skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am in a bubble where I mostly talk to college educated people and people who have educated themselves in a similar tradition or are well-read. Perhaps it is snobbish of me, but I am mostly okay with that bubble for discussion forums.

> Conditioning on that type of person, who make up most people on HN, Reddit, and Twitter, HN seems like it is in a right-leaning bubble.

If most of the people you talk to are college educated people who live in a city than you most definitely exist in a bubble. Remember 47% of the country voted for Trump(I doubt Hacker news came anywhere near this number). Of your friends how many voted for Trump? As an example I'm a college graduate in his 30's who lives in the city. 0% of the 20 people I talk to most often voted for Trump, and maybe 4% of the the extended 200 people I know, voted for trump. And of that 4%, 3/4ths voted for him begrudgingly. And I live in a southern state that voted for Trump. So when you look at hacker news and encounter opinions that are different than your own it might seem like Hacker News exists in a bubble, but I think it's far more likely your life exists in a bubble that's stronger than hacker news.

> Your assessment of the median voter is being super distorted by the geographic layout of the US, btw. The median voter did not vote for a republican senator.

The median senate voter would have voted for a Republican but that's mostly because California and New York didn't have senate races this year.
I think the common mental model of an ExecutorService for most people is something static and heavyweight and whose main task is to avoid expensive thread creation. When used with SC they are suddenly created and thrown away without a blink. And are mostly tasked with coordination. So people will probably need some time to adjust.
The house passed covid relief bill in June and then again in October. What more do you want from them? It takes two to negotiate
Yes, but the crucial question is: isolated from what? Isolation is realative, not absolute. If you put Schrodinger and his cat [1] (or Wigner and his friend) in a box, they are isolated from you but not from each other. (c.f. the Fruachinger-Renner paradox).

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[1] This is intended as subtle ironic humor. Schrodinger actually hated cats, which is the reason he chose one to be the subject of his famous thought experiment.
For some hard numbers, as of 2018 15.95% of the US population lived in the 25 least populous states and elected half of the US Senate.

To block an conviction of an impeached president or a constitutional amendment, only 34 senators (17 states) are needed. As of 2018, that was as little as 7.32% of the US population.

If you care to do the math yourself, this is my source: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_pop...

And some python to help once you have lines to summarize: sum(map(float, open('foo').readlines()))
If there is an increase in traffic after you have expanded the highway, you are going in the right direction. If it is levelling off, you have gone far enough. Then congestion will reduce. The argument that more roads do attract more cars just shows that we are still planning in a state of poverty. It is completely backwards. It is like saying "don't give the starving more food, they'll just eat more, and more starving will beg".
I'm not sure, but I think he's no longer at Oracle.
As long as you don't take things personally, arguing with folks on the internet who disagree with you is a great way to find potential weaknesses in your own arguments, and ultimately to shape and strengthen them in unexpected ways.

It's like going to the gym, but it prepares you to have face-to-face discussions with real-world people whose opinions you actually care about, rather than strangers on the internet.

I've been downvoted, and disagreed with many times, but I can't say I didn't learn something new each time, even if it was about something as basic as the way I phrase comments.

Cheer up, maybe you were completely right, and other people just didn't quite get what you were saying!
Same for Firefox Focus on iPhone.
I assume that you mean "reduce chances of the bill passing", adding this rider would increase the changes if the bill passes!
as long as it's permitted by the terms of their voluntary contract with the workers' union :)
I'm struggling to the find the primary source for the statistics, but they've basically been the same short-term side-effects as you might get from a flu shot, but at slightly higher rates and and severity:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/fever-aches-pfizer-m...

> The independent board that conducted the interim analysis of Moderna’s huge trial found that severe side effects included fatigue in 9.7% of participants, muscle pain in 8.9%, joint pain in 5.2%, and headache in 4.5%. For the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the numbers were lower: Severe side effects included fatigue (3.8%) and headache (2%).

Typically these will be included on the official government sites once the vaccine is approved, so we should see it shortly.

As for long-term side-effects, none have been found. Long-term side effects (so things that may occur within a month or two of the vaccine, but last a long time) are extremely rare. You can really only say there have likely they've occurred in two different vaccines in the last 50 years, and even those were a tiny, tiny percentage (Like 0.001%) of the people vaccinated. Keep in mind billions of vaccines are given annually.

Long-term effects the are delayed in occurring past two months have never been found in the entire history of vaccines, so you won't find any data on it.
Not sure what to make of this. Billionaire companies != seed funded startups. The exploitation really kicks into gear after you have 5000 employees and there are many inflection points of power differentials until then. Each not as a big deal, but slowly eroding some rights the farther and lower you go.
Yeah, It’s a terrible design.
Dems are being held hostage by Republicans who don't care one bit about passing necessary amounts of stimulus (Fed chair Powell has said, paraphrased, "No amount is too much at this point" [1]). Dems need those senate seats in Georgia to break the gridlock caused by Senate Republicans. This will help those efforts (encouraging voter turnout), as does Trump telling his base to not go out and vote [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=powell+stimulus+too+much

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/us/politics/georgia-repub...
Stop-saying-PHP-is-dead
fckr.
Looking for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP for Pharma Industry?
this is part of the greater lament of FP languages in industry. You might have to be satisfied with a kind of FP flavored C#, which in newer versions of the language isn't all that bad The thinking is that there's a million C# devs, a hundred thousand VB devs, and ten thousand F# devs.

If you want to work in F# come up with your own OSS projects or champion it at work.
Is that really true? I've interviewed ex-FAANG employees at some jobs and there was never any pressure to hire them, and I didn't feel like any one of them would be treated as a god if hired. They were pretty universally above average though.

They were also not "walking in to captain" anything. They were applying for standard engineering jobs. Think of an average individual-contributor software engineer from, say, Facebook. Is a smaller company really going to hire them as Director Of Engineering (a totally different job than software engineering), just because of the company name on the resume? That sounds absurd.
This means very little while the republicans control the senate, I imagine.
I lean back and forth on the language. One emphasizes the inherent good that a policy will have, in and of itself. The other emphasizes the knock-on effects that will result from a policy. In this case, I believe both are true. First, that it is unconscionable to have lack of healthcare in a developed nation. Second, that providing healthcare will give good economic benefits. Which of these I emphasize at any given point depends on who I am talking to.
The simplest argument is that the default is usually... defaulted to. And the default is the redesign -- you have to actively go out of your way to revert to the old design; so the simplest takeaway is that the general public greatly prefers doing nothing, than reverting the redesign.

Doing nothing may be for the reason that they prefer the redesign, but also numerous other reasons apply (including that they don't dislike it enough, or some key new feature, etc).
I only mean that nobody has done the experiment (nor is it feasible to run). My base hypothesis is, given enough computer time and an accurate potential function, molecular dynamics indeed would solve the limited protein folding problem (small domains that are soluble in water), but I also think there must be a far simpler and less expensive way to do it (most likely using deep neural nets that incorporate a wide range of information).

That said I also believe that QC in principle could be a way to address this effectively as well, but I'm waiting until I see somebody demonstrate something interesting and useful before I get excited.
Show HN: Plycutter: 3D model – laser cut parts with finger joints automatically
See https://hipcode.fi/?p=25324 for "behind the scenes"
This is false. The $90M was optional, not contractual. Google did indeed choose to pay out this amount when it didn't have to. Some sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18023364/google-andy-rub...

Also, take a step back and consider how there was a worldwide walkout of 10k+ employees. That wouldn't have happened if Google's hands were tied here and they had been contractually forced to pay that money out to Andy Rubin. The outrage was because they knew about his misconduct and yet still chose to let him "retire" and give him a big amount of extra money, rather than firing him and giving him the $0 he was legally entitled to.
Is it? You've taken two facts (1. Interface redesign and 2. 50% growth last year) and assigned causation to the first. In my persepctive, reddit has been digging into the cultural psyche for a long time and has been growing steadily. The news uses it to replace local journalism now. Anecdotally, a lot of people I know are now talking about things they saw on reddit (I've been a user for ~10 years). I think the interface design is not relevant to growth. If anything, it probably decreases it, although I think the type of users they are attracting now don't care as much as people who post on HN do.
I tend to agree (I still enjoyed the rest, and the epilogue was fun as well), but I love the weirdly extended espionage subplot just because it has a oneliner that is such an amazing, amazingly heavy-handed dunk on Tolkien:

> “Because you are an Enemy. You fight on the side of Darkness, so your every word is a lie, and your every deed is evil by definition.”
>
> “You’re mistaken, lad,” Tangorn sighed wearily. “I’m on neither the Dark nor the Light side. If you need a label, I’m on the side of many colors.”
Nothing is stopping those employees from taking all the risks and starting their own businesses. Of course they'll give up their stable consistent paychecks and benefits for possibly years with only a small chance of high returns. Lower risk, lower reward.
pg hasn't changed a bit, as far as I can tell. Surrounding conditions (e.g. the political and media climate) have changed a lot, plus there are the expectations people have from anyone they perceive as rich and famous. He ignores that kind of expectation, which pisses a lot of people off—but this is nothing new.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233038
This sort of thing makes the (Canadian) hair on the back of my neck stand up. I can see a collective agreement for a govt employees, or for a specific set of trades within an industry. But for an entire sector?

As others in the thread have pointed out, these types of arrangements don't always correspond to the reality of the business. If you are, for example, paid a yearly bonus, then the concept of "unpaid overtime" doesn't really apply.
This quote is adorable considering the size of most pages today:

"This approach has several disadvantages, the first of which is speed. You are gratuitously transporting potentially many kilobytes of data back and forth across the network."
The same person who wrote said post in 2018 wrote about the 2020 AlphaFold results:

> CASP14 #s just came out and they’re astounding—DeepMind looks to have solved protein structure prediction. Median GDT_TS went from 68.5 (CASP13) to 92.4!!!! Cf. their 2nd best CASP13 struct scored 92.8 (out of 100). Median RMSD is 2.1Å. I think it's over

https://twitter.com/MoAlQuraishi/status/1333383634649313280
About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean
2/3rds of old white men don't support it, and that describes most politicians.
There's just no contradiction. The deepening of knowledge doesnt't contradict prior observations. All hypotheses may and should be contradicted though.
The Asus VivoBook and HP Envy x360 try to play in the same space.
Be careful not to confuse expensive brands for durable stuff.
He is a convenient scape goat for all the other Republican senators. They could replace him if they really wanted to, but they dont.
I'm not sure if I follow. In some jobs workers are given 20 PTO days to use as sick or vacation as they please. In other jobs workers are give 10 vacation days and 10 sick days.

I was saying that it seems better to have the PTO days to use however you want than sick days that aren't supoosed to be used for non-sickness reasons.

Are you saying that it is normal for people to use the sick days when they are not really sick?

You mention needing to consult a doctor at a certain point. This is not uncommon in the U.S., with the employer wanting a doctor's note after more than two days of absence. (As an aside I always thought that was a burden on the employee, to have to pay for a doctors visit because the employer doesn't trust them. Not as big a deal if the employer would pay for the visit, but they don't. Certainly not a perfect world we live in...)
exactly, "software engineering" nowadays is just over-glorified plumbing
Info from the MTA here:

https://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/new-full-year...

I regret to inform you that the NYC subway has many more problems than you experienced. Before the pandemic I traveled between Brooklyn and Manhattan and problems were common. Much more common was just random slowdowns, sitting between stations, etc. that makes it a lot more difficult to know when you'll arrive at your destination.
Have you tried formatting tools like prettier / black / gofmt / rustfmt? I used to have lots of tabs vs spaces type opinions but now “use a formatting tool and stop arguing about it” has replaced all of my style opinions. Once you have more than one person working on a project it’s just so nice to never have a stupid argument about formatting again.
Now we're talking!

Although given that I, random internet stranger, agree on 6 out of 8 of your points, it mean that they aren't too unpopular. :)
>Just because you don't understand exactly how something works, don't mean it's not useful

The OP didn't say that it is not useful, what they implied was that it is not actually science, which is correct. Science is a system that produces and organises knowledge. Chomsky made this point many years ago in a similar debate in linguistics. Statistical learning might produce results, but it tells us virtually nothing about the underlying laws or structures that govern language use.

ML in its current from is effectively the modern version of behaviourism and will, or already does, suffer from the same issues.
And also, I love Google, and I love Apple, but once upon a time, unbeknownst to me, my salary at Google was being artificially restricted due to illegal collusion with Apple, among other companies.

Just because these companies have built amazing products that people want doesn't mean they still don't actively take advantage of their own employees. It isn't black and white.
> It's frustrating we see full House votes on pointless partisan efforts when there are issues like infrastructure that both parties could and should agree on and progress in.

The House passed a big infrastructure bill in July. They've also already passed several other bipartisan bills.

These mostly just die in the Senate because McConnell does not even allow them to come to a vote. His Senate is mostly focused on confirming judges.

There are literally hundreds of bills that have passed the House that are completely stalled in the Senate.
I wonder how elm and clojurescript are doing?
Is it even the case that you are legally protected when you inform you coworkers that they have constitutional rights? I would have assumed only informing them of workplace rights specifically would be protected.
Aside from Arial, which core fonts are still used widely?
Yes they can, but they won't get anywhere unless... They get employees of their own. That's the whole point.
There is just a lot of hand-wringing about the right way to do it. Both parties want to earmark the potential tax income for their special interests. Biden is pushing for meaningless rescheduling instead of outright legalization because those breaking federal drug laws are not legally allowed to own guns, and marijuana is the most used drug outside of alcohol in this country, and they like the way that plays out where millions of pot users have to choose between getting high and having their second amendment rights.
Wait what part didn't Google do?
In all fairness, Heathrow Express seems to work very well
And before that they went after Absinthe >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe#History

Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis, and has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant, it disorganizes and ruins the family and menaces the future of the country.
I'm not sure it's so bad. I have come across multiple wikipedia articles on technical subjects that I'm somewhat familiar with and notice how biased or straight up wrong some of them are. If the bureaucratic overhead was really "too far", then this wouldn't be possible.
Well, it certainly doesn't make sense to compel them to work. What are you going to do, throw them in jail for quitting?
NYC can already do that: it's not uncommon for express lines to be shut down overnight for work to be completed, for example.

(the entire system is shut down overnight right now anyway)
Maybe the difference is whether you consider each atom to be a releasable candidate, or is there is another release layer (a-la good old “a successful git branching model”)
I could see that being true if we didn't have this two-party gridlock. In a world where D votes against R because "red team bad" and R votes against D because "blue team bad", it feels like we're watching our entire democracy erode away.

One person shouldn't be able to unilaterally decide what will and won't be voted on, and shouldn't be able to tell half of the senate how they'll be voting if they want access to re-election funds.

I don't know what the solution is, or who could implement one. But it's really hard to look at the last decade or two and claim that the senate is working as intended.
I've definitely noticed a sibling phenomenon among good fencers. A lot of the top fencers have siblings who also fence. To the point where I can name several sibling duos in the fencing community.

Could it also be that younger siblings get parents who are a little richer and gotten over the sticker shock of being a top athlete? A lot of top youth sports require an obscene amount of money to get to the top levels. Maybe by kid #2 the parents are okay with junior's sport costing them a few thousand a month.
Monero – A Private Digital Currency
Legitimate interest is a GDPR thing and you can indeed choose to share personal information under legitimate interest and you can do so for analytics. There are countless examples of privacy policies all over the web doing exactly that.

The ePrivacy directive is much more proscriptive about consent but applies only very narrowly - to cookies and similar technology.

Conflating GPDR and ePrivacy leads to much confusion, they are to all intents and purposes separate.
The general problem is that typing for these sorts of systems suck. If it works it's a nice little safety feature, but when the types don't line up it's infuriating. Treating everything as a lowest common denominator makes compatibility trivial.
We definitely do, and I see how that might apply - I do write some Java but avoid as much as possible the disaster of checked exceptions. Mostly I am talking about Python, Go, TypeScript, and other more esoteric stuff.

I don't agree that this defensive style is necessary though - I do (like everyone these days) write a ton of glue code, and that's as I described. Java is nearly as bad as JavaScript for language-cart-pulling-program-horse designs, it's just a different set of mistakes. It could be so much better if developers just did less.
The timing here is awfully Political.

I imagine Democrats wouldn't do this if they had control of the government.

Seems like lip service to their bases.
I've never been in a zero-visibility blizzard, but I assume you also wouldn't drive at that point.
There is definitely such thing as too many people.

But with reasonable amount of people, if you start with the full team at the beginning, you can assign different responsibilities to different people. For example, one can do database, one can do web API, one can do web design, one can do integration with other systems, one can build and maintain continuous integration; you can also divide the domain knowledge among multiple people. Each person can focus on doing their part in such way that the others do not need to understand every single detail, and only use the agreed API.

However, if you add a new person late in the project... all simple things were probably already done, and all difficult things require a lot of knowledge about the existing code, that other team members already know, but if they spend their time explaining it to the new member, then their own work gets slower, so the overall speed reduces. (And yes, given enough time, the new member would learn everything and become just as productive as the old members. But the thing is, there is not enough time left at that moment.)
Yes, over the 332 days of 2020 on that chart, there are fewer deaths than the 365 days of 2019.

257 average deaths per day in 2020 vs 252 in 2018, which was the previous record high, putting 2020 on pace to become the new high record. That assumes that deaths are evenly distributed throughout the year, which at least in the US, they are not.

An annual snapshot of "excess deaths" lead to bad intuition. A weekly snapshot is much more helpful, leads to more accurate intuition, and generally is preferred.

The second chart is from October, based on the URL, and therefore missed the large spike of deaths in November.

Incomplete data leads to bad analysis.
I was thinking that Alpine here was referring to Alpine Linux, which I found strange in the context because often these sorts of acronyms (LAMP, MEAN, etc etc) don’t mention specific distros and I also would not expect CSS-Tricks.com to write about Linux distros. But the answer of course was that it’s not Alpine Linux, it’s something called Alpine.js.