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> is almost inappropriate

I don't think there's any denying that woman have faced decades of discrimination in the workplace, and that the current zeitgeist is that this discrimination was and is particularly bad in technology-related fields.

In that context, it makes her contributions and accomplishments all the more considerable. I don't see how that's insulting to acknowledge, that she likely had more obstacles working against her than her male peers. Pretty well documented obstacles, with no shortage of examples.
But most people _already_ have a bank account. Which means they don't have to set up to use payID. They already can.
Creativity and Mental Health
Amazon Wants to Put a Giant Echo on Your Wall
Article states found at 12000'.
I wonder how much lower the mountains were, 100k years ago?
They are for sure not static.
Bet some geologist somewhere should be able to give us a yearly estimate.
Interesting.
You typically live longer with your savings than 10 minutes to the grocery store. In other words, I could not care less if I lose 10% on a typical day in terms of value, but I care a lot more losing 50% (or more!) of the value of my savings over the span of my working life.
OK, so that's a good explanation as far as the head counting is concerned. But the extra head has a body. Well 3/4 of a body: the Siamese twin has his own torso, two arms and one leg. Where is that from?

the 3/4 of a body come from to produce the Siamese twin, who has his own torso, two arms and a leg?

This is kind of like, imagine we have a slide rule with two moving parts:

. . , | | | |
| | | | ; ' '

Here I have six vertical features, placed side by side. Now I slide the rows relative to each other:

. . , | | | |
| | | | ; ' '

wee, now I have seven vertical features.

Let's do it with circles:

https://i.imgur.com/9tuNkbT.png

Just by chopping and sliding, I turned 10 circles into 11. Apparently. But of course, the 11 objects are not really circles; they don't have the full area.
Not saying anything about this particular case, but with most technical arguments, the most heated tend to be the lowest stakes.
This is one of the strangest things I have ever heard anyone say.

Landlords buy something, and then charge someone else more than it is worth to use it- because it is necessary. They are essentially home scalpers. Don’t feel bad for them.
NASA's Got a New Telescope. It Could Find Hints of Life on Far-Flung Planets
Defcon 5 is exactly where they should be if they want to pet a puppy.
as well as land lords the have exploited it by refusing to take or provide information to efforts at rent relied. I.e., the landlords themselves refused efforts to pay them
Today Now! Interviews The 5-Year-Old Screenwriter Of "Fast Five" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIY5b1JMvGs
If you are an expert in virology I’d love to know the answer to this question:

If given the right resources, would it be feasible to synthesize a pandemic-inducing virus in a lab setting?

If so, a general question: why haven’t the villains of the world done so already?
Half the retail/commercial space in my town is vacant. I'm not sure who owns it, but they can't be making a profit.
The fork did not reverse the transactions. Instead, it made new transactions.

Meanwhile, bitcoin reversed 53 blocks in the 2010 "inflation bug" incident.
The Cantonese Programming Language
The taxman has cried wolf multiple times, that's why people don't like it.
How a Transmission Works (1936)
Considering the socialists' opinion on the new Texas abortion law, it's strange this is seen as worthy of debate.
If the data is kind of public or going around in your circles you could easily hack this pre-registration constraint.
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I met her once when I was 9. She’s a really nice and friendly person to talk to. Listened to my brother and I talk about Pokémon for a good 15 minutes at least.

Now she’s running AMD, kicking ass and taking names. Pretty frigging cool.
I'm someone who had to build some mocked services to do end-to-end testing (well, as much as we can). The stuff I work on involves making two DNS requests (to different providers) and a possible HTTP request (for notification) and these three end-points are not under our control (as far as the department I work in are concerned). The two DNS requests are made concurrently [1] and management wanted to test the following scenarios:

* A returns, then B;

* B returns, then A;

* A returns, B returns late [2];

* B returns, A returns late;

* A returns, B never returns;

* B returns, A never returns.

I had to implement a side channel from the testing program to the mocked DNS servers (because a program like bind is just overkill for this---seriously) to implement artificial delays in the responses. Kind of hard to justify that for a production server (and yes, there is an active bug where B returns but A doesn't and the wrong information is returned, but it happens so rarely in production [3] that it was deemed acceptable for now).

The other component, the notification via HTTP, required ensuring that a notification that wasn't supposed to happen, didn't happen. [4] Again, I had to implement a mock with a side channel to the testing program to inform if it was to expect a request or not, and then report after all the tests were run how many requests were actually made. If the value between the testing program and the mock didn't match, it's an error. Oh, it's also useful to inform the mock what HTTP status code to return for the test. Such fun.

Management doesn't seem to think these mocks are a waste of time, but it seems like you might.

[1] At least for now. In the past, there were cases were we were to only contact A; some cases where we contact B, then maybe A; and some cases where we contacted both. This was done to save money at the time because all queries cost us money.

[2] we have some real time constraints on handling queries from our customers, the Oligarchic Cell Phone Companies.

[3] Excessive KPI logging for the win here.

[4] Proving a negative---lovely. Thanks, management!
The article should have given more context and mentioned that it wasn’t unusual for lands across the Atlantic to appear on pre-Colombian maps. Here are two examples:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillia

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)
It's on the aggregate of predictions that you can see the accuracy. If my weather app tells me hundred times there is 10% change of rain but it rains 50% of the time after 100 days, it's completely useless.

Same for FiveThirtyEight. They have been massively wrong on multiple counts.
Was Scientific American Sokal’d?
I used this system or something similar at Siggraph in LA, late 90s. It was running on big iron from SGI. Was gobsmacked to fly from orbit into Dodger Stadium in one long zoom. :D
Did those programs help with commercial/investment properties? Or just primary residential mortgages?
Peter Daszak was also one of the people organizing the letter in the lancet back in 2020 denying that it came from a lab.

Original letter: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Lancet responding to criticism: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I don't know about this take. We're supposed to shed tears for the landlord managing properties worth probably 8 figures but for the families if unemployment checks and the generosity of their landlords isn't enough... then that's just life? That's not exactly what I want to hear from policy makers.
Speaking from experience, last year we had an outbreak in Melbourne, Australia. The local government's response was guided by modelling from epidemiologists (and others), and went on to match the peak and length of the outbreak to the model's estimations almost down to the day[0].

[0]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-29/coronavirus-melbourne...
That is the wrong way to go about it. You have to approach it as you would in legal theory. Innocence is not something that is proven. The verdict is guilty or not guilty (which means evidence wasn't sufficient to convict, but that doesn't mean the defendant is innocent). In this case you have to prove that the virus was engineered by providing evidence.

>All valid points, but let’s be real scientists and work the other way?

What you're proposing isn't science and it isn't what 'real scientists' do.
Alternatively, the suggestion that Satoshi's billions are lost forever with Hal's death is perhaps the best way to stop treasure hunters from doing some nasty things to the other potential Satoshi candidates who are still alive.
+1 for math. :^)
"Startup."
Ask HN: Why will you mentor me?
I am a software engineer early in my career with about 4-5 years of experience.

I am looking for someone to mentor me, to provide valuable insight and advice on possible career paths and direction I can take.

One of the things that every article about mentor-mentee relationship mentions is that its supposed to be mutually beneficial and when I ask the person to be my mentor, I mention why they should mentor me.

I understand the value that a mentor provides me but I don't see any possible value they can get from helping me out.

What value do you get from mentoring someone in my position ?
You just described commerce as scalping. A grocer is a scalper according to you. So is a meat distributor.
Most of their current lead is down to Zen which is architecturally superior to the current Intel Core architecture.
Greek Orthodox; Roman Catholics forgot Greek. Until Marsilio Ficino translated Plato to Latin around 1450, Plato had been effectively lost in the west for 1000 years.
Same, use a macbook and carbon X1.

Only thing the Macbook does noticeably better is speaker quality which isn't surprising given the size difference.
"Conspiracy" would mean somebody else was in on it. By definition.
And she did it without being “marketable” which is so often something the market demands of female CEOs.
Then 'it was not serial passage' theory is unfalsifiable (sorry for the double negation):

* If a wild strain is too far away from covid, then it would have taken too long to do the passage.

* If a wild strain is almost identical to covid, then obviously covid derived from that without seeing the interior of a lab.

Under what circumstances would you consider that serial passage work done in a lab might have had something to do with covid?
Well said, also you have little control over which colonies will take over.
Please don't post religious flamebait to HN. It leads to religious flamewar, the most avoidable of all flamewar, which we do want to avoid here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28649134.
And the novel technology to create novel viruses was being actively developed in this lab. They've proudly and openly published results to this effect. Further, they were trying to get tens of millions in grant funding to develop the technology further.
The whole idea of modern standby is brain dead.

My laptop isn't a cellphone, I don't need it periodically waking up to check emails or whatever, it can do it when I open the lid.

Thankfully my laptop has an option to force S3 only in the bios.
The villains already have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare#Anti-person...
Same observation here. My first two email addresses were ruined by what I presumed were data leaks (I was getting hundreds of spam emails a day in the hotmail era). Since using unique addresses, I've only had two compromised with spam. The original email addresses still are firehoses of spam though.
Asked and answered by the Supreme Court a hundred years ago in Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell. In times of emergency (in that case it was the depression), the federal government can delay the repayment of debts without running afoul of the contracts clause or the fifth amendment.
If that's true, I disagree that it's a problem. Congress gave it this power, if you don't like it, vote for a different congress.

> There are worse things than getting sick.

Disease control codes are as old as law. We live in a society, and part of keeping society running is keeping it healthy.
How about: Diversity, Equality, Justice: All Viewpoints United (DEJA-VU) because I saw this article yesterday
Communists look at any fruit of labor as inherently exploitative.
I dont think the rewards of the corpo ladder make a lot of sense. An L9 at Google, someone with 15+ YOE and rocking the perf game for over a decade makes less than what any series B to Series E SWE makes.
I happily pay to buy directly from local sources. Also; people don’t need meat, they do need housing.

You’re missing the point of what I am saying entirely though. If you treat housing as an investment and the investment goes sideways for whatever reason, why should anyone feel bad for you? It sucks, but that’s how investing works!

You don’t think other legislation/govt intervention impacts non-housing financial investments? Thems the breaks. They took the risk, let them own it. That’s literally the entire freaking point!
To be fair, as I understand it, feature density of Intel 7 nm is more like TSMC 5 nm, from what I have read. Also, I think they took a risk with switching to a chiplet design, and it paid off big for them. Not sure who was in charge of design was when they laid out that roadmap, but whoever it was, and Lisa Su and the upper management, get some kudos for that. Of course, it’s quite possible that move could have failed and we’d be laughing at them just like we did for the bulldozer architecture, so maybe they just got lucky :)

But I do agree, all these comparisons we’ve seen between Intel 14 and TSMC 7 have been… less than helpful for comparing technology. Good for end users making purchasing decisions, of course.
> While zoonotic viruses are always a risk, they are far easier to contain

Coronaviruses have never been easy to contain. Not this one, nor any of the many other coronaviruses that have been endemic in humans for thousands of years.

We call the common cold common for a reason.
What is a viral backbone?
Full video of the border patrol reported by media to show “whipping” of migrants
So, just don't do business with those obvious fly-by-night companies who have no established reputation or brand?

From a company's point of view almost every individual consumer looks like a potential fly-by-nighter, so companies are forced to accept that risk, and we all share the costs of that. It could be useful to offer an alternative to this paradigm.
Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou flying back to China
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
What if we also removed (or increased limitations on) patent protections? Then the incentive to find a cure would be the same regardless of if it is a new drug, a new therapy using an old drug, or uses an unpatentable chemical/herb/etc.
We will find out when Alder Lake launches. AMD have earned every penny they have so far, but Intel have new leadership, new designs (Zen took about 5 years to do from start to release, roughly, and 4 years after it's launch I think this is Intel's first proper competitor). Their new top of the line chip (12900k) looks like a bit of a monster.

Should be good for consumers for a while with all this new competition (P.S. Apple, please sell Raspberry Pi some M1s just to scare Intel and AMD)
In technology, one step is innovation, two steps ahead is a martyr. This is a great example.
The only thing shameful in society is the existence of landlords.
This has reverted in the last decade. Albeit the competition for companies with big names like hard makes it virtually impossible to pass the filter without a referral.
I think the topic was how pandemics would cause word of mouth stories to be lost, not the story of pandemics.
I mean, I'm pissed Boston doesn't have it's own entry too, but frankly, I wouldn't have it any other way. America/New_York is simply larger, and has now been around much longer (not the city itself).

If we want to get into a complicated mess, let's talk about daylight savings time and regional exceptions, but I'm not really sure how we're going to make everything "fair" one way or another. Next we'll be arguing about states vs countries, population vs power, god knows what else... it's all just not in the interest of good time keeping.

Time zones are a necessary evil, ideally our code doesn't suffer from our petty human concerns.
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I am fine with that as long as the government took over responsibility for paying the tenant’s rent.

I'm fine with landlords having zero risk to their business model, if the profits that they could collect were strictly limited by the government.

Since it's not, tough luck. Sometimes, your business suffers because of no fault of your own. You're not entitled to guaranteed profits.
Meanwhile, back in Seattle:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/want-to-ra...

This was proposed by Sawant, an economics professor.
My lenovo laptop has an option to force S3 standby in the
bios, you just choose "Linux" instead of the default "Windows 10" sleep mode.
The equity gain on single family is probably much more than the rents lost in the pandemic for most smaller cities. Small landlords might be hurting a bit but they are likely still ahead if they sell their single family property.

Most homes in my area have gained over 4 years of rent in value with the reduced interest rates.
For those who want to see modern Circassian beauty, on both music and people, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua95fPR6HC8
My laptop battery and full top case (potentially including the touch bar - I'm not sure) were replaced when the keyboard was replaced under the keyboard service program: https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-n...

Go into an Apple store and say a few of your keys are double-pressing sometimes.
This is something I wish more people understood about academia with regards to this grant.
To be, uh, fair, I didn't actually know where Abidjan was (the example given in this article). The urban area has a population of over five million, compared to greater Reykjavik's population of under a quarter million - a bit smaller than the small city where I grew up, even!

So while I do agree that backwards compatibility is important, and I hope the technical changes are resolved in a way that seems to match the consensus of everyone else on the list besides the TZ Coordinator... if one were constructing a time zone database from first principles these days, I'm not sure what the argument would be to prefer Reykjavik as the synechdoche for the time zone to Abidjan, besides "It's in Europe."
I liked this piece but I'm more blown away by Chekhov's insight into the human condition. I hadn't heard of the 'little hammer' concept before. In a way I think Covid (and social media, like the author argues) has brought the hammer to each of our doors.
I think employing probabilities and likelihoods which are subjective and will needlessly cause back and forth arguments over their use and validity.

Could you provide some data to support the assertion that the virus was engineered? I'm hoping something like a leaked paper, or a lab notebook, or maybe hand written data on a piece of scrap paper that somebody found in the garbage bin in china.. I mean, I'll take anything.
Insightful discussion !
Off topic here, but it was probably Jim Keller who contributed to Intel doing chiplets. Looked like one of the few sane persons in the leadership when I worked there.
I've carefully followed the debate so far, and while I do believe there should be some change in the tzdb development process and the offending patch should be reverted for now, I ultimately disagree with Stephen Colebourne. In fact I found Colebourne more misleading than Paul Eggert, the current tzdb coordinator.

There has been two major ways to use the Timezone Database other than using the bundled tzcode. One is to use the compiled TZif file (intended to be used by tzcode, but also standardized in RFC 8536). Another is to use the textual format that is compiled to TZif via zic. The latter option was never intentional but used by a significant number of downstream projects including Joda-Time. And every time the textual format slightly changes, Colebourne complains about the breakage despite that breakage was induced by Joda-Time itself. And it has also caused a significant maintenance burden to the tzdb: most notably rearguard/vanguard splits [1].

This time Colebourne is complaining not because pre-1970 timestamps will be altered---they have changed a lot in the past---but because Joda-Time was falsely assuming that the zone never turns into an alias. Therefore Colebourne should have requested more concrete and reasonable guarantees for the tzdb. Instead he is claiming Joda-Time is representative of downstream projects and the tzdb should follow what Joda-Time is assuming. This annoying attitude is evident when you also look at Mark Davis (who is in charge of CLDR); while Davis agrees that the patch should be reverted (reasonably so) he is much more careful about his wording.

Technically speaking it has been true since 2014 that any time zones that looked alike before 2014 can be merged. The only difference is that, multiple such time zones across multiple countries were not merged yet at that time. That's what Eggert refers to the equity or fairness principle, but personally I came to think that he is actually giving marginal and tangential reasons to implicitly express the disdain about Colebourne.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24587730
From the article: "...one of the students, Giulia Greco, found a passage in which Galvano, after describing Iceland and Greenland, writes: “Farther westwards there is another land, named Marckalada, where giants live; in this land, there are buildings with such huge slabs of stone that nobody could build them, except huge giants. There are also green trees, animals and a great quantity of birds.”

Where are there megalithic cultures in Northern America? Or is this evidence of a visit to Mexico?
> but in practice nothing you mentioned actually matters

I've run P&L (and hiring) for a long time, so far from just theory. It absolutely makes a huge difference. Salary is easily the largest expense for a vast majority of businesses, and especially for fast growing start-ups it can quickly get out of hand. If a company lives long enough, it will eventually have a lay-off or some sort staff reduction event like post-acquisition bleeding. It's a right of passage.

> If you pay a single employee $50k/yr more

Except it's not just one employee, especially in the growth stage. You end up with a situation where you have 10-15 new open hires, and over the course of a few months you fill them and several of them end up going over budget, because the needs of hiring outweigh financial sense in the thick of getting things done. Each decision was made individually and in the throes of running a company, so what seemed fine as 1-off decisions quickly aggregate into a problem.

So then you do your next budget review and compare to plan, and you're suddenly 15% above plan. You were supposed to add $1M in payroll to SG&A, but the latest sheets show it at $1.25M. Keep in mind you're a start-up, so revenues are not stable and if you're Series C may be operating under the assumption that no new cash is ever going to come in.

> then that's 6.57 years of runway

No start-up is operating with 6 years of cash to burn, and certainly no early-stage companies where investors are putting pressure on you to spend to grow. Nice thought, though.

> the larger the company, the easier this becomes as so few people actually negotiate higher salaries

Larger companies have more flexibility, but even more strict budgeting. The flexibility is because of the float on min/max of salary bands, which when combined gives HR a lot of room to customize packages. But overall, most companies still tightly manage payroll and headcount expenses because it can literally break the bank.