skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also classification of seriousness of side effects was kinda skewed, too. If you didn't read into details of studies, you'd think that claims like "serious side effects are rare", as something that is a meaningful input to your decisionmaking about getting vaccinated. But if it was defined as conditions requiring hospitalizations or urgent care, then there are other very comon side effects that don't require it and can still upend your life if they last long time.

Being unable to work properly for longish time (say months to a year), without needing hospitalization is quite serious to anyone in working age. There was no way to judge how long particular side effects can last (and likelihoods) from vaccine studies, because data for judging this were not published, despite for sure being available from the original trials to the researchers.

There's apparently a lot of research about how to push people to vaccinate and about vaccination hessitancy, though. :) But providing some useful data about side effects, like how likely they'll last 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months for a vaccination that was intended to quickly give to almost everyone... No, can't have that. That was almost impossible to find. And if you did find something, it was some independent research with small sample size.
I prefer to use the trustee's watermark which reflects the value of Bitcoin after the price manipulation of fake Bitcoin being sold by MtGox had been taken out of the market at $460. But your point is made even stronger if you consider that same money could have been safely invested with a steady interest of 2-4%. And that's if you disregard that the sort of risky investments that that sort of play money could have gone to, nearly all of those investments have been extremely lucrative the past 8 years.
> My theory is that when people who lean right are complaining about a "woke agenda" at Twitter they are complaining mostly about trans activism.

Twitter shouldn't ban people on behalf of a corporation; it has nothing to do with "woke" or not "woke". This is a problem with all media, advertising groups have formed mobs that intimidate organizations like Twitter, and other media outlets that don't give in to their corporate agenda. It might sound great that your agenda and the corporations agenda are aligned at this moment in time, but I assure you they are fair-weather friends. They wouldn't skip a beat stomping all over the LGBTQ+ agenda if it was profitable for them.

A world where groups of corporations control free speech through collective intimidation is literally a dystopian science fiction trope. So IMHO, it doesn't matter where you lean politically, screw Eli Lilly and others like them.
Name one Crypto chain that takes hours to confirm a transaction. Bitcoin has a blocktime of 10 minutes and Ethereum is 10 to 20 seconds. More modern networks process transactions in orders of magnitude less time, eg. Solana has a slot time of 0.5 seconds and time to finality being 1 or 2 seconds.
Yes. People just don't understand what their plan's deductibles mean, and the protections the ACA offers.

The parent poster likely benefits from the following items on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act:

> Annual and lifetime coverage caps on essential benefits were banned.

> Insurers are forbidden from dropping policyholders when they become ill.

> All policies must provide an annual maximum out-of-pocket (MOOP) payment cap for an individual's or family's medical expenses (excluding premiums). After the MOOP payment is reached, all remaining costs must be paid by the insurer.
Absolutely, this is my go-to kind of meal. I guess when I ate meat I'd tend to have meals that were probably a little less balanced, so it has been amazing to make the move to meals like this, find that I love eating it, but also feel better too.
There's a lot of daylight between "recommendations for some higher age groups, no recommendation for lower age groups" and "recommendation against for lower age groups." The international recommendations cited above seem to be in the former category. Florida's recommendations seem to be in the latter. This might make them an outlier.

Whether it makes them conspiracy theorists is another matter. If their position is sound, well, sound positions can be embraced for sound or unsound reasons. If their position is unsound, of course it will be for unsound reasons. So whether they're called conspiracy theorists matters much less than their reasons.

What are their reasons? They appear to cite a large relative increase in myocarditis risk in younger men. A statistically literate response would involve asking what the absolute increase is... and the proper place to reckon with relative comparison would be vs the unvaccinated infected:

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/22/covid-19-infection-...

I would absolutely recommend anyone wondering about a specific vaccination consult with a doctor or two (I do this and have had a certain class of vaccines contraindicated). But no red flags from medical pros on this one for me, and personally, even as a man outside the high-risk age groups, I can't remotely see a reason for assuming myocarditis would be a reason for avoiding the vaccine. As far as I can tell, it's almost on the order of your lifetime chance of being struck by lightning, and the chance of developing myocarditis from infection is significantly higher.
Numbers in Verilog
Oooh. Right.
Start applying for jobs and not doing the work at your current workplace. Don't quit, continue being paid while doing the bare minimum and looking for another job.
Why doesn't go use RVO like C++ and Rust?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_elision#Background
And if you shorted Lilly at the same time, you'll probably soon be getting a visit from men in dark suits.
You're not describing a Ponzi scheme, you're describing wash trading and fraudulent accounting.
Yes, I read the article where Matt Levine explicitly mentions that he missed this.
A vaccine requires an antigen. There's no antigen in the mRNA or Adeno-vector vaccines. I'm not willing to pretend that these new medical products are in any way similar to the previous technology.

Gene therapy accurately describes the drug's effect. It injects instructions into your cells to replicate a protein, that's gene therapy. In this case, rather than treating some disease, it's designed to provoke an immune response. Hard pass.
I don't think ignorance and fraud are mutually exclusive. I think he has put both on display to a pretty significant degree, personally.
Why does Uber need debt? They’re a software, logistics company. It makes sense for a real estate company to be loaded with debt as that’s the nature of the beast. But I don’t see an argument for logistics.
There's nothing wrong with being an entertainer, it's just something to keep in mind.

In other words, don't make major financial decisions based on Levine not saying it is a good or bad idea.
Same here. I live just north of NYC and it seems like pretty much everyone is getting covid. Luckily, mortality attributed to covid is continuing to decrease suggesting it's becoming less of an issue (in terms of deaths), but even with ~320 deaths a day, we're still looking at over 100k dying in the US every year of covid - despite the fact that a lot of the most vulnerable already died.

I think we just have a new normal in terms of life expectancy and mortality :(
SBF is more like the reverse Neumann.

Neumann went into WeWork's endgame looking like a fool, and emerged from it a rich wizard.
I'm not sure if its that sign, but I have seen one of these before...
> worth $60 billion in public markets today

In the same way that Shibu Ino coin is "worth" 4.9 billion - ie, meaningless and entirely fictional; lacking any substantive value.

Uber stock is worth what it is because there are still more fools available to buy it. Theranos failed and was completely exposed, and even the fools are no longer interested.

That's not to suggest that Uber did not do some things very well. They identified a need and provided a solution (mostly software-based), but their actual on the ground solution wilfully ignored local laws globally. Even ignoring legislation and regulation which costs money, they still tried to use loss-leading tactics to win markets. So they burned vast amounts of money to undercut the market.

Had they ever rectified those two HUGE issues, they would be struggling to make a profit. Even not rectifying them, they are struggling. So holding them up as a success is just naive and wishful, but wrong.
This has all the echos of Enron and Arthur Anderson. I know Sequoia isn't an auditing firm but the warning flags and misses on their part are so extraordinary it wouldn't surprise me to find out there's people at Sequoia who were in on it.
The question of it in my mind is if the available features are structurally adequate.

Porn videos frequently have a soundtrack with distinctive moaning and that's one thing. If the problem was distinguishing audio recordings of somebody talking about erotic or not-erotic subjects, that's something entirely different.
Torch model to serverless GPUs Pipeline guide
They haven't changed the advice for the initial 2 doses. They have given different advice for additional booster doses. Which, per there own guidance seems to be largely because people already have immunity (either through vaccination or infection), and younger populations are not considered to require additional immunity.

For example, from the second link above (Denmark):

> Why are people aged under 50 not to be re-vaccinated?

> The purpose of the vaccination programme is to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death. Therefore, people at the highest risk of becoming severely ill will be offered booster vaccination. The purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with covid-19, and people aged under 50 are therefore currently not being offered booster vaccination.

> People aged under 50 are generally not at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill from covid-19. In addition, younger people aged under 50 are well protected against becoming severely ill from covid-19, as a very large number of them have already been vaccinated and have previously been infected with covid-19, and there is consequently good immunity among this part of the population.
How I do CouchDB backups
my favorite highway sign prank was when Harvey Mudd students changed a sign on the 210 which read:

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena City College
Next Exit

to:

California Institute of Technology
(Pasadena City College)
Next Exit
Maybe people should have their resume looked over? I have seen some very talented people make some pretty glaring errors and/or just be pretty bad at making things presentable. I think they may be getting tossed out of the pile due to something they just aren't realizing.
> It kind of reminds me how a while back somebody posted proposed redesign of stackoverflow to make it more nice from UX perspective. However this person wasn't a user of stackoverflow and didn't understand how much value which features provide and suggested changes that would make very valuable features removed or made less easily accessible while bringing to the front features that are not very useful.

To be completely fair, this is my feeling about the web Twitter and especially Reddit UI.
To be fair, that's just one wealthy person right? Curious to know the total output of the 1%.
Not sure I really intended it as a burn, though you're right I do love words, sometimes to a fault! That was a generous response on your part anyway. Not one of my better days. Thanks.
Yea, it's not even remotely over. People are bored of it, and it makes them sad, so a lot of them stopped taking precautions, but it's not over. It just ripped through my family in Florida (again) since nobody is masking there and everyone is just carrying on as if it were 2019. My kid's school seems to perpetually has a case or two. I take it seriously by getting boosted, masking, continuing to avoid crowds and public places that are indoors, and I intend to keep doing so. People act like it's a TV show that got cancelled or something. Nuts.
No idea why you're getting downvoted. It seems obvious to me too that you still have to validate server-side, so signing the form validation schema on the frontend is a waste of time.
This comes as no surprise - I've never understood why Meta was trying to reinvent the wheel with these products anyway. The AR/VR tech is where they're making the most interesting advancements anyway.
Empirically true. See: PonziCoin
https://techweez.com/2018/01/26/ponzicoin-crypto-scheme/
This is what a meme really is.
You might want to consider adopting a less condescending communication style in accordance with HN policy-- it would make it easier for both of us to learn something.

I think I adequately described a credible sequence of operations, but your dismissive reply has made it impossible for me to tell which parts weren't communicated effectively.

The central unanswered question is "where did the real money go?": Those ftx related magic beans were constructed for ~free. The balance sheet makes it look like billions of Bitcoin are owed, so where did they go?

The idea that FTX didn't pay for the magic beans is just an assumption, but it's not necessary. They could have paid a related entity for them using the paper bitcoin traded on the site.

I'm suggesting that related entities such as Alameda research and SBF personally deposited magic means and traded them for Bitcoin "perpetuals", with FTX awarding them paper Bitcoins. This creates a bitcoin liability on FTX's balance sheets even though no billions of dollars ever existed.

Some amount of actual valuable assets were deposited, then withdrawn by people who traded magic beans for FTX bitcoin liability (and/or were awarded bitcoin through FTX's 8%/yr yield program on customer deposits) -- leaving FTX with a balance sheet full of huge Bitcoin liabilities.

In that scenario one could go back through the transaction records and unwind some of these magic bean trades and make FTX less insolvent, but they'd still be insolvent because of the real assets that were withdrawn by parties that only brought magic beans into the picture, as well as FTX's spending, donations, bills for their designer amphetamines and cleanup services for their orgies, and other "business expenses" typical of their industry.
I think the right way to handle that in a chart like this would be to include the stock comp on both the “funds raised” and “cumulative losses” columns, or neither of the columns.

When you issue stock comp, you are trading dilution for money, just like you are when raising from VCs or doing an IPO. The money is just spent on paying an employee immediately instead of sitting in the corporate treasury for a while.

If you include the spending part of the stock comp as a “loss”, but don’t include the creation of that stock as a “raise”, you end up with these nonsensical results.
Fwiw Budibase has drag and drop now (released a couple of weeks ago)
apparatus is first/second as a past participle. I suppose it could be used as a substantive, but there is also a fourth declension noun with the same lemma meaning implements, tools, etc.: https://logeion.uchicago.edu/apparatus
I gave you a comprehensive review of all literature related to masks, used on people, to prevent actual illness. You don't like the conclusion of that data (there's little clinical evidence supporting their use), but digging up irrelevant laboratory papers doesn't change it.

The first link here is a lab study that doesn't demonstrate anything of relevance to the question: fit-tested masks, in a laboratory, where the outcome is "virus in the air" doesn't tell you if same masks, in the real world will protect against illness in people.

Second link is more of the same: demonstrating that a mask can filter particles, in an ideal setting, does not tell you anything about what actually happens in the real world. For that, you need clinical evidence (which I've already shown you is weak).

Medical science is filled with stories of things that work in theory, but don't work in practice. Literally every drug that failed a clinical trial (i.e. >99% of all drugs tested) worked in the lab. You must do controlled tests on real people to see what really works.

> the first is in the respected Journal of Infectious Diseases. It passed peer review.

Journal of Infectious Diseases is actually not a great journal, and "peer review" is not a magical talisman that prevents publication of bad research. See also: citing the WHO, the CDC, etc., when you've been shown that the evidence for the recommendations they're making is not robust.
Bill didn't invent the 'information superhighway'. That term was coined by Al Gore in the late 70s. By the early 90s it was a pervasive 'meme' used to obliquely refer to the sum of all the available electronic information services. Its cultural currency and relevancy went to zero once everyone had an instantiation of a computer network they could access be it AOL, MSN, or the wider internet.

Zuck tried to create the Metaverse out of whole cloth. The thesis is just keep doing what we're already doing, wasting time online, but let's add in some augmented reality and VR headsets!
Back in high school this was one of my first introductions to assembly programming, compilers/linkers, and OS design. It sparked my interest in what an operating system could be and was small enough that someone could pick it up and learn about what made the system tick. I recently emailed Mike and thanked him for creating something that put me on the path to my PhD. He's a super cool guy and a true tinker-er at heart. Really great project.
There is a big distance between the unmentioned 0 and your 1.

0.1 - 0.999 - they raised round after round of VC, paying back the previous round with big profits.

1 - they sold the gullible public (which never should have happened - regulators should have prevented the IPO!) on a business model with no real hope of profit.
I think now I can finally write this in public: I didn't take COVID vaccine at all, because for coincidental reasons, my dad ended taking it first. Despite the fact he is already 50+ he had really severe, but thankfully mostly temporary cardiac side effects (mostly, because even months later he needed to go to his cardiologist and change his cardiac-related medicine, because since the vaccine his blood levels changed and he kept having weird symptoms).

Since my dad had his health go so poorly after the vaccine, I decided to not risk it, specially considering my existing conditions.
> Investment banks are not problematic because the customer is the one who decides how much and where their money is getting invested (therefore he knows how much he is risking, and how it is getting risked).

Do... you know what a MMF is? (money market fund)

A MMF is a federally regulated investment product where 1-share equals $1. Investors invest into MMFs because they are "safe", and have a huge amount of federal regulations to almost-guarantee the 1-share == $1 price point. (but not "totally" guarantee). Small levels of risk are acceptable.

Yes, they're offered by investment banks rather than traditional banks. But the "fundamental trust" that 1-share in VMFXX == $1 is extremely deep.

That's why I keep bringing up this comparison. MMFs are allowed to loan out their money and partake in various investment schemes to generate a yield. HOWEVER, there's reporting requirements, there's investment requirements, there's rating requirements, there's transparency, etc. etc.

All of this giant exercise with crytocoins trying to "make a stablecoin", where 1-stablecoin == $1 all the time is just a crazy scheme to recreate MMFs. That's my overall point and viewpoint.
Exactly. They are telling you just how far you can get on that particular strip.
I'm beginning to wonder whether my personal moniker of "signal propagation" is nominatively equivalent to what others call "cache invalidation".

I.e. you cannot by definition have a state change until the signal thereof has traversed a link from A to B. No signal, no change. If you have a cache for one system that delays writes to a backing data store referenced by other systems that are unaware of that cache, then you have necessarily a partition problem.

Every problem in a distributed computing context can generally be reduced to a signal propagation problem.
I wonder how Stripe will do. HN is full of bitter stories.
> By that standard, centralized social networks have utterly failed us as well.

They're not on the same level; moderation of social networks like Twitter/Facebook can be considered insufficient, but it exists. Contrast to the very low barriers (if any) to send spam emails, where the filter is, ironically, in the hands of centralized services like Gmail.
People who get their insurance through their employer also typically have no idea how much their insurance premium costs because the average employer pays 70-80% of the actual monthly premium and what gets deducted from your paycheck every month is just the remainder.
The biggest difference between Twitter and every one of Musk's successful companies is that his typical ventures absolutely depend on US federal largesse to survive. Unless Twitter can start selling carbon credits or secure some bloated federal contracts, there is no chance in hell that Twitter is going to be in the black any time soon.
Is anyone requiring boosters for work, study or travel? Not to my knowledge.
Is someone a conspiracy theorist if they conjecture about conspiracies or because they conspire with others to promote a theory?
NYC residents complain about ‘ugly’ LinkNYC 5G poles
Like for normal OSS you'll end up using a few massive projects which get maintained regularly and then write custom for everything else
Before straight up quiting, I'd suggest you make an attempt to renegotiate your current circumstances. First, figure out what you need to make it worth it. More money? Less hours? No on-call? More learning? Make a list. Then, schedule a 1:1 with your manager and respectfully layout your request. Don't get too specific on the why. Simply that for you to do your best work, and for your best personal health, you need to adjust the working expectations going forward. Ask them for their support affecting the change. If they say no, you can still quit. And if they say yes, then congrats you've just managed upwards successfully. Even if you fail, its a great skill to build and practice that will serve you in many roles to come. Good luck.
Can't tell if you are being earnest but as someone who majored in CS at a HYPSM, I can tell you there is literally no chance that this occured.

I know kids who definitely got in because of parents money, but it certainly did not impact their grading.
> I wouldn’t personalize your resume for any company

No one wants to read a multi-page resume, so you have to leave things out. Some of the things you normally leave out might be super-relevant for a particular role, due to the industry or business domain.
> By not having sex (where a guy cums inside them) if they don't want a baby.

Do we want more sex ? Yes

Do we want less babies ? Yes

Both are doable

Women don’t need the guy to cum inside for pleasure - that’s the only thing that leads to babies.

Guys have total control here:

- pull out

- wear a condom (or two)

Ejaculation is what, 5-10 seconds of pleasure - you are going to create a baby for that ?

Seems the juice is not worth the squeeze here

Edit: formatting
Thanks for repeating the last sentence of my post in your own words :-)