skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cars can travel faster than humans and horses, yet we still have running competitions and horse races.

I don't know why we still have (or broadcast) running competitions.
First, I didn't say flip flop. I said flipped. Once the authorities changed their mind on something they didn't go back to the previous opinion. If you are going to put quotes around text at least make it something I actually said.

Next, the lab leak is just an example. You can look at other things like masks, whether or not it is airborne, and other things like that. I understand they didn't have all the available information but they sure sounded 100% positive they knew what they were talking about.

Imagine if we could not ever change our societal views on anything? Once something is determined anything else is considered misinformation. I am sure you hold a view that is not the view held by the majority. How would you like any facts you state about that thing banned and labeled misinformation? That is what will happen if this continues.
This story belongs to a greater category of stories with headlines that start with the word "Why..." promising an answer but never delivering. They're very nice stories. Very descriptive and well-written. But the headline is a bait-and-switch. The honest headline here would be, "Why Are People So Awful Online?" but the honest headline wouldn't get as many clicks. I hate the Internet.
IEx will let you define a module at the REPL. Combine that with a macro (exercise for reader) in your .iex.exs which expands a function into a module definition and imports it and you're in business.

iex(1)> defmodule Foo, do: def bar(x), do: x + 1
{:module, Foo,
<<70, 79, 82, 49, 0, 0, 4, 192, 66, 69, 65, 77, 65, 116, 85, 56, 0, 0, 0, 135,
0, 0, 0, 15, 10, 69, 108, 105, 120, 105, 114, 46, 70, 111, 111, 8, 95, 95,
105, 110, 102, 111, 95, 95, 10, 97, 116, ...>>, {:bar, 1}}
iex(2)> Foo.bar(1)
2

iex(3)> import Foo
Foo
iex(4)> bar(1)
2
Is that possible?

Every company I've every worked for offered money for education but usually it only covered slightly over 1/3 of the total expense when everything was said and done. (And this was early 2000s when University was cheaper)

Also, two companies required at least a B for reimbursement which is not always that easy in a competitive STEM class. I found I could do work, or school, well. But not work and school and subsequently dropped out of my Graduate program. It worked out in the end. :)
> With Co-pilot, programmers don't even have a way to opt out.

I find not using GitHub lets me opt out. Am I wrong?
The philosophers Hobbes and Calvin do not disappoint https://i.redd.it/h2pt1xw3d9801.jpg
> The belief that every employee wants there to be open sharing of salary data is not universal.

I would have thought that the desire to know if you're being treated fairly is universal. You really wouldn't mind making a fraction of what your coworkers make?
Sadly, disabling the spooler also disables print to PDF.
The gist is right, but details are wrong. Undergraduates can also get a 3-year work visa via OPT with STEM extension during which you can enter into the H-1B lottery multiple times (as many as four times if you time it well). It's just masters have higher chances in that lottery.
I used freetaxusa this year and it was a very nice experience. I don't know if they cover everything you need in your situation though.
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The only thing that's changed is that it's more widely acknowledged that a lab leak is possible, and just as likely as natural origin. Other viruses have followed a similar origin story.
There are definitely addicts out there but I went with my family and met some nice people a few years ago. The art installation was interesting and the hippies running the library gave my kid a book. I wouldn't want to live out there for sure though.
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Dr. K killed Reckful by not getting him the help he needed.
Shamelessly replying to my own comment, there's MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. I don't see VR support mentioned.
What you describe with respect to many worlds sounds more like possible worlds semantics. Someone not committed to the view might treat it as a formalism with no metaphysical baggage, but I don't think that is what the endorsors of many worlds believe. Carroll certainly believes in a universal wave function and actual many worlds. And there is definitely a difference between RQM: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-relational/#CompOtheIn...

I am sympathetic to the idea that no one interpretation is 100% correct and that we shouldn't be deeply attached to any of them. Each may have its usefulness in different contexts. Independent of that, some interpretations more accurately describe the quantum world than others, surely.
Objects with highly eccentric orbits are both very uncommon and very unlikely to intercept Earth. The period in which they have near misses is on the order of thousands of years at least. Even if we could see them from their high altitude we don't have enough information to predict where they'll be on the next intercept.

My understanding is that this kind of threat is usually lumped in with comets, whereas threat asteroids are lumped in with low eccentricity big rocks.
Working retail as a teenager made me lose faith in humanity -- and all the theories that blame anonymity for online toxicity. Sure, the darkest parts of the internet can be cesspools, but give the average person a tiny bit of entitlement and power, and they'll abuse others just for the pleasure of it. And this was over a decade ago. So glad I got out and into software. I can't imagine what it must be like working retail right now.
I think formal cs education would make me a better engineer than I am now, but at the same time I have never seen an instance where education has mattered more than intelligence.
That tidbit about drinking it is the most interesting part of this whole thread!

Are they the same lithium salts that are prescribed as medication for certain psychological disorders?
This sounds a little bit like an argument against systems with an infinite number of axioms to me. Or maybe it's fine but only under certain conditions?
"The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol."

-- Larry Wall
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That has happened to me so many times that my last company shreds resumes from foreign students with a prestigious American masters where the undergrad is not similarly prestigious (eg IIT and Tsinghua are good, but not many other schools).
Recent and related:

Public Suffix List - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835197 - July 2021 (43 comments)

Other threads listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27853498
When this really mattered (now it almost doesn't), CCP let international flights loaded with Covid19 leave Wuhan for weeks. Where were these geniuses back then?

I'll cut them some slack and say 10% of them probably aren't compromised. The rest have conflict of interest or worse.
I’m starting to get a bit fed up with the down-voting behaviour here recently.

It used to be that on HN you down-voted for people who were obstructing conversation, being disingenuous or in some cases being excessively disrespectful.

Now having read 3 of your comments and seeing all 3 are heavily down-voted and yet the content of your messages is constructive and interesting.

If you disagree with something, fine, just don’t vote on it. Save the down-votes for bad actors, not someone with a different view.

The last thing HN needs is to become the kind of place where you’re actively encouraged to karma farm or whatever that term is for that behaviour on reddit.
The article talks about mortality. Just because you don't die from covid doesn't mean you are as healthy as before. You still have to deal with LongCovid and in the case of kids with PIMS[1]. The NHS England is creating [15 paediatric hubs[2] to fight this. Now imagine a lot of kids get long term problems caused by covid. This will hurt the economy in the longterm a lot more than lockdowns and closed schools will.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisystem_inflammatory_syndr...)

[2](https://www.england.nhs.uk/2021/06/nhs-sets-up-specialist-yo...)
The freefillableforms website is run by Intuit, so that might give you a clue why it is the way it is.
I would say this depends strongly on the field. In the field I'm most experienced in, electrical engineering, I tell people considering a Master's is that it's a possible short cut to the pay of someone with 3 years of experience. So if you can get it fast enough, and the math works out, then do it. Otherwise skip it.
We sat down at a table to eat breakfast there during our road trip and within 10 minutes we were swarmed with a horde of disgusting flies. The entire shore was littered with bones from dead fish. The area looks quite ok from the confines of an air conditioned vehicle.
Utter nonsense
In my life experience the best safety in general is at MSHA regulated mines. Real safety to prevent problems. Last year after I got onto mine sites to do my work, it was business as usual. Like the 'rona wasn't an issue there.

One front office was freaked out and would not let me inside to do the site-specific safety cert, but once I got behind the gate it was normal.
At another mine in May 2020 they invited me to their pig roast for employees and families. No fake safetyism there; just everyone socializing and eating like it was 1999.
This is such a strange article. Immediately criticizing the FDA’s approval process as invalid and time wasting without citing exactly why. I’m sure there are limits to the existing process, so what are they, and what is it doing right? They also mentioned several times that an AI has found a means to correlate gene expressions with drug interactions…and that’s it. Just pasting the abstract isn’t the neutral reporting they think it is.

What would be really interesting is if doctors had genetic profiles of their patients and could analyze side effect probabilities specific to you, rather than a group in the case study when the drug was approved. Even having this anonymous information available to the drug research could help simulate potential avenues.
Good idea! But before that, we have to take a look at GDPR :D
Have you watched any stand-up comedy. Lots of comedians are making fun of the idiosyncrasies of different ethnicities, nationalities, religions. The problem is generally, who is doing it and how you do it.
The social environment of people willing to use violence or aggression tend to be super toxic. You get combination of direct aggression from those who would do straggling and passive behind back aggression of those who would be targets.

And a lot of enabling of biggest psychopaths due to fear.
My first take on the headline was that AI found a disease that targets and predicts a drug's chances at FDA approval. That was like !!WOW!! until I reread the title correctly.
> Equally as powerful as Chrome

Processors get more powerful when you disable security mitigations, too!
While I certainly do not trust any existing or near-future self-driving cars, I also don't enjoy regular driving. So conceptually, I am in favor of self-driving cars over having to manually drive. In practice, I don't really like being in cars at all, and so I live in a city with a subway and can walk most places.
Don't limit yourself based on what others make.

If you accept a job, wait a year, then start interviewing at least one interview every 6 months. You'll improve your interviewing skills and learn your market value.

What your coworkers make at your current job is not a strong indicator of your market value. What actual employers are willing to pay you is much better data.

Don't forget, a huge component in salaries is social skills.
It's the convention on HN to add the year to a title when the article isn't from this year. It doesn't imply that the content is false. If someone posted Euclid we'd probably put "300 BC" on it.
I feel you :D

It might be worth sharing the project with some privacy-oriented forums to get some feedback and ideas on what a good privacy model would look like for it. Good luck! :)
Sure, of course there is tension between security and control, the same systems that allow me to secure my system from tampering or theft can also be used against me by the vendor to stop me from having full access.

I don't think that problem can be attacked by blaming the underlying tech, that quickly heads into the same territory of thought governments use to try and justify weakening encryption because it can be used by bad actors. I think the options (and to be fair all of them are hard) are: competition from vendors that allow full control, regulation from governments forcing vendors to give users full access, or subverting the implementation to regain control.

Also forgot to mention with secure boot you are able to sign with keys you have generated.
Do you know that obnoxious friend/acquaintance/family/co-worker/boss/in-law who is a total PITA but you dont tell them anything because it is not a big deal after all? Well, in Internet you can, and the people "obnoxious" to you will be counted in the millions.
Not true. Rust is significantly different from mainstream languages and has a greater learning curve due to the borrowing system.
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Not sure why this is singling out the USA every UK employment contract I've seen has forbidden the disclosure of salary to other employees.
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I wasn't meaning to stop cold turkey, there is a whole process to quitting addiction. Sometimes people need to be pointed at what is causing the issue and then help on how to get out of it.
And I would add that includes many French things and France as well.
I love exploring around the Salton Sea because it feels like a post-apocalyptic version of the US. You're definitely not going for the aesthetics.
Poor people who choose degrees with good career prospects will get a loan. Poor people who want a degree with bad career prospects may not have the chance to waste a year or more of their life pursuing one.
GM recalled almost 30 million cars with those ignition switches. You're 1.5x more likely to die using Autopilot than one of them.
Maybe, just may be, your perception of today's military was all created by MSM?
I think it depends on the time of year. For example, when I drove to Alaska in the spring, I found the wilderness beautiful, but the locals told me if I had come in the summer I would have been assaulted by swarms of giant mosquitos.
I'm in the UK and I've never had a contract with such a clause in the nearly thirty years I've been working as a developer.
The submitted title was "Why People Are So Awful Online", which was legit because it's the HTML doc title of the article. But it's leading to shallow comments in the thread. Maybe the article's page title will prompt something more interesting.
> If she's performing better than them while getting paid the same, she would know that she's worth more

This is another area where pay transparency can complicate things. Jane may have the same experience and education as other employees, but much higher performance and work ethic. Unfortunately, this isn’t easily quantified, whereas the other characteristics are, which can create resentment among her peers who don’t see the other value that she’s providing.
This really sucks when some papers don't come with code that can reproduce the benchmark results. I wish there was a filter for "reproducable" in search results
Great. Now we should fund an effort to locate it and, at some point, recover it and tug it back to either the surface, to start a museum near the first settlements, or LEO, to join the ISS as artifacts of an orbital museum.
There are a lot of artists, and they even have a "club" made up of old abandoned couches where they have occasional outdoor concerts. It's pretty wild.
Reproduction is likely to always be an issue with psychedelics research, since people's responses are so variable. Any research would need to have unethically large numbers of subjects. Perhaps legalisation would change that, but the legalisation will always be dicey without reliable research. An ouroboros of an issue.
I, a man, "foolishly" told a female coworker with the same position what raise and salary I got. I had negotiated 10% more pay than the base offer, she hadn't. She went to HR and dragged my name and salary through these proceedings, arguing a woman was getting paid less to do the same job as a man. Nevermind I had a masters and was faster and more versatile as a worker...she got a much bigger raise than I did so her pay ended up equal to mine, despite lack of negotiating or higher Ed or better performance.

HR responded by sternly telling me I should not discuss salaries. Why not? So you can underpay people? There's literally zero reason other than that for us to not discuss it. The CEO literally owns a dozen Tesla's, pure unadulterated greed on his part.
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Shock-doctrinizing all this fear and--at this point internalized--reluctance towards human contact is a bigger threat. I'm with England on this one, and afraid of the implications that such headlines carry for our fate as a species.

P.S. I'm a vaccinated, law-abiding citizen.
Yes, generally you do. In many countries you need consent of all guardians for all serious interventions, like operations, school changes, travel outside the country...

So why should a paternaty test be different?
The soldiers reading this guide would have had the truly remarkable opportunity to see the marshes in the south well before the more recent wars & Saddam's order to drain them. Worth reading about for anyone interested in the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_Marshes
Yes, and the word antisemite was later coined to only refer to Jews.

Both statements are true. Language is often weird like that.
One reason is lack of skin in the game.

Another is since the Web is perceived as a world different from ours people can choose to act out different parts of their personality to (mostly) vent off.

Then there are also bots. These are awful, because they were programmed to.
I used to work for a small tech company in the suburbs outside of St Louis, which is definitely not a HCOL area. When I left (to move back to a HCOL tech hub), probably about half of the engineering staff were H1-B visa holders. This was because we often had trouble finding qualified candidates that were either already local or willing to relocate to the area. Visa sponsorship was a much more compelling reason to relocate than anything we could offer US citizens.

The office was near Mastercard's global operations headquarters and it seemed like they also employed a lot of visa holders. So I don't think we were particularly unique in our willingness to offer visa sponsorship in a LCOL area.
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This will make things described in the original article even easier.

The reason Candiru works is because Windows machines are general computing devices which give users almost complete access to the machine.

If you want a machine that malware cannot spy on, you want something non-general and locked down, like an Chromebook or iPhone or some other system with secure boot and mandatory code signing. There must be an authority that decides, “this is password stealer that must be blocked” vs “this is keyboard autocomplete handler and can be allowed”.

This requires standardized interfaces, code signing systems, auto updates, solid security boundaries, distributed app whitelists - lots of complex stuff. You can decrease complexity a bit, but if you go too far, you will end up with systems which are easy to compromise and hard to heal.
I think more writers, especially technical writers, should am for this type of writing.

I like simple.
Dentist, vet clinic, lawyer are three.

Daycare center, hairstyling and financial advisor are others that require qualifications / lic
It is an interesting distinction. Doing work that is valuable to other people is a key way to make sure you can keep working successfully. Fighting all the people to convince them to do something different to save themselves from bad long term problems is ethical but possibly less likely to lead to success, even in the non—monetary, people are happy you exist fashion. So making yourself useful to other people isn’t the same exactly as do what pays well, but it can lead to the sort of “not a passion but enables a good life” situations. People that seek to save us from ourselves are super necessary but also have a tendency to burn out. We all need to try to make our society a few percent better each year for the long term problems and then the zealots can relax a bit.
The AI knows. I was drawing a parallel to the premature approval of a potential alzheimer's drug, which was approved against the vote of that drug's advisory board.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/third-member-of-fda-advisory-pa...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-26/is-the...
So paying $39 to a private company (not mandatory btw, you don't need to go with Intuit or TaxAct or HrBlock or etc), is evil incarnate...

...but the thousands of dollars my wife paid directly to the government two years ago for her green card application which still is not done is totally fine?

If there was an Intuit for green cards, I would be camping outside to be the first to give them my money.
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> against doing the output switching in software

I don't think that was their position?

"Switching the audio output should have been the default behavior, with a possible software command to revert it"
You'd be surprised: https://www.foaas.com/
Have the Italians already settled in the US when this was written? Seems like they have a habit of warm greetings as well.
They might be in the contracts, but as far as I know they are invalid or at least restricted by anti-discrimination laws.
Transformers seem to be the successor to conv nets. But in my direct experience advocating for them, it's amazing how reluctant industry peeps were to trying them because they associated all the limitations of LSTM networks with them for a long time. YMMV, but that's how it went with me.

I even predicted DeepMind's CASP 14 network would be transformer-based back in 2018, but I couldn't have told you the details of that transformer, just that it was a no-brainer to move from fixed width convolutions to arbitrary width attention sums because sequence motifs and long-range interactions are of arbitrary width in the sequence.

All that seems to have changed with AlphaFold 2 because unlike GPT-XXX, this isn't a parlor trick with memorized text. This is actually useful and the FOSSing of the network will spawn all sorts of new applications of the approach.

So now I wonder what will replace Transformers because nothing lasts forever and there are a lot of smart people trying all sorts of new ideas.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/77

I'm pretty sure Equality Act 2010 makes any such term in a contract unenforceable.
Can you waive those protections away by signing a contract that contains a clause that forbids salary discussions, or would that clause of the contract become unenforceable?
So I wonder what will happen if they are somehow exiting this space. The announcement seems to only be about the no-fee for < $75k income folks side of things. I wonder if they will continue to run this, if it will shut down, or be transferred elsewhere.