skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of us would consider that nightmare scenario to work in. The closer to startup life you are, the less that exists. Smaller organizations die if they have that kind of dysfunction.

When everything succeeds, there's no problem. When it fails but is salvageable, it's a giant fingerpointing exercise that makes solving the actual problems twice as long, but ultimately has no consequences for the processes or people.

When things truly fail, people are thrown under the bus because they "didn't follow process." Management is unscathed.

And each part of the process is logical as to how it was developed. Because once a system is large enough, it develops enough scars that say "we won't fail again in that way." - and all failures are because the process wasn't followed.

Then, IT is outsourced because it's too expensive. The outsourced system openly skirts much of the process, but can't get the information necessary to build the right product and is seen as a cost center. Eventually, with enough failures, the trust is degraded and the IT is brought back in house. The cycle repeats.

You wrote it very well.
None of the above. The only mask that will stop you from getting covid are masks that will also stop you from breathing.

Different masks have different effectiveness in different environments with different risk levels. Cloth masks may be inappropriate in some environments while being effective in others.

Research has consistently shown that 3-point seatbelts are completely inadequate in auto racing environments when compared to modern 5-point harnesses. Passenger cars do not come equipped with 5-point harnesses. Is that a reason to not wear a seatbelt at all?
> Noobs typically need protecting from themselves.

Whenever I hear this I start looking for my wallet.
I have found when older workers are not popular with leaders it makes a statement about the leaders, not us old folks. Some leaders don't like having knowledgeable, experienced people around who have enough talent to critique their decisions and leadership styles. They don't want mentors, they don't want critique, they want to control their organizations. So they don't like old folk who have been around enough to see through whatever persona they are projecting and see them as just another person doing a job.

Other leaders love having experienced talent around. But if a leader doesn't want me, I honestly see it more as someone who has their own issues to work through, not a negative statement on my talents.
I know. But that's not a smoothly-integrated user experience and navigating the rest of Windows on that machine without a mouse and keyboard is going to be a pain.

Steam didn't build a console UI that works from the boot state, like MS did for the Xbox version of Windows. If it were up to me, I think I would have picked that approach rather than adding an emulation layer (Proton/WINE) in-between.
Show HN: KmCaster – display keyboard and mouse events on-screen
What's the practical meaningful difference between exercising your right to not vote, vs fulfilling your obligation to vote by showing up to the polling place and drawing dicks on the ballot paper?

Pretend you're an Australian and have a long tradition of fining people minor sums of money for not showing up. Why would you change to non-compulsory voting?
How do you calculate what a janitor produces? Or a programmer? Or a school counselor? A teacher?

I have yet to see a better method of determining price than two parties agreeing on a number.
I'd bet that areas with greater mask compliance also have greater compliance with social distancing and other, more effective mitigation measures.
There is a portion of the population who believes that if you've already been infected, then having a mask over your face just causes you to reinfect yourself over and over again.
Seems unlikely, but makes a good story-telling device.

To the other mentions here, I would add...

No Lack of Sunshine.

https://www.amazon.com/No-Lack-Sunshine-Eric-Kay/dp/B0915H35...
Good point. For example,

type NotAProduct = Bool | Bool

only has 2 values, not 4. For a real product type, we need

type Product = {tag: "Left", value: Bool} | {tag: "Right", value: Bool}

which has the requisite 4 values.
Paypal within the EU is indeed a bank.
Competition for OpenAI’s GPT-3: AI21 Labs releases 'Jurassic' language model
I mean if you look at it from the other way… they agree to pay $X for the work but give you an increase of $Y to support a higher cost of living in certain areas to be near the office.

This is being spun as a decrease instead of seeing that people actually have had an increase because of CoL. which no longer applies if you move.

If you agreed to $X and then move to say the Bay Area would you expect them to keep your salary the same?
https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/08/covid-incompetenc...

Say many things worth reading, but of masks specifically:

> Masks do much more to stop you from giving it to someone else than to protect you. Cloth masks are close to useless. Well-fitting N95 masks work much better in both directions. Neither comes close to vaccination. Wearing cloth masks outdoors, far from other people, in the wind, as is the fashion in Palo Alto, is just part and parcel of the pointless virtue-signaling so prominent here. If you do go to that crowded all-night disco, wearing an N95 mask might be a good idea. Of course if you’re even thinking about wearing a mask, you’re not going in the first place, which is why the whole mask-mandate business is a bit silly.

Absolutely worth reading the whole thing for the full context.

If we're going to have a Ministry of Truth, shouldn't it at least be run by accountable, elected officials? Hasn't history proven pretty well that Ministries of Truth are damaging to society?
But this means that all users of USD are providing an insurance pool for the banks for free. Doesn't quite seem fair.

There are some decentralized stablecoins (stablecoins backed by crypto assets + market rules that ensure they keep the peg) that have explicit insurance pools + rewards for being part of that insurance pool. For example, Liquity [0] allows users to deposit the stablecoin and earn rewards + favorable liquidation positions (a 10% discount) in return for being the first layer that purchases liquidations.

Not exactly sure what the equivalent would be in the traditional finance world, but I could imagine some sort of higher interest savings account that isn't FDIC insured, and takes losses first.

[0] https://www.liquity.org/
> A cloth mask will not protect you against an aerosol

I thought the reason we should all wear masks is to protect everyone else around us by preventing our breathing/speaking from creating clouds of airbourne droplets.

I.E. it is supposed to filter the air you put out more than the air you breathe in.
If (some) people already emit however much CO2 they want, why would offsetting emissions cause them to emit even more?
So is Google saying what's good for thee isn't good for me? You lead by example. These tech companies sell all the tools you need to support a remote work force and then turn around and say a remote work force isn't good for them. What message does that send?
I'd be happy if Valve's other big legacy for gaming ended up being that they started a snowball that made Linux a viable alternative for gaming. For me the requirement for that would be fairly broad compatibility and a performance that's at least close enough to Windows to not give me the feeling that I'm bottlenecking the hardware I paid all that money for. Other than that I mostly use my desktop as a media server and Linux can already do that more than well enough.

All in all, I'm excited for it in a way I wasn't for the SteamOS box announcement and I really hope they can sustain the momentum for the long run!
You have no right to use someone else's printing press. The government can easily create their own video hosting platform. Just like the NYTimes doesn't need to allow any politician to submit an oped.
It's fascinating that the US now claims a sentence would likely be between 4 and 6 years and still considers it worthwhile to put in this level of effort for a conviction.

Also, if they don't think there's a justification for a longer sentence, surely guarantees could be offered that they won't seek a longer sentence, and this might go some way to reduce the courts concern over the suicide risk.
As a single data point: despite a universal mask mandate that was enacted early on (May 6th 2020) along with a very high compliance, Massachusetts had the 3rd highest COVID death rate in the US (as of Aug 9):

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
Losing sec 230 protections would mean more ban-hammer for lying politicians (about elections, vaccines etc.)
That's the real return. The nominal return would still make you a millionaire, even if you don't feel that rich.
>I'm very impressed by that.

Why? Chrome supports those platforms. There's no reason for Edge to not.
I'm not here to argue whether or not cloth masks are safe or not since I'm not a scientist. The point is that there's hardly a consensus and it seems wrong to ban someone who's skeptical and cites peer reviewed research.
Much appreciated. I'll be sure to read through the post. I did buy a haskell book (Haskell Programming From First Principles) but haven't had time to read through it. Like you said, while there's a big upfront cost, it seems to be the most effective strategy.
There is no game, this is normal standard information not being understood. Information asymmetry.

1. Everyone assumes they have the same level of understanding as themselves.

2. Everyone assumes some protection is better than no protection - while this makes sense on paper, it also can encourage more social behavior, which then increases risk of infection.

3. Cloth masks do absorb, and can retain liquid which means it could increase rate of infection assuming the mask is not cleaned daily or replaced.

I'm pro mask, simply because it hides my face and in this world that was something outside of Asia I would get double/triple looks for.
I find I can hack on things faster with static typing. I'm inevitably picking up new libraries, and using a new library is much easier when it's inputs and outputs are clear. I can see how dynamic would help if you're writing most things yourself, but static definitely has a huge return when interfacing with anything someone else wrote.
The housing market collapse is the reason for the misassessment of risk, and the over-extension of credit. Mortgage-backed securities were considered AAA assets, which is why so little in cash reserves were maintained.

>>Had Tether been around in '08, it would have been accumulating hordes of that stuff to back itself up.

That's irrelevant, because every one, including regulators, would have considered that adequate collateral. There was a systemic misassessment, due to the systemic impact that government intervention had on the housing and sub-prime mortgage market.
Even poorly fitted cloth masks or a bandana will do a little bit for source control. That's useful to help contain spread, we just need to push the exponent on infection growth below 1.0. COVID's vicious feature is not that it's extraordinarily dangerous on a per-case basis, it's that it spreads so easily and even in people without symptoms. Clearly it would be better if everyone wore N95 quality masks, and that's the level you need to really protect yourself, but if nearly everyone got vaccinated and wore even a mediocre mask we could starve the pandemic out in a month or two.
You're trying to muddy the waters by bringing up "high" tech salaries, given that we're both tech people. But we don't really make society-shaping decisions by bribing politicians (well, I don't). The sort of people who do, and the sort of people I'm referring to, and the sort of entitled cheating of The System that I object to, is well illustrated by this: https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-reveal-h...

Turning a $20 million donation into a $500 million tax break is both enriching oneself and starving everyone else. My "indictment" is a mere recognizance of what's in front of me. What does this look like to you?
Companies changing salaries based on location makes it a really interesting problem for someone working remote to find the combination of a high salary location, low expenses, and low or no tax state.
How do we measure what programmers produce?
It is extremely unclear what, if anything, you are arguing for or against, other than that banks have recently done some bad things.

It seems like you might be against regulating stablecoins as banks, but you also appear to be arguing for harsher punishments for banks that misbehave? Or something?
I’m already reaping the rewards of WFH. I used to have the energy to go to gym maybe twice a week after work, then eat some rubbish food because I didn’t have the energy to spend another hour in the kitchen.

Now I can be at my gym when it opens at 06:30, have a good workout, shower, walk home, cook breakfast, and still have 30 mins before I need to start working.

I can even fit in short cardio sessions in the evening and have returned home and made a nutritious meal by the time I’d normally just be getting home from work.

I go to the gym seven times a week now with no net reduction in my free time.

I eat a better diet. I save money. I’m happier and more relaxed. My home office is a much more productive space than the noisy open plan office we have.

I never start the working day in a bad mood whereas a bad commute (delays, bad weather, unpleasant people, etc) used to put me in a lousy mood for the rest of the day.
Because despite being captured, those regulators make sure the system works much better than it did 100 years ago when there were regular, crippling depressions and people lost their life savings when banks failed. The financial system undergirds the rest of the economy and some stability and caution is warranted when messing with a core part of the architecture of modern society.
Your working theory is spot on. Coasting is almost impossible unless you constantly keep showing that you are valuable to the company. So yeah I did 100 meetings is one easy way of quantifying your presence.

What I am really surprised at - companies have been blind to these bad managers and are letting them run the show. Just blindly fire them. Life becomes simpler for everyone, including the company.

Remote is a win-win for everyone except the bad managers. Why keep them then. Is this so hard to realise ?
Hey this looks really promising! I'm thinking about making an intro to SQL course with my own spin on it. I went ahead and signed up as an author and have had a couple of issues so far:

1. The first time I clicked the magic link in the login flow took me to another login prompt. I re-entered my email but got a warning that I was requesting another link too soon. I went back and clicked the link again and was logged in right away.

2. Once logged in I see an empty page at https://app.slip.so/author - there is the side nav, but nothing in the main well.

3. I did notice a couple of console warnings around cookie attributes:
Cookie “__tld__” will be soon rejected because it has the “SameSite” attribute set to “None” or an invalid value, without the “secure” attribute. To know more about the “SameSite“ attribute, read https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cook...

I was also wondering for the SQL course if it would be feasible to stand up an in-browser sqlite database via sql.js and/or make an API call out to a service to stand up a database for student use.

Congrats on the launch and keep me post if this could be a viable course for your platform!
Is your argument that outcomes of different policy decisions cannot be compared across different jurisdictions?
Then even harder: How about a stay-at-home mother?
So is this a planned PR stunt?
It seems like thinking in terms of works/doesn’t work is excessively binary, as is will/won’t protect you. Some masks are more effective than others.

If you insist on 100% protection then n95 masks don’t “work” and neither do vaccines but that’s misleading as a public heath campaign.
Not all commutes are equal (both in environmental footprint and desirability). One of my favorite commutes was about an hour by train -- I lived 5 minutes from the station and my job was a short walk from the station. It was a reverse commute, so I always got a seat.

I got a lot of reading done and I didn't consider it to be "wasted time".

Another favorite long commute was 45 minutes by bike, almost all on a separated bike trail.

Of course, my current 30 second bedroom to livingroom commute is probably my favorite commute of all time, but my point is not all commutes are horrible. And even my current work-from-home commute has its drawbacks, like no clear separation between office and home life.
Indeed. Financial companies are in a difficult position. COBOL was invented for them 60 years ago. Then, they were the primary users of computers. Now, they are just one users among many and no language is going to be invented for them specifically. Instead, you have thousand of enterprise software companies that are trying to market them all sort of complex solutions and keep the gravy trains coming. Financial companies would need to take the matter in their own hands and invent their own modern language but their culture doesn't allow it. Financial companies have extremely long term needs but are unable to put together the kind of long term project that would allow a cohesive language to emerge. Instead, they buy into ridiculous short term thinking like Agile. If maintaining COBOL code from 30 years ago is costly, imagine what today's business software 30 years from now. I have seen critical information only a few years old being lost among insurance companies. Consequential bugs that lead to people losing money. It's scary to think that those systems are guardian of our finances.
It's a false dichotomy. None of them will stop covid. Some will just do better than others in different situations.
Right, and committing fraud is a good way to get fired or worse.
what the fuck is everyone’s plan?

Mine is to achieve financial independence by living well within my means, saving a lot of my take home pay, and investing that savings into index funds.

Having that basis of financial security will, at some point, allow me some freedom to consult at my leisure. In the meantime, it gives me the freedom to leave a job if it turns out to go south.
And yet, it's way too common...
That study shows that the large majority of the cloth masks tested were much better than nothing. See Fig 3.A.

The only mask that was worse than nothing was the Neck Gaiter, but the difference was both clinically small as well as statistically insignificant.
Would like to know more about its security breaches. Really hard to find anything. I suspect that they've scrubbed a lot of the bed press off of google and the internet in general.
The idea for that is, that typical enterprise features like authorization for certain records or even attributes are not publicly available. Also e.g. encryption of the data in S3 and other parts may be an enterprise only feature.
Other things, like API authorization, preventing public access to S3 and therelike must be included in the OSS version for the same reasons you mentioned.
Actually if you hire 25-year-olds, they're probably going to start having kids right around the time you need them the most.
There is an "Iron Harvest" by Belgian and French farmers each year after plowing their fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest
Obviously nobody wants YouTube to be the arbiter of truth, but this whole situation has just become ridiculous. We have an elected senator spreading misinformation, perhaps willfully, perhaps not. All of the current evidence suggests that even cloth mask wearing reduces the virus spread (https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118#sec-22). A cloth mask may not prevent infection for yourself, but if you are infected it will reduce the risk of transmission for everyone around you. This is why we need mandates.
Solar Power from Space? Caltech’s $100M Gambit
No, Tether is not. The equity and capital buffer requirements are somewhat more complicated to explain simply, but the end result is that a bank needs at least ~8% of cash outright to meet those requirements.

Tether has less than 1/10th the amount of cash it would be required to have were it a bank.
> We don't need. The market is hot and we can choose.

Then this will not be a problem for Alphabet employees that are unhappy with a decrease in pay.
Isn't Microsoft still trying to make a proven TLS implementation? If that takes really smart people years and years to do, I don't see much hope for the rest of us on line of business apps.
Are [gaiter masks] effective?

On the other hand some researchers think cloth masks, specifically gaiter types, are worse than nothing.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083

> A bigger droplet scatters more light than a smaller droplet. This insight is important to interpret the result of the neck gaiter. The neck gaiter has a larger transmission (110%; see Fig. 3A) than the control trial. We attribute this increase to the neck gaiter dispersing larger droplets into several smaller droplets, therefore increasing the droplet count. The histogram of the binary diameter for the neck gaiter supports this theory (see fig. S5).

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disclosure: I think people should wear masks, even gaiter types. My point is that skepticism shouldn't necessarily be banned. Saying a mask works or doesn't is an incredibly complicated thing and more probabilistic than anything else.

If the question is presented as whether or not a mask would guarantee you being protected from COVID-19 particles, then the answer is much closer for "no" than "yes" for non-KN95/N95 masks.

If the question is whether they offer "some protection" then the answer is basically yes as long as you have anything in front of your face.
the president being partisan makes it quite a circus.
> how do you guys adjust cadence for people with outside commitments - eg let’s say I need to leave every day at 5

This is actually the problematic mindset I'm trying to avoid. I don't want to work at a place where leaving at 5 is "adjusting cadence." I want to work at a place where management sets appropriate timelines, and we work hard to meet those timelines -- during the work day. The company I work for right now has a culture of work hard 9-5 then disappear. It's great.
> sat in front of a camera with a "Macbook" purported to be Hunter Biden's

I heard they'd been provided with a copy of the hard drive; and have not seen an assertion that they had anything more or claimed to.
It's great to have more and more of these projects, especially since frontend dev is such a huge time sink (if you're not doing it 100%).

There are also some similar projects, for example flask-meld [1] for flask (also via websockets but falls back to polling if not available) and django-unicorn [2] (afaik only polling).

[1] https://github.com/mikeabrahamsen/Flask-Meld
[2] https://www.django-unicorn.com/
Shame! Thanks for verifying though.
I'm talking about and referred to [gaiter type] masks specifically.
Hm… I’m not convinced about the likeliness of that outcome. Automated systems like that are mostly used on YouTube/Facebook, aren’t they?
If you can deal with the price tag, mainframes are very nice machines in a lot of ways (scalability, availabity, storage). And if you're a large-ish bank or other financial company, chances are the amount of data you need to process and the requirements on availability you need to meet mean you're going to need something mainframe-sized anyway.

Plus, IBM and assorted companies treat backward compatibility religiously, so a random update to the OS or the DBMS breaking your application is pretty much unheard of. That kind of reliability is worth a lot to some companies.

The price tag is rather harsh, though.
Many do just that.