skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, here are some of the stats I'm relying on to say that desegregation is needed and good:

* Randomly assigned poor & black students to socioeconomically diverse and non-diverse schools, found rich-poor achievement gap was halved in math (https://production-tcf.imgix.net/app/uploads/2010/10/1600543...)

* Systemic benefits in national tests for students in socioeconomically diverse schools, regardless of family background (https://tcf.org/content/facts/the-benefits-of-socioeconomica... along with a whole laundry list of other evidence).

* Evidence that minority parents in my school district favor distance learning while the pandemic continues. I couldn't find the original stat because the thread was deleted, but here is a similar poll showing the same thing (https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-op...)
Nothing holding back, though in-person work from office works better.
Re Macbook, if you fancy check out my home-manager config:
https://github.com/pwm/nix-home

The readme was/is more of a short note to myself than for users, nevertheless this is how i manage my entire home env on my mac and it works beautifully.
Animal, you will absolutely love the new bi-monthly moon festivals in your town. Weekends are boring. Humans need this big event in nature we can all see right above us to agree, ok, this is the time to stop working for a few days.
There's Another Facebook Phone Number Database Online
SAG-AFTRA meets the definition of a labor union under federal and state law. It negotiates working conditions, compensation, and benefits with production companies and studios. It is treated in the manner as other labor unions such as IATSE, IBEW, and Teamsters.
> Anyway you can package a C application, you can package a Python application

While true, this means that packaging Python is harder than a typical C application, and requires knowledge of the C building process. That's not what people have in mind when installing Python software.

The methods you mention are exactly the reason why it is so complicated. Everyone wants to use their own method to install Python software.
I don't like the YACC style of code fragments with placeholders, but the system seems well designed and it's likely to be good enough in practice.

But seriously, not being able to parse text is more than enough of a limitation for a text parsing tool. The token specification keeps close to standard regular expression, and matching Unicode text with regular expression (https://unicode.org/reports/tr18/) is a rather well researched problem with good implementations.
Also true.

It’s a source of outrage that keeps on giving.

Though I wish that more people were outraged at the fact that video podcasts are not done well in Spotify. Now that’s the real problem.
I will be sure to pass that fact along to all the well-paid über-geeks I know (who will be quite surprised at their misapprehension).

But there is no necessary relationship between "the world's highest-paid", and your notion of "well paying". You could be simply wrong, or your measure of "well paying" could exceed what the actual "highest-paid programmers" cited get.

Dan Luu did a good essay about programmer compensation a few years back.
What you call irrational is often a difference in views and life axioms (which as you probably know can’t be proven).
There are many applications where "doing something" technically means going into another URL, and interacting with it. Those should be links anyway (the technical meaning beats the UX one), but I see no problem on styling them as a button.

Just don't style buttons as links.
If users care about that, they'll go to a vendor that gives them access to the data. No need to legally mandate anything.
VMWare Workstation Player 16 + Windows 10 + Cracked Photoshop + Unity Enabled Session. Solves it for most people.
Kernel is one of the best parts about Linux on desktop. It works. I've recently tried Windows, annoyed by hibernate, few seconds to wake up but sleep is instantaneous.

Linux did well on Android because it does not suck. Mainline kernel boots hundred of models (postmarketOS). Another part mostly unchanged — browser. ChromeOS is Linux kernel and browser.

You've said hibernation is a matter ideological purity, no, it is a matter of practicality. You have to be kernel developer to understand practicality.
Given how brutally expensive AWS is, I'd say that day is long past.
But Adobe doesn't make it easy to pay for it one month and don't pay for it the next. Their site uses dark patterns which make you choose yearly subscriptions instead of monthly (happened to me even though I thought I had a monthly subscription) and terminating it is a whole ordeal with several steps.
> In Europe there are a lot of social benefits that mitigate this.

Europe is not one country. I hope you realize it's hard to generalize.
That is great to see, though for instance half that video would have flagged a US health inspector. Much cleaner than what I saw in Vietnam, Malaysia, or less high end areas of Hong Kong, or friends in Beijing or Fujian were used to when they lived in China. I can’t be sure how serious to take Foxnews in this regard, since you can pick and choose a lot of course.

Cities have been improving, and I don’t doubt Covid is helping. SARS seemed to help a lot in Singapore.

The comparison to Whole Foods with consistent refridgeration, regular clearing, limited supplies, regular health inspections still seems unlikely anywhere outside of the major metros.
The luxury good aspect is the tyranny of the normal curve - the best will always be more sought after. Decommoditization ensues. It is the demand which truly makes a luxury good.
nah man, nah
Scarcity Cred
It fails to stick with you. It doesn't fail to stick with the doctors which chose the treatments. I presume they know better the implications of COVID-19 over other diseases.
I'm going to jump to the next step... So what?

Does it really matter where the virus emerged from? What changes would we make if it came from bats by nature's own doing? Or of it came from wet markets? Or if it leaked from a research lab?
This quote stuck out to me:

> More trouble than the trick was worth? To you, probably. But not to magicians.

It makes me realize how fundamentally different the values are between some fields. The amount of time magicians put into the craft is mind-boggling.

I see it also with how movies are made -- to think that sometimes they're spending days or months and tens of thousands of dollars, building sets, waiting for the right weather or lighting, braving subzero temperatures, or whatever it might be, just to get a single shot that might be on screen for a few seconds.

Maybe a similar sort of thing with software would be spending time on animations -- the result is a cool flourish, but it lasts 0.15 seconds and it took 3 days to get it just right, and it's impossible to quantify how worthwhile it was beyond a gut feeling. Even still, that's not even in the same ballpark in terms of time or effort.
We get China to buy our bonds forever :)
> Add on healthcare and they're coming out far ahead of an amazon warehouse worker.

Healthcare in the UK is not as good as you may think it is. Unless you love waiting lines for life-threatening conditions.
More money poured into stocks in past 5 months than last 12 years
I had a guy threaten to shoot me in Kentucky once when I was working with him on the Ohio River - more of a 'I have a rifle in my truck' than a 'pointing a gun at you' kind of a threat though.
More and more, I go to the manufacturer's website and buy directly from them. If I'm buying a printed book, I use abebooks.com. Trying to do my part to support the Amazon competition. I still buy from Amazon, but not as much as a year ago.
The Plasticity of Music
Someone called music streaming a "low margin, check-box feature" for big tech companies. This is some kind of response.
Yes, but I was going for a sharp brain :)
> It was't just a novel virus, it was a novel coronavirus and we know all about how those spread

But how could one have been sure that a mutation has not changed certain behaviors in dangerous ways. Given potential adverse impact I have no problems overcompensating in the caution department till more light is shed and at that point one needs to dial down.
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
Potassium toxicity would be a problem long before the radiation. You'd need to eat 400 bananas a day to eventually die from it which would be at most a ~50 microSievert/day exposure. Occupational exposure limits are in the range of 50 milliSieverts in one year or 100 mS cumulative total over five years. Four thousand bananas in one day would probably kill an adult due to potassium but only expose them to ~20 mS if they ate 4k bananas a day for a year.

> High, acute potassium intakes have been associated with symptoms related to neuromuscular dysfunction, including weakness, paralysis, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. These symptoms, however, do not consistently develop prior to life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545424/

That said, radioactive isotopes that make it into the digestive tract are far more dangerous than external exposure (and then again, the potassium isotopes aren't accumulated so it might be a wash)
> She added, “There’s really no evidence that anyone has ever gotten Covid-19 by touching a contaminated surface.”

This reminds me of "Rubbish bin the likely source of Covid infection": https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/427446/rubbish-bin-the-l...
Right now Google does not feel the need to get any other browser vendors or really any other party besides Google to agree. They ship things that they don't even agree on internally! Their process has review points but actually acting on that feedback is totally up to the preferences of the person driving a given feature.
Hi. Do you still stand by your point 3.1.1, specifically your mutation rate of 2 changes/month, given that newer variants are believed to have arisen from intense mutational events in a small number of immunodeficient people?
HSA is a separate thing that I don't even personally touch, I was talking about insurance itself.

And I agree with your point, that type of an insurance with a fixed cut-off is regressive in a similar way that a sales tax it. So please don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say that Amazon warehouse workers have it just as good as Microsoft SWEs in terms of benefits (or just in general).

They do, however, have the type of health benefits/insurance that is extremely difficult to beat by literally anyone except what other big tech companies provide to their SWEs. And afaik those benefits for Amazon warehouse workers kick-in on day 1, unlike what it's like at many other similar warehouse jobs.
>SAG has minimum requirements for having already performed.

Other unions do the same, such as longshoremen. You can work next to unionized longshoremen, doing the same type of job, yet not be part of the union because it strictly controls who can be a member in order to keep membership low and compensation high.
He certainly didn't steal 3000 bikes at one time. If a person steals 3000 TVs each from a different store, should he only serve time for one?
Excuse me but PRC = People's Republic of China correct?

How would it be xenophobic to criticize a government? This conflation is so pervasive and toxic to the discourse.

The Chinese government does bear some of the responsibility here. The Chinese people do not. At a minimum, they actively tried to cover-up an investigation into a leak and leaned on the World Health Organization in order to do so.

This had two negative affects globally. First is the slowed response time from the rest of the World as they were assured this was mild and contained. Second is the rightfully degraded trust in the WHO which will impede ongoing and future efforts not only to stop Covid-19 but also future pandemics.

The reason right-wing media sources are the only ones talking about this is because they are the only ones with the freedom to do so. If we do not like that some of these source are implying that Chinese people as a group are to blame, then that is an invitation for more mainstream outlets to stop carrying water for the Chinese and American governments.

Be upfront, the WHO was compromised by the Chinese government. There could have been a leak, a hypothesis that is looking more likely with each passing week. If this was in fact a leak, then gain of function research could also be implicated. This produces a conflict of interest with experts in the field because their funding and research may utilize gain of function methods.

Done.

This was a known unknown over a year ago, but stifled due to political interests. The casting of xenophobic aspersions onto the right-leaning media sources who got this correct is an attempt at damage control for the same political interests.

I get it. Admitting those media sources were better when it really mattered means fewer people will get vaccinated and we may get a Trump 2.0. That is the political price of lying and getting caught. Jacketing all these conversations with underlying accusations of "well they were right but also racist" is not going to be a win. If you want to win you have to actually be better.
> So you wrap the whole box in an anchor tag, which has its own host of problems.

Looks like the correct solution to me. What are the problems?
An HSA doesn't mean that you don't have preventative care. I have a high deductible plan plus HSA and there are things like annual checkups covered without going into deductible.
My secret weapon for bug diagnosis is that when a regression is reported on a system without an automatic bisect tool, while everyone else is trying to reason about the problem with guesswork and code inspection, I sit down and spend 2 hours just bisecting manually (full sync, rebuild and install of old versions of the software). This provides a guaranteed culprit CL, often one that no one guessed, and also a potential bug assignee who's an expert on the problem in question (the author of that patch).

It's "one weird trick" to get bugs stuck in limbo for weeks suddenly making fast progress towards a fix, and all it takes is a willingness to do something so tedious and mindless that no other engineer volunteers to do it.
I think you may be projecting here. There are millionaires living in Bessemer. Bessemer is right next to down town Birmingham, Hoover, Homewood, Fultondale, Gardendale, Chelsea and a not too long drive from Tuscaloosa. There is so much money here for most industries. The cost of living in the GBA isn’t much at all especially north on I65. Also, while it is true Bessemer is more or less impoverished in the city it has some really beautiful outskirts. People who live there absolutely do not have to work there.
Having critical zero days being reported is always a good thing.
> So? It's totally at the employer's discretion, and there are a million other things that are non-negotiable.

Sure. But it is between you and your employer, and it is not unilaterally dictated by you or by your employer. Also, an unrelated third party doesn't have a say in the agreement you have between you and your employer. If there are some things that are unacceptable to you(for eg, having a manager to report to), you and the potential employer can shake hands and go away from each other.

> Do you oppose all labor law? If it's "the employer's choice/will" to employ young children in dangerous conditions, do you oppose the "legal binding" prevents them from doing that?

From discussing a legal binding around closed union shops to opposing "all labor laws" is quite a leap and also a strawman. But to answer your question, no I don't oppose such a law that says children cannot be employed in dangerous conditions like mines etc.

> That's not actually true. If the worker's unhappy, they can work with their coworkers to decertify the union.

Yeah so clearly something that can and should be between you and your employer has to now involve other colleagues and you end up with varying degrees of coercion basically.

> However, if their coworkers are happy with it, then maybe that guy should just get another job.

Or, the easier and simpler route is to leave the union and possibly join another union operating at the same place(if such a thing were to be allowed), or not join any union at all and still work for the employer. More freedom/choice for every worker, lesser or possibly no coercion and less disruptive for the employer, and more importantly, less disruptive for the worker.

It is absolutely absurd that just because set of workers are happy with their working arrangements, a different set of workers cannot get their working arrangements that are more suited to them. Or, in other words, two functioning adult parties are ready to come to a potential agreement that concerns just them, with both of them getting what they want, but some third party who is not and should not be privy to this agreement will not get what they want, and so the actual participants in the agreement cannot make the deal they want, and instead their options are to be coerced into a deal that they wouldn't want, or drop the deal altogether.

> It's not like union shops are pervasive and unavoidable. They're actually pretty rare these days.

Certainly unavoidable if its a closed union shop no? Which is the very thing that we are discussing. And I am glad that they are rare.
VistA (open source health information system)
I never realized that there was two time zones in Arizona...
Scale is a large factor in how well these funds can perform. Even Buffet famously talks about how difficult it is to allocate order-of-magnitude larger amounts of money, because the opportunities are harder to find and you affect the market more as you increase your buying.
Loved MD's.. used to have a few decks, and at least 3 portables. Wish they made a Hi-MD car deck.
On the other hand, a bunch of X11 issues were just listed, and X has existed three times as long. Some issues are architectural and thus probably not solvable, some are just persistent annoyances that must be difficult to fix and likely will not get fixed because X11 has so little active development anymore. X has enough issues that a good portion of the community said, "we've got to fix this". And frankly, I've used software from multi-billion dollar corporations that gives me more trouble in a day than Wayland does in a month.
With mustard (on the side) or plain for me. Washed down with ample gulps of beer, of course.
> Aside from plane fare, what's holding someone in the US?

Top of mind why someone would NOT want to work in "Europe":
- lower salaries
- much higher tax rate
- stuff in general is more expensive (higher VAT + everything that's imported)
I don't like to chime in with "seconding" on HN but I had the same eureka moment about it. I have definitely always behaved like that and it was just a natural and organic way to start in any team or job.

I got a bit shocked because I realised this behaviour repeated this past year when I changed jobs. I became a domain expert in an obscure part of the codebase and have been documenting it and sharing the knowledge for a while now.
Funny you should say that, it's one of the core reasons many vegans and environmentalists advocate for avoiding meat altogether, as it disproportionately contributes to environmental impact. Turns out growing plants to feed to animals, and then growing those animals to feed to humans is less efficient than growing plants to feed to humans.
> it usually doesn't lead to pay increases and promotions

Individual companies may or may not reward the grind over the course of a few years. Companies that don't tend to bleed employees.

These things do pay off over the course of a career, though. The Grind builds skills, builds reputation, and builds an ability to get work done when it matters. The company may not recognize the value of this, but your peers will. Your peers will form your future network as everyone diffuses into different companies.

It's a mistake when someone scales back their own effort and learning simply because they don't expect an immediate monetary reward. We're all building careers and networks over the course of decades. Don't let a lack of pay increases at a single company alter hamper the trajectory of your entire career.

And if you find yourself stuck at a company that isn't rewarding these things, move on. Some other company will gladly reward you for the accumulated experience. It only goes to waste if you stay put at companies that don't reciprocate.
Apparently a Mesa driver API for buffer management.
Out of interest are you doing this using Qubes? And why?
Discussed at the time:

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19147316 - Feb 2019 (170 comments)
hmm, could be dns blocking by your ISP. Try changing your DNS server to 8.8.8.8 (Google)
This might be obvious to most, but at first it wasn't clear to me why in 150 billion years the vast majority of the known universe will be unreachable. The answer is in the acceleration of expansion (which the blogpost mentioned but I didn't connect the dots on at first); eventually the rate of expansion ("velocity") will greater than the speed of light.
Yeah - here's some coverage.

https://geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-google...

That plus shutdowns of things - google is not most stable
What to do in your first two weeks of starting a new job
Gaia, the Scientist
>I don't think someone making $140K is in the top percentages of wealth and hiding their money in offshore schemes.

I agree, this income doesn't feel indicative of those type of tax avoidance plays. But I think making $200k is still objectively "a lot", if for no other reason than it is statistically proving one to be in the top 5%. I don't know a better way to define it because the subjective scale will always hold true; someone in the top 1% will feel inadequate to someone in top 0.1% who will feel inadequate compared to a Saudi prince.

I guess what I'm trying to get across is that both can be true: 1) a salary of $X amount can objectively be high and 2) somebody earning $X can subjectively not feel like it's enough. The dissonance between the two is created because of the way we're wired to gauge our position relative to those around us.
I read through your post and it was incomplete and hand wavy, although that makes sense because it was written for Reddit. The bias was also obvious, and remarkably unscientific in how you approached the "problems" in a deterministic manner. You cherry picked examples (for instance, saying we can detect Cas9 mutations) that make no conclusive point (for example, there are a variety of ways to add a furin site to a genome that don't involve Cas9) but are indistinguishable as proof by the Reddit audience. The bottom line is, though, you are cherry picking arguments that lay people are more or less too unaware of their cherry picked status to argue with.

As a virologist, who "engineers viruses", I also take some offense to this line:
>The virus itself, to the eye of any virologist, is clearly not engineered.

I also suspect that the viruses referenced in the featured article would object to that line as well.
Really well written and so true... I think that far too often, people get intimidated by the size/scope/hairiness of a problem and try to reduce their intimidation by breaking it down.

Particularly if it's a one-off problem, you're often far better just doing something. Anything. Whatever comes to mind first. Just take some sort of step.

You may find that the problem isn't as hairy as you thought, and in fact just by continuing to do stuff, you solve it pretty quickly. When that's not the case, doing stuff often leads you to the kind of understanding that allows you to put in place a good plan, where just starting with planning forces you to make a bunch of incorrect assumptions that you then have to fix when actually implementing the plan you worked so hard on.