skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an armchair psychoanalysis, and it is quite pretentious.

> assuming that there's some kind of implicit right to move up higher in the company.

This is so far from the truth in my situation, but yet you feel self-righteous in your judgement that it is laughable. I know your type.

The company I worked for deliberately used the "reorg + redeploy = attrition" strategy to avoid lawsuits because they had been repeatedly sued for their focal procedure over several decades, and this was a known method for avoiding getting rid of people who didn't want to work 80 hours a week.

And thanks for mansplaining how management works. A "pyramid?" Wow, insightful, that never occurred to me after 30+ years. "Market value?" You don't say! I'm overwhelmed by your astute, 101-level observations of business practices. I guess you got that from the VP's you reported to, weirdflex but OK.
The issue is that the early measures we took with Covid were based on the false assumption that Covid has a droplet based spread.

Now that we know it is airborne, we have to change our focus.

An n95 mask can help filter the air you breathe and a cloth mask cannot.

In indoor public spaces, we don't need the security theater of disinfecting surfaces. That money would better be spent on improving ventilation.
Ditto. I've had my a set of requirements that generalized one level of abstraction over my niche resume so it wasn't nearly as obvious. The org wanted to hang on to me because they knew I'd leave if I didn't get a significant raise and no good mechanism to give me raise except advertising a new position at a higher starting salary (my raise) than closing my old position. Their retention strategy worked and I stayed another 2.5 years.

I went through hiring committies and even had to recompete for my own position, of course the cards were stacked in my favor.

Hiring processes are a joke across the board. I feel sorry for anyone who applied to the position wasting their time. I'm confident I've been on the other side of this before where a position matched so well the chances a real competitive qualified candidate that wasn't already targeted seemed low considering how good a fit I was for the role.
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If memory serves, the LLVM Project prescribes signed integers be used in all cases except where unsigned is mandatory.
Why Urbit? Blockchains are the most exciting piece
Thanks agreed.
> A company can't allow for nepotism or favoritism, so it requires a public posting for any open position

It's not even just a feel-goody policy by dysfunctional HR depts. The US DoL literally requires a company to advertise a role for a position that is currently filled by a PERM labor certification applicant (which is required for green card applications).
The moon is made of cheese
It may be trivial to look under a given rock, but when there are hundreds of thousands of rocks, the likelihood of someone noticing something left under a rock is low.
I'm just as surprised. I used to wear a cloth mask and switched to an n95. When I tried the surgical mask I was amazed at how poorly the thing fit along the cheeks and how hard it was to form a tight fit on the nose that wouldn't loosen immediately. Breathing through it offered no resistance at all, in contrast to your typical cloth or n95 that hug all sides of the mask pretty well to your face. I thought this was because surgical masks are meant to block flecks of spit off your tongue when asking for surgical tools, rather than aerosols from exhaling. Most people I see wearing surgical masks just put them over their ears and have it loosely covering the face, with large gaps along the sides and especially around the nose.
Government buyers that are less important (e.g. state level tollways) would be mandated to buy the backdoored algorithm by having the federal government cook it into a specification of how to buy tollway equipment, for example. Once the backdoored algorithm is in the product suite, it can be put to work on a more tactical level.
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It probably wouldn't be that hard to build one. I trained the world's dumbest clickbait classifier a few years ago if you want some ideas https://github.com/peterldowns/clickbait-classifier
"This report" does gloss over much of the results from the actual study. Here's the link to the paper:

https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publicati...
If you're talking about the recent fine, that was on the grounds of antitrust and unrelated to lying about emissions. AFAICT, the EU has yet to fine any automaker for the latter.
I did index+middle for 2. They would do thumb+index for 2, and thumb+index+middle for 3. They didn't do index+middle for anything other than maybe "peace sign". So from a distance, my "2" would look like "3" to them. It was a rural area in Germany, in the late 80's, early 90's.
It's funny because I bet a GTA V license costs more than whatever they are going to charge for remastered. So they are competing with themselves by offering a cheaper option (if we ignore the fact that a lot of people already own GTA V). I'd be willing to bet a lot of people who want to play the remastered older games haven't played GTA V because they normally wouldn't. So still lost revenue imo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23615218
Ok so this video is fun but it is showing the very standardized process for edible mushroom cultivation. There really isn't much automation going on here.
> I dont know whether these people are stupid, or brainwashed by something.

People like stories that they can grasp in general, and populism as a political tactic provides an extremely simple narrative of a clear-cut "elite" group onto which almost any grievance can be projected as being caused by - and that makes it easy for people to paint themselves as heroic figures fighting evil and thus allow them to justify whatever means they use to get there.

And the effects of deprivation on people's health, cognition, mental health and relationships make it harder for people who are struggling to avoid embracing simple narratives that fit their biases. People who have everything and have never struggled a day in their life do the same after all, people are people at the end of the day.

Populism is the enemy of liberal democracy - and institutions in general - but the problem is that as a tactic it's easy and effective as a way of whipping people up as long as you don't care about and aren't affected by what happens after the angry mob is unleashed. Or if you're the rare true believer instead of being another cynical rabble-rouser.
It isn't a gotcha, it is just thinking through the second, third, etc order of what you are proposing.
Universal Basic Income could help a lot here. The rise of open-source and volunteer movements shows that a lot of people want to work on what they are passionate about, if only for their jobs and the need to earn money.

UBI may not solve this entirely but if it can free people of the need to worry about their economics whilst simultaneously allowing people to do whatever they want, for a lot of folks that is enough.

Additionally, I don't really see the issue with selling (NOT licensing) something up-front, if there is a culture of setting pricing to be reasonable and fair instead of the current leave-no-money-on-the-table approach.

Those that want to earn above and beyond can still find employment in critical services...banking, healthcare, government, whatever, while those that want to opt out of employment are free to do so on their terms.
None of our opponents can shoot down our Tomahawk cruise missiles. Why should we spend a billion bucks trying to make a faster missile?

China doesn't have missile-defense cruisers to protect their fleet. They're all small ships. We can just pepper them with normal, cheaper missiles.
This looks really interesting! Very nice work!
Until Xcode is sucked into Github Codespaces.
What if you offer a homeless person free housing and they decline? If there is housing available but they still choose to camp on the sidewalk, should the police then move them away?
Sure but is it realistic, especially in the short term?
It's a terrible gotcha. It's only effective on people who already agree with you.

Imagine a town council meeting where someone is proposing a $25 fine for crapping on the sidewalk. And a libertarian pops and screaming "You're saying you want to use violence up to and including murder to keep our sidewalks clean!"

Again technically there is a hypothetical chain of causality from sidewalk crapping fine to bodily harm/murder, but no one other than another hardcore libertarian is going to be convinced by that argument.
There's a great bit about that in the movie Canadian Bacon where a police officer in Canada (not sure if it was actually in Quebec or not) catches some Americans writing anti-Canadian graffiti. The officer informs them that they need to have French translations and helps them add it, and then moves on.
> A reminder: they have not been formally peer-reviewed and should not guide health-related behavior or be reported in the press as conclusive.

A scientific viewpoint does not consist of finding a months old non peer reviewed study that suggests a viewpoint might be correct. In actual fact vaccinated individuals have half the reinfection rate across a large population.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
The lockdown is a decision made by the government. The AZ vaccine situation was a decision made by the government.

You trust the government decision to implement lockdown but not the decision regarding the AZ vaccine?
What makes you recommend WD Red?

Given the history of the WD Red series they should be avoided by anyone who cares about data integrity in a NAS.

After the SMR scandal, WD did a rebrand and now any drive with any form of promise for NAS use are called WD Red Plus.

I'd go with Toshiba or Seagate Ironwolf.
I doubt that Microsoft looked like a great bet in 1981.
>> Its purely anecdotal, but the vast majority of farmers I had the opportunity were not good farmers

It is purely anecdotal. It greatly depends on the location and the generational age of the farmer the extent to which they are concerned with soil conservation. Cultural practices in farming tend to have wide adoption swings, (neighbors see what their neighbors are doing, etc) Entire counties will be using conventional methods and within a few seasons swap to lower disturbance methods.

Conservation tillage practices—including no-till, strip-till, and mulch-till—vary widely across crops and regions[0]:

• Conservation tillage was used on roughly 70 percent of soybean (2012), 65 percent of corn (2016), 67 percent of wheat (2017), and 40 percent of cotton (2015) acres.

• The share of total conservation tillage that is no-till also varied from 67 percent (45 percent of total acreage) in wheat (2017) and 56 percent (40 percent of total acreage) in soybeans (2012) to 44 percent (18 percent of total acreage) in cotton (2015) and 42 percent (27 percent of total acreage) in corn (2016).

• For individual crops, the rate of no-till varies by region. The likelihood of no-till corn, for example, is relatively high in the Northern Great Plains (50 percent of conservation tillage in corn, 34 percent of total corn acreage), Prairie Gateway (69 percent of conservation tillage, 49 percent of corn), and the South (the Eastern Uplands, Southern Seaboard, and Mississippi Portal combined) (67 percent of conservation tillage, 53 percent of corn).

• Almost 50 percent of corn, soybean, wheat, and cotton acreage was in no-till or strip-till at some time over a 4-year period (including the survey and 3 previous years), but only about 20 percent of these acres were in no-till or strip-till all 4 years.

I find your identification of 96-97% of farmers as short-term profiteers rude and borderline offensive.

[0]: Tillage Intensity and Conservation Cropping in the United States, USDA 2018
The "Windows snapping" in early Xfce version mean to stick the windows together or with the screen edge (Doesn't resize the window). It doesn't work like the snap on Windows 7. The name is similar, but the function is different.

This is a patch for Xfwm4 to make it work like Windows 7 (2012)
https://launchpad.net/~fossfreedom/+archive/ubuntu/xfwm4
What does the (8) mean?
> High price in these kind of events rarely increases availability

Sure it does. For example, with gasoline, it incentivized people outside the disaster zone to load up jerry cans with gas, and drive into the zone to sell it. Anti-gouging laws sure put a stop to that! Now no gas is available.

> consumers are right to feel vindictive when companies do try and engage in that kind of profiteering

Exactly what I said - people prefer no availability.

> not to support a narrative that empathizes with profiteering

Then you'll need to be happy with shortages, long lines, and misallocation.

> capitalism works best (is most efficient) in transparent markets where all participants have equal power

This is not true at all. Lack of information is accounted for by being pricing in as "risk". I do not really understand where the notion that free markets require perfect information comes from. We price in risk all the time. People pay less for items that are risky (like knock-offs) and will demand higher investment returns for risky investments.
Or anything to back up that air with a higher proportion of CO2 is "worse" than air filled with tobacco smoke?
I totally feel you, I sometimes just set up a local Redmine or simple task list in the lan that really gets used while I make the entries in whatever our corp gods decree the flavor of the month...
Is there a definitive fork yet? I've been waiting for the community to coalesce around one of them.
We keep having this come up with some of the EC curves like NIST P-256 for example. There's no evidence that it is actually backdoored, but the consensus seems to be that the construction is suspicious, unlike the construction for SHA-2.

What do we do with it? Not many in a product development team that is interacting with other companies or organizations can meaningfully defend not using a NIST curve because it looks suspicious.
It's interesting to note that sharp increases in overdose deaths coincide with increasing restrictions on opioid prescriptions and decreased legal supply.
But why was rollerblading ever associated with homosexuals to begin with? As one who did not know anyone in the 90s who was both a rollerblader and an out gay person, is it a "yeah, but looks gay" thing? I dunno, seemed like one of those things one says when they can't afford rollerblades, or can afford them but sucks at it and gave up.
There are "ear savers" you can get that'll turn the ear loops to headbands.

I'll admit I've tried the plastic & velcro ones and didn't like them - but I also don't wear them for hours at a time but just for quick trips so found them annoying to put on and off.
I have a beard myself, how could I have forgotten about that.

You're right, long term, improving ventilation is how to reduce exposure, in the meantime though, I don't think it's too much to ask to mask up.
It was good. We payed them a higher salary than what they will normally get, and even took care of their taxes so they were really happy with us.
You're probably thinking of DES, which happened long before Dual EC (and long before many of the people working at RSA started their careers). But you can see that effect even today, for instance with NSA's "deprecation" of Suite B cryptography and the shade that cast over conventional elliptic curve cryptosystems.

I don't think one can reasonably defend adoption of Dual EC as somehow hedging a bet that NSA had found vulnerabilities in trivial block-based CSPRNGs, though. I think that decision was essentially indefensible, even at the time it was made; it's just more clearly batshit now than it was then.
In my experience usually its cache from installed apps. It would be nice to clear it or see which applications it belongs to easily.
I missed the use of word "promotion". It would be interesting to see the difference in just use of the masks.
I have been surprised a few times when wearing a surgical mask looped around my ears, when i had to remove it and then became instantly aware of all the smells of a place I was in. They were definitely isolating me from airborne particles.
> The second prescription was a lot more reasonable

No it wasn't. Fewer than 1% of post-surgical patients given opioids develop any sort of abuse whatsoever.[1] Under treating pain is in no way medically responsible.

It is true that there's a (very weak) association between high opioid prescription rates and society wide abuse. But that's entirely due to outright fraud and diversion. Just because some crooked doctor is fabricating prescriptions on dead patients to supply the mob with Oxycontin does not mean that legitimate patients shouldn't have their pain adequately managed.

Narcotic analgesics are literally a medical miracle. The force of Neo-Puritanism are forcing millions to suffer needlessly.

[1]https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.j5790
Look at all these terrible attempts at controlling, and just how well they work. In every sector you have a cadre of elites and a much larger cohort of have-nots.

Musicians don't starve, they put on concerts and experiences and sell merchandise. In many ways music has already given up ownership of the music itself, because they let Spotify/Apple Music/et al eat their lunch. Fractions of a penny per-play is like nothing for 99% of musicians.
To some extent I think that's true of any templating system in a language with object oriented support.

I don't use Java to be familiar with how the underlying OGNL library does things; it's obviously there to make property access patterns and chaining on objects easier within template languages. But I think a thing like this is easy to pass a code review because the difference between $ and $! is minimal. If it had a name like eval it would be easier to spot and make a reviewer think for a second. That would be more likely to be caught even in an environment where there is the pressing urge to push out code fast.

I can only assume that a developer that is not in a hurry could have done something like (inventing Velocity template syntax here)

$someobject.handle($queryString)

Where the underlying object associated with $someobject has a handle method with a switch statement that based $queryString values does the proper property chain access. As much as PHP is harped on so often, this was the most important lesson PHP developers had to learn early, to run a switch statement on query strings when including files. (in the days before routing was a solved problem)
When you say "loud", what kind of noise are we talking about? Is it fans, or just a loud version of the standard "disk access" sounds anyone who lived through the pre-SSD era would recognize from any hard disk?
> Instead the developer jammed the huge JSON blobs into a column on an MSSQL table and changed a few lines.

Sounds like quickest way to deliver value to the customer. As described, was far too late in the process to worry about deploying with a clean, extensible architecture.

A reasonable amount of technical debt in order to ship in the timeframe available.
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And even if you manage to convince your manager to consider you for the promotion/transfer often they'll ask you to start doing the new job on the side for a bit to prove yourself. Now, how good are you going to be at something new that you are doing part time with nobody taking you seriously and supporting you? It's much easier to get the title first and grow into the job afterwards.
there is a company that's selling DIY air purifiers in India (and probably its neighbouring countries).. https://smartairfilters.com/in/en/product/diy-1-1-air-purifi...

they put the filter in front of the fan, not the air intake aka backside.. they have detailed info on how their purifiers are effective than other costly brands.. probably putting the filter on the front side is more effective?
Often you patent the process, not the output, so it is not necessarily clear and likely case by case.

For example, if AlphaFold-v42 designs a new synthetic protein, that is typically not patentable and you have to demonstrate the process for synthesis.

IANAL
Because of disparity between states and the large number of anti-vaxxers, We probably will never reach herd immunity which means that Covid-19 will become endemic and everyone will eventually catch it. With the mutations and winding down immunity it is likely to stay with us.

So, getting a vaccine significantly reduces the risks of death and and getting exposed to the virus naturally will be our immune booster.

That’s why I’m quite relaxed now, I expect to get infected at some point. Maybe not today but in few months when the vaccine induced antibodies can no longer prevent the infection.
If you’re still on the fence at all, apply elsewhere today. If your current employer isn’t fulfilling your personal goals, you have zero obligation to wait around until they do. It’s just a job. If your current management would react poorly to you acting in your own interests, you probably don’t want to make a career with these people. If opportunities or rewards are only handed out under threat of an external offer, again—you don’t want to work with these folks.
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I agree with all of this, but there's also a flip side.

If you benefit from somebody's work, you should find ways to support it. Not because it belongs to anybody, but because whatever it is, you should have an incentive to keep it going.
man 8 traceroute

8 is section number for this man page.
Perhaps they are an easy target because they are "unnecessary". They add some, very minor value, but tend to ask for very high prices and inflexible terms (think of web-fonts with per-pageview restrictions), so there are few friends for the font designer community.

I suspect we'd also see bespoke development of fonts as a branding initiative, even in a post-IP world. Think how Gill Sans is instantly recognized as "the London Underground font" even for people who've never been there. You know every major brand in the world would like to elevate themselves to that degree of cultural permanence.
You must see the Latin correction in life of Brian then
Given a really effective intervention for a contagious disease, the effectiveness on a community level will be much lower on an individual level. Think about PRC vs. USA: 4636 deaths in PRC, 618591 deaths in USA, even though it's a four times smaller country. There is no measure that even comes close to reducing your risk of death from covid by a factor of 600 on an individual level, but because they were able to get the R number down below 1, they stopped the epidemic.

Normally you would expect effective contagion control measures to have an exponentially larger effect at a societal level than it does at an individual level, even if you don't reach the critical threshold to stop the epidemic: if you can drop R from 2.0 to 1.9, that reduces your individual risk by 5%, but it also reduces the number of cases in the next generation by 5%, the number of cases in the generation after that by 10%, the number of cases in the generation after that by 14%, etc. After 20 generations of transmission you've reduced the number of cases by 64%, which reduces everyone's infection risk by 64%. Of course, with such a high exponential growth rate, that only means that people get infected 1.6 generations later at that point, but if you're comparing different communities at the same time, the difference is about 3:1.

So it seems like probably the effectiveness of the mask on an individual level was truly tiny.
But how will you advertise your clickbait bot?

* Clickbait writers hate this Firefox extension!
I'm pretty sure that's how races-to-the-bottom get incentivized, but yeah, I'm sure popularity would be one metric considered by the panel. It does mean something, I just don't think it's the only figure of merit.