skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The budget is enough to cover the majority

Majority, yes, but not all.

> Like the Supreme Court observed, the decision to exclude those under 45 was arbitrary and irrational.

I don't disagree there.

> Again, SII was sitting on 50 million doses in January. Why did the government not procure them? Why did the government resort to piece-meal purchase orders?

Actually the govt did commit to buy 60 million, as the link I shared mentioned. As to why it did not buy outright, I'd guess it's because it didn't need them when only FLWs were being inoculated. Maybe the storage and transportation infrastructure was also not in place, but I'm just speculating here.

Edit: another reason (which I just read in an article) to order piecemeal, was apparently to keep options for other vaccines open as and when they became available. At the time there were quite a few possibilities - Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax IIRC. In hindsight this was suboptimal as Pfizer and Moderna had committed their supply elsewhere and Novavax was not completed in time.

> The US on the contrary ordered 300 million vaccines at once

Did they also pay in advance for all 300 million?

> SII did not get 3000 crore advance for the government till end of April.

SII asked for that amount only in the beginning of April[1], so that's not that much of a delay.

1. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/outstretched-sii-c...
A whole lot of states have been proposing all different changes. This site had a list of all the proposed changes back in 2019, I wonder what it looks like now.
https://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_usa07.html
I'm afraid that's not what I've seen. So far there have been several studies by professional researchers that got published using VAERS data which were then forcibly retracted (against the will of the researchers themselves), the stated grounds being that they were "correlational". The message is clear now - you may not use VAERS or equivalent data for anything, regardless of who you are.

W.R.T. just days: indeed, they collect other reports. However within 1-3 days seems to be most common. Reports are strongly weighted towards happening quickly. See the histogram here:

https://openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality
GitHub degraded performance – resolved
Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?
I'm a long time Roku fan but also feel they're in the wrong here. Mostly I'm angry because I feel captive; I bought my TCL TV explicitly because it had the Roku OS. It's great! Right until it can't show the one content site I most want to see because of some stupid business argument. I feel like a sucker for paying for Roku.
And there's a fair bit of competition: Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson and Johnson, plus the 88 other ones in various stages of development: https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/...

If there were an easy route to a durable vaccine, I can't imagine that someone wouldn't have tried to take over that entire market instead of settling for a drip here and there. You could charge a lot more (see also: SMA and Hepatitis C treatments) and the value to the brand ("From the people who ended the pandemic...") would be amazing.
The main reason more people aren’t using crypto is because transactions are slow and expensive. This doesn’t solve either of those problems.
I often pretended I did not know something because then I would have had to do that something every single damn time.
Do something you like. If you do, there is a good chance you’ll rise at the top 30%

If not, you risk being at the bottom 30%.
> We are only a few months away from a global launch and we are running field tests in many locations around the world. In these field tests, people are waiting hours to receive their free share of Worldcoin [...].

Using dark patterns like artificially limiting supply before the product is even released to create an illusion of demand pretty much says everything you need to know about this. There are no interesting new concepts here, except that in addition to being yet another bogus coin, you're also expected to give up your biometric data.
the explosion of threads is because of twitter's algo...

to view a thread, you have to interact with a tweet. this interaction drives metrics that results in the tweet showing up more frequently in the algo-feed. the multi-post nature of a thread means there are more opportunities to "like/retweet" - which also drive the algo-feed.

all this increases follower count... and an audience (that's soon to be easily monetisable on twitter) is far more valuable than a blog... unfortunately
> The younger generation is also familiar with the “memento Ruby” argument. “The decision to learn a new language is about career planning and risk diversification. Just look at Ruby,” Michał says.

It's funny, while community interest in Ruby peaked around 2012, industry adoption and usage of Ruby at startups and in enterprise is higher right now than it ever was, so this whole "remember Ruby" trope is such a farce.
What if we kept standard time year round but you were allowed to change your work schedule from month to month as the seasons changed?
I agree that Twitter is a poor medium for writing. But Twitter gives you an audience (and retweets).

A recent discussion on Hacker News on Medium had a number of posters say that without a presence on Medium they would not have found exposure for their writing [1].

If the platform gives you an audience, you can't underestimate that appeal for authors of any topic.

I started writing a blog on a niche topic in 2007 and continued writing fairly regularly until 2013. Why did I stop? Simply because hardly anyone was reading the blog!

At first, I convinced myself I was writing for myself and an audience was not important. But over time, I came to realise that, although the size of the audience was not important to me, the interest and engagement of readers did matter (especially for a blog with a very niche topic). Hardly any readers commented on my blog posts (which was important to me).

Today, there are lots of blogs - mostly corporate blogs writing about their products, or single author bloggers trying to establish their "personal brand". The writing style is often inflated, formal, corporate-sounding: in short, simply bland. What's gone is the more personal voice of an author - more common when personal blogging was more prevalent. I think the heyday of personal blogging is mostly over. And that's a shame.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493431
From a UX standpoint, for the writer, threads a great way to spin off thoughts without caring about the long-format.

Maybe there's an opportunity for existing blogging platforms to pick up this cue. Provide an app or experience that makes punching in a bunch of thoughts quick and easy then publish it as one post.
But is the best way to keep a systemic off by one error for ever? Is this really the only way to allow people to get out of work earlier?
Net positive impact including the "usage" of 372000 liters of water per hour [1].

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/372-000-liter-pro-stu...
"It could be that the purpose of your study is only to serve a a warning to others."
Do you really need a reader that is too lazy to click on your article? And from the reader point of view, I assume that whatever is written in twitter threads is not really that important, since the authors could not be bothered with writing in a proper and discoverable form.
> Too bad that seems impossible to effectively implement at scale

That is the problem. It's an unsolvable problem for the near+ future - unless we shift so much power from the public to the powerful that they can silence the public on a whim.
The «wh» in words like when, why, what can be pronounced as a voiceless labial–velar fricative (IPA sign: ʍ).

For more detailed explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_%E2%9...
Thanks a lot again, that was a great explanation. I see what you mean now by "pipelines whose contents dynamically extend the pipeline".
What sci-fi book is this from?
Posted this before (and it is a bad analogy I am sure) but I find moaning that something is in twitter is akin to moaning that someone told a story in a pub.

Pubs are noisy, and busy, and distracting, and I don't like them, and they aren't great for kids at night...

But it doesn't matter - the person was there, their friends were there, they had a story they wanted to tell and they told it in a way they enjoyed.

End of. Great if someone videoed it so others who don't like pubs could see it too, but mainly that doesn't happen. Just accept that some people like different things than you, and if it bothers you - take their content and blog about it, critique it and share it. But don't tell the story teller to change - especially if you want them to head somewhere where their friends are not... The point of a good story is to entertain an audience, wherever they may be.
The conversation here, I believe, refers to the posting of this link, and the replies to it.
Order the MacBook Pro.

It's still a much better experience and you can still do your development on it just fine and deploy/test with Linux.

I say this as a person who uses the excellent pop!_os as my primary OS at home. It's great, but I miss the general quality and productivity of macOS. (I have an M1 MacBook as well, but am forcing myself to use desktop Linux for an extended period.)
The idea of a fairly distributed world coin is fascinating, and something I would absolutely love to see.

Unfortunately, from reading that webpage, I don't think "Worldcoin" sounds like a very promising application of the concept.
I am definitely hacking this. Thanks
This whole situation really feels like Roku has their head stuck up their ass. People are just as likely to leave Roku, as they are to leave YouTube TV. Their customer numbers can't be strong enough to justify such idiotic behavior. To me, this sounds like a middle manager gone rogue, and no one higher up has stepped in yet and said "Ok, you shot your shot, but YouTube called your bluff, you've taken this way too far."
What is it about us and society that has moved us in a continually more isolating direction instead of getting better at forming connections. Aren't we more connected now by many orders of magnitude than all previous generations? Are we not able to handle these quick/cheap interactions and do they cause harm instead of satisfaction?
Have we replaced meaningful, non-work human interaction with apps that seem to do the opposite of what we want?
I am getting out of software development after 10 years of coding
Privacy by Design! - We use biometric identification to ensure a fair launch.

So collecting fingerprints and iris scans, Privacy by Design?
Fascinating? Come on.

It's clear OP _wants_ to illicit this feeling of superiority from others, as even after the fact - and with unlimited time and space - they do not state the actual reason.

Hypothetical time:

Let's say we have some reason to want to buy the laptop with the smallest box. We'll say it's some reason so incredibly intellectual we could never explain it to anyone else because everyone else is so much dumber than we are.

So, the best we can do while remaining perfectly honest is simply state we have this desire. Actually explaining it will either not work or cause the apple employee to turn in to a black hole.

So, we stand around asking them like an idiot for the laptop with the smallest box, which we know is easily misinterpreted, but for no reason at all we feel like we must remain perfectly honest. This creates a back and forth as the employee - predictably (especially so to someone of our amazing intellect) - tries desperately to help us see our error in thinking.

The whole process takes much longer and has been unpleasant for all involved.

But hey... at least we got to feel really smart?

Rubbish. The actually smart thing to do is to come up with a plausible reason for the stupid request. It's not even hard.

"This is a vanity gift for my rich employers spoiled kid, to unwrap in some stupid status showcase. None of them understand computers. I know the request is stupid, but let's just get it over with. Can you show me the smallest packaged laptops please?"

There. Nobody's time is wasted.

There is a difference between a willingness to look stupid in order to achieve your goal, and a desire to look stupid while enjoying being a conceited "smart" person at the expense of achieving your goal.
Oh we‘re talking about antitrust, quick name all of FAANG!
I'm assuming they don't store the images in the same way we don't store plain text passwords.
IQ has nothing to do with it. That is simply a crappy measure of certain types of problem solving ability.

That is a cultural divide problem. Asian cultures value education so much more than North American culture so families have a large focus on ensuring their children are well educated (in spite of our education system) as they view that as their ticket to success.

If we in Western countries continue to eschew improvements to our education system, and even reduce the ability for students to access programs that provide them a proper education, then we will continue to fall further and further behind Asian countries in innovation and productivity. Instead we look at the few programs for students that thrive in spite of the system and kill them because it is cheaper than investing in bringing other students up to that level.
The politicians don't control the process, though, or at least in a well-ordered state they shouldn't. There are rules, which are adjudicated by the civil service and ultimately the courts, not the local politicians.
Early in my career, I was conscious of asking these questions, so as to not appear like a fool, I thought I was expected to know the answers.
I took a remote job a while back and realized that the only way to be successful in my role was to keep asking questions, learning about systems and the product. I did not care if my questions seemed stupid. I just asked away. And, it helped..immensely!
Wow it looks like YC / HackerNews is going all in on cryptocurrency! Congrats YC team!

For readers - a Senior Blockchain Engineer position is available! https://worldcoin.org/job/4001608004 HNers - apply now!
> The other side of the coin is that we are asked to believe that what happens in an animal brain turns into magic when the animal is human. That is even harder to imagine.

Nobody is saying that animals aren't conscious. Or maybe a few are, and maybe human brains have some unique properties, we can't tell since we don't know what we are looking for. But animals display many of the same things as humans, and we know for a fact that humans are conscious so it isn't a stretch to imagine animals being as well.

> magic

Yes, we have no formula to describe consciousness, so as far as we know today it is magic. But if we manage to properly map that out in the future then consciousness will be science.
That's incorrect; the new dispute is over the base YouTube app, not just YouTube TV.
Well, you name quite the case, but besides that. I think the fact that anonymous discussions derail easier and don't exactly get the best out of people, isn't relevant at all. I would even say, it is a price, we should be willing to pay.

First of all being anonymous is important if you want to call out far more powerful entities than you, which can lash out to you.
Second I think it is important to see, what the darker side of society thinks. Even if you remove them from the normal internet, they will still find a way to communicate, but now it is no longer out in the open. It is better to know then to not know.
Stored Procedures – love or leave 'em?
Even if you had flexible work hours, you'd have to start early to enjoy evening sun. That's not great.

And your friends would have to have the same flexibility.

Also, you'll have to use your flexibility to go to bed before them to wake up and enjoy your evening sun.

Just move sunset later. It's a simple logistical option to apply uniformly that will maximize happiness.
> All trial participants previously completed the primary two-dose series of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and then were randomized 1:1 to receive either a 30-µg booster dose (the same dosage strength as those in the primary series) or placebo. The median time between second dose and administration of the booster dose or placebo was approximately 11 months. Symptomatic COVID-19 occurrence was measured from at least 7 days after booster or placebo, with a median follow-up of 2.5 months. During the study period, there were 5 cases of COVID-19 in the boosted group, and 109 cases in the non-boosted group. The observed relative vaccine efficacy of 95.6% (95% CI: 89.3, 98.6) reflects the reduction in disease occurrence in the boosted group versus the non-boosted group in those without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection. Median age of participants was 53 years, with 55.5% of participants between 16 and 55 years, and 23.3% of participants 65 years and older.

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...
Broken link for me, but you can see the original page here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211021151209/https://worldcoin...
What about schools? What about retail business hours? What time do restaurants open and close? Does each of those change every month?

It's much easier to change our clocks twice a year.
>Uber is amazing and I’m glad they pushed through all of the regulatory bullshit to defeat cabs.

Remember, effectively you have said law breaking is acceptable. In this case, it may be partly even true, but once this catches on, anarchy, literally one step away.
The philosophical and musical failings of “Beethoven X: The AI Project”
Breaking up Google by services is such a lame last-century approach - it leaves the same network effects, the same middleman position, and the same business dynamics. And then we just have to hope that these independent companies, run by people who previously worked with one another, don't just recreate the same power structure through exclusive contracts and informal wink and nods.

We know the right answer - it's forcing these companies to have publicly accessible, nondiscriminatory APIs for everything that is possible through their proprietary web interfaces or proprietary apps. There should be no private APIs, API keys, or separate contract/account needed to use said API - just the exact same login credentials that a user supplies to the website (if any).

The accompanying software provider restriction is that companies shouldn't be able to take away functionality that has already been sold to users - ie Roku shouldn't be able to threaten Google with removal either. An update should never be mandatory, should always be able to be rolled back, should practically never remove an app, and the bar for maintaining backwards compatibility on an embedded device should be quite high.

This forms a neutral baseline that companies can choose to form additional agreements on top of, without the threat of being extorted as the power dynamic changes.
The older I've gotten, the more I'm convinced that people don't care what the clock on the wall says, what they care about is minimizing the effects of sunrise/sunset. No one wants to be awake or get their kids awake before sunrise, and many jobs can't continue after sunset. Lifestyles will adjust forwards or backwards to match the hours in between
I prefer any definition that is clear and most everyone can agree on. A long incomplete list of properties is not ideal
At higher levels I'd actually say incompetence and corruption are basically synonymous in Germany. Even when people casually mention incompetence (e.g. Andreas "Andi" Scheuer), they know and mean corruption, just not proven (yet).

Germany somehow manages to have the reputation that there isn't "low level corruption", though there is plenty of that to go around.
The reason is that it's a technically difficult problem, and thus requires investment to solve (and the most profitable/successful platforms don't want to reduce the amount of information they have about their users).

Fortunately there is work being done in this area by Free Software projects. In particular, the Matrix team are trying to implement a decentralised reputation system[0] and there's no reason this couldn't be applied to the Fediverse too.

[0] https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...
Who Is a Data Scientist in 2021?
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Why not go the other way, and make all social broadcasts be anonymous? Then we would talk about policies instead of personalities. It just becomes ideas and thoughts in the cloud.
>Between October 2020 and the end of June 2021, Facebook and Instagram users
had submitted around 524,000 cases to the Board. [...] Facebook also submitted 35 cases.

>In total, the Board selected 21 cases to review and ultimately proceeded with 17
of these. By the end of June, the Board had decided 11 cases – overturning
Facebook’s decision eight times and upholding it three times.

>On average it took 74 days to decide and implement these cases.

Wow.
Hard agree.

I think that most people would want to switch to permanent daylight saving time.

This moves the sunset "later" in the day so that you get more sunlight after work.

This is good for restaurants and leisure activities.

Arguments against this typically come in a few flavors every time this subject comes up:

> But the sun should be overhead at noon.

This doesn't work geographically in practice anyway. It doesn't matter to anyone either. We're not an agrarian society without clocks.

> But kids will have to go to school in the dark.

They often have to do this anyway. Schools could change the starting hours if they cared. Most people don't have kids.

> But employers could just start work earlier.

This isn't going to happen worldwide at any scale. And who wants to start work earlier?

> But early risers prefer to enjoy time before work than after work.

Fair point, but I think this is the minority of folks. Most social activities are at night, and this is when venues make the most money.
Well, they claim not to save the images, just a hash.
I assume it has to do with sneaking the machine in and out of a place. The other alternative is something to do with storage. Maybe it's a backup machine they want hidden somewhere in case the feds seize all his electronics.

That last one makes the most sense, and explains why he didn't divulge it. That way, when the author is raided, they aren't going to ask, "hey, where's that computer that, comes in the smallest box?"

I'm imagining the author has this big book case, and one of the books is hallowed out and has an Apple machine in it. Maybe it's built into a false floor of a cabinet.
At least in my city, the taxi service had an "app" which theoretically allowed you to book a cab, but in reality, it was a crapshoot whether they would show up. It just put in a request to the dispatch but if nobody ever came to pick me up, calling the number just got me the same unhelpful dispatch.

This doesn't even get into the constant scams I would run across. Usually it was just drivers not running a meter and then charging some ridiculous price at the end of the ride. I don't care if you want the fare "off the book" so you can pocket the whole thing. Hustle your employer all you want, but don't hustle me.

I got into the habit of asking them to run the meter every time they started to drive off without starting it. If they still insisted that it was broken, I'd ask how much they wanted to charge me. If it was reasonable, I would accept. If it was stupid, I'd get out.

For all the complaints about Uber/Lyft, as a passenger, they are much more reliable and I know roughly what to expect every time.
> I haven't anything like it in other languages

Is that different from compiling one lib with --std=c++11 and another with --std=c++17?