skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What data did you use to perform the risk analysis?

I performed my own risk analysis and it should positive results for the vaccine for every population cohort.
Haha, I have no trouble admitting it. Be it Ow my balls, Beavis and Butthead or something else, I don't feel above a little bit of schlocky TV, really.
An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine
Future is in closed invite only communities. That’s where discussions (and disagreements) will take place and progress will be made. Sad but I believe that’s what’s going to happen. Internet is too much noise.
> Boosters for last year’s virus makes less sense.

The antibodies elicited in response to the booster, 6 months later, are different and more diverse in their neutralization capabilities than the ones elicited in response to the first shots.

Although it is likely an omicron-tuned booster would be more effective, time is of the essence and there is both evidence and a reasonable explanation as to why the original booster works. Specifically, the immune system is not static and also changes over time.

Here is a presentation by a virologist on the research his team performed that leads to this conclusion (amongst other lines of research) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIcaSqQFrX0
Which government, what determination?
How do you accumulate 3 years of data on a vaccine about a year old? Presuming and modeling is what we can do.
They are also tremendously slow, somewhat fragile, prone to media decay, and extremely difficult to source replacement media in 2021. Replacement drives are also somewhat hard to find.

Most people with security constraints have long since moved on to optical media (CDr and DVDr), but even those are starting to become hard to find. Optical media has the advantage of having write-once modes which makes it easier to avoid cross contaminating data. The workflow is very straightforward, burn the disc, run it through the dedicated virus scanner, copy the data on the target platform, toss the disc in the shredder. The cost of each disc is negligable, especially if you start counting the man-hours wasted waiting on that incredibly slow floppy interface.
I am, and I'm not seeing anything drastically different. You realize this paper is combining hospital admissions and deaths as a single figure, right? That means there are duplicates (114 total deaths).

Myocarditis is, while something that should be monitored, generally minor especially in otherwise healthy adults. The treatment for it "keep an eye on the patient until myocarditis goes away". Any kind of infection or virus can cause it, as can many most kinds of drugs, and it's rarely a major deal.
I'm somewhat sympathetic, but I'm not sure that "I want to be able to give the machine input without it reacting" is a great objection to doing something with that input.
The sole rationale for mandatory health measures, is to prevent healthcare systems from being overwhelmed.

Other than that, when Covid becomes endemic, vaccinations should be offered to those who wants them, as has always been the case with winter flu.
This is true, but Foxconn is the only game in town for the kind of manufacturing (precision and volume) that Apple requires.

Foxconn doesn't uniformly suck, either. They abide by local laws, and they clearly cut corners and fail more often than they should -- but it's not like Foxconn is the seventh plane of Hell and all interactions are tainted with sin.
We have been over this so many times here: Tetanus and Malaria also affect younger people, median COVID-19 fatality age is over 80. No one criticizes an 80 year old for getting vaccinated. Herd immunity is elusive, as we see in regions with 95% vaxxed.
Context on the AT&T thing (which was overturned on an appeal):

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/att-hacker-conviction-vacated/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/auernheimer-aka-...
Not an expert. A Canon noob.

They're already downsizing cameras with technology that allows removing the mirror component [1] on new models. I don't know if downsizing was the main intent or if removing the mirror was.

I think the appeal is that photographers need quality equipment. Phones can achieve good photography but they're stuck with one lens setup, for example. There's different types of photography and it's great how one can have the same camera body as another photographer and use completely different lenses and viceversa. So I think it comes to what photographers want improved.

Digital improved on film photography, phones improved on Point-and-shoot cameras [2], and so on. What comes next for photographers?

I think computational photography can be used on entry-level cameras to improve the experience of a certain market segment while still allowing an "authentic" photography experience. Size in technology is important and it will definitely keep going down throughout most fields; the main focus on the next technological advancement is probably placed elsewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrorless_camera

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-and-shoot_camera
I look forward to when not everything is about that man. But we're not there yet, are we?
I believe the issue was not that he was de-censoring per se, it was that he was reselling copyrighted works. That is, he could have been arrested for the same crime even if he was reselling them with no changes.
If you're running on AWS, why would you even have long-lived credentials in your images?
Reverse Engineering AWS Lambda
Tetanus booster is once every 10 years or so, isn't it? Flu shots aren't a requirement, are they?
How was it possible that you typed all this out, read it over, and still didn’t see the irony in what you were saying?

We are absolutely incredibly offended by porn. So thank you for speaking out to protect us women! I see that another woman has already told you to fuck off, so I’ll spare you that.
I never understood why Apple catches so much flack for this. They don’t own Foxconn, it’s a contact. There’s only so much they can audit, and is there any other company they could choose instead who has iPhone-level manufacturing scale? I suspect they’ve got no choice but Foxxcon and Pegatron. Pick your poison.
Exactly. The self-professed "skeptics" have only seemed to doubt one narrative (the mainstream one) but have seemed singularly credulous when it comes to alternative theories, treatments, etc. All in an effort to stand out, not to help. Many have even supported multiple mutually exclusive beliefs at different times, pointing to the few hits as evidence of their perspicacity, quietly hoping everyone will forget the misses.

The world would be better off with some real skepticism, not just Oppositional Defiant Disorder disguised as skepticism. Real skepticism notes the absence or weakness of evidence behind a claim, but can be overcome as the evidence becomes stronger. True skepticism also does not require assertion of an alternate or opposite theory as Absolute Truth with no more evidence than the theory one is being "skeptical" about. People should ask for - even demand - evidence, but not misportray disagreement (or disagreeableness) as skepticism.
Setting up a GNU Guile project with Autotools
Do you know why they are buying it from Russia instead of Norway? Funding Russia, especially individuals there with ties to the fossil fuel industry, seems like a poor decision when at the same time there is a bunch of trade sanctions against Russia.

At any rate, I don't think its a very "nice" to subsidize the fossil fuel industry in order to have the alternative to burn oil. There are 8760 hours during a year, so for most part of that we simply are giving away tax money in order to keep the plant ready in the case of high demand. That is a very high price pay for the pleasure of spewing carbon into the air. If we instead reserved a higher portion of the capacity from hydro, and invested in more peak production by modernizing the generators (and at the same time invested in more environmental friendly design!), hydro and nuclear could manage what Norway is doing. A energy grid free of fossil fuels. That would be nice to have and something I would prefer over an oil plant.
> It is commonly assumed that the debate over what Swartz did, and, more generally, the debate over whether information does or does not want to be free, is between hacker culture and copyright culture, young people and old people, but this is not true. On the Hacker News site in the fall of 2012, many commenters disagreed with what he’d done, and argued with his supporters on the site that in a nation ruled by laws it was not O.K. for one person to just go and break a law he felt was unjust.

Or, possibly, Hacker News doesn't represent hacker culture, but finance-adjacent right-wing techbro culture, which knows perfectly well which side of the copyright issue its bread is buttered on.
fewer people are literate in Massachusetts now than when it was founded

I'm also sensing we may be having some trouble in the math department.
This lock analogy is terrible. It’s like a business putting the wrong price tag on a product and then claiming people who bought a smartphone for $1 instead of $500 were stealing because they didn’t halt the transaction for what’s obviously a bogus price.
Indeed I agree. I have heard plenty of people mispronounce 'bouquet' as 'bow-kay'... which is pretty much the same sound as 'bokeh'.
Lots about radar and jamming in "Most Secret War" by R.V. Jones. Also fun to read for its description of all the petty infighting that went on.
I admit I don't know the narrative in the US/CDC. For what I understood reading around on various international news networks the idea it would prevent transmission via reducing the viral charge to almost zero was related to the variant to which the current version of the vaccines were built for. The new variants (delta first and omicron in particular) require new updated and targeted vaccines to keep the viral charge so low to keep avoiding transmission.

But again, I am no virologist and my understanding is just a sum of what I read around.
Canon is very likely done producing new DSLRs: https://petapixel.com/2021/12/28/canon-confirms-weve-seen-it...
Did you and I live in the same Berlin??? The S Bahn is literally always late.
>Apple spends orders of magnitude more money and effort to ensure worker conditions in their supply lines than any other company

Please back this statement up. I'm honestly curious.

It's a company, they optimize for their interest. They will invest according to that image/reputation value.
But as any company, profits...
But this reply just sounds like blind PR.
Telegram circumvents Google Translate API
In the midst of a global pandemic, I think it’s fine to make educated guesses that may not be fully backed by the scientific method. A rational approach requires making the best choice out of the options available.
There have been many instances where PDFs have been "redacted" by painting black rectangles over the text, but keeping the text intact. I can't think of anyone who has been prosecuted for unredacting those documents - the people who did their jobs poorly are considered liable.
> I think the main problem we view depression as a disease when it is a symptom with several possible causes.

I agree. The fact that depression and mental illnesses highly correlate with lack of religion and rise of the secular nation is something that should be investigated more.
There are guaranteed to be healthy 18 years who've been double-vaxxed and fought off a COVID infection, possibly as recently as right now during the massive Omicron wave. Their near-term risk of winding up dead/in ICU from a potential new COVID infection is effectively zero.

The idea of a blanket mandate that these young people must be immediately boosted regardless of how many times and how recently their immune system has fought off SARS-CoV-2 or what their current antibody levels are is totally unsupportable as science or public policy. We're moving from cloth mask theater to potentially screwing up your immune system and endangering yourself with unnecessary-to-harmful booster theater. Enough.
The question of whether or not the respondent actually had Covid-19 was self-reported:

> People who indicated that they had suspected having COVID-19 were presented further questions including whether they had breathing difficulties, what happened as a consequence of their breathing difficulties, and whether there had been positive confirmation via a biological test (Table S1).

Also, this was a web-based test, conducted at home, where the participants self-selected into the survey. There is no universe in which this should be considered unbiased data.
Extreme unreliability, terrible speed, tiny storage, dearth of available equipment. The reasons not to use floppy disks for anything that matters are numerous and clear.
EU, 9 months
Who gives a sh*t about the tech, just write something: how I started my dev blog
That would make a lot of companies responsible for the data they keep and should be responsible for protecting.

SQL injection can be (and probably is) malicious though, so I suppose it becomes a unclear line for that example. Maybe punishment of both parties would be appropriate but I'm not a lawyer so don't have expertise in law punishments. But I could see this as incentivizing data security. Even if a 0 day is discovered, companies will be less inclined to drag their feet for a patch when one becomes available.
Common denominator to reach global audience is attractive young women and making the audience feel smarter than "dumb people". Those who decide about the money we use and about the power structures we submit to are constantly cunning and clever. I don't see them in Idiocracy.
There’s a direct JS port of Java time as well - https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/
> Is it common, now or historically

Historically: yes.

Now: no.

> possibly criminal

Sans some sort of formal agreement (which platforms like HackerOne might facilitate), it's definitely criminal. (IMO at least not unethical, to be clear.)

Again, sans some sort of contract either one-off or platform based. If SEGA wanted a prosecution, they would almost certainly be able to convince a prosecutor to press charges. The prosecutor would certainly get a guilty verdict. (Or, much more likely, a guilty plea with a bit of prison time and stiff probation.)

This still happens from time to time in much more ambiguous situations. E.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/us/missouri-st-louis-post...

Fortunately, there's a bit of a gentleman's detente among reasonable white hats and reasonable companies. But if you venture much outside of the small set of companies who rely on and have technologists in senior leadership, the story changes fast.
How did you go this Sheldon and still miss that it's referring directly to a creampie? LOL
This blog is about how in the tech industry we keep wanting to build all the tech for our blogs and end up not blogging at all.
Comment, reply, message etc. with whatever you may want to say.
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Yes?
I've heard very many complaints about Deutsche Bahn though. On the other hand here in Switzerland trains are crazy good, perhaps not as much as Japan, but if you have a 5 minutes connection you can normally assume you'll make it.
> Kids being vaccinated results in no harm.

Unless they get one of the bad side effects.
Of 288,072 people aged 16-39, only 6 people who had only 2 doses were hospitalized, compared to 1 person who had 3 doses [1]. This study was published before Omicron in October, for which the vaccine is even less effective and the disease is less severe.

I'm not yet aware of any other study that indicates the booster is useful for people in this age group.

I thought that a spike in antibodies might be useful in the short term, but a recent CDC presentation [2] said of an Omicron case study:

> 79% fully vaccinated; 32% with booster dose; Five of the 14 persons received additional dose <14 days before symptom onset

which doesn't give me any confidence.

> security theatre

Since mandates don't exclude people that were previously infected, to me, they seem punitive.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
Heavy laws and discipline?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZLGqL1FMo
> Also, you don't understand the meaning of CFR

Friend, you don't know what I don't understand. :)

Maybe in the future try something like, "In case you aren't aware..." or "You may already know this, but..."

> It overstates actual risk by at least a factor of 10.

As it happens, the CFR from covid is still more than 10x the excess myocarditis risk from the vaccines, so...I don't know. I guess I don't understand something.

> I implied no such thing.

Perhaps not, but then I don't understand how, on its own, this paper is relevant to the decision in question. It's like observing that the risk of a plane crash is higher if you fly on an airplane, so you're going to take a car.
You're pointing to something saying that power-law distributed noise can be generated by filtering white noise (and doing the filtering in the frequency domain, but that's really an implementation detail). OP actually wants to only do the inverse transform, generating the noise in the frequency domain already.
The key attribute of these records is disciplinary. Which just so happen to be subject to an unfulfilled freedom of information request.

This is called police corruption.
> who can do the maximum amount possible to avoid catching the virus

Hear me out - but, I suggest doing the opposite. Get vaccinated, then deliberately expose yourself to the virus every month. If you do that, you'll never get sick, and your immune response will remain high.
> Most people don't think of WWII as being a theater with particularly advanced electronic warfare going on.

Ehh? At a minimum, WWII was when cryptography and code-breaking became popular. The Battle of Midway was an overwhelming American victory because the USA effectively hacked the Japanese codes and reversed the trap.

Thousands of code-breakers were employed to try to crack the Enigma machine, and only one exotic project by Mr. Alan Turing (THE Alan Turing, the father of modern computers) was able to break it.

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While radios existed in WWI, they were still somewhat exotic. By WWII, every single tank, ship, and airplane was equipped with radios, and those communications were 100% the target of many exotic attacks.

England experimented on new forms of Radio, such as RADAR. Germany began to use radio-guided missiles (the V1 "Flying Bombs" were radio-guided by Morse Code... primitive by today's standards but obviously open to electronic attack if you could just figure out the codes).

WW2 was the start of electronic warfare on every front. Radio-guided weapons, jamming, radar, even cryptography and information security.

Sure: these electronics in WW2 were pretty bad by modern standards. But they were still electronics and computers and integral to both the Pacific and European theaters. I'd argue that cryptography and code-breaking is one of the highest forms of electronic warfare, its practically the invention of the information-security fields (HTTPS, SSL, TLS, etc. etc.) that we use to... well... chat on Hacker News, among other things.
> At this point, it seems to me like you have already decided I am wrong, no matter what I say, and have no desire to accept what I say that is meant to help you. So I'll just leave the conversation where it is.

It seems a bit defeatist to say this. Nobody on the internet, or the world for that matter, (unless they're agreeable and are just pretending to agree with you) is going to agree with you after the exchange of a few messages.

I should point out that I never disagreed with your fundamental claim that it would be easier to make a hermetic build system IF it's all encompassing and complicated. It's for example why systemd is easier to write if it's all tightly coupled versus if it was trying to have minimal coupling with minimal simple APIs and minimal simple tools building it up.

It's easier to write complex and tightly coupled software, it's why everyone does it instead of following the unix philosophy. I was simply pointing out that the unix philosophy was successful (for a while) for a reason, not because it was easy to follow it, but because the difficulty of making things simple paid off in the long run.

Please read what I wrote, I never made any hard claims about you being wrong, I've been mostly asking questions to get you to elaborate your stance. The sheer fact that I'm willing to entertain such long-form conversation should be enough proof of the fact that I haven't completely mentally dismissed your arguments as outright wrong.

> I will say, though, that if you're not hearing about my build system in a few years, you can safely assume that you were right and that I was wrong.

I don't think popularity (which is what you appear to be aiming for) is a good metric of the quality of software. Especially in the modern day and age where one of the most popular methods of shipping cross platform software is to ship it with its own instance of chromium and to write it as a local webapp. I think this is at least because modern day humans have become a lot more impatient and a lot more focused on short term convenience over long term benefits. But this discussion is outside of the scope.
Reviewing the Top Linux Gaming Predictions for 2021
>The goal is to keep ICUs available for general emergencies.

Can anybody back this up with actual data? Looking at my own state's dashboard doesn't seem to suggest that there has ever been even a remote risk of ICUs being overwhelmed.

It also doesn't really stand up to basic scrutiny: hospitals were recently firing medical staff who refused vaccines. That doesn't seem like the behavior of a system which is on the brink of being overwhelmed.
I guess I was lucky. Our pile of Castle Wolfenstein/Doom/Infocom disks made it all around the neighborhood with nary a flipped bit.
Sorry for the offtopicness, but I need you to see this and don't have another way to contact you.

You have posted a great many comments that broke the HN guidelines egregiously. (I'm not talking about this thread.) Comments like this are bannable offenses on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657097

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657047

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657006

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29346327

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29352983

I'm not going to ban you right now, partly because those threads are all at least a week old and partly because your account has years of history on HN. However, we need you to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on. If you keep breaking them like this, we're going to have to ban you. In particular, it's absolutely not acceptable to attack other users the way you've been doing, no matter how strongly you disagree with them. That goes against everything this site is supposed to be for.
My understanding is that quality varied a lot, and that near the end (when USB thumbdrives were starting to take off) manufacturers started cutting a lot of corners, with the result that everyone remembers floppies as being more unreliable than they actually were, or at least could be.
It’s not proven how good this booster is. A (preliminary?) study was showing recently that the protection against infection fades away after merely 10 weeks.
The cost is likely PR and Legal. Appeals and investigations as a result of what the public might find could be very expensive and/or embarrassing.
Nikon were caught napping by mirrorless and have made bold moves to obsolete a ton of stuff...which is seen by some industry people as the last chance to get in the modern market.
No worries. Nobody knows how to use floppies.
You can get make to only re-generate its rules incrementally based on what was changed.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Remaking-...