skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://www.benjaminborn.de/publication/bdm_lockdown_2020/

Literally a pre-print. There's only an abstract. I don't see the actual one on Sci-Hub or anywhere. I can read it.

> https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820...

The full text of the 2nd paper is literally only two pages and only appears to look at regions in France and not other countries. There are literally no graphs, no detailed explanation of the methodology and the very next article is literally "Is COVID-19 being used as a weapon against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil?" which speaks of this very weird identity politics finding its way into major academic journals. There are references to an Appendix that I can't seem to find the full-text of, but it bothers me the paper itself doesn't seem to have a detail methodology section, risk analysis and also lists some pretty big financial incentives/interests.

The 3rd study is the only really detailed source provided, yet it only covers data up to May 5th. It also has this interesting quote:

> In addition, it is claimed that, besides the positive aspects of the lockdown, people who comply with this restriction cause a weakened immune system. The main reason for this is that there is too much food consumption and limited mobility. The effect of the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on human health may be the subject of future work

It also tries to look at environmental impacts and mentions the inconsistency of lock-downs across all areas. I'm also having a hard time understand the "Transformed data" as it doesn't seem to correlate to either of the two preceding graphs at all. Also keep in mind, correlational near r=1 shows that Ice Cream sales can lead to Polio:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

That combined with the limited window and inconsistent lock-downs should at least throw question on this study.
I’m not at all against unions, I think the idea is good for some industries. I truly hate the idea of being FORCED to join one though. I’ve worked union jobs in the past in California, and the idea that I HAD to join an organization and pay them a portion of my minimum wage hourly pay drove me absolutely bonkers. This was on top of the fact that the union never gave me any benefits, the reps were impossible to get ahold of and didn’t care at all even if you did get ahold of them. To me, it was a giant useless bureaucracy that I was forced to pay into.

I hope software unions look and feel different than the experience that I had.
Sure but those things are not the norm. Or rather, motorized standing desks with microcontrollers are the norm for motorized standing desks, but not for desks. Same for dentist chairs, they are not the norm for chairs.

Do they actually put xray devices directly into the chair? I always had to go into a special shielded room with an xray machine that slowly moves around my head.
Where would be sensible to apply? I'd be very interested.
Oh no, they fell off?

:)
I’d _totally_ hire that guy!
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I agree, my point is that psychoanalysis was developed by medical doctors trained in scientific methods and scientific understanding of human biology. So they were certainly aware that psychoanalysis wasn't scientific and never pretended it was. Freud attempted to link psychoanalytic observations to neuroscience, but ultimately abandoned that project because he thought the science of the day wasn't sophisticated enough.
I don't fully get the title from the content, but perhaps NPR is saying that we should have a different control structure for health related maters... Like for example in Star Trek the only people that can override the captain is the doctor. For medical emergencies they can basically force some course of action. It seems in most countries the top brass is making decisions even though they are not technically qualified to do so.
I didn't enjoy the sentiment of the post as it came across as far too entitled.

- Disappointed that Stripe wouldn't just give him a job and the same pay back.
- Referring to the new job as a downgrade when in fact it was simply a bad fit.
- Job hopping every 18 months as if that is perfectly acceptable and sustainable for the employers.
There is no link. Segmentation of ECC support was an Intel decision which other chip manufactures have copied to a greater or lesser extent. For what it's worth, ECC support is spotty in Chinese-designed chips as well.

Intel's decision could just as well have been made by a socialist government's regulatory body (in the form of "minimum requirements for consumer chip" legislation), or by a committee of decision makers in an employee-owned company. We may never know, because we only have 2-4 data points and they're all basically capitalist.

Honestly, I'm not sure it was intended to be a serious comment. It could just as easily have been "...failure of human cognition and Obama."
Nothing wrong with quitting early. I'm a bit surprised at the reasoning, after all he knew how long the commute was, and what the product was. But it's fine, we don't all know how we'll feel, like any relationship that goes from maybe to signed up.

As an employer, I tend to think we dodged a bullet. I've had one or two early quits over the years, and it's fine, we mostly avoided investing too much in them. People come, they sniff around for a week, they leave. Or they come, we find out we don't like them, and they go. Both have happened.

I've also been on the employee side of that. I joined, and then found the place to be a mess. So I left immediately when something else presented itself a few weeks later.

The thing about jobs, as opposed to school, is that the only way a job ends is that someone calls time on it. School ends because you're done. You graduated, passed the viva, whatever. A job you have to decide to end if you don't like it. You can't just slog it out through that course that you don't like, because there's no end.

I wouldn't worry at all about the CV impact. Chances are you can explain what happened if you decide to have it on your CV. Alternatively, I don't think anyone would hold it against you if you omitted or obscured a few weeks of your life. I certainly wouldn't.
Breaking news: Productivity hits sky high today as tech workers forced to work at home and not use Slack.

https://twitter.com/louiechristie/status/1346213038924427265...
Apart from "webcrap", this seems an entirely apt comment to me. If you join a hardware company, you should expect to get some grease on you.
Yes. I'm interested in the personal website aspect.
Well I'm no economist, but this seems inevitable if (1) consumers want cheap products and (2) production is cheaper elsewhere. Given those conditions, any company that wants to survive will have to move production abroad (and those that do not will quickly be replaced).

So if we want to keep domestic production, either consumers need to voluntarily choose more expensive alternatives -- which seems unlikely to happen -- or we have to put tariffs or other restrictions on import of goods. The EU does this for a variety of agricultural products to protect farming, for example.

Or is there another way out?
> Then you can mine the currency and provide them to other players in the game, either by giving it away or selling it.

> “It’s a way to compensate people who really believe in us in the beginning,” Schiermeyer said. “That’s how we’re structuring the blockchain. The people who were first to play it are going to get more than people who are last to play it. So, I mean, there’s definitely a reason to come in.”

So, uh, it's a pyramid scheme, thinly disguised as a game?
It’s not about how much value your labor provides. It’s about how much unique value your labor provides.

Most IBs aren’t making millions in the same way that most engineers are making what a Principal at a FAANG makes.
If you’ve worked in high end production I would love to work at your facility.

You clearly understand many of the issues involved but downplay the complexity in running high end assets in less than perfect production.

Unless the industry has changed dramatically in 5 years shot changes, per shot fixes, variants (clean, dirty, destroyed), shader tweaks, happen on every single show I’ve ever been part of.

Render time and storage is one factor as is individual artist iteration, but the real productivity killer is an inter discipline iteration.

Going from a “blurry texture” note in comp to a TD fix to a texture “upres” is potentially a 5 person, 4 day turn around. I would trade a whole bunch of cpu and storage to avoid that.

Computers are cheap, people are expensive, people coordinating even more so.
I also measure my candidates' ability to fix bugs by learning the details of a language feature they're not familiar with, by finding examples and documentation.

I find that many junior-level candidates scrape by with Stack Overflow, but sadly have little competence when it comes to reading documentation. Candidates for more senior roles have a similar problem regarding systems design. They can find and parrot little statements they've seen on forums, but when you ask them to explain, their understanding turns out to be shallow.

I don't use programming exercises as a sufficient measure, but they are a necessary one.

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> At what point do we label massive shared delusions mental illness and treat them as such?

I'm having trouble imagining how that's compatible with a democratic form of government.

A policy like that would, I think, provide a very clear roadmap for would-be dictators.
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Who deals with the downtime if any other on-premises system goes down?

If you are running networks and software on site, and they are business-critical, you have people and a plan for this. Or you don't, and suffer the consequences.
Brilliant logic there. And if I cross the street, I might get hit by a bus. Let's ban cars.

You seem to be struggling that this is a hugely complex situation that might call for slightly more sophisticated logic than you're apparently capable of.

> What happens when hospitals are overrun with patients with ‘mild’ symptoms?

Um wow tough one. Maybe prioritize severe cases like we have been doing for the past 9 months which has worked so well that the Nightingale covid hospitals have never been used...

> We’ve been talking about this for nine months and you’re still at the marginal deaths stage of reasoning.

I'm sorry, what are you suggesting? Ultimately marginal deaths is what this is all about. That's ultimately why hospital capacity matters.

Are you sure you've joined the right game here?
Why not? Provided the vaccines work (hard to doubt at this point) and we can manufacture enough of them, what's going to stop us?
Classic weather balloon, dont worry about it. ;)
Changing your SMTP server configuration that way would break things, so the question is whether to set up a new, company-internal SMTP server, and give your employees new addresses there. But that won't quickly stop the phishing, because your ppl still need to get email via the public network from clients and suppliers.

Setting up a new server isn't easy unless you hire an outside service provider, and if you're willing to do that, Slack et al offer a nicer UX than the well known email/webmail clients.

Orgs with sufficient IT resources commonly do run internal SMTP servers.
It’s not so much “not in my back yard” as there is no back yard big enough. The article says the new digger bank wind farm will be as big as Yorkshire, which is really very big (in UK terms)
I had a friend that did this last year. He job hunted for about 3 months, then took a job at a company he thought he would enjoy for about 6-8 business days (1.5 weeks) and then got a job offer with another company that came through from his earlier job search.

He felt really bad leaving so early but he wasn't particularly happy with the environment after the first week and took the next opportunity that came his way and paid significantly more.

Of course he said that the second job hasn't been much better to his happiness, but his logic was that if you are going to do something you hate, you might as well get paid more to do it. The second job is also more convenient for his commute.

He told me that he doesn't plan on putting the one week job on his resume going forward.
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The early (earliest?) NeXT APIs start with NX.

macOS doesn't have support for any of these.

I found this out when I tried porting Tim Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb to macOS as a weekend hack.
This is almost as bad as those folks who have to interview for their own jobs...usually during lay offs, or in the midst of big organizational changes. Maybe on paper some of these ideas seem ok, but it really is either silly or humiliating or both.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm referring here to folks who are already employed at some firm, and that same firm is asking them to interview (again) for their existing job, or a new job that is almost identical to the legacy job...all within the same firm.
Having a say in the contract you end up signing (which may be at a variety of different companies) is more personally useful to the individual than having a say in the specific contract of a specific company. So the claim that unions give you more say in the employment conditions of a specific company is irrelevant because it's an optimization towards the wrong objective.
I absolutely agree they’re necessary, but should be a realistic problem that needs solving (as you’re doing).
If we expect startups and companies to act ethically...

Oh, I gave up on that a long time ago. So where does that leave me in light of the second half of your sentence?

I know where it leaves me: it leaves me in the place where employers pushed for "at-will" employment in the state legislature, and just like an employer might want me to train my replacement, I'm going to "not quit until something better is lined up". I'll still do the work that I was hired to do, but I'm not quitting until it suits my needs, just like an employer won't keep me around even one minute longer than suits their needs.

Ethics don't come into play, these are the rules that have been foisted upon us while no one asked us our opinion on the subject. To argue ethics in this case makes me suspect manipulation at worst, naivety at best.
This is perfect!
Oh man. I left a remote job in like, late 2017 because of some problems I had with their ethics. I took a job that paid less and required me to drive (not too far, and I was missing seeing people's faces a bit anyway).

It was a bigger company that had acquired probably 7-8 businesses--my team's job was to integrate them all together to help the business operate more fluidly. It took me about 2 days to realize that a) the project was doomed, b) all the people working here (except Dave, the guy who told me to "abandon all hope" as I sat down on the first day) were just faking it and c) literally every person with decision-making capacity was incompetent.

The SMEs were all siloed into a different (you might even say competing) team. They were actually trying to encode all the business rules into something akin to MuleSoft. They were inaccessible to us.

The architect on the project couldn't write code to save his life. He was in love with some inane microservices architecture for which the example project wouldn't even compile. It was basically a mock of a microservice architecture, but built on top of SOAP. It was a bunch of crazy nonsense. He got fired shortly after I left.

The development manager was a nice enough guy, probably too nice. I'm not sure what he did other than set up interviews for me and a couple of the other senior developers to conduct.

I left after 3 months, for a job that was still a pay-cut from my first job, and was twice as far to commute to. But at least it wasn't a total crapshow.

I still keep up with Dave though. So I guess it wasn't a total waste :)
Hypocrisy of elected officials following measures doesn’t imply that the measures they’re imposing aren’t needed.

I agree there have been elements of mass hysteria in this thing, but at the moment we have real and present reasons for hysteria to be appropriate. The number of cases we have at once is overwhelming hospital capacity in many regions and all signs point to it getting much worse over the next month.
By far the most sophisticated attack on infrastructure in a while. And it did mostly stuff all.

Most attacks are a drunk dude shooting stuff and you only hear the times they actually get lucky. e.g. The Alaska pipeline shooting https://missoulian.com/uncategorized/man-shoots-alaska-pipel... or the Metcalf sniper attack

Compared to the delay we will get to 5G because we won't use Huawei and had no replacement ready.

Bad processes do more damage than physical attacks to infrastructure.
Pretty rude. I know a few folks at stripe and I actually interviewed the author for another robitics company (which he passed on =)) and i can assure you he doesn’t “just know webcrap”
> They'll run out of money before they attract enough whales to survive, because I don't see anything resembling a fun game here.

Funny, that's what I think of the gaming tables at Las Vegas.

Yet Las Vegas has been doing it for almost a century.
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I can appreciate this point of view, but don't share it. Adding type annotations into the language proper would result in some serious complexity; RBS is optional, incremental and there will be tooling to keep things in sync before you can say "Matz rocks".
This post was just a couple of months too late.

I recently started a new, lucrative team lead job in a problem space I was interested in that promised to be structured, ambitious, and full of opportunity. I even requested a follow-up post-offer to make sure it was a good fit. But after only two weeks, I realized it was a command-and-control death march.

No product ownership. Design your database up front. Complete waterfall but with developers and team leads responsible for each phase. A drive-by micromanaging executive with a team far too large to micromanage. Implementation teams of (only) junior developers had spent months prior to my arrival talking/meeting/designing - with virtually nothing to show for it.

Every day was a calendar full of meetings to prepare for other meetings. Other teams and their managers were reporting fraudulent statuses creating the illusion of progress when no actual progress actually existed. Asking questions or offering any pushback was met with passive-aggressive anger. Any effort to create a little bit of structure amidst the chaos was, almost immediately, thrown away.

So I decided it was best if I resigned. They even kept me around for a couple of weeks after I resigned which was nice, and that two weeks confirmed I made the right decision. A number of other team members and peers reached out and expressed agreement or envy - they wanted to leave as well.

But despite those assurances that I'd made the right choice, it was a tough pill to swallow. I've never worked anywhere less than 18 months. I love building good software and I hate job hunting. I'm debating whether to put this experience on my resume or not because it's such an outlier in my professional experience and was such a short stent.

Here's hoping the next opportunity is a better match. If you're an employer in DFW (or willing to take on a remote) looking for a Team Lead or hands-on Development Manager that can code, I'd love to chat.
The virus existing is not the same as it being an ongoing global pandemic requiring widespread public health action.
I am in the same boat as the author of having only recently played Return of the Obra Dinn between Christmas and new years. I cannot recommend it enough, if you haven't played it and like puzzlers you should pick it up.

It's an extremely engaging story, and a narrative tool I have not previously encountered. No spoilers as this is revealed immediately, but essentially you are navigating past events through frozen timepoints at the moments when people died, and have to determine the identities and fates of all the about 60 crew aboard the boat, which requires a bit of puzzling things together across the different events that lead to peoples deaths.

I doubt we'll see a similar follow up game from Lucas Pope, as he has commented this game grew much larger than he expected and he would scale back for his next projects. Also from papers-please to Obra Dinn he seems to be one to break the mold at each iteration, but I really wish there where more games like this, with different stories to investigated.
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In that case, finance people with said bonuses indeed make that kind of value.

Though I am not quite sure the average finance person makes more than the average software engineer.
I wonder how it works, if its powered by google or if its their own search engine in use.
As a CS graduate I had this a few years ago.

After 4 months, I felt numb and that would last every week from Monday to Friday. I wanted to be somewhere else so bad.

But instead of option 2 ("Start exploring new opportunities but don’t quit until something better is lined up"), I chose option 3 ("Stick it out for at least a year") for these reasons:

- With only €800 saved up (had just invested €5,000 in a fishing business that had failed) at the moment I realized it wasn't a good fit I couldn't afford even a month of bills.

- It would look bad on the resume, and might have to justify it to next prospective employers.

Also due to unfortunate circumstances, my life was administratively a mess: there was a massive 6-month delay in the delivery of new residence permits. And by the time my papers got processed, social security information was no longer up-to-date (only valid for 3 months), causing an additional nerve-wracking 5-month delay. As a consequence I couldn't quit or even get fired as, in addition to the mess above, I would have to update employment information (and get possibly another 5-month delay). After my annual review with my boss and a PIP, my salary got cut 10% (had no choice)

The happy ending? When I finally managed to get my residence permit and successfully updated my social security information 18 months after I joined the company. I looked for and found a new job, handed in my resignation and joined the other company.
I meant that as a suggestion compared to designing a new protocol.