skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it hard to believe they “didn’t want the public to know” when one of the earliest studies the CDC did on vaccines, with a March 2021 publish date, was a study that tested weekly regardless of symptoms to see if it prevented infection outright. Maybe not perfect sterilizing immunity but it does prevent asymptomatic.

I agree they didn’t get into the nuances of sterilizing vs. non sterilizing but for the general public that’s deep in the weeds, anyone who followed the details knew this was the case early on.

> “One of this study’s strengths is its design: participants self-collected nasal swabs each week for RT-PCR laboratory testing, regardless of whether they had developed symptoms of illness. Researchers were able to look for evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection irrespective of symptoms. A small number (10.7 percent) of infections in this study were asymptomatic (i.e., did not result in symptoms). However, the majority of infections (58 percent) occurred among people whose infections were identified by testing before they developed symptoms or knew they were infected. The study demonstrates that these two mRNA vaccines can reduce the risk of all SARS-CoV-2 infections, not just symptomatic infections.

This is important because preventing both asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic infections among health care workers and other essential workers through vaccination can help prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 to those they care for or serve. Findings from this study complement earlier reports that these two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can reduce both asymptomatic and symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections.“

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0329-COVID-19-Vacci...
That depends on the business and the role. Where I currently sit, 99% of land mines are internal. On-call is a different thing, but that's no worse on a weekday than a weekend.
I guess it depends if you consider columns values or expressions. A dynamically typed number column would not accept non-number values.
> By contrast, there are a number of things the Supreme Court has simply made up. Conjuring a “right to privacy” from “penumbras” of the other amendments is an example.

If you take the majority view from Griswold, I agree. But if you take the pre-Slaughterhouse view of the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th amendment (yes, I although I loathe to say it, an originalist view), I don’t think a fundamental right to privacy can be thought of as that far fetched.
Same I know zero people hospitalized or died. And my aunt lives in a senior community where many got it...

The only person I know who died lives in a third world country and had medical issues. Terribly sad, but I mean we hear stories of all kinds of terrible disease from there.
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The best part is how many places expect you to be both constantly busy and also constantly immediately available.
I wasn't suggesting that they ought to; I was responding to the idea that there are "unenforced laws" when the reality (for laws that are relevant to the parents point) is that they are enforced, just not evenly.
Shocked Investors Scour Xi Jinping’s Old Speeches to Find Next Target
>[EDIT] source: I once worked on an app in this space, and had some visibility into the feedback & concerns of employers of this sort (not with the app, but generally with hiring in that market) and that was consistently something they talked about, at length, usually with tons of sad or amusing/surprising anecdotes—hire someone, then they just never, ever show up, or they come for their first shift then ghost after that, or you call them 30 minutes after their shift is supposed to start and they're like "oh yeah, that, I'm not coming in today, I might be in tomorrow, I dunno yet", or their car's always broken, obviously-high candidates in interviews, all that sort of thing.

This was a big problem in Newfoundland during WW2. The term "Newfies" began as a slur, created by Canadians who found that workers they hired to build military bases would show up to work long enough to collect the money they needed to live in their home coastal villages, then immediately leave.
>It started for me with realization (years ago) that I am an addict for "dopamine" hits and this "thing" in my pocket has direct influence on my mental performance.

Sounds like this is more about "checking your phone less", than "improving security/privacy". This is evident elsewhere in your advice. eg. "phones as an enemy", but no advice about killswitches for microphone? Or some sort of mitigation against GPS/mobile networking tracking?
Y.T.'s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo...

Y.T.'s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It's a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.

--Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson.
> There is absolutely no reason to think that we understand 100% of what this bug can do.

If that's true, there's no reason to think that we understand 100% of the long term effects of the novel vaccines for this bug.
You should probably supplement that with at least one other survey. Trafalgar is by far the most right-leaning polling group and got the 2020 election predictions the most wrong based on their polling. 538 has some more info on their methodical issues.
Kid Pix in JavaScript/HTML
I agree it's a super grind, I launched one by myself. You need to quickly target your audience and position them as quickly as possible. Think of it as product development: you need to invest a lot of revenue until it matures (in this case the MVP). Until you get the rewards, you will need to invest in improvements, mobile optimization for example.
check it out https://famaxseguros.com.br
this is my 1 month online MVP and and I'm getting leads via PPC, heading up to rank some keywords.
Sovereign immunity is also made up.

There's a ton of things that were just so obvious as to not require writing down.
I don’t think anyone is incentivized to have a kid because they get a few weeks or months off. The only incentive i see is the opposite; if there is no parental leave, they may decide not to have children they were otherwise considering.

And the few weeks/months after a child is born can be much harder work than your day job in many aspects. So it would be unfair to parents, especially mothers, who tend to spend more time on child care, to force them to use their sabbatical/vacation time as parental leave. You’d effectively be controlling people’s reproductive timelines with this sabbatical schedule.

In terms of women being disadvantaged, I agree. But I think the answer is to make sure it’s illegal to discriminate based on current or future parental obligations and enforce that strongly, and to strongly incentivize both mothers and fathers to take their full allocated leave, and make it the same length for both parents.
You prefer death to being ill?

The new data for the delta variant shows reduced protection for unvaccinated people (e.g. public benefit) from being around vaccinated people, but still shows benefit to vaccinated people.
That was because most insurance plans cover the vaccine, and the states wanted to save some money; if insurance covers your vaccine, why not bill the insurance company, eh?
On some level I'm sympathetic to the argument of the textualists (vs the "living document" philosophy. As you say there's a process for amending the Constitution. But there are a number of problems with this idea.

The first problem is those who are all about states rights tend to be selective in applying that standard. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 that required free states to return slaves to return those slaves to their owners. The Supreme Court ruled (in 1859) that Wisconsin couldn't overrule a Federal court or statute. States rights anyone?

Second, if you haven't already look into the Redeemer movement of the post-Civil War era and how the Supreme Court in the name of a literal interpretation of the Constitution [1]. After the Colfax massacre of 77 or so African Americans:

> Justice Joseph Bradley, a Grant appointee, wrote that the United States had not clearly stated that the accused, in slaughtering more than 100 black men, had “committed the acts complained of with a design to deprive the injured persons of their rights on account of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

The point here isn't that textualism isn't bad per se. The point is that it itself is an interpretation of the Constitution.

You also see the effects of this as language itself changes. Two examples spring to mind:

1. The Establishment clause of the First Amendment. "Establishment" here has a very specific historical meaning stemming from the Anglican Church being the established religion of the United Kingdom. "Established" here meant the Church was responsible for what are otherwise actions under civil authority in the United States. Example: registering marriages. In England, you'd have Roman Catholic who would have two ceremonies. One in their own religion and another "official" ceremony in an Anglican Church so the marriage was official.

2. We essentially have a national firearms free-for-all all stemming from a pretty liberal interpretation of a "well-regulated Militia" from the Second Amendment.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/redemption...
I'm not sure how that's obvious? School isn't where I learned about the Tuskegee experiment, so why would I assume that's the primary way people learn about it? That's a claim that actually needs some data to back it up.
Data from Feb. 2021: [1] Note that the sample is from Los Angeles County, CA only.

Later data from US Census Bureau surveys.[2] While the Census Bureau did not summarize vaccine hesitation, race, and educational level, they offer downloads of the entire data set of poll replies. (192MB, CSV format), so you can do that yourself. Next data set available August 11th. Good project for big data people.

[1] https://news.usc.edu/182848/education-covid-19-vaccine-safet...

[2] https://public.tableau.com/views/HouseholdPulseSurveyCovid-1...
Three minute read about low tech quarantine management in Beijing in May 2020. I had hoped to collect many more, but failed: http://agk.sdf.org/lib/lrm/lrp20beijing.html
Where on earth did you get that idea? Corps aren’t always (or even usually) liable for subcorps, and subcorps are never liable for the actions of parent corps. The whole reason there are two separate legal entities is to establish separate liabilities & finances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiary
Access to clinics is not the limiting factor here. One can get a vaccine in 10 minutes by walking into any Walmart, Walgreens, or CVS. Even barbershops are giving them.
In a post-vaccination world, you'd be exactly correct. And no one is advocating for a permanent mask mandate. But in the present world, where large sectors of the population are not vaxed, the likelihood of an unvaxed spreader killing someone versus a drunk driver, for any individual on any given night, is probably equal or greater.

I'll admit something. I happen to love driving twice the speed limit after a few drinks. Feels great. And I indulge that sometimes on country roads when there's no one around. I know I'm a better driver after a few beers than most people are sober. If it were up to me, there would be a test, and a rating on my license that let me drive with a higher BAC than other people. But you know what? My personal pleasure isn't worth the damage of taking someone's life, or of entitling everyone else in society to do the same. So, on the whole, it's obviously better that it's illegal. Even though it infringes on my personal freedom and pursuit of happiness.
At least since the civil war.

> Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union

> The people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then withdrawing from the Federal Union...

> The guaranties of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...
the first amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

the federal govt should have zero benefits tied to marriage. By having benefits tied to marriage they have essentially established religions that have male-female marriage as the default religion of the country.

if taxes, inheritance etc were not tied to marriage and instead were done with standard contracts between 2, 3 or N people (civil unions). Then the marriage problem would go away.
Bollocks.

I am not wrong that Facebook recommends not one single item of content that is relevant or from and friend of mine.

Below is direct from Facebook.

Apart from anything else its embarrassing if you pay these guys thinking they are the best at targeted ads.

You telling me this content is by the peers of a 46 year old IT pro and not paid content with a straight face!

nunca deberíamos juzgar con las aperencias!

World (sic) most dangerous road

SHE WAS AWAKE wake up babe

Entran en la casa de una señora mayor y esto es lo que encontraron

ESTA CHICA NO SABE LO QUE ESPERA

the fire changed inside of the banana!

she put spray paint in the TOILET

Esto es muy feo que te pase!! que jovencita tan inteligente

prepárate tomates como este la próxima vez

¿Instinto o el destino?

Mira lo que hizo a esta! Que triste

THIS!!! INCREDIBLE

These pets are absolute divas!

You can be stupid, but not that stupid. It's not a conspiracy. I don't need any research tool to tell me none of that was not written by my "friends".
Seems like that is also up for debate. In this CDC study[1], 74% of cases were in the vaccinated. Probably around 69% of the population were vaccinated, meaning the fact that more than 69% of the cases were in the vaccinated suggests that the vaccinated were even more susceptible than the unvaccinated. I'm sure there are plenty of considerations with this study, but it certainly isn't glaringly obvious that vaccination reduces susceptibility.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm...
> It turned out that having the suits breathing down the necks of filmmakers was, perhaps, not such a bad thing afterall.

Motion pictures are massive collaborations. When one person gets obsessed with their "artistic vision" and thinking they are the key to the process, and reject all suggestions from others as how to make it better, the results are always poor. Whether this particular prima donna is the director, script writer, starring actor, etc., makes little difference.
I would like to believe Gitly is a really great web app. The problem is, how can I trust the claims that have been made about Gitly, when I have reason to distrust the group making the claims?

Christine's blog posts indicate V lang is blatantly over promising and under delivering. You can't claim a language is memory safe, when it has trivial memory safety issues. You can't claim a language compiles 1.2m LoC in a second, when it takes about 3 seconds to compile 50k LoC. If they said these are the goals for the language in the future, that's a different story but they did not say that. This was 2 years ago, so maybe things have changed and V lang is no longer over promising, but I don't have the stats on hand to back it up and so I remain skeptical. I like the idea of Gitly but I can't trust it does all they claim right now, given V lang's past.

If you have any stats on V lang fixing these issues, I'd honestly love to see them. Being able to deliver on all of these promises, would make V lang an extraordinary achievement.
Nationwide US Survey: only 21.8% support Mandatory Vaccination
Hooker is also a rugby position.
It could be argued that just by being community-driven and open source, projects like these are in fact better. It all depends what "better" means to you. (E.g. not phoning home to Apple every time you open a program...)
> source compatibility with macOS applications (i.e. you could compile a Mac application on Airyx and run it)

Hard to see how this can be done legally. The libraries (sorry, Frameworks) that make up the user-space runtime for macOS are all proprietary. There's no replacement for the most important parts of it.
> Till this day, no one has given me a straight answer on why they choose react beyond the dubious claims of performance++. Or even why build a web app to begin with. Nor have the users been asked if they want native-like apps on the browser.

The main reason is cross platform compatibility for things that don't need to make system calls. Ultimately I would prefer to distribute statically linked Go binaries that are command line applications, but if I was asked all "UI" would be a REST API with a manual. The market finds web applications are successful and lower the barrier of entry, and so they're made.

> I complain but I use react everyday on a web app Im sure no one cares if it loads 400ms faster than a server rendered jinja template.

With NextJS and server side rendering + static optimization I find that time to first (contentful) paint is the same or faster than Jinja without me having to configure a thing.

> Now we have massive overhead, npm libraries for everything and only god knows whats going on in the node modules folder

npm/yarn provides a pretty good developer experience but the way it accomplishes that is a touch horrifying, I agree. Babel and Webpack I find bring it most of the bloat, which is probably a good thing as you're not shipping those dependencies in production bundles. It definitely chews up storage space on the local machine though.

> keeping up with the joneses by using Typescript - why use typescript when Java or C# do static typing so well? I can't ask silly plebian questions like that.

Just to get out in front of it - I do not like Typescript. I find Typescript to be a waste of time. JS's type system is broken as hell, but in just the right way for web development. It makes it flexible and easy to write. With Typescript I feel like I spend most of my time making the compiler happy instead of generating any value for the business or myself.
Either the government should have swiftly mandated total lockdown and vaccination, or they should not have said a tweet about covid response and delegated to medical professionals and scientists. The real tragedy is that covid and vaccines have even entered the political sphere of discourse in the first place. Act swiftly with the best interest of your people at heart and face consequences later, or let the virus win while we bicker over mask mandates. All we have now is a bureaucratic mess.. truly a tragedy of the commons.
Not only that, but other engineers apparently pointed out the gaming and management didn’t care.
It's not at all clear this is political unless you're talking with someone who clearly benefits from the political narrative.

Take Alabama, a state with the lowest vaccination rates. In Alabama, blacks and whites are on different sides of the political aisle, yet their vaccination rates are.... The same.

Income, profession, location and education correlate better with vaccination rates than anything..

In general democrats are wealthier than republicans so it is no surprise that they have higher vaccination rates.

Even amongst dems, if you look at the poorer factions which are mainly their nom white factions, vax rates are similarly low.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/vaccine-success-media-misery-i...
Ask HN: Articles on neg. effects of high-stress deadlines and micromanagement?
In preparation for a meeting with my team and management tomorrow morning, I'm looking for (beefy) articles by well-known, respected people/publications that I can use to back up a point I intend to make: that constant demands for progress and/or status "updates", multiple daily meetings for "progress reports" and super-tight deadlines harm productivity, and may be forms of micromanagement.

Some quick Googling shows some basic, cursory-overview stuff, along with tons of linkbait "articles" by HR/recruiter trash websites (e.g. LinkedIn, indeed, etc.), but I was hoping for something with more substance and credibility, and I'm not seeing that for some reason.

Are there any well-known articles or research papers about this out there (that I'm obviously not aware of)? I'm just looking for something I can link to and say "here's the proof" when I tell them they're micromanaging and not only harming our immediate productivity, but also our long-term sustainability via the acute pressure being created right now.

Thanks for your help!
> Your pc is 7 years old today and windows 10 will receive updates for another 4 years, that's 11 years, and you can keep using it after but without security updates (which I think Microsoft will eventually give in and extend them longer). 11 years (or possibly more is a good lifetime for a pc considering people now change cars more often than that)

To go through your points, people are still buying new computers today which Windows 11 will not support, so we're looking at a 5 year life cycle for that hardware if those users do not do something like switch to Linux, which we know most people will not.

Using a PC which is no longer receiving security updates is a terrible idea if it's connected to the internet. Continuing to use the device while it is connected to the internet is not a viable option.

Most importantly, even if my computer happens to be 11 years old at that time, if it still works, it still works. I 100% reject the idea that people should retire perfectly fine computers over unnecessary and arbitrary hardware requirements.

What really gets me upset about this whole situation is the marketing around Windows 10, and how it would be the last version of Windows ever.
Wouldn't you think Apple is doing something like this at the behest of DoJ?
> If interpreted strictly, the constitution is really not suitable for operating a modern government

Let's take that as true, 'cause I agree

> so the supreme court essentially has no choice but to make stuff up.

No. The supreme court should have continued to observe the constitution and told Congress that they needed to propose some amendments. If there was a need for them, they'd happen, just like they have in the past.