skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say people like us are lazy, I'm like OP but I feel like I'm rather good at peaking when needed and then identifying useless things nobody ever asks about anymore and just not doing them and getting away with it.

I have a pretty rare skill set, combining deep genomics knowledge, system administration (from my hobby) and software development/data science. This means I often understand our full stack which is super rare as a biologist/bio-informatician, at least where I work. Just by interest I listen to a lot of tech podcasts. So I have an informed, strong opinion on how things could be, and it's easy to fake it until I make it by echoing the podcasters whom I respect a lot.

Sometimes I feel like somebody is on to me which is uncomfortable, but it may just be imposter syndrome. I mean I did build nice things that I'm proud of and at the rare times that I am really engaged with what I'm building I find it difficult to stop and even relaxing to work on. So maybe at those time I make up for it? I spend a lot of time avoiding boring stuff and seeking out fun things. Also I do a lot things around the house during work times (laundry, taking a shower etc). I just can't focus for very long when I consider something to be not fun. When we were still in the office I used to take pretty long walks or go and talk to people in other offices around campus.

I'm also a huge procrastinator, ie, for my bachelors and my PhD theses I skipped 2 nights (or slept 1-2 hours) in the weekends before they needed to be finished and I just wrote non-stop. Pretty stressful.

I get very good reviews, and I like to think that it is because I indeed do the most useful things at the right time and provide direction and vision where needed. Also in about half or less of the time my boss thinks I work. I start a lot of new things but hardly ever finish, but one of my previous managers said they like that, they had a lack of new ideas and enough people to grind it out. So there's that. I find it easy to call people in my company in other departments and get them to do things or set something up together, that doesn't really feel like work, I think that also helps, most of my colleagues hate doing this. But if someone did something remotely similar to what I am about to do they can save me a lot of time that I can spend not working.

Recently I started working with someone who I feel like is like me, but does work 100% (or maybe it only appears that way!). I find it a bit jarring how well he can estimate my productivity and skills. Then again, maybe he really does underestimate me and I'm having some imposter syndrome, I've never not-delivered when it mattered.

Btw, nice topic, I often felt like starting something like this.
At a company like the one I work for, it's a hill noone can afford to die on. PCI-DSS demands at least some control over employee laptops to ensure that certain secure configuration standards are met. That entails dropping command and control agents on machines. Say what you will about PCI and credit card cartels, but no accreditation, no business.

That said, as I work from home, my work laptop lid remains closed for all but a fortnightly company all-hands meeting, and I ensure that I keep zero personal data on it. I'd be an absolute no if the demand ever morphed to always on video or activity trackers. That's a bridge too far.

As it stands, I understand the need for some policy enforcement/remote control of their assets, but will make whatever moves I must to ensure that policy doesn't infringe on the rest of my environment.
It's just a misspelling, they meant sex dolls. Sex dolls are currently available, massively used, and constantly improving. Don't overestimate guys' desire for love talk and such. That's a real threat to women's power. Every night a guy uses a doll is a financial loss to the nearby massage parlor.
> https://www.geoawesomeness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ri...

What am I supposed to read out of this that supports your argument?

> These are not equivalent by any stretch. Putin is not Hitler.

Absolutely true.

Sadly it seems that one similarity is that both of them - and others as well - didn't/doesn't respect treaties, agreements or what I think of as basic expectations of decency.

For this reason I voice my clear support for Nato - as long as we don't overstep our boundaries like we did in Afghanistan. This includes sending troops to the borders og our friends in the alliance. As long as they don't cross the border this is fair game.

Russias problem isn't only that they exercise on the Ukrainian border, but also that they have a history of:

- sending advanced gear to troublemakers in east Ukraine who choose violence over democratic participation.

- sending troops.

- has a history of not only meddling like USA (I don't like this either) but also occupying.
i mean really, have you ever watched tv?
> The chain's security is primarily paid by the block subsidy

> The block subsidy trends to zero.

These statements are misleading.
As the block subsidy trends to zero, the chain's security will be primarily paid by transaction fees. This will likely happen within two decades, in which the block subsidy will diminish by a factor 2^5 = 32.

> Either the fees need to increase or the security property falls away

The security will diminish, but not fall away completely as long as bitcoin maintains a constant backlog of high-fee paying transactions.
Login in GitHub/whatever on your other laptop. Then send via e-mail bits of code you need from one to the other. When asked why is taking longer vs. other clients point this as the culprit. And also charge this client more.
I haven't seen much or any antisemitism from the left, unless you are referring to criticism of Israel's state policies.
Why imagine? If I'm not mistaken there are reference guides for symptoms in different specialities

In fact differential diagnosis are just decision trees with a different name

But you need to know the usual stuff and the day to day stuff by memory (same with programming)
As long as they are willing to learn, I think that's fine.

I like to make parallels with sports: when I am on the court, I am so much dumber about what's going on. Suddenly, when I am on the sidelines, I can see patterns, strengths and weaknesses for each team and so forth. It's not that I was dumb while on the court, it's just that your brain is in a different mode of operation (focusing on your own performance in this particular case).
Absolutely. You can write some Rust by following some hello world tutorial and be productive in 15 minutes. That doesn't mean you'd be proficient in writing procedural macros or understanding all details of memory management, but I've seen Linux magazines presenting Rust omitting all those "advanced" features and surprising amount of Rust users is new to programming.

The learning curve is usually different because you will need to understand more before program will compile and because most materials aims to cover 100% of the language from day one, but if you want to approach it differently, productivity wouldn't be a problem.
I think the issue may be time related. Immediately after a second shot there seems to be some effectiveness but it decays very fast, and can even go negative.

This sounds impossible but the UK data shows very clearly that once the vaccine wears off you're nearly 2.5x as likely to catch COVID than unvaccinated people are! This kind of negative effectiveness has happened before and immunologists know about the effect. They call it "original antigenic sin" and it refers to a type of imprinting effect, whereby the immune system misfires when presented with slightly mutated viruses by re-manufacturing the same antibodies it made before.

Thus, if you trick your immune system with a vaccine, it learns to fight whatever the vaccine was targeting but that's a now obsolete and extinct 2019 strain of the virus. Then you get hit with the new strains and the antibodies it makes aren't so effective anymore, creating a delay before the body realizes its mistake and spins up new antibodies (or sometimes it seems, it may never do this - gulp). This can cause negative VE when vaccinating against something that can mutate very quickly.
Very interesting points; there is a scientific clarity in your analysis. But, I would like to add a point: the reality is that the production is in global scale now, the production has no borders, races, nationalities, but the capital has its local interests. The working class is a global class, while bourgeoisie is a local class. But since the bourgeoisie is the dominant class, it makes the working class divided. Like the role of black bourgeoisie in the disguising class struggle under the hood of racial issues. I think this small piece of text helps make my point a little bit clear: http://www.theinternationalism.org/2020/07/return-to-marx.ht...
I don't know much about the actual reality in the US outside of what we see on the net, but I feel the revolution you are talking about would come from outside of traditional voting circus.

It don't mean it would bypass election in all cases, but I'd expect a completely different mechanism interfering with who gets to power, instead of the usual "let's min-max campaigns based on declared party allegiance like we did for decades now"
The NFT and blockchain are totally pointless in this scenario, you could achieve the exact same thing using public key cryptography alone.
If your (English) family are telling you that then I wonder when they said it because the official figures were just updated and say >50% in ICU are vaccinated now. It's been changing over time because the vaccines wear off so fast.
Having previously led a SoC2 implementation at a few large multi-nationals, the request coming from your company strikes me as either;

A) they're being super lazy and using Drata as a blanket to cover a bunch of SoC2 requirements

B) it has nothing to do with SoC2, it's just their excuse to push this employee spyware

Try asking for a company provided computer. I'd also put that company device on it's own VLAN.
I war given to believe that GNU has generally accepted Linux as the GNU kernel and HURD is mostly driven by people who are interested in it
As a programmer one of the skills I value the most is being able to find and use information from external sources. These days that primarily means the internet.

I'm not very good with recalling specifics, but I'm very good at recalling how or where to find the specifics.

As with your father, expertise is necessary to interpret and determine which information is relevant, and to notice discrepancies between the found information and the concrete issue at hand.
For Python there is Dask: https://docs.dask.org/en/stable/dataframe.html
What good is new tech if you cannot afford to buy a house or a new'ish car for the minimum wage, even if you live frugal and save?
We do. I use Google images heavily. You just use the right words to filter out the lay stuff ("conjunctival injection and chemosis differential" instead of "red swollen eye") and then you skim thru images until you find the exact diagnostic situation you're looking for. It's fast and specific. Havent used uptodate since the 2000s because it is not free.
I think this PostgreSQL is your friend in this case https://github.com/ankane/pgvector
In the long run all is transitory. That being any action in a complex system can result in an unforeseen cascade of effects.
There were claims that Valve asked some developers to remove their Linux "native" versions of the game since the Proton version is better since the devs didn't support the "native" version very well.

Allowing developers to outsource the work for supporting Linux makes game developer's jobs much easier.
This complain comes from people who haven't used the language.

> Not to mention that reading code requires extra mental overhead (especially being new to the language), that `getAttr`, `get_attr`, etc., are actually the same thing.

On the contrary, the language prevents confusion due to mixing getAttr and get_attr in the same codebase and bugs from using the wrong one.

Unsurprisingly, many safety-critical environments have policies to enforce consistent naming styles.

The linter will convert both to "getAttr" and the compiler will complain if the user tries to define the same proc twice.
People that have something to say do so using text alone, the idea is rarely enhanced by the borrowed creativity of a meme or even an emoji.

Its tempting to use something that made you smile, but it only comes across as lazy humour. It is the cringe tech equivalent of flat art & HR speak.
And implicitly tell all your other employees that they better go searching for new jobs or else they won't get a raise, ever? The result is that going out to do interviews has effectively become part of their job description, because apparently that's what you pay them for.

It's all game theory, in a minefield of unintended consequences. I take the opposite approach: an unspoken but clear attitude of "you know you won't be able to buy me when I excuse myself with a better offer, so better ask yourself now than later how much you actually want to pay me". And no, that certainly does not make me fabously rich (but there actually was a time when it worked much less bad than I would expect, quite amusing in hindsight)
I remember going to my doctor years ago - pre google. She dragged out this big book and had a look through it, I forget the name. She said at the time she used to go out the back and have a look through it so patients wouldn't see her, but stopped worrying about it.
Argument-dependent lookup would solve that in a far less global way.
I had a FreeBSD doitall-machine from 1998 to 2006 on some Pentium-ish thing with an AT motherboard. Moved a few thousand miles and it didn't get unboxed, until 2020 when I needed an AT PSU for something unrelated. Prior to cannibalizing it I powered it up long enough to check that it would still send email and run brief X session to hit YTMND in 15 year old Firefox.
No thanks. If they don’t trust me we shouldn’t be working together.
Read about Therac-25* before making such a proclamation.

* - not the only time a software bug was directly responsible for death(s), but likely the most famous.
Greg Egan is great. Strongly recommend Permutation City. Predating The Matrix, they build simulated worlds which then bootstrap themselves into alternate realities. The physics are not the same as our physics but similar.
Data Science Collides with Traditional Math in the Golden State
Buy a mouse mover
https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Mouse-Mover-Blue-Black/dp/B07...
I see the US Model as "Optimistic". Let the transactions through and fight back fraud with a strong chargeback mechanism.

Whereas the Indian Model is "Pessimistic". Put in as much checks as possible to reduce the rate of fraud before the transaction has even completed.

Thoughts?
I see this brought up, but I always wonder if that's more of a feature than a bug? Coming up with a systematic way of encouraging meeting with people that think and prioritize differently than yourself? Put that way it seems like a win.

Alternatively, yes, a voting system is a means for expressing individual preferences, but it only exists in the context of groups of people trying to resolve coordination problems. The "defect" you've described shows that it strongly favors groups of people that can coordinate, avoiding the double-defect outcome in prisoner's dilemmas. Sounds like it /should/ be rewarded to some degree.
A mentor can guide you to avoid making mistakes.
We "web people" thought age would never matter, because anybody could be a cow on the internet. Turns out that even cows eventually feel old.

Also, with every passing year there are fewer and fewer differences between "internet people" and "regular people", because more and more "normies" spend more and more time online. That means social groups have been restructured along lines that mirror IRL ones - including age thresholds.
Nothing says "realistic benchmark" quite like the "-d:danger" flag.
I agree with you. Salaried workers are paid based on doing a job, not based on time, so who cares what hours they work as long as the job is getting done?

It is the incompetent butt-in-chair managers and other talentless cling-ons in the tech industry that concern themselves with such trivial nonsense because they don't have the skills necessary to discern productivity in any other way.
I’d question how good your people are if the best of them leaving wouldn’t impact your revenue. It sounds like an assembly line punching widgets, so maybe the work is neither urgent nor requiring dynamic thinking and responding quickly to changing market conditions? In that case I could see it not mattering if someone leaves.

My experience is on teams of 2-3 working towards a product launch that has to happen in 6 months and sure we can always replace someone if they die. The cost of that if not in revenue, but team efficiency, sacrifice of other work, is way more than a few tens of thousands per year.

And of course, everyone is replaceable. But replacing them may cost more than just paying them more, even if it keeps them around for another 6 months.
The eth classic fork was because of the first high profile hack of a smart contract leading to massive loss of funds (way way back in 2016 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)). The Ethereum community back then was a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what it is compared to the size today, and that early on in the network I don't think it was a detrimental thing to do like it would be today.

> No one can save you from your own deadly mistakes.

Alternatively, "You really really have to give a shit about your own security". Imagine if banks had some skin in the game in terms of their security story. Why was I able to have 2 factor on my world of warcraft account many years before my bank account?

You're right in that crypto is a cold world of immutability, but in the same way that exposing servers and data to the internet (along with all the hacks, identity theft, etc that came with it) ultimately led to better security protections like ASLR, DEP, Yubikeys, etc, I posit we'll see rise of new technologies to help combat these issues as well to help offset the risks as much as possible. Hardware wallets, multi-sig contracts, and now multi-party computation are promising new tools to help make the blockchain space more operationally safe, which enables the whole thing to scale.
You keep your work laptop in your home network? Tut tut.
If everyone refused to comply, they (and all other companies) would have to rethink their approach and back up.

Sometimes I really wish for a trade union of IT workers, however bad that sounds.
The EU have tried to introduce it a bunch of times. Normally it got fought back by the UK, who are no longer in the EU. I could definitely see this happening in the next five to ten years.
> A top comment on one of the most popular websites in the world

You could just as easily be describing YouTube or Instagram comments, which regularly feature humanity at its worst and dumbest. Why would you expect Reddit to be any better, when it has millions of users?

Your second sentence is pure trolling and I will turn the same question over to you. Pointless, sanctimonious outrage doesn't belong on Hacker News.
> By the way Bitcoin was at $2530. Ethereum was at $590. Bitcoin went up $69,000 since then. Ethereum went to $5000.

This is not a convincing argument to me. It tells me that the real utility is just speculation.

Shiba Inu has a market cap of 10B. But you’re an idiot if you think Elon musk dog money is valuable to society. If I make a 1000000% return selling magic beans, does that mean the beans have actual utility?
I've worked at a company in the past where I was earning 2.5x my previous senior developer salary. It was also the least productive I had ever been in my career and I contributed the least value to society (negative value, in fact).

I only stayed 4 months; couldn't even finish my 6-month contract because it was too boring and mediocre. I got an offer from a YC-funded company and my employer allowed me to get out of my contract early.
The products on eBay are the same as on Amazon now. All Chinese sellers or drop shippers.
I don't agree with your interpretation on this being a stealth tactic but even if this was one it's just the state institutions acting in the interest of their mandate. This might not be beneficial to you employer or Visa or MasterCard or few high flying credit card users of the super rich class but it is in the interest of the people.

If they think it's time to move beyond cards due to the strategic overdependence on foreign service providers like Visa who can disrupt the Indian financial system at the behest of their US govt or other interests it's the right thing to discourage them directly or indirectly.

Think in the interest of the people. WTO commitments are not worth the paper they are written on. State should do the right thing to benefit the people as a whole not worry about inconvenience to a few people or few middle men or foreign companies.
Please don't generalize. Far-right parties are not mainstream everywhere. Europe is complex, as much as the US.

The issue with this way of thinking is that you look away from countries which might have good policies. These policies could be used in the US.
Linux already runs on more than just PCs. I'm not sure it's a useful benchmark of PCness.
> PCI-DSS demands at least some control over employee laptops to ensure that certain secure configuration standards are met.

How does PCI-DSS compliance work in European countries, with GDPR and actual employee rights with teeth and serious fines at play?
And they enable the competition - Aliexpress has the exact same stuff as Amazon now, but at cheaper prices. And they are working very much on the long shipping times with warehouses around the world. Sure, the service and support is far removed from Amazon, but then prices for the same crap are often 50% less. Also to me it seems they are much harder on cheating sellers.
On the other hand things are getting absurd with crypto currency speculation, NFT cartoon characters selling for millions, and even there was a story here about some girl making 100k on selling jarred her farts.

The wealthy are are starting to lose belief in the value of the dollar, and will literally trade dollars for virtual tulip bulbs.

Feels like Hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic is fast on the way.

Further Port backups, or gas price strike by truckers could get us there this winter.
Just a few days of hunger, and things will really kick off.
I work with surgeons on a product for skill development and lately I’ve had the opportunity to go to a few conferences that specialized in endoscopic surgery.

There is a lot work being done on augmenting the surgeon - solving the problem of access to information at the right time in the right place would dramatically improve work in that field.

Currently, if you’re making a decision in the OR, all you have is your knowledge/experience, and maybe when/if you’re lucky, of the other surgeon/s who happens to be physically available to consult the situation. This is something I witnessed personally when visiting an OR - a surgeon ran in from another OR to get a quick consult on an unfamiliar situation.

There are a few products and ideas I’ve seen for headsets which allow others outside of the room to have tele-presence.

It’s not hard to imagine how much having an instantly searchable and accessible global knowledge base for an operator would be. The newest methodologies, know-how, research, reference media etc.