skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$5M for a company of that magnitude is absolutely nothing.
This feels oversold. As someone that is not visual in thinking at all, I find it hard to even know what this means. :(
They won’t, they’ll simply rescind the mask mandates and let the vaccine skeptics fend for themselves. Minnesota will be doing this within 6 weeks, I’m sure it’ll be more states soon, if not already.
Can they unbomb it for $5 million? Cause that would be cool.
Yes, but the important thing is that the vaccine is available. They chose not to take it. The argument that we need to keep each other safe no longer holds.
Obviously there is a difference in that private capital invests in what will help that particular company, while government funds should go toward what benefits the nation as a whole. A company might say "we won't bother investing, let our competition invest, and we'll just get the components from whoever will sell them to us cheapest." That can make sense individually (and especially in the short term), but as a whole (whether talking about industry as a whole, or nation as a whole), they are worse off.

Essentially, a prisoner's dilemma.

There is also the fact that American companies are competing against Chinese companies, where the government can subsidize various Chinese companies and initiatives. China is communist, of course, which does sort of favor this sort of thing. If the US was to close itself off to China, then it's a lot easier to be 100% capitalist as in your ideal scenario.
It’s not unreasonable to expect a CEO to delegate adding a new payments option to people who do their due diligence?
Not flu alone, but flu or pneumonia.

What's the significance of this?
> Why say this?

Because as long as their aren't ongoing operational costs it's enticing to governments to build, they don't care if it loses money overall because they aren't profit driven and have non-monetary goals.
> That's an important insight.

Say the world (after some unfortunate incident) turns into [say] something like Cuba? In just a few years no one will have a phone.
For what it's (not) worth, it prompted me to sign up today. :)
I think this is the part where we have to just "let people be adults". We're at the point now where those who are at risk for COVID complications should have access to a vaccine which will greatly reduce that risk. For the rest of the population, it's on you if you want to go to a crowded movie theater without a vaccination.

"If he dies, he dies"
> eidetic ī-dĕt′ĭk adj. Of, relating to, or marked by extraordinarily detailed and vivid recall of visual images.

There are grades of "extreme detail" ranging from instantaneous recall of your lunch three years ago as well as what everyone was wearing and what you were talking about to very very well above average recall of useful information in the form of sensory memory.

The justification for this interpretation is on Wikipedia and is related to the physiological explanation of eidetic memory. Instead of semantic memory sensory memory is used, and you can see this occur to various degrees in people.

The qualifiers are loose and mean different things to different people. You are not sovereign of the English language. The second definition given in my source matches yours, but it is not the only one.
Growing up, we didn’t have a car for a time, and had to make a similar grocery trip every week by foot, in the freezing cold, about the same length. We put on layers, walked as a family (adults and kids), and everyone carried bags back. It wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t bad either. The walk kept you warm, it was time together, and it became a very tolerable and normal routine.
i love syncthing. but it is difficult to make backups from my phone where i need the ability to delete files that take up to much space, but that i want to keep on the backup.

there is a function to ignore deletes, but it is hidden in the advanced settings which are difficult to access (some of those advanced settings should be hidden, but ignore delete is not one of them i think)

another thing i miss is an easy ability to see if all files have been sent. currently the status only shows if all files from the remote device are received, but i care more if all local files are sent (and thus backed up)
My last long bus ride between Chenzhou Hunan and Guangzhou was a bit meh. Chinese buses are a bit nicer than American ones, but the ride is bumpier and traffic can screw up the schedule. But there isn’t much of a choice when HSR tickets are hard to score on that leg.
This resonates well! Is there even a reason to think that a single version of a representation is all the brain works with?
スーパーモンスター

Supermarket monsters
Sorry do you have a link for what this is referencing
Devil's advocate: people who say "trust the science/scientists" should do so even when they themselves disagree.

I don't know your position, but I have seen similar responses to yours from people who I know have taken the position of "trust the scientists." Don't you think that the smart folks at the CDC have gone through a similar thought process as you and are issuing these guidelines regardless? Why would we not trust their judgement now?
> Still pretty close in the German pronounciation[sic].

Well... I don't find it so surprising that the home of Anglia and the Angles hasn't changed its pronunciation of Angle-land as much.

Some mercenaries (if you believe Bede) consisting of Angles from Anglia, Saxons from Lower Saxony, and Jutes from Jutland crossed the channel to fight for various Celtic rulers following the power vacuum left by the Romans leaving Britain. The mercenaries eventually took over part of it, and that part became known as Angle-land. (Of course, this is a gross oversimplification.) The descendants of the mercenaries became known as Anglo-Saxons (not enough Jutes, I guess).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Brit...
Ask HN: How did you find a mentor?
I'm currently bootstrapping a small SaaS business that is doing well, but that I'm struggling to take to the next level. I thought getting advice from someone Mastermind-style could help me past the barrier.

For people in a similar situation who hit a wall - how did you get out of it? Is looking for a mentor even the right approach, or did you just grind it out?
I'm not sure this is a good approach. I'm guessing part of this declaration is due to many American's approach with masks (they took my freedums!)

I'm not sure if there's enough data out there showing that vaccinated people cannot pass the virus to others. It's possible you can catch it and still pass it, I'm thinking.

For me, I'll continue wearing a mask in public.
I want to print this out and nominate it for a Pulitzer
I don't have super strong passions here. But reverting to fashion norms seems pretty appropriate, once it's safe. If it's not safe now, when would it be?

People do take a lot of cues from facial expressions and at least in "the West" we rarely wear face coverings. So there's definitely some (mild?) cost to wearing the mask, too.

I will say this, though -- organizations that insist on compelling others to wear masks outdoors are terribly misguided.
Considering the vaccine now makes it less likely to die from Covid if infected than the flu, were you wearing a mask for decades before Covid too?
what should my motivation be

Equity
Interesting. I followed your references and they say that the 46% comorbidity is "Influenza or Pneumonia". Covid is a cause of pneumonia (=infection of lungs), so your statement "46% are coinfections with flu" seems misleading to me.
You keep the existing network effects which are massive.
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The point isn't whether you're willing to violate an extra law. It's that pre-COVID, if someone walked towards a bank wearing a mask, they're going to get noticed and attract attention well before they start committing their violent crime, increasing the chance that they're caught.
> You can't "colonize and terraform Siberia" without turning the US into a scorching desert.

How does it work?
A price increase that effectively stops people from hoarding gas would be equally as effective at stopping people who need gas from affording it.
No one seems to know about it, but there is now a 3rd party app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B6bius-sync/id1539203216

The developer made it with a little help from the syncthing team. There are comments there: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/mobius-sync-ios-client-now-in-...

I've been using it for some months, and it works fine, when it works. I sometimes have to start it manually because iOS killed it in the background.
10^10 Joules converted to TNT directly is 2 ton TNT. All the energy should be released at the time of impact in a short period of time. Even assuming >50% energy loss due to atmospheric interference, 1ton TNT should be left.
This isn't an attack on your collectivist worldview, it's an objective observation. It's simply a matter of fact that if there was no Elon Musk, reusable rockets would have been delayed two decades at a bare minimum. The same goes for transforming EVs from clunky sideshows to "S3XY" vehicles. Hence, he single-handedly made these changes happen.
I work at a tech company of about 500. We've used zulip for a few years now and are looking to switch to teams/o365. The reason is to have more integration between email, documents, chat, video meetings, and calendar. Zulip has been good to us but as we grow it's increasingly burdensome to manage a bunch of disparate open source collaboration tools.
I have no problem with the CDC's guidance. I'm saying that I don't see a practical method for businesses to operate in accordance with that guidance.
Venkman!
That assumes that the vaccine is 100% effective, and that everyone who is at risk can safely take the vaccine. Neither of those are true.
BTC would not survive a PoS fork. The threat model requires a consensus mechanism to include a huge network of hyper vigilant greedy actors that may enter or leave at will. For a linear utxo blockchain, there’s nothing but PoW with those properties.
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I was flipped sideways on short final in a 172 from a 7x7 (can't remember exact plane) that landed ~2 minutes prior on a parallel runway... it happens, though the vortices tend to sink fairly rapidly and are more of a concern for smaller aircraft.

This story is fairly interesting:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/private-jet-flipped-over-...
> I'm not sure if there's enough data out there showing that vaccinated people cannot pass the virus to others. It's possible you can catch it and still pass it, I'm thinking.

There's been plenty of data that shows this. That's why they did this. How much more data do you want?
Sneakers works great for the era, if you just imagine the "magic box" as a fast DES cracker. It even makes the comment at the end about how "it only works on US crypto, not Russian" make sense !
Please see my other comment below in this thread. But briefly, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B6bius-sync/id1539203216
Sure. And living the healthiest life can include getting vaccinated and wearing a mask.

Are you suggesting we just eat good foods and exercise, and that alone will protect us from dying from COVID?

I can see an argument that lockdown has had consequences. Mask wearing too, but to a lessor degree.

But the vaccine? I'm not seeing serious consequences other than the cost to get it out there. Seems like a win-win, once it exists. Is there something I'm missing?
Is this how ignorant engineers write dumb articles with a lot of technical jargon to appear smart?

Just the rekognition service he is whining about can and is being used to detect cheaters in carpool lanes and automatic billing. Postal mails are sorted by ML, as well as spam at an email service provider. Recommendations and search on an ecommerce shopping site directly multiplie the revenue of the site. I had no idea some one who calls himself a software engineer could be so completely clueless.

I expect this person to delete this post in the next couple of years when he realizes how dumb it is.
LibreBMC and Kestrel: two separate BMC tastes that taste separate separately
In past times (not to my knowledge anymore), countries at war would provide letters of marque to private ship captains, authorizing them to attack enemy shipping and keep the proceeds. That is exactly what Russia has done.

What would it look like if the US, and for that matter a number of other frequently targeted countries, reciprocated?
Except that is totally wrong. You are assuming that there is one bear, that you can escape the bear forever, that the bear is not hungry enough to eat everybody, and that the bears are not multiplying ferociously due to nearly unlimited supply of delicious food.

No, reality is more like the story of the dodo. A vast quantity of delicious prey that nobody was eating because nobody knew about them. Then they were discovered and some predators showed up but there were not enough to eat all of them. But then more and more predators showed up to exploit the vast untapped resource until they were all eaten.

We are still in the middle of that process which is borne out by the fact that the frequency of attacks has been increasing on the order of >100% per year and average demands per attack have been doing something similar. That is an utterly ferocious rate of growth that will soon be enough to attack not just the juiciest targets, but every profitable target in a few years.

Being slightly faster or slightly less delicious will not help when there are finally enough bears to eat everybody.
Because masks haven been politicized. Good news be damned.
Neither of them need to be true for a critical mass of vaccinated people to demand for restrictions to be rescinded. Eventually politicians will realize they need to get re-elected and cave to pressure. It will happen, especially with this new guidance from the CDC. I would bet there are no state wide mask mandates by Jan 1, 2022.

Edit: Minnesota will be ending their mask mandate tomorrow.
As long as we still bend the curve to not overwhelm the hospital system. Even vaccinated, I may need an ICU bed from a car accident or a heart attack.

I wish there was data on fully vaccinated people being able to spread infection to others, but that won't be available for a long time.
This right here is the argument, and has been since February 2020. We got a little lost along the way, but our original social measures to reduce the spread of COVID was due to our inability to protect those who couldn't protect themselves. Now that we have the vaccines, we have no moral reason to now baby the people who refuse to protect themselves.
> Fly.io transforms container images into fleets of micro-VMs running around the world on our hardware.

Oh boy!

> None of us have ever worked for Google, let alone as SREs. So we’re going out on a limb

Oh.... boy.

> We spent some time scaling it with Thanos, and Thanos was a lot, as far as ops hassle goes.

You know, they have these companies now, that will collect your metrics for you, so that you don't have to deal with ops hassle.

> In each Firecracker instance, we run our custom init,

... in Rust. Yes, the thing that is normally a shell script, is now a compiled program in a new language, that mostly just runs mkdir(), mount() and ethtool(). (https://github.com/superfly/init-snapshot/blob/public/src/bi...). In a few years, when that component is passed off to a dedicated Ops team, and they find it hard to hire a sysadmin who also knows Rust, there will be some poor intern who learned Rust over the summer whose job is to rewrite that thing back into a shell script.
Most of his workers were in an age group at negligible risk from covid; they'd be more likely to die in a road accident driving home.
The lack of specifics also gives us a lot of information. It says "do your best to enforce, but it is not critical if everyone doesn't adhere 100%." If it was critical, they wouldn't have issued these guidelines, or the guidelines would have come with other specifics like you mention with passports.
12 - 15 years olds can now get the Pfizer vaccine in the United States[1]. That should help a lot.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/fda-authorizes-pfize...
There are plenty of better startups in US who would want to hire you.
Musk is not a random wealthy dude. His wealth comes mainly from Tesla shares, a company that (apparently) aims to accelerate the transition to renewable energy.

So this reasoning doesn’t seem correct.
Really hoping that the majority of those that haven't been vaccinated are just lazy and not scared of the vaccine. Hopefully this is enough of a carrot, but also hope this doesn't embolden those that haven't been vaccinated and don't plan on it from going mask-less in public when they previously were wearing masks.
The CDC is not recommending that all establishments allow people without masks though, it is only saying that if everyone is vaccinated then it is safe. If there is no way to guarantee that all are vaccinated, then this does not translate into a recommendation to drop a mask requirement.

Consider a parallel. the CDC might say if an HIV+ person is taking some treatment, it is safe to have sexual relations with them. But if you do not trust the person you are with, your own personal policy would probably not be to have unprotected sex.
Just wanted to say

Thank you,
You’re awesome
We recently switched to it for work. The electron app is okay - but a real mac app would be nice..
> Supporting screen readers will probably also negate the benefits of using canvas to begin with since you need to maintain the DOM structure anyway (the Accessibility Object Model DOM API should help here)

The fact that the DOM elements are invisible (don't affect layout) should eliminate the majority of the performance cost, right?
Same problem with loading up news.ycombinator.com in Lynx. The browser assumes I meant nntp://news.ycombinator.com ugh.
HSR is for commuting in additional to longer travel. I say this as someone that uses the HS1 line in the UK to commute to London at 140mph.

The key is the commute is under an hour, one stop, and it’s into London which a massive source of jobs in South east England.

I agree with your comment that HSR doesn’t do well for a decade. My train runs on the Eurostar line. That took a decade to draw people from planes. And the domestic train that I catch is now standing room only into London.
I had a chemistry practical class just a couple of hours ago in which I asked about the sensitivity of mass spectrometry. I was amazed when I was told that it is sensitive enough to detect individual atoms. Modern analytical techniques really are amazing!

(A book recommendation along these lines: Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History, by Susan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton and Jurgen Rullkotter. If you already know a bit of chemistry, it’s a wonderful introduction to the techniques used to analyse rocks in organic geochemistry.)
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Do you think that the CDC gives guidance based on incentives instead of best health interest?

Personally they lost my trust when they told us to not wear masks for some time early in the pandemic.
Takes a bit before there is any mention of the thesis's contributions. Jump to section 1.3 on page 10 for a list of goals, then section 1.4 on page 13 for the approach to achieve them.
The greyhound beheading incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
I think zulipchat has a usable UI but it's not as visually inviting as slack. Less brightness, colors, emoji and the like. It might actually have support for this stuff now as I've not tested the latest version. I'm not saying this stuff should be added but that's my takeaway on the differences.
Children can't get vaccinated yet, though, and I do still want to protect them. It's why my wife and I, though fully vaccinated, haven't totally returned to normal, since our toddler and infant are still susceptible.
> For what it's (not) worth, it prompted me to sign up today. :)

More for my understanding than anything else, and with every guarantee that I won't present any follow-up questions or statements, but why was this the tipping point and not the actual disease risk mitigation resulting from the vaccine?
Nothing is 100% certain.

I don't think this is true in all cases.
Pfizer and Moderna are both effective to within the mid-high 90's, was my understanding.
>PoS malicious stakers lose nothing in case of a split

You can only support one side of a fork in PoS and if you try to play both sides anyone can form a proof showing you mined both forks and your stake gets slashed. This is the Nothing At Stake problem and well understood which makes your comment pretty confusing.
10 years ago the following issues were topical: the Tea Party wave had just crested, Obamacare, rabid birtherism and Obama's "Terrorist fist jab". It was the same polarization we're seeing today, only less intense as social media hadn't quite amassed the critical mass it has today.

edit - I looked it up and the "Terrorist fist jab" comment was made in 2008 - so 13 years ago
It could be more than 100% of the population count from the previous census.
Except it's not really "on you". If you're sick, masks protect other people from you getting them sick too. So if an irresponsible unvaccinated anti-masker goes to the theatre and there's an unvaccinated but responsibly mask-wearing person, the unmasked person can get them sick. The responsible person pays the price.
I’m lucky enough to live near several grocery stores and have a high income. I eat junk and am fat. Are we sure this will work?
I use mobiussync on iOS. It's not actually FOSS, but given the absence of something like F-Droid that's the way the iOS ecosystem works.
In the short term, an escalatory spiral. Each side would intensify its attacks until either:

(1) Someone crosses a red line, like cutting the electricity to New York City for days on end, prompting a proportionate response, or economic sanctions, or

(2) Diplomacy takes over and countries reach a quick agreement to curtail their activities, like during the Cuban missile crisis.
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Interesting, as someone who got vaccinated the first day it was available to all adults in Utah(3/24), I'm surprised that this news changed any ones mind. But either way I'm glad it did!.
America was in a deflationary environment for much of the 1800s and GDP grew at faster rate than the 1900s, with smaller crashes (nothing as big as the Great Depression or the GFC). Anti-deflationary propaganda is just FUD funded by an entire industry heavily invested in the current system: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-cantillon-effect-why-...
So does this mean we can move plutonium into the natural element category?
I'll be surprised if there are any state wide mandates on July 31
For things like MMR we don't really need the honor system because the vast majority of the population has been vaccinated and we're pretty much at herd immunity.
>it is only saying that if everyone is vaccinated then it is safe.

Right, but like the previous poster said, we have no way of verifying. Maybe people do, but I don't think everyone carries their vaccination card with them, so how are establishments going to verify? They'll probably ask, and accept the answer. And as people are starting to point out, the unvaccinated will just lie. My point is that the CDC must have played this same thought experiment, but they are issuing these guidelines regardless.