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The point doesn't require optimism at all. In fact, it requires a certain degree of magical thinking to believe that the information WOULDN'T get a wide degree of publicity.

Consider the massive numbers of people and industries who are ideologically and economically motivated to show that climate change is a hoax. It's an absurdly charged issue. Also consider the massive effort that would be required to thoroughly debunk the many dozens of sources of evidence and papers that suggest climate change is both man-made and accelerating.

You are correct that some types of information don't spread as fast as others. In fact, the vast majority of information on earth doesn't get prominent national attention. By definition, it's quite abnormal to reach that level. I don't know much about breast cancer screening, but it seems obvious that "breast cancer screening isn't as reliable as we thought" isn't a shoe-in for front page news, and I'm not sure why that should have any implications for climate change news.
> We absolutely do. We have such a wealth of data and the signal is very strong.

We know who is likely to die. We do not know who is at risk of a life-long debilitating illness.

> That's because reinfection is extremely rare

We don't know this. What we know is that reinfection with a different strain is rarely detected, and that's a long way from the same thing.

> risk for non-fatal outcomes is typical of other influenza like illnesses

This is false.

> An interesting note is that many / most people have some sort of cross-protection through T-cell immunity (likely from other coronaviruses).

At best this is optimistic. We know some (less than half) have a T-cell response. We don't know yet if that response is beneficial, harmful, or has no effect at all. It would be premature to start any sort of public health intervention founded on this assumption.

> Yes we do. Pretty much every disease tails off.

This strongly depends on the reinfection rate. Which we don't know.

> The only debate right now is where this threshold is at for various jurisdictions. It is likely as low as 20%.

This is false. To get anywhere near 20% you need to know the effect of the T-cell response, or have some other mechanism for discounting a large portion of the population.

> All models are wrong but some are useful. If this model cannot explain real data from cities and countries (eg: stockholm, UK locales) then it is relatively useless.

Have you read either of them? Both models in this thread are predictive models of situations that haven't happened yet. Both use real data (from the US and the UK). Neither can describe reality, so do we throw them both out? That leaves the GBD lot with no epidemiological support at all, which would make my point rather concisely.

We simply don't have enough information to know whether the GBD proposal is safe or, even if it was, whether it could be implemented, and it's all the more suspicious because its three proponents have been making very similar arguments against general lockdown since at least April, when we knew dramatically less. They do not seem to have changed their stances based on new information, which moves the GBD out of science and into politics. Only they're leaning on their academic credentials to lend it airs of legitimacy it can't back up, which makes it complete, utter bullshit that nobody should pay any attention to. It's preying on desperation and optimism to deepen social division and reinforce political hysteria at the worst possible time. No credible health authority is paying any attention to it, nor should they. Please don't bring that sort of content to HN.
>I know $() invokes a subshell, but does () ?

>My guess was that the () affects the order of operations between ; and &&, so the first line is three commands, while the second line is two.

Emphasis mine. My understanding was that the question is simply about whether () invokes a subshell or not (irrespective of set -e)
I agree. But Google's phones are better (in my opinion), the only reason I bought an iPhone is for privacy reasons - if Apple is going to renege on that branding, then no reason not to go back to the better product.

Apple was banking on privacy marketing as a competitive edge. I think that was a good strategy. Since they appear to be worse at executing on that strategy than I thought they would be, they are losing that segment of the market.
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No doubt. Many H1-B employees are essentially indentured slaves, and those who work with them then have to compete to that level.
I hate pipefail.

I find set -e also has some gotchas. '|| die' added to the end of each line is uglier but more obvious in many cases.
Ian Storm Taylor departed the company in ~2013 i think - but was all a technical team with strong opensource culture.
If you use Whatsapp you could have two different whatsapp accounts - one for your business with Whatsapp Business and another regular account. For this you need two SIMs
"For example, I'm much better served by Sandisk having a tamper-proof verification codes on their uSD cards that I can lookup on their official website and verify the card being genuine."

How so? Once you have the uSD card in hand, they have your money.
To add, unless there's proof (and sometimes even when there is proof) a buyer can just tell eBay/craigslist/etc that the phone didn't have Find My iPhone turned off (which would mean they can't use the phone) and get a refund that way without even needing to chargeback ebay.
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> If you're applying for a junior role and you're earning above the median you'll be in the clear. If you're applying for a senior role you'll need to be above the 90th percentile

Couldn't a company just re-designate a senior role as a junior role, and pay a person with lots of experience coming from abroad a junior person's wage (which probably is still a lot more than what they made in their previous country of residence)?
The H1 reform is a great move. The current H1B program made no sense at all.
If I wanted to hire: A smart graduate from EPFL, Polytechnique or ETH Zurich who interned at CERN and has contributed to the Linux kernel for a software engineering job at a unicorn startup or

A grad from a second tier "technical college" in India with a visa refusal rate of ~90% for a job doing manual UI testing and QA for a body shop

my only path forward is H1. They'll both be listed as "computer related occupations" and apply for the same visa in the same quota. Does that makes any sense to anyone?
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Hmm... 70% agreement in an unpublished study funded by the company vs a device that is itself maybe 90% agreement with lab PSG. Better than I expected, but I wonder if it is just due to many sleepers having quite predictable stages. "Figure 4 shows the worst result of the cohort (55 of 55), with an accuracy of 49.9%. Note that this user self-reported having a sleep disorder."
10mil human eggs or embryos or just genetic material but with bio substrates to print from seems likely to survive a 500 year long deep space journey and far more achieve-able based on current tech.

Send a probe to seed a planet with bacteria etc. Send another to arrive a few 100 years later to seed it with plant life. Work your way up. The last probe arrives and starts printing\gestating humans and offering them educational videos and a safe-ish environment...
It's a subshell. Order of operations is unchanged, and if you just want a block of commands you can use { }
How was this market for customer data platforms "crowded" in 2012?! :)
Fair point. Then his name shouldn't either be used to "market" it and gain public rapport. Because the impression it gives to public is him being in control all while there's no truth in it and public falsely believing in OpenAI's commitments assuming Elon is associated with it.

My question: Why has Elon not put his departure news on twitter as his own tweet rather than just replying to someone?

Here are a few pages on openai's website that still carry his name.

1. https://openai.com/blog/authors/elon/

2. "Additionally, Elon Musk will depart the OpenAI Board but will continue to donate and advise the organization" (https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/)

3. https://openai.com/blog/openai-technical-goals/

4. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/
Are you building an operating system for phones?
No one said anything about exploitation, but he absolutely earns a profit from people who choose to not be in a traditional boss-employee relationship. That's a statement of fact, and that colors the argument he's making.

I don't know what you mean by putting "boss" in quotation marks, but at the big company (1000+ engineers) I work for, my direct manager does not "boss me around" (if that's the sense you meant it), and the four more levels of management above him certainly don't. I have the freedom to propose and pursue new ideas, I'm regularly learning new things, and I set my own goals - with active feedback and input from my manager as to whether they make sense and what I should prioritize. I'd expect no more and no less from the relationship between a startup-accelerator participant and a seed investor. And in both cases, the boss/investor profits from the employee/founder doing good work.

What's different is the risk model. If my ideas don't pan out, my management (well, my employer as a whole, but my management is accountable for how they choose to use headcount and salary budget) is still on the hook for paying me big-tech wages, until they decide my ideas are so bad that it's not worth keeping me employed. If the founder's ideas don't pan out, pg is only out a couple thousand dollars. (At the time, YC was paying $17K.)

So, yes, pg earns his profit from investment and action, and that's precisely what's being pointed out here as a potential conflict of interest.

(If pg's actual point, reading the article more closely, is "Google's organizational structure does not give you that freedom and will not help you grow as an engineer," well, that's one of the many reasons I declined a Google offer. But Google is not every big engineering firm.)
> It's no more difficult than installing applications on Windows.

What's important is relative difficulty. If 99% of all apps the consumer can get are on the app store, but they have to go through a new and somewhat foreign side-loading process to get this one app, then they probably will just go for that app's competitor on the App store.

I'd be curious what percentage of Android users, outside of China, sideload apps. My guess is that it would be sub 3%.
The 24-36 month figure is likely not static, but continuing to go up. I'm over 48 months and if it's not broken, don't fix it.
I really like this plan. Perhaps the salary could go into escrow up front, to make the hook set harder on employers?
You’re just reiterating the GPs point of using env instead of calling bash directly from the shebang:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

is more portable than

#!/bin/bash

Though personally if I was worried about portability then I’d just write the script in vanilla sh instead.
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This belongs on twitter.com/LeftAccidental
Stay with Ubuntu LTS. Arch is garbage. Seriously.

In ubuntu, when you update, you just update.

In arch, when you update, "It is your responsibility to first go to arch website and see if there is any breakage or issue that needs to be handled manually. If yes, follow the instructions. If they're unclear, spend hours on Arch Wiki. Then go ahead and update."

But wait, there's more. If you don't do arch updates regularly, like if for some reason you couldn't update for 6 months, all bets are off. You'd be lucky if your update works at all. In the 99% chance that it doesn't, "they" advise you to take the snapshots (that are archived every few days) and update snapshot-by-snapshot. So if it's 20 snapshots you've missed, you update from snapshot 0 to 1, then 1 to 2, then 2 to 3, and so on. And if during any of the updates, there was some required manual fixup, you're SOL.

If you are in the mood for going hardcore, just clear up your weekend, get a spare hard drive, and do LFS [0]. Once you've completed that project, trash that install (it was only for your learning), and go back to Ubuntu as a daily driver. Now you can tell arch fanboys to go eat a carrot, cz 99.9% of them know jack compared to what you know now. (side note: doing LFS would be enlightening enough that you'll start having ideas and/or future projects of your own. Have at it).

If you don't like Ubuntu cruft like bloated desktop, snap, cloud-init on ubuntu server, what not, there's a gazillion ways to go about it. You can simply 'purge' (remove completely) then after install. Or do minimal server install and then install only the packages you want. Or you can pick a sane Ubuntu variant like Xubuntu. If you're a tiling wm user, just pick regolith [1] (it'll make your life so much easier).

If Ubuntu LTS packages aren't recent enough and you need to use the latest version of some package, you can either install it in your home directory, or use a docker image if available (or build your own).

[0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

[1] https://regolith-linux.org
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> Some are already suggesting that the new rules mean banks won't employ anyone on H1B visas below vice president level.

Just a quick note for people unfamiliar with bank titles, a VP title is generally gained around 5 years of experience (or 3 with a graduate degree.)
The problem is the second suggestion is politically popular but the first is not, and if you only do the second one, it obviously goes badly.
Yes - the server is in SWIPL and the distributed store is in Rust. Great combo we think.

We tried to take some of the best ideas from the semantic web and make them as practical as possible. Great to hear that people are getting knowledge graph jobs out there!
Judging by that user's other comments, you're probably right.
I haven't found the actual rule wording yet, but if it's tied to role rather than experience then yes this is a loophole that's likely to be used.
It varies for me.

If I'm only mildly interested, the comments often provide a summary and then I decide if I RTFA.

Certain titles or domains are insta-RTFA without looking at the comments.

Sometimes it is nice to know the controversial aspects by reading the comments, so I can be more careful reading certain passages.

Sometimes I read neither but the article is still on the front page the next day with a thousand upvotes. Then I read it.
I believe this statement agrees with you:

> #!/usr/bin/env > #!/bin/bash for portability

Perhaps you misread it? env bash is greater for portability than bin/bash.
H1-B applications are not only for tech jobs, and not only for the bay area. There are many other professions which are subject to the same cap, and also have to look outside of the US to fill roles. Nurses are one that come to mind. If all H1-Bs are just sorted by comp, you'll end up with FAANG getting 80k H1-Bs per year.

You may want to argue that "well then other companies don't deserve them if they can't compete with FAANG", or "then companies should pay SF wages everywhere" (which I sorta-agree with), or "then other industries should pay more!".

They may be valid points, but it is unreasonable to expect that another industry can compete salary-wise against FAANG at the moment, and it doesn't make their inability to find candidates locally any less true.

Regarding preventing visa farming, an easier solution (in my opinion) is to improve the flexibility for an H1B worker; allow them to work for any employer for the term of their status.

If an employer used an H1B in order to hire a foreign worker and then under pay them, the worker would just get another job that pays market rate, without the work status concern. Without the artificial control over the employee, H1B harvesting wouldn't be worth it.
If by github employees you mean the devs, I expect them to like it.

It's the managers and lawyers that you need to worry about.
Not trolling at all, just fed up with "I know better", C/C++ is an abbreviation for C and C++, a very basic English grammar rule.

You want a link? Here are several,

https://www.arm.com/products/development-tools/server-and-hp...

https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/videos/...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/c-cpp-language-and-...

https://www.ibm.com/products/xl-cpp-aix-compiler-power

https://developer.amd.com/amd-aocc/

Ah, from ISO as well, no problem, can I start with one paper from Bjarne?

https://isocpp.org/blog/2020/06/thriving-in-a-crowded-and-ch...

> In addition to these groups, there is a semi-official C/C++ liaison group consisting of people who
are members of both the C++ committee and the C committee....

I can provide you more papers from the same author, maybe you feel like educating Bjarne Stroustrup on how to write it.
> allow their products to become tools

This is precisely why lack of choice in app stores is so harmful. The phones belong to the people. Without the app store, the manufacturer has no grounds to allow or disallow behavior.
patio11's recent article addresses this and is probably more informative on the subject: https://kalzumeus.com/2020/10/09/four-years-at-stripe/

> In a way, every scaling startup is an experiment in empirical microeconomics research on “What parts of the typical corporate form are necessary and which are pageantry which we only keep around due to anchoring, the sunk cost fallacy, and tradition?” Every time a startup bites the bullet and hires a VP of Sales, a lifecycle email copywriter, a retirements benefits administrator, or a cook, count that as a published result saying “Yep, we found this to be necessary.”
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Apart from the amazingly crazy story, this is very well written and worth a read even if the title doesn't interest you. And the paint images go so well with the text.
VP in banks is like 'senior' in software development.
Why would non “meat” intelligence have any concept of “meat”? And if they did, why would they be so surprised? The plot holes are glaring.
I'm not convinced. Doug Engelbart's lab did essentially that with a dozen or so engineers within 2-3 years before the famous 1968 demo. I'm not saying we should do that for a banking website, but IMO when it comes to Frontend development there is an opportunity to rethink and start over, maybe on top of wasm.
Absolutely, and that could be a fig leaf that many companies will use as cover, that won't hold under any inspection, when you can expect big penalties.
Two stories here, and one is definitely about modern monopolies.
Even if "we" don't transcend to some other form, the current "we" will never be "we" going forward. No one that is alive now will likely be alive in 150 years. Does it matter that the next torch bearers are based on carbon or silicon, as long as they continue the legacy?
naps are sometimes great, but sometimes if I don't set an alarm I end up feeling lousy. Don't know if it means sleep or something else is out of whack and I need a nap too much.

the pandemic has let me play with sleep and sometimes it's to let it gradually drift forwards an hour each day and wrap around. (schedule meetings are the only trouble spot to that experiment)
I’m in strong agreement with your points. It always surprises me when I read people trying to come up with a more optimal algorithm for testing one’s retention when there are so many factors out of one’s control that would influence the forgetting curve. For instance, the notion of judging your ability to recall something and providing it as input to Anki is such a gross approximation. Choosing the wrong value from 1 to 5 would affect your recall schedule considerably.

In my opinion, what’s more important to a recall strategy is just pure habit. You have to practice regularly, and anything that makes the software easier to use for the long term is something that would have a greater effect than the optimality of the recall algorithm. (Incidentally this is why I’m working on a flash card app that is easier to use, to help ensure one comes back to it regularly.)
> It is, you can repeat 1000 times to no avail, but if you want, be my guest.

Actually, no, it's not. You can repeat 1000 times to no avail, but if you want, be my guest.
The edible part of biological entities regardless of consciousness? Not all animals are believed to be conscious - even on this planet.
Having some level of diversity from other countries doesn’t sound like a bad idea.

No. H1B is a skills based visa and not diversity/family based. The only thing that should matter are the skills and not the country they come from. Steps should absolutely be taken to ensure the system can't be gamed and that only well qualified applicants get selected.
Any short stories collection, really. If you want something particular, out of top of my head:

Lifeboat mutiny, Seventh victim, A ticket to Tranai, A problem with natives.
> You'd bet that take-home pay for the same work after taxes and rent is higher in Dallas than in San Jose. I think Facebook is demonstrating this like now.

It's not, though. Median rent in Mountain View (significantly pricier than San Jose) is now $2390/month [1]. L4 total comp at Google, or E4 salaries at Facebook, is about $260K/year [2]. Average rent for a 1BR in Dallas is $1250/month [3]. Average total comp for a software engineer in Dallas is $110K/year. [4]

After taxes and rent, the Facebook/Google L4 is making $260K * (1 - 0.37 [5]) - 2390 * 12 = $135920/year. The Dallas SWE is making $110K * (1 - 0.16 [6]) - 1250 * 12 = $68939/year. Even with the $4K/month rents from 2019, the Facebook engineer is still putting away $116K/year, more than the total gross of the Dallas engineer.

People tend to underestimate the effect of the top-line on finances and savings. Eric Schmidt had a saying: "More revenue solves all known problems". It applies as much to households as to giant companies.

[1] https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/mountain-view-ca

[2] https://www.levels.fyi/#

[3] https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/dallas-tx

[4] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries/Dal...

[5] https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#vyY8q...

[6] https://smartasset.com/taxes/texas-tax-calculator#s0LEbwxtAs
Two things which came to my mind:

This still seems really inefficient.

And:

This sounds exactly like what a virus works like.
> They can travel to other planets in special meat containers

This is funny, but it's actually how I think about cars.

Traveling on a bike, motorbike, horse, whatever, where you can feel the air outside is so much better. But being packed in a closed container...

Planes, cars, trains are obviously orders of magnitude more efficient than the "open" options, but they feel unpleasant and unnatural.
A different angle I sometimes see is Unhappy -> Ambition -> Success.

However, these types of people might not be happy in the end. For example, I remember Elon Musk saying "you wouldn't want my life."
I am yet to see Android vulnerability in the wild. This in India where everyone is on android and many using years old mobile. Compared to frequently viruses on windows machines. So are these devices hacked and the users do not know them? What area indications to know your device is hacked?
My phones last about 5 years and my last phone, the Moto G6 Plus, cost about $200.

They're not very useful computers in relative terms, beyond being very portable, and there is a lack of compelling new features in new phones.

Right now there is the spec grind which moves some people to upgrade, but most people won't see a benefit. I suspect phones are more important as a fashion accessory or status symbol at this point.
With H1B you need to prove that you are unable to hire anyone from the US for the given position, including actually having to show that you have interviewed candidates and had a job listing up. Alongside having to pay a salary thats above the market average for the position.