skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) Billions of doses of vaccines have been administered. We know a lot about their effectiveness.

b) Current vaccines with a booster are effective at preventing hospitalisations. It is enough to get the world through Omicron but special vaccines maybe useful for those who are immuno-compromised.

c) Children have been forced to take vaccines for decades. It's not new.

d) People trust their government every day. Who do you think builds the roads, operates the hospitals and other essential services, sets out safety regulations etc.
It was a weak decision. They allowed the CMS mandate to stand which provides the government yet another back door to coerce the population.
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At some point the economics involves construction of a new facility, which is a pretty significant cost and, perhaps, only makes sense to a company if they expect there to be a persistent need for what they can produce in that facility. So, if company decision makers don't perceive that they can sell more vaccines, for a long time (many years), building a new factory will be off the table.
Why does it need an app for that? A basic red/green indicator would suffice.
Locally, the mayor decided to mandate vaccines for restaurant customers. I really doubt he has the legal authority if tested in court, but here it is. I am vaccinated but excluded from basically all of the public sphere if I don’t want to go around proving it (I don’t, might for certain circumstances still).
It's moving the goalpoasts. The reason the vaccine enjoyed so much initial support was because it was supposed to make covid go away. The politicians seem to think even though the reality has changed, support for the vaccine has remained constant.
given that the solution oracle is an actual human being, he might not be willing to yes/no that many proposed solutions.
Not really, digital media is just more convenient to use and doesn't take up space. The only time I miss it is if I want to collect something like a Bluray DVD but I can still go out and buy those.
100% agree. MDs aren't the ones doing the research and elucidating mechanisms. They learn from the researchers.
We don't have the capacity to vaccinate the whole world every 6 months.
Is it though?

Cash may be more in absolute value terms, but in per dollar terms, is cash used more for crimes than regular transactions than crypto?
> At least until comics are no longer being produced because the straight male-hating audience is actually not as big as they think it is.

This reminds of a quote from something I read recently, about 90 seconds ago. The link to the article is at the top of the page if you're curious:

You're not threatening, it seems, until you're sexually threatening to a straight guy.
If you run a single process in a Docker container, have it output logs over STDOUT, and have no meaningful way to interact with it other than shutting it down, you don't have much need for a shell. It can't do anything in the container anyhow. By contrast, if you've basically got a full OS in there, then yeah, a shell is really useful.
How many goes at vaccine whackamole results in the immune system being much worse off and/or side effect incidence exceeds the incidence of the original virus's problems?
I prefer shooting RAW+JPG

You get the best of both world, the interpretation of the camera and the possibility to render your own if the camera messed up. It's a lot easier after a trip to just delete all the raw images than to try to fix the white balance of a jpg.

When I started photography a decade ago, I tried to optimise by using Raw when I thought I could get a benefit (eg. night photography) and jpg for the rest. Now storage is cheap/fast enough that the impact is negligible and it can save you when the camera or you (manual mode ftw) mess up the exposure.
> The emu scene still has lots of drama

The Android PS2 emulation drama is hilarious (and sad). For the most part a lot of the modern drama is around money, it seems?
I think a lot of people that get wrapped up in flat earth stuff aren't the smartest, and so the problem starts in school when they are taught things like trigonometry, they often have a bad/dismissive attitude towards it (thinking "when would I ever use this in real life") or they just can't do it.

As an example, I have a friend that dropped out of high school relatively early to do a trade, and now he is keen about science and watches many videos on space and the like. One time he was theorising to me about how electricity in a wire makes a magnetic field, and that if you put it near a magnet then it would move. I said, that's what an electric motor is, lol. He probably would have learned that if he did better and stayed in school longer, but he wasn't interested back then.

But at the other end of the spectrum, the first person I really heard about flat earth from happened to be someone I went to highschool with. This was at our 10 year reunion (and was nearly 10 years ago now), and he had gone on to become a geologist, but had recently jumped onto flat earth. So, it's quite mind boggling to think about what was going on in his life that lead to that conclusion.

And 1 more thing about learning, I don't recall any schooling regarding 3D space, like how to think about it, approach it, etc. And then when talking about viewing/measuring space from the perspective of earth, you also have to consider your position on the globe, and how that relates to other objects. Even now I struggle with this aspect, and my job for nearly 20 years has involved 3D modelling on computers (although my work is 3D, it is all "planar" though, which is different to bodies in space).
Julia v1.8 will have a pretty big change in terms of the runtime, in that the runtime will no longer necessarily need to have LLVM attached to it: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/41936
The intended effect of the vaccines was to reduce the mortality and the severe morbidity of infection and thereby reduce the human burden of the disease and indirectly protect the capacity of healthcare systems to function. In this respect, the vaccines have been enormously successful. Were that not so, the incidence of the omicron variant would have already caused healthcare systems worldwide to collapse.
You want to teach the scientific method and
skepticism? Fine.

But you have to remember it's extremely laborious
for us to do so, especially since these accumulated
knowledge

I think there's a miscommunication/misunderstanding here; perhaps a language/culture barrier? I'm quite sure that when people refer to "the scientific method" they're talking about this --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

It's a method with six steps. It's usually something primary education science teachers spend like, twenty minutes on at the beginning of a school year. It's not laborious.

(For maximum effect, the concept of the scientific method is then of course reinforced throughout the rest of the class, whenever experiments are performed. Assuming classes will be doing these experience anyway, this is not what I would remotely call "laborious")

skepticism

I suppose one could spend a lot of time teaching the history of skepticism, but from a scientific perspective, literally the only relevant bits are the notion that "repeatable, properly-designed experiments" are truly the cornerstone of science. I mean, it's certainly a notion that should suffuse the entire curriculum, but "laborious?"
Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, has stated that vaccines do reduce severity, but they do not stop transmission. Assuming her words represent the scientific and expert opinion, could someone offer a coherent argument as to why there is so much pressure for others to get vaccinated? Is fear of the unvaccinated clogging up hospitals the primary motivation?
It supports profiles on an Apple TV using the system-wide profile switcher. Don’t know about other platforms, I won’t connect any other set top box to the internet to find out lest they start spewing ads forever.
These shipped?

I've been looking for a laptop with eink for a decade, so I can use it in the sun.

The new pine e-ink thing gives me hope, with a keyboard, but bah
Google allows attackers to retrieve the profile picture of accounts if they know the account name, which they can retrieve using this bug.
New Features in C# 10
I mean that the smart kids will show the most results for the same budget.

The utilitarian metric could also show that the average moves the most, and society benefits most, when those with the most potential can realize it. It's an interesting question. Either way though, I think it should be a basic constraint for an education system. Basically it's the same as saying classes should never be too slow for their students.
"Shit is just business. Buy for a dollar, sell it for ten, plus the overnight interest rate. That all it need to be." - Federal Reserve
Well, we can't and we shouldn't find agreement if our base beliefs are different. I only also disagree with any vitriol against the professor.

I have my doubts: even the comment you were critiquing, it seems to me that you read it with bad faith, assuming ill intentions which leads me unconvinced that you could argue objectively from the Biblical viewpoint in other cases.

I had my share of non-christian worldview for many years, so there is sadly not much surprising about your arguments except for the stubbornness in applying interpretations on Scripture that no normal christian through the ages or even scholar probably held.

I know we all go through different periods in our lifes, so I hope you find Christ again. He loves all of His lost sheep. See you.
For most people, yes
I have some difficulty with parsing this sentence: who should be asked for permission on what should be mentioned or not?
How did that founder feel about it?

And what did the employees do with the information? Leave the building?
> I have my three shots, but I'm terrified now that the precident is set that a government can force me to take something that I might not want to.

That precedent was already set by the Supreme Court in Jacobson v. Massachusetts in 1905.
NESticle has nearly as much nostalgia for me as plugging in the NES. There was this magical feeling at the time. I can play my favorite games on my computer? Don’t have to blow in the cartridge? Save states???
And you can see how you get treated if you question today's narrative. I agree with you, and I think most people are starting to realize that the vaccines didnt live up to their initial promise, but try and question it anywhere and you have people coming out of the woodwork telling you we've always been at war with eastasia and that nobody expected vaccines to do anything other than "limit severe infection"
Antibody levels are transient and not very important. What matters over the long term is cellular immunity. We're just chasing our tails by focusing on antibody levels.

https://youtu.be/GklHGYY8vN8
I have met people who work in Silicon Valley who believe in a flat earth. After pressing the issue a bit, no matter what logical argument you throw at them, they can excuse it as "the earth might be curved a little bit, but it's not a sphere" (so no mathematical argument backed by facts they can see is going to persuade them) or "there's a conspiracy so no astronaut/satellite can see/show the true shape of the earth". It's not worth the time to engage someone who holds such a belief in conspiracy nonsense.
> I wouldn't get anywhere as much as the price was beforehand.

that's not a conclusion, but an assumption you make.

The price of a stock can only be found by transacting, and if this isn't taking place, you cannot draw any conclusions about the price of a stock. You can only guess it - via some method like cashflow analysis, or some other model.
Sorry but what’s this website? I don’t think this should be on HN given the current novax climate. Let’s wait for legitimate sources.
Handshake is awful. Because they decided to allow anyone to register a TLD there's no way to determine if a name needs to be resolved with handshake other than trying to resolve it.
So did you deliver the update today?
Herb Gross: https://www.mathasasecondlanguage.org/classroom/arithmetic.p...
This won’t tell you a host died; a distributed service needs remote monitoring.

Is there a standard protocol for either health probes or watchdog timers? It seems like people aren’t defaulting to SNMP like they used to, and I haven’t heard much about RFC 6241 NETCONF which might be intended to replace it. At work we just probe health with trivial RPCs, but it’d be better for the industry to converge on something.
> I'm sorry but I'm not understanding the logic. The booster was recommended after several rounds of research across multiple countries suggested it was a good idea, with Israel doing some of the first testing and reaching the conclusion that it was worthwhile (and it was, by a substantial margin).

You are misinformed. There is a paucity of data supporting boosters, what little exists is for people over 65 (to be fair, the argument in support of boosters seems robust for this group), and the FDA and CDC advisory committees both recommended against boosting of younger populations. They were bypassed. Two long-time FDA scientists resigned over the issue:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/health/boosters-not-needed-la...

They wrote a scathing review of the situation in the Lancet:

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

Paul Offit (inventor of the Rotavirus vaccine, member of CDC ACIP, and vaccine advocate) is on the record saying that he doesn't advise his own 20-something son to get a booster dose:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/should-te...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/omicron-dr-paul-offi...

The headlong rush toward boosters in all age groups is simply not supported by evidence.

(edit: I used the word "mandatory" above; this was a mistake in my own wordering, and I removed it. CDC ACIP recommended that older populations should get a booster, but did not do this for those under 50. I incorrectly summarized this as "recommended against mandatory boosters".)
Oh, there is another nation. It's named China.
So have some people who campaign for the Pirate Party in various countries. It's not necessarily even a pejorative.
have like the author a pathological resistance to justified authority

I'm not seeing anything of the sort in this blog post. He merely says that we're not doing a good job of teaching science. We can have a respect for justified authority, and at the same time do a better job demonstrating the foundations of science, rather than simply expecting students to learn by rote memorization.
I think you are sadly wrong. Corona policy in the early days quickly became inextricably enmeshed in political rivalries, electioneering and knee- jerk reactions. When you say "science driven" i think you really meant "stricter regulations". It is a fatal error to conflate the two.
Obviously I mean to distribute viruses via S3, which is what’s happening here. Your account is guaranteed to be flagged as soon as they find out. The update here was distributed to every subscriber.
If DNA is found, it almost certainly indicates a common ancestor. The likelihood of DNA evolving twice from whatever separate self-reproducing protolifeforms came before it has to be unbelievably low.
> The reason the vaccine enjoyed so much initial support was because it was supposed to make covid go away.

Eh, not really. Even that didn't actually come from the vaccine trials; Pfizer and Moderna never tested for infection/transmission, and only made claims on symptoms/disease. Stopping infection/transmission just sorta popped out of politicians/media in early 2021, not actual research - that came a month or two later, and from what I remember the strongest claim was that it might help.
There's a T-shirt for that: https://amorphia-apparel.com/teach/devil-a-burying-dinosaur-...

Religion teaches you how to rationalize literally anything, for better or worse. I suspect it wouldn't have evolved as part of human culture if there wasn't a need for it.
Trying to change/throw out over 200+ years of theory/practice/standards/implimentations used to support/develop/provide/reach

the current end result on the "promise" of reimplimenting a suggested, but not defined/implimented, "MUCH saner/simpler way"?

Unrealistic even if the requirements of the following quote can be met in a way that would mute all resistence to change.

from google search of "extra ordinary claims require extra ordinary proof"

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” was a phrase

made popular by Carl Sagan who reworded Laplace's principle, which

says that “the weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must

be proportioned to its strangeness” (Gillispie et al., 1999).

see also : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

Lot of things are phased out only because noone has knowledge / more expensive to up keep than upgrade /

broke & no replacement for old original stuff available.

examples: y2k / cobol / cell phone wireless protocols

Even ignoring $$/re-eduation time/replacement down time to convert over; lot easier/less fustrating/more

realistic to attempt to win lotto more than once and become a hermit.
Whenever I talk about matrix multiplication, I just say RC multiplication or row-column dot product. Linear Algebra is difficult because how literal it is and lack of emphasis on misinterpretations. A vector is different than most peoples understandings.
Back then msgpack didn’t distinguish between binary and UTF-8 strings, though that was added latter. But yeah, even if you needed to create your own format to change that you don’t need to turn your integer support into a trash fire while you’re at it.
The disjointed efforts & lack of care for the most common use modes are jarring. The inability to get hardware promises really delivered sucked.

There were some really good & powerful underlying OS concepts that I think we ought have deep reverence for. Even if the hardware-layer 802.11s wifi mesh didn't work, the systems-layer link-local XMPP mesh, used to create Telepathy Tubes, was ultra-advanced systems engineering that just worked, that was supremely well engineered by discerning sharp choices.

There's so many examples of really smart really sharp visionary engineering. To tick off all the places a complete rebuild of the computing experience failed is cheap and easy. Of course there were a lot of pet project hanger-ons, a lot of non-core engineering. It's just a pity we live in such a scarce, chased society, where such a novel engineering project failed to garner the love & attention it deserved. If there's a reason OLPC failed, it's as much because the rest of the world failed to show up for some bold visionary open source engineering. And in my personal view, it's because open source was already chiefly a husk, a shell, for industrial software development. I don't think the world ever really engaged OLPC at the level it deserved, we all failed to explore a delivered viable greatness & make it our own (a difficulty amplified how long it took for Sugar builds to be available on other platforms). The positive powerful lessons XOPC had for us weren't understood or appreciated then, and we're still today hooked on sad story of failure. Rather than anyone bothering to understand the victory & success & power that was built. Out of best of breed open source systems[1].

Effectiveness could have been higher. But this project chose great tech, & it feels as much like an indicator of failure by the geeks who should have seen further. It's hard to form open source community, but there were so many good ideas here, and just a little more getting-the-ball rolling would have lead to a radically different song we sing about this. There was an incredibly interesting platform for software development in a class-room scale, extremely well envisioned, and we all failed to rise to the high standards of possibility this new, vanguard capability set out for.

[1] https://www.aosabook.org/en/telepathy.html
I wish all the apps integrated with the system-wide profiles.
And many (most?) of these policies ignore natural immunity that people are getting from catching COVID.
In what places or contexts are boosters mandated? As far as I know they aren’t in the US right now.
SQL is simply converted into a logical relation algebra tree. So anything that can do that could be used. It's a shame that PSQL doesn't provide an API for this, then all the quirks of SQL could be fixed. However, then we would probably have a proliferation of non-standard SQL like what happened with JavaScript, and standard tooling couldn't be used.

SQL is somewhat nice because its fairly well standardized.
In the US hospitals are private, charge astronomical amounts for the tiniest things and their price lists are secret. It is horrifying, brutal, inhumane.

Also hospitals intentionally understaff, and pay their staff the absolute minimum while paying millions and millions to their CEOs.

In addition to recommending procedures treatments and drugs as profit maximizers.
I should change the wording Pricng to Source
> I do not wear a mask. No vax.

Why not?
"Company that solves hard problems in key industry gets high profit margins, news at 11."

Well ... its' the company that develops power in the value chain, gets the big profit margins!

In this case, probably the 'hardest problems' are solved by ASML, in the Netherlands the sole provider of the key equipment TSMC uses to make their gear.

TSMC is the operating entity that uses their various bits of operational advantage, know-how and positioning to great effect.

It's almost like TSMC and ASML should be both talked about in every article, and that both Europe and US should be contemplating strategic initiatives in the operational part of leveraging the fact that their is a lot of money being left on the table in their home turf.

Edit: one of the hard parts about saying 'let's make the chips here' ... is that the 'stuff' that uses the chips are often made in China and Taiwan! Not always, but often.

You can see the effects of China 'creeping up the value chain' - it's hard to displace certain things if they control 'all the other moving parts, even the not very profitable one's' ...
It's not all publicly funded, to be clear. Lots and lots of finance stuff is written by people in industry for example.

It's a gift to mankind but it is still technically illegal (which I would vote to change every single second of the day, but still).
Might just as well be it still works on this one but can’t be turned off, and support just has wrong information.
Great, can we get on with vaccinating the rest of the world now ?
I have many photos with the blurry camera strap hanging over the lens. Never noticed till the film came back from the developer.

My eyephone pics often have the corner of a finger over the lens.

I suppose some might celebrate that as art :-)

P.S. The strap over the lens comes from using a rangefinder camera.
I actually think the OLPC was a big step in making computers more accessible. Netbooks were entirely a response to the OLPC, when companies like Asus noticed that there was a gaping, totally unserved market for low-end notebooks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

These netbooks (and especially imitators running Windows that came soon after the eeepc) were very commonplace - especially amongst university students - when I was living in East Africa in the early 2010's. They were, as you say, really cheap and effective enough. Eventually phones have caught up for many use cases, but they certainly weren't there at the time...
Activision Blizzard has got rid of almost 40 employees for workplace misconduct