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Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab
Not on this story. Those other folks are too busy configuring stuff, arguing about curl website/script.sh | sh, and building microservices to feel burnt out yet.
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I don't know how well this will go down in HN, but here's my take/secret:

Corporations and business aren't programming/tech/ science. Startups aren't tech. University and academics isn't science. Faculties aren't science. Peer review isn't science. Venture capitalists aren't tech. Silicon valley isn't tech/ science. "The web" isn't tech.

Let's try another analogy: modern art and art dealerships and art galleries aren't art. Art is taking a photo you like, or painting something you want to paint or building something you want to build. Working at it because you want it and you think it will be beautiful or purposeful: once you're trying to make business and money and find out what's popular and build reputation and sell you tend to stop doing art and start doing something else.

So to bring it back to tech and science.

Science is just the process of systematically trying to use experimentation, empiricism and reasoning to find out what you don't know. That's it! The rest is some combination of empty shells, dressing and propaganda.

Flashing LEDs isn't tech.

Tech is just tools used for some purpose, be it practical or enjoyment. Nothing more. A hammer is tech. A rock is tech. A string can be tech.

I program in R and python and get paid for it these days. But I try to not bring it home, because it's not tech, and it's not science and it's not programming. When I'm programming I'm usually in emacs and lisp. I do photography to produce things I think are beautiful. I cook to provide tasty and healthy and enjoyable experiences for my family (and a scientific mindset can be quite helpful there). I apply science just continuously in life. And I hack together things in tech because I enjoy it and to make my life easier: why just this weekend I made our living room into a video conference centre for our corona virus quarantine: my phone is the webcam and streams wirelessly to the computer, my computer streams wireless display to my TV, my TV routes sound back out through the AV unit, and the room is lit with customisable hue lighting. All done for a few bucks of software and it'll never sell a unit and I don't care, because money and selling isn't tech.
If you scroll up, the question was "Aren't executives mostly paid in stock and bonus?"
Never-mind that passports tend to be expensive (relatively speaking, for the average person), many countries don’t issue passports for a variety of reasons: the UK will refuse to issue - or confiscate - passports of football hooligans specifically - or suspected terror-tourists, I’m sure other democracies have similar policies, let alone more authoritarian regimes.
Google News for sure, but non-mainstream YouTube sources (so called independent creators) are collectively more popular than BBC or newspapers. Again, at least in my age group.
I'm curious why you believe this type of behavior is only found in "disadvantaged" workers. In my brief career, I've encountered several white collar workers drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis on the job, and I even stumbled across a lawyer doing cocaine in a bathroom. I've seen desk workers get canned for bringing knives to work and leaving guns in their car. I've known office workers who have stolen both time and money from our employer and who have harassed and assaulted our coworkers. I even saw someone get escorted out of the building for downloading and printing off porn from the internet. I've seen all of these from white collar workers, and I've even perpetrated some of these acts myself! So, I'm having a really hard time swallowing the proposition that "hard living" people have some monopoly on being bad employees.
> how easy is it to forge passport identities?

Very easy for governments.
Talk about the worst miswording of an essay title, and/or mischaracterization of the situation.

> Extremely disillusioned with non-tech folks dominating and causing misery in every aspect of technological pursuits

FTFY
The idea is to stop trying to make it easier to share and others to use and just write something that works for you.

Kinda like the idea for personal. Why spend so much effort to structure projects so others can use when chances are they won't or you don't care if they do. Work is governed by different realities.
Of course it's bad, it's run by the intersection of incompetent charlatans and the lawful-evil surveillance state.
People will say you're burned out, and they're not wrong... but this doesn't address the substance of the issue. To be an engineer or a scientist today means tolerating a lot of the things you've mentioned. I would amend your list to engineers that had a passion for EE and value human life (who doesn't?) but took a job at Raytheon. The things you identify are valid issues. If you're worn so thin you can't ignore them, it has the effect of ruining your entire relationship with the art. The thing to remember is that this is not the fundamental nature of science or engineering, but the nature of practicing these things today under the framework in which we live. From there, maybe you can find places where you can practice your art which are less prone to these issues. You may have to compromise on career stability or pay. People are rarely paid well to do fun, low stress things. Maybe the best thing to do is stay out of tech professionally, and slowly ease back into programming as a hobby by working on small projects. I'm not sure. All I know is that with burnout it's somewhat challenging to untoast toast, but you will recover eventually. It's just always a bit slower than one would hope, but it does happen.

Another angle perhaps is working on clarifying to yourself the ways in which you got hurt, so programming may feel less painful. I found that learning about politics and history-- specifically the history of engineering-- really helped me sort out my feelings. It also gives a sense of clarity of where the rotten parts come from and maybe how to avoid them.
We're talking about all deaths here.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps clearly shows when all deaths started to grow .
Wow, if there was one good takeaway from this whole COVID-19 mess, getting rid of open office layouts would be grand.

Or at least having a hybrid of small pods of teams and a few larger meeting areas for less frequent, larger meetings. When not working remote.
My local paper and in fact every paper in California mixes a smattering of worthwhile reporting into non-stop stupidity. Every morning the editors of the LA Times wake up and think of a new way to trash every one of my core beliefs, so it doesn't matter to me that the LA Times published one (1) worthwhile piece of art criticism in 2019. That's certainly not enough to make me overlook the fact that the LA Times has been running a large-scale real estate scam for over 100 years, considering that housing is the most important issue to me.

I subscribe to CalMatters and Berkeleyside and Boom California. Anyone who considers themselves a good local journalist needs to write for those outlets if they want my dollar. I'm not here to enrich the shareholders of legacy newspapers.

ETA: There actually is one good newspaper in California: the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Wouldn't want to miss mentioning America's last newspaper.
Sure. It's maybe a bit unsettling to see a global corporate monopoly telling countries what they're allowed to do, but in this case it's the right thing.
Since the author appears to be in the comments, I'll ask here:

What benefits does this provide for the common Nginx usage (reverse proxy to a number of Python/etc application servers)? I see automatic HTTPS and HTTP/2. Am I missing something else notable?
Unfortunately this is a very unpopular opinion nowadays.
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> I lost many friends.

They weren't ever your friends. People at work rarely transcend beyond co-workers and into actual friendship. If all you do together is work and around-work activities, they probably aren't your friends. You're effectively people locked in a cage together that happen to get along.

If you get together on days you don't work together then they might actually be your friend. If they've met your non-work friends they might be your friend. If they attend your birthday party where they don't work with 95% of people there they might be your friend.

If you don't invite them to those things you don't actually consider them a friend. If you hold any power over someone (e.g. CTO-employee relationships) and they do this stuff they still might not be your friend. But if they don't do any of this stuff they definitely, 100% are not your friend.

Also, one of the best ways to fuck up a friendship is to hire them. You need to be sure you can properly separate business and friendship if you ever do this.
I've been there. Burned out so hard I thought I had brain damage. You can't unsee what you have seen, you have to integrate and accept it. Depressing as it is to know how sick the industry is and how many sociopaths there are lurking you have to let go. You have to accept it, trying to unsee it will just make it worse.

It takes time because you will start to see it in other places too. I used to get triggered by TV programs or reading the news but these days Its just one of many thoughts. I've come to accept all the implications and let them unfold over time as my mind kept returning, ruminating. Eventually you will come to terms with it.

It's important to allow time to process as well as not spending all your time ruminating. Balance is the key. Keep living the best life you can but go easy on yourself.

The upside of this whole thing is you are wiser now. As time goes on and you process everything more you will become wiser still. It's tempting to become cynical and it's ok if you are for a while but the world is still full of wonder and hope and beauty, seek it out. There are still good people even in the darkest of times.
In a way remote work removes a lot of the "kiss my butt for rewards" crap. Funny how that fleshes out.
So far, yes. APEX in this case is used for data visualization and dashboards, mostly using Plotly.js.

And, the oracle database is the data store for clean/structured data. They use python notebooks and all the other python based goodies for their work - the DB is just where they get their data. (And, sometimes it makes sense to do data processing with the DB). We could end up using Spark at some point - we're not precluded from that.
Will be interesting to see if they can ban Indian govt. app[1] which needs full location access(clarified)[3]. A lot of people like this app(including me) but also know government does not have good track record in securing private data.

Previously Apple were made to bend their rules when India threatened to ban Apple devices if they don't allow TRAI Do Not Disturb app in 2018.[2]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nic.goi.aarogy...

[2] https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/30/apple-approves-india-dnd-app/

[3] https://paste.gg/p/anonymous/b7c95d3967514e78a652840b5b666d5...
Plus learning to recognize toxic environments and avoid them.

There's a lot of investors and companies that no one should ever work with because of this. Learning to recognize them is a tricky skill and some people are better off not playing the game at all.
I think your argument is based off of a slippery slope. Your assuming future groups of people aren't being realistic or wont ask for things that are moral.
I'm in a similar boat, really enjoy using my older iPad pro. I'm more interested in a desktop for a daily driver that I can also remote into from the iPad. Still need Apple hardware because of my work. The 5K retina iMacs are awfully tempting.
Given that Palantir is involved, I'd not touch it with a long stick

https://tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/palantir-covid19-d...
Is there a list of those sponsors somewhere?
Accept the world for what is vs. what you want it to be.

As child you revolted against reality by escaping into sci-fi. No judgement here.

I find that sci-fi, especially good sci-fi is more digestible form of philosophy.

As you aged and achieved comfort and "success" the world has revealed to be unfair. You always knew it to be the case but now you see it. The lies. The callous nature. The straight up self surviving people that seem to be self-satisfied without even a hint of guilt you get for accidentally swapping a fly.

You have guilt for not being as happy as you should be given how lucky you are despite all the things that didn't quite work out the way you wanted them to. And yet, wake up every day you must. Do something. You have companionship, yet another privilege you can feel guilty for not appreciating it enough.

So how to fix this? Stop expecting the world to be something it is not. Stop hoping for humanity. This is not a sad thought, but once you accept reality. Then and only then can you figure "okay, now what". What problems do I want to solve, which people do I want to help.

You realize you can't help everyone. So focus. Appreciate the gratitude you get by serving others. Could be family or your community, but big nameless though important causes won't feed your soul.

Check out some stuff on The Myth of Sisyphus. This may help you in your journey. What we fear to enslave us is the thing that may actual free us. The obligations of life provides the purpose that freedom never give.
Does anyone else find this a little ironic given Google is a company that has been logging peoples location to a very fine detail for years
And in the winter, 80F+ degrees, making sure to weaken the already weak systems people have in winter and ensuring that people get sick. The one job like that, I quit after two weeks, but not before getting the worst flu I've ever had as an adult. I'm sure this will work out wonderfully this winter with coronavirus.

Frankly, companies asking employees that can wfh to return before a vaccine or cure exists are nothing short of committing murder. I doubt anyone will stop them though. I've never had a job I was willing to die for and I'm certain I never will. Better fired on unemployment than dead.
It is and it isn't. This thread is predicated on an IFR that is a flat 5 or so percent on the population.

We all acknowledge that it is deadly. Because it is. And you are right that this is in all the data. But the narrative is still holistic. We are locking down everyone to try and kill the virus.

Yes, it could work. But so could strict access to most nursing homes. Wouldn't be cheap, but could have even been more effective. Reasoning that we could reach herd immunity style buffer between the populations.

(Note that I flat reject just letting people die. I am not saying to abandon the older at risk crowd. I'm saying take pointed measures to explicitly protect them.)
Thank you. I was missing more than a few.
There are more people in large organizations now, but the problems of greedy financiers and goofy bureaucratic behaviors go back thousands of years. I'm sure there is some subset of Dilbert comics that ancient Chinese officials would have found funny.
Hopefully not getting too lost in the pedantry, and I'm absolutely not a Rand supporter (though I had my 16-year old Atlas Shrugged phase where I actually read the whole damn book).

a) You're spot on she didn't want to destroy the govt. She was explicitly a minarchist, and she swapped major arugments and ridicule with the Ancaps of the time (like Murray Rothbard)

b) The communism hate gets floated most, but my read of Atlas Shrugged was that she placed the collectivists at the same evil level as the church, crony capitalists, and postmodernists, to the point of having characters who 1-dimensionally represented each of them (she's literally got a lobbyist character called "Wesley Mouch").

That's why it's always hilarious to me when I see neocon congressfolk saying that Atlas Shrugged is their favorite book: she hated the church as much as the government (and would've likely hated those politicians as well).

Poked around some articles after writing some of this, found this one to be pretty neutral and illustrates my point a little better: https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-paul-ryan-ayn-rand...
> Both. There is no reason why it is one or the other.

Oh, now that's just not true.

Intel fabs were at 90+% capacity (it's why they outsourced a lot of the support chips). You would have to bump an x86 in order to produce an ARM.

This is one of those Innovator's Dilemma moments. Even IF we concede that ARM will eat x86 (and I don't concede that without a lot more evidence), there is no moment where switching from making x86's makes sense until Intel is almost near death.
> That done, remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned.

You are courageous and have taken tremendous sacrifice. Although it is not much a condolence, it makes me happy to hear there are people to stand their ground for well being of others. I do not know the whole situation, but, I can hear it was against your own moral / core values. And I feel you are a great leader for what I believe, you are protecting, those around you. And your leaders have failed which resulted in this outcome.

I wonder how many people have been in similar situation and decided to leave a job (or an excuse, for one). Reminds me of Nasa's launch when there were safety concerns (e.g. "On January 28, 1986, as the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up over the Atlantic Ocean 73 seconds into its flight, Allan McDonald looked on in shock -- despite the fact that the night before, he had refused to sign the launch recommendation over safety concern ..." ) -- as well other situations which may rise from privacy concerns, security concerns, etc, and with pushbacks with "Do you have proof? Have data to support? Is it reproducible? ...). Today, I wonder with COVID-19 if there are pressures to release Test Kits / vaccines to market before it is ready or skipping of any processes necessarily as another example.
Mapping the sequence 'jk' to Esc supercharged vim for me. Faster, but also helps me stay in the flow longer.

Run `:inoremap jk <Esc>` to try it out.
Many refugees have no feasible means of obtaining a passport. Many people are too poor to pay the bribes that would be necessary to get a passport they are nominally entitled to. Others may find it impossible in practice on account of being of the "wrong" ethnic minority.
Nothing wrong with incremental change. But there's no justification it'd work in this context, and be worth the disruption.

And the burden of proof rests on the organizers to prove why this is worthy of prioritization above other problems.

While I like the sentiment and aesthetic of being courteous, I don't see anything demonstrating a binding rule or contract could come out of it. And what's the benefit again? If Amazon followed through, would the flooding and droughts cited in the original post stop?

The problem is - it just seems contradictory to me. I can't put my finger on why. I think supporter's heart is in the right place. But people are struggling a lot in life and this world in various ways, is this really the most optimal way to alleviate suffering?

Why not save the pay check and put it into lobbying, or NGO type stuff to advocate the cause? Or maybe even into studies or stuff more urgent that climate. For climate stuff to work, people in society have to have more harmony / generosity / collectivism universally.

Until people start getting along and addressing universal human needs and fixing those, it's really hard to do cooperative endeavors like this at scale. Just my opinion! :)
I have a private list of every nursing home / retirement center in the United States. I can not share this, but if someone can propose a way to mesh this with other data, looking for a specific finding I could try it.
I downloaded the app and your key is different from your passport. Verifying your passport just adds your key to the list of keys that can vote and get UBI payouts. Your passport confirms its expiration date. After your passport expires, you stop getting UBI.
> The Wuhan "first patient" was admitted Dec. 6, but nobody believes he was "patient zero". Since he likely contracted it Dec. 1, that means there were others with corona in Nov. or before. (Chinese people I've talked to invariably mention Oct. as when they started to hear chatter about corona.)

I think you're confusing Covid with pneumonic plague: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/world/asia/plague-china-p.... There's apparently evidence based on mutation rates that COVID-19 can't be older than late October, and it wouldn't have been detected until mid-late November, which matches official timelines.