skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to have a conversation about economics/finance without bringing in politics is nearly impossible. But what you call whataboutism, many see as valid criticism of the USD. You haven't really made any good case against crypto except "fiat was here first, so it is a core part of society," which isn't a very convincing argument. There is no whataboutism, I just prefer to have my wealth stored in an asset thats supply can't increase by 25% in one year based on the whims of some rich politicians appointed to the Fed. I can trust crypto because I can predict what it will do in terms of affordances and supply. With USD I can't do that. My money isn't in my control and I don't like that at all.

If Coinbase went and handed out a trillion $ worth of BTC to the wealthiest corporations in America over the past year, I would have my wealth in a different asset. Coinbase didn't do that with BTC though, the Fed did it with USD. I worked hard to earn this cash, why should I let someone else devalue my work without consulting me first?
Kind of related Veritasium video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBap_Lp-0oc
If I recall correctly we also produce a lot of medicinal cannabis despite it still being pretty much illegal and as good as not recognized as a treatment for anything.

The UK is a rich man's country
Secondary school in the UK covers from 11 to 16 which I think is middle school in the states, I could be wrong though
If someone happened to agree with this analysis and was bearish on western liberalism, is there a place they should put their money in order to potentially profit?
meh, kids use Colemak / Dvorak, it's time to upgrade.

My current 'superior' keyboard layout :

https://sourcevault.github.io/resume/key10.png
Do our brains age faster than the rest of our bodies?
Every layout works for a split layout just as well as for a normal layout. You're not supposed to move your hands around either way.
I wish software packages had data sheets! It would be great to have a concise/standardized format with bullet points and a "typical applications" section on github landing pages.
FWIW, I don't think most people at big companies are at all convinced that they are the "chosen ones". I think they are glad to have good jobs that have a higher than average potential to contribute to projects that are useful to people.
Everything gets shittier and more complicated for no obvious benefit. I used to write code. Now I just search stack overflow and try and get pieces to work together.
> pay top dollar expect candidates with top knowledge

Knowing how to solve the ten or twenty most common CS interview questions is not an indicator of possessing "top knowledge". It's an indicator that someone studied the cheat sheet to big tech interviews, and that's all.
And then we'll get a decade-long global chip shortage, instead of a year-long one.

It's a perfect example of cutting one's nose to spite one's face. Also, Taiwan will end up a large, long-term loser of that, as well.

China's ambitions on Taiwan have nearly zero to do with TSMC's presence there. (And everything to do with the past 80 years of history - more specifically, its desire to 'conclude' the civil war. If Taiwan's didn't have a chip industry, the PRC would still have the same goals.)
Suicides decreased in 2020, btw: https://www.axios.com/suicide-decreased-in-2020-pandemmic-me....
I tried to watch but guy loves to hear himself speak. Needs to learn to edit his videos down. This was for sure not 20 minutes of content. Like 3 minutes of content and 17 minutes of filler words. I understand some filler but it reminded me of a broadcast news show where it's main function is filling time rather than conveying information.
“I switched to colemak I was able to beat my QWERTY typing speed after only 2 wks of studying and now I can type 200+ words per minutes”

If it only takes a few weeks then wouldn’t people of almost any age benefit if they type 4-5 hours a day?
"Killing people to teach them about risk" seems like a bad decision, especially if the endgame is to save lives.
I've worked for a hardware company where our employee badges were tracked throughout the building, you had to badge in and out to go to the bathroom, which could be tracked I guess.

I didn't really have a problem with it, I feel that this sort of non-intrusive tracking is perfectly acceptable when you're on the clock.
It doesn't have to be permanently discontinued for the public to lose trust in it and refuse to take it.
> Don't make it a bluff then. Have an offer in hand before bargaining. If the company values you (and not every company treats its programmers like cogs) they will work with you. Otherwise if they refuse you still have a job.

So what you are describing is a situation in which there is zero long-term pressure for the company to improve or change their practices, because there is a never-ending source of people to replace the ones leaving, and as long as they're fine with the churn (spoiler: they are), they'll just chalk it up to the system working as intended.
A founder of a company that did everything they can to make the company viable has a lot more skills than programming. I would say after that long stint as a founder, programming will be the least valuable skill they would bring to the table. In that sense, looking for a programming job is the wrong approach. The author doesn't mention why they chose that line. If they are really only interested in going back to programming it's fine, if not it's a wrong decision IMO.
If you use PayPal, you can just cancel the payment on their end.
You can subscribe to the The Economist (digital edition) for $189/year. This is actually cheaper than most (Bloomberg is $419, FT is $372).

Edit: I'm just sharing information on the cost of subscription. If you look at my comment history, you'll see I've done this for others, OUT OF PURE CURIOSITY. I've also commented about how it would be unreasonable to maintain subscriptions to multiple news websites given these costs. But sure, downvote me - love you guys ;-)
J&J uses a very rare human adenovirus, AZ uses a more common chimpanzee adenovirus. J&J also has the so-called 2PP modification on the Spike protein compared with the AZ vaccine. Good writeup here: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/genetic-code-of-covid-19-v...
I'll second this opinion. I drilled on Leetcode medium problems to address some deficiencies in a recent job search (whilst in my late 40s age-wise). It made a huge difference in the interview outcomes, and I've found that I'm actually using this stuff designing solutions in my new job.

Having a bunch of basic, generally useful algorithms in recent memory does save a lot of time on the "general solution" side when you're working in a new milieu. (That saved time then gets consumed trying to find, configure, and tune anything in an unfamiliar cloud environment, but that's another kettle of fish).
> You cannot represent me if you:

He represents me, and many more. You can go fund another movement, if you feel attacked.
A large part of the issues from drugs are contaminations and inconsistent dosing. Prohibition also pushes people to make/use higher concentration drugs, and forces people to use drugs they can get vs drugs that are safer (meth vs addaral). And forces them to use unchecked (and often untrustworthy) sources.

The idea is that legalization should bring addiction resources, harm reduction, education, and cleaner drugs.

This removes the infamously dangerous "drug deals", "bad batches"/lacing, removes stigma and legal barriers that prevent addicts from recovery, and should make it easier for users to recover.
Shanghai/Shenzhen Stock Exchange would be my guess.
The informed old people are vaccinated already. The IFR is way down from around .5 percent.

Still agree that covid is a way bigger threat than the J&J vaccine though.
that hypothetical can't exist though, so what is the point in entertaining it. The world have finite resources, money (no matter the inflation) is a way to ration this to people. Not every single person can have a mansion in SF.
And what makes you think you'll make it to the other side?
John Campbell suggested on his video the other day that perhaps this is happening because some injectors are not aspirating. What that means is that when an intramuscular injection is given you want to ensure that it goes into the muscle and not into a vein. So the proper way to do this is for the person doing the injection to first pull out the syringe (after it's been stuck into the arm) a bit to make sure there's no blood coming out. Then if not, the vaccine is pushed in. If blood is seen then a new site has to be chosen. Apparently Denmark has included aspiration in their directions for usage of the AZ vaccine.
PDF: https://economics.mit.edu/files/11563 about the disappearing middle-income jobs (because those are the things that sit at the optimum point on the cost-benefit curve for innovation - be that automation, offshoring, better organization, standardization, etc)

The problem is, there's too big of a labor market force pushing wages down in the low-income segment.
Yes, very intentional! I'm taking a JavaScript-first approach. I know JavaScript, you probably know JavaScript, and the browser runs JavaScript. It's not the perfect language but here we are. It has lot of nice qualities!

I consider natto a much?-code approach in realm of no/low-code. Instead of building abstractions (no-code), what if we built new environments and UI for code? I'm spending most time building UI and trying to keep execution abstractions as minimal as possible.
If you're receptive to that way of thinking, try taking a look into Marxist theories, which incorporate that way of thinking into a political philosophy.
Yeah. The US is apparently already at ~50% antibodies, not counting vaccination. So, there’s a floor on the upside of the vaccine: It did no more than halve deaths. We’re in the middle of a surge, and it looks like most of the remaining 50% will end up catching covid before being vaccinated, so the percentage saved by vaccination will continue to drop.

The ideal strategy without hindsight was conventional wisdom: Protect the vulnerable and stiff upper lip for the rest. That would have more than halved casualties.

With the benefit of hindsight, a 3 month shutdown while hospitals got their acts together (combined with protecting the vulnerable) would have roughly quartered the remaining deaths, but at far lower cost than the full shutdown.

This was predicted by some of the old-guard epidemiologists, which is why they were against the shutdown in the first place.

The cancel culture folks lumped them in with MAGA anti-vaxxers (I blame both sides) and got them censored by the big platforms. Here we are, with 100,000’s unnecessarily dead, trillions squandered, and many careers, businesses and educations ruined.

I suspect roughly zero people have learned a lesson from this. Hopefully I’m overly cynical.
To add, from the German Federal Institute for Vaccines (regarding AZ not J&J):

> Birth control pills can also cause thrombosis. So why is there all the fuss about the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca?
> It is true that for birth control pills thromboses, even with fatal outcome, are known as a very rare side effect. They are listed in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC). The birth control pill is available only on prescription. Every woman must be informed of this risk by the prescribing physician. For the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, there is currently a suspected very rare side effect of sinus vein thrombosis with accompanying platelet deficiency, sometimes fatal. It is not listed in the SmPC.

https://www.pei.de/EN/service/faq/coronavirus/faq-coronaviru...
Hum? I've once reached 10k dependencies by just installing vue and a graphics plugin in an experiment.
Relevant tweet: https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1381967753234411530

J&J doses delivered: 7 million.

Reported blood clotting events: 6.

Daily risk of dying of COVID19 in the US: 1 in 330,000.

CDC and FDA: Pause the J&J vaccine.

Draw your own conclusion on how aligned these folks are with your interests.
A 1 in a million chance is not nearly worth the FUD you're spreading, "comrade"
>> kazinator

The let special form is a syntactic sugar for IIFEs which has the advantage of highlighting local variables ; so the previous area2 function can be rewritten this way:

{def area3
{lambda {:a :b :c}
{let { {:a :a} // in fact, it's a hidden lambda
{:b :b} // we must redefine the outer lambda's arguments
{:c :c} // as kind of "manual" closure
{:s {/ {+ :a :b :c} 2}} // and add the new computed variable
} {sqrt {* :s {- :s :a} {- :s :b} {- :s :c}}} everything is known
}}}
Yes, that's also true, but on the flip side, technological advancement of society as a whole is not stifled by idiotic IP law.

I agree, some anti-monopoly regulation is in order in China, and I'm not a fan of the Alibaba/Tencent monopolies on the ecosystem. However, I think there are other ways to go about fostering and encouraging small businesses and protecting creators and their intentions than American-style IP law, which allows you to sit on an invention or work and hinder society from having access to the fruits of science, which I'm vehemently against. IP isn't even real property, IMHO.
I've been using Colemak on a Ergodox since September of last year and am very happy with it. I too switched to Colemak when I started using my Ergodox. The first weeks my head hurt, but now I'm fine.
50 would certainly cover all life stages of humans. I assume you could be sure with shorter.

I have an aviation, biochem, and skydiving background. My rule is for aviation: "if it hasn't been out five years you're a test jumper."

Humans are way more complex than airplanes. I personally wouldn't take the mRNA vaccine because of this rule. Coupled with being unable to sue or get help from the government I think people IN LOW RISK groups have been way too enthusiastic to sign up.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...
>This is a very naive viewpoint.

No it's not, the relationship between the company itself and the employees is fundamentally hostile, the desires of the shareholders will, also, expand to fill up all of space-time if you let them. I'm not saying this out "everybody can be friends :D", just that each one keeps the other in check.

Also, a lot of the NYT is already unionized and the apocalypse you speak of hasn't happened.

So again, if they treat their employees well they have nothing to fear.
The slide on the costs of the different energy forms is available at https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... .
In your weird argument you are somehow not part of the community.

Everyone else is doing the same thing you are, thus the community is giving you the same thing you're giving to the community.
Mortgages are generally cheaper than rents right now in the UK, provided you have capital put down for a mortgage
I have a dilemma related to this. I know what I like to work on (domain / industry, etc.). There are companies hiring for this sort of thing. I don’t have any professional experience there though. So do I spend my time working on cool projects to build up the necessary domain problems so I can even get my resume looked at or do I spend my time leetcoding so I can pass the interviews.

I can do both, perhaps even concurrently, but clocks are ticking and I’m worried I only have so many years before I’m pigeonholed where I am now.
Like I am trying to argue with a guy who is arguing with the map...
The mere publication of the blood clots would also cause the public to lose trust in it.

Should the government also just not disclose any side effects? By definition any bad information will make the public lose trust.
Wouldn't catching the virus itself also have these epigentic effects?
I think this was brought up somewhere in a sibling thread. It would be great to have a more granular content restrictions framework that allowed for exactly this. But how to do this in a reliable, verifiable way sounds like a real challenge.
Not only betting but making sure the West declines
Legitimate question: Could Discord produce two apps, e.g. "Discord Safe" and "Discord Unsafe", where the only differences are the age rating and whether the NSFW switch can be flipped? Is there anything in the rules prohibiting this?
It’s a little more reasonable if they’re doing it for security reasons rather than tracking my productivity.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on moderation.

I am under the impression you do believe in some amount of moderation no? I mean, I definitely don't want to get on a platform that is sharing graphic videos of people dying without at least a warning or disclosure, and I'm also a fan of outright banning users who distribute child pornography.

I'm curious if you believe in any moderation, or if it should just be the wild west online?
I'm not sure what your point is here. If everything notable on the internet is moderated, it's functionally equivalent. I don't support what Apple is doing or the increased heavy-handedness of recent years, but advocating no censorship of anything is a fantasy and a cop-out.
Also check your local library. Many have electronic subscriptions now.
It's likely the abuse potential of methampetamine is similar to amphetamine (see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475187/)

So, the chemical is probably not the problem. It's also likely methamphetamine performs better for medical use cases. See: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines

EDIT: Otherwise, though, I thoroughly agree with what you are saying here in that having access to smaller, cleaner, time-release doses would do well to curb addiction.
> It's a myth that there are just a ton empty houses sitting idly like that.

Maybe where you live. NYC and SF are special in that they have very powerful people working to reduce the construction of new housing. This is obviously what needs to get fixed first in those markets, but it isn't a relatable problem in most of the US.

> The reality is that the most expensive housing markets are also the ones with the least vacant.

This is a basic supply and demand observation, and does not preclude the existence of people who allow their properties to sit vacant for long periods of time.

Looks to me like in NYC the vacancy rate is up to 6% (from a previous steady 2-3%) while housing insecurity is increasing.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/empty-rental-apartments-in-m...

https://cccnewyork.org/press-and-media/family-homelessness-i...

To my eyes this seems like a tragically dumb problem with several really obvious solutions.
The mechanism of delivery isn't a meaningful difference? Okay, if you just want to ignore half of the equation be my guest.
I tried dvorak on the moonlander (and have typed dvorak for a looong time before that on regular keebs), but ended up going back to qwerty, and using a layer for the punctuation surrounding the letters. This way you make the most use of the linear layout in the up-down direction, but avoid too much sideways movement and pinky stretching.
Check it out here: https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/MJXZ4/latest/0

You might move the punctuation even more central to really keep it 4-columned.
When rephrased as "Rust introduced to me a number of new concepts, like match for control flow, enums as algebraic types," it's much more clear what he means. We all learn somehow.
I wonder why all the clot victims are 100% female with J&J?

Also, only 1/3 of Astra Zeneca clot victims are male:

https://news.yahoo.com/astra-zeneca-vaccine-blood-clot-risk-...
Vim is relevant because it is not always possible to customize it. Think of hardened servers or containers. Also, it's an editor of last resort on most Unix systems. It's worth discussing whether nano should take this place instead.

Much more tricky are applications that have hardcoded hotkeys, or who listen to an unholy mix of keys and scancodes. Uncommon nowadays (many games are not great at this), but still sucks if it happens.
If you were entering deephn.org in your browser address bar, you couldn't use the browser back button to return to the previous page. That was a bug caused by the navigation code within our dynamic HTML page. It is fixed now.
Here's the thing I think you're missing when it comes to the employer's POV during these types of interviews: they don't care so much about your skillset. At the point where you're doing an in-person interview and being asked these pointless puzzle questions, they are reasonably sure you have the required skillset to do the job.

What they're actually testing for during the in-person interview is your ability to be a good worker bee. They're filtering out people like you who would question the point of doing task X. They want people who will do task X without question. They don't want workers who will ask "Why are we doing task X? Shouldn't we do task Y instead?" For most positions at these large companies, the person who questions the efficacy of task X is a different role -- the role that is instructing you to do task X.

With these trivia questions, they are in fact telling you as a prospective employee the kinds of tasks you will be doing. They are letting you know that you will be doing a lot of pointless work, you won't have any say in the work you will be doing, the work you will be doing will seem trivial to you, and you have to be okay with that. If you're not okay with that, it's not the job for you.
Epic Games raises $1B in fresh funding to fuel efforts to build the metaverse
> There are Dvorak with QWERTY-shortcuts layout, that comes with Linux

This is not accurate really. This used to be the default but at least with Ubuntu/Debian you need 3rd part software. Which means this statement holds true for windows also.
I was slightly more alarmed by the "nuke from orbit" than the tracking, though they're both troubling enough. Not that I'm in much danger of working for Google anyway.
Yup. I failed the last one I had (I’m an SRE/ops guy). I realized the proper solution the next morning after sleeping on it.

I just couldn’t pull it out of my butt in the 30 mins I had. Sux. I’ll get there one of these days.
In high school somebody took a box of checks from my mailbox, forged an ID in my name, and used the account to cash stolen checks. It was a dormant account with a $0 balance.

When he was caught, I was notified and found $3,000 in it that wasn’t mine.

I waited a year for somebody to take the money back but nobody did. I contacted the bank four times after asking them to take the money back, and they all just kind of shrugged and said “well, it’s not our money either”. I asked them to make a note on my account every time that I requested this.

After another year I bought my first brand new laptop on my way to college with it and I never heard about it again.

Still debating if this was the “right” thing to do, but even if I had walked away from it, I couldn’t have closed the account without withdrawing it, and escheatment laws would have forced the bank to return the money to me one way or another.
1) Strikes

These are in some countries more common than you can imagine

2) Safety and Comfort

Full of smelly,weird people

3) Reliability

Sitting in a car in winter/hot summer during a car accident is much more enjoyable experience than waiting outside in the cold/hot until they fix the train/bus.

4) Does not go where I want to go / When I want to go

Public transport is usually useless at night or during public holidays.

5) Subject to stupid politics

For example during this pandemic in my country they demand FFP2 and having COVID-19 test.It's ridiculous.Uncomfortable and expensive.
None of that bullshit when you own a car.

6) Useless for spontaneous leisure activities

I can take the car to go for a short trip / weekend getaway without much planning.It's fast and easy to do.
If I had to use public transport I would need to plan for it and could not go / leave whenever.