cmonfeat (u/cmonfeat)

cmonfeat commented on Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/richardatlarge

oldstatsstudent · 4 years ago

Did anyone notice the comparison of vaccine-based immunity to natural immunity in the findings within the source PR [0]? With a little work, you can compare them.

If we convert the measure used in finding 2 (relative risk of reinfection) to finding 1's (relative protection), then the study found that natural immunity from Delta variant gives 60% protection against Omicron; roughly double the vaccine's protection.

Unfortunately, no stat was given for natural immunity's protection against hospitalization.

From finding 1: individuals who received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had 33% protection against infection, relative to the unvaccinated

From finding 2: People who were infected with COVID-19 in South Africa’s third (Delta) wave face a 40% relative risk of reinfection with Omicron

Am I reading this right? Wonder why they used different metrics?

0: https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room#/pressreleas...

cmonfeat · 4 years ago

Given the high percentage of the population in SA who has already had an infection, there's probably a significant chunk of people in finding 1 who also already had natural immunity. That's probably going to make it difficult to use these results to compare vaccine-based immunity to natural immunity, right?

cmonfeat commented on Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? · Posted by u/orbOfOrthanc

gangstertim · 5 years ago

Battery-operated household items. I have a cordless dewalt drill that I can use all day on my jobsite, but every single appliance in my kitchen needs a cord. Hand mixer? Immersion blender? Regular blender? Stand mixer? Everything has a cord. Why isn't there a kitchen battery system yet?

Similarly: I'd love to have a little reading sconce on my wall next to my bed, but running a circuit through the existing walls without tearing them up is impossible. Why isn't there any attractive battery-powered home lighting? Sure, maybe overhead lights for lighting a room need more draw, but there's no reason to plug in a desk lamp, wall sconce, or coffee table light every day. Especially for renters who aren't about to hire an electrician—why no battery-powered lights designed for the home? Periodic recharging is annoying, but it's better than literally not being able to have a light where I want it.

There's a market here and it's not new technology. It's just repackaging existing technology with a splash of industrial design. Hell, the battery requirements for my drill are much greater than the battery requirements for my immersion blender. It shouldn't even be expensive!

cmonfeat · 5 years ago

I understand the convenience argument, but with current battery technology this would not be sustainable. All those batteries require rare earth materials and add more waste to our daily lives as they have limited lifespans.

cmonfeat commented on Show HN: Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust github.com/flouthoc/vas-q... · Posted by u/flhoc

jerry1979 · 5 years ago

Always wish we could run a container system like this without sudo/root access.

cmonfeat · 5 years ago

Podman allows you to run containers without root privileges, in case you aren't aware. But maybe you mean something else?

cmonfeat commented on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud blog.youtube/news-and-eve... · Posted by u/1cvmask

laurent92 · 5 years ago

Censorship has always worked quite well, unfortunately. I grew up believing certain things until, around 30, I went to look up the figures and noticed clichés and prejudices were more correct than teachers and journalists. What a world we live in. Not a situation I’d desire!

To start with, it seems Galileo didn’t say « Pero se mueve ». If you pull the string from there, he can’t possibly have been incarcerated for saying that the Earth wasn’t the center of universe, because Kepler more or less said the same before and wasn’t incarcerated. All of that, which I had been taught in school, is false. The king of France was guillotined because he wanted to organize a referendum for him, which he was confident to win, not because he was unpopular. And so it goes on to XXth century, and the to XXIth century, with the feminism and racism narratives. When you notice the ILO’s universal treaty of 1928 against slavery of every human on Earth...

...didn’t include males from 18 to 49. Who had to wait until the UN treaty of 1957 against forced labour, if I remember, to be included.

I’m praying every night for the world to pop out of this censorship of reality. But praying is less efficient than censorship.

cmonfeat · 5 years ago

While censorship is certainly a real thing that happens, many of your examples seem to fall on the side of "History is written by the winners." Selective omission and censorship are not exactly the same thing (although the result can certainly be the same).

cmonfeat commented on Linux 5.10 Will Have a Fully Lock-Less Ring Buffer linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.... · Posted by u/wailin

cmonfeat · 5 years ago

Anyone have a ELI5 version of the architecture of lockless buffer? I'm trying to wrap my head around how something like this can operate without locks and I just can't grock it.

cmonfeat commented on Amazon’s roadmap for Alexa is scarier than anything Facebook or Twitter is doing thenextweb.com/artificial... · Posted by u/notkaiho

kirykl · 6 years ago

I've never had a voice assistant ask "Was that answer correct?" or say "Ohh that's what you meant" [Edit: I've only used Siri]

The idea of voice assistant predicting what the user wants seems impossible without that feedback.

If companies can convince the user that their assistant knows what they want, then it can actually just push out what it wants and users will comply.

cmonfeat · 6 years ago

For what it's worth, Alexa does ask for feedback about the accuracy and helpfulness of it's answers now.

cmonfeat commented on Seattle Holy Rollers Killings: The End to an Oregon Love Cult (2003) historylink.org/File/4263... · Posted by u/smacktoward

cmonfeat · 6 years ago

The legacy of this one guy and his cult of personality is pretty amazing. I think this would make a fascinating Paul Thomas Anderson movie.

cmonfeat commented on Go Creeping In tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/mpweiher

notafrog · 7 years ago

My biggest issue with navigating Go codebases is that sometimes it's cumbersome to find where a specific type/function is defined, when there are multiple files under the same directory.

cmonfeat · 7 years ago

I've had this issue as well and found that it makes using an IDE almost mandatory for large code bases.

cmonfeat commented on Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination? · Posted by u/kevintb

projectramo · 7 years ago

It’s obvious: act young.

Die your hair and adopt the “lingo” of the cool dudes.

Like double barrel your boss with your fingers and wink and say “I like your style” no matter what he says.

Or if you agree with a colleague you say “fo shizzle” to gain their respect.

Refuse to program in anything old. All code has to be Haskell or whatever and throw in a neural network. If you can do that in a container you’re home free.

cmonfeat · 7 years ago

Liberal use of the word "lit" when describing the latest and greatest framework always works for me.

cmonfeat commented on Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination? · Posted by u/kevintb

souprock · 7 years ago

So why not just make a virtual machine image and keep a pristine copy of it? I think this dates back to the mainframe era.

cmonfeat · 7 years ago

One reason to use containers over VMs is that building, updating and extending containers is far easier and more maintainable than full virtual machines.

Containers give you the ability to layer the pieces you need on top of each other, so you are only responsible for the parts that you maintain. No need to rebuild an entire VM image every time one piece of the stack is updated.

Distribution of containers is also far more efficient than full virtual machines (especially important in a highly distributed environment).