skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have started to censor youtube download sites.

Sex sites, tv streams, torrent sites.

They censor free ebook sites.

They censor 8kun the offshoot of 8chan.

Anti-Covid information..

Their news offerings are politically weighted.
It's interesting that Japan has had far fewer cases than comparable countries. The difference can't be explained by infection control measures; there seems to be some other factor. So it's not clear how well data from Japan generalizes to the rest of the world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/japan-covid-...
Yes, your friend had no hospitalization. We don't count people who see a doctor a few times and have long term side-effects as hospitalized from COVID, so in an apples-to-apples comparison the example of your friend should not go into that column.

Here is the source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110737:

> A total of 76% of cases of myocarditis were described as mild and 22% as intermediate; 1 case was associated with cardiogenic shock (Out of 100 cases)
That's pretty funny. I wonder if some of the benefit of TSA precheck is that it serves as a de facto "seasoned traveler" line
Time for some advert injection.
It just turns out most of that thought isn't worth hearing, is easily manipulated externally and by emotions, and poorly educated.

I've stared to think that handing everyone the "microphone" of something like YouTube is actually a way to prevent even moderately subversive thought from ever reaching the mainstream.

Basically let people say what they want - but they have to complete with every other loud moron, while ignoring the manufacturing of consent through traditional channels.

It's horribly dystopian. I almost long for a time when running a pirate radio station meant you had a political message you felt needed to be heard.
> Is r/lockdownskepticism also skeptical of vaccination?

It's a very heterogenous sub, but I don't think you'll find the kind of anti-vax thinking that suggests that, eg, childhood vaccination is unhelpful to a society, if that's what you're asking. If you are asking more strictly about sentiment toward the currently available SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, I think that by and large we think they're a marvel of engineering, but have an array of assessments and opinions regarding pandemic-timeline vaccination, what it's meant to accomplish, and whether genuine public health decisions in such a context can ever be made independently of profit motivations of vaccine makers. As for the mod team, I think I can confidently say that we view the vaccines as very useful tools and owe the engineering teams (both who have worked these decades to make mRNA platforms a reality and those who lost sleep to crank these vaccines out) a debt of gratitude.

> And do you think covid is worse than or same as the flu?

By "the flu", I presume you mean the H3N2 influenza which began as the 1968 pandemic and has since been endemic, causing seasonal outbreaks most years, rather than epidemic influenza which of course happens from time to time (eg, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic).

I don't think there's any remaining need to speculate: the wealth of evidence clearly demonstrates that COVID-19 is far more likely than seasonal influenza to result in hospitalization and death for the elderly with comorbidities, less likely than influenza to do so in young and middle-aged healthy people, and similarly likely as influenza for people in the middle.

This has been evident, and has held true, since last summer, when John Ioannidis published this paper on the topic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512...

I want to point out that opposition to lockdowns, almost without exception, does not turn on the population mortality rate of the pathogen in question. In fact, if the pathogen were even more dangerous, we suggest that lockdowns are likely to be an even worse idea.

Lockdowns necessarily cause stratification by socioeconomic status rather than by risk. Even in an 'effective' lockdown, we still see spread among the "essential workers" who keep society going, and in their households, which are disproportionately likely to be multigen.

To the degree that lockdowns actually slow spread, this means that people in the high-risk tier (in this case, mostly elderly people) have to isolate _longer_ to wait for the spread to complete among the lower risk tiers. This may be acceptable for affluent households with remote jobs and the ability to have all of their needs met via delivery, but is obviously untenable for our marginalized neighbors who cannot afford periods of extended isolation.
What this article misses is Nepo is famous in the chess community for caving into pressure after losing once. A lot of people have said that Nepo was immensely lucky with the Candidates Tournament (the tournament that allowed him to play for the World Championship) since that tournament was split into two parts due to COVID. The break happened precisely after Nepo lost a crucial game and allowed him some time to regain his composure. I doubt Nepo would have won the Candidates if he had to play immediately after his loss.

On the other hand, Carlsen is well-known for his mental fortitude. It’s something that Vishy Anand, the previous champion, has talked about extensively. Carlsen’s style is often called “squeezing blood from a stone” because he will play equal-looking endgames and mentally exhaust his opponent into making a tiny mistake that he will convert into an advantage.

It was indeed a tough match-up for Nepo, and most knew it would end tragically for Nepo. Despite being an excellent player, he’s not on the same level as Carlsen.
heh, re-read my comment and I totally said "about as much", so never mind. Sloppy on my part.
Yup, I recently rented a car with an American Express Platinum card, which includes secondary coverage. I don't own a car, so I don't have auto insurance, and assumed vehicle to the damage would still be covered, I just wouldn't have liability coverage. But in order for the policy to pay out anything at all, you're required to have primary coverage.

So I ended up paying $300 or so for a scratched fender. Not the end of the world, and their estimate seemed fair, but I might buy the rental car insurance next time.
It might be network slowness, one day at the rental counter all the paperwork had to be done by hand (and visa contacted by phone to process payment) because their system was down. It took a literal hour.

The terminal was unresponsive and displaying the following error: "cannot connect to mainframe" (This was in 2019).
What low income jobs have non-compete clauses? Not that I don't believe you, just trying to wrap my head around it.

A non-compete is (ostensibly) intended to protect employers' trade-secret-esque internal knowledge and practices, which low income jobs don't really get much exposure to.

Granted, many non-competes are legal boilerplate that businesses probably shouldn't need, but I can't imagine a business actually doing a cost/benefit analysis on paying legal to go after someone who makes peanuts.
> This paper essentially argues that the risk of myocarditis in under-40 males getting 2 shots is greater (perhaps much greater) than the risk of getting it from COVID. There have been similar studies before, but none (that I saw) broken down by age and sex like this.

This is especially fascinating to me because for months I noticed that whenever I or anyone else would bring up the fear of myocarditis from the vax (which I ended up not experiencing, by the way, that I know of - and I got two shots of Moderna which I specifically chose because it has more antibodies) a slew of people would show up to admonish, bring up the typical "anti-vaxxer!" arguments, and state that the risk of getting it from COVID was far far greater. I recall every media article on the subject stating the same thing.

So where were these people and the media getting their information from, or were they just making it up?

And if the latter is the case, it's when people and the media do things like this that people either begin to distrust science more, or use it as another example of why science shouldn't be treated like religion and how the media and people picks and chooses which scientific information to share with the public to fit the narrative they're pushing. It's just sad all around.
You get neither you get ads for gravity weights and gravity named brands followed by a wiki entry in gravity and tons of amazon links for gravity games.
> identifying “JVM” as a proxy for “language runtime designed to optimize multi processor machines”

That'd be the wrong thing to pick as the proxy destination. Go is also a “language runtime designed to optimize multi processor machines” and, as the article explains, doesn't trigger this the same way.

Try something like "total number of threads in all the pools used by the application overwhelms the CPU".
Epic! But... why?
I agree you should research heavily before holidaying in developing countries
All the complaints in this article and in the comments seem like they originate from rare/one-time renters trying to find a deal. Meanwhile I have rented thousands of times over the years, with a flat rate, and never had an issue. The rate I pay is never the lowest, but it’s usually a decent deal and I always get a car, and of course now I have status with the rental company.

I think trying to pay the lowest price possible suckers people into bad experiences. To a large degree you get what you’re willing to pay for.
One guess, from recent experience at Enterprise: so that you're nice and exhausted by the time they quickly flip to the signatures page, which is your first and last chance to catch whatever bullshit fees they tacked on. That was a $100+ lesson, and my credit card sided w/ Enterprise when I tried to dispute (because of course, my signature is right there on the contract).
Yes, the article does come across as privileged whining.
I don't understand what you're defending against. The science proves you wrong.

The inflammatory response is primarily triggered by the [1] spike protein.

"We observed that spike (S) protein potently induces inflammatory cytokines and chemokines including IL-6, IL-1β, TNFα, CXCL1, CXCL2, and CCL2"

I'm curious to see the fuller data set on adolescent males since it does seem initially that moderna may be more likely to trigger this rare myocardial response due to its much higher potency.

The S1 and S2 components of the spike protein linger in the body for up to 12 months. So it would seem that the second dose would be harsher since there is already a reserve of S in the body.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7987013/
What do you mean by 'side effects' of infectious disease excluding morbidity? Positive side effects of infection?
Just double checked — it seems there is a “allow NSFW” content switch in the iOS system settings. Reddit on iOS gives you a link into the system settings app when you search for NSFW content. But it does appear to be disabled by default in anonymous browsing mode anyways.
The team photos double as the demo, that's neat. (Mouse over to see the depth colouring.)

I presume something along these lines will make it's way to the Pixel 6 camera software, given the origin of the research and the onboard edgeTPU block.
Of which westerly conservative neighbours do you speak?
The article has some speculation about this. A combination of Apple not wanting to ban larger apps like that, and larger companies having more staff to resubmit the app a thousand times to get through the thousand arbitrary rejections.
Playing cards were currency in 18th century Canada
> once you got ranged/siege units to range 3 I felt like it was game over

It wasn’t game over, but it made military strategy exceptionally one-dimensional. Early game was all about getting a set of range 3 archers as quickly as possible, mid game was all about getting a set of range 3 catapults as quickly as possible.
> Edit to add: the fact that vaccine + previous natural infection has a better immune response over just the vaccine likely has to do with the rest of the virus being more similar to older variants of the virus and your body recognizing some other part of the virus versus the spike itself.

This may be a factor. But, repeated exposure means more breadth of antibodies. B cells aggressively replicate and mutate in response to pathogens, and those that match are selected for. Repeating this process gets more B cells, but also broader varieties of resultant antibodies matching not just the original pathogen but things that are close to it. This is why:

* 1 dose of mRNA was pretty effective against B.1.1.7, but not very effective against Delta, which had some immune escape mutations.

* 2 doses of mRNA vaccines targeted at B.1.1.7 were pretty effective against Delta, but only slightly effective against Omicron, which had a lot of (different) immune escape mutations.

* 3 doses of mRNA vaccines targeted at B.1.1.7 seem pretty effective against Omicron.
This was true for employees across the organization (outside of the dev/it department), which was in the hospitality industry.

It wasn’t done to retain hard to recruit tech employees, it was done because that is the expectation in many office environments in Canada.
Some available from Dawson Knives:

https://www.dawsonknives.com/collections/home-page
I responded elsewhere but...

Ugh, hunter Biden laptop is indeed completely acknowledged fact at this point by all sides

https://news.yahoo.com/york-times-quietly-deletes-claim-0218...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/politics/hunter-biden-laptop/...

https://nypost.com/2021/09/21/the-hunter-biden-laptop-is-con...

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep...

One Hillary Clinton’s campaign attorneys have been charged in connection to creating the Steele dossier (lying to the fbi and falsifying records).

https://nypost.com/2021/09/16/fresh-proof-russiagate-scandal...

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/icymi-th...

Senate Interview notes: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/February%209,...

Plot against the president, is a decent documentary on the subject - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12734800/

The covid stuff I guess we can wait for, but there’s a lot of evidence out there on that as well. In either case, not lies and definitely should be searchable.
The same work through the implications rule shows how anti-social Facebook is.

Sitting alone in your room looking through old photo albums isn’t social, but somehow going through other peoples photos is? Calling Facebook a social network is such a bold faced lie I am somewhat shocked anyone can say it with a strait face let alone honestly believe it. But it gets worse, calling clicking a like button on a news article “social” is such double think you almost wonder if these people are speaking the same language.
Cognito Inc
Can you explain how it increases the breadth of antibody protection if the booster is exactly the same as the original shot?

Is there any way to know whether that increased breadth of antibody protection isn't coming from a post vaccination exposure that wasn't tested for not tested? Since vaccinated people aren't generally required to do asymptomatic testing, let alone symptomatic testing in many places.
I just use Hckrnews.com as a front end.
There's something kind of similar, Armageddon chess, where black wins draws and white gets a time advantage.

Of course this is not "classical chess," but it's used as a third line of tie-break in the classical championship.

This is also lame, since a world championship specifically for classical chess should not be decided by non-classical chess.
Why would the aspiration risk be significantly different between the two mRNA vaccines?
In the chart, the IRR from infection is 2.02, 95% CI 1.13-3.61. The IRR for 3rd dose Pfizer is 7.6, 95% CI 1.92-30.15.

Because the confidence interval of the Pfizer 3rd dose contains the datapoint for infection, there is a pretty good chance that the 3rd dose is not anymore likely to lead to myocarditis than COVID, and the result isn't statistically significant at p<=0.05. We can't say for sure.
Anything by Sebastian Ramirez (fastapi), Samuel Colvin (pydantic), or the encode team (starlette).

World class stuff.

https://github.com/tiangolo

https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic

https://github.com/encode
>How has your experience been with Godot as a way to build apps so far?

Building the actual GUI is a pain. Godot isn't really optimized for that, so complex grid-based layouts and text flow don't work the way you would expect. Themes and styling, and loading fonts especially, is kind of awful. I wound up writing my own ad-hoc text based data format rather than using Godot's own system. The most frustrating thing beyond that was dealing with HN's API, though. Godot doesn't support Markdown or HTML, though, it supports BBCode of all things, and HN's API emits raw HTML, so I had to write a messy BBCode to HTML converter. Upside is links work.

I started using C# but abandoned it for GDScript because I found myself working against the engine by importing things through NuGet like the HTTP libraries, and the end result was just too much unnecessary complexity and size. A current release build is about 39Mb with GDScript, but IIRC about twice that with C#. If I were working on a serious app, though, I might consider using C# anyway, just using Godot as a thin presentation layer. But GDScript works fine for an app that mostly just pulls JSON from an API and writes it into textboxes.

It took me a bit to really learn how the expected signals-based architecture was supposed to work, and then realize that what I really wanted to use was callbacks, because the relationship between API and elements was 1:1 rather than 1:many. So anyone building apps is going to need to know when the typical game architecture advice works against them.

Other than that, it's a blast. I've seen a few applications show up on /r/Godot so people are using it that way.

>Are there any declarative frameworks like React?

.....not really. It's still a game engine that just a few people are hacking apps on, but I don't doubt someone is going to write some plugins along that line in the future, if it becomes more popular as an application framework.
I was talking about Mali, Axum, and the empires whose names are forgotten, not the Early Modern states you're talking about. I don't know of any technical advances made by Dahomey or Asante. They already belong to the subSaharan Dark Age.
Get up to the Grand Inquisitor story. You can stop after that, that's the peak for me, it went downhill from there.

It wasn't really fun to read. But like all russian novels, it's very long, devoid of adventure, full of characters you forget constantly. You read them to experience the russian soul, not to have fun. The best Dostoievsky for me is "The Player", one of the shortest and one whose lessons I constantly quote, especially around a horse race or a casino lol.

If you want enjoyable classics, Alexandre Dumas or Theophile Gautier are my go to but Im French so maybe the anglo world has some authors too as brilliant as Dumas but I doubt it. The best russian classic is Master and Margherita, it's a bit less slow than average but Boulgakov is special (a bit their Kafka).
These were the first few results in ddg. If you couldn't find anything similiar in google perhaps that's a clue you might not be getting the whole picture.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/googles-search-leaves-users-d...

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-manipulates-search-re...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
I often rent a car when traveling alone. Ialmost always get an upgrade because I book the cheapest vehicle available.

They almost always try to upsell the better model before, like do you want automatic, no, do you want a bigger car, no, do you want navigation, no.

And then you get the big car with nav and automatic transmission.
When we accepted journalism to be a collection of twits? No data, no real figures, no information from the companies. Just a collection of links and tweets wrapped in the author opinion which is based on anecdotes. I'm much worried from the state of journalism than the car rental business.
Fascinating. I’m in the PNW where I don’t think it gets cold enough for this to matter
There was a similar service a few years ago where car owners who had rented out their cars wound up with disastrous personal liability for accidents complete unknowns had caused while driving their cars. It looks as though Turo only offers $750K of third-party insurance. This looks like a really risky proposition for anyone thinking of renting their car through this service.
> myocarditis often goes away on its own

I was under the impression myocarditis was when some heart tissue died and doesn't recover.
Yes, and WAY higher than the risk of serious symptoms for the virus. For males 18-29 the risk of hospitalization is 0.4% compared to 0.1% for myocarditis, and most myocarditis cases do not require hospitalization. Risk of severe disease is of course much more than risk of hospitalization.
Are they specifically trying to use confusing English?!
There were plenty of amazing games in classical chess this year (and just because a game is a draw doesn’t mean it wasn’t exciting). An example of a great game this year is Carlsen v So at the Champions Tour. Another great game was Dominguez vs MVL at Sinquefield (Dominguez won the brilliancy award).

Many up and coming (young) players are also really exciting: Alireza, Duda, and Dubov. Duda’s win over Karjakin in the World Cup was pretty spectacular.
Icons are proxied by DDG, so no data leaking there.

Bing's API requires you provide them with an IP address and results are personalized to that address. Because DDG shows the same results to everybody, I assume they have a special deal with DDG and no PII is being sent to Bing.

Disclaimer: I run https://okeano.com, a private search engine.
Magazines have always carried this kind of garbage.
The global imprisoned population is less than 10Million, or a rounding error when discussing the global population. Seniors? Well that’s a large portion of the population, but they are more concentrated in developed nations that have had the internet longer.
It's fascinating to me because my experience has always been opposite. I want a small car because I don't like to have a monster in unfamiliar territory. I'm always "upgraded" to something larger and when I indicate no thanK you, turns out they don't have a small car at all.

This included being given a muscle car instead of small SUV (not practical for a kid and pregnant wife:), and a culminated in a chrysler 300 which I drove away about 150km, then drove back 150km because it was just so much Nope Nope Nope as a car. I waited at the counter until somebody drove in with a sane vehicle.

So I tend to believe the notion there's just no actual inventory management and assignment. You get what they have.
Carrying around a knife with a pocket clip… you won’t even feel it’s there. I also have a leather man wave + in the same pocket. I sometimes notice that.

It’s more comfortable in Jeans vs dress pants, but both work.
The absurdity of indicating blogging is journalism will no longer be tolerated