skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Some degree of moving around between companies is good for a career as it exposes people to different companies’ ways of doing things and helps someone determine what they like (or don’t) about different companies.

But there’s also something great about a company where people genuinely enjoy working for the long term and aren’t just using it as a springboard to the next opportunity.

Having a lot of employees with short time horizons leads to a lot of sacrificing long-term objectives in favor of short-term line items that sound good on a resume. That’s not to say that people can’t accomplish great things in 1-3 years, but when nobody’s time horizon extends beyond that, every goal gets altered to fit within that time frame.

Or worse, people start getting very good at starting ambitious projects, getting them to proof-of-concept phase, and then leaving because they can put it on their resume as an accomplishment. I’ve moved through some companies they were basically a graveyard of half-finished projects they nobody wanted to inherit because they all wanted to start their own thing rather than pick up the hard parts of someone else’s half finished project.

Of course, this requires the company to reward employees appropriately to make it worthwhile to stay. Many companies have figured this out, but many smaller corps underpay as long as possible and count on a steady turnover as part of their compensation strategy. Not great, IMO. Become a workplace that people want to stick with for a long time.
While you may disagree with what PragmaticPulp had to say, the tone of this last comment is unnecessarily hostile.
Are you by any chance seriously putting forth the 3/5s compromise as a positive outcome?
Africa has the youngest population in the world and they deal with viruses on a daily basis that are much more deadly than covid to young people. It will be hard to entice people to get vaccinated for covid in these situations.
> The digital touch screen ones won because they are so much easier to clean. A current model induction stove is a completely flat sheet of glass.

For sure it’s easier to clean, but on the ones I’ve used I find the “buttons” very fidgety because of this flat design. I’d sacrifice some ease in cleaning for the tactile feedback of mechanical buttons or ideally a (stepped) dial.
Can you think of some reasons politicians might not like a compromise like that?
They teach the immune system how to fight the virus, reducing duration and quantity of infection, which reduces opportunities for the virus to replicate and potentially mutate.
This is what Vancouver has tried [1]. It doesn't seem to have worked.

The problem here is that it's too easy to game. You can put in a token resident. The same can apply to having income limits on houses. You have a low income resident who just happens to have rich friends who visit.

I think we need to attack the idea that rich people use real estate to park money and avoid taxes.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-16/taxing-th...
Space law hasn’t been changed since 1967 – but the UN aims to update laws
> I very much prefer English, it is much more logical

First time I ever heard someone say that about English!
The irony is that most of these towns depend entirely on tourists for theirs existence. Those tourist dollars depend on Airbnbs (no one is permitting new hotels in these towns).
Zero is ideal, but a reasonable reduction is acceptable if we can pile together a number of different mitigations to get the effective transmission rate below 1.
Courts have consistently found that police do not have an obligation to prevent crime. It's not hyperbole, it's standard operating procedure
Do we really need to be able to set the RGB value of the interior lighting? This seems so ridiculous.
Your typical Swiss ski resort village is stacked full of multilevel apartments, cleverly disguised as rustic chalets:

https://chalet.myswitzerland.com/holiday-rentals/grindelwald...

Superior public transport (quite a few villages ban cars entirely), much higher wages and ruthless exploitation of immigrant labor are also factors though.
Not using OneDrive is flagged as a security warning in Windows Security. There are no alternative options for Ransomware data recovery.
So if you insist on not doing oncall and they reduce your salary, were you getting paid for oncall or not?
> It is quite nice to see, in 2021, someone publishing original thoughts on a blog with their own photos (mostly).

agreed, but they could increase efficiency by scaling down those images to the displayed size (displays at 444x334 but the downloaded image is 2400x1800)
We are all human and this was probably an unusual exercise. Given their distraction of trying to find a field in this aircraft, I can easily imagine how quickly the plane got away from them. 152 kts is roughly 174 mph... imagine trying to find an address when going any slower than 200 mph is potentially fatal.
> 40 is "4 tens"

so is "forty", optimized for quick pronunciation, a respelling of four tens.

I've never understood how Russian 40 is sorok, nor have i ever gotten an explanation, including from Russians, whereas the rest works like english, etc.
One of the biggest problems that is hitting ski towns is the hyper cheap season passes that everyone buys. The model has created a huge surge of demand for people to go skiing in winter which has put pressure on the local ski towns (more short term rental demands, second home buyers) and the resources at ski mountains (aka the insane lines on a good ski day now).

It's interesting because it has allowed a lot more people to get into skiing but the trade off has been that with more volume on the ski hills - more demand on the local real estate and more crowded infrastructure. Businesses have done well since they sold more but locals who are on a tighter budget have inflating home costs. Pandemic also made things get extra strange.
The ethical issue that I have with it is not the money, it's that you cannot get anything from the App Store (even free apps!) without giving Apple your rough location (client IP), a phone number (required to get an Apple ID), and your unchangeable device hardware serial number.

Fuck that noise.

Don't give money to App-Store-only software vendors.
But have the MBA M1's been superseded by the M1 Pro and M1 Maxes?
Yeah, before moving to iPhone I had been using samsung devices for a long time, and the older samsung android skin had a flashight button on the lock screen which could be activated with just a tap.

Imagine my frustration when I tried doing the same on my iPhone, thankfully a google search saved me much future hassle.
Are you very young?

I feel like young people are more exploitable and don't understand what they're sacrificing by being available all the time. I was the same way at the beginning of my career. Fortunately I had a good team, but there were definitely times where my sleep and health suffered from being on-call because I didn't know how to say no.
Ever since Vista, I've set the task bar to be "XP" style. Small icons, and not grouping windows, ever. I don't get the point of needing to click twice to switch between explorer windows or whatever.

I don't know why the huge, pointless icons are the default.
If that was the case we would’ve been wiped off as a species 40 years ago as the seasonal flu mutated into a super virus.
The real answer is that some people hide facts for political gain. Actually, most people do. It's a shame really.
Bread (1929) [video]
I was shocked to discover, several months after the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were approved in America and trumpeted as proof of the speed and efficacy of our modern, capitalist medical system... that the Sinopharm and Sputnik V vaccines were both released much earlier, and they actually work very well.
Not the customer. Should they be able to pirate/donate and feel ethically okay?
Agreed. It has been trending up for years with better equipment, but COVID opened up the floodgates. Now the NPs have to employee "ski rangers" to help assist the chaos that is bc skiing in popular spots. I don't like where this is headed. Serenity and solitude get removed from the outdoors more and more every season. Summer and winter.

I am really torn. Part of me wants everyone to enjoy nature and outdoors, but the other part of me wants to keep it pristine. These desires seem at odds with each other.
I mentioned non pine because it’s also very outdated and a terrible price for slightly less weak hardware. You could get a much better android phone for that price though. It’s not competitive for price to performance.
This has actually been a staple in the Dragon Age series since part one. I don't recall if they toned it down in the second part, though.

Also, I would love to know how many tweaks and hacks these selectable behaviors need to work together neatly in these near arbitrary combinations (e.g. some unexpected priority inversion during behavior selection or deciding whether to continue or abort at certain points etc.).
Right, there you go. (Although it doesn't say it completely ignores it either, just that it's not a focus.)
I can blame them. Low trust in government doesn't logically produce the conclusion "everything government says is false".
As the siblings mention it doesn't really apply here because the choices aren't one-shot, you aren't stuck with one, you have time to consider, choices can differ a lot, etc.

But really any supposed psychological phenomenon should be looked at skeptically absent overwhelming evidence like IQ or the Big 5 personality traits. Here are three links on "choice overload":

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/48210291_Can_There_... 2010 meta-analysis, "we found a mean effect size of virtually zero but considerable variance between studies"

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8426193 2018, "...where they could compare them one another anytime with relatively low cognitive load, the choice overload did not occur (Experiment 1). ... where participants had to compare them based on memory representations with relatively high cognitive load, the choice overload did occur (Experiment 2). These results suggest that the choice overload is actually replicable when cognitive load is sufficiently boosted."

http://psychbrief.com/choice-paradox/ Nice overview of some actual studies and the underlying experiments, as well as common flaws in the mathematical methods used for analysis that apply to many psychology studies.
What viruses have mutated to be significantly more deadly?
> Legalising slavery

The original constitution did not address slavery until the passing of the thirteenth amendment in 1865 which made it illegal except as punishment for a convicted crime.
The "Seal" is the star of the show.
> In 31 products, levels of lead were so high that they exceeded the maximum amount anyone should have in a day, according to CR’s experts.

Uhh there is no amount of lead anyone should have in a day. It's cumulative and harmful and we don't need it for anything.

> Think twice about bringing back herbs and spices from travel abroad. Heavy metal content can be much higher in those products, according to other research. U.S. companies may buy the highest-quality herbs and spices to import, Ronholm says, which could leave lower-quality versions to be sold in the country of origin.

Depends from where of course. I'm pretty sure the EU has stricter food safety regulations than the US. Though enforcement varies by country.
author here, thank you!
> Yes, and in many of them there are call-out fees and overtime.

Why is that any better than just getting paid overall more? Lots of companies also have internal policies like "if you get called in on a weekend take a long weekend next week" etc in my experience.
With * government.
Incident response requires an incident responder. That is, a person who is alerted when things break.

That person (or persons) is defacto on call. If you are never responsible for responding to incidents, your ability to respond to incidents will atrophy.
I personally think this is a great idea as a Constitutional Convention will be a free-for-all with no rules. We can then start from scratch on U.S. Constitution 2.0.

With a new codebase, we can do a total rewrite, getting rid of bad lines, and not having to have that explicit patch for slavery to be included during every recompile. We can also clean up some dumb redundant code like the 18th and 21st Amendments. Should have been done years ago.

And given we're a democracy, we should all vote yes/no for the new Constitution. I know where the majority of the people in this country stand on the issues (81 million to 74 million during the last presidential election) so I'm fine with this.
What Is Klima DAO and How Does It Work?
About "Bread" (ukr. "Хліб") film.[0]

[0] https://vufku.org/en/found/bread/
35% reduction is still pretty good.
I'm not convinced this is quite it. The housing demand (by real, live physical people, not remote investors) is likely seasonal. Town like Tahoe might have 10x the number of people in them 12 weeks of the year. Unless we're setting up tents, we'll need permanent structures available for short term rental.
I used to agree with that. The problem, I've since been convinced, is that increases the power of lobbyists. If the only people that can stick around long enough to figure out how to get anything done are the lobbyists, they're going to have an even more outsized role in what laws get passed.
If a constitutional convention actually happened it would be a mere formality. The new government would effectively have already been established by an informal process and written a new constitution. The convention would have exactly one item on its agenda: vote to accept the new constitution.
No they weren't. Those are two different masks.

The Fauci quote was definitely a veil to hide the truth. But it's only a thin veil.

>we now have a lot more information on this.

Even little kids have enough information to know that blocking your mouth when sneezing or coughing stops germs. Don't blame it on discoveries or inventions. It's not new information, it's just the full house that wipes your account.
The way my team handles this in the US and EU is ‘Best Effort,’ where you are provided a company phone and the expectation is that if you’re able to reasonably do so, answer the call. From there, you can triage (is the problem real, how critical is this, is there an alternate method to achieve your goal.)

Each team member has services and/or sites they are responsible for, but our team is flexible enough to work at any site as they’re heavily standardized. If you’re not able or willing to help (or go in if things are REALLY bad), as long as you can get ahold of someone else capable of helping or a supervisor and hand off to continue. If you need to go in, 2x pay that day and vacation time. It’s more if it’s disruptive (2 am friday vs 11 am on a Sunday.)

Out of 47 sites, this has happened one time in the past year where something went horrifically wrong with some Cisco gear configurations. We’re moving even further to get rid of having a company phone, and moving to a tablet that has our comms tools and enough to RDP somewhere. This moves from ‘answer the phone if you’re able to please’ to ‘if you get an urgent Teams notification check it out please if possible.’

Strict on-call is hard, but in our environment most people are willing to help one another out if something is up. This could mean immediate sudden travel, but only if you are willing and capable of doing so. I personally always accept them, because they’re mad fun road trips and you get time off, extra pay, and I like helping my team members when they’re in a pinch. People have lives, I just have a more flexible one :).
No Denver pays for those.

Remote mountain towns never pencil out. It's incredibly expensive to maintain even typical suburban sprawl let alone frontier outposts in the wilderness.
Simple question: Why can't the restaurants and such raise prices? And thus pay??

The non-locals drove up the price of housing and were still ready, willing, and able to pay. Why should that cycle stop there?
Just did a little searching and came across this https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-07-hm-reali...

That person did some lab testing and found high levels of lead in their backyard-grown chard.
I don’t have problems but i am using ios 14.
I understand what you are trying to say but you could not have picked a worst example in your analogy. I mean an arch in the end will also be a pile of stones. On top of that we have no idea how the pyramids were made, their precise dimensions and alignment would be extremely hard to replicate using modern technology.

I say we are the arch phase of the web, we understand the arch and it has served us well and it does save a little bit on materials. What we want to do is create bigger and better engineered structures like the pyramids.
Scientists captured growth of butterfly wings inside chrysalis on video
>What am I supposed to do?

Nothing, probably. Heavy metals come from natural sources in the ground as well as from the air which then settles into the topsoil. They also come from decades old insecticides/pesticides or old infrastructure left to rot on farms.

Cadmium and arsenic in particular are among the most abundant substances on the Earth. Every bit of food you eat likely has them both.

If you are worried and want to reduce exposure, probably the best you can do is buy local instead of imports. Know the land your food comes from and its history.
> isn't there a HUD and vertical speed warner?

On a 1960's SR-71? Probably not [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#/medi...
Do you have a recommended place to get those? Also, I’ve got clay soil here, and thyme has never done well for me. I’d love to replace swaths of my lawn with it, as I really like it’s appearance and fragrance, so any link to those varieties would be much appreciated.
Others are now great but Apple's trackpad is still the best. Is there any other laptop trackpad that support click everywhere like Apple's Force Touch?
I'd agree with this, over the years it's felt like the answer to giving more power or customisation has gone backwards to "we have an API" and "you need to learn a python / whatever language for this".

I would say that we're continuing to move away from interfacing with computers as humans (with near natural language scripting, power TUI/UIs etc...) - to interfacing with computer as computers (writing code, digesting APIs etc....).

I'm not saying it's a bad thing - but it's certainly something I've noticed and it does seem to cause a lot of NIH and reinventing the wheel.
I agree with you largely, at the same time this is designed to avoid a civil war. Aka if the federal government over reaches the states can reduce the central authority.

All that said, to call a convention, you’ll need a super majority of states. Theoretically, that super majority would also be the ones deciding what goes into the changes.

For one, you’d probably get that much needed clarification on the second amendment. Although, I suspect it’ll be weaker than initially intended (ie the original 2nd amendment was owning any kind of weapon for any purpose, including equivalent of battle ships today).

At the end of the day, it’s not perfect. Even what you brought up about abortion I don’t think would be considered. The “right” believes most of the regulations should be reserved to the states. I suspect instead you’d see an increased strengthening of states rights and a greater restriction on federal authority — which “helps” anti-abortion advocates but at also “helps” with California’s policies around Marxist policies.

I’d much rather see a convention of states than a civil war. I personally think we’re at the “bleeding Kansas” timeframe of the coming conflict. I see no reason we won’t have a civil war at this point, unless we have something like a convention of states.
A non-sterilizing vaccine only increases the evolutionary pressure on the virus to evolve to be vaccine-resistant. Such a vaccine more or less becomes like taking a half-course of antibiotics.
I wish they labeled all the major FABs. It took me ages to figure out how to make a new spreadsheet in Google Sheets on the desktop after they switched to a mobile-first UI. That Google-logo-colored "+" button in the lower right is not easy to see. If it had text next to it I'm sure it would have been harder to overlook.
Only speaking for my case; I told my manager I no longer liked living in Sweden and wanted to move to a different country. At the time, we only had engineering offices in Sweden and the US. That meant either 1) asking to be an exception in remote work, which HR didn't really like, 2) leaving my company or 3) my company helping me move to the US. I never saw it as a negotiation/threat of leaving, I just honestly told him that I never really connected with Sweden and that I wanted to move. I think he understood that, as we had quite a few expats and a lot of them leave after a few years to go back to their home country. Fortunately on his part, he was very supportive and helped me connect to several teams in the US to see if we'd be a good match professionally. I'd say it was easier than asking for a raise, hehe...

It is relatively easy to move to the US if you've been at your company for 1+ years, have a good education background and if your company has a "blanket L1 visa petition". My "Im-not-a-lawyer" summary of L1 blanket visa is that it allows a company to move special knowledge workers to the US with a simplified and fairly certain path to get a visa (vs. H1B which is a lottery, O1 has hard requirements, etc.). The downside of an L1 is that it's tied to your employment at your sponsoring company, so you can't move to the US and then switch employer (... unless you first switch to H1B/greencard, etc...).
If we're making up ways on letting more people getting the Disneyland experience why can't we just build more of them?
That's a pretty rich critique, given the staggeringly censorious regime you imposed after your hostile takeover of Freenode.

Context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27246755

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495358
Not comparable. If they believed in miasma whilst also eating out of the trash it may make sense. The same way believing masks don't work but then covering your mouth to cough does...

It's not a good thing since he wasn't correcting himself, he was misinforming others whilst knowing what he was saying wasn't accurate.

I don't really care, since most of the quote is good information and the rest of the quote was made to serve a political purpose.
The aircraft on the Intrepid is not a SR-71 Blackbird, it is a A-12. They look similar, but are pretty different.
Yeah, probably. But in aeronautical decision making training, you learn that other stuff going on in the cockpit can cause “simple” things to get overlooked. They were looking for the field in low visibility which took the pilot’s attention off the aeronautical health of the aircraft. This is why the stall horn and things like GPWS callouts are a thing. His skill did come into play when he had an atavistic sense that something was wrong, confirmed it was so, and firewalled the throttles.
But some things have no potential for harm, and they should be recommended with higher priority than something that could be harmful at the same likelihood of efficacy. It seems to me that the recommendations are mostly based on how well it provides a predictable financial benefit to a specific investment (mail-order, pharma, etc).