skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much all countries are distributing vaccine to the elderly / at-risk population first. We're doing that for the obvious reason that the most-at-risk population is most-at-risk, and thus most at risk of hospitalization.

Concretely, that means hospitalization rates should decline a LOT faster than community spread. This is going to be less visible in countries that have their shit together and are able to vaccinate very fast / have already moved on to genpop, but in most of the EU (sigh), we've just finished vaccinating care homes and 75+. So now, a couple of weeks from now, we should see hospitalization numbers sharply decline because that share of the population represents the most hospitalizations, and will now be mostly immune.

So despite being at like, 5% total vaccinated, we should see a decline in hospitalizations of up to 75%.

Furthermore, given that most of the spread happens outside the most-at-risk in the first place (since those most at risk were those with the most protective measures before vaccines), 5% vaccinations should not mean 5% less cases total.
No. People (extraordinarily healthy people) are suffering pulmonary embolisms (and thus hospitalized) weeks after they have been cleared from the virus. There is a very, very, very long tail to this disease outside of the initial 2 - 4 weeks of being sick.
Yeah....I can only imagine what they are going through. That was why I posted that comment, I can't do anything for her, but I can hope that others will see that and take heed.
This conversation is a bit misguided in its premises. There is not that much excess capital compared to yesteryears when one considers the real value vs the nominal amount. If anything, sure capital will flow more freely and be doled out more freely in ever increasing nominal amounts.

However, let's stop and ponder, how much more will this capital buy? Will it buy more actual assets? Will salaries go up? Then you will get the same amount of engineers for the capital. This is quite a decaying state, not that different to how despite, more food being produced, and salaries "going upz and increasing" the average person in the US can afford, worse quality food and housing despite having "muh iphones".

Long term this trend will further bitcoin's position as a more useful nominal quantity. When will the salaries in fixed BTC begin? Right now it is a bit unstable, sure "muh transaction costs". But imagine schemes where pay is paid out yearly, reducing the number of transactions, or where it is held in escrow.
For me is not a big deal. If your password is Hunter22 than you have bigger problems than PBKDF. It doesn't matter if they PBKDF it 30 milion times. Longer passwords are harder to crack and I still don't understand why people not using passphrases in their passwords.

Having 2fa enabled on all other accounts it makes me sleep better if somehow one day BW or any other password manager gets compromised.
I can guarantee it’s not. A simple comparison between Spotify and Apple Music shows you with no doubt that Apple is doing something better with regards to compression, it sounds a lot more defined, so there is clearly room for improvement for Spotify.
Practical reason is that the fixed-rate provider would not want to do business with you. You would only use their service when they lose money.

So they’d require exclusivity as a condition for service.
I think this misses the point: we should be doing everything we can to deprecate PBKDF2 because of the big differences between what a specialized attacker can do vs. the defender.

As a rough estimate: a $2k bitcoin miner can do 2^45 SHA-256 hashes/sec whereas your $2k laptop can do 2^16 hashes/sec; the attacker has ~a billion x advantage over you that can be multiplied based on their funding. At that point, doing even 10,000 PBKDF2 hashes may not make much of a difference.

argon2, scrypt and other memory hard password hashing algorithms reduce the orders of magnitude advantages of the attacker by requiring RAM. Attackers might be able to purchase RAM cheaper than the defender, but nothing close to a billion times cheaper.

Addressing concern #3 (want to have a password set on a laptop that decodes in a reasonable amount of time on a low-end smartphone), you could restrict the RAM to some small amount (like 256MB) if you anticipate needing to use a low-end device. This will still be a vast reduction in the attacker's advantage over PBKDF2.
Amazing!! Keep going!
It might not be legal, but works quite well for me.

Having a dynamic IPv4 address with multiple domains on it, updating every record would take more time.

Admittedly, I could also have a copy of the IP per domain, but the CNAME was easier to setup.
I used to offer tutoring for C, Go and Python programming for $50/hr.

I can’t tell you the number of people who asked me to do work on for their day job... I would always accept at $100/hr.

Almost every week I’d max out my 15 hours I’d set aside for “tutoring”. So beyond that I’d charge $200/hr, and I’d still get people for both tutoring and day job style work lol

$1/min is a fair price, but if you’re good you can make a lot more
He was a US Citizen by birth so never took the oath.
So you could create the knowledge without imitating others. Try again. The second time maybe will be better. That without entering in the discredited philosophical position of empiricism for epistemology.
I would like to see that in practice. How much of the code would be in unsafe blocks?
I think you should be worried instead of the amount of libraries that you give up from the JVM and Python ecosystems before anything else. Also, the applications of Rust and Java/Python generally do not overlap, I would be cautious in approaching this transition. Scala would be a better choice since you have expertise on the JVM and it has a familiar syntax to Python devs.
The burden to speak persuasively is born from the passion to persuade.
> additional monitoring or other stipulations

That does happen with software a lot, frequently flying under the title of Compensating User Entity Controls (CUECs) or User Control Considerations (UCC). Basically the “here it is, don’t feed it after midnight and don’t let it get wet, and good luck” riders. Sounds like these problems happened way earlier in the lifecycle though - either the requirements were missed or the testing was thorough enough.
> Cryptocurrency solves absolutely none of the existing legal reasons that banks can't issue large loans in minutes or seconds to existing (or new, well collateralized) clients.

Yes, this is definitely correct in that crypto does nothing to solve the legal requirements of the banks and does not help the banks.

But it's worth mentioning that this sort of fully collateralized and anonymous borrowing does not (and would not) happen through banks, but through platforms like AAVE and Compound. It's a financial tool separate from banks. And these tools cannot be shutdown, as long as ethereum exists, these tools exist.
Before starting SLIT I was unable to spend more than an hour outside in the spring before I turned into a disgusting mess (this is with daily OTC pills). Now I can go play with my kids all day in the sun. $99/mo is well, well worth it.

I looked at the alternative (shots), but that’s multiple visits per week to the clinic, with 1 hour observation time after each shot. Drops are so much more convenient.
Call me a renegade, but I think the only goal should be to minimize the total number of deaths from Covid. Trying to maximize sustainable medical system occupancy is almost certainly not aligned with the former goal.
> In what way are they a monopoly in any way?

They have more than 70% of the desktop OS market share:
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

In Enterprise software (cloud or desktop) they have even larger share.

> All of their products have alternatives, and they charge no extra fee when I install software on my Microsoft computer.

And Google's products don't have alternatives? :) I would argue it's much more easy to type "bing.com" in your URL than it is to change the desktop operating system, even for a techie. So not only are there alternatives, they are easier to switch to.
> imaging at SEM scale

I can't see how that would possibly be a requirement for determining the species of a bee. Wouldn't DNA be cheaper and easier?
> Fractional reserve banking don't print money, it increases (and decreases) the money supply through lending.

Technically the Fed does the same. They lend money to the Treasury by buying Treasuries (or more recently, to other people by buying IG credit). When the Fed prints money, in theory it’s offset by a liability somewhere. They are the same. M2 is what matters.
> This article doesn't mention linking at all, which is at the heart of REST.

Please, just don't do it. Yes, I read the dissertation. It's just not a good idea, it has never given me any practical use whatsoever and has always made dealing with the API more annoying.

> Most of it is just standard JSON-over-HTTP stuff that's implemented in a variety of frameworks and libraries.

Yes, and we call that REST or RESTful anyway. We'll keep doing it that way. You're going to have to accept it.
The first link is precisely the one I was speaking of. My employer’s UK office is at 1 London Wall so it wasn’t hard to explore and fine these.

Really fun stuff
Even if it's longer than 15 minutes, you've got to call it at some point, otherwise it just gets kind of sad.

I'm a bit of a classic rock / prog rock fan. These bands are getting old, and they sometimes have staff changes as a result of band members dying of old age. Went to a Yes concert recently and have kind of mixed feelings about it. It's like Steve Howe and a backup band. I mean it's great that these older artists "still got it" and want to keep doing what they love, but from the point of view of a fan, maybe it's best to call it a day when your best work is firmly in the past.
Well I got the same from a off-the-shelf hepatitis shot 2 years ago. It is really unfortunate they print it this way because the headline surely will be taken out of context.
there is a 30pt difference in effectiveness is the actual reason. Any rational person would prefer an mRNA vaccine to the Oxford one.

Given the option, sure. But, that option doesn't exist today due to limited availability of all vaccines.

The option is really 70% (AZ) vs 0% (nothing) vs ??? (unknown chance of mRNA jab in the near future). Any rational person would prefer 70% today.

And that's completely ignoring the severity. As far as I've been able to tell, all the current vaccines provide near 100% protection from severe cases of COVID.
> Much of human communication is useless (on the surface).

Yep. It's called phatic expression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic_expression). No information content but sends important social signals.
That is a not insignificant percentage of parents
And how many people do you think use it as a DVB-T/DVD player?

I don’t understand really why is it so controversial to admit that Kodi’s sole existence is dependent on piracy as it provides a good UX to a large library of media files.

Same goes for Plex, everyone knows what it’s used for.

Sure there can be legitimate uses for this software but without the piracy angle we know that it wouldn’t be maintained or even really exist.

Kodi started as a homebrew media player for the Xbox to play additional media formats and files from sources other than the main DVD drive.
As far as I'm aware Griddy's product could only be sold in Texas. Plenty of other states have deregulated residential electricity markets, all of the ones I am familiar with would not allow residential customers to sign up for totally unconstrained rates.

I'd suggest Texas jettison its market fundamentalist politicians and instead elect ones that advocated for proper regulations prior to this event.
> There are fun workarounds around that oath

What are the workarounds?
> Easy and simple are near-universally conflated.

That’s an interesting statement as it doesn’t always work in other languages. In German (my native language) my first instinct was to translate both words as “einfach” which contains both concepts. In fact, in my online dictionary of choice the word “einfach” is the first entry for both “easy” and “simple”. So if Germans conflate these two it might be because of the language they speak :) But more to the point, I’m wondering how universal the distinction between easy and simple is when other languages cannot express that distinction as easily as in English.
Read the article again.

"Second, he allowed his investments to compound through the decades by never selling out of the market over his 40+ years of investing. He gave himself a really long runway."
>People (extraordinarily healthy people) are suffering pulmonary embolism

What are the numbers?
Sounds like Bunnie Huang's Precursor would be of interest to you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
Use a longer and more complex master password. You're welcome.
> Copper is seeing massive inflation right now.

An asset that isn't used as a medium of exchange does not have the characteristic of inflation. An asset can have an inflated price (in a currency) but the asset itself (in this case copper) cannot have inflation if its not used as a medium of exchange. The distinction is important.
> Any rational person would prefer an mRNA vaccine to the Oxford one.

HN is meant to be a space for discussion but with no disrespect this is the most infuriating statement I read all day. First off you are basing yourself on bad info [0]

Even still if your fears were true, any rationale person under 85 years old would still take a 70% protection now (which by the way is untrue) [0] that you can distribute over a large section of the population over a >90% protection for a vaccine that we might be able to role in large quantities by summer time. Even if a vaccine gave you a 60% protection as long as you can massively vaccinate fast it would be extremely effective.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n414
Of course they don't contribute to Bitcoin's technology, they are not coders. Using Bitcoin as a speculative asset is part of the adoption process. It is not yet a currency, it will take many years to be completely adopted. It's a natural process, I cannot imagine any other way for a decentralized currency like Bitcoin to become a global reserve currency. Can you?
> To defend against an attacker sideloading a different OS, I rely on secure boot to only load my kernel and hence my userspace.

You could additionally seal the TPM key to specific PCR values so that only booting your kernel would allow using that TPM key.

> kernel, but potentially not root, could be able to change the tpm keys on an x86 system?

Depends on what do you mean by "change". They can't extract private bits but they can remove and add new ones. But if the data is encrypted using the old key it would become bit recoverable.
For #2, I bet that it would drastically cut into energy company profits and thus is not politically practical in TX.
Why assume that the future aircraft fundamental design has to remain same and electrify the trusters? Current aircrafts have evolved into their current shape from restrictions and capabilities
It could also be because people got contaminated IN vaccination centers when coming for their first vaccine dose. Told from a doctor working in Israel.
The #1 group in the USA was not "at-risk" population, but doctors, nurses, and other front-line staff. The idea is that these groups are seeing many, many COVID19 patients and therefore have a big risk at spreading the virus around.

Once this "Priority 1A" group was vaccinated, then age 75+ individuals were vaccinated in Priority 1B. Even then, Postal Office employees and Grocery Store workers (other "high impact" workers) are in the 1B and 1C prioritization queues.

With efforts being to reopen schools, 1B also includes school-teachers (stop-the-spread focus). So a 21-year-old healthy school teacher is prioritized over a 67-year old obese person (despite the 67-year old's higher risk factors).

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So at least in the USA: there's a significant effort being placed on high-impact "stop the spread" kind of vaccination effort. There is an element of "save lives", but stopping the spread also saves lives. So its a difficult calculus. (USA has some risk-factor prioritizations... 1B with 75+ age, and 1C with 65+ age + comorbidities like obesity. But again, Grocery Store workers are in 1C as well).

I realize other countries have different priorities. But hey, I live in the USA so my understanding of things will have a USA-slant. These 1B / 1C things are also CDC recommended. Different states (like Texas) are more aggressively stop-the-spread than CDC guidelines (while other states may lean more towards risk-factor based "save lives / prevent hospitalizations"). 50-different states, 50+ different policies. Welcome to America.
Send ISO date/time in utc.

Send numbers as strings. you should be treating this as hostile in your backend anyways, and checking it.

Send both an error code, and a string in simple english, or whatever your most common developer language is.

If you care about only updating certain fields, track changes and only send those fields to the backend.

These arn't really that hard.
What do you use for 2FA tokens?
1. There are parts that are certainly harder and there is one part I can think of that may be easier.

- Harder: Longer and more expensive iteration cycles, MVP can be expensive, manufacturing and production required to scale, expensive certification

- Easier: Raising money (sometimes) especially if you are a moonshot with a big vision. Good example is Boom Supersonic.

Good news is there has never been a better time to start a hardware company than today. Iteration cycles are becoming shorter due to advances in rapid prototyping and there is a lot of capital available, especially in electric vehicles and sustainable tech.

Peter Thiel talks a lot about this in Zero to One, but much of the innovation that’s been done in the past decades has been in the digital space. We have so many problems that require innovative hardware solutions and I think now we are just beginning to scratch the surface.

2. We all met through Formula SAE in college. This is a great place to meet super talented engineers and is why Tesla, SpaceX, and the other top companies in the world recruit heavily from these programs. It teaches you both the hard skills and the soft skills. If you are still in college, I would recommend getting involved in teams like this.

3. I haven't really read anything hardware-startup specific, but I love Zero to One and find myself rereading it all the time.

Would love to hear other peoples thoughts on this as well. Good questions
Isn't this the primary purpose of iNaturalist?
Similar with my provider in Finland, capped at 0.085€/kWh (approx. 2x avg): https://www.sahkolaitos.fi/en/products/tuntisahko/
From the title of the post, I thought he launched his own VC firm. FWIW It's a good name.
No, a truly RESTless API must do away with all the other pointless HTTPisms in REST. If you're using any other method than GET or POST, or any other codes than 400 and 200, you're not truly RESTless.
Arent you the same kid saying in other comment that there is not creativity, just imitation? Take a position and stick to it. BTW you are misinterpreting Newton (on purpose or not). He didnt say he copy them, he was humbly acknowledging there have been giants in science before him.
Wrangling Audience Usage Data for Reproducible Analytics
>> approaching 15% vaccinated at over 95% efficacy means that you'll have 15% fewer cases

That’s not how it works, you’re missing a variable (prevalence).
The problem with opting out of these things is just how much our modern society relies on them, in very practical ways.

There's a local business (great croissants) that closes on random days (the owner is French) and the only place they publish that information is Instagram. You walk to the store and there's no note, nothing on their website, no-one answering the phone, but on Instagram they've been warning their customers for days.

I just got a haircut and after the cut was done he told me their credit card processor was down so I had to pay via venmo or whatever. I could have paid in cash I suppose, but I didn't have cash or a cheque. I assumed that he could take a credit card and he assumed I could pay via Venmo.

The old world was not built on the same assumptions. 7-11 clerks had maps and phone books to lend because people got lost. I had a 'tab' at the local video-rental store! Newspapers published movie times and TV schedules. You had scheduled recurring meet-ups with friends and met new people at cafes. You actually talked to strangers. Those things, the societal support infrastructure needed to live a life without a smart phone, are slowly disappearing. We are building a society based on the assumption that EVERYONE has a smartphone. And to some extent these online services.

I suspect that this is what people object to -- not having a choice. I get it, but the world waits for no one.

But the great thing is that each of us gets to decide. Netflix still has a DVD service! Vinyl record sales are up! Print newspapers and magazines are still a thing! There are still libraries! You can still get landline phones! You can have a smartphone that you leave off unless you want to make a call! Not all of the old world is gone yet, you can integrate the old world with the new.
Do you have any guarantees about how quickly a response will come in? I'm a bit concerned that the low payrate to the dev means that you're likely to miss higher skilled respondants. The payout isn't high enough to justify going FT on it and it feels like it'd be unreliable to try and pickup questions here and there when you happen to be available.
Does this work too?

"Hey, you're an idempotent kind of person: all you think you need to know about me you learned on day 1, and nothing's changed since then."
No one take responsibility. Just blame the algorithm or something. Maybe upgrade to a deep learning black box for perfect deniability.
It's exactly this sort of comment that gives go lovers a bad name.
Dependencies make this much worse, but Rust itself is not really very fast at being compiled.
Thanks all- btw I'm looking for stories from people who've been in similar situations. I want to settle this with soft skills first.

For more context: yes the goal is to sell it to said big tech company (or quit and raise VC). We have some traction but we want a lot more users so we can ask for more $$.

I don't think the company will make this a new product and make me VP. It's a risky bet and big tech doesn't move that fast.

Thanks for the "get a lawyer" advice- that's a clear course of action I know how to pursue. I'm looking for real stories of how other people have handled this w/o legal.

I think there are other options available and I want to understand them. Thanks!
Agree, Rust seems like a good choice but I'm curious why they needed to replace Go. GC pause time is mostly due to the amount of pointer-containing heap memory. Moving the the cache storage to slabs of pointer-free "dumb" slices should pretty much avoid the problem so long as you force GC frequently (large heap will confuse the heuristic). Shard the slabs across a handful of goroutines, one channel each to handle locking, and that should perform fine compared to an equivalently complex Rust implementation.
I saw Mr.T at a networking conference in the late 90s posing for pictures for attendees. He was a hero of mine as a kid. I was star struck and couldn't think of anything to say, but I did get a picture. He was in a variation of his A-Team outfit.

I also saw Ed McMahon in an elevator a few months later at my shared office space. Something to the effect of, "Going up?" and I replied, "No down, thanks." Totally normal average Joe encounter.

Such a strange world we live in.
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