skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dare I say it: maybe many of these managers just don't have enough potential work outside meetings and are unable or unwilling to pivot into a different type of work, therefore insisting on pushing meetings on meetings on meetings to the point of micromanagement and will prefer going back to the office to appear busy once more, as you put it?

I always figured this was an extremely obvious weakness we took for granted. Full-time managers who either won't or can't do anything but manage. Which eventually yields different problems (once the work is gone they become overhead, and if they manage too many teams they'll spread too thin to follow everything). Comparatively, hybrid leads still getting their own hands dirty seem much stronger and desirable.
Nassim Taleb was arguing for something similar just the other day. The vaccine should be given to "superspreaders" first

"Most effective is to focus on 1) superspreaders (when they can be identified), 2) integral of exposure over time (hospital workers) & 3) vulnerability (older etc.), but (2) overlap with (1). Current focus is on (2)& (3), less optimal.
(1)>>>(2)+(3)"

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1344258592422158338
People can't even be convinced to buy toilet paper rationally, not sure if I trust them to buy a vaccine in a way that is even remotely rational.

And the argument that people more likely to spread the disease would be willing to pay more is a bit weak. Sure the chance you get infected correlates with the chance you infect someone, but for some people infection carries more risk than others. And presumably the author also wants companies to be able to require people to be vaccinated, because otherwise vaccines are of limited use to companies.

Finally I'm not too sure if combatting 'R' is the end goal. In the end you want to minimize total harm, this is subjective but among other things involves minimizing total deaths. It's conceivable that vaccinating the group that's overwhelmingly at risk first is an effective strategy to achieve that.
I think the current tradeoff is decent:

1A) healthcare workers (highest unavoidable exposure rate) & LTCF (highest mortality rate)

1B) frontline workers (high unavoidable exposure rate, and may be crucial transmission links) & the very old (high mortality rate). If the vaccine lowers transmission, we'll see a big effect from the frontline worker portion, which I suspect factored into the decision somewhat even if it is not acknowledged in the documents.

1C) This category is too big-- all essential workers and anyone with a health condition increasing risk or over age 65. This phase is actually bigger than 2. It needs to be split up some to prevent a mad rush for doses, and certainly we can benefit from further prioritization. Hopefully this is addressed, but it's tomorrow's problem.

2) The remaining group is smaller and probably the least interest in getting vaccinated, so I assume when we get to phase 2 we'll be facing different logistical concerns.

The really stupid thing we're doing, IMO, is reserving 55% of doses to ensure everyone gets dose 2. It should be a much smaller reserve (~25%): it's unlikely that Pfizer's production will stall entirely and even in that worst case scenario, most people would get a second dose, AND the data looks like 1 dose is likely effective.

This reserve is preventing many areas from having enough doses to enter phase 1B, and portions of phase 1B are parallel infrastructure (e.g. mass-vaccination clinics). So, allocating those additional doses could be expected to significantly increase throughput by activating other channels through which the vaccine is distributed.
Unless I'm misinterpreting the tweet, she suggests that a partial vaccination campaign will somehow lead to a higher rate of mutations?

As a non-biologist, it's not immediately obvious why that would be the case. What's the mechanism that increases the chance of mutations in vaccinated hosts?
There's a pretty short shelf life, so lots of incentive to avoid holding it. A PS5 ages very well by comparison.

Which isn't to say that I think a market allocation would be working any better (there'd be plenty of stupid buyers and so on).
Custom attributes: use labels

Workflows: set up one or more project boards and PR merge restrictions

Approval hierarchies: where the above is inadequate, use CODEOWNERS files.

Statuses: use project columns and labels
No. It's because we possess empathy.
I bet a small part of the problem is that the folks who are superspreading are also the anti-vaxer types.
It's only right to the extent that the vaccine reduces transmission, and this is something we suspect but don't know. We know for sure if we give the vaccine to LTCFs, we'll be saving lives immediately. We don't know the same at all for the partier.
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> Also, the free market is extremely slow!

The free market is the second fastest organisational method we have, beaten only by the military which can achieve specific operational goals extremely quickly. The free market is by far the fastest and most efficient force at sustained logistics.

As I recall it first group to have good Coronavirus testing
was the Koreans who let private industry do its thing [0]. The free market with government as another equal client would be faster than the government at distribution a vaccine.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-ko...
Simple. The only people who try to help are people who don’t have children. Everyone is the perfect parent until they have their own children. Then they know to not speak as they understand that children are different and what worked for their kids may not work for others.
Yup, BD is doing amazing things in the hardware space, though obviously still loads of planning & SW involved in their robot. One of their engineers gave a talk at my campus last semester, crazy what they are doing now with pushing the limits on topological optimisation, printing components including metal etc to push weight down and strength up.

In the article I focus mostly on the software aspects b/c it's more accessible when getting started if you aren't in grad school (+ what I have most experience with).
> the former employee deliberately removed the vials from refrigeration on two separate occasions — on Dec. 24 overnight, then returning them to proper storage, and then again on Dec. 25 into Saturday morning.

> The pharmacist told investigators he knew "that people who received the vaccinations would think they had been vaccinated against the virus when in fact they were not," officials said.

oops
What are your thoughts on the overrepresentation of people in the spectrum in tech?

I think there's a very specific mindset (or "form of intelligence" per your words) that thrives working on a complex sandbox with very rigid rules and low tolerance for logical inconsistency, while most people simply have no tolerance for such inflexibility.

And I think there's no tooling that can change that, and if there ever is there goes programming as an industry because it will be able to interpret loosely defined requirements, ask the right questions and find a logical solution to it.
Sure, with flatbuffers, I grok the case (though where possible I just use an off-heap mmap buffer for them anyway), but that's a very specific case.
I'm curious, what kind of things did you learn in your cs curriculum that applies to that job, and the other coders didn't have?

I'll precise I'm not being sarcastic, genuinely curious. My math background could be better and I'm planning on improving that, but it would be for personal satisfaction as it's not hurting my work (legal tech). But maybe it is, you don't know what you don't know.
This is the first time I've heard of a jsn file. In my experience as a developer, they're always named with the full four letters. Also I really don't understand your statement about computers working for us, they're perfectly happy to interpret an extension anyway you set it up in the vast majority of file association systems of any modern day OS.

I don't know why you're getting hung up on TXT in particular, that extension has been around for so long that virtually everyone who has even a passing knowledge of computers knows what it stands for.

Also for CLI purposes, I'd sure as hell rather type "ls .bmp" than "ls .bitmap".
No, that’s not right. You’re confusing the owner of the distribution channel and the manufacturer of the device. In Apple’s case, it’s the same company. In Android’s case, it is not. You are further confused by the difference in channels available to each platform for installing apps.

Apple allows one channel. It owns that channel. It is responsible for the content on that channel.

Android had many channels, and Google’s App Store has the same apps banned, but an android user can simply use another channel.

Since Apple is responsible for the apps in the Chinese App Store, they’ll remove apps that expose them to liability. Google does the same.
Masks can ONLY help. They're not going to make it more likely to catch COVID even if there was no proven effectiveness. Basic logic and years of masks development (used in hospitals for over 100 years) should tell us that they do something. They're not useless.
What makes you think the old, established brands are what they once were? Many of them are just a label put onto something entirely different, meanwhile being bought by another entity, produced in less quality/durability.

Maybe not as extreme as the "Chinesium Shockers" which I learned about in this thread, but the tendency is there.
But they aren't getting them. Look at the Stanford situation for example. They allocated all the initial vaccines to tenured hospital staff and administrators. When called out on it they shrugged and said "well a computer algorithm decided" and continued with the plan.
The fact that you're able to share this opinion on HN without being downvoted, super-downoted (i.e. flagged), and super-duper-downvoted (i.e. moderated), shows that you're in the privileged minority here. That raises serious questions about whether your opinion about being "bullied", etc., is even relevant, because you objectively aren't. This only serves to itself belittle, shun, and disrespect those who are not allowed to share their opinion in these undiverse spaces.
Vaccine Roundup, Late December
There is modeling research that doesn't align with claims made here (disclaimer: I know an author):
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.08.20190629v...

> A highly effective transmission-blocking vaccine prioritized to adults ages 20-49 years minimized cumulative incidence, but mortality and years of life lost were minimized in most scenarios when the vaccine was prioritized to adults over 60 years old.
The focus on "proprietary" vs. "open" JavaScript code is pointless given any amount of JavaScript can be un-obfuscated and analyzed, with enough work.

Is it "enough work" where a site gives me what I need in exchange for the work my computer did to show it to me without using my time for trying to figure out what I'm doing or who I am? That the site may want more of my computer time to run their obfuscated code is really not as important to me as understanding how much of my processing time they are using. If they use very little, chance are they don't know much about me. The more they use, the more they probably know.

Given most sites can render just fine without JavaScript, the easiest thing to do, if you care about these things, is install a plugin that disables JavaScript on all sites or just the ones you find abuse this right.

If there was a plugin that did this based on some type of community consensus (don't run on this site vs. have to run on this site to see anything at all), I would surely use it.
Huh?

This is capitalism.

If masks are in short supply and hospitals needs them - we obviously buy them all up and sell to those in need for an exuberant markup

What do you think the US is, buddy
I returned mine. In my opinion, it did exactly one thing, and one thing poorly. You're supposed to be able to write "like paper" but it's heavier than a notebook, has exactly the one feature, and doesn't even have a backlight.

Originally I was excited for the "hackability" but that doesn't exist on the latest model and when I looked into it, all the "hacks" were pretty useless like getting the front page of the NYT on the home screen? Like I have a phone and a notebook and both are way better at all the things they do.
> Also yes. Saying that Cold War and the arms race had absolutely no role in USSR collapse is either a blatant lie or incompetence.

USSR could've easily continued its existence if it went full "North Korean." Union's army had no problem to force populace to eat grass in case of a complete economic collapse.

I attribute the single most important contribution to Union's collapse to US funding exchange visits for hundreds of USSR's senior officials, and completely nullifying their will to struggle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24728237

The very same thing has happened to China, and Xi is trying hard to undo it.

His message of absolute committment to, and inreversability of "opening up" don't mean anything to 99% of ordinary citizens.

Whom he addresses these messages to are not ordinary Chines, but elites whom he tries to convince to the best of his abilities to not to drop the ball on him, and the system.
Yeah what's also a bit frustrating is that people like Joe Rogan are openly discussing the controversial stuff people don't wanna hear and are getting SLAMMED on Reddit for deviating even just slightly from what the government has chosen to do along with the medical leaders. Most of the smart people I know think that widespread lockdowns are an extremely heavy-handed solution that will lead to more harm than good. History is proving this day by day... It seems a nuanced approach to re-openings is simply too difficult to get right and therefore untenable, which is extremely sad.
The status quo was no mask recommendation. I have no idea why this change of policy is spurring so much feelings.
> You could be truthful and say "While masks are effective, please dont horde them as they are needed by the hospitals".

I’m not a politician nor I defend most of them in general but do you expect that people would not hoard them when everyone was (back then) panicking at a new extreme deadly virus?

So the easiest solution (not necessarily the best) was to do politics which is to deceive. If a country says that the masks are very effective yet only selected people will get them, even if it makes sense factually speaking, riots will ensue because that’s how masses work (in most big countries anyway). If you deceive, you gain time and everyone will eventually get their own masks, which is how it played out.

Hopefully I don’t get shunned by this. I’m just trying to illustrate that plain transparency at extreme situations may just not be an easy option as you put it.

Edit: wording
The fact that hospital workers were desperate for masks, to the extent that they were making their own out of household materials when they couldn't get real ones, tells you all you need to know.

Anyone with a brain cell in their head could see that the government's messaging on masks made no sense. This reduced public trust in the government's other public health announcements.
>Give it fast to the people most likely to get it and to spread it to others.

If you want to make sense of the world, don't look at what people say, look at what they do... and then infer the truths from that.

Why would people who are smart enough to make vaccines so clueless that they usually take it to the third world for large scale initial distribution or testing? It would make sense to do it to the local community, wouldn't it? It happened during t
COVID too.

There's a reason why the current vaccines are being prioritized for old people. We can't afford to lose first line workers.
"Not proven" in the same sense that parachutes are not proven to protect people jumping out of planes, in that it's pretty obvious that they do but no one's done a double blind study.

As it happens, people have since done studies. (Not double blind, though)
> At any rate - most desktop os' should allow shortcuts to urls - so should support "installing" apps.

That's just part of it though. What about hiding browser chrome, or making sure it opens as a new window instead of a new tab, or having seperate window preferences (such as size and location) for it?
And I believe one goal of PWA is that "installed" apps have additional permissions, such as being able to use keyboard shortcuts that are normally reserved.
You're right, but it's important to note that offshore is only about 1/10 of the global wind power industry.
Depends on the material - fleece actually can increase transmission.

And potentially poor mask handling and discipline could have made transmission worse. We more or less know this isn't the case now, but didn't then.

So yes, it actually could make things worse.
Winter is a blessing for transportation and for O&G activity. The incredibly short days and cold nights are definitively not a blessing for the the humans living up there.
> So what good has been achieved by banning a private market on top of government allocation?

Public health should never be left in the hands of the private sector.

On top of the poor response by government, I think the disaster now unfolding in the USA, and to a similar extent in the UK, are examples of governments trying to hinder/eliminate their public health institutions (i.e. the CDC and the NHS respectfully).
I highly recommend people check out Alexis’ other projects too. An excellent programmer, and great writer.

https://lexi-lambda.github.io
Did everyone miss the main premise of the article, which is that the distribution should be focused on reducing the r0? Yes, there was some stuff about free markets and such, but I think the main premise still has merit whether you're a socialist or a capitalist.

Why is no one discussing this? Giving a significant allocation to retirees instead of essential staff is the more compassionate thing, but is it the best?
That's my memory too - at least in terms of public messaging, there was a lot of "wash your hands for 20 seconds" and "it takes two weeks for the virus to die on surfaces" and so forth, which is largely irrelevant given what we know now about transmission. We also had a significant shortage of hand sanitizer and soap, and e.g. New York's slave laborers were put to work making hand sanitizer, but there was no "hand sanitizer doesn't work" PSA, even though hospitals needed it badly too.

The fact that they said untruthful information about masks was awful, and it certainly deserves a proper postmortem-in-the-court-of-public-opinion, but I don't think it was deliberate lying.
Vaccination will create pressures selecting for variants that escape vaccine-generated antibodies.

The vaccine is ~95% effective. This means you're going to have a lot of people get infected still with the vaccine's antibodies present; any mutation that happens that causes escape from these antibodies will prolong disease and increase transmission, even if that mutation renders the virus a bit less fit in a non-vaccinated host.
Interesting. No comments regarding consciousness!
Putting vaccines on the free market would mean that they are purchased by individuals with the most buying power first, which are coincidentally the same people most able to isolate and avoid the disease entirely. To me, that seems counterproductive.

The current allocation might not be the maximally effective one but a free market solution that beats it is a pipe dream.
Content addressable, immutable code? https://www.unisonweb.org
I don't know. Can you claim not to be "prætentious," while throwing around words like "Sprachgefühl", as if this isn't a forum for communicating with ordinary people in plain English?

PS, 9th century is from 801-900 CE. Might want to set the dial correctly when you hop in that time machine to get some Sprachgefühl.
Some weird exercise of power? Just someone who wanted to cause some chaos?

More troubling is whether the person has done this before, with other unwitting people's medications or similar... I hope his records are being reviewed.
The issue with your analysis is the long standing approval and acquiescence on Apple's part. The app itself, and each update, only ever went out with Apple's explicit acknowledgment, review and consent.
I can see this being a point but there was no place to debate this sort of a thing. I would never downvote you.
Hi, I didn't know you were the OP of the article. If you're interested in adding a Books section in the future, you may want to include Robotics: Modelling, Planning and Control by Bruno Siciliano, an all-time classic reading in most introductory robotics university courses.
If a teacher did this to my kids I would be outraged. It's bad enough they have to wear a school uniform.
Jobs himself was abusive. But in his second stint at Apple, he generally worked through layers of management who bore the brunt of his abusiveness, and oddly enough, for the most part, his managers did not emulate his abusive ways. The two members of senior management that I had a chance to interact with for some time (Bertrand Serlet and Jony Ive) did not at all strike me as abusive.

One of the reasons, I suspect, is that for all his flaws, Jobs was not particularly fond of flattery and imitation, and he did not want to surround himself with mini-mes. I can think of only one member of senior management who could have been described as having somewhat Jobs-like tendencies, and even he was not that close a resemblance.
>> The pharmacist told investigators he knew ...

The way that might've gone down is the investigators asking them if they knew such and such, and the person responding that they did, on thinking that it makes sense, so how could they not know? It doesn't really mean that they thought it through or cared enough when they left them out of the fridge. For all we know, they might have taken them out to reach something in the back and forgot to put them back in. In other words, it's not necessarily out of malice if that's what you meant to imply by quoting that. It would be negligent in that case, though.
It's "essentially all freeway" except the origin and destination. Watch the first few minutes of the video. Yes, it's impressive.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25593504
> We need better mechanisms to express disagrements than the status quo without being belittled, insulted, shunned, disrespected and ousted

We do have such mechanisms. In the olden days, opinions were expressed through slow moving mediums such as news papers and press conferences. Those who wanted to criticize them had channels such as letters to newspaper editors, radio calls, etc, to express disagreement or point out flaws. This was good and bad. Good because you had to invest a finite amount of time and resources to express counter opinion. Bad because it has the effect of amplifying the voices of fanatics.

However, with today's friction free methods to express opinion and social media echo chambers that amplify everything, there is just too much noise.

I just hate Twitter and Facebook. Their ultimate contribution to society is sum negative.
Lmao, thats a pretty good idea. Also at the same time shows how useless this popularity metric is.
But this isn't a retail store, this is a software store. That's the difference.
I heard the new variant adds something like 0.4-0.7 to the R value. Presumably we are completely screwed in the UK if this is true?