skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to enter the country with a visa which allows work or self-employed work.

You have to apply for and timely renew a residence permit. Documents which are required depend on the type of the permit. For work permits you need to demonstrate that you income is above the social minimum. The permit gives you the right to stay on the Italian soil and travel in the EU.

You need to rent a place to live and apply for the residency. Strictly speaking, residency is optional, but it will give you an Italian ID card, and will be required to receive a driver's license. IIRC you have six months before you need to get a local driver's license. Residency will also reduce utility bills and is required in some other situations.

After X years of non-interrupted residency (where X depends on your country of origin) you can apply for a citizenship. And it's a whole new story.
I don't think counterfeits for Thermapen have ever been a problem. Just unofficial distributors selling Thermapen from ETI or reselling after purchasing from Thermoworks.
SpaceX will launch a Dogecoin-funded Moon satellite
First-sale doctrine says if you buy something, you have the right to resell it. I'm not exactly sure what sole distributor means. I think it means that ETI will try to refuse bulk sales to anyone else in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Pop OS has it's own power management that is pretty decent. I can almost get through a whole day of work without plugging in.
FYI DNA, is not a protein.

The mRNA molecules in the vaccine just contain the instructions for the spike protein. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... has a good breakdown of what specificly it makes.

To use an analogy to a computer - DNA is like the hard drive (long term storage but slow), RNA is like RAM (short term, degrades easily, but easy to transport and gets info where it needs to go), ribosomes are like the CPU (executes the code in the RNA, outputs a protein). Normally, DNA gets copied into RNA, which instructs the ribosome what protein to make. The vaccine is like inserting a fake message. The ribosomes see RNA and follow the instructions, but the RNA came from the vaccine instead of the cell's DNA. This is one of the reasons why the vaccine is so safe, because RNA just naturally breaks down very quickly in the body.

Booster generally causes more side effects, because the body has seen the spike protein before (from the first vaccine) so it recognizes it faster and mobilizes a more robust response. In a certain sense, its already done a practise run, so the body kicks things into high gear right away.

[IANAD]
> Yes, and this confirms one suspicion of them I had, that they only work in one direction. They ever adjust inflation upward when products get worse:

Well, it asserts that but doesn’t provide a basis for the claim, which directly contradicts BLS: “The hedonic quality adjustment method removes any price differential attributed to a change in quality by adding or subtracting the estimated value of that change from the price of the old item.” [0]

Given that the author focus almost the entirety of his piece on hedonic adjustments discussing new car price data as illustration without ever mentioning that this is a CPI component to which the hedonic quality adjustment method is not applied, I would trust its unsourced claims not at all, and be extra sure to double check any sourced claims.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/
What do you think the headline should've been?
I think new horizons is much faster, and will catch up. Still the same order of magnitude though
I mean, FAANG compensation lets you trivially retire (or achieve financial independence) by ~40 (if you're single), and that's assuming you're budgeting for 200k/year with an extremely conservative withdrawal rate (3%). If you're willing to resettle somewhere cheaper and live a somewhat less extravagant lifestyle, you could do it by your early 30s no problem.

And, again, this is if you're single, i.e. no second income, paying a single-filer's tax rate, and no benefit of cheaper housing by having someone to split the expense with, etc. A partner earning any real amount of money speeds this up dramatically. (Kids do cost money, if you have them, but they don't cost enough money to offset having a second SWE income, even if you pay for extremely expensive daycare, unless you have like five.)

I don't know about you, but having "fuck you" money after a decade in the workforce, or "no, really, fuck you" money after 2 decades is a pretty good deal. It is, in fact, much easier to make this happen working at a FAANG (or comparable) than elsewhere. People like to complain about the cost of living, and yes, those complaints are valid, but working at a FAANG it's entirely possible to save more after taxes and expenses than software engineers in other parts of the country make _before_ taxes; trying to equivocate between those situations is really quite silly. The first is in a dramatically better financial position than the second.
Related:

Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens (2017) Nature

https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to...
How did you store that much data in PG? Did you have some sort of sharding mechanism?
The baseline utility of a car is that it transports you to and from a job, errands and leisure activities. A $9,000 2021 "1990" Mustang would do that rather well, and the other safety/quality improvements probably aren't worth almost $20k to most people, especially given that most people consider themselves above average drivers.

$9,000 for a used car gets you the safety improvements, but perhaps not the new car reliability, even adjusting for 30 years of quality improvements.

I think it would sell rather well so long as it had Bluetooth.
You can still pay the ransom, the insurer will just not reimburse it.
> feel much more polished

'Polish' is the last thing users care about. If it wasn't true Windows and Android wouldn't be the most popular operating systems over decades and decades.
...the same way?

Each time?

In an almost...fingerprintly unique fashion?
Haha, well I'm in dire need of help.

If you're interested I'd love to combine our powers and get Piano Gym farther!

Reach out to me if you're interested! :)
personally I think one of the reasons why it's popular is it is reminiscent of the style of the 1920s, and can thus, with a few tweaks be used to connote a connection to the past as well as implying modernity.

https://www.illustrationhistory.org/images/uploads/held-Life...

https://hprints.com/s_img/s_md/58/58883-lillustration-des-mo...

I can think of lots of reasons why using the 1920s as a visual source would be interesting for designers in this period, so a few people did it and others jumped on (my feeling when I started seeing it around)
Or, there's even the Mozarts who were just never put in front of a piano. Maybe they had parents who were really into sports and signed them up for every sport and they never got exposed.
I don't think that commenter was saying that lower pay = more rewarding work, but that more rewarding work = satisfied with lower pay.

I know this certainly to be true for people I know who work in conservation.
Call me cynical, but anytime an insurance company decides its in everyone's 'best interest', and by everyone I mean the policy holders, I cannot help but translate to mean - 'Its costing us more money that we expected, so we don't want to cover this'
> One of our chief goals was to apply the power of signal processing to search for weaker signals in the PWS data, which maybe, just maybe, were hiding between and behind the bright plasma oscillation events that had already been discovered.

So this doesn't mean that Voyager 1 has entered a new region with different characteristics, just that they've used signal processing to tease a little bit more out of the existing data.
> The typical engineer at Google/Facebook works 40 hours a
> week, gets a good salary and is content with their life.

Two of three things you've said here are true.

40 hours a week would guarantee you will not be effective.
Update:

I have fixed the bug!

I just wanted to say thanks for pointing this out, as I can't believe how I overlooked it! Seriously, I appreciate it!

Tell everyone about Piano Gym!
That’s why Pfizer is behind the whole waving of intellectual property rights so they don’t have to pay Biontech a dime and why the German government is against the waving of rights.
Slim, you have an interesting startup!
Lightly armed pirates have AK47s, which will cause a lot of problem to an unarmed marine with a fuel tank on his back.
Also, you can send the logs to a centralized server with systemd-journal-remote[1].

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-cent...
GoodSAM, a similar app for alerting responders to heart-attacks in the UK, was used to coordinate volunteers during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Vulnerable people who could not go out to buy groceries for themselves, people dealing with health issues while isolating, etc. were connected with those who could help them. I really believe this kind of infrastructure is a genuine public good, for more reasons than just heart attack response times.
They should just use history.replaceState() instead of history.pushState().
The article I linked discusses the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program at length. Would you care to discuss the claim in the article that this program has paid very few claims in the decades since it was created? I checked: it is the exact program created by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. We're talking about the same thing.

tl;dr: the pharma companies don't have to pay you and the government is extremely unlikely to.
"which from my understanding is a form of gene therapy"

You're the one who is asking SOCIAL MEDIA companies (i.e. Facebook and twitter) to educate you more.
"I wish the social media giants would just stop all the censorship and allow the discussions to take place."

Maybe that's the issue all along. Shouldn't have random people and nefarious state actors provide your education, but maybe go out there and read reputable sources, read peer reviewed trial data (The Lancet), read about the success of vaccinations in countries such as Israel.

Not Facebook and Twitter.
"We are alone" is the default assumption, barring any obvious evidence for aliens.

Attaching 'specialness' to the default assumption is just your emotional reaction and unwarranted.
Given the option, my bet would be that people (those on the mid to low end of the economy anyway) would strip out just about every feature not essential to the car going down the road if it meant big savings. They'd ABSOLUTELY do if for 50% off. Safety features would be gone in an instant.

Cars don't come with airbags or even seat belts because consumers demand them, they do so because its the law. That's not to say safety features are a bad thing, just that their omnipresence isn't due to economic forces.
I’ve been finding that reverse searing does a pretty good job without the sound vide
What if you could work on things you love AND be compensated more fairly for it, through something like... collective bargaining?

There are other creative careers, like acting, that have union representation for exactly this reason. If there were no actors' union, film companies could abuse an endless supply of wide-eyed hopefuls trying to get famous. Collective bargaining makes sure they can earn a real wage while they work on their dream career.

In any case, I'd expect someone named "socialist coder" to be less willing to hand over their power as a worker to their company ;)
>it turns out all of their other videos were video auditions and screen tests

my understanding from a friend of mine is you're not putting that up there because you are hoping for some big engagement with the general population, you just want a convenient place to put your portfolio.

>I always wondered what they felt about that.

hopefully it made them feel good. At least I can always be a youtube star!
This is just a recruitment stunt, "join the marines - be iron man"
In HK most people refer to it as BioNTech these days, despite the government's confusing use of the official name "Comirnaty".

The government description seemingly tries to credit Fosun with its development: "mRNA technology platform - by Fosun Pharma in collaboration with the German drug manufacturer BioNTech" [1]

On the plus side, HK is one of the few places in the world where anyone aged 16 or over can currently get their choice of free vaccine (BioNTech or Sinovac) at a nearby vaccine center in about 20 minutes with a booking delay of a couple of days (for defrosting).

Unfortunately, few seem to want it, with bookings running at about 10k/day despite 40k/day capacity for BioNTech alone.

[1] https://www.covidvaccine.gov.hk/en/vaccine
Im exactly at this point now, where we have Bi which breaks from time to time. Sometimes because of infra sometimes because of source data model changes. Im now thinking how to prevent the second one, my plan is to create DB views for data that BI needs so that source system would be notified automatically notified when trying to change schema. In a sense view will become API for data. Yes and monitoring is a must have for everything.
This reminded me of http://engineerjs.com/, a hobby project we did with some friends many years ago. One can write a JS code extended with unit support, linear algebra, complex numbers, create plots, share scripts, create libraries with interactive documentation support (this one never went public), etc. Everything runs in the browser on the user side. The test version (test.engineerjs.com) even has google drive support and can read/write files on it (although Google changed something in the meantime, and it started complaining about not being a verified application). The idea was that everyone could create libraries that others can import use directly. It doesn't have this nice GUI though.
> The profits may be capped but US healthcare is still insanely expensive compared to other first world nations.

Number 1: It's not the profits that are capped. Profits plus operating expenses are capped. Operating expenses (like paying folks in the call center to answer questions about coverage, adjudicating claims, etc.) come out of the insurance company's 15/20% (national/regional). If medical claims are less than 75/80% of premiums, the insurer is legally obligated to issue rebates. If the cost of administering the plan is more than 15/20%... too bad, so sad: the insurance company is legally obligated to loose money and (eventually, if they don't fix it) go bankrupt.

Number 2: I never said that it wasn't more expensive in the US. Just that health insurance companies are not the reason it is so (which was the reason you cited for the US's high healthcare costs). Mathematically, even if you assume it's entirely graft and profit (and it's not--processing claims is not free), the very best you can do is a 20% reduction in costs. What accounts for the rest?

Bear in mind that medical doctors in the USA earn as much as FAANG engineers. The average doctor salary across all specialties in the USA is $300k. Many earn 2x that. By way of comparison, it is unusual for a doctor in the UK to earn even as much as $200k, and the average is around $100k.

Unless the UK is somehow finding people who will pay money to the NHS in exchange for the honor of answering phones and administering claims, I find it difficult to believe that health insurers are anywhere close to the biggest driver of healthcare costs in the US.
What the hedonic adjustment ignores the fact that many of the things people need to live are bought for utility, now how many added features they might have.

Take toilet paper as an example, since most Americans find this a necessary object for if utility. Lets say the cheapest roll of toilet paper has 100 sheets cost $1. One day, the toilet paper company decides to reduce a roll to 90 sheets, but claims the new toilet paper is softer and of a better quality. The pointy heads at the FED may very well decide that increased quality and added softness of the sheets means that the new, smaller roll is of equal value to the older, larger roll. Through a hedonic adjustment, no inflation will be reflected to have occurred. But to the guy trying to wipe his ass, he is getting 10% fewer sheets for the same money. He is now going to have to buy 10% more toilet paper despite CPI reflecting no inflation in toilet paper prices.

Now lets take a look at the cars, since they were cited in the article. CPI data has cars as unchanged. The author of the article shows how actual prices tracked hourly earnings. However, the author looks at average hourly earnings, which are skewed due to the vast majority of wage gains going to the top wage earner. So let's take a look at the median numbers. Using the example from the article, a Honda cost ~$12,000 in 1990 and ~$25,000 - more than 100% increase in real price. Median household income went from $59,966 in 1990 to $78,500 today, a rise of ~31% over the same period of time. The same Honda that cost ~1/6th of median household income costs ~1/3 of median household income 30 years later. The need for workers to get to their jobs (unfortunately for them) remains constant.

Similar real price comparisons between the costs of things people actually need to survive (food, transportation, healthcare, insurance, education) and median wages will reveal similar discrepancies, so its not all too surprising that people hold official CPI numbers in such low regard. But at least TVs are cheaper.
A major portion of that typical 10 year approval process is running a clinical trial where enough people get sick to have statistically significant results. When the trials for all the EUA vaccines were run last year, COVID was extremely widespread. That dramatically shortened how long trials needed to run to prove effectiveness.
If you’re on iOS (there is a Android waitlist), I might have an even better workflow:

I use Airr[0] to listen to podcasts. It has a feature which enables you to save the last x amount of seconds (default is 45) and has transcriptions for popular podcasts. If there isn’t a transcription you can request one within minutes.

From there on I share my quotes via email to have them on my desktop(there are integrations with some services, but I don’t use them). Once I have them on my desktop, I will put them into my Obsidian notebook and organize them there.

[0] https://www.airr.io/
I'm a stickler for typos, but I would note that sometimes resumes are sent by recruiters who have reached out to the candidate and are trying to get them hired (so they can get a commission). These recruiters will sometimes edit resumes — even PDFs, in my experience — and can sometimes accidentally inject typos or formatting oddities.

One reason that recruiters want to tinker with your resume is to remove contact information, so they can ensure that the company can't reach you without going through them.

I was livid when this happened to me, especially after I made clear that I did not want the recruiter to send any documents on my behalf.
Exactly - the only wrong action that you can take is not to act!!!

It’s interesting just how different our cultures/mindsets are across the Globe…

I’m very fortunate to be a dane…!
Wouldn't "as rare as possible" mean getting the steak to room temperature and then just searing? I always assumed the sous vide was more useful for those who liked their steaks more cooked.
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> even all the extracurricular software activities is useless!

I'm one of the jerks who does a coding interview; but for the people who do interviews on what you've done, having something on your resume that you can talk about is a good thing. Interviewers want to hear that you've got deep experience in something and can explain what you did at a high level and in detail. If you've got that from work experience, great; if not, something you did independently is nice too; otherwise it's got to be coming from classwork, which is ok, but kind of iffy. Ideally, two, maybe three projects you can talk about is good to touch on in the resume.
Ah yup. I was misremembering what a tromp was--I was thinking one of those cyclic pumps that uses water hammer (but to compress air rather than pump water).
Both sides are represented, that’s a good thing. The thing I hate is that the side people tend to agree with will be automatically assumed right and the side they don’t will be fake news.
It’s probably either counterfeit or defective
Well insurance companies account for this by raising premiums. In fact it sounds counterintuitive but something which happens often is more profitable for insurance companies because otherwise few people bother to take out policies for it.

In this specific case, I imagine the reason for the announcement wasn't moral or financial – the company likely decided it did not want the legal liability of potentially funding international terrorism.
> I've been interested since the mid-2000s and haven't seen any breakdowns or examples of hedonic adjustments.

The BLS FAQ:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans...
Tank missiles, deployed by Siri?
Sweet. What's the business model? Looks like it's free — is it a data play?
Can't we all just hate on the now official name for the vaccine of "Comirnaty"?
I don't think this will set any precedent. Unlike a standard kidnapping and ransom, where there is a huge amount at stake for the kidnapper - there is little consequence for ransomware authors and those who hold businesses hostage. They do it from the other side of the world, anonymously (assuming good opsec) and if someone doesn't pay up, they just move on.
Does this mean you can mix the two vaccines - ie. take two shots of moderna, and a later in the year a booster shot of (updated) Pfizer/BnT?

So far I haven’t seen conclusive information about mixing the vaccines, but I think that will be the reality for booster shots late this year/early next year in the UK.
Agreed. I really doubt the parent comment has any idea what they're talking about.
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There are also some things that need to be consensus without being fact-based, for instance that we want to live in a democracy.
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My experience is opposite. I have never received a scam email with HTML, is always plaintext that tried to mimic a regular conversation.
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So a prehistoric Maine Coon, basically.

https://guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-cat-(...
I always see the advice never give your asking salary upfront.

Recently I want to move work and willing to take a pay cut just to move so gone in with the honest approach which I am told is bad for maximizing salary. Right now I'm not to fussed about maximizing, it's just moving.

The conversation normally goes:

Company: What is your current salary

Me: $XXX,XXX, that is negotiable as actively looking to move and will take less for the right company. *(I understand it's a high salary to the rest of the market where I am even though I am not in the US so salary is still well below US Junior FAANG)

Then it's been one of two things:

1) Get offered 30-40% less (20% less is my ballpark, 25% for a company that really interests me)
2) Bye

I've been told the job market is booming where I am but in 15 years it's the first time I've struggled to find a job although my skills are in demand overseas. I feel I'm fairly competent, I get told good things by people I work with and my salary has naturally grown through promotion based on my skills/performance yet I'm starting to question is it just me and I'm not that good why I am now struggling to find work despite going in to large orgs as a small dedicated team to do projects they couldn't deliver.

It seems if I take a big paycut to where I was 5-10 years ago, forget 15 years of career and revert back to writing NodeJS/Python apps my luck will be better.