skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The analogy to food banks makes no sense. I normally acquire food by paying for it at a grocery store. If I could have gone to a grocery store (or pharmacy) to get a vaccine, I would have. If I could have paid for a vaccine, I would have.

You're imagining a world where food banks give out magic apples that not only nourish you but also nourish everyone you come into contact with, a world where food is only available for free at food banks, and is not available in stores at any price, and many people are at risk of dying of starvation as a result.

If we lived in that world, and if a food-bank coordinator told me to come in and eat a magic apple, with no guidance (not even a sign) indicating that these magic apples were intended only for the poor, and if I (and others around me!) were at risk of dying of starvation if I didn't eat that apple, uh, yeah, I'm going to go into the food bank (just like they asked me to do) and eat the apple.

In that world, if someone offers you a magic apple, you should eat it, nourishing yourself and everyone around you.

Here in the actual world, if the vaccine is offered to you, take it.
> Nobody doesn't want diversity.

How do you know? Do you think everyone is being honest with you when they appear to state their opinions, knowing that saying the wrong thing could get them canceled? Are you naive enough to believe all humans are truthful?
I guess it would be important to know if anyone internally commented how jumping the queue wasn't a cool thing to do. Leadership internally needs to set good examples and question questionable behavior so folks know the boundaries of acceptable behavior.

Shooting the messenger, if the messenger went through all of the proper channels and made every effort to rectify the matter appropriately internally, would then be counterproductive because it magnifies the issue by creating a martyr.

It's difficult to know what actually transpired, but I don't think a reasonable person would air dirty laundry without trying every possible avenue and appealing to leadership to take a position. So either they're unreasonable or YC let them down, it's impossible to say without independent observers in the know stating their impression.
The subject matter (vaccine equity) warrants discussion, I'm glad you haven't adjusted its visibility.
Is it possible corporations, being large and complex organisms, can be obsessed with margins--yet also may harbor BS jobs?

Political kingdom building, hire to fire, and over fitting to poorly chosen metics are just a few ways I can see margin obsessed companies also maintaining BS jobs.
Right, but a run on a bank does not necessitate collateral damage.

As an example, let's say Capital One has been fractional banking (as they all do) but for some reason people get paranoid about it and there is a run on the bank. Everyone tries to withdraw money Capital One doesn't have. As long as the govt doesn't step in and socialize losses on the back of the taxpayer, you're left with a bunch of people who had "deposits" at Capital One that are now non-existent because Capital One doesn't have any money left. Those people are of course hurt, but the person who only banks with Chase would be hurt how?
All that means is that the first person to find the vuln wasn't a grad student hoping for a faculty job.
> From the employer's perspective, there is one type of employee that can pretty much work in any environment given that they are paid - and there is another type that needs ALL the other coworkers doing things and acting in a particular way for them to feel safe and productive. I'm not even against their need to feel safe, included, heard, or their claimed victim status, ptsd, lack of representation, whatever they are concerned with at any point in time - but it is very hard and expensive to build and maintain an environment where they will prosper - very expensive too.

This is why any smart employer should start aggressively filtering such candidates out of their hiring pipeline.
It might be arbitrary, but it doesn’t have to be. You can measure the human perception of indirection. The trolley proplem has a different answer if you order someone to pull the lever instead of pulling the lever your self. The Milgram experiment only works if there is at least one level of indirection, and works better the more levels there are.

I would guess an expert anthropologist would know about this cognitive effect and count for it.
It may be "putting at risk" - I can easily imagine that most seawalls aren't 1 foot above high water line but are designed with some safety in mind for storms and such, but now are at risk to smaller storms.
I wonder who you think would be sued; it seems voluntary and I'm sure there's contracts etc.
As a young ambitious man I always knew programming was going to be my passion, but life had different plans and I have ended up in less technical IT related roles. I used to think that this ever-revolving door of advancement in tech would create an interesting career but now that I realize that programming is not my career path, I now feel that in my mid 30s with a family it could become extremely cumbersome to those in the field.

I'm interested in opinions of how experienced and mid to high-level devs still feel after 15+ years of experience about the constant evolutions of technologies and their associated "metas" such as TDD, project mgmt systems such as agile, etc jive with that mentality. Does the chase/"circle around" ever get old? I try to keep up with it all through HN, but wasn't the basis of a lot of languages such as python and php to reduce that and get things to MVP? Maybe I'm just way off course.
I don't think anyone's disputing that extra vaccines should go in arms as opposed to getting thrown out. However, given wait times in the 4-8 hour range all over this page, that clearly wasn't the case.

And how is this not like standing in line at the DMV. We have a number of people to process and limited resources to process them. It seems like an excellent analogy. If we had to reissue all licenses, I would like to think we would prioritize truck/bus/ambulance/fire engine drivers over other people. Than probably people who need to go to work. The people who need to go to essential jobs. Then unessential jobs. Then people who were working from home.
ha-ha!

Also, let them write good documentation up to spec so that the next guy can pick up where they left. Surely some long ago shelved away business logic framework gathering dust some place would be a good place to start.

My joke was that we should write an application called a Manager so that (like with calculators and computers) we can tell future generations the story how a Manager use to be a person.

And while we are at it we might as well build a robot to represent the company. A hundred million customers could talk with the boss simultaneously and it could take proper action instantly.
Of the 10% that get a new website, do you have any metric where they change supplier? ( Would be manual labor probably)

Positioning as an agency tool is possible ( white label)

Simplifying your landing page and categorize niches is also possible

( Business owner, developer, agency, ... )

I think the repositioning could be done by focusing on sites with a bad mobile UI.

Ps. Don't forget that rl interaction improves conversion.
It's an emulator, not the game data/ROM.
It doesn't address the issue. It's just ducking your head down to not participate one way or the other. It's fine for keeping your head down, it doesn't address workplace culture.

I have a coworker who does almost no work, but is on four different organizational diversity committees so is basically bulletproof. They've caused major rifts in the team. My only solution is to find a new job, which is what I'm working on now.

When your workplace empowers those sorts of behaviours in the name of progressive benevolence, just ducking your head down only works for so long.
The thing with belief is that you are 100% sure about something you cannot be sure about.

If you ask a religious person "what do you think is the chance that god exists?". A rational person will never say 100%, because objectively you cannot be 100% sure.

But a religious person is wired in a way were they are unable to admit this fact. It is a lie people tell themselves because somehow they think it benefits them.

Now whether it really benefits them or not, I'm not sure. But I would think nothing can beat the objective truth, and that truth might include probabilities.
I mean the thing is even a fully govenment-run, centralized economy, is a market. Each individual decides, is it worth continuing to do the shit they tell me to do? Or should I resist and suffer whatever coercion the state brings down on me. That's a choice, and thus it's an exchange (In the banal case, I exchange my labor in return for political favour; in the extreme case: I exchange my labor in return for not going to a gulag). Maybe not a "free" one, but it is a market nonetheless and most criticisms of market failure apply, with adjustments, to such a system, too.
That's a very sad commentary on the human condition if you think anything about Theranos would have been "fine". If anyone involved knew what was going on and still pushed for the IPO to get their money, then they need to be hit for fraud.

As a collective, we've lost our humanity. I used to think we were losing it, but over the past few years I feel like we've moved past losing and now just lost it completely.
Sorta. Took them a while to turn it off criminal mode. Wasn’t long ago you had to bag an item before you could scan the next. But I have more than 1 hand. Sometimes multiple people.

French ones still run in criminal mode.
> But it seems implausible in the extreme

Implausible in the extreme to have forty or so copies of a book?

And most textbooks aren’t republished every year. You can use them from one year to the next. Why would they be worthless at the end of the term?

Think of a classic CS text like the Dragon Book. They’re on the second edition since 1986.
Off Topic but I learnt something new today from this article. Instead of just tapping the "Find my Phone" icon on Apple Watch, if you keep it pressed, it also flashes the LED light along with the sound on your iPhone.
Latinx came from LGBT Hispanic people. Probably it was influenced by spellings like folx and womxn.

Latine seems to be more popular outside North America. So Latinx is an English word mostly. And I think it became popular in writing before anyone much thought about pronunciation. A bit like Latin@.
Actually, no, I mean destructors. Equivalent to Rust's Drop trait. Those are needed for RAII, but also for about everything else. (You need other things, too, to make RAII.) They were the only thing that made C++ uniquely powerful in 1985, and the only reason Rust can begin to compete. They represent the first and still only piece of runtime automation seen anywhere in the programming world. (Some would claim GC, but it doesn't do anything.)

Destructors are necessary for correct-by-construction coding. The only code you can be completely certain is correct is the code you didn't have to write. None of dnautics's questions ever arise. I don't have to think about them, and I can't get them wrong.

If you imagine destructors have something to do with memory management, you have much yet to learn.

Zig is doing almost everything right to become essential infrastructure, but will need to add some equivalent of destructors to get there.
Any timeline when that would be released to the public? Cant wait to see that insanely fast build time.
So they're an average corp...
>Why is it difficult to keep the political leanings, opinions, activism away from the workplace and act like professionals?

It's not a question of how difficult it is. Their goal is literally the opposite. Everything is a platform for political discussion, identity, etc. Work, culture, art, etc.

It's totally possible to have a workplace you describe, but when people view everything as a platform for activism they don't want that. They want the platform.
Sorry, but that's complete BS.

If the person holding a "bullshit" job is the only one required to define the job as bullshit, they can easily eliminate the said job:if they think the job is bullshit they can quit and destroy the bullshit job.
Stablecoins have utility even when there is banking available. The benefits are that its much faster to transfer globally in minutes and works on weekends.
What type of physical tokens are you talking about and what exactly do they do to prevent authentication on the scammer site?
It's all just for your safety, you know...
Dude, you forget it is 2021 and facts don't matter. Outrage is up to 11, and nothing else matters.

Good for you. You got vaccinated, got a few people vaccinated, and the world is safer at large. Ignore the haters~!
> Bluetooth, GPS, and Cellular Connections don‘t work in water unfortunately.

Does any radio work in water?
Not quite the same, as it’s already completed, but John Malkovich made a film with Robert Rodriguez that won’t be released until 2115.

100 Years is an upcoming experimental science fiction film written by John Malkovich and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Advertised in 2015 with the tagline "The Movie You Will Never See", it is due to be released on November 18, 2115. The 100-year span matches the time it takes for a bottle of Louis XIII Cognac to be properly aged before its release to consumers.

Pending release, the film is being kept in a high-tech safe behind bulletproof glass that will open automatically on November 18, 2115, the day of the film's premiere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Years_(film)
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I've read their platform and I disagree.
I think it is true of the population as a whole (when the subject of such tracking is brought up most people are not comfortable with it.) But the population as a whole has the attitude of “what can you do” and aren’t willing to give up their fun apps and smart phone in exchange for this tracking going away; truth be told neither am I.
Introducing Activity-aware Firefox
I think a few of the things from the quote are troubling because they were phrased so ambiguously the management could interpret them in disingenuous ways that mean you could theoretically push anyone you wanted out of a company. But at this point isn't it just a memo from the CEO and not a formalized SOP? I would hope the SOP would clarify more.

However, I think lots of people wondered why in the quote you included a few things that don't seem to be anything aside from objectively bad, such as "assuming bad intent" and "making unsubstantiated accusations."

How did someone simply asking you about it "crush" you into silence?
Seems like a live press conference is a bad time to just "ask questions". It's a very idiotic time, in fact, to start spitballing medical treatment ideas to the general public.
I certainly don't support the labor practices of Walmart, but I think you are the one with the serious image problem. You think you really exist in a different "stratum" when you still have to buy your own groceries?

You aren't elitist, you aren't even close to "elite." You're just an asshole.

Here's a fun fact, Whole Foods exploited slave labor to supply their tilapia. Here's another fun fact, if you need to work then you are working class.
This article didn't need to exist.
I think this article is off-topic to the memo itself - it seems to be going to a lot of random culture war issues that don't seem to be dealt with or related to the part of the memo quoted. The journalist is probably looking to gin up controversy by attaching issues to Medium that aren't really the driver of the situation.

The story here seems to be Medium is struggling to turn a profit, and there are a lot of people reading which direction the wind is blowing and getting out. Mass resignations are a sign of poor job security and general management problems, not people seeing red over vague and not-much-quoted-here memos.
They've been speaking out about it for years. You don't want to see it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HROK6K0uzlY

And here come the downvotes.
>Latinx came from LGBT Hispanic people.

I have a very hard time believing that this was invented by people who speak a Romance language as their first language. Do you have a source?

>Probably it was influenced by spellings like folx and womxn.

Which is ... also a Germanic construction. Those words are not pronounceable in Spanish, Italian, or French. Is the idea that you just "imagine" that the word is spelled correctly when you pronounce it and this is just a thing you do when writing it?
Yubikeys could be one example
Whether you are a believer or not, the KJB — King James Bible of 1611 — is one of the world's greatest books and its publication changed the world. Therefore, here's one's chance to see a copy of it close up and in reasonable detail.

Unlike so many later facsimiles, this version retains its original late Middle Ages/Early Renaissance English spelling. To put this into perspective, Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616, so this 1611 edition was published whilst he was still alive.

(As many know, this Bible was the work of a committee and remarkably—unlike the work of so many committees—it actually turned out to be a remarkable work of literature in its own right.)

The Bible opens with a combined frontispiece/title page. An ornate line drawing fills most of the page but is blank at the centre except for its title which is at the centre top and spread over three lines. Immediately underneath is additional text including its publications date. Here is the frontispiece/title text in full:

THE
HOLY
BIBLE,
Conteyning the Old Testament,
AND THE NEW:
Newly Translatd out of the Originall
tongues: & with the former Translations
diligently compared and reuised by his
Maiesties Speciall Comandement.
Appointed to be read in Churches.
Imprinted at London by Robert
Barker, Printer to the Kings
most Excellent Maiestie
Anno Dom. 1611

This is immediately followed by a dedication to the King from its Translators, following that comes 'The Epistle', 'Dedicatorie', 'The Translators to The Reader' followed by various religious calendar dates, lessons for special days, alphabetical list of names, maps of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, etc. It is not until about page 39 that we actually get to 'The First Book of Moses called GENESIS.'

There is much information included in this 1611 Edition which is not included in the recent and otherwise well annotated editions of the KJV such as the important Scofield Editions. This alone makes this work a feast for both religious scholars and book antiquarians alike.

This PDF version that I downloaded consists of 1506 pages and its file size is 1,923,870,199 bytes. The scan resolution is quite good but not excellent which is a shame. Moreover, little or no attempt has be made to straighten or make pages linear, which is shame. I will attempt to download the jp2 (jpeg 2000) version later and see if it is any better.

There is a smaller PDF that also includes the text but like most Internet Archive OCR attempts it is dismally inaccurate and full of errors.
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As a customer visiting any store (not just Walmart), it is rather frustrating to need assistance from an employee but unable to find one until you find a gaggle of them all "hanging out". I have no idea what they are doing. They could be talking about unions, they could be talking about the weather, or they could all have just completed assiting the movement of a heavy item require 4 "teammates". Either way, it is not a good look for the customer.
The downvotes you got for this are hilarious.

I guess they think you're off topic because they didn't read the article repeatedly referencing this offensive term that is basically like conflating Japanese and Korean as Chinese.

> Many believe that the patriarchal nature of the Romantic language is not inclusive and can’t keep up with societal progress,

These people are insane.
46% of DAI holdings are USDC. You might as well use USDC at that point.
What You Need to Understand About Friction
It baffles me how people get outraged when other people get vaccinated out of "order" . Here in Mexico there's a lot of ruckus because of people going to Texas to get vaccine. Or when doctors vaccinated themselves and their families.

My thought is... when it comes to vaccines. It doesn't matter who goes first and who goes later. The fact that someone (anyone) is vaccinated helps us all. I still dont have the vaccine and will get it later. But I already feel safer with all the people that have been vaccinated. Theres no way people can do wrong!!
Nice on the Yandex info. Thank you :)
You could have gone to a grocery store or a pharmacy for the vaccine. Every grocery store with an in house pharmacy and ever major chain of pharmacies offered it. You just didn't want to wait your turn.

But, besides that, Mt. Zion was set aside for a high-risk community. You didn't have the same risk factors but helped yourself to one of their doses.

I don't see how that's not applicable. I mean, the food was available to anyone. Other people needed it more, but you wanted it.
I don't think caring is enough. In fact, it's quite a mindfuck too have a manager that cares about your emotional state, but at the same time undermines everything you do at work and fails to advance your interests or sing your praises. Outside of abuse, that is one of the worst employee situation you can be in, unless you don't care about career growth and are very happy with where you are. Hell, I would take an emotionally abusive, verbally abusive boss that promotes me, and catapults my career over a caring boss that doesn't, because I'm the type of person who doesn't care about what my boss throws at me, it rolls off of me (I am aware that some people need more external validation and emotional support than I do, so I do not recommend the latter as a management strategy).
Boolean Operators in Python Aren’t What You Think
>I don't want actual politics at work. I don't want to be debating politically contentious events at work

to take the example from the article:

"In July 2019, for example, Medium chose to publish a series that included a profile of Trump supporter Joy Villa with the headline “I have never been as prosecuted for being Black or Latina as I have been for supporting Trump.”"

When you're in the business of news publishing, on an incendiary and relevant political event at that, and your decisions have a real chance to influence public discourse, even engineering decisions, how is it realistic to think you're not involved in politics, or even can get away from it?

Tech, in particular media and communication platforms directly sit at the intersection of politics, news and technology. Those copmanies build the platforms where moderation and editorial decisions are made that have huge impact.
I can’t imagine that the campus would be a ghost town with some percentage of attrition… they’d hire in and the terms of office attendance would grow stronger.
I recall there was a little window cleaner guy that would go around your screen with a ladder. Maybe it was on the Amiga?
That seems to be just not the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27402261
Can you explain exactly what the "skipping the line" accusation is then? I don't see any evidence that is not what happened in this case.
This is for every framework (left, right, economical, ecological, etc.)

If the framework gives you direct power over other people, you want the framework applied everywhere: work, private life, politics, etc. The people at the forefront of these frameworks use the rest of the group as a stepping stone to their personal power and the framework to enhance their importance (any other positive and negative effects of the framework aside, those I don't want to judge).
> My wife thought it was "just ok". :)

Sounds like you wife is a German :)