skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re still incredibly limited in what behaviors do and don’t increase a teams productivity. I’ve worked in groups where some of the least productive people were also maybe the most valuable. Very strong in keeping cohesion and moral up inside the team. Whether it was the way they smiled or greeted people when they saw them or the way they just knew how to spot someone who was tangling with a problem and instinctively knew how to nudge that person away from the edge. I still cant even slightly pin down precisely what people like this bring, but I know I know this …thing… exists and it’s something important.

And when given the choice I’ve seen teams almost battle to get these “low producers” into the group even though their output wasn’t top-tier.

I don’t know how we measure for these slippery traits without falling into woo traps but until we figure out what to look for, great team building will remain an art.

We’re nowhere near a point where we can accurately measure the weird and chaotic quirks that make up a top-tier team. Building a team is still far more of an art more than a science.

I get letting a person or two go who have clearly demonstrated they’re not a good fit, but I can’t help but wonder how much of the kool-aid this company has drank to think firing this many people based on weird data measurements was at all a good idea.
It doesn't say that. Today Apple servers scan uploaded photos. Tomorrow Apple phones will scan uploaded photos. The next day Apple phones could scan not uploaded photos.
from the article:

Thanks to climate change, Californians face a grim future: Even if the state does more controlled burns and changes its fire suppression strategy — and it doesn’t appear to be changing as quickly as state officials have promised — decades of increased temperatures are already locked in.

the one lady from Oakland had a good point -- where do you go (where there are not global heating problems)?
I'll admit that the first paragraph was passive aggressive. The question, though, was genuine whether you want to believe it or not. This thread's ancestor posters were only sharing rebuttals and not really trying to understand each others' reasoning. My question was in-mind that the OP was only talking about themselves, despite the issue at hand being about other people. The question I asked was written to attempt to get a genuine answer that took into account their own loved ones instead of themselves. I was hoping for a genuine answer, and I believe that they responded genuinely, even though I disagree with them.

You gotta understand, friend.. what I think is at stake here are the lives of the people that I love. With that in mind, the seemingly callous disregard of even their own loved ones is... a difficult thing to parse. So again, please try to read my words from the perspective of someone who's desperately frustrated, and at least attempting to figure out why someone is explicitly okay with knowing that their actions will get others killed.
Ask HN: Deep dive into UEFI?
Looking for recommendations on resources to learn about Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) for computers.

I'm trying to assist with bringing an engineering team up to speed on this technology as everyone is stuck in their ways with legacy BIOS.
You're wrong but don't seem willing to have your mind changed.
And it's funny because in my experience the people not chatting and checking email all the time are the ones actually getting work done.
No, racist fucking governors like Cuomo and Newsom do.
Except that’s never going to be the case anyway because customers need to be supported. Unless sort of you can get the whole world on a 4 day work week. And even then that’s only some people.

I’d take even a couple more weeks of vacation over a 4 day work week.
Discrimination is largely legal. You absolutely can discriminate on any characteristic you like, with several well defined exceptions (such as race or sex).
sounds like hell, but at the same time, he is a legend.
The requirement for TPM for Windows coincides with demands by government's worldwide to increase surveillance on online activities of user. Apple devices already have those, and looks likes they are already baking the government mandated surveillance into their OS too - https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14230711866160005... ... (Windows has it easy here as it is already a spyware platform, and doesn't try too hard to hide that fact). So it looks like Microsoft's trying to catch up to Apple on the hardware side, and Apple is trying to catch up with Microsoft on the software side - all to better spy on their users. (But ofcourse, it's all in the name of protecting "your" security and to protect "children" /s).
Should be fixed now. Hard refresh / cache clear may be required though

Added another node to the cluster :p wasn't expecting this to get so much traffic (!)
> This theory checks off certain boxes that make it resonate well within current discourse frameworks, but it doesn’t really make a lot of sense. If the coronavirus vaccines were only being given to black people, then you could see how someone might reason that it is a trick. But they are being given to everyone, including over 100 million white people. Are we meant to think that black people who aren’t getting the vaccine believe that the government is poisoning 100 million white people because the government has a racist history of poisoning black people? The racial analysis here would tell you that there is no way the white supremacist government would do such a thing and so the vaccine must be safe!

Yes, this theory was always ridiculous. Like many other things we hear from the prestige media, it barely merits an eye-roll, let alone a full refutation. Nevertheless, I appreciate Bruenig taking the time.

Sadly, our cultural-professional-managerial elites live in a weird echo chamber where such things must be said. I wonder if they themselves even believe what is coming out of their mouths.
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I haven't been a parent so I can't be positive, but I doubt time off for maternity or paternity acts as a "positive" incentive for having children, meaning people who didn't want children before would now want them. That time off is filled pretty well caring for the baby, which is extremely tiring and time-consuming; it doesn't really function as a break. I also don't know how many people would trade a several month absence from work for the at least 18-year (more like lifetime, really) commitment of raising a child; they have children for other reasons.

That said, I could see how having maternity/paternity leave would help people who want to put in the effort of raising children, but cannot/do not want to quit their job or keep working with a baby for the most demanding first few months. There is likely negative pressure on having children from not being able to take paid leave from work, and in aggregate people would probably have more children as a result if they do get paid leave.

Although this is an entirely different topic, such a policy seems like a good idea to combat the lack of births many developed countries are facing, which in the long term will cause an asymmetric demography. This could be a big problem, as countries with births under replacement and little net inward migration need to support an aging population with fewer active workers (see e.g. Japan). I imagine some would argue that we should move toward smaller and more sustainable societies in order to preserve the planet's resources and reduce our total consumption, in which case they would advocate for alternate solutions to deal with societal aging.
Does this allocator ever returns memory to the OS after deallocation?
Why do you think people want this?
> It's still really, really bad.

The OP still addresses the inaccurate statement (presented in the form of a question for plausible deniability).
> On one hand I'm being presented with avoiding long COVID sideffects as a reason to get vaccinated - on the other I get no proof that vaccination doesn't do similar harm and that it's actually protective of those effects.

Well if you're feeling conflicted between these things, you're just being willfully ignorant at this point. The vaccine protects against severe COVID, hands down. Long COVID is highly correlated with severe COVID. The data is absolutely rock solid on both of those. And for these nebulous "unknown long term effects" of the anti-vaxers keep scare-mongering with, the data on that is also pretty damn good. There is no data supporting widespread negative effects from the vaccine after a year. mRNA vaccines have been in use for decades to combat influenza, and there is similarly absolutely no data to support long-term effects from their use. Even a cursory education about how mRNA vaccines actually work, how they create an immune response and don't alter your DNA should be enough to convince most Science-minded, reasonable people. The immune response induced is on the order of any other; there's nothing special about the COVID vaccine immune response! And it doesn't give you an actual viral infection. A vaccine is literally all the benefit with none of the downside. Unlike dummies who think that somehow actually getting COVID is better for immunity. No data supports that conclusion, either.

The vaccine is effective and safe. People who tell you otherwise are just manufacturing doubt and spreading FUD. They are fucking this up for the rest of us. We could have reached herd immunity with the vaccine by now, and variants would no longer be of concern.

> right now I'm not convinced

Well, I'm not inclined to believe that you can be convinced, because you didn't reason yourself into the position you're in now. No one will be reasoning you out of it. We're mostly just combating your further spreading of FUD like your apparent willingness to be a link in the chain in further spreading of the goddamn virus. It's really incredible the selfishness here.
No … slavery is/was the reduction of humans to commodities. Even a convicted prisoner can’t be sold.

There’s an exception in the 13th for convicts, but the results are very different from chattel slavery.
*insecure
I'm not advocating any particular policy. I'm still trying to perceive any chain of logic that leads to the conclusion that hedge funds blowing up is good for pension plans.

The point I was trying to make above is that better risk management by banks that lend to hedge funds would be actually beneficial to pension funds, as opposed to letting hedge funds blow up randomly, whose value is as yet not established.
But it does not mean the same risk of generating new variants.
I have not seen this reported anywhere in the media, could you share some links?
This anti-vax nonsense has really tested my ability to not wish suffering on others. I’ve climbed that hill and found the empathy for these people, but it took actual mental effort.
The vaccine is free, and widely made available. The communities who aren't getting it, provided they aren't politically conservative, are assumed to be doing this due to lack of trust based on past racism, as you stated.

This is a good faith explanation with no data to support it. These are the same populations most likely to ignore all sorts of laws, rules, etc. I grew up in a trailer park, and the culture was one of die hard defiance to all forms of authority, no matter the cost, or how trivial the guidance/rules. I saw this same cultural trait at play in the inner city when I lived in DC as well.

The reality is that there are several dysfunctional cultures in the US, across multiple ethnic groups including my moron family, that are pathologically opposed to obeying any form of authority. They tend to also be highly fatalistic, have high teen pregnancy rates, high crime rates, etc. And although they are almost always poor, many other cultural groups in the US that are equally poor don't have these issues. Again, my family, and my relatives fall into this category. And so do the urban unvaccinated. Trailer parks and ghettos have more in common than you think.

I say this because you're hitting on a point that is going to really undermine NYC government:

A group of politicians who assume that unequal outcomes are driven by systemic racism are going to run headlong into a law that is going to disproportionately prevent Black and Latino New Yorkers from accessing businesses and restaurants. They are desperately going to continue with a narrative that absolves them of personal responsibility, and continue making the vaccine easier to access.

It's not going to work, and they will get rid of this as soon as they can, rather than go against their own systemic racism narrative.
Thanks for sharing those ideas. This sounds interesting. Is it on github?
It seems like the Tuskegee narrative could have been correct when vaccines were first rolled out. At that time, front-line and medical workers were being urged to get vaccinated. These populations have a disproportionate share of minorities, so it would have been plausible that they would have felt like guinea pigs.

But now that people of all races are being vaccinated, this idea doesn't make sense anymore.
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No. It's still significantly less likely that a vaccinated individual catches it in the first place, thus dramatically slowing community spread.
The government in your country most likely could already oppress you if it wanted to.
> If you worked with Steve, you were going to be challenged. If you cowered, gods help you. But if you knew what you were talking about, you'd be fine, in the end he'd respect you more.

So he was a bully who only targeted those people who wouldn't fight back?
I’m saying that, if you know you might have AIDS, expecting you to use a condom is not tyrannical at all.

Also, yes, why not? Same as polio

Right now, without masks, every time you go outside is like having unprotected sex with drug addicts in the 90s.
Worse in fact, because you are putting your life and the lives of others at risk knowingly.
Exactly.

it mirrors the command line experience. Command line is faster/move convenient once you've learnt how, but finding out how to use it involves reading a manual basically. Each individual task involves a search for a command line command that executes it.

Whilst the learning process for GUI is intuitive because it depends on a chain of tasks that are presented to the user as a visual dashboard.

Two entirely distinct learning processes.
The Silicon Valley bit is referenced several times in the linked video, including being a reason for the original company name.. and that this edition could lead to ",,," in annual sales (complete with an expensive yacht image).
A more local statistic is the list of adverse events by age group, for the specific lot number on a vaccine card. One vaccine lot number can be distributed across multiple geographical regions. To run the query, replace 123456 at the end of the URL below, with the lot number from a vaccine card. More granular results can be found via the query wizard.

https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=...
You are accepting the broadest possible application narrative.

The law is ambiguous so that interpretation and enforcement can evolve with a rapidly changing field. As always, the courts will weigh in on this eventually.
Change my mind then. Like every other sentence I wrote has a funny '?' symbol at the end. That's your cue to provide information.
Sorry, I misunderstand your question. I just don't like mobile games, and mobile banking is acceptable use case for me at the moment. But pc banking is obviously a better choice. The general idea of treating your phone as a problem has deep personal benefits. It started for me with realization (years ago) that I am an addict for "dopamine" hits and this "thing" in my pocket has direct influence on my mental performance.
As imbnwa said, it's lack of enforcement. Ignore those who say that it's good weather. San Diego has homeless but not nearly as many as San Francisco, despite San Diego having probably the best weather in the US. San Francisco, however, has many more services for the homeless than San Diego.
This is an age old debate between judicial activism and judicial originalism. Most issues seem to stem from interpretation of the text.

Activist wing thinks it needs to be interpreted within the current framework of judicial, social and political viewpoints while originalism wants it to be interpreted in the way it was originally written. It's hard to say one way or another.

Activits would claim Brown vs Board created the march to racial equality, while originalist would say passing of Civil Rights Law is the appropriate way. It's a debate that is not going away anytime soon.
*according to mozilla

and mozilla is wrong of course
This also conflates institutionalized schooling with knowledge of Tuskegee (as well as education == institutionalized schooling, but this is typical among many)
Also, if they send perceptual hashes to your device - it's possible images could be generated back from those hashes. These aren't cryptographic hashes, so I doubt they are very good one-way functions.

Another thought - notice that they say "if too many appear". This may mean that the hashes don't store many bits of information (and would not be reversible) and that false positives are likely - ie, one image is not enough to decide you have a bad actor - you need more.

But at Apple's scale, statistically, some law-abiding users would likely get snagged with totally innocent images.

Just a bad idea all around.
Dude is trying too hard. The rationale is simple “the govt is clearly willing to harm a group of people so why should I trust them?”

It’s not that the vaccine is another example of minorities being targeted, it’s an example of where the govt say “trust us” and minority groups have a bit more historical awareness where the govt said that and lied.
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Ah got it, I actually appreciate that clarification! That makes sense. I guess the article didn't convince me that anonymous advice can work.
I’ve always wanted to have something like this! Thanks so much!!
Thankfully, someone has already create a tool [0] for just this scenario!

[0] https://github.com/artiebits/fake-git-history
The composer of the Mario Paint soundtrack, Kazumi Totaka, is still at Nintendo and most recently did the music for Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020).
The US is a place where if you incentivize getting covid, people will start trying to get covid
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The New Hollywood era is generally considered to begin with 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde, following the accidental but hugely successful US mainstream release of the 1966 British film Blow Up. Kubrick’s career straddles the eras, so he doesn’t belong to the young crop of new directors, e.g. Scorsese, Mallick, Coppola, Spielberg, that defined the movement, but I think it’s fair to say Kubrick’s output from the late 60s onward, to include 2001, absolutely leveraged the creative freedom studios were relinquishing to directors and writers.
If getting a promotion really is as easy as committing lots of lines of code, and you are THE ONLY one to figure it out, then you deserve a promotion
I’ve worked with a guy who made lots of small commits with the same commit text. You’d look at a pull request with 30 very minor changes possibly in many places with the same message.
Couldn't your issue be addressed by writing an application-defined function [0] called something like "utf8_is_valid()" and invoking it in the CHECK constraint?

(Probably should tag the custom function SQLITE_DETERMINISTIC|SQLITE_INNOCUOUS to make sure you can use it in a CHECK constraint.)

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html
Opening the door to force citizens to carry medical history (and a potential scarlet letter) is not damage?

Do you recognize that SS - when it started - was on the pretext that is was just for retirement? Look as us today. People are even ending up in court...or in debt, because their SS is stolen.

This policy is not just about telling people to take the vaccine. This policy is forcing it and also creating a new system of peeking, stealing, hacking into PHI
Opposite is true for leaf sans cooling in hot climates…
I doubt it’s a coincidence.

We learned recently that for a long time, the primary producers of cryptographic telephones was a single Swiss company. Owned by the CIA.

If security were easy, a lot of intelligence agencies would have a bad day.

Security doesn’t have to be this hard. But the powers that be seem to prefer complex, complicated systems, like DNS or SELinux.

It could be easier. Much easier.
these conservative sites just continue to pump out endless amounts of misleading trash.

covid is worse now, in many ways, than it ever was before.

"Florida’s COVID-19 hospitalizations are worse now than at 2020 peak"

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/floridas-covid-19-hospital...

i wish modern day US conservatism wasn't seemingly primarily about injuring and killing as many people as possible.
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"I don't like Amazon's offerings due to privacy concerns and sharing with LEO without warrants."

Which privacy concerns exactly?
With an IP waiver, you make it less likely you'll have a vaccine for the next one, defeating the entire purpose.
Either of which is fairly common in Europe and no recent trend. 4-5 weeks paid vacation, although not always easy to take in a single block. And many people work 80% independently of company having 4 day week or no.
Wow. Where's the outrage. We should be filling the streets.

It's a hole in the constitution that lets us confine people for years without seeing a jury.

--Oh well you aren't being convicted of a crime
--No, you cant leave
--Where's my trial then?
--What trial? You're not accused of any crime.

Yes some states have moved to make it harder to institutionalize people, but I shouldn't have to rely on state rules.