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> I am as appalled by the mandatory vaccination push as the next guy.

What does this mean? Vaccine mandates for certain jobs and circumstances are what we are getting, and this is _not_ "mandatory vaccination".

And in fact these mandates enjoy broad support (1). Do you expect the people who agree to be shouting about this? Of course they are not. The only people worked up about it are the minority who don't like it, for various reasons, most of them IMHO misguided, factually incorrect, poorly evidenced, or coming from faulty understandings of relative risk. Echo chambers that make it feel that "people are with us" even with small groups with extreme positions are an unfortunate fact of modern online life. As is disinformation.

The next time that I am on an aircraft or in a restaurant, I would be very happy to hear that everyone else there, staff and customers, are also vaccinated. And that goes triple for if by some misfortune I have to go to a hospital.

I'm not asking that people "be forced to take a medication they don't want" (you are still mischaracterising it as "mandatory vaccination") but it's a stretch that they should ask to opt out of safety measures, and then still insist on being an ICU nurse. Sorry, no. Choices have consequences. it's just such an easily avoidable risk.

But what about their job? What about it? If truck driver goes blind, are you going to let them keep their job out of pity, never mind the damage that it will do?

Most people understand this logic. If you're "as appalled by the mandatory vaccination push as the next guy" then ... since the median next guy isn't appalled much, you aren't appalled much?

1)

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/09/16/polls-sh...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/poll-support-vaccin...

And plenty more evidence, at google: "vaccine mandate support"
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Suspect that "These organisms are not typically thought to spread through the air" was not evidence-based.
No you don’t ban by name like that.

A start might be to say: it is illegal both run a content platform and also to profit from the sale of targeted ads on your platform.

Or simply but more radically: you cannot use user data collected in the operation of a software platform in order to target advertisements to your users.

The goal would be to ban the bad incentives by eliminating the ability to profit. Yes that kills the profit. That’s the point. I don't think anybody is at war with e.g. a news site that runs an integrated ad on their headline or landing page or even a search engine that inserts its own contextual ads. We’re talking about dismantling the user content advertising platforms where the incentive becomes maximizing the time users spend on the platform.
False dichotomy argument. I'm perfectly happy if you get vaccinated at least once if you've been positive before, and largely leave any future boosters up to the individual.

Although since we're talking about heathcare in the title article, direct patient care should probably be vaccinated yearly. That's about it though.
Army 25P (microwave systems MOS) is still around iirc (at least in the Reserves), and speaking from personal experience, 25Q10EAC was still getting dedicated 10 week training on tropo and DGM enclosures in 2012 at AIT.

That EAC rider was certainly rare, but we were told tropo was still in play in South Korea, and as late as 2015, another company in my reserve ESB had a few tropo systems they were still maintaining and training on.

But yes, by and large, most microwave-based signal MOS were rolled into either point-to-point "multichannel transmissions" (25Q) by which a good part of your qualifications include deployment of satellite transportable trailers (STT), SMART/T systems (shared with the Marines),and the Phoenix system; and the dedicated SATCOM MOS (25S).
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"COVID-causing virus"

So.. COVID.
I may be wrong but I was under the impression that local law would have to be harmonized to comply with it in this case anyway. So at that point you have no contradiction of the two. That the local law would diverge instead sounds highly hypothetical.
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When one uses an existing word, it carries a lot of epistemic and ontological baggage, thereby causing trouble to those who are new to the domain. That’s why scientists go for a linguistic reform: invent a new word during a conceptual or scientific revolution. That’s how the word “Oxygen” replaced the old “Phlogiston”.
Boston resides at the mouth of several rivers. Studies have shown a correlation with such geographical location and a higher exposure to endocrine disruptors in the population.
Does Uber giving out free rides qualify as "tsunami of demand" or was it artificial demand?
Well the mission seems inherently political (economic freedom), so coinbase is asking its employees to take a myopic mission focused approach while simultaneously finding the mission inspiring politically and not mentioning politics at work.

Ultimately employees want more than just to punch the clock and pay their mortgage, especially SF knowledge workers.
It’s an interjection, usually comes before “sorry” or “excuse me”

I love this this video by a couple midwestern comedians poking fun at it:

https://youtu.be/qb_-taYLRfY
It's worse than that. A lot of these historical people that we idolize would probably find us dull and boring.

What kind of conversations could we hope to have with someone like von Neumann or Turing?
> i understand that even with modern cross-platform UI toolkits, like qt and wx, multi-platform development is more labor intensive than an electron app.

I don’t think this is a given, it only really becomes true if you have a need to control the UI down to the pixel, and if we’re being honest, very few developers actually need that. Your life as a cross platform dev becomes a lot easier when you accept that the UI will have minor platform-influenced deviations that ultimately have zero negative impact on usability.

That’s one of the reasons Sublime is been able to keep their boat floating — it doesn’t look and feel 100% the same between platforms and even adopts various platform-isms, like the text navigation key shortcuts under macOS.

The only reason “native-ish” cross platform UI frameworks are challenging to use is brand-driven UI design. Do as Google is suggesting they’re going to do and let brand take a back seat and things become a lot more simple.
Vaccinated people are also a risk to those around them. A lower risk, but still significant and with declining difference over time.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can. But in the long run everyone can expect to be exposed multiple times throughout their lives regardless of how many others are vaccinated.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
> An inexperienced dev who wants to learn also won't need to be forced to follow typing guidelines, we just have to explain it to them..

Any engineer who would be qualified to write these kinds of guidelines would tell you not to waste time drafting and enforcing guidelines because type checkers exist. And if they're a really good engineer, they'll politely rebuke you for attributing poor code quality to the author's moral character, as this is a self-limiting outlook and generally toxic behavior.
I think this is wrong. AFAIK satellites have never been a significant channel for domestic phone calls.

Microwave relays were obsoleted by fiber optics.
Find my can be disabled…

And it’s sole purpose is to help people find their devices, it’s saved many people i know from a very large catastrophe.
You might enjoy this TIME magazine slideshow: Inside the World's Most Humane Prison https://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1989083,0... about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halden_Prison

NYT also wrote a feature about it https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/magazine/the-radical-huma...
It's definitely legal in Russia to decompile something for the purpose of interoperability. Though you do have to remember that this is Russia, and the interpretation of laws changes depending on who and how rich you are.
In the 1920s, 3 and 12 channel frequency multiplexing on twisted pair was introduced. It made most single-channel long links obsolete within about a decade.

In the early 1930s, both time and frequency multiplexing were introduced on coaxial cable, carrying up to 600 channels per conductor, it rendered the above twisted pair multiplexed lines obsolete within about a decade.

c. 1950 microwave relay is introduced (the AT&T long lines in question here) and undergoes explosive growth, with the cross-continental system linking most major cities built by 1960, and reaching essentially every part of the country by 1970. Such links could carry hundreds of megabit/s worth of data (or multiple 6 MHz TV analogue channels). Much cheaper than coaxial, it largely halted new coax installations. It would remain dominant into the 1980s, so more like 20 years.

Fibre optic communication was introduced in the mid-1970s. Immune to atmospheric problems, less path loss, potentially capable of carrying far more data than microwave. It made most of the microwave systems obsolete by the 1990s.
If cities improved productivity by bringing more people in contact with each other, imagine everyone able to connect from anywhere. And without leaving their local communities, so there's no brain drain and less social atomization.
The only reason to start a tech company in CA was the proximity to talent and capital. I always found it funny that supposedly cutting edge high tech VC’s wanted you nearby when we had all the tools to base anywhere in the world. Seemed like they were unnecessarily limiting deal potential. Same thing with engineers.

Now that remote work has accelerated into the mainstream, there is zero reason to base in CA, and many reasons to go elsewhere.

Also, the CA of today is very different from the one that cradled the computing industry.
You're just stating obvious truths. The context makes it clear that you're attempting to diminish his accomplishments because he was born into privilege. I think they're still impressive, no matter his background. Not every discussion of a historical person needs to turn into a battle for equity.
VCs often get shares with (e.g.) 3x liquidation preference meaning that they should leave with max(3x value invested, num_shares x sale_price / total_company_shares), or less if the company didn’t sell for enough money to pay out that tranche and the more senior shares. For VCs, the point is that in a failed company, they get 0. In a medium-success they get up to 3x their investment a bit like buying a bond for 33¢ on the dollar, and in a massive success they get equity-like payout.

The problem is that if a company has a lot of shares outstanding with a high liquidation preference then outcomes that look like success to employees or founders may not result in those employees making much money, and the employees generally don’t know the relationship between how much the company is sold for and how much they get paid because it is confidential to the senior executives or investors.
> You can't decide where to deliver an item in any other way.

Only if you’re a robot, which postal workers aren't. They can use local context, such as no one lives at address X so they must have meant address Y. Or even, person at address X has a birthday this week, so this envelop that looks like a birthday card, and has their misspelled name on it, is obviously for address X not address Y.

I’ve had our friendly postal worker deliver post correctly to me, despite having a throughly munged and incorrect address, because she recognised my name, and knew someone with a similar name didn’t live at the more obvious interpretation of the incorrect address.

So address parsing and mail delivery is an extremely human and imprecise process. Full of nuance and edge cases that can’t even be observed, unless you actually follow the humans making deliveries and see what they’re doing.
The selection process is described in details here: https://www.fdl-lef.org/process/

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the members of the selection committee. Ask me if you need more clarification).
HIV is to AIDS as SARS-CoV-2 is to COVID
Launch the waste into space.

We sure as hell will never use the rockets for human panspermia if we keep expecting to power all this crap we throw out
Off topic:

Unfortunately I can only use windows 10/11 as AMD has no driver for RAID on Linux. https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-strx4/trx...

Using Asus hyper with 4 nvme drives on RAID. Anyone else in this situation?
That may be true for some equipment in the miltary. The ones I'm talking about were standalone and portable, for use in a war zone. The only connections they would make to non-military equipment was after the voice/data was de-muxed into channels. That could be connected to phone lines, etc. Typically, though, pretty far downstream after passing through different equipment.
It's not really opposites, though. Private media is highly centralized, and the people involved are also highly involved in politics (Rupert Murdoch, for instance). In China, high up party members are generally very wealthy, and wealthy people generally are highly involved in the party, so it's the same politically-well-connected elite that would be involved in media in the west in any case - it's just backed up by formal censorship, explicit government rule, etc.

China is more extreme, and more explicit about the link between politics and media, but it's broadly speaking the same system.

PS: this is especially true of countries like the UK, where extremely stringent and abusable libel laws regularly cause financial troubles for small presses that upset powerful people.
It seems to me, from reading the charts, that it still follows power law distribution, just with different cities. In other words, the labor dynamic that creates super star cities are still very much in place, just with new cities. Is that a fair reading?

Also, tangentially, what statistics should I calculate if I want to measure how "concentrated" the distribution is? The first thing that comes to mind is Gini coef, does that apply here or is there something else? The question I'm trying to answer is if the jobs are more dispersed among different cities or concentrated - assuming the cities themselves don't matter.
> with the ability to work and live in the EU country of their choice,

I have to ask what is stopping someone in the UK from doing that post-Brexit? I imagine there's more paper-work, but that doesn't sound like a hardship? Feels extreme to move your whole family just to reduce the minor frictions.

Glad it worked out for you though.
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It became a bit of a pattern recommendation on Hacker news to do this and I think its ultimately wrong. Make it easy to minimally sign up but it has to come along with some reassurances too and if there isn't enough information up front about what the thing is and what will happen to that email address it turns into an anti pattern and a big warning sign.
Author here, thanks for the thoughts!

> could be more helpful if it included more realistic numbers.

Any ideas on where to find these? While there's a lot of info out there on valuations most datasets have the problem of hindsight bias, especially missing data at the pre-A round.

> only 2 startups are compared in the NPV calculation. What about joining a BigCo / FAANG?

My original model was actually a FAANG vs two startup model (I left Apple) but it gets too complex to try to explain it in a post that's aimed at the stock options 101 crowd.

> the math gets slightly better if you assume you leave after some amount of vesting.

100%, although that's tough to model without just adding an arbitrary cutoff.

> https://tldroptions.io/

Thanks, I did not know about this tool!
Only one way to find out: get sued by a foundry and wait for the court's opinion.
I've mentioned this several times, but people must think it ruins your credit rating or something. Whatever. Their loss.

Go to privacy.com, and you can set up a temporary credit card with preset limits on spending. You want to cancel some service, just close the card. Now you're in control. The sticky company will figure out for itself that you're done with them, believe me.

They also notify you whenever someone uses the card, so you can't forget about your subscriptions.

They will say "yes" to whatever name & address they're given, so you don't even need to provide your real name & address when you subscribe. Obviously you could have a fake email address, too.

Privacy? That costs $10/month. I don't have it, and the real transactions do appear on my bank statement. But it's free. If you buy the privacy option, then they make up fake names for the vendors.
You're now doing up to 3x the work for every login. When servicing millions of requests a second, that cost adds up.
You’re saying they should just roll over and take what is offered?
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> over the last 50 years

This goes back to the Enlightenment, and has historically been considered a good thing when contrasted to state or church doctrines.

Happy to help.
Does it do a kind of raid that Linux software raid doesn’t support?
There is one along the road on my way to work. It's still used, but the microwave horn antennas have been replaced by cellular network antennas.
I find the jurisdictional issues interesting as well. He is not a U.S. citizen, he was not in the United States.

Obviously, I would propose that someone who hacks U.S. interests having never set foot in the United States should be held accountable by U.S. courts, but he was even on the fringe of that in the promotion of it.
If you do not want to send them in plain text you can use SCRAM.
I didn’t understand a word
It's called "Shareholders' Agreement". Any lawyer can get it for you for couple thousands dollars (CA prices), it's very common.

Probably you can talk them to just send you a template, and you will fix it for your purpose for less than $1k.
I never even realized it was a midwest thing. It's kind of like oops, whoops or excuse me.
One man's exploit is another man's accessibility feature.

Exploits by themselves aren't good or bad - their use for malicious purposes is.

See also: adversarial interoperability.
Wow only learning that now. I thought the project got abandoned

Thanks for the update!
While many others would prefer the other way around.

There's no inherently better model. Someone might prefer flexibility over ambition. Others ambition over flexibility.
By “orders of magnitude”

not exponentially

Say it with me so we can normalize this usage
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In the US, the terminology goes like this:

The "office" is the building, the "wire center" is the collection of circuits that terminate in a given location, the "frame" is physical hardware that holds those circuits and a group of staff who service them, the "exchange" is a legal and software concept for lines with a particular billing (local vs toll-call) relationship to each other, and the "switch" is hardware that implements the exchange among other things.

These all refer to subtly different things. One office can have several exchanges in it. One exchange can be served by multiple switches, or one switch can serve several exchanges. Office consolidation can mean multiple wire centers in one office. And larger offices often have multiple frames which have multiple frame techs working them because they're a long walk from each other.

Also within the office is transport equipment, historically called "toll" equipment since calls leaving the office were expensive, but that's very much a legacy term at this point. Transport equipment is transparent both to call routing and data traffic, so you don't see it on a billing statement or traceroute or whatever, but in any given office, the transport (and associated cross-conneect) equipment probably outweighs the switch by an order of magnitude.

Within a CLLI code, the first eight characters are the office, then the next three are the exchange. For instance, DTRTMIVTDS0, is the DTRT MI area, VT office, DS0 switch. Historically there was another switch in the building called DTRTMICG0, but it's been decommissioned and the lines moved to DS0. Transport equipment has CLLI codes too but outsiders seldom see them.
“The manager is the dynamic, life-giving element in every business”

At best this self-glorification applies to physical work like an Amazon distribution center, where one indeed needs direct people skills of a certain kind.

It applies less to intellectual endeavors in general.

It does not apply at all to software development, where a plethora of successful projects proves the direct opposite. It happens, of course, that projects succeed despite the manager, who still gets the credit.

Fred Brooks' works apply to software, not Peter Drucker's.
I think the metric used by the humanity is simple: if something can talk to us, it is sentient. If something can't talk to us, it is not sentient.

I suppose many will be hugely surprised to realize the emergence of highly developed artificial intelligences, capable of many things but unable to talk.

They'll probably end having a loooong debate - decades? - discussing if the (new) things around us are sentient or not.

Tip: humans think slowly
Thanks for clarifying. It's been a while since I lived in Texas. I also recall being taxed yearly on my cars to pay for the schools, which was not onerous but struck me as unusual. Is that still a thing?
THey don't actually own many (most?) of them anymore. Most have been sold and are owned by a handful of "tower operating" companies who will lease space on the tower. The ones in areas with no other market for radio towers have been/are being scrapped.
IMO Mr von Neumann was the most brilliant person of the 20th century
This is the first time I read this and I'm very surprised that it is the case. Would you have a source I could read to learn more about this.
Why does “The VC market has never been more founder-friendly” contradict the statement above that the outcomes are not so good for employees (who aren’t founders)? Perhaps the VC market became founder-friendly by transferring upside from employees to founders. Or perhaps some other mix.
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Author here - happy to answer any questions!

I'm planning to write a more advanced version of this article in a few months, discussing tax implications, the "should I exercise my options" question, etc.
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> The PhD requirement is for sitting on the selection committee only.

Yeah... but why? What attribute do you think is unique to people with PhDs?
I'm sorry if this violates HNews rules.

Fuck you. Fuck you from the bottom of my heart.
How many more Von Neumanns would we have if more people had a similar environment?

Beyond that, yes he was incredibly accomplished, very prolific, and supremely intelligent, but it is important to remember that he was still human and not some kind of transcendant being outside of earthly considerations.
Yeah I was worried about that part giving offense, but the sentiment became a lot longer when shifted from “language that nobody uses” to “language that I can't convince any employers to let me use because they are worried about hiring problems” lol