skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Remote access.

2. Bring kit home if feasible and not too sensitive.

3. Tough, you need to go to the office.
> Many COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers have required that countries indemnify them for any adverse events suffered by individuals as a result of the vaccines, the United Nations says.

I may be wrong, but as far as I understand, governments would not indemnify manufacturers, but those who have been vaccinated and suffered from adverse effects.

Meaning that if manufacturers reject any liability, unless there is "willful misconduct" by the company, as stated, for example, in the PREP Act [1].

So manufacturers can still be sued, but the likely scenario in the current climate is that they could be engulfed in a myriad of spurious legal battles, if they didn't seek to be shielded.

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-03-17/pdf/2020-0...
have you tried google?
"Value."

That's the whole problem, right?

I just want everybody everywhere to occasionally step back and consider how that is the "why" of all of this; our society is set up, or has evolved (devolved?) into this place where people must consistently ensure a steady supply or source of money for mere survival, and from that is where the generally natural thing of sex and how it works among the genders et al creates these imbalances which can be converted into money. It's hard to understate how deep this goes; e.g. marriage et al.
> or at least substituting a voip service that can't be social engineered over the phone

unfortunately it's also very easy for somebody to submit falsified port documentation to port away your voip number to their own carrier.

In many cases even easier than doing a SIM swap, since the oldschool way to do a port is to literally print out one page of a bill with your name on it (Anybody could edit this by inspect element on a legit bill of their own and swap your name), print it, sign it in ink, scan it, and send it to the carrier requesting the port-in
This reminds me of the original story of Mel in which Mel managed to do similar things with assembly. Amazing stuffs and wish I had a chance to work with similar genius.
Just block that update, something i'm not sure you can even do with 10..
I fire engineers like you. You're lucky. :)
> It may be true that heterosexual men want sex.

No, not remotely equally. We have a literal measure of this. Think about it: Sex work would be impossible if what you're saying is true. The demand for having sex with women is astronomically higher than the demand for having sex with men.
Great, yeah, a lot of people aren't inspired enough to consider doing that, and others don't know it happens. The more examples the better. People really aren't as helpless in the crypto space as they act, or prompt onlookers to think.
> I'm not old and I have lived to see this sentiment come and go at least twice before. We're still on Windows.

In that time we've seen Microsoft concede the mobile market to iOS and Android and the server market to Linux and Google Docs manage to take a major chunk out of MS Office.

Microsoft is still extremely profitable, but it's not because of Windows anymore. Which is why they're now comfortable risking defection by screwing over the Windows customer more than ever. But that's what happens at the end, not the middle.
> anyone can verify and report issues with the smart contracts.

.. anyone who finds an issue in a smart contract can just steal it. Potentially all of it. Pseudonymously.
To be pedantic, the Famicom had audio bypass, but the NES really didn't (unless you hack around with the expansion connector, which wasn't used for anything Nintendo approved in the US)
An expensive dedicated server can also be had for $1300 a month.

Scaling vertically can take you a long long way before you actually have to start separating services.
I don't disagree that both are toxic in their ways (see also: internet communities), but how many women do we see committing terrorism while spouting FDS-derived ideology?
its like one of those 'chat' scenes in tv shows where a bunch of AA or drug recovery people sit in a circle on chairs in a church basement and discuss their kafka-esque worklife issues
Only if your database lacks the tools to do it effectively. "The transaction commits" isn't exclusive with "and you can roll back to before it started".
Omicron thrives in airways, not lungs; new data on asymptomatic cases
I think he's saying that the world used to be more violent, and the violence women faced maybe wasn't due to monogamy, it was just how the world was.
But is keeping a chair warm really how one wants to spend the precious few years one has alive?
How would I go about finding/discovering gopher content? That sounds like fun!
Thank you, glad to hear that :) Stop by 20-things sometimes if you can, I still go by Atko there.
Huggingface.co is awesome!

You can also run it on colab. $10 a month buys you a lot of value with colab.
In the last year or two, I have not "worked" more than 1-2 hours a day on average--some days for a grand total of zero hours. The quote/unquote is not there by accident. I manage a team and some projects, and most of the time I let other people do the technical work while I get to chat with higher ups or give some general direction on where the work should go.

I consider myself very competent in my field even though I stopped doing purely technical work some time ago, but there are a lot of very good coders out there, but not enough "lazy pragmatists" like me.

My team likes me because I don't micromanage, I support them as much as I can and can entertain them with some good jokes, career advice and a general openness that is hard to find in professional circles.

I have also been able to work remotely for months, and when I say remotely I mean in very remote places.

I also make top money for European standards.

Some will see me as a "parasite", but they would be very wrong. I do exactly what I am asked to do, I am positive and upbeat and always ready to support the team at large when needed. Others may ask, "is she not getting bored?", but the answer is "are you kidding me?". I can spend time with my kids and partner, climb mountains, and brunch on the regular with my girlfriends.

Maybe (surely?) it will end at some point, but like someone said, "tomorrow is not promised to anyone".

I might start a coaching service at some point, as I believe most professionals (forget about the SV types, I am talking about other geographies) are far from having a real understanding on how big companies work and what should be done to have a comfortable and impactful professional life (I am a top performer!), while at the same time enjoying this splendid world we are lucky to live in.
Angular Strictly Typed Forms RFC
June 26, 1997

Dear Mr. President,

We, the undersigned, believe that the current U.S. led effort to expand NATO, the focus of the recent Helsinki and Paris Summits, is a policy error of historic proportions. We believe that NATO expansion will decrease allied security and unsettle European stability for the following reasons:

In Russia, NATO expansion, which continues to be opposed across the entire political spectrum, will strengthen the nondemocratic opposition, undercut those who favor reform and cooperation with the West, bring the Russians to question the entire post-Cold War settlement, and galvanize resistance in the Duma to the START II and III treaties; In Europe, NATO expansion will draw a new line of division between the "ins" and the "outs," foster instability, and ultimately diminish the sense of security of those countries which are not included;

In NATO, expansion, which the Alliance has indicated is open-ended, will inevitably degrade NATO's ability to carry out its primary mission and will involve U.S. security guarantees to countries with serious border and national minority problems, and unevenly developed systems of democratic government;

In the U.S., NATO expansion will trigger an extended debate over its indeterminate, but certainly high, cost and will call into question the U.S. commitment to the Alliance, traditionally and rightly regarded as a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy.

Because of these serious objections, and in the absence of any reason for rapid decision, we strongly urge that the NATO expansion process be suspended while alternative actions are pursued. These include:

- opening the economic and political doors of the European Union to Central and Eastern Europe;

- developing an enhanced Partnership for Peace program;

- supporting a cooperative NATO-Russian relationship; and

- continuing the arms reduction and transparency process, particularly with respect to nuclear weapons and materials, the major threat to U.S. security, and with respect to conventional military forces in Europe.

Russia does not now pose a threat to its western neighbors and the nations of Central and Eastern Europe are not in danger. For this reason, and the others cited above, we believe that NATO expansion is neither necessary nor desirable and that this ill-conceived policy can and should be put on hold.

Sincerely,

50 signatures follow
I worried about this too, but I found that 90% of the places I want "types" are elegantly handled with pattern matching and what other langs would call "function overloading." I also love that you can treat structs like a map, which I feel is the best feature from javascript.
The type system problem is somewhat mitigated by ubiquitous use of pattern matching. In python, the function

def foo(mymap):
blah

Has no real information about what my map is. In contrast, a staticly typed language like Java would have

public static HashMap<String,Integer> foo(HashMap<String,Integer> mymap){
return mymap
}

which encourages you to have a lot of classes defining different types of things, which is rigid, but at least makes it clear what exactly the function is expecting. Elixir is somewhere in between, where you'd write

def foo(%{"username" => username, "password" => password}) do
{username,password}
end

which makes it abundantly clear what the function expects ( a map, with keys "username" and "password"), and handily unpacks those values for you, making it feel more immediately useful than "In the future it'll be nice to have more clear code", which helps with adoption.
And this is why you shouldn't pay for pre-releases.
Watching the gameplay trailer, I was flabbergasted when they were straight-up said "you can rent out your ingame items to make money!" meanwhile barely expressing the hook for the gameplay. People talk about power fantasies in games, but I never thought that would extend to being a landlord.
Ruby has more syntax and lots of sugar. It's easy to use but not learn or implement.
Everywhere is suffering inflation right now, including plenty of countries that didn’t do any QE or stimulus. It’s true the inflation is the US is higher overall, but looking at inflation trends historically that’s not unusual either. There’s just no good case that QE has ever had a big impact on inflation.

Plenty of people like you were saying the same thing back in 2008. The huge stimulus would drive up inflation. In the real world it temporarily crashed below zero.

The inflation we have now has nothing to do with predictions from before the pandemic. We’re you predicting that?

> Not a very good argument. Bitcoin is definitely not (and most likely won't ever be) the system, that criminals prefer doing their dirty business with. Compare with cash.

Cash is seriously small time. All the big crime syndicates, especially drug cartels, but also people traffickers, phishers and ransom ware gangs user crypto heavily.

What you’re forgetting is that everybody is part of the same economy. You can’t have a world where companies collapse and workers thrive. If companies go down, their employees go down with them, and companies rely on finance. That’s what QE is aimed to prevent happening.
Software engineering is one of the easiest jobs out there from an ability to track your output standpoint. I think a lot of the commenters implying "if you have 10 hours to cut down a tree, use the 9 to sharpen your ax" and using that to argue against code-line-output != productivity. Certainly in cases where you need to put a lot of thinking or research to come up with a very elegant solution in a few lines, no one can argue you have been productive. But more often than not, we work on simple CRUD or basic apps that were stretched among hours, flying under radar from one stand up to the next, like you mentioned.

It's a common problem so you are not the only one. Especially in large teams, or teams that are run by PM's who are not very savvy to open the hood and understand what had been going on. In most of the opposite cases, it's also awkward for some managers to challenge what you have produced in a day. It starts more on the foot of discovering: is there another mental block with the employee, are they having motivation issues (maybe you fall into this group), is there a training/onboarding issue? And I have seen first hand, most of the time - they give up and mediocre output continues.

Laziness/talent/ethics of it is not our place to comment for you - but it sounds like this would be a boring job to continue. Sure you can make good money and live a comfortable life, but I can't fathom if it would be fulfilling in the long run for me. Find what stirs your passion and try to apply to work. You have the luxury to do so.
Women have gotten dramatically more powerful within the US culture in the past 30-40 years. Versus men they're more highly educated, they have higher literacy rates, they drop out of school at lower rates, they live longer, and under the age of roughly 40 they now out-earn men while working fewer hours (and that will continue to spread upwards into the older age bracket; aging-out older male corporate management types and other white collar professionals (eg doctors, dentists) are the only thing holding that in place for now).

I'd expect the present trend to continue for at least another 10-20 years, with a large gap being created between the well-being of the median & average man and woman in the US (in the favor of women). The potent education, employment and income trends alone practically guarantee that outcome. Not much is being done to correct the growing imbalance, so by the time there is enough widespread cultural give-a-shit at a large scale, the gap will be substantial and it'll take a long time to correct (if it can be corrected for given the labor automation employment dynamics that are inbound).

The trend will make competent men that have something going for them, that much more valuable. As more men fall behind, men that don't gain value by scarcity.
Next.js will be to JavaScript what RoR is to Ruby, it only needs some time to mature.
I'm reasonably confident that feminism argues women aren't "supposed" to birth babies, it'd be their choice, it'd also be their choice to go to work with children if they want to. The empowering part would be that you have a meaningful choice instead of the traditionally immense social pressure for women to always have children and always stay at home if they do.
> California can't be bothered not to elect this evil person

Except in the tiniest (by population) states, states at large do not elect members to the House, despite the fact that they are frequently identified by party and state.

California is the maximum example of the error of this kind of description.
> Coming from languages that have them, it's just hard to take Golang seriously

Some people judge the language on their ability to get work done with it.

I get generics, but they really don't come up in daily use with the tasks where I use Go. Yes, it would be nice for writing some libraries but you're going through a laundry list of Rust features which don't hamper my ability to get work done at all.

I even like Rust, but if I'm going to write a worker that will read from a queue, do a transformation and write to a few more queues/services upon completion, Go just works and the turn around time is far better than Rust. It's like was Perl was for Unix, but for the cloud instead.
I did that at my last job and it was torture because I always felt like I was going to be fired after they figured it out. Now I have a job where I work at least 4 to 6 hours a day on code and that’s about all I think a normal person can handle because I focus very well during that time and after those few hours I just get sloppy and tired. My boss here says I’m way ahead of the curve after a few months and everyone thinks I’m some 10x engineer, but I really just put in a bit of effort. I rarely have meetings here so my days are pretty short.

All that to say that I do think most programmers do about 10 hours a week of coding because maybe either they have too many meetings or that’s just what’s expected in general.
AI protein folding discovery wins ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ award
> Power is given by the people.

Kinda? I know that's the supposed cliche, but it doesn't really ring true. The "people's" will as defined by some collective subset of the population has certainly been a powerful influence at times, but it's far from a concept that is simply "given by the people." I don't think Pol Pot's power was given by the people. Hitler's wasn't. Xi Jinping's isn't.

And even Nancy Pelosi's isn't given in the way you imply. Through a strong network of bribing and brainwashing, our entire political system leaves us with the choice of empowering corrupt militaristic theocrats or a party that mostly uses tax dollars to bribe voters. I think a very good response to this situation is "I don't like what Pelosi is doing, but I would really hate what a republican would do in her place." And that doesn't sounds like people have much power at all.
For almost all of history in almost every society both man and women have been ignored, oppressed, controlled. Things have drastically changed in Western world. Not sure we need to impose a Brave New World style "utopia".
My solution for audio on Linux was to buy a cheap USB sound adapter. They can often be found for under $10 and they just work.
I think you misunderstand the dynamics of, for example, host clubs. Women don't generally go to hosts seeking primarily sex - they tend to go seeking fantasy love & engagement-based interactions. Articles like [1] shine a bit of light on it.

I'm genuinely having trouble following your logic on this issue - it seems fairly obvious that heterosexual males are highly desirous of sex with attractive women, which creates a power dynamic based on that desire.

[1] http://feministing.com/2009/08/09/japan-male-hosts-and-femal...
As someone out of the dating pool for almost 40 years, that is utterly depressing (for a man).
High quality without a doubt. His chess AI tournament is also a thorough nerd snipe.
More than ok - you solved a problem without presumably rebuilding the core app (being presumptuous about the parts of your architecture undiscussed).
Thanks for the post.

I think when I first started programming I figured this out at my first real coding job. After about 3 months, organized the code, streamlined systems, met the needs of the stakeholders, reduced interruptions, pushed more responsibility back to the account managers, and provide a sense of security and trust to the owners of the company. (oddly enough I was the only developer) After that was established, the company had a meeting on Monday morning that I initiated. Once that was done, there were times I wouldn’t get an email/phone call for the rest of the week.

Keep in mind, rolling into this job I was a combat vet, and for what it's worth an MBA as well. I just have an innate sense of how to cut to the chase and get the job so I can sit back and reap the rewards of the front-loading work. It’s when I get bored that I get in trouble. Even since 2014 I always seem to have some side works/side projects going because well I like to be challenged. It probably also helps that I don’t really want a career in software engineering, so lately I have been just working on contract work.
Actually, yes, kind of the whole point - the concept of race is racist. And "looking through a lens of race" is racist too.

(EDIT : the OP doesn't mention race though, so the blame might be actually more on the answerer.)

The whole concept is not only scientifically flawed (and so was largely abandoned by anthropologists, who prefer to use the much more culturally than genetically defined concept of ethnicity), but has also resulted in untold suffering in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Not that fetishization of skin color isn't an issue, but affirming the validity of race by using it to think about this issue is guaranteed to make matters worse.
An Empirical Lower Bound on the Overheads of Production Garbage Collectors
The power imbalance obviously comes directly from a difference in demand. The only thing that would fix this is to increase women's sex drive or decrease men's sex drive. We know they are very unequal because prostitution is 99.99% done by women which tells us exactly what the demand is. We have already literally quantified the difference.

From what I understand, a difference would have originated due to the danger and cost of pregnancy which can be as low as zero for men and as high as 100% for women (it can literally be cause death and they can be entirely abandoned.) This mostly ended with birth control, better healthcare and child support-like laws, but the unequal drives did not.
If you call a massage a form of sex, who has more sex, gay men or lesbian women?

Gay men. A massage isn't sex, even if that's what you call it.

For what it's worth, I'm a bisexual man who's had multiple relationships with both men and women. I had more sex with the lowest-sex man than I did with the highest-sex woman, even when you do count cuddling as sex.
> Who do you think has more sex: lesbians, or gay men?

what is the answer to this question supposed to be? is there some stereotype that gay dudes have more sex than lesbians? i haven't found any clear trend here anecdotally.
Yes, but they're upvotes from people browsing HN on a work day. Don't think of it as a particularly random sample of programmers.
Definitely, but how many actually use ZERO Swift?

Saying you were Obj-C only made some sense a few years ago but I can't imagine many places are doing it any more.
Unless things have changes since I was a teenage boy (and they might have, that was 30 years ago!), teenage girls are interested in a very, very small subset of available teenage boys while being visibly, publicly disgusted by the rest.
I too was playing around with Go generics. I wrote some naive concurrent filter and fold (reduce) functions for slices and maps here https://github.com/unix1/gostdx if anyone is curious how those would feel.
I have been consulting at a world-renown hedge fund that has a lot of F# including nightly processes that have apparently been running for years with zero maintenance. You'll never hear them talk about it or see them at meet-ups though. The CTO is a bit of a maverick -- I'm not suggesting that this type of quiet adoption is common.
You guys are probably aware that what you end up with is a safe space for nazis.
There's engineers like this, but at small companies your colleagues dislike you and lose respect for you each day. There was a guy like this at my last company, and then when they tried to fire him he threw accusations against colleagues and played the legal game. In a word, absolutely pathetic stuff.

I work very hard, and I don't expect others to, but I question why you would spend 40h a week every week just playing time-waster and obfuscator
When Your Fiber ISP's 'Dumb' Device Screws Your TCP Sessions
^ The only sound issues I've been having these days is Windows 10 randomly deciding to not recognize my USB audio interface after waking from standby and acting as-if I don't have audio output, requiring me to physically plug it out and back in again :)
Than how does one become better than he already is? How do people ever learn anything new or achieve eureka moments if facts can't change their hearts?