skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of good advice and insights in this thread. You have good reason for feeling this way, and all of the paths people have suggested - ways to move on and stay in tech; how to leave tech entirely; how to make it a hobby instead of a job; or some other middle ground - are valid ways to address this problem.

But, I may suggest an additional option: do something about it. Build a business that eschews VC culture, or become a VC who doesn't fit in among their blood-sucking peers. Run for office, and use those resources to address these problems. Teach other how to avoid these mistakes. You may have found your big problem to solve - put that engineering intellect towards deliberately, systematically solving the problems which burned you. That problem-solving attitude you learned for writing programs can be applied to other problems, too.

This is the most difficult solution to your feelings, and no one would fault you for taking any of the other paths suggested in this thread. But, if you're up for it, you could make a real impact and I think you would find it very rewarding.
Love reading stuff like this, thank you.
There is not a single app using this API in "approved" state, let alone active use. The API is kept very simple, its implementation has just entered a beta stage, and the Bluetooth tech it uses is almost a decade old already. And the entire idea of contact tracing via BT has been discussed for months already by several teams worldwide and already been implemented a few times in various ways, so it's not exactly new either.

But don't worry, just go on with your demonstrative "critical thinking"...
> Plus the UK govt slogan right now is literally "protect the NHS", the existing Conservative party opposition to the NHS is basically gone now, hopefully for good.

One does not follow from the other. Slogans substitute for competency and funding. The opposition is both ideological and directly financially motivated, so I expect the fragmentary privatization to continue.

Watch out for a "now we must pay for coronavirus" user surcharge appearing ...
"I don't like the use case" is different than "useless."
Gretchen Wants to Dance
Dancing on Facebook live for the first time Gretchen breaks it down!!!
Apple still has me as a customer, when it comes to work solutions. I have to use windows at home for gaming, no way around it.

MacOS vs Windows 10 is a MUCH lesser difference than MacOS vs Windows 8 and below. If Apple doesn't put more focus into their computers over the next 5 years the tide may truly turn.

Also before someone mentions Linux, I really love linux. I used linux out of NEED in college but I find myself maintaining it too much for it to be worth it vs MacOS when it comes to work. I have access to linux servers for running most of my code anyway so perhaps I'm a special user.
"Stay Clam and Work on Your Social Credit."
Self-Publish, don't write for a Publisher (2016)
You seem to agree with Schneier! I'm with you, the whole premise is utterly useless. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/me_on_covad-1...
I think increasingly, NASA (and by extension Boeing) needs to worry about SpaceX doing this without them; which I'm sure would be majorly embarrassing. It will sure make for some really awkward political debate about budgets in the next years.

Starship is being designed for Mars trips. Landing on the moon should be well within it's design parameters and could probably be considered as a nice stepping stone for actually getting to Mars. Not to say it's going to be easy but it involves the kind of problem solving they are in any case doing and it seems they have a plan and a vehicle that looks like it is getting closer to working as advertised with every prototype they do (every 6 or so weeks).

It's also intended to be reusable, mass produced, and cheap to operate and reuse. And to top off the list of arguments, Elon Musk likes to pull stunts like this.
I read through this hoping to find how many more. Article does not describe in general. It has specific locations reporting the existence of deaths but not comparative. Not a criticism, just trying to save folks looking for that info some time.
Easy and rocket engineering don't really go together. I imagine it will still be a challenge.
At least a couple of this year's winners have been previously discussed on HN:

via Seattle Times:

- How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19421612

- Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19887177

And via ProPublica:

- Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094762

- Navy’s flawed technology set the USS John McCain up for disaster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21844963

Both were awarded the prize in National Reporting (it's not typical for 2 different projects to get the same award the same year): https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/209
Why not just say, "loud music," then? I'm not questioning the validity of your experience, just what about that aspect of it made it feel pertinent to communicate.
hn can't stand anything that's the least bit human (one of the blogpost authors shares a name with a famous footballer). have an upvote.
Yes forinti, it is true, I agree.
BetterTouchTool can remove the “esc” (or any key) entirely but I don’t think there is a normal macOS way to do it.
We haven't dodged that bullet in our current strategy. And the more data we get, the more it looks like we haven't protected them, honestly.

I'll note some of the first cases in WA included a high school student that had not been traveling. I cannot square that, how contagious this is, and the idea that it wasn't widely in that school.

I think herd immunity is silly at the holistic level. At a cohort level, though, it could work reasonable. Consider, at this point we could start rotations of health workers that have the antibodies.

I have said it before, but I will stress again I am just a random internet poster. Much of why I am posting this is to get challenged on it.
> Why do people realistically expect a company to not stretch things as far as legally possible?

What I expect people to do, what the standards I hold people to are often different.

I expect Amazon to push things as far as they are able. I strongly dislike them because of it. My standards of acceptable conduct are above "barely legal" conduct. My expectations are below legal conduct.

I also can blame two entities for this outcome. The law and the courts are awful for allowing this to stand as the settled law on the matter. I blame them for the situation. Amazon is also awful for pushing the law to this point and taking advantage of it. I blame them for the situation, too.
Whoever goes to Vegas, doesn't stay in Vegas.
Can you point me to a good resource on this? I work 100% in the data layer right now, but the idea of being able to create an easy frontend (assuming I learn react) would be wonderful.
Bluetooth is only really an option for Apple, not any iOS developer. Slightly different for Google, where Android lets background apps use Bluetooth. So no country has tried to use bluetooth in their apps. Other than South Korea it sounded like contract tracing had been abandoned.
add in kj too and you can just press both keys at the same time and it will work like it was just one key press. the added benefit is that it's basically a no-op from the standpoint of vim too just in case you were already in normal mode.
Or have an auditable edit history.
Not sure about Android, but if you're on iOS you have the choice to disable "full location access". In case it's needed to run certain feature in the app, you can choose the "Allow while using" option.

I do that will all the apps that require location access: local food delivery, cab services, vehicle rental and what not.
Calling Vegas a "global city" is a bit of a stretch. It's more like a weird theme park surrounded by a whole lot of suburban sprawl. NYC is something like 17x more dense.
Relevant xkcd
Stop spreading FUD. Governments have had access to your location and associates for decades via the mobile phone network.

I've worked at a telco where we were analysing customer's behaviours and almost everyone follows a pattern at some point e.g. going from home, via public transport to work. The resolution isn't high but over time you build up enough samples to accurately determine exactly where they live, work etc.
"Not to fail in an ad hominem"

You mean TO fail in an ad hominem.
MY 6 month old mac is loosing the ink off the letters, at this point I can barely read "A". My 2015 model they keyboard is still in perfect shape. ALSO one of the things I hate about this new keyboard is its SUPER noisy on voice calls.
Yep - agreed. It's "pick your poison". No matter what tech stack you select, migration away from it is a may be a consideration. (Whether it is a JavaScript framework, PHP to python, C++ to Go, or one DB engine to another.)

If being able to easily switch technology stacks is important to your business success, then you need to optimize for that. That's not the case for me.
Perform a Scrooge McDuck impersonation!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchirico/things-you-didnt-kno...
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https://www.backblaze.com/blog/supercharged-data-migration-w...
Oh that worked - thank you!
NYC resident. I had two back-to-back sinus/chest infections in Late December/Early Jan. Worst illnesses I've had in years. Spent almost a month at home. I was healthy for all of four or five days in between.

Coincidentally, I got sick after several of my coworkers/close friends returned from trips to China.
"200 hours of brutal psychological experimentation"

This is a conspiracy theory and a myth.
The page simply says- " (Moved into contention by the Board.) " - But does not state any reason.
Some virologists suggest that the common cold corona viruses that are endemic, might have been deadly when novel, and caused similar pandemics, but mutated to something less dangerous over time.
Well, yes, it did not come back. But it also took a tiny fraction of Apollo development costs.

I think I read an article that described that humans were given tasks that would normally be given to computers just to keep them occupied. For some task it was just convenient as humans were already on board. Some tasks were given so that astronauts were in control of their lives, otherwise they could just as well be performed from the ground.

If you think about it, there is only 2s round trip time for signal from Earth to Moon. If the only thing astronauts do is sit in the cockpit, flip switches, type commands and maybe handle some kind of steering, the same thing could just as well be performed from Earth. There could of course be possibility for communication disruption but at the same time, with no actual people on board, less fallout from possible problems.
Star Wars vs. Fandom: Pleasing a Fanbase
Somewhere I read that USB-C's cable design was informed by Apple's experience with thee lightning connector. In particular, one of the changes is that the lightning connector has the springs on the hardware side, which means that if the springs break, you have a major headache. USB-C puts the springs in the connector, so if the springs break, you just buy a new cable. That seems like a pretty big improvement, to me.
I think the next big revolution in political thinking will be the debate over the question of whether money is amoral. If I spend a dollar by giving it to someone, what does that enable them to do? What behaviors does that encourage and reinforce?

I think a lot of people would say that at some level money is moral (don't pay terrorist organizations or render services for them) but that distinction blurs as we get closer to mundane, real-life concerns like spending money at Amazon, Wal-Mart, or Whole Foods. I think it gets blurry because of desensitization and the need for folks to feel like they're not screwing over others during the normal course of their life. But the fact is that capital enables behaviors in a capitalist economic system, so allocating the capital you have control over is necessarily a moral act.
The World Without Engineers
Right, because the federal minimum wage is calibrated to be low enough that it doesn't make much difference.

In Texas, where the state minimum wage is the federal minimum wage, there are still only about 3% of hourly workers earning minimum wage or less.
x = 9/10 + 9/10^2 + 9/10^3 ... 9/10^inf
x = 9/10 + (9/10 + 9/10^2 + 9/10^3 ... 9/10^(inf-1))/10

This is exactly the issue I was referring to. You're assuming the sequence stops "at infinity" but infinity is not a concrete number of steps, it's the absence of any end condition. Subtracting one step from "no end condition" is nonsense. The sequence (0.999… - 0.9)×10 does not end earlier than 0.999…; these are exactly the same sequence, repeating 9s without end. The difference between them is zero in every digit, with no trailing 1.
> If search engine does its job well

This is the problem of blogspam. There are plenty of "popular" blogs that are good at SEO and produce little to no good content.
Yes, this is more or less correct. You should absolutely read Kaczynski's two books as well, "Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution."
Ok, then it's great for crime, and nothing else.
My issue with desktop/laptop Linux has always been the quality of the GUI-based software.

While I appreciate that people put in tons of time and effort to make these things available for free, I’d rather pay for something better, and on Linux I usually can’t.

As an example, our dev machines at the office run Linux, and it’s a great platform for the majority of the work we do. But I have to keep a Windows VM around for Office, because I can’t trust that LibreOffice isn’t going to completely mangle a file that I need to send to a client.
This is dangerously incorrect. Based on the level of authentication the reader is able to establish (this is likely only basic authentication), you can read the person's photo and other PII, and at higher authentication levels you can read out their biometrics.

Good luck rotating your fingerprints.
I’m sure I have had sliders mishave like that, too. Mostly I just don’t want a slider in the first place; I prefer feeling for the volume up/down keys and tweaking the volume bit by bit, sometimes using modifier keys for extra precision. It is incredibly easy to input “slightly louder” in the old way. It is unnecessarily hard to input “slightly louder” with a wonky touch slider. And, at times I have blown up the speaker by touching it the wrong way.
You can't let work be your whole life or it's going to eat you up. Everyone should read how things are done at Joel's company. Joel spolsky knows how to create a responsible work environment that is sustainable that won't burn out engineers. Here is his key advice: 20 hours of your work week you spend on your SE studies + medition/rest/yoga + administrative stuff + meetings. the other 20 hours is on coding. If you're doing more than 40 hours per week, your not sustainable, and you need to do something to change that. Working at a start up is no excuse, not enough runway is no excuse. The only time you should be working more than 40 hours a week is if you own the freakin company or at least 30% of it.
So, probably, flu?
I have never seen someone dismiss the ideas behind cryptocurrency or the failings of modern banking as blindingly as this post. Your criticisms are a tautology - any defense put against it will be disarmed by your pre-rejection of anarchism, decentralization, applied cryptographic research, or real-world improvements to banking and the exchange of currency.

Some of your assertions could even be correct (who invented it, problems with architecture, energy consumption) and you would still be out of line with the wholesale dismissal of all its concepts.
Estimates for the most recent common ancestor point to mid January for France [0]. Of course these numbers could be wrong. But I suspect the level of surveillance of genomes allows for bioinformaticians to keep a close eye on what the virus is doing in a big picture evolution sense. They do note that while most samples are of `A2` strain virus (only meaningful at genotype level, not at phenotype) there were some samples from different genotype branches. Maybe their analysis finds the date for a later introduction of the virus which is different from the potential cryptic transmission occuring in late Dec?

0. http://virological.org/t/early-phylodynamics-analysis-of-the...
I disagree with that analogy. Palantir isn’t getting them more data. It’s helping them use it more effectively. The organizations already have all the data recorded.

If you don’t like the data that organizations record, I’m right there with you, but demonizing the tools that allow them to access data more effectively is an absurd stance to take. Their system also does things like add an immutable audit log, or enforce requirements on how data can be accessed.

Working with law enforcement, before Palantir there was nothing preventing an officer from looking up their ex husband or wife, or celebrities, or anyone at random. With it, there’s an audit trail of every search, and most of them need a case number as justification. Even then, certain searches would automatically get flagged for review.

We can go back to giving people direct and unaudited SQL access if you’d like, but I’d prefer some more accountability, even if the downside is organizations being able to use data _they already have_ more effectively.
Contention here means as a contender for the prize. See the second meaning here: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/contention

Moved by the board means that the board nominated it; not submitted by the author / publisher.
I wish there was of some sort of association or union for people in the Software industry. While we are typically much better treated than basically every single other type of worker out there, we lack the assurance of protection when it comes to challenging our employers. In a country where your healthcare, your retirement and possibly your immigration status are tied to your employment, how can one feel confident that sticking to their convictions like you did will not cost them and their family a cost so great that they cannot bear it.
I would like for Software and more generally tech workers of all trade to be able to say NO or ENOUGH, when working for a company that steals tips, coerces workers into unfavorable situation or plainly disrespects human rights. I dream of a world where workers can rely on something having their back when making the right decision.
In fact, my company wants to spare the expenses on Oracle. This is the main reason for migrating.
We'll see how it works out.
You are not the first one to point out postgre's optimizer. Is it really that bad?
Things could not fit into my CV
few chance of a false positive (another virus that match with the small sequence tested), but it could be cross contamination of samples.
I don't believe the parent was expressing surprise at this unethical behavior, they were instead pointing out one way the grandparent's example isn't quite equivalent to the situation the OP provided.
The subject of one winning story (Governor Bevin) apparently knew that his pardons were Pulitzer-worthy before:

https://twitter.com/joesonka/status/1257389461429784583?s=19
> here are plenty of other problems such as character names and plotlines being overly literal.

The character names seemed cheesy at first but I get the impression many of them were selected for their mnemonic worth. You don't need to look up where Alex Weatherstone is or where to find Jake Wind-- their names suggest they're at the weather station and wind farm. The Southlake guy is at South Lake City. Heartman is at the heart-shaped lake. Etc.

It's not even unrealistic either. Ever met anybody surnamed Smith? Shumacher? Ericsson? Literal surnames used to be used to identify peoples' roles in the community.
> Use it for ad-blocking in your home network and to finally browse the web, watch videos etc. without annoying ads.

It doesn't really do this as well as a browser adblocker, YouTube ads for example can't effectively be blocked with pihole
> My remaining fantasy is to encounter a software manager who is familiar with Deming's work and has thought about how to apply it to software management.

Am familiar and in my experience TQM is just as cargo-cult as Six Sigma, Waterfall, Agile, etc etc. You get these highly-stylized idealist models, often which have books and courses, then the consultants... Ugh. IDK - all of this crap is noise to me. I found Deming's work super thick, and honestly I'm probably too much of a simpleton to really "get it"... =|

In contrast, my personal commandments are near-100% inspired from the two lists:

* Tom Sach's "10 Bullets" (how to work)

* Joel Spolsky's "The Joel Test" (how to run an effective software company)
See the big "Thank you" note on the landing page; also GitHub sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/mholt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSgi2deRivc

> At around 30% CPU load (installation of OS updates), the fan is clearly audible and we are already above 40 dB(A), which is hard to understand considering the low performance level.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-new-2020-MacBook-Air-Core-...
Not sure if this would be helpful for you but Los Angeles Public Health has a list of outbreaks at nursing homes in Los Angeles

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/locations...
No it isn't. They were stress experiments and the goal was to humiliate him to see what his limits were and they're on the record.

The (often claimed) part of the story that's conspiracy theory is that the experiments are tied to MKULTRA, which I didn't claim at all, because there's no evidence of that.

If anything's a conspiracy theory, it's that the entirety of your comment history on Hacker News, spanning 2 years is to post solely on the topic of the Unabomber, and that you do the same thing on Reddit.
I haven’t read most of the pieces awarded here, and I’m sure they’re all excellent. That being said, I want to call your attention to the winner for "Feature Writing", and recommend you to read it. Taub’s produced a heartbreaking, empathetic, and incredible piece, that tilted my perspective on the US government's handling of 9/11, and how the government and big (dis-)organizations work in general.

Given his source material, it would have been easy (and justified) to construct the narrative into a tirade against the CIA. Instead, Taub takes a rather empathetic and detached frame of reference, and the result is a monument to the human toll of ruthlessly-executed ignorance. None of the people (victims or perpetrators) seem to fully understand their absurd roles: their actions driven by jumpy supervisors and acquaintances, who in turn are driven by a mix of fear, ideology and separation from "ground".

And once the veil of ignorance is lifted, there are reputations and legacies to protect, bureaucratic boxes that "cannot" be unchecked. There's no undoing what's set in motion, because "undo" implies reflection and the admission of wrongdoing, which is something that we really struggle with as a society.

It's a tragedy you see play out everywhere, and this is a particularly poignant and tragic case, beautifully presented. If it isn't a case study already, it ought to be one.

(https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-da...)
Passports are confiscated if you misbehave at a sports match? My God.
Git and GitHub 101
That systemd file was def. a community effort.

Glad to hear Caddy is working for you!
Personally I don't care. I already have a Dell XPS running Ubuntu and I never use the touch screen even though it has one. I just think the non-hacker marketplace has come to expect all screens to be touchable.