skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the original poster but

The article you link says the delta is unknown. Delta is rapidly becoming the most common variant in the US. (https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210720/delta-variant-now-a...)

I believe the 40% is coming from the data out of Israel. (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...)

Also data from the CDC on the latest outbreak they studies shows that 74% of the positives were vaccinated. At the time the vaccination rate was about 69% for the state. I can't find anything on the actual town. (https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/this-900-person-delt...)

The CDC also has said vaccinated do in fact have high viral loads of the virus and can spread it (https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...)

Do you happen to have any actual studies showing unvaccinated people are causing mutations? I have seen it repeated but never seen the study behind it. I do know leaky vaccines cause outbreaks to spread faster. This can be seen in the past. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-m...)

As for your last part. Lets look at it another way. Heart disease is the leading killer in the US. One of the best way to prevent heart disease is being physically fit and active. By your logic we should be mandating exercise for everyone to prevent it right? Shouldn't we also be forcing people to quite drinking and smoking as well?

Overall its just a slippery slop when you give the government this right. What happens if conservatives get in power and decided abortion should be banned outright as they consider a fetus a person? By the same logic you are using, they would be perfectly reasonable to do that.
Edison's company lasted, but it looks like he may not have gone down in history as the better man. The varnished history held strong for a long time, but historians slowly uncovered more details and truth and it seems that Tesla has gone down in history as the genius inventor and Edison will be remembered as an extremely aggressive, but very successful business man.
The risk, presumably is the outcomes of climate change- which are uncertain and almost certainly not guaranteed death for everyone
Careful mate, those boots are lodged so far down your throat you're liable to suffocate.
If you’ve ever traded with anything better than Reg-T margin, you know this whole system is ripe for implosion. The leverage is insane!

Reg-T (like the kind Robinhood has) doesn’t allow long options to be bought on margin. Other margining systems allow as low as 6% down even on options.

And when you’re talking real money, your personal risk/compliance team understands their employment is contingent on looking the other way! They’re at-will employees too.
> Does anyone really believe that the Amazon employees voted against the union because Amazon removed some union material from the break room one day? Of course not.

The truth is I don't think I know what it's like to live as an Amazon warehouse worker. When I grew up in California I didn't learn anything about unions until I was like 30 years old. Now to me unionization makes perfect rational sense, so I had assumed the union vote failed due to a lack of knowledge about unions amongst the workers. Like if you're a busy worker who needs their job and is afraid of company retaliation and you really don't have time to go to meetings and learn about the law and you can't really take a risk, then the "safe" thing is to vote no. Until I really learned about worker power, I probably would have done the same.

So actually yes I can see how Amazon removing literature could have impacted the vote. Looking at the original count:

"The result of the NLRB's initial vote count was 1,798 votes against the union and 738 in favor." [1]

The article also says are 6000 workers at the plant. So the question is, could the literature have helped 531 people change their mind, or brought more in from the non voting crowd? Seems perfectly plausible.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/the-amazon-union...
All true. But also a bit of a diversion, because the information you wanted "from within" the exception handler is available at the throw site. Ergo, if you're trying to get it from within the handler, you're just trying to get it from the wrong place.
leetcode is a website that acts as a programming dojo of sorts where programmers can prove their skill in a measurable way and thus increase their odds of being hired.

Employers use it to loosely gauge a programmer's basic skill level, as well as their competency to think clearly and cleverly.

It has its pros and cons.
I certainly can't argue that you're wrong!

Private communication, even for business, is a human right. I was not suggesting that some authoritarian arm "shut them off," but rather that a profusion of businesses and individuals simply chose to ignore them. Death by recission.

It's also one's right to choose to be in an ethical business or not. I've rejected many customers and employers because I didn't want to help in their aims.

I was among the people who protested IBM's continued involvement in apartheid and it did end before I left. Companies can chose to "not be evil" or they can just say that.

And yes, sadly, everything changes human behavior. What I was going for is that ethics is a practical phenomenon as well as nice one for other people. I still believe that more can be accomplished through volunteerism (including volunteer agreements about money and work rather than coercive ones) than through violence. Perhaps that's naive or hopeful but I hope a few of us persist in keeping the idea alive.
If you were in the early days of one of these companies or know people closely involved with a few of these folks you mentioned you'll know they aren't exactly saints either...

Truth is, tech is historically more tolerant of extremely eccentric personalities that can be borderline (or obviously) toxic more so than some other industries. Doesn't mean it's anywhere near as bad as Steve Jobs was. Nor that it's as bad as it is in finance (MDs screaming at interns tended to be quite the pasttime for a long time at bulge bracket banks).
This is great! Definitely stealing this idea.
But it was in DSM-IV. Are all of those people now cured?
It's almost as if both have the same syndrome.

Some people find these behaviors odd.

I find odd finding these behaviors odd.
Replace union literature with a thermonuclear bomb set to explode in 90 seconds. You pinkos won't be singing the same tune then.
We have a concept of discounting the future for uncertainty, resulting in a “net present value”. If you think you can make 10^23 people’s lives better far in the future, you discount that future outcome by the inherent uncertainty that things will play out resulting in that gain.

You can then readily compare that to the uncertainty between now and next year to see if a change next year for a billion people is better or worse.

I want people worrying about hundreds and thousands of years from. I also want (more) people worrying about 2022 and 2032.
Larry and Sergey weren't abusive either, neither was Eric Schmidt. Maybe they were privately to VPs or Directors, but except for the time when Larry wanted to fire all of middle management, I haven't heard any stories of Larry publicly berating non-c-suite employees.
Yea my wife’s cables don’t last long. I think it’s the way people curl it up.

Anker probably makes the better 3rd party cables. Other brands on Amazon are far worse. I try not to buy 3rd party cables for my laptops but will by them for phones and tablets.
Yup, or even equipment with mixed standards that are kinda close so you have to start pulling out multiple thread gauges just to figure out WHY you're particularly screwed, and for how long will you remain so.

Plumbing is rife with it near as I can tell. Semi-random differences in thread pitches, metric vs standard, etc. everywhere.
Doing a good job, and doing the minimum job, are not mutually exclusive. You can do a good job with the minimum amount of work required to stay employed. There's no reason to do more, unless you're compensated for doing more.
How did you (/they) come up with the name Polaris?
A Goose flying upside down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AeJ3aLm0UY
You have to be at least a little bit of a psychopath to hoard that much wealth and justify it to yourself that you deserve it and the cockroaches at the bottom of society that you took it from don't.
Correct. More elderly welfare programs discourage family formation. Anytime I mention this, people think I'm nuts, but you seem to have come to the conclusion on your own.
> What about a medical condition?

Yes, we deny people licenses for some of those, too. We test visual acuity. We test depth perception. We test actual driving ability, and we do it more frequently at ages when people are more likely to lose required facilities. We make laws against driving temporarily impaired for a variety of reasons which we can't test for in advance. And we take people's licenses away when they fail to drive correctly sufficiently, too.

People absolutely do care about poor decisions and failures of capacity without a poor decision by humans.
Few people expect perfection.
The slave labor reference was an attempt to duck the troll who (absent it) would say "Slavery isn't a voluntary association with a company and X, Y, and Z are pretty much slavery so there".

If you had bothered to engage with my actual point (that our social norms make it more acceptable to judge people on their voluntary associations and actions than on their involuntary features) you might be less frustrated.
"It is well established that rights are not absolute and public health authorities have the legal authority to mandate a vaccine if there is a significant threat to the public’s health,”

OK let me stop you right there. i’m disappointed that an attorney would forget some of the most significant words ever written in our history: “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

All of this talk of mandatory vaccinations is starting to take a very dangerous turn. As with guns, government actors are increasingly in favor of going door to door to accomplish their goals. This will be met with resistance, probably violent, and lead to horrible outcomes.
I was inspired to look into this by the OkCupid article from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28039631
I think this is a really solid idea for "what should the next filter be?"
>I always found it weird that there are a lot of security standards for other industries, OSHA, etc

Can't speak for all, but look into things like the CISA[1]. I don't think they have much of legal authority over industries, perhaps in some deemed critical but not others, but to say there's no "standards" is a bit wrong.

[1]: https://www.cisa.gov/
What you're describing sounds awfully familiar, except for the "loot the place", our store was in Madison Heights, MI, which had/has a large Korean population nearby so it wasn't unusual to have days where it felt like we were being "mobbed by non-English speaking Asians[0]", but I'm not aware of that being used as a distraction at the store I worked at in the 90s -- interesting.

Internal fraud was incredible. One day just about the entire warehouse staff and I want to say a third of the floor staff was fired. If memory serves, the warehouse manager discovered that a large number of specialty "Made for Compaq/Dell" RAM by one of the major RAM vendors had its "COST" value set very wrong (to like $5.00 or something like that). The price paid by employees was whatever IMS said "COST" was. So a $350 memory chip could be purchased for $5.00 by an employee. After figuring it out, of course, he shared the knowledge with other members of staff who participated, as well. Dad always said "if it seems too good to be true, it is", so that -- alone -- was enough to keep me from making that mistake.

The other scam I recall them running was taking items home that were supposed to be destroyed per agreement with the manufacturer. It was very strange coming to work one day and finding out about half of the staff I used to work with was let go for fraud...

[0] We had this one local gentleman who was notoriously frustrating to handle. He'd come in with a million questions, spoke very poor English very quickly and became frustrated to the point of yelling, I think, "F** YOU" at me/storming off when I told him I was having a difficult time understanding ... due to an ear ache (didn't even mention said English; I was pretty good at understanding thick accents, normally).

[1] Not as great as it sounds -- I doubt it was "invoice cost", but if it was a PC/laptop/anything terribly expensive, it was frequently higher than the price of the item.
Steve Jobs was. Steve Ballmer made chairs fly. Bill Gates was also (verbally) abusive. They both stayed at their companies for quite a while. Where was the pressure for them to change their behavior?
I mean if they can't get Apple to include them in this (like you said you can use BT magic keyboard so clearly there's a way built-in) they have no chance at getting touchid
People are motivated by a passionate leader. There are ways to show passion and lead gracefully but it can be much more time-consuming.

Well-placed anger can get a point across efficiently and can be quite effective but is also easy to overuse/abuse.
If only you'd read the comments thread before posting this...
> It seems like there's a fairly broad consensus now

Opinion polling shows Amazon has a 72% approval rating, higher than almost any other institution in America. https://reason.com/2021/07/06/poll-people-like-amazon-more-t...
> Hence, they point out that focusing on superintelligence gets you a way bigger bang for your buck than, say, preventing people who exist right now from contracting malaria by distributing mosquito nets.

This comment and others in the article seem to be making a (bad) case that Effective Altruists don't care about the Global South. I find this bizarre because all EA enthusiasts I know are very much into mosquito net altruism.

GiveWell, an organization very popular among EA folks, has a list of top charities and most of them target the Global South https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities.
That's incorrect. The article is making the argument that "Longtermism" is weighing purely hypothetical (and basic incalculable) future things more than present things. Whether this argument is true or not, there is an argument here.
Hmm I was thinking about a USB cable to the laptop (I do with my Android), but wrote USB memory instead.

Now I see in the comment above that cables often don't work.

I wonder if there're apps for saving files to USB memories
> > “You guys failed,” he said, looking directly at the Lisa team. “You’re a B team. B players. Too many people here are B or C players, so today we are releasing some of you to have the opportunity to work at our sister companies here in the valley.”

perhaps it happened this way and jobs was overly caustic, but zooming out from that emotionality, the designated outcome was not necessarily a bad one. it's in fact the basis of creative destruction. when a team fails (and for setbacks in general), disbanding and allowing new teams to form can be net positive.
And when you’re using GPS to find your location on the surface of the earth… spatial things matter, right? GPS is for figuring out your location, not what time it is.

You can use it to figure out what time it is, but that’s a side effect not the goal.
I'm to the point anymore that when I see 'startup' I think 'relatively useless internet site that sells data to advertisers'.

I agree that some of these folks half-addled. The Theranos gang of Schultz, Mattis, Kissinger should be no more listened to than the drunk at the end of the bar. Late-stage capitalism gives you creatures like David Boies.

To be fair a real scam has serious panache. I'd have to put the Pixelon corporate party at the very top of the list.
On the practical side, I imagine many chargers even if they catch on fire will struggle to cause a large scale fire unless they are behind something flammable or the like.

Maybe an idea for a test at some point? Simulate typical environments they might be in, blow them up, and see how much mayhem they create?
Sounds like a fun weekend project
Tunnels are our Transportation Future
Seems like YouTube is not alone in radicalizing people.

The question is what isn’t radicalizing people.

NYT and the old media is fighting YT and the new media for the rights to be the best radicalization tool.

Everyone is fighting for people’s attention. NYT and the old media is losing.
How? Through what interface, or by what feature name to Google?
This is exactly the doublethink that George Orwell was warning of in Nineteen Eighty-Four [1]. When you accept that an ideology (Communism) is perfect, then any contradiction found must be in your mind and not in the ideology itself.

What's really concerning is how easily this has infected Western democracies too. In the UK I am reminded of the Parkfield School Muslim-LGBT disagreement, where people knew there was a problem, they were just unable to formulate what it was [2]. An even better example was the 'Islam is right about women' poster - everybody agreed it was a 'hate crime', but nobody was able to explain why [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

[2] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8635881/school-stops-lgbt-teac...

[3] https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/26/the-genius-of-the-i...
I blogged about the need for discounting the future a while ago: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/morality-th...

I guess I should get more active on some Rationality forums; something like 80-90% of those who read my blog only do so because (and when) I link to it from here. Plus I bet a significant fraction of what I write is something someone else has already come up with and I just don’t know about yet.
> in my experience most developers do their best work after about 6-8 months of starting a job at a new company

Fair. That's about as long as it takes me to realise "nothing fundamental is going to change", so I tend to start losing motivation at this point.

Thankfully I'm a contractor so that's about when I exit anyway. Everybody wins!
Great post -- thank you for sharing. I love this quote: "Visionary ideas derive directly from centering people at the margins"
“Guaranteed death for everyone” is the current state of affairs. You will die. I will die. This is a terrible bar for “should we care about this issue”?

Autocratic dictator of the world says “deciduous trees and the colour yellow are now banned, on pain of death”? Well, it's not guaranteed death for everyone, so why should I care?
Feel free to start with asking engineers more security related questions, cuz you know - poorly performing algo can be rewritten meanwhile leak cannot be reverted
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>because it paints a picture of someone with psychopathic tendencies.

I'm so tired of this. The article making that claim about CEOs being psychopaths has been latched into in pop culture so hard and yet it's roundly thought of as, at best, an incredible overstep of applied psychiatry.

Just because someone doesn't care about you doesn't mean they're incapable, they could just be a dick.
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I've replaced all my mini cube iPhone chargers with Anker GaN IQ3 nano chargers that do 18w from the same size.
I do not believe a couple of Quora replies are substantial enough evidence to prove an industry wide trend. How do we know those people on Quora aren't prone to sampling bias?
>or rather, a simplified version of a serious misunderstanding of one of them

or both?
I do worry it's a bad sign for union organizing if these are the types of issues they are focused on. A USPS post office box outside the warehouse. I mean, this is the big deal justifying a second election? I don't get it. The ballots are in envelopes, the envelopers or in a PO box. Heck, some people mail things (where I am) but dropping it on office managers deck in a box for outgoing mail.

Because normal people are not filing complaints about the OPTION to use a mailbox run by USPS -> this just doesn't feel that compelling as a reason to run an entire election over.
Thank you so much for your input on this topic, very informative answers!
Bubble security sounds like a good idea. You know, put everything into its own isolated little bubble.
> Some anecdotes of small towns being saved by immigration

Why would saving small towns in general be a value?

The US has desperately needed vast consolidation of small population centers and increased population density toward greater urbanization, for many decades.

One of the worst attributes of the US is its over-sprawl and weak development of public transportation. The ideal would be to eliminate thousands upon thousands of small towns, with those populations moving to far superior situations in or near cities, and for the US to stop being lazy and stupid about building out public transportation.

Saving small towns is certainly not a good argument for huge volumes of low-skill immigration at exactly the wrong time in history for that type of immigration. The US should be copying Canada and Australia, focusing primarily on high-skill immigration and dramatically reducing low-skill immigration. What the highly developed welfare states all grasp that the US still doesn't (apparently), is that the immense value in high-skill immigration, beyond the obvious, is that it brings a huge immediate net tax positive that pays for your existing population's social welfare costs, whereas low-skill labor does something closer to the exact opposite. Most low-skill labor would struggle to covers its own real social security cost over time, much less everything else. The US has a very progressive taxation system, high-skill labor foots the tax bills. High-skill labor is also vastly superior as it pertains to net healthcare costs and system subsidization. Every functional welfare state in Europe knows all of this, meanwhile the US is wandering around like an idiot in the dark bumping into walls.

Far less low-skill labor, more automation, far more high-skill labor, increased social safety net from the net tax boost of inverting the labor focus, build public transportation, greater consolidation of population centers, all linked by regional high-speed rail. We already know this model works exceptionally well and we know exactly why it works.
Absolutely wild how many of you goobers defend this heinous charlatan and others like him. But what do I know? I'm not a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire!
What interest rate would be appropriate?