skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"what Amazon has just demonstrated for all the world to see is that when they’re facing a significant obstacle, when it matters to them, they’ll toss leadership principles like Earn Trust and Customer Obsession and Are Right, A Lot to the wind and say whatever’s expedient."

Remember this Amazonians, the LP's are just HR check boxes, they are the definition of "rules for thee, but not for me", they are propaganda that Amazon management uses to pretend decisions are principled, data driven, and built on consensus. However, when the rubber hits the road the LP's go out the window when anyone at the SVP+ wants something done. Time to start really thinking about who you work for and how much they've lost customer trust.

"When AWS says that they don’t use customer data or metadata to help inform their retail business, I have to now weigh that in the context of “they might be doing that and lying to us about it.”"

Amazonians, been working on any long term projects that don't seem to make sense from a technical perspective? Asked to limit access to specific systems for reasons you don't understand?

"Identify the executive who made the tweet and publicly fire him"

Its going to be hard to fire Bezos. According to media reports the tweet was sent at his behest.

"I don’t ever want to hear about an AWS employee being told by their manager that their tweets are “unprofessional” ever again."

They won't, they will just PIP and fire the employee just like Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa.
At a startup? Write as little software as you can
I want to challenge your assumptions. I work at a place where last year 2/3s of all candidates had to be a disadvantaged group. But I, a white dude, never felt held back in my career possibilities. It might take a bit more effort, but I still feel like I have as much opportunity as I can sink time into.

This could have more to do with how you've been tackling the problem or a bad work environment only doing diversity for diversity sake

What actions are you considering/have you tried outside of outing yourself? Some things to try:

- Build skills in a specialty that you're interested in. Maybe you're great at optimizing native code? Or really great at certain frontend stacks? Or have demonstrated a lot of leadership and mentoring of junior devs? Whatever the projects you want, focus on building street-cred in this area and seen as an authority.

- Build street cred _outside the company_: blog, speak, do open source, etc in that specialization to build your brand. Share what you create liberally internally and externally. If you're a public enough presence in the tech space, you'll stop being spammed by recruiters. Instead you'll be contacted by technology leaders (internally/externally) with specific opportunities.

- Just switch jobs... Control your destiny and just find another place to work that seems more likely to give you the opportunities you want.
It reminds me of BP's logo with different hues.

https://www.bp.com/etc/designs/refresh/bp/images/navigation/...
> I’m already paying for healthcare for my family and we’re struggling to get ahead; why would I want to pay for healthcare for others as well?

This one is my favourite because it’s literally how insurance works.
Is this title accurate? Sounds more like their just testing this arrangement out.
A physiotherapist who specialised in treating pianists cured my RSI in six sessions.

30 years later you can still see odd bumps on my forearms, on the inside, but functionally I never has problems again.

She saved my career. Thank you.
I live in a country with tax-paid medical (and dental, vision, everything necessary, with some minor exclusions) - they basically take 12.92% of your pretax earnigs for medical + ~30eur extra.

I pay a lot of money for those services, but i get really shitty service for some of those - eg. dental. I see a dark caries spot on my tooth, and basically if I'm good enough to eat (not too much pain), my waiting time is ~6months+ (pre-corona time, probably a lot longer now). I can go to a private dentist and get a filling, but I have to pay for the service. There is no way to either opt-out of eg. dental, or to get a part of the service paid by our national insurance (eg same price as the insurer would pay a government assigned dentist, you just pay a difference). We have a bunch of papers with a bunch of words promising <30 day wait times, but in practice, the wait time are huge.

Yes, if you cut your arm off, they will fix you, but the dental (and many other branches) are pretty bad.
Not disagreeing necessarily, but I’m not sure the 1:1 comparison works with “most of those countries”. For example, the US is burdened by a disproportionate amount of R&D which helps to lower costs in other countries. It’s a complex problem and overly simplified comparisons don’t often offer a real fix
And debatably a loss for domestic workers.
If you wait for someone else to protect you from life's dangers, you'll be waiting a long time.

Personally, I've decided to remove most "products" from my life, as much as possible, and I feel much better for it.
Thoughts:

1. Again, there's no shortage of tech talent in the US. This is about keeping a lid on salaries.

2. Biden owes SV big time, so this makes sense.

3. With the widespread move to remote work (particularly for tech workers), will this have less impact on the US labor market than it would otherwise?
News networks have much better SEO than John Doe with a phone and 0 subscribers.
So how about Nathan Myrvold and Intellectual Ventures next?
Suck it up, learn and keep trudging dude. Lots of us have been where you are! Hang in there.
It really is about status, though. For example, here in the UK there was a huge amount of pressure to vaccinate policemen early but no such pressure for private security guards, even though security guards were at much higher risk of dying from Covid but the police weren't. Same with, say, teachers and bus drivers. The recurring pattern was that it was the professions with high status that got to push for priority, not the ones with high risk. Our government managed to push back against this in large part because the vaccination roll-out was going well and they managed to argue that prioritizing on things other than age would slow it down, but if it had been slower or some of the unions stronger they might have ended up having to give in.
There are ongoing discussions on the implementation of the next round of new gTLDs (aka "Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process" in ICANNese). The recommendations of that Policy Development Process are now before the ICANN Board for approval/rejection. Assuming all goes "well", it's likely going to be a few more years before applications for new gTLDs can be submitted. See https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/new-gtld-s... for more info.
Because that would interfere with their agenda of getting hired/getting their children hired by those same monopoly companies after leaving office
Do you think you may be unsuccessful and get blown away by their own security apparatus?
Oh they can and will sell some, and I never claimed otherwise. My point is that they won't sell enough that the buyer(s)' token production rate through staking will exceed their own.
Investing 30 seconds reading a comment vs 12 minutes on a video is not the same thing.
Thanks for the answer.

With that in mind, when you make a post and enable comments then those people who have the shared link are the only ones who can comment, right?

I was trying to understand how to read any comments that others have made on the Anon post you made. For this to work you need to save the link, send it to your selected audience, and then check back in for their thoughts.
iRedMail is fine, pretty good set of components auto configured to cooperate, but it's a resource beast. 2GB of ram really isn't enough to operate it (mostly due to the virus scanners and its default config). I know we march towards ever increasing system ram, but it used to be trivial to run mail and web (plus small db and a server side language) in 512MB of ram
What if they released the exact same product as "minimize fuel cost if it doesn't take more time" and set that to default? You can still change to "fastest" if that's your preference.

My personal annoyance: their walking directions assume you don't know parkour and there isn't even an option for that
Did the mouse make a big difference for you? I came across it recently and was considering getting it as my wrist has been getting pretty creaky. I tried putting my hand in that position on my desk and it certainly feels quite relaxing, but I have no idea whether it'll actually feel more comfortable in regular long-term use.
I’m going to be out of healthcare for a month because I’m transitioning jobs. It’s a bit scary I have to admit. If I have an emergency I’ll refuse to pay the bill.
Update to January 2021 Account Notification
TL;DR: Your Bluetooth dongle doesn't work because you've plugged it into or right next to a USB 3.0 port which is jamming it to bits. Get any decent USB extension cable and connect it to a USB 2.0 port and everything will be fine.
I remember my dad telling me that if he had been accused of being a Communist during the McCarthy red scare, he would have said or done whatever was asked of him (named names, etc) so that he could keep working and supporting his family. I thought it was a cowardly perspective but now I'm a father myself I totally get it.
I notice they use GitHub stars as a metric in the Appendix, supposedly to "insist that we hadn’t done a hard launch yet." I wonder how meaningful this metric is. Is 350 a lot of stars? A little? What am I supposed to take away from this?
(Googler, opinions are my own) I don't think Google has really justified why the return to the office is necessary for all employees, beyond saying that it's a key part of the culture.

Obviously the office is a part of the culture, and most employees want to be in the office at least some of the time. But to me, that doesn't explain why you can't offer a remote option for the employees who want it.

A charitable explanation might be what we've heard from execs: we don't want to rush to go remote, we'd like to dip our toes in and slowly explore broader options. Thus the hybrid 3/2 model. A less charitable explanation might be that Google has spent a lot of money on real estate. Or simply that leadership is out of touch and can't relate to the reasons why employees might want to be remote. I imagine it's a mix of both types of explanations.
There is absolutely a strategy - there is a particular point of view they favor, and anything counter to it is removed.

Dislikes are embarrassing to, for lack of better terminology, their pet causes. Simply disabling them on certain videos or channels calls even more attention to them - so why not just remove them entirely.

The only thing surprising to me is that it took them this long.
> Emphasis on the "minor operations". Things are prioritised by need and urgency, so naturally you end up with a long tail of non-urgent, minor operations.

How long do you wait for eg. a tooth filling? Or if you notice a dark spot on the skin, to get it checked up by a dermatologist? So the minor things, that can get messy real fast if you dont deal with them fast?
> huge quality of life increase

Ah, the first world, and our struggles...
I have an extension that shows the likes/dislikes under the video thumbnails. When I look at the news section of the main page, it's been very consistent for months that there's an overwhelming number of dislikes on any video about COVID. Same for things about Biden (but wasn't an issue on positive news about Trump). I wonder if this is why they're removing dislikes. Could be that the media has pressured them to.
I am glad you like it!

There is a slider you can set that changes the duration. I
fixed it at 1-7-30 days. I probably need to make that feature more visible though. And I'll add in the option to let users set the kill duration.

I do hard-delete the posts once they expire, but I don't know how I could give users a sense of 'security' that it has gone into the void. Do you have any suggestions?
Researchers discover new type of ancient crater lake on Mars
The roads are mostly reasonable and safe. There are always going to be turns and intersections that are more difficult than the others. Google (and every other consumer map provider for that matter) has a habit of picking unnecessarily complex routes to shave a few seconds. Unnecessarily routing through difficult intersections and using a dozen side streets to cut the corner off a route are just specific examples of that.
A dislike is a signaling of my general satisfaction with all aspects of that video. Content is poor? Dislike! AI recommendation was poor? Dislike!! Too much advertising? Dislike!!!
When in Beta, firefox VPN is indeed a browser addon, I used it for months, really good, but they now removed the addon, and only support desktop version, I don't know why, is this a stupid idea? Why not support browser plugin?
The point in my opinion is lost, because in those countries you might be referring to, the doctors earn a fraction of what they do in the US.
It would take 5 minutes to synthesize the answer after a much longer time of studying the universe of possibilities.

The financial advisor should be able to provide that.
I think that's probably why they went with cutting the rope with an axe instead of some mechanical mechanism like moving the pawl from the ratchet that lifts the rods.

Then it's as mechanically as simple as possible
There is already a healthcare for all, the argument is on the mechanics on how to pay for it and who decides what services are provided.
Boeing did not get into this position overnight. After the massive cost and schedule overruns on the 787 program, they were far too cash-poor to fund the development of a clean-sheet design, hence the re-warmed 737. The 787 itself was a huge experiment in outsourcing both the costs and risks of aircraft development. It turns out you can outsource cost, but the prime contractor always owns the risk. Dr. John Hart-Smith published an excellent white paper warning of this while the precursor to the 787 was still in development, shortly after the Boeing-McDonnell Douglass merger.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Outsourced+Profits+%E2%80%93...
In neovim, you can see your terminal at the same time that you are editing code, thanks to window splits. Pretty convenient actually. You can split that terminal into another terminal window too. Good when you are editing the program, running the program and tailing the log of the program - all simultaneously.
> It is very confusing that equality in JavaScript is not transitive: https://imgur.com/5pFXFbR.

There are 2 types of equality in JS, shallow (==) and 'strict' (===). It's fine because JS is a dynamic, weakly typed language.

Go isn't supposed to be.
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But what you’re saying is all roads that technically conform to standards are equal in safety or should be. That does not seem realistic or practical. For example windy mountain roads vs urban freeways. Or unprotected left turns versus protected left turns. Should unprotected left turns be made illegal.

Why can’t a third party routing software assess safety? It’s not a realistic expectation to expect all roads to be equivalent in safety.
I don't necessarily agree.

I like VSCode, and I use it for a lot of IDE-like stuff. But for normal reading and writing code? I use Sublime Text. Sublime Text is so much faster and more fluid, and able to handle much larger files, and has a better set of text editing tricks in my opinion. And that is worth enough to me that I wouldn't trade it for being able to do everything in one editor.

Sublime + plugins has "enough" features that I only switch when I really need to. And while I can't put my finger on exactly why I feel this way, text just seems to look more pleasant than on other editors, even when using the same fonts and similar color schemes.
I think in a recycling scenario you’re gonna be stripping these batteries down to their cells anyway, so their physical format is kinda irrelevant.

As for their properties, you’re almost certainly better of just measuring them, rather than relying on some sort of digital spec sheet. You’ll have no idea what life these batteries have led, and thus no idea how much they’ve drifted from their spec sheet.

The battery chemistry pretty much determines all their important characteristics such as voltage, and charge/discharge pattens. There’s a very limited number of fundamental battery chemistries to pick from, and you can almost certainly ignore the secret source car manufactures are using. You just end up running the batteries slightly less efficiently, but again their at the end of their automotive life, which is the bit when people actually care about peak efficiency.

As for you analogy, it’s a bit more like wheels and tires on a car. There are hundreds of different tire treads, and plenty of different wheel sizes. But if you’re recycling a wheel or tire, you almost certainly don’t care much about either it’s size or tire tread, because it’s trivial to build a recycling process that can handle almost any type of wheel or tire.
The people without healthcare are not the ones driving this conversation. It is not about this at all.
Working on a fix for this!

EDIT: Fixed.
Probably because people earning less than average will want to be in the shared pool, and people earning more than the average will want individual insurance schemes.
On the other hand, some younger workers might see remote work as their best opportunity to ever afford a home. Older workers have had better chances to buy in the Bay Area, as they presumably had more time to accumulate wealth and could buy when prices are lower. Younger workers will need to save for a long time, even at FAANG salaries.
Check out,

https://www.pythonweekly.com/

https://www.programmerweekly.com/
I'm actually for universal coverage in the US, but rationing de facto exists in all systems and it's kind of a question of how, not if. So some people feel they are better off if that rationing is done some other way (like money).

I'm for universal coverage because we know health costs go up when people can't get certain basics and we know this actually puts people at risk of homelessness.

I worked in insurance for a few years. I worked for Aflac. They mostly do supplemental insurance and they made most of their money in Japan, a country with universal coverage.

So some countries provide universal coverage and allow for supplemental coverage. My best understanding is this works fairly well and fixes some of the problems I've heard Canadians complain of in their system, though I could be misinformed. I don't have first-hand experience with either.

One last argument that I think isn't entirely crazy talk:

People who can get free care may neglect their health because they figure "it's free." This can end up being a big burden on not just the healthcare system but society in general for various reasons.
I really don't understand this type of reporting as it is just reporting the obvious.

Even before the vaccine rollout started, the vaccine trials found that none of these vaccines where 100% effective.

So it was clear from the beginning not everyone would be protected by the vaccine.

The fact that some people are getting COVID after their vaccination was always the expected result.

So 'a dozen people' getting sick is hardly news.

Now if it that number was in the tens of thousand then that would be of concern, as it would suggest the vaccines are not as effective as claimed.
It's true. There was no fundamental lie at the heart of WeWork. It was just bog standard over-exuberance of markets and west coast woo-woo BS.
It is important not to mix philosophical questions with pragmatic ones. We don't have a solid definition of what "life" is, but as this group demonstrated creating something that is unequivocally "alive" by our extant definitions.

Much like the COVID-19 vaccines are the first widely distributed "product" of our understanding of messenger RNA, I would expect the first widely available products that come from our understanding of building and operating single cell organisms to be things like water purification, drug production, Etc.

For example, an organism that secretes vanilla extract would be a multi-billion dollar product. And "all"[1] it would have to do is mimic what the vanilla Orchid does when growing seeds.

[1] This is a deep and wide void of knowledge about how it does what it does, not trying to gloss that over, just making the case for single cell organisms as useful products.
You don't need to express the fact that "you think" at all in writing. If you wrote it, we know you think it, whether it is correct or not.
> You're claiming that Australians are less likely to see stage IV cancer than Americans due to a worse healthcare system in America

I'm claiming that Australian citizens are more likely to bring cancer to their provider when it's still at stage 1, because the citizens do not risk bankruptcy when seeking diagnosis and treatment, resulting in treatment of cancers beginning prior to their reaching stage 4.

This would, if true, create a scenario where:

In Australia, the few stage 4 cancers seen are the cancers that failed treatment at stage 1, stage 2, and stage 3; they are extremely likely to be fatal, as they've already failed essentially every treatment available.

But in United States, the stage 1-2-3 "this is treatable" filtering out isn't occurring, because patients with cancer are waiting for age 65 to seek diagnosis, and so our stage 4 treatment success rate is higher because we didn't treat the treatable cancers earlier in the stages.

Do the above comparisons of AU vs US 'stage 4 survival rates' take into account the successful treatments at stages 1-3 that would presumably be occurring in AU? Do they take into account the incidences of 'this would have been treatable if diagnosed in stages 1-3' that are presumably occuring in US?

EDIT: Do they hold true for each individual type of cancer? Do they hold true when normalized for spending on a given type of cancer as a percentage of all cancer spending?

I'm aware that these are not easy things to compare or assess, and I understand that it's preferable to some to make no statement at all rather than make an approximation that doesn't hold up to a full-power statistical analysis. If someone does know of such a thesis, I suppose my most compact question would be:

"For each type of cancer: Does the Australian health care system tend to diagnose earlier than the United States health care system, provide care at a higher or lower total cost of treatment, with a higher or lower rate of success?"
Lift observatories to space, beyond the clutches of inept bureaucracies and natural decay from on-planet neglect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes
Same. Long time Dvorak user for RSI reasons, though I switch between a left-handed mouse and a right-handed trackball.
Hoping you can make this into a Show HN someday.
Waitaminute. Germans... have... humor...?!

/scnr
Something something pay for it something something you are the product.
If the insurance is fixed price (eg. pay $X and get $Y services), then yes. If it's a tax, you pay percentage of what you earn, and if you earn above average, you'll also be paying above average insurance rate but still getting average service.
What is any 5 minute answer to the problem from any of the possibilities?
ESR's outline is more-or-less correct. Electric current is required to maintain a magnetic field. When the field collapses some mechanical device takes over using stored energy (springs and/or gravity) Here's a practical example to give some more context to the idea:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3721462A/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8811561B2/en
For as amazing as this instrument was for it's time, it came with _a lot_ of limitations. I was sad to see it's demise, but the technology has been superseded.