skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This preprint agrees that the risk of myocarditis is significantly higher, except if you are

a. A male
b. Under 40 years old
c. Took the Moderna vaccine

So the statement that COVID has a higher risk of myocarditis is still true.

The media and those people got their information from existing data. This data was correct for the original question. However it wasn't delineated by age and by vaccine, and it's only after that you can make another argument.

So yes, the media was right, not the antivaxxers. There is no shenanigans. Unless you have a source that predates this paper saying that the Moderna vaccine has a higher risk of myocarditis specifically for men under 40 that happens to be antivaxx for completely unrelated reasons as myocarditis risk from the vaccine is much lesser than the overall risk from COVID for any demographic.
In my country the differences beteren universities (and schools) are not very big. It seems very unlikely that more money could buy a significantly better education. Nobody is starving, either.
Please define 'statistically dangerous'. I'd much rather have Covid/Omicron than Ebola.
It's tiresome hearing the word "Ponzi" misapplied to speculative asset bubbles. If Peloton paid a dividend out of investor money, then it would be a Ponzi scheme. Right now it's just a (probably) bad investment. The difference is material.
Kotlin to get a List<Pair<Int, String>>

val list = (1..20).map { Pair(it, "hey") }
Snapshot of Hourly NFT Trading
I'm saying the libertarian theory about economic disadvantage from discrimination is falsified by the well-publicized history of MLK's campaigns of civil disobedience in the south.
Are the workers safe once they get their documents or something?
That’s why I have contempt for people who ask the rhetorical question of “what is everyone followed that path?” and then act surprised when I’m not wowed by their common-sense wisdom. I didn’t ask whether the plan was good social policy or not: I asked whether those actions were reasonable for me to do.
General consensus seems to suggest it is less severe to some degree: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-po...

The problem is that there's so many factors to isolate (testing rates, vaccination rates, behavior changes, demographics of the infected population, etc.) that it is hard to get a precise number yet.

Of course, even if it's less severe, it's also more infectious which could make overall outcomes worse.
They are wrong. "He's fallen in the water" is the pinnacle of humor :)
My favourite (mostly because I know the details and personally trust the source) was for a cashier position in a small grocery store in a small city. When the applicant tried to negotiate on the terms, they were told that someone could just walk away with their supplier information. While it may have been a legitimate grievance, it was a poor excuse to harm someone's future employment prospects. (Small city == limited choice.)
> then, guess what, I found I actually have it myself and it's explained a lot of the suffering in my life

Do you realize how weak your argument acutally is? You can now be invested in this believe and it's entirely fine with me but the hard reality remains the following:

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/adhd/what-is-ad...

Ergo, there is absolutely no scientific diagnosis for these imaginary pathologies, these patologies are diagnosed entirely via symptoms, which isn't necessarily a deal breaker for me, but when I read the list of symptoms, I just call bulshit sorry.
The principles of the Enlightenment (scientific method) via post-modernism or post-positivism (particularly skepticism of power and of myself, and the fallibility of human perception and cognitive ability) work really, really well in the current environment. They are almost a panacea - very powerful. Simply have some faith and use them; it's not hard; and then you are free from the oppressive weight of it all. (And stop wasting your time reading the other stuff.)

From the perspective of those tools, the problems are brazen - if you accept that there is, effectively, a 'big lie' (without one specific liar). That it's possible for so many to be so misled, for the social norms (groupthink) to be so widespread and wrong, is shocking to experience first-hand. Looking at history, it shouldn't be surprising at all.

What prevents such widespread ignorance is the Enlightenment and post-modernism/positivism. It should not be surprising that the problems are so brazen and that the 'old' tools work so well. It's not coincidence; we got here by discarding them, by (bizarrely) disarming ourselves. The results are completely predictable - discard scientific reasoning and critical thinking and you get lies and conspiracies. Throw away post-modernism and you get, almost immediately it seems, the same cults of power and personality that it protects us from. The consequences aren't overwhelmingly clear to observe. Whoever drives the reactionary movement, one of their first targets was those tools and the norms and institutions that support them: fact, critical thinking, education, all the humanities.

(I'm speaking a bit loosely about the philosophical terms, but close enough, I think, for my point.)
Perhaps the working environment just isn't what I'm used to. Assuming the interview is closed book, no internet, you're measuring recall against whatever random questions you ask. It's hard for me to picture that really mapping against the real work at hand.
The liability surrounding renting cars that can be purchased for $800 has to be enormous. A corporate executive who let people loose with brakes and tires found on $800 cars likely would (and should) be jailed as soon as one of his renters killed someone in an "accident."
If I’m mostly in a big ETF, how can I also protect myself from these companies?
I'm in the market for a Capability Based OS I can use as a daily driver... could this be it?
I used Turo (actually it was called RelayRides when I started) to rent out my Honda Fit in the Seattle area about 3-5 years ago, and it felt very much like the early days of Uber or AirBnB when the early adopters were all well-socialized tech-savvy Panglosses. It was fun and personal.

Only issue I had was a renter who got a red-light camera ticket that was assumed to be me. Fortunately the state law around such tickets was kind of toothless; all I had to do was mail a sworn statement that I wasn’t driving the car at the time of the citation and it would be voided.
> This is not peer reviewed

With Covid moving so fast it's not really feasible to rely on peer-reviewed data alone. Once a paper gets reviewed things have usually changed (like new variants). Pre-prints are very necessary because of this.

Of course it's not optimal, you either have unreliable or outdated data.
It's like Super+E: You never know you need it until you try it, and it doesn't work on your DE :-(
> Not only is JSON none of these things, many people labor under the mistaken assumption that it's saner than it really is and even quite experienced people get bitten in the ass by that: https://github.com/endojs/endo/issues/115

That link is not an issue with json, but with javascript (that js treats keys named __prototype__ special). Its one of the most famous js security bugs, and also applies to xml and whatever else if you dont implement the parser carefully.
As was said with the .Net had something like this.

This reminds me of Threads vs Tasks in .Net also, where to do async threading well, you used to have use API's that wanted the kitchen sink of options.

To one group of user this was a chance to go read lots of stuff and workout what all these options meant and why they where want, security etc etc. Writting solid code, etc etc.

To the other group of users, you get a magic screen full of code you cut'n'paste and it "magically works", this bit done, next problem.

Then Tasks came alone, and the code Demo's well because it just works and is sleek and only needs "a couple of lines of code". That is until you want to use a pool, and manage this and that, and slowly you learn/add all layers that provide the old API's functionality, as you discover you actually needed more code.

Which relates, the log4j code "just worked" so everyone closed that issue, and got another ticket started. There is mostly not idea of craftmanship, it mostly "velocity" based thinking. Thus in the last decade the simpler snippets of code that just work, allow more cheaper/mindless monkeys. And we just grab packages, tools , and leverage "free and awesome" but don't understand anything of what is actually happening.

And it's not going to improve, because there is a drive for more code, code is already too expensive, so it's just going to be done cheaper and cheaper. So whatever neat "solutions" to the "nobody will ever read the manual to do it correctly" problems of this class represent, they better work, for all the ever increasing people, that will never read the manual.
Don't short.
Imagine the power of Facebook and the people who can manipulate it. That is frightening. We worry about its power in places where people can access the rest of the Internet; think of its power where Facebook is all people see.
You are in complete control.

See the FAQ for more details (https://neeva.com/faq), but the main takeaway is data saved by Neeva is only to improve the product for you and you have the option to clear or disable such functionality. Neeva is just really transparent about that.

Neeva is a tool for you and no one else. Products that show you ads can’t make such claims.
Not sure that using the CCP police state as the model to emulate for eradication of anything is very appealing. It’s fair to say that radical methods can work - but it’s a self-defeating argument, like 1930’s German train punctuality.
> The flu doesn't threaten to collapse the healthcare system without vaccines.

Yeah it does, even with vaccines...

(2014) https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/flu-patients-fill-north-te...

(2015) https://abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-closes-schools-flusters-ho...

(2016) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/10/nhs-hospital...

(2017) https://www.france24.com/en/20170111-french-hospitals-cancel...

(2018) https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

It's a pretty consistent pattern: Every flu season, hospitals are overwhelmed by the flu. Those links are just from date-range searches and copying the first result (hence bouncing around countries); each year had plenty more from other countries.
I doubt this, Reddit has had their own app for years now and every Reddit mobile page on the web nags you to download it
Not to burst the bubble, but there's a reason why Elon Musk asked for a breakdown of costs for such a plan a few weeks ago.

Throwing money at foundations doesn't automagically solves the problem.

Sometimes it happens that if you donate clothes to some African communities, corruption will take over and your donation will not reach the hands of those in most need. The clothes will instead be sold into the illegal markets, profitting feudal lords.

There's not a lack of intention to help, rather it's the structure, the status quo of things that de-incentivizes such help.
The flu has a basic reproductive rate much lower than the coronavirus. By the time mass covid testing started and flu season came, the public health measures were so severe one would expect them to basically eradicate the flu, and they were keeping COVID close to the rate of eradication, but were relaxed every time before that happened.

So yes, that is perfectly normal and expected.
Japan is a very conformity based society which has plenty of its own problems, just not this one. Countries often have a broad common ethos which are quite variable around the world and each has its strengths and weaknesses.

Americans quite like splitting into factions, telling the other factions what the moral imperatives of the day are, and rebelling against what other factions tell them to do. It is a part of a somewhat broken sense of anti authoritarian bent which doesn’t recognize that authoritarian actions by your own group are equally problematic. Just a signal that once quite good ideology is degrading into something a bit strange, mostly just because of how information is distributed and education done.
Well, I'm hooked. Love the clean design, and actually appreciated how minimal the directions were and the time it took to figure it out at first. That feels like part of the game somehow. And, I like that. Great work!

Ps, got it in 5
> Is there any evidence that shows that omicron is even particularly dangerous?

Looks like death rates are climbing in jurisdictions who were on the leading edge of the Omicron wave. If I had to guess, it's significantly better if infected than Delta, but still much worse than we're used to dealing with with influenza.

> There has a been a “savior” strain that a lot of us have been hoping for which is: extremely transmissible, and relatively benign.

This is only able to have any benefit to the extent that it also is strongly and durably protective against infection from other variants.

I'm hopeful that things go much better this time around, both because vaccines are still somewhat protective and it looks somewhat less dangerous than Delta.
The article only gives a number for twentysomethings versus everyone else, 57%/71%.
> The question is if you get omicron can you then turn around and get delta

On Google, the top results seem to say that yes you can get both. But the data looks very preliminary.

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/can-you-get-infected-omicron...

> Can you get Omicron after previous infection with Delta? Yes. UK studies into Omicron have also suggested that previous Covid infection provides poor protection against the new strain.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/health/ask-dr-nandi/can-you-get-in...

> epidemiology experts have indicated that people could get infected with both delta and omicron together. We’ve seen co-infection before. Two studies — one in Brazil and one in France — have researched patients infected with two different strains of the virus at the same time.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25678686...

> Already had COVID? You can still get infected with the omicron variant.

https://whyy.org/articles/what-do-we-know-about-omicron-toda...

> what was clear from that is people who have recovered from previous COVID-19 disease can get infected with omicron
Getting online, 10-20 years ago in "first world" countries was the same. There was no free wifi. There was no true internet via mobile cell phones, etc.

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At the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if people get confused at cell phone/facebook app is not the internet or "is" the internet. There is no such thing as net neutrality in many parts of the world, so you are gatekeeped off much of the Internet unless you have a "Data" package, but app store/facebook is free.
In Elixir:

list = Enum.map(1..20, & %{foo: &1, bar: "hey"})

Not meant to be a comparison, just another example
I mostly agree, but I do believe the author is trying to paint a picture of a Ponzi-like dynamic of early investors cashing out as gullible later investors buy in (many hoping to cash out to still later investors). The fact that there are real cashflows is incidental, as they apparently aren't enough to cover the costs of doing business as usual.
Afaict, you've completely missed the question embedded in the comment. You then reacted to the "isolated" keyword with some aimless statement. To restate simply:

If you are infected with omicron and are isolated, can you be infected by Delta from say...a shoe that picked it up days ago?

Answer: No, but that doesn't mean either disappear in the short term.
That’s too broad of a topic, but Open Access is on the (reviewed) edge;

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/menu
> I want to know which countries had the biggest rise in laptop and desktop computer users.

When the pandemic began, IIRC US public school districts serving poorer students discovered that only 50% had laptops or desktops in their families.
Why is there even a counter? With Hertz Gold we just get a text message that tells us where the car is. We get in. Papers and key are in there and those get checked for about ten seconds at the exit. That's it. So much more effective for everyone. Budget's equivalent has a weird board that someone needs to update with the info. So much more effective for company and customers. However, for some reason that's the premium experience for which you party the loyalty program. It makes no sense to me that this isn't the heavily encouraged experience. I'd want to make this the only experience so that I have happier customers and can fire large portions of the counter staff. Ideally the paperwork that's in the car right now would be a PDF as well, so that you can lay off the people who do the printing.

When I return cars at my local Enterprise it's so absurd. I have to park the car to then go into a little house where I wait in line to talk to a guy in a suit who then runs out to check on the car to then come back in and tell me we are all set. Hertz at SFO had people with iPads where you park the car and you are out in under a minute. Why doesn't Enterprise fire half the guys in suits and put the remaining ones in yellow vests into the parking lot and get rid of the little building?!

This industry couldn't seem more ready for disruption.
Costs are falling and consistently along an experience curve. They're approching a lower bound. But that lower bound is well below the costs of both fossil and nuclear power, both of which are further exhibiting increasing costs over time.

I'm not dismissing or minimising issues involved in a sustainable carbon-neutral energy scheme. But it's within reason.

Fusion power ... still seems not to be.
Paying for the AMEX primary coverage is usually much cheaper than rental car coverage (since it's one-time instead of daily). Some Chase cards also offer primary coverage without a fee (but they are generally cards with significant annual fees).
> Why don't we spend a significant part of our riches

The idea is noble and tempting, but the specifics of implementation (id est, who are "we", what is "a significant part" and how exactly should we spend it) are hard to decide.
For the life of me, though, I recall looking at Peloton's valuation before it crashed and thought "Does Peloton think every household in the US is going to own 2 bikes and a family subscription?"

More than "Ponzi stocks", though, in the present day and age I really feel these are just basically just a type of meme stock. I define a meme stock as one where investors are chasing momentum where they know it will eventually crash, but they're really just betting they'll be able to get out before everyone else. Hertz was perhaps the most famous example, where the stock was bid up even though it was already in bankruptcy proceedings and was inevitably going to $0.

This is the thing that I feel has pretty fundamentally changed in stock investing in the last ~5 or so years. During the original .com boom, many investors really did believe all those worthless .coms would eventually make a profit (and, indeed, many of those .coms were just too early - Pets.com famously crashed and burned, but Chewie is a multi-billion dollar business). But these days I feel like there is a new type of speculation, more like video gaming, where hardly anyone believes a particular company has good long term potential at a sky-high valuation, but that if there is a chance a stock can be pumped on wallstreetbets et al long enough that there is a valid short term play.
The data broken down by age is less recent for some reason. Only goes to Oct 24.

Edit: Disclaimer at the top of the page says technical difficulty.
I don't know if they have already dropped or not (and if they are public yet or not), but all meal kit and food delivery companies fall into the same category: they just had the best market of the century and it's going to be downhill for them from now on.
Coronavirus can persist for months after traversing entire body: Study
> In the case of Tumblr, this would be a reviewer going to search, typing in something like 'tits’ and finding porn.

Just want to emphasize this part. App Store Reviewers are completely asinine. Like, dumb as a rock. It’d almost be funny if their stupidity didn’t block your app approval.

To be explicitly clear: if your app contains UGC, they will explicitly go and search for things to ding you on, and then fault you when you find it. They will go to the search bar and type in “milf” or “butts” (I wish I were joking). They’ll try to search for drugs on your marketplace. If your app runs scripts, they’ll try downloading something and then yell at you for letting them do it. The review messages they leave you bend over backwards to try to fault you for what they do in the app…things like “during review, your app downloaded code” (the reviewer went out of their way to find a way to load a script from the internet) or “your app presents adult content” (the reviewer created an account and immediately searched for “sex”). These are the people who misspell their demo account passwords and will claim the app is broken, so these idiots are almost proud when they find these, almost like they’re finding a gotcha.

Of course, these rejections are all bogus. In a good system they wouldn’t happen, or if they did you’d dismiss them summarily. Instead, you need to plead and escalate until you find a person who’s not a complete bozo. Sometimes, in desperation, you come up with random filters in the hopes that they’ll just leave you alone this time. Careful, though: if you give up too much ground you won’t have any to give next time.

The entire process is just designed to wear you down, to create apps that conform to a pretty image where people post about their dogs and food rather than anything that could possibly be objectionable. Platforms rightfully try to keep their own standards on their content, but many slowly give up and slide into what’s easy to defend. Apple is only behind payment processors and advertisers in forcing platforms to prude up :(
Show HN: Nap – A File-Based HTTP Execution Framework
So, this is an idea I've been scratching at during the holiday week. It's my first project in Go, so be gentle. The code hasn't quite caught up with the documentation, but I think I'm far enough where I'd like some feedback.

This project is an attempt to remove Postman as a dependency from my general workflows for testing HTTP APIs. The project name was chosen because it's short and a synonym for REST. I believe this sort of tool should:

- be free (MIT license)

- be file-based so work can be committed to Git

- easy to work with (at least for developers, via YAML and eventually some light scripting support)

- be able to run headless as part of a CI/CD workflow

No cloud cruft. No subscription model. No telemetry. No ads. Zero infrastructure. Maybe if I get enough interest I'll build a UI and sell that, but the core CLI should always be free.

I've got an idea how I'll be adding scripting support (probably javascript, via the Otto package).

Here's the ask--does this project make sense? Should I keep going with it? Is something REALLY BIG missing that I haven't mentioned?

Obviously I've thrown this together in about 10-15 hours--there's plenty of room for growth/refinement. Still, I think it fills a need. Worst case I'll be using the tool myself, but I want to know just how useful it is. Thanks in advance!
I'm in the US, and here very very few jobs have even 1 of those things you listed here. What proportion of the world has those things? Like 7-8 countries total?

Edit: I guess I need to stop commenting at this hour, HN is ridiculous with their down votes when the Europeans are on. God forbid someone tries to ask a question here.