skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of designing a house. Want a bigger bathroom? The closet shrinks.
Their company, their choice.

As an employee, I would very much enjoy the freedom _from_ COVID-19.
I believe the entire thrust of this article is that the noble lie to achieve policy objectives backfires in spectacular and predictable ways, because it erodes trust in the statements made by officials and experts.

Regardless of where your sympathy lies, perhaps it would be good to engage with the substance of the article.

The more lying engaged in by public officials, the more ridiculous the anti-vax crowd will become, precisely because for the majority - lacking the medical expertise to judge vaccine safety - their beliefs are an expression of their trust in the government and experts at large.

If not lying isn't cutting it, you may just have to accept that sometimes policy objectives aren't achievable, given the constraints of human decency. Even when failing to achieve those objectives costs lives.
All WHO approved vaccines?

I'm thinking of leaving the country to try to get an inactive virus vaccine. I don't let anyone else run RNA code in my cells. The attack surface is too large.
It will be interesting because software devs have more than usual leverage against the company. In any other job it would just be "get jabbed or get fired" and that would be the end of it. Being anti-vax is definitely not a protected class, and is easily covered by 'at will' employment policy.

But goog isn't going to fire a meaningful number of devs over it.
Yes, the key here is to understand that you are not exactly flying, but always falling towards something, and you need to change the trajectory of your fall to get anywhere.

So space flight is much closer to sky diving than to air flight.
Sure they are. The kinks in vaccines have been worked out.

And if you wanted to think about it more rationally, why would you opt for a more likely and proven scenario of COVID-19 illness and perhaps "long COVID" instead of an unproven speculative issue that there is no evidence for and there is no hypothesis to even generate evidence for?

What will happen in "the long term" and how are you going to get evidence for this and weigh it against the risk of illness from COVID-19?

And let's say there was some big thing that happened. Whatever that is - well, we'd all be in it together. hundreds of millions in the U.S. alone, which means whatever bad thing you're imagining happen would happen to pretty much everyone, which, like COVID-19, means a global search for a cure for whatever thing you think would happen.
There are vaccines you can get that aren't mRNA based.
Yes, your body your choice, and also your employer your choice.

I prefer to flip the script here: none of your coworkers chose to be subjected to someone who is unvaccinated, increasing their risk.
Should speed limits and building codes be personal preference as well?
In sc2 it's sort of armor that makes that....I unupgraded marines against ultralisks maybe.
So you quote an eight-month figure, ignoring the nearly-nine months since then, and still cling to your narrative even when presented with facts that directly contradict your earlier assertions. Okay.

Try some math: 360,000 deaths higher than average over 251 days is 1434 excess deaths per day. From Oct 4 through yesterday is another 296 days, and 1434x296=424,464, so we're talking about a scale of around 780,000, which very much supports the total US COVID death count of 627,370.

If you think that's all 80-year-olds with multiple pre-existing conditions, and that you therefore have nothing to worry about, then I hope for your sake and the sake of those around you that you aren't proven wrong by an ICU stay.
You think clients care?
Annoyingly, putting your device in a shielded evidence bag without turning it off can cause its various radios to franticly seek connections and even amplify their signals until they completely empty your battery.

Useful to have if you are curious about protests or concerts and other gatherings of people with a significant criminal element who could get your IMEI stingray-ed and then palantir-ed.
Are there any human vaccines in history that are based on mRNA?
It's not like small crowded bars are an exclusively American thing you know..
Vaccines have saved an estimated billion lives
Very cool and good luck!

I poorly rephrased the continuity of care in the third paragraph... I highly doubt someone is going to circumvent an EMR/scheduling platform to go see the provider direct, but I've been wrong about worse things. The comment was just to say I believe you'll want to invest in those predictive analytics down the road to make sure continuity is paramount.

What is more interesting in what I'm seeing you guys write is maybe you're going for acute and crisis care... which is smart.
A basic understanding of what an IPv6 world will look like really didn't click for me until I read the IPv6 Address Planning book by Tom Coffeen. Before that, I really just saw it as IPv4 with longer addresses.

Once you dig into the details, you come to the realization that it's a nearly complete reinvention of IPv4. Network planning looks quite different (especially when it comes to subnets) when you plan them with only IPv6 in mind.

Earlier this year, I was like:

"Wow, Comcast gives me a /60! That should be more address space than I could ever want or use."

Now, I'm thinking:

"A /60 is way too limited, I wish I had a /52 or a /56 instead -- why is Comcast so restrictive with giving out address space?"

I'm currently reading the IPv6 for IPv4 Experts book to try to fill in more details:

https://sites.google.com/site/yartikhiy/home/ipv6book

The more I read about it, the more I feel like I have a long way to go before I really get an intuitive understanding.
I continue to be amazed by what lifeguards can do.

Even if drowning looked like drowning there is just so much going on in a crowded pool I cannot imagine how people can pick on anything. To me it seems like an audio-visual version of drinking from a firehose.

If I was in their place the best strategy that I could conceive of adopting would be to a for loop checking each one out, and perhaps dwelling a little longer on those who I think maybe particularly susceptible. But this would be a terrible strategy, too easy to miss someone, too much latency in revisit time.

So a hat tip to all lifeguards on HN, deeply appreciate your work.
I have taken both shots. But I wouldn't call them "safe", as they are young and approved under emergency guidelines. They are probably safe, but nobody knows that right now.
That is my thought as well. If you had Covid, isn’t that the best vaccine you can get?
I wasn't flaming anyone in my original post. Really just expressing some of my skepticisms of cognitive behavioral techniques. Personally I find it difficult to apply in real life when I believe that the technique is strong enough to discredit anything but the strongest scientific claim. The flaming was only to your reply, so you may be indulging in overgeneralization and mind-reading.
How does an IPv4-only host send a packet to an IPv6-only host?
Why? Aren’t you worried that a patchily vaccinated population still provides a good (possibly even better) breeding ground for new variants?
For #2, I think it might be valid for areas which experience hurricanes or other natural disasters.

Though, couldn't you charge your car with a gas generator in an emergency if you really needed to?
The Case for IPv6 (1999):

https://web.archive.org/web/20100805233650/http://go6.net/ip...
This is the first one that has been approved in any capacity by a regulatory authority:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine#Acceleration
My ideal vehicle would be a Volt made by Toyota. I have several mechanic friends and all have warned me against buying any GM vehicle, especially one with as complex a drive system as a Volt.
The article starts with the prospect of building a plant to produce grid energy.

It ends with: "Asked when the system will actually start producing electricity, Kirtley was cagey, declining to offer specifics, but he believes it is within his grasp."

His grasp eh?

My dream job is being a dream job discourager.
I take it you didn't even bother to open the article and search for "medical"?
> (For the record, I did get vaccinated, but it seems crazy to me to mandate or compel it.)

Why not? Regular vaccines are already compulsory for public schools.
To be honest, it is rather surprising, don't you think so?

At the beginning of the vaccination campaigns it was natural for people to be skeptic of vaccines that had been developed so quickly, but you'd really expect these feelings to go away after so many millions have been vaccinated without problems. What's strange about it is that some colleagues of my girlfriend apparently continue to peddle vaccination conspiracies after they've got their second Pfizer shot. What's going on?
You must not have, know, or care about any kids.
You can use the Shortcuts app to make a custom shortcut that permanently turns off both wifi and bluetooth, and then add that shortcut to your news/leftswipe menu to reduce the number of swipes/taps to get to it
It can be useful to have a range of signals. Flagging is a rather hard-line "this is not appropriate" mark that many are unwilling to make on borderline things, e.g. when only somewhat misleading or partially incorrect.

Plus it requires clicking into the individual message, so you are required to see the contents twice, and can't do it quickly. That friction alone slows down using it on any softer or higher volume cases.
Imagine the business decision of selecting between a post-open licensed ware and BSD licensed similar functionality. In return for 1% of revenue and the hassle of an annual usage audit, you get what value in return, exactly? That is the key question.

So as a purveyor of post-open software, you must have a business proposition that closes the deal. Not impossible, but different from the way most OSS projects operate today. Your skepticism is reasonable. To separate a customer from their money, you need to provide obvious value.

It strikes me that once you take one post-open package into your stack, the incremental cost of the next N is zero. So maybe there is enough virality in that feature to drive adoption. One high-value post-open project could create a coat-tail effect.
I agree, I suspect that very few Googlers will be unvaxxed and that trying to identify these individuals and poach them will be tough. Not a good look if other tech companies are specifically bringing in non-vaccinated employees. Might create issues with current employees.
As a user, I love Safari for privacy and its reader mode which means I don't need to see ads. I switched to an iPhone due to privacy concerns with Android and haven't bothered installing Chrome on the new phone.
1) Get the JnJ one then?

2) Do you have any evidence to suggest a risk with the mRNA delivery vehicle? If so, what is that risk and why will it materialize in some unknown amount of time instead of after someone gets the vaccine?
> Are there any vaccines in history that have caused something unexpected 10 years from injection?

Yes [1]

*EDIT* - People are being pedantic saying it's not a vaccine while technically true it was a government approved medication that had horrific side effects discovered after approval. This is why people are wary about taking a vaccine still under approval as 'emergency use'. And also ridiculous to force employees back into an office and also require them to be injected with something they may not wish to. Just let them work from home if they choose to not get vaccinated with am emergency approval drug.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
Here's a related summary of the book with no paywall:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/joy-of-sweat-book-perspi...

> The clear advertising spin will make readers reflect on how much of our hygiene habits are the result of manufactured humiliation. By highlighting history, Everts shows that any perceived problems of sweat are most often cultural, not biological. Sweat simply is “a body trying its best to do its thing,” she writes.
The ‘world’s most powerful tidal turbine’ starts to export power to the grid
It was just an email, no?

I’d feel a little weird if people that took down entire services were telling me that it’s “ok”.
It's ironic that we can't downvote this article on Hacker News. Only upvote it.
> do need to make it expensive for people who want to send lots of spam.

You can use cloud providers, sure small ones do get blacklisted (which happens to also benefit Microsoft as they also are a cloud provider) but they can't really blacklist Googles or Amazons Cloud.
I guess it's just based on my observations in the US. I'm a Sport Pilot; I don't see many others in the Bay Area.

Often I'm the only one that rents the Skycatcher at KPAO in a given month, and there's basically only two LSAs that are accessible to rent nearby (that Skycatcher at KPAO and a SportStar at KRHV).
The cougars don't just eat the deer, they also change the behavior of the deer (as one would if they were constantly worried about killers hiding in the bushes). The only way to restore balance is to bring back the keystone species.
What other characteristics is it ok to use to determine who can earn a living or not?
Gaining Access to GCP of Google Stadia – 500$ Bounty (2019)
"Mandate" means something very different when performed by a private employer than by a government entity. In the former case it means something like "make continued employment conditional upon." Google employees are perfectly free to decide they're no longer satisfied with the conditions of their employment and find new jobs elsewhere instead.

Edited to add: In terms of whether Google "should" do so, I assume they've thought through the trade-off of increased attrition vs. reduced risk of COVID outbreaks (among other factors) and decided that allowing unvaccinated people to either go back to the office or work remotely would be a net negative for the company.
Username checked out.
So if an employee develops one of the rare adverse events, will Google be liable for damages?
No. https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/why-covid-19-vaccine...
> You have a baseline and studies have shown it seldom changes much over your life

Which studies?

This sounds like one of those new-agey empathic business tutorials which are actually hidden racism, classism and eugenicism 101s.
I use andale mono it has a dot in the middle of zero. There are plenty of others that have dots and slashes. I wouldn't use a font that didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalé_Mono

edit: I also use monaco which has slashes in zero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)
> It's very surprising to me how much support there is in general for outsourcing extremely important, previously personal medical decisions to employers

It's because it's political suicide for any politician who tries. Look at the protests in France. Employers also have the most vested interest in driving up vaccination rates because, for the most part, a drawn-out pandemic hurts businesses.
> If the person lacks dysphoria or anhedonia, would that satisfy the question?

No. That is certainly more specific than ~all of what you hear in the media surrounding "brain fog", but you can't define something by what it isn't.

Example: I have the wiggles. I'm not itchy though, and my muscles don't hurt.

OK, great. What are the wiggles?

> the last time I had a serious flu I found that even after I felt better, it was extremely difficult to focus at work. For about 3 days, gradually improving each. I suspect that is what people refer to as "brain fog"

Could be! The problem is, until there's a definition (and ideally some kind of objective measure), all of these self-reports are blind people describing different parts of an elephant.

> I guess a more constructive question would be -- assuming a long term cognitive impact, what (practical) research should these researchers be doing instead? Or what if when they asked about brain fog they _also_ asked about depressive symptoms?

We could start by simply using established terminology and testing. What percentage of patients reporting "brain fog" show up as depressed using a standard screen?

It's literally the easiest thing in the world to do...why isn't it done?
That’s not wrong, but you want actual proof if you’re going to block something because it’s false. That looks more like mod mail than like downvoting.
Here is a data point: In the last ~90 minutes the external ping tool we use has shown the site changing between accessible then inaccessible 25 times.
+1. Nearly all of what Tog set out as guidelines has been carelessly tossed aside. And for what? Some vain reductionist UX? Just stop already and let the users get work done without changing the look ever other version.
I certainly don't mean it to come off as a hate piece - I would really like Safari to do well, and I'm definitely not a fan of Chrome's approach.

My concern is that the approach you describe - if Chrome goes further & further forwards and Safari refuses to keep up or engage whatsoever and more sites start to use those features - eventually leads to a world where everybody _must_ to use Chromium to use the web.

If we get there, the whole browser ecosystem collapses, and the open web is in very serious trouble.

I would rather a world where Safari actively leads web standards, and ensures that they are designed from the start with a concern for privacy and battery life.
That was it! Sorry hetzner!

I remembered one of these players and just being totally shocked had how bad they were in this area - like no care - despite trying to compete with AWS. I don't remember if there was also internal to their network scan / attack stuff going unaddressed in addition to just issues with deliverability out (non marketing) but I honestly felt like I was working with kids vs adults a bit (this is some time ago though).

I'd been told I was an idiot for paying for AWS and that there was lots to be saved on their unlimited bandwidth etc - but it ended up being absolutely not worth it. AWS support is really good. They seem to take abuse issues quasi seriously etc.
This article actually "saved my life". I read it back then in 2013 and in 2014 I almost drowned.

Just before I felt that something was very wrong I remembered that this post said that if you drown it is already too late to scream for help. So I shout to my friend, who was also with me in the water, that I am about to drown. He then tried to help me but then he struggled too because of the current and the strong waves which came out of nowhere. It took us a lot of effort to get back to a point where we were able to stand. Until today I try to avoid to go deeper than I can actually stand.
We were a relatively small cloud provider, but all disks were encrypted so at least we wouldn't leak someone's data if we had to replace a disk.
some ISPs could control access to the internet, which is the key point. I have no reason to expect my ISP to start filtering my internet. And if they did, I have a handful of other ISPs that will happily take my money instead. Not to mention a half-dozen 4G/5G providers.

To be clear, I think net neutrality is a good thing. I just think its unreasonable to be more concerned about a theoretical maybe-problem than an actual problem that we are facing.

Theoretically, Russia or China could launch a nuclear attack that permanently destroys the internet as we know it. That is a much larger issue, by your standards, than net neutrality. If someone proposed a new net neutrality bill, do you think it would be reasonable for the response to be "Yeah, but Russia has nuclear bombs. That's the real problem."?
OpenAI keeps innovating. Amazing to see the speed of execution of the team
> 10Gbit and 25Gbit fibre to the home

That is suprising, why? Can most people even use that much speed? Netflix only need so much bandwith. Good for homelabs, just most people don't have them.
In order to know who is eligible for medical exceptions, you'd have to ask people about their medical conditions which could run afoul of the ADA.

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...
I would be totally fine with employers aggregating themselves into vaccine mandatory and vaccine optional categories so I can avoid the latter. Just don’t mess around and be something you’re not putting my life in risk.
The vaccines are safe and you will be fired for not taking it...also if something happens, you can't sue the vaccine makers.
> haven't seen any other big company doing this

Morgan Stanley de facto did. Vaccination requires to enter the office. Office work required to keep job.

I’m sure there will be a job market for those who refuse to get vaccinated in low-density population centres.
It's not a personal preference situation. You're making a decision that affects those close to you, those you work with, and those you encounter in a grocery store aisle.

It's been so many years since polio and earlier vaccines that people have forgotten the power and importance of collective action. Hope we can turn that around.
@sabon I'm a full time solo founder (ex-Stanford, $180k made through past projects). I used Focusmate and hated it.

Have you heard of https://founderscafe.io

Basically gather.town but with an intimate group of founders from Stanford/Yc/Harvard etc. Thought you might be interested in it!
There are hundreds of deaths everyday from many preventable causes, we generally don't force people to take medications or change their lifestyle to reduce them.
I'm genuinely curious if you could sue Google if you got J&J because of their mandate and you happened to be one of the extremely rare folks who got a blood clot from it.
I'm only a few miles from you and cannot figure out how to enable IPv6. Did you do it within the router admin page? Did you have to do anything extra?
Well, a more pragmatic reason is that over time, CGNAT will force more users behind shared IPv4 addresses, so websites with IPv6 will be able to do abuse detection more accurately.

Migrating popular traffic from CGNAT to IPv6 can also improve performance for some users, and reduce the long-term costs of CGNAT for ISPs.
And survival.
> If you are familiar, how confident are you that it won't be an issue with the current vaccines, and for what reasons?

I'm extremely confident, because we already have population-scale data on the matter. All evidence points to the vaccines producing marked reductions in infection rates and virtually eliminating severe cases and hospitalizations. It's difficult to even find any cases of vaccinated COVID patients getting severe infections.

Antibody-dependent enhancement of corona viruses was a concern before we had data, but it was taken into account in the risk evaluation process like every other well-known factor in vaccine research.
4 years ago, I assumed, that by 2021 we would have about 50% IPv6 adoption:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14855347

Now it looks like I was wrong and we got just about 33% and the curve seems to flatten already:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#20
There's been nearly 4 billion shots delivered across the world in the past 8 months. I suspect if they were to cause great harm, we would have known by now.
Google has set up a bunch of alternative options ranging from permanent remote work to temporary extensions of up to a year. If people don't feel comfortable coming back on the date, it isn't hard to stay at home longer.
I do, because I'm not the only person I care about.