skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can split hairs about Boris Johnson throwing private parties or Joe Biden not wearing a mask or something equally trivial, but at the end of the day, I know of only one major world power which is systematically rounding up its citizens and sending them to reeducation and sterilization camps. It frustrates me when people try to defend China in such roundabout ways when the proof is in the pudding. If anything, humanity would be better off if we were _more_ harsh on China, and willing to call out its grave, grave sins, rather than absurdly shifting the discussion to Western colonialism.

The CCP are quite literally ethnically cleansing their own citizens! And lying about it! Why is it even worth discussing the context of Western colonialism when there's a true and honest legal genocide being performed at the hands of the government? This argument is no different than saying that if we just understood the context of Germany's situation in the 1930s better, perhaps we wouldn't criticize the Nazi regime as strongly. There are some acts which transcend cultural context because of how barbaric they are, and in my opinion, what's happening with the Uighur peoples is beyond forgiveness.
This is a more radical practice than most being presented here I think. Optimizing things is a cultural norm and value for most people likely reading this.

I see a lot of my peers focus on optimizing their "good output" on some scale or metric, but ignore or even devalue this one. This one that, in my experience, also has a lot more daily challenges of difficult virtues like forgiveness and humility.
"Here though, I would argue that the forced shift in developers' mindsets, from "I want to control more things just in case" to "I want to control fewer things just in case", also has many positive consequences."

For the US, I think the most expedient route to this climate of fear (caution) that yields positive consequences lies not in government regulation but in removing impediments to private liability, or perhaps creating new sources of private liability. The requisite fear of liability to yield positive consequences is a threat of private litigation, not a threat of fines set by government agencies.

It is not for the government to decide how much "tech" companies should pay for their wrongdoing. It is for the victims of that wrongdoing and a jury of their peers to decide.

It is not users who have pushed us to this breaking point. it is "tech" companies and web developers.
At least in Massachusetts, much of the data are being imported from state GIS resources. House data, street data, etc.

Most of the mapping which needs to be done are enhancing the park data, etc.
Maybe the designer's vision for this game didn't involve maximizing user engagement metrics?
In that case, I'm wondering how valuable the hospitalization metric is. Someone can be incidentally hospitalized, and discharged with no serious long term issues, the ER is the only option for many non insured in the USA, while a life altering long term side effect may never result in hospitalization, but is something that should go into the risk profile of either catching covid or an adverse reaction to the vaccine. But we have to work with what we have.

Another question- if I go into the hospital for a broken arm, then fail a covid test- am I counted as a covid hospitalization? I remember watching one video early on in the pandemic of a "whistleblower nurse" lamenting the scenario where a patient would be admitted into the hospital for some reason, test negative for covid, be held for quarantine, then test positive for covid- presumably because they caught covid while in the hospital.
Masks and general do-care care attitude with regards to personal air space and sanitary space.
The idea is simply to acknowledge where your privilege helped you, and how others may not have had the same experiences or ease of access to certain things, etc.

The trope of “he’s black and rich, and I’m white and poor” is irrelevant, as there are different kinds of privilege. In rural Alabama, being white and poor is going to lend you a much closer set of relationships than being black and rich. In SF, it may be the other way around - the point is everyone should simply be aware of how various privilege has helped them.

And again: this takes nothing away from hard work. It simply acknowledges that another person who worked just as hard but had a different set of lived experiences and privileges may not have the same result. That’s not bad; just fact.

And again: it has nothing to do with guilt. You shouldn’t feel guilty about it; ~everyone has some kind of privilege. But ignoring it or pretending it doesn’t exist is the exact opposite of the point, which is, at the end of the day, an exercise in empathy.
https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid

It would appear that mass vaccination had a minimal effect on the already low case fatality rate. I think it’s getting harder and harder to justify lockdowns and forced masking.
Geodesy is indeed one of the side products of VLBI observations on Earth.
Thanks! This clears up a lot for me.
Questions for SF Progressives
Acknowledging privilege doesn’t imply you didn’t earn your advantages; it implies there were some that were handed to you. Plenty of others need to be earned.

It is rare, extremely rare, to meet someone with absolutely no privilege, and that isn’t a place to aspire to.
Is the third way just open source? Vitaliks discussion here is about platforms gathering data about their users.
Search for "Encyclopedia dramatica" on Google, and then on Bing or Duck. Search for Rise of the Moors on Google, and then on Bing or Duck. You can repeat this for other controversial content, and you'll notice a trend: Google suppresses the controversial content entirely (e.g., Encyclopedia dramatica), or shows it after at least one "authoritative" result about it (e.g., Rise of the Moors). Whereas Bing and Duck have no problem identifying the original content and showing it as the first result.
Demo videos and overview: https://alexyu.net/plenoxels/
Remote work requires an investment in space and equipment that can be quite expensive. Someone can be a great candidate, but can't afford the computer, tablet and space they need to interview or get work done, and they'll be skipped over for someone who can afford it.
one meme greets another, how do you meme?
I agree people often misuse it, in the same vein that people often misuse other “you are the other” type arguments like equating conservative with Trumper or liberal with “socialist” or pick your favorite.

But it’s misuse shouldn’t change the meaning of its intent. At least I hope it doesn’t, because I believe there is still value in empathy.
> Although multiple antiviral and host target activities have been reported for ivermectin in SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, it is still unclear if any of these activities will play a role in the prevention and treatment of the disease. The controlled clinical trials that are underway will reveal if these activities will translate into clinical efficacy.
Can't you just pay inside with it?
> a time when running a pirate radio station meant you had a political message you felt needed to be heard.

I remember that feeling, that something could be important to say.

It's completely gone though. There's only the compulsion to reply.
How is that supposed to work when everything is on demand and Netflix alone has thousands of shows?
Only if companies stop relying on "cost of labor" type metrics to set remote pay adjustments.
I was afraid it would be much worse; I've heard of how crazy the car market has been in general. But I just didn't see it.

It really depends on where you are. This fall, we had our pick of vehicles in Chicago & Seattle, while we paid $5,000 for s 3-day minivan rental in Minneapolis. YMMV.
> That being said, I'm going off the preliminary study that shows that vaccine >= infection for older variants whereas vaccine + infection >> vaccine for omicron.

More exposure basically means broader protection-- whether it's exposure through infection, vaccination, etc.

Whatever you're exposed to, the compliment and quantity of antibodies widens and is drawn towards whatever you're exposed to. You end up with antibodies that bind against whatever you're exposed to in many different ways-- many of which will be cross-reactive against other variants.

Obviously, it'd be nice if we had a omicron-based booster, because it would be broadening the protection more in that direction.

> As an aside, I've got three shots of Moderna in me and I caught omicron during the covidtastrophe a few weeks ago.

Sorry to hear that. We still have relatively little data, but it looks our best current guesses are:

* Vs. Delta: 2 doses of Pfizer/Moderna: about 60-70% effective against infection, 80-90% effective against symptoms, and 95%+ effective against severe illness.

* Vs. Omicron: 2 doses of Pfizer/Moderna: ???% (poor) effective against infection, 30% effective against symptoms, 50-70% effective against severe illness. 3 doses of Pfizer/Moderna: ???% (maybe moderate) efficacy against infection, 60%??? effective against symptoms (evidence quality poor), 85% effective against severe illness. It also looks like this is short lived and sloping down relatively fast.

In any case, you're protected every step of the way: Less likely to become infected, less likely to become symptomatic if infected, and less likely to develop severe illness if symptomatic.

One interesting epidemiological question is: vaccinated people are pretty likely to be asymptomatic with Omicron, so they may be more likely to spread it.
> I think you're making an argument that counterculture can be just as mimetic as culture, which I might agree with.

Fair enough I might be looking for too much in "counterculture".
How can this possibly be true, when we now have real world data from Ontario.
The case count of the vaccinated has now surpassed the unvaccinated and seems to be growing exponentially. 3rd graph.

32.39 cases / 100,000 people double vaccinated vs 31.93 / 100k of the unvaccinated.

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data?fbclid=IwAR2pRUq9GN9EEoDTm0...

The vaccines don't seem to confer any lasting difference.
It’s more complicated when the fed has open market operations that can pump and dump treasuries, and other market participants can use leverage as well.
In large part hereditary, like most things.

https://www.amazon.com/Son-Also-Rises-Surnames-Princeton/dp/...
You misquoted him twice; he said "The spike protein RNA vaccine saturates the body" and clarified he was referring to the response mechanism of the vaccine by saying "the vaccine saturates", which you referred to in the first sentence of the comment I'm replying to. It seems like you two are discussing the same thing, as a third party.
If you can be materially distracted from driving by a banner on the side of the road, then you shouldn't be on the road in the first place.

If you are annoyed by a passive banner on the side of a road, then I wonder if you must be annoyed by someone saying Hi passing by. Noisy shit, eh?
There is a feeling that you (being big tech) discriminate.

Not trying to say its true or false... Just saying that it's no different than race or gender.
I want to compliment your responses. Factual and non aggressive which is needed in this time. Thank you.
> and an ongoing pandemic overwhelming hospitals, then yes I guess?

HIV spreads more slowly so it doesn’t threaten to overwhelm hospitals, at least not in developed nations, but it is an ongoing pandemic which has killed at least 36 million people, including 680k in 2020, and is spread mostly by risky behavioral choices like drugs and unprotected sex. The social cost is incalculable let alone the costs to individuals and families!

So, I think the same principle applies and the same judgement ought to be given if any is given at all. Of course it shouldn’t, because the world is a mad house and we’re all inpatients.
If you have the credit limit for it, and it's refunded upon return, who cares?
CFR != IFR
Clinical trials for ivermectin have been stopped at least 2 times now due to weird reasons. First one in Australia was stopped due to apparently being too few COVID infected people. In the last couple of weeks the Oxford trial was stopped because apparently there was a supply problem with ivermectin, according to Merck.
Being able to work to increase your own wealth isn't really controversial. In fact most Americans over-estimate the amount of economic mobility that we have, which is probably what the article is referring to. And rich families tend to have their wealth eroded in just 2-3 generations. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...
But since the vaccine only works for a couple of months, doesn't it make more sense to consider the risk of catching Covid in that short time frame?

It seems likely that future Covid strains will be less deadly, too, just as the flu has years that are more or less deadly than others.

Also, isn't a fraction of the population immune to begin with?
It's not about culture being a static thing. It's about culture existing or not. Culture is the reproduction of something through multiple people being replaced.

The eternal September was the point in time when the internet culture stopped reproducing, because it no longer could. Its replication rate was too low. Those who carried the culture could not make it "go viral" anymore. So it died.
This is pure spam as there's no proof
So why did he refuse the vaccine? He should know better.
What’s wrong with the Chrysler 300?
> One of the biggest frustrations people have is that it seems impossible to actually get the car you reserved.

There is one way to avoid this, at least in my experience: be a business traveler. I've noticed a big difference in speed of service when traveling for business vs. traveling for personal reasons. I suspect that rental car companies know that business reservations are (a) much more reliable in terms of the person actually showing up for the car, and (b) much less likely to be able to change from the specific car type that's been reserved, since that's being determined by some corporation's booking rules rather than an individual's preferences.
> the flu was somehow eradicated at the outset of mass covid testing,

Did you know "the flu" is actually many strains, the most prevalent of which changes season to season? It is not surprising to me that Covid "won out" this season. Plus a record number of people got the flu vaccine during the pandemic. Here is what the CDC says about lower flu numbers [1]

> many of the covid tests did not distinguish between the flu and covid.

That's just not true.

> lockdowns that pushed a huge portion of the world into poverty

What would you do to mitigate the spread of a pandemic?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm
> Safety on the road is more important that the freedom to annoy drivers.

That wasn't the point, although you are tacitly advancing the idea that annoying signage is acceptable whenever you think it's fine AND what you "watch" is voluntary. You're halfway there. There's not much to be gained from logically stepping you through it.

> Also, you can express yourself elsewhere instead of on the road.

Given the kind of answers you are providing, I don't think you've thought any of these things through. GL with whatever.
Hey, thank you so much! I try. I also have to confess that my understanding of this subject matter is far from perfect (and even experts' understanding is relatively limited).
This is exactly my experience. I booked a small sedan and was given a Jeep Wrangler. I can’t drive it! I’m used to driving a smal hatchback. I’m sure I was a terror on the road to all around me.
So because travel is a miracle we should all be grateful and not expect a business to treat its customers with respect or dignity?
Really get annoyed when publications introduce an acronym yet never define it. That’s 101 of writing. Thanks for doing their work for them :)
I wonder if Zuck really thinks he can just will an infinitely complex network that by definition requires buy-in from everyone into existence. At least Tim Sweeney is starting with a video game and people are playing it.
It seems like this would be a relatively easy thing to make optional, along the lines of "pay ahead for a gauraunteed car (no refund)". Customers that want to pay at the counter can still do so, but will be competing for cars with any other customers that didn't pay ahead.
All entrepreneurs feel like impostors
In decades there won't be anyone around who remembers when things were different.

We're in an interesting time right now, when at least 50% of people in first-world countries remember a time before the internet (obviously higher in countries with less internet adoption)

In 70 years, everyone alive will have grown up in a world where the Internet was everywhere.
My opinion is the opposite The trapezoid is no where near different enough, to prevent my short strong fingers from forcing in the USB-C upside down.
I have ruined a phone, and a wireless headset, by not being very careful
we should have never lockdown, the idea of locking down people who don't have the disease is beyond stupid.

The spread was happening in confined spaces from symptomatic individuals in nursing homes and hospitals.
I've been using StarRocks for about six months and it's been a great experience for me in terms of data analysis, especially for features that are not well supported by ClickHouse, such as joins, StarRocks is fantastic to use.
> It wouldn’t surprise me if vague clauses don’t get upheld, or if requiring an employee to be connected also comes with the responsibility of compensation and expenses.

According to the link, this is not the case. It seems very clear that the only requirement is that the policy is written down.

> When I worked for a company that required me to do on-call on holidays or weekends, I was given an extra vacation day in compensation even if I hadn’t actually done anything but triage.

That's been standard practice every place I've worked in the United States, too. Not by law, just because it's a decent thing to do.
I could be incorrect in my assumption here so please let me know:

I assume as a user of DDG that they aren't collecting data on me. However back when Google was following their motto and young, they WERE still collecting data, weren't they?

If that's true (IF) then that would make this an unfair comparison. If DDG eventually erodes their morals and stops caring about privacy then I could just stop using them and they would have no historic data on me.

That aside though, what is your alternative? Yes they may in the future collect data but they certainly don't right now, so why not use them now while they don't rather than giving in and just using Google and accepting the surveillance?
List additional clients when work for previous clients is done.
They probably didn't rent online
That's my story too. Only after the second jab did they start to go "I think you might have an allergy".
Given that the decoder is machine-learned and depends on a training set to go from squiggle -> ATGC..., how do you ensure that sequences which haven't been seen before (not in the training set) are still accurately accounted for?
I am older than 40 and according to qcovid my risk of hospitalization is about 0,1%, so I doubt your 0,4% number. I am slightly overweight, which increases my risk by about 20%. But I doubt all the 18-29 year olds in your group are so obese that they get to 0,4%.
That's interesting data. It's not in agreement with other jurisdictions, so far. Elsewhere, including South Africa, we see (poor quality) protection from vaccination.

One concern with observational studies: people who choose vaccination don't behave exactly the same as people who don't. They may assume more risks out of perceived safety. They may also be more likely to test or seek medical care. This is why, at a minimum, you need case control to start to believe the conclusions.
Peter Norvig’s notebooks and his course.
Curious if anyone has any first hand experience taking daily NAC supplements for long periods of time? I’ve been looking into it, but there doesn’t seem to be much material out there on it
Twitter doesn't.
Could you say something about the analysis you did to decide that wind was going to be useful for you? I'm interested but I don't really don't have a good sense for how cost effective a wind turbine is or how to evaluate a site.
As far as company rehulations are concerned, these titles have specific meanings, powers and liabilities. You can call the positions anything like Tesla does, but as far as regulators are concerned your company will still need to define some of these roles/accountabilities in specific people.
Fluvoxamine is the new off-label thing, combo sigma-1 and "ASM Functional inhibitor"

https://c19fluvoxamine.com/

But this time the science is a bit more solid because it works similar to the pfizer antiviral pill. The problem is SSRIs are not something to be taken casually.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.17.21268008

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01309-5
At 14, he started making digital marketing programs for businesses for $1,000 a pop.

By being a "spam pioneer", as the article gingerly forgot to mention:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/airbnb-co-founder-nathan-ble...
>Icons are proxied by DDG, so no data leaking there.

Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups.

>Disclaimer: I run https://okeano.com, a private search engine.

Also uses bing.net, mm.bing.net for safe search and explicit.bing.net for not safe search, but with a GUID linked to every image it pulls in, so there is still traceability and thus accountability, ergo its not private.

https://external.okeano.com/1e08822804ae14da3a8841c6e0b7cbf2...

I've also noticed there are times when cookies are not cleared on exit with some websites despite browser settings being set to clear cookies on exit. Theres alot more surveillance going on under the hood in the chromium browsers than meets the eye.

Anyway it doesnt matter this thread has been bunked off the first page so sheeple wont wake up.
Just to point out you're making assumption of someone's competency, ability, and then go yourself to make vague and broad, unbacked claims; you do seem to be parroting common mainstream talking points to counter-narrative talking points - just observation of mine.

Likewise, there are actual answers regarding background levels of myocarditis, etc, and in fact it's far more complex than either of us are going to begin to discuss here.

And in regards to mortality rate, pretty much all research/numbers show that comorbidities/underlying health is the main factor - and which we could dive into the nuance, however your final claim immediately is obviously dismissable - but the easiest rebuttal is to parrot back to what seems to be a highly arrogant attitude: what makes you so sure your analysis (or sources) are so correct?
Speaking of crtds, check out also automerge. https://github.com/automerge/automerge