skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not worked for Euro companies but have worked for South american companies and even american companies in south america.

The american work culture is among the best: people want to work and want to get paid. Americans tend to be willing to work 40% more for 20% more benefit, something that few places in the world tolerate. This makes for very dynamic workplaces, with a greater sense of purpose and responsibility.

The smaller the company the more intense the responsibility. This does not mean 80hr work weeks (though this exists, I have never faced it) but the base line is much higher.

On financing, it is hard to fathom for engineers outside america really how much money there is in this space. A new grad developer that displays some level of skill can easily get 200k+/yr total compensation offers. Furthermore stock is always one of the biggest compensation factors, where it usually does not exist significantly outside the us.
In this bull market, stock compensation is around 60%+ of liquid compensation for public companies. Small companies have a lot of equity to give so you can ask for a lot and you have to be patient for that to pay off. Even the winners can take a decade to IPO or exit.

Americans do think health benefits are very important, but it is mostly a tax benefit. I would only focus on PTO/parental leave if applicable as a remote engineer and forget about all else, pay it out of pocket on your end.
Wow this seems like an easily solvable problem and one reason why we have the UN. I guess they'd rather be bickering in committees than helping individuals trapped on these boats.
Monoclonal antibodies cost thousands of dollars per transfusion. A vaccine costs a couple bucks.

We are not going to make the pandemic manageable with monoclonal antibodies. The reason governments made the choice to push vaccines over them is because vaccines are actually in the range of economic possibility.
Moving my home automation notifications (mix of DIY and Home Assistant) from Twilio SMS to Signal using signal-cli Docker image.

I might even get confident enough in this solution to allow commands to be sent (e.g. lock front door).
One of the reasons I stopped using chrome was “extensions” I had 2-3 popular extensions like Adblock and something else. They were leaking information for every page I visited! I contacted the “source” where I saw my information leak but there was no reply and nothing. Either chrome itself leaks that info or one of the popular extensions.
Nobody made that choice. Treatment and prevention are not the same thing.
AFAIK, monoclonal antibodies are a valid and approved treatment, but a vaccine is much more of a prophylactic measure. Part of managing a pandemic is avoiding a huge crunch on the medical system (like we're currently living). Vaccines help keep people out of the hospital to begin with.

Even if we were interested in using monoclonal antibodies as a prophylactic, the current monoclonal antibody treatments that we have available are delivered via IV infusion. That's much more time-consuming and resource intensive than two vaccine shots imo.
But the question isn't about those skills, the question is about programming. Bellard is blatantly an insanely productive programmer.

Also if you think a man who can build an LTE base station from scratch isn't good at "problem solving" I really don't know what metric we're talking about anymore.
The mixing makes it harder to get good data, but given the mechanism of action of the vaccine, it seems unlikely that something like myocarditis is purely a result of mixed vaccines. Unlikely enough that it's probably worth pausing the offending vaccine if the risk is higher than the COVID risk.
The part about the music resonates with me.

For the known task related to low cognitive focus I use for background classical music (Corelli, Telemann) with low volume.

When I want full cognitive load (learning, coding), silence and isolation are working for me the best.
Super offtopic question, but I'll give you two answers: The literal one, and the one I know you're asking for.

1. The literal answer is yes. Node uses V8 as the execution engine. V8 uses something called "TurboFan" as one of the compiler + IR passes:

https://v8.dev/docs/turbofan
https://v8.dev/blog/turbofan-jit

There's a tool that displays input JS code, and then visualizes the TurboFan IR node output. It's called Turbolizer. That would likely be the closest equivalent:

https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/main/tools/turbolizer

2. The answer you want is you can just use a regular Node.js debugger and attach it to whatever it is you want to look at. The scope context will show all of this info.

For things like "unused variables", etc, the TypeScript-for-JavaScript integration that I think is turned on by default in VS Code should catch this. So should Webstorm.

So should any linting tool, like ESLint.

At least I think this is what you're asking. Hope that helps.
How about we stick to "a company can do everything it wants as long as it is legal and people are free to go work at whichever company they want"? Why is that controversial? If you want to effect social change become a politician, do not try to turn your work place into a political party that has to react to every social fashion.
> Pfizer dropped quite a bit.

Pfizer might drop with Delta, true, but then the decrease is reversed. https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/143849966572136858...

Other credible studies don't even show such a drop. https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/143995143783290061...

Frankly I wonder if the drop is just a statistical blip, corrected with a reversion to the mean.

> You should still be vaccinated. [...] This not an arguement against vaccination

Agreed. Nice to have a nuanced discussion with people who understand the importance of vaccination.
What do you know about OP? What if OP is an extremely productive programmer who lives to build product and has a huge impact, but also cares about black people or LGBTQ+ people? So he's worthless to coinbase? Thats insane.
the CDC recently changed their definition of vaccine from (paraphrasing) "something that provides immunity to disease" to "something that provides protection from a disease"

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25411126...
> I wonder if it would be possible ...

Check out the VTM project[1]! It feels like that's the direction they're heading. No direct affiliation; they've filed some bugs on Windows Terminal, however. :)

[1] https://github.com/netxs-group/VTM
I think you mean COVID-like symptoms.
This is outright wrong.

Monoclonal antibodies are, as you say, a treatment. They are not used to prevent infection in the first place. They lessen the severity of the disease but do essentially nothing to avoid its transmission.

You cannot end a pandemic without stopping the disease from spreading. For one, monoclonal antibodies do nothing to stop transmission. Second, their supply is constrained and availability is limited. Third, it cannot be used in all cases, most notably for folks whose symptoms have already become severe.
I think this is something to do with the generational reaffirmation of youth since the WWII kicked off a later 20th century imbalance of the proportion of young people in the world.

Now that the number of youngsters is simply twice or more than before and the chances of meeting up with and engaging with seniors diminished by other factors such as wealth creating retirement conurbations and the dissolution of multi generational households, young people just aren't comfortable with older folk any more. I have noticed this anecdotally of course personally rather pointedly immediately after I grew a beard that happens to be white despite my age being a tiny 50 something. The sudden and unmistakable difference in the way I experienced society has been revealing and at times even rather worrying.
What I take from that statement is "We have not meaningfully tackled any of the issues of discrimination in the workplace that our Black employees have continuously attempted to bring to our attention", such as the ones u/saurik linked in his comment.
Theres also mask mandates that were actually working super fine.

We (the US) decided for political points that it's time to stop with masks.
Yeah, but I hike with people who aren't HAMs. So, a GMRS/FRS set of HT radios is sooooo easy. Even has worked surprisingly well between cars in canyons along I-70 with no line of sight.
We would learn a lot, that's for sure. I wonder if they could time box an experiment for 5 years and see what happens.
I've always been baffled as to how this is seen as a multi-national issue. The US could always implement unilateral minimum VAT and profit[3] taxes on corporations forcing them to effectively pay whatever proportion the US demands to continue doing business in the world's largest consumer market. Just because you're only paying 3%[1] profit[3] tax in Bermuda doesn't mean you can necessarily skate around the remaining 12% when doing business in the US - the US could just pocket that additional 12% if nobody else wanted it. Implement a policy like that and the competitive tax advantage of havens disappears overnight and all this BS disappears.

We[2] have tax loopholes because we want to continue to have tax loopholes.

1. BS example I'm unfamiliar with the actual numbers.

2. Where "We" is lawmakers or maybe society as a whole as weighted by political power.

3. Edited: s/revenue/profit/
I imagine it's really hard for employers to balance that, though.

A good employer wants employees to take the time off they need without worrying about running out of PTO to do the stuff they want. They don't want an employee to ever have to think "Shit, if I take that day off for a dentist appointment, then I won't have enough PTO for that weeklong trip to Hawaii!"

But if you try to avoid this scenario by being extremely generous and declare an explicit 8-week PTO policy, then you will have people using 6-8 weeks PTO. Even as someone that strongly values work-life balance and PTO, 8 weeks is pretty nuts. If everyone took 8 weeks PTO every year, that would be pretty costly and could significantly impact productivity. 8 weeks is 1/6th of the year! It would cause chaos with people frequently coming in and out of the office.

So I think an unlimited policy sounds good, but expectations have to be set. Personally, I'd like to see it paired with a 10-day MINIMUM policy, with at least one full week off.
> Somebody, somewhere made a choice to push the vaccines and not the monoclonal antibodies.

Monoclonal antibodies have been investigated at the same time as vaccines. Companies could have offered low cost production at large scale, but they didn't. What makes you think monoclonal antibodies can be produced and sold for $5-20 per dose like the vaccine?
I like these and the other examples. However they all tend to use 16 colors while improving other aspects such as unicode and resizable large cell count terminals. Please use more colors, 256 at least. I’d like to see a turbovision style CUA TUI (haha) in a theme like Win 95 or 2k etc.
Of course. It's a classic technique of totalitarianism seen in both Nazi Germany and Stalin's USSR.
Sure, I don't know if they were "born" smarter. At least one of these people, I got to witness up-close his methodological approach to all his coding work. I don't know if the rest had a specific technique or not. All I know: these guys were all insanely fast, and only very rarely made any coding errors.
Or: it has the positive effect of changing their minds, and improving the world.
I think there is a stark contrast between something like a digital lynch mob and disassociation. The latter is simply doing things like not interacting with people whose behavior you find egregious.
> Ask any ICU nurse what percentage of their COVID patients are unvaccinated. Every article I've seen reports at least 90% are unvaccinated, and of the remaining 10% that were, they were either very old or had a severe immune deficiency.

My grandfather was vaccinated, but is immuno-deficient, and just caught it from a visit to the hospital. Between his age, and the state of his immune system, he was at death's door for two weeks.

If the hospital weren't full of unvaccinated COVID patients to begin with, it's far less likely he would have picked it up there (He doesn't exactly leave the house, except to go the doctor.)

As it turns out, the prevalence of the former leads to the latter.
Learning 3d programming using libgdx and java... Time to build a killer FPS! :)
This is backwards, and the crux of why it's backwards lies here:

> Or they're not rowing at all and just yelling at each other on Slack all day.

I have never seen an office where you will not be fired for turning politics (or anything really) into a flamewar. Period.

And that's because companies past a certain size know they always have multiple "5%ers" rowing in the wrong direction.

If it's not politics it will be pay, if it's not pay it'll be the tech stack, if it's not the tech stack it'll be an exec everyone hates, it's not an exec it'll be a client that sucks, if it's not a client it'll be the...

So a company needs to be resilient to those disjointed efforts anyways, and being "mission focused" will never let you escape that.

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That's why even just pretending to care about these social issues puts you in a better place than a company like Coinbase.

Making statements for social causes costs nothing at all and those who don't agree with the statements generally have apathy towards them, while those agree are affirmed by the statements.

So it's a win-win vs alienating those who would have been affirmed by playing it off as a distraction from the mission.

Why would you not do it and just enforce the fact that people need to be civil?
This is a very funny IF game in which you have to figure out how to remove distractions from your environment. (Your character is unable to work at all until all of the distractions are removed.)
The fact you state blink is a standard is everything that is wrong with browser monoculture.

It's like we didn't learn anything from IE6.

Also blink is just a fork of webkit.
I agree with you there. There are certainly much faster, much more dedicated workers. My irritation is with:

1. All the hero worship
2. This idea that they are unreachably superior to everyone else
> their death risk

Such a selfish answer. What about the risk to others around them if they carry it?
How can banks work without a fractional system? What is the purpose and value of banks in that scenario?
Sure - but it's the process of making the world a better place. The more these tax havens get shut down the fewer (and riskier) places that corporations have to shelter their revenue.
the "full approval" happened much faster than any other vaccine or medication in recent memory. also the approval was based on the exact same dataset that was used for the EUA, to me that does not inspire confidence
> the user thought they were entering a DD/MM/YYYY date, while the browser decided it's getting MM/DD/YYYY

Happens to me every week. Sometimes nearly every day. It is infuriating. Why can't they use YYYY-MM-DD? When are we humans gonna stop having these problems?
> If you are quite old or have significant health problems, it is pretty easy to demonstrate with high confidence that the vaccine risk is way smaller than the Covid risk (many orders of magnitude).

This is correct, covid is very threatening to those with multiple co-morbidities but in particular the obese diabetics.

> If you are very young (say a healthy teenager) the Covid risk is very low and the uncertainties of the vaccine risks start to compete where it is much harder to have confidence that for a population vaccinating is a better idea. People also can have different appetites for risk and different appetites for the good of the individual vs the good of the many.

This is correct too, Do No Harm is violated by forcing people to get vaccines when they are the extreme low risk populations of young people e.g. 1 in 4.5M fatality rate. That is why many countries with younger populations are starting to halt vaccine deployments to their populations at lowest risk, for whom a vaccine is more dangerous than covid.

> The problems with vaccination are many people pretend they are perfect or evil who are either knowingly distorting the truth or repeating lies or dogma. Also many people desire authoritarian solutions for everyone to agree with them.

In general I agree with you. The vaccines are dangerous, but they do not violate Do No Harm for at-risk populations, particularly those with co-morbidities. Because, the cure is better than the disease.

But, we need to be careful about deploying these vaccines to young healthy populations when we know it puts them in danger of pericarditis/myocarditis, or, blood clots in the case of AZN or J&J

However, the science has already shown that the Spike Protein on its own, as produced by the vaccine, is cytotoxic.
She was an awesome lady. She was antiracist. She made concrete and lasting contributions to the Indian independence movement. For this, she was deliberately framed for fraud by the British government.

Obviously, her case requires respect and nuance. She is one of history’s few successful female philosophers. She had lots of enemies then and now. Dig up what you can and we can talk about it. But don’t think it is “mature” and “responsible” to try to cancel her and her ideas, 150 years later.
And big money can stop moving if countries stop giving them tax breaks.
I had long been interested electronics, and the study required to get my ham license really expanded my education and knowledge in this area. I’m no EE or anything but I eventually learned enough to be competent with creating simple projects or following a schematic to build something on my own from scratch. I never moved past a lowly technician license (mainly because of a lack of time and interest around learning Morse code) but I still found it immensely rewarding.

The big barrier originally for really getting into the hobby was the cost of equipment. Even newer second hand equipment could cost hundreds of dollars. Now a barrier for me is HOA restrictions that prevent me from setting up antennas and not wanting to deal with interference complaints from my neighbors.

With how cheap radios are these days maybe it’s time to get a couple handhelds to mess with again.
I really despise those apps, it’s yet another thing putting people to work under middle-class instead of each citizen solving their own problems, increasing the social inequality, and also another duck tape to the problems car-centric society creates, instead of fixing the actual problems. If it takes you an hour to go to the supermarket then maybe they shouldn’t be so big and far, but smaller and more distributed

I live in Amsterdam and I see absolutely no reason for those apps to exist here as it takes me literally 10 min to go to the supermarket, likewise with most people I know, yet there are 3 competing 15-min delivery apps here right now, go figure
California students will have to take ethnic studies to get a highschool diploma
Yes, exactly.

The best programmers can produce code every day that a mediocre programmer cannot ever produce under any conditions. That is the entire point of the discussion.

I don't even think it's that controversial of a statement, just shift to another field and I think it's self-evident. Paul Erdos could on any day produce better mathematics than the rest of us could produce in a lifetime. Not better maths than his peers, but his peers were also exceptional. Better than the average person who knows how to do their times tables though? Absolutely.
I'm not sure exactly which ideas the other commenter was referring to, but of course currency is affected by memes. Currency is a meme: it only has value due to the widespread idea that it should have value.
> the Christian idea that we are born in sin.

I thought it was the opposite. Christians hold that babies are born innocent and pure.
Governments want to tax profits rather than revenues. A tax on revenues would kill a lot of high growth businesses.
Almost every modern padlock and door lock can be picked in under 5 minutes by watching a 2 minute YouTube tutorial. Shouldn’t the manufacturers of the locks also be held responsible by that logic?
Facebook engineers on HN are not sending out C&Ds.
> Every article I've seen reports at least 90% are unvaccinated

Listen to the dog that is not barking.

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/25/significant-proportions...
Wow we must have been brilliant in other ways that we can't even imagine
Total and $750M aren't even the same unit. The former is profit, while the latter is revenue.
>Pretty fast if you start the clock at Copernicus, not so fast if you start it 200,000 years ago when our first ancestors had the brains to figure it out.

Until the invention of writing, all knowledge was conveyed via oral traditions.

As such, the work of Copernicus and Newton would have been impossible for the humans of 10-15,000 years ago, since both required both recorded knowledge and thinking about planetary bodies as well as centuries of recorded planetary movements.

Without the benefit of recorded history of science, technology and the natural world, those folks would never have been able to accomplish their good works, as Newton himself (as well as many others prior to him) put forward[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_g...
Having gone the other way (US to Europe) I think the question is a bit broad. America doesn’t have a uniform culture, just like Europe is not one culture. Companies in New York, LA, Silicon Valley, and Omaha will have different cultures and work styles.

Aside from language and the obvious differences in food and so on that aren’t work specific, I think the big differences you might encounter are more working hours, more complicated (and expensive) medical benefits and care, and pressure not to take time off. Those factors vary widely too, though. Some American work places, especially in tech, look like catered playgrounds.

COVID has meant working from home part or full time for many Americans, so depending on the company you may not have much direct exposure to workplace culture.

One thing I’ve noticed working with foreigners in the US: Americans tend to focus on results and teamwork. I’ve worked with people from other cultures who have focused on blame when something goes wrong, where the American tendency is to fix, move on, don’t repeat the mistake. That’s a generalization of course. At the same time Americans believe in personal accountability and keeping commitments, which get expressed differently in other cultures.
Android is on our roadmap
The vaccines cost in the tens of dollars, depending on the negociating power of the country/bloc.

Their cost, as well as the cost of monoclonal antibodies, depends on the economies of scale.

Monoclonal antibodies are easier to produce than mRNA vaccines, so at similar production scale should be cheaper.
Then don't work for someone who you don't consider sufficiently woke! Nobody is being forced to work at Coinbase. If you don't like the idea that you are hired to do a job instead of running a social justice campaign, then don't take that job, work somewhere else! The sense of entitlement is absolutely astounding.
This sounds very intense and it'd certainly turn me off games. I hope this doesn't read as condescending, but have you considered trying some games that aren't based on that feedback loop? Like grand strategy or management games? Few of the deep games that I engage with for a long time have the cadence you're describing.
Well, essentially it seemed to be pointing out that existing financial systems are inherently unstable by design. Whether these alternatives do any better is a different topic, I was merely answering the question above.