skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rest assured, I believe if 90%+ of people consistently wore masks properly when among other people we’d have no problem getting rid of COVID. However, it’s unrealistic. People will skip masks at home (even though they risk getting infected by asymptomatic members of the family), people won’t wear masks properly, etc.

> Many mask studies are based upon the real world in the field, such as the Bangladesh one

In Bangladesh study:

> For roughly half the 600 villages, we intervened by promoting mask usage: We gave every family in each village at least three masks — one per adult, cloth or surgical — and distributed masks in public spaces, including markets. We enlisted eminent local figures to explain why wearing masks can help slow viral transmission — providing imams with scripts to be read during religious services, for instance. Local leaders also modeled proper mask-wearing. We then sent observers into public spaces to note any changes in behavior.

> We cross-randomized mask type (cloth vs. surgical) and promotion strategies at the village and household level. Proper mask-wearing increased from 13.3% in the control group to 42.3% in the intervention arm (adjusted percentage point difference = 0.29 [0.26, 0.31]).

> After piloting, we settled on a core intervention package that combined household mask distribution with communication about the value of mask-wearing, mask promotion and in-person reminders at mosques, markets, and other public places, and role-modeling by public officials and community leaders. We also tested several other strategies in sub-samples, such as asking people to make a verbal commitment, creating opportunities for social signaling, text messages, and providing village-level incentives to increase mask-wearing. <…> We tested many different strategies because it was difficult to predict in advance which ones would lead to persistent increases in mask-wearing.

What was tested was not just mask-wearing, what was tested is a complex, holistic approach to educating residents that resulted in proper mask-wearing among large percentage of even symptomless people.

> as well as the Korean subway study elsewhere linked to. So it's simply not true that all of these are somehow in lab only.

Mask-wearing culture in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong is different. Attention is paid to proper mask wearing, for example, and most people wear masks.
About as close to infinity many as it's possible to get.
The differences in these percentages are all trivially small and explained in the article. 85% is the overall view; 89% is on the sub population treated within 3 days of symptom onset; and 90% appears to be an editorialized "almost" approximation from news agencies.

Fuck off with this fud.
It's interesting to see other people still making tools for HL, even after 20+ years!

Unfortunately sorting colors by frequency and then taking every Nth color causes a notable loss of quality. A median-cut or octree-based algorithm is more suitable, and dithering can further improve the results. For the tool I'm working on (WadMaker) I settled on using a modified median-cut algorithm and dithering with an adjustable scale. This produces results that are on-par and sometimes better than Wally, though for images with lots of distinct colors and gradients I haven't been able to beat IrfanView.

One thing that surprised me is just how deep this subject goes. Color clustering, perception, gamma correction, non-linear vs linear color spaces... the more I read the more I realize just how much more there is to learn.
Well the login message I was greeted with on every ssh connection certainly threatened criminal prosecution for unapproved software at the extremely large bank I worked at.

Unlikely? Sure. But a lawyer somewhere thought it was worth reminding me 10x/day, so going to assume it's possible provided your unauthorized software caused a serious monetary loss.
Preventative of what?

Serious disease?
- The same/similar (though studies have shown this declines within 6 months). Op is correct.

Catching/Transmission?
- The current vaccines are systemic and not mucosal, so they don't stop it infecting the upper respiratory tract.
- A recent study shows fully-vaccinated households can spread at similar rates to unvaccinated households [1]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
Plenty of super rich celebs do dangerous stunts, for example in Hollywood and get injured or even killed in some instances. How are those not "harms from selling your body" ? They also do super unhealthy things like gaining or losing a lot of weight for a particular movie.
Kinda like ivermectin with the same mechanism
In this case (and if it were interpreted as Haskell syntax), the above term would be wrong.
You forgot the best part. They get to patent it and charge 10000 times more.
Abridgements of the interview (a copy was published on Techxplore) and of the research article summary at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104152
That is a valid question but another thing to note is that you wouldn’t be giving this drug to the vast majority of people who do not get any symptoms from a Covid-19 infection. Nor would you be forcing people to take this drug.
Maybe they meant that further study at that level was not necessary and they were moving on to later stage trials? In order to speed up the release I mean.
Yeah, and Hong Kong has/had the same situation, officially part of China, unofficially treated rather differently especially in the economic dimension. And now look at what's happening there.
What % of people do you think have heard of that cryptocurrency?
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated if they can, but it does little to prevent spread. Over the long run we'll all be exposed no matter what we do. The real benefit of vaccines is in reducing the risk of severe symptoms.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
It is not reliable, for sure, and we don't know by what factor or which way the error goes.

It might show ten times the real number, or half the real number. That would be either 1'700 people or 34'000 dead in the US alone.

I wouldn't discount the lower limit either, 1'700 is still a lot and far from a small risk.
Checkout ThePrimagen on YouTube. He makes videos about Vim while recording his hand movements on a Dvorak keyboard
The difference is that this one has a double-blind study showing high effectiveness. There's no reason to think every protease inhibitor is as good as the next, drugs are weird and unpredictable, and you can only know if they work with a good study.
Well, the other possibility is the drug could turn out to have severe side effects including death, so either way you take a risk.

If it does conclusively show effectiveness quite quickly, often they will cut the phase of the trial short and put everybody on the actual drug I think.
why does this site make it so difficult to escape back in history again? someone please shoot that designer.
I use Form goggles. They are aimed at competitive swimmers, but all I care about is heart rate. I had previously used an Apple Watch but stopping at the end of a lap (or after the swim) and looking at your watch kinda defeats the purpose.

With Form I see my heart rate in real time 100% of the time. I was worried I'd have a problem being near sighted but it really does look like the data is being projected 10 feet in front of me. It's a neat trick - my brain actually thinks that when I exhale the bubbles are in-between me and the projection, even though I know it obviously isn't.

My only complaint is that every single forking time I open the app it tries to upsell me on their structured training program for a monthly fee. Literally every time - I open the app and have to tap 'no thanks' before I can use it!
Chakra is excellent. I recommend it for any React devs considering Bootstrap. It's doubly useful if you don't have a designer.
We had reports of people who wanted to take weird-ass drugs-of-the-day just to refuse getting vaccinated. And screaming "conspiracy" when their efficacy was not confirmed to be as high as they expected.

Good that we have something that actually works, bad that some assholes will use it as an excuse not to get vaxxed, completely missing the point (among others, trying to prevent something worse than Delta).
Not interested in the server-side stuff as I don't use JS/Node on the backend. I see that Next.js is a Node framework, so unless there's a cut down client-side only version that's useful, not sure it'll fit the bill.

I was looking at Alpine.js but it's pretty minimal, so I want something more full-featured to compare to. These headless UIs look useful, and some have React and Vue versions.
List of Games Affected by DRM Issue in 12th Gen Intel
"In most of Europe, legally, there is a very, very limited market for this drone IMO."

I'm not sure what the overall EU regulation situation is, but in Finland which follows EU regulations very strictly, the drone flier registration required for above 250g was not really an issue. I've been flying my Mavic Pro legally just fine.

The situation may be different in different jurisdictions of course.

But I think the EU legislation has been crafted so that heavier flyers need to register, but is not so burdensome it would be a problem for hobbuists flying Mavic type drones.
Keep in mind, it can go the other way as well. That the drug leads to worse outcomes than a placebo. This is why there are trials. This is why they are voluntary.
I agree with you in general except the fair phone isn’t particularly open, it’s only got a 1080p LCD screen for the cost and no headphone jack (not open imo). The Samsung s10e has good specs, good hardware and headphones. In magisk I have force enable dark mode to save power on oled. https://www.xda-developers.com/android-q-dark-mode-toggle-pe...
>Yeah, I'd like to know what the officers could/should have done differently...

To copy the same excerpt as a comment below: [...] sound judgement, prudent decision-making and adherence to required procedures in navigation planning, watch team execution and risk management could have prevented the incident [...]

>And why wasn't the Navigator dismissed?

That is probably still in the works. There's more due process involved in firing someone further down the chain of command.

>If it was an unknown seamount, surely the only way they could have known about it to avoid it would be using active sonar

While this is true, you don't need to know where the seamounts are to avoid hitting them. When driving on a highway, I can go very fast because there are not people walking around because the environment is pedestrian-hostile to the point of extinction. Driving through a dense urban core, I have to be much slower because there are people everywhere and I might be in a city where crossing mid-block is normal.
The word SERP feels like a bit of a shibboleth for SEO-people. They seem to take it for granted, the rest of the world just looks puzzled when they hear it.
If an addict is living their lives as if this is their last day, they are just going to want to do whatever they are addicted to - eg drugs.
When something obviously works, it's standard practice to halt the study and seek out emergency use authorization.

> There were six hospitalizations and no deaths among the 607 patients who received Paxlovid within five days of symptom onset, compared to 41 hospitalizations and 10 deaths in the placebo cohort.
You sound like a fucking dumbass.
Isn't whale poop also known as "ambergris", a very valuable commodity used in perfume manufacture?

I wonder how much of this recycled krill nutrient is removed by humans in the form of ambergris, to meet the requirements of wealthy women.

[Edit] Apparently it is excreted, perhaps by pooping; but it isn't quite poop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
>>Okay, but presumably a smart government would decide that all jobs involved in the production and transportation of foodstuffs are essential. I know my country's government did.

That is the folly of this way of thinking, all jobs are interlinked, you can not just extract jobs from the market and not have an impact.

The person that cooks breakfast for the truck driver that picks up the food from the warehouse that stored the food that came from the factory that made the food from ingredients from a farm field is just as "essential" as ever other person in the chain.

As is the IT worker that works on a helpdesk for the credit card processor that service the restaurant that truck driver above stops at every morning

As the manufacture of the monitor stand that the IT worker uses to hold up their monitor to enable them to service the Restaurant of the truck driver...

and on and on we go down the chain.. Look up I, Pencil[1] for a better understanding of this

Government just pulling out people they claim are "not essential" to food production or other essential things is foolish because all jobs are essential. Period. non-essential jobs do not exist, and any government claiming there is, and claiming they are smart enough to make that determination should never be trusted with anything.

>I haven't seen any evidence that anyone tried to implement Central Planning

The very nature of choosing who can work, who cant, what is jobs are essential, what jobs are not is Central planning

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE
Maybe to reduce risk to the control group?
I didn't hear the NPR story, but studies can be halted when it's shown that the treatment is so clearly effective that it becomes unethical to continue administering non-treatments/weak treatments to your comparison groups. This usually indicates that research can and should advance to the next stage immediately.

Here's something to read on this (note the three criteria for a TL;DR): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024796/
Really? I don't think so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID#Further_reading
Know your audience, know what you're after, and adapt to what your audience is after.

Looking for Senior? Drop all references to jobs past 10 years. Limit the risk of stagnation questions.

Looking for FAANGs or similar? Talk in generalities/fundamentals. Don't focus on the C#/.net - they're often viewed as antiquated enterprise tech choices.

Golang pivot isn't a bad move if you're going after FAANG or SAAS. Still plenty of C#/.net dependencies and opportunity out their, if you'd like to capetalize.
I guess halted because meaning they are confident enough to go to phase 3 with larger amount of trial participants?
This is interesting -- quickly browsing through this list, I note that some of these .stls are literal alternatives to "sold" "products", like these legally distinct siege bunnies. [0][1] On the one hand, it's surely problematic for the original modeller, but on the other it's "just" similar (not identical!) instructions to the printer. Has this modeller "stolen" from the paid guy? How about from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

We all know and laugh at "illegal primes", but my intuitions, about how this applies to (what will eventually be, at its final stage) a physical object, are confusing me.

[0] https://haylandterrain.com/products/trojan-bunny

[1] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3916454
That's their problem. If you're doing something for the look, then maybe you should reconsider the why.
>The downsides are that upgrading is a bit anxiety producing (will I break anything?).

I don't understand why Arch users put up with this. There are plenty of distros that you can build your DE on your own with, but that have regular releases, and are extremely stable.
It is, and I think there was previously a general view that only humans have language that handles abstractions like counterfactuals and non-present objects, which was disproven by border collies searching for named objects.

The "riding an alien," frame opens up the idea of other intelligences to ask the question of, is there an analogy where if let's say most humans and our language lacked the tools to communicate or reason together about things that were not there in the room with us, how would you communicate with those people?

It's a bit like Plato's Cave, but imo, the answer is math. Language is not the substrate for cognition and the mind, math is.

The way we communicate concepts to horses, interestingly, is via geometry. A horse has no concept of lines and circles, but by establishing a foundation of lines, circles and other figures, we build language with them by associating movements that express our intentions with those figures and points on them. The reason it's not just "training," and I would argue it's language, is because once you have established this geometric languge, a horse can determine your intentions from the ground, meters away, and not on its back. Modern olympic dressage in this sense is a kind of cargo cult that preserves some of these ideas and techniques, but in a weird ritual pagentry form, where the deeper art is something each individual practices. I'd speculate that humans have been doing math as long as we've been riding horses isn't a total coincidence.

It makes one wonder what else geometry can be a vehicle for communicating, and what it might mean to encode intentions via geometry for us. It's worth re-watching the Ted Chiang / Denis Villeneuve movie Arrival and Amy Adams' characters' flashbacks in it for a really beautiful illustration of this.
"There are still many things I need to set up on the new laptop, for example: suspension/hibernation on closing the lid doesn’t always work"

For me, this is one of those things that should work out of the box. I appreciate Arch is one of those distros you configure manually, and can thus choose whether to implement this or not. But I'd rather not have my laptop burn out in my bag because the system didn't suspend properly.

I'm sure everyone has experience of this happening on any distro, and probably even on Windows and MacOS. But it should at least try out of the box in my mind.
What nuclear weapons are fantastic at preventing are the regular border skirmishes that counties have fought since the invention of territory. It used to be that counties were constantly gaining or losing land to their neighbors and sometimes even ceasing to exist or appearing out of an existing country. Maps would be constantly in flux. These days situations like that are rare. The Russian annexation of Crimea and the breakup of Yugoslavia being the notable exceptions. All of which did not involve nuclear armed powers (at least on the losing side).
It's not a binary yes-no question. It is still effective at stopping the spread of the virus, though not perfect.
You can run linux on it if you want, for most productivity related issues there are open source tools like [Rectangle](https://rectangleapp.com) for what you're talking about.

other tools like the Dash app are also amazing tools to speed up the development process. It will take some getting used to moving from Windows and to a far lesser extent linux, however with the right tools for the job you will end up being more productive and less frustrated. Especially compared to Windows.

Unless I need something that specifically only runs on Windows, I would use Mac/Linux over it any day of the week. For productivity it's Mac > Linux >>> Windows for me.
Minus the high safety profile current vaccines exhibit.
Those are fungible NFT's I'd pay for, as opposed to the digital ones.
Well, what happened was that they let me come over (I took the bait), and 15 minutes into the first interview, they performed the magic switch.
Traggo
I don't get why people go from osx to arch.

Why not something that just works, and updating is not Russian roulette?
as someone who definitely had and suffered through long COVID, I would like to know what you think you are accomplishing by making false claims like this.

do you think you're being edgy? what possible work is your ignorant comment doing?
I don't mind red and blue squigglies under words. It's presenting a passive information channel in a mellow way, and frees me to do things like look away from what I'm typing while I'm typing it, and then be able to later find (most) my spelling errors at a quick glance. To me, that feels like a reasonably appropriate division of labor.

On the other hand, my phone's autocorrect is a nuisance. It's constantly trying to inappropriately switch "it's" and "its" or "their" and "they're", especially when it's the first word of the sentence and the algorithm has absolutely no way of knowing how the sentence will unroll. That's a distraction that has the opposite effect. It makes a greater demand on my attention by forcing me to watch my typing like a hawk to make sure autocorrect isn't inserting errors.
Monoclonal antibody treatments are also commonly administered about 3 days after symptoms onset. They have proven to be somewhat effective in real life, although they still aren't being given to some patients who could potentially benefit.
That’s correct. If a positive effect in the treatment arm of the study is found to be strong enough, it is deemed unethical to continue giving patients the placebo as control. Hence, they terminate the study and proceed to the next phase of approval
Communist? As in someone for a classless society after capitalism? There are overlaps in those who profess belief in that and the "DEI" cited in the link, but it is important to note the distinction between the two.

Communism could also be argued to strengthen actual human connections over the ones destroyed in service of the economy and the State that is ultimately in charge of managing that economy.

These are no doubt broad statements without hundreds of years of nuance, but I think that "DEI" being communist for having a plot to destroy human connections in service to the "State" is false. I don't disagree with the disastrous effects that "DEI" can have, and I think it speaks of an economic system in decline, cognizant of its failures but unable to address them in any other way.
Haha thanks.

But seriously, when you get an offer, test it. If it falls apart as soon as you try to negotiate anything, run away. This is even if it's your dream job that you think you'll never need to change and pays you way more than you wanted, because if you do like I say and you lose it, you don't lose anything.

Porcelain jobs are the worst.
I have a m1 max and before it a 2020 m1, I still use an Intel i9 for work. With the M1s my fans only go on if Im gaming or using apps that are CPU intensive through Rosetta 2. My intel machine sounds like a leaf blower by comparison

To get the most energy efficiency out of the M1s is to use binaries/programs that have been specifically compiled for the M1.
Yet, with the COVID vaccine, you still spread it, too:

https://theexpose.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Pierpont-Why...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7031e2-H.pdf

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733

So, how could the outcome at the societal level be worse?
It's unusual but not unheard of for trials to be stopped ahead of schedule because of this - the treatment is so clearly and substantially beneficial it's considered unethical to continue depriving the control group of the treatment.

When to Stop a Clinical Trial Early for Benefit: Lessons Learned and Future Approaches:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111...
Hetzner is a privately owned company, so it's not possible to invest in it. The owner and founder Martin Hetzner is one of the CEOs and is heavily involved in the company.
Like with anything, there's some pros and cons to being privately owned. It means our fans can't help us grow by investing in us. And it means we tend to open new locations very carefully, and perhaps more slowly than our competitors.
But it also means that we are not beholden to any investors. So if the CEOs decide to re-invest lots of the profits back into the company, they don't have to worry about a board complaining about lower returns. --Katie