skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These rules seem quite stacked, we could also count every human crossing a red light or texting while driving as an accident.

But that's besides the point. I was arguing about the trend line. It may seem silly now, but if the error rate is roughly a straight line on a logarithmic graph then we'll get there soon enough.
If it isn't then tesla at very least would have to admit they have a problem and explain how they'll get out of it.
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There is a very ambitious project in Africa that attempts to do the same:

https://internationaltreefoundation.org/the-great-green-wall...
The discrimination against people with AIDS was based on irrational fear of getting AIDS by touching or interacting with them.

The discrimination against non-vaxxed people is based on the fact they are non-vaxxed and potential sources of risk.

It's a little bit like discriminating against those who don't have a drivers license who want to drive a car i.e. reasonable grounds for discriminating.

Obviously, it's more complicated than that. British Coloumbia (at least at some point) refused to enact discrimination policies for public serves over fears of inequity in vaccine access for example.

But the nominal issues is legit: non-vaxxed people at least today, represent some kind of risk factor.
I'm not worried at all, I'm eager to be able to get a mRNA vaccine, but no vaccine at all is available to my age group where I live. I envy y'all.
> there's an unsaid expectation of further lockdowns

Because the disease is still running rampant, unfortunately, as we still have a way to go with the vacciantion effort

> I'm really starting to wonder why I bothered with the vax.

Why? You've cut down on the chances of getting the disease, you've cut down the chances you'll be a vector that gets other people infected, and you've cut down the chance you'll be the source of a new variant.

And at what cost? Very little.
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I/O safety and speed: Why not both?
That's traditionally not how vaccines work. The side effects and consequences are short term, as in less than one month. The substance is broken down by you body, and all that remains is immunity.

Off the top of my uneducated head, the one theoretical concern would be giving yourself an autoimmune disease, where your immune system attacks something it shouldnt. Like mistraining a model. Barring that, it seems general consensus is that long term consequences are infinitely unlikely.
But festivals like this are dedicated to music which is definitely is not everyone affair: most people just don't like it. If you want to judge for yourself, the festival in question had artists like Psykovsky and Fungus Funk. Do you think that this is something general public would enjoy listening? (No elitism intended, I don't think that my music taste is better than anyone else's. I just as a matter of fact know that it's a little different).

But if you're one of the people who like and follow this music scene, you'd probably go to some publicly announced psytrance parties, meet people there, and hear about this festival as well.

And finally, there's question of the authorities. Even if we forget about the very strong psychedelic tradition that follows this genre of music (it's literally in the name, and for a very good reason), it's not a good idea to draw attention to any music event in Russia, unless you have very good lawyers and serious money involved that can protect your interest.
In practice that mean that men get about 1 day for every 4 days women get, which is a bit low compared to other work in gender equality.

If I remember right, in Denmark you can't split the days and so men has a much more equal parental leave compared to Sweden.
I keep todo-lists in a notebook, because I never managed to keep track of things otherwise. Once they're written down in a notebook, however, I just don't seem to forget them.
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I live in Switzerland and we often vote (referendum) on agriculture. I actively took part to the last political campain (ban on synthetic pesticides, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/world/swiss-pesticide-ref...) which forced me to get interested in (and research) the topic.
> He´s the only one so far that has made correct predictions in this pandemic.

How likely do you think is it, that a vast field of virologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, medical doctors and scientists in general are all wrong but this one person is right?
Career progression is the most insidious and overlooked barrier here.

Unless you take an equal amount of time off —ie the partner takes more time than the mother— the partner's career will progress more in that time, earning more money by the time they come back to work. This means it less likely that the partner will take equal time off next time, skewing the amounts even further.

Iterate this loop a few times and you open up a real gulf in take-home pay. So much so that it becomes an unignorable factor in decisions about childcare and schooling that can end up with mothers taking years out of full-time employment.

All because their partner worked more the first time.

And that's all running on the unrealistic assumption that women don't get [illegally] passed over for promotion just because they have a functioning uterus. Why would you promote Janet over Jim if it's likely that she's going to take 6-18 months off to start a family, and maybe never return? That can upset the scales well before a baby enters the scene.

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On a personal note, we have two children and I've long earned less than their mother so we're lucky that we don't have to consider this stuff in these terms. She's taken time off and while it's hurt her against her colleagues, our balance is much fairer than many relationships. And I feel privileged to have had such significant input to my children's education and upbringing.
> Secondly, I'm getting the COVID vaccine not because they believe that there is a high risk of getting serious COVID myself, but to help others -- some at-risk people can't get the vaccine at all, and immune-suppresed people are still at significant risk post-vaccine (although still lower risk than without).

People not getting the vaccine who are able are being incredibly selfish. They are exercising the opposite of personal responsibility. It's your personal responsibility not the harm those around you as much as possible. I know they are mostly ignorant, but frankly I find them to be disgusting people.
While «hate speech» is merely a convenient alias for «free speech we don't like». That figures.
That is neat
As of yesterday (2021-07-12), there were 563 people admitted to the hospital with Covid in the UK [1]. If 80% are young and unvaccinated (and I think the proportion is higher), that's 450 severly ill people going into hospital per day.

Doesn't sound much like the flu to me.

Even if "these young people" (makes me sound like a dinosaur, though in fact I'm in that cohort) don't care about that risk, they are wasting doctors' time, and taking resources away from overstrained health system.

So maybe I'd say: if you don't want to get vaccinated, without an overwhelming reason, then stay at home (so as not to risk infecting others) and if you do get sick, don't go to the hospital (as it was your risk you were taking).

[1]: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
When a company grows large enough, the APIs and user-generated tools that propelled its growth get treated like a threat. They tend to vertically integrate and keep anyone from using their data.
It's quite funny for a content aggregation site to get all high and mighty about tools that make it easier to share and aggregate content.
I assume that in theory this would also work the other way around ... find a way to make your CPU move (spatially) a lot slower than you and perform millenias worth of computation in your coffeebreak.
No, but LaTeX is
I think we should separate out ideas like "discrimination" from "left vs. right". That would clarify the change that has happened.

The language and ideas of civil rights etc., coupled with identity politics, has a political life of its own. And it has been adopted by most major political institutions in the west: "equality", "diversity", "discrimination", etc.

Neutrally, this could be called "identity-first politics" (where "anti-vax" is a tenable identity signifier).

In that sense something has won, but it isnt really The Left. Nor least, because many of these political institutions are quite right wing (eg., the republican party).

What appears to have happened is really the defeat of The Left as a collective political force.

What we're left with is a new awakening across the political spectrum which is more religious than political. Virtue, Struggle, Sin -- and so on -- is attaching itself to new forms of identity which use political vocabulary, but are really not political at all.

Neither the "modern activist left" nor the "alt-right" are political movements, they're more like religious movements centred on a new mode of identity. Their "political" project is merely that their identities be respected.

This isn't politics: there is no material, economic, or institutional goal.
As one caught in all of these generations, I'd have to frame it as: John Lennon being inspired by Yoko-like squealing noises in a theatrical B52 song is about as relevant as David Bowie being inspired by Arcade Fire. I mean, for sure the 52s and Arcade were inspired by these greatest masters of the Boomer generation, but the other way around is stuff for tabloids...as in, Bowie was writing songs for "Sponge Bob Square Pants, The Musical" (https://youtu.be/Q1PuF6pJHjM) just before cancer took him. (Isn't it likely that if Arcade thought they inspired Bowie to do that, they would all dress in purple and drink Kool-Aide?) Lennon OTOH didn't live long enough to start writing "show tunes for cartoons", not that there is anything particularly wrong with having fun in your later years (just ask one of my generation's greatest masters, Danny Elfman... https://youtu.be/4LQVEN2kZQA /ducks /runs) McCartney did "Rupert and the Frog" (https://youtu.be/i_TFHzxGv0s), what Yoko-esq B52-inspired cartoon show tune do we think John Lennon would most likely have gone on to write?
> because convincing people is harder

why do they need convincing, when it is quite self-evident that getting vaccinated, if you can, is better?

If the people holding out won't listen to evidence, no amount of evidence-based convincing is going to change their mind. So the alternative should be to "nudge" by policy.
AFAICT this applies only to Pfizer and Moderna, which are mRNA vaccines. The J&J and Astra vaccines are more 'traditional' and use adenovirus as a delivery mechanism.
> There have been hundreds of millions of vaccinations.

People have been smoking for a very long time without noticing any apparent problem.

Vioxx is estimated to have caused a 100000 additional heart attacks in US alone, but no one noticed.

This is why we do systematic research. Point is "There have been millions of vaccines administrated", is not a proof for safety.

That is not even considering the censorship of Vaccine adverse effects, and how that can skew the perception of safety.

https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/wp-content/uploads/vcc-open-...

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-doctor-removed-fr...
> On a related note I can’t wrap my head around how I had to grift over a decade to get roles which would pay as much ( and include this level of responsibility and respect) in the UK.

I'm not even in western europe, and I had the same feeling, but looks like with advent of remote it's rapidly changing. Not in FAANGs yet, but I think they'll come around to it, too.
I wholeheartedly support this. These "useless" project rekindled my love for programming. They're the ones I enjoy working on, because I know from the start that they're only for fun.
One of the main thesis of the book is that metacommunication is an automatic mechanisms which is used by humans as a sort of sonar signal: every time we communicate with other we are sending out an image of what our self image is, hoping that their reactions will validate it (e.g. "I am trying to look cool, or learned, or authoritative or whatever, and I hope that the way you react to it confirms that my signal was received)".

In a discussion about a Pscyhology book (by a quite influential and respected researcher) you felt you really had to make known to everyone that your superior experience as breeder of innumerable dogs and cats made amply clear that the guy was a charlatan, due to a half-page example from a 304 pages book.
A book you have not read, and you probably did not even know it existed before another random guy mentioned it.

From this I infer that what you really wanted to say is "Hey, look at me: I know lots about cats and dogs."

I am not blaming you. This is exactly what Watzlawick considers to be one of the primary "uses" of metacommunication by humans: a way to project our own self image on others.

And I am surely doing the same, just like everyone else. Maybe I am a bit more conscious about this phenomenon, thanks to having read the book. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If a fitting exposed to road debris being damaged results in the only option being a 16000 repair the OEM should do it for free as penence for their incompetence.
Funny that it seems to not have been affected at all by HN's hug of death.
Being new or not is not the crucial point. What matters is that it's in the interest of the society at large that as many people as possible are vaccinated quickly. This might present certain incentives to treat possible side effects in a political way, basically downplaying them.

I'm not saying this is what is happening now, but it has definitely happened in the past. When you read the history of Pandemrix[0][1], you will note that:

> In August 2010 the Swedish MPA issued a statement which included the following: "An investigation is ongoing, but any relationship between the vaccination and the reported symptoms can not be concluded."

and:

> In the Irish parliament, TD Clare Daly commented that, “The Health Service Executive (HSE) decided to purchase Pandemrix and continued to distribute it even after they knew it was dangerous and untested, and before most of the public in Ireland received it.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix

[1] https://www.thelocal.se/20201126/why-some-young-swedes-are-w...
Its well known what it does. The red pill activates it in 42% of all cells in your body and you wake up from your pod. Some people are known to surpass that threshold without taking a pill just reading HN comments. So be careful.
A colleague of mine died suddenly. This guy was a tech lead at my tiny satellite office for a major tech company. Within DAYS they already had an internal/external job posting to fill his position up.

I mean I know it's just business, but I realized that I was replacable that day.
> 4. Some people can't get vaccinated or it wont work on them. They will catch it and die if others are not getting it / spreading it.

I think that needs to be highlighted more. It's like wearing seatbelts, but for other people. I would consider that the fabric that most societies are made of, taking care of the people that can't for themselves, and in many cases through no fault of their own (e.g. genetics).
> Nationalism is followed by fascism quite easily

Is there any evidence behind that statement? Looks very bogus.
The S3 is not out yet, not even close. My FeatherS2 has 16MB of flash and 8MB of PSRAM, and that has native USB. My TinyS2 has 4MB Flash and 2MB PSRAM and native USB and is the TinyPICO form factor. The ESP32-S3 for a "TinyPICO" form factor board will never come with more than 4MB of internal flash and external flash wont fit on a TinyPICO sized board.

I'll have a FeatherS3 and ProS3 out as soon as he ESP32-S3 is released.

https://feathers2.io

https://tinys2.io
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Check if all your dependencies in all your NodeJs projects are up to date.
Event horizons exist, I don't think we have any evidence singularities really exist inside them, or any way gather such evidence.
Ummm, Cung Le… You should try it sometime. See if your opinion stands.
That is true for most things in the cell, though. There's an incredible amount of redundancy, optionality, and just plain unnecessary stuff. Vaults stick out because they're an apparently unnecessary thing that you can see down an electron microscope. There are many more equally unnecessary things that are just a lot smaller!
I think a lot of people just lack the education and context that you have, and so don't come to the same conclusion. Just 25min ago, I was in favor of getting vaccinated myself, but didn't understand why I should care about other people getting vaccinated too. And I'm not a bigot (I hope) or a person more ignorant than the average. If you believe this to be true, I think we can agree that it's probably fair to at least assume ignorance instead of vileness to the vast majority of vaccine-skeptic folks.

Especially if you consider the social landscape in the USA, where having beliefs misaligned with your in-group's is extremely damaging. It doesn't leave a lot of room for people to exercise independent thought and climb out of their ignorance.
Yes, in this case it appears to be the Gobi dessert. One of the problems in China is that it is still expanding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi_Desert#Desertification
That's a long time ago. Aliexpress started asking me for this stuff only few months ago, which I believe is when EU made getting the info mandatory - that was definitely post-brexit.
I have only worked at one big company so I am used to these type of job profiles. I dislike them though.

What is it like working at a smaller company? I would love to except I imagine the pay would be worse (in my country - non USA)
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It's a waste of space and components to include USB-UART and USB connector on a board that is supposed to be tiny.

Same board without those two components would have been much more versatile and even smaller.
Why does the HN title say (2020) when the article is dated Oct 14, 2018
That sucks, but perhaps worth considering switching it up on the jobs front.

Guess it's something of a function of where you live, but e.g. in London there will be plenty of companies with a better experience.
They rely on the fact that you granted them this right by agreeing to their ToS which allows that use. I doubt any court would consider this illegal.
A bit more manual, but I've been saving webpages I like in Obsidian.

First, click the reader view in Firefox, then select all, then paste it into a new Obsidian page. It's really good at keeping a nice formatting and importing pictures etc.
You can then export the result to PDF if so desired.
That was my point from the beginning, but you still cannot exclude risk completely. This is why manufacturers are explicitly exempt from responsibility of damages. Why would that be needed then? Why do people getting the vaccine need to wait a while before being released? Because of the unknowns that I meant.

And it doesn't even have to be intrinsic to the vaccine, it could be a manufacturing error like there was with Polio.

As I said, I am vaccinated, but this reaction and militancy really puts me off and frankly, I think it is a bit stupid. Not your comment though.
These days, at least in non-research contexts, people seem to mostly use spacy-transformers for that, already contains all the necessary glue code between huggingface transformers (including BERT) and spacy.

https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-transformers / https://spacy.io/universe/project/spacy-transformers
The people on the other side of the debate are the ones creating these sort of frameworks.

I can understand this is a reasonable response when you're given the task of evaluating people and pay them accordingly.

Still, this is exactly the reason I hate being an employee. I don't think the employee model is really good, in general.

In the end the role title is meaningless and if a contributor doing good work threatens to leave, it's usually cheaper to bump his pay than to pay for a recruiter's fee, interviewing, onboarding and risk of bad hires.

This doesn't work with weird hiring rules in crazy places (Eg. Amazon's expectation of firing a certain number of people).
We will not submit a change that's not been reviewed, meaning that everyone does multiple reviewss per day.
While it may not catch all the bugs (it will catch most of the typos though) it does help the style and readability a lot, it makes everyone more familiar with the codebase and it often presents learning opportunities for everyone.

It was a bit intimidating at first, being the new guy, and at first I would read through things and mostly say "+1, I can't find any obvious fault with this", and gradually, I became confident enough to start asking questions, and started to catch logic errors and uncover edge-cases. But boy do I ask a lot of questions that have some trivial answer that I just didn't know.. Learning not to care if others think you're ignorant, or maybe, accepting that to some degree, everyone are.. Was key for me to get more out of reviewing.
> it's much easier to replace a waitress

It's not about replacements, it's about still getting paid. Try your argument again with the premise that that small restaurant now has to pay two people for that one position.

However, as someone who, for a short period of time, gave a small loan to an Italian friend (professional cook, very good too and able to produce in restaurant environment) so that he could (once again) open a restaurant, and also has another friend with a (better quality and very good environment) Mexican restaurant, and also other people managing hotels or restaurants and clubs/bars, in Germany, your argument about easy replacements does not hold water at least from what I witnessed. They struggled hard to keep people they knew, and any loss was not easy to replace at all.

We also have seen headlines recently that those kinds of jobs are harder to fill now, after over a year of shutdown or very limited restaurant business, with many workers having found other jobs, for example "Covid and jobs: Why are hospitality workers leaving the industry?" -- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57241370
>The side effects and consequences are short term, as in less than one month. The substance is broken down by you body, and all that remains is immunity.

I am not sure this idea of "traditional vaccine" is true. The contents of Vaccines can be drastically different. And you cannot generalise that.

> substance is broken down by you body, and all that remains is immunity.

It is quite misleading, to say the least.
What jobs should I look for to avoid this stuff?
As a maintainer of another open-source search project (https://github.com/typesense/typesense), this whole saga has left a pretty sour taste.

At the end of the day, being truly committed to open source is difficult once you start feeling the revenue pressure. The very openness of the license that drives the growth of the project and the community in the early days becomes an albatross around your neck. Once you have raised a lot of money, there is tremendous pressure sooner or later to own the market and to justify the insane revenue multiples at which many companies are raising. It's a delicate path.

If you set the expectations right, I think the Cloud market is large enough to accommodate several companies in most verticals. However, "growth at all costs" requires walking back on your ideals and promises.
Does that mean you are a proponent of the more traditional vaccines like AZ and J&J, or the NovaVax one?