skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is another powerful force that explains why so many managers are perceived as bad: in most companies, career growth for managers means moving up, and moving up is at best uncorrelated with managing your team well and with respect. I would actually go as far as it is negatively correlated in some cases.

A lot of stuff I see about what an EM should do, on places like leaddev, in the well known eng. management books, those are all great. They cover most of what I enjoy doing as an engineering manager. But they also means shit for moving up in many (most ?) larger orgs.

Part of the issue is that as the company grows in size, it becomes essentially impossible to correlate company success with certain teams. The complexity becomes such as people above you cannot possibly understand properly what's happening there. At this point, it starts to become all about managing up and lateraly, which takes an awful lot of time. People above you even has less mental space than you on what's happening in your org. So one trick that many senior managers will us, in engineering and otherwise, is to be behind some big salient initiatives. It is kind of a marketing trick. Do something visible that be associated to you.

And then unfortunately the trick often becomes to leave before people can understand the mess that creates. But I think it is important to understand the incentive behind that: it is not because people are evil or stupid. It is just inherent to most large organizations. Very very few large orgs has been able to prevent this behavior.
All you get at that point is the right people using it to prosecute the honest people.
1. Congress does not have that power, as it would interfere with the states' control of in-state commerce. They could however make that a requirement for requiring out-of-state sellers to comply with sales tax.

2. Same as #1.

3. Rates for sales tax generally change every few years as it requires an unbelievably large amount of notification to sellers, service providers, etc. Where sales tax rates change faster than that, it is usually part of a pre-planned and pre-published change in rates occurring over several years. A sales tax rate changing annually is actually fairly uncommon; a sales tax rate changing more frequently than annually (absent special circumstances like COVID19 incentive rates) is extremely rare.

4. This is basically the purpose of the Streamlined Sales Tax, which is an initiative of over two dozen states to streamline sales tax compliance: only a single return is required and it covers all of the member states. However, it is voluntary.

Note that your suggestion for payment is unfeasible, since it would require each payment to also include the tax liability data for every other state, and each state would have to set up a separate bureaucracy to handle money transfer. It's faster and more efficient for taxpayers and states to simply have the taxpayer use existing payment mechanisms to pay each state separately. On the taxpayer side, it's literally seconds more work if you're using a unified tax system (like the SST).
I'm curious why there was not larger adoption of this language and why it was lost by the wayside. One of the commenters mentioned that the symbology made it alien to average folks who did not have the background in that notation. That appears to imply that the domain learning curve was too steep for the folks who don't "think" in that fashion. Hmmm.
> everyone you come into contact with to take that same risk

how come so if those "everyone" got vaccinated? I mean all the risk groups who has clearly higher risk from covid than vaccine should definitely go for vaccine. The rest - personal choice of risk. And as a healthy 49 years old, i'm taking my chance with covid and have no plans for vaccination (i was always laughing at anti-vaxxers, yet seeing all misinformation and propaganda (the stench of USSR strength propaganda is just overwhelming) around covid i think i'll pass this one)
As far as I’m aware, there is no direct experimental evidence over a long duration as the virus is novel and the vaccines new, but for now we have this: Antibody Persistence through 6 Months after the Second Dose of mRNA-1273 Vaccine for Covid-19[1]

And I think it’s okay to ask questions, that’s how science progresses. I suspect a lot of people on social media are just super wary of vaccine trolls and sea-lioning[2], so unfortunately good-faith questions suffer.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2103916

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
> What was a matter of just getting six people in a war room for a week and getting that hard problem done

What would you say exactly, you "do" here?
I do not mind having computer controlled running gear. But I want to own it. No live updates. No wireless network interface to the system software of any sort. GPL software only.

I do not expect to get that soon.
The way I like to think about it (not sure how accurate this is) is that mRNA is like a letter sent by your DNA. mRNA vaccines forge your DNA's handwriting and write a letter that looks like it came from your DNA, but didn't.
There are a LOT of anti-vaxxers who disingenuously couch their advocacy as "I'm only asking questions". It's no surprise when you've seen a 10:1 ratio of bad actors to good (or worse), one might get a little exasperated.

In any case, I've recently been reading Lauren Sompayrac's "How the Immune System Works", and it's a technical overview of the immune system. It's not going to make you into a full blown immunologist, but it will give you the answers to most the questions you ask above, and a framework and vocabulary to begin to understand deeper academic immunology works.

P.S. The immune system is FUCKING AWESOME. There's rarely a page where my mind is not blown.

Edit: I misspelled "Sompayrac"; it is now correct.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. (Greys Law.)

At this point in the pandemic, people really ought to know better, it's assumed they are bad actors. knowing that, It's hard to "be kind, be patient, and have a calm, productive discussion."
> If you're seriously trying to convince someone they're wrong, you need to be kind, be patient, and have a calm, productive discussion

I am doubtful someone spreading anti-vax nonsense can be convinced they’re wrong. (Emphasis on spreading, not just believing or questioning.)

What one can do is inhibit the spread of their misinformation. For that purpose, given the stakes, being direct to the point of roughness can be warranted.
It's a little bit like asking a random software engineer on the street on how GPU drivers work internally: they're unlikely to have an actual informed opinion.
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You could also do that if corporate profits were lower. Worker productivity has far outpaced compensation for 50 years: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/understanding-the-labo...
High performance teams are usually created by good management. If you change the management then bad management can easily undo that. My best managers have been deeply technical people with good people skills, an interest in management, and willingness to get out of the way and no longer make the decisions they made when they were a developer. Management is a lot more than babysitting it generally involves a lot of coordination up and down the organization to ensure the team is doing the right work in terms of organizational and customer priorities. Good management can give you what to work on while leaving you to decide the how.
My bad, I'm not talking about vaccines here. More replying to this general comment about people that don't comply with governmental decree. Leaving out the fact that GOVT was saying at the start of the pandemic that masks do little to protect you or others and they made a u-turn on that, the real way to let people keep their freedom is to let people decide the risks they want to take. If you are old, fat or otherwise ill, don't go outside if you think you might die? I sounds harsh but don't impinge on my freedom to not have to wear a mask because you can't go for a jog once in a while.
Just to add a alternative voice.

Open rates are an important metric for ESPs to track bad actors on their platforms. If this implementation is a 100% preload those metrics then have no value.

IP anonymized pixel loads are a good compromise.

But, 100% preloads would actually make email list management best practices harder to implement. Specifically unsubing subscribers that do not open over a time period. Which many ESPs do in the backend to maintain list quality and minimize spam complaints. Some level of engagement feedback at the subscriber level does have value in the spam/unwanted email workflow.

Assuming you have a preexisting relationship with a business, it is not crazy on the privacy side of things to have an engagement feedback loop.

Assuming you are dealing with a spammer/list buyer ip anonymization provides an appropriate level of privacy, and any additional protection should be expected by the email provider not delivering the mail.
Do you wear a seatbelt in the car?
I agree with you.

Too many people have opinions about too many things.

In regards to COVID the folks managing the response are encouraging it. They’re using influencers and celebrities to “echo” their messages.

Heaven forbid we leave the influencers out of the loop and just go to the CDCs website.

Some people care about what Linus thinks about COVID. That terrifies me.
This claim is commonly made anecdotally by extroverts, but I've never seen real evidence that it is true.
Easily. There are lots of MCUs, and the "infotainment" unit contains big amount of code including an OS like linux or qnx or android.
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Well yes, because not finding a key in a map is not an error typically. Map.get is the same way, as is Access. It returns nil. If you want it to be an error you can use the version that raises.
I'm vaccinated but I think it's hindsight bias to say the mRNA vaccines are obviously safe. We had to wait for clinical trials to show that. There has been a great deal of research and development on the delivery of the mRNA, what kind of molecule to wrap it in, for example.

Additionally, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but with e.g. the Spanish Flu, the morbidity was not from the flu, per se, but the immune response to it (cytokine storm, which I believe is implicated in Covid somewhat, too). If that's the case, could the proteins coded by the mRNA potentially have kicked off such a response? I know we see that it doesn't, but could it have?
> If one doesn't deem it risky to themselves

If one's actions were only risky to themselves, then I would agree with you. However, that is not the case with a pandemic.

> Forcing/mandating mask wearing in democratic countries does more damage to democracy.

Frankly, politicizing mask wearing, fake news, lies and proud ignorance does more damage to democracy than anything else. If everyone would have worn masks from the beginning, we would be in a very different place right now.
Isn’t Katalin Karikó the inventor of mRNA vaccines?
I've been using go for years now at my work, and I have to say that it does have applications where it's a perfectly capable tool.

The problems arise when you try to do something it's not good at and you start wrangling with the language. If your coworkers have strong opinions on how Go is supposed to be used, it can make matters worse.

My biggest qualm by far is the limited type system, e.g. it has no concept of immutability or non-null pointers :( Also accomplishing simple things sometimes requires surprisingly weird techniques, e.g. cloning a slice.

The lucky people can evaluate a problem and choosing the right tool for it. The unlucky bastards like me get handed a language and are expected to build everything in it. It can be rough sometimes.
Agreed, this was a huge pain in the past for me. Then, the even MORE senior engineers are just like "Ok do the tests work? Yes? Ok whatever, approve"

So there's this middle section of "senior" (but still in age terms relatively junior in their lifecycle) that are just trying to exert dominance over a dumb web app that controls the flow of the spice (errmm.. code) in the org. It's really silly and deeply counterproductive.
Yep. I know of at least five stroke or adverse heart events in my social circle or one hop out, all had been vaccinated recently.

Like you, I maintain that it’s still a lesser risk than COVID... but there seems to be a lot of media/political pushback to just acknowledging the possibility of vaccine problems.
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9 out of 10 times when someone claims people have been dogmatically unwilling to consider ideas that run counter to scientific establishment, those people were just responding to profoundly insane anti-science ideas (earth is flat, covid is fake,global warming is just the sun etc). Their responses may seem glib, because they don't feel the ideas are deserving of serious discussion, but usually they understand things just fine.
I've been toying with the idea of starting a newsletter. How can I measure the opening rate without tracking pixels?
Nice. Now one doesn't need to purchase a specialty keyboard to write in APL.
That's a great story. I wish I could write modern APL at work. Would be a lot of fun.
If you read Linus's post then it seems that no mRNA sequence (not necessarily a vaccine) can ever do harm when injected into the body, but I doubt that is the case. I hope someone who is knowledgeable about the subject can explain whether that is true or not.
Hey thanks, just installed it! These are all super useful additions.
> How many people who can get jobs at SV companies are still sitting in crappy towns in the US?

The entire ModCloth Pittsburgh team, for example?

If you see some of the talks by the former ModCloth CTO, he points out that the Pittsburgh team was better and cheaper than the Silicon Valley team by a good margin. Part of that was the fact that the Pittsburgh team had more experience that the Silly Valley team because they didn't jump ship every three years. Part of that was the fact that the Silicon Valley FAANGs absorbed the actually good programmers so what you were hiring in Silicon Valley was the mediocre second tier who thought they were first tier and you had to pay them first tier salaries.

And don't underestimate the number of people who don't want to move. At least 1/3 of my college graduating class didn't want to leave Pittsburgh.
If you think it might be a little inappropriate to care much about a programmer's endorsement of a vaccine, here's an actual famous doctor saying "for God's sake don't take this thing".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IBv3A8-ShI
Your IMAP server doesn't report read status back to the sender. Unless your e-mail provider is an advertiser *cough* Google *cough* the advertiser doesn't know if you read a message just because the IMAP server marked it as read.

Also an IMAP server's read status doesn't mean someone manually interacted with an e-mail. If you mark messages as read in bulk, even if the provider reported that status to an advertiser, says nothing about engagement.
In a interview (few years back), Linus mentioned that he read many books related to Genes and medical science related to that! He supposed to be expert in that domain too!
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Those are liability releases, not agreements over software licensing. In fact those features actually are sold legally as "parts" on the car you bought, there's no licensing scheme from Tesla yet. Though there is noise being made about offering a monthly license for FSD given that it's at $10k now and lots of people who would want to try it are priced out.
The work scheduler example involves writing a work scheduler, though :). The logic is going to go somewhere, is what I’m saying.
They are the recipe for one piece of the virus (which is important to its function, so hopefully among the parts least subject to mutation), and then your cells that get vaccine in them make the foreign protein, which then causes the usual immune response to foreign proteins. The difference from what you said is that the code in the vaccine is for the foreign stuff, and the immune stuff comes from your immune system.
Clever. Completely avoid the question.

As an excellent middle manager, is having your staff working from home a problem for you? If so, why?
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What would have carried weight would be if this is something they actually achieved and then said "this is how we did it.". Making predictions of how they will succeed in the future doesn't really carry much weight, particularly in AI
He plays the game in office. But it’s exhausting and pointless. The only benefit I see of being in office is not having to compete with others around the world for jobs.
Thanks for the detailed response.

I feel for your family. That’s a difficult situation to deal with, and the marginalisation from society could only make it worse.

We need to be extremely critical and honest with our medicines, gas lighting should never happen in what is suppose to be an objective and unpolitical profession.
What are the main causal hypotheses regarding why seed oils lead to obesity? I didn’t see much in the article regarding the mechanism that links the two.

I know Catherine Shanahan has written about this link and talks about how easily seed oils cause inflammation through free radicals. But how do we get from inflammation to obesity?
Well as it stands today, the literal richest person on the planet claimed a tax credit meant for median working class incomes.
Yes, and all those subscriptions suck. Specifically they suck up money that could be spent much better. For example on food.
I've thought of doing something similar, but exposing it as a USB-Ethernet adapter instead. The Pi 4 (and Pi Zero W) support USB OTG. It looks simple enough with a single command with Linux USB gadget to create the network interface usb0.

Then you can do power and data over the single USB port.
It’s more that they contain coded instructions to create a protein which the immune system can then react to, and learning to react that protein confers the ability to react to the virus (which has that protein in its surface)
Came to say I too am quite happy with the Kodi Jellyfin plugin. (The webapp is great too).
Not exactly surprising given the ubiquity of the English language. I always find it funny how it's used as a criticism of English speakers. We are no less able to learn other languages, it's just far less of a necessity. I can speak a bit of German, a bit of French, a bit of Japanese, a bit of Lingala, etc. Inevitably whenever I attempt to speak these languages in their native environments, I am spoken to in English. So I can learn them as a hobby but need to far less out of necessity.
I mean cryptocurrency is indeed what made ransomware possible.
Your insights are not entirely correct. There are more than two types of covid vaccines.

Coronavirus Vaccines - An Introduction by JAMA is a good starting point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMc3vL_MIeo

COVID-19 Vaccines goes into greater detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Idb_lCU4o
> Social IQ isn't really HN's forte.

Rude and uncalled for, even after your edit.

Patient discussion is ineffective on people who are acting in bad faith. It is counterproductive.

There is no debate to be had. No one is genuinely trying to learn anything here.

By giving con artists and dangerous vaccine conspiracies a space, you legitimize their line of questionning.

LKML is not a place to send anti-vax emails or to be "just asking questions". Deplatforming works.
I'm also young and have had mild to moderate chest pain (stabbing) that comes in bursts and can last hours. This was after what I thought was a cardiac event in February of 2019, a year before the pandemic, when I suddenly started feeling lightheaded and seeing stars, but the EMS said nothing was wrong. Before that moment I never had any chest pain, and it still comes back to this day occasionally. I must have had an ECG a dozen times since then. I ordered a barrage of tests up to a heart ultrasound and a stress test, and nothing came of it all. I was frequently told it was unlikely anything was wrong because of my age.

It was a miserable period of my life, not knowing if I was going to survive to the next day. The pain is always on the left side of my chest and has fluctuated around various regions of it. Recently it became worse again after taking Adderall, which raised my heart rate, so I still suspect something is wrong with my heart, but it seems that after a year of stressful hospital visits and no definitive answers, I've exhausted everything that would have given me a diagnosis at this point.
I've never been able to figure out how to write custom types in Erlang. Any resources in particular that you recommend? I am not trying to be obtuse but the Erlang docs are unreadable and I have admittedly written quite a bit of Elixir code. Most of the time I have to just figure things out ad-hoc from my own interactions with the shell.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. Maybe somebody gave you a keyword list that they thought had unique keys and it didn’t. The point is, the two structures are not semantically equivalent, and I think it’s a mistake to conflate them in general. Just because you can use access syntax on both doesn’t mean you should write a polymorphic function that does so. Sometimes you should! But not most of the time.
Thanks for the info! This doesn’t change my mind but I appreciate it anyway, and perhaps it will change the mind of some reader who was on the fence.
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Chemistry occurs at the surface of the food - if you have lumps of peaches in your stomach then they have to be digested, ie broken down. If you drink a smoothie then the surface area available to chemical reactions is a lot larger, so digestion happens quicker. Quicker digestion of sugars causes a larger insulin spike, which is bad. Also commercial smoothies usually have a lot more sugar and fat in them than you'd think, I know you said just blended peaches, but in reality everyone adds stuff to it.
Not every IEEE 802.1 Ethernet frame can be converted to an IEEE 802.11 WiFi frame. To do that you would need some type of tunnel to the Ethernet fabric.
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> You don't really see people who advocate for the vaccine calling anyone who disagrees "sheeple," "NPCs," etc

No, the rough equivalents are "anti-vaxxer" or "crazy," there's even an "insane" right at the top of the Torvalds email. And they don't tend to complain about being silenced because that's a treatment they are often advocating for others and rarely if ever see applied to themselves.