skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - once you know you have certain genetic predispositions, that has severe implications for insurance. Do not do any sort of genetic testing without fully understanding present and possible future consequences of doing so.

The author's age really shows when she mentions AIDS tests. AIDS for a while was a near guaranteed death sentence and also carried incredible social stigma, and not just because of the assumptions about you made (ie that you were gay, or a drug user.)

I don't think people younger than 40 or so understand how big a deal it was when Princess Diana shook the hand of a person with AIDS in front of TV cameras.

Receiving a positive AIDS test result could be deeply traumatic, and reaction to it could be life-altering on its own. It was 100% a good idea to require counseling...especially when we progressed treatment to the point where it was no longer a death sentence.
Something I always tell my students: current is pulled, not pushed.

According to Ohm’s law, I = V/R. The resistance of your skin is constant (well mostly — you can of course get it wet to decrease resistance), so the only way to increase the current is to increase the voltage.

Same thing with car batteries. People are always scared because 800A is flowing through the wires when you’re starting a car. If those batteries are capable of 800A then surely you shouldn’t touch them.

But at 12V, you’d need a resistance of 0.015 Ohms to get 800A. If your dry skin has a resistance of 100kOhm, the most current flowing through your body will be around 0.1 mA.
I think you mean execution process, not thread.

That said, processes should not share virtual address spaces by default. Sharing memory between processes should be an explicit choice.

(Or should 99.9% of calls to spawn() be followed by new_address_space()? )

The researchers can write their own single address space os if they are so inclined.
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Inside Macintosh was a great series. I used them mostly as a Lisp (Macintosh Common Lisp) programmer, totally new to Macs, trying to translate everything to the MCL FFI.

Part of me thinks I'd love to have a copy, but I'm sure I have a lot of nostalgia coloring my feelings.
Annoying, but an important signal in a job search. If they don't have it together when they should be putting their best foot forward, they're going to be a complete disaster on the other side.
I'm sorry you perceive the messaging as fear-based. Indeed the facts of a pandemic are scary but I don't think the intent of sharing facts is to induce fear. Rather, it is to share information and prepare the public.

Regarding hospital staffing, I'm not sure where money for that would come from if not largely paid by patients or insurance plans. I certainly wouldn't want to see that whole system become state-owned. We should encourage rather than stifle competition.
I'm not sure I follow your argument. So because he only manifested himself to a relatively small number of people, he can't prove that he understands us?

We have his teachings in writing. Do you only believe in knowledge that is personally manifested to you? If so, then you wouldn't believe in any history.
It's probably not deliberate, but it is dangerous negligence, especially at Big Tech scales. If Alexa suggests this to 10,000 kids even a 1% chance could mean 100 deaths.
In complete agreement; but the shock (no pun intended) of the experience will definitely instill some much-needed distrust of "that lady in the box", especially for those parents who still have the notion that corporations and governments can do no harm.
The set of "valid" actions is a superset of what's actually "useful" or "good."

I'm an atheist, but for the most part I enjoyed reading others spiritual practices.

It is useful to learn about others; empathy and understanding are incredibly valuable even if one views the world from a strictly Machiavellian lens (though I hope that folks do not).

There is also much that the non-religious can learn from the religious. What I got from many posts here was a sense of the purpose, meaning, and/or serenity that many of these folks derive from their spiritual practices.

Call me crazy, but those are qualities many of us would like to enhance in our lives. I think there is much to learn from them.
Because FDA does not allow companies to sell them.
I think we got a taste of that in the late 70s when the engine bay of every automobile was a dense nest of rubber vacuum hoses.
It's pretty amazing. I found out about it a couple months ago from a job posting that wanted a programmer for a cube sat. It seems like this is what they're aiming the service for at the moment.

And really, it's the perfect place for aws to enter, add glue, and provide a service to let you do your core business. Feels like the future man.
A third of the world lives on less than two dollars a day. That was before the pandemic. It's worse now.

Think about how you would live on $60 a month.

*(local equivalent buying power of what two US dollars can buy in the US)
You should be aware of certain “minimum milestones” that are not average but signal problems that might merit intervention (I have a nephew that couldn’t talk or understand human language by age 3), but otherwise let your child develop at his own pace.

I have a 9 m.o. myself. Kid’s way out of whack, plays my (digital) piano somewhat convincingly (can’t hack notes and scales, of course, but alternates hands and sounds musical in a Cecil Taylor kind of way) but seems to be behind with the babbling. I mean, whatever — I didn’t sign up for a gifted child, I signed up for a child period.

It may help to remember the poem that says “your children are not your children — they’re sons of Nature…”
The punycode representation of the domain name is the “true” representation, HN just doesn’t detect that and convert it from punycode to Unicode. This may be unintentional, or it may be to avoid homoglyph attacks.
The correct answer is “no”.

I have “fired” pushy recruiters even at the offer stage by walking away. Trying to sell me a job like a used car salesman at a scummy lot when you’ve made me a large offer is a really strange decision.

I also regret not walking away from some recruitment funnels where bad recruitment vibes were indeed strong signals for bad workplace situations.
> And yes, while in a highly-valued field like IT, we usually have enough bargaining power, regulation still helps us. If the baseline was "just don't beat your workers, everything else is legal", we'd have a lot more to negotiate first, before we even got to the things we negotiate these days like benefits, loose schedules, work from home, etc.

Nah. Compare eg restaurants. Food safety is strictly regulated in many countries, but taste ain't. Still, you can walk into most restaurants and get something reasonably palatable. No need to laboriously negotiate the taste.

Similarly, in place and times when there was no minimum wage, people didn't typically negotiate their compensation from a baseline of zero. The baseline is what's prevalent in the market.

(My adopted home of Singapore doesn't have a minimum wage today. Germany and Hong Kong only got theirs relatively recently. The pre-20th-century US didn't have one either, yet was the target of many migrants.)

> And it's not like we can't fall on hard times either. Not everyone that is paid well is rich. They might be the main source of income for a large family or a have sick or old relatives to take care of.

That might be an argument for a social safety net financed by tax payers. But not an argument in favour of adding extra burdens on those who would offer poor people a job. See https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
There's also a very large Thiebaud painting in Terminal 2 or 3 of SFO. I've made a point of seeing it the last few times I was flying
I tried a bunch of different browsers today on a lark, because Firefox has become the monstrosity it was once created to replace, and new Linux distros just keep getting slower and slower on this aging Core i7-6500U laptop. The browsers included Edge, Epiphany, Vivaldi, Opera, Otter, Palemoon, Netsurf, Dillo.

Let me tell you, it was a gas. So many broken pages. Such a wide range of performance and "user experience". Browsing with Dillo was like looking at the internet through an abstract art painting, which was even more striking because I still remember when I could actually browse most websites with Dillo, and now links2 -g (remember how Links has graphics mode?) is literally more usable for browsing the web.

Turns out Epiphany is extremely minimal, fast, and renders pages well (and even supports Firefox Sync? that's cool), so I'm gonna try that as a daily driver.
I couldn't find a publish date in the pdf but going off the url I'm going to guess that it was from 2008.

It's a little bit annoying finding information about jwst as info could potentially be old and out of date. Another document that I read mentioned using XML as the database format because XML was an emerging standard :S
I guarantee you there are professionals doing "npm update" without checking if one of the hundreds of updated packages had a license change in an update.
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Someone who raised kids old school ways once told me first step in parenting is to “Back off”

He said our generation have bane of abundance of time and money we end up inventing problems.

He said sitting and having a close watch on kids like the way we do is like digging everyday to see if a seed you have seen is growing well.

Give the seed a bit sun, soil, water and time.

Same way give your child safety, love and guidance.

All of us learnt to walk one way or another don’t we.

You guys are going to be great parents for her. Just relax and enjoy the time watching her grow.
That is crazy haha
Do you mean slate? My perception is they last some 100 years, but now cost $80k to replace.
Couldn't agree more.

At my previous job, I spent some of my evenings and weekends to build internal tools to help members of the organization be more efficient, saving certain people on the team dozens of hours of work per week. I largely did it because I wanted to learn libraries and tools we weren't using on a day-to-day basis.

Instead of allocating more time for me to work on these projects or to work on improving our developer workflow, my reward was being assigned some of the most mind-numbing projects imaginable, tasks that quite frankly an entry-level developer fresh out of a bootcamp could accomplish. That wouldn't bug me if inefficiencies in the workflow wasn't such a bottleneck to the entire team.

Disheartened, I (and many other senior devs) applied elsewhere. One of the strongest devs sent a scathing email to leadership before getting let go. I managed to land a position with a great company that lets me jam and nerd out on cutting edge technology.
>Oh, and don't use the built-in browser if you're on Android

If you're on graphene, you should be using their built in browser by default. Otherwise you're bypassing their mitigations
C++ pre-11 was in decline. Since 11, it has exploded. Every ISO meeting, 3 times/year, had more attendees than any previous meeting. It is impossible to explain that change except by the extra features that showed up in 11, and subsequent Standards. Many of the important new features are in the standard library, that are useful building blocks for other libraries.

Most of the use of new features has been to make libraries more powerful, and easy and safe to use. So, users of those libraries don't need to use the new features directly to benefit from them.

Which was my point.
how do you tracked a turned off phone
It seems to get stuff wrong as often as not...
No it's not: she'll exceed your expectation in some part (my 3yo can lie and seduce with perfect awareness, speaks okay in 3 languages with a very impressive English accent despite both non english parents) and disappoint in other (mine still refuses to brush her teeth on her own, she was late in pooping by herself cleanly according to milestone books).

Just let it go, focus on soft skills like being nice and patient, eat not too much crap and accept some authority and you'll be fine.
most under utilized building material
The new court ruling is already about the GPLv3 - the self-healing clause still allows a copyright holder to terminate the license of a violator if they choose to exercise part (a) of your quote after a notification of violation which meets the requirements to avoid part (b). I assume that the copyright holder chose this path because their notice requesting compliance was ignored.
It sounds kind of funny to say “this should be in a config, not in code, but here’s a config language that lets you code your config”.

Regardless, I don’t think Dhali was around at the time Quirks.cpp was created.

Funny story, my first exposure to ruby was using it to write ant (or was it maven) config files (EJB nightmares) because the XML config sucked pretty bad (around Rails 1.0 era). It was far more concise and easy to work with, being an actual language and English readable, but I was never sure it was a good idea in a large team environment. If Java hadn’t been so cumbersome I would have used it for config as well instead of the hot garbage XML config was (is still?). I’ve seen a bajillion attempts at config languages since then. Most not great.
With the miniscule differences combined with the subjectivity of it all it's just really hard (or practically impossible) to prove that the developer/salesman actually doesn't hear a positive improvement.

Audiophiles salesmen want to believe just as much as the customers.

Disclaimer: Built speakers and amplifiers in a previous life and never understood how people would fret so much about cables.
For one, manufacturing is limited for these products and selling them to people who don’t need it, especially right now, prevents actual diabetics from getting the life saving devices they need.
We were like this with our first. Then our second came along and blew the first away in some areas and lagged behind them in others. That really put things in perspective.
It seems "unalive" is spreading. I've heard it on several platforms now. It's pushing on meme level due to the misinterpretation by automods. There are several other words, like Heckmet instead of Helmet where it's a syllable rather than a whole word. I've even hear unalivemond for diamond
This just happened to me Nov 10. I created a brand new LastPass account (created for the sole purpose of retrieving a password a client shared with me), generated a password from 1Password and copy/pasted it into the sign-up form in Chrome. It was barely an hour later before I got the ‘Login attempt blocked’ from São Paulo.
Another example for a 10x developer would be fabrice bellard. I've participated in this year's advent of code and usually needed dozens of minutes if not hours to solve examples. Then you see some of the videos from streamers on the leaderboard. they just quickly type out code. Sure, I hadn't practiced much and they had a lot of practice (doing AoC was my attempt of getting some), but they are definitely a two digit multiplier away from my performance. Of course, this doesn't directly translate to performance on the real job though, but there is a correlation I'd say.

Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKpViLcTp64
As a short-cut to where I'm coming from, I'll say I'm entirely sympathetic to Peter Singer's utilitarian arguments with respect to animals.

If we were to balance on the one hand a human life and the life of a fish or deer or cow or chicken, I'd be hard-pressed to essay them as equivalent. And yet, if anyone should threaten to inflict suffering or harm upon my pet, I would react with violence if need be, to whatever extent I could muster to prevent any harm to my little pal (an awe-inspiringly predatious indoors cat). And yet I recognize that such a threat-reaction is, in itself, reducible to an evolutionary-biologically trained threat-reaction.

Article thesis:

> "...the widespread notion that only humans can understand death stems from an overly complex view of this concept".

This appears non-controversial to me, merely a hasty set decoration to buy the audience's indulgence -- an argument which yet needs recourse to the hedge "overly complex". What can follow but a recitation of interesting factoids (which would be more compelling without the sententiousness) or the grinding of an axe?

> What I want to argue is that, if thanatosis has evolved, it’s because there are some advantages – regardless of the concrete form they take – to appearing specifically as though one were dead.

This is like taking up the courageous position that water is wet. Predators don't need to learn, of necessity, that yellow and black markings indicate venom. This is an Encyclopedia Britannica entry dressed up as a school report on natural selection, the guilty license for which was planted by tacking on "overly complex" to the thesis.

If the author actually had something to say, perhaps she reached her word-count too soon or merely failed to perceive the essential distinction: what various modes of awareness of death may tell us about consciousness in animals. Or possibly, we just don't know enough to say anything clearly on this topic (in which case, I would have much preferred the assistant professor in the department of logic, history, and philosophy of science to simply lay out nakedly what her intuitions are for weighing and examination).
Steel does rust, but good metallurgy and coatings help. I live in the upper Midwest where road salt is used quite heavily, yet the prevalence of super rusty cars has really diminished.

Steel items that are not exposed to salt either rust much more slowly, or develop a patina that slows further rusting. That's not quite so easy in coastal areas.
Software design for flexibility is amazing, just dove into it because of this post thank you.
> I'm not sure I follow your argument. So because he only manifested himself to a relatively small number of people, he can't prove that he understands us?

I'm referring to the miracles attributed to him, which are used as the conclusive evidence that he was God in the flesh.

> We have his teachings in writing.

How do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have his teachings? You do not even know the historical identities of the authors of the gospels. Nor do you have his teachings in the original language that he spoke.
Your other power is to not start in the first place.

Employers with better reputation have an easier job both hiring and retaining.

Treating people unnecessarily badly leads to a worse reputation.
> via their amazing powers of verbal persuasion and charm.

Not really. Just the mere act of talking to a human being is a more invested act than an email.
For me too. And I DO hire.
The Legion of Honor Museum is also currently running a Pastels exhibition with some of his pastels.
Many of the the (other) EU countries had global empires too. Fortunately or unfortunately the era of global colonialism has ended.

Since we're all unlikely to be able to conquer large swaths of far-away continents anymore, we're kind of better off working together instead. The alternative is that there's just a bunch of tiny rump-states rusting away in a corner of the globe, pining for our former glory.
First forget the Scrum analogy -- the situations are in no way comparable, for the simple fact that your child is nowhere near cognitively able to process the feedback loops (let alone corrective actions) that go along any of these fancy development methodologies.

As to the practice, on its own terms: your doctor is at least partially right in that if -- in the unlikely case -- your child is suffering from some kind of developmental delay then it's better to know this sooner rather than later (before she starts getting teased by other kids, or put in the "slow" bin by teachers, say).

That said -- there's a lot of variability in how people develop, and some people do just fine even after egregious-seeming delays (such as not being able to learn to read by a certain age, for example).

So the good news is you can listen to the doctor's advice -- "your child should be doing <this trick> with their eyes after N months" -- but you don't need to keep scorecards and checklists, and you certainly don't need to get her to "perform" -- à la Scrum -- on anybody's schedule.

Just think of these checks as an early-warning protocol for potential (but unlikely) difficulties down the road -- nothing more.
I’m on an iPhone 12 mini and can scroll to the bottom and there is no “load more” link.
Cool!

I'm off to read about it. ...the basic idea on the main page is super attractive.
> The one reason you don't see more of them is that they cost more up front. But the longer life span means it's really a better long term value.

A really unfortunate truth. Planning for more than 20 years in a house is a rare thing. Home tenure floats around 5-15 years depending on the market. So any investment in a property that doesn't pay off in that time frame is rarely done.
Did you read it? Literally the FDA was created in response to snake oil remedies killing and injuring people.

> By the 1930s, muckraking journalists, consumer protection organizations, and federal regulators began mounting a campaign for stronger regulatory authority by publicizing a list of injurious products that had been ruled permissible under the 1906 law, including radioactive beverages, the mascara Lash lure which caused blindness, and worthless "cures" for diabetes and tuberculosis. The resulting proposed law was unable to get through the Congress of the United States for five years, but was rapidly enacted into law following the public outcry over the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, in which over 100 people died after using a drug formulated with a toxic, untested solvent.

> President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act into law on June 24, 1938.
> In Russia some banks have a small fee (usually about $1-$2 per month)

Well, everyone everywhere wants a small fee for everything. Look at the cellular networks/providers... Although $1-2 is honestly cheap enough to have the convenience of cash-less operations.

> unless you spend more than a certain amount every month or deposit a specific amount

Amusingly this is exactly what I have right now, but I only discovered it pretty recently. Years ago it was really free for me because it was the company which footed the bill, but I don't work there anymore.

> There can even be a fee for withdrawing funds from a debit card

People should vote with their wallets against such practices. And honestly that should be illegal, but...

> one bank will charge a fee for counting coins or small bills if you bring too much of them

If I understand this properly this is against the law, at least if you are paying for something.

> it seems that banks don't like customers who don't pay a fee

Which is unsurprisingly because they are "for profit" institutions.
We had a guy who made a huge “impact” alright. He left almost three years ago and we’re still trying to unwind the mess he made.

He approached a couple members of my current team about the idea of open sourcing some infrastructure he worked on, and I think he was shocked to find that his efforts were not as appreciated as he thought. A bad copy of something better. He left shortly thereafter. I’m not sure if that was always his plan and he wanted to take some things with him, or if he was disheartened. But I know for sure that of he had left earlier he would have never heard that feedback and would have walked away feeling really good about his work.

For myself, I tend to want to know how we got here, wherever “here” is. I don’t need to have made a decision to learn from the consequences, but I do have to understand the decisions to some extent.
You may be right, but as far as Cosmology is concerned, it is amazing we know whatever we do seem to know, just a century on from Einstein and Hubble.