skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it affordable to live close to work, in other countries?

Not really. Before COVID, I generally took a 15 minute run to the train station, then took the train for about hour, then took another 20 minute run to get to work at the local tech centre. If I had a fold-up bike, it would be a lot quicker, because there are bicycle paths. (In theory, I could've worked remotely, but it was easier to get stuff done with access to a whiteboard and the person in charge of systems architecture. I could also take a regular bike on the train, but if everyone did it that would be a mess, so I don't.)

I do stand by my “doing it wrong” remark – though I'll have to apply it to whoever designed your cities. That situation is awful (though good on you for using an electric car).
The exit is usually from their primary data centre and more specifically from their static public IP range there, however, the question still remains I think as google likely knows the IP range right?
>There are approximately zero cities outside of New York where public transit is viable competition to cars.

It's viable in San Francisco proper as well.
always normalize your input vectors!
What else would you do with the remaining doses?
> censorship resistant

Not always.
I recently watched some state level testimony from nurses and they said something along the lines of, “our staff, nurses and doctors, are unaware of or trained to use VAERS”

I love basing my opinions off of shitty data.
What could you possibly be basing this on, and how are you so sure that this gut feeling is not at all caused by the various campaigns that corporations are provably spending millions of dollars on every year?

Did you really never have a bad manager? Can you truly not believe that bad managers exist? I am really surprised by this comment.
Imagine a car manufacturer like "I wish I could say I spent the hours looking at every valve and every screw..."
It's really hard to see the big picture when you're literally sitting there with a verifiable data point to the contrary (your own experience), but do you think your experience is a guaranteed outcome for everyone, or is it possible your specific situation (testing positive for COVID despite taking precautions) is either an outlier, or at least not the most common outcome?

I'm sorry you're sick, that really sucks. I hope it's asymptomatic and you can get back to living your life soon.
Vaccines were never expected to stop the pandemic. They were expected to stop people from dying from the pandemic. They are doing that. So far, vaccines have saved 1.1M Americans from dying from covid and saved 10.3M Americans from needing hospital treatment for covid [0].

Preventable Covid-19 cases can lead to higher health and life insurance rates. Firing employees who refuse the vaccine is smart business.

Vaccine mandates save the government a lot of money in several ways:

- US government pays $770B a year for medical care for older people and poor children [1]. Covid cases increase those costs. Fortunately, vaccines prevent most cases and reduce severity of all cases.

- US government has 23M veterans and pays $40B a year for their medical care [2]. Covid cases increase those costs. Fortunately, vaccines prevent most of the cases.

- When a person goes to the hospital and cannot pay, the hospital takes a loss and reduces the tax they pay. Hospitals write off about $40B in uncompensated care every year [3]. Uncompensated covid care makes those numbers bigger and taxes lower. Fortunately, vaccines prevent most serious covid cases.

- Workers can't work when they have covid or their dependents have covid. Covid sickness reduces economic output. Because taxes only apply to profits and most businesses have low margins, small reductions in revenue cause large reductions in taxes. Fortunately, vaccines reduce severity of all cases, so people recover more quickly and workers can get back to work faster.

[0] https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/there-is-good...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

[2] https://www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/QuickFacts/Expenditures_quic...

[3] https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2020-01-06-fact-sheet-uncomp...
obsesity is an epidemic. covid today is pandemic. while it is problematic like any diease that affects a smaller subset of the population, it lot less concerning than a pandemic. it has nothing to do with you deserve it or not.
Stuff like this isn't just trade secrets, in the US it's often ITAR-controlled and requires a security clearance. There are CFD algorithms that are classified. If you possess this information and plan to move to (or even visit) China, I imagine US immigration will look at you very closely and not simply allow you to leave to go work for Chengdu Aerospace Corporation.
FWIW, I love places that actively prevent you from working too much, I over worked at a young age, it took two good bosses to teach me being effective limiting my work hours. This stopped me from hurting myself, never going back to forced 40 hour weeks. Thanks for being part of that.

Warning though, forced on call can be hell as an employee. We are an group of five and can handle on call every five weeks if there is more we would start to get attrition.
Fair, and no worries, I'd guess at least 50% of the readership here is from the US. Also, sorry if I came off a bit sharp: that was all written fairly hastily.

That's a great question, and it also touches on the reason I'm not only infuriated with antivaxxers: vaccines don't fully protect against illness, nor do they stop transmission. So whilst I vaccines are of substantial benefit they're clearly not a total solution to the problem of COVID, nor do I think such a total solution exists or can exist within any foreseeable timeframe.

One becomes jaded living with controls over a situation that doesn't appear to be particularly controllable; certainly not a situation that can be controlled by the UK government, or other governments in Western Europe.

I've tolerated - we've all tolerated - restrictions for nearly two years now but, if they're not making much difference, well, eff the restrictions, I've had enough. I'm not getting any younger here and I'm fed up of wasting my life away. I suppose, to some extent, I'm a bit consumed with a sort of impotent frustration.

What's the situation where you are, if you don't mind me asking?
Yeah. I used to ride bikes (bicycles) in some super dense urban areas of US for years. Got hurt more on bicycles than on my motorcycles (my 70+ mph interstate crash on motorcycle not nearly as bad as getting whacked on bicycle by a valet going 10mph in downtown Chicago!)

Bicyclist probably get way more injuries per mile than motorcyclists. It's risky!
It’s on your next round.
The Alpha Gal sugar.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/alpha... and https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/retur... are good listens on the subject.

In particular from the second one:

> SOREN: Which brings me back to that little part of the article that piqued my interest in the beginning, because the pig that they got the kidney from to do this was a very special pig. Normally, pigs and other mammals that aren't primates have a sugar in their body that our bodies don't have, and so we don't like it or see it as foreign. And that's why usually an organ from another animal would get rejected. But this pig had been genetically modified. It had had the gene that makes that sugar removed, so it didn't have that sugar. Which is part of the reason this worked. And that sugar just so happens to be called "alpha-gal."
This is so ass-backwards and you're practically twisting yourself over backwards a dozen times to somehow try to argue that this wasn't malicious. He basically poisoned the library, and you're blaming all the people who got poisoned because "they didn't fully inspect the contents of the code".
> Was it malice when maintainers started adding those posinstall scripts asking for funding? which lead directly to the creation of `npm fund`, for instance. Was that also malice?

No, because that did not impair use of those libraries whereas this change deliberately broke every program written by someone who trusted him and used his code under the social contract he offered.

Open source maintainer funding and burnout are real problems but betrayal won't make things better. Imagine if you lived in a house with a bunch of roommates who weren't doing their share of the housework — you're entirely within your rights to stop volunteering to clean the toilet but it's crossing a line if you instead modify it to flush up.
Reading through the comments here is pretty entertaining too.
The entire point is that the vaccine didn't improve the risk profile for kids under 5.

Which means that scenario playing in your head is just as likely
to happen (or more likely, not happen) whether your children are vaccinated or not.
> Interesting. What about hiring people from the leading companies? Isn't that how a lot of knowledge transfer happens in all industries?

Maybe it's not that easy. I have no knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing (let alone advanced semiconductor manufacturing), but it strikes me as one of those areas that might have thousands of very specialized crazy hard problems that all need to be solved just right to get things working. If you hire away some guy from a leading company, at best he might have a thousandth of that company's solution (and maybe that thousandth of a solution is only valuable in a path-dependent context with all the other solutions that leading company followed).

> Are non-competes enforceable internationally?

Doubt it. Though I suppose in some cases disclosing trade secrets for advanced technology my violate other laws.
Your main heading is barely visible [1] (font-weight: 100 is only good on macs, where fonts all get thickened by the system on display).

The colour of it (#4D644F on #090D1D) fails WCAG AAA at both large and small sizes.

The colour of every code tag (#6B7280 on #281234) also fails WCAG AAA and has readability reduced by having a contrasting edge against the background.

Your "last update" text at the problem is also lacking contrast.

That was just from glancing through (and copying numbers around). However, it is made worse by blue-light exposure reduction software (like that built in to Windows 10, Android and others, or provided by f.lux).

[1] https://imgur.com/a/G6g0vNG
I see many comments dissing corrupt doctors and hospitals.

I think this is really unfair and demoralizing to the many in the medical profession who have been working in the middle of this crisis often at the cost of great personal sacrifices, showing up for yet another grueling long day of work, day after day, holding consultation sessions on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/c/drkkaggarwal) by finding slivers of time, even when they themselves are infected (more than once) and would eventually succumb, braving lynching and the attitude of the government that does little apart from vapid token gestures of flower showers and setting the brutality of the police force on medical students should they complain about their lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIrOLwQtwYo

Disclaimer: I am not in the medical profession
Haha I drive my car to my San Francisco office for a quick 10 min ride. It isn’t that I can’t bike there (I have a carbon fiber aero bike with zipps and dura-ace throughout). I often take my motorcycle there because it cuts the commute to 6 min.

It’s just that I’m eager to not spend time not on the prime activity.
I recently came across a term "Functional Medicine" https://www.ifm.org which looks at the body as a whole and tries to root cause metabolic issues which can often result in IBS cures.. most older medicinal practices always considered the body as a unified system which make sense in terms of how it is engineered but modern medicine tries to break things down and often misses the cross specialization impacts. Best of luck!
Most Americans have a few hundred bucks in savings and you think it’s reasonable to pay $150 for a strep test and some penicillin?
And of course a clever attacker would do this:

* add some code with a subtle and accidental-looking vulnerability to a package

* wait until lots of other packages were dependent on it

* report the vulnerability so the package got flagged by "npm audit" as needing an urgent update

* release a new version with a more damaging malicious payload in it, which everyone would rush to install.

The way to stop this scheme would be for NPM to make sure that "npm audit fix" installs the earliest non-exploitable version, and to make sure that that version contained only the minimum changes necessary to fix the reported vulnerability.

That would mean having engineers whose job it is to do security reviews of patches to packages that have vulnerabilities found in them, but that shouldn't be too much work to take on. I mean, how often are NPM package vulnerabilities found? Two per day, or something?[0] Also it would require that packages are reproducibly built from their published source code, which sadly isn't a thing yet.[1]

[0] https://github.com/advisories?query=type%3Areviewed+ecosyste...

[1] https://hackernoon.com/what-if-we-could-verify-npm-packages-...
Same for me but with sugar. Quit for a week, felt no different, went back to my usual (not particularly high) consumption. It's a bummer too because I had read so much strong criticism of sugar on HN and about how much it affects us without us realizing it, I thought maybe I'll actually feel something better which would be exciting! Nope, just bored because I had to cut out most of the interesting (to me) food in my life.
This is significantly more dangerous to significantly more people than the flu so the extra masking / testing is warranted for the time being. That being said, this is probably where we will end up, with a milder and endemic COVID that we treat like the flu.
So 50B? That's nowhere near what you need. Last year both TSMC and Intel announced they are spending a hundred billion each on new fabs (TSMC in April, Intel in July) and they have all the R&D already and good relationship with ASML (and both own a few percent of it, too).

But the US banned ASML from selling to China so you need to catch up with ASML and Intel/TSMC at the same time. Now, I don't know when ASML started researching EUV but they were certainly working on it in 1998 -- which doesn't mean it'll take twenty years to replicate it because surely some of it is public but still, it's a big, big project. https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA56970339&sid=googleSc...
Yeah. There is that <5% baby in the bathwater that doesn't deserve to get lumped in with the thieves, ghouls and puppets, for sure.

I don't know how they do it, but I sure hope we can grow more of them somehow.
Yeesh. Can we talk about how obnoxious that site is? Hijacking the back button. Huge screen filling ads. It’s just gross.
Were smiles banned or something? I've smiled to my niece and she smiled back to me last time I checked.

But in public, its important to reduce the hospitalization rate and COVID19 rate of spread. As corrosive as you "think" masks are, I guarantee that the long-term effects of COVID19 are more corrosive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rxwnbl/i_am_a_new_york...

Just 10% of this school has gotten infected with COVID19, and you can see how much of a nightmare its become. Not enough substitute teachers to watch kids. Kids mingling in the auditorium because there's not enough teachers to watch them. Spreading COVID19 further and further, causing more kids to be absent, causing more teachers to be absent, preventing school from effectively functioning as a learning environment.
Much better than what I expected to see. But i'm not sure what the use case here. Who wants to see absolutely all comments posted in real time ? I didn't really see a login button, or filters. At least it's (very) compact
Normally 50+ links and citations would count as evidence wouldn't it?

One only has to look at how China treats protestors to realize they aren't exactly the most concerned governments when it comes to human rights.
Terror is rarely coincident with clear decision making.

Hopefully it's transient, soon followed by calm risk-benefit analysis.
I suspect some or most of this secret sauce is more like institutional knowledge and not one single person knows how the whole system works (to produce high quality chips at scale). Or maybe there IS one person, but that’s the CEO/founder, haha.

Regardless, it’s similar to software companies claiming to run agile, but always reverting to the “get it done, waterfall deadline” mode. It takes good effort and detailed knowledge of pitfalls to avoid to actually make a less intuitive, but more repeatable and productive process work. (Agile’s been around for over 10years and people still don’t do good versions well)
If you want to pay, Consumer Reports.

If you want free, you get an SEO-infested, SEO-riddled dumpster fire.

Totally up to you.
For a somewhat biased take on the situation, Asianometry on Youtube talked about Hongxin last year, this guy's choice of topic coverage is all over the map, but focuses on Asia, Tech, and Politics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSvDYDfd78
You're not entirely wrong that terms need to be updated from time to time and to match new technological details. I agree with redefining the difference between weakened portions of a virus vs (as i understood it) spike proteins produced within us ... What I personally dont agree with is redefining the success % (about 80%?) and a target of a vaccine to mean "You wont get hospitalized" (as opposed to you will have no observable symptoms). The real issue at hand is that the public has an understanding of what a "vaccine" means to them, and that public definition and the establishment provided new definition are grossly different. I'm not a fan of being told what a word means by overlords who control the definitions of language.

I'm not an antivaxxer per se, people should do what they want, but I'm pretty unimpressed with what we got in the box that said "Vaccine".
The people posting that it's not their fault, that they can't possibly vet the code they ship, etc. are basically people who don't have any professional ethics.

Not only that, even if you excuse their lack of ethics, there's a basic competence issue: they have a basic failure to learn from history and the most basic part of this, which is that you shouldn't be pulling live from the internet.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

Seems like he had series of odd statements around the same time: liberty, Aaron Schwarts and some such.

Overall it sounded to me more like breakdown then anything else.
That's their goal as I understand from this paragraph:

> "The company dubs its prototype a proof of concept. The point is to show that real-world ranges far longer than an average driver's endurance (pit stops, ahem) can be achieved in the near future. The next step is for it to evolve into a new battery called Gemini, intended to go into production after 2023."

They don't say whether it is LFP based though.
Unfortunately the way that this can be prevented would be to audit the packages before including them or having your own package management that you control.
Just removing some sugars can't possibly work, since the pig heart will lack correct MHC class I molecules, which will make it a target. So the patient will need permanent immune-suppression.
The whole "grab the latest semver compatible version" was designed for a reason, and just pinning to a specific version would bring us to a world where very different articles need to be written. Specifically, when there's a vulnerability in any dependency (a thing that happens much more often than a rogue OSS dev) the upgrade process would be a nightmare for everyone involved.

You have to chose one of the two evils; automatic bug/vulnerability fixes, or protection against rogue OSS devs you depend on. I'd say the former is an order of magnitude more common and important, and so the npm/JS world works this way.
Even if it's true that infection is inevitable (it's not true), delaying infection is a good idea, to reduce the immediate strain on the hospital system.
So you're just straight up defending eugenics?
Boring bear market is great. Now there are a ton more things to do. Maybe we'll finally get some proper value deals off defi coins.
They never would have gotten it anyway.
SAFE with a cap of 5mil. So at least 10%.
Isn't that basically what happened with seatbelts? For example: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-06-29-86020803...

I wasn't alive in the 80s, but honestly it seems pretty similar. A lot of people hated the laws, there were public fights and court challenges for a while, and then eventually society got over it.
The commit message idea always felt a little strange/off to me. It's a string that you can't (generally) fix/extend later for those who may seek this information. Also nobody except the committer can write them. (Imagine an explicit @docsguy role for documenting commits along with writing ticket-based documentation.)

What if VCSs used a single file or a folder, like .gitcommits, where anyone could append any sort of info in the same commit, so it could be a part of it. Then, when you commit a feature, you add to this file(-s):

@@ @@
+---
+added websocket support to the server
+ /ws - main socket
+ /ws-events - events socket

And few commits later you decide to extend it, editing the same record:

@@ @@
+---
+added json-rpc over websockets
+ /ws-json-rpc

And VCS would then extract these records at `git log`:

...
4509812 added websocket support to the server
0732691 <no .gitcommits message>
8712389 added json-rpc over websockets

Few commits later @docsguy expand on json-rpc:

@@ @@
---
-added json-rpc over websockets
+added lifetime-related json-rpc over websockets
+task: ./tasks/1873.md
+supports 'start' and 'stop' methods: ./doc/ws-lifetime.md
/ws-json-rpc
@@ @@
+---
+enhanced commit descriptions

A tasks/1873.md
A doc/ws-lifetime.md

4509812 added websocket support to the server
0732691 <no .gitcommits message>
8712389 added lifetime-related json-rpc over websockets
6034007 enhanced commit descriptions

Full commit messages would then be just diffs. Also, one could write a commit message gradually, with the sources they are modifying. Or write two commit messages at once (because we all do commit two+ changes sometimes):

@@ @@
+---
+refactored foo bar heavily, @docsguy please expand
+---
+fixed a bug in baz, didn't care to backport

...
0923423 refactored foo bar heavily, @docsguy please expand
fixed a bug in baz, didn't care to backport
The initialization strategy for UMAP is important enough that asking about that in practice is probably more important than anything out of Ghrist's book as an interview question

cf. https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1356906342439669761
> Which partly explains Wikipedia's political stance.

I'm curious to hear what you think Wikipedia's political stance is?
I think your mindset is stuck in thinking about this as an airplane production environment because that was your experience. And your points make sense in that type of environment. But research aerospace in which JWST operates is a very different scale, operating much more at the margins where the tech is less well understood and takes much longer to develop. Investing billions for redundancy on an unproven system is a big risk (besides the fact that it would likely be designed differently - and better - if started today).

The sunk cost fallacy already drives a lot of these projects...imagine how much worse it would be (and how many other, competing projects wouldn't get funded) if the costs were higher.
I'm not saying we should lock everything down and stop going outside. I am saying COVID is still infectious and lethal enough to warrant small countermeasures like encouraging masking indoors and regular testing / quarantine if you have it to limit the spread. These are small, proportional measures to the danger I think.