skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half the comments say the CDC messed up, the other half says they’ve done a decent job but have been hampered by politics and public opinion. Your belief is the CDC is fabricating the data about risks to vaccinated people?

What about the vaccine companies talking about booster shots to improve immunity? If it was already good enough why would anyone need more shots?

What about the amount of breakthrough cases that are happening? Covering those things up or not talking about them is misguiding and lying to the public.

Only when we get unbiased information can trust start to be regained.
Is U of Miami a target school? Meaning do law firms come to campus in order to recruit? Because that is what matters for law school. If you're paying that kind of tuition, you owe it to yourself to do due diligence on how its graduates perform.

Back in the day you only had the school's published stats to go on. Those are gently manipulated to show the best possible outcome, e.g. "95% of students found employment within 6 months of graduation".

Today you have LinkedIn. Type in a search for U Miami and do a quick count of how many recent grads come up, and where they're working.
I keep telling people that YouTube Premium is the most cost effective membership there is, and they look at me like I'm crazy. Since I got it YouTube has become a service I genuinely love.
What if a stagflation of 15 years starts now?

Will you have to work again?
What's that quote again from that early engineer? The smartest, highest paid engineers, and they fucking work on making you view more ads.

We're living in an embarrassing era of massively misallocated resources.
There is an absolutely massive protest this Monday August 9th in NYC against the "mandate".

DeBlasio should resign.
The "Safe withdraw rate" is something like 4%.

1 million saved = 40k per year, adjusting with inflation.
2 million saved = 80k per year, adjusting for inflation.

If you can live a life you want for 80k a year, then sure - 2 million can do it.

And yes, there will always be a "what if the economy collapses etc. etc", but retiring doesn't mean you can never ever for any reason hold a job again or make money.
anyone here keep up with V and can give a quick rundown of how development of the language has been going? I used to keep up with it out of curiosity but haven't checked in in awhile.
I love mid.

Sometimes you don't want the first few characters, or the last few, you just really want the ones in the middle.
V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted. However, I personally enjoy seeing them out here hustling and really trying to make their language succeed despite all the shortcomings. As someone who skews more apathetic, I enjoy seeing people driven by so much passion.

Now, it's time for me to be one of those critics! It's easy to promote the speed and size of your github alternative when it has a fraction of the features. I'll be curious to see where this goes and I think it has some value but only as a way to dogfood V itself.
No I’m pretty sure it was the Model S. This was Peter Carlsson who left the company after 5 years to start NorthVolt already in 2015 which is too early to be about Model 3.
If the same happened again for the Model 3 then that’s … another anecdote.
"May" be coming?
Lots of people are able to say, “it’s very much possible to reach financial independence” when the DOW has more than tripled in the last ten years. The Boglehead philosophy is perfect for these conditions (and many others).

If the stock market reverts to the mean over the next ten years, it won’t seem quite as possible though.
Just an FYI that if you avoid permanent US residency via green card or US citizenship you can potentially take advantage of a step-up of the cost basis of ALL your taxable assets when you move back to Canada, thus erasing any tax on the capital gains -- both short and long term. (In Canada, there is no distinction of short or long term gains).

Assuming that you have little-to-no Canadian assets now, dispose of everything at no-to-low cost when you leave, move to the US for a decade or so and rack up a lot of RSUs/exercised options, maybe surviving an IPO or two, while enjoying a strong USD, you can move back comically wealthy compared to your peers.

You may or may not have to toy with your employer's immigration lawyers as they scramble to get you a green card while you avoid filing any paperwork.

(This is not financial advice, contact a licensed professional, tell your friends, etc.)
IMHO the issue is getting a genuine one. There are a lot of fake chargers around and even reputable retailers get duped by suppliers. So unless you can buy from Samsung directly, I think Apple is the safer bet. You can walk into any of the Apple Stores or order directly and be 100% sure you're getting the genuine product.
> People I know look at restaurant workers and retail store employees as the people you say "You go to college so you don't end up like them."

That certainly happens even more often, but within that statement is also an implication that one must go to college to avoid that kind of work. And why is that kind of work so bad? Mostly because they have to deal with people who treat them like garbage because they think so little of them.
Perhaps I'm a bit naive in my mid-20's, but I actually don't think that I'd hate working 15-20 hours a week (at a low-stress company) for the rest of my life. Or at least until I was physically unable.

I've recently been wondering if I should instead be trying to view life as a "sustainable marathon" rather than trying to cash out quickly (FIRE).
Assuming he is flying in economy every time, that individual personally generates 13.84 metric tons of CO2 pollution every year.[0] More than 3 passenger cars' worth.[1] The average yearly carbon footprint for one person in the US is about 16 tons, so he is essentially doubling that just by flying.[2]

Here's hoping that engineering team and others like it are doing something very valuable to the world at large, because it's costing all of us. This example highlights the cost we all pay when companies and teams refuse to adopt remote work for these kinds of cases. I wonder, after a year long remote work experiment will that team go back to requiring a weekly roundtrip flight, or will they change their practices?

[0]https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx?tab=3
[1]https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...
[2]https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon...
To play Devil's advocate, how about just running multiple instances of the monolith behind a load balancer, and using database replicas/shards/load balancing?

Being able to scale individual components/services will be the most efficient solution, but if there doesn't happen to be a particular bottleneck that bogs down everything else (besides the database), it seems like the traditional monolithic load balancing approach may not be so bad.

Especially compared to the effort of trying to split an existing monolith into microservices. And if there are other bottlenecks, you can focus your effort on improving or isolating those parts.

(I only have intermediate experience in this area and certainly way less than you do; definitely not trying to claim anything authoritative.)
I'm about at that salary level, and live fine in a LCOL Midwestern area. I'd love to make more money but then I'd just buy more crap. 80k is definitely a decent lifestyle. Though as you say by the time one retires, it might not be.
I feel all these black and white comparisons of monolith vs microservices tend towards being overly reductive and miss the crux of the matter.

First, "microservice" is a terrible name (we should have just stuck with SOA), it leads to all kinds of agile consultant snake-oil salesmen claiming some ideal size for a service. That's bullshit. Services should be defined by their interfaces, full stop. If you can't come up with a stable interface between two services such that the interface changes orders of magnitude than the code within each service, or if you find yourselves always having to deploy the services in pairs due to leaky abstraction on the interface, then they probably shouldn't be two services.

Second, SOA is primarily a tool for scaling teams. Yes there are some tangential benefits in terms of code base size, CI build time, etc, but those are false economies if you have a small team that has to deal with the overhead of many services.
Modern web-scale architectures are really about factoring things to leverage specialists to scale very large tech platforms.

Third, and perhaps most importantly. In any rapidly growing business you need to evolve quickly. You should not expect to design a perfect architecture day one, you should plan to evolve the architecture continuously, so that every two orders of magnitude growth you look up and realize you've replaced most of what you've previously written one way or another. Small startups that focus on "microservices" before they are anywhere near 100 engineers tend to die before traction.
Neither can Google, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon. These "trust us" approaches are not sustainable.
I've never heard of sound going in a particular direction. Are they throwing their voices under a cone of silence?
not everyone who's a lawyer can be an accountant and vice versa.
Yes, but I honestly hate the idea of having to learn yet another SCM. I may reconsider at some point though, especially if more implementations emerge.
> Money does not "work".

This seems an overly literal diversion from the point of that phrase.
As a fellow anti-capitalist I struggle with how to live in a clearly capitalist world. I'm currently on track to retire at an average age or earlier and cynically view it as buying freedom from the system. In reality it reminds me of the old company store at coal mines. Paying workers in currency which can only be spent at their own store.

Breaking out of the capitalist cycle seems quite difficult to do while still maintaining a decent quality of life.
Yes. Most end up either in Lisbon or Porto.
This. No ads is great, but the big surprise was the ability to download videos on my device and bring it with me when traveling. It's one of those features I didn't know I wanted until I had it, now I can't see myself not having it.
> With a disciplined approach to investing, I think that it's very much possible to reach financial independence with a typical tech salary in the US

Bear in mind that you have been the beneficiary of an exceptional bull market
People are discussing a lot of advanced encryption in this thread, but the much more simpler explanation is that they will do the ad processing client side where the messages are already in plain text.
Not sure what you mean by "annual risk". Do you mean out-of-pocket costs?

> That's assuming you don't end up with a huge "out of network" bill by accident

New laws mostly take care of that. No more out-of-network doctors walking by your hospital bed while you're sleeping and sending you a $5000 bill. Also if you have an emergency while out of state your insurance takes care of it.

The "metal" plans all have the same network. The only difference is how much you pay vs. insurance.
If your property taxes are indexed to assessed value (which mine are), it also means your property value is going up. So double taxes would mean double value of home. It just means that at some point you may need to sell your home and downsize, pocketing a nice profit on the way out.
Also see the "S" of STEM. Many people going into science at the graduate level believe the hype that there is a huge shortage of scientists and that they'll have no trouble getting a tenure-track job in the end. This isn't the case. The system is set up to generate many more Ph.D's than faculty positions because grad students and postdocs are useful sources of labor for faculty. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't go into science (there are jobs in industry and government for example), but realize that getting a faculty job is statistically unlikely.
I own a hedge fund. I believe my algorithm will crush the market and return me a 20% annual yield. However... maybe it'll give me a -50% yield one year. I need a suite of zero-risk investments. A negative interest rate sounds insane, but I can't easily hold on to a billion in cash, I'm not a bank! Where am I going to put it, I can't trust Wells Fargo, my mattress is too small, Buster burned down the banana stand! Sometimes breaking even-ish is best for hedging risk.
Ask HN: Why isn't team-based engagement more popular in tech work?
For example, to build your web-app you hire a team (backend, frontend, all-end, QA) all as a unit.

1. team could have more negotiating power vis-a-vis big-co
2. worked together on multiple gigs (hopefully),
3. fewer interpersonal issues (again hopefully)
4. know their tasks on the team from the get-go.
..many more.

why isn't this more popular?
Unless someone has agreed to a contract binding them to the Git trademark policy, the policy would seem to serve as nothing but a statement as to the Conservancy’s preferences (except where it explicitly permits something, where it may constitute a gratuitous license); what is enforceable is trademark law.

But, for a git-related service offered in commercial trade, there would seem likely to be a trademark violation independent of the policy, so the Conservancy is probably within their rights to enforce the policy in this case.
For what it's worth, flying small aircraft at 5k feet AGL I've found cell reception to be amazingly spotty, even over relatively urban areas. I'm not sure that passengers asking for cell phone use on commercial flights are going to be happy with the result.

I'm not sure what the big driver here - being in a metal-skinned aircraft doesn't help of course, but I also get the impression that even a Skyhawk moves fast enough that tower registration becomes iffy. There's a lot of my phone and iPad showing service appearing/disappearing at random. Sometimes I'll call the ATIS on my phone to get it before I round a mountain and it often takes multiple tries to get that call to connect, and then of course sometimes it drops right before I get the altimeter setting or something else I cared about.
Because (most) cars are not worth much?
> But it is the only way I can shed light on Apple's behavior.

It still sounds like Apple's behavior is 100% good for users and your behavior is not. You wanting to circumvent things that are positive for users makes you as a developer look extremely bad (user-hostile). I don't know what else I can say if you don't want to hear it.
Anything else that would ‘force’ you to Have an Account somewhere, combined with that somewhere happening to outsource their identity framework to “social” of any kind. Or: the same things that would ‘force’ you to have a social network account to start with, potentially.

To get on my hobbyhorse some: what about a platform that your employer uses to distribute relevant documents and updates which you need for your job, which has become sufficiently well-known and implicitly available that hesitating about the dependency is perceived as bizarre?

Note that the response of “don't deal with them then” runs into market information and churn amplification¹ issues when it is a social assumption that picking up a ‘tool’ (which is actually a relationship with a third party, but where this is close to invisible in the steady state) is essentially a free action which requires no consideration, because the information about “does this employer require me to use this tool” neither propagates efficiently nor stays stable.

Past source: wound up changing the email address on one of my Google accounts recently for exactly that reason. They actually asked me up-front whether I had a GMail account they could use instead, which turned out to be because they use restricted Google Docs for critical material. Not naming them, but in a broad sense, this is one of the more ethical companies I've ever dealt with, by the way.

Future source: I should probably be considering digging into LinkedIn soon despite their past abusive behaviors, because as it turns out, if I want to dig myself out of this hole…

¹ I assume there's a ‘real’ term for what I'm thinking of, but I don't know what it is, so I cobbled that one together out of the most relevant-seeming bits.
>I've never heard of sound going in a particular direction.

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Canada’s immigration process is based on a points system. If you are not working, don’t speak French or are over a certain age, then I wouldn’t rate your chances too highly. The reason is the “move to Canada to cover health expenses” part. If you have never paid into the system via taxes by working and living here, then why would we want you?
This is even more true today, with a decade of research into the ROI of advertising showing that it isn't even making money for those who buy it. What a sad waste of energy and imagination. We can do better.
For perspective: https://www.federalpay.org/military/army

Army Captain. Someone with a degree and a few years in the job. Someone in command of perhaps 50 people. A federal employee. The sort of person who most Americans would consider solidly middle class.

Base monthly pay = $6,023
The problem there is failure clearly specify what information is automatically collected vs what information is collected by way of you filling in a form, or otherwise explicitly providing them the information.

I'm quite certain that line item refers to there being a form someplace on the site where you can provide emergency contact information. I'm not an IEEE member so I'm not sure if this is just optional information you can provide on your account profile, or if it is part of signing up to attend some conference or the like.

The obvious intended purpose is that if you attend an IEEE conference (or similar event) and become stricken with a serious health issue leaving you unconscious or incoherent (and thus unable to let them know who should be contacted), they can attempt to get in touch with your emergency contacts while you are being taken to the hospital. This has benefits over the hospital having to contact your insurance company to get them to contact your emergency contacts to let them know what is going on.
Two things, but I admit not hard rules.

First, some people seem to talk quite loudly into their phone. Dunno the ratio, 1 out of 20 or 40?

The second is, if you are sitting beside someone, and they talk to you, your attention is of course focused on them. It doesn't matter that the person beside you is talking, because your attention is focused there on purpose. Yet, if a person beside you is talking on a phone, like right beside you, it is hard to ignore.

Now imagine people on both sides, and behind you and in front of you talking. Some loudly.

On a plane, usually there are not that many people contantly talking.

So now you've stuck in a tiny seat, for hours and hours, with all these people talking, loudly, constantly.

Worse, it's all gibberish, all only one side of a conversation. Basically people just spewing random sentences.

I can not imagine a worse hell.
> repository contains research from CloudFlare's AntiDDoS, JS Challenge, Captcha Challenges, and CloudFlare WAF.

https://github.com/scaredos/cfresearch
The way I parsed that when I first read it, I took it to mean that the filename of the lisp interpreter was "malbolgelisp-v1.1.mb" and was somewhere else in the repo, not in the 7zip archive with the interpreter binaries. I see what it means now, but the two ideas felt disjointed on my first reading.
I feel like the hype made a lot of people (not you) forget there's a middle ground, like you can't just have "services". I therefore propose a new hype cycle "mesoservices", i.e. only split out a service from the monolith when needed and it just does as much as is necessary.
There is an investment version where the cost is only 250000 EUR, but there's more due diligence and paperwork required. You're essentially buying citizenship for the opportunity cost of those funds not making returns in more aggressive investment vehicles for several years.
Two passengers can have one debate with each other on the plane, but two debates over the phone.
You have an explicit choice to either not invest or invest. If you spend all your money instead of investing it, you're still making somebody work for you- they're immediately being made (although I'd disagree with this portrayal that it's involuntary, you may not) to serve you a plate of lunch or manufacture a new car for you.

Your attitude seems to be financially masochistic to me and possibly a way to justify your own actions.
Your scaling argument is one of the oft cited arguments. I've cited it myself. The reality I've experienced has largely been contradictory, though. The reality is now you have bottlenecks in each of your services and you likely have a much harder time figuring out where the internal and cross-service bottlenecks actually are. You have to add a lot of modern and cutting edge tech to really get an accurately traced performance picture, and the truth is that pretty much nobody does that when they're building their microservices. Only once things start falling over do they consider adding these things that would just be available much more readily in a single process.
> You boost spending in the short term but over the long term you cut back on consumer spending. Because of fees you actually end up with less consumer spending overall than if you hadn't introduced debt.

They are relying on the fact that customers will continue to spend because of the BNPL whereas they wouldn't have spent to buy if BNPL option doesn't exist.
Nah, I just feel sorry for any Apple user out there that was offended by my words. It happens everywhere. I generally don't place a lot of importance on these things, but it's rude to make fun of people's (core) beliefs
Good to see another open source git development platform. I am currently using sourcehut and am very happy with it.

https://sourcehut.org/
I've been listening through the podcast's episodes and find it very interesting! It hits all the right marks for me. It's well structured, the audio quality is good (better in more recent episodes), length is appropriate, solid pacing.

In fact, I just became a "Junior Engineer" supporter on Patreon. Keep up the great work. Hopefully one day I'll have done something worth talking about on your show.
There is a difference between "loose coupling" and "tight coupling". Components/modules should be loosely coupled - regardless if they run within the same process or not. Component/module interfaces should be carefully designed so that coupling is loose.
Microservices worked on by those same developers have high coupling by default, too.

This is because coupling is a design instead of an implementation decision. "Make a synchronous RPC call between components" is still the "easy" and "obvious" way to get things done.

It's sometimes easier to spot high coupling when looking at code in a microservice world, but it still requires you to know what you're looking for and know how to avoid it, and not give in to the temptation.

Last time I was working with people trying to split up a monolith I pleaded with them to try to understand the coupling first, and figure out what a system would look like without that coupling before actually just moving all the code around and replacing direct method calls with ... other method calls that made synchronous RPC network calls.

No luck.

Error rate went up.
I think this is too strong of a definition because then everything is a monolith.

We need a definition of what it means for two services to communicate while being “uncoupled”. I think “are versioned independently” or “don’t have to be upgraded in parallel” meets the bar.
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The Porsche Taycan 4S: Better than a 911? Believe it
What would you do instead? They popularized that interface, and I think it's very usable.