skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mandates are probably not going to work but what would work is denying insurance claims. If someone ends up in a hospital occupying an ICU bed for an illness that could have been prevented by a vaccine widely and freely available then insurance companies (and medicare) should refuse to pay thousands of dollars for their treatment. It was their choice not to use preventative care available.
That's incomplete, at least 8.4 and 8.5 are missing. Given that is from 2011, it will probably not be updated...
Then you agree there are other factors than "self-selection", yes?

> If they don't, it's totally out of scope for me

This article about "Open Source Communities" and "Open source leadership".

There's plenty of FOSS projects which have no communities. I have several. I don't need a CoC since I'm the only point of contact.

Do you want a project community? I don't. I'm a lousy community manager.

If you do, which people do you want to encourage to be in that community? What social practices do you want to have frowned upon? If you have no limits, what do you do about griefers? If people break those limits, what do you do?

> I mean cares about race in the context of treating their patch differently

I understand. But why not also care about people who could submit patches but don't?

> intolerable to the project's detriment

Good point! Losing possible corporate contributions due to NSFW images is very similar to, say, losing possible voluntary contributions for having a rude and aggressive management style, or for other harassing community practices.

I'll try to remember that example in future discussions - thanks!
> yet I've heard of a few from Stripe so far

As in yesterday and today?

I know this [1] isn't 1-1 comparison but this was just a quick Google search for "Airbnb rescind offer" and I would argue that this is worse (assuming it's true) but you can certainly debate it.

And not to pick on Google but I've seen quite a few rescinded offers and ghosts there too.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/r0t9rd/airbnb_res...
Is this really news? I don't think this is a new phenomenon. I think most of us have witnessed comments like this in one topic or another - 'people who didn't get vaccinated deserved to die' (or the old gay people and AIDS stuff), 'anti-gun Baldwin killed more people than all of my guns' (other old Ted Kennedy car saying), etc.
Yeah right. This seems like fancy talk for the same scaling problems we've had forever. And it was 100X worse before cloud computing. System-to-system scale problems are generally a lot easier to deal with because you always have the option of resetting expectations with users. Serving web requests has to be real-time, but if a data pipeline has to be overnight due to cost constraints, you can just make the argument to management and do it.
He's literally quoting their website. He even linked the exact thing.

Now that we've established what actually happened with that other guy, what were YOU doing here? You seemed to intentionally misunderstand the post so that you could get angry at a stranger on the internet? Maybe its time for a little break from interacting with people on the internet?
Putting aside any special reverence we might have for the dead, I guess the abstract question is: is there any social value to publicly shaming those who uncritically call into question settled scientific claims, putting others at risk?

I would say there is some value. Our society will not survive if it is socially acceptable to do this. COVID is exhibit A. Climate science is exhibit B.

Settled scientific matters, like the usefulness of safe vaccines, is not on the same playing field as politics or religion. If there is a belief among some that settled scientific questions are a matter of non-expert public debate, then that needs to be corrected. Public shaming might help.
I work at a competing esign and would say that while this is true, this will not fly for customers. They want the impression of legality, even if typing your name and email time stamp would suffice. The hand drawn signature, the Envelope ID, etc all create the impression of a Legally Binding Agreement. That impression matters a lot, especially to the Signer
It reads like NPR is just rehashing Montessori at home and calling it Maya. Maybe there should be a term for cooperative engagement with children in ways similar to what Dr. Montessori documented without calling it "Montessori."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

The Montessori method of education is a system of education for young children that seeks to develop natural interests and activities rather than use formal teaching methods. It was developed by physician Maria Montessori. It emphasizes independence and it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment. It discourages some conventional measures of achievement, such as grades and tests. Montessori developed her theories in the early 1900s through scientific experimentation with her students; the method has since been used in many parts of the world, in public and private schools alike.
Young men have been weatherproofing socks this way for decades.

We'll have to nationalize PornHub in the name of Vital Natural Resources.

Don't even wanna think about the Strategic Stockpiles.
Last year I solved all puzzles in less than 1 second. This year, for lack of a better goal, I'll be trying to do the same: https://github.com/timvisee/advent-of-code-2021
It's open access, so, here you go.

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP9262
We heavily use Metabase for about 5 years now and are very happy with it. In my previous company the BI/data science team did an investigation to potentially replace metabase with a more powerful tool. They concluded, that while e.g. superset would be better for themselves, they decided to stick with Metabase because the lower barrier to entry for non-technical users.

While Metabase is not the most sophisticated tool out there, we had great experience onboarding users that only knew Excel before. Which resulted in them answering the majority of basic questions about data themselves, reducing the load on the BI/data staff.
There's a common pattern where in low-performing schools, the kids test above average at the lower levels and then fall off a cliff. This is exactly why: young kids (K-2) are great at memorizing. But if the only skill they learn is memorizing, their ability to extend this as they progress fails. It was startling how much the kids I encountered when I taught math (to high school kids and to college kids who were essentially taking junior high/high school math classes) still relied on memorization and pattern matching. I did what I could to break them of the habits but there's only so much you can do, especially in the post-secondary context where you get 45 hours of instruction time (less time for exams) in the course of a semester.
I said so because I think as rate of hire and employee count increases you need seasoned HR professionals. Wondered if head of HR is an engineer for example (didn’t bother to check)

As a small employer myself - I’m CEO, Dev and HR. We’re only 7 now - no way I’ll be doing same past 10 for example.
Glad you liked it! And thanks for mentioning absurd-sql, I did not know the project.

You are absolutely right on memory and crashes. It is a very inefficient way of storing data in a browser from a memory perspective (and data loss risks). I did mention it in my conclusions :-)

If FileSystemAccessAPIs added block level support and locking for at least certain files that would be a game changer for things like this. In the meanwhile IndexedDB is surely a better option.
The editors argument would work better if they would say: "we donated (time, work, knowledge) and are not happy with how foundation spends its resources (money)". The whole "pay gap" thing is muddying the water. One comes closer to the truth when abstracting donations and resources.

Edit: Looking at the video with the monkeys two posts up: there could still be a point to it, if we look at the total earnings and total work of a person, instead of just looking at wikipedia: an editor who earns 100k with their day job and donates work to wikipedia can still feel it is unfair when wikipedia management earns four times as much.
I would really like to use supabase as an alternative for Firestore. Sadly, row level security on realtime, which is the killer feature of Firestore, does not exist.
You can be progressive and not have any compassion left for ignorance. Don’t confuse policy positions with being a doormat for those who equate beliefs and opinions with facts (which is troubling frequent in a post truth world).

My apologies to Meta, “data wins arguments.” All of this loss (r/HCA) was mostly avoidable (based on all available information) with a free vaccine, and the subreddit raised over $56k [1] for vaccine donations to those who were not so lucky to have it freely available.

(Posted while waiting for my child’s COVID vaccination to be administered)

[1] https://gogiveone.org/coalition/
It’s not fiction you’re spoiling, but a factual conversation about events that you’re not going into due to spoilers. It is an odd defence that kills the conversation when other people bring up good points.

The parallel construction argument seems way more plausible if there’s nothing else besides “heyy”. If there is more, please say what it is instead of mentioning it exists but refusing to say it.
>You cannot claim the moral high-ground after this.

Who is "you"? An individual decrying the trolling of suicide victims while themselves trolling COVID victims? Then yes, you're right. But "the alt-right" is not a single person, nor is whatever their polar opposite is. This fallacy is at the heart of virtually all political bitterness. I do believe when something horrible happens and is highly correlated with a political group, leaders of that group should denounce it, but when something horrible happens in group A and a similar horrible thing happens in group B, that doesn't inherently mean that anybody is a hypocrite. It just means that horrible people are members of both groups.
What exactly was the sort of stuff people are blacklisted for? It could be claiming that racial segregation is a great thing (which should be shunned and kept away) or it could be supporting multivitamin consumption (for which it seems like an overreach).
https://quad9.org/about/sponsors

> Quad9 is a not-for-profit organization whose operational budget comes entirely from sponsorships and donations.
I'm always suspicious about who is actually making these posts. Surely it is obvious to them that nobody would ever fall for it or treat it in good faith. The only conclusion that seems to make any sense is that the authors are being paid to write these comments.
If the US is involved that is something else. The issue is that Taiwan might already fall before the US gets seriously in there.

Submarines are complicated. The Taiwan strait is not very deep and any US subs would have to deal with UUVs in large numbers and sonarphones. It would be a difficult target.

Shooting down satellites is a very risky proposition. If the US attempts that, the Chinese will retaliate. The US has a lot more to gain from satellites than the Chinese do.

Once those satellites are shot down though the US has no accurate ballistic missiles. The ATACMS relies on GPS for good accuracy. There is no GPS-independent seeker for ballistic missiles in US service. It's also a slow and easy to intercept missile.

It's not happening because, as a Chinese General put it, why today and not tomorrow? The more time goes on the cheaper and easier and quicker it will be, so there is no reason to rush it.
Macro Turing Machines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
They posted a blogpost announcing that a few minutes ago.
Because the chance of a net neutrality bill making it through the Senate is roughly equivalent to guessing Satoshi's wallet. We can barely pass debt ceiling increases to avoid national default.

The net neutrality PR did work though, the FCC was under a lot of pressure . ATT didn't pay all of those marketing firms to fraudulently post thousands of anti-net-neutrality comments for nothing.
Sentinelese are worth killing per the Dark Forest logic: they are aggressive and have incentive to kill you, so you must kill them before they even get a chance to kill you. Notice how this logic doesn't differentiate between humans and aliens: self preservation overrides whatever compassion you might have.

>But none of those connections would exist between aliens and humans.

That's exactly why humans are more worth killing than aliens: we have conflict of interests with humans but not with aliens.

>We're not one of them, nor do we share the same biome, so our deaths might well be entirely void of meaning or consequence for them.

If the Sentinelese disappear, the biome will likely become only more rich.
You might be right, but the argument that we should tolerate China or Russia lasering our satellites because the US probably does things its citizens don't know about seems like it's missing something.
I have been solving these since years, I find it a nice way of assessing a language and deep dive since it will cover lot of parts of what makes a language.

I have been porting my old solutions in other languages into Kotlin over the time, and will be again doing them in Kotlin. I find it a nice language for AOC since custom extensions and DSL possibilities, it has a good builtin libraries and you can always fallback on Java, even if it has some shortcomings.

Regarding the AOC per se, I take it as a fun daily challenge, I know I won't be able to be part of the top 100, at least I would with some luck during the first 3 days, and then.. nope, that's life, try not to be too competitive. Last year it took me 8 hours to solve day 20, but it's a game, you should have fun doing it (I had), if not people should stop.

However, I strive in trying to write pretty, compact, idiomatic and as functional as possible code, which means that sometimes I will write an ugly solution in 5 minutes, and will take an hour to make it beautiful.

Besides I like to read the story, I know plenty of friends who don't even read the adventures of Santa, they just solve the puzzle and that's it, they don't even know they saved Christmas :-D !
Making a Can Bus Module Work with a Raspberry Pi
I'm mostly :shrugging: at this - I've had a job offer rescinded from a <non stripe> company. I've had friends who have had their offers rescinded with all sorts of companies. I always consider the written job offer to be "interesting, but still in flux until we really accept, and they acknowledge receipt of my acceptance and we have a start date"

Now - if Stripe is frequently rescinding offers after they've been accepted, and the candidate has let their company know they are leaving - that's a whole other ball of wax.

Note: This is also why you never let your current company know you are leaving until everything is completely signed/sealed/committed with the next company.
> Banning health care providers from abortion would be unconstitutional.

Forcing care workers to take a medicine against their will is constitutional you say?

All medical procedures should be voluntary, or we go back to the times of lobotomy and forced sterilizations of minorities (and that's not as many decades back as you may think).

> Government can and has jailed and/or fined people for not getting a vaccine.

This means being unvaxed is a something only the rich can afford. Pay fines, and have a good lawyer.
Indeed, this is why it's called "extreme poverty".

Isn't it terrible that despite this situation being as awful as you describe, it still applies to around 10% of all humans?
If you need to use IndexedDB and you do not want to have to handle the absurdities of IndexedDB, give Dexie a try (https://dexie.org/). It really makes using IndexedDB a breeze.
The first chat with the technical person should highlight if there is a need for a coding challenge at all. Like, the very strong candidates are so thoughtful that's essentially pointless to ask them to code. They are also rare and far between, though.

The average candidate can code and something can be said based on their coding challenge, which is not necessary something measurable or comparable, but it is something useful to understand who that candidate is.

I'm struggling to express my thought because I'm the first one to say "I should be able to chat with a person for ~X hours to know if I want to hire them", however I'm faced with the reality that:
- it's expensive (people hiring should be your strong people)
- guts are not always right, occasionally they fail and that candidate is not good
- the best experiences I had as an interviewee did involve some live coding, although that wasn't necessary the focus of the interview: getting to know the people on the other side and pair with them is what made it a good experience. I dread live coding, but in some form those interviews were great
- met candidates which were amazing in all forms of chat, everyone hyped, until we faced them with technical stuff (very basic)

I don't think there is a saving grace for the process I'm currently using, however I can't find a solution either. A simple chat with the team has proven dangerous as well as expensive multiple times.
An objective process has proven impossible and rigid. We are talking with humans, I'd rather tune every evaluation to the candidate itself, which in turn leads to making the process hard to evaluate.

Referrals work only up to a certain point, given the amount of people needed to hire, it's not a funnel big enough.

I wish I could solve the problem in some way, I read and study, but I still haven't found a way to solve it.

Almost forgot:
The coding challenge keeps being a useful way to sprout conversation during the "full day with the team" interview, so it sets the ground for that too.
Tell me again what percent of people need to be immune before we get to herd immunity?
It makes sense to reject the groupthink of the Parties and see the merit in both left and right flavored analyses of issues. But your focusing on "the left" is indicative that your comment isn't straightforward. The few long tail extremists associated with either Party aren't an indictment of the core, rather they're a straw man for the other Party to bash to shore up their own ranks.
Can anything like this run AsteroidOS yet?

https://asteroidos.org/install/
What are the odds a healthcare worker hasn’t been repeatedly exposed to Covid by this point?
Lack of backpressure is perhaps the most common newbie mistake in distributed systems. I've just seen so many failures because the servers were overwhelmed and the clients were greedy/impatient (didn't react well to anything less than an immediate response even when they were doing everything they could to overwhelm). It should be a primary design consideration for any such system being built anew.

> Backpressure Strategies: control, buffer, drop

One of my favorite hacks for Gluster (at Facebook) was in this area. We were using bog-standard NFS as the connection protocol, so neither explicit control nor dropping were options. (People who have always had that luxury with their own thrift/grpc/whatever protocols and libraries don't realize how much of a pain it is not to have it.) That left buffering, which led to memory pressure and latency bubbles. What I ended up implementing was implicit control. We'd just stop reading on a particular client's socket for increasing numbers of milliseconds if overall latency was too high and its queue was too long. This leveraged information we already had, and "borrowed" TCP's flow/buffer control as our own. Clients couldn't ignore it; they'd block in send() or somewhere equivalent. It worked really well to smooth out many of the worst latency spikes. If you're ever stuck in a similar situation, I highly recommend this approach.
Also basically every response to this thread regarding this is claiming the courts have decided this, which is just sensational conversation. There very well could be something more to this, but it's more likely that the judge is just airing on "let's dig into this deeper before allowing this change" which makes sense. Nothing has been concluded, the status quo remains.
I had a different scale in mind. I'm not talking about "historically", but "evolutionarily", so on the order of millions of years, not hundreds.
They're not slaves, they're prisoners with jobs. /s

Basically when it became no longer tenable to deny the fundamental humanity of an enslaved person, we found a way to deprive them of their humanity by criminalizing them. So now we don't have to feel bad for abusing them because they deserve it. It's not slavery, see, it's justice.

Or so the argument goes. It's disgusting.
So many commenters who don't know Fermat.
There's no point, because these people usually just die. Who does the hospital go after, the estate? The family?
4 minute pitch decks are missing the point of hackathons.
> I'd like to hear reasons why this is a bad idea

1. It is practically impossible to enforce. Maybe exactly the right amount of money changed hands in one transaction, but how do you know there were no other related transactions perhaps via anonymous crypto transfers or entirely off-net (the good 'ol brown envelope full of cash) or by non-monetary exchange (service rendered).

2. It punishes the final buyer, so the scalper in the middle doesn't care. It may put buyers off so reduce the competition and the prices scalpers can command, but it won't stop them completely. For every scalper that decides it isn't worth bothering because profits are down 50% (figure plucked from thin air) there will be a queue of smaller fish more than happy to take the remaining margin.

Look into attempts that have been made to control big-name concert tickets and how they have all failed - the problem is essentially the same here.
I'm sorry you were coerced into thinking :(
Congress has delegated the authority to make these decisions to regulatory agencies. If congress wants that authority back, they can get it back via legislation. The responsibility for the current situation starts and stops with congress. The executive branch is doing what congress has asked it to do, and the executive branch would stop doing those things the moment that congress legislated the authority back to themselves.
Intel showed it working, Chrome abandoned it, because they didn't want to spend resources implementing it, and "In order to reclaim code space in Chromium's installer that is needed by WebGPU, the webgl2-compute context must be removed.".

WebGPU is still on the horizon during the next couple of years.
Beeswax has been in our environment for millions of years. Not so for the other substances you mentioned.
Yeah, when I was in school it was called "producer/consumer problem" too, back pressure was considered one of the solutions to the problem(what he calls control). I guess someone somewhere confused the two, and it kinda stuck.
Can't confirm nor deny, I'm just sad that few people seem to get the "cryptographic hache" one :(
I care nothing for stripe, but wasn't it only that one guy who told HN about it a few days ago? Now it's "Stripe applicants"? What kind of journalism is this.

edit: the actual article changed the original click-baity title
Extricating something from specific kernel API calls won't be fun. Might be a good learning experience, tho. I may take a crack at this in my spare time (I'm not good at C. At all. So this will be more learning for me, and much less functional).
Parent is referring to tango, which originated in a spaniel-speaking area. "Abrazo" has meaning within the dialect, and that can be lost in translation.
we just released this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29404222