skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a race to the bottom, but is there a realistic solution that still provides choice and opportunity to both men and women?

The core of the race to the bottom is artificial scarcity.

You need a house, another family needs a house, there is only one house. If they have two incomes and you don't, they get the house, but it costs them the second income. Better solution: Build another house. Then you can have one without a second income and they can spend the second income on vacations or something. But we have zoning restrictions prohibiting that, hence the problem.

That's the biggest example, but artificial scarcity exists in other places. Education is a big one. For K-12, get school vouchers and stop tying it to housing costs -- that will also help with housing costs.

Make more of stuff instead of forcing people to outbid each other for artificially constrained supply and the extra income becomes extra income instead of the baseline you need in order to stand still.
Except there are so many options in between Nos. 2 and 3. Reduced capacity. Outdoor dining. Testing requirements. As well as the wide, wide gulf between total lockdowns and selective ones.
> There would have been so much less confusion if they were consistent with their communication from the start.

While that's true, I don't think it's reasonable unless, like a sibling suggested, the disease would be consistent from the start.

What would be nice is if they contemplated and acknowledged that the recommendations would be changing. Rather than saying 'others don't need a booster', they should be saying 'at this time, based on current understanding, etc, others don't need a booster'. In some situations, they can probably suggest what conditions might cause a change in recommendations.
So how do we as a society address this potential conflict of interest? Reuters is a huge news org that is now used to fact check and be a "trusted" news source.
You can just look this stuff up in the "User Guide" for YC's SAFEs. The short answer is that they're just debt with no maturity date; the issuer is in line with all the other junior debt when the company liquidates, meaning that if the company is acquired YC will get some money back, and otherwise they generally won't.
> it does contribute.

It really didn't. It reads like something I'd see in a JPG compressed meme you'd see on /r/forwardsFromGrandma.

Are you saying that we shouldn't do anything if we see a new variant?

> This disease will always be with us

That sounds fatalistic to me, at least with the more colloquial use of the word.

To be clear, I don't necessarily think you're wrong. It's a valid viewpoint, and I think it's not unreasonable to say "the sooner we find a way to return to semi-normalcy rahter than osciallting around every time a new variant with different properties shows up, the better."
Are there considerations to make YC permanently remote? Or does the traditional in-person requirement offer benefits that will be worth reinstating in the future?
Are You Working with an Intelligent CEO?
No, there's a general aversion to "use flag" features among the Python core dev due to not wanting to support multiple versions of Python behavior and how they may interact over the long term.

"from __future__" is meant to only ever be used temporarily with a specific Python version slated for it becoming the default behavior.

This discussion about flags has come up recently as part of the debate of accepting PEP 649 or PEP 563 or something else continues. If the Steering Council does not accept PEP 563 it will need to be figured out how to deprecate "from __future__ import annotations" without making it the default and how to implement it's replacement.
It is well-known that people metabolize caffeine with different speed due to genetic reasons. Therefore people can experience wildly different peak blood concentration after drinking many cups per day. I suppose it influences how strong withdrawals are.

I personally used to drink a lot of coffee and rarely experienced any withdrawal effects. I also know (from comparing myself with other people) that I am a very fast caffeine metabolizer.
FluffyChat and Syphon are doing pretty well. I don't think any of the clients are mainstream

Riot doesn't exist anymore. It's been Element for a while now
Just a note for anyone reading this but if you want to take a pain reliever for covid infection, apparently aspirin is an ideal one because the feature of preventing blood clots is very useful in preventing the fairly rare but serious covid complications caused by microclots.
The contactors need to be much stronger to break a DC current compared to AC. The appliances would be quite expensive.
I'll wait until the booster actually becomes specific to the current strain. Ideally I'd also like the vaccine to not make me sick for 2 days, since most other common vaccines don't (e.g. influenza). But maybe that's just not possible.

Not having increased risk of heart inflammation and rare dangerous thromboses would be nice too, but then again it seems like Covid causes those anyway. So maybe we just need to update our base rates for those conditions and move on from the way things used to be.

Plus, if I can still spread Covid and make grandma critically ill even after I have the booster, whereas I'm at super low risk for serious illness, is the booster even doing anything to reduce hospital utilization?

I had what I think was omicron, and it seems like I don't really need a booster on top of it... or do I?

The point is that I have no idea what the right thing to do is.

I feel like there's no public health response in the USA anymore. The President is just telling people to f*cking "Google it", everyone seems to be either a paranoid wacko anti-vax Covid denier Bill-Gates-is-coming-for-your-body-fluids-and-children cultist or a "trust the science" cultist, and the big pharma companies (Pfizer, Moderna) seem to be just raking it in hand over fist with all these vaccine doses.

Seems like everyone has to brush up on their statistics and start reading the research, because the news and government agencies just aren't worth a damn anymore when it comes to communicating. It seems that the Trump legacy of "abject societal dysfunction" is here to stay.

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> When I say that I can't guarantee this code won't cause harm (e.g. destroy HW or files on your HD), I mean that.

Okay, but imagine for a moment that you don't say that. The README is silent on the issue of potential problems. Are you violating any social contract then?

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. Are you violating any social contract at that point?

If you don't like the term "social contract", would you agree that you would be violating some norms?
I like that the new terms are backwards compatible with people doing YC now. If you’re currently in YC or just graduated and need some money, it might be worth asking for the $375k note.
Purple was the color of royalty because it was expensive. Same for gold.
They technically did build duplicates of some (not exactly which missions, possibly all) rovers because of the communication delay i.e. you practice the dance moves on earth then send them to mars since you can't really do anything once it gets going.
It doesn’t make sense that individuals can do everything to be safe and the the hospital of all places is where they get sick.

Dwell deeply on that. The hospital is incapable of keeping people safe from Covid.

All the masks, social distancing and testing, and you catch Covid at the hospital.
review is a compliance function and may be more likely to attract payment than writing OSS, paradoxically

also companies may devote in-house resources to do it

best case IMO is that normalizing paid review leads to normalizing paid bugfixes / feature requests. people need to start thinking about what monetized github looks like
If I were a Rust maintainer, I wouldn't say what was safe either. :) This is an OS issue, not a language/runtime one. For example, POSIX has a lot to say about what is safe to do, and what isn't, after a fork() without exec() [1] and your OS of choice may have more to add. As you've said, it's perilous and messy.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fo...
I quit cold-turkey around 3 years ago. Caffeine started to affect me differently the older I got, and it wasn't until I was almost hospitalized from dehydration during a house move that I realized I was perhaps a little too dependent on it.

The following couple of weeks after quitting was hell. Migraines, shakes, generally feeling awful. I doubted my decision, but powered through, and am thankful I did.

Waking up is easier, going to sleep is easier, and personally I wasn't a fan of the adrenaline rush feeling I would get after drinking coffee. Your mileage may vary, but if you're getting older and feeling jittery then definitely give it a try.
How much vacation you have is how much the company is required to pay out as earned income when you separate from the org. Anything else is generosity that can be rescinded without notice or recourse.

Edit: u/babycake's comment says it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29879742
>"What level of state-sponsored violence is justifiable to further reduce that risk?"

What is this referring to? Can you say what instances of "state-sponsored-violence" have occurred in the pursuit of risk reduction?
Millions in 4 years? Damn, can you give me a rough calculation on how this happens?
I think the parent comment is relevant to the extent that controlling spread is a consensus problem.

E.g., if I knew that a variant will be endemic unless 90% of a community follows certain practices, but 40% state they won't comply, that matters. If nothing else, it makes it seem pointless for me to bother wearing a mask for others' protection.
> It isn't more work for the maintainer to _not_ close issues purely based on time

This overlooks the emotional burden of having a large, unbounded backlog.

When I see that I have a missed call, I feel an obligation to call that person back. When I see that I have a text, or a DM, or an email, I feel an obligation to respond. Individually these are all minor obligations, but in aggregate they eventually coalesce into anxiety. PRs, too, get thrown onto this pile.

Burnout is a self-imposed "boiling the frog slowly" scenario caused by gradually taking on more responsibility than you can successfully deal with. Realistic ways to prevent burnout are by either aggressively preventing new obligations from being thrown onto the pile, or by periodically defaulting on obligations and resetting the pile entirely. It appears to me that the stale bot is an instance of the latter. An instance of the former would be to just outright forbid PRs entirely.

And if anyone thinks that they have the mental fortitude to handle an ever-growing and unbounded pile of obligations, then that only reiterates the call for them to fork these projects and accept the burden personally.
This information is very easy to find. See the first chart here:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi...

There's a clear difference in hospitalization and death between the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. You don't have to take the CDC's word for it - other countries can see the same thing in their numbers.

Calling getting the vaccine "an extremely inconvenient lifestyle" is silly.
There is an important difference.

In the first year of the pandemic, the people you're talking about were okay with the personal risk, which is fine, but also ignoring, downplaying, or refusing to care about the risk to others who couldn't protect themselves. Which is less okay in my opinion.

But now, the vast majority of people still at risk have chosen not to protect themselves. So vaccinated individuals choosing to live life normally are increasing the chances the virus spreads, but not increasing the risk of serious injury or death to the defenseless and vulnerable.
To be fair, there is no country in the world operating with as little resources for as many people as India. The scale of administrating a pandemic response in India is mind-boggling.
Absent any evidence of journalistic misconduct, I don't understand the point of making this connection. Reuters, in particular, is famous for having a "value-neutral" policy[1][2] that goes beyond the already rigorous firewall that other outfits enforce.

Edit: Added a second citation for Reuter's neutrality policy, highlighting a particularly controversial time when they refused to deviate from neutrality.

[1]: https://www.reutersagency.com/en/about/standards-values/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters#Policy_of_objective_la...
The most interesting part for me was “fresh roasted shipped to my door”. Anyone recommend any services?
First, I think you're disregarding a lot of healthy interaction social skills too. For instance, dating is hard when you don't know how to give or receive a compliment. Or how to tell if someone is interested in spending more time with you.

But that aside...

So what would you recommend? Seems like those skills, though you don't like them, are currently useful in college and the adult world as well. But often quite lessened! Adult friend relationships tend to be healthier than high school social games!

And with the particular case of teenagers, it's often all they have. Tiny aspects of social standing are important because there is often nothing actually meaningful that they can contribute to or do with a near-term payoff. So it's either grind in the hopes of a payoff when you're 20-something and have graduated college, or play vicious games for short term social prizes, or both.

I would definitely be in favor of trying to figure out how to make the late-teenage years more "meaningful" but I think tearing the rest of the system down is not realistic.
Sure they do. Some call them rockets, others fireworks. Oh, and anvil shooting…
This is common to all sorts of funding arrangements (the classic example is departed cofounders). The moral of the story is that startups are generally either runaway successes, and everyone gets paid, or they're not, in which case the best case is that a subset of the operators and employees get a soft landing. If you're investing at the seed stage, presumably you should not be expecting to recoup on acquihires.
That is why I specified what kind of freedom was achieved. There are always tradeoffs, but those can be mitigated in other ways. If the argument is that adding women to the workforce harmed the working class because it doubled the supply of labor, then we could easily have legislation that halves the number of work hours in a week before overtime rates kick in.
Yes. I am aware. This doesn't change the argument, and more importantly, nor does it change the perception of the situation. Cyclists situation in America will not improve so long as the perception of them are they are smug assholes. Everyone already knows there are smug asshole drivers. But we already have roads for cars everywhere. If you want to try and get more tax dollars for segregated bike lanes, the perception and the argument has to change.
> Former CEO and director of Reuters is large investor and board member of Pfizer (pfizer.com)

So?

Edit: The only reason I can think of that anyone would seen any significance in this is if they wanted to imply some kind of conspiracy where major news outlets are pushing vaccines purely out of personal greed. That falls flat for many reasons, particularly that he stopped being CEO of Reuters in Feb 2020 (as noted in a comment), before the pandemic was a pandemic. Otherwise this is humdrum business executive sitting on corporate boards and having ~2.4% of his net worth in stock in that company [1].

[1] https://wallmine.com/people/34254/james-c-smith: "The estimated Net Worth of James C Smith is at least $221 Million dollars as of 8 June 2021." https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001611777/000122520...: "8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5): $59.05, Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4): 90,618.081". 90,618.081 * $59.05 = 5.35099768 million US$, $5.35 million / $221 Million = 2.4%.
Um, depression in the clinical sense?

I would recommend exercise. A lot of it. Do things that don't involve comparison. Do things where you travel places but are alone with your thoughts to process things.

GET A BIKE. Hike.

Do a triathlon. There is something about all three sports that integrate three different experiences that makes you work through more of your issues. Swimming is kind of strangely prenatal/sensory deprivation. Biking is speed and wind blowing through your hair and the elements, and a bit of the mechanical world.

Running is the primitive and primeval . Every land things runs. Everything needs to run from something, and run to something.

Triathlon races have a very strong contingent of people that are "just doing it". Because of the jack-of-all trades nature, everyone is inferior to the true single sport pros. Yeah, there is a bit of the narcissist cool bike group. Disregard them.

Also, lift. Being strong in body is strong in mind.

Source: Man was I negative even though I did cross country and pickup basketball. When I started triathlons and I did my first ironman, it was ... different. The world was different. It was carthartic. Not in the dropping to my knees and crying, but damn, something was lifted from my shoulders.

You do even a half ironman, and realize you went SEVENTY miles under your own power, you realize what abilities are locked inside your body.
It contributes in the sense that we comment here to manipulate the opinions of others, and at this point, the best and most important message to communicate is "this isn't going away no matter how much we science it, so we better start planning for the endemic nature".

As for fatalism about a virus- I grew up during HIV/AIDS. It's still here (I went into biology and got a PhD and almost became a professor to work on anti-HIV drugs). Is it fatalistic for us to assume HIV will be with us even though we know how to completely abolish transmission, but people still do things that lead to transmission?

best to be realistic about the future and plan for it than hope vaccines are going to magically solve problems for us.
That's true.

I think my overall point is that we're well into discussing options between 2 and 3 now. This Omicron surge is truly ferocious, and far worse than people predicted (or really, hoped for).

There's also the evidence that Omicron subsides rather quickly (at least, in South Africa it did). So any such emergency measures would truly be temporary, more so than the original strain or Delta-surges of the past. Under these statistics / calculations, it makes more sense to perform bigger actions.
Try approaching the problem from another direction: imagine you're positioning three planes (which will form the side faces of the truncated pyramid, but imagine infinite planes).

How would you position them so that they didn't come to a single point?

It can't be done; the first two planes will form an infinitely long "trough" in more or less the shape of a Λ (well, an X, but we're only interested in the part below the intersection), and then, wherever the third plane cuts through, you have the single point that a three-sided pyramid requires.
> By the time you start adding batteries, you're unlikely to be net carbon negative during the system life.

Batteries are around 100kg of CO2 per kWh of capacity on a really dirty grid (China).

So after the usual 2000 cycles a LiFePO4 battery can stand it will amount to around 50g of CO2 per kWh delivered (or 60g taking into account losses).

Solar panels are 45-80g per kWh so worst case scenario you're doubling the system's footprint if you're going for 1 hour of full capacity.
It makes me not worry about this BTFS thing, but utorrent going bad was around 2010.
Python forces you to wrestle with its'/Guido's idiosyncracies. It wears them on its sleeve almost like a badge of honor. You may enjoy them, but I don't. Lack of Tail Call Optimization is a huge red mark for me, personally.

Ruby, on the other hand, is literally meant to delight you with its choices/options/expressiveness and I find that it absolutely delivers on that promise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuB6XRjaH4
No, it's not. Publishing malware is protected expression in the USA, like all source code (thanks, djb!). Forcing it onto the computers of others is illegal, but as you know that's not what happened here.

Pulled, not pushed.
The Story of TypeScript
> NFTs are by design and intention not fungible; they are not divisible nor combineable nor substitutable.

Except that they are, right? You just described a scenario where a token can be revoked and replaced. This is by any sane definition a substitute.

I suppose you could argue that they cannot be divided or combined, and in that sense you are correct that they are not really usable currency.

But I honestly fail to see how NFTs are actually non-fungible. If an indefinite number of equivalent tokens can be minted, what does it matter if each one is technically unique?
Caffeine metabolization speed varies wildly across the population due to genetic reasons. When you compound it with multiple cups per day, you will get a quite different experience.
I "augmented" my HVAC system by putting a heat pump (mini split) in my living room. Mainly because with heat wave in Seattle, I wanted cooling, also it was relatively inexpensive. (The unit was ~$850 USD, it heats and cools, is more efficient. I installed it myself with $150 in tools).
You're both overgeneralizing and overstating the case here. PV is superior to solar thermal in a number of important ways, and grid-tie systems can be extremely cost-effective relative to storage.

The article here https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/solar-thermal-i... details them, but the TL;DR is that solar thermal is only useful for when a) the sun has been shining for the last few hours and b) your household currently can use a source of (low-grade) heat.

In contrast, PV can be used for all sorts of things (transportation, cooling) and can be exported to your neighbors via the electric grid.

Thermal storage is also not especially space-efficient. Best-case scenario is that you can store about 100 Wh (~US 1¢) of energy per kilogram of mass, which pretty much rules out any kind of seasonal storage.

Also grid-tie systems are a phenomenal deal compared to battery storage.

I live in a place with a pretty favorable regulatory environment, but the net effect of my grid-tie system is that I get to rent an 8 megawatt-hour battery for around US$8 per month. A battery system like that would likely cost in the single-digit millions if I were to purchase it.
Taking the risk to spread it after two years of the virus not going away is questionable; taking the same risk at the beginning when nobody had any idea how bad it could become is pure lunacy.
Large scale solar has substantially better economics that distributed solar. The economies of scale should be pretty obvious.

But even distributed solar has a positive ROI, it’s just a long pay off period (20 years etc) without government incentives. But there are plenty of investments out there with lower ROI and longer payoffs that people still invest in.

So it’s all economically feasible and has been for almost a decade (which is why we’re seeing so much solar and wind deployment at the moment). Government incentives just accelerate a trend that was going to happen regardless.
Cyclists have unilateral priority over everything else. I suppose first few years a few cyclists' bones did get crushed. However through training, stringent laws etc., it's drilled into everyone to make way for cyclists. At the roundabouts there's no negotiation etc., Motor vehicles dare not slip through. They patiently wait lest they invite the wrath of authorities.

I suppose there's a better way. However, as a society, Dutch have decided to go whole nine yards to being a cycling friendly nation. And it shows and has its benefits.