skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the real world, the government, as a representative of society, is a part of the market.
You're thinking of the spherical cow of economics.
Are you referring to table 5, non-covid deaths? 2-dosed people have a lower absolute rate, but it still trends steadily upwards while unvaccinated trend steadily downwards.

Or are you referring to the deaths from covid?
Is that reported-to-insurance billions of dollars or actual billions of dollars?
For those that don't want to open a PDF hyperlink from a 2 day old account on a topic related to hacking this twitter post linked elsewhere in the thread already has a picture of the above content:

https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1437482759241469958
ICUs normally run at 80%. This is gaslighting.
You can say almost anything you want no matter how offensive or political in the USA (e.g. Elon Musk winning at trial after calling a random innocent a pedophile, constant political campaigning from every side accusing the others of horrible things). We regularly vote out and replace our leaders every 2-4 years in a free democratic election. It just doesn’t make sense to call this totalitarian, or if so it cheapens the word totalitarian to mean nothing.
> The effects of climate change are not fully understood and we need our brightest minds to be working on that instead..

The implication here, and maybe I’m reading it wrong, is that _before_ action is taken on what we do know to the best of our knowledge, we should learn more?

I don’t know the exact fracture pattern on a skull from a high speed spinning projectile but am still going to take action to avoid getting shot in the head..
Yeah, at least from my quick glance it looked like the special came out in 2011, which would put it around there. There's fuzziness on either side -- on one hand there was presumably some editing time, on the other he seems to have kept it private, presumably whoever told TMZ found out a little bit after he did, and their memory might not have been perfect. It is just in the ballpark.
Many on this site struggle when it comes to reasoning about civilian casualties, war, war crimes, collateral damage, etc. War is not black and white, it's a shitty gray nuanced hell for all involved.
The economic ramifications of increased emissions reduction will fuck us as well.
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If it's basically pass-through income from a business then you fill out (in the US) a Schedule C. And you do one for each business like that. And you also have to separately fill out the medicare & social security taxes, paying both the employer and employee side of it.

It sounds complicated, but paying about $100 for the TurboTax edition that handles small businesses will make it fairly easy. Yep, they've got strong regulatory capture in this space, but business income isn't always straight forward so I would consider ~$100 well worth it. Though I'm sure that some dead-simple home businesses really wouldn't need it.
It would be interesting to consider how much knowledge would never have been uncovered if you were King of Science. All those subtle, barely seen interactions in nature that on further investigation turned out to be something rather special.
This is the most absurd premise I have ever heard:

"Given the urgency of the situation, we cannot rationally conclude that these committed professionals are dragging their feet unnecessarily, while lives hang in the balance; to think otherwise would be to fundamentally misunderstand the shared goal of every single person involved with the project of delivering a safe and effective vaccine to our youngest."

I thought this was a joke on first read.

The FDA banned vaccines that were almost certainly safe and effective for over 6 months to satisfy internal processes.

The FDA blocked testing of all kinds repeatedly.

The FDA banned (temporarily) J&J for no good reason, which was the biggest single cause to vaccine hesitancy.

The American Academy of Pediatrics had seen enough date weeks ago for approval, and effectively begged the FDA to act.

https://t.co/0J7mGkp9t4?amp=1

The author assumes that what is happening can't possibly be happening, and is speculating wildly on alternative explanations.
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What a myth! That the markets are free. There are a lot of levers we can pull as a society, and we're pulling this one (finally).

We create market conditions. It isn't some uncontrollable god we all have to live with.
More likely, Apple will lead you on for months and then pay you nothing.
Price.
> free society

Free in what sense? Are you implying the US is a free market?
> get enough people vaccinated that community spread stops being a thing

The problem with this plan is that vaccinated people still catch and spread the virus. The available vaccines do not create "herd immunity" in the traditional sense.

I think the best argument for getting a vaccine now is you will be much less likely to get hospitalized (and/or die) if you catch COVID after being vaccinated. But that argument may not apply to people who already caught it, recovered and now have some natural immunity.
Many people join companies early enough to be compensated in equity, not options and also don't have the title/requirement of "co founder". People also early exercise.
A bunch of hospitals are more strained now than they ever were. Covid's more infectious now and some staff have quit.
The same thing that happens to anyone who doesn't have a landline.
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Really now? How come we decided long ago that if you made $100 MM a year, you got taxed 80% on your marginal income. At other times, we decided you get taxed below 20%. Sounds like the market doesn't decide, it's the politicians.
I love the pricing scheme! I would certainly be paying for the top tier if I were a user.

Good luck
Your comment merits a more thoughtful reply than this, but I discussed the same issue here some months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26876186) and it's hard to work up enthusiasm now.
Looks like the seeder is gone, but they were online just barely briefly enough to get the torrent metadata.

For those that are curious what's in there:

https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/57f3825493d04867c3d192fd93...
Did you forget who the president was at the time? It took almost a year for him to think it was even real.
Another data point is inflation-adjusted minimum wage, which has mostly stayed steady over this time [2019 post though].

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/business/us-minimum...

A lot of people who buy games aren't on 6-figures.
Immediate action! Some person actually told me that Florida would be underwater in less than ten years now (I guess it kind of already is with all the hurricanes). Eagerly awaiting the excuses when that time passes us all by.

Does this document apply to US (which is a mere tiny fraction of a percent of overall pollution)? Not sure how acting now would have any impact.
> To hit 55% tax rate in California after this, you only need to make like $250k total. It's a good amount, sure, but if you compare cost of living... it's still hard to live on.

Excuse my ignorance but would you be able to lay out basically how this amount of money is hard to live on?
If you want to calculate exact percentiles there's a simple in-place algorithm that runs in expected O(n) time. You basically do quicksort but ignore the "wrong" partition in each recursive step. For instance if your pivot is at the 25% percentile and you're looking for the 10% percentile you only recurse on the "left" partition at that point. It's pretty easy to implement. (And rather straightforward to change to a loop, if necessary.)
People opt into the study in the first place. I'm willing to bet that no one opts into the study hoping to be in the control group.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7157629?hl=en

> Pixel 3 and later smartphones purchased in Japan have a FeliCa chip in the same place as the NFC chip.

So it's special
I am not in Bay Area, but a coworker who is just told me today his ~4 year old in day care has to be masked all day.
Of course it would be game changing if it got to 99+% but I don't think we are there yet. If people don't take any other testing supplies and the watch isn't accurate, they they could go hypo easily especially during exercise and not try to remedy it until too late. If a single person dies trusting the watch's cgm it will be unlike any other testing device failing.
wework 2.0 . 200x+ valuation to earnings. Spend 400 million to get 1 billion in revenue, not the worst that has been seen. "$1 billion annualized revenue run-rate". We said it that way cause putting it in GAAP terms would make people realize the emperor has no clothes.
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Personally I think it should be perfectly acceptable to provide a serology test that shows you had Covid in lieu of a vaccination.

That is a statement about the past: "I am immune and here's proof. (either by vaccination or serology test)"

What we do about the future to contain the pandemic is separate question. If you're not a immune you should get a vaccine now.

That is the statement about the future: "I will get vaccinated, because I am not yet immune."

In an ideal world we'd be done here. Together these two statements make perfect sense to me.

Unfortunately there is some inexplicable (again, to me) resistance to getting the vaccine in some people. And hence it is not wise to end here.
> You have to be unbelievably naive to accept that "the position changed".

...or have a functioning knowledge of science. Your trail of anti-vax nonsense doesn't really serve you well in this modality.
I switched to NixOS about a year ago.

It's been amazing for me.
Especially when combined with home-manager [1], which provides declarative user environments and flakes [2], which provide a even more declarative and more easily shareable package format.

Getting my exact setup on a new device - including lots of GUI and terminal app customization - takes a single `nixos-rebuild-switch`, and works every time. Everything is configured in a single config file, from hardware and system service setup, over window manager setup, all the way to installed Vim/VS Code/Chrome plugins and lots of application configs.

The ability to easily roll back to previous configurations and boot into old configs from the boot menu in case something breaks is also brilliant.

You can also just install and run pretty much all software on demand, similar to `npx`, without polluting the system.
( nix run some-app). Declarative, reproducible development environments for each project are the cherry on top.

That said, the onboarding experience is horrible. There are A LOT of things to learn, and the documentation is bad. I also agree that the language, while somewhat fine, is not great and very undiscoverable.

The Nix ecosystem is a diamond in the rough. Sadly it would take a lot of effort to simplify everything and make it more polished.

I'm afraid Nix will continue to remain very niche.

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
[2] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
That is a pretty interesting work. Maybe a model derivation of this can be image (historic) restoration or new noise filters?
The NBC News poll is designed to be representative of national numbers and the CDC page specifically calls out that it isn't designed to be representative of national numbers. Therefore the CDC numbers aren't necessarily more accurate just because the sample size is bigger.

And like I said, even if we take the CDC numbers as the objective truth, they do not contradict my original point.
This is dangerous. So many ways for such back channels to be exploited. Would these types of information flows be reciprocated? Would the PLA general feed reassuring tidbits about Xi to the U.S. side?
Government debt is not bad. Government debt is a net private surplus.
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I see a literal zero percent chance that the Dems will pass a tax bill this Congress.
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You're comparing land (and a house) to no land and no house.

I've often thought of buying an apartment before a house, but it makes very little sense since land is practically not at a premium in Australia.
In fact the specificity of an antibody test is much better correlated with "has_immunity" than a vaccine card.

The situation is analogous to making someone wash their hands who has already washed their hands.
The person you replied to is conflating the economic and social side. The justification is in social not economic terms. So it really doesn't matter what the market says, the point is whether it is socially sustainable not to re-distribute that.

As an aside, the US seems like a very weird place to me. There are homeless people everywhere. I have never seen so many homeless people anywhere in my life...even in developing countries. It is crazy. I don't understand how people tolerate that. Not only poor people but the US seems to be a country which breeds a total lack of empathy, I don't understand how wealthy people tolerate it...and then you read the hyperbolic comment elsewhere on this thread about a founder saying this is theft, this well end Silicon Valley, it is insanity, it is intolerable...try tolerating sleeping in a tent under a bridge.

Either way, the reason you tax the $100m is so you don't end up with a govt that will take more than your money. The notion that you can just take forever has never been a part of politics.

As an aside, I think most Americans perception of authoritarian govts is that they are anti-democratic in this way...but if you look at monarchies, there was always responsibility from the wealthy, there was always a safety valve...the US has no safety valve, there is no social responsibility from the wealthy, they have taken everything and are asking where the rest is (and sound utterly deranged when you suggest they should make $5m rather than $10m). There are things much worse than taxation, you have to live in the world with other people.

EDIT: I will add...I would kind of quibble with the notion that markets are free in the US. The amount of state support for capitalists since 2008 (not talking about TARP which was necessary) has been very significant. Free money for the wealthy, usurious interest and rent for the poor. In particular, the level of downward social mobility in the US is very low for a capitalist economy. Markets are free in the US...in one sense.
You didn’t notice what is happening in the “21 days after first dose” column? It went from 22 to 100!

And if the NHS and other experts noticed it, they for some didn’t include an explanation along with their other comments on the data.
That comment is a valid opinion and should _not_ be dead.
Why was Privateer unveiled in a press release for a 3D titanium alloy printer??

> In a press release for a 3D titanium alloy printer, spotted by Gizmodo, Privateer is described as a “satellite company focused on monitoring and cleaning up objects in space”

Here is the press release:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005651/en/Des...

> “3D printing with titanium is incredibly valuable in industries like aerospace because of the material’s ability to support complex and lightweight designs,” said Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Privateer Space, a new satellite company focused on monitoring and cleaning up objects in space.*
It's certainly a fair question. I don't work in medical devices, but know people that have, and the problem for medical hardware has two steps: One, build something that won't kill the patient, and then step two is proving that you're correct about step one. Step two is the expensive bit.
Yachts are expensive. And it’s literally impossible to live in Cali without one. What would the neighbors think?
"It is an essentially inevitable result of technological development"

So its been over a century, why are we still stuck at 40 hours?
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> Curiously, the Greco-Roman disdain for dairy stopped short at cheese.

I was almost upset to hear that they hated dairy -- given how much wine they had around, how could they not have cheese? Thankfully this line redeemed them.
> apply rational thought to the question.

Okay, I'll give that a try: the benefits of wearing masks in public during a pandemic are known, whereas any harm that might be caused by occasionally exposing children to the sight of partially covered human faces is unknown. Therefore, to minimize harm, we should favour masking.
"may take several trips ... less in a backpack or on my bike"

EBikes help here. I have a 'ready-bike' for these sorts of things, electric (euro-legal pedelec) and a trailer hooked up to it. The trailer will take a week of groceries, and the electric means I can dash out without worrying about the added weight if it's just a tin of beans. So, a lot of errands work for this.

Hooking up the trailer is a bit of a chore, so keeping it on is key (for me) to making this the 'go-to' vehicle.

Trailers are somewhat pricey new, but show up on used/swap sites for cheap; and as a bonus it seems as if people reckon you have a child on board (which I sometimes do, that's what it was originally purchased for) and give you a bit more space.
I didn't know they fired "instructors". Employee sounds a little different than the content creators.
> Why does the government get to take money from me, risk free, when I'm the one taking the risks and starting a company which, if successful and grows, will employ many people?

Why do you get to use the internet my tax dollars paid for? That same internet that your startup so heavily requires to function, heck, even exist?
I've been looking at this for the last couple of days. The ones I've seen that are relatively cheap include orange pi and nanopi. Nanopi seems to have slightly better adoption, but orange pi is not far behind, is cheaper on Alibaba, and most of their devices are supported by mainline/armbian. I'll probably go for orange pi zero2. The Allwinner chipset is great.
Wages in the broader workforce haven't risen with increased productivity (in the developed world). Any additional profits aren't exactly getting shared with workers.

The article kind of a raises a moot point, if regular wages aren't tied to productivity what should minimum wages be tied to?

I believe that minimum wage should probably be set to some social factor, above some level of worker exploitation and a wage that a person could actually live on.
If you don't use your privacy envelope, then yes your ballot can be seen through. And it is also disqualified.
I realize the US Constitution only means whatever the heck the Supreme Court says it means, but Article 1 is explicit in preventing both the federal govt and the states (which is relatively rare, most of the restrictions on states are a result of the "incorporation doctrine") from passing ex post facto laws. And I think this prohibition was made specifically for purposes like this, where you shouldn't be penalized if you plan things above board according to the law at the time your decisions were made.
Literally no one paid that rate in the US. During that period the government captured ~17-18% of GDP in taxes which is the post war average. There were a ton of tax breaks then, by today’s standards.
>You’re probably confused because

That's needlessly rude and doesn't add anything to the conversation. Lets try and be nice :) You do have some valid points.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

This is classic DITF. Spring 10% on everyone and then claim to have “listened to the people” by later rolling it back to 1%.
That's the goal of disinformation. You don't have to be convinced of the face value of a claim to fall to it you just have to be convinced it's too much work to figure out or too uncertain to call one way or the other. In the case of Epik it's not exactly a mystery "is this one guy a liar" case though. Here are the opening paragraphs of Wikipedia (prior to this hack):

> Epik is an American domain registrar and web hosting company known for providing services to websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist content. It has been described as a haven for the far-right because of its willingness to provide services to far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][7]

> Some of Epik's notable clients have included social network Gab, neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, and the imageboard website 8chan.[8] In 2021, the Parler social network moved its domain registration to Epik when it was denied hosting and other web services after it was used to help plan the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.[9] Epik has also provided hosting and registrar services to Patriots.win, formerly TheDonald.win, an independent far-right forum that has served as the successor for the r/The_Donald subreddit that was banned in June 2020.[10][11][12]"

The rest of the article goes on with details about each of those and more, including many other companies terminating services to Epik as a result. Particularly after the El Paso shooting.
Which one? Lust, sloth, greed, pride?
>This isn't lying, it's results-driven communication.

Doubleplusgoodful newspeak, comrade.
Rents for a small apartment can be around 3000/month. Food in the area is quite expensive. So are things like car maintenance, movie theatres, gasoline, etc. If you live in SF, you'll need to budget 2-3 car break-ins per month and 1-2 catalytic converter thefts per year to deal with. On top of that, CA has a quite high income tax. It adds up fast...
To explain why Sweden wouldn't need fossil fuels if they had more base load, while France has a bit harder time to do the same, is that Sweden has a significant higher ratio of hydro power. The water reserves can do a pretty good job at stabilizing a power grid. Without a lot of base load you do however need a lot of capacity to cover periods of non-optimal weather conditions, and the combination of increased demand and decommission of nuclear power plants has managed to make demands exceed well past what the Swedish water reserves can produce. As such we now have a focus on fossil fuels to solve an issue we haven't had in the past, with the green party steering.

Why do I criticizes Swedens green party for wanting to use fossil energy as a backup? Pretty simple answer to that, and I will use an old green party slogan to do it. Keep it in the ground! We won't reach the climate goals if we burn fossil fuel for power and heat. The green party should have been the last ones arguing that we must burn fossil fuels because the alternative cost too much money. Climate scientists has known for a while that we must keep fossil fuel in the ground, but what hope is there if even the green movement is advocating to digging it up and burning in order to save a buck?
> Long term plan in my mind was to get enough people vaccinated that community spread stops being a thing. We were almost there in late spring prior to delta variant showing up

Was this your plan back in March 2020 or did it become your plan somewhere down the line? What I remember from March 2020 is that the plan was to "flatten the curve" with temporary restrictions. The possibility of a vaccine was theorized to be between 18 months away to possibly never.