skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had heart/chest pain that slowly got more and more intense over the span of about 3-4 days after most of the 2nd dose side effects wore off. In hindsight I should have gone to the hospital much sooner for Heart attack symptoms, but I had an inkling it wasn't a heart attack because it entirely would go away if I laid on my side just so after about 60 seconds... and magically come back if I sat or stood up, and go away when I laid down again like a switch --> not heart attack symptoms.. anyways I digress.

after EKG, xrays, bloodwork, a big scare and such the doctors put me on ibuprofen and it subsided after another ~3 days
> Children don’t exist in isolation. They’re phenomenally good at spreading every infection to the rest of the household and everywhere else they go.

This really is _the_ important point of contention.

Phrased differently: Does viral spread in one cohort drive the viral spread in another?

And can policy be designed to drive wedges between cohorts to reduce such co-factors?

That being said, as it stands, the data doesn't support your claim. It seems child activity is largely independent of spread among adults.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1146/6024998

15 June 2021, Meta-analysis

> Children are Infrequently Identified as the Index Case of Household SARS-CoV-2 Clusters

> In analysis of the cluster index cases ... only 3.8% were identified as having a pediatric index case.

> These pediatric cases only caused 4.0% of all secondary cases, compared with the 97.8% of secondary cases that occurred when an adult was identified as the index case in the cluster.

> Clusters where the asymptomatic/symptomatic status of the contact cases was not described were excluded from the analysis. Even with this broader definition, 18.5% children were identified as the index case in the household clusters.
I'm the author of this post and its been really cool to see all the different comments and projects looking to solve this problem - they all make mine look like amateur hour!

Much like other posts on here, todo apps and bookmarks don't really work for me either, they just get out of date. It's not really about personal bookmarks, it's more about trying to give people in a company a consistent experience and making onboarding a bit more self-service. I use this as a way to store my companies URLs, keep them centralised and stored in my browser. The Slackbot was then a way of making it accessible to non-technical users.

I had ideas about making a web app and other interfaces to update the YAML but I wanted to keep it simple, base it peoples existing toolchains and a GipOps approach for versioning. There are a bunch of other tools I want to build around onboarding and OOH support but I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested so all of this was really nice to read.

Thank you
Article on related research: https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-science-shows-immune-memo...

Summary of article on related research: More than a century later, in a paper published today in Cell, the neuroimmunologist Asya Rolls has shown that a similar kind of conditioning extends to immune responses. Using state-of-the-art genetic tools in mice, her team at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, identified brain neurons that became active during experimentally induced inflammation in the abdomen. Later, the researchers showed that restimulating those neurons could trigger the same types of inflammation again.
> Whats the intention here to cause someone harm?

The change has an infinite loop, so it literally breaks any software that uses it.
I don't think that it's wise to start imagining how this finding would implicate diseases, much less "other diseases".
Ask HN: Is risk of Myocarditis from vaccine as high as from Covid?
I think 2 things are stopping apple from entering that market in earnest.

1. Privacy is a differentiator for Apple’s business. Google et al can’t compete and win on privacy. Apple can use this to win at recruiting and win at selling their ecosystem.

2. Apple’s hitting revenue/ growth targets. Other r&d investments better align with their ecosystem so there is no business driver today to enter this market.

Having said that I won’t be surprised if Apple misses a few qrtly earning targets and decides to enter the ad market.
The author missed one point about the 'vaxxed and done'... some actively WANT the virus to spread at this point. If everyone is going to get it, then there is an argument to be made to just "get it over with". There are valid reasons to wait (hospital concerns, availability of Paxlovid), but there are also valid reasons to want this done now. The cost of waiting is high. The US is only expected to have 10m courses of Paxlovid by June. For a population of 330M, this means less than 1 in 30 people would even have access to it.
People love primates, specially big ones, and will get angry if in the future thousands of primates are used for organ harvest.

Pigs? People will make jokes like "If I pay for the heart transplant, do I get a free bacon?"

(Also, pigs have the correct size to get an organ usable in humans.)
The website didn't load for me for some reason https://outline.com/pdWGMH
Anyone got a conversion of $3500 to Euro?
I live around 49°N and get an average of ~3 hours of rated output per day over the course of the year. OP's is closer to 1 hour per day.

My array does have a clear view of the southern sky, and the angle is supposedly ideal for a fixed array at my latitude. And our longest days tend to also be our sunniest, but it looks like rooftop is much better than balcony, where it's feasible.

(Interesting aside: everywhere on earth (to a first order approximation) gets the same number of hours of daylight over the course of a year. Thus the biggest downside of a higher latitude solar installation is that the sun is passing through more atmosphere on its way to your panel).
He edited his comment some time after I composed my reply. He directly claimed that mRNA vaccines alter your DNA and "modified your cells".

For the second part, being generous, you could say that the point of a vaccine is to modify your immune cells but it's more likely it was unfounded paranoia.
> What % is too human to harvest for organs

I don't think it's really measurable, because a meaningful "%" implies a relatively context-free, relatively uniformly distributed importance to genetic sequence.

The most immunogenic sugar is glycolylneuraminic acid. Humans are incapable of making this sugar so it's immediately recognizable as alien by the human immune system.

You could in theory disable production of this sugar with a single base pair mutation which (if that's how you did it) would make this .000001% sequence difference extremely important over almost any other sequence point.

As a side note it's a matter of speculation that the lack of this sugar is an evasion mechanism for species-jumping flu.

Edit: tick thing was wrong, I had misremembered! Thank you smart reader who has since deleted their comment calling me out.
> The best that you can say is that there is no known algorithm that can calculate a pre-image for any given hash function in less than some super linear time.

If your algorithm is not linear in the size of the key/hash space, it's not a brute force algorithm. It's a cryptographic break.

There is no proof that such algorithm does not exist, nor is there any proof that it does. Therefore you can't claim it definitely does. That's my point.
Exactly. This is my problem with all these things people claim blockchain technology will solve. People think it's magically going to solve all the problems created by the government. They think it's a work around to fix corruption.

No matter how hard you blockchain you're still under the law of the government. You still have to pay taxes in your country's currency. Your "decentralized" blockchain still relies on centralization. Your internet infrastructure is centralized and ran usually by the government. The power grid you depend on is centralized.

My point is your blockchain technology still relies on the government. China even outlawed Bitcoin mining. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FIX POLITICAL PROBLEMS WITH BLOCKCHAIN.
immunocompromised people are not a new thing, somehow they survived before covid
The speech development and language problems are going to be a huge issue, in hindsight, if not already.

Not just kids learning verbal skills and to speak with masks on, but non-verbal-receptive kids, who rely more on facial expressions and visual cues.

For them, it's a double-whammy, because you're delaying their speaking and language/ listening skills further, but also depriving them of the alternative forms of communication that they rely on to cope with the primary deficits.

And that's before getting into whatever effects decreased socialization overall will have.
"Immutable" in the sense that packages can't be taken down or modified by authors

If you wanna take it a step further, you can always opt in to that lock file with various degrees of strictness as you yourself mentioned
Right, Apple specifically calls those "obsolete":

> About obsolete products

> Products are considered obsolete when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 7 years ago.
I read the entire thing and while interesting I don't think I understand. The entire known cosmos exists within an artificial construct with human amenities? What is the point of the story exactly?
You may want to be exposed and catch it less often though.
The individual risk is low, but given the greater infectiousness of Omicron, the societal risk is much higher, since medical resources don't scale the same way.
Google Fi uses T-Mobile in the background. Depending on what you mean by "service probably isnt [sic] as good", you may either be wrong or be making a niche point.
Seems I wrote similar things a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109997
I've thoroughly enjoyed VR meetings, but I'm not sure yet if it's a novelty or if there is a future here. I can also vouch for Miro like others have said.
My understanding is that YC would get 7% ($350k) and would also receive $375k from this new SAFE. So YC would have put in $500k and gotten $675k back.
They did actually. You can paste an image into a Markdown file with cmd/ctrl+v.
I don’t think it’s quite that. Gas cars have a typical range near 400mi. From what I can tell, most electric cars are under that, or just very recently getting to that number. (So I guess we can say range is solved now!)

Having recently explored it, electric cars are very nearly but not quite ahead in a few areas:

- Electric or plug-in hybrids are still typically a more expensive option. For example, the RAV4 has a plug-in hybrid option, or just hybrid, but both of those are a fair amount more expensive than competing compact SUVs.

- Infrastructure. Electric cars become practical when you can charge overnight at home. For many people, the cost of getting electric service retrofitted is too expensive, and many others are renters with no way to charge at home. Beyond that, charging on roadtrips is very hit or miss unless you have a Tesla. (And as a side note, with poor charging infra, longer range becomes more important.)

Of course, both of these problems are close to being solved, but they add extra considerations that people don’t have to make with gas cars.

Anyways, main point: I think consumers are waiting for other reasons than 500mi range.
I'm vaccinated, but I would go with some thing along the lines of 10-20 years. That is when we will actually have long term data. Until then, it is all predictions and assumptions, however well informed.

I work in medical R&D and there is a long history of drugs and products with delayed failure and unintended consequences. I think the chances are low, but anyone who claims they are zero is lying.
Yes, if you put exact versions in your package.json and do not prefix them with a caret or tilde, npm will install the exact version. A package-lock.json version will also pin your transitive dependencies to a specific version. Unfortunately, the default behavior of npm is to add a caret to the version number which npm interprets as this version or any greater minor/patch release.
As someone who used Google Fi for a while internationally, DO NOT get Google Fi! So many problems on an iPhone 7. Little to no connectivity in many places where they advertised having connectivity. This was ~2018-2020, so maybe it has improved, but I had such a bad experience with them.
Most places in the US don't have cycling infrastructure. i.e. bike lanes or shoulders.
what are the long term effects of all the other BS young kids are subjected to as a result of all of this?
Eat all the bacon you want, get heart disease, get new heart, eat more bacon.
> On one hand, we already raise pigs to kill and eat routinely, and (mostly) people don't care - is this any different than say, buying a pig heart at the market to eat?

Yes, in that it's morally superior to eating meat. Eating meat is mostly a nutritional luxury, but needing functioning organs is not. I'm a meat eater, but I imagine there are a number of vegetarians who would be okay with this sort of organ harvesting process.

Of course, if we end up able to grow organs in a lab environment instead of inside an animal, that's probably better for all involved.
> it's easy to lose a billion dollars

With doors that go like this or this and not like this
Can't just dismiss the dramatic rise in children hospitalized for covid as "anecdotes".

In New York, hospitalizations among kids quadrupled.

In Washington DC, children’s hospital admissions have roughly doubled.

In Texas, children’s hospitalizations were described as “staggering”.

In Alabama, cases were “like a rocket ship”.

In Louisiana, one doctor said: “We’ve never seen anything like it.”

In Ohio, one associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics critical care recently told ABC news: “We’re on fire.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/covid-hospit...
The case for Rust as the future of JavaScript infrastructure
Some combination or degree of interesting work, respect, less politics, more pay, hope for a better future, etc.
How does one verify whether the product on Amazon is legitimate? Most masks have reviews referring to comingled fakes, and it's put me off buying.
This article is pure idiocracy. We might as well start watering the plants with Gatorade.

The shorter winters and new shipping lanes are great, but climate change affects precipitation and temperature adversely. It increases soil erosion, causes more extreme weather, loss of biodiversity. Climate change is a serious treat to the entire ecosystem, however climate is not the only factor in agriculture. Soil quality is very important. Climate change also happens to be a poison to the oceans and atmosphere.

Canada will be able to adapt for longer than countries that are less responsible for this crisis, an injustice if there ever was one, but this hubris is not sustainable. I guess there is outdoors yoga to be enjoyed for now, let's hope it worth it.
Has anyone had luck approaching strangers at Meetup.com meetups, as the TFA recommends? My experience has been that people mostly go to meetups with friends, to talk to their friends, and are generally averse to talking to complete strangers without some strong pre-existing connection (former classmate, colleague of spouse, etc.). I went to a few dozen tech meetups in South Bay with nothing really to show for it.
Without curation it's not worth much.
Right, but you're calling into a huge dynamically typed external app, and that may have entirely different conventions for reasons that make sense in that app (here excel).

Normally, 30 is crazy. But in excel? Who knows...

Also, too many isn't a problem, they're optional, so in practice you'll be treating this as a varargs; there's not much cost to having a few more args. I haven't used this function, but I suspect I'd rarely call in directly anyhow, instead making sane wrappers for various apis you actually care about which in turn call this internally, making the direct call details even less relevant.
Oh, that's certainly not the worst they'd grab for, but more of an example where they can call their bluff. Cell carriers and hardware manufacturers alike get bent over backwards for compliance in the United States, trying to assert that you're "the private one" is just going to get you called on every other front. It's not even a question that these companies do shady things, the real question is more about the lengths they'd go to diminish their competition.

Again though, rupturing this conversation is mutually assured destruction. The reason why Apple won't call T-Mobile's bluff is because it's better for them to look like a symbiotic company than an adversarial one, and T-Mobile can get away with this because data protection in the US is a moot-point anyways. It's about as unremarkable as news gets.

Hell, Apple was even nice enough to give T-Mobile a special error message when you try to use Private Relay:

> "Your cellular plan doesn’t support iCloud Private Relay. With Private Relay turned off, this network can monitor your internet activity, and your IP address is not hidden from known trackers or websites."

I wouldn't call it security theater if I couldn't see the curtains on the left and right.
For me it absolutely would be. Allow me to interact with my (personal, DRM free, already owned and stored locally) digital media as if it were physical media and you will have my money day one (unless Zuckerberg).
exactly…
The Delta variant is nearly extinct. Omicron has taken over.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#nowcasting
Seems like this is an improvement from Chocolate Doom, but GZDoom already does this.
I just stopped my signal donation today, which I've been doing monthly last year due to this:

https://amycastor.com/2021/04/07/signal-adopts-mobilecoin-a-...

Was it an overreaction? I don't think so. I feel dumb stuff like this, massive conflicts of interest, happens too often these days, and I'm voting with my wallet.
It's not in the table but there is a mention in the text below:

> In India, for example, our estimates suggest that perhaps 2.3m people had died from covid-19 by the start of May 2021, compared with about 200,000 official deaths.
> Yea lets put everyone under house arrest for the rest of their lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
how? think about how many people have been vaccinated. if it caused strokes or severe respiratory illness there would be ample evidence of that by now. it wouldn't just be this or that relative. think about even 1/10th of 1% of 200 million people having a stroke within the same time period. you think nobody would notice that?
Here is what your comment boils down to:

"A."

"But B!"

>> "But still, A." <<
Omicron vaccine is coming, but ‘everybody’s going to be infected’
I believe you are incorrect. What you say was true for the initial adult trials but many recommendations for boosters and lower age groups have been based on antibody response, not clinical outcomes.
Optane /3D XPoint is simple enough to produce and yet the market just isn't there. The problem is NAND has gotten so fast and so cheap, it is one of those good is the energy of best moment. While NAND's roadmap may be somewhat stagnated with cost reduction. Power usage, latency, cycles and bandwidth continues to improve.
I’m not a fan of Thiel at all, but the “offensive” article in Gawker actually made me empathize with him. It’s the most flattering thing written about him, and it made me briefly consider him to be human. Those feelings were short-lived.
There seems to be a lot of tacit assumption here that phone companies want to do bad things with your browsing metadata and Apple doesn't, but I don't see any firm reason to make that assumption.
they're in reverse chronological orders so Levine's was just added.
I've stared at the image for 3 minutes and still can't figure out the difference. Where exactly is the "fat looking battery" you refer to?
I'm not even expecting technology to get better anymore, I just wish the quality of software wasn't constantly decreasing. I've turned off automatic updates for most of them, e.g. MacOS, Android Apps, Firefox. Just can't stand the constant messing up of UIs that may have worked or were at least not as bad as the next version with more bloated features.

Beautiful talk on that topic by Jonathan Blow, called "Preventing the collapse of civilization": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Sunrise: Spreadsheet-like dataflow programming in TypeScript
Reminder: We've been replacing human heart VALVES with pig valves for a long time now. My grandmother lived for almost a decade after her replacement.

https://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/learning/pig-valve-repla...
Like I mentioned at the end of the initial comment, some families do indeed inter the bodies directly in the river, unable to afford the cost of cremation - this is also mentioned at the end of the wiki article you linked. This isn't new or surprising information. If there are communities that do this as a matter of routine, it's certainly not a significant source considering the 100s of millions who live along the river, where these community's dead mostly disappear without record into the river. For what its worth, it's certainly not a standard practice for the region. If bodies were present at significantly larger numbers in 2020, it suggests that either communities that do not traditionally practice interring in the river were doing it out of desperation, or that the traditional communities suffered significantly more deaths in the Delta wave, both of which are troubling concepts. The other possibility is that these were unclaimed bodies unceremoniously discarded by the civic administration, and the angle perhaps most appealing to those opposed to the current political dispensation.

EDIT: regarding the anecdote about a grandparent asking for this, there's a lot of context we don't know. Rather than a traditional practice, it might simply be a comment based out of frustration about the expense & bother to the family for a "standard" funeral. I also have family from the region and I've never heard of this as a standard routine widespread practice. For the most disadvantaged communities, I can understand it.
https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2021/08/how-safe-ou...

"A Japanese investigation of 110 cases found the probability of transmission to be 18.7 times higher indoors compared to an “open-air environment.” And a more recent study, which looked at transmission between 18 infected construction workers and 496 of their close contacts, showed that the infected individuals were nearly 25 times more likely to spread the virus to coworkers in enclosed spaces compared with outdoor settings. They transmitted the virus to 26 percent of their indoor coworkers while infecting only 1.4 percent of their outdoor workmates — this despite being significantly more likely to share meals and talk loudly while working outside."

Does it EVER spread outdoors? Sure. Is it very likely to? Not even close. We've known this for a long time, and yet we still have municipalities welding basketball hoops shut and filling skate parks with sand.
What ... happens to the pigs who get accidental heart attacks? Are they ...? Do they ...?
Good tip. I am donating currently to National Parks Foundation using AmazonSmile but I could definitely consider this in future.
> what are the ethical implications for raising them with the intention to harvest their organs, if any?

We slaughter more than 100m pigs per year in the US for food. I don’t think a few more million are going to cause a moral dilemma.
Subject Matter First
I agree we’ve built a metropolis on sand, and a large component of solving for this problem is going to be some form of trust and managing that trust (more code reviews with an audit trail of some sort, human gating of code changes using automated risk modeling, etc).
I'm thinking Robin isn't the primary, but an employee. Robin isn't going to pay out of his own pocket for what should be a corporate expense.
Back to charcoal?