skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that there's little evidence that patients (vaccinated or unvaccinated) have worse outcomes with delta; they're just more likely to spread it.
True, although NASA paid for Crew Dragon but not for the refurbishment to fly it again. The news channels were stating "$200M" for the whole thing and I don't find that particularly credible.

I reminded one of my adult children that when I was their age I paid nearly $5,000 for a computer that had specs that were not even close to one that you can buy for $35 today. Perhaps more comparable air travel became 10x cheaper over the first 40 years.

The thing that excites me most about this is that Congress isn't the one funding this work[1]. As a result SpaceX is motivated to make it more economical and more efficient. What I read about as a kid in the 70's about moon bases and orbital hotels, SpaceX is actually on a path to make real. I only hope that before I die I can ride into orbit.

[1] Yes they buy launch services from SpaceX, but they have been buying such services for decades, SpaceX was the first company that decided to be commercial rocket company from the start, AFAICT.
I'll second this. US SWE who spent a good portion of his career either doing consulting or working for a consulting company. It left me unable to care about the products of the companies I eventually settled down and started to work for. I have a very problem-centric attitude where I need to be fed well defined tasks and can't seem to care about the overall product, with it's various problems and features.

Don't get me wrong, I think consulting is a good thing for people to do, but don't let it distort your thinking. It's also easy to start to see everything in your life in terms of your hourly rate, and you start making weird choices regarding how you spend your time.

In response to the other replies, I'll say 'consulting' entails both work for hire(I was a core member of the platform team in a major media device company for 6 years) and full project design('We have a rough idea and we need to to architect, code, test, deploy and sometimes maintain a system'). It is not just working at a body shop doing shit work for hourly pay(although sometimes it is, depending on the economy).
> No more software updates and no security patch. Makes sense the hardware is EOL as well.

No more official updates from the vendor. It does not make sense that hardware should die when aftermarket ROMs are perfectly serviceable.
I rinse my iPhone 8+ under a slow-running faucet once a week. It’s the easiest way to get pocket lint out of the lightning port. No problems after 4 years. Maybe I should replace the SIM card gasket one day?
Economically, it seems like the disparity between the haves and have nots has increased significantly. Price inflation is not an illusion. In the Bay Area, it felt like no matter where I ate a meal, it always cost at least $20.

The supply chain issues are also real and seeing bare shelves, empty car lots, throughout the duration of my visit was disturbing.

I noticed a significant decline in the quality of service at many businesses. The labor shortage is apparent, and many service workers seemed not to care about their work, which reflected in their attitudes towards customers.

On a personal level, I felt that people were less friendly and, more worryingly, less respectful. The public cursing everywhere I went was really unattractive.

I'm sure some of this is that I have been changed by living in East Asia, where people tend to be more polite (if not friendly) and focus less on the individual than the group. But I don't think it was just me 100% either. I believe the increased politicization of just about every subject is a part of this.
this is cool and all, but the difference between the reaction to this one and the reaction to the bezos one is hilarious.
No, someone playing a song on their phone, while walking down the street, is not going to be sued. Ever.
For our robot overlords (did I say overlords? I meant protectors.)
The Constitution of the United States guarantees a civilian controlled military. If the Commander in Chief is in office, then he is the last link on the chain. It's not up to unelected officials to determine what is a good call or not. This is scary.

So long as the left is in power, they're going to let China take back Taiwan. And then who knows what China will be emboldened to do.

The US government is hopelessly compromised and I am so sad to see this happening to my country at such a young age. I hope the pendulum swings back the other way, fast and hard.

It makes no sense, the left wants environmentalism but they also are Chinese sycophants and China is one of the biggest polluters. They make up "human rights" such as the Right to Not Be Offended and The Right to Kill Unborn Humans yet at the same time support terrorist barbarian groups in the Middle East such as the Taliban who murder Americans and abuse women and children openly.

Someone challenge me with countervailing facts. I would love to be wrong.
Are you reviewing the messages on their devices, or package sniffing at the gateway? I don't see how E2EE has any effect on whether a device/application retains communications or not.

A separate argument is that kids experiment and do dumb stuff together with other kids. Forcing them to not be able to do so in private without bad actors collecting images seems like a pretty significant sacrifice in human rights. I get the intention, I just think it is very misguided.
Hmm I just got my first shot 2 weeks ago. What would the government and medical experts suggest then? Should we take Moderna instead? I don't see them studying any other vaccine, why?

After spending almost 2 years in lockdown we're just confused what to do if even vaccine status is like this
And what about the DEA?
> A slow moving ponzi looks different than a bank run.

No it doesn't; the failure of a Ponzi scheme is a bank run. The only difference is that the bank is trying to turn a profit on its deposits and the Ponzi scheme isn't.
As long as you don't promise the people giving you nickels a dime back...
actually, the basis for most regulation to curb smoking is based on exactly the kind of societal argument you bring up for social media.
The freedom of the individual to harm themselves had stood pretty strong, but the societal cost (mostly health care) eventually outweighed it.
Adopting the OpenAPI schema to generate Plaid’s SDKs
It's worth donating too.

There are a few things I would like them to do:

1. No more stupid mistakes, like that Free for All Covid fiasco. (Don't blatantly irritate copywrite owners.)

2. Offer all their material (non copy written) to anyone in the USA. Let anyone house the data if they want.

3. Put all salaries, and assets, on your front page, or very easily found.

I looked up their administrative salaries (CEO, BOD, etc.) a few years ago on Waystar (back then--salaries of founders seemed reasonable.)

The founder was using the nonprofit CC for questionable purchases, but I don't even think he is around anymore. Oh yea, when looking up 1040's on Waystar it's free information, but the website makes it look like you need to pay for free government information, or used too? There are many websites that offer free 1040's now though.)

I would like to see every 501c3 in the USA list the highest salaries of everyone in the charity, the number of volunteers, and the average pay of paid employees.

I see way to many people blindly giving money to charities.

Many are great like this nonprofit, but so many are overfunded, or just set up to support one, or two people.

In my county, many nonprofits are considered just a business move with a sympathetic name. Too many are run by a husband, and wife, and are just a way to live a comfortable life.

Every year it seems to be getting worse.

Obama knew what was going on in a lot of 501c3's, and was about to take action, but backed away. I don't know why, but he took it off his agenda very quickly.
It may have started as one or the other, but at this point they've been predicting hyperinflation for so long that they now have motivated reason to be "right, just called it too soon"
Not in the near future. Pretty sure there are multi-year contracts given that the US government was able to negotiate the Pfizer vaccine price from $30+ down to $19.50 per dose.
I find that small recurring donations great for soothing the “wait do you really want to spend all that money” voice and projects seem to be happier about them as well.
"enormous government borrowing to fight covid and stimulate the economy" is by no means the reason the trade deficit is what it is or what it will be. The trade deficit is the product of 40 years of policy that promotes outsourcing and does little to nothing to protect domestic manufacturing. The only thing that is protected is shareholder profit and tax schemes that protect it at the expense of the rest of society.
If every police station and cop car in the country exclusively streamed this album, they could probably generate a decent amount of money from Spotify/Apple/YTmusic.

I tried doing something similar a while back, I made tracks with white/brown/pink noise to stream while you study or sleep called DonateYourStreams, with all the money going to nonprofits like Watsi & charity:water. Unfortunately DistroKid thought that was a ToS violation and disabled my account.
The FDA and any oversight groups will protect their own by remaining silent and they'll get away with it. Nobody will be jailed.

The people have the power but they are so dispersed, distracted and lulled into inaction by the corn and games of our times. Cancel your Netflix account, cancel your cable and go volunteer if you want to make a difference.
Printing tons of money and handing it out to people who will spend it immediately tends to at least put pressure on prices.
An iPhone SE from 2016 has about 2 hours of battery life left and is slow as molasses to eke even that little out of it. I know because we have one that my toddler gets to play with once in a while. That's the only thing it's useful for.
Glad I wasn't awake to watch this, they barely showed anything. NASA missions had much more in-capsule footage.
> I mean... On one hand, I agree with your bemoaning,but then on second thought - compared to what?

HN software people love to call themselves Engineers with a capital E, but it seems all too often it gets forgotten that the practice of professional engineering requires adherence to professional codes of ethics.

Every accredited engineering program in the US and Canada requires that graduates have completed a Professional Ethics course, but of course the vast majority of "Software Engineers" aren't actually degree-holding engineers. They're by and large Comp Sci grads and to the best of my knowledge there isn't the same requirement for Ethics courses in computer science programs.
As a man who worked in OEM electronics for 10 years, I can say, automation will not help USA a dime.

There are far richer Asian countries than China, business people with far more capital to buy fancy tooling. You think they never tried that? They did, and it didn't work largely, or the impact was minimal. Look at Malaysia, or Taiwan.

Hopes on robots, and automation as an economic "Wunderwaffe" is plainly silly, and are largely coming from people who haven't put in a single nail in their life. Don't listen to these men who say that.
I think the flippant rejection of criticism of (violent) video games was and is very mistaken.

I'm unsure about the direct causal relationships between games and violence, but at the very least they're an expression of a violent culture. The glorification of shooters as 'lone wolfs', the fact that a picture of a breastfeeding mother gets banned but someone's head blown off in a game is no big deal, it makes you ponder what priorities that creates in a culture.

And the criticism of the addictive nature of games, how gaming can isolate people, the general lack of sexual relationships of young men in particular, but also young people in general, these concerns written off as 'boomer mentality' or whatever are completely valid.

>After all, we need to regulate what the kids consume, right?

I think it's completely obvious that you need to regulate what children consume, they are after all... children. Regulating what they do is kind of the point of raising them. This consumer culture that leaves everything to 'market choice' and where every intervention is seen as overreach is terrible. This is exactly the sort of pseudo-freedom that OP was talking about.
If you're going to outsource manufacture of key components -- like the battery for an electric car, which is the single most important and expensive component in the entire vehicle -- then the buck stops with you for quality control. People inside GM may want to blame LG, but everyone outside GM will blame GM.
I managed to somehow type on the software keyboard without looking at it with a 95% or so accuracy. However I find that I’m only able to do so on my iPhone SE which is small size.
The iPhone Pro series gave me trypophobia. I wonder if the spooky 3 camera arrangement boosts sales of the non-Pro series.
A friend with a 6yo P85D says his battery performance is still in the high 80%s vs brand new. What to do with large numbers of EVs at the end of their useful battery life is still an unsolved problem though.
Yep. For all the problems I've had with apple products, knowing I can call or visit apple to get the problems fixed is fantastic.

Since owning my 2016 macbook, the screen died due to the flex cable issue (while travelling - which was super annoying). And one key on the keyboard got sticky. They offered a free battery replacement while they fixed the keyboard (since battery life was dropping faster than it should). The tech broke another key on the keyboard while they were fixing the first one, so they ended up replacing the whole keyboard & trackpad. And when I got the machine back from being serviced, it started crashing due to a RAM issue. So it went back in for a motherboard replacement.

This machine is the worst apple product I've ever owned. But, despite all these problems showing up outside the warranty period, the repair work was all done for free. They have basically replaced the entire computer at this point. (I think the only original part is the backplate).

I think it makes sense for this work to be free, because these were all design problems. But good luck getting this sort of service out of Google or Dell or HP or something. Dell used to have an excellent service program, but those days have long passed. Just reaching a human at google who can help is like getting blood from a stone.
Money printer goes brrrrrrr
I used to have a 2XL and now a 5. To be honest I've never had a single issue. I did sign up for the android 12 beta and while there are some minor hiccups(completely normal phenomenon for any beta), things work pretty smoothly.
Shuttle went slightly higher than this mission. Apparently there are plans to send Crew Dragon as high as 1200 km.
Nice writeup, appreciate it !

However the points you raise need not be that stringent towards "non-critical" and "mass use" medical devices. Add proper disclaimers to the sale of these devices and everybody benefits. In particular, the people in the developing world many of whom lack even the most basic medical support. Use these in the field (eg. underdeveloped villages) and at homes to get an approximate reading after which you can be referred to a proper diagnostic lab/hospital. Incidentally, some of these diagnostic labs in the developing world are a absolute scam with completely broken, unmaintained and error-prone devices. If the cost is brought down they can actually afford to buy decent devices.

For example, at one point you couldn't even afford home BP monitors and Pulseoxymeters. But now they are common place in particular the latter which before the Covid-19 pandemic were expensive. This in turn has resulted in the public getting better educated in learning to measure and monitor basic health signs which is very good.
Human Resources mean managing the resources that are humans. Not resources for humans.

HR is there for the company.
Errr... Yes?
> Billionaire is thrown about as an insult these days.

There are plenty that believe the very existence of billionaires suggests an obscene imbalance in our system of capital. (I happen to agree.)
I watched the video linked. This person claims:

* He has 4,000 videos on his guitar website behind a paywall, paying $400/yr (Business Plan)

* His plan offers 5TB of storage, he uses 1.3 TB (from memory).

* Vimeo does not give users access to bandwidth stats.

* He was told he has exceeded some unpublished threshold for 13 months and his account will be shutdown if it exceeds it again.

* He was offered a contract and given 7 days to sign it for $5000/yr and his account would not be shutdown during this period.

On the pricing page Vimeo claims unlimited bandwidth for the $50/month Business plan:

"Unlimited bandwidth (subject to fair use)" and when you mouseover it, a popup says "Users in the top 1% of monthly bandwidth usage (99% of Vimeo users never reach this threshold), may be charged for excessive usage".

So it seems 1% of users are forced into custom contracts that exceed the highest published tier of pricing. I would have expected some additional chargers for exceeding some threshold, not increasing the monthly cost by 13x.
Yep. One of the ways reporters mislead people while remaining factually correct. Then they blame factually incorrect news as destroying society while they're just doing the same thing more tactfully.
I spent 1.1M on a house with my wife of course and am very happy with my purchase. Lots of land and nobody around to tell me what to do.
They not only got above Hubble’s orbit, they even returned the first stage back to landing, which means they had the performance both to get to that orbit and to be reusable.
They got caught.
Really? You're going to suggest that Google is the worse perpetrator of planned obsolescence when Apple still slows down phones and uses their flawed design as a scapegoat (and originally did it secretly and lied about it)? Okiedoke. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724
Googling EDL mode, apparently one way to enable it is to "short the test points on your device’s mainboard." Maybe Pixel 3s are getting these test points bridged by something inside the case, possibly due to e.g. thermal battery expansion pushing something against the mainboard?
I wasn't making an argument about interdepence. I was making an argument about one-way dependence. E.g. China being dependent on the rest of the world in very asymmetric way than the rest of the world is dependent on China. That is a different situation from just observing that there is trade between nations. China has trillions of assets held in custodial accounts in the US and other European nations. The situation is not reversed. We do not have trillions held in custodial accounts by China. It's a one way street.

Prior to WW1, trade was roughly balanced within the world. You cannot even compare the situation then and now. Hell, prior to 2000, trade was roughly balanced. What we are seeing now is unprecedented in recorded history.
>Not only is it illegal to lie to Congress

Only for the plebs. As James Clapper demonstrated, there is a separate set of laws for the elites.
I can’t imagine that redesign. The difference between the density/mass of aluminum and steel, plus the difference of inertia the software would have to account for. That must have been a lot of work for everyone!
Australian police did the same thing with another captured site, for more than six months if I recall correctly. They actually even posted material to it themselves in status updates impersonating the admins, because the admins who set up the site had established that protocol because they believed police would never do that…
why haven't they tried paying more than minimum wage?
slight nuance, but record number of people in orbit, not space.
When virgin galactic was in space, the total number was higher (16).
Because a lot of businesses, mainly small ones, can't afford to.
And Eberhard and Tarpenning just copied Coconni and Gage’s tzero from AC propulsion.
World's longest lab experiment still going strong, via webcam

In 1927, a physics professor named Thomas Parnell launched an experiment on viscous liquids. 85 years later, we're still waiting for his results. It all began with a funnel, a beaker, and some melted tar pitch. Parnell, a professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, was hoping to demonstrate that brittle tar pitch actually behaves as a liquid when kept at room temperature. To prove this, he melted some tar pitch, let it cool for three years, and placed it within the funnel, held over the beaker. The first drop rolled down the funnel eight years later. The second came nine years after that. By the time the third rolled around, Parnell had already passed away.

https://www.engadget.com/2012-01-27-worlds-longest-lab-exper...
Does anyone know if applying for PPP loans played a part in this? Anecdotally saw some people register businesses for the sole purpose of collecting PPP but am not sure if they were successful.

Edit: I appear to be wrong here. After some Googling it appears that PPP loan was based on previous years tax returns to I don't think you could collect PPP the first year to establish a business.
Recent Mayo Clinic study estimated Pfizer was 42% effective against Delta, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v...

> However, in July, the effectiveness against infection was considerably lower for [Moderna] mRNA-1273 (76%, 95% CI: 58-87%) with an even more pronounced reduction in effectiveness for [Pfizer] BNT162b2 (42%, 95% CI: 13-62%). Notably, the Delta variant prevalence in Minnesota increased from 0.7% in May to over 70% in July whereas the Alpha variant prevalence decreased from 85% to 13% over the same time period.

> there's little evidence that patients (vaccinated or unvaccinated) have worse outcomes with delta; they're just more likely to spread it

Entirely possible, as viruses historically evolve to be weaker and more transmissible. That would be good news.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/man-shot-in-...
Can't really see much of Earth at the same time with that altitude. Wouldn't have paid for that.
Hope we soon have much higher missions (>GEO).
That's not about civilization though.
You're just being intentionally obtuse. The original comment's argument was that Richard Stallman's return might result in higher quality software from the GNU project. That clearly affects Linux, since large amounts of GNU software are almost without exception deployed alongside Linux.

Yes, there are two "hops" in the relationship, but it's still not much of a stretch. It's not hard to believe that Richard Stallman's presence at the FSF will influence the development of GNU software, and it's flat-out obvious that the quality of GNU software impacts Linux, just like the quality of games developed for the PlayStation impact its success.
Need some people to hammer on our IoT board – change our lab color
The world's population is growing. Even if everyone's grandfathers had a magic car that lasted forever, what you describe wouldn't work for everyone.
Go: Ent Joins the Linux Foundation
does the booster buy you another 6 months?
Increasing the time period between 1st and 2nd shots can improve effectiveness. This has been done in UK and Canada.

There have been no clinical trials of mixing vaccines, but that hasn't stopped some countries from trying.

If you've previously recovered from Covid, you already have long-lasting immunity.