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Ask HN: Best advice for transitioning from 9 to 5 to consulting work?
I’ve been doing 9 to 5 enterprise IT for over a decade. I’ve had to report to people, I’ve had people report to me. I want to move into consulting and helping startups get their footing with IT processes, procedures, and implementations. Has anyone moved down this path? What were the good and bad from your experience transitioning to consulting work?
Oh I think so too, but I really don't think that's obvious too many of the people impacted by all of this.
No, but even though they don't want to get vaccinated while they are healthy, most of them have no issue taking a pill after they get sick.

Only a small portion of them are nutjobs and most are just unnecessarily cautious.
It was fine for months, until it became rather popular to point out this glaring contradiction.
My sources of information on the pandemic did not include Trump. Who cares what he said? The world does not revolve around the public statements of a single man. Dude, just move on.
What do you think the moral of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is? Is it a lesson for the villagers, or a lesson for a (potential) liar?
New study "attempts" to debunk something, doesn't debunk it.

Any new study could (and more likeky than not would) prove non-reproducible, bogus, p-hacking, and many other such things.

Heck, old studies, references from countless of subsequent papers and touted as seminal are found to be bogus all the time.
> There is exactly fuckoff zero evidence that funding wound up supporting gain of function research for anything.

From the Fauci e-mails: People Fauci directly worked with seemed surprised and shocked to learn otherwise, and could not even instantly say if their funding had made it abroad.

There are papers resulting from GoF research of concern at the WIV. There are grant proposals, which specify the exact modifications they will do to Bat SARS to increase infectivity on mice with humanized lungs. How can you speak so certain, if you are unaware of this?

> And giving China money to study diseases in pigs happening in China that are closely related to a human disease that we were worried about it (or maybe a close relative) spilling over into humans only makes sense.

It makes sense, but you'll see through studying the records that it was the cover for military funding. What was the Defense Threat Reduction Agency funding doing at the WIV where military researchers shared floors with civilian researchers working on the same animals? Making sense to research spillover?
You don’t think non-scientists have any reason to go into remote bat caves even though bat guano is an incredibly valuable substance?
There's no other credible explanation for the return of influenza H1N1 in 1976-7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu

For an epidemic to occur, you need not just a lab leak, but a population sufficiently naive to the pathogen. H1N1 was displaced by H2N2 in the late 1950's pandemic, which in turn was displaced by H3N2 in the late 1960s pandemic. Thus it hit the cohort of people aged 25-6 or less who'd never been exposed to H1N1.
But it could be perceived as a conflict of interest, and that of itself is the reason to at least declare it (for transparency). This is how it works in ethics.
I mean, fair enough right? Figuring out if it started in a lab has zero effect on the mortality rate while Trump making up new lies every day for months about how it's just about to just go away anyway led people to their deaths, plenty of whom probably weren't his followers.
Listen, if the virus originated in a city that simply had an infectious disease lab, that’s one thing.

For a virus to originate in a city with one of three labs in the entire world conducting heavy-duty researching involving the exact kind of virus that unleashed this pandemic, with the stated intention of working with said viruses to make them more infectious (NOT for the purposes of making a bioweapon) that deserves special consideration. Especially with the fact that the animal the virus is thought to come from ranges 1500 miles south from said city, and started during a time that animal is typically hybernating.
There's an (in)famous Japanese game show where they put a naked guy in an empty apartment for a year and made him survive off what he could win from sweepstakes in magazines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi

The entire thing was livestreamed 24/7, including having an editor digitally add an eggplant emoji over his privates. It was such a hit that they made him do it again, but in Korea, a language he didn't speak.
imo we should design housing policy such that a barista can live 30m walking from work if they want to
Both are also very wrinkly and rather important to the owner.
It's a statement of consequences; just "the way the world works."

Trust the experts if you've no time for more, but this is the likely result.

Put time into your own research, and maybe you won't be caught off guard.
>It would be completely untenable from a ethical point of view to do unnecessary surgery.

Doesn't stop doctors suggesting and performing "unnecessary surgery" knowlingly to other patients all the time. It's a booming business.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/18/unneces...

Just one case of such a racket:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-prosecutors-target-phys...
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Power Boost
Oddly enough though, the analogy tends to diverge when scaled: the more material you put into your house, the less vulnerable it is; the more lines of code you put into your software, the more vulnerable it is.

Taken to an extreme, anyone can take down a house made of straw with their fist, but nobody can exploit hello world.

I despise seeing simple apps with ridiculous dependency trees (package.json with line counts in the 5-6 figures, for example) and other complexity that can't possibly be fully understood by whoever's responsible for operating it. But I suppose things would be in even worse shape if we reinvented the wheel instead of using well-known libraries and so forth.
Maybe not every copy editor there has gotten the news?[1]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/01/covid-19-varia...
I don't know... some people are pretty fanatical about their web browser preferences.
> Facebook already knows who you are

True, but do the small business know you? No. Facebook helps match other advertisers with you, and earns a good commission out of it.

Now, with these sweeping changes, Facebook would no longer be able to effectively connect marketers with you.

>Their last earnings report show significant growth.

True. But the changes weren’t live back then. Apple released the App Tracking Transparency framework update with iOS14.5 in mid April.

I’m not a veteran in the ad tech space like you. Neither I claim to be one. What I wrote are just facts mixed with my thoughts. None of the things are misleading.

It’s easy to make such sweeping remarks in the comments section. Maybe write an article on your thoughts over this, and we’ll discuss someday
> With a battery swap out model

No consumer is ever going to agree to this psychologically, so I wish people would stop pushing it.

No one is going to agree to swap the pristine battery in their new car with a reconditioned battery (at best) at a charging stop.
You can use multiple deliveries when water is added in orbit.
> Put time into your own research, and maybe you won't be caught off guard.

Why? What guarantees are there that I'll do a better job of research than the experts?
I mean the only person in my life expressing an interest in this was my mom and she got it from the radio program coast to coast. Which is almost entirely crackpot conspiracy UFO bullshit. Still. I didn't tell her it couldn't have come from the lab. I said there isn't really enough evidence to conclude that. I think that was the mainstream opinion. Not that it couldn't have come from the lab, but that there wasn't enough evidence to support that conclusion. It's normal that something like this can take years to sort out especially when the authoritarian government controlling the area would prefer not to have that particular conclusion.
Donald Trump =/= his employees
It's been practice for centuries to initially name it after where it was first originated. Spanish flu ring a bell? But yeah Trump's racist for saying China flu.
Why is Twitter suspending the account for the Fauci email leaker(s)? Is that the path to truth?

Whom is that a lesson for?
Chargepoint are shit. I can't wait for chargers to become ubiquitous enough to drive Chargepoint into bankruptcy.
Paw's great for figuring out someone else's poorly documented API. Sure I could code up the equivalent, but not going to waste cycles reinventing a tool that pays for itself in less than an hour of saved time
Yeah, it’s a good article except for the gratuitous sprinkling of partisan barbs against any and all not-left-of-center political affiliations.
> There is zero evidence that anyone, anywhere in the world was working to develop SARS-like bioweapons

How do I square that with this claim from the article?

> Eleven of its 23 coauthors worked for the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, the Chinese army’s medical research institute. Using the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, the researchers had engineered mice with humanized lungs, then studied their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. As the NSC officials worked backward from the date of publication to establish a timeline for the study, it became clear that the mice had been engineered sometime in the summer of 2019, before the pandemic even started. The NSC officials were left wondering: Had the Chinese military been running viruses through humanized mouse models, to see which might be infectious to humans?"

What this describes seems like it could be circumstantial evidence of the PLA developing bioweapons. Certainly it isn't proof of anything, and as evidence it's not very strong. But I wouldn't call it 'zero.'
Ask HN: How do you document your microservices?
Our team is about 100 people, and ~8 microservices. Public endpoints and their parameters are documented (in a shared repo of swagger docs). However, the operations, side effects, dependencies of each API are not documented in any consistent way. Do you have any processes, or technologies that help you track service internals and dependencies?
More like, '4chan predicted 10 of the last 1 disasters'. Still worth checking in, just in case this is the one that pans out. Definitely better than ridiculing all 10.
Tangent: you might enjoy r/BarbaraWalters4Scale for more of this kind of stuff

https://www.reddit.com/r/BarbaraWalters4Scale/
If 4chan is a broken clock, what are your media sources?
Does something have better shielding mass ratio? But water itself can be more useful perhaps.
While I've used all of them, some of their listed libraries are a little dated IMO. Of course this true of almost all mature codebases.

For the sake of the less experienced, I'd point them to these substitutions in particular:

Compojure: Reitit (which they used in the front end too, so migration maybe in progress) would be my preference for backend routing.

Component: Integrant takes Component's ideas, but prefers the flexibility of multimethods operating on plain data to the typed records approach for defining systems.

Schema: Once very popular, but superseded by clojure.spec (bigger in scope) and to a lesser degree Malli for data schemas.

Potemkin: Avoid, handy for some internal code organisation purposes but hostile to tooling and debugging IMO.
- There was GOF research done on US soil at UNC Chapel Hill which collaborated with WIV. They took a SARS-CoV-1 backbone and splied in a surface protein from another coronavirus and ran it through mice to produce a mouse coronavirus.

- There's no papers out of WIV indicating GOF research

> but you'll see through studying the records that it was the cover for military funding.

You're offering a blatant conspiracy theory now with no substantiation.

The funding to WIV had nothing to do with GoF and there's no evidence of anything else. But it HAD to be GoF research. Circular, evidence-free logic.
Just playing devil's advocate, not convinced fauci had any malicious intentions, but he has one of the most highly public jobs in America, he gets to keep his job/power and maintain a future in politics. But he definitely does not seem like some power hungry egomaniacal player to me. His beliefs before and after and actions after the outbreak seemed to be consistent with someone that was trying to do the right thing for our country.
Not only easier, but more performant. You don't end up with one element lagging behind as you scroll.
I had the same issue. This link works better for me:

https://atcold.github.io/pytorch-Deep-Learning/
You have to enforce standards. Good security is expensive. If companies in competition don't have to pay for good security those that do have it will have higher costs and have trouble competing.
> Wade devoted a full section to the “furin cleavage site,” a distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic code that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells.

> Within the scientific community, one thing leapt off the page. Wade quoted one of the world’s most famous microbiologists, Dr. David Baltimore, saying that he believed the furin cleavage site “was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus.” Baltimore, a Nobel Laureate and pioneer in molecular biology, was about as far from Steve Bannon and the conspiracy theorists as it was possible to get. His judgment, that the furin cleavage site raised the prospect of gene manipulation, had to be taken seriously.

Furin cleavage sites have evolved and are present in multiple coronaviruses:

- HCoV-OC43 (infects humans)

- HCoV-HKU1 (infects humans)

- MHV-A59

- ChRCoV-HKU24

- BtCoV-ENT

- BtNeCoV-PML-PHE1

- BtCoV-HKU4

- BtCoV-HKU5

- MERS-CoV

- BtHpCoV-Zhejiang2013

- SARS-CoV-2

Phylogenetic analysis suggests that it has evolved independently at least 6 times that we know of.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...

After that article was published a team in Thailand found furin cleavage sites in sarbecoviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 called RacCS203 (91.5% similarity to SARS-CoV-2) and RmYN02 (93.3% similarity to SARS-CoV-2)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7873279/

Furin cleavage sites are common, nature understands how to utilize that trick very well, and continuously has re-discovered it.
Indeed, avoiding the perception of impropriety is second only to avoiding impropriety itself. When people perceive impropriety, even when there is none, trust in the system is undermined.
I don't doubt your account --but that's a distraction.

There were many people in bioscience, virology, etc. who said it was possible and should not be discounted, but those people were hounded and shut up.
They never welded people in, it was to funnel them through common exits where they could be disinfected.
> Except he was proven right yet again that social media and old media orgs will censor others and lie to the public when it fits their political agenda.

And this differs from "new media" how? You don't like what certain social media and "old media orgs" did? Fine, no problem. There's no media on the planet that doesn't do this to some extent, least of all contemporary conservative US media outlets.

Whether you consider what was done to Trump and others regarding their posts/speeches about COVID and cures for it as censorship depends a lot on how you see the world. Your mileage may vary (because mine certainly does).
Its weird how this piece of science is paraded out as a "gotcha" against the people that use terms like alpha males and alpha females. Those people, most likely, do not care if there is truth to the statement wolves have alphas. They use it to signal their aggressiveness and superiority.
The key point isn’t that CS grads need to remember the stuff they learnt. What they need to remember when facing a real life problem is that they had studied about something that was similar to the problem they were solving, and have the ability to look up and easily grok the solution they had studied a decade ago.

As someone who is not a CS grad, it’s often difficult to Know where to even start looking for a solution until many years of experience, something that CS grads I’ve worked with and mentored were able to do as interns.

Of course, there’s always the flip side that CS grads need to learn to not always apply the fanciest and “coolest” algorithm that they learnt in college because it isn’t always the best approach to a problem, but that’s a much easier skill that can be learned anywhere within months to a few years given the right mentors.
It wasn't slow for me and also the page is on the front of HN right now which often hammers web servers.
Like the parent I am trying to DIY most things on my personal projects. Standard library for everything except the database driver and… htmx ;)

Thank you!
It seems like a bad idea to name an aircraft manufacturer 'Boom'.
There was a pretty recent one that continues to dismiss the idea this came from a lab completely.
Thank you for this great info. I forgot too mention I'm using an older portafilter from a machine I had years ago. I put it in storage when my son was born (counter space) and the pump siezed while in storage. I was unable up repair it and my wife took pity on me getting me the current one for me as a gift. :) I kept the old portafilter as it much heavier than the one that came with the machine and seems to pull a better shot.
In early December of 2019 with absolutely no indication that a new virus was being spread, the Chinese figured out that they had a) a new virus and b) they were able to identify the virus.

In this case the Chinese knew, in early December, they had a problem when they only had a handful of cases. HOW????

COVID presents like the flu, so there isn't a novel symptom to help them identify that something new is in play.

There wasn't a significant rise in cases or deaths. There couldn't be a significant rise in deaths because there weren't that many cases. A small cluster of flu cases escalating into pneumonia, and then death won't raise a red flag because it happens all the time. I've had multiple Chief Medial Officers tell me this.

With COVID presenting like the flu, and with so few cases the ONLY way they could know that a new virus was spreading was if they had prior knowledge. The only way they could get prior knowledge was because someone working at the lab got sick, and then people they came in contact with got sick.

If this really happened organically then it should have been spreading pretty damn fast, and because it presents like the flu it wouldn't have raised any eyebrows until either the case rates spiked or the death rates spiked. In the U.S. flu cases per year range from a low of 9.3M to a high of 45M and deaths of 12,000 up to 61,000.

I suspect that China sees the same fluctuations in yearly flu cases so localized spikes wouldn't have raised any eyebrows it wouldn't have gotten anyone's attention until hospitals started to get overwhelmed. But in early December they didn't have that many cases.

So how did they know?
The problem is our govt money is subsidizing private company security policies instead of more directly helping people. This money should go to healthcare, infrastructure, or even be redistributed before it's used here.
How as anybody going to "debate the veracity of the argument"? What information was anybody going to use?

Even so, in the intervening period, even when Trump was still president, several US agency reports concluded that the virus likely did not originate from a lab, and one assumes that they had more information than anybody else.
Here are the 2021 video lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHTzKZzVU9e6xUfG10Tk...

The site itself appears to be additive (only new materials posted in later weeks) to the old 2020 site, which is here:
https://atcold.github.io/pytorch-Deep-Learning/
> It's still not clear to me what the conflict of interest is. The amount of money is kind of important, because it gives you an idea of the level of involvement. As I said, $600K over 5 years is very little money, it basically makes sure you get the results of whatever research is already being done.

Maybe he's covering his own ass? Maybe he's trying to protect gain of function research? He was, after all, the most vocal proponent that the risks with gain of function research were worth it. [0]

> The top scientist in the country, with several Ph.Ds, 50 years of experience in a both public leadership and an incredibly complicated branch of biology, is making roughly what a staff engineer at a FAANG company makes...and you are complaining? That's the bargain of the century. He's a sick fuck for actually sticking it out - he could have bailed and consulted on "return to the office" for all the big tech and entertainment companies. He is 80 years old, working insane hours, and probably would have made more money in 6 months than he has in his whole public career from a really nice beach. You will never convince me that THIS is the smoking gun that proves Dr. Fauci corrupt, finally, after 50 years in public service. It's too stupid.

Oh, ok. So before his only reward was his "public servant salary", but now that you know he's the most highly paid government official (including the President) his salary is now being compared to FAANGs and he's underpaid. What a sacrifice.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484390/

Edit: Fix typo.
It's gonna be very cool when every politician who contradicts the US intelligence narrative in the run up to the next war gets booted for ``misinformation."
Brain was designed to process information(mostly), not to store mass quantities of information. I mean it's more like a RAM/Cache than Amazon Glacier.

If you don't put knowledge into practice it all goes quickly.
When bats weren't even being sold in that market? When the nearest ones were hundreds of kilometers away and in hibernation? No it was just easier to call a guy racist and bury your head in the sand.
It's not that you discover the One True Truth; it's that you know all the things that might be true. If you listen to the experts, all you hear is one possibility - hope they got it right.
How would guano miners then get to Wuhan and get sick without leaving a trail of infections along the way?
They could have multiple plugs in the same charger which are stand-by in a queue
By all means, I encourage everyone to learn Elixir, Scala, Haskell, or other similar, functional, immutable languages for personal growth.

The points I raised earlier in the context of choosing a language for building a company apply to all of those. I don't see why Elixir is exempt - do you mind explaining?
No. Powerful people aren't necessarily interested in the truth, and they have a lot of Leverage out there. That's my personal take.
Find something people are already paying for, then sell a better or cheaper alternative.
what about ovaries?
> no mention of the virus not matching any backbones in use for genetic experimentation, or the suboptimal binding to humans

Are you going to cite sources? And then are you going to cite the other sources which have addressed both of these weak counter arguments? Some of us have done a lot of homework on this one, so you need to bring your A game.