skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managing volunteers is still real work - sometimes more so. It's hardly uncommon for non-profits to have paid staff managing volunteers.
About the fake reviews, there’s a website which is pretty good for finding those: https://fakespot.com/
What's "gatekeeping" about asking for credentials? Does the fact that she's not an economist also automatically make her an authority on astronomy, medicine, and history, or how does this work...? "No no no, in order to be an authority on astronomy it doesn't help not to be an economist; you need not to be a historian!", or what?
No: Is jumping up and away feom the table because you see a spider on it a panic attack?
Yeah, I think that's absolutely true and fair. It's possible that Lady R might have been a truly awesome scientist in a different world, and it's a good idea to remember all those "flowers born to blush unseen". And, in any case, maybe Lady R is just a really interesting person! You don't have to be a (drumroll) Great Scientist to be an interesting biography subject. My objection is to overestimating someone's actual achievements in the interests of a political agenda, no matter how well-meaning.
Don't just look at salary, compare against cost-of-living. There are gaps, I'm not denying that. It's just not as large as is looks on paper.
I agree that Discord should maintain accessibility in their products, and I can sympathize with how frustrating it is when services you rely on break.

I think we are in agreement here - this post is an emotionally charged person venting. I don't have any problem with that, but maybe there is a better way to vent than on the discord support page. If you want to actually effect change, this is not the way to do it.
Honestly the very idea of a JavaScript compiler like that is destined for obsolescence per standardized features added to browsers.

Folks should just develop their own shims where necessary and TEST AGAINST VARIOUS BROWSERS.

Sure no one likes doing that, but it’s important to follow the fast-pace ECMAScript adoption.
So, hackers remotely infiltrated Colonial Pipeline systems.

The hackers are irrelevant, this is 100% a security issue that is CPs fault. These private infra systems should be easy to secure, an the funding implication of being a National Security issue make it easier.
Yeah, I suspect what makes people smell bad is not so much the sweat as organisms that spring to life in their clothing when exposed to sweat, or just plain water for that matter.

Before the pandemic I worked with a lot of lycra biker types who would bike in and then shower at the office, and their wet towels made the whole office reek to high heaven. I mostly don't care about people's actual BO, but I suspect that I'm very sensitive to certain fungal VOCs. They give me migraine-like symptoms. I know some hoarders who haven't taken a shower in years, there's a kind of penile and scrotal aura in the air around them. It's not pleasant, but it's not even on the same scale as mouldy towels and clothes.
Except that the experience of Chile, and Seychelles in particular is bringing Sinopharm's efficacy into question. I'm very interested in Novavax also but it keeps facing regulatory and production issues.

Both I and my wife had the J&J vaccine a couple months ago. We had a period of about 12, maybe 18 hours of feeling like we had a light case of the flu, and fine since. The J&J and AZ vaccines also use your cells produce spike proteins but do it with a different way (adenovirus vector) than the mRNA vaccines.
I think it's somewhere in between. Taxes, healthcare, and retirement are big in the US. And keep in mind that self-employment taxes (operative here) are more than the taxes taken out as an employee.

But $11K/month * 12 == $132K. To roughy back-of-napkin equalize for higher self-employment taxes, let's say that's equivalent to $100K salary if you were an ordinary employee. (I just made that up, I don't know how accurate it is).

$100K is still 84th percentile income for US, you are making more than 84% of people in the US. It's not "peanuts" or "subsistence".

($132K is 91st percentile income).
> Reading this will give someone a stroke.

What do you mean by this? Some things that will give someone a stroke is sitting in front of a computer screen all day, eating highly processed carbs and other "food-like products".

No, my family and I eat everything. Most often right out of the ground without washing. Nobody in my family is on any prescriptions, and no chronic illnesses. Bugs are your friends. Microbes are not the enemy.
Let's imagine the bill of material is about $30, and that's cheap knowing they have mid to high end embedded SoCs or DSPs being able to move 4K video.

To that price, you also need to add a continuous software development for the OS and some apps (even if they are Open Source, because they need to do at least some modifications). Minor bugs will happen and you would need to solve them.

Also, more complex hardware and software usually equals more complex testing and debugging, and with this more person-hours and a bigger cost. At the end, it might not be $100, but it will be near enough to round it for $100.

To be clear, this is said without having ever worked in a TV manufacturing company, but knowing how this kind of things are made, I think I'm not too far from reality.
Flight software is fabulously expensive to maintain and update, because it is safety critical. Furthermore, avionics programmers have a surprisingly captive audience. You would be surprised to learn how many problems are left to operator-based workarounds.

It's actually fairly depressing and is part of the reason I transitioned to consumer software.
You are correct, though it would help to clarify that you're correcting the GP on the "per kilo" part, and not the "energy" part.

I agree, if you're deploying 1 kg of fissile material, only 0.1% of that will be converted to energy. We should talk about energy per mass of fissile material, not energy per mass of "mass difference".
Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR)
How do you know which cloud security tool is right for your business?
I have a feeling from following it that the early Patriot missile system was full of bugs.

The Israelis later built their own system called Iron Dome, which implies the Patriot had more than minor problems with quick fixes.

The Phoenix missile also didn't work as expected initially, but the Sidewinder always worked but has had about 10 revisions.
Must be one of the first V8 swaps that made a car slower.
As a European I do not understand what vaccination has to do with political leaning. It's even stranger that in the US pro-life (abortion) seems to correlate with pro-choice (vaccines)?

I do understand however that society as a whole says "if you are not willing to take a negligible risk for us, we are not taking risks for you".
C integer promotions are what remains of old computers systems which couldn't handle anything but a 'word'.

It result in things highly inconsistent on modern 64-bit machines:

For example, char/short are automatically promoted to int or unsigned int when an operation is performed on them, but this doesn't happen between int and long.

Simple things like adding two int16_t together to get a int16_t in return is really hard: you need a mask and a extra explicit cast, and you rely on the compiler being smart enough to understand what you are doing and to emit just the instruction you want.

But you don't need to do the same with int32_t, because reasons.

This is a bad default behavior, as it doesn't match either the intuition or underlying hardware, it is inconsistent across all integer types, and to understand why it works that way you need to understand how computers works 30 years ago.

D supporting C integer promotion might be a good thing for portability, but that's it.
Gonna go out on a limb and guess the that O.P. was referring to a future Starship iteration. Alternately they could be a history buff.
Yes, but it also is the part that the virus uses to bind to and enter a cell. It can mutate to a certain extent, but there are limitations to how much can change about it without destroying its ability to actually infect individuals.

On the other hand, there is some concern around the phenomenon known as "original antigenic sin". Its unknown if it is or will ever be an issue with Covid, but it essentially means that for some viruses (such as the flu), your immune system imprints on a virus the first time it encounters it, and more heavily relies on immunity for that particular virus than new antibodies for variants of that virus later on. This leads to the body mounting a sub-optimal defence against new strains of the virus (which is in part why we have yearly flu vaccines that don't offer amazing protection). There is some concern that there is a possibility that over time covid will continue to mutate and those whose initial infection was natural won't have as protective immunity as those who were vaccinated first, precisely because the vaccine only targets the spike protein and not the entire virus:

"Still, Hensley isn’t worried about imprinting — or at least not among people who have been vaccinated with mRNA vaccines. The very strong immune response generated by the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines should override any imprinting impacts as SARS-2 mutates, he said. Hensley worries, though, that people whose immunity to the virus comes from infection, not vaccination, might have more difficulty handling variant viruses because of imprinting effects.

David Topham, an immunologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center and director of the New York Influenza Center of Excellence, also envisages that possibility.

He noted that, in the earliest stages of SARS-2 infection, the immune system mounts a response to a portion of the spike protein called S2. Later, the immune system focuses its attention on other parts of the spike, notably the part of the protein that attaches the virus to cells it invades, known as the receptor binding domain.

It’s not yet known if the early focus on S2 — which doesn’t change much from virus to virus — will blind the immune system to the changes elsewhere in the spike protein, the changes updated vaccines would be trying to teach the immune system to respond to, Topham said.

Topham doesn’t think this will be a problem in vaccinated people, because of the way the vaccines in use have been designed. The spike proteins they trigger production of appear to hide the S2 region, he said. The immune system can’t fixate on something it doesn’t see.

For people whose immunity comes from infection, Topham sees three possible scenarios. “It can be a problem, because the immune cells specific for S2 outcompete immune cells against other components of the spike protein that you really need in order to get protection. It can be inconsequential in that eventually the responses to the other parts of the protein catch up and it doesn’t matter. Or it could actually be a benefit because it gets the immune system revved up more quickly.”[0]

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/16/next-generation-covid-19...
Not only that, it could shift coffee futures and brand market share by manipulating coffee drinking sentiment. And adjust your insurance premium based on consumption, stress markers in your voice and activity pattern, etc.
GitHub shifting from passwords with security key support for SSH Git operations
I don't think advertisers are dumb. I think they're immoral, unethical, despicable jerks.
And right.

Sorry, but mercantilism has been debunked. Not even all that recently.
You can’t generalise Tesla as representing all EVs. They’re the only ones who have this remote control of your car and restricted availability of parts. No other manufacturer does this.

I agree it’s not a healthy model long-term, just hoping it stays niche with Tesla rather than other manufacturers joining in.
almost reminds me of Windows 95 that had to be rebooted every 2^31 milliseconds = ~25 days.
> It could indicate that the candidate is able to learn programming and software development on their own, and are interested in the field enough to “switch” careers despite being in an apparent disadvantage.

Call me cynical, but if I were to see an art history major switch to programming, I wouldn't think "this is a person that decided he loves CS more than art history", I'd think "this is a person that loves art history and ran out of money."

Of course that's all from the resume. Once you actually meet someone and work with them, you can find out pretty quickly how passionate they are and where their interests are. But we are talking about making judgements off of resumes, which again is why work history trumps all. If someone succeeded at a place with similar requirements to yours, that is a much more important signal of qualification than education, so once you land that first job, whether you were an art history major or cs major isn't so important. Might as well study what you love and then figure out how you fit into the labor market later.
listings where not scraped. I've been working on the site for a year. It's very possible people posted cars in different countries.
Well it was the inspiration I believe it was IBM - I will have to check my copy of Mc Connell Rapid Software Development
Still if you multiply that by 1.5-2 to get to a full fte, it is a high salary.

I wonder how these salaries where determined, if it is like you said that it was just devided by 4, or if there was some outside governance/input for it.

I still feel like if you would place a job ad for a babel engineer for an amount like that it would be filled instantly.
I'm the lead dev of Ardour, paid entirely by voluntarily payments for the software, and I make about $100k/year from the software itself. That's after nearly 35 years as a C++ software developer. Some people think I'm a brilliant programmer, I'd settle for "probably about as good as anyone you're likely to be able to hire".

So why it is not ridiculous that I'm not working for twice that or more at some larger tech outfit?

Because one of the benefits of working in the open source domain is that the entire structure of the work is completely different. No marketing. No bullshit. No corporate structures to satisfy. I can't speak for anyone else (within OSS or not), but to me those benefits are worth at least $80k/yr, if not much more.

To be fair, perhaps my attitude would be different if I had not previously been involved in starting up a certain well known e-commerce company which, while not allowing me to never work again, let me get the financial aspects of life into pretty good shape.

But I think I know plenty of younger people who want to be in software and are willing to earn less in exchange for more interesting work, less bullshit, more freedom and maybe even a sense of purpose beyond "we're going to make boatloads of cash".
imo it's worth paying a little more just to get AMZL shipping. for my address, it's the only option that actually gets here in two days, and every day is a business day for them. UPS is usually two days, but misses the estimate a good fraction of the time. fedex is a little worse, and USPS priority mail is more like 10-12 business days.
The Spare Change Economy, and Why You Should Be Paying Attention
"The Digital Spare Change Economy" (is that a thing?) is roughly $90 Billion in size in the U.S. On average, people have about $30 per month ($360 per yea) in change.

Right now, consumers can only use their spare change in a small number of ways; saving, paying off debt, or investing. Currently about 10% (or $9 Billion) of the total addressable market is utilized.

Unless you used spare change to buy Doge (at the right time, and not before the SNL catastrophe) then yes--the spare change returns would have been worth it.

But now, there is finally a startup that brings spare change "wagering" to the table. You can take your spare change and have some fun with it, hoping to turn it into tangible 10X returns on a given day (not 10X returns over the 30-year span that Acorns provides).

Hedge is the natural first-step in the spare chance economy utilization. With an ever-changing legal landscape on alternative investment options, it should be to no one's surprise that something bigger is coming next.

Your spare change will thank you.
If companies want to have inline images in their emails, they should have to send the image data along with the rest of the message. Email clients should not allow emails to load third party resources.
Allow using if (condition) instead of if ( (condition))
We offer a upgrade for cars posted, and advertisements. Working on some affiliate offers at the moment as well.
Yeah can you imagine if it affected young people in the way Spanish flu did? I honestly think we’d be lucky if our civilization didn’t collapse in the face of something like that, given how this version went down.
Actually, what you're describing sounds like something you'd refer to as "not a showstopper".
To me, a "showstopper" is something that stops the show: that can't be ignored or "fixed later".
What kinds of preparations would mitigate the worst effects of this?

Are contemporary surge protectors enough to protect home/office equipment? How about the power grid? Would the kinds of changes we're talking about making to enable the grid to handle renewable energy protect against this? What about the Internet? Is data center surge protection strong enough?

Should power and networking companies keep a stockpile of equipment offline so we can have minimal connectivity after one of these events? With COVID and the shipping delays we're seeing, keeping stockpiles seems like a really good idea anyway.
Vanity Publishers (and variants like poetry "competitions") are a huge stain on the publishing industry. SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) maintains the Writer Beware website, a set of resources documenting, naming and publicizing such predators and their practices:

https://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-bewa...
I like how Google's own page about Lighthouse performs really really badly under Lighthouse.... https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/

Perhaps they should apply what they preach.
Rust does go overboard though, e.g. indexing requires `usize`. You either use `usize` for all your integers, or you end up with a cast-salad.

arr[i as usize]

This is actually risky, because even when you only meant to extend, you can also accidentally truncate or change sign. `as` does all of these things without a warning, and mixed with type inference it can easily lead to surprises.

Rust makes it worse by insisting on a theoretical support for 16-bit and 128-bit `usize` regardless of the target platform, so you can't use `a[i.into()]` to infallibly convert `u32` to `usize` on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

The correct syntax is:

arr[usize::try_from(i).unwrap()]

which is painfully verbose. In larger expressions it's almost an obfuscation of what the code is actually doing.
Eh, no. Really no; that typical is at absolute max 50K across the UK.
That would really only happen if you are in an area with lots of devices connecting to your Echo(s) constantly. In reality, you're gonna see that Sidewalk bandwidth taken sporadically. If you're in a rural area, you'll probably never see any traffic from it.
Just but you lose the self appointed scrum masters with no real code experience
Reduced opportunity for third parties to work on electric vehicles, especially Teslas, is a significant problem that needs to be addressed. It's an aspect of right to repair laws. There are some states that have laws that have basically forced some EV companies to release manuals. But lack of availability of parts also blocks third parties.

If you think of superchargers as an almost proprietary service that is almost required for use of the car, then blocking the use of them in damaged and repaired Teslas seems problematic. If you had a "totaled" gm bolt, after it was repaired you could use third-party charging services.
The US Census Bureau is releasing data using differential privacy for the first time this year - previous approaches to data obfuscation were prove-ably flawed. The State of Alabama is suing the bureau, challenging the use of differential privacy in the 2020 Census.
That doesn't have anything to do with Texas; like, overusage, like, of "like" is, like, incredibly annoying. Growing up in the midwest, we were taught to not use filler words/sounds like "uhh" or "um" in general.
Traffic Calming Strategies
Please don't act as if you know me. Advertisers don't know me nearly as well as they'd like their bosses to think and neither do you.
Cool. By the way, I add text to my videos using https://audext.com/
Ouch, imagine dying because of a rounding off error...

More detail in 1 link from the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20100702180720/http://mate.uprh....
Why Soaring Stocks Could Be Bad News for the Economy
Extraordinary claims, no evidence, and you want my email address. Hard nope.
For residential, a propane powered generator would be helpful.
I suppose the data transfers would be just API calls back and forth, as opposed to user content.
I think V2 referrs to what will come after starship - something much bigger https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1166856662336102401
I don't think that comparing this booster with the STS is particularly valid. While I don't want to downplay SpaceX's very real achievement here, the STS was a much more complex and flexible platform, it was human-rated (with all the engineering overhead that that entails), it was built without the advantage of the last forty-plus years of technical development, and it was done first. All those things cost money - at the time or with hindsight.
On the one hand I absolutely get wanting to go to where the up and coming talent is. On the other I think a bit more distance between personal and professional platforms is probably in everyone's best interests. I'm curious to see if this gets much traction.
Not a professional, but I find meat thermometers even more useful because I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what every type of meat looks and feels like when cooked, especially with different marinades and seasonings changing the appearance. I also hate overcooked meat. With a thermometer I can try a new technique and always pull the meat off at the right time. I'm also more comfortable letting the outside get crispy if I know I'm not overcooking the inside.
I'm on the other side of the boat, and presumably the ocean. In Eastern Europe, part of the EU and have a lot of connections working in outsourcing. Some senior level engineers can end up making 4000 - 5000€ per month, which would translate to ~$65.000 per year. I know of very few that make 6000€ or more.

Giving the benefit of the doubt and saying that any engineer here will be half the value of one from SV (which, I don't agree with at all), I'd argue that you'd still be better off paying two senior engineers at the particular level I am familiar with to build your product.

> My point is without high pay a whole class of very good engineers is unavailable to you.

I think depending on the model, the same argument can be made for FAANG and / or other VC money fueled companies. There are some talented, principled engineers that refuse to work for non-fundamented businesses, and perhaps only aiming for the 150k+ people will render a whole class of very good engineers unavailable to you.
The argument makes sense if you take this question seriously:

> How do we know she was a great scientist?
How is Rome Tools going to make money?