skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison to make isn't to the risk of dying from everything else, it's to the risk from vaccination.

Which there isn't really anything published for young children yet, but for age groups where use of a vaccine has been approved in the US (12+ more or less), the risk of severe side effects from vaccination is lower than the risk of severe illness.
I see. I'd imagine they can't break encryption of data of the traffic they route through BGP, as they do with the reverse proxy, right?

It would be good to know how many traffic goes into the proxy, to have an accurate understanding of their plain traffic capabilities.
Does this include profit from the App Store?
Doesn't make sense if there's no punisher
Massachusetts makes MA students studying out of state eligble for taxes, but not voting.
Thanks! Word is bond.
I would also not be so fast in concluding that there is a correlation at all from this study. Others have pointed out that it was funded by interested parties in the meat industry. This meta-analysis only included 20 studies, and of these 20 only one was randomized trial. 18 of 20 used self reporting of mental health.

While this meta-analysis suggests that there may be correlation here, I would wait for more proper studies to be conducted and maybe an eventual meta-analysis with better studies included preferably funded by a disinterested party before concluding that a correlation exists.
Stomach problems are highly correlated to depression. People with stomach problems are probably more likely to have vegetarian diets than the normal population. Voila.
The point they're making is that someone who is "staff" at a random company might not get hired as "staff" at Google. Anecdotally, I know people who have been "principal" or similar at other places and come to Google as L4 or 5 with a raise and interesting work.
You imply that doing good offsets doing bad.

“Look at all the good we’ve done, surely we’ve racked up enough karma points to shit on some people?”

Does that sound right?
Calling bs as a lifelong vegeterian / vegan.
The racist part is taking a generalization and applying it to a specific subset. Black software engineers and managers probably have enough money to play this game if they wanted. The "software engineers" is the specific subset that the generalization is being applied to.
I noted this in another reply, but Mike had written a scripting model that let me adjust the physics and materials for each component separately. That allowed me to iterate rapidly when tuning the feel of the game. A solid physics engine is a pre-requisite, but what you do with it from there is also critical (and the goal was to replicate how real world tables felt, not how they actually behaved).
Looks like they already found the designated felon
The article doesn't make the claim that you're refuting (i.e., this is a straw man). From your pull quote:

> something like an L4-L5 at Google, ICT3-ICT4 at Apple
> If you formally have residence in the state you are schooling in, you are required to have that state's driver's license.

I’m aware of no state in the country that mandates a driver’s license for all residents. It would really defeat the purpose of a driver’s license! Only residents _who drive on public roads_ are required to obtain a license. That’s absolutely not the entire population.

> guarantees them two votes

This is an absolutely inaccurate claim. They are not _guaranteed_ two votes, because no one is offering such a guarantee. And no one offers such a guarantee, because voting in the same election in two different states is illegal, and is fairly trivial to catch, since who voted in which elections are public records in most (all?) states.
Apple wasn't selling commodity PCs and had the profit margin to operate stores on extremely expensive real estate. The stores themselves ended up being advertisements.
The downside of not calling them out? Stuff doesn't get off of ships in time for everybody to have their dream Christmas.

The upside is that the National Guard gets to remain available to be the National Guard, instead of a trucking company. You know, so they can be available if we need them?
I just downloaded it today. First thing you do when you open it is choose which of those three you want to pay (or start the free trial with a cancellable auto-subscribe for the yearly), do the 2-second Apple Pay prompt, then it sends you right to the camera.

That is to say, the one-time was immediately easily accessible.
There is a good guy in the space already it's Valve. The Index was good, and there are rumors that they are developing their own standalone VR headset (search "Deckard") which would theoretically compete directly with Quest 2.
I don't feel bad when I eat meat ( physically bad, like tired ).
It's easier to not feel mentally bad when I don't feel physically bad.
Today I had way more carbs than I normally would, and I'm feeling sluggish. It is certainly having some impact on my emotional chords.
I'll truly never understand how the automatic reply to every comment about population statistics always attacks the idea of an outlier that prevents the 100%, as if it's an all or nothing situation.
Norway used to have all the tax return information public through the internet. It's still available publicly to Norwegian taxpayers through a login, but now the person you're looking up knows who viewed their details.
Sorry, I was responding incorrectly to the first child comment of the one linked to

> Swift, FoundationDB, Obj-C, Darwin...
From the article below:

The conflict over China’s politics was playing out on the ground in China, but also in the ranks of America’s diplomatic corps. During the war, American diplomats who had long experience and deep knowledge of China — dubbed the “China Hands” — felt that the Communists were more popular, more competent, and better positioned to lead China post-war. One of the China Hands, John S. Service, put it bluntly: “The Communists are in China to stay and China’s destiny is not Chiang’s but theirs.” Moreover, Service and his colleagues like John Paton Davies and O. Edmund Clubb felt that it was possible for the United States to build a constructive relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, and advised their government to do so.

https://supchina.com/2021/08/25/the-last-meeting-of-mao-zedo...
Bugs in Our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning [pdf]
Google analysed 80M ransomware samples: Here's what it found
Sure tell that to the families of those who died from COVID19. Getting vaccinated is a much better way to get protection from COVID. I knew quite some folks who were hit by COVID twice, tell them that they were better off suffering through COVID twice instead of relying on the vaccine.
It’s about the right to exit. A situation where people sit by while basic rights are eroded for others is most likely to happen when there is a rationalization for reasonable people to support it. See also: the NSA mass surveillance program after 9/11.
Did you have any competing offers?
Im not so sure your right that its a god of the gaps argument. What faith do you have in gravity. Obviously you trust that physics is the law of our universe. Deifying those laws isnt claiming that god is in the gaps of scientific knowledge, infact its suggesting that "god" is the laws illuminated by scientific processes themselves.

I certainly have faith in physics...
I thought the main selling point of deep learning that it finds non-linear connections in the data. Isn't it surprising that the implication is a linear separation of features?
That isn’t a plan, it’s an appeal to “life finds a way.”
I worked at Google. $300k is a few years out of college if you do ok and get promoted once. You write code and maybe onboard a junior now and then. 8 hour workdays, but nobody checks so you can work less if you want. So it is just a regular coding job.
Your high school biology covered memory B cells and coronaviruses? It’s been a long time, but I’m confident mine didn’t.

Also the fact that virologists are making statements like “We’re flying by the seat of our pants trying to figure this stuff out” doesn’t lend credence to your assertion that this is all basic science.
> The GDP of Germany and France are both below where they were in 1995 inflation adjusted

No, they aren't. German real (=inflation adjusted) GDP and real GDP per capita are much higher than in 1995.

(real GDP) https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp
(real GDP per capita) https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp-per-capita

France looks similar.

I don't know where you got your numbers, or if you did something like take the nominal GDP in USD and then adjust using the US CPI.
There have been 499 deaths under 17, approximately 1 in 700,000.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

Around the same as atypical flu season.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127698/influenza-us-dea...
That was not the analysis at the time. Also back then they didn’t have the fat margins. But the dealer network was thin so the risk of losing the channel wasn’t the risk people thought it was.

I’m actually surprised they did as well as they did.
Wrong, the supply of meat can’t keep up with world-wide demand. Chinas meat consumption has increased 30% in the last 7 years and will continue to climb. As supply increases, prices fall and more people can purchase the meat. If you don’t eat the steak, someone else will.
> OpenBSD is largely made by its developers, for its developers. It has its own unique culture and does not seek mass appeal.

I wish these kind of caveats were highlighted more often, not only when it comes to OpenBSD but also when it comes to anything regarding Linux. Instead, you have people defending why the way how OpenBSD works is the "right" way.

I'm honestly somewhat surpised at seeing how much people are attached and married to their tools.
This is a fact and if you disagree Big Beef will come after you.
They have gotten it to work, but they are expanding trials "over the next 5 years" in the article, which means they aren't going to publish those results until 2022 at the earliest after those 5 years. You don't get published in Nature because you didn't get it to work.
It could also be your friends are more empathetic to non-human animals than they are to humans.
I don’t see how you can think this without applying some properties to that first mover. Even when talking bout this you say “is God” or even gravity you’re assuming that it’s still around and wasn’t say destroyed in the process of creating the universe.

Which is kind of my point. Even just the word “is” is quite a large assumption that is easy to overlook. I think it’s an outgrowth of saying some thing created existence rather than saying some event created existence.

Edit: Even thinking in terms of assumptions it’s hard to list them all. We think of time as a linear progression which naturally suggests a first action. But set that aside and really strange possibilities show up. What if the universe was created at the end by something that’s yet to exist and time flowed backwards from that event? Now it’s last action that created existence. Or even in the middle with a positive time universe moving forward and a negative time universe moving backwards. Or…
https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/ discusses this somewhat (2015 numbers).
Renouncing citizenship makes that all go away. Her call.
Serde solves a lot of problems but using a dedicated macro for it feels like a real missed opportunity compared to using a generic macro for the part that needs a macro (treating structures generically), i.e. what frunk does, and then building serialization as just one of many possible use cases on top of that. Compare how this is done in the Scala ecosystem, where circe-generic is just one of many libraries that use shapeless to represent datatypes as generic records (and then serialization proceeds from there), and the same representation code is also used by e.g. doobie (a sort of lightweight ORM) to transform records to and from database rows.

(Or, better still, building generic representation of structs as records into the language/compiler, where the whole ecosystem can depend on it and we don't have to bloat compile times generating it with a macro).
It's not actually that crazy, and less so if you look at total comp.

I made $55k 10 years ago, and just took a pay cut from $225k to $160k in a much lower cost of living area. I've had jobs with consistent $25-50k yearly cash bonuses, where some folks got as much as $250k of bonus in a year. And then options and RSUs are just the icing on the cake. Big lumbering public company? Starts at 100k a year worth of RSUs. Early stage at a unicorn? Easily $1M a year.

I've mostly worked at pre-IPO startups you've heard of -- forget FAANG.

East coast salaries a decade ago outside of New York were abysmal compared to their west coast counterparts, and still are for the most part, but due to the rapid growth of remote work, things are improving greatly.
Liquid Gallium Shown to Break Down Carbon Dioxide – Sci-News.com
No, the difference between a large-format 8″×10″-negative view camera + dye transfer printing process vs. a cute little digital DSLR is night and day. It’s just ridiculous to read articles about DLSRs with their ugly photos where authors are writing something like “wow it’s amazing – best camera ever, you don’t need a pro camera anymore”. It’s so funny.
Nope. I've got those skills. Primitive life is grossly inefficient. Are you gonna burn wood to heat your dwelling and cook? Is everybody? Have you thought through the environmental consequences of this? Hunting and gathering is a similarly ridiculous proposition. Unless you're a supervillain bent on killing billions of people, that is -- hell is other people, indeed.
It is a racist argument because you assume things about black software engineers because they are black. That is, you assume a black software engineer has no money because he's black rather than that he does have money because he's a software engineer.

Imagine you and your coworkers are planning to go out to eat for lunch. One coworker says that you should go to a steakhouse. You say "No, coworker X probably won't be able to afford that because he's black. We should go somewhere cheaper instead." Is that racist? I think so, and I think it's the same logic being used here.
A classic example is the prevention of the use of cannabis as an analgesic in palliative care.
I guess I'm a techie, because I don't want vendor crapware and I do want more than 2 years of software updates and security patches (though it has gotten better over the past few years - probably partially due to Android One, which is closer to stock Android!)

And last I checked, Google's Pixel (5/6/etc.) phones seemed pretty decent.
Has anyone looked into the source of the dots as in is it part of the software driver stack or the hardware on the printer. Has anyone come up with software/firmware that bypasses this? I have only read that it is a thing to be aware of, but not done any searching for more in-depth details.
Do practice exercises on LeetCode.
The lack of proof of causation isn’t evidence for simple correlation.
Name a DSLR and it uses software based tricks to perform all photography.
You were happy a little bit ago and now you're not. You think you're doing something wrong.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Do your job.
Ironically computers are as close to magic as you can think of. It's literally a mechanical creature that you control with written spells.
Search PubMed. I will throw a couple links at you but cannot establish consensus for you.

American Heart Association says "Dietary fiber can help you improve blood cholesterol levels and lower your risk of heart disease, stroke, obesity and even type 2 diabetes" [1]

American Diabetes Association says "eating foods higher in fiber can also improve your digestion, help you manage your blood sugar and reduce your risk of heart disease." [2]

[1] https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...

[2] https://diabetes.org/healthy-living/recipes-nutrition/unders...
So there are all these people in these threads who are like "I only make $175K/200K/150K, I feel like I'm grossly underpaid when I read these things."

I got you all beat.

I have 15+ experience. I am a really good coder. I can be very not humble because this is a throwaway, but everyone who has ever worked with me or gone to school with me or worked on open source with me would agree, I am very good at designing and writing and maintaining software, including understanding what software should be written, let's just accept that for the sake of discussion.

I only make around $90K.

Now, I work in the non-profit/academic sector, and have my whole career. That's what I wanted to do, and I make more than most people in my social circles even at $90K, but the work is getting old, it's not actually that "meaningful" in the end, and especially when people keep saying that I could be making literally 4-5x what I'm making.

I also these days mostly only know ruby and Rails (but that's not un-marketable right? And I certainly can learn other things, I have before. And I know ruby really well).

People here are like "Sure, but don't you want good work/life balance, maybe $175K is just fine for that." Yes, and $175K would be a fortune to me!

I literally don't understand how I get into that market. Because I have worked in academic/non-profit industry my whole career. (which I don't know if that leaves me out now. And I'm in my mid-40s, does that doom me?). I know how to get more jobs in the industries I'm in at about what I'm already getting paid, and have several times...

But I don't understand even the first step to this world where $175K is considered low-paying. I believe I have the engineering skills of anyone at that level. I don't know how to get into it. Help me out?
You can do the same thing in Windows if the software supports dotfiles. There's plenty of Linux software that requires additional configuration beyond dotfiles.
How does he even know universe had a "make" point? Or that it had only one past?
>It is the human brain and human potential.

No. Just no. The most valuable thing is the ecosystem, of which we are just one small, temporary, and insignificant part.

It’s exactly this kind of hubris and overconfidence that is leading us to the next extinction event and to our own doom.

Humans may be good at solving short term problems, but one of the biggest limits on our potential is to collectively act to avert long term threats.

Every civilization from the Egyptians to the Romans thought they had it all figured out in their prime.

The Egyptians literally moved mountains, and they are gone. If we wanted to today, we probably couldn’t rebuild the great pyramid, even with modern machinery. It would be too expensive!

Our technologies have always created more problems than they have alleviated even if you restrict the cost benefit only to the human sphere. The record only becomes worse when you factor in the rest of the world.
I agree that encouraging people to beg former coworkers is shitty, but I'm not sure this is really introducing anything new. If I have a friend who's looking for a job and they ask me to refer them to my employer, then if I think they'd be a bad fit I'm in a similarly uncomfortable position.

Also, MLMs are actual scams, where in this case you'll actually get your money back if they're a good hire.

This idea has real flaws in how it's been implemented, like how the hard limit at which point you get the job (no questions asked?) encourages that begging behaviour to get over the limit, but if it were just another source of information among many used in hiring, like it is with actual referrals, then it wouldn't be so bad.
There's a bit of backstory here where things the auditors used to verify first hand devolved into from-a-distance. And too friendly a relationship with the businesses they were auditing.
That's correct. Mike needed it to test the physics, and I needed it to tune and balance the gameplay.
> A thousands times less people? It would be excruciatingly boring.

I don't think it would be.

> Even now at the peak of cultural and technological production it feels really slow (How many really great movies or song per year? Maybe 1 or 2? Mathematical proof?

To each their own I guess. To me this seems like shallow, vapid passive consumption that is never going to be not-boring no matter how many other people achieve great things while I watch on.

Not to denigrate passive entertainment too much and it has its place, but I couldn't think of anything better than if people got sick of it en masse and started getting most of their entertainment from doing things themselves. Write their own proofs, learn an instrument, play in a local sport team, join a theater group and do their own performances, join a pottery group, start wood working or hacking computers, volunteer.

> Simply finding an acceptable lover?

I'll refrain from taking the cheap shot -- I'm certainly no one-in-one-hundred-billion either :)
I'm also based in Boston, senior dev (FAANG generalist, ~10 years of experience). I make about $200k plus ~$100k RSU/year on average. Previous FAANG paid ~$140k + ~100k RSU/year. I believe my peers make more, and the info I have on CTO salaries at various startups would put $175k on the low end of the CTO pay scale.

If I were you, strictly from a financial point of view, I'd probably test the market to see what offers I get.
Not really, it just looked to me like it filled the blank area of a standard dimension card. Are you surprised when index cards have lines to the bottom, and not just enough?

Though, I admit it had triggered a small, gamer part of me that wanted to get the completionist award for filling every slot.
> Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic. It's not mystery meat cooked up out of scraps of pitch letters and press releases, and pressed into molds of zippy journalese. It's people writing what they think.

Oops. About that. 2005 was a long time ago, eh?
Honestly it is not too different than working at a small product shop or consultancy. Except:
- typically less stress and fewer hours since everyone you work with is much more competent on average (def still have some dumb dumbs or the occasional psycho though)
- You have a deeper “bench” so if you are an elite performer (which you tend to be if you go small tech co to bug tech co) then there are more like you and you are not single threaded on everything. (Downside: you are much more replaceable and being “the guy” is much harder, very noticeable at the Sr/staff/+ levels)
- You code way less. Much fewer “at bats” a lot more reading, researching, working across teams, figuring out the best solution, having it reviewed and then a relatively quick implementation.

Note: the 300k to 600k jump can happen shockingly easy (without promo) if RSU grants appreciate well and refreshers are generous. Doing it the “hard way” (assuming RSUs stay flat) is hard. You need to design, convince others to build, and help build truly impactful systems AND make sure you get a big chunk of the credit.
Look in to creatine. Studies suggest that it may increase cognition for vegetarians (but not omnivores).

Again this has only been demonstrated in a couple of studies. But if you’re on a plant-based diet consider giving it a try.

Omega-3 fats can also be important, but I’m not sure if there’s any vegan options there (it’s been a few years, maybe someone is synthesizing them now.)
I thought I'd share this project in case anyone wanted to quickly evaluate rust for web

https://github.com/wulf/create-rust-app

Although there's a lot of work left to be done, I'd love to hear feedback, painpoints and ideas you have :)

Hoping to have documentation up at create-rust-app.dev soon~
If the risk was meaningful, they would have been getting the vaccine already. But yes, there is tons of unnecessary risk we apply to children every day, but we still do it (I don't think you need the whole driving statistics spiel). We measure risk by acceptability, not by existence.