skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Current vaccines with a booster are effective at preventing hospitalisations

From the second part of the article:

> Meanwhile, the latest research from South Africa, New York City and California show that the vast majority of people hospitalised by the COVID-19 Omicron variant are unvaccinated – but that they still experienced less severe disease than those infected with Delta.

Comparing the 3rd and 4th waves in SA, hospitalizations dropped by 72%, ICU admissions dropped by 89%, and deaths dropped by 90% in South Africa even though, per the article, "82% of those hospitalised during its Omicron-fueled fourth wave were unvaccinated."

Similar trends are being seen everywhere so I think it's legitimate to question the magnitude of any benefit from boosters vis-a-vis the hospitalization endpoint, particularly for people who are not in high-risk groups. Are the boosters really responsible for a meaningful reduction in hospitalizations among the already vaccinated, or is the reduction in hospitalization a result of the initial 2-dose vaccine series? Even the WHO casts doubt on the boosters here[1]:

> To date, the evidence indicates a minimal to modest reduction of vaccine protection against severe disease over the 6 months after the primary series. Waning of effectiveness against all clinical disease and infection is more pronounced.

Antibodies aren't the end-all and be-all of immunity and protection. There's plenty of reason to believe (and some data showing) that the cell-mediated immunity from the initial 2 shots is long lasting and provides substantial protection against bad outcomes, even against omicron. What cell-mediated immunity doesn't do is prevent you from getting infected. But, clearly, given the situation in places like the US and Israel, where boosters are being given, antibodies generated by original vaccine boosters aren't doing a great job at preventing infection either.

On a tangential note, I think a lot of people are concerned about long COVID but it's pretty remarkable that at this stage of the pandemic and vaccination campaign, we still don't have a clear answer as to whether vaccination even reduces long COVID risk, or by how much[2].

[1] https://www.who.int/news/item/22-12-2021-interim-statement-o...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03495-2
Oh yeah, I am not comparing their motivations, I get why Miller does what he does and why Moore does it. Just telling my own personal path with comics, what basically killed the idea of a "superhero". I now abhor the idea of a Batman, from either the perspective that vigilantism is stupid and not how we should be solving real world problems, or the absurdity of a billionaire-by-day is the best detective-martial-artist in the world.

I don't know, I guess it just took me ~25 years to realize the silliness of it all. Comics were my escapism growing up, and I guess I used to think of them differently.
My big realization was that the relational model is a constraint on your data so that relational algebra can optimize your queries for perf. But these constraints cause a whole range of issues, which always result in a poorly modeled domain as people try to work around the limits of the optimizer or the expressiveness of SQL.

I've always felt that what we need is a way to maintain a logical schema (E-R diagram / graph schema), and then the physical schema is automatically generated along with denormalizations for perf as necessary. A graph db is simply denormalizing its joins using index-free adjacency.
We only have a single sample of a life encoding mechanism such as DNA. We can't know if it's one of many possibilities, or the naturally emergent phenomenon for life, like stars and quartz crystals that would form the same way anywhere from the same basic components of our physical universe.
the pernicious thing about spring is there appears to be 15 different ways to do the same thing. Everyone's idea and enhancement request was thrown in. Plus things got left in that should have been deprecated after better ideas came along or the java language improved to allow new techniques.

I'm glad someone is working on a light weight replacement to spring. I had some ideas on a light weight DI framework but never got around to it.
The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupi...
I am still not sure if it's Javascript or JavaScript after all these years )
wow, that's generous. more like 1x10-12, if that

.001% would be absolutely enormous, and the actual start of a thing.

the design and use case of it looks laughable to me. however, it does spark the imagination.
None of what you wrote even implies Assange reports to Putin, let alone is evidence of such.
That was true in the early years of TSMC. We're so far from government subsidies now that I think it's a moot point.
The trump card is faith.

Anything that appears to contradict a belief can instead be seen as a test of faith. Some go so far as attribute that challenge of faith to a bad actor like the Devil.
I suspect that even the majority of Americans don't know that ICE handles customs as news stories rarely expand the acronym and the stories almost always deal with the immigration side of things.
And it's still in place for federal contractors, and it's still in place for states, and it's presumably still in place for private businesses.
I mean for a new player.
This paper seems to get posted in most Great Filter discussions now. I don't find it very convincing - or I'm not sure why it is worded so strongly. It seems ultimately like just another opinion piece dressed with a bit more math than the topic usually gets.

My statistics chops might just not be up to snuff, but the authors are ultimately just choosing their own numbers (probability distributions in this case) and plugging them in like everyone else.

We still don't know the values of those parameters. The Fermi paradox exists only given "optimistic" guesses for those parameters. The authors choose "pessimistic" distributions and declare the problem "dissolved".
I've been thinking about this for a day and thanks for pointing this out. I remember the scene well, as I've seen the film several times, but I didn't catch the distinction between putting glasses on and taking them off. As you quoted, clearly Zizek said this, but it just never registered this way.

However, I'm still having trouble internalizing your claim that the belief that you have to put on the glasses is in itself an ideology. How? Is it an ideology in the sense that anyone can apply it by saying, "Ah, you don't see the truth," where the truth can be whatever you say it is?

Wouldn't Zizek have noticed that? Or is it intentional since the entire film is about ideology, and that's kind of a perversion of ideology.
To the people asking for caution about these vaccines, how long did it take from development to roll out for the polio shot? Was there the same reluctance?
Similar to HTML: a lot of early evolution in the early releases. Then a long wait for version 5. Version 4 had a lot of neat stuff like math typesetting. Html balkanized during the commercial browser wars. Tim made a valiant effort to hold it together these past decades.
We are losing our birdsong, our oceans, our soil, our water sources and our minds at a rapid pace.

Now a billionaire threatens the very stars for private gain. The most constant and egalitarian symbol of the vastness and beauty of our universe.

Kessler syndrome approaches in leaps and bounds, threatening to cut off space travel and satellites, for all of us, equally.
No, it's still not a valid reason to investigate someone who's made it very clear they do not want any scrutiny.
I was an Economics major and also took AP Economics in high school and there may have been other analogies used but I don't remember hearing the D/W paradox till that history of econ class.

That class was wonderful b/c it taught me a lot of the "first principles" of economics using real stories and examples instead of "here is a supply/demand chart, accept that it's true".

Which brings me back to my original point, methods of teaching that explain HOW we got to the current way of thinking, IMHO, are the best way to teach people. The variety of responses in other threads show that not everyone is taught that way unfortunately. Your point in particular shows that even someone with an Econ background (aka me) may not have gotten this form of instruction.
Recently stumbled upon this quite good YT channel, which also brands itself as aimed towards beginners, although in my opinion both the Susskind lectures and these 'physics mini lessons' would be best appreciated with at least some prior knowledge of undergrad physics.

I really miss doing physics!

https://www.youtube.com/c/PhysicswithElliot
Have you tried Ubuntu Budgie from http://ubuntubudgie.org? (Could also use my sorun.me & kinto.sh script/apps if you want something sorta mac like too).
Sometimes when I get in arguments, even as the evidence piles up against me, I find myself digging in further. I get very obstinate and it takes a tremendous step back and exertion of will to say “okay, okay. I’m wrong.” Even then I often find myself tacking on something like “I’m wrong in this scenario. But…” and it really helps if the other side will concede something, anything. It’s a physical feeling of discomfort. I think I fight it pretty well. And I imagine that flat earthers and their ilk are just so deep into that feeling and so incapable of conceding that they never, ever will.
"You are misinformed. There is a paucity of data supporting boosters, "

I think the misinformation might be your own here, or rather, at least based on the time frame.

In September, there was little data, because very few had their 3rd shot.

Now, we have Omicron - a huge, new, material development - and - large numbers of people with their 3rd shots.

Here is some fairly definitive data from one source [1] which clearly shows a drop in protection against infections as Omicron hits, and then an acute rise in protection against infection people start receiving their 3rd shots. During the entire time protection against hospitalization and death remained pretty good, faltering somewhat, then improving after the 3rd doses started happening.

According to this [2] it seems we have 100's of millions of boosters administrated across dozens of high quality health authorities each of which can provide similar data.

That's not a 'paucity of data'.

[1] https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashboard/

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccine-booster-dos...
Thank you for the feedback Matt. I'll check everything out now.
> It's genuinely really funny that you thought that this would be a rebuttal

I'm illustrating the examples under which people can be celebrated without celebrating the entirety of their person, understanding full well that you personally find this to be impossible or somehow hypocritical. Gandhi slept with underage girls and was a racist. MLK was cheating on his wife when he was killed. JFK frequently cheated on his wife, and his sister was lobotomized. The example of Presidents day is simply to illustrate that many (most) people are entirely capable of celebrating people as a token of a certain set of beliefs/virtues/behaviors that exists independently the of the whole historical person.

I don't care who you celebrate or why, but you cannot go around inferring that people are somehow ignorant or hypocritical simply for venerating people in a differ manner than you do...particularly when you appear to be in the minority in this regard.

> My entire point is that I find it a bit sus that after MLK's death people only ever seem to engage with one very specific aspect of MLK's work and legacy, and it's I think the part that is selected is politically convenient for those in power. That's it. That's my entire point.

And MY entire point is that this is very often how most people celebrate the legacy of most figures.
Any pointers? Would love to see that command
Those servers are only necessary for the ICANN tlds and those will continue to act as they do today, even in a Handshake future.

With Handshake, you run your own authoritative server (or use a hosted one) for your own name and that authoritative server's information will be obtainable on chain. No middle-man, no rent seeking.
There are two sides to the coin: susceptibility to infection, and infectiousness after infection.

Given that vaccination reduces disease severity, it seems likely that vaccination decreases your viral load after infection.

Therefore, though vaccination may not help much in preventing omicron infection, it will nevertheless reduce both disease severity and your infectiousness.
"What even are you talking about?" is too aggro? Okay. I guess I responded that way because of the clearly flamebait/trolling phrasing in the comment I responded to, but I'll try to do better.
Software Does Not Fail
Usually they used randomized controlled trials for this sort of thing, which in a well designed study will account for this sort of bias

Whether the population in the trial generalized to the population at large is a bit different question and I think is where the bias you’re highlighting could come into part
Or you don't want to play anymore.
If schools taught the scientific method universally it would be harder to indoctrinate them with things like social "science" that dont stand up against that kind of thinking.
If you’re talking about multiple machines it’s probably time to use nomad or k8s.
Something tells me they could easily focus their attention on something not necessarily related to the most critical parts of the project. They could be very pedantic (and often are) about some irrelevant thing.
In many college's Boosters are mandated for students, who are simultaneously the least likely to benefit from more protection and have a higher likelihood of side effects.
I don't follow Odroid's SBCs. Does the N2 use a RockChip SoC as well? I'd like a comparison to the RockPro64/Pinebook Pro since they use the RK3399 and I'm more familiar with them.

edit: >Rockchip RK3588 should be over twice as fast as Amlogic S922X as found in ODROID-N2+ for many tasks

I'm not familiar with Amlogic chips, but that at least answers that it's not RockChip.
I'm probably wrong about this but I think Flat-Earthers, if they became influential enough, should want to clandestinely (due to concern of dangerous guards patrolling the world border) colonize Antarctica (with resources provided by all sympathetic to their cause) as a staging ground to find and prove the existence of the ice wall. If thwarted in their search for it, they might conclude that the authorities set up some kind of ionic illusion field to make it seem like it simply isn't there and redirect them to wander the same ice plains forever.

If the Antarctican colony were successful, I think the importance of believing in earth's flatness would be the mark of a true citizen, and for people of faith among them, they would be willing to schismate over highly literalist interpretation of parts of scriptures that suggest imagery of a flat earth. The Ice Wall might be colloquially seen as a legendary gate which will one day be revealed, through which the just citizens of Antarctica will be invited to escape to heaven before the end of the world...
The next sentence is even better:

> The development of this technology, which is included free on every car, is funded by people who chose to buy Tesla’s FSD package.

That's right, every person who got scammed into buying vapourware FSD is actually a hero! They're giving up their money so that a good company like sweet little altruistic Tesla can afford to develop this life-saving technology and give it out for free to everyone!

Never mind that every other car manufacturer has safety systems that are as good, if not better, than Tesla's.
Google and YouTube can ask for that to comply with data and videos towards COPPA compliance [0]

YouTube takes a step further with KYC on age restricted videos, but there you go. This is where we are heading for the future of online services.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/rules/rulemaking-regulatory-...
The “C” in ICE is for “customs.” I imagine domains fall under the purview of import/export laws.
What if someone else did all of that privacy research and monitoring for you, only it was a set of volunteers, and they did it for free? This is what F-droid does except they verify that apps on their store are clean at the source code level, compile the source code, and then publish it in their app store on behalf of the authors. When I'm looking for an app in the F-droid repo, I only need to wonder, "Is it any good?", because it is at least safe. They also warn you if the app does anything at all you might object to. For an example, check out the page for Firefox below, which at least gives you an idea of the kind of information available in the app.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

At times, Apple has removed apps capriciously out of self-interest and done things that aren't good from a privacy perspective. I trust F-droid to be a more equal an honest arbiter more than Apple since they don't have and reason to do something I wouldn't like. Basically, I'm saying that (in addition to scummy app stores) there would likely also be some app stores that do a better job than what Apple does at protecting you from the bad actors you just mentioned.
possibile -> not possible
Is what you're thinking of equivalent to deep argument passing? I've seen it done where you pass around a global Factory object that can provide dependencies. It's basically rudimentary DIY DI.
And more importantly than letting you register, it avoids a .com, .net domain getting one of these on a landing page https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/styles/width_12/...

This has been the story for many sites, where domains are seized even if owned by a non-US person/company, with an order to the TLD that operates in the US. With a distributed DNS system like Handshake, 'in theory' this shouldn't be possible, since it would require multiple nodes to alter a domain's DNS records vs. a central TLD authority which has to abide by US law.

It's all interesting, but it still seems we are ways off from the DNS backbone (& my browser) operating with this kind of DNS architecture. It even appears it's becoming easier to take down a domain, not at the TLD/registrar level, but more so at the hosting level (e.g. Parler)
Gee it sounds alot like strategy to manage risk doesn't pay out in a world where you have to innovate and get paid for it.
Walmart Plans to Sell Virtual Goods, Create Cryptocurrency and NFTs
But would they be able to figure out a MAC to spoof without significant amounts of time in the data center/switch?
He used it to find the hypotenuse
This is a nice visualization. Although visually obvious, it might be nice to also show the matrix dimension adjacent to or beneath the Matrix A and Matrix B labels.
That’s a bit outdated too - if sited properly, modern offshore turbines (the biggest ones at least) can exceed 60% capacity factors;

GE’s latest: https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind...

Vestas too: https://us.vestas.com/en-us/products/offshore/V236-15MW

Since the improvements have all been slow and incremental, I don’t think it’s fully appreciated just how good the newest generations wind turbines actually are.
Personal choices rarely come under democratic rule and only begrudgingly.
Right, and a lot of people have a lot less savings than the median, and those who had to count on enhanced UI during the pandemic likely had less still, since more of those were in low to minimum wage service jobs. The second quintile had only $2,100 in savings, and the bottom a mere $800. I sincerely doubt many of them were able to save up enough to last more than a few months.

The issue is that the story of enhanced UI isn't internally consistent. Apparently UI made all the (implied) lazy people stop working because it was more profitable to not work than work[0], which made it critical to turn off the benefits as soon as possible in order to force people back into the office. Except once they turned off the benefits people decided not to work and spend down their savings because ... erm, why would people do that? And doesn't this undermine the premise that people stopped working because it was cheaper to not work, if they're deciding to go broke not working for funsies?

Personally I think that the story of the labor shortage is explained as such:

1. Loss of workers due to death, disability, retirement, changing careers, and general re-evaluation of life choices in the face a deadly pandemic

2. For those that remained in the service industry, a brief exposure to being treated with dignity and as an essential part of the economy was a real awakening moment for a lot of them, and many are no longer willing to put up with workers that pay poorly and treat them as sub human. In my parts the restaurants that offer good wages always seem to be fully staffed, while everywhere else has signs crapping on people's work ethic and apologizing for slow service. Coincidence? I think not.

I think UI was critical to get people through the early period of the pandemic due to the chaos and the uncertainty of the early pandemic, but I am extremely dubious about the effect that UI had as compared to the deadly pandemic.

> And didn't unemployment bonuses only end 4 months ago?

Oh lord no. A lot of states started disabling enhanced UI back in June and July. My state ended it July 19th, nigh upon 7 months ago. I am doubtful many working Americans

0 - I've seen this floated a lot by CNBC types, and they never seem to engage with the fact that the most lethal profession during the pandemic was line cook.