skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you have nothing else to offer, one way or another you have to find loyal fools with a helper syndrome.

After all, you're are not a patriarch, as was common for thousands of years, who could just tell his family what to do or not to do, and they obeyed without question.

Or even sell your own children into slavery.

This manipulative stuff is a bit disgusting and annoying, but it pays.

At least it is a sneaky method to filter your prefered type of underling, but still look like a grand soul.

So, a double win.

Of course if you're into family fetish with a bit of sadistic gaslighting, it is even a triple win.

A lot of people even like it that way.

So it's a win-win, isn' it?
>the virus invades your cells, splices it's DNA into the replication machinery

I don't think covid has any DNA - it's made of RNA - or does that.
> Mr. Musk is not a con-man

True. But we also need to come up with a term to describe somebody who seeks personal monetary reward and social relevance before delivering actual and established corporate financial results.

Musk has been able to negotiate his hefty paycheck because investors are blinded by the huge increase in market cap and they see themselves getting richer by the day , which they are (on paper) but Musk takes home cold hard cash via salary.

All that before said increase in market cap is definitive and crystalised.

Such term doesn't exist, hence people adopt "con-man". Can't blame them as it's the closest word to describe such behavior...an other term would be "one-man-show"

What you said : "unreliable predictor of future outcomes" is very apt to describe Ray Kurzwell, but fails to include how Musk seeks monetary and social rewards which he pockets even if he gets it wrong. Ray never tried that.
And their buddy CPP.
53% "among nursing home residents"
Why do you think that? The Alpha and Delta variants were both first detected in late 2020 - before the vaccines were widely available.
But why should you show identity to any company for something like groceries? Mystery to me.
Vaccinated people are already regularly getting infected, so it isn't quite that simple.

With Covid, many of the vaccines target a highly functional portion of the virus for the induced immunity. This means that mutations that make the vaccine induced antibodies less effective are at least somewhat likely to alter the function of the virus.

My understanding is that we aren't really able to analytically determine the possibility space.
I wonder if there might be some amount of reverse causation here. I believe lower testosterone levels are also associated with obesity which is a known risk factor for sleep apnea.
Big big question here: how can you pipe inputs to it? In a browser version. Say you want to transcode video right in the browser after capturing it with MediaRecorder and producing say, HLS chunks. Getting output is easy, but how to pipe input chunks there? All examples for browser JS i could see only deal with the ready files on input :/
I think the WFH has had a positive impact on this, less meetings more actual discussions.
Sports Team.

Reed Hastings (CEO) has the view I like. Companies should be like professional sports team. If you don’t perform, you get cut.

The problem with the “family” analogy is that it implies unconditional love even when someone repeatedly fails. Or having that family member who’s a free loader and it’s ok.

Work should be about performing your best to achieve a collective goal and the sports analogy provides just that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/netflix-co-ceo-reed-hastings...
Yes, I have read this also.

Big pharma also has an interest in promoting booster shots. It would be a steady flow of revenue. If it causes selective pressures that create new variants, that just means a perpetual market for booster shots.
Functions are useful because you can call them from your program.
The next Pharao wanted to erase all traces of his father, and ordered the destruction of a lot of the documentation regarding his reign, including a lot of inscriptions and monuments.

He also prohibited the worship of most of the Egyptian pantheon, declared that he was the only one who was allowed to pray to the remaining one. Basically, he grabbed a lot of power from the priests. That, of course, also resulted in some destroyed religious texts.

Furthermore, many of the more mundane texts were on clay tablets that were occasionally wiped and re-used.
> Would your third cousin do all of that for you? No, ok, so let’s not pretend all family equates to yourLoving SO, siblings or parents level of impact on your life.

Interesting that you brought up third cousin. My second cousin actually has helped me a lot - we didn't grow-up together or something, connected quite late in life due to family being spread out but he has turned out to be a very reliable person. But he is not my third cousin so maybe your point stands.

So taking that further, what level should my co-workers be at? Should I treat them as I do my third cousins? I'm not in touch with most of them - should that be ok to do in office place too?

> There are people with family who abused them in their childhood, with family members who are objectively terrible people.

I already mentioned in my original comment that yes, there are dysfunctional families too that are a negative impact. I know its not all peachy out there.

> If you want space from your co-workers quit. Because no matter how long and technically complex your education is, no matter if you are a wold leading expert in a narrow field, getting along with people is a core competence for anyone who doesn’t either run their own one-man gig, or work in dark basement of an organization where everyone has given up on communicating through any other means than email.

I never said that getting along with people was not a core competence - that would be a dumb position to take. However, becoming bosom buddies shouldn't be a core competence either. My expectation, to borrow from your wedding metaphor, is simply that it should be sufficient for me to show up to our collective office, do our job, act nicely AND fuck-off at the end of the day without having to deal with demands that only a family (and I mean the ones that can be reasonably expected to make them) should make. Because, well, we work for a corporation - we are not family.
> I now know at least a handful of people with permanent life altering reactions to the vaccine, and one death from the vaccine.

What type of life altering reactions? And also what country do you live in, because the number of AstraZeneca deaths due to clotting disorders is incredibly low.
Yeah, not to mention just how old this problem is. Ever heard of Roman aqueducts? :)
Country?

I know of more than one person who has joined the military in their 30s and found it enriching and useful, and then subsequently found their niche in civilian life with the additional skills and knowledge acquired.

It's certainly an option, but there are other considerations. I assume you've considered the possibility of being posted somewhere genuinely dangerous and personally deeply uncomfortable.

It's been done, it is an option, it has its merits, it has its downside, I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know.

Perhaps you're asking random internet people largely to allay concerns that you are unwilling to admit, and to avoid taking responsibility for your own choice.

Short answer: It's not for everyone, but for some people it's an excellent choice, and it has been successful.
It would be really great if this were an actual article somewhere and not a thousand Twitter posts.
Not just deliverable, but also that it's correct. There's a lot of people who think that my {firstname}{lastname}@gmail.com email address is their own. If they try to register it somewhere, a verification email stops them from completing the registration.
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Thank goodness. The go.dev site is absolute garbage. Constantly having problems loading new tags, and the dumb BLM banner. Plus their website devs dont know how to code a responsive site: anything less than a giant resolution and you lose the left navigation. Then someone added these hidden keys, so you will randomly go into dark mode if you hit the wrong button. Finally you have the fixed top bar. Not everyone uses the web on a 4K monitor in full screen. I wish web devs would stop thinking that. Just stop making everything CSS fixed, so people get their screen real estate back.
Chevy Bolt - battery recall

Hyundai Kona and Ionic EVs - battery recall, can't get parts https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/tech/hyundai-ev-recall/index....

VW Id3 and Id4 - massive software issues https://insideevs.com/news/389129/volkswagen-id3-massive-sof...

Either Tesla is actually good at this or all the other car manufacturers are incompetent.

edit: Jaguar FPace had a bunch of issues too.

Basically BMW and Audi have EVs that launched OK but they can't afford to build them at scale

Nissan Leaf is still going fine

Really sucks this is happening because it gives EVs a bad reputation

Disclaimer: i own a Leaf and a 3
> the virus would need to randomly evolve [resistance] in the unvaccinated

That's only true if the vaccine stops almost all infections, which the COVID vaccines do not.

There's another comment in this thread from someone who's been vaccinated and sick for 9 days. That's a great environment for the virus to evolve immunity to the vaccine. And it's not an uncommon situation.
there's a good video about that ranch in youtube as well

https://youtu.be/ZSPkcpGmflE
I've never heard of employees lobbying (by spending hundreds of millions of dollars) all other shareholders to vote in one of their own as a board member. Have you?

More over, a legislator has way more influence over a public agency than a board member does over a company.
Ask HN: Is the Wayback Machine Down?
I can't seem to pull up any archived pages from archive.org. Anyone else having that issue?
I worked at a Max Planck genetics lab and never saw an NDA, or even any reference to the notion of keeping anything secret.

The are also dozens of online databases for all sorts of data from biology.

Reading between the lines, you seem to attach certain ideas to the term „genetics“?
I don't think this is a fair comparison. Body builders are at the very limit of how much muscle they can gain, someone who's out of shape can gain muscle a lot faster. That's not to say that you're going to gain muscle as fast as you lose fat, but the 2.5kg number is misleading.
Yeah there is a word for treating eachother with friendship - "friends". Being friendly. This is already included in social skills.

The company saying they want to be family is super annoying to me. It's a JOB, not a personal relationship you choose yourself. Saying it's a family implies you should feel loyalty to the company, when in fact, it's a business relationship.

They are trying to blur the lines by saying family and its complete bullshit. I wouldn't even have a job if they didn't give me money for it, but I would have a family. See the crystal clear difference?
Covid affects your intellect, vaccine doesn't. Simple choice.
Governments can easily stop Bitcoin (ban mining or it’s use in transactions) and the overwhelming majority would not care.
Why were you in favor of it before experiencing it but then you changed your mind? Your numbers are similar to other drivers' and have been well-publicized for years. Did you not research the numbers? Find bad information? Not care about an experience you didn't have? Just assumed the free market was taking care of it?

If that sounds bad, I'm honestly wondering. I'm just not sure how else to phrase the question, because I've been opposed to the ideas behind Prop 22 since before it was suggested and have a hard time wrapping my head around people who oppose it unless they do so out of pure self interest.
That line, bereft of context, is being used as if the two companies don’t compete in many many markets. Do you really think that the original context was as broad as the entire company’s operations? Or even the respective phone ecosystems? They clearly compete with each other heavily.
I didn't say I didn't like them. I could work together with a vast majority of them just fine. Only handful of them were actively people I would not look forward to being in a meeting with, for example.

But that doesn't mean I would invite most of them over for a beer, talk about politics, and still expect to have a good time.
Honest question:

Would you prefer to receive bad news by voice call or by text message?

Personally, I would prefer to receive bad news by voice call, but I am curious about what others prefer and why.
Dunno about the rest of the world but London definitely seems to be embracing Go - many more jobs going now than even a year ago.
It seems the domain specific aspect is important.

When I read that sentence, I was surprised not to see the classic suggestions from tech/data science:

Prefect, Airflow, Luigi, Apache NiFi, Jenkins, AWS Step Functions, or Pachyderm
That may be true of respitory illnesses generally but it’s the opposite of what happened with covid: https://covidactnow.org/share/44853/?redirectTo=%2Fus%2Filli...

In every other surge the south lagged in cases. This time they lead (and the difference in how much is startling).
Why would you do so when you have for free in the air? Then you would need the same amount of energy and the same process to make it liquid, since it's very impractical and dangerous to store and move high pressure oxigen
yeah i dont get this woman. she wanna move higher up the ladder, but refusing to do "extra work" and excercising her presence in the company. how does she think she would function with the extra responsibilities?
There is not a technical rule against it (mostly), there is an administrative rule.
Country governments.

A nation state is not just a fancy way of saying country or state. It means a case where a nation (group of people with a common culture etc) form the vast majority of a country.

Japan is a nation state. The USA is not.
> Keeping myself centered in the lane is tiresome (first-world problem, I know).

Only because first-world nations are a bit better at enforcing lane laws. India, Iran, Indonesia, etc... the lanes might as well not exist.

I recognize this isn't the point you were trying to make, but it was what my mind was immediately drawn to lol
I've tidied up the paragraph, but I was originally split between being COVID specific and the more general point that we're invaded by viruses and bacteria all the time. "Getting exposed to weird DNA/RNA" is the normal human experience from living in the world.
It can but it's far less likely with Rust, that's the beauty of it.
More of an introduction from when this was new in November 2020:

https://jeromewu.github.io/ffmpeg-wasm-a-pure-webassembly-ja...
Ecology in the Age of Automation
A lot of this is caused by The Curse of Knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

That cognitive blind spot causes people to unwittingly write confusing explanations in all domains of life.

It's frequently ironic when somebody writes a sentence following the rhetorical template: "Not really sure what the confusion is with <X>. It's really simple. [blah blah blah...] And that's it."

Whether it's attempting to explain "monads are like a burrito", or neural networks, Git, or how Federal Reserve works, people unintentionally write circular definitions.

E.g. "Not sure what the issue is... Git is just a DAG directed-acyclic-graph." <-- yes, in the mind of the author, that explanation is 100% self-explanatory!

The only way to avoid the issue is to test your tutorials and explanations on a variety of readers.
All the worst variants right now have developed in unvaccinated population.

So either you sacrifice 1-2% of the population and let variants continue while not vaccinating anyone. Or you get vaccinated and reduce your risks of going to the hospital by a ratio of 30:1.
Any distributed system can be simulated by a consolidated one by just running everything internally, but the converse is much harder (unless P=NC).

So the distributed system can only win if the consolidated system is vulnerable to abuse of power, or resilience is a desired property, or lack of barriers to entry makes the distributed system better.
Of course not!

I also wasn't trying to hint at competitive workplaces at all. In my experience, the far more prevalent workspace atmosphere is "just let me do my job, I just need to show up for 40h a week to pay the rent and feed my wife and kids".

And that's fine! But that also doesn't lead to a familial work environment.
The law sees it as they have been paid and blackmailed to see it.

There was a report yesterday that showed Apple's lawyers threatening to pull out funding of a minority education school if the state considered any sort of App store laws.
Current Covid vaccines are non-sterilizing. They reduce symptoms, but cannot guarantee that you will not be infected. This is covered in the article in the discussion of antibodies in the upper respiratory system (obtained from natural infection) vs antibodies in the blood (obtained from vaccination or natural infection). Future nasal vaccines, delivered by inhaler, could potentially provide sterilizing immunity, preventing infection: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=28256342
> I don't know how the law sees it, but it's simply illogical from the common sense standpoint.

Regulatory capture.
> For better or worse the developers of browsers/libraires decided to allow it, it takes extra code to check for it and block it

It's pretty integral to the functioning of DNS: a hierarchy of names which each have records.
But their „product“ link in the footer goes to https://cerebras.net/?page_id=632, which is 404. So I‘ll wait before judging the relative skills of each site‘s technical abilities.
Try `google/` (well, it doesn't actually exist, but at least in Firefox/Chrome you can see that it will treat it as a URL instead of a search)
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> Did you mean the most democratic?

Insert sound of my head imploding.

Even "democracy" is ambiguous. Representative vs direct vs participatory vs ...

We have to consider more than just the voting method. Power relationships, structure of discourse, processes for modification, ad nauseum.

My meager best effort at divining the core essence of "democracy" is "consent of the governed". Weak sauce, I know.
Thank you for the feedback! It's very important to me. I'll try to improve the readme and publish a documentation.
I like the shorter URL, however googling for “Go” lang stuff has been hit or miss and would need to use “golang” for better results. I wanna say same thing for StackOverflow too but can’t remember…I switched to Crystal so not much Go searching now.

Reminds me that I bought gopher.io years ago for a project that never came to be. Figured it would be suited for something Go related…hey Google it’s for sale ;)
(Maybe I should have clarified that I was employed at a contractor for a while - so I jumped to a new "workplace" for every ~3-month project. I know that technically, that might not be considered a change of workplace, but for me, it meant a complete change in the colleagues I worked with on a daily basis.)
Clothing that helps the wearer move
I like Go very much, a huge role plays its simplicity. In my career, I have been much more often bitten by having to deal with the complexity of a language then by not being able to do things, because a language feature is missing. That is, why I like Go so much. It strikes a great balance between important high-level features (GC, first class functions and closures) and still being a simple language (like Scheme is, in a sense they are very comparable in my eyes). The interface concept is great for covering a lot of cases. That is, why so far, I have not missed generics much and was rather reluctant to the constant wishes to add them to the language.

On the other side, there are cases, even if they are not very frequent, where generics do help a lot. Just the new slices package allone almost justifies the addition of generics. Furthermore, the proposal looks very much Go-like. As a consequence, I am quite looking forward to try them out and used responsibly[1], they can be a great addition to the Go universe.

1: I think the situation is somewhat similar to Lisp macros. Normally, a codebase rarely requires macros and readability is better, if you avoid creating too many macros. But occasionally there are situations, where using a macro tremendeously increases code quality. Both implementation and readability-wise. There macros should be used and it is great to have them available.
Not only does Apple include its own browser, it forces other browsers to use Safari under the hood on iOS.
I would not really trust CDC pages as primary sources considering the surgeon general tweeted that masks don't work. The CDC is either incompetent or political, either way, not a reliable source of information.

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12440202923658158...

Then you have Fauci redefining "Gain of Function" research to claim that engineering an animal virus to spread to humans is not Gain of Function: https://youtu.be/IqUOcVwRUtc

Mind you, Fauci is part of the NIH, not the CDC, but still an egregious case of government officials purposely pushing misinformation.

If you want actual apolitical data, you can get it directly from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System:
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html?

I can't vouch for this data being uncorrupted but it's pretty much all we have. It's also user submitted which is quite unfortunate - you think there would be a system for hospitals and doctors to use - with some higher level of verification. Nope, this is the crapshoot we are handed.

I see 500,000 submissions in the CSV for 2021 but not all of them are for covid vaccines. It'd be nice to see a data scientist pull this data into Tableau or scipy/pyplot/etc and create some good visuals and breakdowns so we can get a better idea of what's going on with these vaccine side effects.
Funny how those anti-vaxers in hospitals don’t advocate that it was all worth it for their immunity they just built.

You either get the immunity through a shot or through an infection. One has very much worse chances of bringing you to the hospital.
I see that the 3D animations in 3Brown1Blue's videos have lower framerate than the ones in 2D. Does it take so long to render 3D so that you'll have to lower the FPS to speed up the process or is it just another tool?
...Costco?
...or themselves, you sexist!

(I jest. Three times, in fact.)
That assumption is based on the belief that an infection prevents reinfection, i.e. an infection is just as good at protecting a (recovered) patient as a vaccine is at protecting an uninfected person.

But we have seen that Delta reinfects previously infected patients, ergo, an infection is at a best a leaky vaccine (ie as good as current vaccines, though there are indications that it is not [1]), and at worse, a catalyst to worse outcomes considering the danger done during previous infection, b) a vaccine is not offered to the previously infected, c) the effects of long term covid.

[1] https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...
>In 100 years, we'll have strong AI writing our bash scripts

How do you tell the AI what you exactly want? It's just another abstraction...and probably a bad one.
Sports team always sounds brutal and unforgiving to me.

Having worked in a all-love-and-kindness-and-forgiveness German corporation and now in a young company with a lot of ambition, but definitely a sports team vibe I’d admit the latter yields more results, but they definitely come with a lot more stress in your life.

Depends on what you are up for I guess.