skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies look at all sort of ways to manipulate workers into giving up value without adequate remuneration. Preying on family values is particularly disgusting. It's an immediate red flag for me.
And neither do I, at least with all of them. I have had some work friends who were close. Have I stayed in touch with any of them? Out of five jobs in ten years, there are two I still consider true friends, the kind you call when you are in a jam.

While I'm griping about such things, let's talk about bosses day and company outings and gifts for fellow employees for $reasons. If I work for you, I do it because you offered me a paycheck. I feel no responsibility to buy you a gift. I don't want gifts from you. We have a contract or similar agreement - I work, you pay. Gifts either direction, company trips, whatever feel like a sham and muddy that agreement of I work, you pay. To other employees when I was one - do your work, avoid drama, and I'll like you. Keep the gifts out of it and don't try getting into my wallet because Sally has worked here for ten years. If I work closely enough with Sally to know she is good at her job, I'll let her know. If I don't work that closely with her, what more do I need than politeness? /soapbox
According to the Lindy Effect, you'll continue to be wrong.
Tragedy of the Commons like recycling contamination, opt-in vaccination, littering, or well water depletion. Asking a group of Americans to what's necessary never works because they don't care, are too clueless, too self-absorbed, or too dumb to follow directions. If it were Japan or Singapore, we wouldn't even have this discussion. American "excellence" in failure.
> Out of the hundreds of colleagues I had, I would voluntarily choose to talk to maybe 3 of them. [...] in my experience Software Engineering just has loads and loads of "that guy"s. You know, the ones you try to avoid at parties.

I absolutely understand what you mean! And I certainly think 'family' is an absurd way of thinking of work relationships.

But if you were applying for a promotion, to become the leader of a small team of programmers, can you see how your reluctance to talk to your direct reports would make you unsuitable for the role?
This isn't what the judge refereed to at all when calling it unconstitutional. The California Constitution gives broad authority for workman's comp. laws to the legislature. Prop 22 said that no law can make drivers qualify for workman's comp. That's unconstitutional, because it's a law that limits what the legislature is allowed to do under the constitution. Hence, the whole thing falls apart.
> EDIT: Pile on anti-vaxxer downvotes,

You don't need to be an anti-vaxxer to disagree with what you wrote.
Ask HN: How do you consume stuff on HN while still being productive?
Theres so much interesting stuff: links and comments posted on HN. What strategies do you use to read them and process them effectively?
You should meet some Indo-Pak families sometime.
Agree with all of this.

The maddening part for us has been that Snakemake, which like for the parent poster has been the best workflow management system for us, is not as widely supported across commercial platforms , and is somewhat less big PaaS enabled than e.g. nextflow.

On the one hand Snakemake does support kubernetes, but on the other hand we are a bioinformatics research group and don’t have k8s engineers :/

(Scaling) Optimal workflow management for genome informatics groups is still very much an open problem.
We're already doing this with recent booster shots. So i think it's perfectly reasonable to also giga-vax.
> Covid affects your intellect

Accordingly to a poorly designed paper, which is probably completely bullshit and not reproducible.
Yeah I think it's a real shame, most of my zeal these days on the front end is finding the smallest most focused libraries that do certain things -- I always shudder when I see what seems like pattern explosion/new development in libraries like React.

Of course, most of this is not React's fault -- they blazed the trail, and it's not like they could have known to build in the semi-automatic reactive system that Vue did right ouf o the gate. That said, KnockoutJS and the whole MVVM revolution along with RXJS were around to learn from.
In this case, I believe "embedded" means "in another program, as a scripting language".
Also, you may have want a look at GNU Guix and GNU Guile.
I realize it’s not exactly what you asked, but you could use a service like https://nip.io to map up addresses to hostnames.
>>If it causes selective pressures that create new variants

Except that it literally doesn't, there is no data to suggest that it would, and I have no idea why this particular idea is repeated so much. Like I said in the comment above, none of the vaccines that we use have ever caused super variants to emerge. Zero. We don't have a super variant of Polio, or any other diseases that people get vaccinated against.
You missed the point. The virus is usually much worse without the vaccine.
But the spike is what is important, targeting the rest just makes the immune system make antibodies that don't do anything.
I know! And I do (it prevents popping up a user with a gazillion prompts to accept when they enrol)

But this is just kernel extension stuff. We know users use some software (not with kernel or system extensions) that's not allowed in our environment. Zoom for example (people are allowed to use it in the browser only for contact with external parties but many people install the full thing anyway). Our security department has banned the full client because of the backdoor it introduced.

Right now we mark it as malware in our antivirus, but it would be great to be able to prevent it altogether.
Launch services are in fact the most important problem to work on for a human settlement on Mars and SpaceX is making useful progress towards it.

SpaceX is following their vision very precisely.
You can absolutely write type-safe higher order functions without generics. You can't write generic higher order functions, but that's a tautology.

Also higher-order functions are a moot point. Higher-order functions give you convenience, but no increase in expressive power (defunctionalization is an homomorphism).

Of course, generics give you a true increase in power.
Ford must be loving this - Mach-E uses LG batteries, and Lightning will use SK ones, except SK just paid ~$2B settlement for stealing LG battery tech.
Perhaps you could specify which parts are not true, and provide a retort?

What OP said seems to be consistent with what we're seeing, but I am by no means an expert on the subject, so I'd like to hear your counterpoints.
Please provide data for that claim.
you can't just add electricity to the water. the treatment plant already exists and probably needs to be running & producing potable water 24/7 with little room for fiddling around. besides, you can provide oxidation by running the water through an aerator, if you have one.
From Bloomberg today, https://archive.is/fy4Wf

> In lieu of answers, what has emerged is a host of case studies providing somewhat different pictures of breakthrough infections. Variables including when the surveys were conducted, whether the delta variant was present, how much of the population was vaccinated and even what the weather was like at the time make it hard to compare results and suss out patterns. It’s difficult to know which data might ultimately carry more heft.

> For the time being, there are simply more questions than answers. Are breakthrough infections ticking up because of the delta variant, waning immunity or a return to normal life? Are vaccinated people more vulnerable to severe illness than previously thought? Just how common are breakthrough infections? It’s anyone’s guess.
“It is generally the case that we have to make public health decisions based on imperfect data,” Frieden said. “But there is just a lot we don’t know.”
I actually like the workplace for the 97% of people with who I won't naturally talk to.

They may not share all your hobbies and opinions but they are usually smart people. Like you, they landed the job and they are still there after all. They all have their own, rich world that you may not realize exist because they are not invited at your parties (and you aren't invited at theirs). If you keep an open mind 97% of people are interesting not 3%.

The good thing about workplace "families" is that there is still some distance. You can have a look into their world but you don't have to be part of it if you don't want to. And you don't sleep under the same roof, don't share the chores, etc...
What about the point of view would make since hesitant to get vaccinated?

Without the vaccine likelihood of hospitalization is even higher.
Love the project, it works well, loads fast, and I'm glad you didn't fall into any crazy frontend pitfalls.

I think vue is great for small apps and "big" apps, and I think others would agree. I mostly disagree on just how much value some of the enterprise-grade patterns that show up have.
> At the moment, the cryptocurrencies need a powerful democracy that can maintain global hegemony.

That’s a tall order. We don’t have that for people lol how would it happen for magic math money? It’s hard to maintain hegemony without imminent threat of violence so how could something 100% dependent on the internet somehow overcome the constant threat of state violence using the internet that the violent states regulate and control? You’ll need a crypto-military to impose the will of this global crypto hegemony.
Trolling the haters.
TLA+ is hard to learn (2018)
> That ship has sailed, we should start integrating asap.

Not before the gap has been closed, otherwise you will only attract more.
It’s the most voted submission on HN right now. We gather here because we like this stuff.
And here you are wasting your time accusing us of being everything that’s wrong with tech.

The thing you fail to understand is that we aren’t in this for the money or the validation or the status.
We simply like fiddling with computers, languages, etc.

Computers were my hobby way before they were my job.
Sometimes people are just arrogant and want to make sure their audience really knows they (the speaker/writer) really know more.
I am so sorry for your terrible sickness!

It's probably impossible to say whether "the vaccine has kept this relatively mild", especially since you got it despite being vaccinated twice. At least earlier strains showed no or very mild symptoms in 80% of the infected, and yours doesn't sound very mild.

Maybe you'd be dead if not for the vaccine? or perhaps the vaccine allowed your body to contain it to just your nose, where it replicated like crazy until it overwhelmed your defenses. It seems like there just isn't enough data, but it seems like getting vaccinated is not a silver bullet.
>>That's a great environment for the virus to evolve immunity to the vaccine

Again, like the person above you said, it's not that simple. Bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics because they can either avoid or start to digest the chemical that would normally be harmful to them. Here it's not the vaccine that's killing the virus - it's your own immune system, and every single one is different. So yeah, maybe in this person's body the immune system didn't learn to recognize the virus and kill it - it means literally nothing for how another person's immune system will behave when they encounter it.
My long-standing annoyance with software documentation is when people don't see that tutorials and reference are different things. They may have tutorials as the only documentation available (ahem Ansible cough), or reference as the only documentation. But in fact, the use-cases for those two are different, so effectively they have different audiences. I don't want to learn a language from a dictionary, and I don't want to wade through the tutorials when looking for one particular concept.
I don't know.

There are a lot of times when I was told "you'll understand when you're older/more experienced/whatever" and... yeah, they were right.

Usually "older" was a proxy for something like "had X and Y specific experiences and N years to develop perspective".

It probably depends on who is saying it and why. I wouldn't go through life assuming that it's always bad; it might just clumsy.
I don't know how parenting will not take all of your energy. From the comments, it seems that people who say you can do it remove the parenting or the first job from equation. I don't know about your family, but I personally value more parenting than building a startup. You can do the startup later.
It always was. Johns Hopkins did a study, and catching covid was 6x better protection than any of the vaccines. Furthermore, your body learns how to protect itself differently from catching it.

Unfortunately if you google search, it's buried about 20 pages down. There's no profit in that.
Only as anecdata, many years ago, circa 2000, I was marginally involved in a project for the re-building of Stari Most (the bridge at Mostar):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most

the initial team of "modern" structural engineers were convinced - after mathematical analysis and computers simulations - that the bridge could not possibly be re-built exactly as it was.

Then we contacted to verify the calculations an "old" structural engineer that believed that if something has been built and resisted (before the bombing) some 400 years, it can be built and is resistant enough.

It came out that due to some limitations of the software used at the time, and to some approximations in the design of the computer model, the resistance (and influence) of the lead fixed steel pins (that were - for the time of building - a technical marvel) was greatly underestimated, as well as the effect of the steel strips.

See here for some details on how the bridge was built:

https://www.litosonline.com/en/article/old-bridge-mostar-rec...
The problem with dating apps is that everyone hates a bad match. It's awkward, may feel like a waste of time, and generates a lot of rejection. People hate feeling rejected.

While a few apps have tried to do blind matching to get people in person faster, the fact they don't stick around implies that they weren't very successful.

There is some basic level of matchmaking thats required to get any relationship off the ground and for many people older than their early 20s this tends to involve some element of shared goals and shared lifestyle.
> I’d love it if Boston Dynamics recreates this dance with Atlas.

If Boston Dynamics can recreate the dance, why couldn't Tesla?

This is a serious question, as far as I can tell it would only require time and money which Tesla does have.
Watchers in Kubernetes
Watchers in Kubernetes

https://www.wecloudpro.com/2021/08/21/Watchers-in-Kubernetes.html

#kubernetes #cloud
Yeah, [1] gives ~2.8M new retail US subs from end of 2020 to March 2021; that in itself would cover $167M if they signed up for 6 months.

[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/hbo-max-s...
I find it unlikely that this would ever even be raised as a question in an American mainstream news source.

A better question, though, would be "who needs a vaccine more now, a 1st world 10-year old, a 1st world 50-year old who's already been vaccinated, or a 3rd world 65-year old?"
> From this pov I understand why some are hesitant to be vaccinated in this phase of the pandemic

So your take away from someone complaining about the long recovery time from an accident after putting on his seatbelt and having the airbag deploy (which is annoying at the moment) is that we should remove those features because other people in other accidents without them had less severe injuries?
This is one of the most helpful critiques I've ever received in my college english classes
No. You are wrong. I have reported your comment for misinformation.

[1] Study: Fully vaccinated people with "breakthrough" COVID Delta infections carry as much virus as the unvaccinated

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/covid-vaccine-delta-variant...
It would be more helpful if you could explain which parts are untrue. A lot of it gels with what I have been hearing experts say I.e. the vaccine is great at reducing the severity of the symptoms/illness, but delta is spreading via the vaccinated as well as the unvaccinated, and as such herd immunity is looking out of reach.
Not in Europe though. We had a WinXP version without IE and a prompt at first install to choose the desired browser
There is a gross amount of commenting as fact without accompanying data in the comments on this one.
> When they say like a family they mean treating each other with kindness, friendship and compassion

We have a word for that: politeness.
Falcon Heavy was "six months away" for multiple years.

Today it is fully operational.
This is an excellent and technically deep post, I learned a lot reading it and I'm going to make sure I'm using my tooltips properly.

It's a shame that most of the comments here are just people criticizing web dev frameworks and browsers.
>In 2001, Microsoft "constituted unlawful monopolization" under Antitrust Act for bundling a web browser with their operating system.

That reductive summary is repeated but isn't accurate.

Microsoft didn't get in trouble for adding its own IE web browser to Windows. (Software companies always add new features and enhancements.)

The key nuance that triggered the government lawsuit was anti-competitive actions such as using obscure/undocumented Windows API functions to cripple Netscape and forcing computer manufacturers to avoid other software when licensing DOS/Windows. All of that is in the long document: https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
Some people are like you and simply view a job as an economic transaction, and some people think that since they are spending a large portion of their day with a particular group of people there is little downside to making friends and socializing. I will tell you a little secret though, when push comes to shove I will cut 'economic transaction' employees in a heartbeat without a second thought but I have sometimes gone out of my way to give a 'work friend' a break or spend a portion of my week finding them an internal transfer. I feel no enmity towards those who are a bit more mercenary than I, but I also do not have even the slightest bit of loyalty to people who make their attitudes in this regard clear (i.e. learn to fake it now and then and you might do better...)
Long press the timestamp link on the first post and open in a new tab. At least that's what worked for me on iOS.
Mostly I agree, but vaccination rates in the U.S. have picked up a little in the last few weeks, so there are at least some unvaccinated adults who are persuadable.
Ask HN: Personal Advice Re: Distrusting Everyone
I find myself distrusting the (seeming) entirety of socio-political conversations since ~2011.
I watched as a specific conversation in front of me seemed to spin out of control, with every attempt at de-escalation being received as (normative) aggression about peoples personal lives.

...I could've sworn I watched that spread to completely different social circles around the net in 2012 and 2013. I haven't fully kept track of the mechanism or circumstances [1], but I expected just about every factual claim and exclamation going through those conversations to be unsupportable, or untrustworthy until I had clarified [1], expecting to find a precondition to any analysis of it.

And since... either mid 2015 or Trump's campaign, every opinion I find anywhere seems to hinge on those very conversations... That I have no capacity to trust absent a solution for [1]. Perhaps my expectation of that is paranoia. I cannot tell.

It's turning into a personal issue for me now. I have almost no social contact with anyone, and the conversations that I read others having are bringing me to distrust the outside world. (For reasons that I also cannot understand myself) I had to cut off most of social media last year just to stabilize my mood... but merely HN's threads give me (near) panic attacks every few days.

So I'd like some advice:

I somewhat expect that I need to determine write up (publicly like this or just to myself) the full version of what train of thought / context leads me to my current fear / distrust... To what extent is that achievable or useful? Nor do I know if such a write up would even help me distinguish if this is all paranoia, if I could look at something for clarification, etc. I have maybe 100-300 HN comments / threads bookmarked in a separate folder, trying to characterize when different things showed up here. I don't really have the ability to ask any questions of the original people I was overhearing in 2012. Should I keep trying to do this?

Should I tell myself that it doesn't matter if everybody's movements are built on lies and try to forget about it?

...Or any other solutions that come to mind?
Its not nonsense. Its possible and it has happened but in this case unlikely.

Though there is still concern due to the focus of these vaccines on the spike protein
Amazing article on "cryptocurrencies" (plural) without any mention of Bitcoin, but talks a lot about stablecoins which are not "crypto" in any sense because they are centrally issued securities that don't even have censorship protections, but instead have explicit blacklists built-in.

There are no cryptocurrencies. There is Bitcoin and there is noise.
I really wish I could find a password manager which supports WebAuthn, and can also be unlocked with WebAuthn, so that only one secret needs to be replaced in such a situation.
Classic HN strat: read the comments to determine if the link is worth opening.
Isn't that more the Uber playbook?
From our chief epidemiologist over here in Iceland:

“ Þórólfur wrote in his response to RÚV yesterday that the figures change quickly and that now the non-vaccinated infection rate is twice as high rather than three-times, the hospital admission rate is five-times higher, and the rate of admission to intensive care is also five-times higher than for vaccinated people.”
https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/08/19/unvaccinated-five-times-...
> “It is generally the case that we have to make public health decisions based on imperfect data,”

Why can't the public draw their own conclusions and make their own health decisions, based on (imperfect) public data? Why does the data have to be kept secret? (Perhaps the data doesn't support the "public health decisions" and dictates of the state?)

If there's a concern that we can't effectively interpret the data, why can't we listen to whatever quack that we prefer and trust on national television that tells us that we really should not wear masks and couldn't wear them effectively, and they'd make us super sick because we'd be stupid about it and are completely untrainable (oh, and they're needed for health workers) -- no, wait, we should all wear masks, even if they're just thin pieces of cotton -- no, wait, even kids should wear at least two masks, even if they're running track and passing out.
There's a legit conspiracy with this very narrative. We have a handful of companies who have just been showered in public funds in the hopes that they produce something to make themselves irrelevant. It's not hard to believe that they'll lobby for the boosters regardless of the data.
Another article that buries the real reason there is a shortage.

>In August, Florida hospitals were struggling to get their hands on oxygen supplies in part because there were few truck drivers available who were qualified to transport it.

So it seems there is more than enough O2, it's just that they don't have enough Truck Drivers that are licensed to transport it. Either way it's still a problem but it's not related to the production of Liquid Oxygen.
The vaccines reduce infection chances greatly, and even if you get it they reduce the time you have it and thus how much time you can spread.

Non sterilizating is technically true, but misleading. We are still better off with vaccines and can probable eliminate covid with high enough vaccine rates.