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> - please, tell us all why we should get the Yellow Fever vaccine even though most of us are not at risk of catching it

That's pointless, let's just go to the heart of the issue here. You, for some reason, are special, and smarter than all of us idiots that listened to our doctor when they said "get the covid vaccine."

So, when I answer your question as to why we don't get the Yellow Fever vaccine, "because doctors don't recommend it, but doctors do recommend getting the COVID vaccine," tell us why you are right, and why they are wrong to say we should get the COVID vaccine.

I can only think of two possibilities: the vast majority of doctors across the entire planet are stupider than you, or, they're all lying for... some reason. So, which is it?

In short, you're doing what you've accused me of doing: not really answering the question, *why NOT get the COVID vaccine?* Given that basically every health professional across the world recommends near everyone to get a COVID vaccine, including young and healthy people, what's your *good reason* not to? Because something vaguely about "opioid epidemic?" Not good enough, that's a unique-to-America problem, we don't have the same issue here with our health advice re: medication and vaccination.

Doctors recommend that young, healthy people get a COVID vaccine because the possibility of a side effect are extremely small, compared to the possibilities for the same person having a really bad COVID infection with long term effects. The possibilities of COVID vaccination side effects are also low enough to justify the social benefits of a vaccinated population. Though true herd immunity won't happen, every step each of takes to reduce the chance of infection, helps in the overall reduction of fatal or severe infections. It'd be great if it was black and white, but part of why covid is such a virulent pandemic is because that's not possible with this disease. It was the same with wearing masks: nope, wearing a mask doesn't completely eliminate the spread of covid, but the studies bear out that it reduces infection rate: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119266119 (among others)

You said you don't think you'd get a severe covid infection, then claim I don't know my friend well enough to say why they would. You guessed at comorbidity, that could be detected through a blood panel, despite the greater medical field not being fully certain on exactly what comorbidity could cause a bad covid infection among a young health person, and whether said comorbidity could be detected in a blood panel.

You don't actually know for sure whether or not you're susceptible to a bad COVID infection, unless, again, you know something the rest of the world doesn't, which, you don't. So, the statistics indicate that you, like most people, should just get a COVID vaccine.

If the term "social responsibility" makes you hear the soviet national anthem in your head, I'm very curious how you feel about littering, playing loud music in public, and opting to hold in a pee until you get to a public bathroom. And if you think everyone that uses words like "lol" is a teenager, I'm really curious how you are at parties lmao
The submission is unclear. I get "The apge is down". I guess the submitter wants to tell us that the page might have been intentionally removed? Or Twitter have too few employees left to keep their stuff maintained?

Well, I have come to my conclusion some weeks ago: I don't want to have anything to do with Twitter anymore.
Virtual Tour of the Hughes Mining Barge and Sea Shadow
Opposite? They are prerequisites of each other. Can't be happy without pleasure. Can't feel pleasure when unhappy.
This is very close to my differentiation between the two.

Machine learning fundamentally cares about model performance on other data, like validation or test sets. It is looking for models that perform well, but not necessarily model the underlying process.

Bayesian statistics, like most statistics, wants to accurately estimate parameters in the model. It cares most about models that are portraying the underlying data-generating process.
For an even more unpopular opinion:

I find the syntactic verbosity of Rust absolutely appalling:

fn fmt(&self, _: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), std::fmt::Error> {}

Surely this monstrous code has advantages over C(++) but in no world would I voluntarily write code in this language if other options were viable. I don't get how people prefer this language outside of a very narrow application context where the lasts millisecond of optimization matters.
I understand, I'm addicted to computers since 1996 when I was 10. But it's possible to change it setting some goals,trying to go outside more, do some external activities (aka walk, bike, etc.) But if you live in a place where the winter is severe then I have no idea what one could do. It's easy to forget about life when using electronic devices in general but try to set alarms to remind you that you have/need to do other stuff, it helps you to break the pattern.
That I did not know it had happened, as it was a silent change (and indeed, a change which survived uninstallation of the VPN).

So in the end, when I stumbled across it, I did change it back - but I had a malformed DNS config for the months before, by chance, finding the change.

That I could change it back isn't much use when I had no idea the change had occurred.
How about leaks and thermal losses?
A matching yt overall ;)

ApoCOALypse Now! [YouTube]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLThCHzetTU
Maybe some sort of insurance should be bought by the renters. Authorities should really try to make this system safer if they are not going to forbid it.
The Scandal of Financial Nihilism
> then more computers if no issues were detected.

.. a job they should have left to the sysadmins in charge of those machines receiving said updates.
That looks more like a 500 error to me.
I don't understand what "sound" is supposed to mean in the first place.

From an engineering perspective a debt based system has a lot more guarantees about what will happen to the economy from a stability perspective. There is still the obvious non determinism of not paying debts on time but it sounds like it could be solved by introducing negative feedback so that the system self stabilized toward a desired state.

But this "sound" money thing, it is supposed to work just by sheer willpower alone.
I've been doing Rails for a long time now and I'm not sure this is true. The latest release seems sleeker than the Rails 3 series. Back then we had RJS still going on and UJS becoming a thing. It's a web framework so JS will always have a place, and if anything I'd say they've finally sorted out the JS side to give you some saner options from the beginning - turbo/hotwire being just one of the options.
I don't understand why this is such a big issue. Detecting garbage is the same whether the producer is human or machine.

If there is no discernible author, if you can't figure out the background of the author, then person or AI, it's most likely garbage.

People are just as likely to produce garbage as machines. Why treat one differently than the other?
Not all databases are relational, even though many are. Filesystems are definitely strongly overlapping with what you'd consider a document-oriented NoSQL database.

The underlying datastructures are really the same in a filesystem and a database in every way that matters.
Sigh. Yet another HN post that doesn't work on mobile...
DIPSY, a sub-$5 DIY System-on-Chip based on a tiny FPGA
> So for attackers to reach it, either they need to breach the network first or it’s an internal employee

So for instance an employee getting their laptop infected with malware, or through phishing, or through one of the many vulnerabilities discovered regularly on enterprise VPN software?

There is a reason that many organisations are going away with VPNs and "corporate networks" all together - it gives a false sense of security that stuff behind it is protected by the VPN and leads to poor security practices inside like obsolete Jenkins installs.

Disclaimer: I work at a company that sells Zero Trust as a concept and associated software, but I've had this opinion since before joining (I've seen enough of 'there's a VPN and then lots of apps/services/servers with very poor auth practices because it's behind the VPN, why bother?')
For me linking only happens once, while most of the time is actually building stuff.

Also the speedup is only for Debug builds, since Release ones use LTO anyway, and no amount of linker magic makes that fast.
-- most people here not trying to build house of card scam jeonse empires is point of my post - korea is usually quite an honest country - assume positive intent! =) --
Just the linking step, of course.
A few years ago i worked as a grunt for a fleet-wide ESXi upgrade and we took the occasion to update iDRAC. The number one step in the procedure was to reboot iDRAC, no matter how good its state looked. I have never ever seen both a high uptime and completely functional iDRAC at the same time, across 200~ servers.
HN seems to hate both, and technology in general.
If you're using class component, you can mutate the state then manually trigger force (UI) update
Maybe, but there’s still some state in eg config files that persists over upgrades. If there are incompatibilities there, you’ll still have issues, so it’s not a silver bullet.
Pointing out that the author of that article was overly emotional.

We all know what it's like to have children, hardly a revelation.
Ukrainian Air-Defense Crews Have Better Apps (2022)
Jogging my memory from over 20 years ago, the "reference" reactive foodstuff they used was "processed pork product" (Spam). Looking at the available Spam can sizes, maybe it was 340g processed pork product. Maybe they then used 300g Sodium, and 300g TATP.

In any case, the third-hand description I heard over 20 years ago of the TATP factory in a residential kitchen was horrifying. They made at least several times as much as they used publicly at the Sodium Drop.
You do have a way of avoiding it as mentioned in the link by setting an identical machine id string
Not returned, but i've seen clients refuse to go with HP again because iLO sucked too much and come upgrade time went Dell. Unfortunately for them right around the time iLO got okay-ish and iDRAC got shitty.
The Silk Road was at its safest during Mongol rule.
People create money substitutes at will when their central government isn't providing them with a suitable money system. That should give you an intuitive sense that money is always a social relationship.

A bank acts like an internet router but one that transforms the risk relationship. It is not an intermediary that accepts deposits and lends them on. It is an intermediary that acts as a third party to a double sided debt contract where one side owes products and services to the creditor and another side owes money to the debtor.
So "only" three week
Those things need to be supervisioned.
FlyTAP has gotten their entire rewards DB (if not all their DB) hacked and if it were not for IHBP I would never know because the company never told me.
As far as I know FlyTAP never got a fine for ignoring its obligations.

GDPR is a good idea but there must be supervision for it being applied as defined.
So you are saying Debian has accepted the feature. Although Debian servers proably don't use it for the time being?
I agree he seems to me to have held racist beliefs, I mean the orcs and the goblins.

However, I think the elves were straight up alfar with their leaders (Gandalf, Elrond, Celbrimbor, Galadriel, the wood elf king - I never remember his name) drawn from the vanir.

I think the Rohirrim were Anglo-Saxon expys though, and I think the Hobbits were English expys. I also think Tolkien put more than a little of himself in both Theoden and Bilbo. Theoden says 'A lesser son of great sires am I'. Also, the relationship between Bilbo (who stays home, too old to fight the war against Mordor) and Frodo (the young effectively son who goes to fight the evil in foreign dark lands) a parallel to him and Christopher Tolkien.

Place names, language, all of that is evocative of Anglo-Saxons (the early vikings, later they came from Sweden and Denmark), except horses.

Wikipedia says "Tolkien grounded Rohan in elements inspired by Anglo-Saxon tradition, poetry, and linguistics, specifically in its Mercian dialect, in everything but its use of horses. Tolkien used Old English for the kingdom's language and names, pretending that this was in translation of Rohirric. Meduseld, the hall of King Théoden, is modelled on Heorot, the great hall in Beowulf." (available under CC-AS)

Wait, that says nothing of vikings...

But, "The name "Anglo Saxon" refers to the Germanic people who invaded and occupied West England from c. 500-1066 AD. These people arrived first from Saxony (NW Germany) and later (800-1066) from Sweden and Denmark. We refer to these last groups as "Vikings", and this is where Beowulf originates and takes place." - from 'Intro to Beowulf' (https://webpages.uidaho.edu/engl257/Anglo%20Saxon/intro_to_b...)

To be fair, some authors lump Anglo-Saxons in with Vikings, some keep them distinct.

AskMiddleEarth is a great site, and has a nice map of Rohan in an article: https://askmiddlearth.tumblr.com/post/104445771679/settlemen...
It does not, unless you use SQLite in a read-only manner which doesn't make much sense anyway.

BTW. There's nothing in SquashFS that makes it "a filesystem in a file". You can use it directly on a device (and it's often used this way), and you can use many other filesystems in a file just as well.
If only they had flying horses to go over Alps
Doesn't the IBM Iseries have a database as file system?
Why do you say the target audience were parents? Everyone I hear talking about the show were kids when it aired. At the time animation was always for kids. Before the Simpsons there was no adult animation and even when that came out it was actually even a bit confusing for some. I think it’s just that Link’s behaviour in the show was socially acceptable at the time, but it isn’t anymore.
> It can only ever be a piece of evidence alongside others.

A heuristic is not evidence, as you should know.
If people want to get educated on energy storage technologies and what use cases work for them then here's a good resource: https://www.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/Final%20...

If you prefer web to PDF:
https://www.pnnl.gov/ESGC-cost-performance

And if you just want a quick 2 table summary (INCLUDING flywheels!) look at pages 8 and 8 of this: https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2019/07/f65/Stora...
One of Google's big plans to replace third-party cookies just hit a setback
Average house where?
Here in my European country the average is more like 10kWh per day.
For a low low cost of 200$, you can buy a lifetime subscription to Google Glass Mk 2 which records your entire life as you experience it, trains a Chat GPT model on it and allows you to query your own life experiences instantly.

I am joking of course, but with the rise of the internet and digital media, I think it will become easier (and more common) to rely on storage other than our own memory to keep track of our lives. From personal experience, small things like phone numbers and birthdays have already moved from my memory to digital storage and I am not sure if it is a bad thing overall.
Supposedly a wild strike caused the steel hammer to strike the steel pipe and spark, and there was a narrow flammable channel next to the dowel leading to the main charge.
A self-hosted anti-social RSS reader
Neat! I like it.

I get no audio on my iphone though for the interactive keyboard. Might just be my setup.
Show an implementation of a concurrent lock-free stack without delayed freeing.
For me, the gradual build up of (1) maximum likelihood estimation to (2) maximum a posteriori estimation to (3) full posterior approximation (or posterior sampling) was helpful to understand where Bayesian methods are in machine learning. Here’s a great video series by Erik Bekkers, who is at the University of Amsterdam. It assumes solid knowledge of calculus & linear algebra and takes you through the math and intuition of all fundamental ML methods: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FnQMH2k7jzhtVYbKmvrMyXD...
I wonder if the performance would be substantially improved by NVMe drives.
Being critical doesn't necessarily equal hate. It's not surprising a forum for coders would have people criticize and not just rave about tech like people who do not understand how it works and to whom it's basically magic.
> In fairness, Diffusion is arguably a very complex entropy coding similar to Arithmetic/Huffman coding.

Not the way it's used in Stable Diffusion models. Compressed data can be decompressed knowing only the decompression algorithm. To recover data from a stable diffusion model, you need to know the algorithm and the prompt.

A critical part of the information _isn't_ in the data you decompress, it has to come from you. (And this isn't that relevant, but it would be lossy, perceptual compression like jpeg or mp3, not lossless compression like Huffman or Arithmetic coding.)
I staied away from XFS (on PC) because my experience was different. Power outage -> replay journal log (no fsck) -> repeat a couple of times -> filesystem corrupted heavily.

OTOH ext2 was rock solid.
Hi, creator here did not know it was shared on hacker news until someone sent me an email.

Battery life is one day with screen always on and about two without. I designed it so that it should have a week battery life with screen not always on, but I have some hw bug so there are some current leak causing only two days life. So I use it every day.
Money creation is limited by the productive investments that the banks can find and if it is overly pessimistic it will not lend even to productive investments.

Sound money advocates think that money for loans should be limited by the availability of "prudent savers".
And here's a Buddhism quote for the rescue:

> Someone came to him [Ajahn Chaa] complaining of all the conflicting advice he gave to his students. Sometimes he would suggest one thing and then later just the opposite. Ajahn Chaa replied, “It’s like this. If I see someone walking down a road and about to fall off into a ditch on the left, I’ll shout, ‘Go right.’ Later, if the same person, or someone else, is walking on the road and about to fall into a ditch on the right, I’ll say, ‘Go left, go left.’ It’s always about staying on the path.”

from Joseph Goldstein, _Mindfulness_ (2013)
Fresh fintech funding data tells us what investors are chasing in a downturn
https://www.biltrewards.com/ Don’t worry, there’s a credit card for that too
You might want to dig deep into the "being more at ease with myself" aspect. What is your self-talk telling you? What are you afraid of? etc.

It helped me to realize and accept that extroverted people are so preoccupied with themselves and their image that they barely notice others. Once I accepted that I am basically invisible to them, I don't bother making my views, opinions known. Instead I ask questions and direct the conversation into areas that interest me or just excuse myself and walk away. I don't have to prove anything to anybody.
> Choose single-purpose devices like an e-reader where it’s tedious and awkward to do anything but read.

Or, you know, an actual paper book. :)
I think it will influence just two sections of the content.

1. Telling you how many weeks you have been alive for
2. What people usually focus on during the period of life you're in, according to research
I always thought a future (as well as an option) was a contract -- as distinct from a security. In fact, a warrant is a securitised option.

So the nuanced question should be: "What is the difference between a contract and a security?"
Food is localized. I'm in Korea now. There's very little arable land here, and vegetables are expensive. It could easily turn into a case of there simply not being available to everyone, simply because there's just not enough. However if the price rises enough to justify the cost of growing it locally in vertical farms, this secures access to greens to everyone. My in-laws are trying to do this at home and even just for their own needs: vegetables are becoming so expensive that it's more affordable to grow them on their balcony. Vertical farming is something they want to do to allow them to improve and maintain their diet at an sustainable cost (that of electricity). And energy is more efficient to import than greens, since it's fungible.

Vertical factory farms make a ton of sense here.
We Should All Be Nervous About the Online Safety Bill
Creator here, Because the MCU is not very powerful. https://www.nordicsemi.com/products/nrf52833 have limited RAM so I cannot flush more than 10% of the screen at a time
Yeah exactly, I’m saying it’s dangerous to use “who benefits?” as a heuristic, because it will be wrong far more often than it will be right.
Caste system too. Apartheid on a scale which has forever condemned millions into a state which they'll never get out.
Man this was hard to read. My parents moved across the country a few years ago, went from seeing them every two weeks to twice a year. I'll be lucky to see them more than a couple dozen times total for the rest of our lives.
The biggest scam of renewables is not the viability of the technology itself, but the lie by omission that all renewables require baseload power which always happens to be non-renewable. The massive expansion of gas peaking plants in Germany, Europe and the rest of the developed world is the prime example of the lie.

Statistics are presented about the benefits of renewables, which seemingly never include the environmental destruction of the gas peaking plants propping them up.

If you counter with 'what about batteries', the lie by omission shifts from environmental destruction to child slavery. Battery supply chains cannot escape the contaminant that is child slavery.

Of course, this is while the West agreed to give China and India free reign to build unlimited coal plants until 2030.

Why can't renewables shake these fundamental deceptions? You're either hiding emissions (gas) or hiding child slavery (batteries).
> regardless of role within the firm, must not earn less than 0.X times the remuneration of the CEO

So penalizing companies in low margin sectors and depriving them of top tier leadership talent while favoring companies in high margin industries seems reasonable to them? e.g. Amazon would have a much lower cap on CEO remuneration mainly because they are in retail and distribution (not implying that warehouse workers are not treated poorly) than Google for instance just because they employee less software engineers etc. proportionally?

Doesen't make much if any sense to me...
w3m comes to mind
Does anyone remember an early 90s program for DOS which among other things it would ask for you DOB and output your predicted DOD based on life expectancy?
It was graphics, not text. I faintly remember some skeletons illustrations to this dialog.
Paul Graham also has an essay which explores the same core idea, but imho he manages to explore more angles of the passage of time, and how we perceive it through the scarcity of different experiences we value. If you liked this one, check it out:

http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html
Creator here, you are not far off. I should share bom with prices, will do that on github.
“Elno wants his birdsite without other apps joining!”
Taxation is what defines fiscal policy, which is only half the story. You need to take both fiscal and monetary policy into account to get a full picture of the economy as a whole.
It's a simple quote, but not very useful.

The past isn't generally depressing and there are lots of things worth to be remembered. The past is not only in my mind, it is around me all the time and it is the context I'm living in.

The future needs some planning.

We just need to live in the present, but also have to make decisions based on past&present&future.