skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big businesses with younger, white collar employees certainly gain a competitive advantage by getting a tax benefit for paying people via health insurance subsidies. Their risk pool is healthier, so the healthcare costs are lower, hence premiums are lower. Plus, obfuscated pricing always benefits the seller. The employer can lower the value of the benefit without the employee being able to accurately compare the costs to alternatives.
I don't know. People I know, who are admittedly mostly a bit older, are all talking 2 weeks after second jab. But, yes, at that point many plan to start traveling, getting together with people, etc. Fortunately, in the US, we're on pace to have a pretty good vaccination rollout by the time summer really kicks in.
Exit Visas like the old USSR, or tax them even if they live and work outside the country like we do!

I’m joking but short of shoring up you own industry or letting it happen more, what’s there to do?
What social cost is far beyond so many dead?
By the standards of The New Yorker, this was mercifully short. Usually they go on and on about the childhood experiences of the main subject's parents, both biological and adopted. Sometimes it feels as if the writers are paid by the word, with no upper limit. Some people treasure this "long-form" writing, but not everyone does.
It does appear that challenge trials are starting, a search easily turned up this UK one: https://ukcovidchallenge.com/covid-19-volunteer-trials/

The main benefit of challenge trials is to speed up development as I understand it not to broaden risk estimates.
A favorite talk of mine by Jeff Hawkins is 'What the Brain says about Machine Intelligence'[0] - how the brain interprets signals similarly to how a computer chip would, and how these are stored such that they can be later retrieved as memories or limbic system responses.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izO2_mCvFaw
Never heard it called the green book, usually just called by the acronym CTCI (Cracking The Coding Interview). Just commenting in case anyone else was confused.

Congrats on getting a good payoff on your work, and thanks for sharing the info about your process.
Not really. Case (in) sensitivity and accent (in)sensitivity are two orthogonal things. If you want to compare two strings, ignoring case differences, converting both to lowercase (or uppercase) is completely fine in Javascript (it might be problematic in other languages because of Turkish dotted and dotless i, but in JS, the obvious first-choice toLowerCase() is locale-ignorant, you would need to use toLocaleLowerCase() to be bitten by the problem and why would do that?). Obviously, the method considers "Á" and "a" to be different, but why wouldn't it? Those characters differ in accents, not only in case.
IBM proposes to open source its premier MQTT Broker (Web/IoT messaging)
I'm not qualified to comment on whether or not that is a valid concern, but the vaccine we're discussing here (J&J) uses a modified viral vector, as do the AstraZeneca and Gamaleya vaccines.
Or the pitch. Using an analog synth on stage without a consistent power supply could be a nightmare.
"I just had another listen to Stevie Wonder's Superstition to hear TONTO."

I'd be interested in hints where you hear the TONTO in Superstition. I know the CBC video "Meet TONTO, the machine behind Stevie Wonder's Superstition" claims right in the title that the Tonto was used in Superstition. Also Bob Margouleff once said in an interview: "We had the drums, Tonto, the Clavinets and the Rhodes keyboards set up in the control room, and there was always an open mic. Stevie could easily move from one instrument to another as he saw fit." So Stevie Wonder had easy access to it during the production of Superstition.

On the other hand: The Superstition multi tracks have been available for a long time and it seems to be established wisdom that the 16 tracks are 3 drum tracks, 1 (Moog) bass track, 2 vocal tracks, 2 horn tracks and 8 Clavinet tracks. The sound of the iconic riff, which could easily be mistaken for a synth, is definitely a Clavinet - a Hohner Clavinet C according to the legend (the bass could easily be mistaken as an electric bass guitar, but it is a synth).
So, no room for a Tonto. Maybe they used it as an effect on the Clav or Moog tracks? Maybe the multi track is not authentic and I missed it in the mix of the released song?
Yeah, but if it came to Google, Facebook, or Amazon, you'd be all over them with a pitchfork.

Users of HN really have some rose coloured blinders on when it comes to Apple.
Can’t find a source atm (it was some video presentation from a biological researcher recently) but I heard that the level of antibodies you get from a vaccine is a multiple higher than from a prior infection.

Also, the infection supposedly only protects you for a short period of time (clear since re-infection is possible).

Also we don’t have much data on how a prior-infected person can spread the virus as a carrier. We have this same concern with the vaccine.

Edit: when we see that certain professions have special rules, it’s more likely that they just got special permission since the job is important not that they have different biological safety.
Vault is open source, it looks like 1Password Secrets is closed source. Not really comparable. Probably not aimed at the same people.
Or that he prefers not to take everything they say at face value and applies his own judgement as an adult before blindly following anything and everything that is thrown out there.
While you should probably fix it for both, you're probably going to have to fix it on Safari at least, if you have any plans for taking it mobile. iOS browsers are all based on Safari, even if they're branded as "Firefox", "Chrome", or whatever.
There are plenty of regions in Europe that have similar histories and few countries in Europe are really that old, even states with long histories have not had constitutional orders lasting more than 50 years. Finland was a part of Sweden for 600 years, Denmark part of Norway for an equal amount time. Neither of those facts in any way reduces the Finnish or Norwegian people's right to self determination.

Waging aggressive war is a violation of international law - The state of Ukraine is the legitimate successor to Ukrainian SFR and if Russia has any claims on its territory those must be pursued through legal means.

There is nothing complicated about the Ukrainian question, it is simply a part of Putin's strategy of death by a thousand cuts. Last time that strategy was used Europe was thrown into a conflict that made the world say never again to nationalism. The Russian people would have done well to listen to their grandfathers now that this conflict is all but forgot.
> I stopped an interview once. I told the guy I didn't think I'd be a good fit for the organization, and maybe we should save ourselves some time.

I've done this a few times, each time from a startup that reached out to me asking me if I'd come in to talk to them, and then would throw me into their coding challenges immediately. Like whoa hold on there, I don't even know what you do, why are you asking me to do a coding challenge before we've even figured out if there is a fit for me technically and I figure out what it is you're trying to solve.
Whenever I hear Hawkins speak I wonder whether he’s a genius or a glorious charlatan. His theories on brain function are interesting, but he always makes these gross simplifications that don’t really fly. That old brain/new brain thing is an example. The brain is not as modular as he tries to make us believe. Neither part can function on its own, and just because he thinks he has understood neocortex this doesn’t mean the parts he doesn’t understand are irrelevant.

But: his theories are a great source of inspiration, because they are bold and we would all like to believe them because we think we understand the basic principles. For many, this is enough to trigger their curiosity and dive into neuroscience and AI. Mission accomplished.
The point is to put a financial penalty to Canadians traveling internationally without actually putting a restriction on travel, since it's against the Canadian charter and would be difficult politically to do so.

As to why they put in the hotel requirement, it was in response to political controversy. It's not organized well and you can actually skip it if you come in by land or just pay a cheaper $700 fine walk past the hotel counter in the airport so I've heard.

The rest of the requirements have been there since the start and haven't been updated probably because barely anyone has been properly vaccinated in canada yet, and non-resident citizens can't vote.
> oh and is 100% effective at stopping you from dying. Literally no one that has received the vaccine has died from COVID19.

This is misinformation (and I call it that because it is being widely repeated in major new sources). It's an improper generalization from what was observed in a very small sample of confirmed Covid cases in the vaccine trials.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/04/11/3-breakthro...
The vast majority of finance deals with "real" assets--stocks of companies (arguably blockchainable, like the Topl thing that a sister comment mentioned), commodities (e.g. futures), logistics, etc etc

Not sure how that all can be trustlessly secured with blockchain technology
There's no way to make money from people naturally being immune, so regulators have no reason to incentivize that behavior.

And tribally, it's not as much of a bonding experience as sticking a painful sharp object into your shoulder and injecting yourself with the tribe's serum.
I mean we said as much back in March of 2020. These lockdowns weren’t to eradicate covid. They were to intentionally slow it down to buy time to build up healthcare systems. Somehow that messaging has been lost to “if everybody did a hard lockdown, this would be over sooner”

The CDC is doing a mass disservice by keeping restrictions on vaccinated people. The message they are giving is “vaccines don’t really work and even if they did it isn’t good enough”. We have oodles of proof from Israel that these vaccines are perhaps the best humans have ever created. But no... that isn’t good enough for our public health overlords.

I have no clue how this all ends in lockdown states. But the overly conservative “mother knows best” public health messaging isn’t really gonna sell vaccines to people who weren’t concerned about covid.

Also, the idea of being a fully vaccinated grocery store worker having to wear an uncomfortable mask for a full shift knowing full well it is only for appearances... especially when your politicians offer no suggestions when they can take it off again. That is some hot garbage.
> They don't care about whether you've already recovered from covid ... or whether you're fully vaccinated

Well, it sounds like they're treating the two states the same, so at least it's consistent.
I understand your viewpoint but you dont understand mine.And you probably never will.It's not your fault and I wont call you out on arrogance or ignorance or anything like that.It's impossible to re-live the experience.

You see I was born to an Eastern European country to a poor family.It was not anything like the US centric media portrays it to be.Definitely not africa or super exaggerated levels of poverty.

But we have not had the means to acquire wealth.My family did not have the opportunity to do so.My parents nor my grandparents or my grand-grand parents had that opportunity.

You on the other hand were born to a country with excess.Excess abundance of resources and wealth.

You have seen that excess yourself and it tainted you.It made you realize that you could live more sustainably.

You see I was born to such country were "sustainable" was the default mode of living.

You cant demand austerity from your experience of excess.
Interesting idea - make it so all your passwords start with the same four characters (say Ab54) - (it's hard to get good passwords you can safely type at a prompt anyway) and then have a script that searches your history/log files for strings beginning with the Ab54 characters and replacing them with XXXX or similar.

All sorts of horrible side effects can immediately be identified.
If you are getting reflections at 400Kbps, you either have another problem or are way out of the standard.

There’s a reason for things like RS422/485.

The hardest bug I’ve seen on an I2C bus was an implementation that every now and then dropped the lines to GND for a small period (~50ms). All I2C devices were working correctly, but because of supply chain reasons we had to introduce a PN change that was on paper 100% compatible.

The new PN was a SMBus device, and guess how SMBus signals a reset...
Anti racism has all the qualities of racism. They want you to treat people of colour differently, to pity them, to assume they are weak and that they need to be saved by some massive act of guilt. They aim to never let anyone forget what race they or their associates are. They put race above individual traits. Then they go around reporting or flagging everything they disagrees, like the ops article
I guess I wasn't being specific - good correction. Reporting medical side effects can easily lag with new treatments, especially when we're not sure what we're looking for.

I suspect that, as soon as we start looking for blood clotting post-vaccine, then you'll find more cases that may have not been caught otherwise due to their not being severe enough to be noticed.
That's a pretty common and terrible sounding experience.

To be more specific, I'm looking for a group of like-minded folks to help with accountability and motivation - maybe a bit of guidance. It helps to have a cohort.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bitcoin+all+time+high

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bitcoin+falls
Why we should care about drug addicts? They care about their drug only instead of our society.
I can't tell if this is satire or not
Hi, I'm Wojciech, one of Enso founders. I'm excited that Enso 2.0 was just published! I'd love to answer any questions :) Also, check out our Enso intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQvWMoOjmQk
>They/them works if you don't want to think about it.

Except that's it's typically used a plural. Referring to one person as multiple is weird, awkward and clunky. Or, you're making a multi-personality joke. I thought we were at the point where poking fun at mental illness was a no-no? That's micro-aggression behavior there on your part. So sure, if you don't think about, it works. Just like saying apple instead would work if you don't think about it.

Yes, languages differ. Why anyone still uses accent marks is weird too. Oh well. A few people forcing their own ideals on the masses isn't right either. Two wrongs don't make a right.
So we stop giving out treatment and an extra 1000-10000(?) people die and we delay the economy getting back on track for a week or two with the delay. No skin off the FDA bureaucrats teeth, but they are hurting a lot of people with this decision.
Who operates those checkpoints? Isn't there going to be some sort of implicit trust there? Even if somehow you built a machine that executes instructions that is verified on the blockchain, how are you going to make sure that machine's firmware is secure?

edit: I think this is a valid thing to tackle potentially as a company, but right now it seems impossible.
Do you have reason to believe that it can affect gametes? In other words, do you know of any hypothesized mechanism by which this could happen?
My 70 year old mother doesn’t want to leave the house despite being fully vaccinated because it’s hard for her to breathe in a mask. How much of the rest of her life does she need to be a shut in?
The Pfizer & Moderna 2-shot vaccines use mRNA instead of an adenovirus vector. The AZ vaccine is 2 shot, but also uses a similar adenovirus vector - the bloodclot issue has also been seen in the AZ vaccine which has led to some countries in Europe not allowing it for women under 60.
That's because long term consequences of COVID are real, and worrying just about the worst case (the death rate) is like saying that data leaks are no big deal because only 2% of them lead to the loss of their customer's life savings.
Someone just down voted me for saying CDC does not have the authority to tell me an American Citizen what I can and cannot do without a warrant.
Credit score doesn't just impact credit worthiness.
Also: losing weight, getting more exercise, improving your diet, getting proper amounts of vitamins. All things that will greatly reduce your risk of death from many causes, not just COVID. But requires some effort compared to taking a pill or a shot.
Of course the cases are shortly after vaccination, the data is symptoms reported shortly after vaccination which might be side effects. You're not going to have anyone who got a clot before the vaccine or long afterwards in the dataset, but those cases still did/will exist. There is no evidence yet of a correlation in timing.
> knew their CS fundamentals like the back of their hand.

Even if they did, that doesn't necessarily mean they can shuffle an array or flip a BST under pressure on a whiteboard
Thanks Bud. But this isn't actually a disagreement with what he said. You're both right.
I'll install anything my employer wants on my phone provided they've provided me with the phone :)

How did your situation work out?
Correct. I meant the mRNA vaccines. The AZ & J&J vaccines don't have that same concern, but I'd still worry about an untested vaccine. There is really no good reason for the young and healthy to get the vaccine yet or any time soon.
Sorry you are correct - I should have been more specific in my wording.

We should give people an educated choice. With unknown side effects we are not doing that. Thank you for pointing that out.
That's 6 unusual/dangerous cerebral clots per 7 million doses, not all blood clots. There were 50% more clots of any types in the vaccine trials of 20k people [0] (15 blood clots in vaccinated group versus 10 in the placebo group).

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/health/johnson-vaccine-blood-...
OK, then. Who vouches for the quality of a name you've never seen before? I doubt you're in favor or freezing the current pool of good reporters, nor spending the time needed to read all the new writers to see which ones are worth your time.
23 Years of FreeDOS (2017) [pdf]
It's all pretty speculative at this point, but it seems very reasonable to investigate the J&J vaccine as it causes the same problems as AZ.

When that investigation ends, then the J&J vaccine can be opened up for those willing to take the risk, which by that time is better known.

I think we still have to remember that vaccinating everybody is not needed to resume a normal life.

Personally I wouldn't want a vaccine with the problems that AZ and J&J have, but if others are willing then they should have the opportunity.
Thoughts on Unlimited Vacation (2019)
I also think people get too caught up on the expected time-frame.

The large majority of active AI researchers think that AGI will happen at some point in the (sub-1000 year) future.

When exactly isn't a very interesting question, relatively speaking.

We're going to have to deal with AGI eventually, and whether it's going to do what we want is not something that can be theoretically predicted from the armchair.
OK, so do a cost benefit. What is the cost of a mask? Next to nothing--a buck at most, and even the disposable ones can be reused a few times. The cost is vanishingly small. Wearing masks and maintaining social distancing is a tiny, minuscule price to pay, even if the benefit is still questionable for people around vaccinated people. It costs almost nothing and is almost zero effort, so why wouldn't you?

I just don't get this thing against masks, for the life of me I don't understand the mentality. In the past people have gone off to war and died for their country, and yet today we have people ready to riot about putting a little piece of cloth on their faces. I can't figure it out.
In addition, I'm very concerned that if we call people afraid of the covid vaccines anti-vaxxers that they will decide to join forces with real anti-vaxxers.

I know several people who are not interested in covid vaccines for what as far as I can tell are political reasons (although there are a few concerns about using a new technology before long term studies are performed). Right now they aren't anti-vaxxers. They get vaccines and they get their children vaccinated. It's just the new covid ones that they're hesitant about.

If we just lump them in with anti-vaxxers then they might decide to go make friends with the real anti-vaxxers. And as a big of a problem as covid has been, I'm more concerned about polio making a comeback tour.
Since I got flagged in other comments, I'll post again here. Does this imply that we will wear mask, social distancing and avoid indoor gathering until the dusk of humanity? I know my question is retarded and stupid compared to smart HN folks, so please enlighten me.
I have younger relatives that are attending private schools right now in NY and can 100% confirm that this (zoom calls segregated by race) is happening.

The world's gone batshit.
I've been typing Dvorak since age 17, so... 37 years. Despite breaking my left hand (not while typing) I haven't lost any typing skill/speed that I can tell, and I haven't ever seen a hint of carpal tunnel syndrome.
>And the so-called top dog of the west have cities where people for years had to get bottled water because the whole city were poisoned and whole states are drying out.

The point remains. Tap water is by default not drinkable, whereas water in the US is (barring some exceptions).
Ditto. The managed service provider VS user assigned rbac was confusing at first, but now I am happy that I took the time to understand it. Also the azure clouds handling of vaulted passwords in log files from services like Logic apps) is absolutely bad ass.
HN discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8284835
I'll back GP's thesis.

The global median reader has poor reading comprehension skills and has read few other books. Their main concern is entertainment. Entertaining as many readers as possible in order to be popular requires writing about broad-interest subjects using surface level knowledge.

Dedicated literary critics have read many more books than average and are better at extracting meaning from what they read. They're looking for "quality," which is nebulous but distinct from entertainment value, and they're less likely to be put off by abstract concepts or complexity. Specialized critics are better; if you want a sci-fi book you ask a sci-fi reader.

As anecdotal evidence I submit the sales figures of Fifty Shades of Gray.
Amazingly high prevalence of Colemak in this thread.

I'd expect it to be marginal.
You realize that with that logic this never ends, right?

Plus you are basically saying that vaccines don’t work and are pointless. It’s borderline anti-vaxx to support your position.
I don't really know why you're arguing with me. I'm just trying to explain the situation.

With your focus on self-determination: if Ukraine allowed specific regions to hold referendums, it is very likely that many regions would opt to join Russia. Then what?

As I have said numerous times now: it is complicated.
Welcome to Hypernormalisation.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hypernormali...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM
This is a dangerous joke to make / idea to perpetuate given the audience of HN.