skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a cautionary tale -- make sure that there is fundamental institutional support for the removal of said garbage. If cleaning up the garbage requires help from someone else within the institution, verify that they can and will help you before you begin.

Source: I volunteered to remove some challenging/delicate garbage without sufficient institutional support. The lost productivity has had a marked impact on both my career and our team's success.
What I've seen is the complaints are largely coming from couples that want to raise kids while both parents work full time jobs. Asking for fewer hours so you can continue that lifestyle is asking your employer and fellow employees to subsidize your second income, not your ability to have and raise children. My coworkers with SAH spouses aren't feeling the burn anywhere near as badly -- it's just an extended summer for them.

I feel a lot of empathy for single parents but those seem to be relatively rare in the field.
There’s no hard line where we need to test for t months, and then we will find out if the vaccine is safe. There is no magic threshold where suddenly we know the answer for sure. It’s more like: the size of the error bars on our estimate of the harm y in quality-adjusted-life-years (QALY) is constrained by some function on the time t, where there is diminishing returns as t increases. It’s always going to be possible that there’s some side-effect that doesn’t show up until t+1 months.

Further, we could build an expression of our estimate z of the total harm caused by the virus (including downstream harms like “deaths of despair” from economic damage). By minimizing y-z over t, we can find out the best time to release the vaccine (maybe to the most at-risk populations first).

I don’t think anyone at the FDA is doing this calculation. I think they are just trying to get y below some threshold, which is probably quite low compared to z. My goal in this conversation is to advocate for the people who will suffer and die because of that gap - and hope there is someone better qualified than me that fills that role in the government helping decide what to do. My fear is that the FDA is a highly conservative institution using processes that aren’t well-adapted to the current epidemic.

To add more color, I think if the vaccine comes out with unexpected side-effects, heads will roll at the FDA. But no heads will roll at the FDA over the many thousands who could have been saved by releasing a vaccine sooner.
Medicare is one of our largest, non-discretionary outlays.
The former. You promote objectively rather than subjectively.

Parents may just need to adjust their own expectations/career trajectories and consider 2020 a "lost year" of sorts. There's always 2021 and beyond to make up for lost time once things are back to normal. Competing against those without families feels like an unwinnable war.
> They are working as much or more. Just not on the same things.

The same can be said about anyone with a hobby though. They are working as much or more. Just not on the same things.
>> I also got into the more nitty-gritty nuances of mysql through with phpmyadmin.

Have to say phpmyadmin is underappreciated. Guess a bit of UI makover can do wonders for it.
Some top of my head suggestions based on our experience:

- Use Proxmox. Even free version can go a long way (because backing up VMs periodically is a good thing and Proxmox can do it fine).

- If you're going to run Linux, run XFCE desktops with X2Go server. X2Go can work almost in any network condition.

- Test PCI forwarding extremely well before taking the plunge. Especially if you're going to virtualize specially designed equipment. If it works, it's magic. If it doesn't then you're in big trouble.

- If the PCI cards will be migrated from older equipment to newer one, test to see whether they work well with spread spectrum. If it doesn't make sure that the server you use allows disabling it.
We have almost 100 years of history to show such concerns are largely not real.

Nobody blamed Honda for the Fast & Furious movies, for example. Nobody blames Chevrolet for lowriders. Nobody blames Ford for these asshats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVyBaX6sCd4

There's vanishingly few examples of modified cars generating mainstream media shitstorms. Appealing to fear is rarely a good justification for stripping rights & freedoms.
It depends.

A CTO is responsible for ensuring that the company is able to deliver what’s needed, and if the current stack has issues, including ok-now-but-won’t-scale issues, then they should switch it out for one that positions the company for success.

OTOH, it could be motivated by a range of unjustifiable things: personal familiarity, resume building, blind trend following, asserting of authority, etc.

In most cases, the engineering staff can tell whether the motivation is good or not.
A pandemic is exactly how life is. Do you know of anything that happened outside of your timeline-bubble?

There is and will always be the risk that those safety nets go away. Society changes. Family members die. Childcare is expensive. Hospitals get overwhelmed or fail.
If you're just learning, I guess it doesn't really matter. Just don't become one of those people who thinks Python is great because it's the only language they know.
Session musicians are also called “consultants”
I like this idea, constructing the community is the difficult part which this approach would seem to partly solve for.
Why exactly? I myself have been researching the options that exist to write open source software but at the same time prevent industrial leeches from benefiting from it (aka. avoiding Amazon playing an Elasticsearch move EDIT - or was it Mongo?).

So far I've stumbled upon using dual AGPL + commercial for those who don't like the copyleft; using something like Mongo's SSPL; MariaDB's BSL; and now, Commons Clause.

On the surface (I didn't yet study carefully the intricacies of all options) all these look to me as a great way to publish code and contribute to the whole of our common knowledge, while at the same time being able to maybe make a living from it, something for which it's important to prevent some bad actors from bundling it and profiting from it on your behalf. Otherwise that code wouldn't really exist at all to start with...

I might write an Ask HN becaude this topic is complex.
Whilst there are no doubt downsides to working remotely, and I certainly miss seeing the people I work with face to face, there is literally zero substance to this piece.

I mean even Reed Hastings, the subject of the article, fails to enumerate the downsides he sees to remote working. Without hard - and frankly much wider ranging - evidence this is just one man's opinion and it's not a particularly interesting or insightful one either.
> Censoring messages on Wechat does not affect US.

It removes spying on US users.
What did the ISA boards do?

Also the name sounded familiar, this was the radio telescope which incurred damage recently.
Algorithms, Taste, and the Tyranny of Convenience
Fair enough but there is no "mostly" and Bangladesh used to be part of Pakistan before its independence so I am not sure how well relations actually are.
I think the article starts out sounding that way --- but reading all the way through, it's about how to DO BETTER if you want to ship more often (the key take aways from the article being: document, iterate/revisit, and be intentional)
This is the exact lawsuit in question. Was this link supposed to show something?
It's both. The purpose of phase II trials is merely to demonstrate that the new drug is safe enough to proceed to phase III trials. That's typically a much lower bar to clear than demonstrating that it's safe enough to release onto the market.

With (typically) no more than a few hundred participants, phase II trials don't really have the statistical power to detect anything but the most serious of safety problems.
Obviously it was manufactured, but get outside of town a few miles and you are in real ranch country and it's very much the west. The prius and audi driving west siders don't usually see that side of things.
> I genuinely don't understand people who aren't willing to learn this stuff even if they pay someone else to do it

As a rich guy I knew used to say, do what you do best, and give away all the rest.

I spent my 30s doing all the things you mentioned and more. There was some joy in it, I will admit, but I am vastly less wealthy than if I had focused on my consulting business and learned how to negotiate and supervise the outsourcing of those tasks.

I know a lot of 'do it yourself' types and none of them are wealthy. I know a lot of wealthy people and none of them are 'do it yourself' types. It sucks to admit it, because there is a lot of 'manliness' associated with self-reliance, but it is often a foolish pursuit. Comparative advantage is real and you can use it to get ahead in life.
Absolutely. You'd expect mountain people to be conservative.

They can't afford to take more risks.

Not sure if you'd expect liberal people to seed the place and conservative genetics to evolve.

Or conservative genetics to seed the place and stay strong.
How to optimize your workflows (with examples)
There already have been copyright claims against The Wayback Machine. They've been responding to it by allowing site owners to use robots.txt to remove their content.
I can't find a specific breakdown of time differentials between the two groups of calls, but dispatch times should be separated between 'Code 3' dispatch, which is lights and sirens for an immediate threat to life and limb, and 'Code 2' dispatch, which is no lights and sirens.
Sounds like you are no longer at Oracle. Was this at Oracle Cloud in Seattle? Can you talk about their Rust adoption?
Analogies are important to help understand the world and put things in context. Not only that, but analogies like this are commonly used in our legal system to both argue a point and justify a judicial decision. So I disagree that my comment is a derailment at all. X doesn't have to be exactly like Y for a comparison to be drawn, and I see little difference in the two.
What I find short sighted about these policies are they don't realize that people without children can also feel stressed and need more time off.

e.g. if you're single during this time, you are completely isolated from the world, and your colleagues. This can be extremely difficult mentally and on an individual level can be much harder than just someone with a kid. These policies shouldn't be "oh if you have kids you can take this time off" and more "this is an unprecedented time, please take time off if you need it for any reason."

Trying to make judgement calls on who needs the time off and who doesn't is the major cause of this issue.
Yes, because the desktop client runs on localhost (or 127.0.0.1 actually), there is no way to produce a valid self-signed cert that won't cause browsers to complain. The desktop electron app causes this problem to disappear from view, but otherwise it's more or less unavoidable if you want to allow people to connect over https to a service running on loopback - in our case it's really what we want as we're a bit paranoid about exposing users to internet-borne risk!
What's interesting here is that it's only the US where Apple has the dominance. Everywhere else in the world it's mostly Android in the mobile phones.

Edit: What I mean with this comment is that HN has lots of readers outside of the US. Here using only iMessage would be a bit weird, and for that reason everybody uses either Signal or WhatsApp.
I’ve always thought that people should need to get a license to have a baby.

You need a license to pull fish out of a river or to plant bamboo in your own yard, but any moron is allowed to make new people. How does that make any sense?

With a baby license, hopefully we would actually only make new sane, healthy people - currently that’s not happening because the world is chock full of unhealthy idiots that I don’t want to bear the burden of supporting.

It’s not a perfect idea, but if it’s a societal concern as you said, why shouldn’t we regulate it?
What I’m arguing is that we don’t need complete phase 3 trials to establish efficacy - we can establish that based on early data from those (and earlier) trials, while accepting larger error bars on the risk of side effects.
It just seems terribly dismissive of all the people who want and demand a return to business as usual. A plan for handling the coronavirus that doesn't include "here's when we'll open the bars" is missing a huge piece of the problem.
I have tried nearly all of the DIY tax offerings out there. CreditKarma has a relatively new completely free offering that I feel rivals TurboTax in ease of use. I also feel that it is superior to paid offerings such as H&R Block.

Another completely free offering is freetax.com. I used them for a few years, and while not quite as easy to use, it works well.

Note that both of these free offerings include free state tax filing and have no income limits or up sells.
What about Google? Archive.org?
The video reminds me very much of Forest (forestadmin.com) and I think they have a free tier (I used for a while for a side project).
By that measure, one could get the absurd idea to expect getting paid time off for that woodworking project. It even has "work" right in the name. Nobody does expect that though. Better arguments should be easy to find.
DARPA investigation into Moderna’s failures to disclose mRNA vaccine patents
Everyone seems to be trashing the idea of 10x developers (and I would tend to agree unless you’re literally talking about a 1 in a million mythical dev) but there are definitely 2x or 3x developers I have worked with at companies.

Unfortunately, I can’t imagine a team full of just these developers (in my personal experience) as these folks tend to be bossier than the rest and/or have true disdain for non-programming work which I can empathize with, but is essential in team settings.
It is basically the Pax Americana ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana ) which is part of the current imperialist society that is slowly but steadily crumbling.
not in git, but relevant: vcs with issue tracker built in. Fossil.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Officially, it gives you at least 6 months' worth of immunity, but, beyond that, there are no guarantees, and it generally fades over time.

That's why the recommendation is to wait until shortly before the onset of flu season to get vaccinated: If you get vaccinated in July, there's no guarantee that the vaccination will carry you through the worst of a (northern hemisphere) flu season.
If you get one with an old unpatched firmware, you could root it and you patch it to take it offline...

Where is my Tesla-homebrew?
That time someone deleted a Gitlab production database
I question the validity of this advice (and Citizen's Advice's advice) in the UK.

If you're sent something with a bill for payment then it seems to me that you are not entitled to keep it at all because the bill indicates that they are not gifting the items to you but expect payment for them. I.e. property rights have not been transferred.

You can of course keep the items and wait until being asked for them back (and then you obviously don't have to pay for sending them back) but that does not mean that you can keep them as in "they are yours to keep".

According to another comment it seems indeed fine to keep these unordered items in the US by Federal Law, but I don't think this is the case in the UK unless the intent is clear (and, for example, a bill clearly indicates what the intention is).

Edit:

Ah, I stand corrected. There is indeed a law similar to the US's one in the UK:

The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013

"(4) In the case of an unsolicited supply of goods, the consumer may, as between the consumer and the trader, use, deal with or dispose of the goods as if they were an unconditional gift to the consumer.”." [1]

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3134/regulation/39/...
"El sueño de la razón produce monstruos" (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters).
This is a reminder to myself to someday explain how these ad-click botnets work, how they make money directly and indirectly by clicking on your ads, and why the big ad tech companies need them to survive.

The open question is whether there will still be perceived value when these things are known. So far, I don’t see ad spending affected by these exposes.
They are not representatives in the sense of being people who serve on the house of representatives, the legislative body whose modification is being considered.
FOSS and paid services will rise and shine.
These scammers are really not thinking this through. They could send out something cheap with their company logo on it, and make it double as advertising.
There is Wordgrinder[0] and can export to LaTeX for printing.
In classic Unix tradition, it looks way more plain than the screenshots of WordPerfect you posted :-P.

[0] http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/screenshots.html
My wife has gotten skin cream, hemorrhoid cream, air pod charging cases, a tiny VGA projector, electronic rodent repellers, and countless other items from Amazon in various brushing schemes. Things have slowed down now, but at one point packages arrived almost daily.

Everything was from China and about 75% was packaged to look very similar to more legitimate items being sold.
What percentage of cellphone owners would you guess have accidentally dunked their cellphones in water, incl. toilets?

At what percentage would waterproofing be so important that it means compromising on the phone design in ways that are consumer hostile?
this is true, I've seen someone here lamenting about how people changed his callback code to async while he was adding new functionality which resulted in him changing jobs.
Technically that doesn't say whether you can keep the goods, just whether you can be made to pay for them.
That captures a lot of what I was trying to capture. However, the intent was for people to cover work that they are doing (lowering prep time, immediate understanding), tech they are researching (again lower prep time, immediate understanding).

A lot of technical presentations we did are no different than what you would do explaining tech within your team. A few diagrams, and understanding of the core of the tech. Scaling to more than the safety of the team is really where I think people would rather have 3 meetings with 3 different teams to do a knowledge transfer than take the risk of being in front of collecting 5-10 teams worth of engineers.

Looking over the comments, the real gap I expect is the lack of peer management support and encouragement. And expectation that mentoring and teaching peers should be part of the leadership expectations. My view are is the the strongest engineers are the ones that accelerate and multiple the work of themselves and their peers, but there are a lot people who subscribe to the "army of one" 10x engineer philosophy.
It's more I don't want to use Google than I want secure email or secure services.
I disagree with your last bit.

>'Given the extreme change we are going through, the “if you can’t handle it, don’t have kids argument” is just not realistic. A pandemic isn’t “just how life goes”.'

Maybe not a pandemic but it shouldn't be any shock that children make things much more complicated. It's, most of the time in the US today, a choice to have a child. The unexpected nature of a pandemic isn't really an excuse for me. One knows unexpected things happen with children, if you haven't prepared for those unplanned contingencies, that's on you as a parent. Should the same benefits be given to parents who maybe have to stay home more because they feel their kid a slightly larger burden than others? What if the child becomes autistic and you are required to spend more time with them?

Any situation like this sucks but at what point should it really be a businesses problem and when shouldn't it be? I think these are really interesting problems under normal circumstances, the Covid part is just businesses having to deal with them all at the same time rather than individually on a case-by-case. To show that this isn't just Covid, let me share with you a story about a few nurses I met who have been exploiting a hospital system for personal gain (and brag about it!), something that could ruin a small business with relative ease.

Big hospital near me has a policy of maternity leave for nursing staff, something like 6 months off, no questions asked whenever you have a child. Sounds fantastic on the surface. Well, this small pack of nurses all knowingly do the same thing, they have children as much as humanly possible, think on the order of 8-13 children. Because of their constant pregnancy and child birthing, they are effectively able to work only 6 months out of the year, 6 month vacations. Everyone else at this org, maximum time off in one stint is 3 weeks. This means, under this hospital's policy, the only way that I can take a month off is to either work at least 1 day each month. Say goodby to taking months of in winter to stay in warmer climate, say goodbye to benefits otherwise. These nurses though, who are easily able to save their salaries to cover their yearly costs, get all company benefits like healthcare. Is this 'fair'? As someone who isn't physically able to have children, I would argue no, it's not completely. This isn't to there should be nothing for these parents, I don't really know what the right answer is.
I left.

The people were decent and the product fine, but my personal interest in the company went from "eh, sounds kind of interesting" to "why am I here...?" very quickly, and every day felt like an uphill battle to not rub my disinterest off on my coworkers.

Looking for inspiration is a mind trap that is best avoided. Inspiration comes when you are silent and you listen to yourself (and those around you). Keep an open mind. What you feel inspired to do may take you in a very different direction than you expect. Maybe the company doesn't need a new tech stack optimization, but would benefit greatly from a BBQ in the park - also no better time to get to know the people you work with better than when they are not sitting at a desk.

If you want to improve your company, listen. That's all there is to it. Listen to the needs of the people you work along side and then answer those needs. You are a part of a small tribe and that tribe values and benefits from active listeners and naturally inspired contributors.

Forceful inspiration typically has an opposite effect, so be mindful of your underlying drive.
> The Nazis themselves were censored before seizing power, and some say it helped radicalize them.

This is ahistorical. The only "censorship," they faced before they were granted power were in response to an attempted coup. They were radicalized prior to any censorship.

There's just something that doesn't sit right with me about indicating that censorship lead to a radicalization of Nazis. Violent anti-Semitism has eternally been a problem in Europe and both Austrian and German nationalist parties were entrenched in such conspiracy. It was always a violent movement.
Employees are not neighbors. Employees are responsible for negotiating their compensation (both monetary and non-monetary). It is absolutely appropriate to use information about others' compensation when negotiating for your own compensation.
Author of SingleFile here, Thanks for your feedback! Feel free to contact me or create posts on Github about these bugs, I will do my best to fix them.
I call it "LinkedIn is the saddest social network ever".