skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there really a "Canadian health care system"? I feel like it heavily differs between provinces/territories. It also depends on whether where on the spectrum from urban to rural you live, don't you think?
> that will do nothing materially

Tell me it's not material when you're waiting in a rural ER for six hours because one of their two ventilators is taken by an unvaccinated 19-year-old who went to three New Year's Eve parties.

There would be a conversation to have here if getting the vaccine wasn't the easiest goddamn thing in the world.

But it is. So there's not.
I asked it before, but can anyone explain why a single cup of (normal strength, not starbucks) coffee easily gives me the jitters, while drinking a 2L bottle of cola does nothing?
I have apologized to new hires I knew were going to work on my code
Post-Traumatic Growth
> If getting vaccinated reduced your odds of spreading the virus by 90%, and 92% of the population were double-vaccinated, then the majority of the spread would be...

> Among, and by the double-vaccinated. (8.28% vs 8%)

I don't know how you're getting those numbers.

If baseline spread is 100% unvaccinated spreading to 100% unvaccinated, then 92% vaccinated spreading 10% to 92% vaccinated amounts to 8.464% of baseline, 92% vaccinated spreading 10% to 8% unvaccinated is 0.736% of baseline, 8% unvaccinated spreading to 92% vaccinated is 7.36% of baseline and 8% unvaccinated spreading to 8% unvaccinated is 0.64% of baseline. The total sums to 17.2% of baseline, of which vaccinated to vaccinated spread amounts to 49.2%.

(It's not terribly important since the numbers are made-up anyway, but I'd like to know whether I made a mistake somewhere.)
I've quit caffeine more than once.

Probably the worst time went like this: in addition to the headaches, my entire body was overcome by a muscular weakness, and this lasted almost two weeks.

About three days into it, I went for a simple little four mile run. I was in good running shape at the time. Because of how I was starting to feel, I took it easy. Yet, the next day, every muscle hurt in my body. Arms, legs, abdominals, back. It was as if a completely unfit, untrained, unaccustomed body had been made to race the distance.

The soreness took days to dissipate.
Are you looking at the "applyTo" method? I'm not seeing a variadic overload of "invoke", but I'm also not a Java or JVM person. I'm wondering if I'm overlooking something.
No kidding? If I go into Settings > iCloud > iCloud > Private Relay (Beta), I see:

> Private Relay is turned off for your cellular plan.

> Your cellular plan doesn't support iCloud Private Relay.
Can we change "Pa" in the title to "Pennsylvania"? As a non-american, it was difficult to confirm this (article only used the abbreviation, so I had to open a source about 3/4 of the way down and read that page's header image to confirm)
My dad had a big old 19" Nokia CRT that did 90Hz. Of course resolution was capped because this was all being controlled from VGA.
>entire thread is mostly suffering from excessive pedantry

It is? The comments here don’t seem pretentious and dogmatic to me, I prefer to use pentantry for cases where basically people can tell they’re being a little bit of a dick.

It seems here in the comments people are simply saying, it’s hard to see the contradiction, that they can’t see any contradiction, and I think their implication is not to be a dick, it’s to hope someone will reply and say well here’s how it works or to correct a mistake.

In other words to simply get to the bottom of understanding.
So effective, you go from 98.999% recoverable to 99.998% recoverable. Amazing. So glad we shut down everything and destroyed countless lives for less than 1% of gain.
Straight from Argentines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29849224
U.S. Saw Its 4th-Warmest Year on Record, Fueled by a Record-Warm December
I kind of regret even mentioning the effects of COVID in my original comment as I figured there would be a reply like yours and you're not wrong! But it wasn't the main point I was trying to make.

My main point is that everyone just seems to have moved on from under 5s. We've adopted a stance of "vaxxed and done" for adults and older children and paid no attention to the vax trials for under 5s taking forever. It's barely even mentioned. So we have parents across the country relying on the generosity of their employer in handling shutdowns, illnesses and so on. I'm lucky, my employer has been flexible and understanding. But I know that's not the case for a lot of people.
Will Apple still able to get the 30% cut if I do using in app payment? Any idea? Does it make more sense to sign up for monthly donation via web to get more money donated to Signal vs not getting a badge?
Why do people want to escape fiat currencies? Because the central banks inflate them. If only we could have an inflation-proof currency...
If you open that door, should treatment also be denied to smokers, motorcycle riders, obese people, uninsured people, etc., etc.? It's about as slippery as a slope can get.
Whoa. I'll check into that.
I understand that people have strong feelings about going the speed limit in the left lane. However, that is not consistent with either safe driving practices or the law.

The left lane of a multi-lane highway is for passing. If you are going the speed limit in the left lane and someone is trying to pass you, you are still required to yield and allow them to overtake you.

This is the law in nearly every state (Alaska, North Carolina, Ohio, and Maryland do not require you to get out of the left lane unless you are going below the speed limit).

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5804590/slow-left-lane-driving...

From the link: Now, some people counter that as long as they're going the speed limit, they don't have to move over — and by slowing down would-be speeders, they're making the roads safer... Apart from the fact that in 44 states, simply going the speed limit doesn't permit drivers to travel in the left lane, this argument doesn't make a lot of sense based on research into how accidents occur.
Ah, yes, exponerated.
It will be rat race when there are so many interview books and courses and websites. It was a not rat race before 2005, when there were only two reasons that one can solve problems like Pirate Coins or Queen Killing Infidel Husbands: the person is so mathematically mature that such problems are easy for them; the person is so geeky that they read Scientific American or Gardner's columns and remembered everything they read.
Maybe you didn't see what I said the first time:

Price and value are not the same. Ponzi schemes require buy in but still have no underlying value.

Also lol at crypto markets being liquid. In stablecoins maybe. Liquidity literally means volume has very limited effects on the price of an underlying. $100 or $5000 tomorrow is definitionally illiquid
I know the Zojirushi is recommended a lot, but I'm not a fan. It certainly does a great job keeping stuff hot, but the silicon(?) parts pretty quickly takes on a strong smell of stale coffee that ruins it for me, at least when trying to drink from it directly. Pouring it out into a mug helps, but kind of defeats the purpose of it.

I've tried everything to get rid of the smell but have not been successful.
While we're plugging different software solutions for creating indented lists, I would recommend TaskPaper 3 for MacOS. It's a fantastic piece of software that runs natively on Mac.
Audience for a blog post and HN link is minuscule compared to the total set of people Bolt employees interact with over email.
They are correct. The MFN safe converts at the best terms. So if there is a SAFE with a post-money $3.75m cap, then even if the next round is priced at $100m, YC gets 10% at that 100m valuation. It converts at an equivalent ownership compared to the cap. That's why caps exist.
Virtually every part of your argument has been empirically disproven by evidence. We would be much better off banning AirBNB and rentals to return supply to the market rather than building more to throw away as “luxury rentals”.

- Vouchers don’t work. The vast majority of parents don’t have time to shuttle their kid(s) outside of their district.

- Removing housing prices from school funding was such a disaster in California that they reversed the policy

- You cannot build more housing in major cities which is where the vast majority of people want to work. There is no more space. We used it all on housing.

- Making more doesn’t help anyone as long as foreign investors are allowed to come in, buy it up, and effectively remove it from the real estate market by turning it into an AirBNB (to say nothing of Zillow inflating prices beyond affordability to begin with).
These graphs are misleading because they do not accurately reflect the change in cases. Cases in the Omicron wave are probably closer to 10x the winter of 2021 than the 1.5x in those graphs, but testing sites have been overwhelmed and rapid tests are more widely available, leading most people to either test at home or simply give up.

For reference to a Covid prevalence measurement that isn't sensitive to testing artifacts, check out the Boston wastewater analysis: https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm
The reproducible builds thing was covered in an earlier thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862082

But why do we have only one choice of client when it comes to WhatsApp or Signal’s network? At least Telegram lets you roll your own client.

But protocols are better, because they make it so that I have a choice of clients — choice leads to competition.

However, as the above article admits, it is a mystery why competition hasn’t driven Infura and others to send more signature/proof info with the blocks.
Just this morning I needed to do a global find/replace for a string in a 3GB .sql file. I was in VS Code anyway so tried that - but the app choked on it. Ended up going with sed and it worked perfectly.
The government can still use the JPEG though.
Have you talked to a pediatrician about off-label vaccination? My understanding is that there are various barriers prohibiting this; this op-ed says there is a CDC vaccine provider agreement which forbids the practice - https://www.thehastingscenter.org/with-pediatric-hospitaliza.... But I have no idea how often it's actually happening.

The major downsides are that you'd be missing out on information about side effects from vaccination, and on possible clinical-trial data that might show a different, better, dosage in your kid's age range.
It may be imperialism, but it's a failed attempt. I only spend my outrage on successful injustice.
The curious case of the always O(n*logn) QuickSort
I know there are many ways the same thing can be done in the shell but there are so many problems here. Please take this as feedback and not harsh criticism (I know there's comment section on the blog but I'd rather not give my e-mail to yet another website).

> cat /etc/passwd | sed 's/\([^:]*\):.*:\(.*\)/user: \1 shell: \2/'

Besides the needless cat this is clearer in awk, a tool you mention just prior.

awk '{FS=":"} {print "user: " $1, "shell: " $NF}' /etc/passwd

> $ ls | xargs -t ls -l

Beware files with whitespace in their names.

> find . | grep azurerm | grep tf$ | xargs -n1 dirname | sed 's/^.\///'
>
> ...
>
> for each of those files, removes the leading dot and forward slash, leaving the final bare filename (eg somefile.tf)

No it doesn't it returns the names of parent directories where files ending in "tf" are found and where the path also includes the string "azurerm".

> $ ls | grep Aug | xargs -IXXX mv XXX aug_folder

Ew.

mv *Aug* aug_folder/

Though now the issue of whitespace in path names is mentioned. Another minior point here is that with GNU xargs at least when using -I -L 1 is implied, so the original example is equivalent to a loop.

> $ ps -ef | grep VBoxHeadless | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

pkill VBoxHeadless

You acknowledge to avoid SIGKILL if possible so I don't know why you put it in the example.

> $ sudo updatedb
> $ sudo locate cfg | grep \.cfg$

locate '*.cfg'

No idea why sudo is used when running locate, also it takes a glob so the grep here can be avoided.

> $ grep ^.https doc.md | sed 's/^.(h[^])]).*/open \1/' | sh

Now this is just nutty.

> This example looks for https links at the start of lines in the doc.md file

No it doesn't, it matches the start of the line, followed by a character, then "https".

The sed then matches start of the line, followed by a character, starts a capture group of the letter "h" followed by a single character that is not "]" or ")", closes the capture group and continues to match anything.

The example given will always result in "open ht" for any hit.

Then there's the piping to sh. You mention like to drop this to review the list. I'd suggest focusing on extracting the list of links then pipe to xargs open. If you get a pipeline wrong you could unintentionally blast something into a shell executing anything which might be very bad.

> Give Me All The Output With 2>&1

&> stdout-and-stderr

But each to their own.

> env | grep -w PATH | tr ':' '\n'

echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n'

or

tr ':' '\n' <<< $PATH

Edit: I know the formatting of this comment is terrible, I think quoting the sed example caused the rest of the comment to be marked up as italics so I indented it along with the other quotes as code.
If they are not immune compromised you have nothing to worry about. IMO - you should be more worried about the physiological impacts of your changes in behavior around then in regard to your fear… it will have probably longer lasting effects on them.
If you're interested in Malone, I definitely recommend reading the Atlantic article about him:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...

TLDR: he got spurned early on in his career, is bitter about it, and seems to be willing to say just about anything as long as someone will give him some modicum of fame.
It feels like a lot of the replies here are dubious and I suspect a large number of them are from antivaxxers who are trying to amplify a message of, "See, even people that got the vaccine are sick and tired of it. They're with us even though we don't agree with them"
Ford dealers able to add no-resale provision to 22MY F150 Lighting
You know what, having a 2nd job of "how to ensure you're not missing out on promotions/salary increases because company tries to underpay you" is a shitty job I would rather not have to do.

Is your workplace unionized?
It seemed like you felt including that case precedent somehow reframed the discussion. I don't see that it adds anything
Take-Two Interactive to acquire social game developer Zynga for $12.7B
A similar aesthetics wiki is this one: https://cari.institute/
Right, so get vaccinated and get on with your life.
Ask HN: How can I break into UX Research without any experience?
Not sure what you mean by denominator? The denominator for vaxed positive cases is all positive cases. The denominator for vaxed in the population is total population (within the age range).

The % per 100k is available p40 of the same pdf. But I find that much harder to read given that the size of the vaxxed and unvaxxed populations vastly differ.
Good point re. immune response not simply being a function of mass. However, the doses in the <5yo trial were lower. So let's roll with them for now and boost later. Sadly @el_benhameen may be correct in the FDA's complacency.
I saw some newstitles that EU carriers want to block it, but I haven't seen them doing it nowhere. Do you have link?
unsecure 0% interest 105M loan? where can i get this?
> "I’ve been using this setup for over a month now, and it has been surprisingly adequate."

Well, I don't know about you guys, but "surprisingly adequate" isn't really enough to get me to hit the "buy now" button.
Just squeeze in a bit of lemon or put a few leave from the garden inside. It's called tea :)
that's pretty optimistic/naive thinking when you see they have seven(!) open postings for Crypto developer roles.
Well, first of all, direct electric resistive heaters (as opposed to, say, heat pumps) are likely on the chopping block in many countries in favour of more efficient solutions.

But also, in general, the heat produced by mining magical internet money is, generally, not being used; it's waste.
Ask HN: Legal Recommendations for Entity Formation
I'm looking for highly recommended lawyers in the startup space to set up something a little more nuanced than I think I can do with Stripe Atlas, or resources to help navigate the journey of incorporating a startup for long term success. This seems like a resource HN members would have great recommendations on.
Right, my argument would be that the “currently available evidence” should be viewed with skepticism given the incredible profit motive involved and current political climate.
no, it's not; continued innovation motivating upgrades, however, is.
(disclaimer: was an engineer with a great rank inside Apple for several years)
Not necessarily just for that. It's also useful for people knowing whether they send you something Thursday towards the end of the day that's somewhat time sensitive whether to expect/hope you'll get to it, or if that's something they shouldn't expect any more than sending it towards the end of the day Friday. It's useful in the same way as knowing when holidays are and not estimating when someone might get something done while including a Monday they will not be working.

Not required, but useful.
The root cause seem to be the government desires to cover their own mistakes (ex: the masks being inefficient: because they didn't have enough at first

This isn't what the government said. The government said that masks were inefficient at preventing the wearing from contracting Covid, which is true to this day. They didn't want people to hoard masks at everyone else's expense, especially healthcare workers.
No, it is because...

> The carriers wrote that the feature cuts off networks and servers from accessing “vital network data and metadata and could impact “operator’s ability to efficiently manage telecommunication networks.”

But seriously, it is because it prevents T-Mobile from monetizing you and slowing you down.
It’s interesting to read your viewpoint because I can see your logic but happen to weigh the risks differently. I am personally more concerned about the long-term risk of disease than the risk of vaccination. As a parent with children I wish could be vaccinated earlier, I have actually wondered if (a) I should have volunteered them for the trials and (b) if as a society we would be willing to start trials for children sooner in the future.
Total power outage at Interxion LON1 London data centre
Find incomprehensible code. Get email from blame. Search for them on Linkedin. If they are working as a developer in some senior capacity, then the code is probably a learning opportunity for me. If they are working as a scrum master code is probably as bad as it looks.

I say this in jest, mostly...
Because most people don't own the apartment building they live in.
I’m on Verizon, and it works fine for me.
> felt no different

> feeling much better

Does not compute :P
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or cross into personal attack.

Thoughtful critique is welcome, of course, but it would need to contain a lot more information than this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> More Americans have died from Covid under Biden than under Trump (not that it matters)

It matters enough to write it, and it struck me as weird so I looked it up. Kind of hard to put the numbers together, but it seems we're at 830k[0] deaths now; 350k were in 2020[1] (though most cases started being reported in April) which is indeed less than half of current total. I also looked up Jan. 2021, curious if it changed anything in a meaningful way and there were 77k through Jan. 26[2]; it puts the total deaths at roughly 50/50 between presidents, though one presided over ~9 months of deaths and the other over 12.

I guess that means the rate of deaths is slowing down, but not by much.

[0] https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spr...
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/podcasts/2022/20220107/20...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/us-reports-record-number-of-...
ah damn, mixed that up, sorry
My current main laptop is a T450s from 2014 or so. It's got 12 GiB of RAM, enough to run most dev tools comfortably. The slowdown in CPU speed acceleration has meant that a PC from between five and ten years ago, or even more, is not as flagrantly obsolete as it once was, and I'd rather keep life in my old machines, especially when new machines start to grow features I don't want (like Pluton).
There are also slow and fast caffeine metabolizers, so there’s not one single safe amount.
T-Mobile probably isn't extracting too much of value from HTTPS traffic. It's probably more about traffic shaping.
Right, and Mint Mobile
> It seemed like you felt including that case precedent somehow reframed the discussion. I don't see that it adds anything

You're welcome to add whatever you think adds to the discussion.

Or do you just sit around and counterpunch in discussions, never actually contributing directly? There's a reason why sitting around and just countering arguments is called the "fallacy fallacy" / "Argument from fallacy".

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I bring up smallpox and "Jacobson v. Massachusetts" for a few reasons.

1. We defeated smallpox. It took decades, but it was soundly defeated.

2. Legally, there's a strong set of arguments that prove that these measures are constitutional.

3. There were big controversies in the early 1900s over these arguments, and we can replay those arguments again if you so desire. In effect, we know that the state's right to protect our health care system trumps the individual's choice on whether-or-not to get the vaccine.
Texas has much lower per capita cases and deaths than a state like New York. But I also suspect that Texas values freedom relative to safety much higher than states like New York.
Nope. The government knew the vaccines were getting less effective back in september. They knew everyone would eventually need a booster. If they had put in a plan to get that done, I wouldn't have had a problem.

As things stood? The CDC basically said 'you should get a booster only if you're high risk'. They went back and forth over whether to recommend it to the general public for the longest time. This lead to a lot of confusion, and a lot of folks essentially shrugged and went on with their life. If they had been consistent with messaging a much higher percentage of the population would currently be boosted.
He just said he tested positive (again). That means he can still spread the virus to other people; it's entirely possible that his getting the shot would have spared his wife her current symptoms. Elevated risk of infection, even if asymptomatic, is also elevated risk of having to unexpectedly quarantine in the future.

A vaccine would have lowered the odds of that, and it will still lower the odds of it happening again in the future. On the other hand, the risks and downsides of getting vaccinated are negligible.

This is like asking why it's worth driving sober when you already have seatbelts (masks) and airbags (natural immunity).
What way to beat the virus? Clearly not vaccines as they aren't that great... Clearly not lockdowns as as soon as we give that up the virus hits... We aren't beating it in anyway... Maybe it is time to accept the reality.