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- Lack of Outdoor Services and a Crisis of Faith
- Those of you who lived in both red and blue areas of the country during the height of the pandemic, what were the most noticeable differences in each area?
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[OC] Omicron Variant establishes very quickly. Since then Omicron sub-variants dominate starting with BA1. Each sub-variant wave starts to be replaced by 8-9 weeks. BA4+BA5 wave hasn't seen a new competitor for about 14 weeks now. Maybe the new booster for BA4+BA5 is the last one needed.
data source: https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/tree/master/variants
- COVID Cases USA: NYC Hospitalizations, BA5 Variant Infections Boom
- This is Newspeak for "vaccinated people are the ones mostly dying, but don't blame the vaccines because they weren't up to date"
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Who will be president in 2024?
NYC Covid Statistics
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U.S. Public Health Agencies Aren't ‘Following the Science,’ Officials Say
> You are ignoring the comorbidities aspect GP was talking about.
Even if we break this split this into two groups - those under 18 with comorbidities, and those without, there's still good evidence for both groups to get vaccinated. I don't know if there is a good breakdown nationally, but even just looking at NYC, the evidence becomes compelling. NYC has a dataset that breaks down deaths by age group and by comorbidity status:
https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/blob/master/to...
For under 18, as of 9/11/21 (yes, I wish they'd push a more recent update), 29 total deaths, 19 with an underlying condition, 5 without, and 5 pending/unknown. Underlying conditions by NYC's metric is pretty broad:
> Underlying conditions currently include diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, kidney disease, gastrointestinal/liver disease, and obesity.
So, in New York City alone, and as of nearly a year ago, you had 5 kids under the age of 18 with no known underlying conditions who died of Covid. Just an educated guess, but it's quite plausible we've had 100+ deaths in the under 18 with no underlying conditions group. That alone is pretty strong evidence in favor of vaccinating everyone in the under 18 group, and not just those with underlying conditions.
All that said, the primary reason for vaccine mandates for schools is related to transmission. And here too, there is good efficacy.
Ultimately, the harm/benefit calculation is quite clear in favor of vaccinations for kids, outside of rare scenarios. The main debate is whether the risk of backlash from schools mandating vaccination is worth the clear benefits of increasing vaccine uptake in these age groups.
> Cloth masks are security theater. Nobody’s disputing properly worn N95s. GP is talking about what has been pushed for two years and the credibility that has been destroyed. They’re not talking about recent shifts.
Cloth masks reduce transmission. They're not great at doing so, but they do still have an effect. Surgical masks are better. KN94/N95/etc are much better. Yes, we should have long ago moved to surgical as the minimum viable mask in mask mandate scenarios. It's unfortunate that we didn't. But even still, cloth masks do still help a small amount.
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3m adults in England still have no Covid vaccine
Would you like backup on unvaxed are highest hospitalized (first claim)? Here's the stats for NYC (where I live, thus most familiar). Unvaxed make up the majority of new cases, the majority of new hospitalizations, and the majority of deaths. Also, here's the data showing vaccination rate, which shows that the majority of the city is vaccinated, so it's a minority population making the majority of new cases/hospitalizations/deaths.
- COVID BA.5: Manhattan Positivity Rates Back at 20%
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Rising COVID cases but no mask mandate? NYC Mayor Adams’ decision sparks fear among front-line nurses: “You get this lump in your chest”
The NYC covid dashboard says the hospitalization trend is decreasing. Stop moralizing and do your fuckin’ job! https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
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Gary Killdall, creator of CP/M, wrote Pixar's original 3D renderer [pdf]
The submitted title was "Gary Killdall, creator of CP/M, wrote Pixar's original 3D renderer".
Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
(From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.")
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Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood
Vision therapy for myopia helps some people, but not everyone, likely due to genetic and neuroplasticity differences, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Nevertheless, many of the principles are useful for children whose eyes and brains are still developing.
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Tesla driver arrested for homicide after running over motorcyclist on Autopilot
I'm a huge Tesla skeptic, but Tesla and Musk are lightning rods for tabloid-style garbage that doesn't belong on HN, so it doesn't surprise me that we often see negative Tesla content flagged to death. Meanwhile we also see plenty of content that hits the front page and stays there [0].
Do you have examples of professional, interesting Tesla content that got flagged?
[0] More than half of the past year's most popular Tesla articles were negative: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
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The Man Who Killed Google Search
It's April 23rd, 2024, and I am still looking for a good, reliable, honest and simple search engine.
All I want to do is search.
No AI.
No ads.
No shopping.
Please don't "Answer my question." I enjoy doing my own original research, thanks.
I'm entirely willing - wanting even - to pay for it.
Currently Kagi has my $, but I'm saddened and frustrated that they're not even focused on Search, they're focused on AI[1] and t-shirts.
Amazingly, in 2024, there is still a market opportunity for a good search engine.
It can't really just be me, can it?
[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22kagi%22+%22ai%22
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Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
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For historical purposes
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Tesla Recalls All Cybertrucks for Faulty Accelerator Pedals
Most likely because there have been oodles of low-quality stories on these topics. We turned the flags off on this one since it maybe rises above the noise (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... for past explanations on how we approach that).
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Show HN: What Are You Working On?
Hey HN,
I'm sure you've seen the monthly "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?" headlines on [Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
Honestly, it's my favorite topic because it's packed with insights about what other hackers are up to.
I wondered what it would be like if instead of just a headline, there was a whole website where hackers could post daily updates, and where we could follow the hackers we're interested in for their latest updates. And so, this web site was born.
I hope it gets used frequently so we can all benefit from it together. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Let me know what you think!
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Not Apply to YC
I don't know what one thing you're referring to, but it's a core principle of HN to try to avoid repetition, and especially the repetition+indignation combo, which is the commonest and most tedious thing on the internet.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
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Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer System from First Principles
Happy 10,000 day to you
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nand2tetris.org
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Moxie: I'm no longer involved at Signal
not sure. I searched comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
Most recent are more culture wars stuff but some earlier ones appear to suggesting a degree of alignment with the USA government.
What are some alternatives?
sgtf - Tracking spike gene target failure at UW Virology
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
covid-19_instant_tracing - Preprints from the BDI Pathogen Dynamics team regarding digital contact tracing and other non-pharmaceutical interventions for Covid-19. More details on our website:
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
coronavirus-dashboard-api-R-sdk - Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK - API Service SDK for R
parser - 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
Datos-COVID19 - Para señalar fuente de los datos señalar que vienen de este repositorio, junto con la fuente de orígen: "Datos obtenidos desde el Ministerio de Ciencia y producidos por el Ministerio de Salud (o la fuente que corresponda) https://github.com/MinCiencia/Datos-COVID19". Please attribute data provenance: produced by Chile Ministry of Health and obtained from Ministry of Science https://github.com/MinCiencia/Datos-COVID19"
readability - A standalone version of the readability lib
COVID19-Data - This is an Open Aggregated Dataset for the COVID19 Cases in Malta
yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents
covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker - Source code and data for The Economist's covid-19 excess deaths tracker
milkdown - 🍼 Plugin driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework.