skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about the demand for technicians, but I will say that many EEs today don't really have the practical experience that a EE several decades ago would have. I know many students who have never touched a soldering iron, are afraid of working inside a computer, and would not be able to repair a basic piece of equipment. I would imagine that technician support would be needed for those engineers in the lab.
that's great, you only need one brave individual or company to set a precedent and the "cancel culture" will stop.

that's how you overcome the bystander effect and bullying in general.
You should have negotiated for equity. That's where all the real money is. RSUs/ISOs/NSOs whatever. If you were CTO of a revenue generating project and didn't get a % of the business, that is what you did wrong.
I think the argument would go something like this

Context 1) Black person more likely to have a higher percentage of friends/close co-workers who are also black

Context 2) Black persons are often coming from disadvantaged backgrounds

Conclusion) Black person's network is less able to gamble on their future success as they may be paying off significant personal or familial debt
You don't. You just need one to go to daycare, public school, or college.
> single, no kids

Yeah that is playing on easy. Now try with a big suburban home, private schools, and wife who needs a lot of healthcare.
Just pointing out the incongruent bias, sorry for baffling you.
> end using Social Security for this

This is really key here. Practice shows 2 things: (1) a national ID is needed to operate the United States and (2) in lieu of a proper system, a much worse system is being used with ongoing catastrophic impacts to people's lives from fraud and identity theft as well as the commensurate cost to the state at every level.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/explo...

This source says text messages. Thought I saw instant messages somewhere else.
> We always show salary as a normal distribution but maybe it is bimodal.

Who are we? Which salaries?

Starting salaries for lawyers are one of the most famous examples of a bimodal distribution you can find. Salaries across the country generally are less bimodal than that. But salaries shouldn't be modeled as a normal distribution in any event. They skew high very easily, and they can never skew low.
It's not the artwork that s being sold, but the biggest stunt of his career. Obvious well played is obvious
effects are listed among others here: https://selfhacked.com/blog/carnivore-diet/
Seminal Michael Faraday paper digitally stored in fluorescent dyes
> The landing page clearly states you double your money if they get hired.

That should be a warning sign to you that this is a scam.
Don’t let this study have any influence on you at all. It was funded by the meat industry and is a ridiculous meta analysis of studies that make no effort at all to separate cause from correlation.

(I’m a meat eater - but junk science should be flagged off HN and such “scientists” should be shunned)
> I think it's relatively uncontroversial that malnutrition has mental health side effects.

Perhaps, but I think the next step, showing that vegetarian diets / vegan diets are more likely to have poor nutrition, is harder.

There's a portion of meat-eaters who live on terrible diets and don't get enough nutrition due to their primary source of vegetables being the potatoes in fries. Is that portion more or less than the portion of vegans/vegetarians that have poor nutrition?

Studies about diets and longevity usually show vegans and vegetarians living mildly longer than typical meat eaters, which to me seems like at least a small data-point that nutritional deficiencies aren't more pronounced in the former group.
bowel cancer, IBS, diverticulitis, heart disease
I think that's logistical. It's much much straight forward to simply get and produce evidence of getting the necessary vaccines available to us than test every individual for antibodies for each contagious viral threat in existence, past or present.
Maybe related: depression related to low fat diets, and thus low amounts of cholesterol in the brain. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/19/ho...
Not necessarily. I was a localvore before I went vegetarian, and the place where I got my chickens, pork, lamb and beef was ~10 miles from my house. (I live in a hipster city.) I did this because I liked meeting my animals and watching them be butchered. (Industrial meat production is wildly, horrifically cruel by comparison.)

Now I'm vegetarian because meat is just too effing expensive when purchased ethically. I can't justify $40 steaks and $20/lb chicken, and to be honest, steak just really isn't that tasty... and bacon is awful for you. I'm also tired of chicken for the most part. Now that I've found soy curls I make way more fake-meat dishes than ever before.

I'm not vegan because trying to get protein from vegan sources is too difficult. I still eat fish and eggs (but not milk, cuz cow milk is nasty) and I'll never give up cheese even though milk is taken from baby cows/sheep waaay to soon (they are switched to milk substitutes).

But I get it, I like to cook, and if you don't like to cook, nothing is easier than throwing a steak on a grill.
> leet code is not relevant to the type of position I'd be looking for

Leetcode is relevant to getting the money though. It may be the case that inexperienced new hires with Leetcode proficiency make significantly more money than CTOs in the positions you're considering.
Good, even if you disagree, other people's opinions don't hurt you.
He doesn't need to worry if this helps his career or not.

People who may want to hire him won't put off by this.

It is pointless to try to generalize this website to any other context.
I don't think not having a complete understanding how something (the universe) works is a good reason to attribute it to God.
You think kids should be vaccinated despite having no danger? why?
fuck me, I need a new job.
+1

Its not about diagrams and SQL, its about a bunch of things, that can be broadly related to "making everyone more effective at the work they do", "lead huge company changing projects" and "create enough value to have a budget to hire a large team and build a thing to achieve a business goal"
Pthalates are added to many lotions, shampoos, and cosmetics. The FDA allows companies to list phthalate additives as 'fragrance'.
> trend away from meat

Don’t let your American (or Western European) viewpoint distort the overall world trend of increasing meat consumption. As more Chinese enter the middle class, their meat consumption rises drastically. It’s up 33% in the last 7 years.

* https://www.reuters.com/article/sponsored/china-appetite-sti...
It's true, and that's exactly why it's a catastrophic idea and should be property identified as a form of corruption. In those countries (and you have some form of those issues creeping in western countries if you look attentively) you have an elite, a cast forming around some aspect of public management as the only way to get those kind of job is to get enough money to get it and the only way to get enough money is to be part of the cast. As such after only one generation those positions are filled by people that are 1) not the best and 2) often incompetent.
I dont think economics works that way. You absolutely can escape a hole by digging deeper. "Escaping" including mechanisms such as trigger a revolution, pogroms, world wars etc.
My initial reaction is disgust. But I'm trying to give the idea the benefit of the doubt, and I can see the appeal -- abstractly. But it definitely seems like one of those utopian concepts that completely fails to account for what would happen in real life.
> the Federal Government having the power to take away someone's source of income for their family if they don't take an experimental drug,

Cominarty is fully approved (its true that some products under EUA can also be used.)

It is also not, legally, a drug.

> Look at Florida, the most recent data shows they have some of the lowest infection/death rate despite never locking down and never forcing state wide mandates.

Out of 56 US states and territories, Florida has the seventh highest 7-day per capita death rate, over 1.5× the national rate; hardly “some of the lowest”.

It actually has a fairly low per capita newly-identified case rate, but that seems likely to be because the laxity of control measures is also making nonsevere cases less likely to be detected.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona...
There is nothing experimental about the mRNA vaccines.
oh please, you can stop now. we get it.
It’s a legal thing: unpaid work is illegal. So they probably didn’t want to risk it and carry the liability.
I think there would be some initial shock if we had to pull the trigger on the food we eat but eventually it would just be normal and those who enjoy meat would and those who don’t won’t. I would bet no one was squeamish at a food market several hundred years ago.
As others have posted, the CEO replied to the reddit mob:

> This is the CEO. We actually launched just to get feedback and clearly the feedback was not positive, so we are definitely going to talk to a lot more people before moving forward. We really were not aiming for something discriminatory and actually had long discussions about it with quite a few people, but we didn't get close to the right outcome, so we will talk to a lot more people before moving ahead.

> Thanks for the feedback.

He had ~-1000 points when I checked (I dont know how voting on reddit works)

I'd like to think there would be some respect for the attempt, apparent failure, and explanation - this is exactly what should be happening as companies take risks and try to build something valuable.

Reverting to feigned indignation that someone could even propose a new way of hiring is not helpful.

Like i said in my other post, I think it's a bad idea too. That's no reason to act like they're committing a major transgression.
>We will never find an answer to that question because it is literally unanswerable.

Then putting the "god" argument over the table seems either lazy or antropocentric.

The correct answer (as from today), it's "we don't know". You don't need to put any god, "energy" or whatever myth you know over ignorance.
It's further than uncomfortable, it's embarrassing.

I would feel embarrassed for both of us if a coworker reached out asking for me to put down $50 so they can get a job.

Not to mention I would never do it (as either party) because it feels very slimy.

This is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever seen on this site. Reminds me that even 'elites' like YCombinator (or at least as I've built them in my mind) are just humans who do stupid things sometimes too though, so that's cool.
Good article, a litrevew of sorts focusing on long term immunity (B cell behavior) and multiple infection events. Dissapointingly, studying only infection + vaccine and vaccine + vaccine (+ booster) sequences. Looking forward further work to tackle vaccine + infection and infection + infection cases. A couple bits that caught my eye (i.e. reinforced my biases), though the whole article is well worth a read.

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> The team isolated hundreds of memory B cells — each making a unique antibody — from people at various time points after infection and vaccination. Natural infection triggered antibodies that continued to grow in potency and their breadth against variants for a year after infection, whereas most of those elicited by vaccination seemed to stop changing in the weeks after a second dose. Memory B cells that evolved after infection were also more likely than those from vaccination to make antibodies that block immune-evading variants such as Beta and Delta.

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> As breakthrough infections caused by the Delta variant stack up, researchers including Nussenzweig are keen to study the immunity in people who were infected after their COVID-19 vaccinations, rather than before. An individual’s first exposure to influenza virus biases their responses to subsequent exposures and vaccinations — a phenomenon called original antigenic sin — and researchers want to know if this occurs with SARS-CoV-2.
BS - the steak you didn’t eat yesterday doesn’t resurrect the cow, it just gets eaten by someone else.
> "God" is a name we assign to the force behind the original, unexplained creation.

This is the essence of much of Hinduism, particularly monist sects like Saiva Siddhanta
I'm (perhaps naively) shocked at how opposed to this people are on Reddit, but especially on HN. This community was founded on startup ideals of trying radical ideas, knowing that most wouldn't succeed but some would go on to have outsized positive impact. Anyone who claims to definitively know that this idea would have problematic/racist results is kidding themselves. I've worked with and mentored a lot of minority candidates (who often have trouble with the cultural test that is getting and passing interviews), and my first thought on reading this idea was: "Sweet, I could start a little fund getting under-represented people I know jobs; I think I could probably even make it profitable. This could be transformative." Of course I don't know for sure that it would work, but to just confidently dismiss it out of hand seems about as stupid as the people who, upon first hearing about Lambda School ISAs, insisted that it was morally akin to slavery.
I would guess that it’s to reduce risk of transmission to people who are high risk.
People hate it because it does what MLM's do. It turns a social relationship into an extractive one.

Think about how it would work in practice. It's not going to always be a cool professional interaction: "Hey, I was wondering, could you give $50 to my crowdfund?" You: "Nah, sorry." Them: "Okay, thanks for your time."

It'll be more like "Contribute $50 to my crowdfund. Pleeaasseee I need this job. I'm having a tough time, I won't be able to make my rent if I don't get this job, and my wife's about to have our second child. Come on, man." It's really hard to refuse, but you'll also be resentful. You don't go around hitting up your former coworkers for money.

It turns a social relationship into an extractive one. Which gives people the heebie-jeebies. You're basically being told "Give me money, or I'll kill our friendship." It's approximately as appealing as someone who says "Give me money, or I'll kill your dog."

I certainly understand having a seething hatred for a company that makes money by encouraging my friends to act that way toward me.

Also, a lot of SWE's are introverts. I'd like to think I'm pretty good at what I do, but I don't know that I have contact information for 20 former coworkers, let alone be able to put together 20 people who know me well enough that I think they'd put $50 on me.

As to YC would have funded this: For founders and VC's, the line between social and business might be pretty blurry. It might be a cultural blind spot, if you're deep in the VC world, you're probably an extrovert with hundreds of business contacts, and you've maybe forgotten how taboo it is to pitch your acquaintances for money as a normal person.

It seems the Internet quickly gave the company a taste of the public's reaction when they started showing off their "brilliant" idea. And to their credit, they went offline more or less immediately.
> Remind you of anything?

Sloppy metaphor?

Seriously: what am I supposed to glean here?
Who else is going to find a study that might show meat is good?
THIS IS WHAT THEY BELIEVE

https://youtu.be/QsAnssN1cxM
A bottle of Metamucil, a psyllium husk fiber supplement, indicates on it that helps with "heart health by lowering cholesterol" and "healthy blood sugar levels". I'm sure you can find studies that both support and deny these claims, but I understand the general consensus to be that these claims are supported by science.

Heart disease is #1 killer of Americans, diabetes is #7 according to CDC [1].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Thank you for posting this! I agree.

Address bar: I know what I want and I want it to only search in bookmarks and history.

Search bar: I don't quite know what I want and I want to open an internet search for it. And possibly give suggestions from actual search results.

Separating the address and search bars is the first thing I do when I set up a new Firefox. I hope it will stay around but I'm somewhat bracing myself for it to go away eventually.
Right but it's USB C, not thunderbolt.
They must be stopped!
I earn about 60% of yours with 0 YoE with no leetcode process in a state without income tax. I think you can easily do better.
You’re right. Something I meant to say but didn’t in my comment above is that Japanese schools are more diverse than they seem to many people, including Japanese.

In the U.S., people tend to be keenly aware of school differences, because public schools have a lot of local autonomy and are typically locally funded. In Japan, because the curriculum and many other education-related matters are determined by the Ministry of Education, there is a large degree of apparent nationwide uniformity, especially between grades one and nine. For example, in every elementary and junior-high-school classroom I have been into in Japan, and in almost all that I’ve seen in photographs, all of the desks face the front of the room and the outside windows are on the students’ left-hand side [1]. There doesn’t seem to be any similar uniformity at least in California [2], where I went to elementary school more than fifty years ago.

This apparent uniformity can give people who have experienced Japanese schools only as students the impression that whatever they happened to experience in school—a lot of bullying, say, or none at all—must be typical of the entire country.

Of course, people in other countries might overgeneralize their individual educational experiences, too.

[1] Google image search for 小学校 教室 [elementary-school classroom]

https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E5%B0%8F%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A...

[2] Google image search for elementary-school classroom California

https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=elementary-school+classroo...
> While some employees disagree, we have a strong belief that content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm

I think it's pretty ludicrous for the CEO of a film business to say this. Film has been used to make people do harmful things in the real world for a century.
But the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission, and kids are at such a low risk already. What confidence does the vaccine give you?
Fiber is a funny choice because it's good for digestive health, but by definition, is food content you body has no interest in.
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This is simply a God of the gaps argument [0]. Just because we don't (yet) know how the universe was created does not mean that we must attribute it to some deity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
* refuse to accept college IDs as valid for voting, even those issued by the state government because it's a state school (college students are more likely to vote for the "wrong" party). Hunting licenses? Cool (people with hunting licenses are more likely to vote for the "right" party).

* prevent college students who live most of the year in-state, and can prove it, but have an out-of-state driver's license, from voting.

* place extra hoops on people whose name doesn't match their birth certificate, make them produce every document with every change and toss their registration if there's a typo (this mainly affects married women, who are more likely to vote for the "wrong" party). This is an effective way to disenfranchise a lot of older women who don't have a current driver's license.

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Do you have studies/papers/numbers for any of these groups?
> ideals of trying radical ideas

It’s hard to distinguish between radical ideas and truly stupid ideas.

There needs to be a better filter to get rid of bad ideas because some are horrible (ie, this one).

I think it’s funny that people assume that all radical ideas are worth trying and that change can only be good.
Kelvin also said other things that turned out to be unbreakable rules. You can't do anything you can imagine just because Kelvin was wrong once. That's magical thinking.
It's actually totally a scam. the setting file lies plainly in your c:/users/<username>/appdata/roaming/logishrd/logiOptions

And they are just plain xml file that are not even being encrypted.
The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
That is absolutely hilarious.

Thanks for pointing that out.
Newspaper informed Missouri about website flaw. Governor accused it of hacking
Should there only be medical exemptions for abortions, too?
From eesmith:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Norway
> The indeterminate penalty (civilian penal code), called "preventive detention" (Norwegian: forvaring), is set at up to 21 years' imprisonment, with no eligibility for parole for a time period not exceeding 14 years. If the prisoner is still considered dangerous after serving the original sentence, the detention can be extended by five years at a time. Renewal of the detention every five years can in theory result in actual life imprisonment.

So it can actually be longer.
Under 4% of the population of Canada has tested positive for COVID. So it's not really of much import, frankly.
Carbon capture aint easy, and scaling it isn’t as easy as “solar freakin roadways” makes it seem.

This would give us a lot of bang for the buck but for some reason it’s been years and it’s not taking off — why?

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/10/12/seaweed-could-help-cow-f...
About 100,000 per year, actually.
Yet many claim keto diets have cured their digestive issues.
You think there is no Covid-19 risk for kids? Why?

Actually, don't tell me. Save your breath -- you never know when you might need it.
That's not how it works. If I take a picture with 2x crop sensor at 100mm f/2 it is going to be exactly the same picture as at 50mm f/4 on a FF camera. Its just how it works. They have proven it using the DOF equation by showing that scaling the CoC factor down with the focal length and scaling the focal length down means you have the same DoF as long as the actual aperture diameter is the same, algebraically. I gave you an explanation of why it is the same because the solid angle is preserved. In the end you're making the typical photographer mistake of misunderstanding crop factor.
You don’t need vaccination to have no lockdowns.

And you misspelled backward.
Not really. YCombinator throws a lot of relatively small amounts of money at the wall to see what sticks. Getting past that initial investment is the bit where you will fail. The runway the YCombinator cash will give you is not very long.
To make it worse, the installer that's automatically downloaded and run has admin permissions and could be exploited to gain admin access on any Windows computer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28273283
Nah, sorry, people are looking at this all wrong.

Compare this to services that allow you to pay for practice interviews.

50$ for a garenteed tech interview sounds cheap.
Or increasingly to enter a large number of other venues including offices--or to stay employed generally.
If you are an Australian, you can easily come to the US as a software engineer.
That's the quiet part out loud though. Covid was exceptional, showing proof you have taken injections for arbitrarily "necessary," medications is population management.
Strange to use "redlining" as an example of "ongoing" discrimination. It was banned by the Fair Housing Act of 1968 - 53 years ago.

This reminds me of when people use the murder of Emmett Till to argue how evil white people are. He was furtively killed in 1955 - 66 years ago.

When the best latest examples are this old it kind of cuts against the whole accusation. It's like saying Joe is such a jerk, look, he kicked a dog 50 years ago.
Just remember not to lie to everyone about the relative safety of your plants.
https://www.who.int/news/item/30-03-2017--depression-let-s-t...