skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get a ton of Chinese language scam robocalls in the US, they're just not specifically memorable because I don't speak Chinese.
The issue of having a thin library is that one then ends like the relationship POSIX has with ISO C.

As the standard library is very anaemic, and cannot be guaranteed to be everywhere one has a compiler available, one brings half-UNIX implementation along for the ride.

And when it isn't available, everyone complains the C code isn't "portable".
In Romania competition + initial lack of regulation and lucky timing led to incredible speed + cost (my ISP just launched 10Gbps fiberlink for 10EUR/mo; 2.5Gbps is 9EUR/mo, 1Gbps is 8EUR/mo, 500Mbps is 6EUR/mo and the slowest option). That said, I think we just got incredibly lucky and I wouldn't advocate "lack of regulation" in general.
I would agree with this but add continuous testing to the mix, and actually quarantining if you have a positive test but no symptoms. It seems like the most reasonable comprimise between the individual desire to return to normal.

Unfortunately this is a large individual responsibility, both in behavior and in the costs of getting enough tests. PCR tests are mostly impractical for continuous testing while going out and about becuase of the large time lag between testing and results, made worse by spiking demand and limited lab capacity, and buying rapid tests can add up as a real cost to the average family.
I agree with you that the risk/reward matrix varies greatly per individual; there are many like you who have had similar reactions.

I was just wondering what data your "3 is important" statement was based on.

Why the first booster but not the rest, or why the first booster at all?
> Last year, there were more people killed by cars than gun violence, but you wouldn't know it by the media coverage.

Same thing in the Greater Seattle Anarchist metro area, but we don't get screaming Nextdoor or city subreddit posts every time there's a fatal automotive crash.
It's always been understood that antibodies wane over time. That's why other cells in our bodies 'remember' viral infections and essentially are primed to create antibodies again when infected (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z)
A SAFE without a cap is nice though for an early company, especially if it's optional. A SAFE like this means that you're effectively raising at a Series A valuation but during your pre-seed stage. The most obvious effect of this to me is that it will gives your Series A investors a little less, either that or you'll take more dilution at Series A if your investors won't budge. Is that what you mean by "precisily controlling dilution"?

That's counteracted, fortunately, because at the current valuations that many companies are raising a Series A at, $375k isn't a big hit. (I've seen Series As from 20m up to 150m these days)

What I see as the major upside here is: Companies gain the ability to take a little less $ when raising pre-seed/seed SAFEs with harsher restrictions. Most SAFEs at that stage have some sort of investor incentive either as a "valuation cap" or a "discount" (at least the standard YC SAFEs[0]). For many companies, at least pre-pandemic, these caps were usually around $10-15m post-money (you raise $1m at $10m post-money, your investors get 10%, so you're saying your company is worth $9m).

Of course, SAFEs can screw you too if you don't hit your valuation goals. So YCs $375k SAFE, if you have to raise a Series A at a low valuation, will hurt you more because you might have specific $ goals in mind that you can't budge on. But, at least having an extra $375k early on will help more companies, on average, avoid these "Series A downrounds" more frequently by giving them more runway.

There is always going to be pros/cons when raising investment. At least with this, I feel like this makes the world a little more founder-friendly for early stage companies. Is my take approximately in-line with what you're thinking?

0: https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/
Covid is now endemic. I have yet to see any expert analysis to contradict this. Endemic means that your probability of catching the virus eventually is 1. Covid restrictions at this point are a joke. I'm vaxxed and done.
Any stimulant that brings you up is also going to make you crash down. And with repeated use, the highs get lower and the crashes come when you don't take it. There are ways to manage the comedown (such as tapering), but no ways to avoid it.
It's an object that could exist, except that ABED would not be a plane. It's a twisted plane. I don't know what the name of that shape is but you can take a plane and twist it in a way that every point along a straight line between any two points on the surface is also on the surface, but yet the surface is not an actual plane.

Edit: Go to wolfram alpha and graph

graph y=(z-zx)/2 from x=-1 to x=3 and z=-1 to z=1

and you'll see an example.
Nevermind that. When pharma is buying up 50% or more of the ad time during your news programs how can you be expected to accurately cover stories involving them?
I quit about the same time the author did, I stopped back in July or Aug. I never really had jitters. I'd drink 1-2 10 cup carafes in a day along with my wife, I'd drink the bulk of it.

I decided to stop for two reasons: I sleep pretty crappy, and I was doing a bunch of other diet changes so I figured why not one more...

Everyone is different, but in my case switching to decaf was pretty easy. I had headaches a couple days, otherwise I honestly couldn't tell the difference. I didn't find mornings more of a struggle. But I also didn't find I slept better (confirmed by the fitbit sleep stats).

I read a few days ago that decaf coffee still has theobromine, which can also help focus.

Unlike the author, I like my coffee with cream most times, and the decaf I've switched to tastes just fine. I even found some instant decaf which I took on a camping trip shortly after stopping caffeine, which tastes pretty good. Mount Hagen, for reference.
Back to Virtual Teaching, but Not Back to Zoom
Domestic violence rates went down significantly by all estimates. Also, they in fact go up and down with female employment - when women loose work they go up, when they get it they go down.

> Now you need two incomes, so a woman who has to work in order to provide one of the incomes has to find a new man before she can cut loose a bad one

This is simply not true. People break up a lot. Real world people sometimes stay with bad partners for money reasons, but employed ones significantly less so. The "I can't leave because I have no job" is a thing tho.
we’re encouraging employees to set the following out-of-office email notification of Fridays: “I’m out of the office today because we’re working consciously here at Bolt and are currently testing out a four-day workweek. I’ll be back in touch with you on [Monday].”

Ugh. Just say "I'm out of the office today and will respond on Monday" no need to tout your experimental company philosophy.
Why is that seemingly every single article about color on the web never meets accessibility guidelines for contrast of text to background?
I like its boolean method wellHasItThen(). It pretty much describes the mood of the developer at the time of writing.
USA automotive death are <40k per year. USA covid deaths are ~400k a year
I think there are a number of factors at play.

One, we've greatly reduced the risk of COVID through vaccines. This is the primary thrust of the article; if you've vaccinated, you're very unlikely to have serious consequences.

Two, we're fatigued. You just can't be constantly vigilant for two or three years without something breaking. This compounds point one. We don't, as the article mentions, know what kind of relationship Omicron has to long COVID, but at this point, many are too tired to care. "I'm safe enough" is all we have the capacity for.

Third, a large portion of the population is in denial about their own levels of risk. If there was a 1% chance of dying every time you drove a car, or even a 1% chance of dying every time you got into a car accident, there would be panic in the streets, no pun intended. But a lot of people round a 1% chance of dying from COVID down to zero.
It's very irritating when news articles talk about a complaint or opinion without linking to it.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.41...
Simplify Everything
If you're looking for such fine-grained control over dilution that $500k is an untenable amount of cash to take vs. whatever YC was paying before, you might just want to skip YC.
It probably would because investors would put more money into it until they build up their infrastructure but surely Google enabled them to scale enormously.
What do you mean? I install tons of apps through fdroid and not being able to update them automatically is a major anti-feature.
I'd be less worried about the damage that the coffee is doing and more worried about the damage waking up at 6am every day is doing. (assuming that if you arent stopping for the day until 9pm you aren't going to sleep at 10pm)
The earlier case was about handling data of Danish citizens, according to the Dutch news agency, which had been denounced by the oversight authority.
That's funny - "astronaut" has always been a token - I'd never stopped to think where it came from.
Spare the performative cynicism please. Expecting basic decency has little to do with high horses.
Interesting. I wonder if any money is changing hands. It looks like Mint is actually giving up some if its potential revenue from search engine clicks in order to make its version of Firefox closer-to-upstream, and so I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla is compensating them for that.

> I used Yahoo/DuckDuckGo/StartPage as my default search engine, will it continue to be my default?

> No, these were core engines in the Linux Mint configuration. They no longer are present in the Mozilla version of Firefox. The default engine will switch to Google. DuckDuckGo will remain available but with a different URL (it’s a Mint search partner in the Mint configuration, but only a Mozilla partner in the Mozilla configuration).

> Which search engines generate an income for Linux Mint?

> In Firefox the only engine which generates an income for Linux Mint is Google.

> In other browsers the only engines which generate an income for Linux Mint are Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Startpage.
"The current crop of Covid vaccines" all of which are engineered based on the original variant. Ignorance like this has contributed to the virus mutating, and obviously the newer variants have increased fitness against whatever immune response the original one provokes - otherwise it wouldn't exist.
Thanks for that link. Very interesting!
The 3090 is such an overpowered (and expensive) card, that another GPU doing half of what the 3090 can do is still damn right impressive. And in a Laptop!
Unfortunately, the unvaccinated apparently are a bigger voting group / voting bloc than we expected, and have considerable political power.
At this point I don't really think that pointing at CDC public health releases is going to convince a scientist like me. Also, the data you pointed at doesn't directly answer what I said (nearly all data is ambiguous, there are a ton of confounders, etc).

Getting a vaccine isnt inconvenient, except that it was: I spent an entire week unable to use my left arm and feeling very sick (and my doctor didn't care). But also there's a ton of other issues, like my kids not being able to go to school, stores closed, having to greatly limit travel, etc.
Agreed.

There is also this weird fixation on being the single person who will infect another who for whatever reason is at high risk either due to obesity, not being vaccinated despite being in a high-risk group, etc. As if you're very presence in some public location is going to be the only way another person encounters the virus.

It's just not realistic. Every single person will eventually catch a cold just like every single person will eventually catch the omicron variant or whatever one surfaces next.

This fixation that we, or the government, is capable of isolating human beings in a manner to prevent them from ever being exposed to an endemic virus is utterly absurd.
Protein from gorse bushes could feed millions of people, says expert
>Never talk to HR. They are the secret police

Like the police, they serve a function. talk to HR when you would talk to the police. When someone else is doing something illegal to you, and after you made sure that you have no exposure.
Troll Factory hard at work here..... 3 day old account, nice.
This is not bad code
Nobody is inflicting anything on anyone. It is your responsibility to protect yourself to the level that you feel is necessary.
I felt it was important to get ahead of what was a really awful experience last time so I did. I don't know if it was the right move because I don't have an alternate reality to compare against. But I'm glad good comments surfaced!

You are missing a lot of dead comments from that thread, one of which [1] even speaks to those dead comments accusing people of being in cahoots with an invented enemy. I'd say the most damning of comments preserved is [2] where the lead developer of GrapheneOS names Calyx's Nick as leading what amounts to a brigade of death threats against him personally.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28194223

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28099839
It’s not so much going slow in the left lane stuff. I see that everyday anyway but I was seeing people just drive and weave in and out of lanes because fuck it. Like going 90 in a 55 and just swerving because why not. Lots of crazy stuff. Anecdote of course. Hope that goes without saying
Because there's no evidence more boosters have any efficacy. And there are side-effects, despite people trying to downplay them. My SO had a legit allergic reaction to an mRNA vaccine...
I don't what world you live in where there is too much labor. We have shortages of everything and always have. We need more housing more, more technology, better healthcare, more research... people can choose to live with less, but as of right now people seem to choose to want modern amenities.
I believe the goal of the government incentives is to stand up the industry to the point where economics of scale will help with affordability. Nascent green tech is, after all, competing against heavily developed fossil fuel technology (which has also been subsidized pretty heavily at various times).
Every viral replication is an event that could yield a new variant. A new variant can lead to new problems. It is therefore of interest to limit viral replications. This, in addition to the health care system capacities, are crucial targets to address.

Fortunately, vaccines can improve both targets due to the reduced (though now less effectively so) infection rates, shorter infection periods, etc. This makes me personally hopeful that Omicron will become the final "pre-endemic" variant. However, while I too feel tired and sympathize with the described "vaxxed and done" mentality, I know we must stay vigilant and continue to reduce opportunities for this virus to find new ways to remain a pan- rather than an endemic. Acceptable costs of this vigilance, and the nature of it, i.e. the measures we take, need to be updated just as everything else.
Unlimited Vacation is great if there is a base guarantee of vacation given to the employees. That is, give them their usual 2 weeks (or more) of PTO in their contract. Then anything on top of that is unlimited.

But companies know full well what they're doing. They know that if they replace guaranteed PTO with unlimited, not only does the employee take less vacation (more bang for the company's buck), but they also get to skirt around state laws on paying for unused PTO when the employee quits.

Plus, without any guaranteed PTO, companies can just decline your request for vacation any time. They can say they're in busy season, or they need office coverage, whatever. Whereas with guaranteed vacation, the manager would have a harder time declining those hours you earned due to bad optics.

Unlimited vacation without a guaranteed PTO base is a scam.
This was posted yesterday on HN btw (at least the announcement of this problem).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863672
History should sync between all your devices.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021218111-How...
Ultimately there has to be a central authority to verify it or it's all just bits in the bit bucket. In that case it would be just as good to have a certificate of authority from the original artist or a contract of such
I hope you enjoy your Fixie (and find an apartment with nice bike paths!) I have a little folding Brompton that's served me well over the years, and a beefier e-bike that was a life-saver last year when I didn't want to take public transport due to COVID.
Though the practice is now largely prohibited, there are instances where insurers will have caps on how much they will pay out, either over a lifetime or within a year.

So it is not an absolutely hard limit in all cases, no.

Edit: originally wrote year twice.
We don't do this "as a society." Reputable news outfits (like Reuters) enforce a firewall between the news desk and management/executives, and bet their entire reputation on the public visibility of that policy.
> Unions are designed to balance out monopolistic / low pay / highly geographical companies like large auto manufacturers or airlines.

Directors Guild of America says hello!
If you live near fracking Wells they have byproduct natural gas that is basically throw away cheap since it's difficult to transport without those unpopular pipelines.
I have to wonder how much of this comes down to a complete loss of empathy and patience with the willingly unvaxxed.
I’ve tried quitting caffeine in the past, but the problem I run into is that I’m actually not a coffee drinker, but a Diet Coke drinker. I don’t enjoy the taste of plain water. So at a restaurant/drive thru/etc, my options are diet soda (with 0 calories) or something caffeine-free with hundreds of calories. When you’re trying to budget calories, that hurts a lot.

At least I’ve been able to reduce my overall consumption of caffeine a bit, but I haven’t been able to cut it out completely.
Well, I don't see any reason to discontinue them as long as there are even bigger incentives for coal, oil, and gas. $5.9T in 2020 alone.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trill...

But what's the long game here? EVs have dropped in price by a factor of ~3 and solar power dropped in cost by a factor of 10 over the past decade. The incentives seem to be achieving exactly what they sought to achieve.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solar-pv-has-be...

So even in a world where all incentives were removed, it seems oil, coal, and gas are organically on the way out. What's holding that back, as usual, is $$$ people. And it's fascinating that California not only wants to all but discontinue paying for electricity from rooftop solar panels, but plans to go even further and impose a $96/year de facto tax per kW of solar panel installed.

https://nrgcleanpower.com/learning-center/nem-what-changes-a...

I think our leaders have no idea what they're doing across the board personally.
There is a TC39 proposal for a "Javascript Standard Library." It's at stage 1, which is better than stage 0.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-built-in-modules

Even so, unlikely that a "Faker" would become part of any such standard library.
The fact that recent science can be proven wrong after more data come out seems to be some sort of "gotcha!" for them.
I'm arguing there's a massive missing link in the provenance chain.

The person who put a JPEG on the blockchain may not own that JPEG. As evidenced by the existence of the Phunky Ape Yacht Club copies.

A list of transactions after that point doesn't demonstrate ownership if you can't demonstrate ownership by the minter.
The acquihire situation happens a lot more than might be anticipated, and usually it's the angel investors left holding the bag. Startups anticipating an acquihire in their future should really look for grants, SBIRs, or other similar funding arrangements because as an angel investor, I have to tell you that the loosey-goosey nature of SAFEs have put me off investing in seed stage startups altogether. I certainly have felt like a chump and not a winner, and I couldn't really celebrate for the startup's "success" as an acquihire.

In fact, the increased size of this SAFE will guarantee more situations where startups exit before the next priced round. The more money that's put into early non-priced / non-secured rounds, the more you open up the door to early exits. This is because you're providing more runway. More runway means more time to develop the business, which also means more opportunities and time to exit before a first round.
But anybody who I spread it to and is vaxxed also has minimal, acceptable risk. If they aren't vaxed, that's on them.
Double-entry accounting for software engineers
Are you saying not being admitted to a hospital is a privilege? I would think that if a hospital did want to fleece someone, gainfully employed and insured people would be the best candidates rather than poor people who may not be able to afford the treatment.
As an aside, "zwischenzug" is a great name. A "zwischenzug" is an "inbetween move" in chess that might happen in the middle of a sequence, and can often lead to unexpected results if one side hasn't been precise in their move order.

https://www.chessjournal.com/zwischenzug/ for example has some more info if you're curious.
This sentiment is thrown out a lot but Apple has some of the best LTS on their hardware in the business. 6 year old iPhones are still getting updates. Someone in this thread mentioned their laptop that Apple describes as vintage is still getting updates. Apple is still selling a 4 year old smart watch as new.

I feel much better spending my money on Apple products trusting it will be supported for a long time than spending it on another device where I will be lucky to have support for more than 2 years.

I would say Apple’s bread and butter is creating an ecosystem of hardware and software that works so well together that choosing to leave their environment is such a hard decision that it is easier to stick with Apple.
Again:

> You don't have to take the CDC's word for it - other countries can see the same thing in their numbers.

Any way you slice and dice the data comes up with the same answer; vaccination reduces hospitalization and death.
You won't really know which is better until 2025, 2030, sometime like that for total deaths due to COVID numbers. Canada is hardly out of the woods. Push the date to 2040, 2050 if you look at things like what were the long-term impacts on different policies on people who didn't die of COVID.

You still aren't engaging with the point under discussion, though, which has become publicized due to COVID but exists independently of it. Spending more on healthcare contributes to having an overall better health care system, but the US suffers due to large problems of access and distribution. Regardless of payment structure, I would argue in favor of continuing to spend more on health care than other nations; we have the money, it's a good use of it.
Have to say I disagree about the Ember mug. It's a little bit like the warmer setting on a diner coffee pot, the coffee will stay warm a long time but won't necessarily stay fresh. And if you drink your coffee with milk the Ember mug starts to develop a film along the sides of the cup after about 30 minutes which is kind of unappetizing. You also have to keep it charged on the stand in between uses so you can't put the mug away in the cupboard (unless you have an outlet in your cupboard).

I stopped using it and now just use a Yeti tumbler. It keeps my coffee hot for at least 2-3 hours which is long enough for me, without any of the downsides of the heated cup.
The first commercial fusion reactor.