skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I get sick and die, I get sick and die. People who are concerned about getting sick or dying, then, should take more caution (staying home, wearing PPE, etc). That standard has always existed. Up until 2020, there was always the chance that you would catch some virus, bacterial infection, etc.

The rebuttal that's always applied to this is that "so you don't care about people, then?" which is not the point.

Personally, I can and should be legally able to take whatever precautions I think are necessary without any interference or looming punishment from the government. I'd much rather this sort of thing be policed socially amongst individuals as opposed to giving carte blanche to government to lock people up.
One thing to keep in mind is that some of the papers which reviewers consider very marginal turn out to be breakthroughs. For example Jim Allison, who later won the Nobel Prize:

"Allison was hoping to be published by one of the leading peer-reviewed research journals. But nobody at Cell or Nature or any of the A-list, peer-reviewed journals was willing to publish the findings of this junior academic from Smithville, Texas. “Finally, I ended up publishing the results in a new journal called The Journal of Immunology.” It wasn’t Science or the New England Journal of Medicine, but it was in print, and in the world.

“At the end of the paper, I said, ‘This might be the cell antigen receptor, and here are the reasons why I think that it is the T-cell antigen receptor,’ and I just listed it out, all the reasons.” It was a bold announcement regarding the biggest topic in immunology. “And nobody noticed it,” Allison says. “Except in one lab.”"

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-jim-allison-the-texan-who-j...

So you really need to publish the marginal stuff to make sure the breakthrough stuff gets published as well.
Meh. I upvoted him to cancel out your downvote. Who cares if people complain about downvotes.
Agree on this being a good strategy. It also does a good job of covering the case where you learn that you aren't actually that interested in X, or are only interested enough to get a particular task done.
Honest question: Are those terms of art we are misunderstanding?

It seems possible to me (not a lawyer) that "suspected" case means your cops needs reasonable suspension (cough, fever, loss of taste and smell etc). But "clear and convincing" would require more (positive test result?). So what happens if you strongly suspect someone has covid but they decline a test? You can't take action as your suspicion isn't enough.

I'd be happy with reasonable suspension (which would apply to anyone with a fever or a cough or other symptoms right now). Thoughts?
There is a popular myth that 'there was a mighty USSR and some enemies ruined it'.

The Soviet Union collapsed because of massively broken economy. That's just basic science. They exported oil and imported grain. Russia imported GRAIN for gods sake. Then oil prices collapsed. Next? They did nothing and just ate through the resources until they were no more.

And then 'evil liberals/evil west destroying the great country' happened, when finally USSR had no money to pay for the social obligations and for massive military.

This are the undisputed facts, supported by a vast trove of internal documents from the late USSR and first years of the Russian Federations.

A monograph by Egor Gaidar [1] is an excellent source referencing tons of the original documents.

Sorry for Russian, not sure this is available in English anywhere.

I get that it's easier to think that source of our problems is some evil mastermind and conspiracy. But think of the Occam's razor — this is explained much easier by sheer incompetency and stupidity and no checks and balances to mitigate them.

1. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гибель_империи_(монография)
Here's my interpretation of the bill after reading it over a couple times. IANAL.

- NY state will have the ability to order the detainment of individuals (EDIT: or groups / classes of individuals) if it's decided they pose an "imminent + significant threat to public health resulting in severe morbidity or high mortality".

- Individuals are detained in a medical facility or a facility/premises designed by the governor

- If ordered to be detained for more than 3 business days, and the detainee requests to be released, the state will submit an expedited court order to continue detainment. The court order must be granted within 5 business days after the detainee's request, otherwise they are released. If detained less than 3 business days, they are "afforded an opportunity to be heard" (not sure what that actually means)

- Individuals with a confirmed case can no longer be detained if they are not contagious. If there's no confirmed case, they can't be detained if they will not become contagious in the future or if the state determines they will not pose a risk to public health

- Expanded power of the state to create and enforce new orders, such as (but not limited to) requiring testing / medical evaluation of individuals who are thought to be exposed / infected. Also allows them to force preventative measures such as a vaccine, but with the caveat there must be a court order if administration must be done forcibly.

- The above powers only apply during a declared "State of Health Emergency" due to an epidemic
Thanks to the lobbying system, most laws and regulation in the US serve to protect and enrich moneyed interests beyond all else. If something is actually collectively beneficial to the wider populace, its a happy accident. Politics in the US make much more sense when understood through the lobbying lens.
> tall, rectangular buildings maximize volume to surface area,

I imagine that you mean that tall buildings maximize ground area, and that most property is rectangular.

The way to maximize volume to surface area is to build spheres, or cubes if you're forced to remain rectilinear, but tall buildings optimize for ground area.
Documenting everything is good advice, but it can give false hope to people in these situations. Hiring a lawyer is never as easy, cheap, or as quick as it sounds from internet comments.

It's easy to armchair quarterback these situations and talk about hypothetically lawyering up, but what's the endgame? Suing your company won't suddenly convert a toxic job into a happy job, regardless of the outcome. Settlements, if they ever arrive, are rarely significant enough to make a financial difference unless someone has a truly home-run protected class harassment case with hard evidence (not just verbal conversations recited from memory).

Good lawyers won't take cases that don't appear winnable from the start. However, there are plenty of bad lawyers who will happily give people false hope about their chances and then bill as much as they can get away with before the client gives up.

"Plan B" should always be to find another job ASAP, if possible. (Not easy in the author's case).
Do you really think somebody like Cuomo won't use this law to target people who defied him, like the Hasidic Jews in NYC?
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That is not a fallacy. That what has been happening, is happening, and will happen. The world is always changing and this is indeed inevitable.

I am puzzled by you putting the blame on these platforms. As said consumers like the service, if they didn't these platforms would have been forgotten failed experiments by now.

Who are you to decide that this is wrong and that people should not be able to order food for home delivery?

You are also ignoring another already stated point: Restaurants are not required to offer takeaway. They do it if they so decide. If you're a restaurant owner and don't like takeaway then just don't offer it and focus on the 'traditional' experience.

It is quite neutral, really. Different, but not inherently better or worse than it was.

We should be careful not to make this an emotional and ideological issue.
Complex Hash Collisions
It only completely changes the meaning for someone technically versed. Most people are not.

This should be clear?

A lot of people are going to think of meth when they see the word amphetamine. Likely most people.
And for those wondering, you should not go to sci-hub to get the paper, because that would be illegal ;-).
To prop up the journal, both financially and from an exclusivity angle. If the editors of the journal happen to be friends of DuPont, and the research is of actually that impactful, than a barrier to access might be beneificial
Irritating to see this Atlantic "study" being accepted as valid and written about. This happened with the "bullshit jobs" meme where it stirred up enough controversy that it became an accepted fact for many people, even though the original research was highly questionable and didn't actually prove much of anything
Why isn't his comment about France useful? That's how we improve, by seeing what others do better.
It's not only about packing. If you take your first bite a minute after a dish is ready in the kitchen, it leaves a much different impression than the first bite you take after 10 minutes in a ride. The extra time spent in the delivery is always going to make a huge different in how the food tastes, at least for certain dishes (dumplings, e.g.).
I remember hearing that my school was actually modelled after a prison. Don't know if it was actually true, but it sure looked like it, since it had this large, multi-storey hall with classrooms all around it.

A bit like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Kilmainh...
Sorry, but I can't support recreational use when I have a legitimate medical need. It makes the activism too complicated.
You are being ridiculous. No one is saying ban everything offensive. But many people, including me, will think twice about buying anything called "Amphetamine". I also wouldn't buy anything with "Cannabis" in the name. Both may have good uses but they are still narcotics which are most well known for being recreationally abused. Everything can have a good use. But that doesn't mean everything is the same or is going to be treated the same by people.

Names matter, they are signals meant for humans to understand in specific ways. And names which refer to taboo or suggestive topics are going to prick up the ears of some customers and turn others away. Names related to drugs, sex, etc. are going to turn off many customers (especially those with kids), enough for stores to have policies against them. There's nothing wrong with that.
Also one of the only places with a nontrivial amount of people who would lie about needing to go to the bathroom, many times per day, just to be disruptive and/or to get out of class.

aka "this is why we can't have nice things", juvenile edition :)
...or the rattlegate, which is very much happening with the current generation of airpods pro.
This might be a good time to mention Jay Carlson's excellent "So you want to build an embedded Linux system?" article:

https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/

It's been discussed here before, but it's an impressive reminder of what an individual can accomplish with modern small-batch PCB manufacturing.

It also goes a long way to make large-pitch BGA devices and high-speed signal design seem less intimidating to newcomers. Definitely worth a read if you're interested in these kinds of devices.

Also, the Lichee Nano is one of the only freely-available English-language reference designs for the Allwinner FIC100s processor, which is nice.
Wow, Great List! The last one (juniors calling the shots) really hit home; when I worked in <automobile industry>, I was ultimately standing on the shoulder of midgets.

The worse part? As a CS grad, I knew how to do better, but: nobody with the power to change things understood how or why what I was suggesting was better(!).

I've long thought about this afterward, and concluded it's that 'my world' (which includes a lot of experience, and facility with Math) required me to study a lot and learn a lot; and these 'coders' simply did not have the background to understand what I was trying to teach them. I would have had to fill in several semesters in order to get my points across. Yes, I left. (And yes I tried simplifying - but that only goes so far.)
> We don't normally legislate on a per-pathogen basis if that's what you're asking?

Correct. I mentioned in another reply that my concern is about the precedent being set.
Another closely related possibility is that a lot of processes in science are inherently serial, i.e. they can't scale with the number of researchers, because they require slowly integrating information and making consecutive steps of progress.

Maybe after say, quantum computers are available, it takes around 25 years for a team of researchers to slowly make progress and integrate information until they find a killer application. Funding 25 teams of researchers may make them pump out papers 25x faster, but they aren't going to find the killer application in 1 year.
A year after the non-apocalypse: where are they now? (2012)
So then its a question between: A) Tolerate stupid people B) Institute deeply fascist laws that can be taken advantage of and put the entire society in perill.

To me, its pretty clear which is the way to go. I'd rather have the society shame people than put them in undisclosed location for being stupid. Karen's movement is great!
Developing mobile apps sounds painful, imagine building an app and its userbase for many years and some faceless corp destroys all your work on a whim. Maybe web apps arent so bad
Change the name to "Amph" and change the icon to remove pill. You can't fight Apple, they make and enforce all the rules. If you want to protest Apple, stop developing software for their platforms.
Oh sure, it’s a matter of balancing probabilities. We can never be certain, since it’s not possible to prove a negative. Still, if we know there are balancing factors such as risks from press investigation, whistle blowers, accidental leaks, etc and still we see extremely low or no cases hitting the press, then it seems the balance of probability is that it’s relatively rare.

Compared to the extremely obvious, blatant, continuous Astro turfing, comment suppression, vote bombing and harassment we see by the authorities in China. Let’s not make any false equivalences.
It's like battery tech in that there are a lot of false starts and dead ends. And commercialization tends to play out over 1-2 decades.

That said I think the title using the word break through is clickybait. More honest title would be marginal improvement might lead to low capital costs for desalinated water plants.
It's hard from an HR perspective and it's something that a lot of managers just don't want to have to deal with. I remember in a former life, a number of problem people--not ill-intentioned but just couldn't do their jobs--who only got forced out as part of one or the other layoffs that happened over the years.
Every time I post that link it gets downvoted. Yet every time I post it, it's in response to someone implying Apple is uniquely evil. I certainly don't feel they deserve a pass, but it's such a ubiquitous problem that it's almost pointless to use as a talking point. (It's like saying Politician X is inherently bad because they accept corporate money)
> - The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices, and even if they do you will likely not get anything out of it. Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king.

This depends a lot on the situation/company. It is definitely true that in many cases it doesn't make sense to work hard. However there are situations where hard work is rewarded. Those are just probably quite rare situations after all.
Right, but it's a 1-hour unpaid phone screen vs. a a 6-hour paid project.

I can understand not wanting to do that if you're a full-time employee, but if you're a freelance developer actively looking for jobs, why would a paid project be worse than an unpaid phone screen?
That's the problem I guess. Some people will abuse it, then everyone will be denied access to it because of them.
> The Google interview is heavily based on data structures and algorithms

That's pretty much what Leetcode is. When I interviewed at Google I was asked tree traversal and hashmap design questions that were very similar to leetcode questions.
While I'm just a diletante dabbling in such matters, I tend to translate these concepts into the struggle to escape the virtual machine in which the simulation is running, to finally gain root access, the lifting of the veil obscuring reality, as described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(religion)

In other words: APOCALYPSE WOW! Again, not as in the end of the world, but in the literal meaning: lifting of the veil.

Happy New Year! ;-)
Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth
Finding Jobs During the Pandemic (Virtual Panel at USC)
you don't fix anything if you don't pick your battles. it has to be worth it, otherwise you will expend all your energy on doomed causes that ultimately don't even matter all that much
> It has been hilarious and scary to read comments from people who don't work at the company say completely inaccurate things like they are facts.

That's true with everything. Everyone has their own way to feel superior to everyone else, and for a lot of people, that superiority comes from knowledge, real or imagined.
Do you have a reason for why you think that is the problem?
Opening bank accounts is pretty cheap and easy in Austria.

I don't know what it's like in Indonesia, hence my question.
Try Minix3 or NetBSD.
The prisons seem to have nicer outdoor grounds and recreation areas.
The EU has better employee protections than the US, shocker

My future downvotes shall remain my little secret :)
I agree, but the problem is that one idiot overdoses on something and suddenly it's a big deal and it "needs to be banned". This mentality is just a$$-backwards. Use it for whatever you want, don't blame the drug if you suffer side effects.
The relevancy to the debate is established by the meaning of the word. Which is a technical issue.
Leaving the definition of a precise term to the whims of layman results in that we can't any longer say if we are talking about the same things.

Look no further then to this very thread.
It just blows my mind how, reliably, selfish people end up in positions of power. They then work the system to increase wealth or power as much as possible, everything else including the environment that we all live off of be damned, because you will be dead in 50 years anyway.

Where are the altruists? Chanting in some buddhist temple? Why are things so evil?
I would be interested to see your data for that 90%.

Even if correct, I also don't think your point invalidates mine. I have done contract work for small companies that build "second type" code for large companies. One doesn't need Jira for that. As I said, one needs good client relations, but that can certainly be accomplished without a lot of top-down mangerialist claptrap. Indeed, it's my experience that things are better that way. They don't need metrics. They need their problems solved. Those two sometimes go together, but they're quite often opposed.
> perceived psychological abuse

Do you call this:

> "You escaped a war zone; it is obvious you have many mental problems."

"perceived psychological abuse"?!? What the heck, the sociopathic person who said that stupid ass thing should have been fired on the spot, apparently he/she still is a manager at Apple.
That's true, but it had nothing to do with violence.
It all depends on how much value the name has as a brand. If there are a ton of positive reviews and mentions of the app using that name, it’s not going to hurt to appeal.

But if almost all of the materials referring to the app by that name are on your own web site, I agree with you, change it and move on. Use those efforts in better places.
They are getting paid, though, for the 6-hour project which seems like a positive over a 6 hour take home test (used by some companies) where you're not paid.
not to mention the environmental impact
MacQuake.
Apple is wrong for switching up after six years, but stop trying to act like it's not a deliberately edgy reference to speed.
I’m using a PocketLab device. I actually know the PocketLab guys from the Intel Education Accelerator; we were in the initial cohort together. I would have otherwise purchased a purple air device.
There are, broadly speaking, two categories of people who advocate for free speech: civil libertarians who advocate for free speech on principle, and people with unpopular opinions that tend to face censorship.

In 20th century America, between approximately Schenck v. United States and Brandenburg v. Ohio, those “people with unpopular opinions that tend to face censorship” tended to be the ones on the far left—socialists, communists, draft resisters—who fell victim to sedition and anti-syndicalism laws. As of 2021, there is no realistic threat of the far left being censored, but there are calls to censor the far right, many of which are based on the exact same arguments that once justified those sedition and anti-syndicalism laws. This has caused the far left to abandon the cause of free speech (since it is no longer tactically useful for them) and the far right to take it up (because it is tactically useful for them).
The secret is windows.
I think it was the people of the ungovernable borderlands between England and Scotland (both sides) that ended up being deported to Northern Ireland, (and of course the Scots originally came from Northern Ireland anyway).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debatable_Lands
Ask HN: Who would like to see an on-premise issue tracker?
Now that JIRA server is EOL and the only option seems to be Data Centre if you want on-premise whilst other solution seem to be cloud first, how many of you would like to see a modern on-premise issue tracker?
Apple is the #1 advertiser in the world, when are you going to see corporate news really take on corporations?
I mean, not really? I think you're projecting the behaviour of the USSR (or whatever) onto the architectural style. From an aesthetic perspective, brutalism can be surprisingly pleasing -- especially if you throw in some trees: https://twitter.com/Karl_poyzer/status/1246511600300896257
> I’m not offended by the word “fuck” but I don’t really want to buy products that are named that.

Then don't. How is this relevant? They say the app has been downloaded 500,000 times, so many people are fine with the name.

These stories keep coming; they should remind us that nothing is more precious than the open web, and all those stores or walled gardens, their "rules" and vague TOS are the ennemy.
Three minute video:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PL0yBdvSxA

12 minute video from an owner:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQc8p-roy-E

Popular for off-grid situations.
I think in some ways, much of the benefits of the pandemic will be captured by distributed, rather than remote teams.

I kinda like Stripe's idea that remote people are attached to a hub, because it's important that people have some ownership around projects and a cultural context within the company.

To be honest though, a lot of the benefits of offices are through social connections of weak-ties, and I have a hard time seeing that replicated in a remote fashion. I think it would be great, I'm just not sure how to manage it.
If you were able to sign it with your own modifications it wasn't DocuSign's wildly popular "take it or leave it" mode.
> That doesn’t work anymore. Western values are being eroded.

If I’m reading the origin of that phrase correctly, it’s actually Russian (not Western) and Reagan borrowed it.
If plot plagiarism was a crime or even morally reprehensible, half the books in my town library would have to be destroyed.
Because that's exactly what you're saying. It's abusive because you're not in control. When you say there is something the victim can do to stop the abuse you're saying they're in control therefore it's not abusive. It's not abuse if you can say, "no" and it stops.