skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because nobody wants to hire someone because they need 3 more months of income so they can leave. "I want the challenge" is an obvious bullshit response. "Your company deals with _________ at a scale larger than I can on my own" is a potentially real answer to that question. If it's true it also means they're probably not going to bail once they have replenished their savings account.

Even if the your knee jerk truthful answer is "I just want the money" it might be deeper than that. When I went from consulting full time for ~4 years to corporate work, I would have told you it was just for the money, but it was actually for the stability and peace of mind to not worry where my next rent check was coming from.
It is not entirely true that being poor always means higher affinity towards crime. Some group of people are more prone to crime than others.

A huge number of refugees fled to India during 1946-1972 period from Bangladesh. And then again after Islamic fundemantalists gained power.

They literally did not have anything. No house, no money, no food. They did not resort to crime. If they did, our state would have been rendered unlivable. Five decades later, they are one of the most affluent groups of people in the region. Government jobs, business, serving the armed forces, religious charity- you name it.

It's true that the people who fled were both rich and poor, but very low percentage of them fed to the crime scene.

On the other hand, there are other minorities in the region, who are poor and have criminal leanings.

Not all poor groups of people are more crime-prone. Other societal factors play a role as well.
Is autism linked to a more 'male' brain?
Existing functional languages had their own issues:

1. Haskell: had to deal with cabal hell

2. Scala: Java toolchain, VM startup time, dependencies requiring differing Scala versions.

3. F#: .NET was considered too Microsofty to be taken seriously for cross platform apps.

4. OCaml: "That's that weird thing used by science people, right?" - Even though Rust took a decent amount of ideas from it, it got validated by its early users like Mozilla and Cloudflare, so people felt safer trying it.

5. Lisp: I don't think I need to retell the arguments around Lisp. Also a lot of the things Rust touts as FP-inspired benefits around type systems really aren't built into lisp, since it's dynamically typed, these come more from the Haskell/Scala school.
Such ethical standards can only be altered on a big scale through relentless struggles. Abolish competition and advertisement, and suddenly a lot of things will start to be ok in society. Yes a lot of people will loose their useless job, but that won't be a requirement to have a place to live anymore, and both individuals and society will be better off.
Wait. Do we know that plants are not concious?
It should be opt in actually as per GDPR. But I agree they should police that a lot more.
The swfinstitute.org link aside, there are different ways to define the term. It isn’t jthedisciple who is making the definition; It is a simple fact that there are two major definitions on the Wikipedia entry for gene therapy:

Gene therapy is a medical field which focuses on the genetic modification of cells to produce a therapeutic effect [1] or the treatment of disease by repairing or reconstructing defective genetic material. [2] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy

[1] – Kaji, Eugene H. (7 February 2001). "Gene and Stem Cell Therapies". JAMA. 285 (5): 545–550. https://doi.org/10.1001%2Fjama.285.5.545 – ISSN 0098-7484. PMID 11176856.

[2] Ermak G (2015). Emerging Medical Technologies. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-4675-81-9

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mRNA vaccines are certainly a more ambiguous fit under the term “gene therapy”, but it can be parsed as such that they are a genetic modification of a viral cell to produce a therapeutic effect. With slightly more ambiguity but not at all without reason, we can parse mRNA vaccines as “the treatment of disease by reconstructing genetic material”. Even if the definition includes the word “defective”. To me the crux of the statement does not appear in the genetic material needing to be “defective”. Via metaphor: We may be unprotected from the elements by our shelter being defective, but it may also occur that shelter is simply missing, such as our immune response to SARS-CoV-2.

I personally wouldn’t call mRNA vaccines gene therapy, but it’s more because it can induce misunderstandings on permanence rather than because of the un-parseability of the smaller term under the larger definition.
Interestingly both statements are true. We are both in and leagues out of the dark ages.

On average we have progressed tremendously over the last 200 years, say. That means for many diseases, we have made extraordinary progress, as evidenced by life expectancy.

At the same time there are many diseases where we are simply touching the surface and have a very basic (maybe even incorrect) understanding. An example that comes to mind is we still don't know why we sleep. We have good guesses, and we are excellent at observing sleep and curing many related diseases. But why do we spend 1/3 of our lives asleep? We don't know.

In other words, progress is not distributed uniformly over diseases.

(On a different note, the dark ages weren't actually as dark [1].)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19740489
The phone part assumes that you can safely sleep without the possibility of receiving alarm calls from your loved ones, which isn't true for the vast majority of people. If one of my loved ones suffers some accident over night, I want to be woken up by emergency services and be available to help.
Not in the context of the entire comment.
You're allowed to not join in on discussions you deem unworthy of your time
Is this extension trustworthy? It is "recommended" and says GPL3 but there is no link to the source code anywhere.
> I believe it's the "Rich SMS" feature similar to iOS messaging. It transparently uses the SMS application but when messaging someone with a compatible app on their own phone, will send messages over a TCP/IP protocol, "RCS", instead of using the fairly outdated SMS system.

But i do not want to use TCP/IP. I want to use SMS. When I want to use TCP/IP i use a different app.

> This allows better transfer of videos, pictures, audio clips, etc. SMS has MMS for these but it's tuned for very low bandwidth so it mangles a lot of attachments by limiting their size.

Ok. So google wants your pictures and audio clips. I thought they already have them from google play services.

In the end, that's why i don't update google apps anymore . They don't bring any additional value for me and only break things.
Security ? They send all data to google anyway so there is no security.
First I am 90% sure your experience is not the "general experience".

Aside from my fundamental problem with security theater at the airports, the actual experience in the airport is not terribly bad but I have been stranded in places due to flight cancellations, I have experienced long delays, etc

Also I am a Big AND Tall person, for which the airplane itself I believe has been designed to purposely torture Big AND tall people, anything over a 2 hr flight and my knee,s and legs are in serious pain, the worst is then having to sit for 45mins at the other end "waiting for a gate"

Further given my location and my destination the majority of my flights are on small regional jets for which there is no "business class" to get a larger seat or more leg room, and "exit row" in these small jets is laughable

No, when ever possible I drive
Some years ago, when I was walking towards the central railway station of Amsterdam, I came along some (religious) sign making some statement about suffering in the world, when it daunted to me that a lot of suffering is the result of self-pitty.

It also helps me to realize that what we precieve as real is actually an illusion generated by our brain, which is the product of an evolutionary process, causing me to act to stay alive and increase my reproductive ability of myself and my offspring.
However IBM is now unable to unveil computer's momentum.
12USD is out of reach in many countries.
I've never heard of a concatinative programming language before this. I can of course google, but since you obviously find these languages very interesting, I'll ask: what's a first, interesting thing I should know about them?
Also high level programmers getting something more performant and that doesn't require a runtime but still has a lot of ergonomics they're used to.
Can you list some? I haven't heard/seen about any of those, and the only article I can find is https://newint.org/features/2018/11/23/movement-replacing-ad...
If you were at a place for five years, got two promotions, and shipped three products while you were there? Strong evidence.

If you were at five places for 9-18 months at a time with several six month gaps interspersed? Not evidence of absence, but that’s absence of evidence to me. (Immediately, I’m assuming several of those gaps might be flameouts.)
I am going to take the bait and ask. How?
>I want a plugin that automatically says "OK" to cookie banners.

Why would you want that? Even if you delete 3rd-party cookies that would still allow tracking companies to log your IP and track you through some other shady means which you've now consented to.
I comment stack overflow links when using some random code I copied.
A message from the future on general AI (short story)
Autonomous driving. Which company plays in the same field as Us and or even Chinese companies?

Blockchain: IT is controversial about the usefulness. But it is far more easier to make (legal) money with it outside of EU or in some small crypto friendly EU countries.
Something useful about logging that maybe not everyone knows about:

If you can't or don't want to pollute your code with `console.log` for debugging (can't edit original code; too long to rebuild; etc.):

You can add "log points" (Chrome and Firefox at least) directly in source view of devtools at specific lines of code

https://www.thedevelobear.com/post/logpoints/

You can also use "conditional breakpoint" to do conditional logging with `console.log`, again, without leaving devtools.
Politicians everywhere have very bad memory.
my entire point is that such determinism is illusory and your example wrong in every way

there are direct factors that explain away TFR drops that are not "prosperity" - in fact prosperity alone has historically increased TFR pretty much every time

drastic drops in fertility rates in Europe and North America respond to very specific cultural phenomena that are unlikely to happen in a similar fashion in Africa or the Middle East, more likely to happen in South America and parts of East Asia to some extent, but certainly not across the board

social pseudoscientists can spend as long as they wish looking at past charts, they still won't see causality and there is no better example than fertility predictions to showcase The Poverty of Historicism
I assure you thay we are in technical agreement! I’d like to point towards my words on mRNA vaccines precisely and purposefully not modifying the genome.

Re. this: ” And the very next paragraph (in its heading, no less) makes it clear that RNA therapies and gene therapies are distinct, i.e. that RNA therapies are not (necessarily) gene therapies.”

For the avoidance of doubt and my greater understanding, may I ask for a quote of paragraph being referred to?

Edit, update: That paragraph aside, the article index does indeed distinguish between RMA therapy and gene therapy: https://hsci.harvard.edu/translation/what-are-drugs
FWIW, I don't think "it's marketing" is a valid excuse for them saying things that aren't true. It's not a "new kind of shell" because it's mimicking things that already exist. The author even knows about those things and cites them.

I do not accept the idea that it's okay to make false claims to create a narrative, marketing or otherwise.

And I'm not on the spectrum.
>With transparency, they might choose not to hire her, because they are only happy to pay her 2× if the existing engineering team are not aware, and she might refuse to take the job if they won't give her 2×.

What's stopping them from creating a new role/position/title that pays 2x?
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Thought you might have checked already. Wish you the best, I know first hand how such a combination of symptoms can feel debilitating but you obviously do all you can about it and that’s the most important thing.
Is that not a valid avenue of thought?

If a fork or a copy can be made and run on a computer of some sort, it would be a technological marvel. But it’s not the sort of immortality I’d be interested in, if little old biological me still shuffles off and dies somewhere.
> Finally, is translation and localization really that hard? Is it that expensive to hire some sales & marketing staff in new markets where you could be making tons of money?

Generally, successful technology businesses have low marginal cost to serve new customers. You pay some amount X, to setup in a market and then can scale out relatively cheaply.

The US is great because you pay X once, and then scale quite a lot. Each European country requires that you pay X (or maybe X/4), but it essentially acts as a tax which reduces margins.

Languages/cultures are hard, yo.
Nonsense. Console.log does not accept a callback and does not return any promise, therefore it's expected to work synchronously.
Unfortunately many, many YT creators have started including advertising directly in their videos, so even YT premium is not literally ad-free.
Consciousness does not necessarily imply desire for self preservation. There are those who commit suicide for themselves or because their ruler or cult leader commanded them.
like graphene ?
If you recall a few years ago, Amazon raised wages to a $15 an hour and some said that this wasn't a move made out of altruism like they claimed, but instead due to the work conditions of their warehouses. In the last few months other large firms have offered wages in excess of $15 per hour, the Wal-Mart local to me has huge banners all over the store offering $17.75 for example. It appears that those who doubted the largesse of Amazon have been proven right. Amazon is probably going to need to move to $20-$25 given how demanding they are.
As someone who took 2 yrs out of s/w dev then got back in, I'd say, you just need to find 1 employer initially that needs your skills and is open-minded about the gap and/or, has something limiting their pool of possible candidates, e:g location, salary etc. After my gap I found an open-minded startup which also couldn't afford to immediately pay particularly well so couldn't be picky. You could also, to echo a helpful comment in yesterday's discussion on burnout, find a "bad" employer that people keep quitting from and needs to hire replacements, then stay there for a time-boxed period, enough to get your work history back on track then hop to a more desireable employer. That might be a bit grim for a limited time, but if it fixes your career long-term, could be worth it. Good luck :)
Common sense, for one, which while obviously not definitive shouldn't be immediately discounted. But here[0] is just one such scientific argument.

[0] https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-138...
This is pretty much how it's supposed to work under GDPR. Offering a clear choice without bias. GDPR isn't about banning cookies. It's about giving the user control of their data.
> I think you just were not aware of that. If the device comes with Windows preinstalled, it means that it must work with Windows.

You are right in the way that I was not aware that the hardware might have been designed for windows. Most devices are probably "designed for windows" (much more likely given its dominance compared to me just being lucky when picking parts for my computers for 15-20 years) so I would have to go out of my way to get linux specific hardware for no clear gain.

In the moment of the original problem, adding a second monitor to an already running setup via DP chaining. Getting new hardware was the much less viable option compared to switching to an OS where I already own a license and which has drivers available that correclty implement the protocol.

Lastly, the originally mentioned switch to windows was motivated by a hardware problem, but it was by no means my only annoyance with linux. For me windows is closer to the way I want my OS to behave, but it is by no means perfect.

If I'll ever find myself in the situation that I want a linux computer specifically, I will keep your advice in mind to make sure to find compatible hardware! It is good to know that linux is much less flexible due to presisting bad driver support, even though it improved a lot since I first used a linux distribution.
Mercury is accumulating in deep ocean trenches
There’s a lot of flawed logic and unsupported leaps in this article. But the first argument is the silliest, and unfortunately informs the rest. To summarize, the author proposes, “We don’t understand how our current AI algorithms work, and it would be hard to figure it out, so why not add consciousness? Then it could explain itself.”

But this reveals to me that the author has a profound misunderstanding of human consciousness. Despite pointing out that we perform many cognitive tasks unconsciously, the author doesn’t mention that we are also really bad at explaining our own decision-making processes. In fact there’s a lot of evidence that many—and perhaps every—explanations we might make for our decisions are post-hoc rationalizations and have nothing to do with the actual decision-making. And while we can explain logical reasoning processes, the arguments behind the “logical” steps are often self-serving rationalizations as well. There’s no reason to think a machine consciousness would behave any differently.
It's been living for 6 years now - it's the Android SMS client after all.
“ And we have solid scientific and engineering reasons to try to do that. Our very ignorance about consciousness is one. “

I find it hilarious how short sighted this seems: “Let’s program a machine to have an existential crisis because we don’t understand why we have them! Also let’s connect it to the internet where it has access to drones with guns.”
>I’m in favor of a light version of salary transparency.

In countries with salary transparency, (the ones I've worked in anyway), there is usually a published grid of roles, and salary ranges. Similar to how the government does things[0]. Companies then make use of "benefits" to reward better performing employees, since those benefits are not part of salary.

[0]: https://www.federaljobs.net/salarybase.htm#SALARY_TABLE_2015...
exactly and it gets hell of complex since every country has its own tax rules. Especially CFC rules and so on makes your life pretty difficult. Big companies can of course play the game very well.
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Guaranteed no ads injected by YT, but don't forget that already most popular YT content includes ads inside the video, as a small bit of informercial style content somewhere in the middle of the video.
The author doesn't publish the extension sources.
https://reddit.com/comments/bru6wd/comment/eohtox3
I think to most people who've only used as Powershell as "That windows shell with the blue background and built in unixy aliases", getting into Powershell itself still qualifies as a "new type of shell", so I'm willing to extend that credit to other shells trying the same paradigm.
Focus on what your intent was during the employment gap.

The key is the intentionality of the experience. Unless you had no choice but to work on side projects, odds are you had some goal. Whether it was to learn how to build something from start to finish, provide support to someone in need, discover a passion, get experience with something specific, or something other, concentrate on that element.

Employment gaps are typically a concern if:

1. It suggests the candidate wanted to work but couldn't get a job.
2. It suggests the candidate will not stick around for long.

Employment gaps that served a purpose in someone's life are just as valuable as an employment history. Make it part of the narrative by explaining its role in your life, and how it characterizes you as a person ("I took a year off to care for sick parents") or how it served as growth ("I wanted to get more experience with X").

From experience, early in my career I took time off because I wanted to get better at understanding, structuring, and maintaining code test suites. Later on I had a gap when I tried to start a business. These aren't just times where I wasn't working, they are times deliberately devoted to something in my life, and they actually help the job hunt rather than hinder it.
A milion of immigrants that come to US every year disagree with your "fact".
These findings are probably spurious and caused by artefacts of their methods rather than real. In particular, the preprint you’ve linked to had glaring methodological flaws [1]. A revised version of the article [2] has addressed some, but notably not all of these flaws.

More importantly, though, all the paper shows is that under specific lab conditions (which are distinct from conditions in living cells!), viral RNA might integrate into the host genome (subject to the caveats about artefacts). In particular, it requires active retrotransposons [3], which are elements that are inactive in cells in the body. Unless a virus brings its own retrotransposon (and SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t), it can’t integrate into the host genome. But even if SARS-CoV-2 did, they mRNA vaccine definitely doesn’t include a retrotransposon.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.05.434119v1
[2] https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2105968118
[3] https://twitter.com/GeneticsMike7/status/1404927629812240388
The fact that there's starving folks and throwaway-food, and more empty apartments than homeless persons, is an argument against growth... at least on a global level. In a system based on private property, where a piece of paper determines ownership and speculation determines production (instead of actual needs), production is necessarily harmful.

Anti-productivism is not about not producing anything at all, but rather admitting we can take other angles to the problem before extracting as many resources as we can and polluting as many water streams as we can just to produce more bullshit that's gonna end up in the trash soon.

That there's people starving is arguably not a bug of the capitalist system, but rather a feature. If you desire another outcome, expropriate the owners, dismantle the police and organize into autonomous communes.
jthedisciple does not make the claim that mRNA vaccines are gene therapies – note the or: “the same applies to novel vaccines or mRNA gene therapies“
> A few old papers in the literature had piqued Rapoport’s interest. [...] Thomas Sydenham, the 17th-century English physician who first described the condition, called it Saint Vitus’ dance, after the dancing manias that emerged in continental Europe during the Black Death, when large groups of people, sometimes thousands at a time, would cavort in the streets until they collapsed from exhaustion.

Curious. In Germany, this condition ("Veitstanz"), while not in "common" knowledge, is at least in the "grandparent's random wisdom" set. Without the modern separation into Chorea Sydenham and Chorea Huntington, but still.

Does anyone know more about the cultural context of this in English-speaking cultures? Do you know the terms "St. Vitus' dance" or "dancing plague"?