skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know all of either :)

And I'm open to policy changes as well.

I'm just disappointed by the (as I said in another reply, Italian or Dutch) governments treating people like kids, washing away the complexity and nuances in communication with the public, expecting them not to understand that they don't have all the answers and that decisions might change in light of new (possibly even contrasting) information.
Is that wishy washy, or treating the population as adults? For me it's the latter.

It does, however, assume a certain degree of scientific literacy that is lacking in many people (including politicians?), so maybe that's an answer for why it's not like that.
Why should everyone in society be forced to bend over backwards to accommodate elderly people or those with comorbidities who decide to go out in public?

COVID-19 has an infection fatality rate of something like 0.20%. Let's move on from these draconian restrictions and get back to reality. The flu has been overwhelming hospitals since before COVID [1], governments and hospital systems have had 2+ years to deal with the supply-side of the healthcare equation here, at this point if they still haven't figured it out it's on them.

[1] https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
> Why there should be sustainability built in?

I don't think it should be built in by default to any software that is released open-source. But, I do think having guidelines for how software can be developed in such a way that doesn't lead to burnout.

The linked article pertains to avoiding the path to burnout, which if you are sharing code that an author a.) expects to "own" and maintain and b.) hopes other people will use, then you need should educate yourself as to how this can be achieved. Good literature on the subject is limited IMO.

> Not everyone should be publishing their code and definitely not everyone should be OSS maintainer.

I partially agree with this. I do think not everyone is up for the task of OSS maintenance and development, some of which is likely stemming because they don't have a good framework for how to do so sustainably.

I do think anyone should be able to freely publish their code if they like. Sometimes folks want to share things for fun or education or demonstration purposes, when they don't intend to accept or want PRs or contributions or downstream consumption or maintain it. There is value in OSS for many different reasons. I think GitHub in particular does a poor job of signaling to readers which software is sustainable and which is not.
We all know that most people get COVID and then get over it, but using a few neutral anecdotes to deny the other issues is like trying to invalidate global warming because the weather isn’t hot where you live. It’s not about comparing all of our anecdotes.
> Fortunately, I think this is balanced by the fact that it will give more runway to companies before they have to deal with that

Complete agree, which is why I'm leaning in favor of it being a good thing. If the funds weren't available immediately it would be a different story.

> You're likely already "middle of the pack" just by virtue of that

I also agree with this, but I think we're using different definitions. I meant "middle of the YC pack", which isn't the same as "middle of the start up pack".

Either way, I still think this change is going to (note that all percentages are guesstimated):

- Have minimal impact to the top 5% of YC companies that raise (relatively) huge follow-on rounds
- Be a slight consideration for the "middle" 50% of YC companies (will have to consider a couple extra points on their cap table)
- Effectively drive the bottom 25% out of business, or prevent growth, by preventing them from being able to raise
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. The Ethereum protocol and its standard implementations do all sorts of things that make it possible to build tokens, but there is no token feature. It's pedantic, but it's like saying email is a feature of TCP/IP.
I've said this before, but I find the belief that 4-day work weeks are broadly supported / feasible to be a bit of the typical tech-world conceit or the bubble tech people live in. Or maybe it's just in advanced heavily intangible-services-based economies.

If you imagine this being applied to everything in the corporate/services world (and work is not "divisible"), would you be happy to have businesses closed 1 additional day per week? The DMV closed on Mondays -- but the fees and pay of employees remain the same? How about if prices go up by 20% to pay for the cost of having a 4 day week? Your plumber or car mechanic or doctor having 20% fewer available times to see you?

The idea of the 4 day work week where people can do all that they do now, but be more efficient about it in 4 days instead, is something exclusively a privilege that white collar workers can even consider.
I’m actually struggling to think of how someone could use wealth to solely improve their own life. If they invest it in a company, that investment creates jobs and pays wages, buys equipment and services that people were employed to provide. Even if they spend it on luxuries and entertainment, somebody had to make the luxuries, or provide the entertainment and they benefit.

Clearly productive investment is better, that last point is a bit tongue in cheek, but there’s at least some truth to it. The least productive use I could think of would be buying bitcoin, which is basically just funding turning electricity into heat.
Python is entirely unreadable to me. Not in the sense that I can't but in the sense that I have to put effort into it in a way I don't have to with Ruby. Part of it is undoubtedly that I'm very picky about syntax and formatting and Python has made a lot of choices that are pretty much the opposite of what I want, but I just can't get used to reading Python code.
Given that safety has been proven in 6mo to <5yo, and the dose for the 3yo and 4yo is in question (hence testing 3rd dose), I see no reason why doses one and two cannot proceed in these groups. Surely some exposure to the virus is better than none. At least give parents the option. My 3.7yo is the same weight as a median 5yo. My wife and I have had two doses of Pfizer and one Moderna booster. We would get my daughter vaccinated with one of those tomorrow if we were able to.
91.4% of Americans have health insurance.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

I'm Canadian, east coast. Our Health Care system is garbage and a lot of people end up going to private hospitals because the public sector can't handle the load, even pre-covid.

People have repeatedly died waiting in hospital halls waiting for care that never came.

Our healthcare system has almost nothing to be taken example of
I am in the same boat as you. It is crazy to me that we accepted the risks of every other RSV, influenza, corona, rhino, rota, noro, and whatever other bug going around daycare every week prior to Mar 2020, and still do, but if a COVID 19 is detected, then the whole thing shuts down.

Every single one of those kids at drop-off and pickup has a runny nose. I am pretty sure we have an informal agreement amongst all the parents that no one gets their kid tested for COVID. It is one thing to do all this song and dance without an available vaccine, but it has been widely available for over a year.
Joe Rogan interview doing numbers LOL
Are you doing any data engineering at you current job? Anything you can lean into more? My first data analyst job was essentially a mistitled data engineering job.

One challenge that you need to overcome is that many data engineering roles require experience with specific tools and that junior positions aren't quite as common.

I also think that you should consider backend software development as an option. It's a similar role (depending on the type of DE role you compare to) but with better opportunities for progression and more career flexibility; it's also been around much longer than DE which is a relatively new job title. Another weird thing is that some DE roles have lower status in some companies. Especially if you get to work with data scientists, there's sometimes the perception that DS are the smart people and DE are the grunts that do the plumbing. The whole thing is obviously very misplaced but it does exist in some places and you should be aware of it.
In a pandemic, I think herd immunity is a worldwide concept more than localized.
> The security you get from TLS in these systems is not meaningful

I don't like that phrasing, because it suggests that having TLS is equally good than not having TLS.

Otherwise, you are right.
I live in the Bay Area. I just visited my parents who caught Covid in November. Nobody wants to get tested in India. If you test positive, the local Government gets notified of it and they harass you. My father had GI issues so he was in the hospital for a week (and hated it), my Mom had mild symptoms. She had to get a doctor's note to stay home. Even then, multiple people harassed her at home ("we have to sanitize the home" - take money and throw random chemicals).

I spent Christmas to Jan 7th in India. I carried a bunch of antigen tests and delayed my RT PCR tests till the last day. Did not leave home, just spent time with parents.

In general, nobody cares about Covid in India anymore. Every family has lost one or more family members (my family lost 7) during Delta in April - July 2021, so there is a general resignation. The general Hindu / Indian resignation to karma kicks in and they have largely moved on.

My parents felt comfortable doing antigen tests with me and not a RT PCR - and I don't blame them.

I struggled quite a bit. Relied heavily on Gerson Duckbill N95 masks. Not surprised by these numbers at all.
"Disclose potential or actual conflicts of interest to a manager" is the 6th bullet on the very first link I provided.

But again: there isn't even a perceived conflict of interest here, unless your perception includes a fatally flawed understanding of how journalistic outfits isolate their executive board. Reuters is not responsible for correcting that fatally flawed understanding.
Well that's economy 101 - something has value if someone will pay for it. In that sense, an entry to a ponzi scheme is also valuable - many people do pay to enter ponzi schemes.

But looking at more concrete ways of value: technical merit, anesthetics, practical uses... It's falling short. So people call it for what it is - all hype, nothing else .

At least with crypto coins you can actually send it to people in a decentralized manner - that's valuable! Too bad it's slow, expensive and bad for the environment.
The Canadian Healthcare system will never improve if we keep saying "but, but it's better than Americas!".

Our healthcare system is a disgrace and our governments only get away with it because they can point to the bogeyman down south.
The fact that the person was caught makes this case probably a little different than most. Using analogies like yours can be helpful, but I have to wonder about the intent/knowledge of the dangers with those actions.

Pointing a laser at anyone/anything is possibly not as known to be potentially directly harmful as much as shooting a gun at someone. Ironically, your analogy is something that itself doesn't always have negative consequences related to it (ie how does that change when it's a police officer, or happens during a protest, etc).

Anyway, I am not sure it's cut-and-dry that a sentence like this is net better outcome, it definitely will make it more visible how bad this type of action is through news and what-not which is a good thing.
Whether or not it is true, that would certainly explain why I prefer Ruby so strongly over Python.
Like much of what the CDC puts out these days (e.g. "natural immunity is less effective than vaccine-induced"), their diabetes study is junk science: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/does-covid19-cause-d...
It's amazing how many can't see overshoot when they're in. Even more amazing that they don't realize that those who are the loudest in overshoot tend to end up being those most effected by the blowback that results. Funny enough, one of those is going to end up being Donald Trump, who is still trying very hard to cast himself as the savior of the pandemic. Of course he will be mostly isolated from the consequences other than having his dream of a 2024 comeback dashed. It's going to be hard on those with lesser resources to ameliorate the storm they find themselves in.
You’re right. The example should have both OP’s friend and OP with a similarly useless piece of paper.
Since I'm not seeing much comment on the post itself:

This was a fun, interesting read. I appreciated the straightforward, concise style of writing. Exactly the kind of content that I love on HN. Thanks!
Ah yes, the number of people who ended up dead because of being bare foot. That makes complete sense.
You will not find any, because there are none.
> RSV is more dangerous than COVID-19 for most small children.

Children don’t exist in isolation. They’re phenomenally good at spreading every infection to the rest of the household and everywhere else they go.

Trying to focus on children's outcomes and ignoring all of the second-order effects is dishonest. Children don’t live alone.
Honestly? I don't want the medical system to be "modernized". The advantage of paper files is it's much harder for a security breach at a single facility to lead to everyone's records being leaked to every bad actor out there.

"Modern" industries like social media tend to leak personal information like a sieve.
He has natural immunity. There are literally only downside risks from taking the shot. Who gets vaccinated for a disease they already had? No one gets measles and THEN gets vaccinated.
I get your point as a summary judgment, but it lacks evidence, not veracity. The CDC has multiple entities, some of which are non-governmental, and supported by business interests. Some would say that a little yeast spreads throughout the loaf.
> Practically everyone here has a meter which records power usage and return.

Be aware that this is not common in the rest of the world. Most meters are non-directional, which means if you hook a solar panel up to it and then produce extra power, the power company will read it as if you consumed that power from the grid. Effectively you pay the power company for every extra watt generated. Part of the solar install involves calling up the power company to have them come out and swap the meter.

Requirements to install Solar vary by community, state, and nation. It even matters where you install the panels. Ground mount and non-inhabited structures (sheds) and often more loosely regulated than rooftop arrays. Even if you are planning to do it yourself it is worth it to call a local installer and discuss the process and local laws. You may need to get permission from the HOA, town, county, power company, state, and even federal government depending on where you live.
After almost 30 years and tens of thousands of LOC, possibly even into 6 figures, I've now thrown in the towel and just use Python for all my scripting needs. I've yet to have a single shell script that hasn't turned into a maintenance nightmare, regardless of "bash best practices" (such as they are).

Bash is a terrible language, and needs to die.
Moxie: “I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal”
Throw shit at the police and they're going to react. Pretty normal and expected and has nothing to do with covid.
I'm doing this role over at Bevy[0]. Docs, project management, and mentorship (plus my technical contributions). It's incredibly valuable for the project, and has allowed us to scale up to hundreds of active contributors in less than two years. We do our best to welcome and encourage other folks in the same sort of role; there's always more PR reviews, issue management and community building to be done.

Incidentally, this work has led to an official role with the project, tons of professional experience and contacts, and some well-paid consulting gigs. I have a very strange and spotty resume due to health issues, so it's been frankly life-changing.

[0]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy
Is this because it prevents T-Mobile from monetizing and selling user browsing data?
> What will be really interesting is just how the medical community is so detached from the political community.

Regretfully, I don't think this is actually true anymore. I can only speak for the US. Maybe it was never true, but we're just now seeing it. The health insurance industry is heavily political, lots of money is spent drafting business friendly regulation. The pharma industry has an incestuous relation with the regulatory bodies that are supposed to keep it in check. So, it's note exactly red vs blue politics, but in my mind, there is a degree of green politics, and the actual politicians are simply clamoring for scraps of political capital during the crisis, while big pharma and unelected bureaucrats are spending tax payer dollars and controlling the medical community.
> To understand how ideologically scrambling the Omicron wave has been, consider this: Some 2022 Democrats are sounding like 2020 Republicans. ... In the current Omicron wave, these Republican talking points seem to have mostly come true—for most vaccinated non-senior adults, who are disproportionately Democrats.

This is such a stupid lead sentence. 2020 Republicans and 2022 Democrats are talking about different diseases in an entirely different global context.

The talking points didn't "come true" any more than saying it's raining while it's sunny out "comes true" if it happens to start raining a week later. The Republicans in 2020 were completely wrong to downplay the seriousness of a rapidly spreading disease we knew little about, that was killing thousands of people, and that we had no vaccines or good treatments for.

The fact that the current strain is less deadly, we've learned more about it, millions are vaccinated, and we have better treatments doesn't mean they were somehow right all along.
There are definitely diminishing returns with increase of refresh rates. But nonetheless your comparison is unfair, since you are comparing quadrupling of refresh rate with a mere 50% increase, which is similar to comparing 60 to 90, not 60 to 240. And with advent of VR demand for refresh rate increase of display panels will only grow, since it's much more noticeable while using headset.
Note that this takes place in the Netherlands, which is quite far north globally speaking (~52° N), which has a major impact on solar potential. For reference, the Canadian-US border is at 45° N, so everywhere in the US outside of Alaska will have larger solar potential (the average US center of population is ~37° N, the same latitude as Athens, Greece).
RRAM: A circuit that can function as a memory but also as a processor
The difference between the two is that "OnceCell" is more of a "vocabulary type" that is used to build other types and might get exported in public APIs, while regex is more of a "leaf type", if that makes sense. There's also something fundamental in "how do I build a static variable?".
Do you think the idea that popped into your head after reading this is something that didn't occur to them? A couple of YC companies have not raised additional VC rounds after YC.

I re-read the MFN SAFE contract. The second clause discusses "liquidity events." I.e., IPOs or selling the company. And discusses the details of that.

The only way around it would be to build the company after YC without further investment and to keep it private indefinitely, a la Gumroad, but given most company employees are also working partially for equity, that's generally a non-starter already. At that point, VCs usually make offers to the founders to buy back the equity for some amount to clear their books. I don't know if YC does this, though.

TL;DR The only way to not "convert" the $375k (this applies to the $125k SAFE too) would be to keep the company private forever which for most startups is a non-starter since employees generally want some equity.
> Do you really run a 10+ year old version of µTorrent without any drawbacks?

Absolutely.
Exactly. A guild for software engineers could be a good thing, with rules around ethics, code quality, security - all the things companies love to underinvest in.
Because it sounds terrible. Plain hot water? Hmm
If you look at the history of vaccinations against other diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, polio, smallpox, etc. you won't see untying like what we're seeing now - those were all able to be largely or completely eradicated.

What we appear to have with COVID-19 is akin to influenza - endemic, will never be eradicated, and thus it will mutate regularly and require new vaccines/boosters. Given that, people understandably want to treat it like the flu and get back to normal life.

> Ignorance like this has contributed to the virus mutating

Ignorance contributes nothing to the virus - it doesn't care if you have knowledge or not. This virus was going to mutate faster than we could produce vaccine no matter what we did.
Verizon is the only network that is reliable in my area. I've had great luck with visible, which is a spin-off on their network. Cheap as hell too - $25/mo for unlimited everything.
> ... set themselves up for greater long-term rewards

Such as?
and from TFA above:

> In early 2018, Acton and Marlinspike announced the formation of the Signal Foundation, a nonprofit. Acton, the foundation’s chairman and sole member, seeded it with a no-interest, fifty-million-dollar loan.

additionally from Wikipedia:

> By the end of 2018, the loan had increased to $105,000,400, which is due to be repaid on February 28, 2068. The loan is unsecured and at 0% interest.
I think I can only quit coffee with suicide.
It is impossible.
During my days as a student I managed to be 9 days coffee free.
But I relapsed.

I get all kinds of symptoms.

Coffee is the hardest drug to get clean from.
The US is weird. They took a long time to start using SMS, ad then once they started using it, its hard to get them to switch. A very stubborn attitude.
Saying that someone has a comorbidity is not a judgement. Its simply a fact. The virus is here, we know it affects people with certain conditions. If we can reduce or remove that condition then it is on us to do so. I am probably 30 pounds overweight, 20 of which I put on over the last year+ with covid. I am now working out and trying to drop those 30 pounds because in the context of the virus it just makes sense to do so. Its not a moral judgement on anyone.
He was attacking Telegram because he’s resigning as the CEO of Signal? What is the obvious connection there that you have seen?
Self Selecting though; it would be surprising if nerdy sites like HN "didn't" have love for the nerdy Thinkpads
The case for a safe return to offices by mid-February
I think people were saying 60fps was the limit but still I agree

That being said in the quake days I dont think monitors could go over 60hz anyways so even at 120FPS you were not gaining a similar advantage from what we have today. From what I remember however there were other advantages to high FPS in games like Counterstrike as well in terms of player movement - the monitor might have "smoothed" the motion back down to 60 fps but it still resulted in a more accurate experience.

I forget how refresh rate worked on CRT's though - maybe those could higher than 60?

And of course you can overclock an LCD monitor quite easily - most will not do much but there are some that I got to 90hz which (in my opinion) is a massive improvement compared to 60 and the 30hz difference is a much, much larger jump than the next jump from 90 to 120hz.
All code does more than one thing, and this is not what the SRP (Single Responsibility Principle) is about. The SRP says a module should not implement multiple independent business concerns.