skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite rare to be incidentally hospitalized. If you are hospitalized, you are very very sick. You don't get hospitalized for a broken arm, you get a cast and maybe some painkillers and you're sent home.

If you are sick enough to be hospitalized, you are likely to be sick enough that COVID is dangerous to you and requires medical attention.

The vast majority of people hospitalized with covid have long term side effects. You need to be seriously in bad shape to be hospitalized. See: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

Since we're doing anecdotes, I have a friend who recently got an infection (not COVID) that left him bedridden and so dizzy he couldn't walk more than few steps, the doctors decided against hospitalization as he presented to the hospital because his symptoms were too mild. They ran a few tests, determined it was an infection, prescribed antibiotics and sent him home.

So yes, hospitalization is a very good predictor. Fyi, hospitalization rates for the general population is right around 0.1%, more or less, and definitely a lot less for people under 40, in normal times
> Despite this you have immediately concluded that the media is lying to you and making it up as they go along.

This is not true, although reading my post back I can somewhat see why you would think that. I stated

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

The paragraph immediately following this was intended as an "and if they were making it up" continuation. I will edit my original post to clarify.

> Why are you so sure this analysis is correct?

One thing this study has going for it over the media and internet commenters just stating things like "scientists and doctors say that" is that here, we actually see some data, rather than the media or others basically saying the data exists, somewhere out there, source: "just trust us".
You work at Mega? Nice to meet you!

Is there anything I can do to get whitelisted? How can I contact you?

Not a huge deal if not, I've implemented the workaround already. But to be whitelisted after a chance meeting on HN would be a nice way to finish this story.
Lots of folks in r/nootropics the it. Ask there.
Meanwhile Japan it’s hard to get tested and they now have community transmission happening in major cities with unknown origin. Given the Japanese governments propensity to save face, they’d never admit it if they did have a problem.

I’d be skeptical.
I ran into a similar problem, the other way in Norway. I couldn't buy gas with my USA credit card because I had no PIN. The station was unmanned. Fortunately, I had a debit card and could use that and it's PIN instead.
so true. we submitted an app that had “Sign In With Apple” in a localized version.

One reviewer rejected saying it should be “Continuar com a Apple”, we submitted and, on a later review, reviewer rejected saying it should be “Conectar com Apple” which it already was the first time.

That is extremely frustrating and arbitrary.
https://hckrnews.com/

It filters/shows the articles that are the most popular, occasionally I’ll go check the regular site but this works best to get good signal for me.
His new home is at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a quick search reveals it was founded by Ernest Lefever. I thought that name sounded familiar then remembered the controversy surrounding him back in the day.

Lefever said upon founding the institute that "a small ethically oriented center" should "respond directly to ideological critics who insist the corporation is fundamentally unjust."

Two of Lefever's brothers opposed the nomination [Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Department of State. The 1981 nomination was cited by The Washington Post as an effort to appeal to "ultraconservatives"], with Donald Lefever testifying that his brother was not up to the job, and the allegation made by the brothers that Ernest Lefever had supported William Shockley's views that "blacks were genetically inferior"

Source: Wikipedia

It's strange to me that someone in the medical profession would refuse the vaccine for ideological reasons. I'm curious why he didn't get a religious exemption, but I suspect he wanted to raise a fuss and draw attention to his beliefs.
> Not sure if this is “reputable” enough

The fact that Breitbart is your first choice says plenty.
I almost exclusively use RSS to stay up to date and only interact with the site when commenting like this ;-)
Have you considered that the spread was happening there because of the lockdowns?
Yes, you can usually pay inside. Also, just entering any 5 digit zip code will often work. Had no issues with random 5 digit zip codes and my UK and HK-issued cards at gas pumps in the USA.
I was referring to the wagon version of the VW passat. It has around 35 ft^2 of cargo space: https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/volkswagen/passat-wagon/...
I think the point is that the alternative where the developer needs the user's permission in order to push out an update that the user actually wants is already the scenario where the user is in control, as opposed to the status quo.

You don't need the ability to force something on them that they actually want, so the ability to force something on them can only be used for evil. The good update would be accepted without coercion.
> Cultural norms can also encourage poverty cycles.

I often wonder about these.

Growing up I watched friends whose families had what you might describe as a cultural distrust of institutions, including schools, or even anyone who seemed to “think they’re better than us” (translation anyone who did well in school or a career).

They constantly made self defeating choices and seemed destined to have the same problems/ poverty as their parents.

Their distrust of institutions like schools could maybe be justified… but they were capable people who made choices that reduced their opportunities.

As an adult I watch my local schools reach out to provide services, help of all kinds and struggle to find more than a handful of takers or folks who want to try…

By no means does that mean there are no other barriers, but even trying to address those barriers/ help, you can encounter some surprising resistance/ challenges.
I think the argument was that for individuals who have had and recovered from covid, there was no evidence that the vaccine actually improved their immunity. And thus, a vaccine policy that obligates covid-recovered employees to be vaccinated requires an unnecessary medical intervention.

Update:
https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/why-i-am-challenging-in...
Which BSD?
Earthquake Notification Service
Considering things like what the article describes as the Black Tax, it doesn’t seem like it would help.
Protip: I read contracts and ignore onerous clauses if I know the state doesn’t support those clauses.
This strategy too has some limits, its not like you can keep interviewing forever.

Most companies will flag you eventually if all you've done in your career is write a 100 line bash script and leave every six months, in fact if they are a serious shop they'll likely not want to touch you with a 10 foot pole.

The next problem of course is ageism, you are likely to enter that issue as soon as you are in your late 30s. Of course starting a family in your late 30s, or buying a home, getting fit just keep harder and harder with age. And being known and being used to being a drifter wont help much as you get older.

Let's be honest this kind of a lifestyle demands making some lifestyle priority choices and getting very lucky early life, but even that has a cost as you age and its not exactly good.
Is money really the issue? In many places, everybody gets a free education, and even university is free. So everybody could simply become a doctor or a lawyer and expect an income above the poverty line - at least if money was the only issue.
One can buy a cheap laptop for the interviewing process, or borrow it. I personally did the latter, with a great success.
> "my boss just sent me an email after dinner, guess I should act/forward it along"

I can't understand why the person sending the email after dinner is off the hook, but the person forwarding it along is solely to be blamed in your eyes.
Though the wordle creator doesn't seem troubled at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29605494
Understood. But if the denominator is bigger, then the percentage is smaller.
Would make totally sense, as a possible mechanism -- and its remedy -- of how the heart would be affected.
Unlikely, in Ontario the unvaccinated as a group have to test 2 or 3 times a week keep their jobs. If anyone is more likely to report a case it's the vaccinated.
> only dead fish go with the flow

Maybe putting words in the author's keyboard, but the fish in a current metaphor -- to me -- highlighted the same sentiment you seem to be promoting: don't be anti* all the time. Fish don't always swim up stream; they rarely do. The point is that a live fish has the ability to swim up stream when it needs or wants to.
I think it's reasonable to describe one as more coarse gained when it simply doesn't have enough information to be as precise as the other method. Yes, they work at the same layer and can do vaguely the same things, but s targeting makes a huge difference.
> The driver hands you a key and leaves

How?
> But once solved, we should try to reverse engineer the solution and optimize.

This is a great point.

Does anybody know of any papers that explore non-neural text to speech / voice synthesis that achieve better than parametric quality?
Did you just accuse him of making conclusions without evidence while responding with absolute certainty?

This discussion is about discussing an actual study that can back up the calculatio of covid vs vax side effects. Afaik, prior to that there hasn't been such evidence so all the risk calculations were essentially pulled out of one's bottom.

Since you're accusing him of insufficient evidence for his mere hypotheticals, can you actually provide evidence for your absolute statements?
I had a friend who was very excited to show me BeOS running on a PowerMac 7600 back when we were in high school (1997 probably?)

I thought it was interesting, including the UI being so different from what I’d seen otherwise (Mac OS 8 or Win3.1/95) but didn’t appreciate what it really was or why it would be appealing.

In retrospect I’m of two minds. Competition is great, and having more than a duopoly of operating systems wold really put the pressure on to keep competitors honest. That said, I remember the dark days of the single short aisle of Mac programs at EggHead software, and how frustrating it can be to have few options. Really the only thing that makes ChromeOS possible is web applications
> that asking for advice means you're not an outlier

I'd take it as a bit milder view - that currently you're not eager enough to risk things and not in a position where you know you're ready.

This reminds me of a theme on HN questions around a decade ago: "Should I drop out of uni to work on a startup?" (often from people who don't have one yet or a good idea how to join one) If the person is neither convinced enough to do it themselves, nor are they in a position where their work is so successful that uni interferes... - it's likely a safer bet not to do it. And that doesn't mean I have any knowledge or guesses about whether that person can be an outlier in the future.
I don't think I'm misrepresenting them even if I paraphrased. The vaccine doesn't saturate the body, and there's no evidence the heart is subject to these side effects due to lipid vesicles being uptaken from circulation because the heart uses them as substrate. Then to not leave any doubt, they cite McCullough on the topic who is way off the rails beyond available evidence.
I don't know about qcovid but these two sources disagree : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33729203/ https://riskcalc.org/COVID19Hospitalization/
> This is not the market changing, it's a law crushing a free market that already existed.

The same could be said about outlawing slavery. Before you scream at me, let me take a step back: of course ad-tech is by far not as horribly bad as slavery. Still the practices they established in the last decades are a violation of human rights, in the european interpretation. They track and profile humans online to a level no private investigator could do offline. And we are at the beginning of what is possible: people place network active microphones and cameras in their homes or carry them around all day. Devices they no longer control, since "no root for consumers" became a security feature. Public spaces are increasingly surveilled by networked cameras, physical advertisements in public spaces and private businesses track wireless signals of nearby phones. Privatized mass surveillance became the norm in cyberspace and the same is happening in meatspace as well. And at the same time the algorithms that guess which content best manipulates individual people into buying, voting or believing something are getting better fast and are deployed at scale.

We are at a crossroads of how society will develop, and this mentality that corporations can collect and use personal data however they like (and they like to manipulate people) is no longer acceptable. And if these corporations weren't creepy enough with their systematic stalking, governments lean more and more towards also using that data. As long as the government promises it is "just for fighting crime" people are somewhat consenting, but on the territory of my country we had two totalitarian regimes in the last century that abused data gathering at scale to identify and oppress their political opposition, to terrorize and murder them. Horrors like the STASI must never happen again. Say no to surveillance capitalism while you still can, demand a constitutional right to the protection of personal data now! Because the freedom of governments and corporations must be limited, so the freedom of the people is preserved.

The market must change, it is necessary. What we want is that you can take your smartphone and tell it that it is ok if it connects to the supermarkets augmented reality and every ad-space you walk by becomes a personalized experience, if that is your choice. That is your freedom. Don't let the ad-provider of the supermarket make that choice for you. Don't let someone tell you that freedom means you could choose to not go to the supermarket and instead grow potatos in your one room flat. That is bullshit. Fuck that free market, give us free people.
> There are millions of people that can talk to their relatives and have better access to government services and communicate with people they've never met, that would still be cut off if not for Facebook.

No, none of the connectivity is because of Facebook. They didn't build the connectivity; they're a parasite on it. What they add is a layer of disconnection, under their control, that they use to exploit.
you could try https://www.snapfeel.com/
Same here. Ended up with a Crown Victoria once; got a lot of strange looks as I was probably 1/3 the age of the typical driver of such a vehicle.
Pretty easy to create an account and make a new listing. My widgets are used as test equipment. There is a specific FCC certification exemption for testing tools. 47 CFR § 15.103 (c)
I’ve worked on rich
https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich including adding strict mypy typing https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/command_line.html#cmdo....

I found Will’s codebase easy to read and reason about, making it easy to help extend.
TL;DR: They work in the hospital, they declined to be vaccinated, and were fired. At length, we also learn how great they are and how awful the hospital administration is.
As an IT Professional (I've always assumed this was intentionally vague)

You are not entitled to:

daily or weekly limits on hours of work
daily rest periods
time off between shifts
weekly/bi-weekly rest periods
eating periods
overtime pay

https://www.ontario.ca/document/industries-and-jobs-exemptio...

Canada (Ontario specifically in this case) gets a lot wrong as well. Any movement in the right direction is a good thing.
> Do you think that a weakening current with more water in the atmosphere (atmospheric rivers) will lead to more or less snowfall? Not being sarcastic, it’s just that if both things are true it would indicate that the prediction in this article is wrong.

Depends on where you are. The center of Africa is all desert. If they start getting a lot of rain, and the PNW gets less, the overall amount of rain falling can increase while the west coast of the US falls apart. Weather isn't uniform, and the climate in various locations is going to change. Some places will likely change for the better while others change for the worse. The issue there is that the places that are great now, but will be worse have a lot more people living in them than the places that are bad now and will get better.

> Unrelated, what are your thoughts on the carboniferous period with 800ppm CO2 and 0 degrees difference in average temp.

I don't know much about it. A good way to frame climate stuff in general: Normally things sit at some equilibrium and experiences a slow change to some new equilibrium due to some natural process. Like the most recent ice age ending. The reason man made climate change specifically is dangerous is we can change one aspect of the current equilibrium faster than all the factors can move to match it. That's why you'll hear people say "We could go carbon neutral today and the Earth will continue warming for decades." It's because we are changing one variable of the equation faster than the others can adjust, which has only happened historically during massive die-offs and extinction events. If we want from 200ppm to 600ppm over 200k years, the consequences would likely be pretty much unnoticed for most animal species. Doing it in 100, not so much.
Maybe they meant the Chrysler 200. Or maybe not a Chrysler fan in general.
Racist dining experiences still exist. You wouldn't know unless you've been targeted. By law, no signs are posted.
Document and publish your experiences. It'll help countries in their fight against the App Store monopoly.

(Monopoly in the sense that 50+% of users in any given country are using a platform that only allows Apple approved and taxed instructions to run. Dating, entertainment, finance, etc. are Apple serfs.)
Some scientists prefer the term Far Side because of this :)
3 doses of pfizer seen to have more thab 75% protection against even Omicron.

It was 90% before mutations for two doses

The death rate on both are very low but much higher for the virus. However, the risk of hospitalization is significant with the virus, and much, much higher than with the vaccine.

I don't want to be hospitalized. That's a very bad time. The people that may die because I took up a hospital spot probably agree.

The flu doesn't threaten to collapse the healthcare system without vaccines. COVID does.
Is there any evidence that shows that omicron is even particularly dangerous?

There has a been a “savior” strain that a lot of us have been hoping for which is: extremely transmissible, and relatively benign. So far it seems like omicron could be that, but I haven’t actually seen good data on mortality yet.

If anybody has good mortality data I would love to see it.
Naren Gupta, co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners, passes away
Wow, this resonated so much with me that I could have wrote this. Amazing to know I'm not alone. Cheers!
That would assume the free education people get is equivalent across income levels, which is a hard thing to do in the best of circumstances.

Even independent of educational quality, there is a world of difference between a school's ability to teach a well fed, comfortable child and a child whose only meal of the day is the free school lunch. Similarly, a rich child can afford to do unpaid internships on summer break, whereas a poor one may be working minimum wage jobs to generate an income instead.

This is before you get into the weeds of things like teachers preferring to be placed into good schools because it makes their jobs easier, that well-connected schools can raise money outside of the public system, etc. People say they want educational equality, but this is almost never at the perceived cost to their own children.
I'm a novice contributor, primarily using StreetComplete and the online editor. From some of what I've read, they've been burned by some imports in the past and are gunshy with mass imports.

> Why are we still drawing house by house when many cities offer this data freely?

It's not perfect, but there are some AI assistants which make this less tedious.

https://mapwith.ai/#13/-18.221/35.1573/0/55b (note: I believe Facebook is running this AI assistant.)
Hrmpph…obviously they’re not rewriting it in assembly behind the counter—that would be stupid. They’re doing a full build—recompiling it and running basic unit tests on it.
> At least in this time and place (2021 USA), keep your head down. At least for now.

No. Now is precisely the time when the insane need to be reminded that while outright sanity is impossible, we can, should and must be more sane than we are now. The tribes be damned.
If you post an opinion, you'll be told by one person that you need to back it up with citations, and by another that it's too obvious to be worth saying. That's the internet for you.
It's true, the nordic countries do well on Social Mobility [1] (measure of intergenerational economic mobility). However, I think we can all agree that they're fairly homogenous ethnically & culturally (e.g. as measured by Fearon's measure [2]), and that these factors play a huge role in social mobility in places like the United States.

In fact, if you jointly score social mobility & ethnic diversity, the United States looks to come out very close to the top (if not the top). It's probably not a "one size fits all" solution, though social safety nets are obviously a critical part of the equation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et...
I'd be more sympathetic to that point of view if the evidence supported it. So far, it doesn't. See for example.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
Twitter and Reddit constantly get progressively worse every update. You guys pretend like tumblr is dead all you want. The numbers show tumblr growing.
It's plausibly unconstitutional to go after established newspapers and other clearly press institutions.

And I was wrong, it's hit the supreme court in NYT vs US. The majority opinion is a purely press freedom argument, with a joint press freedom/speech freedom argument being a minority concurring opinion.

There's plenty of case law that the government can stifle speech for national security purposes, and it's not limited to signed contracts for enforcement.
CPUs are not the problem right now as far as I can tell, ryzen 5+ are ridiculously fast. Need moar GPU.
Rightfully so, in free countries these measures should be used with extreme care.

This winter should mark the end of any and all restrictions regarding the Corona virus.
Ha, first world problems. For a poor person, having an internet connection massively improves quality of life, end of story.
Not much, the main problem is that the kids aren't getting basic education. Every kid in developed nations has access to free education and parents aren't allowed to make their kids work to feed the home instead of going to schools. In Nigeria kids often don't have access to free education, and even when they do parents often prefer having their kids work to bring home money over making them go to school.
>Flash, Dart, game engines.

Hopefully, those aren't the only possibilities.

>new, different platform for hypermedia documents right inside the legacy browser

I believe there are use cases for which we need to chose between documents and applications.
It's literally the most statistically dangerous disease of all time and it disproportionately affects BIPOC communities and undocumented workers.