skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe go find someone who subscribes to the NYT or watches MSNBC to hurl your unfounded accusations at. Because you’re not replying to someone who’s trying to grind you into dust.
I see your point but for me at least, my gut feeling is the autonomous cars are just scarier because they're moving at 60 miles per hour. Maybe it's irrational but this whole discussion isn't about rationality its about gut feeling
Still waiting for the great FAANG from Texas.
Honestly, introspecting, I’ve got no good feeling about it, and no case made for it has convinced me, yet. Under these circumstances I don’t do things.
I have not seen any information that it likely does not inhibit transmission. All I have seen is that we don't have data on this. AFAIK, every other vaccine on the planet inhibits transition. Do you have a source?
Not enough to know with absolute certainty what will happen when millions of people get it. Especially unforeseen reactions that take several years to appear.

As much as you trust each of the (5?) vaccines, you yourself can not know for certainty.. there is some doubt. You may judge that that uncertainty and risk is minimal and well worth taking the vaccine, another completely rational person may decide that it is not worth the risk.

The point of my post was that there is real and legitimate risk, be it ever so small. Anyone who pretends there is zero risk to the vaccine is misrepresenting the truth and doing a disservice in the effort of persuading rational adults that vaccine delivery is being lead in an honest and forthright way.
You're arguing with a straw man. I never claimed storage technologies other than lithium batteries didn't exist. Electric cars continue to be a central example of the relatively recent increase in research into storage technologies.

And you still can't extrapolate indefinitely from an exponential curve. We don't know where the floor will be, or whether it will be low enough.
A modern engine will run at full hp for extended periods, hundreds of hours. In many ways, lower power settings at lower rpms can be harder on engines than running flat out. In a family car, the cooling system would drop the ball long before anything as substantial as a head gasket. It would overheat long before any actual damage.
Harsh. Would you be comfortable convicting those people with attempted murder?
Those "repositives" are not infectious cases though.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w

"There was a low repositive rate in recovered COVID-19 patients in Wuhan. Results of virus culturing and contract tracing found no evidence that repositive cases in recovered COVID-19 patients were infectious, which is consistent with evidence from other sources."

Same paper also states that asymptomatic cases are much less likely to be infectious.
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic

What would be the catastrophic consequences of this guideline if HN started a TV channel with news that would "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"?
Interesting to see the HN crowd poll more likely to take the vaccine (~85% at the time of this comment) compared to Americans polling at 60%. https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2020/11/10/harris-poll-co...
I'm sorry but I'm going to mock anyone who suggests that Bill Gates is going to microchip people through the vaccine. These people are choosing to ignore reality, and should be put in the same boat as Flat-Earthers.

On the other hand, people are of course free to have a healthy scepticism about a new-form of vaccine, and I will happily respect that.
In 12 years in Austin I have encountered zero scorpions indoors, and maybe a single-digit number outdoors. This despite essentially constantly walking barefoot in both. In my entire life in Texas I've been stung by a scorpion exactly one time.
That's because the thing that killed Slack wasn't Microsoft - it wasn't a bunch of horseshit executives say just before their retirement into angel investing - but Discord.
Sounds like people at my company. We are building a cloud product but there's a ruthless crack down on cloud costs (2 30-minute meetings involving some of the most highly paid people in the company) with the result that most things go untested. Customers find those issues and decide not to use the product. Management wonders why we can't get traction and grow the business. There are other reasons too but there's a clear lack of common sense. I lost 2 weeks of valuable work to one of these 'crack downs'.
Immunity from having COVID lasts about 3 months, it seems. Immunity from the vaccine will last for a year or more and will still work as expected even if you had COVID. “I’ve had COVID” is a bad reason to refuse the vaccine.
Hey, we don't really know how safe it is to the extent we understand other drugs. But we've bounded the risk to be much, much less than COVID in almost all populations. (This may not end up being true of adolescents, but there's substantial reasons for adolescents to get vaccinated even if we cannot yet prove that the risk is lower than COVID.

> I think that this vaccine is a choice, and once it's readily available it is still a choice. If you choose not to get it, you are accepting the possibility that you might get COVID and die.

Generally, a whole lot of the reasons why we take vaccines is to provide collective protection. E.g. it's not critical that I be vaccinated for pertussis because of my own risk of whooping cough.
> the rich and powerful are easily duped into spending their money on placebos

That was frankly my line of questioning. But at least in the German case, the vials and packaging looked legitimate. And it was a reputable doctor administering it at their home who claimed to have directly procured it, though I’m sure that meant warehouse workers or something in the middle, so who knows.
Correction: Elected criminal lying president.
That doesn't solve the problem.

The very same people complaining about this also complained when platforms did exactly what you suggested. Even attempting to "fact check" is considered censorship.
> This is literally the foundation of American govt structure namely the respect for unalienable rights of individuals to express themselves.

> It’s the first line in our enumerated rights.

> This isn’t “oh we should rethink things” this is a matter of natural rights and precedes anything we’ve constructed.

I never said anyone shouldn't have the right to express themselves. Do you think it's in the Constitution that you have the unalienable right post any lie you want to YouTube? I don't remember that being in there.

IMHO, lies are toxic to free speech, and it's in everyone's interest (and moral obligation) to do their best to limit their spread.
Also too many people are claiming they are following the science but don't know the first thing about how science works.

Edit: not accusing anyone in particular, just e.g. when some mayor says "we're following the science" I know he's just parroting what he's been told because he has no scientific training whatsoever.
Grmtools: Grammar and Parsing Libraries for Rust
For some reason I get a blank screen on HN polls on my normal Chrome configuration, javascript error trace:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'querySelector' of null
at HNComments.markupToNodeList (hn.js:397)
at HNComments.apply (hn.js:666)
at Object.doAfterCommentsLoad (hn.js:1265)
at Object.loadMoreLink (hn.js:1243)
at Object.doCommentsList (hn.js:1070)
at Object.init (hn.js:797)
at hn.js:1913

Works in Incognito, so must somehow be related to one of my extensions; but it's not uBlock Origin, which would normally be my first suspicion. Anyone else have this problem?
No. I read the FAQ when I signed up, but I guess I didn't read it that well. Sorry :-/
Better to say the vast majority of them are later viral shedding or very minor, probably not contagious cases.

There's probably been a few reinfections, and some decent documentation of a couple. If you repeat an experiment millions of times on diverse individuals, you can expect some variation.
Why? It's a disease with a 97% survival rate. A huge majority of cases are asymptomatic. As in zero symptoms, zero negative health effects, none.

Why does it even matter either way? 3% of the population is severely at risk from this. 3%.

If those 3% of people are vaccinated, then why does it even matter if anyone else is?
Well your political fantasy happens to be wrong. California experiences a net influx of highly skilled workers draining them from the rest of the US (https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019...) and red states mostly lose their brightest people or absorb California residents from older failing industries who can’t afford the rents. The majority of this is about cost of living not taxes. Corporate taxes and income taxes have not really changed in recent years and California overall ranks in the middle of US states by EFFECTIVE tax rate (not the top marginal which few people pay but conservatives love to cite)

Go read that study by the government on internal US migration.

These “shackles” you’re talking about took me from someone who used to live in a ghetto to someone in the top 1%. The taxes are a small price to pay. Obsessing over marginal income tax rates is the wrong variable to optimize in life.

Do what you love, where you love, because it’s your passion, not because you can shave 3% off of your effective tax.

Most entrepreneurs don’t obsess over taxes, they’re focused on growth and solving problems, profit comes later.

The constant hyper focus on marginal tax rates is a form of bean counter myopia. It’s what you do when your company is effectively in maintenance mode and beholden to the bean counters on Wall Street, not when your trying to win your market space.

Wake me when Apple decides To move its HQ to a red state.
I think it depends on the kind of crops grown. Combines, grain bins, harvesters etc are a whole diff ball game when it comes to grain or corn on 1000+ acres for commodity crop farms
>They absolutely did not take responsibility properly. They dragged their feet, they argued and argued that they were doing nothing wrong, and them finally reluctantly changed things when they could find no other way to weasel out of it.

This is not only a lie, it's a particularly egregious one. And very easy to verify.

Original tweet (2:36 AM Pacific, June 6 2020) https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/12692014801055784...

Response from Brave (10:00 AM Pacific, same day) https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201

It took them all of one whole business hour to respond. One hour. That's absolutely unheard of.

The above just goes to show how eager some people are to spread FUD in a blatantly dishonest and malicious way about certain things they oppose. It blows my mind.
What about the children? Does he have any access to them or their e-life? Any friends or relatives of her that might lead him to her? People are always the weakest link.

Physical security. Does he know where she lives and does he can follow her, access her wifi, follow the children? Rummage her trash?
Also people with allergies. This was found out after two people that got the vaccine had allergic reactions to it (no idea how severe)...
This is so weird to me to read. I've DDG for years, and I'm not sure whether their results have gotten much better, or I've trained myself to "search the DDG way," or both, but I find what I want in almost all cases. When I (rarely) don't, I try a !g search, and have never gotten better results. Not in years.

I believe you, I'm just saying that's not my experience at all.

Meanwhile, I struggle to give up GDocs and remind myself to use Zoho instead.
Just use pyenv (careful with spelling), then you can use any version you like.
Wow I never heard about them, that's awesome! Immedaitely browsing their webpage...
> all the low hanging fruits were picked already

Is the "low hanging fruits" really the right way to reason about this? I think the "economies of scale" is a better framework.
I don't think this is true. Employees pay taxes based on residency requirement. So if you are not a resident of CA, you don't pay taxes, regardless of where your HQ is
I have heard rumors in the medical field that it’s possible that having had COVID might be considered a preexisting condition in the future. Imagine having COVID now, fully recovering, then developing an unrelated lung disease 10 years later just to find out that insurance won’t cover anything to do with it because they’ll just blame it on COVID.
Ree-hee-hee-ally? California is far and away the #1 destination of educated and wealthy domestic migrants, especially from "red states", by which I assume you mean states that habitually vote for Republicans. Pick any MAGA-infested den of ignorance that you prefer, and the story is the same. I choose Sioux Falls, SD, which has an overall negative net domestic migration that is extremely negative among people with some college, college degrees, and post-graduate educations but positive among people with high school diplomas and high-school dropouts. Bay Area domestic migration is the complement of this process: very positive among post-graduates and college grads, very negative among high school and less.

Same basic story if you break it down by income levels.

Why is this? There are large classes of people who can't stand to live in the MAGAsphere, and I mean huge classes of people like females, people of color, homosexuals, and non-christians. Whenever these people scrape together enough money to do so, they escape to a jurisdiction that recognizes their personhood, whether that be New York, California, or Austin.
Baker City? Wow. I'm rather shocked.

I mean, yes, nice place. Not near anywhere. If you like ranching/farming communities with mountains nearby, it's pretty good. But how are internet speeds? And if you need to come back to "civilization", where's the nearest airport with commercial flights?
Yes, but...

I live in an Eastern European country where this is unfortunately not a purely medical, but partly a political question as well. The pandemic handling our government has implemented is very untransparent.

They made it very unclear which vaccine they ordered from. There were some statements that indicated the Russian one. I would gladly take any of the "Western" vaccines, but I do not really trust that the Russian or the Chinese ones work at all. I would rather choose medicine based on science, not politics.

We have a website where we can pre-apply for vaccination by filling a form with personal information (gov id, social security number etc). Nobody knows what the purpose of this registration is, because supposedly we already have a vaccination plan that would allow anyone to be vaccinated. A few days ago it turned out that the data entered to this website is handled by a shady company that supplied software for the last election and has close ties to the governing party.

The government has already been caught lying about many covid-realted issues, if my choices are "blindly doing what they tell" or not doing anything, then a "no" answer might be the lesser bad choice.
My dad is in his 50s and he was in the hospital for a week near death on a ventilator. I know within 2 degrees of separation at least 6 people who have died. All were in their 50s and 60s. How they commit the crime of being older.
Right, but I can think of a few cases where one might want to be generic over effect systems; especially in library code. For example, you could have a parsing library that accepts both blocking and non-blocking I/O streams. You need a Map/Then trait in order to express that generically.
It's limited to being a mutual aid society because existing states will refuse to recognize it due to the absence of territory; and insofar as its a transnational entity it will be regulated, taxes, or outlawed to a degree incompatible with its ongoing sustainability.

That doesn't mean I don't think it's a good idea, just that it's going to encounter enormous opposition from existing powers, both formal and informal.
My point was that liberals have their own biases and can be ignorant. For example, in the nurture vs nature debate, the blank slate has been disproven for years. Everything is heritable, yet the left clings to the idea of all disparities being caused by culture because it fits their ideology. -> You can't fix nature with policy but you can if it's nurture.
Interesting, somehow I don’t think how companies where run in the 1950-1960 translates to today

Look at the google ML firing/resigning storm, in the 50s someone fired end of story not the CEO saying they will investigate (honesty transparency aside)
The current knowledge, is that the Pfizer mRNA vaccine:

1) Claims 95% efficacy.

2) But it was not widely tested. Meaning they didn’t test it on people who had allergies. Or who could have an allergic reaction to it.

3) Health officials are now warning people who have allergies, to NOT take the Pfizer vaccine. (Uhh.. what?)

4) The Pfizer mRNA vaccine will not prevent you from getting sick. It will just prevent major malfunctions from severely harming you, or killing you.

5) Taking the Pfizer mRNA vaccine might end up making you a non-symptomatic transmitter of the virus.

So.. you’re literally a walking and breathing virus transmitting zombie?

Good grief. It’s a choose-your-own-adventures world with this Pfizer mRNA vaccine.

Meanwhile.. no word from the western media about China’s vaccine using the traditional method of an inactivated virus.
Could you refine a bit more what you mean by “extreme capitalistic society”?

At first blush, I would guess we have a slightly less capitalistic society than, say 200 years ago, but a more industrialized, consumeristic society.
> Not to mention you have much more beautiful choices of nature in Northern California.

You're making the mistake of assuming access to nature is a priority for everyone, which I think is a consequence of the cultural bubble that Silicon Valley is in. Most people who are part of the scene are into nature stuff, and they assume everyone is because they don't know anyone who isn't. I have definitely heard of people who moved to SV/SF for a job and then being looked down on and sometimes even bullied by coworkers for not having any interest in nature activities. There is very much an attitude that if you don't partake in the Standard Silicon Valley Hobbies then something must be wrong with you.

By contrast, I've lived in Texas all my life and I don't know many people who's really into going hiking and stuff all the time. A couple of people, sure, but most people I know are content to only do the kinds of activities you can do in an air-conditioned room.

I would imagine there are a lot of tech people who moved to NorCal for work but aren't comfortable with the culture there. They don't care about nature and would be happier if they got to socialize with coworkers who had similar interests, and so they might be much happier if their employers relocated to Texas or something. And while I can't really speak to Austin, my experience in Dallas is that the tech scene (which is thriving and active) is much more enterprisey and doesn't really attract people who would prefer a more SV-like culture.
And there's another option:

I WILL WAIT because I have severe allergies and people say not to take it...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358753 UK has warned people with allergies not to take the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine.
Even if you don't do the course, the first paper they list is a fascinating must-read:

Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!
Todd Mytkowicz, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, and Peter F. Sweeney. ASPLOS 2009.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2528521.1508275

I happened to be at that ASPLOS and I thought it was fascinating. Good to see it recognized as one of the most important papers in compilers.
Can you elaborate on what you mean it took 2 days? is this akin to a programmer creating a simulation for weeks and then taking an hour to ingest the input data into the simulation?
Tech doesn't just magically create wealth because it exists.

Tech jobs pay well because of market imbalance. Jobs > Candidates. When/If this balence is broken tech jobs salary will decrease. It also is justified because tech jobs generate value, in either revenue or equity, arguably. That also can change in the future.

Creating a digital currency and digital passport doesn't create wealth out of thing air. So you need money to pay for the services you plan to provite your denizens with. You are invariably asking richer individuals to pay for their own services plus extra for the poor denizens.

That's just socialism, when you force your denizens to finance equal services for all. Or donation with extra steps when they do it out of the generosity in their hearts.

I don't see how you can spin this into anything that makes sense.
I like the name, and its like magic
The OP is free to feel how he wants. However, his suggestion that other people should self-assess the same way he does was wrong.
This forum is heavily moderated, its members are highly educated, it's also not very diverse, is not very large, and anything even slightly related to politics gets flagged to oblivion. FB is nothing like that.
You'd think so but I've met a lot of programmers who just sit there and type out inadvisable programs non-stop.
Languages being context sensitive results from hacking in new language features. It's a constant struggle to keep D context free :-/
Cloud run is developed by the same team that built AppEngine. They share the same technical leadership and a lot of the technical stacks, for example, billing and security (gVisor).

I dont think it's that simple to replace one service with another. It requires a lot of very sensitive dealing with external customers. And one cannot (easily) use the typical "Google deprecation" on a Cloud service offering, either.

So it's complicated. But your impression is not too far from the inclination.
Bingo! And no seasonal labour shortages. And you can control everything from something like. A game console.
Agree. There is always a few people who put no just to be an ass
(previously worked at Netlify)

sorry to hear about your prior experience. fwiw the CLI was not fully staffed for a long time - but as of last year at least 2 engs are working on it fulltime and they should have capacity to look into your usecase if serious enough.

yes, the CLI looks into .git, no i'm not sure if it was needed for what you were trying to do, but also no i have never run into the issue you describe as an almost-daily user of netlify for 4 years
America is the largest (primarily) English speaking community in the world and both Reddit and YC are US companies. It's not surprising some assume the whole audience is American.
Windows operating systems may themselves represent the 'pivot points' that wenc talks about. Every so often, a version of Windows seems to come along that gives you a genuine improvement over what came before - in my view Windows 98 SE, Windows XP and Windows 7 for example, which may represent the nostalgia valleys. Other intermediate versions seem to at best introduce new problems to replace the old ones.

Of course, it would be great to have the Risc OS experience while doing modern computing tasks, so I'm pleased to hear that the lessons it brought to the world have not been forgotten.
Is it just me or are there fewer serial killers these days?
To the people who are going to wait because they want it to be tested more:

What kind of concerns do you have? Would you feel more comfortable taking a Adenovirus/inactivated vaccine instead of an mRNA vaccine?
I was alluding to legal situation and term of Negligent homicide/Involuntary manslaughter; it is defined as "the killing of another person without the intent to kill, but where the person's death occurs as a result of the negligent or reckless actions of the defendant."

In the situation of Covid it would be something like infecting another person without the intent to infect, but where the person's health might be endangered as a result of the negligent or reckless actions of the defendant (the one who spread the virus).