skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He said in February that he is fully vaccinated against the virus.

It's looking more and more likely that this is why most people are getting reinfected. Last month OAS made the news, just not by name: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328102

> Vaccines against the coronavirus may impair the body’s ability to produce a key type of antibody, thus potentially limiting the immune system’s defenses against mutated strains of the virus, a new study suggests.

> The study draws upon data collected during Moderna’s randomized control trial for its mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, from July 2020 through March 2021.
Are you implying that registering firearms and background checks don't benefit anyone and only undermine republicans?
But if you’re making a decision based on what will make people happy, isn’t that just politics?

Your point is well made - this is going to be catastrophic for our country. No good can come if it. But it can’t be the position of the court to do what’s expedient over what is constitutionally correct. Or should it be? What does it profit a country to uphold the constitution and lose its democracy.
Ask HN: What is the economics of hiring interns?
For context I am an intern.

Why do tech companies hire interns and then not give them enough assignments to do? It seems like a waste of money and it would be better to not hire them.

Does it make it easier to train and recruit employees in the long run? Do the hiring managers just want to boost their numbers so they can look good?
>compares a baby to parasite

Parasites are organisms that reduce the host's fitness while giving nothing in return. Babies are the exact polar opposite of parasites. They are literally the entire reason you're alive as far as evolution is concerned.
And if we banned thalidomide, how much would that help pregnant women with morning sickness? The fact that you're trying to prevent one kind of harm (morning sickness, natural-origin pandemics) doesn't excuse causing unlimited amounts of a different kind of harm (birth defects, research-origin pandemics).

The non-absurd version of this argument is that risky virological research will provide a public benefit offsetting the possible harm. None of its advocates seem able to articulate significant examples of that benefit yet, though, and even a small probability of millions of deaths is quite a lot of harm.
I love parts express. They have the stuff to make yourself very high end speakers and a lot of very high quality amplifier and other electronics modules.
Brilliant write up. Do you have a book or email?
> pro-life

The more accurate correct term is anti-choice.
Your "layoff" is a "furlough". "Layoff" is a legal term that means "downsizing for business reasons".
Thank you for posting.

Regarding your answer to 8, how important is gain of function research in the virology eco-system, is there sufficient reason amongst the powers that be within the discipline (that is, well-known researchers, leaders of departments or labs, funders and program managers, etc) to be wary of a funding cut for this research that they might be biased in dismissing the idea of a lab leak?

My analogy is in particle physics, the idea of supersymmetry is incredibly popular amongst the super start researchers, heads of parts of CERN, funding agencies, etc, that very few in the field are willing to admit the lack of evidence for supersymmetry at the LHC is in fact a crisis for the field after how many billions have been spent on the supercollider. My question is, is gain of function that important or popular in the field of virology? Why can't they just admit it's dangerous and chuck it, will enough of them suffer if they were to do so?
zoom has made capital more accessible than ever to outsiders who have something
Yeah, it doesn't explain all observations (when there is objective physical damage too). Just an original one, which I wouldn't come up with on my own when first reading about ball lightnings in 90s.
You could run CP/M on it, of course, but Digital Research didn’t see the point in creating 8085 or Z80 specific versions of CP/M, so they just ran the 8080 version.
I don't think parent implied that at all. This is a global forum, there is no need for this forum to debate bills in a small corner of one country with little technology presence.
What about ocaml vs f#?
> What you're now alluding to is a different claim than the one I responded to

Yes, because you were only responding to half of the sentence. My advice would be to respond to full sentences even when inconvenient.

I'll add, I'm not making a claim about personhood nor citizenship, I'm pointing to where the grey area is. How that becomes an insistence is something you'll only know.

Finally, I do not agree that accepting the personhood of a foetus would necessarily outweigh the woman's rights, as again, it would come up against bodily autonomy - another grey area that I hope would be ruled on to be as absolute as possible.
This one-liner works for x==y: x ^= y ^ (y = x); Is this really code, or some kind of new text emojis? :)
I am surprised to see so many classic mathematical and scientific books and papers, most from before the 20th century. Modern math and science courses do not teach from these original sources. I have looked at only a few of these and found them much harder to understand than the modern treatments -- the notation is obsolete and obscure, and the arguments and presentation are often more convoluted and harder to follow.

Can any St John's alums tell us about their experiences with the science and math selections in the curriculum? How did the instructors present them - did they really get into depth with the technical content or just focus on their literary properties and historic background? Were there problem sets where you were asked to infer or calculate the consequences of this material? Do you feel you really understand electromagnetic fields, relativity etc. etc. as a result of studying these?
If you’re OK with the pre-print, here’s the link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.02.450932v2
> Exactly when it stops being a bundle of cells that can be removed without thought or empathy and becomes a "baby about to be born" where it should not be treated so negligently is in my mind the real question here.

I avoid that issue entirely by leaving it as a matter of viability. As I've said elsewhere: As long as the mother's body is needed to sustain the life of the child, that life is subject to her whims. Her house. Her rules. The moment it can be removed and sustained without her, she should no longer have the right to abort it, only to surrender it.

It doesn't matter if it's a baby or just a clump of cells, if it's literally living in and feeding off of another living person that person should have a right to decide to continue or to stop allowing that. The child's right to exist against the wishes of its mother start as soon as it can do so without her.
Yeah, I'm not going to base the idea that "inequality is OK" by someone from the federalist society. That's like asking an arsonist if fire is good.
I'd argue that the lower class has lost upward mobility in this country in the last 40-60 years. Sure, cheap crap can be purchased from walmart - but that's just subsidized crap. China has been lifting their lower classes up - yes, but at our expense.
Okay. Why you do you feel the need to tell everyone that?

It may surprise you, but women are people.
Better yet, treat the situation like you're assembling a bomb: Mullvad/Tor, Signal, DDG, clean phone/laptop if you can afford it. Adtech surveillance/tracking is extremely pervasive at this point and it's hard to be sure where data about you will end up.
Punishment is in the eye of the beholder: the left and right don't care about the same issues, and that's the principle that makes it possible to hurt your opponent through lawfare without hurting yourself. Eliminating federal protections for abortions annoys the left without hurting the right. Conversely, banning religious services during covid while promoting protest gatherings bothered the right, but not the left. You wouldn't be able to list the lawfare issues that bothered the right, because that's the point. Lawfare is only lawfare to your opponent, not to yourself.
Seems to me that the notion suppose to be "Hybrid is basically an inferior monolithic", after all, if most functions (even without drivers) were still in the kernel, wouldn't it be just another monolithic?
Banning sending URLs via SMS is a terrible idea, there are too many valid use cases.

Potentially disabling URLs from alphanumeric senders is a good idea, but it’s also very easy to get virtual numbers for sending SMS spam.

I think a good balance would be making URLs not clickable for any number that is not in your contacts which also makes it difficult to copy and paste for an average user.

The onus is then on providers to make sure anyone they may send links to saves the number as a contact and that they always use the same number, and have that number on their website.

So when you register for delivery notifications a message goes out saying you should save the contact number. If all Fedex notifications come from the same number the user only needs to do this once.
I’m glad the algorithm is sparing me of them.
Full time investor here. There have been some clear changes in the market that others have pointed out:
1. Diligence windows have increased. Nobody is rushing to deploy capital.
2. Series A and beyond feel fairly frozen at this point in time.
3. Seed valuations have compressed a bit towards pre-seed.
4. Your average joe feels poorer and is concerned about the market and future funding.

I always encourage every company that is raising to start by establishing to lay of the land for them. Are they vastly outperforming? Amazing traction? Is there team extremely credentialed? Well connected? Hot space?

If you have some of those, you go the the VCs who invest in your market (research companies in your space but not directly competitive and see who funded them) by getting connected through your network and you have a reasonable shot at someone being interested at some price. You then try to use that pricing (if you think it is unfavorable) to drive other investors to a decision -- investors feel FOMO.

If you don't have this, you normally simultaneously build while either: 1. Joining an accelerator. 2. Meeting people about town until you find a believer. The slight difference in this market is that angel investors may be less likely to invest on their own because follow-on funding is an existential risk. So you likely have to find a true believer who can write a bigger check or is comfortable with that risk.
Treat them like human beings.

Don't pull shit off like "you have 30 mins. to empty your workspace" or "this guard will escort you outside".
Ok, I see. That's nuts. I've been to Canada with my EU SIM but apart from each SMS costing few cents instead of being free if didn't cost me much to keep using 2fa.

I currently have plan for 22€ that gives me unlimited everything in my country (maybe there is cap to minutes but I don't call much) including unlimited data + 10gb data in EU.

I remember that in Canada I was paying through the nose for some basic pathetic plan though.
So your contention is that conservatives don't need abortions, and liberals don't go to church?
That would clash with Apple's Not Invented Here syndrome. The rest of the world will quietly continue using smartcards and PIV tokens for stringent security....
Team Blue has fewer abortions than Team Red, thanks to contraception. Team Red just has their abortions as safe for rich people while poor people use coat hangers.

Team Red is only opposed to abortions for other people.

"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion": https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-...
I feel like this article is trying to blow up a story that isn’t particularly intriguing.
Yeah. Why fire up Shenzhen I/O when you can instead dive into a design around some neat, but poorly documented chip from China in kicad.

Or jyst some interestimg hardware project in general.
There are kids who would NOT smoke real cigarettes if e-cigarettes didn't exist. E-cigarette becomes the gateway cigarette for them.
Gender is not the same as sex. This "ideology" you're gesturing at is "science" and "politeness".

[1]: https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2016/05/sex-gender

[2]: https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sex-gender

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK19934/

[4]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6677266/

[5]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32425587/
The vast majority of virologists are not working on gain-of-function research or with potential pandemic pathogens, but this type of research has some very influential backers who control significant sources of funding in virology and infectious diseases. This makes it very awkward and professionally risky for virologists to say that the top leaders in their field advocated for research that might have caused this pandemic and taken millions of lives globally.

National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) has been reconvened this year to review US government policies on dual use research of concern (DURC) and research with enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP/P3CO).
Their public meeting is available here: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44823
Please also see my thread on it:
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1499035660627419139

There is another public engagement session next week. Details here: https://osp.od.nih.gov/event/virtual-stakeholder-engagement-...

Based on these sessions and the history of the NSABB, I'm not confident that they will recommend measures to make this type of research more transparent or even safer.
Ok, fair enough with the third point.

Never had missed SMS while roaming and I don't use prepaid as primary number. Have had same number for 20 years now.
The guy who was behind VMS (the OS for the VAX-11 series) and Windows NT-3.51 - Microsofts first native 32 bit operating system. Spent some of his money going Formula Atlantic racing when most people his age would be looking at bowling balls and golf carts. Absolutely amazing guy whose name almost no one knows.
When TX first passed its law that allowed anyone to sue individuals that had or aided an abortion, Apple offered to pay for transport and the procedure for anyone at its new Austin campus.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/09/17/apple-is-monitori...
Jeremy Keith – In and Out of Style – CSS Day 2022 [video]
When I refer to abortion I'm talking about a mother consciously choosing (or being coerced) to kill the baby in utero. Miscarriage is unavoidable and tragic, it has nothing to do with a mother's conscious decision. This is like saying a baby dying after birth from a severe birth defect is somehow the mother's fault.

Naturally in cases where you can only save one life but not both it makes no sense to let mother and baby die, this is logical and provides a terrible ethical dilemma for doctors to figure out where the borderline is - at what point is the risk to the mother so great that it warrants an abortion? These types of dilemmas are common as far as I understand in medical ethics.

I believe an unborn baby is a _person_ with the same intrinsic human rights as you and I, so I see no logical difference except in degree of uncertainty between the baby in the car and an abortifacient killing an unimplanted zygote. Of course the degree of uncertainty is very important legally. If I through an unforeseeable action end up being responsible for the death of an employee of mine, it matters how certain the outcome was based on my negligence. Maybe no one will ever know that I was in some way responsible but it will live on my conscience nonetheless.
"Initially, his videos received some praise, but some latter videos contain misinformation, such as the suggestion that deaths from COVID-19 have been over-counted, repeated false claims about the use of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, and misleading commentary about vaccine safety." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)
$50/hour? How about $2/month? This gets you support from real humans [1]. Given this already exists, I guess the answer to your question is "no".

[1] https://one.google.com/about
In practice, they currently can. Tech companies have a monopoly in their respective verticals due to the lack of interoperability and use network effects to essentially force you to submit to whatever terms they choose.

Keep in mind that regulation isn’t usually drafted in a vacuum and instead takes the real world into account.

If tech monopolies get broken up by anti-trust regulation it would be a good time to review the GDPR (as privacy-friendly competitors can now interoperate with existing social media networks) but until then I’m happy to have it.
> He also seems to be assuming mid-sized or larger nonprofits.

I think that's really the kind of org he's trying to talk about, even if he doesn't spell it out as well as he could. Some of these small orgs tend to be more tight-knit and the board is more of a formalism, overlapping in large part with the operations. There are certainly some small orgs that I think you can hold his analysis up to, though.

Mostly paying attention to large nonprofits aligns with his experience founding one of the best-known charity evaluators in the world and then spinning off to co-found a multi-billions-backed grantmaker which is giving out hundreds of millions a year and trying to ramp it up.
Goldman is buying scrap for recycling.
He’s a board-certified medical doctor. Are you implying the board does a bad job at protecting that licensure?
More generally, once you realize your state is authoritarian, it might be too late to cover your tracks. Always protect your privacy, even when you think it'll be fine.
Anyone can send use from fedex’s sender id and your phone will put it right in that saved contacts conversation. Both SMS and phone calls need to be upgraded to use secure identity protocols.
It's ironic, but your last sentence reminds me of how the Islamic Republic of Iran is organized, with their Grand Ayatollah and council of Ayatollahs in a moral Guardian Council watching over the executive and legislative branches.

The more things differ...
This article refers to the 6800 which isn't the same.
Also, that's a 68008 (with the 'simplified' 8bit data and smaller address bus). Both somebow 8bit :-P
And it was a top secret the US cracked their codes!?!
Yes it can spend on salaries. In fact this is one of the failure modes of a nonprofit that a board has to watch out for: the staff (especially the executive staff) soaking up all the fundraising with raises.

Nonprofits don’t have investors who are watching their own personal financial returns carefully. The “returns” of a nonprofit are the mission. So the board has to do the work to verify that the money coming in is being used to advance the mission. You have to pay salaries to do that of course… but not overpay.

> Wasn't the New York Stock Exchange a nonprofit organization for quite some time?

Yes and the NFL is a nonprofit today! It exists as a neutral body to organize the league. The individual teams are for-profit.
SQLite3 is 1.6MB

duckdb is 41MB

(q/k, another columnar SQL database, is less than a MB)
Obviously this is situational, but you expect a round of funding to carry you for about two years, less for Seed. When you raise at a favorable valuation, you have to grow into it, and the clock is ticking. Throw a collapsing market into the equation and suddenly your next round is looking decidedly unfavorable.

There are a lot of early-stage startups out there right now that raised at silly valuations 6-12 months ago, already put most of that capital to work, and now have another 6-12 months of runway ... and zero leverage in fundraising discussions. The best time to talk to investors is when you don't need their money.
I'm surprised this didn't get more traction.

I just tried out several searches and I'm really impressed with the results! And the whole site loads super fast.

Ironically you don't have a great brand name for it though. I guess 'dom' is short for domain, but dom also has a different meaning in web dev lingo, so that's kind of confusing.
The lobbyists, you mean?
> Maybe the board I'm on is just a unicorn...

Karnofsky co-founded a very successful charity evaluator 15 years ago then moved on to co-founding and leading a grantmaker that has a budget in the hundreds of millions a year. I doubt any flaws in his analysis come from not seeing enough orgs and hastily judging.
Fuck, I'd hire you just for your sense of humor.
Yes it probably is, but I don't think it's bad in this context because I am not trying to gaslight anyone I am trying to give a sight on the other side.

You mentioned one story, and I will take it for granted, yes laws can be abused, don't date in Qatar, you can go out, have fun, go on trips etc.
But don't expect them to change their laws for you, unless I can expect your country to change their laws to allow me to practice my religion to the fullest.

By the way, a rapist can face execution if he did it under the threat of a gun / knife, if not he's supposed to get 80 / 100 lashes iirc.
But also getting out half-naked, dating, staying in a room alone with a female isn't allowed either.
That is under Sharia rule ( which doesn't exist nowadays ), not sure about the laws in Qatar.

Once I see the west supporting and cheering a man with 4 obeying, covered up wives and calling anyone who disagrees Islamophobic and any player who decides not to support that idea will be considered to be sanctioned like what happened to Idrissa Gueye when he refused to show support for LGBTQ+, I will support the LGBTQ+ rights (neither will ever happen).

And no, you can't force women into marriage and they can ask for divorce.
This reads as a cruel victory lap to me.
This campaign, right?

"The Game: A continually-run D&D campaign, since 1982" (thegamednd.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31230967

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I can only speak to myself of course, but while there may be value in “hard work”, I find it really hard to do for any amount of time without wanting to quit being a software engineer.
> If someone is a board member for few non-profits, is it hard to make the jump into for profit companies?

It is hard to get onto big corporate boards, but being on nonprofit boards is a common stepping stone.
Many scammers with AT&T now connect you to real AT&T tech support but just listen in.
I was once visiting Sicily and left my wallet at the airport.

I learned about this when the police pulled me over to return the wallet.

Freaking Sicily!
Remember when Apple made a delusional commercial that mocked UAC [1] yet here we are over 15 years later and it looks like Microsoft was the one that got it right. Under Windows you can have multiple windows open each running as different users.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUPxkzV1RTc
I wonder if this is a business decision that has shown it could be profitable. I can imagine people without kids work more hours. Then again, they have a lot less to lose.

Interesting business decision.

The question I have, some states are going to call abortion murder and charge it as such. Is Google aiding and abetting a homicide?
> Pretty sure all the States that would qualify for this are lower cost of living than any of the destination ones too.

Sure says something about the uneducated “keep the baby” line that it’s the have-not states towing it.
Yeah, screw Cricut and their policies. When they sued Sure Cuts-A-Lot into removing support for Cricut machines, I completely swore off their heretofore-interesting hardware.

Get any old Roland clone. You can often score an old USCutter on Craigslist for similar prices, the hardware is way more durable, and it's all simple parts you can replace without vendor lock-in. They speak HPGL and there's a million softwares to drive 'em, including Inkcut which sorta sucks but it's free.