skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And the second is that you almost certainly will get COVID eventually" this wasn't true until Omicron. Social distancing, proper masking, and maintaining good ventilation were all ways to dramatically lower your chances of getting any of the previous strains.

And Omicron is so much milder it would be shocking if myocarditis rates remain higher than in vaccinations.

"The spike protein in the vaccine does not replicate. In COVID, it obviously does." This is misleading. The spike protein is created similarly in both cases, both from RNA being introduced into the cells.

"If I had to guess, I would say that anyone who gets myocarditis from the vaccine probably would have had a very bad time with COVID." This very much is a guess as we don't know the mechanism for what is causing myocarditis.

My guess is that we'll find much lower levels of vaccine myocarditis in countries which aspirate injections, dramatically lowering the rate of inadvertent intravenous injections. And we'll find that the cause of SARS-COV-2 myocarditis differs greatly from vaccine induced myocarditis.
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You can use the "Shinigami Eyes" extension to warn you about people who might get offended by misgendering them. Saves you alot of trouble if you are spending time on Twitter or Reddit.
I'm glad you liked them! Spread the word :D
Yeah I can't watch anything with unskipable ads anymore. It's just not worth it. The one exception is live sports, but that's not soo bad because there are timeouts anyway. I just hit mute when the ads are running.
Facebook is only going up with its advantage in VR platforms.

Netflix, on the other hand, has no real competitive advantage at this point except being the oldest streaming service with a good brand.

Google is too big and too diverse to fail.

Amazon's Cloud computing is going strong, still the dominant eBook platform and now dominant audiobook platform, plus retail.

Apple's margins are always good. They don't need to do anything different.

When Microsoft and IBM didn't fall after a decade of bad decision making I've lost faith in "no one is too big to fail".
For google stuff
https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle

Not specifically google but tries go from "do know evil" back to "do no evil"
https://www.privacytools.io/
If you believe in freedom of expression and of speech, it doesn't matter how much power Sam has, even if you disagree with what he says. I don't like or agree with white supremacists, but I consider the ACLU defense of their speech a monument to our civilization's respect of human rights.
> yet that's no justification for taking away control from the things you own

I'm a big believer in owning what you buy, but if what you're buying requires a license to operate and you intend to use it publicly, not to mention the various safety regulations and certifications required just for the product to be legal in the first place (which are likely ignored if not violated while modifying the product), then the justification is "not killing someone else accidentally."

This doesn't mean you can never hack anything, but you should be aware of the risks and potential consequences of your actions.
I don't personally as I don't even have a disc drive in my house but when looking online, people in rural areas use it apparently.
Netflix is just another television network at this point, pivoting from being primarily a tech company. There's a bunch of content which jumps around between different streaming services, but Netflix produced shows and movies are on solid ground at this point (eg, Stranger Things is over 5 years old). It's weird that it's included in the same list as these others.

If they came out with a phone, office suite, cloud service, social network, or something of that ilk, then yeah they'd be more in "tech company" territory again. Until then their engineering is going to assist their content production, not the other way around.
I believe it definitely had some green tint / elements to it. Just not quite the "green wash" it got later on.
Getting harder to do. I even have a family plan for YouTube TV and sometimes get the "too many people watching" blocker.
Technology is probably getting to the point where we can have better farms but less work than our grandparents needed to do. A tractor can still be used for sustainable planting and harvesting. Rotating a herd of cattle to promote soil growth can be done easier with an ATV and extra fencing than a guy on horseback.
> Reviews are a special category. It suffers from a couple of issues

Review sites suffer from a singular problem. They are overwhelmingly SEO spam content farms. People go find some product niche and pay some Fivvver/whatever people to write literally fake reviews of products. Because they're pulling all the SEO tricks and are in a niche category they shoot to the top of search results for that niche.

Their reviews sound realistic and viable but they're pure fantasy. The writers never touch the products being reviewed. Many times they'll pull details from Amazon listings (including factual errors) and even other "review" sites.

Once they get established in their niche they'll accept paid placement from product manufacturers without marking it as such. A single scammer might own dozens of these sites, even supposedly competing ones.
You may not be aware, but the written word can be used for more than product reviews.
> Google? I think you mean Alphabet ;)

Touché!
Yes. Cars powered by alcohol were common in Brazil. There was a government program with tax incentives, this helped us to become less dependent on external prices for petrol helping control inflation. Also, on less developed regions, utility cars - Pampa was a pickup - also had tax incentives as a way to promote development of the region. Of course, there was a law that prevented you from selling your utility car to other regions of the country.

This made an alcohol powered utility vehicle very attractive for the region at the time. It was probably the cheapest pickup one could buy.
This gets rather over my head, but my best guess is this bug having to do with the Go runtime underestimating how much stack space vDSO code may need (blog post at [0], fix at [1]).

[0]: https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/a158382b1c9c0b95a7d41865...
I'm referring to the numerous replies in this thread that have been rendered "dead" (thus "murdered".) via the HN voting/flagging system. Duh.

So you think the hivemind makes a good conversation-dictator?

I don't.
This employer has accidentally outed himself as his own labelled brand of loser, whose narrow life experience and position of hiring power have demonstrably eroded his understanding of how other people enter the world. Not everyone does a degree because they want to. Many do because of societial pressure and then discover their disinterest but see it through anyway. Couldn't be more irrelevant. This psychopathic modern attitude of cross-analysing peoples free time is the latest low that "late stage capitalism" has plopped on the carpet.

This man with his neckbeard profile picture (with fitting headgear and pseudo-angry pout pose) is exactly the sort of disagreeable, overcompetitive idiot whose narcissim is only outdone by his myopia. Bullet dodged.
Netflix is already on the way down. They infused all of their new shows with wokeness. Every new show feels like woke concepts are shoehorned in without regard for their impact on the story that's told.

Look at the Witcher for an example. Or if you want to see this kind of shift happening over the course of a show, look at Madam Secretary. Season 1 didn't feature any of this crap and showed a strong woman main character that wasn't shoehorned in, by the last season everything was about "hurr durr let's ban guns and white men suck".

I'm not even white and I can notice the excellent storylines being ruined. It's like the writers don't know how to write a story with woke concepts that's actually strong so instead they shove it into every successful show until the show isn't successful anymore. HBO and Disney are going to eat their lunch at this rate with more compelling content.
Babylon 5 had a terrible widescreen release on DVD, that cropped all CGI. For once, a streaming service did it justice - HBO Max remastered it and re-released it in all of its 4:3 glory in 2021: https://www.reviewgeek.com/68825/babylon-5-returns-to-hbo-ma...
Me too! Could you say more about what kinds of experiments you've been doing and how you are measuring the results? I've been using the Haney Soil Test along with Phospholipid Fatty Acid Analysis (PLFA) to understand how my management practices have been impacting overall soil health and microbe communities. I've been thinking about how I wish I could collaborate more with others on research to help build a dataset that can be used to quantify the effects of regenerative farming.
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TIL amphetamines are the cure for iphone addiction
Lots of small farmers are selling their cows at a profit, selling to local people, and having a butcher cut the meat. You just need to be able to have freezer space for a 1/2 or whole cow.

The problem with 4 major meat packing plants, 2 owned by china, they control the market, pay less to the farmer, and get more from the consumer.

Some States in turn, are allowing producers to pack their own meat, making more money themselves.

Lots of small mom/pop meat packers are popping up due to demand.

The problem is larger producers who have hundreds-thousands of cows, they currently sell to the 4 major packers, and get paid less.

>Miller noted that a rancher might lose $500 on a steer, while a processor might make $2,500 to $3,000 in profit.

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinion/editorials/2022/0...
> I don't believe this.

Myth Busters proved this was possible. Not that this story actually happened, just that it could have.
I agree 100%.

But then I was recently informed that I spent almost 2 years working with a trans person (m2f) without noticing.

So your mileage might vary.
Some of your "nevers" are a bit too strong. While a majority where I was born, I spent 10+ years as a minority relative to my surroundings and definitely got different treatment, in some cases in a disagreeable way and sometimes favorably. The world is more complex than just blacks & whites in the USA - there's cantonese/mandarin speaker discrimination, caste discrimination, fluent vs accented mandarin speaking ability, being from the wrong side of the tracks/from the wrong neighborhood or social class discrimination independent of race. Heck, black and white cops like each other and hate firemen of all races with a passion; Non-muslims have paid Jizya in Muslim countries.

So I agree that minimizing discrimination shouldn't be done, but I disagree that this is something the racial or gender majority never experiences. I agree it is wrong to live in your own privilege and unfairly judge other people, but I think experience of both sides of the experience are more universal than you suggest.

In fact I think we should emphasize the extent of the problem on all axes, as a way to make people come to the moral realization that they should judge people as individuals and not by any other group trait - because they should remember how wrong it was when someone did it to them.
LGPL would mean though that I can't charge for the app, right?
this is good advice for technical writing but not prose (faulkner would like a word with you! (see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28383626))
I think you've just added additional support for badRNG's point above in that even when agreeing with someone it generates divisive comments.

There was no reference to wage slavery or even race in the comment you responded to.
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TBTF is a term usually applying to companies like banks and Beoing, that have to be rescued due to some kind of economic importance.

These companies will not fail, but could face existential headwinds that no amount of money will 'fix'.

...

"Netflix has some of the worlds brightest minds in data science"

Their data science is a 3rd tier issue. #1 is their incumbency, #2 is the content they produce.

-> Netflix 'problem' is increasing competition from HBO, Disney and others.

...

"Apple is one Supreme Court ruling away from ending their App Store monopoly that could disrupt the entire world"

No, their App Store will do just fine. They will reduce their 30% cut to something lower and companies will stay there because of the distribution opportunity: being in App Store will mean considerably more downloads.

-> Apples 'problem' is that their iPhone is slowly becoming a commodity - there's only so many ways to 'improve' upon it and those margins will probably come down.

...

"Google and Facebook both lost a key ability to micro-target on their ad platforms"

No, they have not, they have enough data.

-> Facebook's problem is that FB usage is going down, Insta is a bit stagnating and they have little to replace it with.

-> Google's problem is that they have no obvious new products on the horizon to grow and that it's possible DDG and others may actually start to eat away at them (probably not, but possible).

...

"Amazon is about to enter a decade of unionization all over the world."

Probably not so much, and, rules are entirely different around the world.

Amazon's problem is that it's never been profitable and there's only so many ways to make that business work.

As fast delivery and one-click purchase work out in regular retail, AMZN advantage is limited.

AWS however, the profit base doesn't show any signs of slowing down.
It’s ironic to run across this article from 2005 after just reading an op-ed in the NYT by Jeanne-Marie Jackson where she shows with plenty of examples that,

“Everyone is saying it: 2021 was the year for African literature. Writers from the continent scooped the Nobel, Booker, Goncourt and Camões prizes. And these honors — arguably the highest-sheen literary awards in the world — do not make up even half the list. The Neustadt, or “American Nobel,” and International Booker Prizes went to Senegalese writers, and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to a Zimbabwean one.” [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/opinion/africa-fiction-no...
(1) What is it?

(2) Do you have a bang on DuckDuckGo? I'm pretty aggressive with bangs, and I suspect a lot of DDG users end up being aggressive with them as well.
> the next time you read that Bitcoin consumes as much electricity as Sweden substitute Bitcoin spends as much on electricity as Americans spend on Halloween costumes.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/bi...
Also, maybe report back, if you don't mind. Would love to get a reality check, if it's just another fiction of self-improvement, or if others see the usefulness, as well.
> Is that such a terrible thing to have to deal with?

For me? No. I imagine that someone that might deal with that 10 times a day or more might feel a bit different about it, and be tired of being in the situation of either correcting people or just letting it go because it's too tiring to deal with. I mean, I used to get that way because of my first name which has an uncommon spelling, and just correcting people writing it down for me (because otherwise I always have to worry if they search digitally where they recorded it whether their system is smart enough to do levenshtein distance or something similar to find it). I imagine it's much worse when it's something you might really care about, like gender identity, or even just people that get mistaken for the other gender often.

I'd like to think that everyone deserves the benefit of a doubt and one or more times being corrected, but some people are worse at remembering than others, and I don't see a problem with people putting preferences down, or people being asked for their own preference, especially when they think it's such an obvious thing to see.

> I'll call you whatever you like, but if you look like and dress like a man, or your name in the company directory is "Jim," I'll use "he" if I haven't been told otherwise, and I'll think you're a bit weird if you make a big deal over it.

I mean, so do I, but if Jim has corrected me once already or has registered a preference that I've seen, I should probably address them as they'd prefer, right? Anything else is just being an asshole, IMO.

> So then I end up referring to them by name all the time, which can be a little awkward in an otherwise informal written email.

They/them went out of favor a while back in English for gender neutral communication, which I think is weird, because it's super useful. I remember an English teacher in college telling me not to use it, because it was less direct and impactful. I always disagreed. I just default to you/they/them whenever I don't know specifically. It doesn't seem to cause problems, from what I can see. If someone asked me to use something else for them, I would try to remember to do so as a courtesy to them.
One Billion is 1.0E9, or a one followed by nine zeroes. so 6.0E45 is one billion to the power of 6, or six billion-billion-billion-billion-billion-billion, times six. At that point you can kind of just mad-libs each billion to be whatever you want "A billion Earths mining for a billion days, duplicated a billion times in a billion different simulated universes, and the odds of finding a hash after all that is still one in a billion, squared."

Or you can plug it into Wolfram Alpha and get it to find a comparison, in this case 6E45 is 0.011% of all possible chess combinations.

It does get worse than that though. A project I played with last year had me asking how many unique permutations there were for a 1920*1080 monitor. That number was around 10^10^77. I don't have any formal maths training and that one really threw me for a loop. To summarize 10^x means you have a number that's x digits long. So 10^6 means I have a six digit number. 10^10^x means that the number that describes how long my number is is x digits long. so 10^10^77 means that if I wanted to write out my number and count the number of zeros in it, that counting would give me a number 77 digits long. Math is weird.
> If you want a review for something that came out today, there is no way that work could have been done, so there simply isn't anything to find.

I think in practice this is actually largely untrue -- with technology products, video games, movies, and just about anything I can think of, most well known reviewers are given early access to the product so that reviews can come out on or before day 1 of general availability. That said this does create a dirth of 100% trustworthy reviews on day 1 since companies are naturally disincentivized from giving early access to reviewers who they know are going to write a negative review.
> Two things seem pretty clear from the data. The first is that myocarditis rates are much higher in unvaccinated young men who get COVID than those who get the vaccine. And the second is that you almost certainly will get COVID eventually.

Wouldn't you need to look at the

P(covid | no_vaccine) * covid_myocarditus_risk

vs

P(covid | vaccine) * covid_myocarditus_risk + vaccine_myocarditus_risk

Also this should be during the vaccine covid prevention efficacy window
>lab just happened to be in the place

It happened to be 600 to 1000 miles from where the bats carrying such viruses are found. The closest bat virus to Sars Cov 2 was found in Laos 1000 or so miles away and samples were shipped to the Wuhan lab.