skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tangent: I think it would be a smoother transition we extended the professional expectation of giving two weeks notice to employees before they are let go. I'm more or less serious.

As it stands, employees give at least two weeks notice to employers before quitting, and employers give no notice whatsoever.

The benefit of the employee giving notice (from the company's perspective) is that management has a little time to move people around and try to cover for the missing person. The benefit from the offboarding employee's perspective is that they won't get a bad reference for their next job.

But, if an employee is leaving because they've found a new job (the most common case, I think) then they probably don't need a reference from this position, because they have their next job lined up already. Maybe it would be nice to have one later, but it's not strictly needed. At most, it's a weak enticement.

The obvious argument against giving notice to employees from a management perspective is that the employee will either sabotage the company, not do any work, or just take two weeks of vacation.

However, this is the case where the employee would actually need a good reference from their current company, because they do not already have a job lined up. If anything, you'd expect them to be less likely to behave badly than they would be in the typical case, where they find their next job and put in their two weeks notice afterward, because they need that reference.

When a company lays off an employee, they never give any notice, and the team with the missing team member is left to figure out what to do about it. Even though this can be a major disruption to the team, we don't typically hold it against the company: it's just how things are done. But, should it be?

Of course, the other reason to lay someone off without notice is that you can't afford to pay their salary for even two more weeks, but that's another situation. I'm talking about when someone is being laid off because of pro-active downsizing, or because they're not living up to their potential, or whatever.
Just so you know... Here you can't say that slang word for cigarette either. Because that comment where you said it to me is "dead" and doesn't allow me to reply to you.

If that's not ironic, don't know what is.

I don't want to be paranoid, I don't want to be an activist. But I can't even talk to you normally anymore. I constantly have to worry if I'm allowed to say certain words, I have to check my accounts to see if I was shadowbanned and I have to do that on all platforms once in a while.

It's ridiculous. I don't even think any extreme thoughts and I can't even be left alone. Like.. Leave me alone, you know? The internet wasn't like this 10 years ago.
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_Security-Focused Static Analysis for Android and Java Applications_

But it seems it's not for the JVM, only for Android APKs.

Edit: https://mariana-tren.ch/docs/configuration#command-line-opti...

Indeed, only APK.
As a lead/senior, money was a factor, especially because I was being underpaid compared to the rest of the industry for my experience. But I was working in a field for a company doing things that I wouldn’t find in most roles. I turned down a significantly higher paying role once because I wasn’t very interested in the work that I’d be doing.
My understanding, and this may be wrong since I don’t actually have Monero, is it’s not since US customers are subject to KYC. While the transaction on the blockchain would be obfuscated, the Exchange as the sender/receiver would still have the withdraw and deposit addresses since they were one of the parties of the transaction.

Further transactions after withdrawing would be difficult to discern, but an exchange could be used to track an approximation of how much Monero you own.

A cash based ATM purchase would be more difficult to track since no KYC is involved.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough. It’s being used in places like Biden’s federal mandate that will (when they announce the actual OSHA rule) slap private companies with massive fees if they have unvaccinated employees
That's actually a good question and has to do with the physics of respiration. When you inhale, you're creating negative pressure that pulls particles closest to you into your lungs, leaving a void that other particles fill as they randomly redistribute themselves. This causes aerosolized droplets to follow the path of least resistance around the mask, as if they are pulled, rather than landing against it. That's why real N95/100 masks require a proper fit: if there's even a sliver of space between the mask and face, inhaling will simply suck air in through that space instead of through the filter, which has a higher "resistance".

When you exhale, on the other hand, you create positive pressure which violently expels the droplets regardless of what's in the way. This creates droplets with high velocity and turbulent flows within the mask that prevent them from traveling a straight path through the mask and cause most of them to collide with the fabric.

Basically, once it's exhaled it's a hazard to anyone who doesn't have a properly fitted N95/100 mask (which requires specialized equipment, though it's relatively common)
I think banning tobacco ads is not the same situation because the entities behind them are corporations. The corporations mislead the public for decades in order to get people addicted, purely for profit. The public harm done was a negative externality of their business model. I'm in favor of regulating corporations. (I don't think there should be any advertising, anyway)

If we're talking about banning speech that is critical about a medical intervention, or even banning ideas that disagree with a social consensus, that's different territory. Doctors and others aren't speaking out because they want to mislead the public, or in order to profit.

> if there’s a lot at stake: why not both?

Well, I've seen no indication that we're dealing with underlying issues. For instance, if you truly want to restore trust in institutions, it's counterproductive to shut down public discussions that are critical of those institutions...
That's the funny thing about statistics. They say you're more likely to get unlucky due to covid than due to a covid vaccine.
I have actually told a manager I trusted and it was no big deal, although, in retrospect I don't see any way for this to have benefitted me and a ton of ways in which it could have hurt me.
Thanks for this! I was hoping it was going to be this easy for a SAM based Go app but didn't have it in me to wade through the AWS docs. This post is $.
YouTube doesn’t have military, power to tax, or power to imprison, so it still seems quite different.
> For instance if Delta has an R0 of 8, and we're 100% vaccinated, and the vaccine has an efficacy of 85% against infection, the resultant Rt would be 1.2:

For herd immunity, you also need to take into account that infected people—even symptomatic ones—are less infectious to others, if they're vaccinated.
I'm in NY currently but have dialed in from several different states in the US and the quality from the phone is always significantly better than VoIP
Interesting. Just tried running "cat /proc/cpuinfo" on an X86 Lambda, and I get:

siblings : 2
cpu cores : 2

Which would imply no hyperthreads, to the degree that their hypervisor is telling the truth. So Lambdas are then one of the few places where an x86 core is a core. Thanks for the info.
My company held an all hands and when someone asked about the salary based attrition this is basically what the response was. And I believe it. It certainly seems like the company is geared toward attracting mediocre talent for mediocre pay and letting them slide by for 40 years. The company inevitably comes out ahead when inflation eats away your salary.
are you saying there's no cost benefit tradeoff in individuals deciding whether they want the vaccine?

oh, they'll clog up all the hospitals? then are you advocating illegalizing obesity and type 2 diabetes?

I just think the discussion and polity is varied and nuanced, and I don't trust all the people who want to shut down all discussion in favor of a weird monoculture
> But taking an uncertain landscape, making a decision and then projecting certainty works better than conveying the risks for communicating with everyone but people used to making executive decisions.

I think it depends on what 'better' means. It works better in the senses of getting things done, and of popularity. But, unfortunately, the things that get done are those that are some weighted combination of (a) rewarding in the short-term and (b) in the interests of the person who's good at projecting an aura of confidence.

If the 'right' decision tends to align with the interests of the decision-maker, then it's great to have that decision-maker pushing it through. But, when the decision-maker's interests are not those of the general public, paralysis might be better than populist marching into short-term gratification.

(On the other hand, I also recognize that not making any decision until you know it's the right one is just a long-winded way of never making any decision. Making decisions about whether and how to make decisions is just as complicated as the non-meta decisions themselves ….)
In the early days (2013-14?) of Stripe, I was responsible for maintaining my company's integration.

I still remember how one day there was a message on the announcements newsgroup about how the size of a key was increasing, only three or four days before the we'd start seeing the change in API responses. Dealing with this needed a database migration that I would need more time to schedule, and I sent back a polite-but-direct response to the generic posting email expressing my disappointment with how little notice we received.

A couple minutes later a Google Chat bubble pops up from some guy named gdb (aka Greg Brockman), who I subsequently learned was Stripe's CTO. He apologized, asked why the timeline was tough for me, and when I explained it, immediately set something on my account so that the migration would be delayed by a couple weeks.

8 years later I remain impressed by that level of customer connection from a senior executive, and the technical excellence that allowed them to special-case delay my migration.
But that’s the worst that can happen. If you’re prepared that this could be your last day, it is nice to tell them.

I told my boss later into the process when I was sure I was going to get an offer. He could have fired me on the spot, but he appreciated the extra notice.
People argue with anti-vaxxers every day on social media.

It doesn't change any minds.
It may be an outcome, but it certainly wasn’t ”designed to boost disinformation.” If you watch a pro-vaccine videos, it will suggest more videos portraying the vaccine positively.

My take on things as time has gone on? It’s depressing but the problem is people. It doesn’t matter if you’re watching a pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine video, the comments are filled with hundreds or thousands of anti-vaccine comments. People are the common denominator of what’s wrong with the Internet today.
Vaccinated people can still spread the virus _if they have a breakthrough infection_.

Since they have a radically lower incident of infection compared to the non vaccinated, the rate of transfer of Covid for the two groups is in no way equivalent.

Thanks for the opportunity to correct your misunderstanding.

Disclaimer: I do support people’s right’s to make decisions for themselves. I do not support people foisting their negative externalities on the rest of society under the guise that their actions have no side effects.
I think it is time to use Kafka for home automation messages.
> Of every developer I have seen leave, their primary motivation was a higher pay

I've never seen this ever in my entire 37 year career. I'm not saying it doesn't happen just that I've personally never seen it. All the devs I know work on stuff they choose to work on and are passing up money for jobs they're less interested in.
You know what's worse? When you have no metrics and have NO IDEA whether users are actually using the features you ask for.

I realized this a while back due to the fact we had a feature on customer request, which was in release for some time. It had a bug in it, and nobody ever told us about it - which told us nobody ever used it.

And the only reason I know nobody used it is that we collect no metrics. And yea I'm working on that with the company...
The fable "The Dragon In My Garage" by Carl Sagan is a nice demonstration of a similar concept. http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Sagan.pdf
Thats because "Good" is a subjective ideal, and one that can be applied to different axes.

Good for game-development might be "a good game", not "good code", for example.

(I know you likely know this, but it's an interesting discussion point I think!)
That's the stock and safe answer. Left for hire pay or new opportunities.

Most of the time we leave because management failed us. We would never say this because nothing good will come of it.
This is my "before" landing page...

https://www.apicanary.com/l/beta_program_signup/

I'm in the middle of the landing page course right now, haven't applied much of it yet.
I'd agree that YouTube isn't designed for useful debate. That being the case, I'd rather see them say they won't allow discussion of vaccines at all, rather than promote one viewpoint and suppress all others. That seems like a less troubling way to handle a disputed topic: opt out, don't pontificate.
> Nobody wants actually to buy alpha quality shit any more!

Sadly, I do not think that is true. Plenty of those games continue to sell in huge numbers.
Merriam-Webster's standard in definitions is descriptive rather than prescriptive:

Merriam-Webster is a descriptive dictionary in that it aims to describe and indicate how words are actually used by English speakers and writers. Generally, the descriptive approach to lexicography does not dictate how words should be used or set forth rules of "correctness," unlike the prescriptive approach.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/descriptive-vs...

If Merriam-Webster are defining a word in a specific way, that reflects typical usage of that word, not M-W's "decision". It is literally the voice of the people.
You would have to ask them. But one plausible reason would be that they might think service is worth more than the state minimum wage.
Good catch. I went straight to "Documentation", which links to https://mariana-tren.ch/docs/getting-started, while the "Getting Started" button somewhat confusingly links to https://mariana-tren.ch/docs/overview.

After a deeper dive I also noticed that my second statement about "batteries included" isn't totally true. Digging around in the Github repository I found a dozen or so heuristics here: https://github.com/facebook/mariana-trench/tree/main/configu.... It'll be cool to watch this fill out a bit.
> You can't seriously expect asymptomatic people to continue wearing masks indefinitely.

Millions of people throughout Asia have been for decades though.
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True, though my point was directed at the title.
Large tech companies, your profile says you're at Google, have fairly different dynamics than other companies. And most engineers do not work at FAANG. Many people join them explicitly for the money, especially nowadays, and so you're filtering at the onset for employees who follow money above other things. So it's not surprising they leave for more money. There's also generally a decent work culture so changing managers may actually improve things. The company is also large enough to have many managers and divisions with different approaches.

My experience at startups has been that people mostly leave because of management or business collapse.
They're wrong.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/descriptive-vs...
> AU will be unlikely to keep their draconian measures in place forever, either economic reality, or social unrest will force a change

It's worked well for us in Western Australia, and we're effectively a covid-free island with one of the best individual economies in the world right now.
Ugh, I did, but that is pretty funny! To be perfectly clear, here's the quote I was referencing: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1522294
On a related, note Alarms still work even when the phone is "powered off".

I get it because it's saved me once or twice. Nothing serious just reminders for various things. Overall net helpful from my view.
True, but this is a SQLite CLI, isn't it? Run in a web browser?
Depends on what amounts we are talking. You and the people you know are probably already on the top end of pay and can chose anything. The devs I know saw $40k-$60k AUD pay bumps by switching to remote work for companies in higher paying areas. That kind of extra money is pretty life changing especially when they offer almost exactly the same work environment.
Hope this answers your question

$ java -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags -version

-XX:G1ConcRefinementThreads=8
-XX:GCDrainStackTargetSize=64
-XX:InitialHeapSize=268435456
-XX:MaxHeapSize=4294967296
-XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=251658240
-XX:+SegmentedCodeCache
-XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-XX:+UseG1GC

openjdk version "11.0.7" 2020-04-14
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.7+10, mixed mode)
Anecdotally, most developers I've seen leave companies over the past 10 years have left for money reasons.

I use to assume it varied by the company, but it doesn't seem to. Invariably, shifting companies seems to be the way to get more money.
It seems strange to be talking about whether the spike protein is harmful. Even IF it was, isn’t it better to experience a small amount via the vaccine instead of a large amount via the virus?
False: https://www.factcheck.org/person/joe-biden/
disagree.

i’m in singapore right now, with one of the highest vaccination rates in the world (82%+) of moderna and pfizer.

restrictions are still in place, and r(eff) is > 1 the last few weeks.
Yeah, I'm familiar with that - I think that can be bundled into the efficacy number if you look at it as "efficacy against infecting others".

Last I heard, the CDC gave a 95% CI of the mRNA vaccines being 26% - 84% against infection (from Delta), and there's an additional 40% - 60% protection against infecting others (I've seen that estimate in multiple places but I don't know the source). If that's true, it suggests an overall range of 55.6 - 93.6 effectiveness against infecting others.
That’s exactly I was thinking. Why do people on HN keep hating YouTube recommendations. I want to learn electronics and now YouTube is recommending some amazing stuff. I’m absolutely amazed by the quality of content it recommends. Then again my echo chamber is mostly gaining new skills. I avoid watching trash on YouTube.
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one of the first goals of a landing page is to pixel you so they can retarget you with ads elsewhere. If you've visited the landing page in the first place it shows the business that you've at least heard of the company, which moves you into another stage of their sales funnel.

If you actually fill out the form or take whatever action is shown on the page, that's gravy for them but a savvy marketer knows it takes at least seven touches to a lead before they're ready to convert. Landing pages are very top-of-funnel.
> I wonder what all the highly paid "ML/AI engineers" are doing.

Probably finding ways to automatically take down videos
I see any brand that uses corporate memphis design as being slack and amateur. It's literally 2020's MS Clip Art.
The benefit of open source is that anyone can contribute, thus someone that cannot afford a university degree or does not have the social network that comes with high status can still prove their skill as a software engineer and find a high paying job.
I agree. And it is obvious people read the article and are doing something that could be considered a ritual. Reading an article on your lunch break could be a ritual just as much as reading a book on a couch for hours on end every night. It was literally the point to share how and where people read, not just books, but submissions on here or other journalistic type materials.Most people do read something on a regular basis like a newspaper or spiritual writing at different times during the day. I am just curious as to what, where, and when people like to read.
> manager converts that to time

Based on past data, I think. But yeah it's still not great IMO, even if it might be slightly more accurate in some circumstances.
This is super helpful but also very interesting. When technology fails to adapt to people and meet their needs, people must adapt to technology and meet its needs.
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That’s really not what that sentence means. It wasn’t that that some people viewed the crusade as a means to gain wealth from the enemy, rather they believed they simply being a soldier as part of an army was an improvement. Considering people had gathered resources to make the trip it was arguably a accurate assessment though they eventually got slaughtered.

The context was: “Calling for a crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II planned the departure of the crusade for 15 August 1096. Nevertheless, a number of unexpected bands of peasants and low-ranking knights organized and set off for Jerusalem on their own.”

Of course this is based on history books written about the time period I haven’t read the associated primary sources. Also, there where a lot of crusades with something of a sliding scale for religious involvement vs other motivations.

> To try to blame Religion over the enormous death total is as silly as blaming "Car-Based Transportation", "Football" and "Biology".

Again human sacrifice, you can exclude plenty of deaths as ethic / religious conflict, but you can’t hit zero. Millions have been sacrificed due to religion not just ethnic conflict. Death or conversion is another thing that shows up regularly.
Once they buy the source, then what?

Are they going to set up a software engineering team to extend the program they bought?
Not sure what the counterpoint is? r(eff) would surely be higher than it is now, if not for that vaccination level.
R(eff) lowers the higher the vaccination rate. There are some pretty obvious % targets depending on your R(eff) initial. For the initial population number it's ~90%.[1]

So no, I am in no way wrong.

[1] https://grattan.edu.au/news/race-to-80-how-we-mapped-austral...
> Fauci gave numerical estimates that he did not believe to be accurate

That's not what I read in the quote.
germany is only 10% or so behind the US in terms of PPP. They also have more vacation, fewer layoffs, cheaper housing, generally lower cost of living (by more than 10%), and many other things.

Perhaps they made a different trade off, more leisure, less work?

I've only brought up the two most obvious examples (there many others) that negate entirely that silly notion that somehow human rights are incompatible with technological advancement, which borders on hate speech.

I mean, should we really go back to slavery to become space-faring species? Not the kind of future I want to live in.
(Copied from elsewhere in the thread:)

Last I heard, the CDC gave a 95% CI of the mRNA vaccines being 26% - 84% against infection (from Delta), and there's an additional 40% - 60% protection against infecting others (I've seen that estimate in multiple places but I don't know the source). If that's true, it suggests an overall range of 55.6 - 93.6 effectiveness against infecting others.
"Don't underestimate engineering challenges that you only have an external view of."

I wish more people would heed this lesson, especially in HN comments.