skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And doesn't the delta variant break through the first shot immunity (after a few weeks) but 2nd dose provides durable immunity.

And parts of the use (including my county) have >70% of 2 doses. (parts of) the US are in a completely different place vaccine wise compared to most of europe.
Aslo I absolutely accept that what I'm saying is rude. It 100% is.

I adhere to the idea that you should never be rude unless you feel there is something at stake that makes being rude worth it, and I think "trying to gain ground on the Linux Desktop" a thing that affects LOTS of people outside of the developers, is.
There are many reasons people choose not to get the vaccine. What evidence do you have that the main issue is a distrust of authority?

The main authority on this, the FDA has not even officially approved the vaccine and likely won't for quite awhile. For some people it is logical to ask why other vaccines require 10year+ trials and for this a few months was sufficient.

While personally, I think the risk of the virus greatly outweighs the risk of getting the vaccine, I do not think we should force that choice on everyone. Either the FDA is ridiculously over-conservative in their other trials, or this one is extremely rushed. Can't have it both ways.
Are you rich/have no kids? Because most people probably cannot relate to the life you're living right now.
Yes I'm not counting those, they're operating just fine. I'm talking about others like SaskTel, MTS and Freedom Mobile that had/have independent networks.
Katas are a way to practice movements so that they become instinctive. They are performed quite slowly and deliberately, which means that at every stage of the movement you have to maintain balance and poise. It also means that practising katas strengthens your musculature.

I tried tai chi for about 6 months. For us beginners, it was mostly katas, and I routinely came away with aching muscles. Advanced students used tai chi for sparring, and the instructor occasionally came in with swords, and did a rather alarming performance.

As a kid I learned judo. That was mostly wrestling; but to advance, you had to do some kata work. I didn't find judo katas nearly as stretching as I later found tai chi katas; but I was 10 when I learned judo. I was 50 when I tried tai chi, and not very fit; so that might explain my different experiences.

Karate was something that rough boys bragged about; it was clear to me that it was a technique for hurting people, so I stayed clear.
Not for me anymore: https://www.sellesmp.com/en/pro.html

ymmv
https://streamlit.io/ comes close?
Yes, and as the list of items to maintain grows, you must perform more and more context switches as bugs or other fixes crop up, spreading you more and more thin. Meanwhile the number of new requests does not slow down.
I hope somebody places rocks in your cereal.
If you're traveling at 0.9c then there will be significant time dilation. Since velocity is relative, both parties will see each other as severely time dilated which can lead to somebody receiving a reply to a message before they send it.
This is a poor strategy

Not only is it a deep violation of their TOS, but also, they're just gonna shut you off at random when your 3000 hours run out

Doing this right on a VM costs less than two dollars a month

This is a ticking time bomb, and may cause Microsoft to be less generous in the long run
Would they have to?

I mean, politically, not economically. The vast majority of Canada lives in a major metro area…namely the hyper-sprawl that is the GTA. You’d serve most of your possible user base by plopping towers around Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton.

But I suspect you would rapidly hear screaming about inequality of access for rural areas.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_metropolitan_ar...)
Except, this is not just about America. By and large, countries with more parental leave have lower birth rates. America has less parental leave and has a relatively higher birth rate.
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I feel like measuring a workday in hours is more useful for measuring the workload of a non-stop assembly line type work than it is for a knowledge-based job. 8 hours of work where you can grab a coffee and read HN whenever you want could be easier on the mind than 6 hours of work where your attention is in constant demand.

I do wish I could do the same number of hours over 4 days instead of 5, though.
I'm not sure if you were being flippant about the book comment, but reading any astrophysics text (even readable ones that popularize/dumb it down) literally inject 10mg of melatonin into my system.

Doesn't work if I'm agitated/worried, but it does help if my mind is racing after a day of problem solving.
Justwatch.com is pretty good at that in my experience. I'm often looking for something I can watch with a friend in Canada or Australia so I'm often using the site to check the same title in multiple countries
TypeScript or Flow for that matter sucks at using functional style with immutable data types. There are ESLint plugins that allows to enforce immutability with plain JS objects, but still lack of syntactic sugar or union types makes the experience much worse then in functional languages.
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> Then shout and run.

Everything else you do in a fight should just be in order to get to this step.
Ha, which is why I immediately bashed it. But it’s what Rogers would say.
> They all have to extrapolate from a subset of the entire population.

This only really works if you have a representative subset of he population you're extrapolating to. Is the distribution of experience roughly equivalent to the general population of "developers"? Age distribution? Company size? # of children? Home life? These kinds of demographics can have a big impact, and I see no discussion of how they were accounted for.

Heck, even the general work ethic culture difference between the UK vs the rest of the world could be a huge confounding factor that I know wasn't really accounted for.
They won the X Prize, accomplished its goals and threw a party alongside it. I cant see fault in that.

The X Prize was publicly funded big whoop.

I’m all for subsequent efforts using no public resources aside a regulatory agency curbing the excesses of privatized space efforts.
These arguments have all been beaten to death I'm afraid. General consensus is that a boxer who actually gets to punch and be punched by another human being will be far more effective at any of the eye gouges/throat attacks etc than someone who does not have sparring as a focus.

Or just try to imagine a situation where someone who doesn't constantly train sparring can kick a knee of a kickboxer who does spar a lot and gets kicked a lot.
I didn't see the artist's website linked in the article, so here it is: http://cmkosemen.com/
Edit: Sorry, I did not read the article before reading your comment. The point was "what are you retiring to?" I understand what you're saying now.
You always want at least a week of data collection, to control for weekly effects. People are often happier on a Friday than a Monday, for instance.
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They probably always had encryption, Amazon enforces it for the transport layer if you use services like Alexa for example.

But the article is clearer and specifically mentions end-to-end encryption. It is really nice of them that they implemented this.

> However, some governments, including the UK, say it makes law enforcement more difficult.

It is NOT in any way normal that a government can access data owned by citizens at all. Their crime problems won't be solved with surveillance. This is such a ridiculous request...

An formidable opposition would put the boot on government that obviously lost control on crime when it makes such demands.
Dropped by to see what was up, only a drive-by downvote so let me explain since you didn't.

Its becomes clear by the end that the ansibles being used were creating philotic threads throughout the universe. So the very thing they had been using for FTL communication was building a huge network. This allowed them to not only save the trees by uploading them, it akso allowed Ender to be brought to no-space where he was able to subconsciously create young Peter and Valentine.

So, they ended up being central to the entire story.

You're welcome.
Russia is much more spread out than Canada in every single way, especially as far as population goes. I think we could use that as a marketing point, if even the dysfunctional and corrupt Russian telecoms can do it then why can't we?
There is no need to build - it's already build on the gov handout. One has to put a regulation on a price, and not in a way CRTC does.
I've never heard of him either, and clicked around until I found some background on him. He has no medical or health care related education or experience. He's a tech guy with a blog.
If you want to see Lachlan in action, here are some good videos from his past efforts:

Dirty Kanza 2019 (200mi gravel race in Kansas): https://youtu.be/kPODHtTdO24

GBDuro 2019 (crossing all of England): https://youtu.be/e74xncSCoqw
FAANGs maintain their code? Impossible.
> Many of the largest problems in the world would be fixed by a smaller human population. Food, housing scarcity, climate change...

What we’re seeing is the beginning of a sudden and massive drop in the working population across vast regions of the planet. That’s a recipe for famine, decaying infrastructure, war, burning wood and coal instead of maintaining sophisticated energy infrastructure.
Ignoring the higher risk of major long-term damage incurred by letting yourself get sick when you could've been vaccinated, I don't understand how this thought process accounts for anyone else.

What if my main reason for getting vaccinated is to lower my chance of infecting an immunocompromised person I care about? Even if I could somehow be 100% certain that if I were to be infected it'd be fully asymptomatic, the vaccine still helps me avoid spreading COVID-19 further.

Do you imagine young people who get flu shots do so only because they're worried about dying from influenza at 20?
Right now in Germany vaccines are available in abundance, just today Berlin opened a Drive-In Vaccination Center at a furniture store and at Vaccination Centers in Saxony appointments are not needed anymore [1].

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-coronavirus-di...
"I was 2nd employee at a unicorn startup"

They're rich.
> It is. I took about 18 months off a few years ago. It was great until I ran out of money.

I also took a lot of time off, albeit after crossing the threshold of FIRE. My comment was coming from a position of someone who has achieved FIRE.
spread-out argument seems to be applied everywhere in Canada to justify costs of anything. It is simply not true in most cases. wrt mobile data, the argument falls apart when you consider that coverage is simply not available as advertised.
As far as propaganda campaigns go, only ones that matter nowadays are digital, and great weakness of online propaganda is that you get pushback
Sadly lots of today’s “research” meets this low threshold. Lots of politicized headlines use low quality research to push narratives.

#depressing
Ali & James discussing the book on the NFX podcast: https://www.nfx.com/post/super-founders/. Also available on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Super-Founders-Audiobook/15491889...
> Not sure why science/math minded people are buying into any COVID Fears.

It's a way to feel important and make money. Exposure, likes, quotes, clicks. People love audience.

Kudos to scientists/science presenters who keep their cool and present a balanced view of COVID-related information despite the widespread censorship and hit pieces. I can recommend dr. Mobeen Syed's YT channel, he's bringing in interesting guests (often doctors) where they discuss all new knowledge on COVID treatments, vaccines etc.
It takes a light touch, because bypassing the chain of command can offend people, but the only people who can do something about this or give more insight are the board of directors, investors and maybe some of the earliest employees.

Look for a chance to engage those people if you can (at half the size of your firm it is usually easy) and try to feel out what they think about the CEO before you consider "blowing the whistle".

(This is a place where "digging your well" is a great idea; before you have a problem you should develop relationships that bypass the chain of command.)

It's very possible the people above the CEO are aware of the situation, it's also possible that they aren't. (Some people are nice to superiors and rude to subordinates)

Whatever you do be sure to keep your integrity and never "lose your shit" no matter what happens.
You probably would not want to sell it all in one go, but the market is quite a bit larger than you are believing in 2021.
This isn't the mid 2010s where liquidity was in the $100k's.

A sell of this size spaced over the say, top 5 exchanges, would likely only cause a 2% price adjustment.

There is a huge huge deal more money than you realize floating about in this space. To give you some idea, take a look at the cryptodollar charts: https://defipulse.com/usd
Thanks for writing this, I'm still on the fence about taking it for this reason, it was rushed and the longer term implications are certainly still not fully understood.

Edit: Again with the downvotes, it's a fact. No one has had this vaccine for 3,5 or 10 years. The long term effects cannot be fully understood until such time has lapsed and studies have been completed. Here, the creator of mRNA vaccines discusses the topic [1].

I'm not saying people shouldn't take it, but there are certain realities that don't have to be ignored.

[1] https://www.bitchute.com/video/ukx8L3lh5CA7/
I wrote my physics dissertation using t3. For what it did at the time, it was fantastic.
It might be more productive if you explain what it is about GP's post you actually disagree with.

Personally I find the fact that we've set up a system where a few rich guys can burn obscene amounts of money in a dick measuring competition while people in their own countries increasingly increasingly lack stable income/house/food pretty abhorrent.
> And we are not vaccinating to avoid a pandemic, we are doing it during the pandemic making the risk of it happening much higher.

I bet you would like to go back in time and tell the people that vaccinated against polio that they were doing it wrong too?

We are vaccinating to stop the pandemic.

India is an example what happens without vaccines btw
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I'd like an update on his back issues. Back issues are often the result of people not dealing with stress in their life. Speaking from personal experience and a huge army of others who have had a similar experience (John Sarno crew).
Taking OP's "spark" comment at face value, if the reality is quality development isn't a steady curve but rather a nearly flat one followed by bursts of sharp peaks, then it does provide some rubric for how to manage the situation. Which is, manage it lightly, look only at very big milestones. Measuring and optimizing day to day incremental improvements might actually be counter productive.
The subtext of many of the responses to this post is a self-congratulatory "I knew all along that his plan was unrealistic". It seems like the thing people like about the follow-up post is that they think it confirms their worldview.

If we actually listen to the original author instead of looking for confirmation of our own worldviews, the author tells a different story. He says, (this is a copy-paste quote): "The initial plan itself was fine." His original plan wasn't unrealistic, at least not any more unrealistic than any more traditional life plans--it simply fell prey to life events which would cause almost any plan to fail. His partner left him for another man and he was diagnosed with a serious medical issue.

And critically, while the author's plan has changed, the goals still haven't. Not working is still the goal.

I've seen the plan that's common on Hacker News fail too. Lots of startups fail, and even if your startup succeeds that doesn't mean you're satisfied. The best case scenario has nothing to do with economics: it's coming to peace with yourself, finding meaningful relationships, and feeling a sense of purpose and belonging. I won't write off the possibility of finding those things in a startup or a career, but in my life I've seen it far less than the self-congratulatory posts here would lead you to believe.
Every default sub is toxic these days. Toxic in exactly the way tumblr was. Both due to moderators and the people who spend the most time there. I would venture to say any sub with >100k users is also pretty toxic.
8/10 data scientist working on this article were having a burnout.
A 1% death rate (10,000 micromorts) may not be Russian roulette but it’s scary high by modern standards. Compare with skydiving (8 per jump) or giving birth (120 or 170 micromorts, depending).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
> Not sure why science/math minded people are buying into any COVID Fears.

Oh simple. They actually understand math.
Look at wireless coverage maps of Canada and Russia : https://www.nperf.com/en/map/CA/-/5651.Rogers-Wireless/signa...

As you can see, Russia has much more coverage than Canada, at a literal tenth of the cost.
Not easy, but definitely possible:

https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m...

> We have to admit that exploiting this requires a fairly specific situation in which there is a data race we could trigger and some structs with function pointers around.
But you can still infect other people? It's a non-sterilizing vaccine?
Same way you did in the 90s. You bump around until you find something you like. Or get referred to it by a friend.

The vast majority of it is crap. Always was. There's also a ton of things you'll like, but finding the things that you like but not popular with everybody else is a matter of sifting through (a) the things that everybody likes and (b) the things some people like but not you. Those two things make up 99.999% of the world.
What are you doing on HN?
I hope someone pokes holes in your bedsheets.
Choice comes in various flavors. A single woman was very vulnerable some decades ago. While single men had it better there were and are still many stereotypes that affect your life. Just read the parts about feeling disconnected to many old friends. Imagine that a thousand times when you look at the past.
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Dairy is a bit different though. Allowing the states to sell their dairy into Canada would be cheaper, but their regulations on what you can put into milk and dairy (antibiotics, hormones) are much more lax than Canadian standards. Because of that I'm quite happy to not let US dairy compete in Canada.
Any tips on how to do this nicely?

I always like lending a hand to someone and helping them solve problems, but as of late some of my new coworkers have been taking advantage of my nature. They don't even try to look up the docs, I'll give them a bit of sample code and if it doesn't work without blind copy/paste they'll come back and have me go through a debug session with them.

I have a hard time saying no because they are in India and have stayed up late so they could get me on a call. Yet, I also am irritated because it's apparent they've not made any effort to solve the problem themselves.
I'm a 60-year-old adult, and I work with teenagers in education. So I have experience of teenagers. I'm a director of a company that produces equipment that does the maritime equivalent of Air Traffic Control, so I have experience of both civilian and military adults.

And most of the adults I know drink very little, including this last Sunday. Most people I know have decided that getting drunk is less fun than staying sober. As I say, we clearly move in different circles.

I'm not denying your experience, I'm just providing balance.
It's ars technica, pretty much everything they write has this creepy techno-hopium spin on it, to cater to the worshippers of technology and its ability to eventually, magically fix any problem.
I would consider the abrupt cancellation of all festivals that had merely weeks ago been granted permission by the government to go ahead, as well as yet another imposed restriction on horeca to be wreaking havoc.

What will likely come soon is reimposed restrictions on Dutch travelers by other European countries, just as people had been given the go ahead.

The government’s test-for-entry system has also shown itself to be problematic.

It is fantastically disruptive. “Wreaking havoc” is certainly accurate.
Is low fertility a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption
perhaps im misunderstanding but just pushing someones knees apart when you are in their closed guard just wouldn't work. and given the presence of the electric chair and the twister i'm not sure that any approach to passing guard would necessarily be disallowed unless you are striking.
That certainly squares with H.P. Lovecraft's "Antediluvian horrors".
I used to work in a company with 400+ developers and our team barely had any new features to add. We took care of one screen in the app.

However getting anything done was an impossible task and required huge amounts of code because of the complexity of the architecture.

I left after 6 months and a couple weeks because I couldn't bear the stress.

Fred Brooks is still right in 2021. More people, more problems.
Your browser opens an encrypted connection to somewhere you don't want it to (e.g. loads an image or iframe, JS not required). How many connections and resources does a normal web page load? 100? More? Almost nobody has time to audit all of them. Not technically inclined? You're screwed.

My secondary concern is that there would be more traffic going around the internet that isn't being used 99+% of the time.
"For me, burnout means not only being tired of your job, but also inability to ‘burn' outside work."

"burn outside work"? What does that mean?

Burnout is feeling great distress at doing your job, due to factors such as overwork, disillusionment, and depression. Sometimes that adverse feeling is so intense the employee is psychologically unable to continue.

As much some people would like to fancy themselves as coldly logical automatons, human action is actually in great part motivated by feelings. So feelings matter.
It's not even a real concern. Canada is far from the country with the most real coverage yet prices are an order of magnitude higher than Russia for example, ddespite similar population density for the area actually covered.
While you may be correct in the general case, there's a much more obvious cause than stress in his case: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Rural areas can have up to 300% more expensive internet connections. Even 40 KM out of a city, in highly developed towns, internet connections can be prohibitively expensive. The cost isn't up front either. The insane price inflation comes from how little services is available, and how almost no provider will give unlimited plans, and tend instead to cap the usage at very low levels.
This is the biggest reason I'll likely stay a teacher. I get plenty of 'me' days and, in a low CoL area, a decent enough salary. Sure, I'll likely never retire early (which was a goal of mine for a long time) and there are downsides, but it's better than how I see myself handling the alternative.
There's nothing legitimate about these concerns. It's a Twitter-stoked outrage that the billionaire isn't spending their money on some random Twitter-poster's pet project.

Go away.
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I can!