skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Leading” is such a terrible word to describe the job of most software engineering managers(at least the ones I have met in my career).

If it’s done correctly, in most cases it’s just firewall/interface between the rest of the company and the engineers of the team.

Dealing with upper management is not really “leading” imho. You are not leading the team unless you architect, design and code your team’s product.

Are you leading a team of surgeons if you haven’t seen the inside of a surgery room since you left school?
> We would seriously have to rethink how we did virus biology.

The link made it pretty clear that the vast majority of the world already refuses to fund the type of research that could have led to the virus.
Things I learned in 2020 about climate change that changed my life
I think the founder and CEO of a large, valuable company randomly sitting down with an intern to discuss some topic for 30 minutes illuminates something about their personality, even if that alone isn't proof they're a saint or anything.

It's the collection of anecdotes like that, the absence of counter-anecdotes, and little things like Patrick still sometimes commenting on HN that paint a fuller picture. Such a person could still potentially be hiding a darker side, but I think it decreases the probability.
Don't your libraries implement it?
My main reason is because if BTC became mainstream a bunch of crypto nerds would become richer than many banks.

No way they'll allow that to happen I think.

There's of course also

- deflation meaning anyone who believes in Bitcoin and uses one to buy something is either desperate or a fool

- as well as practical issues like energy consumption
People keep saying that lockdown and elimination strategies only work on islands, but I've yet to hear a compelling narrative why that should be the case.

The only variations in the effectiveness of a lockdown strategy should be due to
- Household size
- Compliance levels
- Duration

Covered population, and population density should be completely irrelevant.

You also need a seperate and ongoing strategy to prevent re-introduction, and an outbreak management strategy, but those are seperate concerns.

Ideally, if your neighbouring countries/states/whatever were similarly effective, then re-introduction management shouldn't be too difficult (cf 'pacific travel bubble', etc).
I don’t really get why even entertaining the question is dangerous, and I can imagine some reasonable justifications for why they’d be doing that kind of research (which I believe is called “Gain of Function”). Understanding what mutations could make a virus more communicable is something that I think would benefit everyone. The dangerous questions really do come in at your last hypothetical, which obviously signals extreme nefarious intent and would require extraordinary evidence.
It's not really that strange. My first full-time gig as a software engineer threw me into the team lead position at the six month mark as well. I found that we simply work in a field where most people do not want to be in a leadership position.
> some forms of ignorance in our highly connected society become very dangerous when voiced

Right out of 1984...make "ignorance" inexpressible!

Dystopian utilitarian analysis says certain words shouldn't be uttered.
"The startup will then use special meters to measure the energy savings from the project and log them on the WOZX blockchain. Any savings made will be distributed into the investor's profile as energy credits."

I am curious about this part. There's at least two obstacles that needs to be overcome in some fashion for the post-retrofit energy accounting:

1. Accounting for transient, and dynamic phenomena. A simple example: You can swap your old lightbulbs for more energy-efficient ones, but what if the occupancy of a building doubles and everyone uses the lightbulbs twice as much, which makes the electricity bill increase. The more complex example, which makes all thermal-related accounting suspect would be that the weather is dynamic, which makes it difficult to compare to the ROI that is informed from energy simulation methods (which is used to compare between different potential options, and rarely used to compare to an actual, real building given the massive uncertainty associated with the former).

One solution would be to build a simulation model that gets updated with actual weather, and updated occupancy (etc) numbers. Or you can, in theory account for uncertainty during the retrofit proposal and ensure there's some margin of error for unexpected changes. In both cases you can also normalize by some of the easier properties (i.e energy per person). However, the calculation of uncertainty leads to a second problem...

2. The high dimensionality of the energy models. There are so much features/inputs that inform an energy model, that you end up with an exponentially growing space of potential energy results. Not an impossible problem to solve, but again, not something that is traditionally tackled in the energy simulation community since comparing simulation results to actual results is not the objective of our models.
So Nintendo did nothing illegal. Good.
I tend to believe that it is naive to think that Google would want Firefox to die.
The Chimera section claims:

> Pangolins and bats don't usually cohabitate, making this somewhat unlikely in nature.

Horseshoe bats are nocturnal animals that roost in caves during the day but sometimes practice perch feeding at night [1]:

> The other strategy is known as perch feeding: Individuals roost on feeding perches and wait for prey to fly past, then fly out to capture it.

Pangolins [2] and palm civets [3] are nocturnal and arboreal. The bat viral RNA sequences come from anal swabs of netted animals so they are primarily gastrointestinal infections. All of these animals are found in the Lancang/Mekong [4] catch basin. Bat guano seems like a good vector for the virus.

Gain-of-function experiments require two viral isolates that recombine during passage. The lab theory assumes that the RNA sequence of the original viral isolates were never shared. I find this scenario unlikely but I am open to changing my mind based on evidence. SARS-1 is evidence of a very similar zoonotic scenario.

Humans that encounter bat guano in this region also seem like a good host for a recombination event.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat#Diet_and_foragin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin#Behavior

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_palm_civet#Feeding_and_d...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong
I tried to launch a Kickstarter for a project called CoinCard. Basically it's a leather, credit card sized holder for coins where each coin slips into a perfectly sized slot for that coin. I still use one the prototypes in my wallet today. I learned a ton about leather and manufacturing, a bit about videography, and what it takes to launch a kickstarter (much more than you think). Ultimately not enough people wanted one, though a few begged me to make them one at any price.

I still think a large manufacturer of wallets could easily popularize this as a standard wallet insert, but so few leather manufacturers are in the US anymore I couldn't even contact them to give away the idea.
Suggestions for a better word?
Thank you, i did not realize there was such a setting and was getting fed up of all the [flagged] comments.
Ok, just to be clear, a GS-13 is comparable to a masters and a GS-14 is comparable to a PhD IF you are using education as your sole means of qualifying for the position. I was hired as a GS-11, promoted to GS-12 after one year, GS-13 after another, received two qualified step increases the year after, plus a regular step increase. So in a matter of three years, I was effectively promoted six times. Once you are on a career ladder there are no education requirements.

In terms of GS-15, their pay goes up to 170k, so its not like GS-15 step 1 is the end of the road. Federal employees have also been receiving above-inflation pay raises and COLA adjustments the last few years.

So why would a good engineer work for the government? Honestly, if pay is your only metric you use to choose your place of employment, then I would not expect them to. However, as I have mentioned, there are plenty of people in the world who choose their place of employment based on many factors other than compensation.

Is government work frustrating? Sure. I'm sure the same can be said of for the engineer developing a CRUD application and has a shitty senior engineer overseeing them. Government work can also be incredibly rewarding and unfortunately, the majority of the time you only hear about the government failures instead of its successes. The federal government issues in excess of 500 billion in contracts per year...I assure you, there are successes in there and I have seen some federal agencies that have implemented acquisition processes and development practices that are competitive with some SV companies.
I struggle with this concept. Suppose a password manager's password sharing utility allows me to login to a web service in my browser. Couldn't I open the Network tab and observe the network request that displays the plaintext username and password?
One of the strongest indicators is China's fierce opposition to an independent investigation in to the origins of the virus. Why wouldn't they want that?
Yes, this comes back to use case.

So it's great that there are different implementations for different use cases. It helps that the wire format is simple and well-documented.
Pretty sure this already existed, but of course it's Apple and I think the patent office just rubber-stamps whatever big tech sends them.
But how did one new strain suddenly amass 17 previously unseen mutations?

Normally we should have sampled a number of strains with fewer of the same mutations, shouldn't we?
That is cracking! Thank you. I note rather a lot of Ubuntu themed tables which will come in handy as well.

I use Arch for my personal gear, Debian for Home Assistant instances and Ubuntu for nearly everything else. A slack handful of Gentoo boxes hang around, looking moody and causing trouble 8) This sort of resource is a great idea.

I can see myself wiring it up to an automated change tracker or similar idea still boiling around in my head. Bugs are in there as well and a lot of other good stuff that should mean that I can run a query to show me what will break before I do updates!
The energy cost is really only a problem for on-chain transactions. Technologies like the lightning network can greatly mitigate that problem.
Basecamp pioneered that over 10 years ago. Here is an interesting rebuttal of Jason Fried on that topic:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1209-forbes-misses-the-point-...
Fair point, so the intentionality is one level back
Even if the full disease cycle was only two weeks, there's often more than one person in a household, and the time it takes to ensure all of them can cross-infect each-other, and go through the full disease cycle is much longer.
> For example, if we define the __add__() special method on an existing class, it will set the nb_add slot of the class to the default implementation that calls the method.

See also this post from 2014, which argues that this is a bad design. It claims that Python would be both simpler and faster if it looked up special methods like `__add__` by name every time, rather than using the slot mechanism:

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/8/16/the-python-i-would-like-t...
> Nah, you're assuming too much. Protobuf was thrown together in a fairly ad hoc way by a couple (brilliant!) engineers (Jeff and Sanjay) to help make the Google search index protocol easier to maintain. The specific design decisions in Protobuf were not carefully tested or weighed against other possibilities. They just did something that worked well enough, and it worked well enough that it was rapidly adopted by the rest of the company. It was then too late to change anything.

That's fair enough as a description of how the protocol was (not) designed that those sorts of trade-offs were not taken into account in the initial design.

However, it doesn't entirely invalidate my assumption: search index protocol is pretty obviously a context/scale that would have deeply favored more time/cost-sensitive reads (need to get search results to users as fast as possible) and the time/cost for writers less of a pressure (as writers for the index protocol could presumably be amortized with caching/proxying/throwing hardware at the problem). Whether that was an intentional "optimization" process or simply "optimization evolutionary pressure", it does seem to me (as an entirely outside observer) like a natural trade-off optimization that ocurred at Google scale for protobufs that kept protobufs feeling "well enough" that they were essentially left alone and never optimized for something with different trade-offs (such as use cases that were more write than read-heavy).

Which it is still useful to know those sorts of "optimization evolutionary pressures" to answer questions like "sure, it worked for Google, but will it work for me in this very different use case/scale?"
Found this comment in Apple’s chess engine source code
As an aside, I thought that the Domino’s Pizza v. Guillermo Robles decision was strange. Domino's Pizza stores are local brick-and-mortar operations. They all have telephones and take orders by telephone. That to me would seem to be a "reasonable accomodation" for a vision-impared person who could not use the website to order a pizza.

In the more general sense, a strictly online service that has no alternate means of access probably does have at least some responsibility under the ADA.
That's why I don't use Chrome, nor do I endorse others doing so (look at some of my other comments, if you want to know what I think of Google and its effective monopoly...)
The Pentagon has 180 days to disclose UFO information
There are experts discussing this

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29246
>Roku or other streaming box

There's LibreElec. The perfect project for that Raspberry Pi you have laying around

>smartphone

There's Linux distros for some phones now like Mobian
It isn't coincidental. The reason the institute is there is because of the high prevalence of bats and bat viruses in the region.
If you want to study bat viruses you can't pick many better places. The researchers involved, including connected US researchers, have been warning about this for years.

Ironically one of these researchers, Daszak, was politically targeted for his connections to this Wuhan lab [1], even though he and Wuhan scientists have been trying to get the attention to this problem for some time.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4
Or be the company flogging the rigs rather than paying for the flight (insert saying about shovels in a goldrush)
From experience I can say that's it's pretty disturbing when a human driver breaks your model, too. And this happens more often than I'd like - I was second in a set of pedestrians about to cross the street (two lane arterial with a 25mph limit - heavily used by both cars and peds - at a cross walk I use several times a week) - the guy in front of me and I both judged that the driver was looking in our direction (it was dark admittedly but street is well-lit) and the car slowed in a fashion that led us to think it was going to stop.

The fellow in front of me steps in front of the car which suddenly accelerates and hits him knocking him down. Immediately before impact it decelerates and comes to a stop.

The fellow ended more shaken up than anything else, but it was a very near thing and a reminder that it's precisely that assumption of the predictability of human drivers that fails in many crash situations.

In other words, your judgement that you understand what other drivers are going to do is more fragile than you imagine.
I repeat, show me where I supported policy brutality?

>The fact that you are arguing against oversight of the police

Where do I argue against oversight of the police?

>your general stance that appears to be okay with the police doing what they need to to prevent crime

Nowhere did I argue that, nor do I support that.

What is wrong with you? Can you stop straw manning my position?
> Not really. Japanese / SKorea success in tech are from massive conglomerates that function effectively the same as Chinese SEOs, see Chaebol, Zaibatsu.

That's only part of the picture. I'm talking more lower level ie. artists, engineers and scientists

Sure, you need the infrastructure for investment and manufacturing but that doesn't solve the problem of nationally, stunted creativity

> Free speech doesn't matter when building electronics or military hardware

It does matter if you want to build something original and innovative, instead of yet another cheap copy. That requires creativity, which is dependent on free speech. I mean just take a look at mainland entertainment. Most of it consists of movies and shows about the distant past. It's not even close to what could have been done like what you see in Japan or SK. Maybe if China had a more individualist society, you'd have a better argument or even proof beyond one off exceptions like DJI

> China under Xi is going in the right direction for global dominance for the simple reason that he's one of the first leader since Mao to take military modernization seriously... Now China has a massively expanding Navy with growing blue water capabilities, SCS bases, space infrastructure and enough indigenous weapons that even belligerent US under Pompeo doesn't have the guts to sail carrier through the Taiwan strait anymore.

What does this matter when everyone important already has global, ballistic nuclear missiles? One could argue that it's a drain on GDP when it could be spent elsewhere. Most of the US deficit is due to wasteful, military spending.

> The alternative to Xi was Bo Xilai who would never have reformed the corrupt and ineffective military old guard.

How do you even know there are actual reforms vs Xi just having a good excuse for rounding up his enemies like Putin, when there's no free press?
I get no substantially fewer calls or mail on fridays than on other days.

I can get my work done in four days, but I also get work requests with same-day deadlines, either a soft expectation that you can miss sometimes but not structurally, or a hard expectation that you simply can't miss.

This is especially the case for friday because clients will often work weekends on the high-priority stuff. Sometimes they rely on something that takes me 2 hours on a friday, if I don't do that, they're stuck till monday. It's just not acceptable in my line of work.

I've not really found a good solution.

I can get fridays off formally, but then you're not just cutting your salary, you're also cutting chances for promotions (which isn't just a matter of pay, but also a matter of career development, personal development, keeping work interesting and dynamic, status/ego). There's a strong preference for employees with full-availability such that clients have one point of contact, instead of multiple parttimers across the week. And leadership positions are expected to always be working during regular working hours.
Can you elaborate? What do you think is happening at say, a hydroelectric damn with onsite computers, versus what could happen?
You don't even need to bring Linux into the picture, necessarily.

But whatever piece of proprietary software you run with DRM and obfuscation and licensing, you don't control. It's up to you to do a cost analysis and decide if it's "worth it" -- I use lots of proprietary software, I'll admit. Office365 and Steam are two big examples that I either can't or won't give up because of the professional or personal consequences.

However, in both cases, I'm not in control of either piece of software. That's what I get for using proprietary software. It sounds like crazy Stallman ranting, but maybe he was right on this one -- the real solution is to not let proprietary plugins like Flash become "required" to use the net. As long as your computing platform is free, you have the choice not to.

The number of people agreeing with this sentiment that this is about controlling our computers is kind of disheartening. This isn't OS or firmware level lockdowns, just a piece of software.
Smart manufacturers will cover this risk with third-party insurers, for some period of time: probably the vehicle warranty period. After that, it will be on the owner to renew.

If I was one of these insurers, I'd be insisting the vehicles were maintained to an extremely high level of roadworthiness by mechanics that licensed or certified. Home DIY would be forbidden, as would any modification to the hardware or software. Think something like happens now for aircraft.
Look at your graph again. The usage dropped from 30% to 10% from 2010-2015, and 10% to 5% from 2015 to 2020. It doesn't seem clear that the staff had significantly raised the value of the product before the deal, and there is at least an argument to be made that the huge influx of cash stemmed the bleeding.

While I won't claim the leadership has been truly outstanding, I think the extreme criticism of their salary is unwarranted.
Serving your team - is a better phrase for this interference running.
> major network and cable news told them that the government's time line for getting a vaccine was a lie.

The White House and Trump repeatedly claimed, publicly, that the vaccine would be available before the election in November 2020. That turned out to be very false.

The media called out the lies and now you’re blaming the media for the administration’s lies and empty hope?

Here is a link to remind you.

* https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/516855-meadows-d... The administration was attacking its own expert timelines from the CDC and FDA. Of course that made the media and other observers suspicious. “Meadows told reporters that the Trump administration is aiming to have 100 million vials ready for distribution to vulnerable populations, namely the elderly, by the end of October”

* https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/519929-trump-las... “ New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job! @SteveFDA” - Donald Trump tweet

In the end, the vaccine came out on the FDA timeline, rather than Trump and Mark Meadows successfully pressuring the FDA to release the vaccine early like Russia did with Sputnik V. Edit: added another supporting link.
Didn't mean to imply they weren't useful :)
The biggest hassle would be that the embedded HTTPS server needs a trusted certificate, but certificates are only issued for hostnames, not IP addresses. So the embedded HTTPS server's certificate and LAN clients would need to know the hostname of the device running the app.
BOE display (Chinese company) recently started supplying display panels for iPhone. Since the panel is one of the most expensive components of the phone, value added part for China is increasing.
Let us not act as if the LGPL be the only free software licence that exists.

Even among free software advocates there are problems and they might favor another free software licence, even another copyleft licence, and that can't be done in this case.

There is a reason that many large projects in fact craft their own licence rather than relying upon another template, as they do not meet their needs.
You’re grasping at a lot of straws here. Showing your business on a globe is pretty old idea. Stripe “ripped off” someone too. Shopify was doing this for cyber monday many years ago.

I also don’t think the ICE and DoD deals are relevant here at all (or to any of Microsofts’s other products)
Zoonosis is basically the null hypothesis, as this is the mechanism for essentially every single other virus. For this virus to be special and have a special and different origin requires evidence.