skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Houston Methodist, where 150 employees left from a work force of about 26,000 people, the hospital said that there had been little lasting effect on its ability to hire people. And when Texas was hit with rising numbers of Covid cases over the summer, the hospital found that fewer of its workers were out sick.

“The mandate has not only protected our employees, but kept more of them at work during the pandemic,” a hospital spokeswoman said in an email.

ChristianaCare, a hospital group based in Wilmington, Del., said on Monday that it had fired 150 employees for not complying with its vaccine mandate. But the group emphasized that over the last month it had hired more than 200 employees, many of whom are more comfortable working where they knew their colleagues were vaccinated.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/health/us-hospital-worker...
Even when they aren't nationalized they are more often than not subject to _very_ stringent regulations.
Ooooh...I think I saw this one in that James Bond film many years back...
I work for Cedalo AG developing Mosquitto. Cedalo will be offering a version of Mosquitto with failover support as a paid for feature soon.
Not working in the field at all, I completely agree! Well said.
Yes! There is a number of widely known inefficiencies (low vol, mid cap stocks, the trend following anomaly, long volatility oriented strategies...) that consistently produce better risk-adjusted returns. Some of them aren't really popular enough to stand out and reach their full capacity, others (trend following especially) are so counterintuitive that in practice almost no manager nor investor ends up being able to sustain the emotional pressure, eventually everybody cries uncle and there is no way the anomaly gets crowded enough to go away.
Are you sure it's MQTT adding the delay? From my experience that part is pretty much instantaneous, but processing though Home Assistant, and in my case zigbee2mqtt does add some delay.
Fair enough.

In regards to your point, using other backends other than LLVM and cargo having full support for binary libraries would solve a big part of the compilation time story.

In spite of its fame, C++ builds can be made relatively fast when using binary libraries, and even on its baby state, one can already notice some difference with modules workloads in Visual C++.

So I am still hopeful that Rust will improve its compilation story.
>Are you saying despite having higher returns, the higher risk makes this strategy worse? That really feels like handwaving to me, since the only thing I care about is ROI.

There’s lots of metrics that try to balance the risk and reward. Often, the risk is based on the volatility of the asset. The common alpha metric does this by incorporating the assets volatility compared to the overall market volatility. There’s others like Sharpe ratio etc.

Factoring that volatility is particularly important in long-term investing so your choices don’t, as you say, tank your investment. So maybe you interested in cyclicals over the last nine months and your investments went gangbusters. Does that mean that same strategy will work in perpetuity? Probably not, because cyclicals tend to have high volatility. Risk -adjusted metrics attempt to quantify that risk.
> She believed that if the vaccine was actually as great as they're saying they'd be able to make more objective goalposts and win arguments instead of stopping them because the other side is too stupid to make their own decisions.

The problem I see here is that the (I hesitate to call it this) anti-vax "side" has been shifting goalposts since day n-1. If you've ever talked to someone who's shifted goalposts you'll see it's essentially an impossible situation; you can't convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced.

If I'm remembering the timeline correctly, it started with the vaccine being rushed and that we were essentially being experimented on. It's been six months since I – and many others – have had their first dose and we're completely fine. Some claimed to be concerned about the long term effects; do you think they know what the long term effects of a serious covid case is? (hint: it starts with a d and ends with "eath")

Oh, but it's also not FDA approved. I haven't looked at the numbers, but I bet vaccinations haven't gone up significantly since FDA approval. Obviously it's because the FDA isn't to be trusted, that's a given.

At some point it was too hard to get- yes, that's true. However, now you can walk into a Target and decide to get the shot in the middle of a shopping trip! I did that with a Flu shot a few weeks ago and it took about five minutes.

In short, you cannot argue in good faith with someone who does not. I don't have a good answer to this – I really wish I did – but that's the reality of the situation.
"because gaming doesn't require you to sustain focus on detailed text for long periods of time"

Have you never played VR Zork? You haven't lived yet.
I use it for 3 months and never wanted to turn it off. I only use subscriptions and direct links and rarely trending. It's easier than I thought before.
Individual cost benefit analysis aside, normally vaccinated people would certainly feel safer and goes out more, offsetting the already meager reduction of transmissibility. (Certainly I don't have data to say if it is net benefit or not.)

If people really cares about the others, they should have had stayed home and eradicated the virus.

I would argue that having full scale lock-down and mass testing would be a lot less intrusive to one's liberty than using their jobs to coerce the injection of hastily made vaccine using novel technologies. But one isn't supposed to be following China's eradication strategy, or it would be undemocratic, right?

Not to mention the additional selection pressure due to leaky vaccines, but that's another story.

Disclaimer: I'm fully vaccinated.
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Yes. People weren't trying to censor each other so they were less pissed off.
I don't understand why people think it's a corporation's job to preserve knowledge for future generations. We have a government for that.
Google never signed up for that role I'm sure. And if we expect them to do that funnel taxpayer money to them. But honestly I don't want to live in a world where corporations provide these public goods.
> ...unless we are talking about VR, which is nonsense for a NES emulator anyway.
My wife’s theory is there would be less hesitancy if the vaccines were being distributed through people’s primary care physicians instead of at mass vaccination sites or Walgreens. People may distrust the media, the government and all sorts of other nebulous groups, but they largely trust their doctor.
Combating misinformation with more persuasive information takes about 10-100x more effort than putting out the original misinformation.
> I disagree.

Fair enough

> Gatekeeping people because they never learned about or worked with the VLANs found in more expensive hardware is stupid.

I'm not sure I agree with VLANs being limited to more expensive hardware. Like in comments, there are some very cheap switches (£40 netgear) that support it and tonnes of older managed switches on ebay for £10. I don't necessary think that a price-point is the gateway and didn't really mean to 'gatekeep' people.

> I agree that there is some minimum skill level people should have...

This was the point I was meaning, though maybe VLAN is not a globally perceived this way, I had thought it was a fairly core concept that I'd considered would be part of this, but maybe it's due to personal experience.. I'm absolutely sure there's tonnes of protocols that I don't know that other's would feel the same way the other way around. But hey, without the comment and this discussion being had, I wouldn't know if others felt the same way :) And I appreciate you writing the final paragraph, even if you overall disagree :)
Meanwhile in the Theranos thread next door… “What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn't do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.” Financial professionals do dumb things, sometimes en masse, and I think there are still some opportunities to make money if you have a good nose for BS/mass delusions.

However, the problem with this strategy is, as Keynes put it: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
>Yet New Zealand consistently tops Cato Institute's freedom index.

Well I'm sure those who got arrested for sharing the Christchurch footage (footage that was, btw, widely available and shared worldwide) will be happy to hear that. They may be in jail but at least the Cato institute declared that they were still living in a country that tops their index. An index that hasn't even changed or taken in consideration the extreme drift towards authoritarianism that we have seen in the 2020.
> Remove all medical recommendation and assertions from YouTube

Should videos with content like "abortion is a human right and here's where you can access it" be removed? Do you trust Google to decide in your favor every time and for all time?
Odd... it doesn't seem to show me HN links for the current page, at all. I tried it on a few top HN linked articles, and Ampie shows me only other pages on the domain, but not for the page in question. I had tweets show up for a few pages, but never the HN discussion (the 'other pages on the domain' do have tweets & HN links as expected)
Then don't listen to him, listen to the international consensus of leading health experts. That's a good guideline anyway.

They just happen to say pretty much the same thing.
I wish I could find the post now, but a few months ago on /r/science, research showed that people who didn't believe in global warming were more likely to change their minds when presented with balanced evidence for and against.

YouTube has no idea how damaging this is to the cause.

Folks who think that policy is a war do not understand people very well or are more interested in grandstanding and point scoring than changing minds. Viewing those who disagree with you as villains or children makes life harder for everyone.
"Someone want to throw out there a better way to combat disinformation than just armchair criticizing their decision?"

Yes. Combat disinformation by refuting it. This requires credibility, and censorship is one of the fastest ways to burn that down.
Unless his newly found fame attracts another group of more physical extraction "artists".
uBeam.
1. Masks: https://youtu.be/fT7BJWUt4w4?t=540 9:00 - 9:30

2. Lab Leak: I remember you basically couldn't even bring up the lab leak theory here on HN a year ago. I'm not going to be gaslighted in to thinking that the debate between "lab leak" and "meat market" was just people debating probabilities. No. If you brought up "lab leak" you were dismissed as an unscientific racist. That didn't happen with the meat market theory.

3. BLM protests: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/black-lives-matte...
https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/30/police-protests-coronavir...
plus a million other articles. If the BLM protests didn't spread covid, great. But, if that's the case, other outdoor events wouldn't have either. Yet they were still closing down beaches and parks. How can they do that without increasing people's skepticism.

> It's reasonable to say that people should focus on directing others to experts, and not and try to reinterpret or make predictions of their own.

Sure, that's perfectly reasonable to say. But that isn't the issue. The issue is forcing people who do voice their own skepticism out of public discourse, when even the main stream media can't agree week to week.
Some part of me still hopes to see something like Dylan becoming mainstream, and Ruby is probably the closest to it (alongside Julia).

Noticed for a while, before Swift was even an idea, Apple toyed with Ruby as the next Mac OS X language.

Things did not worked out as planned and the main designer created RubyMotion out of that effort.
Call it the church of Google(Faang?) if you will. They have real power over peoples lives and livelihoods. The church of Faang has a nice ring to it.
Alas, I wish it was, but it's not sensible. Govts run at enterprise scale, and need specialised software, and specialised services to manage that scale. And in some areas that simply doesn't exist as OSS.

So then you have to have your law carve out exceptions. Which means you need criteria to determine when you have to have OSS, and when you can use off the shelf.

Or conversely all Govts at every level need herds of programmers to tweak OSS code to make it fit. My city is 10000 people so we need a rate calculator that matches our bylaws, over there is a city of 1000000 people who need a very different rate calculator.

So every town has to hire a programmer to tailor some OSS program - but hey, we don't need every town to have a rates-calculator domain expert - we can say hire 10 of them between us, and split the cost. Yay, a central it dept, with builtin monopoly, at govt pay, can't be fired. What could possibly go wrong with this model.

No wait, we'll make them compete, pay them only for success, negotiate rates, and we end up with? A commercial proprietary software business that's motivated to deliver... With experts at doing this one task at scale. Rinse and repeat for hundreds and hundreds of departments...
The difference between you and a scientist is that the scientist very well may be wrong, but at least the scientist tries. If you don't like that uncertainty, Twitter is full of people who are very, very sure.
Lol, I know the feeling. My entire family looks at me as the "tech guy" because I'm a developer. Recently talking with my mother, she asked if I saw something on her FB and I reminded her that I refuse to use FB due to their data harvesting. It blows her mind that something so common and "techie" (to her at least) is so despised by me.
> A diesel powered train is still a train, even if the original trains were steam powered.

The new vaccine does the same job as the previous ones.

Your argument is something like:

"We were using a crude method to teach the immune system. We found a better, more precise method. This new method is new therefore it must be bad."

Using another analogy, it's like complaining that CDs are bad and that they're not actually disks, because you know, the original disks were using a mechanical principle to work while CDs use optical principles.

Definitions change, technology changes.

And "Big pharma" is the one also making the aspirin you most likely trust. Aspirin, paracetamol, heart drugs, etc.
I like to think that when you dismiss something as being ridiculous, you lose the possibility of integrating it into your body of knowledge. Cheers.
Honestly AWS has been a breeze for me and my team to setup and use. Now that we've been freed from the clutches of the Corporate IT Infrastructure team our productivity has been soaring while our costs have been nosediving. Yeah AWS isn't free, but it sure beats the alternative of Corporate IT Infrastructure and managing (and paying for) on-site licenses. For us AWS has been faster, cheaper, better! Obviously YMMV.
You realize we have more access to more raw information than we have at any point in the past.

Even 20 years ago, we just did not have the scope of information that we do now. Those sources you fear are getting censored, we'd never even know they exist before. It just wouldn't reach us.

Domain experts would hash out the wheat from the chaff. The plausible from the bunk.

Now people are getting their information from Joe Fucking Rogan of all people.
These are not lies, these are changes in our understanding of viral epidemiology that we have seen happen throughout the course of the pandemic, concomitant with the introduction of increasingly more contagious strains. Science has a lot of uncertainty in it and we’ve seen a lot of hypotheses refuted in the past year: surface transmission and microdroplets (actually mostly aerosol), mask inefficacy (they do work! mostly when everyone wears them), and herd immunity (probably harder than we initially expected). These are all things that were just poorly understood and understudied pre-pandemic. Our understanding of them is still rapidly developing and changing now. I realize it’s hard for the general public to understand, but science doesn’t know everything and we need to be able to accept when our understanding of something changes in light of new evidence.
I think the basic concept around truck ownership is as true now as it always has been: A truck can do everything a car can, but a car can't do everything that a truck does (at least not as easily or conveniently). Most people who buy trucks or similarly large vehicles with copious storage space do so because they think they might someday need to do one of those things.
> And what kind of medical doctor would not investigate a possible case of myocarditis (or any other kind of heart problems)?

One that fears ostracism from their peers or profession. In my region it's become heresy to even consider there may be risks to taking the "safe" vaccine.

I personally experienced this even before the vaccine's efficacy/safety was established when I expressed concerns about the medical industry's track record citing thalidomide (fetal deformities) and omeprazole (stomach cancer) as two cases where things were "safe" until they were not.
You don't get it because you agree with it. If it was your views being silenced you would suddenly remember how hard it is to create your own video platform that can compete with youtube (especially when the big tech monopolies will refuse services to you)
People also suffer 'long flu', study shows
I’ve worked on contracts for data integration projects for both financial and healthcare providers. There is a shocking lack of concern about code correctness, security, privacy, etc. And code quality? Pshaw, just pump out a solution, even if it’s a nasty hack instead of a well-considered solution.
How do we get these mirrored on Archive.org?

I noticed the Wayback Machine doesn't fare well with Tumblr and images.
Health insurance and other benefits add up.
> One thing I learned from the pandemic is that not all health/medical professionals are created equal, and that there is a large portion of very specifically trained and fairly uneducated people in the medical community.

I have medical professionals in my family. Your statement sums it up. In my experience, physical/occupational therapists are the most likely to believe in crazy stuff (from a medical standpoint). RNs come next. I'm sure there are people in between on that spectrum, but I don't interact with them much.
> there are reports now that teenage boys might suffer myocarditis from the Pfizer vaccine. Incredibly rare, but the risk is not zero.

Another interesting factor at play here is that some people prefer for negative outcomes to come from inaction than action. It's like the trolley problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem) when people try to evaluate morality.

In this case, they would rather not take an action (get vaccinated) if there's a chance of harm and would prefer inaction (don't get vaccinated) despite the higher statistical risk of bad outcomes.
Hannibal’s Engineers and Livy on Burned Rock and Vinegar – Truth or Legend?
Why not just publish as an adblock filter list? You really only need cosmetic filtering to do this (supported by adblock filters), and I don't want to worry about yet another extension going rogue and selling to some a shady company.
Yeah, most people tend to get squidgy about abstracts like "free speech" when the crazies come out of the woodwork and start calling for treason, mass deaths, and so on.
Apple Unveils Major Update to iWork
Why is it free at all? This should be charging money for the service from day one. Maintaining addons isn’t a charity.
Just to point out, the "war on drugs" is just slightly veiled systemic racism in both who is targeted and for how long they are put away. Just another way for a person of color to lose their voting rights by becoming a felon.

If the US really wanted to fight the war on drugs it would take a recovery approach and treat addiction like a disease.
After writing my comment and reading yours and thinking a while...

I think if somebody saw the first five songs of Hamilton, a few lines from thirty other songs, plus a four-measure theme for each character... it wouldn't matter what other non-Hamilton knowledge of the composers or cutting edge tools a person had; it would be impossible to write anything remotely close to the real Hamilton (even if you compared just the music without lyrics and knew the full dialogue). Maybe something cute and sometimes clever could be composed... but it wouldn't even be close to the real thing.

Though this music sample is interesting, there's total validity when people say that we can't call this THE finished version.

Even with a handful of dedicated experts working on this project, it can't possibly be close to the real thing if Ludwig had been able to finish this symphony.
/r/science has nothing to do with science and everything to do with whatever reddit's front page userbase needs to believe/ has been convinced to believe with ad dollars that month. It's a religion. Look at its usual submitters to see that it's a priesthood with its cult, not an open community. I say this as a non-vaccine-opponent (how ridiculous of a term is that?) Name-dropping it means nothing.
I like the idea a lot, but the execution on his website is horrendous.

This GDC presentation, featuring Mark Ferrari, shows how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4_3P2Oh14
Hi, I'm one of those people. I already had Covid before the vaccine, and have been exposed without reinfection since having it. I was neutral on the vaccine at the start, but now I'm only going to get it if I'm forced to. I'm not interested in being bullied into a choice that

a) could harm me, and is more likely to given my family history, and
b) there's conflicting evidence that it gives me any advantage over the immunity I already have.

If you'd like to change my mind, you can start by not threatening my livelihood, not calling me a murderer, and not treating me like I'm subhuman. Yes, I'm a little angry. Wouldn't you?
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" -Audre Lorde
Everything used to be less slick. Even huge store chains and brands look amateurish by modern standards, from as recently as the 90s. Some of it's explainable by changing fashion making those things look worse, but most of it's just that less was designed, and expectations for how (say) a Wal-Mart's exterior (and interior, for that matter) would look didn't include the whole building being "on brand", to pick one example.

I think graphic design becoming much faster and cheaper, and elaborate custom-designed and custom-printed/manufactured signage, wraps, et c., becoming far cheaper to make, is part of the cause.

I also suspect much of this is a very visible case of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs", specifically of the "zero-sum competition" variety—which makes sense, given the relation of this to marketing and ad-spending. I don't think Target having the entire facade of its buildings designed & built to be "on brand" does very much good of any kind, per se, nor do brand-driven price tag or end-cap sign designs and such, and the (apparently) increasing tendency to tear down rather than repurpose—I assume because making the old building fit your design system would cost about as much as building new, anyway, and if you build new you also get... a new building—sure seems socially harmful. However, they feel they have to, so they don't look shabby next to all their competitors.