long as the software works, i also don't find myself caring too much, even if things could be better.
Yeah, also it might be poorly expressed of me to say that the desire for things to go perfectly is the thing that is holding people back. Maybe it's better expressed as the fear of looking bad in front of others (and often even to ourselves).
Thanks for the link. There are also graphs for mortality, that show that vaccines continue to greatly reduce the probability to die of COVID-19: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620#F3

Combined with the reduced probability to get infected, the only thing you have to worry about is infecting the unvaccinated.
This is nonsense.

It's not 183, it's 138 (see https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/gross-... ), but that's not the error. The big error is that the $138B they make is gross profit. To quote Wikipedia:

>For a firm, gross income (also gross profit, sales profit, or credit sales) is the difference between revenue and the cost of making a product or providing a service, before deducting overheads, payroll, taxation, and interest payments.

Profit after deducting all expenses is net profit.

Wal-mart's net profit in 2021 was 13.51 billion: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/net-in....

If $183 billion gross profit is $80000 per employee, you're talking about $5900 net profit per employee. Two dollars per employee wouldn't be a 5% profit loss, it would be an 85% profit loss.
There were visually impaired people who commented on the original tweet who said it really helped them that the participants described themselves. They also shared how they use a screen reader to read tweets and reply.

It sounds stupid until someone for whom it's useful comments, and it also reminds us of a Hanlonish razor of never attributing something to someone's stupidity if we can attribute it to our own malice.
The article does talk about mortality rates quite extensively, immediately after the first section about infection rates.

Starting sentence for that 2nd section is

> The three vaccines held up better in their ability to prevent COVID-19 deaths..

You will find the changes in two age groups, above and below 65. Modena and Pfizer/BioNTech again much better than J&J, albeit still showing a significant decline in the ability to prevent death.
Scientists explain why women don’t feel the cold on nights out in tiny outfits
Myocarditis could be caused by wrong application of the vaccines.

From what I understand, people that apply the vaccine should 'aspirate', which basically means:

1) insert vaccine at location where muscle is supposed to be
2) slightly retract to see if blood enters inside the jab
3) if no blood is entering the jab, apply vaccine. Otherwise throw away and retry with new vaccine.

If blood was returned, in that case the vaccine is at a location of an artery and having vaccine applied to arteries seem to have a high correlation to causing myocarditis.

More info in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsACTX0_ihs
I only eat at McDonald's about 3 times a year. It's not even cheap. But then nothing is cheap in a country with 21% VAT lol.

And there are much better fastfood options out there.
> "can it make a business that works"

For how long? Until it needs a rewrite because it’s completely unmanageable. Yes I know, the rewrite cycle is part of the business now, but I don’t think it’s necessary. We can do better.
It's in imperfect analogy. You could argue there's nothing less tightly coupled than web dev. There you choose whatever tools you want as long as you can get it into HTML/CSS/JS at the end of the day.

With engine-based gamedev, you buy into a monolith and that will dictate basically everything about how the project has to be built.
As far as I can tell, this is the extent of what’s been discussed in public (mmstick is a System76 engineer)

> mmstick: It will be its own desktop.

> SevenSidedSube: Will the DE be forked from GNOME?

> mmstick: No it is its own thing written in Rust.

If nothing else, it’s encouraging to see a large GUI project in Rust as it will surely lift the (nascent) state of the art there in that area. In the best case, maybe this will get me back on Linux for the desktop.
What about Singapore? So high vaccination rate, but even with such high rate, cases started to climb:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/singapore
For example, consider the rather enormous amounts of money the industry spends on developing new statin after statin for blood pressure control. Many newer ones are more or less medically indistinguishable from existing ones on the market, but they are chemically distinct enough to be patentable. Similar story with SSRI antidepressants. Compare with the absolute dearth of research on new antibiotics and vaccines (until recently). We need those far more than we need yet another statin or SSRI, but those you can sell daily for life, and the others are a single dose.
That's only on JavaCard 3 connected, though – which is dead: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9546812/javacard-3-in-re...

But I agree – Java to JavaScript is not the best comparison. Maybe a better one would be C programs written for a Unix system vs. C on a microcontroller: Same language; vastly different instruction set, OS and hardware capabilities and APIs available.

Unlike C on microcontrollers, Java Card applications are hardware and OS agnostic, though!
I guess I am the quiet power type because for many years I ran 9x 120mm water cooled radiators cooling the CPU and GPU with the fans running at 600 rpm. The moment you do that the sound of the hard drive is deafeningly loud and so 100% SSD storage became a necessity as did ensuring the PSU was as quiet as possible. I don't do it today as its a lot of maintenance and the performance gains of doing it are much smaller today but I prefer silent machines with as much performance as I can pack into a quiet package. I change components often and I can't imagine ever feeling any form of connection to the machine, maybe because I have been through 15 different motherboards and CPUs but there isn't any nostalgia or connection value to the hardware, only on what it can do.
A good rule of thumb is that nothing is just memory wothout a processor. Including stuff that is sold as jyst memory (eg SD cards).
With children having a much lower risk profile to start with and the same or similar risk of adverse effects as adults, parents may have some tough choices ahead.
there's a whole linux-only HPC market out there which requires dedicated GPU drivers. same reason why nvidia won't stop making Linux drivers for their hardware. API support may be limited, but then with Vulkan you can reimplement your own GL or DX or whatever you wish.
I like modal editing, but mostly because you have to use keybinds less (especially awful ones that combine control + shift + alt).

Just moving your hands to the arrow keys might be less efficient, but in my experience it has got nothing to do with RSI—you’re just moving your whole hand with your shoulders. That seems about as repetitive stress-inducing as going to fetch a cup of coffee.

Of course when one plays the piano one has to move the hands by the shoulders a lot... the piano is not a stenography keyboard.
>yet the deaths keep spiking from time to time, only marginally below the levels where they were pre-vaccine

I just checked[0] and it seems like their data for 2021 is way better in terms of deaths than 2020.

>Seems like someone, somewhere, might have not been telling the truth about vaccines alone "ending" the pandemic.

Talking heads will say all sorts of nonsense or exaggerate and shouldn't be your yardstick. The better question is are we better with them than without and the evidence points towards yes.

0. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations (switch to 'cases and deaths' and Israel)
Didn't think this was a thing in UK - I was right - Wikipedia:

>the United Kingdom, does not have jaywalking laws; its Highway Code relies on the pedestrian making their own judgment on whether it is safe to cross based on the Green Cross Code. Pedestrians do have priority over turning vehicles. Rule 170 of the UK's Highway Code instructs a driver to "watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way."
Prevention generally is better than cure. And it is not like scientists are not researching for alternative treatments, it is just that unless they got some positive result the media will not announce it.
> Oh it can be a bit like that sometimes. Kernel crashes, general instability, overheating, broken (or shorted) PMICs, miswired signals (turns out it's very easy to get TX and RX pairs between CPU & peripheral mixed up), wrong voltage levels, wrong clocks, peripherals missing firmware.. I've seen it all, and I've had plenty of use for the oscilloscope recently. Hopefully we'll get the next prototype soon-ish but there's still stuff that needs to be debugged :)

On the one hand, yikes; on the other hand, coool :)

> I'm kinda spread thin between board bringup & debugging and writing new features for the customer.

[Cries in long distance]

Shipping hardware to AU would probably be a bit... unsustainable ;_;

> There's more than one mechanism in place. The basic route failover stuff in Linux doesn't work very well (afaict it only detects the gateway going down, which doesn't help if the gateway is another on-prem router which stays alive when the link to ISP goes belly up).

Oh yay.

> So we've got periodic ping probes (to a configurable set of IPs) which promote/demote the corresponding route when a few probes succeed/fail.

*Takes notes*

I'm switching to sorta-fiber soon and the connection comes with a 4G backup. Using a modem without SMA (which no Consumer™ would ever need, right?) in a "what's service?" reception area. So I'm planning to reimplement the 4G failover with my own dongle (and antenna) :3

At least that's the theory. Not sure if it'll work. Waiting for my old DSL connection to die first so I can record the click, because I'm... weird. :P

> We've also got a daemon which maintains multiple connections (also multiple protocols) to multiple servers through all WAN interfaces and all connections do regular keepalives; packets are rerouted to another connection when one fails.

Cool.

> It can also duplicate packets to multiple connections simultaneously (it's often necessary to get alarms delivered to more than one place), among other things.

Does this use a confidence scoring system or does it just copy everything Nx -> 1:N?

(...admittedly I'm now thinking of the bandwidth management in multi-SIM video broadcast systems. Not quite the same thing.)

> It's sort of an overlay network that performs VPN-like functions (and more) on and off the internet, and can tunnel anything from SMS to serial ports to raw ethernet to individual TCP & UDP ports or specific protocols like FTP.

O.o neat

> Bonding as such isn't implemented but it's on the radar.

Interesting, I can see how it's simultaneously not-so-relevant and yet would probably simplify things here and there.
This has to be awkward for people who sympathize with the Chinese government.
Baseband chips and sim cards aren't infrastructure, but you still can't compete because getting permission to run one on modern networks is financially well out of reach for most. This is why open source inspectable firmware simply doesn't exist for these things.

All we currently have is leaked 2G and 3G source code for people to build their own off, most notable would be omsocombb
Sphinx, manticore, solr, elastic, lucene, meilisearch, bleve, typesense, xapian, whoosh, yioop.

Just a few. Keep in mind most are indexing engines and not full featured general purpose search engines. You have to build a lot on top to get something remotely close to google.
I think many governments left their people an impression that those vaccines would end the pandemic and that vaccinated can't get the disease at all pretty much.
Waning immunity seems to affect only the probability of getting infected.
Vaccine effectiveness against serious disease, hospitalization, and death are still very high.
So, maybe boosters won't be for everyone
I really don't understand where this idea of "annual boosters" is coming from. SARS-CoV2 is clearly on the trajectory to become one of the many viruses that are endemic in humans. This means that everyone will occasionally get exposed to it which updates the immune memory. The question is how to get there while minimizing the damage to the population. The mRNA vaccines were originally tested with two doses which appears to provide a strong and relatively long lasting protection against severe disease. Now it turned out that giving a third dose after a few months improves the protection even more, which is particularly relevant for high-risk patients.
Of course, that's not something that a legitimate manufacturer would have in their standard firmware.

However, that is a possibility for specific malicious firmware uploaded to some "phone of interest" to prevent its user from protecting themselves by turning on airplane mode.
Indeed, in my experience as well. My hands did not like the stock Emacs keybinds. All those C-x C-S-f C-c C-p were just terrible to use.
No discussion of what type of drone was used. I suspect it to be something like the ones mentioned in this report:

https://ctc.usma.edu/islamic-state-drones-supply-scale-futur...
They are absolutely the ones to create hard-to-debug issues because they layered a whole bunch of complex things incorrectly or unknowingly.

For example, recently I spent more time than I'd like finding out that we linked two incompatible versions of a library. All the visible dependencies were correct, but at some point someone bundled an old version in a fat jar and that got included transitively via another dependency. If you understand the details you know why you don't distribute libraries as fat jars. But if you're just following some guide it's easier to fat jar it than correctly specify your dependency tree.

If your education was really effective you recognize this is just the static/dynamic linking problem again in new clothes.
There was a time when trading in equity shares was driven in part by the so-called "fundamentals". How the business was doing (and the outlook), if the company was making money (and would make money in the future), things like that.
Are you the same person who asked this question? No one commented on about the amount of funding. So please, do not encourage this kind of questions to be asked in HN.
There was anti viral cure which Pfizer just announced trial results of phase 2. Supposedly 90% efficacy when administered 3 days after symptoms to prevent hospitalisations and deaths.
> Given 1 out of 100,000 ...

I do wonder how many people can even recognise the warning signs of myocarditis. There are probably a surprising number of young people who don't know exactly where their heart sits. It'd be quite easy to be off by 3-4 inches.
Considering that even people infected by the virus had recurrent cases after a while (and in a much greater proportion than vaccinated people BTW), it is much more likely that this is thanks on how this specific virus works than some conspiracy theory to sell more vaccines.
On your first comment, as far as I know the big contributor seems to be the Delta variant which arose and became prevalent in India at a time when it had very low vaccination rates (and from a different vaccine). In a hypothetical world without vaccines, we'd still have delta and just be worse off. I don't see any reason to attribute this to selective pressure from vaccines.
> about vaccines alone "ending" the pandemic

The idea that vaccines "end" the pandemic was proposed when there was the hope or expectation that the vaccine campaign leads to a covid19-sterile population.

My post and its parent post are _all_ about discussing what to do when sterilization is off the table (as appears to be the case with the vaccines we have), and I have no idea where your point fits into that.

By the way: The Occam's razor answer to "someone, somewhere, might have not been telling the truth" is that people were expecting a better outcome and were mistaken. "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" and all that.
They seem to be in a class entirely unto themselves. There is something about the way they move and observe the world that gives them an apparent intellect beyond any other 'bug' I've seen. I used to keep bees and they are amazing in both their individual and collective ability, but it's hard to interact with them. Portia and other in the Salticidae family are almost like little dogs or something. They watch you, seem to make eye contact even, and generally are tolerant of handling and attention. Really cool little critters.

Predictably, the BBC and David Attenborough have some amazing videos about them:

Hunting a spider - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDtlvZGmHYk

Hunting a mantid (you have to watch the end) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wKu13wmHog

Crazy mating ritual - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_udvnFCl7s

Another intense mating ritual - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbScg3r1oQ

They let you pet them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPo8MG1pJ8w

All of this with a brain of approximately 100,000 neurons.
Yep. In Eastern Europe you can eat healthy food cheaper than going to the Mac, even at restaurants.
Small changes to roads affect cyclists, transit users and pedestrians
This is news to me, but not surprising. After all, Jeremy Soller (A.K.A Jackpot51), is both a system 76 engineer and a long time contributor to Redox OS. Redox is a rust native OS[1].

[1] https://www.redox-os.org/screens/
So the price is right on the limit for something I'd like to play around a bit with at home and "maybe it sticks". This is something I'd like to learn for the programming environment. But I'm not going to write software based on this that actually does something. I don't want to produce software that has a $200/year dependency. So then the amount of time I can invest goes down sharply.

I mean, good for them that they're doing well. They probably don't need the money. But their technology is highly unlikely to ever be part of any software I write. And it isn't because it is a bad fit. I do lots of stuff that would benefit greatly from having Mathematica plugged into it.

Thanks for the tip on the book. I might actually buy the paper edition and read that.
Apple SoCs have something like a dozen CPUs in them all running seperate firmware. a display processor, gpu message processor, etc. Asahi Linux has a write up somewhere.
I kind of have to agree with the point about loading ESM in the browser.

I tried doing this with one of the new fangled frameworks and seeing my browser work through like 5000ish required files was quite comical.
PopOS Sounds interesting, I will be playing around with it for sure.
That speed comparison is invalid. The chez scheme sieve is awful, whereas the sbcl one is fine.
It is good news. The people that used to have to work for low pay in bad quality of life jobs like restaurants have better options life, so $8.3/person/cooked meal is not possible anymore.

Although, where I am in the US, it has been $15+ per person per cooked meal for years.
TL;DR:

Breaking backwards compatibility is always painful but there's not one actual criticism of ES Modules as a spec here other than its incompatibility with CommonJS
Transaction Fees Alone Cannot Secure the Bitcoin Network
The low pay isn’t the worst aspect of most McJobs. Automating them entirely is probably the best way to improve working conditions. You may magically enforce a mandate that managers are non-abusive, but customers will be just as entitled to always being right as before.
Price controls are successful until they aren't. The US can subsidise an egregious amount of bad policies for a very long time I suspect, from agriculture to health, it's not really going to hurt as there are other parts of the diverse economy that can pay.

An better example would be Venezuela, with the largest oil reserves on Earth, they subsidised energy costs to an extreme extent and it was one of the things that drove them into the ground.

People seem to dislike my comment above, yet no one seems to be arguing for petrol to cost ten cents a litre. Why not subsidise fuel if doing such things has such a successful history in the United States?
You can find burgers much more expensive than at McDonald's in Eastern Europe, too. But you also can buy cooked, healthier food and even steak for cheaper. It depends on town, though.