skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to confess I was never seriously worried that Viking Hat Man was going to overthrow the government and declare himself Shaman-in-Chief, even while I watched that shocking footage live.
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War on drugs is not an appropriate analogy here. A better analogy would be a known addictive, but legal, product being subject to tighter regulation to reduce its overall appeal and social harm--e.g. tobacco.
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With the history that Trump had for firing people who did follow unreasonable orders (e.g. Rod Rosenstein), it becomes entirely plausible that he would fire any FDA head who did not support a vaccine, regardless of the science behind them. As things turned out, the studies did support the vaccine, but it was not unreasonable to draw a distinction between unbiased experts and experts under threat of firing.
So, your argument is that personal choice can be ignored in favour of your personal definition of 'public health'? Take your logic a step further - why can't we just completely ignore your personal opinion of what's a public good or what is 'public health'? Another step further - ignore everyone's opinion of what's public good and have a small group of elites define this for us? Your argument is nothing more than blanket support for literally any top-down policy which labels itself 'for the public good'. Yawn.
When it comes to direct RPI competitors, there's Pine64's RockPro64 https://www.pine64.org/rockpro64/
Aside from DUI risk and passive smoking, most of these risks are specific to the person. I can't catch obesity from being in the same room as a obese person, and while public health costs go up from drinkers/smokers/heavy people, I haven't heard of ambulances being gridlocked outside a hospital due to a spike of lifestyle diseases.
Ok, but then tax cuts need similar detailed scrutiny. What will have to be cut, and who will suffer by how much as a result?
> How do I transition from a high stress high pay software engineer to a medium pay low stress other kind of technology worker like you have described???

Work literally _anywhere else_ but Sillicon Valley. These jobs are aplenty; they are probably at least 2/3 of all programmer jobs everywhere.
There are several orders of magnitude more documented breakthrough cases than documented reinfections.
I’ve been researching this a bit but still a bit new. Can you explain how your illiquid affected assets work? My understanding was that this affected only stock in hand. Which can be difficult to turn but should in theory be sellable?
Just use DVC for any non-line-oriented files. If you don't want cloud backing stores, it's pretty easy to set up using the "local remote" pointing to a custom path (e.g. External drive) if you are the only person working on it. Otherwise I'd recommend symlinks.

www.dvc.org
> People have already largely made up their minds, and nothing is going to change them.

In that case, it doesn't matter what we do. The lies and threats and mocking can continue, and it doesn't matter either way.

So since it doesn't matter, we should just figure out a protocol for a "CDC post-infection immunity card", issue it to people whose antibody levels have been tested and judged to be sufficient, and then bar everyone without a vax or immunity card from any kind of indoor gathering (including for employment)[0].

I'm just sick of all this. For a while I was sympathetic toward the vaccine-hesitant -- some of the reasoning, while misinformed, was understandable -- but my patience is gone. The longer this goes on, the greater the risk of a new variant that the vaccines don't protect us against.

[0] Yes, the usual exceptions apply for people who can't be vaccinated for a legitimate medical reason, but they should be subject to weekly or biweekly testing.
Most existing variants came about prior to vaccination and we can absolutely adapt vaccines to subsequent variants just like we do the flu. We absolutely can end mass deaths to covid.

It's false that people without risk factors don't die of covid and monoclonal antibodies often don't work. You aren't safe if you aren't vaccinated or otherwise immune.
Meh… you still get to exempt 50% of your gains, the capital gains tax isn’t that high anyway, and it only kicks in if you’re making over $400k. Good luck trying to get the general public to feel sorry for you.
> Their prices aren't particularly good

They have the biggest "real" (as in for existing customers and without other limitations) promo / "happy hour" thread on the biggest domain name board:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/epik-com-promo-deals-and-ha... - where they regularly had pretty good transfer in prices.
If you go into house with no locks and steal something, you should still be liable for your actions.
They don't believe in it. Americans are starting to love their mommy government. It's sad.
https://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/Anonymous-Presents_-Op...
I have two minis that I use with my drone controller. They're a decent format for everything else also.
Israel only has a 61% fully vaccinated rate. It is having to deal with widespread vaccine skepticism just like the US.

Since the Delta variant is so much more infectious than the original covid, you'd have to get to 90% vaccination rates to count as "herd immunity" against this disease.
Am I the only one who doesn't re-live these moments? I see people constantly interrupting special moments to capture them in photos and videos, but I have trouble finding anyone who derives a meaningful amount of satisfaction from them later on. I have lots of photos that I've spent way more time managing, transferring between providers, and worrying about than I've ever actually spent time browsing through. Am I an outlier? Are there people out there who really go through their old photos frequently for fun trips down memory lane, or are we optimizing for a situation that doesn't exist?
> Overall, taxes over 50% feel unethical too -- imagine if a mob boss goes to a retail store and demands half the profits. Why does anyone -- mob or Government -- deserve more than half of what you make?

50% is just a random number that feels good to you. I have a different question - what can you possibly do that justifies making $100 MM a year? Getting to keep even $45 MM seems mighty generous of society. (Obviously given the current value of the dollar.)

>To hit 55% tax rate in California after this

Thanks to a graduated income tax, hitting the 55% rate is no the same as getting taxed at 55%. And this only applies to one narrow source of income.
“Illegal” is plainly wrong in the vast majority of cases you’re probably thinking of. At least for most people who crossed the US?Mexican border in the last two years, they have pending applications for asylum since the those courts are completely flooded.

So “asylum seekers” or “refugee” would be better, since I agree that they are not undocumented, either.
As a founding member of a startup I can say that to early exercise using QSBS while the capitalization of the company is <50M is to take a huge risk. If the company folds, my stock is worth $0 and I lose. It's a gamble.

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? Is it fair to pay on an unrealized gain, such as with certain option exercises where you have to pay AMT without first selling? All risk to me, none to the government. They're like mobsters who shake you down, rich or poor.

Eliminating QSBS will be the death of Silicon Valley. Raising capital gains will likewise kill incentive to build businesses and invest. It's insanity, pure insanity. There is no avenue the Democrats are leaving un-pursued in their quest to raise taxes. Insanity in this economy. Insanity.
If hospital beds become filled to >50% capacity because of the obese then maybe we can start making this comparison.

Because of unvaccinated people many of us face significantly worse hospital care right now.
Bitcoin gold has a asic resistant pow, but all the same btc issues so far as I know, because it’s a btc fork.
I don't get why they don't just restore from backup. S3 has been around for more than a decade at this point.
There is no reason to believe it would peter out without millions of deaths and no reason to believe we can't stay ahead of variants
There are lots of experts who regularly interpret this data.

Your comment is pretty vague, so I looked at the excel sheet myself - I assume you’re referring to table 5, “Second dose”? The highest death rate in that table is 14.6 per 100k on 2-Jul-21. Meanwhile, looking at the unvaccinated population in that same table, the death rate per 100k starts out at 22 per 100k, goes as high as 66 per 100k in February, and then comes back down and is in the 30s and 20s per 100k.

A naive interpretation of this data would suggest that being vaccinated is protecting people from murder and other non-COVID causes of death. Obviously this isn’t right (I’m not immediately sure why though), but I’d suggest that your suggestion that the NHS and other experts are unaware of patterns in the data may just be the result of you being unaware of how patterns in this type of mortality data typically work.
A trite thoughtless trolling clichéd dismissal.

When you vote for a party, you compromise based on the whole package, regardless of how much you disagree with individual policies.

If we got to vote for what we wanted, government would look very very different!
The kings and queeens have turned into the captailists and relgious zealots who espouse ideals of productivity and growth in order to secure your obedience and trap you in debt and gives you no choice but to continue on or give up everything.

By chasing the money you commit yourself playing within the confines of this system.

I instead chase my passion and ive found an employeer who is happy to make those same tradeoffs. I remotely work on a global SaaS product that is scaling quickly, and my backyard is a river next to the ocean where i can immediately connect with physical world. As the tides ebb-and-flow i can see the day changing and feel apart of it. My water cooler is like going on a hike into the mountains. This is what pleases me so i keep it close.

My day is a combination of creativity and nature mixed with technical challenges and stress. No matter your situations, if you are working a growing company you will have competing priorities and therefor stress.

Ive been developing professionally now for 26yrs. 10 years ago i released that i was not going to be happy climbing the ladder in search of more money. More money at the expense of my personal time. More money to manage people. More money to 100x shareholder value... Ive switched markets/verticals from gov to private to startups in search of this balance.
Facebook/google/etc. don't have to be add funded.

Microsoft employs great people too, they charge money for their products instead of duping people into sharing data, a much fairer business practice in my mind.

Put it another way: the fastest money you can make is by drug dealing, if there are no drug addicts we can't pay our brightest!
My bootcamp experience built my confidence which helped during interviews.
Because employees probably haven't exercised their options.
Fake news. The electoral process is infallible unless the party loses by mistake.
Apart from the hilarity of the idea there are multiple petabytes of data in this leak - no, the torrent file was actually pretty small. About the size you'd expect for 180 GB of payload with a decent number of files.
I don't really think it's appropriate to accuse the Fed of "wallowing in apprehension". The Federal reserve is an incredibly powerful institution and missteps are extremely consequential.
Maybe I’m wrong but I’d think most early employees benefits are wrapped up in options that have not been exercised.
https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093...

We invest heavily in fighting child sexual exploitation online and use technology to deter, detect, and remove CSAM from our platforms. This includes automated detection and human review, in addition to relying on reports submitted by our users and third parties such as NGOs, to detect, remove, and report CSAM on our platforms. We deploy hash matching, including YouTube’s CSAI Match, to detect known CSAM. We also deploy machine learning classifiers to discover never-before-seen CSAM, which is then confirmed by our specialist review teams. Using our classifiers, Google created the Content Safety API, which we provide to others to help them prioritize abuse content for human review.
I suppose a parallel would be a Mars Helicopter based on off the shelf components vs making one of radiation hardened components.

It may work, and it may work very well in fact. However, if you can afford it - you'd opt for something with more reliability and consistency.
Egypt opens ancient tomb of King Djoser after restoration
Literally the opposite of not talking about it. Sorry. No utility anymore. People are looking to change things they werent even previously aware of, compared to the prior outcomes of just raising income taxes on 6-figure wage workers and pretending that was taxing the rich. I would rather people just assume I’m full of shit than give any clue, there are enough examples of compliant strategies being “leaked” after decades of use for people to assume there are still strategies unaffected.
From the article:

“Some Instagram researchers said it was challenging to get other colleagues to hear the gravity of their findings. Plus, “We’re standing directly between people and their bonuses,” one former researcher said.”

“Facebook executives have struggled to find ways to reduce Instagram’s harm while keeping people on the platform, according to internal presentations on the topic.”

Sums up the problem succinctly. Attack the revenue if you want results, legislation is the only tool we have to truly compel and affect change in a company that willfully ignores the societal harms they are uniquely perpetuating at scale to dizzying public health epidemic levels (population level mental health decline across demographics, Facebook echo chambers radicalizing people and affecting voting/eroding democracy, etc.)

Enough is enough.
Exercised options convert into shares, but there has to be a market for those shares, management approval can be required for a transfer, etc. If the growth rate of the shares value is greater than other investments, you might choose to hold the shares until sometime in the future, which can make an unplanned or premature liquidation suboptimal.
It seems that a couple of researchers have used RPis to analyze blood samples in an innovative way.

They are published: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9524612

So, you (OJFord) could not be bothered with either reading the simplified synopsis or if you did, understanding the original article.

Why even bother to comment, when you have nothing to give?
As an asian, FaceID only (lack of TouchID) is a still huge deal breaker, especially because we noticed that covid situation lasts for a few years. I wish they change mind seriously. I wish I could buy mini + TouchID.
I believe most utilize a pseudo-random system to help smooth out the swinginess of true random.

Some even utilize a fixed long set of numbers so that it doesn't have to generate a random number every call.

I first encountered it in DotA. Similar to another comment about LoL, the longer you don't Crit the higher chance your next attack with Crit, and vice versa. Higher level players would intentionally "save" a Crit (look for a string of non-Crits while hitting mobs) to ensure high burst damage on heroes.
https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Pseudo_Random_Distribution
I suspect we will never run this through a controlled scientific experiment and thus will never 'know' what could be the long-term effects of partially hiding human faces from children, because very few people would sign up their children for such an experiment.

(And I would urge any intellectually curious people who are also laser-focused on empiricism as the only valid way to acquire knowledge, to instead apply rational thought to the question. Why don't we have any scientific evidence on the matter?)
They asked for a shot, something that takes minutes, maybe an hour or two total of minimal effort. You’re prescribing something that takes a fair bit of effort over years. Just go get the vaccine.
“ what can you possibly do that justifies making $100 MM a year?” That’s not up to you to decide in a free society. Market determines that.
You expressed my exact thoughts better than I ever could hope to. Thanks!
Yup.. This HAS to be on the table if we want ANY hope of powering a society anywhere near 100% renewable!
That is not entirely true. Amazon was founded on a mission of serving its customers, and the belief that serving customers well is the best way to maximize long-term shareholder value (among other values).

https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/amzn_shar...

> It’s All About the Long Term

> We believe that a fundamental measure of our success will be the shareholder value we create over the long term. This value will be a direct result of our ability to extend and solidify our current market leadership position.

> The stronger our market leadership, the more powerful our economic model. Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

> Our decisions have consistently reflected this focus. We first measure ourselves in terms of the metrics most indicative of our market leadership: customer and revenue growth, the degree to which our customers continue to purchase from us on a repeat basis, and the strength of our brand. We have invested and will continue to invest
aggressively to expand and leverage our customer base, brand, and infrastructure as we move to establish an enduring franchise.

> Because of our emphasis on the long term, we may make decisions and weigh tradeoffs differently than some companies. Accordingly, we want to share with you our fundamental management and decision-making
approach so that you, our shareholders, may confirm that it is consistent with your investment philosophy: (...)

You don't have to operate your company in a way that makes your shareholders maximum profit from quarter to quarter. You do have a responsibility to them, but that responsibility can be met by following your mission statement. If you believe your company should only (e.g.) use sustainable energy sources because it's important for the planet, or that you're going to invest for long term growth, not short term profit, you can disclose that to your shareholders and meet your obligations. Company directors have considerable leeway in the way in which they meet their fiduciary responsibilities, and the idea people have that companies "must maximize profit at all cost" is incorrect.

Now, if your company is failing, the stock is falling, products failing in the market, then your shareholders may pressure for a variety of things: a change in mission, direction, the resignation of leaders; or they may buy enough of the company to own enough board seats to take control and out and replace current leadership. But if you're successful at executing on your mission and have investors who are onboard with it, and you're also making money (or growing, which is just as good or better), then you don't need to worry about that.

If your goal does not include making money for shareholders at any point, then you probably shouldn't organize as a for-profit corporation, though.
This isn’t about estate tax. Your heirs don’t take anything away from you, neither does the government with estate tax. At the time they take whatever they’re taking, you are dead. Dead people have no use for property.

Besides that, if you don’t want your heirs to have your estate, you can create a will while you’re alive and leave all your property to charity, your cat, whatever. In any event, whatever happens to your wealth it won’t really matter to you, since you’ll be dead.

Edit: seems I misread this. Anyway, nobody “expropriated“ your labor, you sold it at an agreed upon price. If you aren’t happy with the price you got, demand more or make your labor more valuable.
She should not worry. After 1.5-2 years of 60-hour workweeks at McKinsey she will be qualified to get a comfy 40-hour work-week management position at a software company and will make us devs work 60-hour work-weeks until she retires us at 35 because who needs that much experience to program a computer. And unless this is in FAANG, we will get paid as seniors the same she did as a junior.
Pretty much summed in two xkcds:

https://xkcd.com/1319/
https://xkcd.com/1205/
Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren Ask Amazon to Curtail COVID Misinformation
The “100” is specifically for the population of 21 days after first dose, i.e. those who didn’t get their second dose of vaccine. You can see the population who fall into the “21 days after” shrinks the whole time the “Second dose” population grows. Probably there’s something specific to those people who didn’t get or were unable to get the second dose of the vaccine that elevates their risk of mortality, like poverty, low education, or poor health.
It will be very interesting to study the effects of an mRNA shot on the epidemiology of influenza.

Being less politically loaded, perhaps such studies could shed insight on COVID epidemiology and help improve policy.
Not quite the same but I love the way the ports in VCV Rack are LED's who's intensity changes with the signal voltage, really makes debugging at a glance easier.
Chess Variant Roulette
Since you appear to have skin in the game, I recommend reading Geert Vanden Bossche's latest post [0] on the long-term effects of vaccine mandates. He's been ostracized from the "experts", but has a lot of experience in vaccine research.

It's a little disturbing.

[0]: https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/the-last-post
YO. I measured it myself just to be sure and since you were such a dickhead. (Copying and pasting the output from console)
With exceptions: Parsing took on average 135 us
With error codes: Parsing took on average 0 us

Maybe the dude forgot to enable optimizations altogether (not present in the command line options in the comment at the top of that file). I added /O2 since it is a PERFORMANCE test, remember? Hilarious.
That’s a 40 times revenue. The normal metric is a multiple of profits.

There is no way this isn’t overvalued. Even reasonably fast growth of a 40x multiplier would need roughly 1 billion in profits. And yes, I say that as a fan of the tool.
>Overall, taxes over 50% feel unethical too

Wait until you hear about Apple's turnover tax! F.you(pay them) even when you're losing money!
Since vaccinated are spreading this around nearly as much as unvaccinated, the involuntary manslaughter argument is moot. Getting your own vaccine doesn't help other people not die...only you. Even high-vaccination regions are having waves of infection that dwarf previous ones. (Israel, Scotland, Hawaii)

That said, allowing civil suits to punish people that gave you a virus that killed you, would be effective to keep both vaxed and unvaxxed careful and staying at home while sick. Hard to prove where you got it, but just a few successful suits will keep people honest.
> Eliminating QSBS will be the death of Silicon Valley.

Silicon valley existed before QSBS it can survive it's removal.
NB: Post author here.

Glad you liked it! I was so excited to actually be able to get to use Desmos for something work wise, I've been wanting to do it for years!
Citation? As far as I’m aware, this has never once happened.