skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unclear why the cynicism is warranted here. They’re not just making a guess, they performed an experiment that is inline with a comparable experiment from non affiliated SA scientists to yield these results.

Should they not run this type of experiment and make a useful and true recommendation to the public? Would that be a better more pure scenario for you?
If you have thoughts, you can't doubt whether or not you have thoughts. In order to do so you need to doubt yourself, which is a thought.
Worth noting that Moderna uses a larger dosis then Pfizer for the first and second shot.
Good lord, what's old is new again.

Maybe FF should just always use a Chrome-like UA and be done with it.
I was very worried that this 'only free' principle was being tossed out the window, thank you for clarifying
Defence is not that different from offence. An offensive task such as destroying enemy artillery behind their borders or their service routes is an effective way to defend. If the enemy has nothing to attack with, then defending is a lot easier.
Is there any other unreasonable use of energy consumption than proof of work? Solana (using proof of stake) uses similar energy as hosting a website. If this tiny energy usage is also problematic then we would need to start also shaming people for uploading Youtube videos or scrolling through Instagram.
I know. I once saw an interview with a women in California in her late 20s I think, who got kidnapped when she was a child and barely left the house for years. She looked so young because of her skin.

I'm aware and do it in moderation. I usually wear a hat to protect my head and part of my face. Also where I live (New England) the sun is not as strong as in some other places.
Not deadly enough _to you_. I'm sure those who are vulnerable will thank you immensely for your compassion.
Whats wrong is that this money was generated domestically, and people who generated it are screwed by lack of healthcare, education, housing, infrastructure, transportation, etc.
I'm not sure everyone here is arguing that the government should make investments. Many are arguing that the poor and middle class must be capitalized to increase demand and that an economy with nothing but rich people trading vanity goods with each other is a recipe for stagnation and societal collapse.

There should not be a picture of Elon on the article. That speaks to ignorance. Elon gets a lot of flak because he's highly visible but he's nowhere near a poster child for the idle rich. The idle rich who sit and extract rent know to keep out of the limelight.
If they can show that the product helps to save lifes and at some point get back to a normalcy, and especially if there’s no other significantly better product available, I really don’t have an issue with that.
Yeah, God forbid Linux actually works well for the average user. /s
I guess it depends on quality/thickness of T-Shirt. The cheap value-weight t-shirts you get at the supermarket is almost transparent if you hold it up to the sun. Heavy-weight t-shirts that are just a bit more expensive you can't see through at all and never got a sunburn through those.
Not to hijack the thread: why is my post being flagged? I'm asking a genuine question!

I was linking to UK Government data here [0] and asking about the numbers.

They're not adding up. I want to know if my interpretation is correct

[0] - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
Biontech founder Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojokAK2vgU
> The poorest person alive in a first world country today lives better than the richest 100 years ago.

You seem like an intelligent person, but then you go and spit some incredibly stupid sentence like that. Do you think the king of England 100 years ago lived worse than any of the thousands of homeless people camping on the streets of your country?

In fact, in relative terms, some of the wealthiest people on the planet lived in the golden age of aristocracy a hundred+ years ago.
I just bought 3 plane tickets with Bitcoin yesterday on cheapair.com. Just because it's not used by everybody, it can be useful for some people. Bitcoin has never failed me while travelling.
Does DNA Simplify or Complicate Repatriation Claims?
It's also free software (MIT License) and available offline. https://github.com/pmgl/microstudio/releases
Crazy idea: Just take it, suffer no negative consequences and be fine!
Probably because Moderna’s original shot was already a higher dosage than Pfizers.
A billionaire wont be "impoverished" by that.

I'll play my tiniest violin to their loss.
> But if we’ve learned anything from the Theranos debacle it’s that that we can’t take any company’s claim at face value ...

Was this not obvious even before?!

> We now realize that media credulity helped build Theranos’ fortunes.

I agree.

The problem is that many journalist are just cut&pasting the PR from the universities or companies, and in some cases adding even more errors. In many cases, I try to write here a comment explain the error(s) in the article. (Usually about FTL travel or Chemistry.) The Theranos business was too far from my specialty to write something useful, but IIRC there were many skeptical comments here.

About fusion: I agree that many timelines are very optimistic and unrealistic. I realy dislike when the article has a paragraph about the new technology and then 10 pages about all the amazing changes in society that fusion will enable.
I call being censored like that "got twittered". It'll be bad for Twitter when that descriptor becomes commonly used.
Probably fairly true. Nvidia tries to differentiate their offerings a LOT with software driven features

I feel a lot of this comes down to them using closed source software that they either don't have the code to, or aren't privileged to distribute. Libraries are a common spot for this to appear
I’ve been “daily driving” F35 with Wayland on Nvidia for the last couple weeks and it’s been an… OK experience. The only real show stopper for me now is that GNOME night light doesn’t work (Nvidia issue) and screen sharing in some select applications. I’ve worked around the former by setting the color temperature on the monitor itself.

Another big deal is there’s no hardware video decode support in Firefox. I don’t have integrated graphics, so I rely on Nvidia’s VDPAU implementation that doesn’t work on Wayland. This really stinks!

I’m really on the fence about it and I keep thinking of switching back to Xorg.
You are aware that while the covid vaccines protect against severe illness and death, they don't prevent somebody catching and spreading the virus?
That is good, but it should be noted that malicious groups can automatically register many more domains and populate more phishing sites than this in less than a minute and in most cases using stolen credit cards and identities. What could be added to the equation to keep up with those groups?
We don't know how deadly it is. This article grossly misinterprets what literally every epidemiologist is saying right now which is "we don't f***ing know, just chill and let us do our jobs".

It is irresponsible and incorrect to state "it's not deadly". We can hardly detect it, we are still doing retroactive testing to see if omicron has been around longer than thought, and to see if it resulted in deaths.
Use of Weapons and Consider Phlebas are the worst of the series IMO. I powered through Consider Phloebus just because I knew people loved the series, but there's really no reason to start there
This is awesome to see. I have gotten interested in CRDTs in the last couple years due to them being used in the Elixir/Phoenix ecosystem.

One question though, how do you integrate a backend into your library? I don't see anything mentioned in the docs.
Those who are vulnerable can take the booster if they want to.
You gave an inflammatory conclusion "we're all being lied to!" without showing how you reached that conclusion.
Easy to be reliable when nobody uses it
Question re this:
> Although the development of mid-IR (MIR) sources is evolving, a bottleneck con-
tinues to be producing low-noise room tem-perature detectors

How do these relate to the relatively cheap IR cameras available? Eg, both commercial IR cameras, and military NVGs work at room temperature (Using different technologies). For example, are the devices lamented about in the article high-precision scientific instrument that can detect very fine differences in freq?

edit: This may be the key:
> The noise-equivalent power of hybrid nanocavity-
molecular detectors is predicted to be 100-fold lower than commercial uncooled detectors.
Does the Pfizer jab infection and prevent transmission to others? I thought I saw Fauci and Walensky (CDC) recently lamenting that it doesn't. Most of what I hear people say is it prevents disease severity.
Find a new talking point, this one is trivial to debunk[0]

[0] https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2021/11/in...
Please just upvote in that case. Because if we all commented "exactly this", or the opposite, this forum would become unreadable. Thank you.
If a seatbelt maker encourages seatbelts, is this evidence that seatbelts don't work?
You are incorrect. The vaccine significantly reduces spread. That is one of the biggest reasons why it's being pushed. Please educate yourself about how viruses work.

E: Ah yes please link to more preprints you scrounged up on Google to argue with the literal army of mutliple-degree-wielding epidemiologists.
What’s a one-off address? It somehow got coins attached to it, and they came from somewhere, which is shown on the ledger. And whoever receives the coins will eventually want to spend them, which will also be shown in the ledger.
I don’t know myself, but this happens frequently. Any body can flag your posts.
Look all the way over at "Second dose", the age-standardized mortality rate is 1.1 per 100,000 vs 5.4 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated. 5x protection against death.
They don’t like this devolving into politics, which they really need to get over because the historical fact (when this is all said and done) is that Covid was heavily politicized by both sides in a variety of countries.
Presumably, Any company could clone the Pi, but they'd never be able to compete on price.

It would be great for industrial uses if someone made a pricier, but more readily available clone.
I guess I just took it as another possibility in a society of nearly infinite ones. I did use material from that encounter in running a horror RPG, so in a way I'm kind of thankful for it.
That reminds me of a quote about arrogance/confidence/self-respect..

> I am persuaded that no one ever achieves anything worth-while in this world unless he has so great a respect for his work that he compels all other men to respect it.

Apparently this comes from an article published in 1922 by an anonymous author.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28509935
Do you always get a flu shot?
I would starve. As would most. And if I manage to scavenge some food, I’d die of some triviality within a month because I don’t have medical training.

We’re completely and utterly screwed without antibiotics and electricity and farmers.

And I’m convinced that at every step of our species’ advancement through abstraction and specialisation somebody warned of impending doom.

I don’t see how the same won’t apply to software.
Yes. Admittedly a weird way of communicating it but I think they're trying to accommodate those who are already confused. I personally think it's having the opposite effect.
Are you aware that there are numbers between 0 and 1?
Well, it's complicated. You cannot compare people living in Urban ares like NY/Toronto/etc. to people who are driving everywhere in Florida. You need to find comparable populations and it's not easy.
I'm new to this space, but interested in graphics. What are the differences and why do you prefer GLSL?
I think you should see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVRfBhy5vGI
I assume, you are talking about Venezuela or Zimbabwe dollars. Right?
Do they actually prevent transmission significantly? Is there a study on this? I am curious.
If you want to seriously discuss you should put which data points your comparing so others can also compare. When I look at that sheet and look at the rates comparing unvaccinated vs fully faccinated the death rate is lower for every age group when vaccinated.

* Comparing week ending 24th September 2021
It's interesting, this differs from recent results suggesting that boosting with vaccines derived from the original Wuhan variant is relatively less effective against newer variants like delta: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.12.21261952v....
Just call it being harmonized. That's what the Chinese have been calling it for years. Twitter is part of the same kind of apparatus in the US.
And what? so we shouldn't be protected because capitalism? There is a deafening lack of coherence here.
The same way we never paid for open tv or even the true cost of newspapers and magazines. Advertising.
Sports Lovers
While we're in the topic of examples, does Usain Bolt count here? I just can't believe the coincidence that the fastest man on the planet would carry that surname. The thing with Bolt is that, not only did he choose that field, he is also biologically gifted to achieve those records. What are the odds, come on! (And I looked it up, Jamaica is an English-speaking territory, though with a creole.)

In more personal examples, in my freshman year, I met a fellow freshie whose name is "Justice", though he is more often referred to with a nickname I now forgot. He was in the Political Science program, on track as a---you guessed it---prelaw degree. He would preempt introductions by claiming his name has nothing to do with his choice of degree program. I don't know if he did manage to enter the bar but "Attorney Justice" sounds as absurd as a superhero name to me. I wonder how he's living up to his name now.
It's 38.5 hours per week (with a standard deviation of 8.04 hours). Still doesn't sound like too much today.
Perhaps differentiate a bit? This is not Tim Ferriss selling you a greens powder.
No they should not make recommendations to the public, because they aren't a public agency - they have a conflict of interest. It's like a hedge fund manager giving public advice on stock picks.
Yeah, so GeForce/Quadro used to be a software only difference. Later on (around Fermi/Kepler) it became a hardware difference but cards could still be modded by means of board straps and package traces.

Kepler could literally have all its cores enabled with a simple bridge on one laser cut. That's fun but very hit or miss, the more cores are disabled the higher the likelihood they're actually defective so it was binned lower.

Maxwell can have their Hwid modded but performance will be lower than actual Quadros.

Newer cards have an even bigger performance difference, more hardware differences I think.
> More wealth, more wealth disparity... almost universally.

That is a stark claim with little empirical evidence. If you look at the world, you will find that Europe, one of the most affluent parts of the world has the lowest wealth inequality. While wealth inequality is very high in Africa, one of the poorer regions of the world.

Wealth inequality is far more likely to be the outcome of policies. Europe has been dominated more by various social democratic parties which have actively worked to reduce inequality. While areas such as North American with high levels of inequality has been dominated by parties pushing neoliberal economic policies.
Omicron isn't the only variant or even the dominate one outside of South Africa. If you've already gotten the initial doses, why wouldn't you complete your vaccination? There's only upside to it at that point
> they don't prevent somebody catching and spreading the virus?

No but they do reduce the chance you catch and spread the virus
Table 1, in the linked XLS file for data through 24 September. You can see that it was originally closer to 0.1 (50x protection against death) but it's gone up to 1.1 over the last few months, I'm guessing as immunity has started to wear off.
>> Ahh, the good old trickle-down, aka "piss in my eyes and tell me it's raining" (which is the only way trickle-down actually works).

>Clearly hyperbole. Where’s the evidence for this broad claim?

Dare I say.... in the fucking article?[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483131
Thanks! As it builds on Yjs (many kudos to Kevin Jahns for creating that awesome project + community), any backend that's compatible with Yjs works.

The demos work based on WebRTC / BroadcastChannel (for the same browser / device), but I've listed different backends you can use here: https://syncedstore.org/docs/sync-providers
The absolute least I can say is that they open more doors.

1 - Only at the higher end of the spectrum. The farther you go, the more knowledge you will find that is not available via googling.

2 - They can in some circumstances. Some certs are basically money printers (there is a CCIE on my team and he sets his own billable rate). If you want to work in government, you need a few just to qualify. I'm consulting and clients are not vetting me personally (they outsourced that to my firm) but they seem to like knowing that I have a few in lieu of an actual technical interview. For regular private employment I think the value is limited.

I've seen a lot of guys at clients with alphabet soup outlook signatures asking some really basic questions. Evidently they worked to get those people hired but I'm not sure about the value they are getting from them otherwise.
"On how I learned 'recursion'"
No? There are more wealthy people today who earned it without being bootstrapped by an insanely good starting position than ever before, but to suggest that it's the _majority_ is to ignore everything people have been complaining about in the streets for the last two years. A huge predictor, if not the single biggest predictor, of wealth is still just whether or not your parents are wealthy, especially at the top. E.g. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/schooled2lose/. Even the wealth-x report that I assume you are thinking of points to people like besoz and buffet and zuck, all of whom argue a very clear "wow I got super lucky to be born when and where I did and to whom," message. Buffet literally calls it "winning the ovarian lottery."

Do some people overcome their initial bad luck and generate wealth for themselves? Of course there are some. But it is not "the majority of those with vast wealth." That's head-in-sand silicon valley tech utopia wankery.

I thought the movie Knives Out did a great job of parodying this "Rich people are ENTREPRENEURS that EARNED IT!" idea.
? But the money for the poor to spend on food, is then paid to the people producing food, which have a direct interest in productivity investments in food production. While giving it to the billionaire would go into productivity investments of how to make a superyacht more cheaply, which is arguably less desirable from a societal perspective. Moreover, the argument ignores the fact that the richer people are the less price sensitive they become, in fact many rich people desire rare items that are expensive (and thus exclusive) by their very nature. For example how does investing in a villa that stays empty or a painting that is locked in some vault an investment in productivity?
Imho that is as wrong as saying that Jeff Bezos' money eventually trickles down to normal people and it's good that he is so rich.
They wouldn't be... until they go under.

Then the vultures will be happy to shake folks down to pay for the licensed version or a law suit. Merit doesn't really matter, they have a claim and fighting it will cost you. They'll just bank on you preferring to pay for the license.

They may not go after the mom and pops, but they'll hit every Fortune 1000 (and probably whether they use MongoDB or not).
FYI, the examples don't work for me in Brave browser on linux:

React example: "/App.tsx: Cannot read property 'getItem' of null (2:0)"

Vue example: "file:///src/store.ts: Cannot read property 'getItem' of null (1:0)"

Works fine in Chromium and Firefox though, so not sure what's up.
> but some things are universal.

Thankfully, judging by the uptick count of this topic, not important studies about bird defecation range.
absolutely agree, probably the worst general category in wikipedia, feels very much Bourbakian, extreme rigor and nothing else. Worst way to teach/introduce math imho.
Untrue, I believe you need a certain amount of karma to be able to flag.
Please educate yourself about how these vaccines work. There's a wealth of evidence showing they have minimal effect on reducing transmission:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139v... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34176397/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v...
Untrue, please don't use HN to spread your fakenews:
https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/vaccination-reduces-transmission...
you do know you are spreading the virus though when you are infected
The vaccines do significantly reduce the chance of getting the virus and significantly reduce the chance of then spreading the virus to others. Anyone expecting 100% or similar success rates for both has not received good information about these or pretty much any previous vaccine ever developed.

e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
I’m fascinated by this thinking.

Do you really want to roll the dice on an infection and long term consequences including permanent loss of smell (and taste)?

If this virus killed exactly no one but it just commonly removed one of your senses…is that not motivation enough to avoid it?

Additionally, I just got over a two week adenovirus infection and it absolutely sucked. Not the sickest I’ve been, but the most symptoms and the longest. Why would anyone want to be sick if they could avoid it?

The risk from the third shot is essentially immaterial to a healthy adult. The risk of the viral infection is somewhere between a shitty couple of weeks to permanent life altering symptoms.
We indeed had a hard time finding a good name, especially with the situation around domain names nowadays. An infinite amount of time can be spent on these things. However, we decided that we would rather focus on things which are more likely to determine the overall success of FerretDB - the vision and the execution. We quite like ferrets, though!
>there is no need for genetic information in a living being able to grow and reproduce.

Yes there is, because one of the principles that define life is the ability to "pass traits onto offspring". This isn't possible without a medium to carry that information.

Self replicating systems do not require information. Self replicating systems that are "alive" by any definiton in the scientific literature, do.

>It cannot produce any RNA without the monomers (nucleotides) and without energy, i.e. a dehydrating agent like ATP

In the same way RNA folds could catalyse RNA synthesis, other folding patterns could break down energy-rich compounds and generate nucleotides.

The one thing they need for this to work, is an enclosed reaction environment, aka a lipid-vesicle, which form spotaneously as long as there are fatty acids.

So no, the RNA world does NOT require some form of non-genetic-host-organisms. Folded RNA molecules within lipid vesicles are likely the earliest form of organised life.
>Wayland still reliably caused lockups a few minutes in.

How do you know this (that it was wayland)? I have never had a lockup caused by anything other than swapping, across multiple machines with Intel graphics.
They're comparing different/dates/vaccination rates, classic Simpson's paradox. No adjusted data shows otherwise.
I think it's more about unsubstantiated conclusions, hysterically presented.

If the original post had outlined the data points that led them to the (IMO erroneous) impression they reached, then the point could have been rebutted.