skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you didn't get sick from it (current formulation or perhaps new ones in future), would you just take it and move on?

Known downtime of a day or two (and not feeling well) is, to me, still a tradeoff to make compared to the potential of being intubated in an ICU. Each Pfizer shot I've had I've had somewhere of 8-18 hours of being really knocked out, usually starting around 24 hours after injection. I usually have milder (but some) reaction to flu vaccine each year (usually up to 8 hours of fatigue/headache/etc) within a day or so.

Risks/reward still moves to me take the shots.
Very cool project! Very similar to mine and I’m also in The Netherlands, I’m using the exact same solar panel stands.

I also have the same issue with only getting sun past 16:00 on my balcony so in the winter, the yield is very low.

I run my blog on solar + batteries, I don’t deliver power to the grid. On the contrary, I recharge the batteries from the grid in the winter.

[0]: https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-po...
Great article! Just a week or two ago on this forum there were people willing to treat me like a far right conservative or a general anti-vaxxer from the facebook troll factory, just because I didn't like a private institution’s booster mandate.

That was fascinating.
Why would you have empathy for them? They have fought the vaccines for close to a year now and if they haven't gotten it they probably have a pretty good reason. Shouldn't the vaccine protect vaxxed people from everyone?? I seriously do not understand vaxxed people who care about other people's vaccination status, especially when those people aren't their elderly friends and family.
I am one of those, triple vaxxed and done. CDC has now said that the majority of those that died had 4+ co-morbidities. They have also indicated that getting vaccinated does not reduce your ability to spread the virus. So if that is the case, there is no longer a real need to vilify the unvaxxed. CDC statement appears to indicate that the primary reason for people dying is poor physical health prior to infection. With that said I do think vaccines likely reduce the severity of the infection but I don't buy all these people saying they would have died if not for the vaccine, how do they know? This has motivated me to start working out again and to try and lose weight. Going to make sure my kids are physically active now as well. Omicron is essentially impossible to avoid at this point short of locking yourself in a room and having everything delivered to your front door. The risks are known and its time to trust people to weigh those risks and make their own decisions.

I think the issue now is a political one. The democratic party has hung their hat on how bad covid is and how important it is to get vaccinated and to state at this point, NVM lets just get back to normal would be a loss of face. Instead of just saying that the virus has evolved and is less lethal now they have continued to double down on the vaccine mandate which I don't agree with. I am a democrat so I am not coming at this as a republican. I am not downplaying the severity of the virus but at this point it is here to stay. Even if we locked down for 3 months, once we were released someone from another country would come in and re-infect everyone again. Also during lock down do we once again tell the poorest among us that while they are 'essential' that they are also worth less and must continue to work and face the risk alone so as to ensure the rest of us can isolate in safety at home.

Edit: I said "does not reduce your ability to spread the virus" I meant to say "does not remove". My fault.
My hope is that we're approaching a similar point the Spanish Flu did after this amount of time: Spanish Flu eventually lost its lethality and became symptomatically indistinguishable from your run of the mill flu, and hopefully COVID will eventually do the same and be symptomatically indistinguishable from your run of the mill cold. Obviously we ain't there quite yet, but with Omicron being both wider-spreading and more mild, hopefully we'll get there soon.
Maybe a bit of a stupid question, but, will the compiler itself evolve to use multiple cores?
Where the hell are you that this is your reality? Here in Texas it is absolutely not the case that "but things really are that bad now that we're contemplating pushing the button".
Do you have examples of how unionization destroys the ability to compete? Because I know of tons of union jobs around where I live, and they routinely compete with non-union jobs. Many of the union companies are major players who have been around for decades, which suggests that a happy, well-treated workforce might actually be an advantage.
I thought adding a salt to a password before hashing it was standard practice, regardless of the hashing function. At least that's how UNIX derivatives have done it for the past 25+ years.

Point taken about hash calculation speed, though.
It's worth noting that Diet Coke has about 50% more caffeine than regular.
scotus in van buren (2020) let off a cop who was selling LPR searches for cash so in theory the days of aggressive interpretations are over? eff called it a 'victory for security researchers', though it's probably too soon to say whether it's that or just a victory for people selling LPR data
> It’s like people expect a government to have completely knowledge from day 1 of a new virus and all of its mutations across all of time

No, that's not what is being said. In the case of boosters, the communication (c|sh)ould have been "we're gonna give booster. For now we think only immunocompromised people will need them, but we can't really rule out other options. Further research will tell us whether other categories, or perhaps the whole population, could need it, although this does not seem the case at the moment."

Of course there's multiple problems with this: you don't sound on top of things, media will extract the most definitive quote from it anyway, hard to imagine the worst case scenario, etc. But it does seem that most government are messing up the communication badly (either sounding very paternalistic, blaming the citizens, never showing uncertainty despite the situation, changing measures before the previous ones can show an effect, etc.), at least for what I would consider a good, mature way to communicate with citizens. I'm no expert, tho.
I wish I could feel "vaxxed and done". My whole extended family is vaccinated and everyone who's old enough is boostered.

But I have three children in elementary and middle school. Like school systems across the country, ours is in chaos due to COVID absenteeism. Roughly 1/3 of the students and 1/4 of the teachers are currently out sick due to positive tests, some symptomatic, some not, and the numbers keep going up every day. Just waiting for our turn and then the kids have to stay home for two weeks! Hopefully February will be easier?
> It can't be done

Cheeky: it can, but they must be parallel.
Until when? Until covid goes away (which Biden implied earlier this year, that the reason we still have covid is because of the unvaccinated)? Vaccines seem to do nothing to infections, it only reduces the risk of hospitalisation and death. In the UK the % of positive cases that are vaccinated is pretty much the same than the % of people vaccinated in the population. Covid isn't going away.

So are you suggesting vaccines, masks and lockdowns forever? I don't think many will agree to that. I certain don't.
i would consider a caste system, and the social engineering necessary to create and maintain it, to be control technology.

it's possible the only reason we aren't at an "extreme" now because we're still tipping between steady states. there was no structured society for, effectively, forever. pretty stable, long enough that it is hard to consider the current world a normal situation.

we've had a few thousand years of confusing buildup, as we maybe transition to a total structure, lasting who knows how long, but i can't see something like that being short-lived.

yes the society between extremes exists and we're in it. but none of this around me looks stable or capable of withstanding what the future holds. and the longer-lived examples, though impressive on an individual timescale, are still a sudden late flash in the deep and mostly unknown timeline of all human history.
What's the alternative to setting policy on preliminary data? Are you proposing something like "government should never react to anything until 12 months have passed since it started happening." So something like COVID just cannot be responded to initially?
Footprint ends up being the hard part. Do you have room for 4, 8, 16, 32 panels? Sometimes a couple of panels on motors are all you have room for.
A World of Killer Robots?
But that doesn't get you to millions (plural, post-tax) in 4 years...
Malone pointed this out 01Jan: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/i-dont-always-lose-half-a-...

It is important to recognize that Twitter is now relying on big media such as Thompson-Reuters to provide “factchecking” regarding “misleading” information concerning vaccines. Reuters is horizontally integrated with Pfizer at the Board of Directors level, and their “factcheckers” have been harassing me this week because I spoke about the risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 genetic vaccination in children with Neil Oliver on UK-based GB News.
> It was widely available a year ago.

A year ago today 0.4% of the American population was fully vaccinated. 3.1% had had a first dose. https://imgur.com/a/aUpVwtb
I just lurk the OCaml forums so don't take what I say as gospel but from what I've understood EIO will _not_ be part of stdlib. The OCaml devs go out of their way to not break things in stdlib so from what I've gathered they don't want to include it EIO until there's more real world experience with it and the API has started to settle down. Including it in stdlib might also never happen but that remains to be seen.
> in a fireproof safe

What kind do you have? Are there any brands you'd recommend?
I switched to decaf and found out it helps me by not having to stop my daily routine. But my days start later and I go to bed earlier. It's true the world runs on caffeine.

The world's GDP would collapse if caffeine went away.
> You can pick a low stress job working from home and still make six figures, more than most freelancers with far less stress.

Where are these low stress remote jobs making six figures? Asking for a friend.
If that's not indicative of another dotcom bubble I don't know what is. That's an insane amount of money to be paying, especially for a pre-IPO company.
A significant part of how YC thinks about this deal has not yet been articulated in the thread. (This is just my personal interpretation, not anything official.)

Some comments are describing $500k as "not much". Most people would gasp at hearing that. Only a tiny slice of humans are a position to think that way—for example, people who have family wealth (or maybe an elite educational credential) to fall back on, or who have already managed to break into the fundraising scene (or maybe a FAANG job) and have gotten used to comparing themselves to all the $multimillion deals they keep hearing about.

A big part of what YC is about is to be a bridge for everybody else to enter this space—no matter who they are or where they live or what demographic they belong to. YC has a long track record, right from the beginning, of funding founders who never would be given a chance by more mainstream institutions [1]. The new YC deal is particularly important for these sorts of founders. Geoff said it in the post, but I haven't seen anyone pick up on this yet:

We also hope that this deal will encourage more founders of any age and from every demographic group and geographic location to take the leap into the startup world.

YC does that because it's in its interest to do it and because it's good for the world. The idea that those two things go together, and that the way to maximize them is to help founders as much as possible, is in YC's DNA: https://www.ycombinator.com/principles/.

Capital-rich climates notwithstanding, many founders are not necessarily in a position to step out of YC and raise millions right away. Geographic and demographic disadvantages don't suddenly disappear. (And let's not forget the disadvantage of just working on something weird.) Being in YC helps, of course, but all the same imbalances are still in play.

For those founders, YC going from $125k to a $500k deal is a gamechanger because it gives them a lot more runway—more time to build, to grow, and prove what they can do, before stepping back into fundraising. Then they can hopefully raise from a position of strength instead of potentially having to accept less favorable terms.

[1] Me, for example. I wouldn't be here right now if it weren't for that, and I could tell a long story about how most investors weren't interested in us even after we got into YC.
The industry has changed. In 2005 the hot growth industry was the web, particular the social and sharing economy parts of it. These favor changes in consumer behavior, which young 20-somethings are particularly tapped into because their peers are often the ones driving the change. You could found a $100B company as a pair of early 20-somethings learning brand new tech and riding the beginning of some social wave.

Now - outside of crypto - most of the exciting untapped markets in tech are in:

a.) hardware, where you have bill-of-materials and contract manufacturing cost and everything takes longer to get off the ground

b.) hard sciences like fusion or satellites or aerospace, where you need a Ph.D and often some research experience to make progress (plus you have super high manufacturing costs)

c.) SaaS, where it helps to have deep knowledge of an industry so you've got those connections, understand all the internal processes of your customers, and can penetrate those sales processes.

All of these select for older founders and more capital requirements. I think the spray-and-pray approach for funding low-capital web startups isn't really viable in 2022, because consumers aren't just visiting any website or downloading any app that becomes hot.
If you have something more clever than 2^256 operations, then that's not brute force.
Ugh. Four day work week trials have proven very successful in Japan, Iceland, Spain, and now the US. It absolutely makes sense to tout this proven benefit to others. The only folks complaining are the ones who don’t believe data driven evidence or have an unhealthy relationship with work. No need to denigrate positive, no cost efforts to drag forward work life balance and quality of life.
About the withdrawal symptoms: anything that you substitute in place when you don't drink coffee? When I don't drink at morning I always have headache after a few hours, and I'd like to see any non-caffeinated (natural) substitutions that'd keep the headache away.
Thanks for the correction! Didn't find it at first.

It supports my assertion that the Danish politicians "indicated" something to the Americans and told the Danish public something else:

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Denmark's nuclear-free zone policy originated in 1957, when the coalition government decided in the lead-up to the Paris NATO summit not to stockpile nuclear weapons on its soil in peacetime.[77][78] The presence of the bomber in Greenland airspace in 1968 therefore triggered public suspicions and accusations that the policy was being violated.

[...]

The report blamed Danish Prime Minister H. C. Hansen for intentionally introducing ambiguity in the Danish–U.S. security agreement: he was not asked about, nor did he mention, the official Danish nuclear policy when meeting with the United States ambassador in 1957 to discuss Thule Air Base. Hansen followed up the discussion with an infamous letter pointing out that the issue of "supplies of munition of a special kind" was not raised during the discussion, but that he had nothing further to add.[87] In doing so, the report concluded, he tacitly gave the United States the go-ahead to store nuclear weapons at Thule.[88]

[...]

The report also confirmed that the United States stockpiled nuclear weapons in Greenland until 1965, contradicting assurances by Danish foreign minister Niels Helveg Petersen that the weapons were in Greenland's airspace, but never on the ground."
Why would you want to spread the idea of the “experiment” before gathering results? What if you conclude the experiment was a failure?
I have yet to see any disclaimer from any Reuters articles about potential conflicts of interest in their Covid coverage. I am saying this as someone who has had three shots of Pfizer.

Or that it was secretly funded by the British government:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-media-idUKKBN1ZC2...
Laser printer, one of the early ones. They had a whole language for the printer drivers and awesome support.
Yes, but you are not the only person working for that company. I for one fight for the right of every employee of the company I work for to be treated fairly and greatly. Just because YOU have a good relationship with your company (or more so with your manager) doesn't mean everyone is on equal foot. I feel extremely uncomfortable when my coworkers are crying for help and all I show is indifference.
Because government actors have agency, parent is implying that they made the choice to underfund the NHS. Such a choice was not inevitable. Contrary to “true communism has never been tried” the NHS was successful, and would be if the dominant austerity ideology had not taken hold.
I'm the exact same as parent comment. For me, I was a bit pressured into getting the booster. I also thought it was 3 and done, it wasn't clear that it could potentially be recurring. I also thought maybe the reaction wouldn't be as bad as after the 2nd shot, but it was. Also, I've read more about myocarditis and don't really want to keep exposing myself to that risk.

Is having your heart hurt a normal side effect? A lot of anecdotes mention it as a symptom. How many of them actually go to get diagnosed?
Nah, Stalin and the communist leadership were perfectly capable saboteurs, didn't need help from capitalist interests. In a system where "the state" has the capability to enforce "public good" policies above anything else, it's only natural that the following will happen:

- individual freedom will be suppressed (because "public good"; can't have greedy people doing greedy things, them weeds need to be killed early).

- since individual freedom is suppressed the regime is naturally going to be autocratic, which means that "the state" is actually a handful of people... who now get to freely decide how they define "public good".

The fundamental error of communism is that in any implementation, it doesn't really have mechanisms to "punish" greedy leadership, only greedy individual citizens. Which is an idea as good as it sounds.
Did you read the same post I read? 7% for $125K is not changing. Third sentence.
I'm vaxxed. I'm boosted. I'd very much like to be done. But my children cannot be vaccinated.

As a parent of a young kid it kind of feels like everyone has just moved on. I know folks in here will tell me that statistically speaking my children are unlikely to be hospitalized and so on, and I agree. But I know enough kids who got COVID and suffered the symptoms (e.g. a months-long scratchy cough) that I'm not going to stop worrying about it. We're still very unclear on the long-term effects of COVID, after all.

Couple that to daycare/preschool shutdowns: if there's a case in the class we've got to keep our kids at home for a week. We both work. We can deal with it, lord knows we've had to do it enough times already, but it's absolutely draining. And the stress of waiting/expecting the phone call from the school is always there, particularly in this Omicron phase where it feels like everyone and their dog is contracting it. And this comes from two parents that work from home. We're the luckiest of the lot!

Pfizer has already announced their trial with under 5s was not successful and they'll have to restart. Moderna was supposed to close out a trial in late November but instead expanded it to hundreds of new participants. Why? Unclear. Last I saw no-one seems to be covering it in detail. Out of sight, out of mind.
YC was a no-brainer value-add for us, even without this deal.

It's still a no-brainer for any founder, regardless of batch size or remote vs in-person. This new deal simply cements that.

Well done to the YC team.
They made a blog post, we're currently commenting on it.
It is useful for me.

I have a flat and a balcony, it would not be possible for me to have anything bigger than author.

I don't have to run such an experiment and I already see that any "backup power" shizzle I would buy on amazon would be loss of money.

Better get small fuel generator for any blackouts that can happen.
Right, but the market caps have gone up so much. If you run some basic metric like market cap/number of engineers, places like facebook have an insane incentive to pay huge money for talent. The relative scope may have gone down (many people on one project/api), but the wide ranging impact on PnL/Profitability/Money generated by those individual engineers changes have gone up
Productivity.

Also you can short circuit a lot of what you said with Crystal lang (for speed) or Ruby on Jets (for ease of deployment, serverless, etc). At Arist (YC S20), we were able to fully rebuild our app in Ruby on Jets, pass a pen test, get SOC 2 compliance, all in under 12 months. This frankly would have taken years if we couldn't lean on the Rails ecosystem, and our Appdex score is 0.999 typically, and we are prepared to 10-20x our current traffic because everything is serverless and each endpoint in each controller automatically becomes its own lambda upon deployment. Yet we can lean on the usual rails app structure, and use gems and features designed for rails.

With things like Go, basic string operations like reverse string are left to the user to implement. In the ruby/rails ecosystem we have Active Support. To that same point, you also get the most fully featured ORM in the world in the form of ActiveRecord. No other ORM comes even close to the features AR provides.

To your point though, we do use Rust for image and gif processing in one small lambda. I love Rust, but there simply isn't a web framework with the "sane defaults, everything included by default" mentality of rails yet. Cookie management, CSRF protection, etc., are largely left to the programmer to configure correctly, and it's simply a waste of time if you are trying to iterate quickly as a startup.
> "monetize energy where it's cheap"

This is also directly responsible for increasing levels of fuels poverty and inequality. Driving up the cost of energy forces people into making decisions on whether to heat their home, cook their food, and how they live.

The direct human impact of this is really hard to justify because some capitalists in the western world want to make a few bucks.
The most obvious examples of planned economy measures include internal passports, lockdowns, debt monetization (money printing), corporate ESG investment requirements, etc.
Disagree, if I have to interact with someone only on Fridays and I’m getting back an out of office notification literally every time I email them, I want to know what’s going on.