skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, if you have a full-time tech job and also a "full-time" side gig running a pottery business (or doing some unrelated consulting/writing on the side), very few companies are going to have a real issue. (If you aren't really doing a good job on your tech job that's between you and you employer.)

But these sorts of stories are basically all about people having two full-time tech jobs and time slicing them--including possibly outsourcing some of the work.

ADDED: And maybe it's just a function of the sort of job I have but what are these extremely well-paid jobs where you're some anonymous drone where a wide range of people in the industry aren't very familiar with who you work for.
It’s good to be in the 1% in any big and strong asset class. I’m sure Tesla 1%-ers don’t complain either.
Oh, you made me google if there were in Quebec and finally they are being rolled out, starting from Dec. 20th. Took them long enough, but nice!
Check the dates.
So how fast is it going according to the blur? 600mph?
Kodi is just the media suite, what add-ons one installs in it is neither their concern or their liability.

The same goes for similar offerings like Jellyfin/Plex, if the end user uses a pirated streaming service that is on them and the service provider (which Omi was.) It was this which got him into trouble, not the fact he used Kodi.
All a part of being a physician. My extended family has a couple. Conversations about “you’re obese and your blood sugar will kill you in 5 years unless you take this drug every day”.

And guess what? They say “that medicine is poison, I use tumeric”. Then in a few years they are dead, or blind or have both legs amputated.

Humans make horrible health choices all the time. Maybe the difference is just the scale at this point.
Agreed on all points. The SGTF sampling by UW, Yale, and others have been more than sufficient to get a good-enough estimation, in combination with the really excellent work from the UK and Denmark, of what we're facing.

Our trajectory for the next ~10+ days is largely locked-in, but strident (and empathetic) leadership may help to blunt the impact in the weeks that follow.

It might be Christmas week, but if you limit contacts for the next week or two, you'll put yourself in a much-better place to be able to manage the month to come .

May this be the last time humans have to pay so dearly to learn the lesson that exponentially-scaling adversaries are best-confronted when they are small.
Namebase.io.
> and have their every move tracked as they do, we choose to parlay our autonomy into occupying two well-paying jobs at the same time...

Some folks are possibly writing the tech that is overseeing others...
South Africa, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/s-africa-...

> Only 1.7% of identified Covid-19 cases were admitted to hospital in the second week of infections in the fourth wave, compared with 19% in the same week of the third delta-driven wave ... Health officials presented evidence that the strain may be milder, and that infections may already be peaking in the country’s most populous province, Gauteng.

Hong Kong, https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-c...

> The researchers found that Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infects and multiplies 70 times faster than the Delta variant and original SARS-CoV-2 in human bronchus, which may explain why Omicron may transmit faster between humans than previous variants. Their study also showed that the Omicron infection in the lung is significantly lower than the original SARS-CoV-2, which may be an indicator of lower disease severity.

If the Hong Kong report is accurate, could regular nasal washing slow viral replication, e.g. in early stages of infection? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620312
Right? It seems like you be very quickly in the realms of breach of contract for most high income jobs. I'm presuming this is targeted at already high income earners, because the alternative is simply a techified name for what some huge proportion of all Americans do all the time.

I'd also be intrigued about how it interacts with contracts that say everything you do/think in your spare time belongs to the company (a nonsense condition, but whatever)
The sources of the concrete blocks aren't specified, but here's a one-off hydraulic press test.

https://youtu.be/Tba0il8IFF4
Yeah, but how was that patty on a bun, dripping with barbecue sauce and maybe with some sliced onions on it?
Am I the only one who lost it at the artist rendering that looked like it was done in MS paint? Truly, someone made a valiant effort, but it was... something else.
CDC refines the measurements as sequencing results are reported. After about two weeks, the numbers settle down to near their final precision/value.
I think that happiness is the feeling of progress toward a goal.

we need a goal + we need progress.

One you attain a goal, the whole reward system collapse and you need something else.

People used to have religion and have ultimate unattainable goal (be the best version of themselves) so they always had something to work toward.

I think that we need something similar at this point, a hero’s journey that is worthwhile.
It could be read as satire, especially in suggesting there was ever anything good about Java. Java ate the industry not on merit but on a billion dollars of promotion by Sun (hastening Sun's demise, which Java utterly failed to save), but much moreso on programmers' relief at finding a way out of sharecropping for Microsoft.

People today might not know that at the time, Microsoft introduced a whole new "app framework" every other year. People stuck coding for Windows were perpetually needing to get "certified" on the new thing. The New Thing was invariably horrendous. (Really, people paid to get certification as qualified to code for Windows! I am not joking.)

Comparing your thing to Java is not a good look.
How else do you think a singer of Chinese military propaganda songs got in there, with literally no qualifications? After the CCP's good friend Tedros was elected he made Xi's wife as well as Xi's good buddy Robert Mugabe WHO goodwill ambassadors (the latter was removed again after an international outcry). Not sure how much more obvious it could get. Imagine it was the 1940s and the WHO hired Eva Braun.
> A flamboyant YouTuber known as Omi in a Hellcat was charged with illegally selling copyrighted TV shows and movies through an online service, prosecutors said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/bill-omar-carrasquillo...

So no.
This is starting to happen with software engineers in my professional circles.
Yes, that's correct. Being able to infect without increasing the length of infected files is an important point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_cave
Can you smell metal? [video]
The 13th amendment required a civil war to overcome the need for a supermajority, so I think it's a pretty good example. Women's suffrage required World War 1, which up-ended society and opened up a lot of positions of power (or just ordinary factory positions) to women who had not previously had access.
Nothing sucked worse than being the last guy to the MRE box. But hey, making "MRE bombs" out of the heaters was always fun.
Typically, it is part of the senior engineer's job to provide "code review as a service". An engineer who can't review a junior's code isn't a senior.
Apple sues Ericsson over ‘strong-arm’ tactics in 5G patent negotiations
How that works for folks with CXX titles? Whey often 'sit' in multiple boards.
Also recently I was re-checking my contract, and there is nothing said there 'only job', I think that would be illegal to put in a contract.
A 1% Omicron would suggest we have 6 doubling-periods before dominance, roughly 18 days.

A 10% Omicron would suggest we only have 3-doubling periods before dominance, roughly 9 days (seems to be doubling every 3 days on the average).

--------

The 30% vs 70% dominance question is "is Omicron going to be dominant on Thursday, or was it Dominant yesterday?". Which... isn't really that big of a difference anymore. We're just solidly in the era of Omicron now.
I have multiple Fable apps in production - one of which for 2+ years. They are among the most stable apps I have published, and they are a real joy to maintain.

I too had initial concerns about adding Fable as a dependency, but it has been rock solid and has proven to be a great decision. The safety and clarity it provides by allowing you to use F# type system is a vast improvement over JS.

Many of the React libraries that I use already have bindings, and of the ones that didn't, I can usually create my own minimal bindings within a few hours. The community is also very helpful in this regard and are generally eager to assist.

With that said, if you want to go hog wild with incorporating every new React library out there, then this could start to feel like a hinderance if a library doesn't already have bindings.
But for me, the advantages of being able to use F# on the front and back end outweigh the inconvenience of occasionally having to create my own bindings. Plus it's fun (IMO) to contribute bindings back for the rest of the community to use.

It may also be worth noting that I look forward to waking up in the morning when working on an F# project!
This is more of a megapede!
I agree entirely with your second paragraph, but regarding this:

> hex string (which is entirely ASCII)

My point is that JSON doesn't need to be UTF-8 or a superset of ASCII to be valid. It can be any representation of Unicode, including UTF-16, UTF-32, GB 18030, etc.; so long as the text is is comprised of Unicode code points in some Unicode transformation format, the JSON is valid.

As I said in the parent comment: if you are working within UTF-8 exclusively, and can assume valid UTF-8, then great! But this isn't necessarily true, and in some cases, you will still need to care about the encoding.

(Either way, this starts straying slightly from the more general discussion at hand: regardless of the encoding of the string, you will still need an ergonomic way of interacting with the contents of the data in order to meaningfully parse the contents — even past the hurdle of decoding from arbitrary bytes, you still need to manipulate the data reasonably. In some cases, this means working with a buffer of bytes; in others, it makes sense to manipulate the data as a string... In which case, you may run into some of the string manipulation ergonomic considerations being discussed around these comments.)
Value and access to cash. I might value the end of the racetrack at $1million, but only be able to put up $20,000.
My 5th grade class got sent some MREs from the first gulf war. Surviving on them was certainly a feat of bravery. I don't remember what they tasted like, but I knew I didn't want to go to war.
If you're not into selfies, you may ignore the fact that your smartphone has a front facing camera. It may not be for you, but other people do use it.

HN is a tech community, which means there're many programmers here. Some people may use X and also contribute to X, or at least want to dig into the source code.

For example, since I'm a Rust programmer and not an R programmer, I'm more interested in "A fast query engine written in Rust" than "A fast query engine written in R". There're benefits of using a program written in a language you're familiar with. One of them is when you find a bug you can dig into the source code, post an issue which point out which code might cause the bug, better yet post a PR. Instead of "Please help, X failed to do Y."
Kodi is awesome. The fact that it can run everywhere, with such a consistent UI is a great, and I have used it in x86 HTPCs, RPI, Android TV over the years.
Sampling rate needs to be normalized against percent-positivity. NYC has gone from 3% positive to 8% positive, suggesting that NYC is missing half of its results compared to before.

Remember: the flu is among us. A lot of these tests should be returning negative because the flu is spreading like normal.
For the same reason that people depend on TypeScript.
The JS output created by Fable is fine to read, and I very rarely, if ever, need to look at it.
95% CI includes 35%-95% . . . with intervals that wide, the statistic seems to be questionably useful.
You know what I mean and the distinction is meaningless. No one doing a show as big as that is doing it without the hardware necessary to make sure that they can control 100% of the output path.
Step #1: End the pandemic. Then we'll talk
Stremio is way better.
This can only work at extremely dysfunctional companies with incompetent management. I suppose there's an opportunity here for some unethical people to get some money from those companies until they collapse. In any reasonably well-run company these people would be fired quickly.

Gordon Gecko might say these people are performing service to the public by helping poorly managed companies go bankrupt faster, but it's still unethical because the goal seems to be to massively underwork at each job.

On the other hand, I think that it should be reasonable for software engineers to work two jobs, as long as they are not competitors and there are no intellectual property concerns. Just like any other employee, some people want to work two jobs, and I'm actually disappointed it's not more common to arrange for multiple legitimate jobs (two part time, or one full time one part time) in the tech industry.
The Spectator Covid Tracker for Omicron is interesting: https://data.spectator.co.uk/category/south-africa
The real question is why have we engineered our environment so unhealthy choices are so easy to make. There are systemic issues here that go beyond individual choices. Social media is also part of the equation and we are now seeing the kind of damage it is doing to the epistemic commons. Everyone believes whatever they want to, safely cocooned in their own media echo chambers. The longer this state of affairs persists the worse things will get. Inability to deal with a pandemic is just the tip of the iceberg.

It's great that this doctor can share his experience but why is he posting this on Reddit? Why isn't this information available from trusted media sources? And for that matter, why aren't there any such trusted sources that everyone can agree is acting in their best interests and providing them with worthwhile and pertinent news?

Democracies can not survive without functional news and media sources.
> going to milliondollarhomepage.com with a VR helmet

Perfect!

And in 3D it goes to 1000^3 voxels, so now billiondollarhomepage.com as well.
That table is extremely useful b/c it tells us it's still too early to tell. Had just a single of the 785 omicron cases died (like maybe they got an unrelated stroke while in the hospital), then that would change the numbers from 0% IFR to 0.12% IFR (i.e. above Delta).

Also, noticed that ICU rate is 3x higher with Omicron (which might also be related to the lack of enough observations).

That said, I really hope IFR is much lower, given all the vaccines, boosters, and previous infections.
We’ve waited so long and really needed a win sounded more like the author's frustration at not being able to get her daughters vaccinated. I could have misread the sentiment considering the author is an epidemiologist.

But still, I find the idea of vaccinating children when they are unlikely to benefit from it uncomfortable.

> some do get seriously ill.

At a vanishingly small rate.
Please show me one place where I said their concerns weren't valid or their experiences irrelevant. I have never said that and you're being disingenuous to say that. The only thing I've said is they're being hyperbolic by using the term "unusable" because, if it was truly unusable, they wouldn't be relying on something that wasn't out of their control.
For your consideration, Jellyfin. [0]

[0] https://jellyfin.org/
This is a big help! Thanks.

Aren’t the apps just matching providers and hosting communication? In which case the providers fall under the first column? At some point, there must be a provider, right?
Nobody’s impugning their honesty. Just pointing out that this is a model, not data.
> I would think the human factor is also involved here, namely that it's hard to admit you're doing terrible (in this case: losing a lot of good talent) so people kind of get into an echo chamber where they and their club pat themselves on the back for how well they're doing "despite adversity".

100% I agree with this for sure.
80% of SA has already been infected and thus has some measure of immunity and prior culling, as well as an average age 1-2 decades younger than most developed nations

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-18/deaths-da...
I had a coworker try to pull the two remote jobs at once thing.

Thinking a customer was calling he answered the wrong phone and said the wrong company name, but it was actually his bosses boss.

Company fired him, and actually went so far as to threaten to sue the guy until he agreed to pay restitution (one year pay), and they told the other company who fired him. I don’t know if the other company did anything else.

Dude was a bad apple / trying to find a way to skirt every rule / do as little work as possible anyway so I suspect if push came to shove they could have proven he really hadn’t done the work he claimed and was busy not working most of the time.

I really didn’t expect they would take it that far, company didn’t need his money, but I believe someone wanted to make an example of him. Can’t blame them.
Sorry if I can't tell if you're telling the truth because I haven't been able to use yt-dl since the last non-github repo broke months ago.
Yes it would. That's how malware gets installed surreptitiously. It gets wrapped in nice instructions for how to enable some functionality that actually does something else. It's literally the entire reason for changes like this.

I still think Apple should walk it back a little but pretending like that doesn't have unintended consequences is kinda foolish.
I wonder if creatures of this size are the reason we as a species still have such a fear of insects and spiders. 300 million years ago our very ancient ancestors could have easily been eaten by just about anything.
I have seen and done many successful blind folded metal identification taste testings. This is both a joke and a real way to teach people to identify different metals. There are lots of reasons why taste testing works as your also feeling textures, judging densities, and so on. So this video adds just one more real reason why metal taste testing works.
All you need to do is be open. Do not lie for money on the internet or mail. State you work for other companies, state you are on other boards, etc. When you lie to people for money is where things go really bad (at least in the US).

(wire/mail fraud 941. 18 U.S.C. 1343).
> Just because they probably won’t die doesn’t

Forget death, even the chance of becoming seriously ill seems vanishingly small.

> being an unwitting vector to sicken others around them

Any sensible adult should have already gotten vaccinated by now.
Nice to see natural immunity being recognized as a talking point, although the Danish sample shows prior infection is much more protective against Delta than Omicron.

What percentage of US and UK have already been infected?
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> I don't think they would love to know, though. Its not like employees won't give them feedback (anonymous, if its a toxic environment). Exit surveys are another tool to learn why some of your most senior engineers are leaving. I would bet that they aren't doing this, or at least not in a serious way.

Sorry maybe I worded it wrong, I am sure they would love to know, but that doesn't mean they would do better with that information.

I just meant that like any other business, having as accurate information as possible is of course desirable.
> Hopefully we all know what the new rules are by now...

What are they, precisely? There are always going to be new variants. I think there is a spectrum of valid responses, depending on your risk aversion, but I guess for most people the new rules are actually the same as the old rules. It does seem like there is some incremental desire to get boosters. But I've already done that, and I already wear masks in public. What else is there to be done?
I switched jobs this year. The old job offered a very high part time salary because they just hit product market fit and my replacement wasn't able to keep up.

The coding would have been near effortless as there was already another guy there. The code was efficient - my main goal was that it would take less effort to write new code than it would to write user stories.

But there's a limit to how effective the work can be. Most of the remaining work was communication. A 15 min meeting disrupts work flow so much. How do you deal with two of them every day on vastly different contexts? What if they're on the same time?

Someone brought up that 2x the work meant 5x savings, but 2x mental workload actually feels 5x heavier too. If I did take a second job, it would be something physical like farming or cooking.
1/3 of americans as of a few months ago

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...
If the companies that hired him are satisfied with his work (quality, time delivery) and can't even tell the difference on their own, is he really doing them wrong?
People "doing that all the time" for any language are exactly, equally obnoxious. (But, it must be said, they do it less.) The only exceptions are for a library, or when the language is apparently unsuited to or incapable of the task.

"I wrote a web browser in Apple ][ Integer BASIC" would mean something.

The natural inference about crowing "in Rust" is that you really did not expect to succeed.
The "HR exists to protect the company" explanation for bad HR irks me too. HR exists to do whatever the C-suite tells them priorities are.

If leadership says "Decrease harassment AND protect the company," then that's a thing HR can do. Or they could not, or say "but make sure to give anyone that makes the company a lot of money a free pass," and HR doesn't try.
> It's great that this doctor can share his experience but why is he posting this on Reddit?

Because doctors are people, and they just wanted to get the experience off their chest without any personally identifying information being disclosed?
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Compared that to flu data from 2018-19 season [1]:

28,908,721 flu cases:

0.09% fatal, 1.3% hospital

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
Clearly they could tell; he told customers from one company to go to the other
I am mostly concerned about the mutations coming out of the Omicron contagion than the Omicron variant itself.
I am not a doctor, but the numbers for this varient seem encouraging.

Because hospitalizations, and deaths, trend later than infections, definitive conclusions are still some weeks away. However all the data coming out of South Africa is encouraging.

First, South Africa has about 25% vaccination coverage. With coverage skewing older.

Infections are up [1],but hospitalizations are flat, and so are deaths.

It's likely that the infection rate is grossly under-reported, especially among those without symptoms, as tests are (relatively) expensive. Annecdodally reasonably high percentages of asymptomatic infection is being detected in people being "randomly" tested (eg tested for travel and other-hospital reasons)

It is also crowding out delta, which is still present, but decreasing.

All in all travel bans may have been counter-productive (as well as ineffective) allowing time for more delta infections, and ultimately more deaths to take place.

It's still too early to be definitive, but this may indeed be the varient we all need - one which is super contagious, but also super weak, priming immune systems against earlier varient.

IF (and its a very big IF) this varient is non-fatal, then the faster and wider it spreads the better. We need to super-nova this thing, not a red dwarf.

[1] https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...