skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if true, this novel molecule is not floating around in a body for an entire year waiting to have some side effect. They've been shooting it into people for a year and a half now. If there was something to worry about, it would have been seen.

But there are many parts of this vaccine that is shared with previous ones and the mechanics have been tested thoroughly. The science is the same. There's just no credible reason for those with normal immune systems to delay.

"This can't have happened for this yet. The trials are still underway. Unknown risk."

That's just simply untrue. The trials completed. Read the link.
Innovation is asleep: everyone is cashing out
Biggest problem I see: Is low inflation actually good for normal people? The financial crisis of 2008 was an absolute slog, lots of normal people suffered... BUT inflation was low and stocks soared -- but the blowback was significant.
I think people who really experience no nervousness or anxiety before doing something with a risk of failure either don't care at all, or are just bullshitters (in the Harry Frankfurt definition). It's likely that they are somewhere on the sociopathic spectrum.
> In a trial of ~1200 health care workers who were working closely with Covid patients, 800 who received prophylactic ivermectin had zero cases of Covid. Of the 350+ (the numbers did not add up to exactly 1200) workers who received a placebo, 57% of them did get Covid.

I cannot find this study. I've found other prophylaxis studies, but nothing of this size with such striking results. Please link.
I find it helpful to look at the data and analysis behind these predictions... but in this case, there's nothing of substance.
The pay raise I expect is so much more than inflation. If I got less than 20% total comp increase at low numbers or less than $100k at high numbers, I’m assuming my performance is insufficient and I’m going to find a place to be more productive. At the point where we’re debating 2% increases, I don’t really care. I’m gone. You know it, I know it.

I’m not special. This is San Francisco as much as I know.
Really insightful read!
Rent is up more than 9% this year alone. Inflation is now large enough to show up in the CPI in a significant way.
y'all really love fascist organizations, but not for long, trust me
Will this hurt open source?

I assume companies that were fine with providing you functionality for free may think about this twice because with that they're giving away knowledge of how to build functionality.
> Inheritance conflates code reuse ("avoid writing duplicate code") with polymorphism (allowing for multiple different instances to implement the same interface).

Note that languages like C++ allow for inheritance without polymorphism, i.e. pure implementation inheritance.

However, I also think that composition should be preferred whenever possible.
> Can I just be a little anal and say, Markdown is 100% plain text. HTML is plain text too. Org-Mode, RestructuredText, etc. etc. It's all just plain text.

When people talk about plain text in that space, they usually mean the interaction level, not the technical level. Any cryptic rules which gives the text meaning in some parser is a rule the user need to first learn and internalize, which makes usage harder. Any tooling is an extra step you need to maintain for handling your texts.

Of course, markdown and org-mode are relativ simple, but it stills needs tools, thus has extra requirements. It's not as plain and simple as starting notepad and call it a day.
You should look into:

https://breckyunits.com/the-intellectual-freedom-amendment.h...

Great achievements like this only hammer home the point more about how illogical copyright and patent laws are.

Ideas are always shared creations, by definition. If you have an “original idea”, all you really have is noise! If your idea means anything to anyone, then by definition it is built on other ideas, it is a shared creation.

We need to ditch the term “IP”, it’s a lie.

Hopefully we can do that before it’s too late.
I never understood this logic.

The material on both sides of the mask are the same, no? A mask can prevent a virus from leaving your nose/mouth but not enter?
Metaculus – Generating accurate predictions about future real-world events
Inflation happens when money grows more than economic activity.

National debt is only one piece of that. Banks could also raise (private loan) interest rates, or be forced to maintain more reserves, leading to fewer loans.
Don't use this. You'll just be giving training data to OpenAI (which NOT "Open" by any means).
Another interesting difference (that I personally find to be one of the best features in Neeva) is the ability to connect apps. You can then search not only the public web, but also private data from your Slack, Github, Gdrive, Jira (etc) accounts. We're hard at work adding more integrations in the near future as well.

Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Neeva
BofA by rights should not even exist. Here's why we should not care about anything they predict:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-idUSTRE50F1Q7200901...
I worry about auto-complete on a more philosophical level. I’ve noticed with gmail that it’ll often suggest it’s way of either replying to an email or completing a sentence even though I’d never actually use those words in that situation, simply because it’s easier.

It’s a pretty bad feedback loop that robs us of our independent thought by way of falling victim to laziness, a fundamental human weakness. You can imagine something where in this case the code autocomplete is so large that you really want to make that autocompletion work, even if you know it’s not elegant or possibly even correct code… or maybe it’s just repetitive and not abstracted well, but here it is autocompleted and done so why would you fight that?

If we continue abstracting more and more of this way, based upon datasets that are averaged across everyone, we lose the individual in favor of the masses, bringing us all down to a common denominator.

If we must lose our humanity to the machine, I’d at least like to see an autocomplete from Peter Norvig’s code, or writing from particularly effective communicators or famous authors.
So how much money are you willing to spend on doctors who are doing nothing but figuring out which patients were "too irresponsible" versus which ones will get covered?
Putting aside the fact that the article explicitly agrees with you that just hard work isn't enough, here's the part of your comment I don't understand:

> I know the VC thing about the importance of hard work. They love to promote hard work because that's how they make money.

Why would they promote hard work if hard work didn't matter? And if it does matter, then what exactly is your problem with what pg is saying?
You see it more in more traditional industries. My last job was public sector and the unionized workers had CPI somehow embedded into their contracts.

My new trendy tech company? No policies on pay whatsoever.
"I guess an app could give people access to a webcam to engage in discussion with a cook as they prepare the food..."

headdesk
> a bit surprising considering nothing else Google works in China without a VPN.

It is a bit surprising, although Google does have offices in China. It also has a VPN built in, which I recall would intermittently bypass the GFW.

> So...does it also work as a normal phone with a Chinese number so you can logon to wifi at Starbucks in China?

No, I don't think so, but I had unlimited data.
This would help me tremendously. I don't code frequently--a few times a month at best. I find myself having to google syntax constantly to write basic programs. If I want to write a simple python command line program that parses input, for example, I can guarantee I'm going to be opening tabs to figure out the syntax. It would be great if something like Copilot could help me stay in my editor.
lol, bofa.
I did admissions when I was teaching years ago, and I found standardized test scores helpful in ensuring a minimum baseline level of proficiency. I think the drive to ignore them entirely is misguided and will result in admitting students who lack the prerequisites necessary to succeed in the magnet schools.

Having said that, I'm glad to see schools moving away from using tests as the primary metric. I think balancing standardized scores with things like a student's ranking in their school gives a higher-resolution image.

For example, take two students with similar test scores -- one at the top of their class in a struggling school and another in the middle of the pack at an elite school. The former is likely a more capable student given that they were able to earn a similar test score with fewer resources.

The other advantage with metrics like zip code or school ranking is that one way to game that kind of metric is to intentionally send your kids to a struggling school or merging school districts to incorporate struggling schools, and it seems like that might have some positive impacts.
New jobs paying more is inflation. You're supposed to get a new one if the old one doesn't give you a raise. It's a way to allocate workers efficiently.
> The vaccines are safe.

This is true by medicinal standards, but it's also a sleight-of-hand. The AstraZeneca vaccine had a rare side-effect that was right on track to kill more young women in Europe than the virus itself. That's why it was banned. By that standard, I could argue the viral infection is also safe - for young women at least.
1.5%-2.5% is target.
My home is 100 years old and probably one of the younger houses in the area. Many homes have been renovated in part of over time. Things like adding electricity, changing the electrical to be modern, adding additions, converting rooms and adding modern plumbing, changing siding and roofing, HVAC installed, etc. So over time, the home is modernized but the original frame (the "good bones") are still there.

And let me tell you, those old frames are unbelievable if they've been taken care of. If you do a renovation and open it up the wood is thick with tight, straight grain. A lot of these homes were built with old growth timber that was abundant at that time and unavailable today. The natural aging of the wood has dried out moisture and resins and makes for stronger lumber, albeit lumber that is more brittle which isn't a concern for how it is being used.

There's a good chance the wood was quarter sawn as well and if you have the original floorboards there's a good chance they were quarter sawn back then too. This, again, makes for better construction as the wood won't warp as much.
A large number of Americans don't want to live in a police state.
Why would I do that? I've already made significant choices about the way I have arranged my life, so that I am not reliant on a car. I have already more than exceeded any CO2 reduction that an EV would provide over it's life, and have done so without lining the pockets of automobile manufacturers and mining companies, as well as avoided extra environmental pollution. I have also done all this without needing to deal with all the downsides of an EV.

I take it you have electric heating and hot water at your house?
Comment goes against the religion of antivaxxerism and it makes them angry
> I can hardly sit through an entire two-hour movie or play a video game without feeling like I should be doing something else.

One summer we rented a beach house, I had delusions of lazing on the beach under a big umbrella, drinks, books, dogs, netflix, music, a endless orgy of entertainment and sunny weather. I went stir-crazy in about half a day, there's only so much lazing about I can do, after 2 movies I thought meh, I'm wasting this day. I envy the people who say they're going on vacation and do nothing for a week, two weeks even. I can't seem to do that, and I don't know whether that's something intrinsic to who I am, or that's a toxic thought pattern I need to get rid of. When I'm back at home and at work I am so busy I have a tendency say "I wish I had some more time to unwind" a lot.

At the present, I'm trying to have focused and purposeful idle time. With intent, sit through a movie, read something, play a game, whatever, for a chunk of time, or deliberately do nothing at all. The last one is very hard for me, I don't think I've managed 15 minutes of it.
Go to a competitor. It can be a farce sometimes, when people from two different companies across the street essentially just replace each other for 20% more, but doing the exact same job. And then two years later they repeat and switch chairs again for another 20%.

Maybe there's some benefit to the companies in having stuff like this happen (learning a bit more about the competition), but the negative consequences that result from the loss of talent and internal knowledge seem to be avoidable in this situation if they just worked things out over pay.
There's more to plaintext than .txt files.

I'm building an app (3D memory palace) and the save file format is JSON. It's not plaintext, but it is text, and structured in such a way that you could rebuild the app yourself if you wanted to - or still have access to your data should the app stop working one day. It also means it's trivial to edit the JSON if you want to add or remove something, or make mass-changes that would be impractical to do within the app itself.

At work as a web developer, I'll often facilitate CSV import & Export for Product to work with the app. This lets them use Excel, which they're already comfortable with, and removes me from the development cycle because now changes are just a file upload that they can do themselves.

Both JSON and CSV are great plaintext ways to represent structured data. Personally, I wish there was a markdown for excel, or some way of representing the entire capabilities (such as formulas) in plaintext instead of in a proprietary XLS. Hopefully someone has something in the works around that.

Proprietary is easy - just do whatever you want. But doing things in a way that lets users & other developers "yes and" your work is an under appreciated value add.
Calculating capital gain taxes for newer traders
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Here's an article I just published that highlights how you can calculate this manually yourself, if you don't want to use an automated solution!
> Have you brought up rising inflation and pointed out that raise doesn't match reality?

But people aren't paid based on purchasing power, so what does inflation have to do with it?

Could be an interesting idea - you get paid 100,000 Big Macs per year. Changes with their price.

But that's not how things actually are.
Some people consider using stack as a heavy inspiration to be equivalent to "copy and pasting." It's linguistic shorthand really.
I used to volunteer at a lot of conferences. Especially the opportunities to mentor people who receive sponsored attendance based on being from an underrepresented community.

After seeing some heavily charged scenarios play out where it seemed like situations were grossly misinterpreted or expectations were wildly out of whack (none that I was party to, just as a bystander), I no longer do any kind of conference volunteering. I also no longer interact with anyone I don't know _very well_ outside of large groups.

Basically I limit my stranger-interactions to group lunches. Out of personal caution/safety. That also eliminates the only reasons to go to most conferences, so my schedule is a lot more open.
If inflation is higher than your pay raise you know you can ask for more.
Converting GitHub Repositories From “master” to “main”
(400 AU is ~ 10x-15x the distance to Pluto)
Is FuncToFunc defined recursively in the excerpt below???

private static interface FuncToTFunc<T> {
Func<T> apply(FuncToTFunc<T> x);
}

BTW, what is "x" in the above?

Also is Func defined mutually recursively with FuncToFunc in excerpt below?

public static <T> Func<T> Y(final Func<Func<T>> r) {
return ((FuncToTFunc<T>) f -> f.apply(f))
.apply(
f -> r.apply(
x -> f.apply(f).apply(x)));
}
The pushback you're getting on this is.... I mean i struggle to find the words. If someone wants to not stare at a screen during a lecture this is 100% ok and I literally cannot fathom the idea that someone is "doing it wrong" if they do not.

If someone does this and they don't absorb the material they..... watch the lecture again in a more focused manner. It really is ok!
I think it really depends.

I've seen big sector contracts (e.g. 10k-100k employees) with it built in for a fixed number of years. Presumably the negotiators talked through some indicators originally.

I've also seen several 'eh, on average it's about 2%" type giving leading to a 2% written into your comp.

I've also seen places give it but not in your contract; based on execs opinion I guess on what real cost-of-living was doing. I suppose that's plausibly as accurate as picking an index.
If the holistic system was based on things like zip code and whether the school is elite or struggling then rich parents gaming the system by moving to poor neighborhoods or enrolling their kids in struggling schools seems like it might have some beneficial 2nd order effects.
Is this a case of "it takes a thief to catch one"? Because looking at who is behind this, they seem to have more experience in abusing (rather than protecting) privacy and user rights.

https://neeva.com/about
Several economists, including Paul Krugman, predicted low inflation. Printing money doesn't create inflation, circulating money does.

Notably, Krugman is not predicting low inflation this time around.
I'm not so sure about this without more detailed analysis. We've seen significant supply shocks across tons of sectors and that directly affects a good chunk of goods in the CPI. Slightly longer term issues like supply constraints for lower end semiconductors may be fully resolved within a year or so.

There's definitely significant increases in demand for certain goods (eg; luxury goods) but it's unclear how sustained that will be either.
I think you are in line with how many people feel. The problem is that whether you like it or not, you are footing the bill for all of these people under the current system. My health insurance is $600/month because I'm in a pool of people who are mostly healthy, but the insurance company runs the risk that one or two of us could cost a fortune. In fact, I'd probably pay a lot less towards healthcare if the government was the payer since they can leverage their size for much better prices.
U.S. States Are Trying to Lure Crypto Miners: But Will They Succeed?
Repeatedly you see "influencers" be overly generous with their own retelling of history. The problem with this style of retelling is there's generally not very much humbleness or self reflection involved - they want you to _believe_ this is how it was, even if it wasn't. You can't really fix it, I don't think. Famous influencers are going to tell their narrative however they want, lots of people are going to say "Well, that's not really true...", and lots of other people are going to just aimlessly believe the influencer in question.

There are plenty of examples, even in this thread. Nobody is saying PG and other various influencers didn't work hard - but the virtue signaling of scale is usually way off. "We worked 100 hours a week at hour desks to launch ___", when in reality they "worked" maybe a half of that, extremely hard, and spent the remaining half thinking about work and/or stressing and/or recovering. If everyone was able to count "Thinking or stressing about work" as "work", I don't think this would be a problem, but people usually omit those parts.
Some browsers on iOS (like Chrome and Firefox) will let you configure Neeva to be the default search engine. We also have our own iOS browser app that you can check out as well: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/neeva-browser-search-engine/id....

Disclaimer: I'm an engineer working on Neeva.
In my experience, number 1 only makes things worse. For a simple status check, it's better to educate the employees about what "status checks" are rather than let them assume... something I try to do day to day and kind of what I'm trying to do here. If you let them assume, most people IME assume that a video or in-person meeting is more important than slack/quick email. Remember that "is there anything I can help?" is a legitimate question, and that this is not a "management tips" thread, but rather about about an employee (or espouse of one) asking how to deal with managers.

Number 2 is a great good tip indeed, if you want a status report, just wait until the next bi-weekly meeting and it will look even more casual.
Kubernetes will happily run without autoscaling. This article is barking at the wrong tree.
This is my concern. This could end up generating great swathes of code that no one understands, so that when it breaks it takes much longer to fix.
CPUID is just a bunch of flags used to discover the capabilities of your CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID
this also seems relevent:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/101265-enable-enhanced-a...
I'm confused, are you denying any work (valuable or not) doesn't produce waste? Or does capitalism magically work outside of physics?

Even without CO2, at the 2% annual growth target rate, the amount of energy humans would output as waste into the environment would literally boil the oceans in a couple hundred years.

If there is no growth, is capitalism still not a zero sum game?
> 20 years later they're still making a 20% annualized profit and maybe rent hasn't increased.

You live in a very different region to me. I just checked and it’s hovering at about 3%, and this is causing a lot of problems.
Gosh. 30kb.

> Devs who still use jQuery have had 10+ years to learn

Or possibly we learned it in 9 years 11 months ago and still think jQuery was a more elegant solution.
This just looks amazing, really sad there is just NO way I'll ever be able to solder this myself hehe. This would be a very interesting kickstarter project.
> > It's really interesting to see how a crowd of tech workers who generally are trying to pave the way are so quick to attack and be negative.
> This statement is utterly useless. It provides no value to the discussion, doesn't make any interesting points, and tries to emotionally manipulate the reader.

Funny enough this applies more to your statement than the statement you're responding to. They were making a meta-critique of the general discussion here, and I find it to be a legitimate perspective.

Personal sentiments on liking or not liking QR codes, which any lay user can make, does not make as interesting a discussion as a principled approach to what components of the UX flow exactly fails, whether these failures are essential to QR codes or specific to the implementations today, and how/if they could be addressed as an engineering exercise.

It is akin to saying "this first gen ICE automobiles suck, bring back horses" and go on to discuss the annoying doors of the car while the unexploited fertile land of discussions await on the actual engine, cost benefit analyses, incremental improvements, adoption barriers, UX flows etc.
PDF link https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv97b.pdf
>Can you prove that?

Forget about the rest of what that user asked, I'm still curious if you can actually prove PayPal has had a net value to society writ large.
It's pretty much devolved to users instead of devices:

1) devices only I have write access to
2) devices others have access to
3) iot (which are basically users I've never met)

At least I can segregate me running a port scan from my laptop, to a family members phone running a portscan from some spyware game they downloaded.

I have a good idea how much I can trust my own devices, even if my phone's baseband OS is sending an unstoppable stream of location data and super cookies.

But this NAS/cloud connected storage thing is a bit of a oddball, since you're supposed to trust it with your data, but can't trust it with unfettered network access.