skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Board of directors at Pfizer should know better - if they were smart, they would have realized the optics of having a former media executive on the board. Unfortunately, they feed into the narrative that there is conspiracy between media and pharma, whether its true or not.

Of course, they gain "insight" into building a media narrative by having Mr Smith on their board. Marketing is very important to pharma companies. [1, 2, 3]

Perhaps having perceived conflicts of interest will be a long term problem for pharma. If the conspiracy keeps gaining momentum, congress might get involved. But on the other hand, pharma has lobbyists. Time will tell.

EDIT - I am very surprised that there is so much resistance to the idea that pharma companies would do anything unethical. Even more surprised that someone flagged this post. The audience here seems to have a great deal of resistance to the idea that pharma companies would do anything criminal - in fact, they have, on many occasions [4] - 2 of the vaccine manufacturers, pfizer and J&J, have paid $4.5 Billion combined in settlements to the DoJ. And to be clear, those settlements to avoid public criminal trials and those are on the violations that they have been caught on - imagine the criminal actions that have not yet come to light.

Pharma's PR must be working - the portion Hacker News audience comes to pharma's defense consistently.

[1] https://www.csrxp.org/icymi-new-study-finds-big-pharma-spent...

[2] The current and last CEO of GlaxoSmithKline have marketing background, not science / medical backgrounds. Most of the time, pharma CEOs do not have scientific / medical backgrounds - https://nbhorwitz.medium.com/the-path-to-power-in-pharma-339...

[3] Just think about all those late night prozac / cialis / etc commercials you see on late night tv.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical...
Personally glad to be free of complex taxes and insane health care costs on individual market.

Being a developer is too cushy a job full-time.
The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames from 1977
Hey, do you wanna have a regular dataset export or a one time export? You can message me over RapidAPI or LinkedIn to discuss.

My linkedin profile is in About page of the link I posted. In RapidAPI page of the API, there's an about section with the button "Contact".
If you had an adverse reaction to any of the vaccines, every booster is a scary prospect, more so if they are more frequent. People would rather take an occasional risk over a frequent risk.
> As viruses can remain active on surfaces, unless you irradiate the deliveries with a UV lamp (and do it again after unboxing them, since there may be viruses on the actual item) even that would not be enough.

Cases of COVID-19 spreading through fomites (particles on a surface) are extremely rare[1][2] and COVID-19 has a short lifespan on cardboard[3]. Just leaving deliveries somewhere for a day is probably enough to stop transmission.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34136133/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95479-5

[3] https://www.sciencealert.com/how-long-does-coronavirus-last-...

> Similarly, on cardboard, no viable SARS-CoV-2 particles could be found after 24 hours, or SARS-CoV-1 after eight.
Yes, tied to the grid. Simply hooked up to a dedicated breaker circuit. This is in The Netherlands, which means you don’t need a permit to install or connect solar. Practically everyone here has a meter which records power usage and return. Currently, what you return is subtracted from your usage (yearly cumulatives) as an incentive to install domestic solar, although that arrangement will probably be phased out step-by-step after 2023.
I think answer to #3 is no and in fact in hindsight should have always been no.

Here in the UK we are in a terrible position of having to eventually pay for insanely expensive lockdowns that effectively did very little.

And we are now in the exact same place, as we were previously, having the same "discussion".
Of course I'm violating some contract/norm. I am also conforming to some contract/norm. That was the whole point of:

> There is no "the" social contract. There are many social contracts, and they are not all compatible with one another.

Similarly, those expecting my code won't cause damage are also violating certain social norms.

The code is there for anyone to do what they want with it. Do with it what you will, and own the consequences.

> Or suppose an issue is reported to you. You don't feel like fixing it, close the issue, and even delete it, and don't add a mention of the problem to the README.

My Github repositories are very low in importance on my list of important things in life. I reroute most notifications to a folder and will go through that folder only a few times a year, so I likely won't even know about any such issues for months.

Now personally, I do put a disclaimer in the README stating that people should view the code as unsupported and unmaintained (even though I do update the code from time to time), but I do it merely as a courtesy, not as an expectation. I do not at all endorse that people should put such disclaimers.
I quit caffeine about 8 weeks ago for mental health reasons. It has been TREMENDOUS so far. I'm still hesitant on writing about it because it's such a new experiment.

When I was on caffeine I was on a lot of it. Probably around 400-600mg a day combining my pre workout with my daily coffees. It is one of my favorite drugs and I loved taking it. This was the last 15 years of my life.

I became quite irritable over the past couple years with the inability for my mind to sit still which spiraled me into manic depression. I slowly weened myself off for a few months and finally quit altogether 8 weeks ago.

I've noticed I am much calmer, my mind is quieter, and my bipolar 2 is no where to be seen. Life definitely seems "duller" which sucks. But the lack of excitement everywhere feels much healthier.

Working out is definitely harder, as is being productive at work, but I'm slowly figuring out ways to combat that. If you haven't taken a break I highly recommend it. Even to just reduce you tolerance so you can feel just how powerful a drug this stuff is.
Hopefully he finds some time to sail heh.
Thanks. I think your post explains the interpretation I missed.
Now it becomes clear why he was attacking Telegram and web3 so tirelessly lately.
> no indication of them being 0% effective

But there is no data to indicate that it's >0% effective either. So until we have data to back things up one way or the other, talking about it just creates more science disinformation.
You are, unfortunately, incorrect, at least about the "young and healthy" part.

Unvaccinated people of all ages are significantly more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than vaccinated people of the same age group [1].

12-34 year olds are 10 times more likely to be hospitalized.

Even if the absolute numbers are very low for young and healthy people – even if that's 0.01% instead of 0.001% of cases – that is an absolutely unacceptable amount of people to be putting into hospital beds when they could just get a motherfucking shot instead.

[1] Page 3 of https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/...
Study published 3 days ago.
90% of the eligible population there is vaccinated. If there are no unvaccinated people left, the spread would be 100% from vaccinated people. Lies, damn lies, statistics.
Every time I look into this the conclusion I end up with is "not enough things are produced using 24V/48V DC to be worthwhile".

It seems like you could replace a certain fraction of room wiring with PoE from an energy budget point of view -- lights, lamps, chargers and other doodads don't need to draw more than a few watts each, so you could get by with just an outlet or two per room for large power draws everywhere but the kitchen, and PoE for all the rest.

But the world just isn't built for it.
Did you read that they're giving $375k on an uncapped note? That's $500k for (7% + ?) of the company. When you realize that ? is only 1-2%, you realize YC thinks the company is currently worth $5M+.

This is what's really going on: YC was bidding too low for companies, and now they're bidding higher so they don't lose out. They did a great job having people not think of it that way.
With CalyxOS, Signature Spoofing is only allowed for microG:
https://calyxos.org/docs/tech/microg-details/
Why do you suspect blinders? Do you know of many cases where the disruptor pattern should be used by isn't?
Boosters should be available to those who want them, but we can't boost our way out of the pandemic.

https://youtu.be/GklHGYY8vN8
> Those who don't want to get vaccinated should take personal responsibility for that, not expect society to take as much care of them

How would that work practically though? They still end up in the hospital, they're not going to test if they're vaxxed and put them at the end of the line if not.
All thanks are due to the kid :). All I have to do is drive the kidmobile and enjoy my share of the ice cream bribe.
Personally I'm completely sick of mask mandates. First off the effectiveness of masks is even questionable except for k95 masks, which are hideously uncomfortable and look ridiculous.

In any case, I firmly believe that people should have the freedom to decide for themselves whether they want to wear them. I was in Copenhagen a few months ago where no one was wearing masks anywhere including indoors, and it was so refreshing seeing life as usual again, smiles on peoples' faces, etc.
I don't often need to edit the files (I also mostly use for searching and my most common editing action would be pretty printing which I could well manage externally if need be). However, I very commonly accidentally edit the files due to a stray keypress, so if edits are not disabled entirely then not locking up or crashing if edits do occur would definitely be a requirement. Occasionally it useful to be able to edit, and it's nice to have at least an editor that can do this.
As far as I know Verizon doesn’t block things. They have great coverage.

They’re not cheap.

Woo oligopoly!
Levels.fyi 2021 End of Year Pay Report
Uhh, yeah? That was my point. Food has no moral value. It's just food.
This pandemic has more in common is the Milgram and Asch experiment than the Marshmallow Test.
Disclaimer. I don't like DHH, I find him insufferable, obnoxious, he has the "I am right, you are wrong" attitude that one would think it should finish with middle school. It looks like he is always ready not to teach, but to indoctrinate others, who are of course not just wrong, but also "misogynist", "modern-day slave holders", "exploiters".

And what is the point of this dreadful little essay if not to provoke some kind of outrage. And in fact, he writes,

"So that's what we do at Basecamp. With programmers, we ask the finalists to complete a substantial take-home assignment that's a realistic sliver of the work they'd do if hired. The assignment can be completed in 3-5 hours, but some applicants end up spending a whole day. Cue the outrage!"

Why cue the outrage? He is the CEO, he can set up the interview process the way he likes.

Why a person like him, successful, wealthy, with a family, has to be so insecure, so sad, that he wants to pick a (virtual) fight with the world at least once a month?
Ask HN: MIT Story, Email Only Goes 600 Miles or Less?
Does anyone have a link to this old HN/blog story, where the author was MIT email support and their professors'/clients found only email recipients within 600 miles could receive their emails. Turned out the emails were limited by some bounce-back timer, I don't recall the specifics, but that window times the speed of light = 600 miles.

I'd love to share the link today so I don't sound crazy for mentioning a crazy tech bug involving the speed of light to a colleague.
This is probably a good thing. When Private relay breaks (such as on my network at my house and some public wifi networks at a popular grocery chain), there's literally no indication that private relay is broken. Instead, friends tell me my wifi is broken or suddenly I can't use my grocery store's app to scan my products.

When your product causes your customers to call someone else and complain, don't be surprised if that "someone else" disabled access to your product.
This is very fair point and distinction.
Someone with common sense at least.

"Latin" in English works perfectly for any gender since forever.
Fresh (or at least gently used) batteries are the reason I had to stop using my X220 though, as I bought like three different batteries (one OEM that was old stock, and two third-party) and none could keep it up for more than an hour. That's tough without OEM support.
You think you're making an argument against Signal, but you're in fact making the argument for it. The reason Signal deals in your phone number is precisely to keep them from managing databases of metadata about who's talking to who; the phone numbers keeps the social graph on the clientside.

Go look at RFC6121 Section 2 for one example of this. The point of Signal's design is that the server can't facilitate this kind of transaction, because it's unsafe for the server to keep that data in plaintext.
> It took a while to realize that different sterile cultivars within the reach of the same pollinating insect could cross pollinate and produce fertile fruit.

“Life, uh, finds a way.”
The strain on your hospitals and morgues could be much higher, if only those COVID-positive healthcare workers were at work, infecting their colleagues and patients.

I'm not sure that's an outcome you want, though.
His web3 skepticism did not stop him from getting involved with "MobileCoin" some time ago, or was that conveniently forgotten?

https://www.wired.com/story/mobilecoin-cryptocurrency/
> As viruses can remain active on surfaces

We've long known that transmission of COVID through fomites (surfaces) is very low: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r...

If this wasn't the case, grocery store protocol would have been very different during the early days of the pandemic.
One Chaste Marriage, Four Kids, and the Catholic Church
The only solution I see is to eliminate “need” altogether.
Oh my god, I have to caution people that the negligible amount of safety information contained in this article is borderline irresponsible. The permitting and regulation regarding feeding energy into the grid is completely underrepresented in this article. If you're thinking about it, you have to seriously read up on the requirements. If anyone knows the author, I would strongly request that he put more cautionary information if he doesn't want to be responsible for some majorly dumb potential consequences.

Although the author hints at it, "So, it makes sense to ask the professional advisor first, who knows the local laws and prices, the final results can vary." -- this still makes it sound like it's up to you to DIY it after asking someone for advice on prices(?!). It is not.

Tying your solar panels to the grid, at least in the US, requires permits, safety approvals, etc. You can get fined / sued if you're found to be directly connecting solar panels to the grid without having gotten it approved and reviewed. Not just for paperwork and tariff reasons, but because if you generate electricity back into the grid, and they need to shut the distribution line down and perform maintenance, you could electrocute someone.

Turning your house main breaker off and running your electronics off solar as an experiment is one thing. Suggesting that going from this hacker setup to sending electricity back to the grid is a whole different level and requires a professional electrician.
Yea, I meant Pinboard :D Had a proper brainfart when writing it seems.
Acton has had an interesting road since selling WhatsApp to Facebook. That includes leaving Facebook with $850 million USD in shares on the table for leaving early and telling people to delete their Facebook accounts. Looking at what he's done tells the story of someone who learned many lessons since he sold WhatsApp.
You can't expect those who are unvaccinated taking up beds (potentially or not) to think about ethics. For a good part of our country it's a race to the bottom of "I got mine, f u" and those folks seem largely represented in the group that's currently stressing our hospitals.

I do agree however. And, I think it's an ethically defensible position to not treat people who refuse to get vaccinated... even though it will never happen.
You are incorrect.

As per https://www.ycombinator.com/deal “The $125k safe and the MFN safe will each convert into preferred shares when your company raises money by selling preferred shares in a priced equity round, which we refer to below as the “Safe Conversion Financing” (this will typically be your “Series A” or “Series Seed” financing, whichever happens first).”

Edit: Sorry, I am absolutely wrong here. I completely misunderstood what nirmel was saying.
Market market market and early. Every time I kept something quiet and tried to pick and choose who I launched with (especially when bootstrapping) it was a failure. There are very few stealth startups that ever are successful, and even fewer that didn't already have VC or major private funding with a serial entrepreneur with a largish team, so don't fall into that trap.

Everyone goes through the thought that their "competition" is out there googling for new companies and watching for the next thing etc. Because a lot of time when you are starting a company that is what you are doing to find who is a competitor or what exists in market. However, 99% of an in market company's time (if they are a real company) is spent on clients and developing their product and market, not looking over their shoulder at some early startup that has no traction or clients yet.

I had a mentor tell me many times, if you didn't market before you built you are already late and behind. He also told me, if you are afraid to talk about what you are building or what you have built then you don't have a good enough product. His point was you shouldn't worry about other companies, worry about you and get your product out and talk to as many people as you can.

One last point, if your company can easily be replaced by an in market competitor just spending a week on a feature, then you don't have a company, you just implemented a feature already on their roadmap. That said, sometimes that one feature is dismissed by companies and is your ticket into the market and by the time they realize you are a threat because of your growth, it can be too late for them to shift momentum (or super costly i.e. cheaper to acquire you), if you do it correctly.
If you don’t mind, why not get vaccinated? Like, what is the downside?

I know this is a dangerous topic, especially on the internet with strangers, so feel free to just not respond - that would be understandable. But I am curious to hear your thought process.
https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/all-indications-suggest-...
A problem with these questions is that a lot of them people can answer without knowing ML/DL, admittedly cherry picked but still.

For example what is the definition of two events being independent in probability?

Or the L1 norm example:
'Which norm does the following equation represent?
|x1 − x2| + |y1 − y2|'

Find the taylor series expansion for e^x (this is highschool maths).

Find the partial derivatives of f (x, y) = 3 sin2(x − y)

Limits etc...

These aren't specific to deep learning or machine learning, not that I claim to be a practitioner.
> So, the left media will now begin a year long campaign down playing domestic covid severity, and make sure that Covid will NOT be a major talking point for the 2022 elections.

Good luck with that. When the CDC decreased the isolation time to five days, all the talk was about how they were corrupted by capitalism.

As someone who was painted hard with the "science denier / conspiracy theorist" brush for my objections to mandates, it's a very deep level of schadenfreude to see the very same people devolve into conspiracy theories of their own that put them at odds with "the science".

The government has created a dangerous foil for the "anti-vaxxers" -- people who are terrified to leave their bubble of presumed safety. Perhaps we can come up with a pejorative term for them... "Pro-hypochondriacs"?

They will not disappear so easily.
That sucks for sure, and I'm sorry that happened to your wife, although at least you got a little information from that and hopefully if your wife was in worse shape they would have identified that at that time and admitted her.

I would have also used the nebulizer before going in, most likely (I have one at home), so I would know ahead of time how well it was working out. Also I did say I'd check the oximeter I have first, and if my blood oxygen level was low then according to that I probably need to be in the hospital and they'd hopefully take that measurement and react appropriately (Hopefully. I know hospitals have been overwhelmed at times, especially New York's)

I am a bit lucky in that the hospital closest to me, so far, hasn't run out of hospital beds this entire pandemic (currently has 80 regular beds and a dozen ICU beds available), and my state has, with a little luck and some decent policy decisions, has mostly kept things under control.
"I'm not available on Fridays" wouldn't suffice?
Yeah that's actually a serious compliment to the M1 GPU if the 3090 is merely double the scores?! I expected it should be like 4x or more! That's awesome.
No, it's not. Show me a team of smart founders pre-product who are telling a coherent value prop story [0] and I'll show you a check for $125k at a $5M cap.

[0] https://medium.com/bloated-mvp/how-to-sanity-check-your-star...
I certainly know the underlying reasons, but Rust aspires to be a language with clear guarantees for what is safe, and what is not.

POSIX C documents which function is async safe, and specifies that only those functions may be used in certain contexts lest there be undefined behavior. Rust at this moment does not document which of it's functions are safe to use in such contexts, and I'm not sure what the situation with OCaml is.

Sharing state between threads in a language such as C is complex enough, but in a managed language there seem to be few guarantees. Go and Rust were designed with this in mind and fundamentally only allow either sharing data by way of channels, or by way of data structures whose reading and writing is race-free.
my guess for a while has been that covid is endemic at this point and will be "a thing to live with" like the flu, where it would be in the best interest of everyone if they stayed home, got vaccinated every year (or as necessary), etc. - but is now a "personal responsibility" or however you would like to frame it
That's awesome that you were able to find a moderation change. I just went cold turkey because of experience itself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16384158

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778904

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16785189

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12997568