skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I teach at an elite private school in the Bay. We're a much better place than the school described here, with kids who like learning, and administrators who are well-intentioned. But many of the author's frustrations are, directionally, exactly the same as what I experience, namely:

> .. The emails sent to me personally from counselors and administrators have overwhelmingly broken down along these lines: such-and-such a student is feeling stressed, so please excuse her from this set of assignments. This other student gets nervous about taking tests or giving presentations or working in groups, so please excuse him from work of those types. ... my direct supervisor repeatedly demanded that I pace my classes for the benefit of the single student in each section who was struggling the most, which quite literally would have meant putting students who had signed up for Advanced Placement into a remedial course
Dear Tech Blog Writer

I hope that your career flourishes and you write many attention grabbing pieces which predict, Cassandra-like, the future of our beloved industry.

But whenever that future arrives, I will be there, slinging Python code, because I love this language. These colors don't run. Nobody puts baby in a corner. I love Python and I'm taking this love to the grave... and beyond. I will be programming in Python when I am a soul living in outer space.

Nothing can stop this love, my friend. It is too good, too deep - I've done too many things with it, to be bothered by runtime efficiencies or however it fails in comparison with Haskell or Rust. I respect everyone's right to disengage and learn Rust or whatever but like I said, this is the bus I'm riding out on.
There are really two separate lab leak hypotheses:

1. That it was made in the lab and accidentally released

2. That it was made in the lab and released intentionally as some kind of biowarfare or population control.

(1) has been discussed as a definite possibility by credible scientists since day 1 (and although it's true that the mainstream media didn't really pick up on it, I don't see much evidence that they intentionally buried it)

(2) is straying very heavily into conspiracy theory territory.
You're going to have to help me understand how Brave's current ad model is at odds with protecting your privacy. Brave [does not] send any data to advertisers. That means no PII from the user, no meta data from the user, and no cohort ID or anything else for the user.
And how can one get their hands on an Itanium machine? It's a dead architecture in less than two weeks, and for the last decade the things have been almost exclusively enterprise machines; not something the hobbyist (or even the academic!) is likely to get access to.

Do you have an HP zx6000 lying around, perchance?

Itanium failed early; it had many more problems than compilers. And if we don't have a replacement, we'll never get those compilers from anyone but the most obsessed.
I am Croatian and I don't understand what's the problem? Croatian admins are probably patriots who want to protect our country from the past Communist ideology and defend our War of Independence.

I'm sure US admins are patriots as well for example and are proud of their War of Independence and all the good things that US has done in the past while at the same time being critical of all the bad things that happened in the past.

After all Wikipedia should be facts not opinion articles but of course there is always some commentary on top of facts which can be ideological.

In Croatia there is Culture War going on between the Left and the Right for the last 30 years but that is democracy. If we all think the same then nobody is thinking.

Why is Croatia singled out and not Poland for example? Poland is more "right" than Croatia and over there we can see intense and sometimes violent confrontations between left and right.
Sorry, but I'm pretty sure I don't "consistently delete comments that show any hint of sympathy for the American worker". You needn't take my word for it though: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The significant word in your comment (besides "weasel", which was a good one) is "seem". These perceptions are notoriously, hopelessly, even absolutely conditioned by the political passions of the perceiver. It's quite remarkable; I would not have believed that any social phenomenon could be so mechanically consistent as this one turns out to be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Not following thru, on so many things.

Perseverance is everything.
How do you know that that dosing did not interfere with you developing proper immunity?

In fact, CDC recommends taking fever reducing medicine only once you develop fever after a vaccine and not before vaccination for just this reason.
I didn't realize they weren't for sale in the EU. I've had cuy before in Cuzco and whilst it was mentally distinct enough from a rat not to be too mentally challenging to eat, the heads look horrific with elongated rodent teeth in a perpetual scream.

It wouldn't be anywhere near my top list of disgusting foods though
And those were later validated by evidence from clinical trials. Until clinical trials involving significant numbers of patients are available, there is not evidence according to the standards of medical science. That's the contradiction.
Don’t feel too bad. My grandfather had the opportunity to buy some land in Atlanta in the late 60’s/early 70’s and turned it down because it was shanty town and the guy offering him the opportunity was a known crook. Shortly after that it became CNN Center.
Teacher at an elite SFBay private high school. Can confirm!
Unfortunately there's really no way to expedite the marriage based green card process. What's frustrating is that if you were a nonimmigrant, she could come over right away on a dependent visa but that's not an option for spouses of permanent residents. We've had clients give up their green cards and switch to a nonimmigrant status because of this. Is there any chance that your fiance could qualify for her own work visa? Because once here, you could sponsor her for a green card, a much better process than going trough a US Consulate abroad.
> Do these 10 year old not care about school because there is something intrinsically wrong about them

Each child, like each adult, has different motivations in life. Not all children are equally motivated for schoolwork.

> The admission test is not racist per se, but if it results in, say, blacks not being admitted to an institution, it exist in a framework that materially enables racism

No. You need to look at confounding variables, not just race. It could be that a large percentage of black children in this area come from poor families and must therefore work part-time jobs after school instead of studying. That’s just one example of many possibilities. “Correcting” the problem by putting these children into this special school does nothing to change their poverty: they still must work after school and can’t study. And that means they can’t keep up with the other children in this privileged school. Your solution is probably to make the schoolwork easier and force everyone to suffer the same fate. My solution is to give that family money so their high school kid doesn’t have to work to help support his family.

In reality, your solution is the one that gets chosen because of the wokeness movement.
I just gave it a try and it did not work very well. I'm sure it could be useful for some cases, but it does far worse than a human can do scraping search engines.
I thought AP classes and a level of general competitiveness stopped stuff like this?

Even if the in person classes are easy to pass, the AP scores should be consistent with the rest of the country and should make identifying the relative difficulty between schools pretty easy? ACT and SAT should also make grade inflated school very easily to spot.

I think California has a rule requiring that at least X% of their students are from California right? Has that shifted the balance at CA to accepting lower quality students from their own state?
Could you expand on this. Is this only for government-based contracts?
No-one. Since doctors don't go to YouTube to find out what to do. Until there is solid evidence for a drug noone should be going to YouTube to decide what to do, expecially when we have many proven low risks vaccines.
I don’t know what point you’re trying to convey, to be honest.

But in my own experience all sorts of people who hold views on the Left tend to 1) distance themselves from “the left”, 2) claim that what is perceived as left-wing is actually only barely left wing, and 3) claim that the right has dramatically more power and influence than they really do.

So I’m not really looking for a definition of what the left and the right are. I’m just noting how the person I was responding to must have a radically different definition that convention.
In the US there is loss of medical insurance (essentially disability insurance) available in most scenarios from several providers, provided somebody pays for it. Note there's always policy fine-print and limits.

But there's no loss of certificate insurance product available. The FAA pads any complaint with "reckless", which is up to their sole opinion.
on plantuml you can specify if the class should be placed, left, right, top, bottom. That helped me a lot.
I wish that operating systems (Windows, KDE) placed transient notifications in a "notification area" like older Windows and Android (before Android added popup notifications), where they don't cover up your work (like Windows/KDE/Mac notifications), you can see at a glance how many and which notifications are present (unlike Windows's Action Center with popups disabled), and remain until explicitly dismissed or responded to (unlike the current disappearing notifications).

Sadly, on Windows 10, the bottom-left of the taskbar is already used for app launchers, and the bottom-right is already occupied with a clock, volume indicators, a "system tray" for background apps that you can't close, etc. It's even worse on KDE than on Windows, since there are a lot more applets in the bottom-right of my screen, and you can't control the order of icons in your system tray. Perhaps with Windows 11 moving apps to the center of the taskbar, a row of notification icons could be added to the left.
Do I want others to benefit from my experience? Yes

Do I want to help fellow entrepreneurs avoid negative immigration consequences? Yes

Do I want Peter to lose his law license or get sanctioned? No. Even though I have specific proof which could get him at least sanctioned.

Do I care whether more or less business goes to Peter? Also no

His actions turned my life upside down. It took me years to fix things. Abandoning me after rejection was worse. He talked to me the day before rejection in a very positive discussion. After the rejection he didn't reply to any email nor returned any call. His paralegal kept responding to me.

I am not trying to be vindictive here.

I am just trying to help fellow entrepreneurs. I went with Peter based on his AMA. It ended up being a huge mistake in my case. Hope others can use my experience as a data point to do further due diligence!
Try playing a German movie without subtitles to an English person and then do the same with a Serbian movie and a Croatian person and you will have your answer.

People either understand each other or they don't. There's absolutely nothing political about that.
Thought that I could replace lower-than-average communication skills with higher-than-average technical skills.

The story goes that software engineering is about knowing how to design a system a build it.

The truth is: you also have to know how to _sell_ your design, how to document your decisions, how to push forward with your agenda. You won't go anywhere without a team that values you. This means that interpersonal and communication skills should be valued much more than what I thought they'd had to be.

The most important part of a person is their relationships (you're not convinced? Try this exercise: describe yourself without mentioning any single relationship or its effect on you. What remains?). This is true both outside and inside your job. Value building strong and good relationships.
There is still a big difference, between exploiting people - and owning people - and literal doing what you want with them. Flock them. Burn them. Rape them - as you please. This is slavery as it used to be (and partly still is!!). And that term gets watered down when applied to something else.

Exploiting people because they are desperate is a big problem. Maybe call it modern day slavery. But it really is not the same as what slavery means for people who are literaly and 100% owned by others.
I don't know but I can't imagine a highly predictable branch being slower than a TLB flush.
An argument I would make would be for future proofing your employability. You clearly care about thinking long-term. What if the current gig goes under, are you properly trained in technologies other companies in 5-10 years would use, that maybe your current gig doesn't?

Just spitballing. If you really are 10/10 happy, and aren't concerned with the possibility of that company blinking out of existence and being screwed, I would probably just say ride with it until you feel like quitting.
> no need for A/C or heating

Soon to be very valuable...

I think houses without a basement will drop in value in the near future.
If you think there isn't a lot of substance I don't think you've actually read any of his stuff. Sublime Object of Ideology and his work on Lacan in general are well-respected. There's not a lot of nonsense in his theoretical work at all.

When he engages the public, or whatever you find on youtube which is what I suspect you've seen of him based on your impression, he does indeed joke around a lot. But this has to do with his inherent distaste for 'preaching'. He's no fan of climbing on a pedestal and pretending to speak from a position of authority, he's said himself he's always considered that authoritarian.
The only issue would be if you've changed jobs or job locations and the new job is not an inline promotion but really a new position altogether. But the gap in and of itself is not a problem.
I wonder if he’d be seen as a Mr Rogers Lite if not for the unfortunate movie theater incident. He did help raise a generation of us in a more 80s/90s style compared to the reserved styling of Rogers.
Yes, and? Are you arguing taxpayers should be forced to fund the dissemination of extreme views?
Dude, every single mishap since airplanes became reliable was pilot error at the root. It's never not pilot error. The FAA is a jobs program, similar to the old TVA, and note that all mechanics and pilots are still unionized. Governments have ensured that there will be no meaningful innovation in air breathing aviation, hence the space race...go ABOVE the bureaucrats.
MA Govt installed an app on every Android phone in the state to track Covid-19
There are plausible mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against the Covid virus being explored. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5/figures/1
> There are some differences in lexicon and script

Even this is only to a point; namely, all these languages use Latin alphabet, while Serbian also uses Cyrillic (Serbian uses both alphabets). Croatian originally used Glagolitic script (many centuries ago). This Latin/Cyrillic division is caused by Catholic/Orthodox church split and Habsburg/Ottoman empire border rather than being some central feature in languages.
Also most people don't want to put in the work to maintain relationships for this long.
Yup. But you can only do this when you have time for it. I kind of got very pragmatic with it.
Anybody ever seen 'curve' modeling of music ? representing scales as surfaces and progressions as twists ?
I think very generally speaking, you have a point. But there are genuinely changes which make things worse.

For example, in Firefox 89 the contrast between the active tab and the inactive tab is so low that they are not distinguishable when the viewing angle to the screen or the lighting isn't perfect - looks fancy, but is not even acceptable by their accessibility standards.
On top of that they removed the blue bar that - as a crutch - indicated the active tab ?

I don't understand being this invested in such an obiously bad design decision - contrast is just neccessary.

All that being said, I found a bug report from 19 years ago, when Firefox was still called Phoenix, that complained about almost the exact same issue (sans the blue bar), and it got fixed.

I don't think "UX crisis" is neccessarily too strong a word.
Coronaviruses were being studied in a BSL-4 lab in Wuhan. That is ~100 metres from the meat market which was supposedly the epicentre of the original outbreak. Theoretically the safety standards would be very high. But all it takes is one slip-up. And it wouldn't be the first time that has happened. Seems pretty simple to me.

The zoonotic leap is definitely plausible too. But there you have to explain how the virus mutated to be infectious to humans. Whereas the lab is known to have intentionally modified the coronaviruses it was studying to be infectious to humans.
Nutt provided expert testimony as an engineer. That is legally defined as "practicing engineering".

https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NC_Engineering_ema...
All of this is true.

> There is a saying in Croatia "Where were you in '92" that is reserved for the older population. You never know who you are befriending and what crimes they got into during the war.

Yeah, I am in my early 30s (I was 3 in '92) and my family is American. Let's just say that I am third generation Croatian-American (for all 3 generations we are American, and this is by birth), and I am half-Croatian (by blood). My grandmother always said that the fighting was always a 2-way street and that neither side has been innocent. She also said that she had Serb friends and that they were "the nicest people she ever knew." It's different in America. I do not know many old people in Croatia.

I also especially take offense to people understating the evils of our Nazi (Ustaše) movement. One reason (of several) is that I have a relative who died fighting the Croatian fascists.

I also wish that Croatia would stay out of Bosnia. I know that is an unpopular thing to say, but we should. It's one thing to give ethnic Croats in Bosnia Croatian citizenship. It's another thing to be funding segregated schools (partially funded by the Roman Catholic Church--on behalf of Croatia) that indoctrinate the next generation of youth with a completely different version of the history of Bosnia.

I also know of corruption done by Croatian diplomatic officials posted abroad (which is just about the worst form of corruption there is--and can be quite dangerous), although Croatia probably would do nothing about it.

Anyways, another thing that irritates me is that there are both Croatians and Croatian emigrants selling insignia with the our Nazi Coat of Arms on it (the Ustaše--we were a Nazi puppet state in WWII so it is literally a Nazi insignia).

Just for reference, on the left is the Nazi (Ustaše) coat of arms [Note: often the "U" at the top is left out--it's Nazi insignia either way], while on the right is the Croatian coat of arms: https://dubokavoda.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Grbovi-NDH...

Here are some listings on Etsy literally selling the Nazi coat of arms:

> https://www.etsy.com/listing/249865187/croatian-cuturica-siz...

> https://www.etsy.com/listing/505814936/old-croatian-grb-croa...

> https://www.etsy.com/listing/917628493/croatian-pendant-char...

> https://www.etsy.com/listing/998887249/croatian-national-sym...
We were codependent, the misery was mutual.
The only part I feel bad about is not really "learning" from these mistakes. I don't worry too hard about things I cannot change, so those two opportunities came and went. The part that bothers me is the fact that I haven't been swinging harder at ideas that I've thought about pursuing. There's _some amount of evidence_ that the ideas I'm having in this particularly industry are valuable and others would want.

After a long day at (usually at least mildly frustrating) work, it's just hard to work up the energy to just keep coding.
Try playing a German movie without subtitles to a Dutch person, and then do the same with a Geordie movie and a Yankee.

Speaking of… Wikipedia (Dutch):

> Wikipedia is een online encyclopedie die ernaar streeft inhoud te bieden die vrij herbruikbaar, objectief en verifieerbaar is. Het project is gebouwd op vijf zuilen. De Nederlandstalige versie startte op 19 juni 2001 en is, gemeten naar het aantal lemma's, met meer dan 2 miljoen artikelen de op vijf na grootste taalversie.

And Wikipedia (German):

> Das Ziel der Wikipedia ist der Aufbau einer Enzyklopädie durch freiwillige und ehrenamtliche Autoren. Der Name Wikipedia setzt sich zusammen aus Wiki (entstanden aus wiki, dem hawaiischen Wort für ‚schnell‘), und encyclopedia, dem englischen Wort für ‚Enzyklopädie‘. Ein Wiki ist ein Webangebot, dessen Seiten jeder leicht und ohne technische Vorkenntnisse direkt im Webbrowser bearbeiten kann.

Different languages. Neither is too hard for an English speaker. (If in doubt, try pronouncing the words.)

While I'm at it, Wikipedia (French):

> Wikipédia est un projet d’encyclopédie collective en ligne, universelle, multilingue et fonctionnant sur le principe du wiki. Ce projet vise à offrir un contenu librement réutilisable, objectif et vérifiable, que chacun peut modifier et améliorer.

Also a different language! But just you tell me you don't understand that.
Certainly! Check out the resource detailing our Ad Confirmation process at https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-and-pri... (it's a little old, but should be helpful). We leverage the Privacy Pass approach too, so reading https://www.petsymposium.org/2018/files/papers/issue3/popets... will also help understand our process. I hope this helps!
Sounds like you were doing the right thing for a company with terrible management.
I think that's true however you slice it. There's lots of possibilities for defining the default: but the language the user has chosen to use for their system is vastly more likely to be right than a best guess.

The other one is: pick to one language and stick to it. If the page I'm reading is in some European language, please show the GDPR messages in that European language not some other language. If it's a French blogspot blog being visited by a user in Germany, show the messages in French! This is almost guaranteed to be 100% reliable. It's not like Google is ignorant of the language of the page. (I can understand not having GDPR messages translated into say Indonesian. But if you do, then again - match the language of the page.)
I pretended to often that I had figured everything out and didn't need any help. Although this worked out ok, I would have surely learnt more if I had more often admitted that I was stuck and asked for some input.
Yea, it's most homes, and apartments.

The cost to remodel, and permit proses, causes owners to just live with it.

The drought should make the plumbing permit free.

Too many small towns, and even rich counties, are counting on those permit fees for income.
Sure, I'm not denying the plausibility of either scenario. But, which one is more likely: a virus jumped from animal to human, just as has happened many times before in history (and, without our help, for that matter), or safety procedures were not being followed in a lab that studies viruses with the very highest level of safety controls? How many times has the latter happened compared to the former?
I'm not going to dox myself, but check my comment history if you want. Unless you think I've spent the last several years posting about pharmacology, pharmaceutical companies and PhDs in some elaborate ruse.