skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know someone who almost quit a great job because they were mad about a vaccine mandate from their employer. [...] That is what failing the marshmallow test looks like.

Or perhaps it's a matter of personal principle. Personal conscience and conviction used to be held sacred in the US ... to the point that conscientious objectors wouldn't be forced to fight in wars (they could be assigned to work as medics in Army MASH units, for example, as my grandfather was in the Korean war). In modern US politics, it has become politically incorrect to have a personal principle or conviction that contradicts the approved viewpoint, or otherwise goes against the grain.

Because consideration for personal liberty has gone by the wayside, people are reacting by flatly refusing to be vaccinated. Many are convinced that the vaccine is actually harmful... and I'm convinced that viewpoint only gained traction because of the strong-arming going on in government.

It would have been much better to communicate clearly what we know, keep updating that communication regularly as new data comes in, fund efforts to develop and distribute vaccines, and let people choose without mandating anything. I'd bet the world would look very different today, and far more people would be vaccinated, if the US government had taken this route.
Author here. I used https://www.drinktrade.com. Lots of variety.
I very, very much disagree with this.

Obese people have a much higher rate of severe illness that requires hospitalization. Filling up hospitals unnecessarily kills people, and delays preventative care.

People who are voluntarily obese without a medical necessity are, to be clear, 1) categorically stupid 2) responsible for the injury and death of others.

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See how off-putting this gets very quickly?
While its trivial to edit DNS settings for wifi, its actually quite difficult to change your DNS server on the cellular profile on iOS as comment from Easton here rightly points out. I was kinda surprised the first time I found out you can't edit the cellular DNS server settings via the phone's Settings app.

One option that works for me to get custom DNS on iOS cellular connections (I like PiHole ad blocking on my phone) was to setup my own VPN connection to a VPS instance running PiHole for DNS and WireGuard for the VPN. Lets me get custom DNS, pihole adblocking over cellular so long as VPN isn't blocked by your cellular provider etc. Was two trivial Docker containers to get running, costs very little in AWS.

Same trick also lets me access region blocked TV services from my iOS devices over US cellular simply by turning a VPN on - I just stand up the containers on a VPS host based in source country and connect to that.
I think what is also interesting about this article is that EU, long the privacy stalwart, were the original ISPs to block private relay. Seems counter intuitive to me.
The straw man is that I've assumed ' the poor in America aren't working hard' and that I implied 'that poor people should just work harder and make more money!'

Of course if you compensate providers for health care through the fruit of your labor and investments, you've earned it and it hasn't been provided to you on a silver platter; I don't think anyone is disputing that.

>This exactly implies that if only those poor people worked a "better part of a week to pay for it" like you did, they wouldn't be getting their health care served on a silver platter.

See my response below:

By handed on a silver platter I was referring to someone capable of working, but who requests (and is handed) health care for free without performing any labor at all at the expense of someone working and paying an involuntary tax. I never said that was all or even most poor. I'm not referring to the poor person making 7.50 buying their own private health insurance. There's probably an argument from some perspective that 'equitable' could mean everyone works the same amount of labor (20 hours or whatever) per month to pay for healthcare, although I'm not sure even that would precisely be equitable. One able bodied person of equal insurance risk pool to another working BOTH more hours AND paying more for same insurance would certainly sound inequitable.
> Even Haskell has dot notation to chain functions since it's just so much easier to read and write...

Are you referring to function composition?
C# does. But does Excel? No surprise an interop shim would use an API that matches Excel rather than the best available.
Oh, I see. The only problem with that is the current non dense US suburban design makes it so the distance to school has a huge effect on quality of life, and I wonder if many neighborhoods would be dense enough to be able to support multiple schools serving multiple levels of incomes. Because if not, then that brings back the same incentive to only live near those at or above your level.
IMHO, he was attacking Telegram because Signal lost in popularity to Telegram, and investors were not happy.

And he was attacking web3 because these same investors pushed cryptocurrency features into Signal, and he was wildly against it.
Founders will sometimes say "if I can't build this company with no more than a million dollars, it's not worth building it at all." In isolation, that thinking may not be wrong, since it highlights the importance of frugality and the product market fit. But in connection with the easiest influx of capital you will ever experience in the lifecycle of your company, paired with valuations that are super high on a risk-adjusted basis, it would be insane not to say yes to a war chest of a few million dollars that you put away for the rainy day.

So no, I don't think that YC companies will raise any less, or will be any less concerned about being ready for Demo Day. The one thing that might happen is that the earliest investors will see a hike in valuations. In the past, investors with the strongest value add (reputation/brand/connections/etc) were able to get in a few weeks before Demo Day at a discount. Since Demo Day investments are characterized by a very weak signal-to-noise ratio, knowing that a reputable investor is bullish on a startup tends to increase the demand to such an extend that the resulting higher valuation more than makes up for that initial discount.

Now that this additional $500k is going to be valued against the lowest valuation, it will increase the barrier for giving discounted deals.
Here is where the details of COVID matter. Is it just a respiratory disease where once you are past the acute phase you are fine, or is it a multisystem disease where the long term consequences (kidney, heart, brain, blood clotting issues) we be on the rise for years and decades to come? The long term consequences (WHICH NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE) are frightening.
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Right…Vaccines we have been using for many years.
I mean, he walked away from $800 million in Facebook stock because his belief in privacy wouldn't allow him to continue working on WhatsApp, post-acquisition. I think that speaks louder than selling WhatsApp in the first place.
I've quit drinking coffee and any caffeine-containing product for a couple of months, but I ultimately ended up with drinking one cup in the morning, a single teaspoon of instant coffee. I can sip from it for an hour, it's ok if it has become cold.

Before quitting I was drinking around 5 or 6 cups of coffee a day with around 2 teaspoons each. Any decrease in caffeine intake would give me a migraine, which lowered my desire to drink coffee, leading to migraines of 3 days in duration. A detox. And I was always on the edge, felt super restless without actually being able to eliminate this feeling.

Removing refined sugar from my diet is now priority #1, including chocolate and whatever contains it to enhance taste. Afterwards I may try fully quitting drinking coffee again, which shouldn't be that hard. It's just that it's a nice thing to be doing, like playing with a cigarette between the fingers and smoking it. You loose something if you remove this from the life, and what you gain isn't always that obvious. Well, the benefits of quitting smoking are easy to recognize, but it's harder with coffee.
>Given that our hospital systems are being pushed to basically their breaking point, we need to do what we can to help our the nurses / doctors handle this situation.

Our hospitals have been pushed to the breaking point for a long time. Maybe we should focus on extending our ICU capability to meet the demand better, given that this may be the new normal for who knows how many years yet. I think we need to come to terms with this and expand accordingly on a more permanent basis.
You do not have a right to basic safety when you divest yourself of basic precautions any reasonable actor would have taken. A reasonable actor checks new code pulled down to ensure it actually works. You accept the risk integrating in a stranger's code without mirroring/audit.
It's not (just) about whether healthcare is a human right. E.g., interstate transportation on surface roads isn't a human right, but markets lost out to collective action. Why? Because building a well-functioning market for 8 lane interstates across an entire mostly-rural country was impossible in the 20th century (and probably still is).

So, the other important question to ask is the following: how feasible is it to create a well-functioning market for this product?

So far, we don't have an existence proof that such a well-functioning market is possible to construct in the healthcare space.
Ask HN: Software engineer interested in machine learning, what not to do?
I have doing full-stack web development for about 6 years now. I am interested in learning more about machine learning and perhaps at one point switch to working professionally in the field. Any advice from people who followed a similar path? i am especially interested in things to avoid doing.
It's almost like the COVID vaccines don't work very well to prevent spread.
(It clearly helps against being hospitalised)
Most vaccination opposition I've encountered in my personal life fits squarely in the venn overlap of personal fiat and political posturing. It's now fashionable to be anti-vax, whether because it demonstrates your disdain for the government or a particular political party. More than once I've had family members insist that vaccination, or mask-wearing, or any kind of caution, was merely a "personal choice" before themselves getting sick and infecting someone else who became gravely ill because of it.

Any talk of our cultural schism over the remedial responses to the epidemic which does not include discussion of political leadership and propaganda is itself seriously flawed and misleading. Nobody gave a crap about flu vaccines. We all know why this is different.
Having recently completed an MLE interview loop successfully at a top company, I'm wondering where you are getting asked complicated linear algebra questions in interview?
In part because ML fails silently by design. Even if the code runs flawlessly with no errors, the outputs could be completely bunk, useless, or even harmful, and you won't have any idea if that is true just from watching The Number go down during training. It's not enough to know how to build it but also how it works. It's the difference between designing the JWST and assembling it.
I've actually been given fizzbuzz in a DS interview! Up to that point I thought that fizzbuzz was just a meme because it's obviously too easy.
I'm just happy to have a good excuse to wear a mask on an airplane. I always used to get sick after flights.
If you're pulling in LAPACK anyway, wouldn't just calling dgels to compute the least-squares solution directly be easier?
The fact that college campuses (which have ~100% vaccination rates as well as young student bodies that are far less likely to face severe symptoms from COVID) are reinstituting lockdowns makes it abundantly clear that the marshmallows are never, ever coming.
I understand that it’s invested right away, but it buys you more pro rata in future rounds than founders currently give up to YC under the deal.
Everything being duller is what I recall the last time I tried quitting. My theory is that it takes quite a while until you achieve a new baseline. I was much calmer which is a good tradeoff I think. I cut my caffeine down to one cup of coffee in the morning and think I get the best of both worlds but maybe I should try quitting again and see if that holds.
> If you're willing to dismiss an anecdote then you should also dismiss the first anecdote in this thread. If you're willing to listen to an anecdote, then you should also listen to the second anecdote in this thread.

I think you misunderstood. The point was that it’s not about picking anecdotes that support your conclusion.

You have to look at broader data collection and studies, not just whatever small bits of anecdata are conveniently nearby.
Flink supports the distributed execution of code and, thus, also ML algorithms that are written like this.
That's quite the statement.

Early studies suggested that vaccine antibodies were much weaker but boosted individuals still had antibodies that had some effect on omicron, and gave no reason to believe that non-antibody parts of the immune system would have 0% effect. So based on that, and high level of protection against previous strains, my default assumption would be "some, but much lower, protection."

Then, as of Dec 26, being vaccinated in CA still resulted in a much lower case rate per 100K: https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#postvax-status That likely isn't 100% omicron data, but the ratio looks the same as what it was before, so still not reason to drop my belief to 0%.

It is quite the leap to say "new strain, I should restart my assumption at 0% effectiveness."
Signal doesn't have investors.
Anyone who’s been involved in STEM recruiting in recent years is likely to be less surprised.
It's no different than saying "It's your fault for dying by being fat during a pandemic -- so we don't need vaccines."
> Don't you feel that a default anything should be easy to use and intuitive?

No, I don't. (only slightly sarcastic)

More accurately, I don't think "ease of use" and being intuitive to a newcomer are the only possible primary motivations for making any tool the 'default' tool of its type.

vi/vim have a long legacy of usage on Linux and other Unix and Unix-like operating systems. They have a steep initial learning curve which requires some commitment on the part of the user to get past, and because of that I understand why some people don't like them. However, in my opinion, even today it is worthwhile for users of these kinds of systems to invest in learning how to use them. I'm not saying you need to become an expert, I just think if you work on Linux, a minimum amount of fluency will be worth your while (especially when dealing with any kind of system administration - even if it is only on your own desktop Linux machine). Knowing enough to get basic editing tasks done could very well save your bacon in a pinch when things break. There are plenty of resources on the internet describing the advantages of vim, so I'm not going to try to summarize them here.

That being said, I know some people would prefer something like nano to be their default editor, because they don't want to invest the time in learning vim and/or are not convinced that doing so would be advantageous to them. I would not be opposed to having the Linux install process for any distro ask the person doing the install what they want their default editor to be. But I would still argue that vim is a good choice for the 'default default editor' in that case.

Naturally, you can always set the EDITOR environment variable yourself so that tools like git bring up the editor you want. Your editor of choice would then be the 'default' in one sense, but I believe you are arguing for 'default' at a higher level than that.

> I don't think anyone who ever first came across Vim could even figure out how to quit, let alone do anything useful. Seems to disqualify it as a useful default editor, don't you think?

It should be obvious by my above comments that I would say 'no', it doesn't disqualify it, but that's due to differing views on what properties should be used to determine what the default editor should be.

(I apologize for the late reply, I know this is a couple days old now, but I didn't see the response till now.)
Having a job, presumably
The crux of the claim is that the schools "overcharged" students by admitting students who could afford to pay more, instead of rejecting those students and admitting different, poorer students. So the only people actually harmed are students who did NOT attend these schools, and paid more at a different school. That's not who the plaintiffs are.

Essentially, wealthy students (who were admitted!) are claiming that they could have gotten better aid packages if the schools set prices based on something other than need, and competed for the value those students brought to the school. Since the schools allegedly endeavor to hit a target total revenue, while charging less in tuition than the cost of providing the education, the plaintiffs wanted poorer student to pay more so they could pay less.

Smells like entitled wealthy people.
Iirc the Spanish flue lasted 5 years so we still have some time to go.
> OK, so now people are framed as fighting against history. What does that change?

Are you complaining that I'm using rhetorical techniques against you? The smallpox and 1918 flu pandemics from 100 years ago are guidance for what is going on today.

We can look at how our grandfathers solved the issue in their time, and compare-and-contrast with what worked today. As you mentioned, it was controversial back then. Both you and I have arguments we can borrow from them.

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How about instead of arguing against history, you actually take those arguments and use them for yourself? Or perhaps you recognize that the arguments said 100+ years ago weren't actually that strong or powerful.

> Jacobson v. Massachusetts said the solution to compulsory vaccination is democratically repealing policy and law. This is exactly what these people want and are fighting for

Cool.

Now explain how you'd get rid of smallpox in the early 1900s.
Was matter of time before effected EU countries start tackling US infiltration. Surprised this is handled so publically.
Vaxxed and I caught Cov19 a couple weeks ago (likely omicron). Same with the wife. I've had allergies that were worse. It was a 3 day event with a very mild fever and a bit of a cough the last day. It was extremely mild, and if I hadn't decided to take a couple days off to catch up on my reading after getting tested, I would have probably just eaten a couple advil and continued on as though nothing happened. So now I'm considering skipping any future boosters unless they specifically target a new more dangerous strain.

That said, I'm also still wearing a mask, although i'm having a hard time with the whole concept now too since i should be able to keep my immunity going simply by keeping myself exposed. I was a pretty strong advocate of mask wearing even when the CDC initially told people they could take it off, instead deciding to wait until more people were vaccinated (which never happened in TX). But now, I suspect I might be doing myself a disservice by not exposing myself to all the variants and things floating around.
Standard TLS, HTTP/1/2/3 and Async would be really nice.
Small world, maybe our paths crossed! I had the pleasure of working with the govinfo team from 2015-2017 as they were rolling out the beta and finalizing the migration from the old fdsys.gov. Truly great folks that are passionate about maintaining government information and making it as accessible as possible.
> As they say, the plural of anecdote is data.

Nobody says that if they know what they’re talking about.

The phrase is actually “The plural of anecdote is not evidence”. You can Google it if you don’t believe me.

You can’t collect a couple of anecdote and pretend it’s data.
An inconvenient truth.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/youth-suicide-attempts-...
> It reminds me of small talk

That's not a coincidence. Ruby is heavily Smalltalk-inspired syntax with a dash of Perl and Awk thrown in (notice all the "$"+single character bits, as well as a look at the "-n" command line) wrapped in nicer syntax.
The concern raised is "everyone and their dog is getting omicron, and I'm worried about my child getting it when they aren't vaccinated"

Everyone else already has it, and have access to vaccines
Not a stupid question. I think adding parallelism to the compiler might be possible, though there are certainly parts that use a lot of mutable state that could prove tricky.

Whether it's beneficial or not is unclear though.
Now that my kids are grown I would absolutely love this. You can stay in the pocket, get a quieter few days over the working weekend and it would help enforce good comms/docs when you wrap up your week.

The only issue is that I would try to pack too much into the 5 day 'weekend' and be exhausted when I start back up.
I try to use "smaller" commands instead of more versatile but complex alternatives. I'm not sure if I get better cpu/io/etc usage by using cut or tr instead of sed or awk (or perl and so on) but it is a pattern I followed by decades, at least for simple enough commands. And I may have something less to remember if I do i.e. rev | cut | rev instead of awk to get the last field.

And having something less to remember, and lowering the complexity for the reader (that not always be me, or if I am, may not be in the same mind state as when I wrote that) is usually good. But it also is having predictable/consistent patterns.
Part of it is practicality. Even the experts agree that we can't vaccine the entire planet every 6 months.
Does this run counter to current net neutrality regulations? Or is this unrelated.

Are there other legal remedies for either the subscriber or from Apple to the ISPs?
From conversations with various people (and not any kind of meaningful study), it seems to me that there is a qualitatively different experience of this situation for people that naturally think about things all the time. For my wife, having to skip the occasional event that she'd like to go to isn't a big deal, but having to constantly think about how risky each behavior is and make a conscious decision weighing that risk against other factors (like social expectations and psychological needs) is _extremely_ effortful.

I view "vaxxed and done" as a form of rounding, selected by people who find it psychologically untenable to handle a changed _risk profile_ by changing their behaviors in moderate ways. I'm boosted, as is everyone I'm in contact with - that has shifted my risk profile sufficiently that I felt comfortable eating at some restaurants (but not others) and at nearly any normal outdoor event, but not at a concert, a crowded bar, or a packed bus. But I have to keep an eye on infection rates, and change my behavior when they shift radically (as now), or when the risk profile updates for a new mutation.. And that's tractable for me - I think about everything I do, constantly, which I assume is much more true among the tech crowd than the population at large.

But most people _just don't do that_ kind of thing - being told to keep worrying about and considering a thing constantly sounds to many like "just keep stabbing yourself in the arm every day and eventually things will be fine". I don't know what there is to do about that, but I think it would be valuable for some folks in here to have a more realistic idea of the cost constant vigilance so often imposes.