skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do we know how evolution works? One thing I believe I understand is that evolution takes far longer than people imagine. A few centuries is nothing. Humans have been in their current evolutionary form for around 200,000 years.

Evolution is a continuum. There is no "current form", it is constantly changing with every new human that is born.

> Adaptations are not evolution, and our genetics change and adapt during our lifetimes. My children will not be genetically better at typing than the original homo sapiens.

Your offspring will have different attributes than you. This is evolution.

> Think of that: You are not genetically smarter than humans of 200,000 years ago; someone then is just as able to be a scientist as you are. All of our advantages are from other factors.

This is conjecture. You don't know that modern humans aren't "genetically smarter" than those from 200,000 years ago. Neanderthals existed up until around 40,000 years ago, all the while interbreeding with other humans.

> Another thing I've learned is that claims need evidence; that's what separates the wheat from the infinite chaff, the science from the witchcraft. The parent comment would require evidence to qualify for even a high school essay.

Meanwhile, you provided zero evidence.
I haven't noticed (I guess I don't visit http sites?), but that's quite different from the behavior the article is describing, where every component except the TLD and 2LD are completely absent.
the two most likely scenarios where "environmental conditions" prevent access to a DC are fire or cooling failure. aws says it's not a fire, so probably the temperature rose above their allowable safety threshold for access.

that's not good for computers either
> The vaccines are not experimental

Then why can’t I sue should I have an adverse effect?
It uses treated wastewater for cooling, and due to rising costs, is seeking alternate water sources (as it requires 40k-60k gallons per minute to meet cooling needs).

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/02/25/palo-verde-nuclear...
There is also the issue of estimating very rare events. You need significantly more data to do so with any reasonable accuracy.
Got to love Linus. I feel safe about the kernel as long as he remains its head.
And he will work at a different police department somewhere else. :-(
Would anyone like to expound on how productivity is being measured? What metrics are used? What unintended consequences come up from the metrics? Can they be gamed?
Wrong: I'm not a manager. Check my profile, you'll see the area I work in. I have no interest in being a manager because I understand the different skill sets and what I enjoy doing.

But if we're bringing the issue of ego into it, there's yours right on display thinking developers know everything. Well, consider this: If you were right, there'd be a lot fewer startups with great ideas that flop even with developers in charge, but they fail because they can't execute on their idea by also running an organization properly.

Developing code and running an organization are different skill sets, and not many people have both.
We can't, and we've known that for months, possibly since the beginning.
Not GP.

No, an EUA is not the same thing as the normal FDA approval process. And even if it was, I personally would want more results about long-term effects before I got it.
> In fact, if you don't know about biology or virology, the "I don't know if vaccines are safe" is a totally reasonable stance to have

Then they should also avoid all medications, since similarly to vaccines they probably don't have a deep enough understanding of biochemistry and pharmaceuticals.

In the end, trust in medical interventions is based on trust in the institutions that produce them, the individuals that administer them, and to some degree the public statistics around their efficacy, because it's not really possible to know exactly what the outcome will be in your individual case.
Your rights end where the rights of another begin. Put putting others at risk, you are potentially denying them the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Don't get vaccinated and stay home. I support that. Going out in public as a spreader is not a right and the people you infect should be able to hold you legally liable.
Misleading? You're agreeing with me here. You can still carry and transmit it. You said it, I said it, I don't see the problem.

I don't think it is important to get the vaccine to as many people as possible. I think it is important to get the vaccine to those who think they should take it, especially vulnerable people like elderly people and people with comorbidities. Please don't tell me what to say, I'll say whatever I want thank you very much.
This does get reported to the sending platform. Stuff like Mailgun and Mailchimp will show you a rate for it, and they do suspend if it gets too high.
Omg, please Amazon, switch to UTC for timestamps.

It is 3AM in Germany, and I'm tired and I don't want to know what PDT is.
There are legitimate concerns about the safety of the vaccines. This condescending and belittling attitude towards anyone who expresses any concern about the vaccine safety does not help either.

It's the propaganda of the big pharma mafia that tickles your narcissism so you get a kick out of feeling like superior for being 'one of the good guys' who is not against the vaccines.

On the one hand you have know-it-all anti-vaxxers. And just as bad are the people who are know-it-all pro-vaxxers. Both groups have a toxic attitude and mindset of "I know the absolute truth without any doubt and the other group just needs to be educated".

The first thing anyone with an unbiased critical-thinking mindset should notice is the fact that if vaccine safety was such an obvious no-brainer, and given that vaccines are meant to benefit the recipient, it would not take this much effort and force to get people to accept it. It would not remain a controversial issue for this long.

Any topic that is so clear-cut and obvious will not remain controversial for this long. The average person has no special interest or benefit in being "anti-vaccine". If the pro-vaccine folks were so convincing it wouldn't need this much force and effort to convince the other group to take the life-saving drug.

Pro-vaccine people need to drop the self-righteous attitude and treat the opposing group as equals. Instead all they do is belittle and mock them.
Right, so those who are high risk get vaccinated…what’s the problem?
You can counter the community micromorts of not getting vaccinated by donating several dollars to the Against Malaria Foundation.
If the people around him vaccinate, the vast majority of them will be in at least as safe of a group.

I'll admit that this does nothing for high-risk groups that can't safely vaccinate for one reason or another, but I don't see that as a good reason to try to encourage someone to do it that isn't comfortable.
I find his rudeness hilarious and never serious.
> safety of vaccines has been empirically verified
> experimental vaccine

When is the vaccine safe and no longer experimental, according to you? We have now given over 2 billion vaccine doses around the world.
How is this not advocating for users? They tested the idea based on a metric they hoped would improve among users, found it didn't work, and so left it as is.

That the comments about it mostly come from developers or similarly tech-literate people is neither here nor there, comments are inherently personal. When I post on a forum about a feature, I'm generally presenting only my own opinion. When I'm implementing a feature, I'm generally basing it on the opinions of users, as best I can gather them.
I'm not too upset about locking upgrades behind software fences. I am upset if that means I cannot install my own version of that software (both 3rd party ECM tunes and NVidia drivers are available.) And OnStar and SirisXM are both subscriptions with continuing costs for the company that supply them

I am far more upset with:
A) Subscription fees for software in general.
B) Tesla's autopilot code reseting when the Tesla is sold. Both directions, the new purchaser has to buy it again, the old owner has to buy it again on a new Tesla.
C) Tesla conning people into paying 10,000 for cruise control plus, because people think it is Level 5 even though it falls far short of that. And any version hitting close to Level 5 is almost certainly going to require sensors that your car didn't have, so buy it again on a new car.
"There’s also the fact that, three months in, there is still no formal channel for getting your money out of the platform."

There it is.

Your literal ponzie scheme can't collapse if you don't even implement withdrawals.
Depends how old they are if it’s even worth having
Here’s a table of deaths from the last 14 months
https://i.imgur.com/zi17EGC.jpg

And then there’s the immunity through exposure
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.07.21256823v...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...
Hell even in this thread someone has tried the won’t someone think of the children outrage by talking about spread to a grandchild. Well that chart up there shows youngsters in the uk have nothing to fear.
You have to stop digging if you can't crawl out of your twisted mind anymore :(
Hey you maybe read too much into my comment? I didn’t stay home because any government said so, I did it because it was the best way to keep my community and myself safe. I did so longer than was necessary because people like your family kept going out to socialize, prolonging the wave of infections.

If I got infected I probably wouldn’t have been in much danger other than a yucky cold that made me feel crappy (but I don’t know that, it could have been quite worse). I stayed home to ensure I wasn’t spreading it to people who wouldn’t be so fortunate, or to people who have no choice but to be out in the world but might spread it to their family who might not be so fortunate.

No pretend, no trip, yes guilt. The people who kept the infection pipeline going kept killing people and kept millions of other people inside and isolated from the people we love because we’re not that selfish.
What experts are being hidden?
The moral thing is considering the population at large. What's more moral?

Being selfish and risking others?

Being kind and not holding others hostage because you don't believe in science?
I’ve only glanced at J and never used it, so I don’t have any strong opinions about it. But APL just has that extra magic that J seems to lack. Notation does matter. It could be that I’m partially sentimental, as it’s the first programming language that I learned.
A huge under-appreciated reason (at least when talking about SMS): many major SMS carriers will block SMS messages containing links from popular URL shorteners because these are widely associated with spam and fraud. The same is true to a lesser extent when sending emails.
As a member of the military:

I'm compensated fairly, and my pension makes it actually quite well compensated. The career does suck and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but for someone needing mobility from generational poverty it can work.

The career opportunities upon retirement are nothing to be trivialized either. Compensation there may not be SWE level, but it's WELL above median.
The horror.... You massacred them. Please stop killing the poor little bugs... :'(
Isn’t this just your own pet conjecture though and you’re condemning them for not including it? After a quick google I can’t find anything about it being dangerous for young men to practice heavy sports with the flu.
Better a company than no one.
The more intelligent you are the more susceptible to confirmation bias you are, because you are better at digging up justifications.
It's not brief but you might enjoy an expert chat about it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vaccines/id1132951842?...
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Because if a large percentage of people are uncomfortable, the pandemic keeps going. It is fundamentally selfish.
> I hate being around people, I hate hearing people, I hate interacting with coworkers face to face

It's a reasonable way to feel, but I don't think the majority of people are like this. People who feel this way should definitely seek remote work.
The military seems to pay pretty well considering the requirements.
IANAL, and neither is wikipedia, but "Indirect Infringement" would be my concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_Unit...
It's not about information, it's about the user being harassed untill someone clicks "accept" button, which is not compatible with "dealing in good faith"

Do you have proof they clicked it, and not their kid? Did they intend to consent, or click the button by accident/ spilled coffee on the touchscreen?

How can we trust your code at all, if all users say the rejected the contract multiple times, and you claim they accepted it and you are the one that stands to benefit from their acceptance, maybe you are lying? Maybe your system is unreliable?

Is it even legal to use the user's property - i.e. their car - to disturb their peace? If you were to post them a letter, you do it at your expense, but now you are doing it at their expense, they are paying to electricity and data to display those pixels for your benefit.
Pulling a spec sheet for a typical Dell 1U server, it has an operating range of 5°C to 40°C, and a non-operating (in storage) range of -40°C to 65°C. I imagine it would survive much higher temps, but it doesn't seem recommended. I would be wary of how reliable anything in that room might be later.

Perhaps not the PCB itself, but there's typically lots of thin wire around with thin insulation.
> I still don't like how rude Linus is. I'll never like how rude Linus is.

He must be doing something right, because 30 years after its first release Linux isn't just thriving, it is dominating the world.

And on the side he also managed to release another little something which we now know as git.

There is no personal invective in his message. He only attacked the message, not the messenger.
> we won't know until a decade or two goes by.

that's exactly the bullshit that he's calling out.

the mRNA is gone in days, all that remains is the immune response.

we have hundreds of year of experience at understanding the kinds of autoimmune side effects that can happen after a viral infection or a vaccine. they either surface in under 90 days or they don't.

5 years from now we're not going to have a sudden outbreak of side effects.

if it did it would upset the entire discipline of rheumatology.

once 3 months go by after your vaccination anything that happens to you after that has nothing to do with the vaccination.
>So far nobody has discovered anything to suggest otherwise.

Except that every one of us experiences otherwise daily in our own decision making.

How exactly are you down voting me? I thought HN doesn't allow us to down vote responses to our own comments.
Which particular steps of the FDA approval process are you waiting for and what information will they provide that will convince you the vaccine is safe?

Why are these parts of the normal FDA process more convincing than the fact that millions of real people have already taken the vaccine with high efficacy and minimal side effects?
> Infectious disease control 101: Lock up the infected people but leave the healthy alone.

Maybe try getting some real education on infectious diseases. Incubation periods during which you can be contagious, and the generally non-zero latency between becoming symptomatic and highly contagious and getting positive test results back and getting into isolation mean your proposed strategy is stupid.
Upon further reflection, I don't think 'local/global correctness' distinction this was expressed very well or very usefully. The 'hole' example papers over so many details as to be misleading.

So here's another, hopefully better expression:

Rust's type system wrt lifetimes is not very expressive, compared with 'dynamically-typed' c. It can't represent things like 'the value returned by this function must remain alive for no more than 15 successive invocations of this function'.
Open source isn’t a “get out of jail free card” for patent violations. Despite how many of us here feel about patents, a patent is for a temporary monopoly in exchange for not “hiding secret formulas”. Open source/freeware/etc. or not, patent infringement is illegal. Independent discoveries (like this) do throw a wrench into that, but IANAL.
My personal view is that vax vs anti-vax views are shaped by the person's relationship with 'Authority' in the past.

If someone felt that they were mis-treated in the past by the government or by say a university bureaucracy, they are more likely to be anti-vax; because appealing to authority has no meaning or relevance to the way they process and assign weights to the information that they rrceive.

Of course more positive views of 'Authority' will lead to a different, more pro-vax position.

Curious if this matches with what others are seeing.
You can apply all your logic to any major conspiracy theory. Did we land on the moon? It shouldn't be so controversial if we actually did. You say 9/11 was an inside job? Pfft, drop the self-righteous attitude.
Think the main problem will be to support the Swift-based frameworks
I get the allure of older cars but personally I wouldn’t ever daily drive a car that didn’t have vaguely modern crashworthiness. To me 2010 sounds like an ideal middle ground between maximising mechanical safety and minimising the encroachment of bad software. Ideally you’d want a reasonably new safety-rated car where the entire radio can be swapped out for an aftermarket double-DIN unit.
You comment implies that utility costs would be significantly lower if OP used 1930s technology, but I’d assume that using a wood burning stove to heat their house would be much costlier. Modern technology typically allows one to use resources much more efficiently, even if we tend to use much more of those resources.
Yes, but less so.
> "If someone says "I don't know if vaccines are safe", I don't think that's an anti-vaxx stance."

Eh - after hundreds of millions of doses I think it's functionally equivalent most of the time. It's not a huge surprise to me - I've worked with otherwise intelligent people and then find out they're deeply religious or even creationist.

Sure strictly speaking "I don't know if vaccines are safe" is different - but in practice there's not some deep level of analysis going on, people that don't like vaccines are just falling into cognitive bias and using motivated reasoning to dress it up.

People are wildly inconsistent and many people believe insane things. Critical thinking and accuracy are not the strength of most of general humanity. Even those in favor of the vaccines didn't arrive there from reading about them for the most part - they just picked a tribe.

Thankfully there's a small percentage of humanity that's pretty good at accuracy and they're working to save the rest of us.
We’ll know those effects when we truly understand the long-term effects of COVID. Right now we know the short term effects. Having had two relatives my age pass, and being the father of a type 1 diabetic child, I’ll take the vaccine thank you very much.
Military isn't paid too badly once you factor in pensions and benefits. The amount of salary that you'd have to save to construct something similar out of 401ks is... high.
It might be worth going to a gastroenterologist to check on acid reflux. I was in a similar boat a couple years ago. Sharp chest pains out of nowhere. Heart stuff was ruled out by a cardiologist. I then had an endoscopy which confirmed something was out of whack with the sphincter between my esophagus and stomach, causing strong heartburn. After taking some heavy acid reducers for a few months, it managed to heal up and has been fine ever since. I can relate to the anxiety though. It was pretty intense at times and I had trouble sleeping or focusing on anything else. Hang in there.
It could have just been that someone pulled a fire alarm when there wasn't a fire, and then they had to wait for the Halon to disperse.
Are you familiar with the difference in approvals?

I tried to do some research and found this:

> People think there is a difference in data quality between approval under emergency use authorization, but there really isn’t, he said. “The only real difference is the length of follow-up for efficacy,” he said. Covid vaccines: What full FDA approval means for you

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/covid-vaccines-what-full-fda...

If true it would suggest that we just don’t know how long they are effective for and not that there is some more rigorous side effects testing.

The point will hopefully be moot though as full approval may come second half of this year.
> a lot of people are paid for being physically present somewhere (not for their output).

Right. A FireFighter or an on-call IT Tech are excellent examples of how we can have 40 hours of presence while only requiring 20 hours of work. Making it acceptable for people to read a book if working 40 hours makes things better.

> love the idea of a 20 hour workweek, but I also understand that the harsh reality is that it would make things like construction, building security, janitorial services, etc. 2x more expensive

I'm not sure that's true. As I understand it, a lot of construction time is spent dealing with looking busy because of blocking tasks. But if we transition those jobs from hourly to piece-rate it solves a lot of problems.

Even building security only doing rounds/checking tapes 1/2 the time seems sufficient.
It’s possible - since google controls the OS they could retain their own internal ad-tracking while blocking other methods.
My idea is that the skills required to build things are at odds with the traits/skills required to persuade.

My cherry picked list:

Building: honesty, introversion, reason
Selling: charisma, extroversion, empathy
It's clever isn't it.

“organs of dictatorship,” has a meaning dating back to at least 60's China. But I can't work out what this English translation of their saying means. https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1968/PR...

Perhaps NYTimes is writing at a political scholar of China audience, rather than the average person?
Only true for EU-domiciled companies - https://stripe.com/docs/payouts#supported-accounts-and-settl...
There is no safety difference between a EUA and a standard authorization. In fact, the opposite of your assertion is probably true - the safety and efficacy data of the mRNA vaccines in particular is far far far in excess of what we have had with other things the FDA has approved. If you want to get up in arms, go read about the FDA approving Biogen’s aducanumab, which has serious safety issues, and no proven efficacy. It's a 50k a year hand out from medicare to a pharma company.

The process the vaccines are going now is updating their rolling submissions to cover all the data since the EUA. What the EUA gave them was really the ability to do the paperwork for general, and start scaling the factory before the phase 3 trials where complete.

source:
https://vaccine.unchealthcare.org/science/vaccine-approval/w...

There is a great diagram there that shows the processes.
There are millions of things that each of us is not expert enough to judge safety of. Why single out this vaccine, while ignoring everything else, including the coronavirus?