skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i agree with you that the oncall is not ideal. it is also widespread in the industry. so what’s the point to complain about something that is an essential part of the job? (advertised or not, if you don’t want to do it you will have to look for another job)

i also think there is a huge difference between being oncall and having to respond in case something breaks vs mandatory death marches all day, every day.
Data flow languages are close to my heart, I've implemented several, particularly in the context of data binding. They are a declarative way of describing a computation, and the computation can be analyzed to enable things like multi-threading, caching, incremental & lazy evaluation.

These properties come from the constructed data flow graph, which can be analyzed by an execution environment and potentially prepared by a compiler. They don't come from visual vs symbolic representation. They come from modelling a computation as data flow.
A gym isnt something where I want to consume the service of 10+ companies in a day. More traditional television subscriptions (even streaming) are still bundle based sets of channels from multiple providers.
Did everyone forget what happened to these unsavory characters? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer#Site_hosting...
> the other thing is, without proper price controls (rent, basic food stuffs, transportation etc) business will look at it as a chance to jack up prices because "free money"

I don't buy this argument. Businesses that do this would be leaving money on the table: namely the poor people that were outside of their total addressable market. Whereas before those folks would never have been able to provide revenue, with more cash in their pockets, they are now potential consumers. Increasing prices just maintains the same TAM for no real reason — you can make more revenue by serving the newly minted consumers.

The only good/service for which this breaks down is housing, for which there is a true supply scarcity — but even that ceases to be true in a regime with proper zoning reform (like Japan).
> The practical consequences are the same as well.

Is YouTube sending people to "re-education camps" now?

If a private platform kicks you out, you can host your stuff elsewhere. If a state censors you, it can use lethal force to silence you. Pretty big difference.
I mean if it's a company internal app...
Oh wow, ticalc.org still has the same header and color scheme as it did in 2001 (or 2002?), I used to check this site constantly in high school to download new games (including a mind-blowing Link's Awakening port demo which sadly never was finished)

Check it out, those menu buttons at the top use javascript to simulate CSS `:hover` because at the time IE6 didn't support it for non-link elements!

<th onmouseover="mOvr(this);" onmouseout="mOut(this);" onclick="mClk(this);" style="cursor: default; background-color: rgb(255, 238, 204);">
That's not the point of the comment above. The point is that he absolutely CAN afford it.
I agree wholeheartedly, I've had the pleasure to work remotely for the majority of my career and it has been nothing but bliss to be able to focus on the living part of life and not just the working part of it. There's nothing I enjoy more than having deep technical talks with very smart people, but I'm not really interested in living within that tech bubble 100% of the time.

How many times can you have the same conversation with someone complaining about <outdated software library> and being underpaid at <six figure salary>? It's amazing to me how few people in this industry have exposure to the world of experiences outside of the pinhole purview of techworld concerns. Going remote means you actually get to choose your day to day friends, experiences, social life, and culture instead of having them forced upon you! Craft your life the way you want to live it.
I hear DC/VA/MD with the contractor industrial complex is a good example
There is an endless supply of wide eyed new grads looking to prove themselves at a big 5
As an IC, I didn't read it that way. It seemed like a pretty clear case of "you are presenting an IC's perspective, allow me to present a manager's perspective". Two views of the same issue. It didn't seem to assign more value to one than the other.
Yes, thanks, there it is:

"Dr Karol Sikora is Chief of the WHO Programme on Cancer Control" as per the magazine from "September--October 1998"

1) obviously not equivalent to "ex director at the WHO"

2) obviously more than 20 years ago

3) and "on cancer control", not on epidemiology

still not anything to allow him to misrepresent his relation to Imperial College as late as 2020 (!) or to give a credence to his current epidemiological policy views.
It is always authoritarian, yes. People do have the right to be wrong and make mistakes, that's part of an indivials personal sovereignty

That said, having tens of thousands die bringing innocent people with them to the grave is a matter of public policy and the very reason why governments are not direct democracies but republics instead

I am happy that this video was removed, not because I trust YouTube, but because I don't want to see people continue to die needlessly. Governments have other tools to provide economic sustenance to those that require it. And no, I won't go to the cinema, a mall or a restaurant simply "because they are open" as I don't have the brain of a child to risk myself and my family for it
You cannot compare EU and US salaries easily.

The protection of employees, heath care system, pension, holidays, the social safety net and cost of living, to name of few are too different.

In general you need to multiply your EU salary x2 to get a comparable US salary.
> If you want to support sites in Brave without earning tokens through ads then you’ll have to use your own money.

I think this is their monetization path that allows you to opt out of ad supported internet.
I totally agree.

I was super productive in the first month of WFH, but that spike is going away, and I think a large part of it is meeting fatigue. The projects we are working on require coordinating with lots of devs within our team and then devs and PMs on other teams. That means lots of meetings here and there to make sure we're all on the same page.

There are days where I have 30 min or 1 hr breaks between meetings, and I just cannot get productive in that short window, knowing I have another meeting coming up (which sometimes I need to prep for).

My team does have lunches together remotely, but having to be tied to the computer the whole day, I often want to drop out of those and just be outside in the sun.

But to your point about burnout, I find that that's the other extreme as well. In those afternoons or days that I don't have meetings, there's a sense that, okay, I have to go hard now because everyone else is working hard. While at the office, you'd have occasionally breaks and conversations in the hall when you were getting up for coffee and you could see people's rhythms. At home, I don't see that, so my natural, irrational belief is everyone must be working hard, so I should too.
This seems like a cool product, something that we could use.

However our main ERP system doesn't have an API, so I've been building a custom scraper that feeds into a Django app, which allows custom tooling around our data.

This would have been perfect if it allowed for building scrapers to feed the custom db.
Additionally, much of that "precious" karma he has is from gaming reddit. He will (re)post something and if it doesn't gain traction in a short amount of time, he'll delete it and repost it. He does this over and over until the post takes off. In the past, it would be fun to watch his profile and see posts jump from "posted 30 min ago" to "posted just now" over and over again.
The 7% was a month ago, ie that was when the tests took place.

If you believe the disease is rampant in Sweden, it’ll be much higher now. If it’s not, then the hard lockdowns elsewhere were superfluous.
>you're getting a much newer & better condition house at that ratio compared to California real estate

You can renovate and get a newer and better condition house. You can't get SoCal weather and natural features at any price. Hence the high prices.
I think it's better to understand the culture rather than frame it as West vs East, democracy vs CCP, etc.

China has experienced grinding poverty for over a century, and have its work ethic to thank for pulling it out. 996 is enabled because of that history, rather than being a control plot. Even school kids have that kind of schedule.

Chinese people are very focused on the lower tiers of Maslow's hierarchy, and survival of the family is somewhat on the line if one of your only grandchildren is female and isn't married at 30. That's her life you say? Equally the parents can feel like all their sacrifices were for naught.

It's getting a bit tangential but the pattern in all societies is that women have the choice in mates and men have to be more willing to look abroad. So any racist sentiments would judge women harsher.

Regarding your other points, China has been much better about including minorities in its country than the West. It has furthered environmental controls vs. Trump reversing them, and most of the greening in the last decade occurred in China (and India). It has sensible universal healthcare and supported its citizens during Covid-19, unlike the US which passed legislation that supports big business, letting small ones fail and charging its own citizens for evacuation flights.

Anyway, the point is that once we understand the history we need not paint China as the malevolent entity that is common in media.
My biggest resistance to subscribing to some publications is the cognitive load of managing more subscriptions. Adding payment info, keeping it updated, remembering to remove it if I'm not using it... That "feels" very expensive to me. Especially with the "we'll automatically renew your subscription" tactic that is so popular now.

I really like Patreon for supporting YouTube content. I think my YouTube subscription is supposed to fund that too, but there are 5ish that I add in Patreon. The down side is that the Patreon-only content is kind of annoying to find, so mostly I just use Patreon to support the content they make on YouTube.
If only there was a book that explained linear algebra in this way.
>In France few workers drop off the "Industrial" economy , they buy a Farm and live of "BI" and their own agriculture and go back to the city to buy commodities ( Gas , Cosmetic etc... ), it's common in Italy and Spain as well IIRC.

Maybe this would actually be a better implementation. Rather than pouring resources into deciding who qualifies for BI you could just establish "havens" for people who cannot or will not work within the current system. The only qualification then is to move to that haven after which you will be provided with a place to live, an optional job, food, clothing, etc. but limited to only what's necessary. Essentially establishing small scale communes within the larger body of a capitalist nation. It could provide an escape for people who don't want to partake in the rat race and just want to exist quietly and pursue their own interests while living spartan lifestyles. You could even go the other way and provide other special zones for unfettered capitalism with 0 taxes and no publicly funded institutions. As long as people can choose where they want to live and can leave when it no longer suits them I don't see why this couldn't work to some degree.
> Another example is naturopathy, which seeks to improve patients' health mostly through the adoption of an optimal diet and nutrition program. Not much is more biologically plausible than this, but, hey, Wikipedia knows best.

That description sounds a bit biased itself. You're describing a dietician, but the Naturopathy umbrella (and practicioners) also covers unproven herbal remedies, homeopathy, acupuncture, belief in 'vital energy,' etc.
Ad hominem attacks seem to be a disproportionate response to pointing out your inconsistency.
Oh that's very much true

But as stated this is not a freedom of speech issue as YouTube is not the government and nobody is entitled to their private platform
Susan Wojcicki has publicly stated over a month ago that the current policy is to remove content that is not in line with WHO's positions.

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-will-ban-anything-ag...
> but having whistleblowers land in jail MULTIPLE times should raise eyebrows for such a young news organization.

Or it shows how difficult security is when trying to stay anonymous when your opposition is a highly motivated spy agency with an incredible amount of power and access. Especially when you worked from them and your trail of evidence is in their highly monitored networks/offices (Winner for example used the office printer to print out classified docs).

Although I'm not defending the practices of these two journalists.
I get the sarcasm, but I do not get the point you are trying to make. Care to elaborate?
No, and it's not precisely the argument he was making. He was arguing for manned exploration generally, and large scale space projects generally. I was abbreviating, poorly as you point out.
As someone whose friends are mostly blue collar workers who were scolded for being concerned that "poor people from other places will steal our jobs", I'm finding all of these posts to be delightful.
> talk to anyone who's actively had to hire in the past six months and it's a complete slog of unqualified candidates.

That's always been the case. When I did interviews at Netflix, people who had resumes that said "Senior Engineer" for five years couldn't do fizzbuzz in their favorite language.

Yes, if enough really talented people all get together and demand higher wages, they might stay high. And some stellar performers will demand high wages regardless of where they are.

But the truth of it is that most people are not stellar performers. They're good engineers who can get work done. And they will demand median salaries.

Median salaries will probably shift towards an equilibrium below SF salaries and above {pick your favorite small town in middle America}.
Like grep but for code: syntax-aware semantic code pattern for many languages
> However, as far as I can see, nothing has changed about the scroll, nor even about our technological ability to interrogate it - rather, someone simply attempted to look closer than had been done so before.

I believe one common usage of "reveal" is that an autostereogram ("Magic Eye" picture) reveals a 3D image when you focus on it correctly. Nothing about the picture changes; nothing about your eyes change, either, really. It's just "looking closer." But the 3D object was obscure, and now it's been... revealed. Revealed by what? By whom? Not too clear.

I guess, in the Dead-Sea-Scroll-fragments case, it actually is clear: it was revealed by a microscope.
So what formats do they accept when they want a video? Theora?
The expansion was, according to the linked article, largely into live events. I disagree with characterizing that as a "change in the mission" -- the Atlantic always hosted some live events, and they continued publishing the magazine, so it's not as if they pivoted into becoming something they weren't.

But the point I was trying to get at is that if they won't be able to hold live events at all for a year or more to come and may take years past that to get back up to their original level, what does "supporting the employees" hired for that group mean? If we're talking super-generous severance packages, we're in agreement -- but if we're talking about paying them to keep doing a job in support of a business the company can no longer perform, which was the implication I got from the thread, I'd pretty hesitant to sign on.

I suppose I'm pushing back a bit at the notion that because there's a billionaire benefactor involved, that immediately changes the ethics of the situation. If Powell Jobs hadn't invested in them, they hadn't expanded, and they still had to do layoffs like so many media companies have in the last few months have, wouldn't their obligations be essentially the same? It seems to me they would -- yet it also seems to me we probably wouldn't be having this argument in that scenario.

(To be clear, I'm not saying "pity the billionaires" as much as saying "should billionaires exist" seems to me to be a somewhat orthogonal argument.)
Giant 3D wave sweeps over Seoul's Gangnam District
They don't have the financial literacy skills to manage it properly.

I'm not trying to be unreasonably judgemental, and I don't mean things like bond rates or yield curves. Things like making sure you have enough dollars at the end of the month to make a rent payment. Making sure the check gets written so it actually happens. Keeping track of automated withdrawals and ensuring the number stays above zero with the timing of all of them.

This is not trivial at all for a huge chunk of the population that is served by social welfare programs. You can't just expect it to work out giving them cash instead.
The key point is balancing the rights when they are in conflict.

There's obviously more weight put on the freedom of expression side of the argument when it concerns journalistic endeavours than, say, a grandmother wanting to post pictures of her kids.
i thought the used a blink tag and set the interval to 2000 years
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As an extension developer, I hate to say it, but you're absolutely right to feel that way. I've had people offer to pay me to put tracking or buy an extension outright, and my extensions aren't even that popular; I can only imagine what emails developers of extensions with 100k+ users get.

If anyone from Firefox is reading these, I'd love a way to link an extension to a Github repository with a particular hash, and have users be able to verify that the code in the extension actually matches what's in the repo. Currently, even if an extension "lives" on GitHub, there's no way to know that what's in the extension library matches what's on Github.
Why does it have to be more productive? It reduces the insane practice of commuting which saves time and energy. Even if it's slightly less productive (which I don't think is true), it would still be better overall. Productivity is not the be all and end all. Happiness and sustainability is what we should be aiming for.
Timezones make this hard, rather than anything else.

Have you considered Stripe? They have been hiring remote and have people based out of Europe.
Yeah. Lets just throw all the elderly and weak and people with pre-existing conditions under the bus and be done with it. Compassion is overrated.
Now the only problem left is to find an open-source-friendly FPGA manufacturer.
I have to teach an entire lesson about downloading a file, finding it in the downloads folder, and unzipping it.

Apple did a good job abstracting away the file system.
Wikipedia is just an encyclopedia. If you want to be a doctor go to a medical school.
If you think that earth is flat or that homeopathy is a medicine - then you are the problem, not wikipedia.

> vaccine articles are examples

:D
Again - it is not the Wikipedia is just your ignorance
Checkout https://github.com/yevhen/Streamstone
Had similar needs, it was a good place to start. It’s just the persistence part of it though, did the messaging part using actors.
They probably know infrared never works anyway
WFH only works in theory when the economy is booming. In a recession WFH employees are going to the be first ones on the chopping block.
Nudge theory agrees with you, and as such they would maybe not ban them outright, but just like cigarettes packs have a warning stating exactly as you said, high sugar, high fructose foods are a health hazard before the video plays
Don't you have towns and villages? Like a sub-urban area but only a few miles across and then you have shops and community in the middle within a walkable distance? I live in a town and I work from home but there's a coffee shop, a sandwich bar, a pub, a little club, a theatre, a gym, and I meet people from the community here. I'm married but I'm sure people date here as well. I thought 'small town America' was a big part of the culture?
>I think people tend to underestimate how most publishers don't rely on subscription revenue to survive. All the money is in advertising,

Interestingly enough, NYT now gets 2 times the money from subscription as it gets from advertising.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/new-york-times-c...
They don't get paid more to live farther from work.
Unlike most other European countries, Sweden is not increasing its sovereign debt load by 15+% of GDP to keep the citizenry afloat. That’ll feel a lot more important than Covid in 5 years.
Any extension that asks for that sadly a complete no for me. That is way too broad a permission for something as sensitive as the contents of every site I browse. I’ve found recently it means pretty much all extensions are unusable for me.
> but he continued to do it. Why do you think that is? I suspect it was because he had control over something and found that too appealing to let go of.

Why do people volunteer on anything online, like open source projects even? Sometimes people like a thing, want to keep it good, and feel that it's less likely to happen without them. Leaving is condemning the thing to possibly get worse and decay through less contribution, and interrupts their social connections formed through it and their established routine that gives the satisfaction of contributing. It's not something easily abandoned after investing years in.
In what way should the magnanimity of a disclosure affect it's coverage? What does it mean for a disclosure to be generous?
This should be the disclaimer put on every discussion of the GDPR on here, to be honest
> TI-84 calculators have not seen an update in ages

The last update for the TI-84 Plus CE came out about 11 months ago. Its not recent, but it wasn't ages ago.

https://education.ti.com/en/software/search/ti-84-plus-ce
You really don't need much land to get by. Alaskans who are self-sustainable usually have small greenhouses they only farm in during the summer months. In a place like California where you can grow things year round, a quarter acre plot would be plenty for a whole family. Thanks to marijuana farms, indoor hydroponics equipment can be had for cheap. If you have a space to setup, you can grow fresh vegetables indoor year round.
Yep, that's the point of FPGAs. The easiest way to see is to synthesize it in an FPGA tool (e.g. Vivado) which you can probably do for free. Different FPGAs have different hardware resources, but for any small designs you can probably fit them on a cheap FPGA.