skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have always felt that the "what humans do is natural too!" argument is a massive cop out and totally understates the massive destruction that humans are a part of."

Fair enough. I agree that if we start from the position that humans are not a part of nature then their impact on their environment is "unnatural." I just find it really hard to support that argument in any meaningful way. I would ask "Are volcanoes part of the natural environment?" When they erupted and created a mass extinction event was that "unnatural"? It is very biblical to put humans "above" nature but that seems to require that the presence of humans on Earth itself is an unnatural state of affairs.

If one subscribes to the theory that Homo Sapiens evolved it feels problematic to me that at one point they were "natural" and at another time they were not. We are quite likely an evolutionary "dead end" if we are successful at pulling off another mass extinction event. But I don't consider us "unnatural", just imperfect.

I would completely agree that our ability to reason has given individuals the capability of choosing how they impact the environment (unlike the beaver that just does what beavers do), but at the same time we are not a 'hive mind' type species where such reasoning was somehow "injected" into every individual.

What the article has advocated are strategies that individuals or small groups of individuals might do to have a different effect on the environment than they currently do. And I think that is an excellent thing.

What I disagree with is that change to an ecosystem is "destruction." It changes what flora and fauna that ecosystem supports, and we may very well change the ecosystem we live in such that it no longer supports human beings. However, if we do that, the world will continue on without us and the ecosystem will continue to change as new flora and fauna evolve to fill the gaps that humans created.

I don't consider it a "cop out" to consider humans to be part of nature, I think of it as a way of looking at human impact in a more dispassionate way. Humans change their ecosystem to support themselves and their offspring. They may do that poorly or in a way that has long term negative effects on their ability to survive, but struggle to define that as unnatural.
Gas heating, electric AC.
I think the difference is that in the U.S. there is a law that protects Pfizer from lawsuits. In South Africa they wanted assets incase such a law isn't enforced or exists?
I set myself a smart goal. 2024. clinical trials for all will be finished by the end of 2023 at the latest and then, give it a couple months to wrap up and draft or bury and reports.

that is my basis. it's Smart.
So what would be the 'real' number?
I agree. Whatever level a developer is, there is a mountain of tedious work to be done. Asking is more like getting directions, not taking a free ride. Good developers grow in a method negotiation skill, not in a complete autonomy, because exact methods and their details may and will be very important for future integrations. In a complete isolation, no plural number of seniors will create a good system. It’s strange to expect that from noobs.

Of course there is always a level of knowledge too low to participate constructively, but that’s another scope (fire your HR along with yet another zero-skills guy, etc).
That it would contain emacs
Bell was under incredible antitrust scrutiny already when they invented transistor. Fear of antitrust was the reason for semiconductor industry getting flying start. Not only in the US but also in Japan, Europe and elsewhere.

Imagine Bell getting patent and then manufacturing their own transistors with maybe 1-2 licensed manufacturers for next 25 years or so.

https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine/bell-labs-lice...

>In April 1952, over 100 representatives from 40 companies that had paid a $25,000 patent-licensing fee came for a nine-day Transistor Technology Symposium, including a visit to Western Electric's ultramodern transistor manufacturing plant in Allentown, PA. There were participants from such electronics titans as GE and RCA, as well as from then-small firms like Texas Instruments and Sony. Published by Bell Labs and subsequently by D. Van Nostrand in a revised edition, the proceedings of the first symposium - The Transistor fondly recognized as "Ma Bell's Cookbook" - became the bible of the dynamic semiconductor industry that emerged in the 1950s.
Wow, I had seen that meme with the face in two panels, but I had no idea it originated in Arthur!
> By this time, I also got a journalist with me that started to look at the money flow to try and find the organisation behind it.

Very curious to know what you found!
Given that the CDC just admitted that vaccinated people can also spread COVID (by reissuing mask guidance), what is the point of requiring vaccinations?
Yea maybe if managers didn't pressure so hard on new features when they know 100% that there are so many bugs needing fixing + tests need writing, and general stability issues.

Shit will hit the fan but that's how they are directing the course of the ship, early in my career I just have to go with it right now It is not worth it for me to try doing the "easy" things when they aren't valued..

Working like this is too stressful though even if you look like a hero.
I think I agree with you but to play devil's advocate, we're now seeing a huge percentage of jobs around the world could be done at home with minimal upgrades to infrastructure. That in and of itself is evidence that some/more businesses could run virtually. That saves office space that could be returned to nature.
Citation from the European Union's official website:

https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?prod...
“It requires a macro, alongside a micro- (story-by-story), view of media operations, to see the pattern of manipulation and systematic bias.” (p. 2) -- Manufacturing Consent
Triangles use more surface for the same area; the ideal shape would be a circle, but those don't tesselate (though if you pack them hard enough you probably just end up with hexagons with the occasional mistake... which is exactly what is the bees are ending up with).
The best managers I've worked with unblock ICs, and defend from company-wide politics. Maybe set direction at a team level. Ordering smart, creative people around just obliterates 99% of their value.
Dead god, the very first chapter cleared up what an integral actually was. This book is gold!
Duolingo is great to get your feet wet, but its teaching model doesn't scale past A2/B1 levels (and in speaking/listening even less so). This valuation is enormous for a company that's virtually been for 10 years in losses.

So far Duolingo has made the experience more painful to free users to push them to pay, and yet hasn't managed to get out of the red. I think the main that most learners are from developing countries learning English, so Duolingo Plus can be a hard sell.

I bet the money influx will help push whatever projects they have in mind, but while private, and I say this as a language learning ethusiast, their approaches have been completely misdirected. Personally I'd be wary to throw my money there, but will certainly reevaluate it next quarter.
If this is how MS/Google want to do email anti-spam, they should fund the public suffix list. Same with Apple for their App Store and WebKit uses.

(Btw I’m pretty sure almost everyone is already using domain-based spam scoring.)
Like many others here, I am concerned about the influence that large corporations have on public health policy and personal health decisions.

Is it fair to legally require these corporations to disclose conflicts of interest (eg investment in vaccines, or manufacturers thereof) given decisions of this magnitude?

Can they be held accountable if scientific consensus changes, such that it in hindsight it becomes obvious that forcing vaccinated people to return to densely populated indoor buildings further jeopardized public health in general? To be more concrete with respect to how such a situation may unfold, please see this peer reviewed paper published in April 2021 "Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein"[1].

Some key highlights from [1]:

- "Evidence from multiple experimental studies showing that single RBD point mutations can lead to resistance to neutralizing convalescent plasma from multiple donors suggests that specific single mutants may be able to evade spike-targeting vaccinal immunity in many individuals and rapidly lead to spread of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2."

- "Our work suggests that it is likely that standing genetic variation alone has already produced a substantial population of viruses with single and double nucleotide changes that confer nAb resistance. These variants will establish quickly in the population under selection pressure. In fact, there is already a precedent for this behavior, as one such selective sweep occurred early on in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic when the D614G mutation rose to nearly 80% frequency in under 6 months [33]."

- "The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape. In this context, vaccines that do not provide sterilizing immunity (and therefore continue to permit transmission) will lead to the buildup of large standing populations of virus, greatly increasing the risk of immune escape."

- "The juxtaposition of a relatively constrained immune response against the high degree of evolutionary plasticity of the spike RBD (visible even under neutral drift conditions) suggests that SARS-CoV-2 has extensive capacity to evolve to evade nAbs targeting a small number of antigenic regions. This capacity will negatively impact SARS-CoV-2 immunity in humans, whether active (vaccinal or natural) or passive (nAb prophylactics)."

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
It works both ways as a positive feedback loop.
What I would find interesting to know if people would trust more a vaccine from their government (for example the CDC) or a private vaccine maker that has immunity and wants to make a profit? Also how this differs from country to country.
Hi There... greetings fro Germany :)

In my opinion, this will get much worse over the next few years. Today's school leavers come to us without any prior technical knowledge and with outrageous salary expectations.

It is always suggested to them that "If you have a problem, just watch a tutorial video on Youtube and solve your problem with it".

The problem here is the lack of neural networking in the brain to solve complex problems on their own and strategically go about finding a solution. The youth is not stupid, they just do not learn to solve problems effectively and sustainably.

This is reflected in the quality of the applicants.
We have more and more work, the quality is dwindling.

So HR has to hire such "mediocre goods" and we have a spiral that pulls us deeper and deeper down.

This is - in my opinion - a worldwide problem.
Solvable only by a lot of commitment from private organizations and people who deals with the youth and promotes here again know.

The school system will not be able to do this.
I found that the Humungous Book of Trigonometry Problems actually cleared it all up for me.
The last Clang where it worked was 7. Still works in Gcc.
I'm not sure I can explain anything related to the FDA (I'm European) but maybe I can shed some light on the insight what people are worried about.

These vaccines have been applied hundreds of million times in the past year, true. Therefore, we have a very good understanding of their adverse effects in the first 6-12 months. What we cannot know, however, are possible adverse effects that are longer term. Susceptibility to other diseases maybe due to a weakened immune system. Possibly a higher prevalence of autoimmune diseases.

If these vaccines were regular, inactivated virus vaccines, we could extrapolate long term effects from other similar vaccines. But this is brand new technology which affects our immune system, which is far from completely understood.
I've gotta ask : How do you read these quickly ? It'd take me so much time to read even half of the articles from threads I'm somewhat interested in, I can't help but feel that trying to get the gist of it by reading the comments is the most efficient way for me. Well, it would've been, if the people commenting actually read the article.
That was not a ban on WFH, but a disguised layoff.
Pfizer should be judged by the Morales of Mephistopheles.
I’d say in most cases they are useless by themselves. An old idea implemented in a superior way (or, as EA knows well, with slightly shinier graphics) can still be a huge success.

An amazing idea but with no or a bad implementation is worthless to you.
I didn’t even think of that angle, but you are completely correct. Each decision to constrain their ranks in some way makes them less representative of other populations of people, whose information these companies still will control.
What is your source that Hyundai is all in on hydrogen? Hyundai has Kona, and at least according to this press release intends to be the top 3 EV manufacturer by 2025:

https://www.hyundai.news/eu/articles/press-releases/hyundai-...
Facebook’s Ad Business Posts Another Strong Quarter
The vast majority of HN commenters are young and have never been managers themselves, so don't have much appreciation for what the role really entails or its difficulties. Also, tech seems to have a higher percentage of bad managers than some other industries I've worked around, possibly because a lot of tech workers don't actually want to be managers but get forced into the role either by promotion or pursuit of money/power.
> or whether he's just reacting in the normal human way to the pressures of life and his own experiences.

R.D. Laing claimed that psychiatric disorders were a normal human reaction to a crazy world.

In my youth, I was on-board with that analysis; but R.D. Laing was discredited, and I cam around to the view that bipolar and schizo were real illnesses, very debilitating, and that make the sufferer very unhappy; and that they benefit from chemical treatment.

It seems R.D. Laing and his ideas are now back in favour.

I don't know what the treatment for schizo is nowadays; they used to treat it with major tranqs - haloperidol, chlorpromazine etc. Major tranqs == major side-effects.
I've done duolingo for 300+ days and can tell you that Japanese and Arabic are uniquely bad/hard to teach
Millions of useful photos have disappeared off of forums, now that Photobucket is dead.
That's silly. Let's assume for a moment that it is possible to teach _only_ objective truths (goodbye arts, literature, philosophy, social sciences, etc) how will the little robots produced by such an environment succeed in life? Few things encountered in daily life are objectively true.
I had to pass a background check to start work at Google, my employer before Google, and my employer after. If anything that was much more intrusive than "prove you're vaccinated".
a file with commands

Yes! I have OBTF with all “devops/etc” stuff that is hard to remember once a quarter, with headers and explanations, and everything in select-paste ready format.
The Anatomy of Cyber Risk [pdf]
Having that background is what trained me to be able to think logically like you do to build systems which is the hard part. I wasn't born knowning this stuff either. In fact I only learned it properly in my late 20's.
That sounds like an easy way to discount any criticism of your own actions or views, which doesn't seem a particularly healthy way to go through life. You could almost mistake it for being the same thing you're saying causes others to be not worth engaging with...
Why don’t our brains explode when we watch movies?
Out of similar, in some sense, devices I think Gray-1, "everything from ROM" is rather special. https://hackaday.com/2017/02/02/the-gray-1-a-computer-compos...
Small addendum: I've also noticed that, especially among the more extroverted developers, people who were on a team that went remote tend to be happier than people who join a team that is already remote. I think a lot of this is that the pre-pandemic team members already had good rapport and communication among themselves, and could use that to bridge over to being remote. Whereas when people joined teams as new members post-March 2020, it was much harder for them to build that camaraderie and - importantly - trust with their colleagues.

On the team I joined mid-pandemic, one of the ways this evidenced itself was higher turnover among the people who joined after March. The tech lead also noticed universally slower uptake on team-specific knowledge among the new folks, compared to when previous folks had joined. None of the new folks became team experts in the year I was there, despite having the past experience that would suggest it would be likely they would. And generally, the team continued to rely on its pre-pandemic experts.

All this is having joined a remote team where I think I would have really enjoyed being on the team in the office, and which I know from industry colleagues was a successful team pre-pandemic. Even with those advantages, joining remotely was rough.

In other words, I think we may still be in the honeymoon period for remote work appearing productive among the industry at large. For some people, it may work well in general, and if you specifically recruit those people you may be able to build a successful remote team (some companies did it pre-pandemic, after all). But across the industry, I suspect remote teams will become less productive over time as experienced members switch jobs, and (if they aren't the type that naturally likes being remote) experiences the slower uptake and more isolating experience of being on a team where they've never met their colleagues in real life.
A club I attend is now proposing proof of vaccination for continued membership. I tried to inform them of a KISS one time paper proof of vaccination to registry that other businesses I visit practice instead of on prem or 3rd party service scanning of our vaccination cards which contains PII of Real Name, DOB and for some, Medical Record Number, MRN
They were too spooked by the need for health safety ("We must have a safe place!") to grasp the implications of building a honeypot ready for exploit or sell off. So now they have name, address, DOB, MRN, CC, what else is missing? I think the other data brokers will fill the gaps. This a business relationship, not an employer. I fear more businesses will go unchallenged with this convenience route.

https://abc7news.com/vaccine-cards-security-covid-19-coronav...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/no-digital-vaccine-bou...

Now let's see where that MRN is embedded...
http://dicom.nema.org/medical/Dicom/2016c/output/chtml/part0...
http://www.j4jayant.com/2013/02/hl7-identifiers-person-patie...
Babbel is great and they also have shorter subscription plans. I only needed a quick fresh up of my French skills and did not see why I should subscribe to a full twelve months plan, which was the shortest that I could find on Duolingo.
There are unions in the film industry for example which seems extremely comparable.
It depends on what you think management should be like.

In practice, I mostly speak to my boss once every week or two weeks (if even that, I have gone two months without it while remote in a past role). They exist as someone who stops by once in a while and otherwise does not exist. This has been the case for both my current job and my last job. I can't imagine that either had any clear view of what I did day to day.

For me, that works. But I have known a lot of co-workers who have an issue with that as to them that impacts their advancement in the organization and they feel unrecognized as their manager couldn't tell someone else what they did that week.

I think many want an engaged super champion manager they work closely with.
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Their business model isn't to teach you languages, it is to make money off the millions of people who want to learn a new language.
I'm not sure how much I buy this. I fit the introvert profile pretty heavily, with most of my time spent on computers or DIY stuff growing up. The main thing for me is that I'm very entrepreneurial, so my life centers very heavily around work and sometimes side projects. This made the transition to WFH very painful as I no longer had a real way to separate the "work me" from the "home me". Burnout soon came on, and even looking back at rough proxy metrics like KLoC or time in meetings, I completely dipped in Feb 2020 and never recovered. Learning has also severely slowed down. So yeah, as much as I do not enjoy the prospect of city life again, I am ready to go back.
Have you seen the animation about how sin/cos/tangent are derived? I was absolutely befuddled by trig although I was able to do it by learning rules, until I saw that thing.

Just in case you haven't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_zReGTxdlQ
Prions are not affected by disinfectant
Yeah, although I may have been too aware of my body's normal distortions, it was fairly typical HPPD from what I hear. Walls breathing, tile floors becoming 3d, constant visual snow layered on my vision. I'd say my thinking became somewhat more disorganized after the experience as well. I used to be a fairly fast reader and afterwards I had to slow down and also start re-reading more. I also had a fair amount of panic attacks, even ending up in the ER once when I was 18.
Unless you get infected
This is just like training your dog to walk on its hind legs balancing a ball on its nose; it is an achievement, of sorts, but tells you nothing about dogkeeping. Nobody actually coding C++ does this, and a working programmer has no reason to pay it any attention beyond its novelty value. Anyway, Clang 8 and up do not allow it.

You can do overwhelmingly harder-to-understand-or-justify things in Haskell, and most are about as important. But some of those are essential.
They sort of tried I think, but it wasn’t very successful. They fired a couple of founders from a successful studio that Activision owned - Infinity Ward (known for Call of Duty). Those two went on to create Respawn Entertainment, a studio where many ex-Infinity Ward members joined them.

There were many other studios created by ex-ActivisionBlizzard employees but I think this had the most bad blood associated with it.
Could you please stop posting large chunks of articles like this? You've been doing it repeatedly, and it's confusing and adding more noise than signal to the threads. It's super hard to distinguish what you're quoting from anything you may be adding—I had to search in the article text to even figure out that this was all a quote.

If people want to read the material, the article URL is close at hand.

Copy-pasting in bulk is generally not a good idea on HN. Quoting bits that are relevant to what you have to say is of course fine!
Norwegian here- I haven't seen this at all- maybe the author has been somehow "fingerprinted" and targeted?
But that's not a behavioral change, only bad testing. The test wouldn't be brittle if the behavior of adding was locked down completely.
When my father was young, his parents had a small dairy farm. In rural Finland, they were still keeping the milk cool by harvesting ice from ponds and storing it for the summer in large mounds insulated by sawdust in the late fifties.