skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The combination of freedom, capitalism, and greed.

Really? Last I heard, life expectancy in the USSR was quite a bit worse.

> Cigarettes. How did they become a thing?

Nicotine. Not hard at all to understand. Personally, I've always liked the smell of cigarettes. I never smoked, because I knew I'd really like it. Cigars, though, make me want to puke.

> deal with the stubborn-ness of stupidity that's so inherent to humanity

Most evil in the world is not perpetrated by evil people, but by good people believing they know what's best for everyone else, and forcing it on them.
The issue now is doctors see the severely ill, the vast majority of whom are unvaccinated. And what other qualities go with lack of vaccination? Belief in ivermectin, love of far right conspiracies, paranoia about microchips or God knows what else. So, while I doubt doctors noses get broken frequently, I'm sure they see a ton of brainwashed Q whackos as severely ill patients.
https://twitter.com/_b_meyer/status/1470124417749557248?s=20
According to Table 2 their sample had 8,199 unvaccinated and 9,269 vaccinated. It seems odd that more cases were found in the vaccinated people, can anyone suggest why? Statistical anomaly?

Edit: I misread the table, I thought column 1 was number of subjects. The replies explain well why the # of cases would be larger for the (larger) vaccinated population.
Wait until you see what's hiding in the cornfield under the B-2.
Your precautions in particular no internet access and encrypted db sound really thorough. The end users will probably have ended up using less secure alternatives like a cloud driven alternative or the standard notetaking app on their phones. Let's just take for granted that if a nation state actor wants too spy on someone they'll do so one way or another.

In the end the end users would be worse off with the alternatives as you say. However you mentioned it wasn't the only reason. And of course litigation is a danger with these things.
I think at some level, if strong security / end-to-end encryption is not seamlessly baked into the products we already use, things like this may keep happening. I don't know too many emotional health professionals who are also very knowledgeable in cybersecurity, so people may just use the defaults.

Which is why I like Signal and WhatsApp (to some extent) for doing it behind the scenes. I'm willing to bet most people have no idea how public email tends to be.
Those studies have a disadvantage that the natural immune system doesn't kick in, in lab tests.

So the results should be better than in the study.
If you have privacy concern, try njal.la.
But it's not. PDF Exchange has a free version and does this for free. There are other software available to do it as well as websites. It's not hard to find for anyone that knows how to type in a few words to google. Sumatra is also a great little pdf viewer (also some simple edits like rotation) for windows.
100%. And it is even worst you cant share the pain with anyone else. Unlike IC where they do get more support from other IC.

I am willing to bet, if engineers were given the chance of doing management for 3 months, more than 95% of them would want to go back debugging computer code than debugging human emotion and debugging organisation.
Certainly — we’re in that agonizingly slow period waiting for confirmation.
1) it doesn't work
2) it takes valuable time, supplies, and resources away from actual medical care
3) it allows wackos from Fox News to dictate medical care, instead of, you know, doctors, or science, which is an awful precedent to set
4) see #1
Curious, why would this article be blocked?
This story has be reported many times, the Atlantic has a story about medical professionals leaving the profession recently
I know where you are coming from, but in the case of XML, I really think it's bad. I'm tired today so I'm not going to write an essay, but XML's history alone (look up how exactly it derives from SGML) made it a good idea with a bad execution.

Semi-structured data is not bad. Namespaces are not bad. Schema are not bad. In fact, I also on the other hand very much lament that XML's backlash lead us to JSON, which is entirely untyped semi-structured data where everyone has to write an (often buggy and incomplete) ad-hoc typechecker for every single document.

Those features are not the problem, the problem is that they are embedded in the SGML-borne XML, that has many weird and intricate corners that only make sense in light of its history, and that lead to complex parsing, obscure behavior, and lots of potential for vulnerabilities--in the parsers or in code that just uses a (perhaps in itself safe) parser. DTDs, Entities, and Processing Instructions are just some of the more known warts.
"Failure is the mother of success." (Ancient Chinese proverb)

The Chinese proverb, 失败是成功之母 (shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ; in Chinese translation), defined failure as an essential process to success.

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For those reading, high dose intravenous vitamin C is used as part of cancer therapies at institutions that provide integrative medicine (chemo + dietary/exercise advice, supplements, and off-label pharmaceuticals).

Here is a paper from one such institution published in a highly respected journal (Breast Journal) that found a significant increase in the median survival rate for women with metastatic breast cancer.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19470134/
First rule of fight club...
Yeah and what I’m saying is that any ARM ISA variations have little to do with anything. Kodi is a C++ application primarily and uses off the shelf compilers. The support issues have more to do with hardware and OS compatibility.
> It's the recount of a doctor's recent experience being physically assaulted after refusing to treat an unvaccinated covid patient with ivermectin and vitamin-c, believing that the former may be actively harmful to their health, and the latter simply ineffective.

If this doctor believes that ivermectin is "harmful", the doctor was so poorly informed that medical fact was mixing up with something he saw on CNN. The assertion about effective dosage being lethal, in particular, was completely fictional -- I don't believe that it works, but the people advocating for it aren't talking about crazy doses.

Ivermectin is a very safe drug. It is given to millions of people a year to prevent parasitic infections. There is a large RCT underway to see if is an effective therapeutic for Covid-19. We should all hope that it works. This incessant political polarization of science has to stop.

Everything in this reads like a low-quality re-hash of click-bait headlines from the last year, several of which were completely debunked.
Those behavior boils down to human nature of shifting blame and responsibilities.

I’m glad my parents droned into me that nobody can take care of my health except myself.
Smaller scale is better. It’s closer to the non-politician voters. The UN is many layers removed from me and I have no actual control over what they do or who works there, whereas I can write to and vote for the person who runs my neighbourhood, city, etc.
> learn the lesson that exponentially-scaling adversaries are best-confronted when they are small

*looks at Florida* Nope.
The last quote you pulled is just a misinterpretation of what I meant, and the rest is just "the bureaucracy needs grow to satisfy the needs of the growing bureaucracy" circular logic. You can make a better argument than that, can't you?

As for "the problems that occurred the last time we tried that": one of the links on the front page from HN is exactly about how the US is closer to a civil war now than people think. If stability is the main function of the Federal Government, it looks like they are not doing a good job.
Doh! Thank you for the correction. I thought I had read that RFC
It's not a question of whether it's misused. It's whether it's misused so often that it's a bad idea.

And while I hope most professionals can be trusted to use it appropriately, I think the whole "awareness" thing makes a lot of laypeople (including self-diagnosed people and people connected to them or actual patients) misused it horribly. The latest I've seen is "mental health days". I'm sure some professionals would advocate taking some time off in specific circumstances, but is it wise to reward yourself for being stressed by having a holiday? That seems about as wise as telling an alcoholic to take sick leave as a reward for their big hangovers. I'm not a mental health professional, but the people who give advice on taking "mental health days" do not seem to be either.

And that's just the latest one that bugged me. There's an endless list of advice (both for people with mental illness, and people around them) that seems to be vaguely related to mental health advice, but isn't, and it's accepted because it sounds "nice".
Day 1: read Marcus Aurelius Meditations.

Rest: apply it to your life
Ahem. Thank you.
Plex is actually a (significantly diverged) fork of Kodi (then called XBMC). They might not share any code at this point.
One interesting thing about obesity and bariatric surgery is the changes in the microbiome.

The following comes from a study on T2D reversal where bariatric surgery was one aspect of the study:

“Furthermore, microbial changes in the human gut have been linked to obesity, and surgical alterations to gastrointestinal anatomy have been associated with dramatic changes in gut microbiota populations with reversion from an “obesogenic” to a lean bacterial population [13,14,16,19,23,24].”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520897/

It’s a relatively new science and area of study but some of it is fascinating if not hopeful. One in particular looked at identical twins where only 1 suffered from malnutrition finding in all such cases the microbiomes were different between the twins and the malnutrition was successfully treated via the microbiome.
> For the 5% of the population that wants to take it, I truly don't understand what harm would come from letting it be prescribed

One harm is that it would help legitimize the drug as a COVID treatment, when science shows otherwise.

Put simply, the harm is that the already harmful misinformation that ivermectin helps would become even more pervasive. The only way out of this pandemic is _towards_ reason, not away.
This patient died, the doctor claims he can tell who is going to die (which seems pretty reasonable). It doesn't get much worse than dying of respiratory failure as horrible side effects go. The risks from ivermectin are very low and it is a routinely proscribed drug.

He'd have made life easier for himself and the family by saying "this won't work, but if you can foot the bill and will feel better about it then OK".
The mention of Q is what makes me think it is fake. My whole family is conservative; I have a German friend who is way out in right field (I love her but she is coo coo for coco pops), and I work with folks who most would consider fringe right. Not a single one of them have ever mentioned Q in a positive manner. As far as I can tell Q is an internet hoax. Yes I know there are people online who say they follow Q, but I just don't know anyone and I only hear about it on the internet.
There is nothing to this. Please do not spread the mindless anecdote about Fauci.

In the initial DAYS of the pandemic, it's true that he said that he didn't see there was a reason for normal citizens to be wearing PPE and masks, and that they should be reserved for medical professionals or those at higher risk. This was because:

a) we didn't even know about aerosol spread at that point
b) there was a massive run on mask-buying that was making it impossible for doctors and nurses to get masks, and it was more important for the doctors and nurses to have them
c) we didn't have data on mask effectiveness for average folks then

Then the facts changed. And the supply of masks improved. And so Fauci's advice changed, too. That's what a real scientist does. When the facts change, they change their conclusions.

Please do not present this as an example of governments "lying" to people. That is not what happened here.

The government has done a perfectly good job of "reaching out" to people. The problem here isn't the government. It's right-wing media.
It was killed by its vendor's poor implementation (poor performance, battery eater on mobile and on laptops) and lack of effort to port to and support non-Wintel platforms.
All his posts are rants against qanon and he's suddenly lucky enough to be a victim and immediately quits. He doesn't press charges because he'll be a national level target. Never mind that an assault like this at the hospital would result in an arrest regardless of a desire to press charges.

Nevermind the whole thing reads like fanfic: "Through tears, he rasped out sounds I could vaguely understand as a question. I guessed at what he was asking, and assured him that yes, his family was coming."

The whole post is awful, and even entertaining it here is absurd. When people complain HN is becoming like Reddit, this is what they're talking about.
Lorne Michaels was "born Lorne David Lipowitz [on] November 17, 1944."

Not a boomer.
Well I am hilariously wrong. Thanks, renewiltord.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29629387
For what it's worth, I've also used an app called Lingvist, which tends to tell you the grammar rules more directly. You might like its approach a little better. (But also, you might consider getting an old-fashioned grammar book, with tables of declensions and tenses and such, and keeping it nearby while doing Duolinguo exercises.)
When People Listen to Happy Songs, the Market Outperforms
> We need to super-nova this thing

Is there a precedent for "us" doing this? Surely some pandemics have "super-nova'ed" themselves, but having "us" encourage faster and wider spread as policy seems risky and unusual.
Great Chain of Being
You're seeing the reverse of survivorship bias - those who aren't getting sick don't need to present to the hospital, but from those that do, they are most likely at risk of dying.
As someone who a) personally had to deal with XML fallout, and b) actually looked into its history, I respectfully disagree. I adore typed semi-structured data, but XML is not an implementation thereof that is appropriate for, at least, nowadays (I go into just slightly more detail in a sibling comment).
You can use Cloudflare for DNS only without proxying through their service, so you can even leave your domain at Hover.
This implies that the service provider will not link up your device with your account. For any G services the link up is pretty much given.
IANAL, but it’s my understanding that you can’t waive your rights to life (no matter how much amusement parks insist that you can).

It’s probably more accurate to say that when you do sign such a waiver, it’s going to be an exceptionally involved process that includes a lot of time providing information to provide for genuinely informed consent (2nd, 3rd, 10th opinions, counselors, hospital lawyers, your lawyers, etc) when you’re in your right mind.

Experimental medicines for terminal patients are hard to get, for a good reason.
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There's another Omicron strain that evades the S gene failure litmus test
With the Colosseum at least, it didn't just sit there untouched for two thousand years. The locals have repaired it after disasters. And also partially torn it down. And then rebuilt it.

About 150 years after it was built, it was partially destroyed by fire. And rebuilt. Another 200 years later there are inscriptions from late emperors who did more repair work. In the medieval era it was stripped of marble and suffered serious damage from an earthquake. In the 18th century it seems the Popes started to appreciate that it was historically significant, and various repairs and preservation activities have gone on ever since. One of the largest cleanings and repairs ever has just started in the last decade.

How much to repair though? At a certain point you have to start taking out original work to replace the ruined interior, and I can understand the extreme reluctance to do that.

As to the Pyramids, they've been rotting for 4300 years and they're still there mostly intact. The most severe damage was intentional acts in relatively recent history. As long as we don't decide to start tearing them down again for free stone, they'll probably outlast humanity.
It's a bit of a weird look to try to rehabilitate an argument that is literally being made under the VDARE masthead. We don't so much have to dissect the spirit in which that kind of writing is made.
In many cases it's not even “that medicine is poison, I use tumeric”, more often it's "I don't care, I'll keep drinking the sodas, eating the chips and not exercising". The folks into the tumeric, herbs etc. are also likely to be more into exercise and eating healthier so they end up with better outcomes not due to the tumeric (or whatever herbs), but because they have at least some interest in their health. The more difficult ones are like my BiL who told me recently that drinking full sugar sodas actually lower his blood sugar.
But “a ledger” is not a directed graph of accounts, is it? There is no ‘from - to’ in a ledger. A ledger simply reorganizes the transactions from chronological order (aka journal entries) into subject/account headings. Not the same, but similar to clicking ‘subject’ column tab on your email client to reorganize your emails from descending date to subject attribute.
Well, you're going against billions of years of evolution that say "Eat everything you can and put on some extra weight. There might not be any food tomorrow."

Unfortunately, in modern times the days of short rations never come, at least in First World countries.

That drive functions at a neural level way below the level of the rational mind.

People often make poor choices vis-a-vis sexual activity, too, and for much the same reason.
The D pad overlaid on mobile doesn’t seem to handle touch ending events. Once I press once that key is shown as activated forever and it appears as if the game sees it as such as well.
There's some nice bits of hardware in there. Notably, there's a Zigbee radio, so getting OpenWRT and running Home Assistant is totally a possibility.
The world wide survival rate is around 2%. So for every 50 people who are infected, only 1 will die.

So the stories are the exception.

However, they're also very common.

If 1 out of every 50 people who ate at a McDonald's in America died, 50,000 people would die every day [https://financesonline.com/number-of-mcdonalds-in-north-amer...].
> In the end the end users would be worse off with the alternatives as you say.

I really appreciate this point. It helps me reflect on the cost of inaction: "If people are going to use apps like this anyway, you not building the app may hurt them but not giving them a more secure option."

> Let's just take for granted that if a nation state actor wants too spy on someone they'll do so one way or another.

> And of course litigation is a danger with these things.

Yea, I suppose if they were to hack into iOS or Android to access a local-only encrypted file, then those two platforms may be equally if not more liable than I would be. So maybe the legal aspects wouldn't be so bad.
They are. Staff / L6 and above, with one lucky L5 due to particularly steep stock appreciation.
About backing things up:

The article you referenced, referenced a research with a added comment where they declare they can't deduct information about hospitalisation:

> add a comment on page 5 that the crude ratios of hospitalisations to cases give no information on severity on their own due to the differences in the age distribution of Omicron and Delta cases.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

So your referenced article seems useless about hospitalisation ( the information you extracted from it)

This is also from the UK who had an increase in delta already before Omicron came. My guess is that Denmark would be a better reference to compare hospitalization for Omicron.

Except if you are seeing something that i don't?
If you compare US States to European nations it's easy to see that despite political polarization businesses in the states are extremely interactive and it makes easy for huge corps to grow throughout the USA.
Like other powerful tools, computers can do a lot of damage if used carelessly. That's the way it has to be. Such tools should be made as safe as possible, but no safer.

Don't nerf my computer because your mother can't be trusted with the digital equivalent of an electric carving knife. Just add a few more warning labels and let Darwin sort it out.
That's as of end of 2020, before the big waves this year (IIRC more people have died of Covid in the US in 2021 than in 2020).

More recent CDC estimate suggests the total number of infections is closer to 146 million[1]. I'm not sure how they are handling repeat infections, but nonetheless it sounds like their model has the US population at higher than 1/3 infected.

1 - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
This kind of backdoor would be way harder to avoid detection if the vendor used a reproducible build process and published their source code.
> Nicotine. Not hard at all to understand.

Also monoamine oxidase inhibitors, a class of compounds that are effective against depression, panic disorder, and social phobia.

Some think that the absence of the MAO inhibitors are why nicotine replacement therapies (gum, patches) aren't really all that great at getting people to stop smoking.
I use two of them, protonmail and mullvad and they work great and have had zero issues with them.
That risk calculator tool is awesome. My risk is similarly low.

It is rather striking how much the odds of hospitalization and death go up conditional on a positive test, but even then the odds really aren't that bad.
The design of B-2 is so beautiful.
If you have suggestions I'm sure you can email them, and they will welcome then. This is probably just someone's hobby page like those “Awesome _________” pages on GitHub.
Right. But assuming you're not clueless, you're going to discuss actual medicine and not Turmeric or crystals.
"I’m hoping for the best, too, but let’s not continue the tradition we’ve had during the pandemic of saying “you’re worrying too much” and being wrong."

The problem is anything that works will always look like an overreaction.

But it doesn't really matter anymore. With all of the fatigue and the failure of public health professionals to set public expectations around vaccines which are looking like they're going need to be taken seasonaly now the only poltically feasible course left at this point is "let's fuck around and find out."
Amazon is a dictator-friendly business.