skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since the intent of the vaccination is to trigger an immune response very similar to the virus I think we should assume that all side effects the virus can cause could also be seen in vaccine trials.

If you define “side effects the virus can cause” (a term that usually is meaningless, “side effects” are unintended effects of a therapy, and thus deoebd on both the therapy and what it is intentionally used for) to mean “effects associated with the immune response to the virus” this is true by definition, but if you mean “symptoms of infection” it seems improbable.

> The only symptom that I have yet to hear from the vaccination is loss of smell/taste.

A lot of what you hear is reports of events after vaccination that have very little effective filtering for whether they are caused by the vaccination
or some other cause (including COVID infection.)
If you use browser search bar, you'll find GET+POST is not enough
Safeway's Signature Select Coffee Ground Medium Roast Colombia - 11 Oz for $7.99 (about $12 per pound)
https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.119010190.html
I second this approach. I buy locally roasted beans, and have a reasonably nice grinder and an aeropress. For my palette, the coffee's as good as I can get anywhere.
Yes extreme endurance can be immuno suppressive.
Brazil was steampunk, if it fit in a genre at all.

Don't get me wrong, Brazil is my favorite movie, it's just not cyberpunk. Heck, it's not punk.
How bad is it for health? This paper also notes that the virus itself is of great concern foremost, so any conclusion must be in comparison to the alternative (aka the control group): “Studies and anecdotal reports are already demonstrating that menstrual function may be disrupted long term [by the virus], particularly in those with long COVID (32–35)”

It seems so many commenters here miss that sentence, and live in a mental world where viruses are mostly benign but healthcare is mostly deadly.

Therefore, a statistical control group for such a trial as you describe doing is not an unvaccinated cohort for the same time period, but rather for infinite time. Thus your results will require substantial adjustment for the eventual rates of encountering COVID (and the estimated rates of equivalent adverse effects), since your trial will presumably be of finite duration.
I don't want to criticize FOSS, but GIMP rates #1 in the software that turn me furious faster than an IRC troll. On par with Eclipse. And I like gnu ed.
Not quite a hidden tab bar but I modded the TST / FF chrome so only active or recently active tabs show (~3min timer) per personal preference: https://gist.github.com/theprojectsomething/6813b2c27611be03...
Yes, Windows 2000 on today's hardware runs like a champ. Even Windows 2000 on contemporary high-end hardware ran very well.

However, I do remember using installations of Windows 2000 on contemporary hardware that weren't snappy. Windows 2000 and XP needed a lot of RAM and a fast processor to be happy; running these operating systems on a machine that met or only slightly exceeded the minimum requirements was an unpleasant experience.

Likewise, my experience with Windows 10 is that it's snappy on high-end hardware, but it's very sluggish on low-end hardware, especially if it's running on a HDD instead of an SSD. Six years ago I bought a refurbished ThinkPad T430. It had an HDD and originally shipped with 4GB RAM. Windows 10 was almost unusable with that configuration. Upgrading to 16GB of RAM helped, but it was still slow. What dramatically improved the system's performance was replacing Windows 10 with Linux Mint running Cinnamon. Suddenly my ThinkPad became pleasant to use.

By comparison, I have absolutely no issues with Windows 10 running on my 12-core Ryzen 3900X with 64GB RAM and a PCIe 4.0 SSD. But that's high-end hardware.
The problem in the US is that there is now a $30 federal subsidy for internet. This is ostensibly to support low income people but the effect is that it sets a minimum price anchor. Very few ISPs offer a cheap, low bitrate plan despite few people really needing to have multi-100Mbit service.
A good number of places in Texas serve goat neat, it just gets called cabrito.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/on-the-menu-cabrito/
On the browser side:

What killed Java was to a large part loading times. First the Plugin had to load, then the bytecode had to be run. On many systems one immediately knew when Java was used by the browser getting slow and sleeping for a while.

Flash loaded a lot faster (also systems were better, generally) however Flash apps completely messed with user experience.

Nowadays JavaScript can do a lot of things better (say changing URL, history support, back button) which can be integrated with a wasm tool for having a way more seamless integration.

As a user you simply don't notice if something is using JS or wasm.

From there it imo carries over to the server side and other places. Java simply got a bad reputation as resource hog used for bad UI in Applets and many people looked elsewhere.

And then wasm supports C and C++ (and more) with huge eco system of libraries, applications, ... (While of course these days a Java VM (incl. Android) is often used with non-Java languages as well)
>If we go forward assuming everything we do is infallible and silencing anybody with concerns, someday we will have a real disaster.

And if we go down this road hopefully it's sooner rather than later. The people responsible should have to live (or not) through the suck rather than having some yet unknown future generation be saddled with cleaning up the mess.
It reminds me of something else I watched in school - My Boy Jack - a film about Rudyard Kipling and his son. I recently watched it again for the first time since being a child. It’s worth a watch.
That sounds reasonable. Until the rules of perspective were understood, artists were mostly quite poor at drawing realistic scenes. It wasn't until 1415 that the rules of perspective were thoroughly described, and the discovery dramatically improved the quality of art that was created after.

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/technique/perspective/histor...
Can fermentation bubbles be a random number source? Lol
> Alternatively, shipping costs could fall to $10/kg. This would require several large miracles

Come on, at $10/kg it'd be cheaper to send something to Mars than to mail it across town. Even $10,000/kg would require many miracles...
I just like Costo Kirkland k-cups. Cheap, easy to get a quick cup. Both the medium or dark are good IMO.

https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-coffee-organic-sum...

https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-coffee-organic-pac...

Like many others I don't have time to get all fussy about coffee.
Vaccination was basically immune system activation on demand.

If we registered and correlated every cold we catch there might be same kind of signal.
I cannot recommend brew for react development (NPM). Installing NPM packages through brew is not supported by projects that require global packages. NPM installed through brew frequently runs into issues by projects that expect packages via NPM to be in /usr/local but are not symlinked. This is not even mentioning all other flaws of brew, such as owning /opt or /usr/local to your user breaking multi user support, being based on git and subsequently very slow, brew breaking on even point releases of macOS.

I recently started a job that requires react and docker so here's what works for me. Install node.js from their website, use npm to install typescript language server globally, docker binaries like Minikube suggest using `sudo install minikube`, reading the manual for `install` says it simply copies the binary over to /usr/local/bin (already in path! security issue for brew owning this to your user??). You can then use `install` for any CLI tools you need (jq!).

macOS was never designed for package managers, brew does an exceptionally poor job at being a package manager while also fighting against macOS to stay functioning. I highly recommend avoiding brew, it is certainly not a necessity nor supported by packages it hosts.
Is it not? Show me one counter-example.

There are many parts of a control loop. An analog comparator is faster and lower power than an ADC + digital comparator, for example.
It’s whatsapp for me. Can’t get away from it. I tried for 3 years. I ended up basically unintentionally ostracized by family and friends.

It’s a chore for people to forward to my preferred communication method and easy to occasionally forget. Which snowballs into only hearing about events afterwards.

Eventually you basically become a weirdo with no mates.

I’m not prepared to make that sacrifice any more. I honestly gave it my best shot and still don’t use FB and Insta but have to use WhatsApp.
It's not so much lying as it is a nefarious combination of motivated reasoning, plausible deniability, blind compliance, responsibility dispersion, greed-motivated short-term thinking, etc.
Gonna just add my standard "climate denier" take and remind everyone that we've been in something of an "ice age" for a long time relative to mean global temperature (https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte... for a simplistic explanation). Yeah we're accelerating it unnecessarily, but it wasn't going to stay this cold forever regardless. Probably that doesn't make anyone feel better about it, but maybe it does for some.
Oft repeated but not true. The commercial processes used to brew cheap beer make it incredibly easy. There weren't a ton of strong flavors to start with and extra steps to remove flavors (ex aging on beechwood) make a consistent result easy. You're using 1 variety of hop, 1 or 2 of barley (or rice), and a battle-tested yeast, no dry-hopping, much easier to control. 100 bbl in a single run then you filter it until it practically runs clear.

Much harder to make some wacky IPA w/7 hops, adjunct stout with breakfast cereal or foudre-aged wild ale and have it not turn out horribly. You can't hide that many mistakes. Your local brewery has a pilsner.
By the literal definition of what an "externality" is.

A company cutting costs by dumping their PFAS into the local river isn't being "paid for" by anyone. Except with our health and all the dead insects and fish and compounding environmental effects brought with it

By definition an externality is a "market failure" because the market completely fails to account for this effect. There are "positive externalities" as well, but that's obviously not relevant here
I recently moved and didn’t have a coffee machine so I got a jar of instant coffee and … honestly it tasted quite good.

I read an article on instant coffee that said it uses a bean that is easier to grow “and therefore considered inferior in Europe and America”, but apparently the choice in many parts of the Middle East and Asia.
I had a strange epiphany around age 16 when I realized that, thanks to 4chan, I had probably seen more ghastly shit within the past few months than my parents had in the entire lives -- and that I was already completely desensitized to it.
Unfortunately various studies have shown that people who are involuntarily committed are more likely to commit suicide. This is not a benign association: it is clear that psychiatric holds and the ensuing care at the very least are likely pointless and as no ontervention is free are likely actively harmful.

Assholes like yourself are why I need to bring a gun to my doctor visits. I might need to murder the doctor in self defense. Way easier to get out of a hold if you do that first.
The "39%" is a reference to the percentage of those on masculinizing hormones with breakthrough periods, not the percentage of females on masculinizing hormones.
People that think the spread of this coronavirus could ever have been stopped, let alone without destroying social fabric, mental health and causing an economic depression/hyperinflation are insane.
It's not like saying that at all.

God I wonder what people with large extended families did before Facebook was invented! Surely they were all isolated and out of touch, how sad.

This comment was not directed at people running Facebook business accounts or political campaigns. The reason this thread produces nothing of value is because of pedantic comments such as yours bringing up irrelevant edge cases.
Crashes multiple times per day for me, but does not lose tabs. Love it on PC, so the sync makes me tolerate the inconvenience on my phone anyways.

Chrome is still faster on some sites, so I still have it installed and pull it out when I have a specific need. For example: Watching long videos in unfocused windows.
The vaccine doesn’t stop you from carrying or transmitting COVID, it just lessens the severity the symptoms you suffer personally.

The people who don’t mask up, regardless of having taken the vaccine or not, are actually the biggest problem. I wouldn’t call them selfish because it is their ignorance of how disease works that is to blame. I wouldn’t even blame most of them in light of all the propaganda and confused public servants that say otherwise. I would reserve the selfish tag for the people who know they are carriers and continue to go maskless anyway.
Most of the non-system languages on the rise (Kotlin, Swift, Dart, JS, Python, C#) are a mixture of OOP and functional so I don't see OOP dying anytime soon.
Yep, it's convenient today to connect the two or to pretend that America's (or Britain's) success in the early day was largely a product of slavery. But even when slavery ended there was hardly a sudden decline in prosperity, that engine kept accelerating.

> Slavery didn't make America rich. It made a few Southerners rich and a few Northerners rich, but it didnt make the country rich.

> Another way to look at it is, the Confederacy was a loose collection of agricultural states. The real money was made by the industrial northern states. In the north were mills, factories, ship building, and steel mills.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-slavery-contribute-to-Ame...

American capitalism (and the labour movements that reacted to it) was built in the factories and mills, not the farms in the south.
Facebook intentionally abuses its captive audience. Reducing the profit they extract from this harm is fully justified. Their combined abuses (not just invasive tracking) should hurt their revenue stream enough to thoroughly reform or break them.
French press brewers are great and nothing to be ashamed about using. There are two big variable that you can tweak when using it, the grind size and the time you keep the coffee brewing before plunging and pouring. Water temperature is a third variable but with a basic kettle don't worry about it and just use water off a boil. If you decrease the grind size it increases the extraction, and if you brew for longer it also increases the extraction (to a point).

When you get wildly different results from the same beans it likely means you've changed one of those variables. Try playing around to find a good balance of grind size and time brewed. I usually like a kosher-salt level of grind size (moderately coarse) with a 4 minute or so brew time. But if the coffee comes out too bitter then I likely over-extracted it and increase the grind size or reduce the time brewing, and if too sour then it's probably under extracted (decrease grind or brew longer next time).
There's a whole book about this, FWIW:

"Screenwise", by Devorah Heitner (see https://devorahheitner.com/screenwise/).
Many men wants to be taller and many women wants bigger breasts. Yet both of those appear to shorten ones life span.

Maybe we should just be happy with what we have.
Exiting Yourself
Yes...I'll post the paper to HN when it's live. We're still finalizing analyses and writing the paper and I'm not at liberty to share it yet.
Lab grown meat is the answer. One can never convince a statistically significant amount of people to switch to meat, so one must find ways to make the meat itself more sustainable.

It's thinking with the end in mind. Once you axiomatize the ends, you can then figure out the means to get there.
I always wondered if GT7's micro transaction drama was overblown. Are you saying it's not as bad as game journalists have made it out to be?

I quite like the GT games and haven't bought it simply because it's $120+ in Australia. When it comes down in price, I'll check it out.
The title is highly misleading, it's fuel rods for MAYBE one of the three reactors until the year end. The spokesperson is also a spokesperson of a company that took all the nuclear reactors from major energy companies into their portfolio to decommission them. The interviews he took as proof for the lying were also given before the TÜV assured them that ONE of the THREE reactors could run until 06.23 without recertification. The author also did a 180 on climate change and is now a full conspiracy nutjob.

Here is the real statement of the ministry WITH the nuclear experts from all energy companies. Yes, they could run them longer... two for 80 days in a lower efficiency "Steckbetrieb"
and one for ONE year but they all have no certification to run. Expected more from a bestselling author...

https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Nuklear...
Keep the Senate the way it is, but elect Senators through proportional representation: each voter votes for a party, and that party gets as many Senate seats as its percentage vote share. Parties can choose the Senators they seat by any method that they officially publish before the election. This could be, for example, by having an internal election/primary that results in an ordered list, or even something strange like a rotating lineup of Senators, or the weekly winner of a contest.

People who cling to the Senate system because of the inordinate representation it gives to white, small states would happily give that up for the guarantee that they could get at least one neonazi Senator. We would have to deal with the fact that both Kim and Kanye would have a Senate seat, though.
Like other posters, I agree that it's about more than taste, but disagree that it's about tribal membership. For me, it's also about ritual. Grinding beans and making coffee (pourover in my case) is a very nice relaxing experience with enjoyable sights and smells before you ever put the cup to your mouth.
I think for him Facebook is a necessary evil to keep in touch with some elderly family members who are stuck on it. So that's fine. It doesn't really undermine the point that for most people the ideal solution is to not use Facebook.
Looks like they bought the standalone Office suite, a lifetime license, for about double the price of a year of Office 365. Makes sense if you only need Office on a single PC or Mac (365 can be installed on 5 computers) and store less than 5gb on OneDrive.
What would the shots making you sicker look like?

In any case, I never had any shots, got Covid last December, was sick for 3 days with a bad sore throat and recovered just fine shortly after.

Many people are rightly not so obsessed with irrational safetyism and have no problems avoiding the vaccine and getting on with life.
Subsidies are critical for a sovereign state to maintain control over its lands and people. If there were a food shortage, like in Sri Lanka, people would revolt.
My cards are all on full autopay. This spreading around of subscriptions is it’s a way of making it easy to check and not be overwhelmed.
They are right. No one has time for polls, and of those who do, I question that their willingness to answer reflects on them being representative.

Tell me, have you been polled?

If so, have you given feedback beyond a yes or no to a misleadingly framed question?
My understanding is that the mRNA vaccines, in a round about way, trick the body into thinking it’s infected with the spike protein in order to trigger an immune system response. Is it really so surprising that one of the body’s many responses to viral infection is to alter reproductive activities? Skimming the article, I don’t see reference to other vaccines, but wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume they also cause menstrual changes?

“gender-affirming hormone treatments” - How did we get to a point where double-speak was acceptable?
Dis you tried Shiny, Dash or something like those tools?
What's wrong with letting (or helping) an untenable business model externalising costs to society at large crash and burn?

I've neither created a Facebook account nor consented to their tracking (and other practices). Why is it unethical to defend against Facebooks attempt to track everyone and extract value from trying to steer my eyeballs to their superfluous (to me) so called content?
I moved somewhere that has incredibly good coffee. You can literally just walk into a park in the city and find a coffee bush that probably nobody is harvesting, grab some, and bring it home to roast in a toaster oven. Good stuff from the grocery store [1] is about 4$ for a half kilo (20$+ for a bag on amazon if you can find it), and the way to make it is basically an apparatus (Can be made out of anything from nice wood to a coat hanger) which you use which holds a sock-like bag that has a wire in it to hold the mouth in an O and operate as a handle, which you then fill with coffee and pour hot water into to fill the vessel you want to drink or serve out sitting below. This simple device is called a chorreador [2], and it's a great gift to bring home if you ever come down for a vacation in the region. [3]

The cheaper stuff is weighed down with sugar for some reason but even that's not bad. About 1-1.50 a bag for the same amount. I haven't had it outside of convenience stores when in a pinch but it's not that bad. It's so ubiquitous that I stopped drinking it daily just to enjoy it a little more.

Whatever the hell gets sent up north gives me digestion issues and doesn't taste great when black. Some of the less cheap instant brands aren't as bad but anything in that category still needs to have milk and sugar in there for it to be tolerable and that's not really my style. Oh yeah, the secret of starbucks coffee is that it's actually really terrible quality coffee at an insane price and what they really serve is coffee milkshakes.

[1] https://cafe1820.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorreador

[3] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1095/7444/articles/el-chor...
The autocorrect is in my fingers — I’ve been saying/writing “clown” instead of “cloud” for so long it’s automatic. And rarely does anyone notice.
The other way it ensures isolation is by separating code and data. All executable code lives in a separate address space that is not accessible from within wasm. Call stack is also a separate area, making it impossible to muck around or even look at the return pointer. Function pointers are opaque - they can live in global or local variables and in table entries (which are also completely separate from memory), but not in memory; when one needs such a pointer as part of the data structure (e.g. vtables), an index into a table is used instead.
For others like me who had to Google this, it was for the development of the lobotomy.
The coffee may be fine, but k-cups are some of the most environmentally unfriendly products ever produced. They cannot be recycled, they do not biodegrade, and they are produced in the billions. Apparently (citation needed), the inventor regrets his invention.

If you must drink pod coffee, consider Nespresso, which despite the questionable record of the Nestle company, can be fully recycled.
You clearly did not read the article lol. His point was really not about money at all.

It was a piece about slowing down, fussing less, and just appreciating moments with people over things like roasting dates and quality of beans.

That said, have any good coffee recommendations?
I didn't find his advice on preheating the water (and also cooling down the pot before pouring the coffee out) to be particularly useful (or make any appreciable difference at all) but got a few burns for my trouble. Grrr.
You can get the iCloud subscription and merge dropbox Apple Music and Apple tv all into a single thing.
Could you elaborate a bit more on that Nobel Prize?