skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My general impression with this movement, is not that it is a way of easing transfers, but rather a nationalisation of bank accounts.

Well that’s terrifying in general, but the Denmark case you’ve laid out sounds just about perfect.

Denmark has found a way to use it’s capitalism — a “public private partnership“ with a captive audience, but properly regulated so they can’t absolutely fleece customers.

I think it’s fine that private banks create money because in the reverse it kind of distributes power — feels like a good artificial restraint (artificial only in that the government could theoretically just undo it) on the government.
Well, thank you. Wish you best of luck and appreciate you taking a stance. Not enough of people do and agree nothing is perfect. My comment was never intended to knock you and enjoyed reading your insight here.
> I'm only aware of organizations that have a business incentive...

Ya, that's a huge part of the problem in the world today, making the world a better place typically doesn't pay too well (despite there being potentially massive value realized to society), but engaging in harmful activities often pays nicely. And on top of it, our governments seem to be fairly clueless, if they even care beyond political opportunism.

> The most successful historical examples have been some decentralized combination of human moderation, participant voting and usually-private analytics tools available to moderators. Over time, we've seen the most successful communities move towards increased transparency of manual moderation. Independent, adversarial analytics (e.g. hnrankings or this tool) provide valuable feedback to both users and moderators.

Ya, extremely well thought out self-moderation towards establishing of a very deliberate community culture is something that I would like to see tried, all within a community who's goal is not just having fun discussing some niche topic, but rather with the explicit goal of analyzing at scale the collective behavior (and the underlying thinking that powers it) within our increasingly chaotic societies. Maybe I'm excessively pessimistic, but I look at the conversations I see online (including here at HN, in threads on culture war topics) and it makes me very concerned for where this world is going to be 10 to 30 years from now.

> Kialo looks fun, thanks for the pointer. Do you know their business model?

No idea....developing a functional business model for such a community would probably be much harder than normal...but then there shouldn't be a need for money beyond eventual wages and operational expenses...the value is in what it would bring to society, and I believe there are plenty of people out there still that can appreciate the importance of such ideas.
What's wrong with the first one? I see the approach as a very reasonable one -- don't touch a thing that's already broken. Leave it alone, and start a new good log.

If you've ever used reiserfs you'll know fsck isn't guaranteed to make things better.
lol no, I wish. Good luck getting into any of the magazines mentioned in the grandparent post. The relative quality is debatable, but what you see is genuinely the best of thousands of submissions
Because the stress is on the ‘his’. Do try to keep up.
If you can break even on 50 to 80% salary in government benefits, and you work a low-skilled job that you can easily drop and find a new one, why would you go back to work? Let’s end extended unemployment and see if the desires of workers have changed.
Fuck off with this take. The parent poster blamed nothing on someone else. They made their life choice based on an evaluation of the conditions they would be working under and the types of people they would be working with.

They fully owned the decision, and understanding who your peers would be is not at all unreasonable.
Everyone I know who moved from another FAANG took a pay cut (and everyone who left Apple to another FAANG got a fat raise). So my data is anecdotal but consistent.

Also MSFT isn't part of FAANG.
Apple also famously hires from non-prestigious schools compared to the “elitism” at FB and Google. I have been in meetings at Apple with multiple people and not one of them was from an elite school (remember schools from Iowa and other parochial places). In contrast at FB and Google there were all the elite schools like Caltech, Stanford, MIT amply represented. I am not sure if Apple deliberately targeted such “lesser” schools or was just less elitist in the hiring process and the filters associated with it.

The salary expectations from Auburn (where Tim Cook is from) is a lot less than from say UC Berkeley or Stanford.
Besides nearly eliminating the risk of hospitalization and death, the vaccines also greatly reduce the odds of contracting COVID-19 in the first place which logically would lead to a reduction in long covid. (contracting covid is a prerequisite for experiencing long-covid)
I think commenter is referring to Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) that specifically impacts children.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...
You are right, there's definitely a connection regarding the style. Perhaps as other commenter suggests, has to do with it being one of the predominant visual styles of that time.
> The worst enemy of an ousted demagogue is a boring, reasonably trustworthy rival that does things to remedy the material distress of the panicky and angry people.

You're talking about Biden, right?
I mean we have Chicken Pox, Measles, and Rubella vaccine. Soooooooo. Either way I won't give this to my kids. No need to take any risk. I'll wait 10 years. I love how the CDC had scope creep. I turned into slow the spread to save every human ever in existence even if they're 80 years old.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. We're trying to avoid that degree of internet here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most of the internet worked fine for decades without encryption or access control as well, but the situation has changed
My theory is FAANG pays for "the best" not because they necessarily need them. But because it's better for them if nobody else has them.
Just as there are some people who seem to be remarkably resistant to e.g. opiate addiction, I find myself wondering if there are people who are resistant to whatever mechanism drives the "addiction" to social media (particularly likes).

My wife does way more conventional social media than me (given that I never use FB or Insta, that's not hard), but as far as I can tell she's fairly impervious to the whole ratings game. For her, it really is just a communication mechanism. I'm not 100% sure about this, but fairly sure.

Maybe we're just hearing about the majority (?) of humans that get helplessly trapped in this stuff, causing us to ignore the minority who can dip and out of it with ease.
Your misapprehension is that children's first encounter with Racism is from Elmo.

Racist parents exist and might be absentee enough to let their child grow up watching Sesame Street.

Cognitive bias is subtle and insidious and children are not immunized in ignorance.

To quote Proverbs:
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine does not use mRNA and it is currently available in the United States.

There were adult women under the age of 50 who had some medical problems with it but, it is much better than getting COVID. If the mRNA vaccine are the obstacle in getting vaccinated I’d go with the J&J.

(Note: I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice)
Did you read their analysis on page 27?

0.4% had severe adverse events, with no pattern.
It's humans behaving exactly as expected when given the choice of barely enough money for survival (unemployment benefit) vs not enough money for survival (pay too low to afford daycare or rent). If anyone out there is having trouble getting gig workers or low-level employees and wants to blame very low unemployment benefits and a one-time stimulus check, I suggest offering more money instead.
We find value with this model because we don't pay for the instance when it's idle and queries come back extremely quickly.
Postgres is great, but honestly, why not use something column-oriented that’s built and optimised for this?
And why are you taking that at face value?
Presumably by pressuring corporations. The current status quo is that censorship from corporations is not censorship, so people will go along with it. And I believe the American government is already doing that anyways.
Long Covid is likely a psychological phenomenon. Mainly due to 24/7 news cycle and social medial
Pyenv also has isolated envs for specific projects, poetry also tries to solve that problem.

There is a ton of overlap, denying that is disingenuous.
They also murder people.
ETW is the topic of the post titled "The Worst API Ever Made" and the title is well deserved. If ETW tooling is lacking, it's because API is so terrible nobody wants to write tooling.

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0025
Turns out people respond to incentives.
In context, Israel had 9 (for 1/40 of US population - similar rate) and a reporter that actually inquired about each case, reported that every single one of them died while PCR positive but corona was not implicated in death (e.g. one had terminal cancer at a “dying any day” stage and in fact recovered from corona before dying; another was a traffic accident casualty, etc)

Also 40 cases of MIS-C; corona isn’t benign, but by all counts it’s less harmful than the flu at ages 0-19, though much more harmful for older people.

And a couple of cases of heart attacks and life threatening thrombosis at 16 associated and almost surely resulting from the vaccine. It’s safe, but not perfectly safe as many believe.

In such small numbers, it is incredibly hard to compare short term safety of disease and of vaccine. (And of course impossible to assess long term effects of either as well)
It’s a different thing to take your time to rethink work when you are doing that on other tax payers money.
I can imagine they get a lot of submissions that are just absolutely wrong for their editorial purpose. There's a lot of hobbyist authors online who would love to get paid, and I bet a lot of them are submitting their fanfiction (or narrowly reworked fanfiction) to a magazine with no interest in it.

Also probably many people probably submit the same pieces over and over.

Btw if you find an outlet that seems to have no standards but also pays, the right thing to do is to stop being a subscriber and start being an author.
Armies don't generally kill in self defence, though.
Yes, I read it. I also read the data on pages 25-27. "Severe adverse event" is different than what I'm referring to, and are defined on page 9:

> Serious adverse events are defined as:
• Death;
• A life-threatening adverse event;
• Inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization;
• A persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to
conduct normal life functions;
• A congenital anomaly/birth defect;
• An important medical event that based on appropriate medical judgement
may jeopardize the individual and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed above.

It would not take very many such "serious adverse events" in a trial of 1100 before I'd argue that the vaccine is not safe for children.
Your intuition is correct but, unfortunately, it’s not simply a convolution.

A great example of this is DiffuserCam [1], which uses a diffuser as a “lens”, combined with a carefully measured point spread function (PSF) of a single point for each axial plane to estimate the “true” PSF that actually varies throughout the entire volume. So although in this work they estimate the reconstruction by making a translational invariance assumption, this is done for practical reasons and quality is lost.

To fully recover a lossless image as you suggest, one would have to measure a PSF for each point in the volume.

[1] https://waller-lab.github.io/DiffuserCam/
I feel you, 100%, but still, might it not be true in a subliminal sense? It is easy to dismiss, and hard to prove, but at the same time this is exactly the plane of communication on which advertising and (other forms of) propaganda operate in large part. I feel pretty sure saying that at least not all of it is complete nonsense.
I agree with you that it is not Alpine's fault for not being as good as today's Distroless 10 years ago. In fact it is still my favorite tool for several use cases (e.g., injecting a sidecar container for adhoc debugging).

What I was trying to say, was that many people choose it for wrong reasons without fully understanding the implications. This included us. It was a nightmare to me because at that time I didn't know it has different behavior in DNS resolution. And our developers expected their code, which ran fine on their workstations and in CI (Ubuntu/Debian environments), to behavior the same when running in an alpine container in production.
It’s important to be clear here—these “severe” side effects are not life-threatening. We’re talking about a really bad headache or bout of diarrhea. Unpleasant, for sure, but not likely to have any long-term consequences.

As a parent, I’m ok with those odds even if my kids don’t get much direct benefit. Contributing to reduced community transmission is worth it.
Stewart Downing and Charlie Adam too.
Very true. Though given the number of children who will now get the vaccine, I think it's a distinction without much practical meaning.
Thanks for sharing these examples, pretty understandable impetus to move.

What annoys me is that these are both problems with technical (mostly) solutions. The big banks don’t have magic humans that don’t make mistakes, they just have better systems that reduce error, and can fund development of better apps.

I personally use only the web client of my bank, and am very happy with it, but will admit that the mobile banking app is less than desirable. Wish they would all just make PWAs and call it a day.
It would be interesting to take a random sample of Facebook/Instagram/Twitter users and remove the ability to see likes for a few months and see what engagement and post frequency looks like.

I have a feeling the companies might already know.
>I'd wonder if you could drive engagement on an app by spacing out the arrival of user alerts

I'm pretty sure twitter does this, for this reason. When you login you have no notifications. Aw. But then after you click around a bit... ding ding - you get the ones that happened while you were logged out.

You could say it has to load them in the background. I don't buy it. The sensation is too close to what you described. A pause then a hit
They could at least add it to the job description. That would do job seekers the favor of clearly communicating Amazon is nuts as an employer.
Whether you should apply crop factor to aperture depends on whether you're interested depth of field, or exposure. You may or may not be able to adjust ISO to get comparable results at 50mm f/3.4 depending on which cameras you're comparing.
> more kids had "severe" reactions to the vaccine (>2%)

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but where are you seeing this in the news release?
The balance of power between labor and capital is shifting a little bit back towards labor, and this is one aspect of that. It’s going to mean higher wages and slightly lower profit margins. A good thing, in my view. I’ve noticed an uptick in labor organizing, minimum wage referendums, and so on.

Also we’re finally giving a little bit of due to the house and home portion of a person’s work- the work of maintaining a house and caring for children. In other words some of those people now are probably staying home to care for kids.

Now hacker news being a bastion of people who want to be capital C capitalists, it’s natural the prevailing sentiment favors capital. I therefore expect that my expression of support for labor to garner me some harsh words.

But you can’t argue against the fact that having some kind of government assistance to fall back on makes it much easier to negotiate a higher salary, and will result in higher wages.
I don't see how this is dramatically better than existing systems that can fire a rope ladder on hooks onto the railing. I suppose there's a failure rate on those attaching, but you can realistically carry several of those on a boarding party.

I presume the Royal Marines know far more than me about such matters, but I just can't see the use. It's a soft target strapped to a small jet engine that seems liable to shred itself into shrapnel if it gets hit by small arms fire. I can't imagine it's pleasant to fly in the wind either, especially if the wind isn't constant.

Judging by the way they were flying, and that the maneuverability seems to largely come from those bits on their hands, it also doesn't seem particularly agile. You're not going to generate a lot of lateral force without the risk of snapping the operators wrist/forearm. Presuming there are hostiles on board the ship, they seem like they could rather easily take one of these down with some buckshot. Even if you don't get a lethal hit, the impact seems like it would likely make the operator lose control of the jetpack either from rotation or just from the sheer shock of being shot. It seems like they'd either slam into the ship (bad), or fall into the ocean at which point the turbines would disintegrate in the water like helicopter blades flinging shrapnel into the operator (also bad).

If I had to rank them from my armchair, I'd take a water-based boarding using launched rope ladders first, air-based boarding via rappelling from a helicopter second (assuming I knew how to do that) and this thing third. It has all the risks of getting shot down that a helicopter does (except that it doesn't even take an RPG to take down the jetpack), combined with still having to make a water-based entry.
Friday, 2012-10-26: NOVA Bank has failed

Monday, 2012-10-29: checks will be issued and mailed no later than this date

That's just an incredible feat of bureaucracy.
They make it pretty clear from the post that its support is currently limited, and that they plan on adding more hooks in the future.
As a taxpayer I think it’s fine. The option is there for me too if I ever need it.
Yea we mostly do. Covid behaves like other similar viruses. Every side effect the media has portrayed about this virus like it's the only virus that has these effects exists in other viruses.
A Warning from History: The Carrington Event Was Not Unique
Long covid is also more likely to result from more severe initial cases.
Not quite yet. The work has just started [1]. There's anecdotal evidence [2] that some people report improvements in long COVID symptoms after taking the vaccine (I have 0 background in chemistry/biology so I'll defer to domain experts to determine whether there's even a plausible mechanism of action for that).

I thought there were preliminary studies showing the vaccine is effective at prevention of infection, not just in reduction of severity of symptoms. Assuming that, a good prior to hold IMO (until we have such research) would be that it also prevents long COVID. However, since I can't find where I heard this, may be smart to withhold judgement one way or the other. That being said, what the sibling commentor pointed out seems plausible also to me to put into the prior (i.e. if long COVID is correlated with serious illness, then plausibly the vaccine would also prevent long COVID by reducing the serious response in the first place)

[1] https://news.yale.edu/2021/05/10/study-determine-how-covid-1...

[2] https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vaccines-long-covid
The Jepsen tests do not inspire confidence but they're also pretty aged by now. 1.3.1 under test and the most recent appears to be 2.7.0.

Cockroach is a no go for me because of the licensing restrictions. For example, password authentication only in the BSL licensed code. Backups in enterprise.
I agree that it should have been noticed earlier from a few vantage points. I'm managing over a dozen contractors which varies from dev to marketing to customer support, operations, sales, financials, investor relations, etc. Everything could be better, but it's a business and the squeaky wheel gets the oil. I never fathomed the squeaky wheel was going to be AWS usage charges.

I myself have never created an instance, I set up the account then gave access to the devs. I only log into the account to provide new access to devs that need it and none of them are full time.

Ultimately the responsibility lies with me, but I would disagree that my dev team is clueless. Rather they're working on development, not watching what the servers are doing on a daily basis so I think that's a bit unfair.
DIY publishing through Amazon is dead easy. Source: I once packed up my blog into a Word doc and had it published on Amazon in a couple of hours one night.

Naturally, I did it to win a bet. But the bet was designed to teach a friend of mine a lesson, that he was using the unknown difficulty of self-publishing as an excuse to not work on his book. He finally stopped procrastinating and finished his manuscript within a few months.

The hard part of selling books is the selling part. I similarly goaded my own wife into writing a series of sci-fi novels and we (pre-pandemic) had been going to book fairs to sell them. We maybe did two a year, mostly just for fun. We usually sell enough to cover our expenses (printing fees, booth fees, gas to travel, food while we're out). But along the way, she's earned a handful of loyal readers.

We've never put a lot of effort into it, but she sells a few hundred copies a year of her three books. It's not bad, especially for a vanity project. There is a clear line pointing from "effort in selling" to "books sold".

Most publishers these days won't even look at you unless you already have an active readership. We've met a lot of other authors at the book fairs, seeing the same people every year. The ones who have publishing deals are having to do all their own selling, just like us, but didn't get to choose their own cover and are giving up a huge chunk of cash to the publisher. For what? So they can say they're "published"? Meh.

I've seen a lot of people approach their projects as, "If you build it, they will come". I'm sorry, but that's just not a thing. The movie from which that quote comes from (Field of Dreams) is about a literal miracle. You have to sell the book. You have to get out and beat pavement, whether you get a publishing deal or not. So if you have to do the work, you might as well keep the money.
I'm guessing a lot of that has to do with software that gets preinstalled on Windows machines. There was a article the other day about how bad it is releasing laptop in 2021 with only 8GB of RAM. I noticed people in that thread talking about how their laptops after startup are using 6-7GB of RAM , which means they must have a lot of processes going on in the background. I'd imagine cutting down all of the unnecessary background processes would really help with battery life on laptops.
Yes, the lack of stress makes the time much more productive.
Having reactive antibodies isn't the same thing as immunity.
My wife is a lawyer who works for a firm that is mostly remote most of the time. This worked out well during COVID, because they could easily switch to 100% remote, all the time.

She rarely travels for business, but because the firm has people in many of the states in the US, she ends up filing taxes in something like 37 states, every year. Because the firm has a locus in that state, and she is a partner in the firm, that means she has to file taxes there, even though she has not visited that state this year, and has not done any work for any client in that state this year.

Yes, it’s a pain in the ass. But that’s why we have professional tax accountants to deal with the complexity.

There is nothing I have found in business that matches the complexity of HR and tax accounting.