skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making mitigations is difficult. Increasing healthcare capacity is not a short term project. Especially with staffing because the training pipeline is quite long.

Besides, restrictions have an exponential effect (by reducing the R value) whilst mitigations only have a linear effect. That makes it hard to replace one with the other. Instead I think earlier, less stringent, restrictions to start damping the wave early, combined with as much mitigation as possible are probably the right solution.

Every wave, its a new game of 'flatten the curve'. And really that is what we need.
Of course, yeah. :)

Are you a Fedora dev? Do you have an impression that NVIDIA is getting to be a bit more cooperative with the desktop Linux development community these days, like with the changes related to GBM that made this decision possible for Fedora?
Good article, but note that if the hardware supports the division instruction, will be much faster than the described workarounds.

Personally, I recently did what’s written in 2 cases: FP32 division on ARMv7, and FP64 division on GPUs who don’t support that instruction.

For ARMv7 CPUs, not only they have FRECPE, they also have FRECPS for the iteration step. An example there: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXMath/blob/jan2021/Inc/Di...

For GPUs, Microsoft classified FP64 division as “extended double shader instruction” and the support is optional. However, GPUs are guaranteed to support FP32 division. The result of FP32 division provides an awesome starting point for Newton-Raphson refinement in FP64 precision.
I saw one study, the transmission rate of the vaccinated was around 10% lower than of the non-vaccinated.

It's good, but won't stop the virus from spreading even if everyone is vaccinated.
I'm sure you can contact the admins of matrix.org and ask for the phone number to be released. (I'm assuming you used that instance, as you mentioned nothing else.) I believe they are reachable at support@matrix.org .

Rather seems like a bug.
I think there are two schools of thought, with little evidence so far to make one dominant.

What the press seems to be assuming is that it's as simple as the immunity from vaccination simply wearing out over time. But there's at least one alternative explanation.

The alternative is that the timing of the second dose was less than optimal. With little experimentation to guide the authorities, the 4-week delay was chosen in part to give a quicker timeline for vaccination. If they'd said, say, 2 months or 6 months, then we would have been that much slower getting to even that level of immunity, so it was a conscious compromise. But what if the optimal gap between shots really is 6 months, and because the booster achieves that, the effect will be more permanent?

Like I said, not enough is known for sure, but there is some reason to believe that the latter explanation may be true.
Why don't you provide us the death rate percentages on the "vulnerable". They're not pushing this specifically for vulnerable people. How many boosters do I have to get to protect them?
Why not show a single image of the device in use?
Whether someone will ask for help at the appropriate time is really not shown by how good they are at talking in an interview.

Asking for help is more about humility and willingness to look dumb, than about being gregarious or chatty or socially open.
>Not saying that republicans are flawless at all, but that doesn't even matter anymore.

How can that be?
Because it's very profitable to be able to say that you have 5 nines (99.999%) uptime, over your competition with 4 nines or less.
This mirrors my sentiments exactly. Peak Amazon for me was about 3 or 4 years ago - I would order from Amazon without even thinking about it. Now, you can’t use it unless you know exactly what you want, because their search is unusable, and with the prevalence of counterfeit goods mixed in with all the legitimate stock… It’s become less of a hassle to just order from the manufacturer, if it’s anything I really care about.
It reduces infection risk on exposure substantially which translates to being less likely to spread (since you’re less likely to contract the disease in the first place).

Once infected you’re right (at least last I read) that you still shed virus, but given lower infection rate on exposure it still helps reduce spread.
Absolutely. This wouldn't be the first time that a company massaged data to produce misleading results. They are raking in cash here, there is no doubt, and free of legal liability. No one is likely to hold them accountable and at worst they might receive a fine or settle a lawsuit or two which will cost far less than what was made in profit.
You can provide it for the benefit of your friends (or possibly enemies or attackers) to use it to find your Matrix ID from their pre-existing contact phone number.
Why you should be using caching in your machine learning pipelines
I guess status pages are a conflict of interest
Hehe, if that were the only modus of communication, yeah :). Thankfully it isn't, we are also known for leaving messages in the snow, ads in the local newspaper under pseudonyms, anon leetspeaks on the dark webs, and occasionally speaking with one another :).

I do like Black mirror :)
Hmm, what about "everyone" catching the variant that causes mostly fatigue only? I heard it is related to common cold as well.

If everyone (or the majority) caught it and went through it, we would have pretty good immunity against the more harmful variants, right?
I think it’s quite amusing being an ex mongo engineer that the wire protocol and query language is kind of becoming a de facto industry standard with several major products emulating it and now ferret db.
Rejecting a poison message explicitly IS sufficiently processing it.

It's common to have windows in time where two or more sides may not have agreed what happened before they lose communication. Most of the problem can be solved by idempotency, so when the peer retries, the receiver understands it is looking at a duplicate transaction and can discard it indicating that it succeeded.
When I was growing up, the ophthalmologist our family frequented was named Ivan Doctor. So he was Dr. I. Doctor the eye doctor.
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Well the problem suggested by other research is that when vaccinated people are infected with a functionally different strain they don’t appear to create new antibodies.

This is consistent with other research showing that people who are vaccinated then infected are more likely to get reinfected than those who were simply infected and recovered. The alternative outlook here is that vaccinated people are more likely to be at risk populations with immune systems that don’t function as well (immune compromised/elderly)
Follow the money?
Yeah. When PCs were the dominant platform, we were the ones in control. Now we're the ones being controlled.
James Brown said the CIA spied on him. The CIA won't say
If there is an expert in immunology here I'd really like to ask a question:

Aren't antibody titers just one measure of immunity?

Since ~everyone with just two shots get them a while ago, and people receiving the boosters are receiving them now, wouldn't we expect must higher levels of neutralizing antibodies in boosted people? I know the number of antibodies fades over time, (whether from vaccine or infection) but this doesn't mean you don't have lasting protection after this, right?

Wouldn't it therefore be a mistake/misleading to conclude something specific about a level of protection from this titer data alone?
It's amazing what being shielded from prosecution does for a company's ability to innovate!
I got the first two shots because it seemed advisable and I was willing to roll the dice on a novel mRNA treatment due to this HN post [1]. However, I'm confused and frustrated about the messaging on the 3rd. It's either only for people 65 and older, or for everyone if you can get it, or it's mandatory to complete your vaccination, or it's going to be a seasonal thing like the flu vaccine depending on the source. For me, it's worth pausing until the messaging stabilizes -- Omicron being universally reported as relatively mild really undermines the message that continuous boosters are necessary.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628233
There are plenty of reputable journalists closely following the trial including Julie K Brown, the Miami based reporter whose story broke the whole thing open a few years ago leading to these arrests:

https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist

Adam Klasfeld is another one I enjoy:

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports
https://github.com/protractorninja/xsnow-comp-patch this works for me with picom!
Even then, you've got the risk of it being counterfeit.
> 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.

Are you really sure they would have published anything if it had proven negative? A rhetorical question, of course.

There's some things called business incentives and conflicts of interest in the world.
5/100k deaths among unvaccinated can’t possibly be right, can it? There have been 790k Covid deaths so far in the US out of a population of 330 million, which is over 200/100k.
This resonates with me. A massive change in perspective. A second reason. Supposedly under very strong doses, psychedelics can result in massive reduction of the ego-centric systems in your brain, so you can experience life / nature “beyond” yourself and feel more connection. Some people can do this naturally and thus maybe don’t psychedelics. For others it’s very insightful.
The physical reality seen by a fly and myself are the same consistent reality. Regardless of our differences in perspective.

You are correct, we only know a model of reality that we can piece together. And we piece that reality together, bit by bit, with instruments and math and studying.

Regardless of how much you dream that there is an oasis in the desert, it is simply not there. No one else can see it, no instruments can detect it, you can't drink its water, it is unreal.

You can "what if" and "woah dude" until you are blue in the face, but you will never be able to drink that water.

So what is more real? The sun and the sand and your dehydration? Or an oasis that exists only in your mind? Many don't like the answer, but it is clear as day.
They can definitely update the vaccine but it's not easy as 1 2 3 then good to go.
Well, maybe the idea is that it is more stable than Xorg... when used with NVIDIA's proprietary driver.
Well this is the same argument Microsoft make. "It's useful for us (and you) so it must be turned on". But I don't want my computer looking over my shoulder, anonymised or not. Other FOSS projects have been nice and asking about it (like Debian since forever with their popularity contest). The feeling of privacy is important too, it's not just about whether you can have any negative effects in life. And our privacy has been infringed so much that there is a big countermovement now. It's the industry's own fault. I used to be OK with it but because so many supposedly-innocent telemetry and tracking turned out to be malicious I no longer believe in a distinction between 'good' and 'bad' telemetry.

That mindset also solves the problem of having to read every privacy policy before agreeing to stuff and be on the lookout for sneaky changes. Even though I think Mozilla is trustworthy as such, the concept of telemetry is just dead in the water in the pro-privacy community. Which is of couse a major percentage of Mozilla's userbase.

A poll in-browser would be a good idea IMO. Just put it in the menu and lots of users will answer it.
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This holds for all of EU, in fact.
So less like Pico-8 or TIC-80, and more like Quadplay?

https://github.com/morgan3d/quadplay

https://morgan3d.github.io/quadplay/console/quadplay.html?ID...

https://morgan3d.github.io/quadplay/doc/manual.md.html
> FerretDB is an open-source proxy, converting the MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL - using PostgreSQL as a database engine.

Based on this description I'd agree that FerretDB isn't a database itself. However the conversion between the MongoDB wire protocol to SQL queries could have bugs, data resiliency could be an issue if you need to guarantee writes, No guarantees of on-going support, etc.

New db's are always welcome but to use a brand new one in production would be very.... bold.
Can confirm.

Manjaro, clean install on my Intel laptop. Login with wayland, freezes for up to a minute at a time, sometimes it locks up completely.

Reboot and login with Xorg. Flawless.

Manjaro, clean install on my AMD laptop. Login with wayland. Flawless.
I thin an appropriate analogy to your question is the question "Why haven't you written your masterpiece novel? I thought one of the major benefits of a computer is the ease with which you can write and publish anything."
The CIA had a thing for Blacks including spying on Malcom X, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Martin Luther King (with FBI and NSA), killing Patrice Lumumba and having Nelson Mandela being imprisoned:

https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478272695/retired-cia-agent-c...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/15/cia-operativ...

https://www.newsweek.com/richard-gibson-cia-spies-james-bald...

https://www.krabarchive.com/ralphmag/JI/finks.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24279394

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/956741992/documentary-exposes...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/21/malcolm-x-de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_the_Democrat...
But a big problem is that because they mix items from third parties with everything else because they’re “the same”, you never know when you’re getting counterfeit goods. Amazon has made it so bad that some manufacturers will now actually have a page on their website showing how to detect counterfeit versions of their product.
There are studies that show, that you do not have much protection against an infection half a year after your second dose. This is true for all available vaccines in the western world. You probably still have protection against a severe outcome, but not against getting infected and thus spreading the virus.

A third dose, even of the same stuff, will again increase your amount of antibodies and therefore lessen the chance of an infection in the first place. Using a different vaccine as third dose seems to offer even more protection.
Now they want us to take the vax every 9 months forever.

The pharmacorps have become our landlords.

Which is the whole point of course.
This seems like a significant milestone in AI. I mean what can't an agent with mastery of "guided search, learning, and game-theoretic reasoning" accomplish?
That’s what I been thinking too. Around 2017-18 the no name Chinese brands started massively flooding the site.
I mean what else can you really do? Mental health outcomes are a second order effect of FB’s stuff. Their actual relevant products are a microblog and a photo sharing site.

And FB already has lots of content moderators trying to filter things like hate speech, bullying, and thinspo. What would you have them change? How do you know for sure your suggestion will work?
Well, if you're gonna have rich people that's gonna have to mean that those rich people have much more money than not-rich people. Otherwise, you can't have rich people as a special category- if everybody is rich then nobody is.

Then of course the more money you have as a society, the more money the rich people of your society will have. And if you have a large population, the difference between those who are rich and those who are not is gonna have to be very large just because there's so much more money to be divided between the necessarily few rich people (again: if many people have lots of money then you don't have a special class of "rich").

So to summarise, if you're gonna have a rich society, you're gonna have to have rich people who are much more rich than not-rich people.

Problem is, that's not about inequality, nor about the richess of socieities, but about amibition. You see, everyone wants to be rich. Translated: everyone wants to have more than almost everyone else. So everyone supports an economic system that supports rich people, and therefore, wealth inequality.

Which is funny because the vast majority of people who support that kind of system are necessarily going to have to be not-rich.

So in order for most people to be able to dream that, one day, they'll be filthy rich, most people have to spend their entire lives in relative (or absolute) poverty.

Funny old world, eh?
Shall I reply with an equally specious counterproof?
Colorado versus the rest of the US.
> Vaccines don't really stop the spread of the virus

Technically correct, they don't stop the spread, but they significantly reduce it.

It's kinda logical, isn't it? The virus must win over your antibodies to replicate. Currently breakthrough infections happen 1-2% of the time in the vaccinated, so even if there are 10x as many asymptomatic, unreported cases, the protective effect is still huge. This is really important to keep R < 1, which effectively means "stopping the virus". Eventually.

In addition, the 90% reduced chance of hospitalisation is of great help to the healthcare system.
Alex Berenson, unlike Pfizer, has nothing to gain from taking the journalistic stance he holds. In fact he was banned from Twitter for it.

In your mind, an independent/skeptical/critical journalist is a propagandist, and Pfizer is a neutral public health authority? Time to wake up.
Speaking from a historical perspective, over the last 50 years or so, almost all productivity gains have gone to capital gains not salaries, i.e. it is only the rich benefiting from productivity gains. This is in stark contrast to the time before the 1980s [1,2].

[1] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/productivity-workforc...
My grandfather and dad were painters last name Hughes so hues of paint colour maybe?
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That's a great argument if it required a shuttle launch at 1.5 billion a pop. But modern rockets like Starship are a lot cheaper. Musk's $2 million number is probably horseshit but according to David Todd, the Seradata satellite market analyst, Starship launch cost could come in at $10 million. I'd say $10 million to bring Hubble home is worth it.
The claims are missing an important variable when trying to determine if a behavior is harmful: The social context of that behavior.

In the context of the 90s (and especially for adults), spending too much time online was, in some ways, an inherently anti-social act: You had to be physically tethered to the machine, often monopolizing the only other of long-distance communication available (the landline phone line) for the entire house, and, when people and households shared computers, it often meant others COULDN'T use the tool.

In 2021, none of that is true.

Also, there were certain cultural ideas about what types of 'socializing'/'friends' counted as well as what constituted 'normal' behavior.

It's entirely possible Internet addiction is real and this article is interesting as one of the first to mention such a thing, but the Internet and Web just hadn't been embedded into society well enough to be evaluated.
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We've been at this coming up on two years. Masks, lockdowns, vaccines, and the rest of it. Variants are still popping up and spreading all over the place. When do we admit that none of this is really working. Or do we just do this forever?
Tried Wayland recently on Fedora 35 with an AMD GPU and found that it causes issues with a lot of Proton games that I don't have on X.org. So, Wayland is still a "no thanks" for me.
Psychedelics don't just give you certain insights/thoughts/ideas, they do so while causing a very intense euphoric experience. I think that's what actually makes it stick. Not that different from religious prayer/meditation, which is strongly euphoric as well.
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Just implemented this! Thanks for posting! For those who don't click, he suggests some uBlock Origin filters to remove the suggestion lists from YouTube. For example, currently I'm watching a video and all I see is THE VIDEO - no list of suggestions off to the side.

I guess we can say YouTube's suggestions are "too good"! I might just apply this to my work computer. I'll probably keep them around for my casual viewing on personal machines since I find some new stuff with them.

It'll be interesting to see how this changes my browsing!
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I don't think status pages are so easy in practice. Me and everyone I know have not had any problems with google calendar today, so who is right? Together we're probably <0.001% of all google calendar users so I don't think our sample is very representative.

Presumably there is some internal threshold for when to flick the switch on the service dashboard, but without knowing anything about the scale of the outage or what the threshold is we're kinda shooting in the dark.
Syncthing uses the same logic that OP criticized. There is no rendezvous server from a NAT traversal perspective and also no port prediction.

All peers simply lookup their external port via STUN and publish this information.
>really silly to constantly suggest SpaceX and other commercial space entities are some sort of savior figure for space exploration.

Why?

"It will cost you 1 billion to launch 100 tons to orbit"

or

"It will cost you 100 million to launch 100 tons to orbit"

or

"It will cost you 10 million to launch 100 tons to orbit"

Guess which one of those is going to 'save' space exploration? Not only that, cheap launches will massively increase the size of the market giving all those good little boys and girls that are interested in space a chance of getting a job in the market. NASA is the market too. If they can drop launch costs 10x, they can launch that much more science.

The space market has been dead for years, it's time to bring it back to life.
I dont want to sound like pro- conspiracy theory but the way they advertise the third shot after US gov declining it, makes you really wonder if this variant at least is man-made.
Their statement is extremely limited as to "effectiveness" and almost seems to acknowledge that their antibodies are not effective as to the 20% that's new in Omicron.

They suggest that a booster will boost the number of antibodies (obviously). They also suggest that more antibodies will help deal with the 80% that hasn't changed...

This really suggests that the vaccine has turned a corner in terms of losing effectiveness at preventing spread. It may reduce the severity of the illness, but it seems the new aspects of Omicron will be selected for and spread unabated.
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Rates will change as the weakest die off. We may already be though the worst of it.
Besides, the non-deadlyness comes from being able to treat people in the ICU.

That means places are running out of space in their ICUs. Hence peoples cancer treatments are being delayed because there isn't the ICU space to handle these treatments.

The treatment of very ill covid cases has a massive cost in health to the general population. And the people requiring ICU space are predominantly unvaccinated. There lies some of the crux of the issue though. Because taking a vaccine to reduce change of death from 0.5% to 0.1% would feels different than taking a vaccine to reduce chance of blocking someone else's cancer treatment from 0.5% to 0.1% (numbers here are made up by me). Essentially the vaccine mostly protects others who need access to healthcare.