skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't understand what the "ruse" is. A "ruse" is an attempt to achieve some ulterior goal, under the guise of something completely different. What ulterior motives are you alleging?

> The effectiveness.

The vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease and death, which was always their primary goal. If you go back and read the vaccine trial procedures on clinicaltrials.gov, you'll see that their "primary endpoint" was prevention of serious disease, and that preventing infection was viewed as the cherry on top - it wasn't the primary endpoint, and the trials weren't designed to test for infection. The fact that the mRNA vaccines protected so well against infection with the original strain was just an added bonus.

> The long term safety (without any such testing).

There was extremely rigorous safety testing. They followed tens of thousands of people for months. The "long term" aspect you're bringing up is unscientific. Based on the modern scientific understanding of the immune system, the types of long-term side-effects that anti-vaxxers posit are not possible, and there is no known example of such a side effect ever occurring with any vaccine. Vaccine side-effects always show up within a few months at most, and there was extensive testing to look for such side-effects.

> The Covid jab !== The Polio jab. Not even close.

You're right, but not in Ruhe way you think. The mRNA CoVID vaccines are far safer than the widely used oral polio vaccine. The alternative, the inactivated polio vaccine, doesn't prevent infection - it only prevents the infection from developing into paralytic disease. With polio, you have the choice between a safe vaccine that doesn't stop the virus from spreading, and a more effective vaccine that has a very small chance of paralyzing you. The polio vaccines are miracles of mid-20th-Century science, but they're old technology that could be (and are being) improved on with modern technology. One of the reasons mRNA vaccines have been deployed during this pandemic is that they are considered to be a much safer technology that many of the older alternatives.

> don't confuse your confidence with liberty

I don't agree with you on the definition of "liberty." I view the "liberty" to not get vaccinated as similar to the "liberty" to not wear a seatbelt or to buy a car without airbags.

> But that ok, just be sure to carry your Covid papers / Covid passport and you'll be safe.

If you travel around the world, you'll find that much more than just CoVID vaccination is required.
It depends. Senior-level people are likely fine, judging by the number of LinkedIn hits I get every week.
And the whole ecosystem gets overwhelmed with greater doubt on the major players.
Which might turn out to be key decisions that save twitter. We will only be able to appreciate these long-term.

Short term, the professional attitude to have is to either continue giving your best while observing the situation, or leave.

It is never alright to, instead, work to sabotage harmony within the company, and it surprises me when people don't seem to understand something so basic.
With the amount of semi-trucks in my area, actually yes, average length of vehicles you encounter on the road is probably close to that.

I just used the term "car length" with entirely too much room for interpretation and am now getting torn apart for it, my mistake. I swear I'm not tailgating people LOL
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I've had the additive cruise control do some fairly hash braking in situations which didn't call for it. One I remember was when passing someone who had pulled into a layby (a rest area just off to the side of the road) and was stopping. Once you grow to expect it it's not really a problem, you just put your foot on the accelerator until you pass something which you know the car might not like.

I've also had it activate in normal driving due to someone else doing something dangerous. I'm pretty sure I was on top of those situations but I'm happy the system had my back even if I didn't need it.
> Its only purpose is to pool risk.

Precisely - there is a rational case for insurance despite your analysis.

The fact that cars have, on average, become heavier lately is at most a cherry-picked second-order effect that is far from sufficient to refute either what I wrote in my previous post, or in my original post in this thread. Despite your analysis, it is plausible, and IMHO extremely likely, that the same forces that have led to the improved situation since Winterbottom v. Wright will continue to improve the situation for pedestrians and other motorists, as they have in the past.
Almost certainly both true that people who invested in bitcoin 2016 or earlier made money and that most people who invested in bitcoin lost money. The most pessimistic numbers I’ve found has the number of bitcoin wallets 10X’d since 2016. And while there isn’t a one to one relationship between wallets and users, I’m sure people who only used exchanges instead of their own wallets in recent bull runs more than make up the difference there.
Elon is creating Twitter MVP again? Small and agile Startup? Or a Reboot?
Russia-based Pushwoosh tricks US Army and others into running its code
It's a dream if you're wanting to develop an app with webapp like functionality. Go beyond that and it just feels like a fight.
Wikipedia expenses were around that in 2011. What significant improvement has Wikipedia had ever since, now that it spends 10x more? There's more content sure, but that's the volunteers work.
Oh I wished searching tabs (%) weren't broken by Mozilla's extension "Firefox Multi-account Containers"
Except that if the mean investment loses money, the place where you expect to lose the least is cash.

e.g. if you are very loss averse, you don't buy lottery tickets at all. You don't just buy the safest ones where you expect to lose the least.
This is such a click-bait title and has nothing to do with scalability.
I'm confused: do you think China would be more likely to take Taiwan if it saw that nexus of economic leverage starting to diffuse?
It's not so easy to turn off the cognitive background processes that are generating the solutions you apply while doing "focused work". I mostly pay attention to the weekly level of total hours and achieved results. It seems a bit silly to think about individual minutes or hours here and there. I probably would not work long with a customer that was more concerned with distribution of minutes and hours than the overall delivered results and total time charged.
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Probably it would require regularly applied criminal charges enforced on company C-suite officers to make any change in behavior likely.

Lately the only cases I know of where the CEO was charged were Ross Ulbricht and Liz Holmes. Notably absent from the list are the officers of Wells Fargo, who were not even fired.
I hadn't seen it. I know a large chunk of HN are very much pro-crypto but I'm still surprised that the top comments are mostly denialist.
Waymo turns its driverless cars into roving weather stations
Question: Are there infinitely many prime numbers?

Answer: To explain, we need to define what a prime number is. A prime number is a number that is divisible only by 1 and itself. For example, 11 is a prime number because it is only divisible by 1 and 11. 11 is not divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10.

The question of whether there are infinitely many prime numbers is an open question. It is not known whether there are infinitely many prime numbers.

The first few prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 7
Yes, I understand how financial contracts work. But like I said in my original comment[1], at the top of this subthread, that provides vital context for the point I'm making, this was big enough to have the potential to cascade, i.e. be such a big loss -- against such a formerly-safe capital buffer -- as to spill over to other financial institutions, bankrupt them, then spill over to their counterparties etc, and eventually to the broader markets that are many degrees removed.

The kind of situation they were worrying about and rushed to prevent in 2008, IOW.

You are correct, in a trivial sense, that maybe the entire market should have just not trusted anyone else, except perhaps under extreme constraints, which would have amounted to almost no financial intermediation and thus almost no financial industry whatsoever. But even the most hardcore "you should have vetted your counterparty" finger-waggers aren't willing to go that far.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608638
I'm willing to give a little leeway with donations. I'd rather have Wikimedia run a surplus or embezzle the money than see Wikipedia having to count every penny. I pay $17 for Netflix and I also donate $17 for Wikipedia every month. My Wikipedia "subscription" is hands down the one I'd keep if money was tight.
I did everything over the phone and REFUSED to come in until we had a firm price negotiated
On a similar note I always found it odd that the 1996 copy of Encarta completely omitted any mention of http on it's article for the internet. I thought it was just the material being a bit old or out of touch. I suppose that was also partly because IE4 wasn't part of the OS yet so "the web" wasn't truly ubiquitous within MS quite yet.
This is true. On one of my routes, I will pass a corner and think "this is where I finished the Lord of the Rings" (the most recent time). My mind now associates places with sections of audiobooks.

So you are not alone. I don't know that I usually remember particular sentences, but I remember the experience of finishing (or hitting an important scene) in books at particular locations.
Oh man, I remember when I went from a 286/12 with 1MB memory to a new motherboard with a 486/33DX and 4MB memory. What a huge leap!
These states are: California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

Edit: I should add that in some of those states, it would still be permitted to record others in public without consent, where there's no reasonable expectation of privacy (e.g. a coffee shop or gas station).
"NYT would ever deliberately print accusations they couldn't prove."

That statement implies a misrepresentation of what I said, and a misunderstanding of what journalists do.

Journalist investigate, source, and provide clarity.

This is one of the biggest frauds in history, it's the job of the NYT to investigate the issue, and show us what's up. If there's likely fraud, they should be spelling that out.

They've already admitted to using deposits to make risky bets at Alameda, which is fraud. There should have been a lot more questions about that alone. Just to start.

Instead, it was a light nothingburger puff piece.

There are better sourced artifacts on Twitter - this very article provides more valuable information that the NYT.

"basically getting SBF to admit he was running a ponzi in an interview - an admission that made absolutely no difference because everyone kind of knew it was all a scam anyway"

To suggest that the people with collectively billions in FTX 'knew it was a ponzi/fraud' and willingly lost all of their money is absurd.
Indeed, there's no reason for 'ch' and 'll' to have been distinct digraphs in Spanish and ñ not to have been 'gn' as in other Romance languages. I'm not familiar with the whys of that.

I didn't know that Hungarian had a similar issue.

> Why should traditions change just because it's a bit more difficult to do things the 'old way'? why do we still bother with capital letters at the beginning of sentences? or speling things with two leters when one wil do, or riting silent leters wen you cant tell the difrens? & i dont think we need apostrofees n e more.

I distinguish typographic and orthographic rules. The non-breaking, thin space before punctuation rule is typographic and outdated (i.e., motivated by outdated typographic technology).

I do want some orthographic rules reformed too, but I'm more interested in the ones that are just hard. In particular I'm interested in collation reform because we do often have to collate multi-language text items but with one collation -this is especially true in databases- so having collations for Latin-script-using languages be similar is rather useful. This is also true given that I'm not going to be switching locales when I switch languages -- I speak, read, and write multiple languages, but I never ever change locales.
Anyone familiar with rewind.ai which seems to be building a product on similar lines?
Elon Musk announces acquaintance of humanity with aliens
I personally like the onetab extension very much. The best tab is no tab. The very notion of "tab management" is wrong. I just wish there were a way to synchronize the page via Firefox sync.
Ahh I’m working on exact same project. I applied to YC with the idea and was told that “nobody wants this” during the interview.

There’s a ton of problems in the space around privacy and UX. But I’m incredibly excited about projects in this space because in modern society we’re basically surrounded by a million unhealthy things designed to tempt us. Logging forces you to “stay honest”. I’ve been shocked already by how many unhealthy habits I underestimated and how many healthy habits I overestimated.

My #1 priority is just to improve my own physical and mental health. Whether there’s a market for this stuff, who knows.

Good luck!
> (my hips would need a day to recover from a 20 km walk).
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> I'm in my mid 50s, so I'd like to believe my age is part of that.

Nah, it's just lack of practice. I turned fifty during my walk across Europe from Dublin to Istanbul. I'm 55 now and can happily cover 30 km every few months.

Try going for an extra ten or twenty minutes on your regular walk, and when that feels good, add another ten or twenty minutes. Keep going until you can knock out 30 km in a day's walk, with a break for lunch. Good luck, and enjoy it!
That's where I am. Sent one trasaction via Paypal business, bank account forbidden and paypal business froze, with no option for me to ever use paypal business again.

I hate paypal
In the US there are people who drive to the emergency room and wait outside in the parking lot to see if they get better or if they really need to go inside. Some of those people have insurance but would pay a deductible.

I don't have data to support this, but I guess that at least 40% of Americans would agree with the statement, "I take cost into consideration when I make a call to emergency services."
MacKenzie Scott donates 2B to 343 organizations
Sure, but saying this is meaningless when we're actually talking about follow distance. Cars are different lengths.

To me, a car length should simply mean the minimum safe _length_ at which to follow the car in front of you.
I bill everything, that I do for a client, on the clients premises, or that I feel like it's work - specifically if the client asks me to attend something. I draw the line when it's my benefit only (e.g. going out with the coworkers for a beer after hours). But beside that: If I don't get a problem I was working on out of my head and research it for 2h at 3 in the morning, I bill it.

I do not sign any contracts, which automatically cut my workday to 8h (because they are illegal in my jurisdiction). If I work more than 8h, I sometimes get into trouble with some tight-assed legal department and I then just shift my hours on the timesheet around, until it fits.

You should not under any circumstances reduce your rate, if you feel like the rate reflects your skill. Instead, explain your rate with your achievements, references, etc. and negotiate the gain/speed/performance your client is getting by hiring you with your higher rate instead of a competitor.

I recommend against daily rates if you are able to zone into work and get serious shit done in 12h-shifts, while other days are just "eh" and you go for a jog after 4h. Usually, everyone notices your 4h-days while ignoring your 12h-days.

If you trust your skills and your ability to define the scope of a project well, consider going into milestone-based payment (never for a whole project!). This might be more lucrative for you in the long run.

If you choose this, think about a timespan you're willing to work without payment and half that timespan - that's the number of days between milestones you'll define. Should you hit a bad client, you'll stop working if payment hasn't gone through for the past milestone for whatever reason and when you're reaching the second milestone - never accept apologies, process delays, "those pesky policies"; you work for payment, everything else is the clients' problem, not yours.
Lucid announces new lower priced sedans
> If you just use cryptocurrency as a currency there's no problem at all.

Apart from the delays in clearing transactions, the high volatility, the absence of legal recourse when things go wrong, the computer security risks, the high complexity and so on.
“Marear” is a verb - to make dizzy or motion-sick. “Marea” is the third-person singular present form of the verb.

“Mitsubishi marea” translated literally from Spanish as a full sentence and not as “make and model of a car “ is “Mitsubishi makes you dizzy”.
Yes, this. If I think it will take 2 days, I say 3 and hand off on day 3. Numbers are just examples.

I get half up front, half on delivery.

Trying to juggle a set of rules for when to run the clock is a distraction.
I'm not from US, but in my experience the tax office is a different agency compared to many others. They are happy if you are "honest taxpayer" so to say. Other agencies have different incentives.
Check out Organic Maps. It's a fork of maps.me and basically the same app without the crypto/monetization
Employees do not have to agree. They can instead leave. The door is right there.

The way these employees were dismissed is pretty humane. They will get severance pay, and end up in a better place than if they just up and left.
If not fossil fuels, what could be driving the carbon hockey stick?
Well, typically people like to see billing for hours used... so...

If you work today: 8 hours billed.

If you work part of the day: part hours billed

If you work overtime: 8 hours + OT hours.

I agree with conductr that this is creative work. If you talk to someone to gather requirements, do meetings, help teammates out, etc, it is all part of the process. If you need to look up stuff that is part of the process.

Just like any engineer, you can't be "on" 24/7 so it is expected that some slack time is cooked into your hours. If your productivity doesn't make sense compared to the hours put in, that's the problem. If you're producing more than enough for your hours, where's the problem?

Anyone nickle-and-diming you on checking that every 15 minutes is accurate is going to be a bad person to work for anyways, or just needs to negotiate less hours.
I dunno about that. I listen to book, podcasts, music... and my mind often wanders. Often I have to go back 10 minutes to pick up the last section I was paying attention to (if I care -- books, yes, podcasts, maybe, music no).
Healthcare in America feels pretty broken. Just two anecdotal examples:

- Prescription drugs are cheaper without insurance at Amazon Pharmacy or Cost Plus Drugs than they are with insurance elsewhere

- My insurance provider is Kaiser Permanente, and the plan I'm on only allows me to see Kaiser-employed doctors. I recently made an appointment for a thing I want to ensure isn't cancerous, and the soonest I could schedule is a full quarter (3 months) away. That feels like a long time; I've known people who went from diagnosis to death from cancer in six months.

Also, is it just me, but doesn't it seem like there's a huge conflict of interest in the insurer employing the only doctors you're allowed to see?

At first blush it seems like innovation in this space would be a good thing, but I'm concerned that whichever tech company manages to disrupt healthcare and/or insurance will do the thing they do, which is charge in with innovation, establish dominance, and then cut services to a bare minimum. The Google Reader of healthcare.

As always, I'm not sure what to do personally other than sign up for it and take advantage of the lower costs and easier access while I can, and hope for the best.
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This is not linked immediately in the twitter thread or in the rfc that I see when I click the link on twitter. The rfc understandably is long, so there's a lot to read and this equity fund is not one of the key focuses of the OP, so I still don't understand why it is being discussed here.

Potential explanation: was the link changed?
Twitter isn’t the government either, and that’s what this whole ordeal is supposedly about. Musk was on the opposite side of your argument when it came to Twitter platform moderation, and now that he’s in charge, it seems it’s just been about his own ego all along.

(Shocking)
Low hanging branches heading up to our house trigger ours when it is breezy out. Super annoying.
Well, that's an odd event, isn't it?
People _just_ don't like my comment, and they downvote it just because.

But as you state, there's nobody countering my comment.

All in all, interesting times. Obviously nobody wants a non-democratic US, but if that happens, I'm going to have the popcorn ready.
Interesting how employees are expected to be "professional" by just putting up with whatever bullshit, but Musk can openly bitch and moan and slate Twitter's employees and the work they've done, and that is somehow okay. Double standards.
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591989554881658880

This is a great way to gain investor confidence!
Are you equating disagreeing on technical decisions with sabotaging harmony? Not being able to disagree with management on a technical decision would be a deal breaker, I do understand disagree and commit but it doesn’t sound like there was any decision to commit to yet, and generally speaking the consequences aren’t losing your job.

Can you tell me more about how you approach technical disagreements?
The objection is not "there aren't $2400/month plans". I'm also on a Platinum exchange plan, also for $2400/month this year. We net out well into the $30k range annually out of pocket, probably $40k with various uncovered items like medical marijuana and compounded medications.

The objection everyone's having is that the $2400/month plans are exceedingly unlikely to refuse a medically necessary hospital stay for myocarditis. People are trying to figure what critical piece of information is being left out there.

> Oh, yes, and don't get me started on the Presidential promise that families would save $2,500 per year, keep their doctors, etc.

Nothing in the ACA changed how doctors pick which insurance networks to honor, but if you switch insurers as part of picking an ACA plan you may have a different network just like you'd have if you did so with a non-ACA plan.

You're highlighting ongoing problems with the American health insurance industry and falsely portraying them as ACA-specific. High-deductible plans were on the rise with insurers before the ACA (https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/snapshots-the-p...). Premiums were going up 5-15% a year before the ACA (https://www.fastcompany.com/40470468/this-scary-chart-shows-...). Doctors were dropping insurers before the ACA. etc. etc. etc.

Again, look at https://www.fastcompany.com/40470468/this-scary-chart-shows-....

1999: a bit over $5k/year in average premiums

2009: about $13k/year in average premiums, the year BEFORE the ACA was passed
Major banks launch 12-week experimental digital dollar pilot with New York Fed
"And not just because my ex-wife is making me look bad."