skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It jumped out to me as fake immediately, as well. It's impossible to say for certain, of course, but it rhymes with other Reddit fakery. Specifically in being a one-note account that seems entirely focused on providing testimony to the awfulness of a particular group, that being QAnon.

Here's a pretty interesting video essay about online fakery, with a heavy focus on Reddit fakery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiU7aGZ-o68
How ? is there any platform to do that ? Any idea about the lease charges ?
If it works for 5% of people it is by definition not useless. Bariatric surgery is not without its risks, and I would rather weed out the 5% who respond to the low risk approach before exposing them to the risks and long term side effects of bariatric surgery.
Many of the photos from the article show vehicles with no license plate.
He thinks people cause their own stress at work.
Assuming you’re a software engineer: how would you feel about a customer who comes to your workplace and aggressively tells you you really should be using The Blockchain to solve everything, because he read that on Twitter and you’re obviously in Big Tech’s pocket for not using it already.
Biden’s New Fuel Economy Standards Allow Cars to Pollute More If Not Called Cars
> Stremio is way better.

In what way?
It’s late and I can’t find a source for this right now (so this comment is basically useless and admittedly irresponsible to even post) but I read recently 15 / 100k myocarditis from the vaccine (Moderna I think?). That stat was probably for a higher dose than they tested with children though.

Multiple governments have paused Moderna for < 29 which I presume means they determined the individual risk/benefit was imbalanced for that cohort.

Here’s a source for myocarditis numbers [0] but without any data for < 12. It looks like my recollection was a bit high (if you trust CDC). This suggests highest risk is males 16-24, after second (!) Moderna dose 38.5 per million, so 3.85 per 100k. It uses a small sample size though.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
> The main cost of operating a power plant is fuel, which costs you nothing if not used.

Power plants are major capital investments. That capital has opportunity costs when it's just sitting idle. (Add in maintenance and deprecation etc.)

To continue the discussion, we should have a look at the economics of peaker plants.

> Let's do some napkin math for my area: if you started such a company in 2008 and paid your doctors minimum wage to stand by and keep themselves trained, but not actually do any work, one such doctor would've cost you around 100k € until the start of the pandemic.

Duh. Just because you (or me) can't come up with a decent business plan in two minutes of thinking, doesn't mean none exists.

First of all, I doubt any sane plan would involve paying people to sit on their hands and do nothing.

I imagine, you'd pay people a basic retainer to stay ready, and probably pay for their refresher courses every so often.

For some people, paying for the initial education and refresher courses alone would be payment enough to stand-by (and then a fat bonus, if they are actually called into action).

Silly example: someone who otherwise works as a nanny or with kids in general might want to be able to boast that they are fully qualified as a nurse and receive regular training.

(Flight attendants also usually come with some basic medical training already. And they were rather underemployed during this pandemic. So they might be good people to approach about such a retainer scheme.)

Smarter people than me will probably come up with better business plans.

Eg you might want to differentiate candidates by how quickly they could jump in. Being ready with 24h notice is much more demanding, than being able to be ready within a month. But the latter would still be useful, because training medical personal from scratch takes longer.
The CDC estimated that 45% of Americans had been infected as of September 2021, so probably closer to 50% by now.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
I adore the banner idea here. The various trends are interesting, but I still don't see anything that really sings deeply to me. They all have hints of the real, of a coming harmony & bridging of the gulf between development & user, but they fall short too.

End-user programming comes close, but I don't think it's the real notion. It makes primary the programmability, which is, imo, an unncessary ego-centrism. Software simply making what it does visible, making it observable, and inviting in the potential for interaction, for manipulation, change, alteration: that, to me, is where we must go. I'm delighted and quite surprised to see this comment having risen mightily in the rankings, to the #2 spot, but permit me to cite the #1 comment in reflection here:

> "We’ve known for a long time that software will eat the world — the comings and going’s of everyday life, once they are expressed as code, become infinitely easier to patch and improve using only a keyboard and display."

To me, it's less about home-cooked & home-grown & indie, and more about software that has a basic fair shake. Software is either societal in nature: it participates in, shapes/can be shaped, discusses itself, engages in the democratic processes of the world. Or it is a closed, dark entity. I see little ways to regard most software as anything other than alien and hostile, as invasive & anti-communicative: a blackbox, with us trapped inside.

The way through though is incremental. Finding new ways to let the software we have expose itself, to make itself visible & explicit & introspectable & orchestrateable & controllable & malleable. I believe software high & low will better serve the world, be better able to do it's job, when there is a general systems fabric & when it can keep us in the loop.
My read of this article is that we don't know, because Pfizer used a dose which was safe but did not work
Yelp is a company with a reputation for offering advertising services for reputation management. There's an inherent paradox in offering reviews: true anonymity can be review bombed. Moderated anonymity has to be paid for - and the companies being reviewed are willing to pay more.

I don't know if Yelp is honest in their reviews. I can't tell for certain. But they do have reputation management services for sale, and so you have to question who is the consumer, and who the product.
A lot of people will time things down to the microsecond and complain about a 0.1% difference and proclaim "this tool is garbage". I expect that sort of thing on reddit but not on HN.
I am working on a product led alternative to Quickbooks which does the split between being more user-friendly (i.e. less confusing reconciliation, faster interface, easier to navigate, fewer options, fewer ways to shoot yourself in the foot) but also geared towards power users (keyboard shortcuts, automations, integrations with productivity tools).

It's fascination that Quickbooks is the go-to tool for almost everyone doing small business accounting when their product is mediocre in so many ways.
It's because many more people are vaccinated. Assume 100,000 people are vaccinated and 10,000 aren't. If the infection rate in vaccinated population is 5%, and in the unvaccinated population is 50%, then out of 10,000 infected people, 5,000 will be vaccinated and 5,000 won't.
He got very lucky with the type of pancreatic cancer he had, it was detected so early that surgery would likely have been curative. So sad that it ended the way it did.
"Thought" is a very broad term. You cannot "swear off" a broken leg. That doesn't negate the existence of the placebo effect, or people who do ridiculous things like walk a mile for help without realizing it's broken.
1. maybe
2. see my previous answer
3. post hoc ergo propter hoc nonsense
4. "The logic seems pretty basic and sound to me" and to the rest of us who actually grasp logic, it's about as structurally sound as a dropped lasagna.
The phylogenetic tree of life is organized not on the characteristics, but on the evolutionary origin of species. Species are in a specific branch of that tree if they share a common ancestor species with the whole branch. Shared characteristica were a good proxy for ancestry back when the mechanism behind inheritance of genes was not discovered yet. Of course, the concept of a species is a bit fuzzy (even the possibility of genetic compatibility for reproduction as a criteria has issues), but over long timescales the relationships should align into a tree.

A big underlying assumption of this is that genetic material is only passed from progenitors to offspring. Specifically, horizontal gene transfer (common for bacteria, viruses and possibly others, but believed to be very rare for multicelled organisms) throws a huge spanner into efforts to derive phylogenetic trees. It can still be useful though under the assumption that not all genes are eligible for being transferred horizontally.

Also organizing programming languages into a phylogenetic tree is doomed to failure because in general it's quite easy to transfer features from one language to another, and back, as languages are not picky about incorporating features from offspring languages.
Why doesn’t the US military use Soylent now?
I don't understand what you're implying with the statistics... That doesn't necessarily invalidate the story.

I've read similar things from verified sources written by doctors in these kind of roles (not broken noses but of serious abuse from anti-masker, anti-vax nuts, as well as the kind of deaths the post is talking about). Obviously in the kind of ward implied here they're seeing the worst of the worst cases.

Are you saying it's not true because he talks about a 38 year old dying from COVID? Over 14,000 people in to 30-39 year age bracket have died from COVID in the US this far. If you were in ICU at a big hospital you might see a few dozen people in this age bracket dying (as well as many, many more older people). And yes, it's a small proportion of cases but if getting vaccinated might have stopped 90% of them dying (sadly a lot of those deaths would have been before the vaccines are available though), that's no small thing, even if the general risk for somebody in that age group is fairly low...

So who knows, maybe this particular anecdote isn't true, but it is consistent with a lot of things I've read that I know are.
The virus is so contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity effect. Pretty much everyone will eventually be infected (if they don't die from something else first).

https://www.sciencealert.com/delta-variant-means-we-can-rule...
I mean I honestly expect that Amazon will eventually end up realizing that asking people to rate products on a 0-5 or even a 0-1 scale produces garbage data (like every other site before it) and switch to metrics like number of sales and number of people who recommend it.
Integrating with https://education.github.com/pack/ might be easier as GitHub takes care of all the verification processes. (and it allows high-school students too)
The problem is that what we do not know about genetics matters much more than what we do know.
Discovering Electronic Music (1969-1983)
Then enforcement of the laws seems to be a better action than banning things outright.
+1 to Porkbun. Their website is one the more minimal side, but it's been quite reliable for what I need (buy domains and edit DNS records). Their prices are low and transparent.
Lately the medical establishment sounds like it has given up on crafting novel messaging/systems for helping people lose weight naturally, which is preposterously dumb when it is far more safe and effective than drugs when it works.
It does have an SPI TPM header, which as far as I was able to tell, does bring out all of the signals I needed (including the BIOS chip select). But it's just all of the same signals in a different form factor. It was actually easier to use the chip clip because I didn't have header pins small enough to plug into it. It would be nice if the motherboard manufacturers would standardize on a header (or footprint) that everyone would use...
Read their comment history. Doubt they'd put that much effort in just to fake posts about being a doctor in the trenches...
I recently found https://github.com/rr-/pq-cli which is a direct port of the pascal code https://bitbucket.org/grumdrig/pq/src/pq6/ . Even things like "that's weird code - that can't be idiomatic python"

https://github.com/rr-/pq-cli/blob/bbe3842a2f0a11bf5bd639da3...

lev = level
level = lev * qty
if not is_definite:
result = indefinite(result, qty)

matches the code from https://bitbucket.org/grumdrig/pq/src/d611931e37b45395e2fb69...

lev := level;
level := lev * qty;

if not definite then Result := Indefinite(Result, qty);
I don't necessarily agree with the premise of the OP we're responding to, but apps and computer services have the ability to scale in ways that other mental health organizations don't, especially if they have a lot of investor funding to burn. A service that was used by ten thousand people in January could be used by a quarter of the country by June, and it can quickly command the market and put its competitors out of business.
Judging by the article's pictures most of them don't have a rear plate at all so it's probably not required. That would make reporting it a lot more difficult.
These numbers stack up, if the vaccine is effective against Delta but not against Omicron. The bulk of people being infected with Delta would then be unvax, while anyone is fair game for Omicron infection, backed up by the 14%unvax/77%dvax correlating with 80%+ dvax population in Denmark.
Exocrine Pancreatic cancer has negligible 5-year survival rates with the most radical and invasive modern treatments.

Acupuncture and fruit juices are just as effective, with a much lower incidence of side effects. I’d choose that treatment option as well. There’s nothing unethical about palliative care.
MREs self-heat. Hot food is good for morale and in a disaster situation, instant noodles might be "noodle crackers".
My big concern is kid to grandparent transmission (which incidentally I've observed for a couple cold viruses this season).
Neither of these points argue that tech debt isn't a thing, just that it's impact is poorly understood.

Companies have plenty of real debt, but still grow. Accumulation of tech debt might be a necessary cost much like servicing financial debt.

Now the question really is - what is the interest rate of your tech debt? And that's harder to know.
Clearly we should spend all our energy, always, worrying about the near-uncontrollable realms of bacterial and viral evolution.
My understanding is that Pfizer knows what the safe dose is, and administered it, and it didn't not work
Some also claim to be AI powered but just have people responding behind the scene... I guess for higher evaluations.
Plex is significantly more polished and pleasant to actually use, especially for normals. Kodi has more customizability if you like but it still feels rough around the edges.
Where I went to college, moonshine is a big thing and is relatively easy to get once you know some locals. I've tried it multiple times and it was always absolutely vile. It would usually come in a reused plastic milk jug. There was nothing you could mix it with and not taste the horrible flavor. I had a friend who made his own stovetop still and despite it probably being slightly poisoned with methanol, it actually kind of tasted like a corn whiskey. I don't know how he was able to make something palatable but every backwoods moonshine maker in the area couldn't manage to make something that didn't taste like gasoline. Whenever I was going to a party where I knew there would be plenty of moonshine, I'd just bring my own legal liquor.
I repaired a piece of manufacturing equipment in 2018. It was terribly slow, even more so than one would expect from a first gen core i3. The heatsink had spent 8 years, hovering a few millimeters above the cpu. The Intel thermal paste was untouched.
If "hey it probably won't kill them" is your standard for medical treatments, you shouldn't be commenting about medical treatments.

Ivermectin is prescribed (not proscribed) mostly for treating parasitic infection. Using it at therapeutic doses for Covid is dangerous.
I don’t think you deserve to be downvoted for saying this. I agree. But I think there’s a bigger chance that I would have “done it wrong and totally missed the point” than not.
You seem to be more focused on blockchain-as-tech-implementation, when my point is that blockchain is important for coordination.

Sure, it makes zero sense to have a social network on a blockchain. No one really wants to have their social graph on an immutable public ledger that costs a lot of resources to keep around. But I wouldn't be surprised to see a project where crypto is used as a way to finance a Mastodon (or Pleroma, or whatever) powered constellation of servers.
Just so you know- the article I've now linked in the original post found some nontrivial issues with Microsoft's Authenticator
Reminds me of the story of Denver International Airport's unnecessary construction.
If you agree to erase your memory of all culture surrounding you and to create truly from blank than your statement could have some sense.
First, this is not totally accurate -- you can board flights with literally no proof of anything, and international travel often does permit an affidavit of prior infection.

Second, just get a vaccine, jfc. Been infected? Great, now you're even more immune. Do one easy thing for your fellow humans. Can't? Plenty of documentable, obtainable exceptions. Won't? Fine. Don't avail yourself of the luxuries which are the result of humans working together to build something. Easy.
> Imagine if actually there were amphibian birds and mammal birds and insect birds flying all around

Bats (mammal)

Mosquitoes (amphibian)

Any number of flying insects. My least favourite is a two inch long flying cockroach that I encountered on a visit to Tāmaki Makaurau
The Walt Disney Company. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
"Long COVID symptoms may have causes other than SARS-CoV-2"

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/11/long-cov...
Intuition and vernacular make poor guides to the formal lexicon of taxonomy, as I learned over the course of trying to answer the question "okay, so what kind of wasp am I looking at right now, anyway?" Two years, a couple shelf-feet of research material, and a great deal of dedicated study later - "dedicated" here meaning for example that I taught myself how to bind books because they're better for annotation and reference than PDFs - I find myself more or less able to give a fairly confident answer to that question in about two-thirds of cases, and even at that I'm often not very sure. And that's all just been to develop an experienced birder's sense of where a given animal fits into the broader picture! It'd be a lot more complicated if I were more than just a casual amateur.

Phylogenetically, it's likewise reasonable to say that there's no such thing as a wasp, as the category is paraphyletic in "all of Apocrita that isn't ants and bees". This doesn't render "wasp" meaningless in its vernacular sense, of course - I may know I just saw a female Auplopus architectus metallicus [1], but if you ask about her, I'll spare you the detail and just say she's a spider wasp whose babies are lucky to have a mom who's busy seeing they'll grow up big and strong like her. The point of the article isn't to discuss the vernacular, and the point of "there's no such thing as a tree" is to make a startlingly counterintuitive assertion that draws the reader into a detailed discussion of how genomic taxonomy works. Such statements constitute a fairly common rhetorical technique - one worth knowing about, so as not perhaps again to miss the forest for a single tree.

[1] https://aaron-m.com/2021/01/23/auplopus-architectus-metallic...
As someone who has been around doctors their entire life, the poster is for sure lying. The posts are written like fanfics and do not have much scientific insight, which you generally get out of people in the profession. The posts being so focused on Q and on unvaccinated people makes it seem like the user clearly has an agenda. I would point more specific details but I don’t have the time to go through several pages of comment history.

I can’t believe anyone wouldn’t see through this and see it is clearly fabricated by someone who has a lot of time on their hands (which Reddit trolls sure have), unless you’re a teen or younger. Hacker News, please do better and see through this BS. It is a facade meant to divide us. (I am pro-vaccination, but I can’t stand people who are for cause but have to lie to make a point).
[1] is from 1992, [2] is from 2001. [3] evaluates a bad program[fuller2014] based on a worse metric. You find different things in more recent research, e.g.:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo201094

>More than one out of every six US adults who has ever been overweight or obese has accomplished LTWLM [1y] of at least 10%.

review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4777230/

As far as the doctor's advice is concerned, focusing on weight loss as the sole outcome is misguided. The typical trajectory of an obese individual is to keep gaining weight; if doctors could even make their patients stop gaining weight, that would already be a major development in standards of care.

It's also important to consider the limitations of the metric. Studies don't evaluate sustained cultural shifts like "do doctors regularly talk to the patients about nutrition", because it's hard enough to track a patient for five years, let alone get a doctor to do blinded controlled interventions for five years. So what the study tests is a controlled diet for a short period followed by a period of unsupervised maintenance (with a recipe book), not the consistent availability of nutrition guidance over a period of years.

It's perhaps more important to note that while the results in adults are quite bad, it has been shown possible for adolescents to drop by more than a standard deviation in BMI after an intervention and maintain this for two years:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002234760...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X1...

Professional interventions for weight loss and/or maintenance aren't infeasible, they're just hard, and it pays to start early. It's not too surprising that older people are more reluctant to change their habits.

[fuller2014]: Finds that Weight Watchers underperforms standard national guidelines: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4282338/
I've been pleased with dreamhost, both as a host and registrar.
HNN: Human (Hollywood) Neural Network
Dataset and interface for training faces on your very own, low cost, highly parallel, CUDAless biological neural network.
Hope springs eternal.

We can be pretty confident, anyway, that it won't outlive Microsoft.
You gotta huff glue too
> MRE's dated since WWII

I may have looked into this during pandemic boredom. Ahem. Consensus seems to be that the biggest risk (as long as the can is normal) is metallic leaching from acidic foods.

Old canned fruit or tomato sauces? Maybe skip.
Because vaccine effect on Omicron transmission is very weak.
Yeah... that's the point.
They claim to work in the ICU where mortality would be much higher, 41% according to your linked article. I'm suspicious of the account as well but their experience is entirely possible.
The moment they described how the patient was asking whether his family was coming I felt such a profound feeling of sadness. Imagine being alone in that moment of your life, the very last moment. I felt like I knew what death would be like and it was heartbreaking. Whether this was 100% real I don't care. This kicked me right in the feelings.