skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok here's one poll on vaccine mandates:

https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/news/nat-issues-vaccines-0...

If we believe these results, vaccine mandates are about as unpopular as TARP was back in 2008 (opposition to which was largely responsible for the "Tea Party" movement). You can expect even stronger opposition to vaccine mandates - because this issue is far more personal.

Bring on the downvotes.
Ah, it seems like if you choose a date in the date picker, or from the "Today, Tomorrow, etc" list it keeps "Every Tuesday" in the text box and gives the behaviour you describe. I always schedule by typing, so I end up replacing "Every Tuesday" with "Wednesday" and then it doesn't work.
it would be constructive to provide some examples of concrete things municipalities can do, and that we can learn about so we can hold them accountable.
I can't really see any wide-scale drone operation operating in a residential areas. The decibel output of a single delivery drone similar to a delivery van ~70-80 decibels (hard to get comparable decibel output). A delivery truck driver averages around 120 deliveries from one van. A drone can carry one (or maybe a few packages at a time). There would need to be many more round trips for drones meaning far more distance covered by drone. This would require more drones than vans to complete deliveries.
Drones sound has a much higher frequency than a van, and to me, drones are more noticeable than the similar decibel output of a van.

To be fair, drones have one advantage and that is that they can cover most of the range between the pickup and drop-off points at higher altitudes that would decrease decibels at ground level.

Edit: Every 6 decibels sound aptitude doubles so 70-80db is a big difference. Would need to get more reliable and comparable dBA readings.
> This would obviously be far far more invasive than getting two shots.

This is not prima facie evident, at all. For many people, being rationed to 1500kcal per day would be much less invasive than a foreign substance being forcibly injected into your body. Annoying and restrictive, yes, but definitely not invasive.

Further, if we accept the premise (I don't) that governments can mandate any and all measures to ensure public health, why not measures that we know for a fact WILL result in improvements? The effects of COVID on the obese are absolutely DEVASTATING compared to normal weight people. Calorie rationing would have definitely saved lives, just assuredly as if the silly mask mandates around the country specified actually effective masking with N95-P100 filtration instead of accepting virtually useless cloth as good enough.

But that's not what we do, is it? We have the worst of both worlds: we have (1) governments violating our rights in the name of public health with mandates that (2) are pure, useless, ineffective theater.

We shouldn't be mandating anything at the cost of freedom, but if we DO, we should at least make it count with mandates that WORK.
Probably only an issue if it says "roger roger" after receiving commands.
You don't need a sterilizing vaccine. You only need to get R0 below 1. However, Delta is so infectious that mass vaccination will still need to be accompanied by social distancing and masking....

You can calculate different (average case) scenarios yourself with % needed to be vaccinated = (1 - 1/R0) for a sterilizing vaccine and add an adjustment factor for the vaccine efficacy. It's not pretty...
the cited code: https://github.com/jbroll/xlsx-expr
A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017)
To be fair, vaccinated people also spread the virus.
It was in an industrial park. I didn't think it was a bad part of town when I visited but the Pixar folks considered all of Richmond to be the bad part of town.
I didn’t ask for it to be universally applicable, or even broadly applicable. Or even applicable to more than the person the question imagines. I asked if we have enough information to know one single example of a healthy diet for one imaginary person who you are allowed to assume has no complicating factors.

Because if we can’t answer this much much simpler problem then we have no hope of giving nutritional advice to a population that is as varied as you describe.
Seems like regardless of what course of action you take someone could write an unfavorable article about it.
They're imperious, but never ignorant. A website without a team of maintainers is beneath their concern. What are you going to do, fax them a nastygram about it?
Just expense them on the corporate card. They should have a budget for office stuff anyways.
> this also isn't the type of thing that governments tend to lie about

This is the sort of thing governments lie about, IME - big, sensational achievements that enhance their status.
Setting up my own “Private Relay” Knockoff with Tor
I can only speak to the situations I've encountered, but:

(1) There's churches nearby that offer lockers for the homeless

(2) They don't need to go anywhere, these jobs drive around looking for them

(3) See #2

(4) Illegal immigrants do this every day, and they often don't even speak the same language

(5) Seems OK.

(6) Seems OK.

(7) Seems reasonable the business operator will want to continue the arrangement if they did a good job, so this seems very likely.

(8) See #7

(9) See #1

(10) This is probably the most difficult part

(11) Shelters in my city are underutilized almost all of the year except during inclement weather. They offer showers, cot beds, and basic food.

I'm not saying that it's easy being homeless, or that making the transition into suburban homeowner is easy or even practical for them. But the problem is not a lack of available jobs (the jobs are there) or shelter (homeless shelters are underutilized). I'm fine with spending money on a compassionate solution, but only if we're solving the right problem.
These articles take a pretty short term view to amazon's efforts.

They are a global company. Is it possible that the UK regulatory environment was a bit less amendable to drone delivery? What about switching focus to areas with poorer roads / delivery networks etc.

Ie, go to africa, go to costa rica, where a drone will be going over trees instead of houses (who will complain?).

Do not underestimate how much Amazon spends on shipping alone. I'd guess $50B easily per year.

So when we say their delivery dreams have collapsed (even in an area) we need to benchmark against what they are doing / focusing on. Where I am Fedex Home Delivery is TRASH.

One week delays easily - sometimes two.

Meanwhile Amazon delivers. So they are outcompeting a company focused on delivery. That's a bit crazy?

Now let's look at innovation. Amazon are doing lots of weird things that get negative writeups. Their key program where they deliver INTO folks houses (!). Locker deliveries into lockers. Car trunk deliveries. I'm curious if the companies 100% focused on logistics (Fedex / USPS etc) are trying out these ideas?

They are going a bit crazy with warehouses and went from 2 day to 1 day to now same day deliveries - https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=21382124011

Where I am they deliver till 10PM at night in waves.

They seem to have contracted up an airline network for their own package backhaul and consolidation.

With billions per year in shipping - I'm not writing them off yet - even their drone program (though maybe it morphs into ground based or other approaches). That said, I do think that the US and UK markets may not LIKE drones flying over houses nonstop even if things are technically possible.
Delta appears to have about a 2x R_o over the original Covid strain. So, yes, that requires a much higher herd immunity to get transmission rates below 1.0
The first thing is to get the number of infections down. If the number of infections is low, then any bad event becomes accordingly less likely. Less mutations, less breakthrough infections.
“Apartheid” is a very serious term referring to a brutal system of racial discrimination. I think you are being extremely disrespectful to its victims by using the same term to describe people who suffer inconsequential consequences because they’re unwilling to be safe around other people.

The vaccines are available free to everyone, take minimal time to get, and extremely safe. This is an inconvenience on the level of having to wear pants on a hot day or wash your hands (which takes far more time in aggregate), and it’s only for voluntary activities which nobody needs to do to function.

Apartheid was being shut out of decent schools or jobs, packed into bad housing conditions, and being beaten if you complained about it, all enforced by a brutal prison system.
Don’t play semantic games. “I was just using an Afrikaans word” is a sorry excuse. We know exactly what that word means and what specific historical crimes it refers to. You are trying to evoke the memory of those crimes to make this situation look unjust. It’s exactly that behaviour that I’m requesting you not engage in.

> they will have to go sit in a park

Seems fine to me. That’s hardly the worst thing that could happen.

If you’re already vaccinated, like nearly everyone aged 30+ in the UK is and refuse to open an app on your phone to show that … I can only hope that you’re in a small minority. I guess most people just want to get on with it, rather than sticking to some principle. Im not even sure what the principle is here. Hardly anyone will be negatively affected by this mandate because nearly everyone is vaccinated.

> i stop going to bars

Cool. Parks are better for your health anyway. Good day.
The privacy point may be somewhat valid, although 2-story houses in an average U.S. suburb already easily put most yards in view of neighbors' upper story windows. And any drone specifically used to spy on neighbors will either be relatively close and thus fairly loud and noticeable, or have nice camera gear that would already enable a lot of spying even without a drone (e.g. in upper story windows, again).

The safety issue doesn't strike me as compelling. I don't think drones introduce much physical danger beyond, say, playing baseball in the neighborhood. Obviously if the sky became very crowded with delivery drones, or crash landings became at all common, this would be an obvious reason for heavy regulation, but I don't see this posing much of a danger.
This is one of the strangest comments here, but you're trying to be rational while breaking down the vast majority of the worldwide population into one of 3 positions? You know most places don't have these mandates and never will? And things will be fine.
I'm kind of curious how that would be received. If you show up to the hospital for covid and you don't have a vaccine and aren't exempt you don't get treated.

I really think there's a good chance it would be received OK. I think vaccinated people are sick of the shit from the other half or 40% and I think the unvaccaniated think they're immune to everything. I think they're happy taking their chances or w/e
I am yet to be convinced that the F35 won't turn out to be the 21st century Brewster Buffalo.
>Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a choice.

Yes, but that choice does not only impact them. Being disallowed the luxury of going to restaurants and bars could be seen as a form of payment for creating that externality.
Not yet. I'd add two more criteria:

1. Can they safely store valuables? If you have an apartment, it's reasonably easy to keep your laptop around. I'd wager that in a tent it'll get stolen eventually.

2. Is this temporary? The German government is expecting refuges to regularly visit the job center and to apply to job openings or to attend language school to improve their employability.

So if someone can shower, has internet access, can keep a work laptop without it getting stolen, and has been homeless for <5 years then yes, let's exclude them.

But my impression (based only on pictures in the newspaper) is that this won't include many tents in LA.
I agreed with your first 2 paragraphs but for the last one, I think we should be treating addiction as a mental illness. Instead of just locking them up in jail or leaving them on the streets, we should be getting them help.
Is it bad that the strangest thing about this story to me is that the Canadian mafia procured an Itanium server and then just used it for random webdev?
> If you have any real-world examples you could point to to make your case, that would be helpful.

India or Brazil would seem to be the obvious counterfactuals. Unfortunately, their officially reported death rates probably can't be trusted so the best we can do is look at excess deaths, and in India, as an example, it's... pretty ugly:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/20/1018438...

That's closer to 3 deaths per thousand, or 50% higher than your estimate.

Putting that in context, assuming 8 deaths per thousand as a baseline, that number going to 11 per thousand is a 40% increase in excess deaths.

And that's ignoring that those deaths will be concentrated in specific cohorts (the elderly, the vulnerable, people in high risk jobs, etc) who don't have the luxury of working from a cozy home office.

> The point of the story was that (for Statisticsville, at least) the people were so busy fighting amongst themselves about what actions to take (or not) about an infectious disease that they didn't realize the deadly side effects of that social discord until it was too late.

This is, unfortunately, a unique problem of the US. While there's certainly been plenty of social discord in other countries as a consequence of Covid policies, they've been nowhere near the level of what's seen in the US.

The solution isn't to compromise public health policy so as to avoid touching off a partisan foodfight. The solution is to address the root problem that has lead to such severe social discord; to heal those fissures that have opened up in US society that have lead to every single issue being politicized and thus polarized to the detriment of the entire population.
New Constitutional Amendments: We the People Have a Few Ideas
The issue is that "buildings have been engineered to be built by humans".

So, the building tasks are set to be a compromise of materials and human skill.

If we want machines to build them, then we need different systems and materials.
>So... go about your business as usual. Stop trying to protect people that refuse your protection. It's wasted effort, and hurts everyone else that is already vaccinated.

Umm... no. They spread fear, uncertainty and doubt (and COVID) at every opportunity, they consider themselves on a crusade against vaccination and the vaccinated. Society is under no obligation to let dangerous fools remain comfortable in their foolishness.
Yeah, but collecting whole cans is inconvenient. My normal process is to crush it with my hands immediately after drinking it (top to bottom) so it doesn't take up so much room.
I guess it depends on a lot of questions to which I don't personally know the answers. Is that vocal style more common in women than men? When the supervisor says he doesn't find it authoritative, is that because it's not how men talk? Are women conditioned to talk like that specifically because it's less authoritative, because men have not always reacted well to authoritative women?

Basically, I'm not sure whether it's truly a simple "skill" unrelated to gender and how women have been historically perceived and treated.
Thank goodness China’s energy policy is not contingent on whether or not tpmx of Hackernews believes them or not.
the dynamic is a feedback loop in either direction. More vaccinations means slowdown of spread which means slower rate of mutation and in turn easier ways to control the virus. Faster transmission means faster rate of mutations and having a harder time controlling the virus.

'Zero covid' or near-zero covid anyway does not 'reek' because it is perfectly attainable. The virus could be squashed pretty much completely. The fact that we cannot do it is the result of institutionalized failure, resignation and normalization of dysfunction, not actually a matter of fact.

We have in fact eradicated one highly transmittable, airborne virus through a global vaccination effort already, namely smallpox. And that was almost half a century ago.
The Poles.
Some hearing aids, like the Phonak Virto Marvel Black, are marketed by their similar appearance to wireless ear buds.
So when given the chance to show the sexism she experiences, one would expect she would publish the most egregious and overt incidents. Instead she chooses two examples that are not even sexist?

How can I conclude anything other than this woman is full of crap? How can Apple address something that she cannot even identify?
Workhorse has full on plans for drone delivery that use the van as a base:

https://workhorse.com/horsefly.html
For folks who don't know: XIRR looks at a list of "deposit"/"withdrawals" and their dates and tries to calculate the equivalent of a fixed "interest rate" that would supply the same return for the same cash flows. So if you have a portfolio that you added and withdrew money from it calculates a % that a fixed interest savings account would need to deliver the same cash flow. Brokers are typically paid by commission/activity and thus are not incentivized to tell you the cold hard truth. XIRR is honest about how super your stonks are.
That privacy is already lost with renconaissance, you only just have the illusion of privacy. You always only owned the land, not the airspace above it.
Tell that to my doctor friends that have seen many COVID patients fill up the ICU and die.
Do you mean popular Korean food?
There's no way that only 12% of New Yorkers have been infected. The CDC estimates 36% for the country as a whole. If anything I'll bet NYC is higher.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
I suspect what's happening here is that you two are conflating different groups.

If you include the invisible homeless in the group, you can probably say that the majority of the homeless don't have mental health issues. It takes functional mental skill to not be a visible homeless person.

The highly visible homeless probably have significant mental health issues. Mental health issues have a nasty way of completely destroying your social network. If someone doesn't get medical help before they hit bottom, they're in real trouble.

The biggest problem is that the "homeless" aren't a monolithic bloc. So, Amdahl's Law is at work--even if you completely eliminate one class of homelessness--you still have 80% of the problem left, it looks like you didn't do anything and everybody gets angry at the waste of money.
I agree with most of what you wrote, but there are a couple of things you may not have considered.

> You simply sign the back and take it to the bank and they will give you cash.

If you do not have an account there, they will charge you a fee to cash a check. The amount of the fee is typically ~$8, but it varies by bank. Some checks are issued by banks that don't have local branches, this is more common with larger companies. Government checks are also a tricky situation. It's really not as easy as 'go to the bank and they will give you cash'.

>...Documents...
>I honestly have no idea.

You don't need to. You don't need to present a social security card to an employer, as long as they know their SSN. The SSA will help them verify for free: https://www.ssa.gov/employer/SSNcard.htm Otherwise, it's storing a plastic card for ID. It's likely they have one, as state ID cards are permanent. If they don't that is a problem that can be solved.

>...Health care...
>The answer is to get a job which is an obvious catch 22.

In the US, they qualify for Medicaid. Medicaid includes mental health services.

>...public transit...
>By using public transit? I don't understand the question.

Public transit costs money. Where I live, 1/2 off or ~ $31/month for a Medicaid recipient.

>The biggest problem, I think, is housing.

The biggest problem is getting people into the system so they can get assistance. Once they get a case worker and start getting aid, they can more easily get back on their feet. People are homeless for different reasons, some are more easily solved than others.
Counterfeit Monkey is downright incredible.
Does it bother you that schools ask for proof of measles vaccination? Most people recover from that too if infected during the school age years.
This is hardly something new.

Hard asset type investors were saying this in 2007/08 with the oil spike.

Gold bugs were saying this in the mid 80s.

Of course this is a misunderstanding of what is being measured but if inflation is in the news someone will be saying it is under reported. "What about food and energy!!"
SaaS Inception: The gotchas of dogfooding your own product
A larger common image + saner node_modules should save a lot
You make some valid points. I think my issue as a solo, freelance dev is that keeping up with the latest flavors of trending frameworks, and all the attendant updates to them, drains my time and ability to solve real problems. It's not that I sit and write a new MVC pattern every time I build an app. I iterate on what's already in my toolkit, that's been built over a couple decades. Once in a long while that means refactoring or rewriting completely in a different language; I recently ported and cleaned a huge amount of my PHP boilerplate to Nodejs. One issue is that I get paid to write, and I don't want to be stuck in updates and maintenance whenever the team behind a framework announces a ton of breaking changes in the next version, and things become EOL. Bad enough when it happens with languages and databases. Those teams have an incentive to do that, to stay relevant. I need to expect a framework to remain roughly stable for a decade or so, or I'll be forever rewriting a small set of apps. Moreover, my clients expect to have software that runs for 10+ years without needing a full overhaul. Whatever time might be saved at the beginning by using something like React (and I'm not convinced it's that much time) would probably be lost later in keeping up with the changes.

One thing that does cause trouble is having to call a client and say, sorry but some part of our stack is EOL and we need to rewrite it by next year. I don't want to write it and they don't want to hear it. An example of a hole I got myself into was using Bootstrap v4 alpha when I moved most of my UI out of Air and into JS. At this point I have to just accept that some apps will never get an upgrade to a later version of Bootstrap. But it's not critical... it's just a bunch of CSS and there's no reason you can't use v4a forever if it works for your purposes.

I used to build business apps in AS3/Air. 10 years on, some are still in the wild and I have to explain that, look, I didn't predict the death of this language but eventually your app is going to need a rewrite, because I can't even compile it without pulling out an old laptop. And this is where maintaining an in-house framework comes in useful, because I've slowly ported most of my Air components and their functionality into JS. So the rewrite will take less than half the time as the original.

Anyway, I do understand your viewpoint when it comes to hiring and growing a project quickly through a critical phase. Particularly if you're coding for one company and you can afford to switch platforms next year if you succeed. I think it calls for a different approach than what might be good for a solo coder working on in-house employee apps that have to just be stable over long timeframes.

Thanks for the comments.
> You'd be wishing for the fate of the dodo if jailed

Not, I wouldn't.

To be alive and bored is better than to be dead and rotten. Rethink your priorities.

Chicken are equal to humans only in totalitarian dreams

And by the way only idiots and cowards choose suicide when life is not so good as the expected