skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in it as a self-taught engineer mostly for the easy money, but honestly I am finding that I don't really thrive any more. I managed to get myself into this industry and four years later I'm a senior software engineer making decent buck. However, it really isn't satisfying at all. I feel like I'm only in it because this is the easiest six figure job in the world and I'm just in it for the health insurance.

I used to be a business consultant and made a career pivot because I got burned out from working 60-80 hours a week and flying 100k+ miles each year. I loved all the projects I worked on, and many of them were very large scope (50m to 300m+ USD) with tremendous impact. I got to work with people in the senior leadership positions at multi billion dollar multinational corporations, and we were understanding their problems and coming up with solutions. It was so much freaking fun.

I barely feel that at my current work, where I'm just working on a CRUD app lol. It is so boring. I don't really care anymore about code juggling, because anyone can figure it out if they have a little dose of motivation. At first it was fun to be a "problem solver", but not like this.

I'm not really that interested in becoming a specialist. I look around at work at some of my colleagues who have years of experience in their specific subset of work, and they only know and care about that thing. These are highly qualified experienced people, but I really don't want to be like that. I like to get a low-level understanding of things I am personally passionate about, and I love learning so I try to get a high to mid level understanding of everything else. I'll fuck with dev ops, database performance, product strategy, marketing, sales, mobile app dev, whatever else that I find interesting.

Being a software engineer at a larger company does not satisfy me one bit, and it really sucks when you realize you're only in it because it is easy money.

I'm working on my own ideas now, and I'm learning as much as I can during this COVID remote time to make it on my own.
> It is the same one.

No, it isn't. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are not the same drug.
I think the most fascinating thing, to me, is that transitioning from CEO of RadioShack to med student in your 40s means you _must_ have a humble, down to Earth ego.
This fellow went to a 3 year med school that doesn’t care too much about your prerequisites as long as you have a degree. It’s 3 because they don’t really do summers off.

Although he did a full 5yr EM residency, in Canada you can work EM with a 2 year FP residency and another year as an FP specializing in EM.

Sooo, 10 at the most, but could be done in 6.
And the effects are still there today: most French wines are grafted onto roots of resistant American varieties as otherwise the more would still kill them today.

This might mean much less olive diversity.
https://github.com/search?q=faggot

And taking this to its logical conclusion

https://github.com/search?q=nigger

(And "kudos", I guess, to https://github.com/Zveu/NiggerFaggot for managing to pop up in both)

If using a naughty word is indeed a ToS violation, GitHub is rather arbitrary in its enforcement thereof. Like, is a Microsoft-owned corporation and the hub for the vast majority of FOSS development nowadays really unable to run its own search function and detect blatant racial and orientational slurs? Or maybe they banned their own profanity filter, lol
I'm a lawyer, but talented paralegals (typically just a college degree) can do very well. Especially ones who can master ediscovery - the production of documents stored electronically.
This is what an oligarchy looks like.
I don't think this program actually solved the 3,200 limit you mentioned, not sure though.
That doesn't correspond to my experience at all. Where did you find that situation?

I imagine it might be different in secondary school education, but at the university level, I find that no one really cares what I do, as long as the students don't complain. I always redesign the curriculum to suit my tastes and interests, and I've never gotten any pushback from admin.

Basically, the department assigns me classes to teach, and after that I'm on my own. Once a semester a senior faculty member observes my lecture, mostly to make sure that I haven't shown up drunk. The only politics I'm exposed to is on the hiring committee.
If you're currently a vi user, I'd recommend spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org/) to soften the learning curve. It comes batteries included (as opposed to a stock emacs install which requires a _lot_ of customization) and uses evil mode (vi keybindings) by default. You can expose yourself to more and more of the emacs way slowly.

Also emacs is largely self-documenting. Learn the keys for querying documentation first thing. You can search for current keybindings, what a given function _does_, etc all live while you're using it.
What's "significant amount of testing"? In Santa Clara country, for example, 16585 tests have been done[1], that's less than 1% of the population. I know from personal experience of several people that it's next to impossible to get tested if you don't have very severe symptoms. Positivity rate is 10.8% - over people which are sick enough to get tested.

> Given a seeding of cases in mid-to-late January, even without social distancing measures, it would be unlikely to have 10% of the population infected yet

This sounds like circular logic - how we know it indeed started in January and not before? How do we know how many had it asymptomatically if we didn't test 99% of the population? We're making assumption based on knowledge gathered by select sample of 1% chosen by severity of symptoms - how can we make conclusion about how it works in the rest of the population and what's the dynamics there?

[1] https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx
> It really bothers me how hard both citizens and officials seem to be wanting Chloroquine to fail

No-one wants it to fail. However, right now there's no reason to think that it is useful, and the sooner there's a definitive answer either way the better. Certainly, no-one should be taking it outside trials right now, and the ambiguity (and unreasonable hope stoked by high-profile idiots) is causing people to take it, often without medical supervision. This will kill people.
That would probably be better, but isn't happening. I think these landlords should have planned ahead and had six months of emergency funds saved up, just like McDonald's employees are supposed to.
𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐒 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲
I am ready to leave.

18 years experience. My Current job the tech lead is a diva, doesn't listen to anyone else and just add more and more to our enormous codbase. There are now 3 devs. The other two just basically clean up behind him as he builds technical debt. Trying to discuss is likely to end up in an argument.

I have had a could of technical test recently and failed them both. Today I was given a number of reasons, for example was missing test x,y,z, when the spec said if you were pushed for time, write down the test you would do (which I did - along side that I actually provided the most complex test to implement, to check the timing of the cache refresh). I was advised I should have provided mocks (which would have taken ages to set up for example). They preferred a REST API to the HTML that I gave as output despite the specs asking for a "page". A couple of whitespace errors that made pylint complain. I hard coded some URLS rather than make them configurable (it's a test, not a production application) and didn't provide a setup.py (which was never asked for). Am I expected to be a mind reader?
"It should only take you two or three hours"

Before that was a computer science fundamentals quiz for an hour and a half where I had forgotten thing from a couple of decades ago. How to avoid deadlocks in Java (I haven't done threading in years, I said I would need to reads up on it again) and what happens when hash tables have a collision. Again, couldn't remember off the top of me head as it was 20 years ago.

Does no on value the art of trying to keep code simple and maintainable?
How do I demonstrate to prospective employers that I am good at this and stop wasting my time with nonsense described above?
f/0.7 manual focus and no aperture.

That thing must be a royal PITA to focus...
Are any large(r) scale trials incorporating Azithromycin as well?

The "most promising" study I saw early on was this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102549/ - which seemed to suggest that the combo eliminated the viral load in 3-5 days.

The only followup study I've found was this one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20054551v... - that urged caution with the combo because of a possibility of increased heart failure.

Obviously, that's a very small study with
Agreed. People so rarely bring passion to the job. In fact, they often react with hostility when encountering someone who is genuinely passionate about software (to my mind, because they feel it reflects back on them poorly).

I think the industry is totally wrong about the type of activity that programming is. It's a creative endeavor, not a mechanical one. The best people are the ones who derive joy from it, not just a paycheck.
> Where have you heard that landlords are forgiving rent?

I assume he's confusing it with evictions being put on hold.

> You still owe all of that rent.

Indeed.
Furthermore, the studies on chloroquine started at least a month before the US president ever mentioned hydroxycholoroquine in mid March. E.g. this one from early Feb: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0

So the research is not only being conducted because of the US president's promotion.
My wife is a resident.

The salaries look nice when they're windowed to a single year. Career earnings, it's good but not that great compared to tech - especially when you consider the hours and stress.

* 4 years of med school - $0 income - $40k+ of tuition

* 3+ years of residency, minimum (4+ for most fields, even more for surgery) - $60k/year

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If my wife had gone straight into tech, we'd have been better off financially until our 50's. 30 years is a long, long time to break even.
So you're confident that the Supreme Court will overturn the 5th Circuit's decision to throw it out? The Supreme Court will be hearing the case this autumn.

And you must be confident that Trump will lose, since the 5-4 majority that saved Obamacare last time will not survive a few more Republican appointments.
It helps that he mentioned it just a couple of days before some studies (more controlled than what have been done before) finished and posted their non-results in preprint.

I mean... When scientists start discovering that a drug probably doesn't work, it's natural that people change their opinion from "I hope this works" to "it probably doesn't work".
You need to also take into account the false positive too (1% iirc). Under your priors a group of 100,000 people will have 1000 infected and 99,000 not infected. Specifically:

99,0000.09 = 8,910 false positives
99,0000.91 = 90,090 true negatives
1,0000.99 = 990 true positive
1,0000.01 = 10 false negative

So going through your plan will isolate 8,910 + 990 = 9900 people (9.9% of the population), catching 990 actual cases and letting loose 10 cases.

In other words we can isolate 10% of the population and reduce the number of carriers by 990:10 ratio. This seems more effective than the current 100% isolation. All we need is the tests now.
Glitch launches paid upgraded service
Thanks for the detailed response. In that regard, it is like Kong. What is the difference between Kong vs Gloo? Kong is based on nginx which is rock solid.
Ask HN: What is the hardest thing you've done as a programmer?
I would guess the number of doctors making that range would be at least an order of magnitude more common than tech workers but I could be wrong.

Additionally, the bay area in the US is essentially the only place in the world you can make that kind of money in tech.
At the moment I'm not using any auto calendaring app, but sharing my availability through external interactions. Happy to help further if you'd like. kkotak at gmail dot com.
The IRS 'Get My Payment' coronavirus stimulus site was built in Drupal 8
Poorer people spend all their money - they have no choice…
Simplified Chinese is standardized in the sense that there's a standards document specifying which characters should be used. I'm pretty sure there's something similar for Japanese simplifications.
Yes, different arms will have data available at different times. The prophylaxis one might take longer than the others, but for the ones involving sick people, once they hit their target enrollment (which probably won't take long at all), those people will either get better or they won't.
I wonder if this means one can now obtain a grant from Ministry of Culture to cultivate this officially recognised tradition/heritage activity. Imagine a career not stemming from what one learned creating demoes, but in actual creating demoes. Even if it was lousy money, just the concept is mind boggling.

Plus, there would be no shortage of potential donors, from broadly speaking the same field, that would be happy to sponsor this culturally important organisation (aka demo group).

Never would have crossed my mind typing my hands off on good old C64...
> According to Donald Trump

We need to invent a drug that increases people's ability to detect irony.
I found the iPhone 5 the slipperiest phone I’ve ever held. The texture seems designed to minimise friction between the phone and your hand, and the square edges make sure as little as possible of the back is in contact with it too!
If you happen to be male (and I'd wager 95% of people who are tall enough to complain about airline seats are), then you have a distinct and inherent advantage when it comes to sexual attraction.

This applies whether you're homosexual, heterosexual, or both.

Oh, and statistically you make more money as well. But you're less comfortable on airplanes, and Asian minibuses, so it's impossible to know if it's a net benefit or not...
I have the same sentiment. I held tight onto my Xperia X Compact until the battery gave way. Looked around and found literally no replacement for it, out of all manufacturers on the planet. In the end decided to go for XZ2 Compact which was already outdated at the purchase date.

I haven't seen any new phone in that class since mid-2018.
I totally agree, writing scrapers doesn't necessarily make one a talented engineer. You may often find it easier to write a scrapers than going through the API documentation or series of authentication procedures.
Now there's a name I've not heard in a long long time...
I've been gaming on a Mac for years. There are many Windows-only games, but I don't really miss that operating system. Between native Mac ports and the Nintendo Switch/3DS, my gaming needs are well covered. When there's something I really badly want to try on Windows, I fire up CrossOver, Parallels, or Boot Camp, in that order.

Right now the GPU in my 2019 16" MBP (5300M) seems to be good enough for everything I want to play, and the 5500M is said to be even better. Of course the problem remains optimization for macOS which most ported games don't have.

Apple Arcade is actually a ray of hope, even for core gamers. There's some good stuff on it, give it a try.

Right now I'm going to remove anything Riot-related I find on my macOS installation.
Thanks for your answer! The country is Brazil.
Payoneer - fails to meet my needs because there's no direct way to deposit through a bank, even it's my own bank account. Ask someone else to deposit (by the billing service) every time I need is inviable. And it charges 1-3% per deposit by the costumer. So, I would end up paying that per deposit. Also, it’s too hacky.
Dukascopy – I’m researching this one, you give the best answer so far. Allow non-residents to open an account, some fees nonexistent (monthly, annually or inactivity), doesn’t seem to be bureaucratic, the support seems good (even one for my native language is available), ship the card to my country, the bank seems really solid. Sounds really good. I’m finishing my review, looking for good and bad experiences of current uses and possible hidden fees. If you have anything to say about this bank, please, let me know too. :)
I made the switch from Arch about a week ago. So far, great experience. I love the fact that my system state is reproducible and if I use version control on my dotfiles, I basically have a full backup of the look and feel of my workstation. VFIO with GPU passthrough works flawlessly. Setting up FDE with LUKS during and after the install was a breeze as well. Really enjoyed the whole experience.

Being able to switch between wildly different possible system configurations like xorg+i3 and wayland+sway by executing a few commands and having version control while doing so is incredible.

However one thing I'm struggling with now is "overlays". Simply trying to get "electrum" to install but nixpkgs has 3.3.8, I am looking to build 4.0.0a from HEAD of master. This should be simple to do with something like overlaying this portion from file electrum/default.nix [0]

src = fetchurl {
url = "https://download.electrum.org/${version}/Electrum-${version}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "1g00cj1pmckd4xis8r032wmraiv3vd3zc803hnyxa2bnhj8z3bg2";
};

with something like:

fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "spesmilo";
repo = "electrum";
sha256 = "LATESTHASH";
};

But for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do this overlay stuff. ( In fact I'd appreciate any help on this otherwise at this point I'm even jokingly considering an Arch container :) )

Python, NodeJS and Ruby development might also be slightly frustrating if you are used to installing things globally.

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
China to ban online gaming, chatting with foreigners outside Great Firewall
You+searched+for+Shoes+-+Reliable+Sprout
No sorry, I didn't mean where to read about how these things are designed (though these are useful and interesting links for that too, thanks!). What I'm asking about is what to follow (blogs, conferences, etc.) to keep up with new developments in the space: new products, experiences with them, reviews of their trade offs in practical use, that kind of thing. But I do appreciate the response!
> do you believe it will still be possible to extend Keycloak using the deployment-scanner?

Even if it wouldn't bundling your keycloak-with-amenities is a 10-minutes job (1. make a pom.xml with keycloak dependency and your stuff 2. mvn package 4. there is no step 3)
Show HN: Goodnight Zoom - Connecting with isolated seniors via remote storytime
and, correct me if i'm wrong, zinc helps

take it with a grain of salt but
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenko-669-coronavirus-pa...
Key drivers of good messaging in a time of crisis: expertise, empathy and timing
They don't ask. If they did ask, I'd say that tech employers are designed intentionally to subsume as much of your life as they can. If you want to have your own life, you need to stake a claim.

More controversially, I'd say that any labor relationship is necessarily exploitative, and doing any work beyond the minimum means that you are giving more than you're getting and thus being abused. But that's not advice for having a prosperous career. :)
While we've all been isolated, my grandparents have started to read stories to my younger cousins via videochat, which has been a great way for my grandparents to feel connected and loved. It's also nice for my cousins (4-7 years old) to interact with their grandparents, even if from afar.

Many of our seniors are especially isolated right now, so I wanted to setup a way for all of us to connect with them via remote storytime. Whether you are a parent with young kids, a senior, or anyone in between, this is a chance for us all to connect. Once you sign up, we'll reach out about finding schedules that work for both sides. We also link to open source books if you don't have any. Would love to hear your feedback!
the hospital probably was giving him a low-fat, low-salt, maybe even low-calorie diet especially for his situation.
I've always been a fan of Beej's Guide to Network Programming
https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
It's still 3 years of zero pay and $40k+ in tuition and 3+ years of shit pay.
> Go talk to a generics drug manufacturer in India yourself.

You mean the country that, more than a month ago, restricted exports of many drugs and chemicals used to make drugs (the so-called Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients). Your local end of the pharmaceutical supply chain can't deliver drugs that can't be made anymore.
This is not a typical drug trial.

Typical trials are designed to have a large enough sample size that they will be able to detect any effect big enough to be clinically important.

Here, they just went with the sample size they had available (understandably), which was so small that only a very large effect could be clearly established. It is completely wrong to interpret the lack of a statistically significant effect with this small sample size as showing that the drug doesn't work.

Consider the result regarding transfer to ICU or death:

20.2% patients in the HCQ group were transferred to the ICU
or died within 7 days vs 22.1% in the no-HCQ group (16 vs 21
events, relative risk [RR] 0.91, 95% CI 0.47-1.80)

The best estimate is for 9% less risk from using the drug, with the possibility of the drug cutting the risk by more than half not being excluded in the 95% confidence interval. Of course, the possibility that the drug actually makes things worse is also not excluded, but this can certainly not be characterized as proving that the drug doesn't work.
Thank you, yeah at large scale I could see how that might help.
Just learn to code... Oh wait.
It will show up as something like /A/U/X/DOT/H
It doesn’t seem hard to argue that purchasing stocks or expensive real estate is not as beneficial for the economy as thousands of people spending the same amount in their local economies.
It would be same as Remdesivir, nitric oxide, and favipiravir. They all have clinical trials going on and anecdotal evidence of efficacy . Most people have never heard of any of these treatments. Like most drug trials, they will probably show a limited or no improvement over the control group. We can get our hopes up, but we should be planning that there will be no effective and/or viable treatment deployed before a vaccine is released.
Show HN: An attempt to spot Covid-19 outbreaks using wearable devices
'When you look in the mirror' you see the 'story you tell' about yourself.

If you want to know what you really like - check your actual news browsing habits.

If you did that you might note you might click a lot of bait, and read things that micro-trigger you, and the local or boring news just doesn't get the attention.

Obviously, some more than others.

But certainly, the death of 'local news' at the very least is due to the fact we don't care about local stuff. Not only this, but we are also materially less engaged at the local level than at any time in history.
Keycloak works great, but for home something really simple like dex could also be viable.
Perhaps off topic: Has anyone figured out how to root their car and intercept the data uploads, replacing video with an entertaining animated gif and realistic fake telemetry data? I suppose that might void a warranty.
Yeah. But the bankruptcy of the ecosystems make me sad.
Lovingly, this is a phone built from scraps of previous models. If we get USB-C on an iPhone, it will be on the iPhone +1 or +2.