skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> insurrection here a year ago

lol, we did not have an insurrection a year go. Stop spreading that myth. The FBI has found no evidence of an insurrection, no one has been charged much less convicted of insurrection. It was a "mostly peaceful" protest... and no one there was attempting to over throw the US government.

Labeling it an insurrection is political non-sense that further serves to divide the nation, and is the real act of "dismantling democracy"

>>At the moment there is only one party working actively to dismantle democracy itself

Ahh Yes, Voter ID... I need to show my ID and Proof of vaccination to eat but showing ID to vote is threat to democracy. Spare me
Who care. It’s a 1 year provision on a hot product and they are trying to get the vehicle to people who will use it, not people who will scalp the price up.
I see this as positive, and I can’t wait to replace my 19mpg truck with a lightning, the scalpers can get bent.
Some college campuses could also be better choices for lockdows because they're hotbeds of international students.
Impossible Objects as Nonsense Sentences (1971) [pdf]
You can't take him for granted like that. Yeah he donated a lot and yeah he has more and yeah he left $1B on the table after leaving Facebook, but he just can't do it all alone.

If you're rich you get all kinds of people in your life soliciting your money, you gotta watch it like a hawk, it's easy to lose a billion dollars.
The entire point of private relay is that neither Apple nor the third party CDN can match the destination website to an individual.

If your argument is “they probably aren’t doing what they say they’re doing” and so you shouldn’t use their tools, then you better start writing your own operating system from scratch and designing and fabbing your own silicon, because there’s no guarantee any of these companies or open source projects aren’t compromised.
Have we forgotten how to read critically?
Is this system guaranteed to not run into some sort of deadlock situation if your neighbor also has one of these installed?
https://archive.is/dWh2X
The metabolic and cardiovascular effects of coffee are vastly preferable over sugar‘s (or, to be more precise, fructose). I personally also don’t react well to caffeine (one weak cup can totally mess up sleep), but at least it’s easy to find out when it’s doing more harm than good.
In "percent vaxxed among positive tests" you're only looking at those who got tested and were positive at a snapshot in time. At the very least, you also need to include all the people who tested negative. You complain that the size of the vaxxed and unvaxxed populations are vastly different but then use numbers where you look at just positive tests, ignoring counts or negative counts. That gives you numbers with even more potential sources for skew!

The table on page 40 is consistent with US data, where case rates at the population. It says to read in conjunction with pages 32 to 34, which basically says "stats won't be as accurate as formal assessment of vaccine effectiveness, please see the formal data." The formal data suggests effectiveness against transmission. The raw cases-per-100k numbers agree. Yet you latch onto a different number - another one that the report says isn't authoritative for those purposes either - to claim the data shows ineffectiveness! That seems backward.
I have Verizon and I'm able to use private relay. Maybe it's because I bought an unlocked phone directly from Apple? Idk.
If they don't conveniently arrive at the same time, needing the same amount of care, would you advocate pulling the unvaccinated off ventilators and out of beds to be replaced by the vaccinated?

If two do arrive at the same time, an unvaccinated person with far worse sickness faintly mumbling about ivermectin who waited until the last minute to come in, and a vaccinated person who is suffering but nowhere near the danger zone - do you put the unvaccinated person on the sidewalk outside?

What about smokers or fat people?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
There are two types of people in the world: those who sell their start ups for 16 billion, and those that dont have startups people are willing to pay 16 billion for.

I am very doubtful that very many people here would turn down that sort of money if given the opportunity. Its very easy to wax poetic about virtue when nobody is trying to tempt you.
I like the idea of having a four day work week that everyone is expected to work and one day that is a flexible optional deep work type of day. No required meetings and no shipping etc. The idea being that people can choose to take it off if they want to or work half the day etc.
45 years old and I've had Omicron since Christmas, still sick, still tired. I miss the flu.
Is there a spreadsheet somewhere of all the companies that YC has invested in over the years, and what their current status is?
I wonder why Apple allows this. Do the carriers really have more leverage than Apple here?
Doesn't pinboard.in support full-text archiving? If so, it's probably still limited to public content. Conceivably a bookmark extension could save a full-page screenshot and all of the text, even if the page requires auth, isn't resolvable from the internet, etc.

I suffer from the same affliction for the most part, but I do end up capturing sets of bookmarks related to research or projects that I share with colleagues. It also sometimes happens that I start a new browser profile for learning a tech and save all my bookmarks from that with the code. That has helped when it's a case of "how did I do this one thing I know I did in throwaway project X?"
> Tying your solar panels to the grid, at least in the US, requires permits, safety approvals, etc

Maybe your state has specific permits required for solar, the possibility of backfeeding power, or something else of the sort, but I'd say that's more of an exception than the general rule. Nothing here rises to the level of needing an electrical permit (there is no permanent/structure wiring being done) nor building permit (the panels are small and easily movable).

Assuming competent wiring and using a receptacle on a dedicated circuit, the biggest safety issue I'd worry about here is the panels being blown off the balcony and falling onto someone below.
Post 3 has the letter from Ford to the dealers, sorry should have linked to that post.

https://www.lightningowners.com/threads/ford-warns-dealers.4...
T-Mobile partners with various video providers to provide lower-bandwidth streams that don't count against bandwidth caps. Less-cynically, this may be to enforce that.

I consider those agreements to be violations of Net Neutrality, since they're inherently not treating all data the same.
Magnesium Chloride is the cheapest, magnesium oxide has the strongest laxative effect. Take between 5-10 grams per day spread out throughout the day. That will yield around 625-1250 mg elemental magnesium, 1.5 to 3x the RDA, but you likely need to it up from a deficiency. There is no way to overdose (gut rejects it automatically).
Agreed. It's also likely that the unvaxxed could be accounting for a greater part of the overall spread too. They tend to be sicker for longer, and given their anti-vax proclivities, will likely not wear masks and continue about their normal daily activities spreading it far and wide.

The same people who are vaccinated are the same ones who will likely isolate/mask-up if they catch the disease.
I was wondering the same, what if this is to avoid conflict with monetization of Mobilecoin.
Which raises the separate point that they should probably not be businesses. A lot of our difficulties here go back to this privatized approach.
It calls into question the effectiveness of all the Covid countermeasures. A triple vaxxed person, following all masking and distancing requirements, in a highly controlled environment still gets Covid. It makes you feel a bit like... What's the point? Do we realistically have any tools that slow the spread of Omicron?

The standard response is "Just imagine how bad it would be without all the restrictions!". Which is exactly the problem, perhaps. You're using imagination and not a quantitative approach. You can say that about literally anything. "Just imagine how much worse we would have lost that game if I wasn't wearing my lucky socks!"
maybe micropython to save some memory and cycles, python for the larger scripts if need be

i'm surprised how bash survives.. I think it's part of a few traditions that are tied to *nix, just like sysvinit, or raw string pipes as IPC .. they'll soon fall in sequence
'quake days' were CRT days and typical computer CRTs were over 60 Hz. 75 Hz minimum used to be a health recommendation/standard for computer displays.
Unless you install a fairly pricey battery system in addition to the solar array it doesn't help with blackouts at all. When the grid goes down the inverter shuts off and the whole system produces no power.

Adding the battery increases the payback window, often adding 50-100% to the hardware costs of the install. Plus they are in very short supply currently, so including a battery in your build may push it back several months.
If it's not doable in the age of fiat and 10-20% of the workforce actually producing things we actually need (food, housing), and doing it at extreme scale.. then it'll never happen.

What I mean to say is that it is doable. Most of us are doing work that serves no real need other than contrived needs.

It's absurd to think that given no one dies if I don't do my job, that we can't go to 4-10s. I could die tomorrow myself, and nothing changes. That's how inconsequential many employees and thus businesses are today.
but you wouldn't know it by the media coverage.

Yeah, it doesn't help that the media used to almost exclusively refers to car crashes as "accidents", falsely implying there was nothing that could have been done to avoid the situation, putting zero fault on any drivers involved. At least nowadays you see headlines about "car crashes", although you'll still find ledes like "person struck by dies of complications". No need for passive voice, a driver struck and killed that person.

..and on that note, they are doing much of the same with gun violence, too. "A 14-year-old girl has died after she was struck by a stray bullet shot by police while in a North Hollywood department store. [0]" Passive voice, putting the intent on the bullet, not directly saying the girl was shot to death. To read that quote, you'd think the bullet took it upon itself to strike the girl, who died of her own volition.

0 - https://people.com/crime/14-year-old-girl-killed-by-stray-bu...
I do miss the days of various squats and plywood boat failures. More of that please, Moxie. But mostly, thanks for Signal.
I think you've got the causation wrong. People didn't start rejecting the vaccine because of the mandates. Mandates came about because large percentages of the population weren't getting vaccinated. And why weren't they getting vaccinated? Because COVID denial poisoned the well of information. Even today, there are virtually no facts about COVID that you could get 95% of Americans to agree upon. My guess is that close to 5% would disagree with the statement "the SARS-CoV-2 virus is real".
No, they do not allow users to enable Private Relay at all because Apple allows carriers to determine whether it's available or not. Even FaceTime over cellular is still something that carriers get to decide whether to allow or not, although I'm not aware of any carriers that don't.
As a Latino: it's bullshit. I'm willing to accept the changes you do to your English, it's completely fine, your language your rules.

Trying to change my language is a no-no, in my opinion, and feel dehumanizing, as if my culture isn't "progressive" enough and had to be changed.
Yes, make it alongside the original. I've been saying that all along.
If you're interested in Malone, don't just read that hit piece, written by an author who had previously stuck to woke issues.

Wikipedia's not perfect, but his article there would be an improvement.
Except with node you have to roll everything yourself, so jumping between different projects is a nightmare (each one a snowflake)

Roll your own session management, auth, ORM, db migrations, html templating, CORS, cross site scripting protection, the list goes on and on.
One 2-cup moka (not huge) mid-morning and another after lunch is already a little too much for me sometimes. I cannot fathom taking in this amount of coffee, I would be an utter wreck.
Then replace a "no sale" provision with a "no sale over $X" provision. Or require resale to the dealership and exert control over the dealerships. Or...

There are hundreds of ways to deal with scalping that don't include locking people into ownership for a year.

Far as I can tell, what's really going on is that the dealerships threw a fit about not being able to mark prices up and Ford responded by ensuring the dealerships that at least no one else will get what the dealerships felt should have been their extra commission.

TBH, after watching this fiasco and having a single (short!) conversation with the rando middleman at the nearest dealership who I'm forced to interact with for god knows what reason... I'm probably cancelling my Lightning reservation and waiting a few more years for a Tesla or Rivian truck. The whole dealership thing is an albatross around the neck of Detriot companies. It will kill them.
Flu is also dangerous to these people but we never wore masks. This is an edge case and it is the responsibility of these people to protect themselves.
How to run without all the pesky agonizing pain
Often it appears that the stories on HN that I am most interested in reading are the ones that get flagged and quickly taken offline. I don't mean that as any sort of accusation, it just seems that automated moderation system tends to derail topics of importance due to a flood of up and down votes.
I tried doing Advent of Code in Typescript, and spent entirely too many hours googling circular problems like "I can't use type:module because then ts-node can't load .ts files anymore, but if I don't use it, then require-statements are broken, but ...."

I don't even remember the details, but I remember it all feeling very rickety. I'd never push anything that fragile into production, it didn't even survive 25 days of doing small puzzles without constant nursing
I am currently trying to limit my caffeine intake by mixing increasing amounts of decaf beans into my regular coffee beans, as I do not wish to go through seeveral weeks with low mood, headaches and feeling tired. So far it's going beyond my expectations: I have tried to go decaf so many times in my life and has always relapsed because of the withdrawal symptoms. Slowly and gradually decreasing the daily caffeine intake seems to do the trick.

I would love to try the Rasa coffee alternative that the author is talking about, but I can't seem to find a reseller within the EU.
He was attacking Telegram because it was letting people believe that they conversations were e2e encrypted when they weren't.
So basically the tech is still a few years away from being cost effective and user friendly.
When your "matter of principle" is avoiding a vaccine you're rationalizing an irrational choice through the mask of a "principle". There's no principle involved (personal liberty? do you also refuse to pay taxes, drive without a license, etc. freedom is a complicated thing)
In Europe freelancing is still the main way for a proper paycheck. The salaries have been rising so we'll see if the situation changes, but for now the six-figure jobs are still somewhat elusive outside freelancing.
I listed sources in my original comment. From the first link, they observed 4.8% of lab-confirmed cases exhibited continuing symptoms, and the average effect on cognitive performance was 0.47 standard deviations (equivalent to about 8 IQ points, or roughly the effect of a stroke). The CDC study has some methodological problems (detailed in nradov & DannyCasolaro's sibling posts), but previous meta-analyses have documented similar effects; they covered only severely-ill patients, but came up with a pooled proportion of 14%. Chronic fatigue is reported as a symptom 6 months following in 46% of cases [2], but again, that study is for adults.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/18/1055071...

[2] https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/6/760
> In households, Tesla is angling for comparisons to Apple Inc.’s hardware ecosystem, which tends to push people who’ve already bought in to buy more. Lots of customers already have the trifecta of key Tesla products: an electric car in the driveway, solar panels or a Tesla Solar Roof up above, and a home battery called the Powerwall in the garage (or maybe rigged up outside). “Tesla’s core concept is to make the house as energy-independent and self-reliant as possible,” says Pol Lezcano, an analyst for BloombergNEF, Bloomberg LP’s primary research service on the energy transition. “The idea is to have a Tesla-powered home.”
Could someone who has a better grasp of corporate/securities law explain to me why the following is illegal/impossible: conspiring with an investor to get a small follow-up investment round with an inflated valuation, thus reducing the dilution of the $375k? For example, after the initial $500k from YC, you get your VC buddy to invest $50k at 0.1% for a total valuation of $50M, diluting the $375k to a mere 0.75% stake. This feels fraudulent to me, and there’s probably some language that YC uses to prevent this, but would is this otherwise illegal?
Scattershot vaccine mandates have increased the number of vaccinated. Those left will naturally have resisted some amount of authority, but that observation basically amounts to survivor bias - and it doesn't explain why those individuals failed to get the vaccine before there ever was a mandate.
> Eg. Perhaps he would have been able to change the license and demand compensation from all non-profits? That would provide both cash and publicity.

Then everyone would use the old code under the old license and he’d have even less of a chance to get funding.
EVs make the polluting energy sources fungible - you no longer have to modify the car to replace them with something better.
Hi, there's also a 'country' parameter to filter country availability. i.e. if you set 'service' as 'netflix' and 'country' as 'us', it will only return shows available in Netflix US.
I think the increase in travel sufficiently "stirs the pot" to accelerate this one. Hopefully anyway.
I used to have panic attacks a few times a week. Ever since I quit coffee, it's maybe few times per year. I wasn't a heavy coffee drinker either, just 1 per day on most days, sometimes 2.
If you mean IP addresses, then, yes, they publish a .csv with the IP addresses [1]

It seems to update once a month [2]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/support/prepare-your-network-for...

[2] https://imgur.com/a/35HIV5M (only showing counts for IPv4, they have huge IPv6 blocks)
Boomy, the AI software that could turn you in to a music star
The daycare / preschool shutdowns, though, are simply because others haven't yet adopted the "vaxxed and done" attitude.

So I understand that you still need to be cautious, but you can also advocate for daycares and preschools being less hardcore about it.

I'm definitely moving toward being vaxxed and done, but the mom of my (vaxxed) 7 year old (i.e. my ex) is still in the cautious camp. I'm ok with waiting till the end of the surge or the end of the winter to dispense with the masks, but at that point.... yeah this thing needs to end. If you are dumb enough not to get yourself vaccinated and boosted, well, I'm sorry but that's on you.
This is a very weak, modern, hyper-fearful mentality that is not consistent with reality. You're wishing you lived in a utopia, but you don't. You live in the real world. The vaccine cannot prevent infection from the current strains. Everyone is at risk of getting COVID and most likely will get it. You can't hide from this disease, but it's ok because the virus has weakened as it's become more infectious, as coronaviruses tend to do.

>the risks and downsides of getting vaccinated are negligible

You can't know what the long-term effects of this new type of vaccine are. Especially given people have to take it over and over again for to have any effectiveness, so negative effects could possibly accumulate. But it won't prevent catching COVID anyways. Like 5 of my friends and family recently got COVID over Christmas that were all vaccinated. The stats on case numbers bear this out: vaccinated are catching the Omicron strain. The vaccines can't stop this. Natural immunity works many times better than these vaccines and providing protection against infection anyways. This is how it will go, no matter how many boosters you take.
> our considerations are 1) complete Internet access, 2) coverage, and 3) cost.

Anyone know how Google Fi compares on this criteria? I've been considering switching over for Fi's better security [1], but curious what Fi users think of the service. Since it piggybacks on other networks, does it inherit any of their service restrictions or other problems too?

[0]:https://fi.google.com/

[1]:https://blog.kraken.com/post/219/security-advisory-mobile-ph...
This has happened before, with the Ivy League plus MIT university cartel being in real danger of complete destruction due to law suits. In those days the all the leaders in Congress and the US legal field got together to protect their elite alma maters. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/03/us/mit-ruled-guilty-in-an...

Today US universities can also count on assistance from the big banks for whom they generate tens of billions of dollars of government-backed loans on an annual basis. This antitrust scenario will continue to repeat itself, and I'm sure that former students of these universities will not be allowed into a legal position to get some of their money back or to harm them in any way.
The Demise of Third-Party Cookies and Why You Need to Run Your Own CIAM System
Solar safety experts who are upset, please note:

* The author lives in .nl which specifically allows this type of ad-hoc residential solar (which is probably why he hasn't paid lawyers to provide fine print for his blog post)

* The author is using a grid-tie inverter which by definition will not function if the utility is not providing current.

There is very, very little risk to anyone including himself at the wattages and voltages he is working with.
Without knowing the valuation that the SAFE converts at, there’s no way to tell what percentage ownership YC will get for the $375K. So to recap, what we know is they get the usual 7% for $125K, plus whatever they get from the SAFE.

You say this yourself with “That's $500k for (7% + ?) of the company.”

Bidding higher would mean more money for the same equity or less equity for the same money. That’s not what’s happening here.

To be clear, the new YC standard deal is strictly better than the old one, because you don’t have to take the SAFE. But it’s not dramatically better. For many of us the 7% for $125K remains a nonstarter.
The money is helpful if you're close to seed stage, but the network and brand cachet are invaluable. For example, recruiting is crucial for early-stage startups, and it is MUCH easier to recruit high-level talent (and get them to accept more equity in lieu of more cash) when you have a name-brand VC committed.
I really loved this essay, it goes in and out of different nooks of writing. The comparison of puppies to young college readers is great.

And, it was fun to read her reading material ("Brooksmith"). Right before that I notice her using signal as an adjective ("signal pleasure") and I never saw it used as an adjective before. In the first two paragraphs she must have read the usage ("rendered signal service...") and then incorporated it into her essay. It's like treasure hunting.