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> What risks fueling anti-vaccine viewpoints is ignoring adverse impacts which are known and plowing forward, especially giveb that people often don’t have a choice of which vaccine they are administered.

Your point about other vaccines being available is totally valid and sound, but... what is our standard here, then? For absolute-zero people to die of any vaccine we produce? What if it was 1 person who got a blood clot? It probably sounds like I'm being pedantic, but I'm serious in that I want to know why people find it reasonable to pull an otherwise effective vaccine because of this. It just doesn't seem worth it to tell everyone that the vaccine is dangerous enough that it had to be pulled entirely.

Ignoring adverse impacts definitely fuels anti-vaccine sentiment, but so does giving people concrete evidence that the vaccine can possibly kill people, possibly leading them to be resistant to getting any COVID vaccine at all until they're forced to get it. I mean, if I were at all skeptical of getting a COVID vaccine, and I was told the J&J vaccine was so dangerous they had to pause it, why would I get any of the more experimental vaccines knowing that they also have the potential to kill me but we don't even know yet because they're experimental?

I don't think people on HN realize the full magnitude to which the public can be timid and irrational. It just doesn't seem worth it to me for us to possibly fuck up the rollout of vaccinations when we are facing a possible 4th wave of COVID and more virulent variants.

Let's compare some numbers here.

The number of known blood clot cases with the J&J vaccine seems to be 6 in 7 million. That's a ~0.00000085% chance of getting a blood clot caused by the vaccine, give or take a zero since I suck at math and calculators refuse to not use scientific notation. According to the CDC, around 100,000 people die of blood clots in the United States every year, and the US population is 308,401,808, meaning that Americans have a ~0.0003% chance of dying of a blood clot in their lifetime. The only concerning factor as far as I can tell is that the people who got the blood clots were women under 50.

I mean, fine, if that's a risk profile we are averse to, then so be it. I don't really understand that.
Why (Almost) Everyone Wants Richard Stallman Canceled
> shaming and/or implying that people like myself are anti-vax.

I'm in a low risk bracket. My country saw an uptick in people canceling vaccination appointments. 40% of 60+ people here are now 'unsure' of taking the vaccine.

I've done nothing but work and follow the rules since this whole thing began. Young people without partners, or young people in general, that are active, have a social life did a complete 180* in their "allowed lifestyles".

I've paid with money, time, a year of my otherwise busy life, for people in risky age brackets, at _little_ benefit to myself. *

But I'm so done, don't tell me you're asking people like me to be stuck in our anti-social and unhealthy living arrangements, while there's a solution that's _safer_ than going to a covid shower?

People like me are done paying, I'm not going to wait around another year, you take the vaccine or you take covid for all I care.
This might be legal, but it's still bad management. If you don't trust your employees and you don't think you can evaluate the results of their work, in this case if things are clean, that's on you as a manager to figure out. Tying it in to the process like this and you end up getting false flags when they spend a long time cleaning a mess, or reward them for not cleaning sufficiently to hit their movement metrics.
I don’t understand why you have to pause then restart. Just update the side effects as you go. Or pause for the affected groups.
Well this seems stupid.

The thing I'm trying to understand is whether Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca are meaningfully different. All the media just assumes they are (until proven equivalent), but is the genetic code publicly known so we can compare? The Pfizer and Moderna ones are extremely similar. Now, I imagine the adenovirus ones have an order of magnitude more genetic material, but is the code publicly know to compare?

As far as I can tell, they both should have been approved ages ago, if only to depress prices and get more redundancy.
Sorry, what’s the effect adenoviruses have on FX? I’m a male with a mild hypercoag disorder and history of DVT. Am scheduled to get the JJ vax today and will be skipping and seeking out mRNA instead.
For those interested in the detailed and honest exposition of the Soviet Space Program there is a great book written by Korolev deputy Boris Chertok (head of automation for Space Program). The book was translated into English by NASA and is available for free as a PDF file on the NASA's web site [0]

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/rockets_people_vol1_deta...
So, the statements here seem to generally be that you don't need a lot of local storage as long as you have stuff in the cloud + a good and cheap internet connection + make judicious use of the apps+storage offload features.

The argument for getting the bigger phones is precisely so you DO NOT need to worry about any of this and simply have your phone around when you need it.

Personally, my opinion is that you get what you pay for and while you can make do with a lower capacity phone, the higher capacity phones afford a different usage pattern and thus lifestyle.

You would still need to use a good backup strategy where your phone can be restored if lost etc but as a simple example this is the difference between visiting Europe for a week, as the example in the story goes and having all your videos taken in 4K, 60/120 fps and having the lower quality option that is the default HD 30fps one.
>Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like "...companies I had ideological issues around..." It's hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I'd take a hard pass too. I just don't want to work with difficult, unhappy people.

I find a sentiment like this pretty scary. Being competent at a job is not relevant, but just whether or not the interviewer subjectively likes you.
This is just not true. I have met so, so, many wildly entitled workers (many, but not all, tech).

It's a function of detachment from reality, not a function of compensation or material comfort. You can make $1mm a year, earning the company practically nothing, and have a story in head where you're being cheated out of what is rightfully yours.

_Anyone_ who thinks they can get away with entitled behavior can build up a narrative in their head where they are denied benefits and even higher compensation they deserve.
I'm a bioengineer. Everyone that gives an answer mostly ignores epigenetics and the fact that RNA can permanently alter the _shape_ (or conformation) of how your DNA is tightly wound up. For example, RNA can direct methylation of DNA and alter histones, which can lead to transgenerational epigenetic effects on gene expression and phenotype [1]. The fact is, molecular cell biology is incredibly complex and the models we have are just that, models. Saying that these mRNA strands don't affect the genome long-term may be correct, but this is an educated guess based on theoretical models. There's a reason why FDA approvals traditionally took 10+ years, we normally verify our educated guesses empirically.

It almost certainly won't have long-term affects, but it may not be trivial to identify if mRNA vaccines have been altering epigenetics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-directed_DNA_methylation
I enjoyed the blog post. It didn't break new ground, but it is still useful and a little therapeutic for me to read these posts.

I have made it a personal goal to have a career in the tech industry that doesn't require taking technical exam interviews. It's something I understand I need to work on - to earn, really, it's not something that just happens. My approach is to do this by consulting, speaking, teaching workshops, doing projects, and eventually building a network, mainly through contacts with non-technical people who value my assistance. It actually has been working.

This approach has, however, required taking a hard pass on what have turned out to be very good career opportunities. But since I very rarely pass a technical exam interview, I'm not really sure what I've lost.

Another factor - I was a math major and did a grad degree in operations research, so while I've written lots and lots of code and wouldn't really call myself "self-taught", I'm not really a great match for SE roles. Yes, I did code for graphs and trees, factoring primes, solving diff eq's and optimization problems, and so forth, but this was within the context of math classes, not CS. So I never took any formal CS beyond the intro in college. Over time, I realized that's not a coincidence, I actually was't really interested in code per so, I was interested in what questions I can answer with code.

One thing I mention here on HN - I can absolutely create and search a binary tree, DFS and BFS. I've been able to implement merge sort and recursively print all permutations of a string or set. I believe the claim that a tech interviews are used to filter out those who "just can't code" is a myth. The questions I get in later rounds of tech interviews are far more elaborate than this (for example: find all matching subtrees in a binary tree at the whiteboard, in 45 minutes). Here's the thing - I actually have used trees extensively in my work (I needed to find the shortest path to passing a series of interrelated tests where various groupings were adequate). I looked it up, learned it, coded in it... but eventually it left short term memory. Had I taken a tech interview test on exactly the same topic aa year later, I would surely have failed. I just don't walk around with this all loaded up in my head, and I feel that I've re-loaded it for an interview for the last time (I would happily reload it for a real project).

And I'll sign off with my usual: companies are free to filter out candidates based on very intricate technical tests, but I have zero sympathy when they complain about a shortage of good candidates. And this becomes sinister when they claim that this shortage means that they should be empowered to bestow limited residency rights on someone where they control how the person interviews, what the person works on, where the person lives and works, and when the person shows up at the office.
What I got out of this is that some guy got a startup in ML going and even got funding without having a degree.
That's insane to me. On the other side of the Atlantic, if you look at founders most of them are Phds, some even professors, and some "merely" MScs.
Nice looking site but what most people here will be interested in is how it was built with "no-code", which your post doesn't tell us anything about.
Discord doesn't offer a PWA?
The primary concern people have here isn't the review, it's the immediate withdrawal. People who had appointments to get the J&J vaccine will now go vaccine-less until they can be rescheduled, even if they would have been happy to take it knowing about the blood clots.
Or less, but agreed -- the quality of life is so much higher. Can you imagine a world where you don't have to fight traffic or step around human feces or discarded needles that were helpfully provided by the city?

Sure, you might end up moving in a year or two when the job plays out, but you can just move to another non-coastal town. Be flexible and follow the jobs, and you'll see more disparate types of environments (and learn more about how different people think) than you ever could. You can learn pretty much everything there is to learn from a given team in less than six months, so looking at it as a consulting or training gig (even if it's a full-time job) can give you a much stronger resume. (Bonus, you learn people skills from dealing with people from many different regions and backgrounds.)
With regards to tensions around the border with Russia and Europe, Putin is firmly seen as the aggressor from here, especially after the annexation of Crimea. To us it seems that Russia is testing the water, with the full knowledge that essentially everyone in Europe wants to avoid an outright war.

I assure nobody wants a war here. From here it's seen as USA aggressively trying to push Ukraine to start something stupid like trying to take Crimea back by force. Ukraine is not a sovereign country, it's under external control and they have a very little choice. Their economy is unviable, and I guess US gives them a hard choice: either you go to war with Russia or the flow of credit from the West that allows you to feed your people will stop.

We don't need Ukraine at all. It's useless for us, it's useless for Europe. If we'd captured the Ukraine (and I'm sure that would be easy), we'd have to feed the big population that can't feed themselves and about 50% of that population also hates us to guts. Everybody understands it, including Putin. Why waste resources feeding big ungrateful population if you can offload this problem to Europe?

USSR tried to feed too many hungry mouths: Georgia, Asian republics, Baltic Republics. USSR built infrastructure: schools, hospitals, industry in those countries. They were prosperous during Soviet times because Georgia for example, consumed roughly 10 times or more money its economy generated. The difference was covered by RSFSR (Russia). Only to hear after USSR collapse that we were oppressors. Nobody is going to make this mistake again. Nobody wants to take back Georgia or Tajikistan or Estonia or Lithuania. Let them care about themselves, we better spend our resources to make our life better rather than trying to buy loyalty.

So, I highly doubt Putin have any desire to start a war. It's not beneficial to him or to our country at all. It would be highly beneficial for the US, though.
I've been in three different unions before I landed in this career. Salary increases were fixed by time and position. Position was always based on seniority. No exceptions. You could try to transfer locations within the same company to try and get better roles (which is how most people got promotions, aside from waiting for people to die).

If you changed companies though you started at the bottom, guaranteed, because if you get moved ahead of people in the new company it creates an utter shitstorm. Management at the new job basically has to hate their employees and themselves to do such a thing.
How did you get onto this tangent? Minsky isn't on trial here. He's dead. The point wasn't to determine whether or not the accusation against him merits a conviction, but to point out that this isn't a license to (1) make excuses for the crime of which he was accused or (2) (from upthread) declare that the crime definitely didn't even happen, when it's pretty clear that it probably did.
As someone who has a humanities degree and had zero trouble finding a job as a programmer (3 interviews required to get a job), color me skeptical.

You might have a hard time getting a job at Netflix/Google/Facebook/etc. But there are plenty of companies out there that absolutely do not care if you can write algorithms on a whiteboard and they aren't bad places to work.

Are those companies missing out on good programmers because of these requirements? Of course, but it's hard to say if they're making a mistake. They're also filtering out some bad programmers or at least bad students.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-...

Maybe what you're thinking of. Most of this started after I left the company, but I saw some of the beginnings of it, and knowing Kathy Zhang (the organizer quoted in the union article), I would be very surprised if she didn't play a major role in a lot of what's described there.
I can relate so much to this! I was only 18 when I became a technical co-founder and when the burnout and the subsequent crash kicked in, my entire world turned upside down.

It took quite some time to recover, now that I'm up and running I only see a few options outside of starting one. I'm currently pursuing the digital nomad route with contracting.

There is something so addictive about being able to zoom between high and low level tasks with very high responsibility .
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Not really, no. At least nowhere I’ve worked. Currently I work at a company that recently went public and operates near FAANG scale. There are some interesting technical debt issues to overcome and these are challenging. But they’re not arbitrary or capricious. Most importantly they’re not correlated at all with our interview questions, which are designed to select people with recent exposure to mid- and upper-level textbook CS problems. That is, they’re going to naturally select from privileged groups (generally white and wealthy Asians who have attended top-tier universities).
My google card shows closers to 62%. but regardless ESL technically broke the point I WAS going to make.
Unions are democratic organizations. Employees elect the leadership, which can effectively advocate on their behalf for changes to company strategy in addition to general compensation & working conditions issues. So yes, by creating a parallel power structure beholden to workers, not management, unions do give individual employees more input.

You are saying that an individual employee voicing their concerns to their manager has more sway than a union bringing that concern up to the executives.
The Stockholm syndrome among the leetcode crowd is astonishing.
I'll check this again!
Maybe you responded to the wrong person. I am in no way suggesting it is better to not take the vaccine, or that there is good reason to think that the risks posed by COVID are less dire than those posed by the vaccines.
Yes, the powder cuts their exoskeleton and they perish from dehydration. It sounds like an awful way to go, but I'll do it if that's what it takes to keep them out of my kitchen.

As for diatomaceous earth, it works best in dry places. If it gets wet they can walk right over it without issue, or it will just wash away in the rain. It's also an ingredient in toothpaste and is included in animal feed to allegedly kill parasites. The research on that seems to be propped up by those invested in selling the stuff, though, so take that with a grain of salt.

Nature is really quite incredible. This blew my mind when I saw it, and it unravels a lot of the mystery behind ant locomotion: https://i.imgur.com/7Zh6Im5.gif -- It's so simple, but it works amazingly well.
> it seemed like everyone I interviewed with was a caricature of narcissism and delusions of grandeur

I don't know what it is, but something about the position of authority and power of being an interviewer really does change people. It's a modern-day Stanford Prisoner Experiment[1]. I've been on both sides quite a bit, and it's remarkable how people flip like a light-switch when you enter that room. There are exceptions of course. Those people who it doesn't affect are the ones I like to work with. Although, it seems those most interested in being on the interviews also seem most affected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
Shameless similar plug: I recently implemented parts of git in Golang as a learning exercise.

https://github.com/ssrathi/gogit
This is true, but as an example in Hungary Budapest and surroundings contribute about half of all taxes, but we don't have much saying in where the money is spent (mostly on football stadiums and supporting villages/cities that vote for Fidesz).
This is why software is terrible. Would you test Frank Gehry on the basics of architecture? Or have Frida Kahlo count her brushstrokes or plan her day hour by hour?

I test all developers by paying them to make the equivalent of a bird box. If it comes back relatively well designed, cool, I've got a developer. If they come back with three designs for different environments and species, I know I have an engineer.

As it stands, we have kids who have zero real world experience at the helm of corporations and the results are easy to see. They rarely produce anything of value for the general population. So rare we have to call them unicorns.
> Is it because libertarian UBI would be an excuse to eliminate more poverty welfare programs than liberal UBI?

Close but for me it’s less about protecting similarly redistributive programs and more about protecting services best provided by government that nonetheless cost money and require the government to be empowered to administer them effectively.
I don't find that ironic because that's exactly what I would expect those greedy people to do.
I agree with the dead post below.

"Modeling a wealth tax correctly is to not tax anyone.
I reject your morality and economics."

The amount of waste by those empowered but unaccountable, to distribute taxes to programs of their choosing, is flabbergasting. I believe in taxes, but the abuse is unacceptable.
Yes, you are right. Both are experimental / new tech.
Thank you - Jesus Christ I don't know if people around here are being deliberately obtuse or if they just have no imagination whatsoever. I think they don't understand that wealth redistribution is in fact the entire fucking point.
> Employer should provide a phone for an employee and then whatever employer wants can be installed there. If something does not work, well, it is up to employer to provide support.

Buy a scanner. Put it in somewhere the building which is accessible by employees (eg custodial office). Give each employee a unique, scannable card with which to identify themselves. Instruct employees to clock in and out by scanning the card.

Mission accomplished. No phones or location tracking necessary.

What this person's employer did should be illegal, and that extends to other industries as well. A shipping company can track their trailer or their shipments, but they shouldn't be allowed to track the truck driver himself.
As for the AZ vaccine, we are still learning:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104840

The paper details several cases (and index case in more detail) as well as a plausible mechanism behind the thrombotic events. Even better, there are some therapeutic possibilities as well arising from the heparin induced analogue condition.