skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hear that in the US people will lose their healthcare when they lose a job and it could cost $1000 a month (which is more than my monthly rent)!

This is true with some caveats:

If you lose your job, you lose health insurance from the job by default. But in general you have a choice to buy the same plan you had, at the full cost (including whatever the employer used to pay), which can, yes, be $1000/mo — or significantly more.

However, you will usually also then have the option of buying a plan from your state’s healthcare exchange, which may not be as good as your employer plan, but the lowest cost options will come consistently be far less than $1K/mo. [0]

And depending on income and other factors, you may be eligible for subsidies to pay part or all of the cost of an exchange plan, or you may be eligible for public insurance via Medicaid.

[0] https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/average-ma...
They will be if they are still providing value.
I'll corroborate this and add that I think most of those 2/3 would decline to eat it just because they're personally not interested in eating meat anymore, not because they think it would be unethical to do so.

However, this would depend heavily on how many animals, if any, are harmed to produce it. Lots of vegans won't eat the impossible burger and don't consider it vegan because one of the chemicals in it was tested on rats before FDA approval, even though the number of animals harmed is O(1) - i.e., the marginal amount of animals harmed from eating an impossible burger is 0. I'm vegan and think that view is idiotic but whatever.
But GP, despite using the word "cool", is not really talking about how "cool" in a light sense those occupations are perceived. They explicitly talk about how some activities today are "actively bad for the world" and perceived as such.

There is a moral judgment behind the "That's cool dude!" you get when you reveal you're working to fix the climate crisis and I suspect there is fear of moral judgment behind GP's omission of their employer, due to their employer's poor record on the moral issues of the day. This goes deeper than shit being less cool as time passes. In short we're not talking about dubstep or fidget spinners.

Moral judgments like this do not follow a curve that "always happens". It has always been good to volunteer at soup kitchens on one hand, and on the other hand while it used to be good to not be evil and "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", I'm sure you'd agree nowadays Google is not perceived as less cool than it was only because it's not the latest shiny new tech success.
Have you put up the source code anywhere? github/pastebin ?
The errors are fake and so are the "loading" screens. Reddit is one big cancerous dark pattern.
BTW, a couple more examples of Googlers saying this isn't a firm deadline by any means and one-day reviews are quite permissible:

https://twitter.com/william_fitz/status/1335004771573354496

https://twitter.com/mena_gonzalo/status/1335066989191106561 (an intern!)
Apple computers have always been slower and more expensive than their non-Apple counterparts, and this gap has been larger recently due to sourcing from the struggling CPU vendor and the struggling GPU vendor. Worse, the software adds a 30% performance penalty on top.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos101...

Their phones were slower at productivity tasks than midtier phones from the previous generation for many years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emPiTZHdP88

https://youtu.be/hPhkPXVxISY

https://youtu.be/B5ZT9z9Bt4M

I agree that Samsung's phones are also overpriced.
> There are almost always deep-rooted issues that the addiction hides,

All crime is a consequence of deep-rooted personal issues.[1]
Part of the purpose of making something a crime is to put somebody on notice about when personal choices are likely to result in intolerable injury to the public and, hopefully, induce them to reassess their needs and expectations, including recognizing their need for help. And that's the logic of making drugs like heroin illegal.

I think I understand your point, but it's a point that is really difficult to articulate coherently. There are many subtleties in arguments that propose more compassionate--for lack of better phrasing--public responses to addiction. And it starkly exposes some paradoxes at the heart of human legal systems, including notions of volition and accountability. I think that's why it's such a difficult public policy issue. But if don't appreciate the inherent tensions at play we'll never understand why the other person doesn't agree with whatever proposal we put forth.

[1] Where issues == dysfunction, otherwise we're just restating a more general truism that all behaviors are consequences of each person's history and state.
It's important to understand their prior roles and responsibility in detail at the start of the interview. The Product Manager title can mean very different things depending on the company.

At some companies, Product Manager is a high responsibility, high accountability position that drives the roadmap. They are responsible for deciding what gets built and ensuring that it's both feasible and will generate the highest ROI. They are accountable for moving the product forward and coordinating across departments to make sure the right work is getting done.

On the other end of the spectrum, some companies treat the Product Manager like a communication switchboard or a Jira ticket manager. These positions don't have much power, don't make major decisions, and mostly follow orders from someone else. They spend their days sifting through Slack channels, Jira tickets, and nagging developers for updated estimates.

The trick is to get the person to elaborate on their experience before you tell them what type of Product Manager you're looking for. The challenge is that if you describe the position too much up front, most candidates will simply adjust or embellish their experience to match what they think you want to hear. If you instead ask them detailed questions about what they did at previous companies, you'll get a more unbiased view of their prior experience.

> Here is the interview https://prodjeeves.com/transitioning-into-product-owner-role...

Be careful about using Product Manager and Product Owner interchangeably. They mean different things at different companies.
> I eventually concluded that […] I scared the hell out of them. They didn't want to believe that someone "like them" could end up homeless.

Do you think it could have also been some sort of perverse jealousy on their part? You were no longer playing their game – the only game they knew how to play – yet nonetheless there you were interacting with them as an equal.
Word wrap. Turn on word wrap.
DOJ Alleges Facebook Discriminated Against U.S. Workers
A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon
Yes it will; it (the last one) will host a single file documenting the true source of the "640K of RAM" quote.

And it will make it available over PC/TCP, using a chain of adaptors and converters from 100BASE-TX.
Line wrapping is often difficult to read as well. If programmers wrap the line themselves, they can break it up logically, rather than letting the computer break lines wherever it's convenient. Further, they can respect the indentation level of the line, whereas most line wraps I've seen wrap starting all the way to the left.
Why "only". 400 people controlling 4% of the wealth of a country of 300,000,000 is massive.
What's a good non-reddit woodworking discussion area?
> However he does pay less taxes than his secretary.

His secretary can buy Berkshire Hathaway stock at any time and pay a lower tax rate than Buffet, while growing wealth at the same rate as Buffet.
While true that factory farms are a nightmare, lab grown meat is not the only alternative. There are plenty of regenerative farms out there that produce quality product in the most humane and environmentally beneficial way possible. Check out Polyface Farm in VA or Brown Ranch in ND for examples.
The developer's project was exactly the type of project which should use React: a "web app", an application which is on a webpage.

A problem with React (or any big library really) is that sometimes developers use it for blogs, forms, or other simple websites. There are many great tools out there for these websites, React is not one of them.
"Wanna bet...?"

I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were some original embedded systems still running machinery and the like in a century from now, catastrophic events notwithstanding. The sort of low-power embedded systems likely to be running DOS don't really experience any wear. There's quite a bit of equipment in the "low-level" manufacturing industry which is around a century old, and has basically been in continuous operation since it was installed.
And, really, pay $300,000 for a dealership to go away, because the dealership wouldn't pay $200,000 for a charging station.

Is a franchise something that a dealer has to purchase up front? If so, maybe it's sort of like property, and Cadillac has to buy it back from them? I believe at least the first part is how some e.g. restaurant franchises work.
Having a lower tax rate is different than paying less tax. Not saying there isn’t something wrong with a lower tax rate, but it’s disingenuous to frame it this way.
If the US dollar ceases to be the world's de facto currency, we have much larger problems then the moderate inflation that may or may not follow. I'd argue it is far more a political problem than a monetary problem at that point.
Here in Boston mostly wealthy or single people take the subway. Poor people and middle class families can't afford to live close enough. It used to be the other way around.
In every editor I've tried it on, word wrap wraps the lines all the way to the left, instead of respecting indentation levels. This makes for very difficult grokking of control flow, both in languages with significant whitespace and C-style languages. If programmers simply wrap their own lines, they can respect the white space conventions of their language and make it much easier for other developers to read later.
> a family of 4, if you earn less than about $36,000 a year you qualify for Medicaid, which provides free healthcare, including prescription drugs.

It provides free health insurance; as Maryland Medicaid has cost-sharing requirements, it is not completely free health care. Prescription drugs, in particular, are not free for Medicaid recipients, though they are subsidized ($1-$3/prescription).

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/premium-an...
Amazon's margins: 0-5%

Retail margins: 20-80%

Amazon is directly helping poor people by cutting out the greedy middlemen between them and essentials.
I think #17 says that software development can be just a job, don't forget to also have a life, don't sacrifice everything just for the job. But at the same time, if it's "just a job" and you find yourself annoyed going to work, doing it at the lowest acceptable quality level, never being proud of some elegant solution, then you'll probably never excel at it and it will be a nuisance for you and your teammates.

So those are two different meanings of "just a job".
Is this paper on arxiv? This overview doesn't answer any critical questions. For example, it's easy to fill up 128 references and a reader shouldn't blindly trust a claim that, "The version of the paper we saw does also nod to several research efforts on reducing the size and computational costs of large language models, and on measuring the embedded bias of models."

If a key part of Google's claim is that the paper omits relevant research, an author should have simply posted their 128 references and openly asked what work was missing. This whole saga could be easily solved instead of being dragged out for clicks.
I wish I could get Safari reddit links to open in Apollo without having to copy the URL. First it's "continue in browser" to dismiss the overlay that shows up each time trying to get me to use the app, then it's "read the rest of the discussion" to go from amp trash to the actual reddit site, and now they only load like 4 comments at a time and you need to click a link to load another page each time you want to see the children to a comment.

Apollo is a breath of fresh air, but iOS rules for having a website link open in an app are extremely convoluted and require explicit hard-code dapproval from both the domain owner and app author, meaning even if you man-in-the-middle reddit.com on your intranet to provide the required headers/metafiles, you would need Apollo's author to also add reddit.com to the list of URLs the app is capable of intercepting. Yuck.
Seems so:

https://sustainability.google/commitments/
You're trying to see something in the data that isn't there. Even if there was a spike in suicides, it would be a drop in the ocean compared to the excess deaths attributed to physical symptoms of COVID-19.

For what it's worth, Melbourne just went through one of the harshest lockdowns (in order to successfully eliminite the COVID-19 in the state), with no spike in suicide rates [1].

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-27/no-spike-in-suicide-r...
The paper should have been probably focused on the title only, because the CO2 usage looks like a publicity stunt. She also didn't subtract the amount of CO2 saved by improved productivity by getting better search results.
Shouldn't this warrant a 2.0 release?
Because I may expose them to my guest vlan and wouldn’t want them to get compromised and have access to my home devices.
In the study mentioned in original article seems to account for this by comparing elite and near-elite athletes, and having found they had the same number of siblings.

"On average, the two groups had the same number of total siblings. What mattered was whether those siblings were younger or older. The elite athletes had 1.04 older siblings on average; nonelite athletes had only 0.61."

I think this ratio is greater than what you find in the general population analysis.
> This is partly because our standards for new stuff have slipped to where good quality fabrics and material are no longer valued.

Because, for the most part, our clothing doesn't serve any purpose besides signaling, in the west. Most fast fashion is about looks - not function.

If you do serious physical work, the cheap stuff will fall apart and right quick. If you travel a lot and wear a suit 5+ days a week, cheap suits will constantly fail you. But most people don't have that issue - so they just go with what they can afford and gets the job done.
There’s been quite a few reports of spurious account lockdowns among Quest purchasers, usually among people creating new Facebook accounts to use. Some have had success with Facebook or Oculus support helping to reinstate their accounts.
You've summarily conflated a signal's fundamental frequency with the significant harmonic contributions of its edges.

Take a moment to review ISA v2.01 spec[1] § 10.4:

> To minimize crosstalk between signals and bus reflections, the driver rise/fall rates must be greater than 3ns; only LS or ALS devices are allowed. Faster parts such as F and AS cannot be used to drive the bus.

If you thought it odd that normative language like this explicitly calls out tech by name, then you might have some sense of just how concerned Intel was about interoperability at the time...no thanks to wire coat hanger designers.

Also consider the language of PC/104 v2.6 spec[2] § 4.7, which is probably one of the last remaining modern platforms with native ISA bus integration:

> Whether [ac] termination is needed and where it should be located, is dependent on the specific system configuration and must be determined by the system designer.

Now consider for a moment why this language and the paragraphs that precede it exist in this independent standard. This design is a commidity peripheral that will be integrated into arbitrary systems.

Length matching literally costs nothing...but even this is apparently a "stretch goal" given the obvious fact that this design completely dismissed the normative max 2.5" stub length requirement.

So no, I disagree. For the sake of sensible SI that's too often conveniently dismissed by hobbyists, keep your wire coat hangers in the closet.

[1] https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_intelbusSpep89_3342148...

[2] https://resources.winsystems.com/specs/PC104Spec.pdf
Somewhat of a meta point - but it seems like AirBnB the go-to example that PG uses in his essays (even if he mentions others - like Boom in this case).

AirBnB is of course a total homerun, but surely there are other companies like Stripe, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Gitlab etc... that have equivalently good reference points for how founders should think. I'm curious if there is something that sets the ABNB folks that much apart in that sense.
GP's point still stands. MS-DOS fits that range without 64-bits, a separately correct design decision would have been to use 64-bits of time from the start. Poor software casts/stores time_t in int because that was good enough for decades - if it didn't fit an int from the start, they wouldn't be doing that (or if an int were enough by having different semantics, it would also be OK for them to keep doing that).
There are models much larger than BERT with a much larger footprint, GPT-3 being the most well kniwn example.

Models like BERT aren't just trained once either when they are developed, but trained again with different domains, different parameters, different tasks in some cases. There is also fine-tuning (more frequent, less carbon intendive), so these are real environmental problems, and others have pointed them out.
> But if you have no way to tell if a given prediction is correct or not without doing the tests that you were trying to avoid in the first place then it's not really worthwhile except for perhaps some exploratory research.

This isn't really how it works.

To quote the CASP competition organisers:

The organizers even worried DeepMind may have been cheating somehow. So Lupas set a special challenge: a membrane protein from a species of archaea, an ancient group of microbes. For 10 years, his research team tried every trick in the book to get an x-ray crystal structure of the protein. “We couldn’t solve it.”

But AlphaFold had no trouble. It returned a detailed image of a three-part protein with two long helical arms in the middle. The model enabled Lupas and his colleagues to make sense of their x-ray data; within half an hour, they had fit their experimental results to AlphaFold’s predicted structure. “It’s almost perfect,” Lupas says. “They could not possibly have cheated on this. I don’t know how they do it.”[1]

So you have experimental results, but still don't know how it folds. You aren't trying to avoid the all the experiments, just understand them.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/game-has-changed-ai-...
Nah, the first version will be great but not revolutionary. After a few iteration it will get really great to the point that it is competitive with Apple and with even Apple borrowing ideas back.

But then they'll lose focus and after a couple more iterations it will get abandoned and left for 5 years before it is axed. And 3 different chips will pop up in its place which are similar but incompatible.
What if you were the sort of person with a very public history of suing your employer? Could you understand then why they might be very formal when dealing with you, especially when needing to deliver news you'd likely not be a fan of?
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Right. We'll have to wait but they will come to light. To be clear, excess could be due to:

1. COVID
2. From hospitals overwhelmed by covid cases
3. From behavior change due to fear of covid (not presenting w MI)
4. From policy changes made to combat covid (e.g. school close - diminished prosperity - lower LE)
Vitamin D deficiency is a marker for one of several health conditions leaving people vulnerable to Covid. There is no reason to believe that this would work as a general treatment.
What do you mean by cards?
Very cool - I'd never heard the term paregoric and I assumed it was perhaps the class of drugs used for slowing diarrhea (like say, Loperamide). I'd never have thought literal tincture of opium would have that use. (Also, now that I've looked it up Loperamide is also an opioid agonist and likely capitalizes on some of the same effects).
That's true for C/C++, but in most languages used today where we don't use pointers, where is the advantage?

I'm hundreds of times more likely to have to write lastElement = array[array.length - 1] (there's the 1 again!) than I am to have to reason about the equivalent pointer arithmetic.
You will most certainly get donwvoted for it.

That said, for people who might think of homeless as "not nice", consider the fraction that are truly problematic and the ones that you might see around, but not really doing anything wrong. The latter group is a lot less memorable, but I'd wager much larger than the former.
According to the competition organisers, you can:

So Lupas set a special challenge: a membrane protein from a species of archaea, an ancient group of microbes. For 10 years, his research team tried every trick in the book to get an x-ray crystal structure of the protein. “We couldn’t solve it.”

But AlphaFold had no trouble. It returned a detailed image of a three-part protein with two long helical arms in the middle. The model enabled Lupas and his colleagues to make sense of their x-ray data; within half an hour, they had fit their experimental results to AlphaFold’s predicted structure. “It’s almost perfect,” Lupas says. “They could not possibly have cheated on this. I don’t know how they do it.”

Sure, you want to validate thing experimentally, but that isn't different to imaging.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/game-has-changed-ai-...
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For those who haven't had it, I'll say - you're not missing out on much.

The appealing part is that it is potentially lethal and maybe the high skill requirement to be able to serve it. That's pretty much it.

It's tasteless, mildly chewy texture. Most of the flavor comes from the soy sauce. In hotpot/stews it becomes hard rather quickly. There are lot better fish for hotpots.

And as far as the "potentially lethal" section goes:

> Of the 23 incidents reported in Tokyo from 1993 through 2006, only one took place in a restaurant; all others involved people catching and eating the fish.[0]

I don't have actual statistics, but you walking on the street seems more dangerous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu#Incidents
Working with LiveWire was incredibly painful. Often the server would crash during the restart phase (this was under WinNT 4.0 back in 1997.)
"As I read the post, especially the references to Metafilter in combination with a lesson about homelessness, I thought to myself, “This sounds like DoreenMichele.”"

I have been impressed recently by the posts by DoreenMichele and have expressed appreciation for those posts here.

I am a little confused by this description of metafilter, however - I am not an active member of that community but I have been reading it regularly for about 20 years. It is very politically correct and "woke" - almost distractingly, or annoyingly so - and I was disappointed to learn that it hasn't been a hospitable place for the DoreenMichele whose posts I see on HN ...

I'm sorry to hear it.