skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting from the actual research publication over on https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/... :

Individuals were excluded if they (1) had a documented COVID-19 infection, (2) experienced a COVID-19 associated death, (3) received a booster, or (4) received their last COVID-19 vaccination after December 8, 2021 (to ensure each individual had the 25-week follow-up period to experience the event of interest).

Just on exclusion criterion 3 alone, this study doesn't actually apply to basically anyone. It only applies to people who still haven't had a single vaccine dose, which after three years of Covid is heavily biased towards individuals with immunocompromised medical conditions.

But, at least they know this, and of course the news article(s) will skip over that because you get more clicks if you lie about what the research showed:

These data are preliminary, based on surveillance data, and should be interpreted with caution. The results have several limitations: While this method has been used to assess risk of death following COVID-19 vaccination, it violates the assumption that an event does not affect subsequent exposure (for mRNA vaccines), which may introduce bias. Further, it does not consider the multidose vaccination schedule required for mRNA vaccination.

This study cannot determine the causative nature of a participant’s death. We used death certificate data and not medical records. COVID testing status was unknown for those who did not die of/with COVID. Cardiac-related deaths were ascertained if an ACME code of I3-I52 were on their death certificate, thus, the underlying cause of death may not be cardiac-related.

Unfortunately, in this case it's not a news article. It's Florida's government health officials. And instead optimizing for ad clicks, they're optimizing for saying whatever will let them stay in office.

Nothing about this paper should have been used as a basis for policy. That only thing this is a basis for is "further study". Which the paper even calls out:

Additional studies should be conducted to further understand the risks and benefits of vaccination of males between 25-39. Increased risk in the primary analysis for the 25 - 39 age group was based on a small sample size. Additionally, significant mortality from diagnosed COVID-19 infection occurred among all adult age groups. [...]

And of course the final paragraph:

Lastly, this analysis was conducted during the first months the vaccines were available. Both COVID-19 mortality due to infection or risk of mortality associated with vaccination have likely changed over time. In the fall of 2022, most people have either been vaccinated or have natural immunity to COVID-19. Many have had multiple vaccine doses, multiple infections or both. Research to assess the current risks and benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine to help update vaccine recommendations should be studied in this context.

What a beautiful example of executive level Florida man still being Florida man.
I made this switch personally. The newer "compact" models from Lenovo do not work as well with Linux as the classic ones. If you want a compact, reliable unix-like laptop then Apple is really the best (for now).
+1 for Safari, partly because on Intel laptops it caused significant less battery drain than Chrome (less of an issue with the M1’s ridiculously long battery life), and partly because it means I can bounce tabs/history/etc between different devices
I doubt you would care very much (not many do), but this is a problem for those among us fortunate enough to be born in so-called "developing" countries.

I am from one where we still burn coal for heat (along with plastic bottles, tires, and rubber). You can imagine the impact of the electricity produced here. Yet there are IT jobs here and we're using many of the same products you do.

I've been using Drone and GitLab CI for years and likely won't be using anything like what you're describing because green energy is simply not available, and probably won't be for the next 50 years at the very least.

Hosting CI on the other side of the planet is a no-go for various reasons (we self-host everything since it makes a lot of sense for us).
> Also don't assume using a vpn is more secure. That is a wrong assumption.

I agree with this statement, but what should a user ‘read’ in order to understand this?
If there is someone phoning you or knocking on your door when you turn it off, it's not a microcomputer.
FWIW, I made https://readerize.com that doesn't rely on RSS. Freemium is coming soon, kindly bear with me. For now, signup/trial is free without needing a credit card.

If you don't agree with the philosophy, kindly move along, no need to downvote.

I hesitated for a long time too. One day I just decided to keep at it and launch.
I check in with Orion from time to time, definitely getting better. The only thing that stops me from making it my daily driver is that 1Password support is still absolutely terrible. I hope that gets fixed soon, it's a good browser.
Timing the market is luck :)

If you want to be wealthy stay in it and wait 30, 40, or 50 years. It isn't a get rich quick scheme.
Edge's Web Capture feature is also nice.
Not just browsers but I also try to stay with the native App as much as possible, so I also use Safari. I use AdGuard[1] (Family Lifetime License) and works pretty well. I believe it also has the Personal AdGuard DNS[2] and I moved to it from PiHole, then NextDNS.

1. https://adguard.com

2. https://adguard-dns.io
What exactly did I say that made you think I don't take life seriously?

From all I can see is you incorrectly simplified what I said to a strawman argument of '"idk, people die, no big deal"'.

The reality is over the last 10+ years, without going into any details, I've been working towards and exponentially being closer and closer to helping humanity survive and change course as quickly and efficiently as possible; the current issue is a lack of adequate communication and organization, and properly designed tools, systems, and protocols - along with most major existing systems having been captured partly or fully by bad actors who seem hellbent on destabilizing society to prevent them from being held accountable, as well an attempt to gain full control over everything and everyone.

But being a realist is important if the odds are unknown, like how Elon is aiming for and where all signs point to him being successful creating a colony on Mars far sooner than later as a backup plan, backup site for humanity - when even 5 years ago that wasn't even on anyone's radar; seeing exponentials, as Elon has said, are very difficult for people to see - but that is where hope, along with automation and technology leveraged and utilized for good, in the right organization for the right purposes, is what can very quickly right the spaceship called Earth; unimaginably quickly - that even those who see and setup these systems following foundational principles will be surprised by their speed of development and uptake.
This seems similar to policy adopted by Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark?

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2477
It's if anything better that way. The commitment would have to be one you consciously take on, after all.
Google and Apple are both implementing an ISO that will allow for you to prove you are over 21, 18, etc. It’s just a super verified boolean. The tech can also provide much more, but you can think of it like OAuth scopes. The user is shown what will be shared from a set of discrete properties.
Firefox container is easily the best feature out of any browser. I love being able to isolate everything in categories.
Florida's largest hospital group has a religious affiliation? Ugh. We can be crititcal of goverment-run healthcare, but at least that headache is avoided. I live across the street from the one hospital in my small city. I think there would be protest marches if it ever proclaimed a paticular religion.
I'm not sure "repairability" was the real reason thinkpads were popular. They were clearly better on a lot of criteria, at the time. I think the competition simply caught up, and the Thinkpad line simply doesn't have as much to distinguish it from the pack now.
The Skateboard Mindset in Product Development (2017)
Chrome, because it works with our corporate apps, and Firefox and Safari both don't, and I'm on Google Workspace anyway.
I wouldn't recommend it for that (see sibling comment). Reuse isn't as idiomatic in C as it is in other languages, for reasons inherent in the language, e.g. see all widely used C codebases
You want wacky thinkpad displays? I used to own a 755CV.

https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/837100849964830721
The Wikimedia Foundation does not edit Wikipedia. So what I said above has got little to do with the information quality on the level of an individual article.

I still find it interesting though that the organisation attracts so many politicos. And as far as the Wikimedia Foundation's Strategy 2030 is concerned, it's absolutely relevant. A lot of people in the volunteer community felt that the result of the strategy discussions was kind of preordained, rather than a reflection of the community's will. ("By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us ..." etc.)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/...

There is more indirect influence on content by the Wikimedia Foundation nowadays, where they fund community organizers to increase coverage in a particular topic area.

An early example that taught them how not to do this (as well as a clear example of undue donor influence) was the Belfer Center scandal:

https://thewikipedian.net/2014/04/02/bats-in-the-belfer-a-be...

That was a scandal only because the Wikipedia volunteer community paid attention.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-paid-editing-scanda...

A more recent example that seems unobjectionable is this one:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/22/join-the-organizer-lab...
But it doesn't signal the original intent and is also reusable in less contexts...

Imagine we have the two following objects:

const person = {name: "John"}
const book = {title: "Bible"}

Only one of the following functions tell the user (developer who uses the function) A) what is actually needed for the function to work by just looking at the function signature and B) works for both objects, regardless of where `name` comes from.

function sayHello(person) {
console.log(`Hello ${person.name}`)
}

function sayHello(name) {
console.log(`Hello ${name}`)
}

Not to mention, passing smaller things leads to less memory usage, which is generally also a good idea.
Firefox on personal non mobile devices, safari on mobile devices.

Chrome for work.
Mine is very simple; I don't want people struggling to keep me alive, if the chances are that I'm going to die soon anyway. But this kind of thing can only work if the medical staff are trustworthy, and use common sense. My GP knows my attitudes, but in an emergency it might be any old jobsworth that has to interpret my wishes.
What are the specifics? I’ve had great experiences, getting tests, seeing specialists, all for free
firefox+ublock+ pihole (using localcdn for fun but i don't know)

for the most part, i used "browser.privatebrowsing.autostart=true" for like the last decade i think but i keep one window open for stuff that i has 2fa and stuff...
for regular browsing, i just do CTRL+SHIFT+P and work on this, all day everyday
These are not off-the-shelf consumer CCDs. These are highly specialized CCDs designed expressly (at Brookhaven National Lab) for this camera - they're essentially unique.[0]

They have to meet very challenging specifications, such as high quantum efficiency (what percentage of photons get detected) across a broad spectral range, fast readout with low noise, and minimal persistence across exposures (meaning that if you image a bright star, you don't see a faint trace of it in the next exposure).

As I understand it, there was no single company that could even manufacture the required number of CCDs on time, so two different manufacturers had to be chosen.

0. https://www.bnl.gov/lsst/ccd.php
Privacy Badger is no longer necessary. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
Safari - very fast, minimal UI + great battery life on laptops
I got demonetized when YouTube moves the goalpost and required 1000 subscribers. Sorry that my content only managed to gets views, but was more useful than entertaining.

Google is a search engine. Subscribing to a channel is what you do when search sucks/doesn’t exist.

I guess I’ll work on an “ow, my balls” channel.
I don't see how you can get an answer without saying at least what hardware you are planning to use. Generally the cheaper and more efficient it is the less choices you will have. Or is this an Iot hub?
Chrome, because I am a pawn of American hypercapitalism. :(
maybe it s not highly scalable, but WP is easy, millions of people do it. IRC is also easy to setup. Any of the mastodon/Matrix servers are not, and they dont really scale well (which is weird to me, why is it challenging to support a 100 users chat). Decentralized services should be designed to be lightweight ab inition because they are not going to run on supercomputers.
Firefox, my daily driver. It's nice.

Vivaldi and Chrome. For the dev tools, although vivaldi sometimes injects styles and drives me crazy.

Brave when I want to go onto onion stuff.
Physicist Erwin Schrödinger on Free Will and Pantheism
Last time I seriously worked on interoperability between pacs systems in 2014, there were new products being put on the market from major vendors like GE that didn't support Unicode in dicom.

And when I worked on radiation therapy systems, we ran into limitations with fixed-length fields being insufficient for the number of points in a region of interest, unless you use an encoding that doesn't indicate types. (4 bytes - either 2 for data type and 2 for length, or 4 for length with no data type listed).

It's from the 80s and shows.
Fidelity did a survey of thier customers whose 401k did the best over the years. The most popular response (about 1/3) was 'I don't have a 401k at fidelity'. They had forgotten about it and left it alone to grow through good and bad. If you know how your investments are doing you know too much
> Slower growth, why is that a problem? That is still a growth.

Capitalism increasingly consolidates the economy in the hands of the majority capital owners that control most of the economy. For that reason, in order to have a society that at least has a semblance of being a functioning one, there must be growth to provide some wealth/income to the majority.

When a capitalist economy is no longer able to grow exponentially, it starts eating itself from inside.
I love Firefox and I actually support it. As a neutral observer, I do notice that Brave is faster and snappier sometimes.
Fair enough! I'll dig through these later, although I'm guessing it is the inflammatory nature of the comment tht led others to flag it.

If only people flagged this sort of thing consistently. So it goes.
I think the blackberry App Store effectively functioned like this. Take Google Play store apk, upload to blackberry store. Voilà.
Arbitrary Lines: The way restrctive zoning costs all of us
Firefox or Fenix (FF build on fdroid) on Android with ublock origin is just amazing.
… in spite of being around for millennia.
What do you mean?

Here is an example: https://www.tecentriq-hcp.com/urothelial-carcinoma/clinical-...

For people with cisplatin (chemo) resistant metastatic (spread through the body) bladder cancer, if you treat with immunotherapy only 6% achieve complete response (cure). The other 94% has a partial response (which means they progressed) or no response at all. So they would likely die of their cancer relatively soon.

Lots of cancer drugs are like that.

Immunotherapy is expensive. Is it worth spending $250,000+ on cancer drugs for a 6% chance of a cure?
It wasn't always that way; it was a conscious change they made to save money, which they decided was more important than being able to do better quality control when counterfeit products are discovered from a certain seller.

I just think it's important to point out it's how they chose to do it, presumably knowing the potential downsides, rather than some impossibility of warehouse operations.
Russians were not interested in levelling civilian infrastructure, because they planed to use it for their own needs. Their plan was to capture territory, murder "nazi" (Ukrainians), and then steal everything valuable, like wheat, complex machinery, computers, phones, or even toilets.
Pick the language you’re most comfortable with. The one you feel good using.
The full moon falls into a different constellation roughly every month, no?
Chrome, because it's better integrated with the rest of the Google products that I use like Drive, on multiple devices.

But I'll make the switch to Firefox if adblockers stop working well on Chrome.

I'll never use Brave because of its affiliation with cryptocurrency and their history of injecting their own referral links to people going on Binance.

All the other ones are just honestly subpar.
Good thing then most of the riches in the near future available will be from space exploration and mining, that may then redirect the greedy to direct their resources to that endeavour?
Be aware that:

1) we're likely in a declining/sideways market for at least another year until inflation subsides, possibly longer

2) the Fed has most of the control over the inflation/deflation levers (on demand side)

3) markets will most likely recover over the long term, historically speaking

The Fed is purposefully reducing their asset holdings and increasing interest rates to slow down demand, which in theory should cool inflation. Once the economy cools enough, they will "flip the switch" back on to supporting markets by reducing interest rates, at which point #3 should begin. Educate yourself on the Fed and their impact on markets.

So if you sell at the lows, you're accepting the losses, can move on and invest again later. If you can afford to hold through this bear market, you may recover some of your losses on a longer timeframe. You can also position your portfolio with some downside protection (e.g long dated put options on indexes, selling covered calls on your stocks etc) to reduce the pain, you don't have to just watch your portfolio decline.
> Not only was it top result, it was sponsored by Amazon. (I don't actually know what this means, but it adds some legitimacy to the item and implies that Amazon endorses it).

Maybe the author is not a native English speaker? I saw “sponsored” and immediately knew it was an ad.

This was “Amazon’s Choice”

SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO USB 3.2 Solid State Flash Drive - SDCZ880-1T00-GAM46 https://a.co/d/2hSvRQx

A product I assume is legitimate
Right now use Brave and Vivaldi, because they do not crash my Linux System
Currently FireFox Causes a Crash of Linux Mint
Sentimental fluff?

To be human is to have emotions, being sentimental is one type of emotion you can feel. Especially if you feel like Earth is currently being overrun and destroyed by humanity at breakneck speeds. To feel emotional about this OK, as long as you also stay grounded and realistic.

But we should not hide our emotions, it's possible to be both emotional and rational.
You're not wrong. !!Con has been on the decline for a while now. We've moved on to other conferences.
> I realized that I've desperately been trying to make money my whole life so that people will like me

Money themselves have zero value and certainly shouldn't be viewed from that perspective. Their only value as a tool to get things done or buy something. Nothing more.
I don't think it's a tired excuse, I think it's a withering indictment of Amazon's complicity in selling counterfeit merchandise.

It's not a difficult problem to solve at all, Amazon simply chooses not to solve it because the upside is profit and the downside is mostly reputational which is hard to convert to a number on a spreadsheet, so for business purposes it might as well not exist.
How expensive is it to self-host videos nowadays? And are there any display ads providers that buy video advertising spots? Is it feasible to cobble together a page that has your content and splices a few ads into the videos? Kind of like a modernized version of the WordPress+AdSense blogs everyone used to have.
Waterfox, because too much google is not good for you
I used a ThinkPad between 2010 and 2012. For me it's a normal machine with nothing special. I don't understand the cult status.
What do we know about pedal assist E-bikes? A review to inform future directions
Chrome + uBlock Origin (plugin) + User JavaScript and CSS (plugin)

I want to like Firefox but every time I try it I run into some nitpick bug and go back to Chrome. I just tried it 2 minutes ago and the scrolling was hyper fast compared to Chrome, at least 5x the speed, it was not easy to control where I was on a page. Oh well, back to Chrome ...
It is impressive to me that the giant comment you replied to is factually wrong in one of its central premises about the amount of data consumed, and you are the one who gets negatives.

Our vision alone uncompressed is about 13TB per hour (!) (assuming 8k per eye resolution, "full color", and about 20hz sample rate). By the time a kid knows to play with a color book, they saw an equivalent of 4 PB of imagery.

For comparison Dall-E 2 only seen 175TB. And GPT-3 only a few TB.
I thought that the ancient Greeks considered the sky to be a 2 dimensional object: the inside of a sphere.
I for one am super happy that I now have access to world class talks, documentaries, and instructional videos on YouTube. Don’t complain about bad content. Instead choose to only watch the quality stuff.
UKR also seems to have struck at the only other rail line for southern Ukraine today [0,1]. If true, then the only supply route to Kherson and Crimea is the M14 highway and the one lane of the Kerch bridge. The M14 is problematic at it runs through areas of high UKR partisan activity. The one last lane on the Kerch bridge is also not likely to last long if it is going to be used as a main supply hub for all of RU operations, not only due to UKR strikes, but just normal wear and tear in winter. Supplying via sea is also a no-go as we saw with the sinking of the Moskova and the strikes against RU airbases in Crimea.

There is likely no workable method of supply or reinforcement for RU forces in southern Ukraine this winter.

[0] https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/10/08/himars-strike-destroy...

[1] https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/15786357973598986...
Twitter Replies That No One Asked For
> what's the point of having EOL care if not to prevent death.

That remark sounds odd to me. "EOL care" is provided to people who are at end-of-life, by definition. And neither EOL care nor anything else can "prevent" death.
Safari.

I do have Firefox installed as well. Typically if some website doesn't work in Safari, it works in Firefox...
Agrivoltaics: Throwing Shade Is Solar Energy's New Superpower
While I'm sure there's some overlap, the information wants to be free crowd isn't necessarily the same as the crowd that mostly cares about convenience.

The other factor here is that selling creative content/getting people to pay to see you has pretty much always been a long odds crapshoot as far as earning a living wage is concerned and there have likewise pretty much always been random gatekeepers standing in your way for all sorts of arbitrary reasons.
Maybe it's closer to 0.15%. So what? We do things with little chance of succes all the time. As I said, I'll take my 0.15% chance of living longer and be very grateful for it. Others might not. I still find it strange that money has a part to play in this at all. How cruel would it be to be denied life-saving treatment just because it's not 100% guaranteed to work.
1Password universal autocomplete is kinda okay. So that’s what I’m doing right now.
“The worst inbox on earth” – Archive of Political Emails