skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What the idea of original sin is about that humans, by their very nature and in their being are confronted with evil.

This is the kind of poetic language behind which people hide confusion so that they can still believe in this. I did the same. I understand the reflexive "let's not think about this too much in case we stop believing".

What does it actually mean to be "confronted with evil" and why is it a problem requiring Christ to die before people with no personal sins could be admitted to heaven?

> I did not need Catholicism to see that humans are, by virtue of simply being human, not 'sinless'.

Clothes by virtue of being clothes are not "dirtless". Dirt exists in the world. Does it mean that before any clothes can be worn to a ball we need to metaphorically wash the generalized dirtiness out of everything? Or do we wash the clothes that are actually dirty and don't wash the clothes that are actually clean?

This confusion of static and instance fields is the main issue with Catholicism.
That question makes no sense. There is as much variance in homeschooling as there is in schools.

This statement came up on Reddit last week, arguing that teaching has become glorified babysitting and the bullying and social maladjustment from schools is demanding alternatives:

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/rjl8fo/im_a_teach...

Here's one anecdote:

This is my first year teaching. My wife and I work at the same school. It literally drove her to a mental breakdown 8 days after our wedding. She’s turned in her notice.

This year, I have been hit 2x by students, had my credit and debit card stolen (by students), been told to go fuck myself (ok, this is all by students), been spit at, called a bitch, etc. Half my students don’t bother turning in anything at all, and a record 10/80 of my students were suspended in ONE WEEK because they were fighting. I have had a student bring a gun to school, one student bring drugs with the intent to distribute, and one student have premeditated and intentional sex in a bathroom, who upon getting caught tried to claim it was rape (this was disproven due to her confessing things via text and to multiple students, we actually believed her at first).

I teach middle school. This isn’t normal. I love when I get to teach, but this year makes me hate my job. I know I should stick it out since I enjoy teaching, but how the hell do I keep doing this?
There's some variability across different galaxies, but generally the curve is pretty flat if you're not right near the center. So the galactic year for a star at the outermost edge of our galaxy should be about the same as ours.
Those "treatments" area leading to tons of diabetics though - "thanks" to the abuse of steroids!
That sounds like a very American thing to say. You're talking about Italian law here?
> I just find that's truly not an unlikely situation to be in.

Uhm, I would say that fully remote $300k+ jobs are still unlikely.
Nine out of seven? How does that work?
You used to be able to. "Web3" is the magic word now.
I just want a 27" 5k display with 120hz and HDR 600 or better.
If this were really for the hiring manager, they would have sent it without posting it on their home page.
I'm not saying those things aren't in there, but they're pretty niche. Like, how often is a group of friends trying to buy a multi-unit building?

The big bad here is lack of housing supply brought on by NIMBY-ism and a shortage of tradespeople (maybe this also speaks to our inability to evolve housing construction as well), and the danger is more or less that policymakers and voters will read this story and think "see, all you have to do is <list of ridiculous and lucky things> and you too can own a home in one of the most expensive places on Earth."

For policy and such, the problem is complicated. Going to housing site:vox.com in DDG isn't a bad idea. But secondarily, I'm interested in prefab and modular housing. A lot of it is better suited to modern housing needs (more efficient--not just 2x4s, fiberglass and Tyvek, cheaper, less construction waste, way less build time on site, smaller and thus higher density, etc).
This specific issue is definitely a macOS problem - instead of doing proper resolution independent rendering, macOS just renders at 2x the 'looks like' resolution, and then scales the result to fit the panel.

But even on Windows, the choices at 27" 4K aren't great. 100% is too small. 200% is too large. 150% is quite nice, but I find apps regularly don't scale properly, and text still isn't as nice as 200% on a 5K display.

edit: and on Linux, it's similarly not great - integer scaling works quite well on most modern DEs. Fractional scaling is a mixed bag and a lot of apps have broken or compromised UI when it's in use.
Does Google send out many cold job offers? My understanding is that it's a pretty strenuous process, so this feels like LARPing.
you need to either compress or cryogenically cool. At 1atm and normal temp, hydrogen is about 8x less energy per volume then her fuel.
Home computer displays for radiologists can cost well over $10K. Of course they dont have to pay for it themselves though. And they can make over $600K working from home reading images all day.
the problem with the apple xdr display isn't just the price though. it's not a good monitor for a lot of users. it's limited to 60hz, it's response time is really poor, it suffers from really obvious blooming and bleed at high brightness and it has bad off axis color accuracy and brightness. sure, if you care deeply about color accuracy and 6k resolution it's pretty good. these aren't the only metrics on which monitors are judged though

apple does a really poor job of supporting external displays. there's virtually no good options if you want something with high refresh, good latency and reasonable pixel density and color reproduction
Sounds like you've independently discovered Conway's Law, one of the most terrible, true things you can say about software organizations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Is discouraging synonymous with destroying in your lexicon?

Most people don’t live in rural areas and most deadly accidents don’t occur in rural areas either. Discouraging car use in cities has next to no effect on rural populations.
A bit of offtopic: Mini LED screens honestly are disappointing for me to some degree. The blooming is a real thing and I can see it every time there is bright content on dark background. I do accept it because there is no other better option really. I can see this blooming both on MacBook Pro 16 M1 Max and on iPad Pro 12.9. It looks especially bad when bright contents moves slowly, you can see those backlight zones edges and you can observe one zone gets turned off and other on. Awful.

I also own Gigabyte AERO 15 OLED laptop and I must admit I prefer this screen over Apple's. White text on black looks amazing and to be honest feels a bit magical, like a thing floating in the air, especially if I look on this screen in a dark room. Code, terminal content looks amazing. It's only 60Hz though, but for mostly static coding 60Hz is enough. Ubuntu works really well, so I don't have to deal with Windows for programming work if I don't have to.

I'm tempted to buy LG OLED 27EP950, it's expensive, but honestly I'd pay those money to reproduce Gigabyte AERO 15 OLED experience on 27 screen. But I know it won't happen, because LG screen will have worse pixel density, it's only 4K. It should be 5K at least, or even 5.5K or even 6K.
To clarify, “senior role” here means a senior management role (the author is a Senior Director Of Engineering) rather than Senior Software Engineer, as probably most folks will read it. Might want to update the title to “senior management role” to make that plain.
I’d say the attribute is "tamper-proof history", not "tamper-proof data (current content)".
This seems similar to attacking a customer service representative for something you know is out of their control.
By far, The Program Audio Series has been my favorite podcast of all time. It's a dys/u/topian story of a world where money, god, tech, and society all merge together into one, told in a very interesting format.

It's so good that I reached out to the creator and hired him haha.

He had a very interesting episode about humanity that was my favorite episode of the year: https://www.programaudioseries.com/19-abandonware/

As a disclaimer, I sponsored this episode --- but only because it's awesome.
It not only requires the subjugation of the rest of the world, it also requires the subjugation of nature and the atmosphere.
> If you know anything about me, you know that I am extremely sensitive to user privacy issues.

… should the recruiter know that much about them?

And if they were that good, they should have stayed at the company and kept Google from going the way of evil that apparently occurred after they left. Instead they left and now are grandstanding by rejecting job offers they don’t have…
It also sounds like it's not a job offer that's being rejected, as it appears to be addressed to a recruiter that has reached out to them about opportunities working at Google.
And? Where was the herd immunity after it?
Firstly Supply and demand of Software Engineers dictate a lot right now. In my market (East Coast of Australia) people aren't being as picky. Wages are shooting up, and they are willing to accept candidates that lack more of their desired traits. These cycles though will go through ebbs and flows and you may end up with a glut of talent and people will be picky on whatever criteria they want right about the time your entering the market (like it was for me in 2001).

Second is only a small percentage of roles are hired by Paul Graham and silicon valley as a whole. The young engineer thing is frequently looked as a positive because your more likely to have people that live an unhealthy work-life balance dedicated to the cause. Most people over 30 end up with a life they can't abandon to work 12 hours a day / 7 days a week. Larger companies tend to have processes where age doesn't come into play, and a better work/life balance (assuming you can tolerate the bureaucracy).

Third if you can use your medical domain knowledge in an SE role, that is likely a bigger perk then any age related negative.

Age is somewhat tied to role. The problem your going to have after 40 - 50 is doubts if you don't already have history with the work / technology. This is a bias against ability to learn. This can be countered with good and relevant certifications and having a broad technical knowledge. Generally when you get a role you will know some of the technologies, be familiar with a few and have to learn others. If you specialise on something in demand, people won't care about your age, they just want to knowledge. Frequently technical specialists I've worked with are 50-60 years old.

Where the negativity at older developers comes from is the requirement for developers to be constantly moving forward learning about new technologies. If your not moving forward, your falling behind. Older starters in SE often have trouble keeping up with this aspect of the industry. This is why frequently university / college education isn't very useful in the real world. The industry has moved on, and you need to learn the new stuff in your junior roles.

Finally development support roles are frequently not viewed with the same lens, and often favour more "mature" people. Testing, Project Management, BA, Sales / Presales Engineering, Support Engineering and Development management all surround the development process and will often involve dipping in to code (depending on organisation / role). You may find while you love Software Engineering, the actual coding is less interesting then the whole creation process.
How would you know to use RGB and not CMYK or HSL?
El Salvador President says, ‘It’s game over for dollar, Bitcoin is future’
I am hanging on to dear life with a slowly dying Dell UP2715K in the hope that 2022 will be the year someone finally makes a decent replacement for the glossy 5k displays that came out years ago.

The fact that the pro xdr only has one port makes it a non starter for me. I need to connect more than one device to my monitors.
I thought that LastPass didn't send your master password over the wire, rather it uses client-side code to take your Master Password and turn it into a hash which is then sent to LastPass for comparison[1]. If that is the case, how can LastPass claim to know that your master password was used? At best, they can claim that the hash sent to the server matches your password's hash but that is not the same as your master password being used.

Given the widespread nature of this issue, I'd guess someone has discovered a flaw in the LastPass login process which is allowing a bad hash to pass the master password hash check: that contradicts what the support agent said, but I'd assume they're mistaken, rather than LastPass are lying in their documentation about how their system works.

[1] https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/about-password-...
You can use ffmpeg:
https://superuser.com/questions/556029/how-do-i-convert-a-vi...
If I build something ready to use I'm gonna advertise it anyway just so that I can sleep at night.
Ask HN: Why hasn't Europe produced a significant social media tech company?
Whilst true, it's more accurate to say the monitor market is hostage to the economics of LED panel manufacturing.

LEDs are normally produced as very large panels on production lines where every panel is made to a given PPI (and upper bound on the refresh rate).

Of course the technology mix is the technology mix, but the industry is built around reasonably large investments in these production lines, amortized across the entire screen industry.

A 27 inch 1080p monitor and a 24 inc 1080p monitor are produced on distinctly different production lines as it were, as they have a different PPI. But a tiny screen with the same PPI as said 27 inch 1080p likely came from the same factory in Korea.

Apple's panels are actually produced under contract by LG in Apple specific production lines, hence they can obtain exotic PPIs. Because they promise to use the line's capacity for multiple years.
The problem with Enterprise isn't the cost. It's that in 2021 Microsoft still can't make a webpage that asks for credit card details and gives out product keys.

To acquire an Enterprise license legitimately, you need to go through a reseller and pad the order with inexpensive client access licenses to reach the 5-license minimum order.
You're not at all too old to switch your career. In fact there is no such thing, but given that you have invested a lot of time and presumably money into your medical education do not throw that away. Finish your education, make some money, and if you're in a financially stable situation try to look for some programming opportunities.

As far as the ageism within 'tech culture' goes that has been brought up in a few posts, you don't need to work in the startup sector to work as a software engineer. Almost every large industry today hires software engineers, and most of them do not share this bizarre obsession with youth that you have in the valley. Maybe not the perfect site to point it out but Paul Graham says a lot of silly things, that only apply to a very small, geographically limited group of people.
I didn't see it on your website, but I eventually found it using the App Store instead. Other than that, very clear.
He didn't say anything meaningful. He showed no humility or thoughtfulness in the policies of his company. The fact is his company is helping shape the policy of nation-states across the world. And it's obvious from his responses he has no interest besides checking the boxes the regulators give him and turning a profit within the bounds of the law. He doesn't even take the threat of corruption seriously or undue influence seriously.

> if you want that fixed elect people who will get it done

Unless his company donates to politicians that oppose any kind of regulations that could hurt their business. But don't worry, their super PAC ads are heavily regulated and will state the party paying for it ;-)

There is a symbiotic relationship between large corporations and their regulators that should be examined. And it's especially pervasive when it comes to public health.

I didn't expect him to do an interview, and I would have been fine if he didn't but please don't piss on me and tell me it's raining.
I suspect that would last longer, the issue is that it'd be harder for someone to practically use it because they'd need to pay a programmer to implement the algorithm for them -- while if we embedded a Python script (for instance) they would just need to ask a technically-literate person to show them how to run it.
Though I suspect JavaScript would last the longest given how much internet culture has been written in JavaScript (and so long as projects like Archive.org exist, it should be possible to run JavaScript).

Ultimately doing both is probably better than one or the other.
> for example a newborn baby could be innately sinful

This could be likened to "all people are assholes" or "think of how dumb the average person is and realise that half of them are dumber than that"

They are both "sins" (dumb,assholes) from being born (average-joe, all of them, etc)
> And a person who neglects his own family to provide for another is doing evil not good.

I never suggested that. I suggested it’d be more charitable to use the money set aside for charity in a way that benefits others. You don’t benefit your family and say it was charity.

> I believe I articulated my position on why that might be.

If you agree with that, then you agree it’s our job to maximise the number of functional well informed members of our society in order to have solid democracies. If we condemn a large part of the population to sub-par education, we get the flawed democracies we’ve seen flourishing in the past couple years.
It really depends, there is agism in tech, people don't want to admit it's there. I also see many people in their 30's and 40's refuse to change and keep up.

Then again, work on an mainframe, know Cobol, you can be 60, 70, 80 and it's fine. Those are in demand jobs and have no true aging out anymore.

But, stuck just doing PHP and LAMP stacks, I can see that dying and being reborn again. PHP is great, though.

Then there's the career movement to management and such, which doesn't require you knowing how to code per se.

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Do you even enjoy CS? Coding? Tech in general? If you don't, you probably will have this same dilemma in a few years "I like x, but I really don't feel it's my calling."

Do you know what you want? Do you really want to be employable at 40?

Why not retired?

- Chasing money or a career that pays well doesn't really bold out well for fulfilment. Sure you'll get your money, and a cushion but you'll look back at it as time wasted. But you already do have a CS degree. So might as well use it, right?

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I like tech, I foresee myself always having a tech centric career, I use tech to allocate and organize my life and resources and I would never see myself as being to old at ever using tech for that goal or leveraging tech for work. Would I be designing hardware? No. Would I be designing fancy new algo's? No. Would I poorly be implementing encryption schemes, probably. Would I be head deep in excel and dashboards? Yes.

Live life and enjoy, 28 is still young.
Huh! I just tried this and you are right. I would have thought scrcpy wouldn't be able to see those screens. Thanks!
Can’t the same be said for nuclear war, cancer and a stubbed toe?
> It’s really interesting how this pandemic has got formerly cautious people all in on big pharma.

I think you might be confusing support for vaccines as support for pharmaceutical companies, when that's actually far from the truth. To use your statin example, suggesting or even pressuring a sick loved one to take statins so they don't die a preventable death isn't implicit support for statin manufacturers, but recognition that in the face of preventable suffering or death, sometimes the pills are one of the least worst options available. Similarly, in the face of an ongoing pandemic, vaccines are one of the least worst options available compared to preventable illness and death.
(and too late for an edit) that 1.5M km thing is moderately important when it comes to communication with the JWST.

The frequencies that can be used for communicating with a satellite or space probe are governed by how far away it is. The cut off for this is 2.0M km.

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

And so, the JWST is still considered near earth and can't use the deep space bands.

https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsndocs/810-005/201/201C.pdf
That’s presumably out of scope. The scope of the guarantees is restricted to the operations made available by the database API. Just like the ACID guarantees of regular relational databases are.
What is the mechanism behind a mild, acute infection (as opposed to severe acute, or chronic) causing negative long-term effects? To phrase it differently: what is the mechanism behind "Long Covid"?
> but just banning smoking would save more lives than covid took away.

... Assuming people wouldn't buy on the black market, drive down to Croatia, Italy or Austria to replenish their supply, etc.
Math is a struggle for everyone. When the Egyptian ruler Ptolemy I asked whether geometry could not be made easier, Euclid is said to have replied: 'There is no royal road to geometry'.
But all these factors would impact equally covid cases and covid deaths (since the UK definition of a covid death is a covid case who died), so you would still expect a reduction of the % vaccinated from one to the other. And by September all the vaccination curves plateau-ed, so it's unlikely to be a timing issue.
I have a couple of these and I used to be a fan, but they just shit the bed constantly with macOS over a Thunderbolt dock for some reason. Needs constant power cycling, almost every time the laptop is plugged in.
Any state with more than 5% positive is underreporting cases however.

You need 95% of your cases to be negative if you expect any accuracy in your case%. If you're at 10% positive or 15% positive, then if you double your testing, you double your cases.

10% positive suggests a testing-kit shortage. That's what's going on in my state, we've begun to ration testing-kits. We only give out testing kits to those with symptoms.

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At some point, your hospital systems favor the individual's health over accurate reporting of statistics. Under such circumstances, it becomes important to use alternative measures for how bad the surge is. Focusing on "% change" is one of the most effective ways of factoring in this issue.
On the chart, "Weekly estimated excess deaths by age group", there's a swing of nearly 10,000 between the lowest and highest of expected deaths. And it seems to be week by week. So while week by week, the change isn't much (and it shouldn't be), overall there's a decent swing.

Even in the lower age groups there's a decent swing and it follows the seasons. Even though the numbers across the board are lower.

What are you looking for here? What would feel right to you?
> For everyone complaining here about getting phone calls, there is another half who'd jibe "Damn, another templatized email.

This is a false dichotomy. A non-templated phone call can be replaced with a non-templated email. Incredibly easy to please.

Paper trails are very professional.
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I see a lot of people suggesting other password managers, so I was wandering am I the only one who uses google's? I've used lastpass briefly but it was pretty buggy and didn't feel like it was worth the price. Google (Chrome) password manager is free, and recently got a native autofill for android, which works flawlessly, compared to others.