skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting: Ireland is even more anti nuclear than Germany.

There have never been any nuclear power plants in Ireland. They are even prohibited: „The production of electricity for the Irish national grid (Eirgrid), by nuclear fission, is prohibited in the Republic of Ireland by the Electricity Regulation Act, 1999 (Section 18)“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Ireland

But since you are pro nuclear just think for a moment where on your beautiful island you would like to store all the highly radioactive nuclear waste?

You probably will have difficulty answering this. And the same is true for Germans, even although Germany is much bigger than Ireland and it searched for decades for a suitable place and failed.
Just curious, have you seen any studies or evidence on whether omicron has caused the micro-clotting that seems to be the cause of some of these long-term effects? Everyone seems to be saying the effects of omicron are not as bad, but that talk seems to be limited to short-term effects, not the longer-term ones you brought up.
It probably means ‘topics of importance’ is very subjective.
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> and I can’t wait to replace my 19mpg truck with a lightning, the scalpers can get bent.

19mpg truck reminds me that I need to replace my 2015 19mpg 1.6L compact hatchback with something electric.

And electric can't come soon enough! Especially for those of us in hilly cities.
You decide you don't like the car.

The car is a buggy piece of shit.

The care works well enough but is constantly being recalled and you need a 365 work truck. (I just went into a Ford dealership to test drive a Mach-E and was told I can't because there's a seat belt recall.)

You lose your job.

Your parents get sick and you move in with them to help out, but they live in the middle of nowhere and you need >200/300 mi range.

I could keep going all day.
iCloud Private Relay isn’t like full blown VPN that hides everything you do on the internet, only your web browsing in Safari goes through it. So their existing systems to throttle the connection of your video streaming apps will continue to work just fine.

It’s completely about monetizing your browsing history.
This looks cool, I signed up. I may have to employ this in my algotrading pipeline. I've collected historical data from 100s of different indicators and I'm currently using a largely heuristic approach with some light ML on subsets, but so far I haven't had the ML breakthrough I've been looking for, https://grizzlybulls.com/models/vix-ta-macro-advanced
The Dredging
>> That’s why we are still in this pandemic. Too many selfish assholes.

Are you really saying that 'suggesting optimism' is equivalent to being a "selfish asshole"? I do not understand your application of logic here.

Are you also saying that a particular course-of-action would have resulted in an "end to the pandemic" by this point in time?
Note that this was an unusual arrangement, to say the least. My understanding, from memory of having briefly looked into this, is that Acton loaned $50m to the Foundation, rather than donating it, in what appears to be a 50-year, interest-free loan with no regular repayments. As an initial donation of that size from an individual would have probably put the Signal Foundation into private foundation status rather than public charity status, this has at least the appearance of trying to circumvent the public support requirements of public charities.

It is somewhat difficult for one individual to consistently single-handedly support a charity in the US without causing the tax status of the organization to change detrimentally.
If we take anecdotal experiences as useful, then the fact that you're getting downvoted is anecdotal evidence that more people have had positive experiences with unions, and your experiences are just unfortunate outliers (and anything big enough to make Hacker News is big enough to have a lot of outliers)

Since your whole goal is to share anecdotal data, I'd assume you'd be more responsive to receiving such data.
Low cost haptic VR gloves work with hacked Steam games
And the broader data and studies suggest most people will be fine who catch COVID, so what's your point?
Apple has good reasons to allow this. Inside a corporate network for example you may not want DNS queries going to Apple’s servers.

So Apple has made it very easy for a network admin to disable private relay. All an admin needs to do is blocking name lookups for relay.Apple.com*

*I don’t recall the actual DN used, it’s in Apple’s docs if you are curious.
"Microsofts datacenterregion vil sikre Forsvaret adgang til IT- og datakapacitet, som vi ikke kan udvikle selv. Mange af de løsninger, vi er afhængige af i fremtiden – inklusive løsninger, der bygger på kunstig intelligens – kræver computerkraft, der kun er mulig ved brug af cloud-løsninger. Jeg ser derfor frem til samarbejdet med Microsoft i forhold til de konkrete muligheder, som den nye datacenterregion åbner for Forsvaret,” siger Kristian Vengsgaard, Chief Information Officer i Forsvaret"

Source:

https://news.microsoft.com/da-dk/2020/12/07/microsoft-invest...
Drone helps save cardiac arrest patient in Sweden
Parents more climate conscious under their children’s watchful eye
The USA has never had secure borders before. How could anyone believe that would be possible now? Have you ever actually been to the borders?
On their website Signal says no: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4408365318426-S...
Just eat less and exercise more. It's free _and_ no walk-in appointment needed.
About the heat-> I agree so much.

I found that disabling turbo boost caused an imperceptible drop in performance, but a very noticeable decrease in heat and fan usage.

I also used to undervolt the CPU after doing this. Shame that intel blocked this ability on 11th gen+ chips.
I'm reminded of Mongoid, which was at one point using SemVer, but stopped, and at least one company was caught off guard by breaking changes in (seemingly) minor releases (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845724).
Your numbers are . . . oddly chosen. Nevertheless, consider the following:

Calculate (1-(98.99/100)7.753 billion to get 78 million deaths
Calculate (1-(99.998/100)7.753 billion to get 155,060 deaths.

That seems like really good progress.
Why would that matter? If it comes up again next week, the person will get the same message. If I have a one-time interaction with you, all I need to know is that you're out today and back Monday.
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I genuinely appreciate that you took the time to do this. Thank you.
You are obliged to post better comments, no matter how little you feel you owe 'clown cars' or whatever, because you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

The idea on HN is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do.

Btw, that has nothing to do with YC investments. It just has to do with trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck and doesn't burn itself to a crisp. That's our job here and it's hard enough already without piling something extraneous on top.
I think that is intentional
Then you can't blame continued high cases on the unvaccinated and you can't expect the covid risk to go away.

The at-risk should get used to wearing an N95 mask, but I'm done complying with mitigation measures (I'll get future boosters if they actually do anything for me).
I would love for more places to serve things like Bubly/La Croix/etc or Fresca, both of which I enjoy at home but rarely out and about.
This is an excellent distinction because it denies all-encompassing judgement in the instance where one individual sees another who isn't taking as much precaution ("oh typical anti-masker"; judging others for interacting when you have been self-isolating - but probably not as well as you think).
Good point. And he might also want to donate to other charities. There are many worthy causes besides Signal.

And it’s probably sound for Signal to not rely on one single wealthy donor.
Nord Stream 2: The $11BN megaproject that's dividing Europe [video]
Right on, and I can’t believe how seldom it’s heard. The current work-life-society bargain is terrible and we should expect terrible results until it’s re-negotiated.
But at an unknown dose that varies depending on where you buy the tea from, the batch they currently use, etc.
I was never really into coffee, but I think it's probably good if you keep it around a cup per day. A small enough amount that you can skip a day without a problem, or have an extra cup when you need it and it will be effective without jittering.

If you are able to sleep well consistently (less than 10% bad sleeps) then zero coffee is fine. You just don't need it. But not everyone is so fortunate.
Private Relay only touches traffic from Safari, and while people could watch Netflix in the browser instead of the Netflix app, I doubt that many do
Everybody that joins Facebook thinks they can "fix" it, and many stick around trying to do so. Eventually they leave.
https://old.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace
So is this "work 32 hours, get paid 40" kind of four-day work week, or a "you can decide how many contract hours you have" kind of four-day work week? I feel like it's important to make this distinction, because not working 40 hours / week is normalized where I live (about half the working population works part-time), with lots of people opting for 36 hours (then 4x9 for one day a week off, or 5x8 and 4x8 for one day per two weeks off), 32 hours (4x8), or less (e.g. two parents alternating work days to look after the kids, or minimize day care / grandparents).

Anyway that's a long-winded way of saying, flexibility in contracts isn't too challenging. It's maintaining decent pay at the same time that the US seems to have trouble with, with some people having to balance multiple different jobs simultaneously because none is offering a stable 40ish hour contract or decent pay.

32 hours / week at 40 hour pay would be interesting.
My process is somewhat more complex than that, but similar. I don't know if you've ever tried telling a worrier not to worry about something, but it's not a terribly fruitful approach :-)
Your marshmallow test framing fails for me. Just as it is often important to signal community and solidarity, it is also often important to signal individuality and resistance to authority.
I'm not sure why you're voted down here. A lot of good information.
What are you talking about? No one suggested that the vaccine would prevent infection 100% reliably, and I'm not sure why you think we have a better understanding of the long-term effects of covid than mRNA vaccines (which aren't the only type of vaccine available in the first place).
Wow people are struggling to realize that this deal is over twice as good of a deal as before (and the corollary that YC was previously lowballing).

It's not a big mystery what the SAFE valuation cap is going to be. Post-YC valuations are generally $20M+ these days, and having $500k in the bank would presumably make them higher, which means the $375k will convert to 1.875% of the company or less.
Translated

"Microsoft's data center region will ensure the Armed Forces access to IT and data capacity that we cannot develop ourselves. Many of the solutions we depend on in the future - including solutions based on artificial intelligence - require computing power that is only possible using cloud solutions. I therefore look forward to the collaboration with Microsoft in relation to the specific opportunities that the new data center region opens up for the Armed Forces, ”says Kristian Vengsgaard, Chief Information Officer in the Armed Forces"
Or were going to get better at the same time for reasons the medicine couldn't foil.

But it's a choice. There's always a way to tip the scales, they still have the choice of not doing so, or doing so against their own interests.
This is now going in circles but quickly:

> why were masks mandated soon after shortages were no longer a concern? (and continue to be)

...because that is when the scientific evidence changed. Preprints from China were streaming in in March 2020 that were making a significant degree of presymptomatic transmission look increasingly likely.
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Guessing sounds like really good public health policy.
> Or require resale to the dealership

I'm sure the dealership would happily waive the no-sale provision if you wanted to sell your truck back them. There's literally no reason not to.
I think if you gave most people the choice to either:

a) disable this feature (that they likely don't fully
understand) or

b) change their cellular service provider

they're going to choose the former even though migrating your phone number is pretty damn easy nowadays.
Buyers enforce it by reporting it to Ford
I dream more, but I didn't ever really have a problem sleeping.
Platforms are international. If they can target both platforms along the way that allows them to crack into the more lucrative iOS market.
I have a similar habit getting similar flak, but with another added reason. As a remote worker, going to a place every day (often leading to small interactions with others) helps replace replace some elements of working from an office (commute, small chats with other frequenters, the getting presentable ritual you mentioned, etc).
I'll append a gripe to this and say that employers should allow "work-from-home budgets" to be put towards credit at local coffee shops.
In USA if other people form a union at your company then you have to pay their union dues even if you don't like the union. In EU that is illegal, but in USA that is how it works. If you ever wonder why Americans are so anti unions that is why.
Witricity claims to have an inductive charger that works even with poor alignment or on the move. I was excited because they had signed Hyundai as a customer and it was rumored to be on the Ioniq 5 or 6 but it's not listed on a product sheet anywhere so I think that got scrapped.

What's interesting about their design is that the end-to-end losses are within a couple percent of the end-to-end losses of a conductive charger (the losses move from the transformer to the induction coil).
Anybody except the elderly - a responsibly vaccinated septuagenarian or octogenarian has a very different, much worse risk profile compared to a responsibly vaccinated young adult. This group is about 3 out of every 100 people.

And anybody except the immunocompromised - you probably know at least a couple older family members, but may not immediately think of anyone immunocompromised, but again they're around 3% of the population. It includes those suffering from or using immunosuppressive drugs to manage type 1 diabetes, HIV, arthritis, cancer, organ transplants, lupus, IBD, and many other conditions.

Even before the vaccine, I - a 30 year old in good health - had what I personally consider to be an acceptable risk profile to contracting the vaccine. For me, it's never seemed an issue of personal safety, I've always been deferring plans, wearing a mask, isolating, been vaccinated, and been boosted to protect others. There are a few faces of elderly and immunocompromised people in my life that I can recall to help my emotional processing.

But it's becoming harder to run the emotionally-loaded math and feel morally culpable for the harm caused by my potentially transmitting it to the three of my coworkers who are vocally, rabidly antivax (all 60+, two with comorbidities) and then worry about their transmitting it to their unknown peers I'm sure they associate with who may be vaccinated but might be harmed.
This reminds me of people who say that "duck and cover" is useless in the face of a nuclear strike.

Obviously mitigations won't help if you're blasted in the face by an airburst (nuclear or biological), but it seems like it could still help if you're on the fringe of exposure.
Autistic colleagues?

Using autism as a negative word is as bad as being a racist.
there's also a nice Pins app (third-party) for mac, ios
Covid deaths amongst children was lower in 2020 than from the flu the year before with a severe Covid strain, 400 deaths vs 600 deaths from flu year before, and faced with a tame Omicron variant the FDA decided to skip the science advisory panel for childhood vaccines [1] because they last time denied the request. The way this is handled is unscientific, and has no balance of risk vs reward.

Moreover, the government should be representative and derive it's power from the consent of the governed. Not enforce compliance to administrative state edicts. The slide from a representative republic to a technocracy is worrying.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/dangerous-push-to-give-boosters...
Why jailing criminal hackers won’t stop ransomware
Just broadcasting this will ruin "testing".

I genuinely don't understand how HR/higher handle these things. Are they just extremely out of touch or something?
I would think diet Coke to be much worse than coffee, am I wrong?
The best thing everyone can do is to go get Omnicron, give it to everyone quickly, so that we can all synchronize our collective immune effort.

Quarantine is the antithesis to that, and can throw away this opportunity.

Don't get vaccinated, get Omnicron.

Go get Omnicron, and give it to everyone, before we miss this small window.
Has T-Mobile given any indication that they're planning to block VPNs more generally?
Computer scientists even built a robot to scour Pennsylvania’s forests for the invasive tree-of-heaven, and poison them: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Considerations-in-robo...

(The author was my theory of computation professor at University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Daley (RIP) commuted by Harley-Davidson and in his free time served as chairman of the regional forest stewardship council.)
I sincerely hope they dodge long COVID and related consequences like increased risk of childhood diabetes.

I also hope the collective we makes progress on understanding the nature of long COVID and can find a strategy for mitigating its consequences. Anecdotal accounts of the bewildering and depressing range of affects it is having on some people (last estimate I saw, 30% of cases, but that's pre-omicron AFAIK) make me very much wish to avoid omicron, and keep my kids free of it if possible (very unlikely given our collective decision in the US that it is now "endemic.")
Actually we already know that people metabolize caffeine differently. https://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/70/2/384 - but caffeine is also very transparent drug. You can use it for years without realizing the negative/positive impact it has on you. How long have you even quit caffeine for? Withdrawal effects tend to show up in 2 weeks or so for me. The anxiety that it causes for me isn't very acute either. It's more like just background anxiety.

I used and abused coffee for most of my twenties without ever realizing it had such an impact. Nowadays I just drink small cups of tea.

Also would like to point out: https://www.audible.com/pd/Caffeine-Audiobook/B083MVZ91Y is a pretty fun read. Not super scientific but interesting nonetheless.
it all depends on what particular detail wasn't able to be predicted. in this case the need for boosters.

we knew by late june boosters would be needed. so all messaging after june should have been consistent. it wasnt.

what wasn't predictable was when precisely we needed to issue boosters and to whom. because we simply didn't have the data on that until around september. However since september it was very predictable that we needed them for the holiday season. I got mine in early november because it was fucking obvious. omicron wasn't 100% assured but it was in the news and most sound bites were 'more contagious'.

its entirely possible to be consistent in the face on unpredictable events.

1. outright say 'we don't currently have the information needed yet check back later' or 'worst case scenario would be X, we're going to start with those assumptions'

2. repeat step 1 until you have the data or know you never will

3. once data is acquired adjust statements.

this is being consistent and clear. another example of this is masking and viral spread.

1. assume worst case for viral spread (airborne)

2. message masks are necessary until more is known about how the virus spreads.

3. if results come back disproving airborne spread, say so.

instead we got:

1. masks not necessary. virus doesn't seem to be airborne.

2. OOPS VIRUS IS AIRBORNE.

the first case is consistent, assume worst case and then ease restrictions.
the 2nd case is completely inconsistent.
They did the same thing with the Lexus LFA. They just bought the cars in the name of a business and sold the business. Problem solved for the flippers. I think the best solution is to allow dealers to sell them at MSRP and select buyers via a lottery. Some percentage will flip it, but many wont because they legitimately wanted the vehicle.
This does not include the YC company that I am an employee at (maybe because we are still in "stealth mode" after two years)
The no-sale agreement is between the customer and the dealer. The dealer would happily waive it if you wanted to sell the truck back to them.
Yak shaving is only procrastinating if it's optional. Any interesting thing you create will need a huge set of errands into unrelated tasks. If you refuse to do the errands, you'll never do anything interesting.
I'm in the same place with my kids and I feel similarly. I feel you on the replies here too. I get it, there are greater risks, but that doesn't mean this isn't stressful along with everything else going on. Anyway, I hope this is the tail end of these worries and hope your family has a healthy 2022.
I believe it also takes non-https traffic from apps but since they made https mandatory quite some time ago now I suspect that is not much. Also content loaded inside email in Mail.
I'm similar, except I'm not even that much of a snob any more. The only thing I really insist on is I grind the beans myself and make it in a cafetière.

When I was a student I drank coffee fairly randomly. Any time of day really, whenever I felt like it, but it was never too much. Then I started at a workplace that had a bean-to-cup espresso machine. It got a bit out of control. Coffee was not only nice but also an excuse to spark up a conversation. I was drinking something like 6-8 cups a day.

Interestingly, I don't recall having any kind of withdrawal on the weekends when I would drink much less.

At some point several years ago I decided 6-8 cups is too much, and I also read about the bad effects caffeine has on sleep. So I decided to have two cups per day: one in the morning and one at lunch time. It has become so normal now that the thought of drinking coffee at any other time seems absurd.