skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'The work which we describe as Studies in the Jewish Question, and which is variously described by antagonists as "the Jewish campaign," "the attack on the Jews," "the anti-Semitic pogrom," and so forth, needs no explanation to those who have followed it.' Henry Ford - http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7213/pg7213.txt
The purpose of antitrust laws is to limit how much damage powerful companies can do.

So yes, if we had functional antitrust laws in the US, Microsoft may not be allowed to do certain things. Like bundle a Slack competitor with an existing product.

The universe where this should happen is one where we recognize that a healthy capitalistic society is good, and putting constraints on concentrated power helps keep things healthy.

The real question behind all this is: are we as a society better or worse off now that Salesforce owns Slack?
I have already watched wealthy people in Germany and France and China skip the queue.
Steve Jobs's casual friendship with Sony (2014)
> That's ridiculous. According to that logic, neither Office (nor Google Workspace, formerly G Suite) should be allowed to exist

It's not that they should not be allowed to exist. Rather, they should not be able to undercut competitors by using their leverage as massive tech companies to subsidize losing money on something while they starve out competitors. Stoller's article has much more nuance than you are attributing, and he outlines that in a world where these tech corporations were not allowed to get as big and powerful, you wouldn't have to be left with binary decisions like this one.

This sort of behavior is akin to Amazon selling items at a loss in order to starve out some competitor and then buying them out afterwards in order to benefit from their infrastructure and logistics.
Look up "efficacy" it has a specific medical meaning. Those tests are not about efficacy.

Scientific method require each person be equally exposed to the virus under strict lab conditions.
>Brave converted urls into affiliate links

True, and they reversed course after (quite fairly) being called out on it.

But, that incident has nothing to do with privacy.
Both tractors I use have around 68hp on the engine, ~65hp on the PTO. Both have front loaders, one of them has an excavator on the back. I run them in the fields (mowing, turning, baling, etc.) and in the forest (logging, skidding, forwarding, etc.). Tractors do not need huge engines to be useable on the farm, this is only needed for 3-swathe mowers, 10-row ploughs, high-speed baler/wrappers etc.
Nothing is 100% yes or no, but it's safe to say that the vaccine helps reduce the spread of the virus.

Vaccinated people can spread the virus on a (there's a better term for this) surface level, which is why it's still important for them to wear masks and wash hands.

Hypothetical example of how it can spread: an infected person sneezes on a vaccinated person right in the face. That vaccinated person then rubs his face all over an non-vaccinated person. Really high chance the non-vaccinated person is infected.

I also want to emphasize that a vaccinated person that came in contact with the corona virus is far less contagious than an asymptomatic person.
This is probably not a response to the other story this week about a start-up that got a $70k bill from Google cloud erroneously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372336
LOL no. SFMTA alone carries almost 10x as many weekday riders as Capitol Metro and that's not even counting BART, which is seems like you'd need to count BART to get to an equivalent service area population.
Endless Sky is also open source and has the Escape Velocity feel.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/404410/Endless_Sky/
> Is this possible in Knative?

Yes: https://knative.dev/docs/serving/autoscaling/scale-bounds/#u...

I also wrote about it: https://livebook.manning.com/book/knative-in-action/chapter-...
The real estate market (and well, most real markets) cannot be completely explained by simple supply/demand calculations covered in a high school economics course. Nor can they be entirely explained by a highly-trained economist. There are many factors at play that complicate matters.
Nah. Ted Cruz is still the most likely candidate.
Vaccines go through phase 3 testing which is about efficacy. (And some other properties) What do you think is missing from them?
politics is governing. most people don't govern. We have other jobs and roles.

My influence on politics is insignificant vs my influence on other things that will impact my quality of life and those around me. In fact, politics and political news are a huge time suck for lots of people. Might as well be playing video games or watching sports.
The term "bidding war" doesn't typically apply to initial offers.
And many people claiming (b) also feel (a). Practically there is no difference between those options.
They are, but this is because the Soviet designers thought that the improvement in power density were worth the serious disadvantage of having coolant that freezes well above room temperature.
US emissions are 17 tonnes of CO2 per capita. France is 5.5, the UK is 6.

US emissions are down about 25 percent from peak. France cut theirs by 40 percent already.

If some says "I accept the science and the responsibility, but I don't want to cut my emissions so fuck it", I might not like it but its honest. Pretending the US isn't vastly worse and making much less progress than other countries isn't even honest.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/france?country=FRA~GB...
Endless Sky is FOSS and replicates Escape Velocity perfectly. Highly recommend it. http://endless-sky.github.io
[This is just for laughs]

I also never had problems with suspend.
Resume is a different story, though.
Pseudo is accurate. Mac minis have always been made with bits from the MacBook parts bin.
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> If you reject the idea that people are intelligent enough to think about politics for themselves then you reject the idea that they're intelligent enough to govern themselves.

I mean, the American founders already rejected a lot of ideas about the people governing themselves, because they knew from history that the people often can't check their worst impulses.

> Democracy and free speech are intrinsically linked.

Yeah, but what kinds of free speech work and what kinds don't? I used to be a free speech fundamentalist, but now I'm getting more skeptical of that position. Sort of like how radical Athenian-style direct democracy doesn't work, maybe radically giving everyone near-unchecked access to nationwide broadcasting doesn't work, either.

Now, I'm not advocating for some kind of universal censorship apparatus, but maybe it's would be best if broadcast speech at least passed through some kind of editor (and I mean editor, making editorial decisions, not a censor) to build more judgement into the system.

As software engineers, we understand the value of code reviews. That kind of thing shouldn't be anathema.
None of them intentionally give the live virus to their subjects.
Any love for https://www.fast.ai/?
Here's my answer the to "why". We need to achieve herd immunity and you're part of that.

Get it for the sake of other people. Someday the tables may be turned and you'll be hoping others make a sacrifice for you.
> Free speech is an ideal. We would like google to preserve free speech

Is this self evident? Specifically google, or all and any private platforms? It's not obvious to me that every private entity should hold the ideal of free speech -- particularly a version of free speech that means something different than protection from persecution by the state.
I agree with most of your post but the last bit is really a non-sequitur. There is no relationship between Oracle fortunes and Californian weather; if there ever was, it has definitely not been a factor for 20 years. What matters is what they buy and how they repackage it. Mainframes are not even on their map, really. Their HQ in California was basically an empty white elephant for years, I believe most of their programmers are in other (lower-cost) countries by now.
Well, there IS a pandemic. So there IS a good reason for "selling it" "a bit hard". It will literally save lives and end a world-wide economy-crippling disease.

Now I agree the process was quicker than usual, that it brings up a lot of questions. But it's the studies we should question, the efficiency, the long term effects. The way it's sold and "advertised" is just equally as dramatic as the disease it's trying to stop, in my opinion.
You also have to be in reasonable distance to an airport, Trader Joes/Costco/REI/restaurants/breweries/etc other stores the higher income crowds like, and outdoor activities. Bend happened to have all of these.

Although Bend's internet offerings are extremely sad, and I'm surprised the political power of the tech crowd hasn't forced municipal fiber to be a thing yet.
In the UK this is being managed by the NHS (someone correct me if this is incorrect). They do this every year for managing the Flu Virus.
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Sure thing. I have a lot of headphones :) Re: the A50, I had to remove the centerpiece foam because it caused headaches pressing into the top of my skull, and so now there's a towel wrapped around them to provide less-but-some padding. If it weren't for that, they'd be perfect for their use case. The Beats Studio3 fit perfectly at maximum extension, as do the DT770s and the old Sony Gold headsets. I had to return the Sony Platinum headset for being too small, because they chose to shrink it slightly for wider compatibility and I no longer fit their line.

The most likely (90%) cause of having to give up and return AirPods Pro Max will be if they can't fit over my annoying skull. Second most likely (10%), they end up weighing too much. We'll see!
They offer features that you'd have to build yourself with S3, e.g.:

- HTTPS with automatic certificate provisioning

- CDN

- CI/CD integration

- Add-on features like CMS, identity management, functions, etc.

They also tend to offer those things for free, within certain usage limits. If you just need a plain HTTP site with no frills S3 is just fine.
edgy into the wild
As much as this makes sense from an epidemiological perspective it's only going to inflame more resentment and likely from the same demographics that are vaccine skeptics. Public health officials are unfortunately going to have to factor in PR and politics if they want get the most people protected.
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> I’ve taken only 1 flu shot. As someone in mid-20s, I have low risk and honestly would prefer getting the flu to injecting myself with a vaccine. So I’ve elected to stop getting flu shots and take the risk.

This is a very selfish take. Unless you're living your life without any human interaction, then you're contributing to the spread of the flu and soon to be covid which impacts people who are at risk.
Yes and no. It makes the electorate a bit more liberal but the Democratic Party more conservative. You saw this happening with the 2020 election. Flipping Georgia and Arizona is good in the sense you win, but now your tipping point voter is a Romney Republican in the Phoenix suburbs: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/gop-wom...
It's a reference to this.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
While this is true, there's also a good side to the bigger tech companies leaving, even if it is a lot of them: less wage competition.

If I'm a SV startup I already have problems with office rent, taxes, cost of living, etc. It's expensive to be in the Bay Area. And on top of that, most of the engineers I hire will either be of worse quality than FAANG or I'm going to have to pay them more than FAANG. While this is great for the employees, it's really hard to fit into the budget for many startups and the tradeoff becomes existential when the cost of your engineers starts adding up but you haven't found market fit yet. And the ever-increasing wages being used to draw people from one company to another just keeps making the Bay Area more and more unaffordable so the problem keeps compounding.

It works nicely when there's just one or two big companies to draw employees from, but there's just so many big SV companies now with billions of dollars in their pockets, I don't see how any true startup could possibly compete. If you don't like Google, you go to Uber. Or Facebook. Or Splunk. Or Airbnb. Or Yelp. Or Twitter. Or Facebook. Or Salesforce. Or Workday. Or Juniper. Or Autodesk. Or Nvidia. Or Palo Alto Networks. Or...

There's just too much competition from the billion-dollar companies. Sure innovation and entrepreneurship still happens in SV, but I'd argue it would be better for the area if it were easier for smaller startups to compete.
Why didn't you wear a mask in public before March? Influenza is also a potentially fatal respiratory disease that is frequently spread by asymptomatic carriers.

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/cbn/2005/cbnreport_1...

We have a vaccine for it, but some years the vaccine is as little as 19% effective. In particular the vaccine doesn't work very well on immunocompromised people.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates...

You might have already killed elderly and obese and otherwise-compromised relatives and neighbors by your failure to wear a mask in previous years! COVID-19 fatality rate is around 6 – 8 times worse than influenza, but that's just a difference in degree. Personally I do wear a mask in circumstances where it actually makes a difference to slow down the COVID-19 pandemic, and encourage others to do likewise. But spare us the moralizing and appeals to emotion. That doesn't help, it just divides people.
And you’re an illiterate idiot. See? We’ve both made false statements that attack the person rather than the point.

An anti-vaxxer is someone who rejects vaccines in general. I’m rejecting a few specific vaccines on a very rational basis. I’ll wait for you to jump so that I can judge for myself whether I’d like to proceed or not.
But your desire for Google to host certain kinds of speech against their will doesn't supersede Google's own right to decide otherwise on their own platform.

They have their own free speech rights, as well as free association and the rights of free enterprise.
Okay, please explain the science that people are following. As for the one bad situation, please take a look at this list - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutic.... this is the top 20.
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Rules - Think from a startup and product management perspective.

Preface - Anyone who ever worked a job in tech will know that how easily salaries can be in 100s thousand to millions, and we only hear about the outliers in the mainstream media but we know there are people who built things and sold companies for 20-200 mil. So, if we can engineer digital products and generate such wealth, can we engineer something to help people so they don't work 3 jobs to pay rent in the middle of the next pandemic?

How about a Digital Nation, DN

Create a new country which exists on the internet.
A country without a physical border, which means, doesn’t matter geographically where you are on the planet you have an electronic passport. For example, a local doctor who is a citizen of the DN is paid by DN to provide care for other DN citizens who live in the same geographic area.

The new nation has its own digital currency which is guaranteed by an electronic ledger that is funded by the citizens, and a charter which is designed to deliver basic standard of living for citizens.
A basic income paid in local currency to pay for cost of living such as:
- Internet (partnership with Starlink?)
- Shelter
- Medical etc.
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How does one go about building such a thing ? Breaking down the basic needs by overcoming logistical problems?

Thank you, for time and sharing your thoughts.
Lazard has levelized cost of storage analysis too: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
Eloquent, but... YouTube isn't an authoritarian (over anything except their own platform), and their policy, whatever it is, isn't going to "end democracy".
Your HN profile is empty, so there seems to be no good way to check out your institution's program or to contact you.
They spent 2 decades building technology platforms that enable rapid development of vaccines for specific diseases.

The specifics of the Moderna vaccine took 2 days once they had the genome of the virus. But there was an awful lot of work done before then.
Dito on this.
Also what happens after the vaccine? Is there even something like "after" the vaccine, we are supposed to get this vaccine every 4-6 months until what?
I find this on the internet, though usually reddit rather than here. I am forever asking folks if they mean the US, and trying to explain to them that there is... a rest of world
I think they did innovate, just not in ways that we-who-post-on Hacker News benefit from.

1. Shared channels are amazing

2. The "Enterprise Grid" was the first viable enterprise chat product. Slack made chat ubiquitous at places like IBM.

It's easy to blow off #2, but I think it's big. It was big enough to threaten MS Office.
nailed it! Don't tell anyone..
They made money off benzos too
Are you sure about that? I know you can easily get it in a local chemist for about a tenner, I’m nearly sure you can book it with your GP if you’re willing to wait a bit longer
Yes there are other countries in the world on this forum, you'll find Trump is not favoured in many countries like Germany where opinion polling was around 9/10 disproving of Trump. Many grains of salt to get that to 50/50
Going to wait a few years to check for long term side effects.
Some of this can always be explained by the "lizardman constant": https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

Also, ballpark 20% of Americans already had the disease, and the benefit for them (while still there) is lower. Also pregnancy. So multiple reasons why 10% is probably not crazy. For what it was worth, I was also a bit confused by the order, as I think they randomize it or something and almost tapped the wrong one.
"At what point are you going to realize tomorrow it might be you at the receiving end for this?"

- April 1993. When the three letter agencies killed a bunch of white christian kids with CS gas then killed their parents with fire on live TV.

The senate hearings when they were scolded for it, should of been the end of these practices. Many people watched that on HBO.

There's been a lot of tomorrows since then.

The point is, people are supposed to be terrified. When the Justice employees say move and they have weapons, they mean move. We should all know what happens when you don't at this point.
So fancy. Now what? Emojis in Hacker News? And then memes, animated gifs and cat videos? Hellooo, this is not Twitter here! (or Reddit, but saying that HN is more and more like Reddit is forbidden by the guidelines¹, so…)

Joking. For reference, many of us responding no to this poll might have discovered this feature with this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391159

Anybody who knows how to do polls on HN because they read the FAQ submit one so we can check this fact?

¹ rightly by the way, since HN has supported polls for a long time
There is double blind studies that tests efficacy of new vaccines for diseases that already had an approved vaccine. And those studies do find differences in efficacy (just because the old vaccine was 96% effective doesn't mean the new one can't do better) as well as in occurrence rate of side effects.

There have even been studies where the vaccine that you get in the control arm of the study is the vaccine against Meningitis and then after a year or two they do give you what ever vaccine you had not received yet. (Sorry, forgot against which disease the vaccine under test was protecting.)

And of course there is double blind studies where you get three injections, one of which is saline, two are active. They are given a few weeks apart, you don't know the order and they check antibody level in the blood every week.
> To make sure Apple gets the message, please keep up the emails you have been sending to Tim Cook letting him know that you are getting rid of your Apple devices or will not buy any Apple devices until they stop using the facade of security to lock down users.

And what would this achieve? Apple yawns at the sight of folks that tell them that 'they will not buy any Apple devices' for any reason. So what? 10M more new users will take their place.

I bet the FSF has been telling others to do this for years and yet Apple is still Apple. Tim 'Apple' Cook probably marked them all as spam and laughed all the way to the Bank of Apple Inc.
You mean the admin that encouraged people not to wear masks? The one that downplayed the virus at every opportunity? The one that held rallies without masks required, but still had people sign waivers in case they got sick?

Is it that one, or some other administration you’re thinking of?
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>23 minutes. The police showed overwhelming restraint in not breaking the door down. Whatever she was doing, she could have been trying to destroy evidence the entire time. The police serving a warrant aren’t supposed to wait outside for half an hour for you to answer the door.

You wouldn't happen to be a member of the Arizona Republican Party[0], would you? I shouldn't be surprised if you were.

[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/news/529195-arizona-gop-asks-if...
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Efficacy is still tested with vaccines because there is a statistical expectation of contracting a given disease.

If you give 40,000 people a random mix of placebo and vaccines and then monitor whether or not they contract the target disease, you get an indication of efficacy by comparing the vaccinated group to the placebo group.
> People who are super social (or stupid + spreading the plague)

What if somebody has asymptomatic covid infection? He or she spreads it without intent, you can not blame them.
Vaccines will make us trannies
But I’m very nearby to thirsty now!
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I see immunologists stating that the immunity from the vaccine is likely to be better than from infection (even saying directly that people that have been infected should still get vaccinated).

Edit, here ya go: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-covid-survivors-immun...
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Outside clinical trials nobody in Germany or France has been vaccinated as there are no approved vaccines in those countries.
Skip the queue for what? Did they get the vaccine already before it was approved?

This is likely complete misinformation. Why is there so much misinformation on HN today?
I live downtown/East facing. It's a shit show now. All the good things like:

- Small bars/businesses

- Parks/Green areas

- Free parking

- Playgrounds

are being deleted from the map one by one

and they're being replaced with:
- Hotels/Large apt. complexes

- Huge buildings for big corp/large comp

- Paid parking/parking lots

- New age bars and posh restaurants

- Homeless camps

but it's safer to go out out at night at least...if you stay on the main roads
Not at all, I'm not suggesting anything, I am just asking a question. The current thinking is that you will need to have regular boosters of this vaccine so yes it is designed for repeat customers if that's the case
Do you mean number of private workspaces that are called an “office” in a building affects how taxes are calculated? So reconfiguring the floors in a corporate building might affect how they file taxes? I’ve never heard of that before...