skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Workers and passengers age 12 and older on trains, planes and marine transport operating domestically - which are federally regulated - must show they have been inoculated by Oct. 30.

International flights are still a free-for-all.
It's the most crass, base form of rent-seeking I've seen from a YC company.

No wonder they got funded...
What's funny is that the "customizable ports" are really just... nested dongles. They all use USB-C (or thunderbolt 3? not sure) and just have enough space for USB-A, SD cards, HDMI, etc. That's a pretty powerful thing that thunderbolt enables.

What's wrong is Apple's "all thunderbolt 3" approach to laptop connectivity. Nobody wants a ton of dongles hanging off of their laptop.
That isn't it at all.

The two forms of immunity work differently. COVID infection may be mild or asymptomatic, but represents a threat of significant illness or death. The result of coronavirus infection generates immunity which works directly against a broad ranch of viral features and lasts 1.5 to 2 years. One of the factors involved with so called long COVID is infection causing an immune reaction to the body's own ACE receptors.

Viral immunity does have some risks, but they are fairly well understood, happen at extremely low frequency, and are most often exhibited within 15 minutes of administration which allows for precautions to be taken. The resulting immunity is specific to those parts of the virus targeted by the vaccine, but this generates very high titers which can be extremely effective in fighting infections.

Furthermore, it is important to understand that a large portion of the population has suppressed immunity and may not develop strong immunity from infection while also being at greater risk for negative outcomes. This is the population currently being urged to get vaccine boosters in order to reduce risks.

Projecting dislike for the drug industry onto this science can distort important judgements.
I wonder if more bioavailable B vitamins from a meat-heavy diet has anything to do with it.

Vegetarian diets, as I understand the common saying, need to actively contain or be supplemented with B vitamin sources.

If you're veg but live on nutrient-poor junk food, I could see nutritional deficiencies entering the mix. I think it's relatively uncontroversial that malnutrition has mental health side effects.
Incredibly discriminatory as it favors those with lots of spare cash. Completely elitist, almost Neo-feudalist in nature.

Pretty solid take on all of this: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1445902596653260800
It’s more like your neighbor put his social security number on a big sign in his window and then another sign that said “please don’t look at the other sign.”
This is going to heavily bias the job market in favor of people who have wealthy contacts willing to throw down money.

This might not seem quite as dystopian from the lens of just high paying silicon valley software jobs for in demand people. But imagine this system applied everywhere - it's horrendous.
Well, if you consider animal life to be valuable, it makes sense you that consider raising cattle for food similarly to how one would consider slavery today, and be disgusted by the results of that process.
If it was required to enable billions more to be born, in some sense billions more deaths can eventually be attributed to it.
"exponential growth is going to come to an end"

We're literally just hitting the part of economic development where the highest impacts to output are not resource intensive but rather intellectual property intensive, and also difficult to measure by a traditional measure like GDP. How do you measure the economic impact of say, wikipedia, in terms of GDP? Its free, it raises funds only through donations, and it has immense value. We're just getting started with exponential growth, and we're just getting started because we're finally decoupling growth from physical resources
Let's keep burning as much coal as possible then, to ensure we get to this point even faster.
Panaracer T-Serv Messenger bike tires are what you're looking for. They're lighter than the gatorskins and work incredibly well. I rode one pair until the tread was gone in SF (several years) and never got one flat tire.

https://www.panaracerusa.com/collections/commuter-city/produ...
I would never put down $50 for even my best coworker because there's no reason for me to assume the new employer will be good or the job will be good. So many jobs end up being a bad experience for reasons entirely out of the new hire's control. Putting other people's money on their shoulders is just additional stress for someone in a tough transitional period.
But it really is just buying jobs. For many people, the $50 minimum is nothing. For most people (in the US anyway), it's more than you'd be willing to invest in any coworker, no matter how good they are. And for many people, it's the difference between paying rent or not.

The kid from a rich family will have no problem getting his parents, and family friends to slap $50 down. The kid who grew up in public housing? Not gonna happen.

I want to like the idea. Having a better way to connect likely-qualified candidates and jobs is a good thing. But a set amount of money really isn't a good guarantee of anything.
To be blunt: so what?

I just saved $500K per annum for a customer, after working on the most critical part of a merger between two 10K-user organisations, and I get less then half that.

It's not like it's impossible to get someone that knows how to optimise infrastructure or do complex projects for less than a decent chunk of a million dollars a year! Like other people have commented, they're often making just tens of thousands in Europe, despite having comparable education, experience, and English language skills...
So you think hunters and people tend livestock eat less meat?
How much time for that? How big can that scale?

To give an idea of the current trend, every single day, near 100 million barrels of oil are produced. Each of those barrels make between 500 and 750kg of CO2 equivalent (source https://carnegieendowment.org/2016/02/09/breaking-down-barre...)

And that only counts as fossil carbon from oil (gas and coal should be added), that has been going for decades (at a slower rate, in 1998 it was 73 million of barrels/day, still a big number). And positive feedback loops are adding new carbon to the party as coming from permafrost thawing and other sources in increasing volumes, as the planet warms up.

So for making the trick carbon capture should not only offset what is being produced in that moment, but capture everything ever emitted till reaching an amount below the one we had in preindustrial times. And keep it that way for enough time to undo the warming and try to shutdown the bad feedback loops.

Creating synthetic fuel from captured carbon doesn't lower the amount of carbon in the system (once it is burned as fuel, at least), but if it is used instead of pumping out fossil fuels, at least will accelerate less the amount of carbon we still add to the atmosphere.

Having a small scale demo doesn't mean that it will be ever feasible a production of the size and the speed that will be needed.
You must not know what real authoritarian regimes are like, Hyperbole Person.
Your right to emigrate is not meaningfully impaired, for the same reason that it isn't meaningfully impaired by the requirement that you wear shoes at the airport.
By your logic citizenship should then be granted to anyone deciding to go live in another country. Either that or country should prevent immigrants from moving there.

There are people who, during their lifetime, live on different countries. So according to you someone who lives in four countries should change nationality three times?

> I think it's even perfectly valid for nations to ban dual citizenship itself.

Some do, some don't. In doubt I always vote for the option giving the individual more freedom: so even though I don't hold dual citizenship, I'm glad for those who do (except when it's US + another one and the US one proves to be a pain when living outside the US, as is the case in TFA).

> What interest of a nation does it serve to cater to these people that have left for greener pastures?

All I see is a free individual telling her tale.

BTW you used the term "rootless cosmopolitan" to describe her: apparently that's some soviet-era antisemitic insult.

The evil free individual, how dared she abandon the nation state?
Ignoring for a second that of the top 3 best selling SUVs in the US, the top two share a platform with sedans that weigh nearly the same amount, have the same engine options, and have very similar Cds ...

None of those physics issues are specific to SUVs. Even full size SUVs end up on shared platforms with full size sedans, with "reasonably close" weights (essentially take a well optioned sedan and it weighs around what the base SUV version does)

With the focus on all of these automakers on modular platforms, we've reached the point where even the largest SUVs could meet the exact same standards their sedan counterparts do and not really change at all.
24th amendment...
A college ID seems much easier to fake than a state issued ID card to me.
Yes but there's also plenty of evidence to suggest that simply getting covid is enough to get better immunity against future infection. This article leads you to believe that it's recovering from covid + getting vaccinated == super-immunity, but I suspect the "getting vaccinated" part is not the significant factor in this equation.
According to the Halide II App Store landing page[1], a one time purchase is $50. Whether or not it's easily accessible in the app is another story.

> In-App Purchases

1. Yearly $11.99

2. Monthly $2.99

3. One Time Purchase $49.99

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halide-mark-ii-pro-camera/id88...
I thought you were kidding, but I checked, and sure enough at the bottom:
"This study was funded in part via an unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. The sponsor of the study had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report."

Maybe not, but how likely is it that they'll continue funding more studies if you come back with results that don't support more beef consumption?

Sorry, don't mean to be overly cynical, but <gestures around at basically everything>.
I've been using a 2015 macbook pro for 6 years or more now. Still works great, to be honest it works so well I actually can't justify upgrading to a framework laptop running Linux.

Maybe when Apple abandons it for macOS upgrades in a year or two I'll give up on it.
> if I'm eating vegan it's because I don't want to eat meat, so why would I eat something that goes out of its way to be like meat

Sameish situation here, but I can't agree. I love plant-based "meats", because meat taste and texture is not at all why I want to eat less meat.
Good point. If you are concerned with animal well-being, you are probably concerned with environmental issues as well, and it is hard to not be depressed in that case.
A thousands times less people? It would be excruciatingly boring.

Even now at the peak of cultural and technological production it feels really slow (How many really great movies or song per year? Maybe 1 or 2? Mathematical proof? Simply finding an acceptable lover?)
Time to plant a forest the size of England in the centre of Australia then. We can pump and desalinated the water for 100 years on solar and eventually it'll just do it itself
Vaccines are free and we do everything we can to make them easy to get, whereas getting ID that's acceptable for voting has many hurdles that can be insurmountable for many people. Born in another state and lost birth certificate in a move? Well, time to take a trip to your birth county and get a certified copy of your birth certificate. Work 9-5 Monday-Friday? Better hope you have a vacation day you can use to go down to the DPS/DMV/RMV/etc.
Yeah but not really the featured nation. The vast majority of Canadians -- >80% of adults -- are in favor. We don't want any more lockdowns and vaccines are proving to be an extremely effective solution to that.

This is really a case of a vocal minority putting up a fight. And unfortunately for them, the nation is going to keep moving forward.
The idea of voter ID is to ensure the voter is:

1. a citizen with the legal right to vote

2. a resident of the district the vote is cast in

My dad moved around a lot (Air Force) and I learned from him that to avoid trouble with the state tax people,

1. register to vote

2. get a driver's license

3. vote

to establish a residency for tax purposes. Otherwise, you can get dinged for taxes from multiple states.
clearly mentions "Funded by Beef Association". Sample size is 91.8% meat eaters. Clearly Biased. Be smart #GoVegan #MeatCausesCancer

1. World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/cancer-carcinogenic...
2. https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/1in3cancers/lifestyle-choic...
What's the general jurisprudence in Canada on religious exemptions and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Yet we refused to accept that Twitter/FB are public squares. "Just stop using it" or "It's a private company, they can ban anyone they like". Well, how is it not a public square when often official government agencies publish information exclusively on Twitter, which is starting to require accounts with phone numbers?

I see these contradictory narratives on HN.
My props to the D2R team for this detailed explanation.

I rarely see a proper breakdown and explanation of issues causing downtime to a game, especially while mitigation is still under way.

Too many companies hide behind a PR-friendly non-explanation, and I expected the Diablo 2 Resurrected Team to do the same (being Activision-Blizzard and all).

If this were one of their big title releases though, I bet such a post would not have happened.
That there's a massive conspiracy by Big Pharma to make colossal profits in the form of ~$30/vaccine, and that this is a waste of public money.

Instead, we as a society could save a lot of money by eating anti-parasitical drugs that don't work[1], or by getting sick, and potentially hospitalized for COVID. (Because even a brief a hospital stay won't trivially run into $XY(Z),000 billing. [2])

[1] And are, uh, also made by Big Pharma.

[2] Much of it also going to, of course, Big Pharma.
money is not real, resources and people with skills are, and we have existing nuclear engineers that shouls be busy building new reactors.
I want to be able to have an affordable repair option if I spill coffee on my laptop 6 months in.

This sentiment is pretty universal, you don't hear about it much because consumers don't think they have a choice. If you go into an Apple Store with a Macbook whose keyboard doesn't work because of spilt coffee, Apple can charge you whatever they want, and theres proof that they will frequently (unintentionally or not) misdiagnose a problem and quote you 80% of what you initally paid to replace everything.

What framework is doing is enabling customers to go to any repair store around the corner to get their device fixed for a fraction of the cost.
I call BS, netflix is as popular as ever for holding on to the american ideals of free speech
I’m just here for the confirmation bias, but seriously as others have noted this study was funded by an organization that benefits from this headline being true.
Good point. I wish people would apply your insight to housing. Denser housing leads to HIGHER prices, not lower prices. Look at NYC or Hong Kong.
WebOS was the best interface and every other interface has spent the last decade slowly catching up.
Without 4680 Cells, Tesla May Have Created a Structural 2170 Battery Pack
Is this Chris from https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview trying to save himself and others from Haskell types?
I mean, it's just theism. Atheism is the rejection of this belief.

I think it's a pretty logical step from this to, if our origin is unknown there are two options: 1) Our origin was an accident (and whatever creative force there was was undirected and intentionless), this logically leads down the road to nihilism. 2) Our origin was purposeful (and the creative force behind us was directed and intentioned), this logically leads to some kind of religion.
> Pilots and aircrew are not federal employees

Canada has a few industries that are 'federally regulated' (e.g. overtime rules, etc.) and transportation is one of them.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/jobs/workplace/federally-r...

Results in some funny situations like truckers not getting provincial holidays. And some holidays are federal only (so you get it if you're a federal employee or in one of those few federally regulated industries).
Hiring people based on how many friends-with-money-to-burn they have is going to be extremely discriminatory.

E.g. in the US this is usually how we hire the President. The best fundraisers climb the party ranks and get the job. 98% of hired Presidents have been well-connected, rich, white men.
Asking for money from candidates as a pay-to-get-hired scheme is evil for the same idea that unpaid internships are evil. Taking it to the next level, it's offering jobs to people with wealth who have networks with wealth. Hyper-discriminatory.

There used to be a time when companies saw employees as long-term assets, to be invested in, educated and trained, given space to grow and learn. Here, they're seen as such liabilities that they need to mitigate the financial risk a company could possibly take, but still ultimately be as disposable as ever.
A Game Designer’s Analysis of QAnon (2020)
It seems like this is a recipe for being hungry. The only products they reviewed were products that no one advertised in their magazine?
I mean isn't the concept fascinating? If you were guaranteed an extra year of life after stuffing a pint of little timmy's homemade rocky road ice cream up your butt, would you do it?
This is a very interesting line of reasoning, particularly the "high bandwidth connection" kind of criteria. Our native five senses can be augmented with high-capacity links to all kinds of sensors and actuators. Where is the boundary when we can plug things into our brains with as much bandwidth and precision of control as our native limbs? Cyborgs...

Ok, too much Ghost in the Shell for now. :)
> distributed

I’d prefer a mainframe.
enjoy eating your bugs
Nothing new though. Check the recent batches of YC. They have been funding meaningless, ridiculous products/companies like these because the people involved in these "startups" have a "diverse" background. I am not making this up to create outrage, you will find it yourself once you start looking at the compaines and the founders and people involved.
They claim to verify that all the money comes from former coworkers not friends and family.

I feel like many people have judged without really understanding the details.
For those into video games, roleplaying, LARPs, etc. this is an incredibly fascinating breakdown of how QAnon reaches virality by using the approaches that make those games fun. Really interesting comparison of two (seemingly) very different worlds.
Many (most?) meat eaters are deficient in nutrients their body needs. The USDA found that only about 3% of people get their daily recommended amount of fiber. Eating meat doesn’t mean you get what your body needs
Sure. A somewhat good TC maximization strategy for a desirable IC is to join a company, wait a year to see how the stock does; if it went up a lot, ride out the four-year grant. If it's down, switch employers.

> That's ignoring extra (~10% of base) for on-call compensation.

What FAANG companies do this? I haven't heard of it.

> There's a company in FAANG known for their frugality famous for not offering refresh "because the stock price is doing so well",

To be clear: Amazon does this. They also value their stock packages to the expectation their stock will grow 15% YoY. It means their offers are inflated relative to the same nominal figure from other employers.
I would totally not expect an old white guy politician to be up on web protocols. No worries about that.

He either has staffers who told him the real issues and he discounted them to score points, or hired incompetent staffers who gave him B.S., or he hasn’t found anyone to give him the real info. Those are the disqualifiers.

Memories of Mitt Romney appearing to actually dig into tunneling and adhesives during an investigation of Big Dig flaws in Massachusetts. He might have been posturing but at least it was the right posture.
Maybe we are having different ideas about what is being discussed, but in Java and C# (arguably the most mainstream languages) you have the same experience supported natively via annotations and attributes.
I would reverse the causation. People become vegans because they are highly empathetic and emotionally driven - this personality type also is more susceptible to anxiety and depression
I do. They often start by restricting the right to exit and assembly of stereotyped groups.
It creates various perverse incentives, so even if it might work if all the involved parties are well-behaved, it pushes the situation towards people not "behaving well", at which point the proposed system would not get good results.

It incentivizes abusive companies to fire people quickly after firing - most companies do it, but some do; and the proposed system would increase that.

It incentivizes behind-the-back deals with ex-coworkers, stressing ethics and relationships.

It incentivizes inequality - it gives an advantage to people with a wealthy "support network" and creates a barrier to people who don't have one, if a company prefers to do hiring this way.
Thought recently seen somewhere but don’t know who to credit:

If nuclear power were just discovered yesterday, we’d all be hailing it as the miracle to solve climate change.
Bugs in Our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning
This should be in the headline.
Show HN: Atomd v0.2.0 – Markdown Lexer and HTML Parser
Designed this to give "atomic" control over every tokenization and substitution.

Finally have some good unit testing and workflow in place, so looking for bugs!
Imagine you and a bunch of other people at your company can all chip in and convince that person no one can stand that you can get them a better job guaranteed at another company as long as they apply. Would you? How much would you pay to get rid of that bad apple that seems to stick around?

Let someone else fail upwards at another company for less than the price of the party you throw once you get rid of them!
This is such a tone deaf idea its kinda disappointing YC incubated it. Somebody coming from a poor (or absent) family would have a harder time breaking into the tech fields with this added on compared to somebody coming from a rich or even middle class family.

Somebody job seeking after a 2 year long recovery from serious illness wouldn't have the connections to their old co-workers or bosses to crowd fund this, and wouldn't have the liquid cash flow to do it themselves.

It unbalances access to jobs by family wealth and creates yet another:tm: skip annoying thing if you are rich enough and/or have enough friends who are rich enough.

The return on investment aspect would just get gamed by companies being excessively selective on which candidates they allow to stay past 2 months.

And finally it extends the worse thing that exists in our society: "It's easier to make money if you have money."

This is what creates and enforces our class system, this is what makes it harder for historically disadvantaged groups to get a head, and such a product would just extend this, while benefiting the company.

The anger is justified, such systems can not be allowed to exist.