skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worked in hospitals for years. The day my flu vaccine expired I had to go get another or I would be in violation of my contract. Has been like that for decades.
It isn't just an ignorance of tech, it is an ignorance to things in general. It would be like bringing a stranger into your house where you also have children. Ignorance with tech isn't just an issue with people being ignorant to technology, but overly naive and ignorant in general. Yes, they can claim ignorance but if you bring a stranger into your house and something happens to your child I don't think a judge is going to be all that sympathetic and say... oh, poor you, how could you have known that is a bad idea?!? If you want to enable that, then that is on you but it simply isn't based in reality where that would be a good idea. Buying tech and bringing it into your house that listens to you and is connected to the Internet, and then acting surprised to find out that they keep recordings is on the same level of ignorance. So, yes if you are the type to bring strangers into your house and are surprised when something bad happens, then I can see how you'd be sympathetic.
Few languages ever die completely. Even Jovial is still used in some places (I learned it in 1982). I have not seen any mention of PL/1 in decades, however. I learned APL in 1979 and found it an amazing language at the time, though I never used it again. Every other language I learned in my life is still in use in some form.
I'm not talking about a CEO spending their own money. Companies themselves give to PACs.

For example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-corporate-go...
The capitalist oligarchy will prefer to destroy an industry rather than increase salaries. This is essentially what they did in the US (and around the world) when moving industry to low wage countries.
Federal reserve*
> [t]he problem is there's no obvious place on the filesystem to put that [meta-data] information

Well, there isn't, except the file itself. I.e. you build a protocol on top of it.
Yeah was reading about this the other day locally.

The inflated cost of traveling nurses is used in negotiating new contracts.

Frankly if American workers want better, they need to realize supply and demand applies to labor.

There’s no reason a surgeon should have a Ferrari while the nursing staff that supports them makes $70k year.

It’s highly skilled labor but also, imo, artificially constrained by our educational funding choices.

All of which is politically babysat to be just so according to well paid economists who are trotted out to tell us inequality is normal because that’s how it’s always been.

Americans made kings and robber barons again and just changed the words. Meanwhile petty crime is high treason.

Human society as we know it was set on this path by forever lifers. The end game is the end times. They don’t care if anyone survives, no one will be around to complain.

Drop the worker euphemisms and call everyone people. This arbitrary taxonomy to satisfy political sorting is inhuman.
They always roll over in the end. Better watch Dave Chappelle while you can.
Builder Pattern in Rust
While the person in this story did have (remote) backups, it always amazes me how many people who rely so heavily on their main laptop for their trade/work/business in realtime (e.g. a touring DJ) don't a) carry around a second identical one that b) has everything (apps, data) preloaded on to it.
It would be better for your comment to provide reasonable objections as to why DOMPurify should not be considered state of the art, without spreading fear, uncertainty or doubt.
I read this as "Google is perfectly capable of determining the truth".

Moving from an era of media oligopoly into the internet age was very hopeful IMO, and now it's bottlenecked by even fewer companies.
When I was graduating from college, Marlboro offered me a job in their management training program to become a manager of something. I turned that down despite they offered me the most money of all my offers.
I love how you both acknowledge that health care workers quitting over forced vaccination is an issue while immediately dismissing their actual experience of having worked through both pre and post vaccine covid world and first hand seeing the impact of mass vacination.

If enough health care workers are willing to walk away from their jobs rather than take a vaccine, maybe you should take their observations seriously?
> It strikes me somewhat oddly that one might pay so much for something that literally half the people on this planet is equipped to provide

This is a luxury high-end part of the market. Ruled by the same dynamics as $200 steaks or $2000 bottles of champagne.
>The next step would be for the founders to start personally arranging such activities and see what works and which parts are hard.

Yes! If you really believe you have a solution to a problem, then it makes sense to execute that solution in a way that doesn't scale, to verify that, with infinite resources, the solution works, and it feels good. This is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for what comes next, which is (roughly) about making the production more efficient with technology. If you can maintain the utility of the solution and drive the cost down, there may be profit in those hills!
Email has to be triggered once an hour since the items are fast moving. There is no need to consolidate multiple emails into one.
We have around 50k products and stock levels are at fullfillment location level(100+ locations). We capture the zip code of the user as well so as to trigger email if the item is back at fullfillment location near to him.
>the asshole

*Dick
Nuclear is good. Wood is carbon-neutral. We should use both to move ASAP from gas and coal. Especially that wood is easier to use in some existing coal furnaces.

And if you think that burning wood is carbon-spewing, then thin about what happens in all those forests once the trees age - they either get logged and used for construction, afterwords they get discarded and rot or they don't get logged, collapse and rot. Either way carbon is getting back into the air as CO2.
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Universal Emotions
>but the issue the article points out that she as an escort has no access to law, should something go wrong.

She has little to no access to state sanctioned violence. Call it what it is. If she has a business dispute she has no recourse, she can't sue the other party and get the state to put them in a cage if they don't pay. Drug industry also has the same problem and does its violence in-house. Formerly prostitution did in-house the violence necessary to settle business disputes (i.e. pimps) but the internet has changed the business model somewhat.
> I can't really see any other way to possibly stand out than to try to be radically genuine and sincere

You could have a unique idea that isn't shit. If you can't have a unique idea that isn't shit, you shouldn't be a startup founder in the first place.
Aside from obviously great quote, thanks for reminding me of Stanislaw Lem and Pyron. I grew up reading translations of old Russian books and (I know he was Polish) your comment was a good walk on the memory lane
> Amazing how even raising this as a question gets you downvoted.

That's because it's readily debunked. Nurses largely can't evade the vaccine mandates by moving; virtually all healthcare facilities are subject to the Federal vaccine mandate.

> Yes, I’m sure it’s a factor, and needlessly so considering the vaccine seems to have a negligible effect on transmission.

That doesn't seem to be true.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaccinated-people...

"Both vaccines reduced transmission, although they were more effective against the alpha variant compared to the delta variant. When infected with the delta variant, a given contact was 65 percent less likely to test positive if the person from whom the exposure occurred was fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. With AstraZeneca, a given contact was 36 percent less likely to test positive if the person from whom the exposure occurred was fully vaccinated."
"Pay them. In the scheme of things, it's a[nother] speeding ticket."
We need human time: two dimensional time zones around major metropolitan areas, where time skews automatically a few minutes every morning at 3 a.m. to ensure that sunrise is the same time each day. No daylight savings jumps, and computers can handle cross-zone scheduling. This is easy to do now that everyone has a smart phone or smart watch.
the worst thing about human communicaton (baseless assumptions) finally recreated with technology, I really hope it doesn't get used and abused, but of course it will ...
Is this linkedin? Agree?
The vaccine does reduce transmissibility. From the CDC: "Infections with the Delta variant in vaccinated persons potentially have reduced transmissibility than infections in unvaccinated persons, although additional studies are needed."[0] and Delta is more transmissible than "regular" COVID for the vaccinated (and I think in general).

But the primary benefit of the vaccine is to reduce the burden on the healthcare system. The vast majority (mid-to-high-90%s) of hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated. It stands to reason that the more people running around without being vaccinated, the more people will get hospitalized. At a certain point, death is just a percentage of hospitalization, especially as you have places without beds that have to just turn people away. So fewer vaccines directly correlates to more deaths.

Speaking personally now, I don't care if people don't want to get vaccinated. I think it's idiotic, the vaccine is FDA approved now, hundreds of millions of people have gotten it and side effects are as rare or rarer than any other vaccine. But if you work with the public, especially in public health, schools, etc., there is a list of required vaccinations multiple pages long. Adding one more to the list isn't an encroachment on anyone's civil liberties, and you're free to move elsewhere, but that's not what's happening here.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
> If enough health care workers are willing to walk away from their jobs rather than take a vaccine, maybe you should take their observations seriously?

If you value their opinions in that way, you should get the vaccine.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-sur...

"The American Medical Association (AMA) today released a new survey (PDF) among practicing physicians that shows more than 96 percent of surveyed U.S. physicians have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, with no significant difference in vaccination rates across regions. Of the physicians who are not yet vaccinated, an additional 45 percent do plan to get vaccinated."
I'm not downvoting you, just pointing out that transmission isn't the only reason to be vaccinated in a hospital setting.

Hospital systems are already overwhelmed, so having vaccinated staff reduces the amount of staff that have to miss shifts because they are dealing with covid symptoms.

Vaccines reduce symptoms, death and hospitalizations from covid complications. It's amazing to me that we have hospital staff that would rather listen to the Joe Rogans of the world than to the science they supposedly learned about in college.
At least here in the US, minimum 50% pay increase is literally federal law: "Nonexempt workers must be paid overtime pay at a rate of not less than one and one-half times their regular rates of pay after 40 hours of work in a workweek" [0].

[0]: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/compliance-assistance/handy...
I just bought the audio book. Thanks for the tip!
There are a few things I've learned from the nurses I know...

- Nurses, the primary caregivers in Hospitals, have been treated pretty poorly for a long time. Some of it is pay, some of it is expectations, some of it is just the way the people around them treat them (e.g., the way surgeons often talk to them).

- Some management has gotten down right mean. I know one hospital that has dictated that refusing to work a mandated shift (that's where they keep you longer than your shift to keep working) will cause you to be fired. They've gone through on that already.

- ICU nurses have seen the worst. In places that have had peak COVID it's not unusual for 9/10 people with COVID in the ICU to die. That takes a tole on people.

- Some hospitals are giving huge bonuses to new hires. And better pay. There's nothing like being a senior nurse in an ICU who has more responsibility and higher expectations while having the new person next to them having just gotten a bonus and making more money. You might as well quit and go work at a different nearby hospital to get a bonus and raise.

I wonder what would happen if hospitals starting doing peakon surveys of their people and started working to improve on things.
> please don't use commit messages like 'fix'

You may consider editing your edit.
> As to burning forests, fast growth wood can be harvested in decades not centuries.

Yes, but the main problem being pointed to here is the logging of old forests (they are nature preserves), this isn't about the fast industrial tree plantations of marginal ecological value.
Perak is on the west coast and was one of the first states to come under British influence. The states the grandparent mention are on the east coast and tend to be developmentally uh at an earlier stage.
"...Michael Seibel is a professional hater. I've never been denied so consistently by such a charming, kind, and basically snuggly person."

Haha, chuckled at this. YC was perhaps the only interview in which my co-founder and I felt like the interviewers were incredible kind – but also some of the most challenging ones. We loved it!
The parent talked about Linux, so.
After we have rewritten everything in Rust, we will also have to delete all code, stored anywhere, that was written in C/C++. Storing such code will be considered a Thought Crime and punished by exile to the Radioactive Wastelands.
Remembers me this extension: https://dictionaryofnumbers.com/ (for Chrome, don't know about other browsers).

Not sure it would have give the correct context (i.e., Facebook value) but would give swome context.
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I think the bigger problem here is not just that people have trouble finding those experiences but that all the stuff is targeted at young people. We do some serious work on systemic agephobia and shift some of the cultural focus to People of Age if we want generations to connect.
Feels like nursing is being pushed into the gig economy.
No, the "delivers sound directly to your ears" is a direct quote from the event (I watched the whole thing). You can also find it on The Verge's live blog (they caught that silly quote too) - https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/18/22731639/apple-2021-macb...
Besides the other comments there are legitimate security reasons to be worried about sanitizing in general even in zero-rpc-app cases; malicious files are an attack vector. Eg if you were making Calibre you do still want to be hardened against malicious local files from hijacking the app.
I have stayed away from the industry (in software roles at least) too. It seems so overly bureaucratic and puts process over production. Plus much of the stuff is compartmentalized so you can't see the bigger picture - I'm a big picture kind of guy.
As a semi-curious non-FreeBSD user, is 'sh' on FreeBSD the Almquist shell or something else?
That's also romantic. It's more like, when there were much fewer people living on the planet.
Some years ago while living & working in South Asia, I tried this with a letter to my family back in England, writing the address in Devanagari script. (Another time, also tried it with Urdu.) The UK post office managed to decipher and deliver them just fine.
> but this is capitalism right?

Nope, just fraud. If a contractor makes a deal with the company, that's perfectly fine, normal capitalism. If they make a personal deal with an executive who is supposed to be representing the company in negotiations, then that's straight up bribery.

Capitalism certainly motivates people to commit this type of fraud, but that's why we have laws and regulations. Unregulated capitalism doesn't work.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, or even that it isn't common (this whole comment section suggests that it's quite rampant), just that it's clearly wrong, both from a moral point of view, and because it can cause damage to shareholders. It can even hurt the larger market and society because it means that a company with a superior product/service/innovation will fail because their competitors aren't playing fair.

> the other is about protecting the interests of a successful multi-billion dollar corporation.

It's about protecting shareholders. What would the economy look like if the government didn't make an effort to prevent fraud? Investors wouldn't want to invest, companies wouldn't be able to find funding, etc.
Gilad Bracha is working on Shaperank. An APL inspired language for reactively calculating with multi dimensional arrays. Ie vectors and matrices. https://twitter.com/Gilad_Bracha/status/1450149734325256193
Take it with a grain of salt but I have seen a number of conversations about how hospital groups are applying raises. They take the bottom pay and they apply some dollar amount per year worked/experience. Seems to be wiping out more experienced employees raises.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6267377
Both factors are crucial when retaining people.
Maybe going from being labelled as a hero to "get vaccinated or you're a threat to public health" is not something that sits very well with people.
> Although I agree that there is nothing wrong with client-side sanitization, does this even apply to non-networked apps? Are you protecting your user from?

Kind of from themselves, the app can open arbitrary files, you can't have people nuke themselves by opening a random file they got from the internet, or by pasting in something they don't understand. Also a plugin may sort of escape from the boundaries put on it by XSS-ing its user by outputting some malicious stuff.

> Or perhaps by "doesn't rely on any servers" you mean "serverless", which doesn't literally mean no servers. If your app's client hits a database-as-a-service somewhere then that is a server and it very well can sanitize for you.

No I actually meant no servers at all, it's a 100% local Electron app.
Changing jobs to get a bigger raise has been the standard in every industry for a long time.
Can I download Brave’s index and host it myself for truly private search?
Compare that to a strip mine and it is way smaller horror.

It can create place to live for animals, it can reduce particulates in the air. It's not a normal long-living forest that is grown for wood for 80-100+ years but it's still way better than burning coal.
Sure.

Just like harry potter explores what happens if you have a cloak of deception or time turner. What would happen if Dementors invaded Hogwarts? Forgive me, I haven't actually read the whole series.

I've never heard a definition of hard SF that didn't require some effort to make the science part sound plausible. It's one thing to not hold up to the scrutiny of experts, but there were a number of times I looked up from TBP and thought "that sounds wrong".

If TBP is hard scifi than so is How To Train Your Dragon.
Maybe I'm missing something but it looks like 4x more expensive than some equally specced Chinese phone?
The Remote Development extensions being locked away is the kicker for me. Everything else I've been able to find on alternative "markets" (can we just call them repositories? we're all developers here...)
> (e.g., the way surgeons often talk to them)

To be fair, surgeons talk to everyone that way. I haven’t met a surgeon who didn’t talk down to other people. My theory is that you have to have a huge fucking ego to cut someone open and believe you’re going to make them better.
What the compiler assumes depends on the compilation options.

Unfortunately most compilers have too permissive default options.

C and C++ programs should always be compiled, at least during development, with strict options, e.g.:

-fsanitize=undefined -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error

or equivalent options, which eliminate all the horror stories with unexpected behavior caused by integer divide-by-zero or overflow, pointer overflow, out-of-bounds access and many others.

Because unlike integer operations the FP operations are standardized, there is no need for compiler options, the behavior for exceptions can be controlled from the program with the functions defined in <fenv.h> in C or <cfenv> in C++.
How about: “acting because they are above the law”?
Discrimination is the fundamental goal of college admissions, unless it is a school that accepts everyone who applies.

There are multiple existing bases for such discrimination that don’t make headlines because we’re used to them: grades, test scores, geography, hobbies, interests, national origin, etc. Basically, all the stuff that goes into each kid’s application.

In that context it seems kind of silly to hold up one basis—self-expressed racial identity—as absolutely off-limits for any consideration at all.
My comment is the most up-voted comment. Multiple people complain about the notch in this thread. There's no point in explaining why it looks bad, because if you don't see it, no explanation will make you see it. You are immune to it. Good for you. I'm not saying you should find it ugly.
I haven't written in APL professionally (other than fixing up existing code) but I have been responsible for an APL system and for its replacement.

I'm sure that writing a greenfield APL program is a lot of fun. Initially.

Or if you're just writing vignettes to do some temporary data wrangling then it's fine.

As a language for writing applications that do proper work and need maintaining? Wouldn't be in my top 50 choices of language. And I don't think I've worked with 50 languages yet.
The big HFT firms are, in fact, well known.

https://medium.com/automation-generation/15-well-known-high-...

They're also regulated in various ways.
> does this even apply to non-networked apps? Are you protecting your user from?

Some pages render data from GET parameters, which allows XSS by giving people a link. There's also scenarios where data from localstorage, cookies or manually copy-pasted data is an attack vector. Imagine I get you to paste my document into your text editor and that allows me to extract all your data.
Google had announced that all phones shipping with Android 11 with snapdragon chipset will be eligible for up to 4 Android OS versions (launch release + 3 OS updates) and 4 years of security updates as the result of project treble and getting Qualcomm on line.

Which is more or less is inline with 5 years software support guarantee of FP.
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This is why, in Futurama, the government still uses paper docs.
Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
Well, sure.

A war hero becomes a bad guy if they keep shooting after the enemy surrenders, too. Context matters.
pinterest. Bane of all image searches.
q and k are still actively used in many parts of finance.
I was in a similar situation with my first Pixelbook that I imported from UK because it wasn't available in Germany. Shipping it to a Google certified repair store was quite expensive, but at least I didn't have to pay for a new Chromebook.

I don't know, importing something and then complaining about a lack of service doesn't feel right to me. I knew it'd be a gamble when I imported the Pixelbook and since it got replaced, I haven't had any issues since 2018.