skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an emergent situation, you'll never understand all the data in time. Imagine a loved one that's hurt who calls you for help after a crash. You could spend time trying to figure out their symptoms and their feelings, probing them for more information to make an accurate decision so that you don't have to actually waste the time to go over to them physically. Or you could just go over immediately and potentially waste time when it turns out your loved one would have been just fine without you. Most people choose the latter.

There's a reason emergency services dispatchers have such a stressful job, they're making these decisions all the time based on very limited amounts of data. Unfortunately we're all living in a situation right now where we're making emergency decisions as new information emerges.
My understanding is that he wasn't voluntarily sharing it. In November he pretty clearly told people to fork his code and move off his repository, and not to rely on his packages anymore. He used a graphic clearly warning of an impending "strike."

GitHub Post: https://archive.fo/9fwGz

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032105&p=2

That doesn't make it not a dick move. But let's not pretend they still had permission to remote load directly from his repo. If I own a personal storage facility and I decide to demolish it, and I say months in advance for everyone to take their stuff out and store it somewhere else, and then I demolish it and people lose their property... the harmed individuals are not faultless.

Would the professional and responsible thing to do be to announce a cut-off date explicitly and make very clear that Bad Things were going to happen if you didn't stop relying on him? Yes, 100%, and I have a low opinion of him for not doing so.

However, while what he did was bad, it isn't quite as bad, in my opinion, as people are making it out to be.
> I'd argue this is not in the spirit of the question

What question? I don't see any question.

I only see the drawing of a solid and a statement that it's impossible for such solid to exist.

And the only thing that is supposed to make the solid impossible is that it's named a "pyramid". What only means that the author uses a definition of that word that is more lenient than the strict usage I see in use, and more strict than the lenient usage.

It's an interesting math problem, that exists on the contexts of its definitions (like any other). But given that the definitions aren't stated, it's not reasonable to expected people to come aware of them.
It's obvious OP is getting onboarded by a company with no or a borked onboarding process - I get that it's red flag but the entire writeup came off whiny to me.

I realize "high maintenance" has a negative connotation... but it has nothing to do with self respect. Admittedly it's not a popular view but that was my honest feedback.
Yes Xtree! Oh my major flashback...
I think so? I've had the same question and have been meaning to do a actual controlled experiment, but haven't ever gotten around to it. I know I react badly to sugar, and I'm fairly certain I also react badly to caffeine separately, but don't have enough data points to draw a solid conclusion yet.
I don’t think you need to lack empathy or patience to desire a return to normalcy with an understanding that if someone decides not to protect themselves they may experience negative consequences.

We all have our choices and risk tolerances, people can make their decision and move on with their lives. I don’t stay off roads just because some people might not be wearing seatbelts.
I think the length between 1 and 2 was too short. I think 3 gives more overall robust immunity. I'll keep an eye on the research coming out though.
https://archive.is/KB7IJ
When the head of the agency can't stop the agency from doing something he doesn't like...
Oh wow it’s even longer. For some reason on iOS mobile it cuts off your text here.
What's the issue with that? They present a lot of BS in company intro meetings. It's "drink the kool aid time" as far as I am concerned.
The point is, if Ariane slightly overboosts requested trajectory it increases JWST lifetime, but it's not indicative of exceptional Ariane performance. In other words, perfectly precise Ariane burn yields shorter lifetime than slight overboost, thus I'm surprised that article attributes increased lifetime to especially precise launch vehicle.
"Brits to quit jobs if not offered four-day week, say researchers"

link: https://employernews.co.uk/news/brits-to-quit-jobs-if-not-of...

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29877234
Because anything with two sides can be advantageously leveraged if it correlates with political alignment. An apolitical question is an opportunity to create and align a political question.
I feel like COVID has become like a marshmallow test for adults, where those who can manage their emotions and make rational decisions can set themselves up for greater long-term rewards.

It looked for a while there like this could be a thing that gets “done”—that we would get a good vaccine into enough people, then incidence would decline so far it just goes away.

That didn’t happen. We’re stuck with it for a foreseeable future. Well, one can cry for the world that was, or one can get up and live in the world that is.

We’re not going to be done with vaccines and mandates. And that does not have to be a big deal. I have had to prove vaccination status of my kid for schools and camps for years. It’s annoying but not any harder than keeping my car registration up to date or any other minor bureaucratic headache.

I know someone who almost quit a great job because they were mad about a vaccine mandate from their employer. They were going to give up a good salary, great benefits, and a stable career because they were “so over COVID.” That is what failing the marshmallow test looks like.
Really stalebot shouldn't close issues. It should put them into a "stale" state, where they still exist for users to read, but are filtered out when maintainers look at a list of issues with the project.
I agree with the continuous testing requirement, too. I’m lucky enough to live in Colorado with an at-home test kit program. I’ve been able to regularly test about once a week, or more frequently if I have clinical symptoms.

We need a program like that on a national scale. I know countries like the UK are doing really well with at-home testing programs, but here in the US, we’re still experiencing both PCR and rapid test shortages. We shouldn’t be seeing this so far into a pandemic.

Fully agree on the individual responsibility to quarantine regardless of clinical symptoms, too. There’s been a huge failing, this entire pandemic, at the individual level. It’s why the lockdowns were marginally effective — folks didn’t stay at home like they were asked to. It’s another symptom of a lack of collective sacrifice for the greater good.
This is anecdotal, but I'm the only one in my family who is vaccinated (which took me catching swine flu years ago to convince me), but my elderly mom and younger brother and sister had omicron and all had the same symptoms while be unvaccinated.

I was in the house but didn't catch omicron due to the vaccine (I guess?).
Wasn’t the population of Carthage “replaced” several times? Xxx to Phoenician, Phoenician to Carthaginian, Carthaginian to whatever survived falling to Rome, Roman to Vandal, Vandal to Arab/Mameluke?

The same geographic location but different cultures… Before that, maybe they were part of the Sea Peoples who conquered most of the western med at the end of the Bronze Age.
You can never know if the vaccine made it less bad. If you don't like anecdotes about how tame covid was w/o vaccines, don't say things like "it would have been worse w/o the vaccine".
Haha, yeah. My reaction to the title was "my past self, usually." I've seen utterly horrible code written by people who I consider myself leagues beneath. Sometimes git blame is a lesson in humility.
Government incentives for oil has worked out rather sustainable over the last century, why not for solar?
> being a low income country, the health care is not the best

The Indian state of Kerala would like to differ.

States and leadership that are more keen on disrupting the social fabric, polarize it to gain votes, sure that would divert resources into such harmful instruments. The consequences were well observed as dead bodies by the thousands buried on river sand bars or floating down the water, with government officials working to conceal the evidence by removing religious commemorative markings left on the sand graves.
I have a close friend who got Sr Engineer offer from Bolt. The 500k yearly TC is somewhat misleading because it’s assuming more than 2x growth in evaluation. While they may very well achieve that, you’re not gonna see the full 500k for an uncertain amount of time. More people should be aware of the nuances in these compensation figures.
Thank you for the links, will take a look at them at length.

Based on your mention of sugary stuff, just wanted to mention that I hardly ever consume (processed) sugar, least of all at breakfast.
I live in the Pacific Northwest where it is cloudy for the majority of the year. In our last house we had panels installed. The amount of money we paid each month toward paying down the loan for the panels was less than what we had been paying each month for electricity prior to the panels being installed. About $50 less per month. Where we live, any excess energy is fed back into the grid and counted as a credit the rolls over year to year. We generated enough electricity to cover our needs, even during the cloudiest/rainiest months. We never had an electric bill more than the required $12 hookup to the grid fee.
If this is our new reality then this is our new reality.

Given that our hospital systems are being pushed to basically their breaking point, we need to do what we can to help our the nurses / doctors handle this situation.

A cloth mask is something like 30% effective. That's better than nothing, and certainly can slow down the spread if used universally. Booster-vaccines are something like 70% vs Omicron.

You do what you can, with the tools you have.
> CDC has now said that the majority of those that died had 4+ co-morbidities.

This is in reference to a specific study that followed 1.2M fully vaccinated individuals and found that 28 of the 36 deaths had at least 4 high-risk factors (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a4.htm). They are not referring to the unvaccinated who still have a much higher risk of hospitalization and death.
Given that you know all the downsides of "wishy washy" communication, as well as the downsides of "overly certain sounding" communication...

isn't the rational thing to do to start ignoring some of the "meta-policy" framing and just treat it as "this is the best idea people have at the time, but I expect it's subject to change."

Truthfully, we should be more open to all sorts of policy changing over time. Every other entity in the world is expected to evolve.
In the beginning I feel like communication was very much about how they’re learning more and don’t much yet. That was pounced on for its non-information, and the uncertainty was ignored in the great mask debates in early 2020.

I don’t think you can be wishy washy, and the lack of respect for science and science education in the US certainly doesn’t help.
Yeah, I love my late 2013 MacBook Pro! I also recently purchased a bunch of ThinkPads (X230 and X220) to round out my options so I have these nice era of computers going forward for a long time, since I know they will become harder to find over time. Def agree about the "early 2010s" laptops hitting a good place, kind of optimal balance of features vs. simplicity IMO
Couldn't you just offer an uncapped SAFE/MFN to your angels as well?
This is absolutely me.

1. My personal risk, as someone who is vaccinated, 38, and in decent shape (https://imgur.com/a/gdbBKGK), is quite low. (OK, I could lose some holiday weight, fine.)

2. My immediate friend circle is vaccinated…and the vast majority already danced with Omicron already, and came out just fine.

3. I live by myself.

So…I am over it. This variant seems to be unbelievably, uncontrollably contagious, and the spread cannot be mitigated without extreme measures. And the people who are at by far, BY FAR the most at-risk are the elderly unvaccinated, who have had ample opportunity to get vaccinated. They will probably be exposed to this virus no matter what I personally do, and probably no matter what anyone does, so why should I substantially alter my life for them, when it will almost certainly change nothing?

—

And to rant just a bit more: “oh it’s just a mask”. Well, I’m sorry, I have this weird thing where I like to see people’s faces, and see their expressions so that I can get a better idea of their emotional responses. I know. So inhuman of me. (I do wonder if the people who think masks are no big deals have anything resembling social circles…)
"no evidence". The first round of boosters have shown strong efficacy. Why would a second round of boosters not have any efficacy? It seems that you've chosen the wrong null hypothesis.
>> First, artificialLimbs comment has been edited and toned down significantly since it was first posted.

No it wasn't. Unless you could see what I typed into the web form before I hit submit.

>> while I don’t believe in the boogie man

Well you should. They're here. They are the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, and other government agencies that regularly operate out of bounds of legality. If the horrible things that they have done and continue to do don't shock you and create the desire for their radical change or elimination entirely, you are stupid or malicious.
Pre-registration of studies is a virtue ;)
if I didn't get sick or there was a new one that's better of course I would take it. I think t-cells are still robust long term so I'm safe from severe disease. That's what I've read so far in the news but I'll keep monitoring.
The only hard question is hospital triaging. Who gets treatment if there's only room for 50% or 20%? Who can even decide? Does anyone volunteer to be excluded from medical care? This affects more than just covid patients too.

Any way we choose, it amounts to sacrificing XYZk people so we can go back to living a normal life. I don't think that's an exchange most people are willing to take.

And yes, lockdown measures are usually in response to hospitals filling up. Check for example [0] against the timeline of lockdowns for that area. If you know any counter examples I'd like to hear about it.

[0]: https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...
This isn't a falsifiable claim: what's the difference between "feigning neutrality" and "operating neutrally" if the output is neutral reporting?

Nobody is actually netural. What makes a news outfit "neutral" is their adherence to journalistic standards of neutrality, which include both a firewall against executive interests and an editing process designed to temper the biases of individual journalists.
Lets factor in costs of goods and see how it impacted others around the globe. the big "problem" is that a lot of low skill labor has to compete with low skill labor around the world due to improvements in communication and shipping. This greatly increased the overall quality of life across the world. It's a shock to the system, but as productivity and wages rise across the world all boats will rise. And they are already rising in the reduction of the cost of goods.

The it took communities that were impacted by the mechanical loom quite awhile to recover - multiple decades.

I'd say the big problems are inflation - destroying the value of the dollar and savings not in equities and rising taxation that also decreases income.
When you learn Rails, you mostly just learn Rails. If you want to learn the nitty gritty details I think a different language might be better suited. I think Go strikes a nice balance between "doing everything yourself" and "just putting pieces together" If you constrain yourself to the standard library.
real life and society as rate limiting balancing mechanism :)
Similarly, I use a really skinny mug that keeps coffee hot longer than usual, and I make sure it stays hot by going back to the microwave and reheating it as needed. The heat keeps me from chugging it.

I also brew half-caf and mix it with half water before heating it. I know I sound like a crazy person.
the bigger problem is that their initial selling point for the vaccine was "get your 2 shots and everything goes back to normal". Many people grudgingly got it despite some hesitancy and now have even less trust of the government now that the goal posts are shifting yet again
The context of the creation of this "impossible pyramid" is where the definition for "impossible" comes from here. Under Huffman's assumptions (the image is not deliberately misleading, there is no hidden information, each side lies entirely within a plane, and the image is meant to represent a polyhedron), the pyramid is, indeed, impossible. Relaxing his assumptions (which he discusses) would make it possible, but then, well, you've relaxed the assumptions (there's a hidden edge not seen, the image is meant to mislead, each side does not, in fact, lie entirely within a plane, etc.).
Reclaim the Dreaming Spires
Caffeine is delivered quite differently based on the brewing method. I find that 4 or more shots of espresso a day will lead to an eye twitch, while one or two cups of Philz deliver the caffeine far more smoothly.

French press seems to be somewhere in between, the extraction is different than pour over. Philz's extraction time is even shorter than a regular pour over. They use a lot more beans than Blue Bottle but the water flows through the grounds much quicker.

If you can't go cold turkey, try avoiding espresso and French press and the jittery feeling might subside.
> Then this new omni variant comes out and they're badgering everyone to get boosted NOW or your no longer considered fully vaccinated.

Currently the CDC still considers someone fully vaccinated after the two dose series. As far as I can tell there aren't any booster requirements at the national level.
Seconded! Quite bizzare it was, a fun bingeing session a few years back.
Smart move – Bolt just jumped to the top of the work-for list for me.
There is an open source clone: https://sourceforge.net/projects/grief/
Okay, so we’re back to it’s valuable because some people are gullible. This is not particularly compelling. Yeah, from a money grabbing, no ethics wanted standpoint, that is a compelling argument that it will make money. It is not a compelling argument that it actually provides meaningful value to anyone except the ones perpetuating the scam, though. A Ponzi scheme is also profitable.

It is interesting that NFT royalties are thing. I was not aware of that. Although I don’t see that this makes it valuable. Royalties are generally paid for reproduction. If you have to pay the creator to transfer the token, then it seems evident that you don’t even own the token, whatever that’s worth.
There's a ring of people here that gang up and downvote posts, waging political wars. Then they seek out and downvote others recent comments by the same user. dang has to look into this.
Early on in the pandemic, I used to be in the camp that wanted mask mandates and vaccination passports. I see how dangerous and ineffective this is now. Governments are not good stewards.

The virus will keep evolving to evade our vaccines. This is never going to end. We will never eradicate Covid, and we'll never reach vaccine-mediated herd immunity.

The administration forcing a purge of unvaccinated US soldiers, government workers, and employees of companies that do business with the government is obscene. Not only is this government overreach, it's a political witch hunt. It's disemboweling of dissent from the ranks, which is chiefly undemocratic and un-American.

I'm so angry at how this has been handled by both the Trump and the Biden administrations. Give people tools and understandable science (which Trump botched), but stop trying to become Big Brother (which is what Biden is doing). And above all, stop turning this into a political matter that toys with people's safety and employment.
In the US, there is no political capital left to even attempt number 3. Not gonna happen.
that's interesting- we decided to take around that figure in non-dilutive grant funding instead of YC. Compared to grants, that's pretty expensive
yeah, but... you know... of course they're prioritizing all the COVID patients first, before anyone else, because they get more money from the government for 'COVID' patients!

/s

That was an actual exchange I had with someone a few weeks ago with this same scenario. They'd gone from 'it's all faked' to "well, yeah, there may be people there now, and they're taking resources from non-covid patients, but the govt wants it that way, that's why they pay hospital more for covid patients! they're incentivizing people getting covid!"

I don't think it makes any sense at all, but interactions like these are more signs to me that it's harder to have meaningful interactions 'across the divide' these days.
Yeah - I’m just not sure what useful work the term ‘harder’ is doing. It just compares two things in a way that seems irrelevant, and mostly harmful.

It does take ‘effort’ to clean your room if you are depressed. But that has very little to do with why one might not do it. Typically it’s because it seems pointless, and because taking action typically intensifies the pain for a while for various reasons.

The ‘effort’ piece to me seems like a distraction, and one which can imply that the depressed person simply is lazy or not trying hard enough, which is usually the opposite.

Someone who feels like they want to die can be putting a great deal of effort into battling with their thoughts and ruminating. Indeed some theories contend that this problem solving effort is fundamental to depression.
It is the they don't do any good communication that is irresponsible. There was already evidence otherwise that they ignored, and the rest of the statement was based on zero evidence.
Did you take a test? The person I'm staying with also tested positive, but she had no symptoms at all..
Drop them, and drop the whole project. Don't even look back.

Just give them the code as is, "good luck, no hard feelings, I need to go earn money to live", as the drama isn't worth bothering to go though "give me this and then I'll give you that" routine. If you ever care about this idea just re-write it.

Parters worth having will be highly engaged and they will bring money to pay you.

Don't take the dev role with co-founders who cannot bring money to support you from day 1. You should not be dreading asking for money. You shouldn't even be thinking about it. They should have guaranteed and reliably paid you a reasonable wage.
I'm just translating. Personally I think debates about things that are opinion-based personal preferences are fun but fruitless.
At some point we should (not) start charting and obsessively reporting all the other endemic viruses. I’m curious how anxiety inducing they are compared to Covid
In Egypt the minimum wage for public sector workers is EGP 2,400 per month. A rapid test costs about EGP 700. Are the case numbers accurate when even a rapid test costs as much as a third of one's monthly salary?
It’s uncapped. Why would you ever prefer a capped note?

Doing a deal with YC never excludes you from doing a separate deal with someone else as well.
Sure. An acquihire is a business failure. If it bugs you that you lose your investment on them, I don't know what to say; I assume that if you're investing at scale, you mostly don't care (your returns are defined by the actual wins); if you're not, I'm baffled by why people do hobby startup investing at all. It seems crazymaking. But then, I'm an, uh, "operator", so I would think that.
For offenses where the risk of getting caught is very low, you need to make the punishments stiff, otherwise the expected value of the punishment is near-zero.