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Millions die every year for we are mortal and numerous. Thankfully, the world's population grew during the pandemic.

210,000 to 448,000 Americans die every year to preventable medical errors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death#An...

This is more people than COVID kills in the same time period, but strangely there's no panic about that. No mandates. No significant steps from any authorities to do anything about it. Perhaps because there's no money in that, unlike pushing a remedy for something that's not as significant as people feel.

edit: Since HN is ratelimiting me and not letting me reply to the below, here's the reply I've tried posting after an hour of "slowing down":

Checklists: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/checklists-can-reduce-fata...

The same thing NASA uses to prevent human error: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910001641

Mandatory checklists would wipe out most of them, yet there's no mandate for them.
> If you have any money on the exchanges now is the time to get out.

No, last week was the time to get out. By the time everyone knows it's time to get out, it's already to late.
Setting up TypeScript with node is maybe 1 minute work? I don't understand this argument.
He was there for only three years, and at least ignorant about the finer points.
Oh wow, did not know that! Clearly I am only a recipient of this advice, and not a practitioner. I stand corrected.
'allowed vaccination of the control branch'

People in the control branch were told they were controls so that they had the option to get the newly-authorized vaccine for real. Standard practice for trials that go well.
IMO, the impact is probably not overstated.

This isn't just about how far the contagion has spread via counterparty risk. And that is a significant factor. Leverage is widespread and undocumented. This is also about an awakening to the risks associated with hosting your "wealth" in custodial wallets controlled by completely unregulated entities. Entities that have continually failed to achieve even a modicum of transparency (all stablecoins, most exchanges). Entities that in some cases refuse to identify a headquarters (Binance). In other words, this is an ongoing macro trust rug.
Show HN: We built a web app to split expenses with a group of friends
We have been working on instatab as a side project. We would appreciate it if you try it out and let us know what you think about it. Any sort of feedback is very welcome.
Sounds like a great strategy if you have a big network of people at startups or connected to VC. Not everyone is in that boat, though.
The FTX Freakout
This is my take. The fed seems interested in cutting housing prices, and I'm not one to bet against their ability to do so.
> Obamacare, which was forced upon us and costs us $2,400 PER MONTH, did not cover it

Can you expand on this please? I find it extremely hard to understand how an ACA-compliant health care plan could "not cover" a hospital stay for myocarditis. Unless you're on a high-deductible plan and the entire stay was less than your deductible?
Worth noting, the Florida Surgeon General's opinion was lambasted in the mainstream media as him embracing conspiracy theories (and there is some interesting added context there as to why they believe so). Which... maybe two things are true at once. Perhaps he was - but also, perhaps his stance is not that radical. Radical compared to most Surgeon Generals in the United States; but on an international level?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/21/florida-c...

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2022-10-12...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/11/medical-experts-rej...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scientists-pan-analysis-florid...

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/10/15/they-are-right-w...
You're not angered that you were advised to give this to a 15 year old with no upside even after he was hospitalized for 2 weeks as a result?!
That's the key word: lost. Nothing's been lost - neither Eli Lilly nor their shareholders have lost any money (unless they sold their stock, at which point they aren't shareholders). The price of their stock dipped, and is rising back up.

At worst, Eli Lilly would have had slightly higher interest rates on their next round of debt funding.
Ask HN: How can I grow my $1000/month business?
I run fundedlist.com.

It provides weekly leads -- startup founders/CEOS that have recently been funded.

The value prop is that these startups have just had an influx of cash and are looking to use it.

The lead info is pretty standard -- verified emails, linkedin, funding amount, funding date, funding type industry (sample [0] in case anyone is interested).

I currently have a handful of customers. I'm cold emailing people at agencies (recruiting, design) and other B2B startups to drum up interest.

Two questions (perhaps really just one)

1. How can this become more valuable for my (potential) customers?

2. How can I grow this?

0: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14HMD1UJ3EeCsS4UU2H2oQ45m2SXFk_BctRx8IQ0nmSs/edit?usp=sharing
I would just like us all to stop pretending that any of one's fear of COVID or skepticism of vaccines or distrust of whoever or whatever is about rational calculated risks. It's about how we feel, so let's talk about that.

Look, everyone is scared of doing something until they're scared of not doing it. Everyone distrusts government until they trust it, and distrusts pharma until they trust it. Some people will wear their mask in the grocery store even though it's a cloth mask that's as good as doing nothing because now it feels weird not to. Some people won't take the COVID vaccine but they'll happily take remdesivir and ivermectin. (Who do you think makes remdesivir and ivermectin?) Some people will happily go to an indoor comic convention that's an hour's drive from them, but not to an outdoor wedding, because it would mean getting on a plane (this actually happened with a family member of mine and I am not over it).

All of which is to say that what people are really doing is going with their gut. If your gut instinct is "COVID's not a big deal", then of course taking an emergency-use-authorized vaccine for it seems risky. If your gut instinct is "COVID is dangerous and deadly", you'll take anything you can get. Now that things are subsiding, and the fear is waning, I read an article like this and I think "hmm, that does seem bad, we should look into it, but also I am gonna keep doing what I'm doing and getting my COVID vaccine because it seems like it's helping." On the other hand, you have people who are literally dying of COVID who are still relieved they were able to dodge getting the vaccine because it felt scary to get a not-fully-tested drug.

So I'm pro-vaccine because they seem like a good idea and my experiences with them (four shots so far) have been positive, in that my side effects were limited and I know there were situations where I could have gotten COVID and I didn't. (And when I did get COVID, it was extremely mild.) Who's to say how I'd have felt if I were one of the few cases of myocarditis out there? Who's to say how I would've felt if I'd had mild COVID and recovered from it pre-vaccine? What if I'd been hospitalized with COVID pre-vaccine?

Can we just admit this isn't about logic or statistics, and never was? It was always a persuasion game either way.
This is not a good rule if taken to the extreme. Almost all medical procedures have an associated risk, some higher. The key question is whether the risk outweighs the benefits.
> When I write code, it's common to have references to immutable classes thrown around with wild abandon, heedless of ownership, threads, or good taste, because the data just can't change.

If there's anything I wish languages with implicit reference semantics would adopt, it's implicit immutability. I wish Java would be so much nicer with keyword that is half way between "final" and "volatile" that means, "yes, you can actually mutate this" and then make final semantics the default for fields & variables.
If there is no provision on L1 for early termination, then the rules of this particular type of visa are entirely broken and needs fixing. I understand the reason L1 exists, I actually lived in the US under L1 myself, but there is no excuse for a country to accept a worker they deemed necessary and acceptable to migrate, and then impose such a harsh rule for edge cases. If the person needs to be let go because somehow their own fault, it is fine. But layoffs are an example where the company is at fault and the employee is the victim - in this case the minimum the government should do is to offer a fair amount of time for the person to find another job.
I'm glad the emergency use authorization allowed people who are interested to get the vaccine. I don't think mandates were ever appropriate, and I think people should also have had a right to NOT get the vaccine.

The emergency use authorization seemed absolutely like the appropriate course of action given the circumstances.
This series of lectures on Category Theory by Bartosz Milewski: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI7FMa...
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> I often joke that crypto has been run by gold bugs

You're not wrong. Crypto is the natural evolution of the gold bug.

Gold bugs funamentally don't understand the finance system. The gold standard was never about fully backing your currency with a global commodity (fun fact: the US dollar was never 100% backed by gold reserves). A gold standard is actually just a peg, a promise by the government to exchange dollars for gold (and vice versa) at a fixed rate. And you don't technically need any gold for that.

Yet gold bugs harp on about gold reserves and that's the least important part of the gold standard. Either way you have a trust issue. FDR famously performed a sovereign debt devaluation, for example.

Likewise, my experience with crypto people is they too (generally, not always) don't understand why the TradFi system is the way it is. Worse, they seem to use wilful ignorance of that as a badge of honor (while muttering something about "disruption").

So gold bugs who (rationally or irrationally) hate TradFi find a natural home with similarly minded Crypto Andys.
Jellyfin works great for me.
Wild! Mine crashed the first try, turned off Safari Suggestions, crash behavior gone.

Turned it back on... still no crash. Search engine makes no difference.

Wonder if it's a cache thing and disabling Suggestions cleared that, removing whatever bad data was hanging around, or if it was a purely server-side bug and they've already fixed it.

[EDIT] Some others saying it stopped happening, so may have been fixed.
High-Period Microsoft looked like it was on track to utterly own the desktop and, therefore, consumer and small business computing world to the point it would be able to keep any non-Microsoft-approved software from existing. (Hardware and software, with Winmodems pointing the way to hardware that only works with Microsoft drivers, not to mention BIOS makers basically giving up and turning their code into first-stage bootloaders for MS Windows.) It killed Netscape and turned IE6 into a millstone around the Web's neck, showing what Microsoft could do to anything it didn't deem sufficiently profitable at the moment. Later, in the early 2000s, Palladium (Trusted Computing Platform) was seen by the most pessimistic as the end of the line for non-Microsoft OSes on commodity hardware: The hardware would only boot encrypted OSes, MS would hold the keys, the government would prosecute anyone cracking the code as a terrorist. Good game, scrub.

The Halloween Documents were only the start of Microsoft's attacks on Open Source in general and Linux in specific; it arguably funded SCO during that company's lawsuit against Linux, IBM's support for Linux, and basic common sense, by buying Linux and Unix licenses from SCO and introducing SCO to BayStar Capital. That isn't so much at arm's length as at finger's length. Around the same time, Ballmer said the Linux kernel was Communism, said it infringed Microsoft's intellectual property, and a bit later called Linux cancer. He also used the "viral license" insult, proving that big companies are sufficiently stymied by the GPL to dislike it. You kinda lose plausible deniability when you call something cancer and then give money to the company trying to sue it out of existence.

But that's Ballmer. Gates all by himself was seen, at least by people who didn't just view him as a Funny Rich Nerd, as a sharp operator at the very least who did nasty things to competitors and had no scruples about doing questionably legal things to win. Jobs without the Cult Of Mac, in other words.
> Frankly, I see no contradiction, with what I said in any of my posts. Could you lay out more clearly where you think a contradiction has occurred?

Sure. You said (in the context of talking about Binance and Coinbase):

> Everyone in the cryptocoin world is doing this "staking" == crappy loans / bonds business.

This phrase, in the context of the news we're discussing (about suspending withdrawals), implies that Coinbase and Binance are also incurring in a risk of suspending withdrawals because they might run out of liquidity due to staking (which you said is equivalent to a "crappy loans / bonds business").

However, staking is not equivalent to a "crappy loans / bonds business".

To argue that point, someone said that "Staking is not a loan", implying that unlike loans you can't lose money because of staking, but you said "it's totally a bond" because, I suppose, you're not allowed to get the money back until a certain time.

However, I think that you are missing the fact that unlike with loans and bonds, there is no risk of running out of liquidity because of staking.

If Coinbase and Binance were operating a real loans and bonds business (like banks do), and suddenly all customers demanded their deposits back, these exchanges couldn't force the borrowers to pay back their loans/bonds immediately so that they could fulfill the withdrawal demand. Not to mention that if the borrowers went bankrupt, the money would be lost, which would lead to Coinbase and Binance potentially losing customer funds, also becoming bankrupt and suspending withdrawals.

This seems to be more or less what is happening with some of these exchanges that are running out of liquidity, because they seem to be essentially gambling with customer funds.

But I think in staking it's completely different, because, as I argued, in staking there is no risk that borrowers go bankrupt and default on the loan/bond, as there are no borrowers. Instead, the yield is financed through inflation and the staked coins remain your property throughout the whole staking process -- nobody can spend them, so there is no risk that they can't be payed back.

And on top of that, customers aren't allowed to withdraw the staked amount until the staking expires, so there is no risk that Coinbase and Binance can't fulfill withdrawals because of staking.

Which means there is no risk of running out of liquidity because of staking.

In fact, coins can only be staked if the customer decides to stake them. Which is also completely unlike the loans/bonds business, which happens behind the customer's back, essentially. The latter leads to broken customer expectations (and ruined lives) if/when the loans/bonds business goes under.

Well, that's my understanding at least, but I'm sure I may be missing some points as I'm not actually an expert (or anything close to it) on staking.
>So you think SBF should just walk away? And the same for the next exchange that blows up everyone's money?

Yes. That's the flip side of the "no government interference" coin.
Either you are living in a completely different world or exaggerating the number of transactions by a lot. I do dozens of transaction per day from grocery to digital items to service to bill payment to repair and so much more. I am pretty sure almost no one in that group accepts crypto.
if anything the alliances in the "battle for the edge" have already lined up - vercel with cloudflare workers, netlify with deno. it'd take a lot now to break those alliances
Great results. How are you training the user updated images? Do you run on your GPUs or rely on third-party APIs? Lately, there are a lot of AI image-generation startups coming up. Thanks to Stable Diffusion + Dreambooth training which makes things possible.

Here are some more list

- Profile pictures/Avatar - https://PicasaAI.com

- Food - http://unrealmeal.ai/

- Hairstyle - https://www.hairgen.ai/ https://www.hairstyleai.com/

- Photo restoration models - https://replicate.com/tencentarc/gfpgan
I'm looking at the actual stock market as of right now. They've been trading for hours, and their price is up overall.

> And anyway what is a fair amount of value to lose over a fake tweet? is 1% ok? 2%?

Given that when the stock prices return and continue to rise - there's no actual monetary losses... sure. Those are all fine. At worst, their interest rates on new loans would be a bit higher is all.
This is cool and in some world where the company becomes massive and basically commit to properly maintaining the product I could see it being a player.

I'm skeptical of open-sourcing UI and workflow builders.

The upsides are that you enable a community to build connectors and the UI builder + maintain them, but the downside is that you have to manage the community well enough that enterprises can trust the connectors and the UI builder. The challenge of maintaining the community + maintaining some sort of an SLA is very hard. This type of software is extremely hard to test for –writing integration tests are much harder for the frontend than they are for something like a database (e.g. MongoDB) because of the permutations of use-cases). The OSS+managed model seems to have succeeded in areas where very you can regression tests are much easier to maintain and there are clear benchmarks to test the community's output against.

As a buyer (we recently bought SuperBlocks (https://www.superblocks.com/) which is just a managed version of the same idea) it's hard to commit to an open-source version of something like this given the problems above. I may be totally wrong – I've never run an OSS+managed business, and as much as I love the ethos, I still have to not care about the stability of an internal tool builder that my company is being built on top of.
I think to do that we need to recognize that it is really hard to actually evaluate people. Resumes are only a weak signal.

A lot of people think they're way better at hiring than they are. Just like employees overestimate their skills (and are encouraged to because the resume process) employers also over estimate their hiring skills (and are encouraged to because the bureaucratic process).
It's 20+ million worldwide, not in the US.
Sleaze?
Oh awesome! I'll look forward to reading this. Thanks for the link
I absolutely hate myself for replying, but in this situation you gave, SBF may have used customer's money, but an oil/coal baron uses their own money.

Even if you consider billionaires to be a disgusting stain on society, like myself, there's still a difference between stealing money to spend on stuff (political donations or Lambo's) and spending money/stocks you legally made in a horrible, earth-killing industry.

I absolutely detest greed in all it's forms, but I also don't think people should lower their morals and ethics to match the lowest of the low, as if they're Robin Hood (the character, not the company).
The majority of my team started their career as manual testers. We are all software engineers now and do not have a manual test team at all. We don't even have an automation test team. The company does have a few roles like that still but they are massively reduced.
No one really connects decentralized P2P though:

https://cryptobriefing.com/metamask-opensea-blocks-expose-ce...
We try to hire seasoned linux admins for our ops team. This has become difficult.

I start with this technical interview question so I can calibrate quickly:

"If I run the following two commands:

mkdir a b c;mv *

What happens?"

One person so far has asked if globbing was active. Like half of people get the answer right if they assume it is.

This question is deemed as "not fair", though, because it assumes a linux admin would know about shell globbing. So we're trying to find a modern equivalent that is somehow relevant, even though we're literally hiring people to know some shell.
What AI can and can't do. [audio]
Tbf the “steps” in the tweet didn’t even specify where in Safari to enter the text (text area, search bar, anywhere). So even absent the relevant config I’d say it’s a pretty lacking bug report in the steps too.
Doubt it, unless you have evidence otherwise. Jane St (unlike customer-facing finance firms, like Goldman Sachs) does not really engage in this style of nepotism hiring that I know of.

More likely is that the child of prominent academics might actually be more intelligent than average themselves and certainly provided more opportunity to flourish.
As I understand it, at least with contract law in common law jurisdictions, simply writing and freely posting OSS would not fall under this; a warranty is an implied part of a contract, and there is no contract that exists between the authors, and those who receive copies. No contract, no sale, no warranty. (A licence is not a contract, at least in some common law jurisdictions. But licences are contracts in civil law jurisdictions, usually...)

This would, however, not remain true if you're actually dealing with your users in a way that establishes mutual obligations (be careful you don't fall into a contract unawares!) Providing support for pay would do it, for example.
No, your edit still ignores something else: at the time you took out the loan, you already had a liability for those employee salaries of $1M, so the $1M valuation means that you had at least $2M in assets.

Acquiring the loan moves you up to $3M in assets (original assets, plus $1m cash from the loan) and $2M in liabilities (employee salaries + $1M loan)

When you pay those employee salaries, you wipe out the salary liability and the $1M cash asset from the loan. This leaves you the original $2M in assets, and the $1M loan, for a net valuation of...$1M.

Basically, the loan ends up replacing the salaries as a liability on your balance sheet.
Elon Musk moves his top lieutenant at Tesla to SpaceX after a controversy
You might want to look in to prions potentially being passed via HCG, just as an FYI. Last I read there’s at least a chance.

I also had to take it for fertility - Clomid is the other option but I felt like absolute crap on it.
> Yeah, which could be really annoying for someone who has a challenge pressing two buttons fast enough to trigger.

Sounds like that can easily be fixed with enter and backspace buttons.
Professor tells COP27 to move faster on energy transition
You don't get a choice about COVID getting into your body, and that is far worse than whatever possible long term effects of the vaccine might be.

That is actually yet to be determined, which is the point.

And I only mean that as it relates to specific demographic cohorts, not overall. If I were elderly, diabetic, immunocompromised etc. I don't think I'd hesitate. But the data I've seen on my demographic cohort is a toss-up at best, or even shows the vaccine to be riskier.
The danger of contracting covid was inflated relatively by initial standards of care that later proved harmful; https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/why-some-doctors-...

Also using steroids like dexamethasone were a later advent in treating covid that helped a lot. (They should have been standard of care right away like they would have been for any other respiratory illness).

These early follies increased the perceived need for a vaccine then and today still; risk : benefit analysis for the vaccines consider worst possible scenarios for covid, which include defunct practices like high PIP ventilator use and forgoing of common first-line treatments