skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the US populace has elected to fund a public health organization which has advised on public health measures since its inception (which is not recent or coincident with Covid-19).

You are not forced to take any vaccine, though many (public and private) institutions will require you to do so to participate in their functions (e.g. attending public school, serving in the military, working in hospitals, etc...).

In any case, the will being applied is that of the people (indirectly) through its (mostly) elected representatives (who could abolish the public health organization any time it chose), not some nefarious government.
>And all those areas that have "returned to normal" are sending their COVID patients to regions that are still masking because they've exhausted their local ICU capacity.

This has been my experience as well. My state is pretty strict overall, but my area of my state is not.

Our hospital has been operating at capacity for 6 months or so, but nobody is talking about it. Because we can just ship to where they have stricter COVID control measures.

We're causing problems for other people because we can't be bothered to be part of society.

It's a joke all around. The entire world. Nihilism is almost impossible to escape right now.
Author here. Hey whoever linked to my article thank you for post. I just got notified of this.

To answer the most common questions, I am not advocating "build your own youtube."

Instead I advocate what @notTheAuth said below. Basically treat youtube and twitter as my commercials. I don't care who follows me on those two platforms, they are just the entry point. The following that I truly care about is my mailing list and my own personal site. Those are my owned platforms and that is what I care about.

Think of it like the old days of TV. If I am advertising on TV channels and it goes out of business that isn't that bad. Oh shoot I can't advertise on there anymore. It would be worse if my TV show was hosted by that channel because then my TV show isn't there any more.
No way it's a scam, Pam from Columbus said she can finally relax with these glasses! /s

Anyway, these look good but I doubt they're as good as the Google prototype scopes with built-in LCD, LED, 1080p, 3D, Sony technology built into every single lens that DrDisrespect has been using.
- phantom underlines. isn't this amaaaaaazing.
- i love waiting for 8 seconds and seeing this.
- look at it. srsly. looooookat it.
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Nice to see my hometown on HN! It is also one of the most affordable cities in Germany in terms of housing, and probably the best in terms of quality of life / cost of living ratio...

If you plan to visit: be sure to check out the Museum der bildenden Künste and a boat-tour through Plagwitz / Karl-Heine Kanal (esp. nice in spring at night).
Would you recommend Arch to someone without a lot of Linux experience? Ubuntu has me thinking of switching to a different OS.
> Golden Cove from Intel just took it back.

I mean, yes, somewhat, in (almost comically) high power desktop configurations, depending on which benchmark you believe. This is of cold comfort to anyone who wants a fast laptop, though.
That is correct. It is also a hypothetical. The ethical question is, at what level of vaccine efficacy, either against infection or against severe infection, do we stop mandating vaccines, for adults (see federal mandate) or, inexcusably, for kids (CA, SF)? Let's say 99/95 (traditional vaccines) is total vax. How about 75/50? How about 50/20? Where is the line where safetyism gives way to respect for individual freedom of choice? The way the argument is constructed, "mandate vaccinations to prevent spread and severe effects in the vaccinated population", it is unfalsifiable unless the vaccines completely fail, and even then there is the looming booster chain, which can also be mandated in perpetuity on the exact same shaky grounds. This also sets a precedent. Any infectious disease for which someone with sufficient lobbying spend creates a barely functional vaccine can become subject to total vax mandates.
If you stare into the abyss for long enough, the abyss stares back at you.

Personally, I can't help but be amused about the champagne socialist faction demanding that people get vaccinated with the product of decades worth of risk capital seeking ROI.
Why would Amazon wish to provide you with easy to access data on their products and prices when you could either be a competitor wishing to undercut those prices, or be a scraper company hired by such a competitor?

In what universe is providing such a straightforward way of helping a competitor considered sane business practice?
I don’t get injections or pills from random people stopping by my house.
Hey elliot I like what you're doing and would like to share a frw thoughts. Feel free to each out, email at my bio.
We've done that for decades in this country.

> All 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) mandate diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, measles, rubella and chickenpox. In addition, every state except Iowa mandates immunization against mumps.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/08/states-have...
Apple intentionally drags their feet on implementing browser standards. Stuff like WebGL (it's 'implemented' but doesn't really work), PWAs, fullscreen, etc... Conveniently all the bits that would allow browser apps to behave more like native apps.
That's it. thank you
Has anyone named their child with an accent character like è in the US? Have you run into any issues? What your experience has been?
This would also work well as a pet or animal name generator. You could apply many more filters (Species -> breed -> colour -> gender)

My SO and I acquired some new pets during covid for added company and we scoured through websites that were pretty plain, simply names as a list in bullet form. Your app is more fun, interactive, and memorable of an activity. People appreciate that!
Uber prices are still way up, so the company is bringing back carpooling
Chromecast volume removed from Android 12
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Well, nothing's impossible really.
Because the thread was about why even an M1 not pro is beating a 16"?

You're free to bring in your third option which clobbers it even further, but an $800 fanless machine also clobbers it so it's a perfectly valid comparison when trying to counter weird claims that Apple only just now started working on proper cooling...

tl;dr: How can you claim the old 16" is only being beat because Apple just now started to care about cooling when a fanless machine also beats it?
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Also TDP is an advertising figure but when you're talking about orders of magnitude it's a perfectly fine way to talk about parts as long as you stay consistent in TDP vs wall draw

Wall draw to wall draw, my M1 Air draws under 30W and beats a 16" drawing over 100W

TDP to TDP my M1 is 10W to a 16" closer to 100W.

In both cases it should be obvious why cooling is less of an issue...
Or the countless songs in the Punk genera about burning down buildings and causing general havoc (like giving someone the wrong time). The set of people who actually commit domestic terrorism (or say no to tea) is much smaller than the set of people who listen to the Sex Pistols for instance. If anything, there's no compelling reason to think they it's the music causing the violence, rather than people who are into that lifestyle selecting an art form that reflects what they already believe.
But Taiwan is indeed should be a separate country from China right?
Link is: https://unchartedhealth.org/story
What offer debian that arch doesn't offer?
Arch it is really stable and with latest packages. I see debian as a pain in the ass when you want a new packages or you have to upgrade to a new version. I don't have those issues in arch.
I've been on Arch a couple years now; before that MacOS. I'd say things break about as often as they did on MacOS. Maybe once a year. It's not like MacOS with Homebrew and a few dozen developer tools is bulletproof. But at least on Arch you are able to understand your own system and have half a chance of fixing things.

You're totally right about the real joy being in "getting your custom stack". On Arch, for one example, installing Docker is just "sudo pacman -S docker". On Mac you get a web page, "Docker Desktop" and a tray icon to look at for the rest of your life. On Arch everything is just so much easier.
To be cleared though, both arms or the trial are people who have COVID. The control arm is not getting the drug. If there are side effects that occur in some combination with having COVID, they will find those.
"Why isn't this a text file so that everybody can simply use their Unix shells to shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/baby-names".
This is true, but moot in my area.

The local pharmacies that administer the vaccines are not validating your eligibility. Those I know who are interested in the 3rd round, and beyond 6 months from their 2nd, have received it.
>... say, search and rescue operations.

Oh good grief. If that is the use case, you get something designed for that.
If you read past said title, the article literally includes details on the control group.

> The rates of hospitalization or death in the Paxlovid and control arms were 1% and 6.7%, respectively, resulting in a risk reduction of 85%.

> Pfizer used data on patients who were treated within three days of symptom onset as the headline finding in its press release. In that subpopulation, the rates of hospitalization or death in the Paxlovid and control groups were 0.8% and 7%, respectively, resulting in a risk reduction of 89%. Merck’s 50% reduction was seen in patients who were randomized within five days of symptom onset.
> While Intel has been bringing up Alder Lake graphics for a while as covered in many Phoronix articles over the past year, up through the recently released Linux 5.15 kernel the Alder Lake graphics are not enabled by default.

The writing is on the wall: the day will come when Intel will not write accelerated Linux graphics drivers for their laptop GPUs and that's the day when Linux on notebooks just dies. They will do so because Windows 11 + WSL (now with wslg) provides all the Linux most need.
The 5950x costs $750, you can buy it on Amazon right now for that. Much less than 1k. Also, you're comparing single thread performance on only one website. In every website it kicks the M1 Pro's ass on multicore, as it should with 16 cores. https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-pro-vs-amd-ry... It can also beat it by a hair in single core depending on the benchmark.

Don't be disingenuous just to win the argument.

To actually prove your point, you need to look at GPUs. A 3070 is ~$1100, so there we go, already we've broken his $1600 budget, and we have bought none of the other parts (which would total at minimum ~$1000 more).

If you go 5900x plus 3070, you're pretty much right in line with M1 Pro, but it will cost you around $2500 to equal the Macbook pro. So an upcharge of $1000 to $1500 for the price of being a mobile workstation, as well as all the Mac software. Not really unreasonable.
I got curious and went to consult Amazon's patents. Among several others, in the same line, I found this one in particular: WO2020264431A1 2020-06-26 Connection pooling for scalable network services. I visited the patent page: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2020264431A1/en
And essentially it's the (detailed) description of how a connection pool works. "Ipsis litteris" !!! Is it just me who thinks this kind of patent is simply nonsense? IMHO, the only purpose of this type of patent is to intimidate or trolling other companies with less money to spend on giant legal departments and non-sense patent disputes.
I don't use WhatsApp anymore but I do remember a nifty feature where you can swipe right from the contact list to the camera. What was interesting is you can gradually swipe and the camera seemed always on so you can see the preview viewfinder displaying live feed while swiping.

I imagine for that to work it needed my camera to always be permitted by WhatsApp, and now with Android's latest version where it shows what's using your live mic or camera, FB didn't bother updating the above feature.

Just my hypothesis!
"I want to do good things" isn't a substantial description of anyone's philosophy. The question is "what is good".

Web apps for visualizing math are nothing new, profs were doing it with Java 20 years ago. The manifesto on this page is the new and bad element being added.

Contrary to the manifesto, symbolic manipulation is not a freakish knack possessed only by an elite minority of humans. Barring severe and rare developmental issues, everyone can understand and manipulate written symbols. And in countries with effective educational cultures, people learn it.

Our problem is a damaged education culture, not a general human inability to do basic algebra.
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Or injection, bias is an odd thing.
Honestly, if you don't want to take any Pfizer drugs, nobody cares. More for the rest of us
Prions are "just" proteins that should get broken down by the body. But they don't, and they cause ‎Creutzfeldt-Jakob in over 10 years after ingesting.
My group started a new campaign and I’ve been killed at least 5 times, rolled 5 new toons. It really depends on how the DM runs the game and how adaptable the PCs are. It’s actually more fun not getting so attached and playing a diverse range of characters, of which you can have links between.

We’re playing Old School Essentials (BX) btw and it rocks.
Wholesale used car prices are up 44%, retail up 30% so far in 2021
Why not upgrade the RAM?
Unfortunately they just remind me of bad memories. The aftermarket external keyboards are the solution for me.

> (like Lenovo tring to replace the Fn-row with a touchbar)

Normally I would thank somebody for bringing something like this to my attention, but I actually don't even want to know and will try and blot this sentence out from my memory now.
> but it's not impossible that it does lead to higher cancer rates.

That is almost a non-statement that could be seemingly applied to anything with some pharmacological effect. I think you and I and every other layman are talking out of their ass when we make some kind of determination as to any side effects Paxlovid might have.
> Not knowing if today will be the day your life will end is not a question over niceties. It's a form of torture.

So... just like everyone else?
That's a big nope.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-067310377629

> Ivermectin binds to glutamate-gated chloride channels and is used to treat parasite infections, said Joseph Glajch, a consultant in pharmaceutical and analytical chemistry.

> “These two are so far apart,” he said. “If you look at how they interact with the body..., they don’t even go to the same pathways or receptors.”
This is a correspondence piece, offering the opinion of a WHO working group. The opinion is also not the one you might assume: it proposes unblinding some subjects, not researchers, based on COVID-19 morbidity risk.

From a cursory search of NEJM and PubMed, I can't find evidence that any US-approved vaccines were allowed to run unblinded trials. But I could be wrong.
It's interesting, because I was introduced to cardinal numbers and alef zero, plus Cantor proof, precisely during highschool mathematics class. In Poland though.
(16-inch, 2019) - 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 - 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 4 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

Running unittests (target/release/deps/bench-b9bcbb53a5ef2c28)

running 4 tests
test bench_kilobyte_baseline ... bench: 310 ns/iter (+/- 70) = 3303 MB/s
test bench_kilobyte_specialized ... bench: 48 ns/iter (+/- 5) = 21333 MB/s
test bench_megabyte_baseline ... bench: 298,273 ns/iter (+/- 42,157) = 3515 MB/s
test bench_megabyte_specialized ... bench: 45,100 ns/iter (+/- 7,249) = 23250 MB/s

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 4 measured

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(14-inch, 2021) - Apple M1 Max - 64gb

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 4 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

Running unittests (target/release/deps/bench-3eea1c397faf4328)

running 4 tests
test bench_kilobyte_baseline ... bench: 223 ns/iter (+/- 8) = 4591 MB/s
test bench_kilobyte_specialized ... bench: 100 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 10240 MB/s
test bench_megabyte_baseline ... bench: 231,689 ns/iter (+/- 1,885) = 4525 MB/s
test bench_megabyte_specialized ... bench: 122,382 ns/iter (+/- 4,651) = 8568 MB/s

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 4 measured
Why do they always talk about "China"? If the CCP was democratically elected, I'm willing to call it "China". But since it's a dictatorship, let's talk about "CCP says it will ...", because it really is the CCP and not the Chinese people as such, since a non-democracy cannot claim it represents the people of the nation.
Very nice. Out of curiosity, how is it for foreigners? I see that AfD gets a pretty high vote share there.
I like textdraw from my distro's repo.

It's very basic and probably not for everybody but I usually use r for rectangle, t for text and l for line, then copy and paste or screenshot.
I would love something like this that returns the intersection of names found in two cultures. E.g. I am British and my partner is Finnish, if/when we have kids we'll have to have to pick names that sound good in both languages.

For this particular combination girl names aren't too rare but there's very few boy names that come to mind.
> This is a completely novel molecule that appears effective as an antiviral. This would a huge achievement for the field of drug design, and will hopefully lead to all kinds of great medicine.

According to the Pfizer press release [0] Paxlovid uses Ritonavir [1], which is a known HIV antiviral, originally patented in 1989.

At the start of the covid pandemic, chinese scientists even tried Kaletra, a generic that combines Ritonavir with another HIV antiviral, and found it to not improve outcomes [2], but this might have been due to them not giving the drug early enough in the infection, but only to hospitalized patients, while Pfizer gave it to non-hospitalized patients with a risk of later hospitalization.

[0]: https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-det...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir

[2]: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2001282
I really did get a “surprisingly high bill” because of it. It wasn't high in the absolute sense, but it was something like 10x my usual monthly cost in a single day, and would have been higher if I didn't get an alert.

The reason I went for serverless over a server in the first place was so that I wouldn't have to wake up in the middle of the night because of server issues, so alerting is not a satisfying solution. Especially where the problem is more an artifact of how the service is billed than how much it consumes actual server resources.
Going in circles around them like a ring.
Yes, two contacts of mine asked me what happened after they received multiple "security code changed" messages.
If you die of Covid, your loved ones will not care if the chance of that happening was low. You won't care either, you'll be dead. All it really takes is that one previously-undiagnosed comorbidity to put you in the front of a the line for a casket-fitting even if you're young(-ish).

If you survive but get permanent damage e.g. due to the blood clots that a lot of COVID patients develop, or due to the side effects of medications and treatment e.g. (partial) blindness from high-dose steroids or reduced mobility up to no use in your limbs especially your legs due to ECMO, then I am pretty sure you won't be running around (in the latter example because you physically cannot anymore) telling people how COVID only kills so-and-so tiny percent of the population.

Even if you escape realtively unscathed, spending a month or two in the hospital followed by some weeks of recovery or in a rehab facility (e.g. to learn how to walk again after a few weeks of coma and maybe some ECMO hoses in your legs), then that probably still would be an experience you'd like to avoid.

And that isn't even yet considering what effects you may experience in the future, "long covid" and all that.
If Exaclidraw seems too simple for your needs check out draw.io. Very similarly you can just open the page and start diagramming, you can choose to save to device or link to a cloud account later if you want. It tends to scale well into long term diagrams but doesn't have as simple an interface as a result.
I considered it and maybe I still should, but ultimately I found when sending the sharing code I would just copy / paste it rather than type it in so for my needs it is fine. Wouldn’t be very much work at all though so I should probably just stop being lazy!
The actual death rate for the trial cohort is close to 2%:

Pfizer said 0.8 percent of patients who got the drug combination within three days were hospitalized within four weeks — three out of 389 patients — compared to 7 percent of patients who got placebos, or 27 out of 385. And seven of those who got placebos died, Pfizer said. No one who got the treatment died within a month.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/pfizers-new-covid-pi...
I'm calling it, we're never going to have flying cars.
You're probably right about the drone part, though. You drive your car to a parking lot outside of the city and wait on a drone to drop you at work in the city.
Congratulations on both the baby and the launch of the app!

There's actually a need-gap for 'Suggest unique pronounceable baby names' posted on my problem validation platform[1].

Although I'm not sure how the uniqueness metric could be added to app, You're welcomed to post Nom de Bébé there in the comments to reach out to those who need it.

Edit: Since the main goal of a unique name seems to be email id, social media handle etc. Measuring availability of those from the selected name is actually possible.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/259-suggest-unique-pronounceabl...
I've always found it strange that some Americans focus on politeness above all.

Of all the problems in your story, the employee shouting is the least 'wrong'. You've got a woman who won't wear a mask, yourself who sneaked in without a mask, and that's just in that moment of time, but somehow the employee who has to deal with that behavior all day every day is the bad person because they lost their cool.

It's one of those 'everyone sucks here' stories.
No more apps! Only websites!
> I poked it a bit, and really appreciate that command output is automatically spoken under NVDA. I don't imagine that is accidental. :) Thank you.

I'm gratified to hear that. It occurred to me early on in development that this could either be fantastic or an absolute disaster from an accessibility standpoint, so I made a particular point of getting the aria tags correct. However, I'll confess that I haven't actually tested it with a screen reader yet, so perhaps it's better to say that it's not entirely accidental.

You're right that there's plenty of scope creep in what you're suggesting, and it's probably beyond what I'll be able to handle. However, you've given me a strong motivation for open-sourcing the frontend. It's an absolute disaster from a code standpoint, but it's very simple and could be used as a jumping-off point for just about anything that simulates a screen reader experience.
NPM install is curl – bash
I have used Arch Linux for the past 8 years. I've had 3 installations on four different laptops (I migrated one installation to a second laptop).

Your comment would be a really great description of my experience.
You can give it a try but be prepared to spend a lot of time reading the wiki