skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single company and policy maker who is requiring vaccination without considering prior infection.
>Water-cooler BS, pandering to the local hierarchy is just investing in your regrets.

That is not what I had in mind as a positive experience. Working is such an environment is bad, in office or not, but in many countries this is the norm unfortunately (traditional big auto, Germany)

>Sociality and networking are more effectively cultivated and owned long-term on neutral-ground: user-groups, gym, local-whatever-chapter, Meetup.

Those groups of randos you meet a couple of times a month may be fun to hang out with for bouldering and a beer, but those relationships stay pretty superficial and may not be as reliable and ready to vouch for you as a colleague who you meet 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and knows you very well, and when he jumps ship can vouch for you if you wish to join him, instead of going through the interview grinder.

This is of course no rule and such experiences are of course anecdotal and can vary wildly depending on your luck or chance.
Never great when a product name looks like a misspelling of another more well known product name.
Even if they haven't, AlphaFold itself has solidly cemented their place in history. I think they made a spinoff to commercialize it.
Playing it in VR, I get a ton of enjoyment from the ship interfaces. (I wish it supported hands for pretty much that reason). It's a beautiful exploration of how this kind of sci-fi FTL travel would work from a UX perspective. Assuming, of course, ships are the equivalent of racing cars and will gleefully sail into the nearest sun if you look away from the controls.

The way your ship warns you if you're doing something foolish, and you need to plot your route in advance and filter through mountains of data in order to park your ship, is extremely neat to me. It's a perfect "tinkering with toys I don't fully understand" game.
> “Enlarge the margins… shrink the margins…”

Is the pun intended?
It's not the bullet that "homes", it's your crosshair that has a bit of stickyness.

If someone walks by you slowly it'll grab on to them and follow it.

You need a little bit of auto aim because aiming with your thumbs (joystick) isn't as accurate as a your wrist (mouse).

It's the reason why sweep shooting works so well. Sweep your crosshairs across the screen, pull the trigger when it crosses something, it'll hold onto them slightly as it goes by.

You can still be more accurate on a PC without autoaim vs a console with.

> Besides, no one plays FPS games to practice joystick control or aim

Not really true. They do to be better among their peers, doesn't matter if there are PC players out there, irrelevant.

Auto aim is simply necessary to fix a limitation in the hardware, sometimes it gets in the way, most of the time it helps with frustration of the dead area of the joystick.
My daughters’ iPads both have LTE and Location Sharing enabled to our family profile set up through my iCloud account.

My eldest is 13, and we don’t really see a reason for her to have a cellphone yet; it’s coming fairly soon, sure, but for now the 11” iPad Pro that I passed down to her is a much more functional device for her and carries less drama risk as she’s excluded from her peers’ SMS group chat where it seems like the majority of that sort of thing emanates.

When she does have a need for a cellphone, it’ll likely be one of the relatively inexpensive iPhone SEs or an older used iPhone that’s mostly useful for calls and texts.
This is essentially what I did, and I feel like it worked out really well for me. Besides the benefits you mentioned, I feel like my money goes a lot further over here too in terms of healthcare, education, and housing.
> AES is significantly faster in hardware if there is support.

this means relying on something that you might not be able to influence: borked HW implementations. you are essentially saying rolling out to unknown broken devices is fine because the majority of users where HW isn't broken can benefit from better performance. that's a hell of a trolley problem and precisely why OTR switched to ChaCha/Poly.

I'm not talking about one being better than the other but implementation matters and those projects (like OTR) where security is the only value proposition, then maybe AES is a risky choice?

Sure AES is maybe the victim of it's own success and if chips get ChaCha implementations in HW then we'd also have broken implementations at scale. But that wasn't my point.
Here's a small but more poignant reason: F-Droid exists on Android, not as a huge app store, but a nice FOSS-only community with its own standards of app quality and screening for malware. Surely as hackers we can at least appreciate an analogous community being made feasible on iOS, and not in a slightly more shady unofficial capacity like the jailbroken-only Cydia.

And surely, as hackers, we can appreciate having the freedom to not be unilaterally subject to the whims of a single corporation's dictates.
By process I typically mean "business process", as in: Bob wants to ship all the widgets to the South Warehouse, and this pile of logic right here is going to do that for him, end-to-end (or mostly end-to-end).

The best option I've found for "find everything that references this database table and see if it will be affected by this thing I need to change" is to give database tables really unique names (like "tbl_user" instead of "user") and just grep the hell out of everything.

Also if I'm writing large programs I'm going to use a compiler. I mean if a linter can tell you "Hey this python won't work because you removed this function" then good for python, otherwise bad for python. And if I'm going to include 100 open-source libraries then god help me if my build system can't tell that one of them went missing or that the author removed a function I'm using in version 1.2.3.4.b.

But all of that is about dependencies, and dependencies kill teams. That's why I want the scope of any logic as tightly constrained and enforced as possible.

I'm sure you could design a multi-dimensional behavioral categorizer/IDE/language system that blows everybody's minds and wouldn't that be cool, but I doubt anyone would use it, because behavioral categorization really doesn't solve problems. It just looks nice.

But any rate, at the very minimum, back to this point: Don't try to compensate for the failure of behavioral categorization with microservices when you could have just packaged things along the same lines of division.
As with every document of this nature, some of the rights outlined may conflict with each other. You wind up having to reconcile those conflicts.

For example, Article 29:

> Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

> In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

It's pretty easy to see vaccination and other public health measures as one of these scenarios.

“Articles 28–30 establish… the areas in which the rights of the individual cannot be applied, the duty of the individual to society…”
We have never even come close to eradicating a respiratory virus. There is a huge difference between a disease like smallpox and covid19
Yes, the relationship goes both ways. Divorced people have more time and are more likely to join. People are more likely to divorce if they have such hobbies too - the implications for partner are very very real.
The TOC available from MIT Press shows they've added a Machine Learning chapter, which might or might not actually be useful. At least it's topical.
this is not the first time we've seen this happen in the past few years so at this point it's kind of baffling why any kind of political dissent even attempts to be funded on GFM. there's so many other avenues that could be used instead, why do people keep trying to use this one for this purpose?
Which is another non-discussed aspect to this.

People are already upset that their digital purchases are controlled by Apple. Wait until the startup that they bought stacks of software from goes bust and all of their app purchases are gone.
Algos trading purely on the EPS beat due to Rivian?
I'm not sure linking to a document with phrases like "As it is possible that a COVID-19 vaccine might be much more effective in preventing severe versus mild COVID-19" really proves that it's "rewriting history" to suggest that preventing all infections or symptomats of a respiratory diseases is an very high bar to set, or that the medical profession hasn't been cognizant of that from the start...
refuting your statement:

> you can't get COVID if you get the vaccine, implying it would stop the virus from circulating.

It is entirely possibly that vaccination can leave a virus circulating while still preventing disease. Whether it does in this specific case is something you could debate, but you can't draw that implication stand alone.
Nothing lasts forever, but it's hard not to see AWS and Amazon (thanks to Prime) as unassailable.
What is a fair equity share for a technical co-founder (CTO)
Hi everyone,

A few years ago I started a SAAS company with 2 other guys. Lately I'm doubting quite a lot if I'm not undervalued compared to them. We all invested money in the startup and the percentage invested determined the percentage in equity.

Me: 20% (20k)

Founder B: 40% (40k)

Founder C: 40% (40k)

I am the CTO / technical guy with full stack skills:

DEVOPS (AWS, Docker, CI)

Backend (Postgres, Python and Django)

Frontend (Angular.js)

Founder B is the CEO and doing the sales and support. Founder C is the product owner and also does support.

Unfortunately we're not making revenue because of a pivot and I was not able to invest more money again. They were and because of their investments the equity is now like this:

Me: 10%

Founder B: 45%

Founder C: 45%

The company is my only stream of income and we pay ourselves €2000 net every month. They also run another company which they're making good money with and because of it they're:

1. Not financially dependent of this new startup

2. Able to invest again and again in this new startup

The problem:

- There's no equality at all with 10, 40, 40

- When they're investing my equity decreases

- They're less afraid to work with other investors in the future because they both own 45%. They can easily miss some of it. For me that's a bit different.

- It's likely that we're going to use equity in the future to get commitment from new important team members

- I'm also investing a lot. With my skills I can easily earn 6k per month as employee and 10k+ as a freelancer

- I'm very important because we're a tech startup

My thoughts and doubts:

- It's not very motivating to only have 10% with the change it will decrease more and more in the future

- For the skills, responsibility and pressure I have I think 10% is undervalued and we should not only look at the amount of money invested. When I look on Y combinator, they also have many reasons to not only look at how much is invested. See: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5x-how-to-split-equity-among-co-founders

Concrete questions:

- Are my doubts reasonable and is it reasonable to negotiate for a higher equity percentage? What would be fair?

- Is it reasonable to have an agreement that my equity is not going any lower than 10% anymore?

- Are there any other options you guys and ladies think of?

Quite a long story, hopefully you've made it till here and can give me some advice ;-) Thanks!
You seem to be saying that it's unlikely that we'll achieve all of this. And that's true: it's a lot of social change, and social change is very difficult. But every incremental step in the direction of these goals will improve the situation for high-risk basic research like Karikó's.

Except for ponies. Those are pleasant but they're too resource-intensive to be much of a force for advancing basic research.
I am not sure funding Karikó would have worked out. She was using all of her experience in synthesizing mRNA in pursuit of gene therapy. Not being funded led her to run into Weissman, who was interested in using RNA for vaccines and had run several successful experiments (he co-authored several papers with Fauci the 1990s). It was that serendipity which led to the innovation. Funding her directly may have led to nothing.

It seems more notable to me that two people working in the same university were unaware of their mutual interest in RNA. However, I have seen similar things in large companies. When I was analyzing R&D for a 1000 person company, there were several similar projects unaware of their mutual co-existence.
It's funny, at first glance of that top photo, I was sure I had seen it in a Blender tutorial video and it might even be the same (rendered) image). But no, I found it and although the layout is strikingly similar, it's not it.

Photo: https://cortex.persona.co/w/768/i/dee5ee05cc81d757e22f2338ab...

Render: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyXRBu7gn2o (0:36 in)
So, if Amazon employees work 4 days instead of 5 Bezos' yacht would be smaller and fit under that bridge? That seems a good solution that the Dutch did not take into account.
Hmm, fair. I guess really only historically. My data point was from about 6 months ago when they had stated far less exposure, but money I guess.
> I still prefer an honest system that charges a fair, flat rate for the infrastructure, and then a usage charge for usage.

There's a lot of things where the infrastructure costs are baked into the per-unit cost of stuff you buy. I'd say it's even vastly more common than separate infrastructure vs. per-unit charges. You don't pay a separate constant infrastructure fee for the petroleum refinery infrastructure when filling up your car, it's all baked into the per-liter (or per-gallon) cost. Nor do you pay a fixed cost for funding the astronomically expensive semiconductor fabs when you buy something containing electronics, it's all baked into the per-unit cost. Etc. etc.
The pony problem is a tough one. Though maybe we can find a self-reinforcing loop by funding research into breeding prettier and fluffier poneys ?
Here is Fauci claiming the vaccines would result in herd immunity:

> “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Fauci told the Times. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”

It sure sounds like he was intentionally feeding us false hope.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/531611-fauci-herd-immu...
Is it possible your area is not overwhelmed because vaccinations are required? Here's a medical system overwhelmed in part because vaccination rate is (was) so low: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/coronavirus/article25438...
Is Star Citizen the first truly modern religion? This is basically the business model of a cult whose members gather every year for the end of the world, but when it never comes they just get more excited for the next one

It's like the Mormons in the Expanse with all the Star Citizen players going on a generation ship
Recently I've bought a Nintendo Switch because I've come to the realization that mobile games (I play on a high end tablet) are inferior. Why? Because most of then rely on dark patterns to get you watching ads or paying lots of money to roll chances like a casino.
Console games are more likely to provide you a quality, limited time, instead of the opposite -infinite low quality time.
Proof needed. This doesn't match my experiences at all.
If you could systematically predict Karikó's, they would not be Karikó's. For all we know, any attempt to "solve" this problem might just be a fool's errand. At least in the absence of a meaningful argument to the contrary.

> After enough filtering, all grants are essentially indistinguishable in quality.

I don't believe this. You can always soften incentives (and thereby prevent wasteful gaming) by adding random noise/dithering to your scoring function, but a threshold-only approach seems quite blunt to me.
> A leveling up system

> Getting better tools/equipment as the game progresses

These two in particular have been a consistent part of game design for a long time because they ease players into increasing gameplay complexity over time. Metroid games are a simple example: when you start off you can run, jump and shoot, and by the end of the game you're using every button on the controller (sometimes multiple at once) and probably have other abilities you can toggle on and off.
"Privately-funded" is not a particularly meaningful distinction when the NIH pays for the vast majority of academic biomedical research--including most of the researchers' salaries.

(UCSD, Berkely, UMich, and University of Utah, among others, are research powerhouses too).
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Unfortunately even a clear couple of acres won't protect against ember attack. The house can be built to be fully fire-resistant and you're still faced with stay-or-go decisions when the next fire arrives.
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Lots of conjecture. The reality is most of the drag is encountered on the trailer, tires and underside. This is the reason you now see "skirts" on almost all trailers, and the general reduction in distance between tractor and trailer and not long airplane-like tractors.

More important to fuel economy is maximizing cargo per trip, as having 20% more cargo in the trailer has no impact on aerodynamics and minimal contribution to rolling resistance and acceleration losses. This is the main argument against the length restrictions in the EU. Longer trailers + more aerodynamic tractors would lead to a significant increase in fuel economy - albeit at the cost of road safety: EU records nearly identical deaths per year for trucking related accidents as the US - around 5000 - but has 300% as many trucks on the road and 50% more population than the US.
Apples and oranges. I'd like to give automatic citizenship to anyone persecuted in their home country, but most green card applicants aren't refugees.
That exposed wood with no rain protection will age terribly. I've seen quite a few houses for sale with this sort of design that probably looked good new too.
This article is literally full of "they discounted X Y and Z" for no real reason. Closing bars and nonessential businesses reduced death rates by 10%, 86 studies were excluded, without a given reason.
I hope this doesn't happen to videos in which people teach to code or teach to use particular apps - 480p can be insufficient to read display text reliably if recorded at full HD.
You do realize "defund the police" means diverting funds that would usually be spent on tons of military grade gear they don't need, and using those funds on community improvement programs, right?
Even though the number 40 is arbitrary, jumping down to the arbitrary number of 32 will shave off 20% of time available for productive work. This will be noticeable, especially if your competition sticks to 40.

For software development, though, this may have less consequence. A developer has to think for long swathes if time, and it's hard to stop right after 4:59pm. Equally, the intensity of the thought process is hard to assess, so a lot of slacking creeps in — partly because there's not enough time outside work hours to grapple with the life. Squeezing this slack into an explicit extra day off may be efficient.
USB is a (closed!) protocol that's mandated by regulation. Don't like what the USB-IF has done with their data profiles/power profiles/etc? Prefer a lower-cost connector that doesn't require cables to be hand-assembled? Tough shit.
Take the kid to a physical library a few times. I think the visceral experience of the vastness really has to be experienced by our spatial-relation lizard-brains. Explain the "anything you want, but only a few at a time" concept. Nurture the kid-in-a-candy-store wonder.

Then take them to the most impressive library you can feasibly drive to. Universities spring to mind. Let that awe really sink in. See if you can get a librarian to talk to the kid for a few minutes about why _they_ personally think this is important.

THEN introduce ebooks, gutenberg, archive.org, apps, etc. All that and then some, right here in the palm of your hand.
I agree people should get the shot. It's so amazingly clear that it's effective at helping your immune system to fight the virus quicker.

But the CDC did announce that since delta people who recovered from an infection have better immune response than those who are only vaccinated. I asked the OP to clarify because there is false information out there that this fact is being suppressed "aggressively" when in fact the CDC announced it!
So, not only did you not RTFA (which mentions lasting natural immunity up through 450 days so far), you refuse to believe any science that isn't suiting your political agenda. You should not have the power to require anyone to get an unnecessary medical treatment, and neither should the government.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...
Scratchpad was specifically added as a feature to clearly allow people to use it Postman in an offline mode because otherwise people were confused about the distinction between an offline/online mode (Why is my content not showing up on Postman's web version for example). There are some features that just can't be developed with local storage as the only option.

An exceptionally large majority of users that give us feedback are pretty happy with the collaborative online features that we provide through Workspaces.

Unfortunately, a small but vocal minority is insistent that all those things be not developed because they have built their own workarounds through patterns from decades ago (CLIs, editors, repositories). I just don't agree with the sentiment that progress towards making lives easier for others should be stopped for a narrow viewpoint to be met. I also understand that it will lead to alternatives but so far almost everything that I have seen in the market has been a clone of our feature set - open source or closed source. I am happy to see people compete with new ideas.