skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not hard to reliably verify previous infection at all. A past positive Covid test or a positive antibody test will reliably verify immunity just as well as a vaccination record.

Go check my profile all you want. The science is crystal clear, and you don't even have an argument against it aside from trying to attack me as an anti-vaxxer (which I am certainly not).
What does “ldap” mean in this context?
I saw that in Canada but it's rare in the US.
> Unless you want employees to be wearing bodycams their whole shift... and then you're going to have to pay other people to review the footage which can take serious time...

Proof can (and should) be positive, rather than adversarial. You could have a bodycam that's recording for the whole shift, but — like in the case of the Amazon driver's photograph — the onus is on the worker to (hopefully with app assistance) trim their bodycam footage down to a short clip that proves the building was inaccessible, and then submit that clip as part of their report. If they choose "building was inaccessible" as an option, then this clip would be a required field on the form; they can't "complete" their job without it.

Yes, there's a bit of video evidence to review. But it's very small amounts of evidence at a time, and evidence only generated in an edge-case. (At least, at game-theoretic equilibrium. There might be more evidence generated at first as workers test the water to see what they can get away with.)
As iconic as the pyramids are, they're not very useful. A better comparison may be the Pantheon in Rome. Nearly two thousand years old and in continuous use throughout its life. There are a number of other Roman structures that have seen continuous, heavy use for over a thousand years.

There are actually quite a number of ancient temples, churches, bridges, castles, and roads still in use throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Hōryū-ji [1] in Japan is a 1300-year-old wooden Buddhist temple that's still in use today!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hōryū-ji
Isn't the entire point of a public health crisis like this that you can't just focus on yourself and your family, because doing so still has the potential to seriously impact or kill other people?
If it makes you feel better, it never occurred to me either, and I know the meaning of both Palo and Alto
If this is as accurate as Google was ~2008 but without the ads, I will have to seriously consider paying for the service.

Mostly because my time is valuable and I support the alignment of user interests with product interests
> The inventor of (a specific kind of man-made) insulin sold the patent for $1

Analog insulins are different than the type that the $1 patent is for. They are much more advanced and are much more complex to make. That doesn't speak to whether or not the current prices for insulin are reasonable (they're not)... but you make it sound like "someone invented this and made the patent free, and now people are selling it for $86"... which is not the case.; not even remotely.
Can we not vilify Walmart and still be upset that we're putting a small bandaid on a pretty huge gouge?
Just wait until you see the Stanford logo.

http://identity.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SU_N...
> this is indeed a defining feature of OOP (which you know very well if you ever took a programming 101 course)

Setting aside the fact that any 101 course is necessarily reductive and inaccurate, "encapsulation + abstraction + polymorphism + inheritance = OOP" is something that gets regurgitated a lot without ever really being argued in favour of.

Since the first 3 of those 4 points are not at all limited to OOP, it really doesn't make sense for them to constitute ¾ of the definition. Are they really OOP principles if basically every modern language follows them? And now that we largely agree composition > inheritance, OOP often ignores that fourth principle too.

I know you hate C as an example here, so let's use rust instead. If a rust codebase can exercise encapsulation, polymorphism, and "abstraction" (still the vaguest and weakest criterion imo), and OOP code is discouraged now from using inheritance anyway, what stops it from being OOP? Most of the rust I've seen hasn't fit with any conventional notion of OOP, but it still technically matches the definition. Doesn't that make it a bad definition?
I mean, we can get a more real example easily. Amazon had an AI recruiting tool that was biased against women. The explanation is very simple, the training dataset of successful hires mostly consisted of males so the AI though nothing better than penalizing women.

The question is, how do you detect such a bias, and how do you prevent it in the first place? We have some ideas when it comes to humans, but for code it's much more challenging.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...

The subject of AI and ethics is, in my opinion, something that is not considered enough by the actors of the field, including developers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

https://www.boredpanda.com/google-translate-sexist/

https://openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/#biasandovergener...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...
R6 will not work because of its anticheat
I mean you say this, but you and most likely the majority of programmers rely on dozens of repositories, packages and libraries with likely zero deep understanding of it (and at the very least haven't read the source code of ) so I don't really understand the difference here.

The advantage of something like this is that instead of having to go to stack overflow or any number of reference sites and copy pasta it can just happen automatically without me having to leave my IDE.

The enjoyable part of programming for me is not typing the Ajax post boilerplate bullcrap for the millionth time, it's the high-level design and abstract reasoning.
> How long ago did these events actually happen though?

If you are asking if gravitational waves move at the speed of light, then yes, they do.
The scale argument is really just a chicken-and-egg thing. A few years ago, people were saying the same thing about how Vue wasn't "proven" at scale. But these days there are sizable teams using Vue just fine. The entire point of the components-first paradigm is that you can scale a UI fractally.

Large teams were using jQuery back in the day, with none of that HMR prettier-on-save Redux devtools fanciness. There's nothing inherently "unscalable" about the technology, especially now that most frameworks more or less use the same framework design paradigms.

> nothing about has convinced me to lead a project/team towards picking that over React,

This is just a cost of switching consideration. For better or for worse, first movers advantage is a thing. You're also not likely to switch from date-fns to dayjs or postgresql to mysql because you are invested into your choice of technologies, even though each pair might in theory be perfectly interchangeable.
Yep - and now the waitstaff will gossip about you behind your back, give you bad service and thing you’re grumpy old man.

You thought you were dissenting, but it mostly just reflects poorly on you.

Source - brother is a server.
Sounds like you're working on jQuery-sized apps, not React-sized. The problem is that many don't know the difference, and everything is React-sized, even apps that have no business being anything but server-rendered.
Inferred salary is from salary estimates based on job titles. It isn’t tied to your personal data IIRC.

It’s likely that an API endpoint was found and all the data was siphoned off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_P...

In the context I used it, ldap = username

Essentially all employees have a unique account that is used for email, unix sysadmin, etc., and this is accomplished via LDAP. You can sync permissions, auth, and more between various systems if they all speak the same language.

To use our hacker news usernames, yours would be "pdmccormick" and mine would be "echelon". Companies may choose to make these based on personal names, but it's not required.
Very strange attitude. Certainly less shallow of producing 1,000s of lines of code to achieve some meaningless business outcome.
> One of my greatest regrets is how much time I wasted on 'work' in my 20s and 30s.

In my 20s I was similar. A 'long' vacation was a long weekend in Vegas with friends. Fun, but not much of a vacation. I was fortunate to meet my wife in my early 30s who pushed me to slow down a bit and take at least 2 consecutive weeks off a year (sometimes even twice) in a time zone that made work near impossible. We've been to many places across Europe spending 3-4-5 days in a single location, which is long by American standards.

> when I have the money to travel in style and not backpack around and stay at hostels

There is a lot of room between staying in hostels and traveling in style. It's possible to travel relatively cheaply and still be comfortable. I know some hostels are nicer than others, but tbh nothing about staying in a hostel sounds vacation like to me.

> Don't listen to PG, kids. Live the life you want to have now, not the life you think you'll want to have several decades out.

It's hard to know. If I didn't work as hard in my 20s would I be in the position to take off 2-4 weeks/year since then? IDK. Hindsight and all that...

Finally, I think the most important thing people can do is learn to enjoy the day to day. Even if you're working hard, learn to appreciate those fun moments with your co-workers or those moments with your dog when you come home. Not everything has to be about the big adventure. As I get older I'm learning to find happiness in all sorts of mundane things, even something as simple as sitting the backyard with the sun on my face.
I may be poking the bear, but what if we stopped looking at racism as a moral thing and more of a (possibly) natural psychological occurrence?

Although I think the big issue is that there isn't a definition of "racist" that everyone agrees on. Is it only being antagonistic towards someone? Does it include unconscious bias? Does it include ignorance? There is a wide spectrum of racism.
Someone took my SSN, address, and birthday went into 4 cell phone kiosks for AT&T and Verizon. They proceeded to open like 12 accounts with new iPhones. They just resell the iPhone and don’t activate them. 2 months later I’m getting a call form Nordstrom saying someone in LA is using my info to open up a store card and they don’t think it me.

Next month I get some bills from AT&T and Verizon. Speak to both of them and explain what happens. I need a police report and then will cancel the plans and remove any negative marks on my credit.

The guy in the story established credit by using utility bills and then took out loans. Guessing he actually paid some of them and then decided he needed a BMW.
I’ve seen macro heavy code that is very semantic and declarative. It’s a powerful tool, so it is natural that people need to learn and fail until they use it well.
Yes it would be easy, if we had planned for it ahead of time. Antibodies fade over time, so you can't do an antibody test much later. And neither antibody or viral tests would have been guarded for anti-spoofing or external verification. Some people may have just gotten a text or phone call from their health care provider, or used a self administered test.
I'm with you for most of the comment, but:

> The idea that someone without means should have to pay Walmart $86 for a worse low-budget insulin is disgusting.

The article is talking about the modern formulation for $86. The older-style worse formulation is $25. As I understand it, and I may be mistaken, $86 is very competitive in this space. I don't disagree that maybe insulin should be funded by government at zero cost to the individual, but your description of the $86 formulation described in the article seems inaccurate.
Remember when Powell held up a vial of piss, and a rendered drawing of a "nuclear truck" to justify a war, and we all watched on the news.

That kind of disinformation?

Edit: sorry, it wasn't nuclear trucks, it was a rendered drawings of biological weapons trucks*
Time Blocking Reduces Stress
I often have (virtual) meetings with clients, and there may be 3-5 people of their team on the call, and I might have a colleague also there.

To make sure meetings aren't a waste of time, each of our clients has a Gitlab space on our self-hosted Gitlab, and while screen-sharing, I open their Board, which is in a sense the meeting agenda.

Then I open each issue, and I take notes while they are talking. If the discussion is too quick, I stop folks and tell them "one second, we should write this down, it's important but I'll forget". And before moving to the next topic, I ask every-one to validate.

Towards the end of the meeting (usually 30-45 mins), we then go back to the board, and re-prioritize if needed.

In parallel, I have a paper todo list, where I write down the issue numbers that I really need to prioritize, or other notes that the client should not see.

Obviously this does not work for all types of meetings, but we also do this for our internal company meetings and it's fairly efficient. In the past I would only use paper, but I ended up with lots of paper that I lost track of.
"Any sufficiently complicated deployment and application management system contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Kubernetes."
OK. As long as you are open with yourself and others upfront where that goes... I guess that's your call. Not a decision I'd make.
Where is it outlawed?
“Breached” seems like a strong word: “ LinkedIn tells Bloomberg in a statement that it looked into the matter and found that the data was web scraped public information from its site and other platforms.”

So they scraped a bunch of websites including LinkedIn and created a joint dataset?
I'm willing to go all-in on something like this, only if I can get a promise that this will be an open project as time goes on. I'm not a fan of all of the "commercial" talk in this... if OpenAI is involved, and most of this can run locally, why can't it be fully open source?
I've used tabnine for a while, and it's mostly just been a faster executing normal autocomplete, with a %90 accuracy rate. It's a tradeoff. It didn't have the large snippet behavior in my usage like this new one although.
I think there's a bit more to it than this: note taking is more than just writing stuff down, its engaged with the process of having a well run meeting.

First, figure out the goal of your meeting: is it to share information (a standup, all-hands, etc.), come to a technical decision/consensus, something else? I'll focus on the second.

Your goal is to come to a decision, or resolve an open question. You have a stakeholder presumably, as well as some people with insight/opinions. You should define a few roles: meeting runner, note taker, and stakeholder. These can often be the same person, but are also often different people. The meeting runner does just that, they manage time, ensure people have a chance to speak, and generally referee and make sure things get done. The note taker takes notes, not an exact transcription, but detailed, attributed to speakers, etc. The stakeholder is somewhat responsible for the outcome, makes sure that they are happy with the result and manages AIs.

Note that these roles can't belong to any of the people who are presenting/arguing/disagreeing. Also, in practice, they can't belong to the least senior people in the room. Those people are probably going to be more actively involved in the meeting, while the people refereeing can sit back, ask questions and guide the discussion, with ample time to digest and take notes.

As someone who has at various points been both the active participant and the various stakeholder/notetaker/ref, it's a bad time if you have to do both. Notetaking takes up too much mental energy. I can't actively answer questions while taking notes. I can often ask them, if something isn't clear while I'm taking notes, it's sometimes extra obvious, so I can chime in with a question or a brief clarification, but anything more than that and you're likely to miss something.

This also, with the timekeeping, means that if the notetaker misses something, you already have the broad structure of the meeting written down, so others can chime in with anything forgotten, or add other follow-ups and action items. Then, you can email the whole summary out, and anyone who missed the meeting can see what was discussed, how the decision was reached, and follow-ups, and that's useful in case not all experts were able to be in the room, or as a reference for the future.
> i had never heard the phrase "micromasters". Wikipedia suggests it is unique to EdX.

Coursera has something similar called MasterTrack; there's not a generic cross-platform name for it, though if it is successful for multiple platforms and graduate institutions that will probably change over time.
Yes. The discussions I've seen from waiter expectations like you mention is what has soured me the most on tipping.

Also, I don't feel like my check size is very related to the amount of work involved. At least in my 95% use case of 2-4 people. The waiter does the same thing, checks in on us just as much, still juggling 5-10 other tables. I'm there for an hour. I just don't see $15-30 of value in the service I got during my interaction (my typical check size is $50-100), that's where I land back on my 15% standard. I don't always see that value either, but it's what helps me sleep at night.

If I'm with 5+ people or stay longer than an hour or am eating at a higher priced place where waiter is probably serving fewer tables simultaneously then I adjust accordingly.

Another irk of mine is how alcohol falls into this equation. If I buy a $50 bottle of wine I'm supposed to give $10 tip when usually all they do is open the bottle? My rule is a dollar per serving. It's probably outdated rule and needs some adjustment for inflation as that's been my rule for a long time.
I'm using data from the World Bank which shows that Americans are far more prone to developing diabetes than most other countries.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.DIAB.ZS

France was just an example, but even your link proves my main point. It's not just diabetes. Heart disease is 2x as common in the US as in many other developed countries as well. I don't see how this is "america bashing" (of which I myself have been critical of in the past on this website). What I've presented is useful data that contributes to the discussion over healthcare costs.
Renting the hardware is not necessarily a cost-saving measure though: how much of the compute/storage capacity you have is sitting idle in your datacenter? That's the whole point of finops: you need to have full visibility into the usage of your infrastructure so you can optimize the spend.
It's likely that the 80% figure you mention was based on protection against "ancestral type" virus, as would have been measured in the main trials. The gap between first dose and second dose protection is larger for Delta variant than for other variants, as documented in the paper I cited.
Interesting as my startup is going in the opposite direction. WE've embraced QR codes and trying to make the experience of ordering from a menu even better.

Unlike these guys, we're working on software that makes the waiter more efficient. You download the phone app and scan the code that the waiter gives you. From there, you have shared list between you and all your friends at the table from which you can send orders directly to the waiter from the app. The customers can hail the waiter and we plan to add direct messaging as well in the future.

We've noticed that while some people enthusiastically love the system, its a 50/50 split between those who prefer paying from in our app and those that pay the waiter directly the old fashioned way.

We're currently in a few select high profile restaurants in London and hoping to expand soon.
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Time alone.
> training ML systems on public data is fair use

Uh, I very much doubt that. Is there any actual precedent on this?

> We expect that IP and AI will be an interesting policy discussion around the world in the coming years, and we're eager to participate!

But apparently not eager enough to have this discussion with the community before deciding to train your proprietary for-profit system on billions of lines of code that undoubtedly are not all under CC0 or similar no-attribution-required licenses.

I don't see attribution anywhere. To me, this just looks like yet another case of appropriating the public commons.
Good antibody tests are extremely (99%) accurate in verifying previous infection, not sure why you're claiming the opposite...?

And while vaccination is safe and easy to get, both me and a lot of my friends were basically as sick as a regular flu for a day or two from it. Some people have no reaction, which is wonderful, but a lot of people need to take a sick day or two, or intentionally get the vaccine on a Friday and lose the weekend.

It's obviously worth it to get the vaccine if you never had COVID, but if we can show that existing antibodies protect you just as well, then it would be a huge improvement for people not to have to suffer through the side effects.
> a working Node.js environment

Sincere no-snark question from someone who's been out of the frontend game for a while: Why do I need Node in order to do "quick and dirty" frontend development?

(FTR I'm with you that jQuery is silly these days. Today's built-in web APIs do pretty much everything jQuery ever did.)
How does it compare to Tabnine?

I really like thar Tabnine train against your own codebase and suggest things based on it. It’s crazy accurate and smart a surprising amount of time.
I was talking about combined rates, not just diabetes treated with the insulin generics discussed in the link.
This isn't the same situation at all. The copying of code doesn't seem to be for a limited or transformative purpose. Fair use might cover parody or commentary & criticism but not limitless replication.
You don’t need to work hard to acquire that much money as an engineer. You can totally coast and make market salary. The hard part is going to be having the discipline to save and live beneath your means.
If we all lived on rural properties sure. But we share the space we live in to a high degree. Vaccination status is a matter of collective public health.
I remember Apple's joint product venture with Motorola, the Motorola ROKR, which worked with iTunes but was severely crippled in terms of capacity and transfer speed. Motorola seemed to spend a fortune on advertising. Apple played Motorola hard, learned the mobile phone development process, then proceeded to eat most of the industry. Motorola executives were incredibly short sighted and lacking in vision. The CEO at the time kept referring to Samsung as "Same-sung".
This article is written from the perspective of companies that failed to plan for kubernetes and just used it willie nillie. So... pointless.