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Spotify closes its office in Russia in response to attack on Ukraine(reuters.com)
13 points by bryan0 5y ago|0 comments
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by bryan0 5y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. This is news because he is the youngest player to beat magnus since he became world champ, and it was an excellent game to boot.
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by bryan0 5y ago
As an aside, as I understand it there is general consensus now that that the proof is flawed: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12220
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Frequency of Adverse Events in the Placebo Arms of Covid-19 Vaccine Trials(jamanetwork.com)
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2020
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by bryan0 5y ago
video of how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzPE1MCgXxo
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by bryan0 5y ago
non-paywalled summary?
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by bryan0 5y ago
I think the key difference might be that flu mutates quickly, so each year we actually get a flu vaccine for a variety of the most likely strains. While for Covid after 2 years of mutations, the doses of the initial vaccine are still very e
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by bryan0 5y ago
It’s completed now. Congrats to everyone who worked on this phase of deployment.
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This is speculation from 1 year ago: > One of the leading theories in the publishing world, which is rife with speculation over the thefts, is that they are the work of someone in the literary scouting community. Scouts arrange for the s
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Lifesaving Covid Treatments Face Rationing as Virus Surges Again(nytimes.com)
5 points by bryan0 5y ago|1 comments
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by bryan0 5y ago
There seems to be this common perception on HN that chatbots are good enough to pass the Turing Test thereby making such a test irrelevant. I’m not sure why this idea is so pervasive.
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by bryan0 5y ago
Our company does something similar. I've found it to be very effective. We do this instead of leetcode, which I have found to be pretty irrelevant throughout my career.
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Not exactly sure what you are referring to, but this seems consistent with my article. > To use traditional machines, Theranos had to dilute some of the smaller samples it collected. It appears that Theranos carried out another 60 tests
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Patients were affected by inaccurate results: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22687026/theranos-patient...
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by bryan0 5y ago
> I might be wrong I think you are: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22687026/theranos-patient...
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by bryan0 5y ago
I feel the exact opposite. The investors that actually did their due diligence ran away from Theranos. I feel no sympathy for the investors that bought into it. I do however feel tremendous sympathy for the patients that received erroneous
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by bryan0 5y ago
Related from 1 week ago: Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29695013
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by bryan0 5y ago
* 2022 ends much like 2021, people thinking it sucked because of the pandemic, and signs for hope in 2023. * Russia has not yet invaded Ukraine but continues to threaten to extract concessions. However now China in parallel amasses troops
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Asus Admits Fiery Z690 Motherboard Flaw, Starts Recall Program(tomshardware.com)
8 points by bryan0 5y ago|2 comments
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Thanks I updated my comment
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Maybe because the study has nothing to do with boosters or overall Covid risk. Myocarditis risk is lower with boosters than with 2nd shot in Israeli studies, but again the reason to get vaccinated is not just about myocarditis. More nuance
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by bryan0 5y ago
Boosters are beneficial even if you’re under 45: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-12-09/large-studi... Edit: critical to beneficial
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> Some customers have also reported changing their master passwords since they received the login warning, only to receive another alert after the password was changed. Must be a compromised browser extension at this point. > To make
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by bryan0 5y ago
I’ve been trying to get any rapid test for the past 2 days unsuccessfully. I live in the Bay Area. I made a reservation and pre-paid $$$ for a rapid antigen and pcr test from a private company, and after 1 hour of waiting found out they are
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Pan-Coronavirus “Super” Vaccine(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)
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Israel Considers 4th Vaccine Dose, but Some Experts Say It’s Premature(nytimes.com)
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by bryan0 5y ago
How about frontpaged ? “Zuck permabanned me but I frontpaged to get back my account”
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Yeah I agree with this, it gets more into the sci-fi horror genre which some people might like and others not. I would say though that it’s still a very good book and if you liked the first I would definitely recommend.
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by bryan0 5y ago
Children of Time and the sequel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Best sci-fi I’ve read in a while.

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