skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that people perhaps ignored the government advice and continue to use ivermectin, I forgot to add that option in my comment.

At least here in Argentina it's used unofficially by many people. For example, there was a big announcement last month by some medical doctors from one of the provinces, but it was only a press release, not even a preprint, and it was not a RCT so I'm not very optimistic about the validity of the results.
The title is unfortunate flamebait -- that's for sure -- but the logic later on is ok. Like, when she writes,

> This waters down case rates in the unvaccinated group and ends up lowering the vaccine efficacy estimates.

the implication is that she'd prefer for three groups to be tracked:

1. never infected, never vaccinated

2. previously infected but not vaccinated

3. vaccinated.

The idea isn't to lump 2 and 3 together, but merely to stop lumping 1 and 2 together. Fair enough.
Yes that part didn't ring true for myself. I have found that burnout absolutely kills my weekends. I don't have energy for anything besides doom scrolling. And it takes at least several days off to feel my intrinsic motivation come back. After a week I'm ready to learn Japanese, not go back to work.
No, but price affects demand. So 2-day delivery doesn't have to drive down costs quite as hard to meet the required price (which is probably a bit lower but similar to the 15min service).

Of course the workers will be exploited anyways because lower costs means more profits but they don't need to be exploited quite as much. At the end of the day the workers will be exploited exactly up to the limit of what the company can get away with. For "disposable" and interchangeable untrained workers like delivery people that limit is pretty high.
Iran says Saudi talks on 'right track'
>Is working as a gig economy food delivery worker better than working as an amazon delivery worker?

The physical work? No idea.

From a risk and compensation standpoint, probably much better at Amazon. If you crash your car driving for Uber Eats, you're on the hook for it. If you're injured on the job, you simply don't earn money since you're an independent contractor.

Not to mention health, life, and disability insurance and PTO all provided by most large companies, and having a point of contact who might care about you on a personal level as opposed to getting all your work assignments from an app optimizing profit not for you, but for the service company.

My employer ships coolers of food to people. The fulfillment centers are cold, and it's really hard work. But if John's car breaks down, the team works together and figures it out. Mary agrees to swing by and pick John up on her way to work, and Mark will take him home after the shift until the car is fixed. The manager sometimes picks people up herself.
Ask HN: People older than 35, what is your ideal work environment professionally
I am turning 40. I am framing this for 35+ specifically since by that age, I pretty much had done it all and kinda knew what I really want and what I don't want to do professionally. Would love to hear ideas from other old timers.

We can talk about work life balance, choice/nature of work, hours (full time vs part time), type of company/team you prefer etc.
I had to do a second-factor authentication with my bank not too long ago. I had written a cheque for an unusual purchase; they called me and said "there was an issue with the signature check on a cheque you wrote" so I logged in, verified my identity and approved it manually.

I assume that they only checked the signature because the payment was outside of my normal habits, because my signature is an inconsistent mess in the best of times (I sign about 10 cheques/year because reasons).

The worst case for me is the stylus pads at checkouts. I can barely use those coherently when I'm not under pressure, so when there are people behind me in line and a cashier waiting for me to leave, the social anxiety kicks in and I get a pair of initials and some extra lines, at best.
Sure there is. When millions of people use your software you have to consider what those millions want. I guess it depends on what you enjoy about software development. For me I enjoy the craft itself and only let users in because I have bills to pay. My best work is stuff nobody will ever use or care about. It's like being a pop artist VS a relatively unknown experimental jazz musician.
Can you provide some evidence for your theory? For example, compare the ratio of compensation for MBAs to experienced non-MBAs over time. Over the timespan of your theory, does the MBA premium % decrease, increase, or stay the same?

(Pay isn’t always a great proxy for relevance, but it is for MBAs and employers.)
Sure, but words have different definitions. My point is that a charitable read of the article is using the definition that applies in this scenario per the article, and therefore the original comment is incorrect.

Obviously an uncharitable read can lead one to dismiss the intentions of everyone involved.
It's interesting how they sell this over there vs in the west. In the west you get very ominous, 1984 panopticon connotations whenever cameras are introduced. You never see this back and forth dialogue between your friendly overlords and the people being watched.
HN regularly has threads full of complaints about how whiteboard interviews don't test the right things and unfairly harm a subset of people that doesn't correlate well to programming ability. It doesn't seem that implausible that the test the district is using has similar flaws in selecting gifted students
Authenticate in this sense means to confirm legal validity or that a document is authoritative. Not that the document is an authentic document.
Hello, long time user first time commenter. ;) Just came here to say that because of this post I went and sponsored XMonad. I want it to survive for decades to come.
> "The safety of the crew remains the Navy’s top priority."

Can any military really say this with a straight face? It's obviously not their top priority. If it was, they wouldn't be packing actual live humans into a pressurized nuclear-powered tube packed with explosives and send them into the black. Not to mention that whole "going to war" thing they occasionally do. That's pretty risky stuff, or so I hear.

Sorry for the snark. One can only take so much BS per hour, and I just got out of a meeting so my tolerance was low.
Interestingly, this very question follows the same mold: it presupposes that Quora has failed :)
OK, but I never said it's caused by poverty
i found a job listing on craigslist and called the guy, he hired me on the spot.

for the framing job i walked up to a framing crew and asked if they needed a guy. they did and so i got hired. i just convinced the boss. the place where i moved to has lots of small crews and lots of home building going on right now.

previous relevant experience includes woodworking and machining. i also watched a fair amount of youtube before and during. ability to do fractional math and read a tape. ability to read and produce mechanical drawings helped.

really it was just being interested in the field and convincing someone i was serious enough about it. and i followed through everyday.
You're wrong to think this isnt a general problem with humans and how we process information. You're also wrong to think that Facebook is such a monster compared to media networks or other social media.
After they kicked the guy out of the store, they told him that for the rest of his life he can't help anyone else use the store less, because he was once in the store
I grew up in a school district in the deep south that was racially segregated, as found by the court system, until a month before I graduated.

This was in 2006. Not last century.

The school district didn't, of course, test people by race or have a Colored Students High School or whatever. What they did was to put schools and school zones in ways that happened to line up with strong demographic differences in swaths of the city. My elementary school was in a white part of the city, and I can remember maybe two black classmates. My middle school (because that's where they put the gifted and talented program, as it happens) was in a black part of the city, and from my memory it felt like a majority of the students who were zoned to be there were black.

This school district was, once again, "racially segregated" in the eyes of the law. The law didn't ask whether the school district officials were motivated by racism in how they drew the lines; that's simply not what the term means.
I just don’t see why the demand is high enough to create a business around. While there are certainly times I wished I could get a delivery of X in under an hour, the vast majority of the time I plan ahead well enough that, when I don’t think I’ll have grocery store time/energy, ordering groceries for delivery tomorrow is sufficient. The amount of times I’d be willing to pay more for this day groceries is very small. (Edit: Obviously, you can get around this by using VC funding to keep your pricing in line with slower services. That’s not sustainable though.)

But I’m rarely a good judge of demand for a product I wouldn’t personally use, so maybe lots of people do just want the groceries immediately.
Squid GAME – NO TIME TO DIE – V/H/S/94 – THE NIGHT HOUSE
That's basically all your personal biases on display. Chomsky is certainly not news. Nor do I expect them to cover absolutely everything. Like I said, I use multiple sources but even still my head can only hold so much and CNN only has a finite number of reporters. Like I also said they certainly have editorial bias because they have to choose what to cover given finite resources. The fact they miss some of these tiny stories is expected. That doesn't make them unethical or inaccurate.
Totally. One thing I don't miss is hating my Sunday evening just because next day I'm back at it.
I never hated work, but some Sundays were terrible.
> Seals also appear in the Bible

This sentence shows the cultural and religious focus of the author, to the point it hides a richer history. Seals were used in this region thousand of years before the Hebrew tribes appeared.

The cylinder seals of Mesopotamia are my favorites. It was simple to use (roll it on the clay that wraps the tablet). Forgery was hard. And some of the seals were marvelous art. Rich people often had Lapis Lazuli seals, from stones excavated in modern Afghanistan. Many seals are in museums, with images available online.
In other words, gifted and talented is not enough. You need to be gifted, talented and rich to get an education suited to your needs (often gifted kids are bored at school and get into trouble).
Fun fact - xterm.js was originally created by chjj who also wrote the code for Handshake DNS among other things.

My favorite is blessed [1].

He’s definitely a super programmer. Thank you for all your contributions to this world @chjj!

[1] https://github.com/chjj/blessed
The right thing to do is to contact them. If they offer a bounty, great. If not, please still let them know.
lichess.org has really been a game-changer (sorry) for my chess playing. I know some people love chess.com but I think lichess has such a great interface and there is always a large number of players online for games.
I'll preface this by saying that I don't live in the USA, so some of these things are a bit alien to me. I'm sorry if the way I word things here is not the best, the goal here is not to attack or even label something as good or bad, but only understanding.

> This movement has moved away from labeling racist a policy that was implemented with racist intent (like segregated schools during Jim Crow) towards labeling racist a policy that has unequal outcomes based on race, regardless of policymakers' intent.

> If you start from that perspective, it naturally follows to label G&T education as segregated if we observe that one group being overrepresented in it and another group being underrepresented.

> If we reject the uniform distribution assumption, we end up assuming that the G&T eligibility traits are unevenly distributed among students, which I believe is one of the longest lasting beliefs of racist thought in education.

Would that reasoning hold when applied to spaces where black people tend to be more successful than whites? Sports being a big one here. Would you call sports racist? Would you argue that the equivalent of G&T eligibility traits for sports are evenly distributed among students, regardless of their race? I can see how racist people would push the idea that these traits are unevenly distributed, but when I put things in another context, all of that doesn't make any sense. We don't have a problem accepting as a society that some people are really ahead of the pack when it comes to sports, but when it comes to intelligence (whatever that means, you could probably separate it in academic and work success but most of these are not as clear cut as "who was the fastest to run 100 meters?") we have a hard time talking about it.

I guess my question behind this is: what is the aim of the current anti-racist movement? Is it equality in a "colorblind" way, as in the ultimate goal is that race is never a factor in the success and failures that people achieve? Or is it a movement trying to replace negative discrimination with positive discrimination? Is it a movement that's interested in scientific truth, whatever the outcomes may be? Or it is a movement that would hide inconvenient truths if this would help the "cause"?
Why would structural racism within NY's G&T programs include Asians as the largest plurality?
True but so many can't do any of these!

I'm OK with that up to a point because those who can have advantages over those who can't. I'm an engineer who writes well (mother was a PhD in English - could not escape it).
My point was that giving the prize to an American diplomat for taking a break from his collaboration with Nixon to try to end the imperialist war that we started, on terms agreeable to us, after at least a million Vietnamese people were killed, is insane. He also got behind the bombing in Cambodia as a way to force North Vietnam to capitulate to American demands. This is not a man you award a peace prize to unless your idea of peace includes Carthaginian peace.
Quoting tether's total market cap is a bit disingenuous. What % of daily trade volume is tether?
Does it not worry you that you can wake up one day and find that your retirement fund has disappeared, or that it's value has plummeted to the point where it is no longer financially feasible to draw from for day-to-day living?

At least with money in traditional index fund investments, entire economies have to collapse before my money goes away, and if there's one thing I learned about the stock market, is that it can be irrational (yet irrationally consistent!) far longer than I expect it can be.
Obviously "smoothness" means something other than "differentiable everywhere", but I'm at a loss to know what.
My point of view that an analogy cannot possibly be, in your words, "true". Don't you think any analogy is leaky and we shouldn't use them? Any point of view demonstrated with an analogy can be conveyed without it.

And no, I attack this method not because I don't agree with the conclusion of comment I was replying to, it's because I hate analogies.

How comparing cloudflare to ford and then saying "wouldn't that be ridiculous if Ford got sued if a criminal bought a car" can be accepted by anyone as a valid argument? Yes, it would be ridiculous but that's it
Parents do not exist in a vacuum. If we accept racism did (or does) exist, it presumably would affect the parents of said victims which would lead to the poor outcomes for the kids.

Said disparity would grow as the kids would be then denied said opportunity on the basis of their parents' failure. The kids' kids would then suffer the same, and so forth.

In other words, how would you "punish" (if that's even necessary) the parents without punishing the kids?
One of the things I have noticed lately is that people who change jobs often have completely different perception of the industry as compared to people who don't change that often. Both of the strategies have pros and cons. For instance people who change jobs quite often don't seem to care alot about the business per say they seem to emphasis on the technology more as compared to people who stick to one org. However, people who have changed job quite often, seem to have seen broad variety to problem sets and always bring fresh new pair of eyes to existing business. People who stick to the same org, do tend to become very conservative but it often good for the business as people not quitting brings lot of stability. Again, it really depends on situation, person to person. In general this is my observation.
If you want to know whether or not something might be cultural appropriation - ask people from the culture supposedly being appropriated. If no one who has the right to be offended seems to be, then it's probably not cultural appropriation.
I'm not arguing one way or the other about Bitcoin, but just pointing something out in general: "designed to be" doesn't mean it actually is. Engineers can design things however they want, but that doesn't mean it always holds up.
I can say I absolutely didn't understand the importance or impact of some books they made me read in elementary school until years later.
us army funded drug, enzalutamide, is saving my life right now. i haven't really reserached why they funded that drug but was suprised to learn that.
So they went from zero Internet presence to "almost everyone". All without paying a dime and from an interface that grandma could use. They do not understand what a static page is. They might not even know the difference between a Facebook page and an actual web page, to them it's still "you can find us on the google".

If Facebook shuts down tomorrow or everyone suddenly starts thinking that it's evil enough to stop using, Joey's Pizza is more likely than not to go to yet another centralized service just like Facebook. You just can't beat free and easy with the open web.
As the head of DEI at Apple, since canned, for saying (paraphrasing) "I could have more diversity of _thought_ within one ethnicity than I could among a group of diverse ethnicity depending on the backgrounds of the individuals."

Of course, predictably, saying something true but anti-narrative was obviously a "counterrevolutionary activity" and got fired.
I think there is also a hidden truth that immigrant children very often behave extremely disciplined, not only asian ones as per stereotype. They indeed see education as privilege while most common people don't see it that way, they just must go to school. That has as highly positive effect on grades. The effect often vanishes after a while.
"For life" means maximum of 20 years in Germany. There is also preventive detention afterwards for people that are insane or would still be a danger to society etc.

So there is a big difference between death penalty and 20 years. Also you can at least somehow correct the punishment if you "got the wrong guy".
When we're not at war, US Navy submarining is extremely safe. No one has died on a US Navy submarine since 2005, and even that was just 1 person.
This.

If you can't get into the heads of those you are communicating with, you will mostly fail in your writing objectives. And this isn't simply what they are thinking now; it's meta-thinking and meta-meta-thinking as well as the environment (with resources available, rules and limitations, etc.) in which they information will be used.
But it would be easy to design qemu to have 1000+ config options which are on/off/auto settings, and the 'auto' mode is autodetected based on which OS is probably running.

Nothing stops someone overriding some or all of those flags to whatever values they like. It's still a power user tool, just one that also 'just works' for common usecases of people who don't want to manually set the IRQ number for the DMA controller by hand...
That's true... but then "racism" cannot exist. So people keep the idea on life support. Maybe culturalism is a better word.
If a scientist as important as James Watson can be immediately un-personed and cast into the garbage pile for stating this, I don't know if there's much room for open argument here. Science (TM) has decided that this science isn't open for discussion under any circumstances.
In my experience QML is buttery smooth on Linux, even on older hardware, but it just isn't as smooth on Windows.
Maybe not, but if the business has higher margins, workers have a much better chance of demanding fair pay than if the business has negative margins even at exploitative wage levels.
> Dealing with python environments and packages makes me want to avoid python if at all possible.

I see this a lot, and I don't blame folks for having this stance. It's taken me over a decade to dial in my workflow.

Quick rundown:

- don't use python2. Ever.

- don't use the system python, or brew python for anything other than bootstrapping

- only use `pip install --user` for exactly one thing: `pip install --user pipx` when you don't have brew

- never, ever, ever `sudo pip` anything. No exceptions.

- use pyenv to manage your python versions.

- use `pipx` to install stand-alone CLI tools, like virtualenvmanager, poetry, black, mypy.

- always develop in virtualenvs. No exceptions

- prefer installable python packages over scripty standalone .py files

- using PYTHONPATH is a smell

- poetry is likely the future of tooling, but it's not mature enough to be considered best practice for python beginners just yet. Stick with pip if you are uncertain.

- use lockfiles for writing applications but not writing libraries

- editable installs are a double-edged sword
You can use https://nowpayments.io/ which is a noncustodial crypto payment service with support of dozens of coins and tokens. You can easily create invoices, payment buttons or use the api to build your custom solution.
> Would love to hear ideas from other old timers.

If you think 35 qualifies you as an old timer, I think you might be operating in a bubble. Unless you’re retiring early, you’re not even halfway through your career.

If 35 makes you feel like the “old timer” in your workplace then that might benefit from trying some workplaces where 35 still makes you feel like one of the less experienced engineers.

As for ideal workplace: It’s not actually that different than what I wanted when I was younger. Work/life balance, good communication, and reasonable workload are universal wins at every age.

The only real difference is that as I get older I have less tolerance for negative workplace practices and more confidence to speak out against them.
Why do you think that? They treat USDT as any other coin, has no special status in the system. FTX is very well capitalized. Can you show me even napkin math that shows FTX going under if USDT blows up in a realistic scenario? (Going from $1 to $0 instantly isn't realistic.)
> I think we have different ideas of what "bad" is.

I think we don't: I think we have different beliefs about what the most important facts of Brexit are. I guesstimate Brexit will cause more suffering to the British people than Covid-19, though with low confidence, since one thing we agree about is the likelihood of game-changing surprises. Brexit has been a huge success for Russia, although something of a problem for China. Brexit has magnified the impact of the poor global economic situation on Britain. The fishing spat has caused quite a bit of injury to the UK's once very high reputation for diplomatic competence, although far less than the conduct of the UK's top negotiators between invoking Article 50 and signing the WA.
Is there a website comparing XMonad to suckless dwm? Judging from the site the incentives seem equal or similar.
It is the life. i highly encourage you to do so. so many new experiences and opportunities to learn. im growing so much personally. developing parts of myself i had never dreamed of developing. rounding out myself and my character. it really tests what you are made of and is very rewarding so far.