skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My daughter was diagnosed with cancer at 3 years old (stage 4).

I took "family leave", which is possible depending on which state you live in (within the US at least). I was able to take three months of leave (at a reduced pay).

I lived in the hospital the entire time. I never went back to work though, I just couldn't find the focus, time or effort to be productive in a work/team environment. I honestly lost all "care" for work. I couldn't push myself to care at all and work on something when I was sitting in the same room as my daughter and seeing what she was going through.

My daughter is now 6 years old and I still haven't gone back to work.

What has helped me? Not much.

Seeing the care and love from a few friends and family members has certainly helped me and my family, but at the same time I have grown to dislike a lot of people that weren't around at that time. I feel like I learned who my real family and friends are.

If you're wondering how the friends and family helped... they were simply there, repeatedly. They helped us when we were in New York for treatment far from home. They quit their job and flew from their home country to live with us for over a year to help take care of our other daughter while we were living in the hospital.

Reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (Gregory Hayes translation) helped me really think long and hard about my life and what matters (and what doesn't matter). It certainly helped me push forward.
Yeah, because there isn't such thing as C++ language runtime, RTTI, dynamic_cast<>() and loading C++ classes via shared objects. /s
First off, format it - this just comes across as a wall of text.

Next, I'd get rid of all the tech detail. Replace with with a short list of technologies in which you are the strongest, so that you are found by recruiters searching for that tech. Do not even mention a tech unless you want to work with that tech in your next job.

Then focus less on what you did at each job, and more on what impact that work had. Telling me you created an app with 150 forms isn't very meaningful, but telling me what problem those 150 forms solved lets me know what value you can offer.
Can't help much but my uncle had a rare case of cancer in his liver that started to spread. He just wanted to be treated like he didn't have cancer. Sure everyone is different but if he wanted a drink he would try to get it himself. If he couldn't then he'd ask.

My advice is just spend as much quality time with your mom as possible and just be there to listen.
From the nature.com link that you posted:

“The low rate of severe acute disease is important news, but this does not have to mean that COVID does not matter to children,” says paediatrician Danilo Buonsenso at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. “Please, let’s keep attention — as much as is feasible — on immunization.”
Honestly, I think Go's approach of syntactically light green threads is just better than async-as-keyword. There's a lot of other unergonomic stuff (like the verbosity of channel definition) that can make it a pain to use, but that's more Go-the-language's fault.

Everything a modern computer does has potential latency - whether that's waiting for the database to respond or waiting for L2 cache to respond. The programmer and the application needs decide when it's worth waiting around for the result, and when it's important to do other work in the meantime.
It may be difficult but it's worth the attempt.
The largest and best-designed trial so far can only show a small reduction in (badly measured) Covid cases? And we're supposed to extrapolate this to universal masking and imply it could almost wipe out Covid? Ok.

Given that most Western places actually have incredibly large adherence to mask mandates (at least double the best-case 40% measured in this study), and despite the frequent (online) decrying of "anti-mask covidiots are killing us", surely performing this extrapolation would indicate that we should have almost non-existent Covid case numbers, and especially as practically everyone is vaccinated?
Your assumption that selection of a system is binary, as in you either have an absolute unrestricted free market or you have uncompromising centralized state control of the entire economy is missing the question.

We don't have either of those things now (neither does China). Control of the economy exists on a multidimensional spectrum, of which there are many possible options; blaming "capitalism" for a problem is shorthand for noting that, in some situation, the unrestricted free market is leading to negative externalities or a poor use of the commons.
Capitalism is a system where, so it is claimed, atomized individuals pursuing their "rational self-interest" produce an inherent moral and societal good. This is to be aided by a lack of regulation and interference by non-market forces. The freer the markets the freer the people.

This case is a pretty clear example of how this is not in fact the case. By the metrics of a captialist system this should be a huge success. You have investment, voluntary contracts, free markets and fierce competition that results in huge amounts of innovation. Yet the result is horribly useless waste that hurts society. I think it's pretty fair to call it out.
Sure, they might be honest about this – who knows? But anyone known to be peddling snake oil doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt. If they’re telling the truth, there will be others, more trustworthy, who can make the same argument.
> family, sleep, exercise, work, hobbies, friends,

Not to mention you should cook, buy fresh food, stay informed, be politically active, learn new things, keep your house clean, recycle, do health checks up, get a hair cut, but don't use your car for everything and spend some time in nature. Don't forget to read, meet new people, get to zero inbox and fix your shower curtain.
I'm going to use this advice thanks!
On the other hand, astrology is decentralized and requires individuals to find their own values, and to actively interpret the meaning of things they read. I find that being this engaged with something enhances critical and creative thinking.

And in the case of astrology, self-awareness.
Basically LXDE got rebranded into LXQt, though since DEs and WMs don't get obsolete fast, LXDE will continue to work for a long time. You can still pick LXDE in Debian if you prefer Gtk 2 for some reason.
I lost a family member to one of those "supposedly treats Covid" drugs. It was called Remdesivir, and it had the full blessing of the people who told you Ivermectin causes you to shit your intestines out.

It causes kidney failure. Just the thing for treating someone whose lungs are filling with fluid from viral pneumonia.

I really wish at the time they went in the hospital (in December) that I had known the WHO had withdrawn it from their recommended treatment list the month before, in November 2020. BUT that particular piece of news was not important to the people who run the big propaganda campaign against Ivermectin.
Swift Protobuf JSON enum parsing isn't forwards compatible
I've always been fascinated by the fact that these claims are always completely unfalsifiable.

"A lot of companies use this <non mainstream language> in internal projects but since it's internal, we can't show you".

It reminds me of "I have a girlfriend but she goes to another school".
Have lived in one. Developed severe allergies to blond hair, tennis attire, and HOA landscape boards.

B--, would not live in again.
Are you saying this because you measured it, because you have anecdotal evidence that it is true, or because it is something that you believe?
Also see @graphql-tools/schema-stitching [0] and its handbook [1] with examples. Note the stitching gateway approach is slightly different than Apollo Federation. We are (lightly) using schema-stitching and happy with it so far – but haven't pushed it much yet.

[0] https://www.graphql-tools.com/docs/schema-stitching/stitch-c...

[1] https://github.com/gmac/schema-stitching-handbook
It's mainly about deterrence. Right now, crime is happening because criminals understand there is lax enforcement.
> "engineers, apply through our API"

Love it. Self-selecting and fun!
I traveled in East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, as well as Western Europe, in the 1980s. Visited Leipzig in 1986. Also visited Beijing in 2015 on the worst air-quality week of that year. Leipzig was by far the most polluted place I have ever been. It's wonderful to see its transformation. I hope to see it in person again some day. (Pittsburgh and Bethlehem, in my native Pennsylvania, as well as major cities like Philadelphia and NYC, are all far cleaner and nicer today than in the 1980s. NYC is dramatically cleaner than it was as recently as 1999.)
Those mitigating circumstances are good things to think about, but aren't applicable to my experience. If you've got hard data, please post it. I was unable to find utilization rates. Total ridership is easy to find, but not answering the questions at hand (utilization and uptime).
The number of residencies was capped in the 1980s, so of course doctors don't struggle to find a job. Residents do that.
I'm really surprised that the JS challenges helped so much, given that there are open source libraries for bypassing them (e.g. cloudscraper[0]).

[0]: https://github.com/venomous/cloudscraper
SDLC: Developers Onboarding and Offboarding Processes
Off topic!

I'm really curious about how hners think/feel about astrology. Do you "believe" in it or does it help in any meaningful way?

I grew up thinking these kind of things are for the "uneducated" but I'm surprised by how many smart people I meet nowadays who really care about this stuff. So, I'm really curious!
"the vaccines have been tested and are understood as part of being distributed for decades."

Obviously during the first years they were in use these vaccines had not been "distributed for decades". That's the era we're in with COVID.
That would be a great name for a food truck.
Did I say he's wrong? I'm simply pointing out a conflict of interest, which is a legitimate fact to bring to light.
Please stop spreading misinformation. I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, but by your definition vaccinated people are also "walking bioweapons". The main benefit of vaccination is in preventing severe symptoms, not transmission. Since the virus is now endemic we'll all likely get infected eventually regardless of vaccination rates.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
Have never seen the word in my life. Had to DDG it, came here as I'm already on the site.
It's tough but the toughest part you're encountering is the newness of it. When my mom was diagnosed I was a wreck. Then it evened out a bit and now that she's nearing the end, I'm a wreck again. There's an emotional pointedness to these types of things that dulls a bit with time.

I would say just be with her and help out where you can, be normal, do normal things (as much as possible), chat. Maybe cook some food to help out, pick up the house, etc. Even though my mom can't eat much anymore, I've been taking food for my dad, trying to keep his energy up, doing dishes, small stuff like that along with the occasional big task. I hope treatment can bring remission for your mother but you should know now that if it doesn't or if it doesn't last, cancer will rob her of her dignity in a very ugly way and you should prepare yourself for that. At the same time stay hopeful. My mom got much longer than I thought she would when first diagnosed.

Anyways, think about what you would want if you were confronting what your mom is. Probably after the shock wore off you'd realize you wanted meaningful experiences. Not necessarily big, just meaningful. A trip to a bucketlist location can be meaningful but so can a sleepy day spent inside or a surprise visit.

>But its life I suppose and we have to accept it and learn to deal with it. I am just learning to , and am looking for some direction here, so I can do my best to balance a job and take care of my family through this time.

Well if the balance has to change a bit then it has to change, that's really all there is to it frankly. You just have to be honest with yourself about it. It's okay to cry in the parking lot, just give yourself a few minutes, blow your nose, wipe up your eyes and then you go in and do the job. Or if you need time off to care for her, then take it. Anyways the thing about life is you don't have to do anything except live it and it's the same for death too. You'll figure out your own way through it as will your mom. One last thing, don't feel guilty about doing other things, going out to the bar and having a good time or seeing a sports game or all that normal stuff. It'll help you a lot and it'll help your mom worry a little less about you, plus it gives you something interesting to talk about. She's going to be living in cancer world for a while and she'll get sick of talking so much about it.

Anyways my situation may be drastically different from yours. But since you're coming here you're probably struggling with some degree of self-doubt about how to handle this, don't worry because you obviously love your mother and so you'll find the ability to do what you have to. And it's all still fresh so be easy on yourself now - you may have to be hard on yourself later.

I wish your mother all the luck in the world with her treatment.
feature requests -

- initials with full name, in various orders (country differences), and

- full name with given name, to see how it reads, sounds, feels.
> It helps with making some specific kind of concurrency easy to reason about, because the context switch is explicit

Assuming you're disagreeing with this, yeah, I've seeing "easier concurrency" be a massive footgun because you have code that's safe as long as an await doesn't get added in the wrong place.
Comparing to Python and Javascript, referencing an unused name in source without reaching it in your execution path will not cause an error.

a=4
3+a
3+a or 3+b

in a strongly-typed language, that would break compilation. So, Java and C will not compile those, either, but the article doesn't go into other cases where Haskell types are more useful for preventing various errors, such as Data.Result, which can either be a result of the type you expect or an error type, and which the compiler requires you to handle both cases. I think the write up would have benefited from some of the more advanced cases like this.
I eat a lot of beans, and not soaking the beans has always ended up giving me gas. Do you not experience this?

As for flavor, I can't recall having more flavor coming from not soaking the beans. In fact I get more umami richness from a long soak.
in this case there was no standard of care
> If you encrypt it, you have to, at some point, also send the keys to the user.

Not if you're using a public key cryptosystem and the user generates their own private key. Only the public part is communicated (from the user to the source of the information), and that isn't enough to decrypt the document.
I do remember a take home project given to me over Christmas, with a serious expectation that I not take more than 48 hours.

Oh, and my favorite one, a ‘pop-quiz’ take home test. They wouldn’t tell me what time they were sending it, and just suddenly sent it. I mean they told me what day, but they wouldn’t say what time. So I had to sit around and just wait for hours and ‘bam’ there was the email with a time limit given.

Can’t make this shit up. There’s truly something uniquely douchey about tech hiring that I can’t exactly put my finger on. It’s either some tacky attempt by startups, or in a similar vein, a tacky attempt by larger orgs. Douchey is the only word that comes to mind.
>The reason being is most unvaccinated people don’t believe it isn’t effective, they don’t like being forced to protect themselves by a bunch of moral busybodies.

I think this is something that's very understated in public discussion around COVID-19, I got vaccinated because I weighed up the odds and thought it made sense from both a social and a personal cost/benefit perspective. I didn't get vaccinated because I was gaslit into it by the government's "nudges", nor did I get it because I was nagged or shamed into it by those who can't keep their noses out of other people's business. There's few things I dislike more in a person than a Puritan wagging finger, yet all the messaging around the pandemic was nothing but wagging fingers.

People don't like being manipulated, even if it's "for their own good" or even "for the greater good". People aren't stupid either, they know when authority figures aren't being entirely upfront with them. As well-intentioned as the measures were, the institutions who imposed them have burned up a lot of public trust in the process with the use of fear and coercion as a tool to manage the pandemic as well as being a bit economical with the truth instead of just saying "we don't know" where appropriate. I think the unfortunate persistence of the anti-vax movement is partially down to this instinct for authoritarianism and shaming people rather than extending an olive branch.

I do wonder if "vaccines mean we can permanently rid ourselves of masks, distancing, and other authoritarian restrictions" would have been more effective as a campaign than "get the vaccine or you're a horrible selfish piece of crap who probably wants to bump off grandma for her inheritence". Maybe it wouldn't have made a difference, but I think it would.
If browsers provided an option to block third party script requests… solved.
I made one of these for Yahoo! Health in 2000. Naturally it was not an app. Good idea!
> A Cyber Incident means any of the following acts:

> [...]

> (b) [...] theft, [...] of [...] Rental Vehicle

Well, IANAL, but how is a car theft a "Cyber Incident"?
I know one of the founders, and she has a deep background in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, as I do as well. Astrology as a contemplative and epistemological practice has deep roots; the idea that astrology is "real" in a physical causal sense goes back to Ptolemy and only persists because of the historical influence of the Christian church. I've written a bit on the topic here: https://listed.to/@simpolism/27322/what-is-astrology

As an engineer who's also studied a bit of astrology and has played around with how one might produce a description language to support the astrological symbolic apparatus, I think a functional language is a great choice. The idea of strict types defined as a set of symbols makes perfect sense in astrological terms. Although I'm much more familiar with OCaml/SML than Haskell, a basic outline would be something like:

type Planet = Sun | Moon | Mercury | ...

type Sign = Aries | Taurus | ... | Pisces

type House = 1 | 2 | ... | 12

Using this, you could represent a whole chart in a pretty straightforward way. And then you could have higher order constructs, which represent meaningful formal relationships, like:

type Aspect = (Planet, Planet, Degree)

type Rulership = (Planet, Sign)

etc. It's a pretty natural idea, to use a strong type system to represent what is effectively a formal language (astrology).
why aren't you using a mechanism to timeout downstream dependencies?
"I'm even subscribed to one of these websites because I really do want to support the Creator"

This is exactly what my article is recommending. You build a funnel. You put a lot of cool loud stuff on Youtube. But you also build a loyal customer base who will support you on a personal site.

Whoever this creator is that you are supporting is doing exactly what I am recommending.
The big FAANG do for what it's worth. They have entire ML pipelines looking at hiring. The following isn't about interview effectiveness but is one example of the analysis done:

https://catonmat.net/programming-competitions-work-performan...
Agreed. This is like linking to the windshield-exclusion in your auto policy (generally an add-on because they're so regularly damaged by gravel/those without mudflaps), or the flood-exclusion for things stored in your basement if you reside in a flood plain.

Cyber insurance has sometimes been thrown into other policies, but presumably the risk profile is getting poor enough for Chubb that charging separately is preferable.
The way I understand it is that the spirit of Free Software is _user_ freedom - they are free to use the software in any way they wish without restrictions. SSPL meets this bar no differently than any other license with provisions requiring open sourcing code. Open Source, per the OSI, has a particular point of view, in one clause they feel SSPL fails the test: their interpreted ambiguity of what triggers related code to also require the same license felt like it was too infectious — i.e. it could not live harmoniously in an ecosystem of deployed software because of their fear that mere interactions could be considered a triggering event. The reality is that is not true. Not only does the license very clearly outline the condition (basically it eliminates the proxy loophole AWS has historically used), the creators of the license also created an accompanying FAQ providing further clarifications of intent. I find the strong emotional reaction people get when someone asks why SSPL doesn’t count is quite odd. I find the fact that literally nobody (besides the OSI in extremely weak argumentation that the license self-clarifies on, the authors repeatedly clarified on, and the accompanying FAQ removes all doubt) can provide a coherent argument in opposition even more strange. If I want to provide an equally vitriolic remark, I think the reality of why OSI rejected it, and why some people feel so strongly opposed, is ironically the same suspicions they casted on the genesis of the license (MongoDB has a business interest in this license): look at the members of the OSI — there are a number of IaaS people, who of course would be opposed to recognizing a license that stops their grift.
I personally love shooting sports. Since I was a kid, I always wanted to participate in shooting sports and even now, I enjoy the feeling of making a great shot. One can argue about whether it's the best mode of entertainment, etc. but for me (and many like me), it's a pleasure of life.

Let's try to stop people from operating heavy machinery which kills many multiples of people before we move to guns?

Note: I am personally pro individual car and gun ownership, just wanting to show you an alternate take on your statement. Personally I'm way more likely to die because of an incompetent driver than someone shooting me, so if I really wanted to reduce the risk of harm coming to me I'd prefer if we made it way more difficult to operate a car in public.
Very cool. My only gripe with the UI is that when opening the popularity graph of a name, using the Android system-wide back button does not close the popularity graph. That would be handy.
Isn't double taxation when a tax applies on top of another tax? I think some people are trying to co-opt what it means to apply the "bad" reputation of double taxation to other things.

My own country has a famous issue with double taxation as I know it: diesel/gasoline have a specific tax and then VAT is calculated on top of original_price * gas_tax, instead of the original price.

So if the gas tax goes up 1% we end up paying more than 1% because it also the increases the value of the VAT.
Should I Hire a MSP?
The promise and paradox of decentralization
Oh, so it's just like philosophy and science, except without any philosophical or scientific backing.
Small, dense, walkable. Does it exist in America? I don't think so.