skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid-19 taught me that I want absolutely nothing to do with reckless Gain of Function experimentation done secretly in government research laboratories, and to [fruitlessly] seek transparency and honesty regarding any such research done to date.
Thank you for sharing. Lately I have had short pulses of chest pain, like a faint ache that comes and goes. Pretty small area, like a finger pushed on it.

I'll have to watch out for this sign.
Coin operated attractions (from vending to gaming) are fascinating. Being from Kentucky, that means I have an Ale-8 vending (regional drink) machine, because why not. Even the variability within the soft drink category is amazing, yet alone all of the other categories (and things like automats). I was excited to see all of the Mold-A-Rama machines ($5 for an injection molded plastic toy-- https://www.volocars.com/the-attraction/exhibits/mold-a-rama here's an example of the machines at a car museum outside of Chicago) at the Henry Ford museum, since the novelty and presentation is just so cool.

If you're into eccentric amusements, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (http://www.marvin3m.com/) near Detroit is one of the neatest places there is. They have all types of working early 20th century amusements all the way to modern coin op machines like pinball and video games.
Huh didn’t say anything about forcing, please be careful about putting words in peoples mouths. I said incentivized with pay, quite the opposite of forcing.
This is true but I think we also overestimate how good humans are at reasoning. Throughout the vast majority of human history we simply made up answers that sounded correct.

The scientific method and the importance of truth is a relatively recent development.
I used to think that I loved programming as a career because it makes me learn all the time. That's a two edged sword because you can't be complacent but I was proud of the fact that I would never be a cog at a company who only had work because no one else wanted to do dead end work that I was doing.

But, today my son was reading a book about ionic bonding. And it made me think, I'm not learning about anything outside of a narrow realm of programming. I'm only learning about yet another JavaScript framework that will not be as shitty as the last. But no one outside of a few people will ever really care about, much less understand at all. Keeping up with all that stuff takes so much time and I'm always feeling like I'm not keeping up with my imaginary peers.

I feel like I've stopped learning about other things outside of programming because I am always trying to keep up with the infinite realm of software development. As a father of three young kids, it is exhausting.

I asked my son what exactly he was reading this morning on the way to school about ionic bonding. He didn't remember. So, maybe all isn't lost, and I'm not the only one with an empty head in the family. But he's 9. I'm 48. Fuck.
Before cinemas existed, the Cyclorama is where you'd go to see a blockbuster
This has been a law in California for years. Do you not hire there? This law is very similar. You're required to post ranges. They can be relatively wide. No one is suing for not getting the maximum, because this law doesn't make that a requirement.
I just left my job because of a new first time manager who had the EXACT problems you mentioned above.

Good to see you have the self awareness to fix this in yourself. My manager went completely ballistic every time something didn't meet his never mentioned "expectations." He's fired 2 people and one person just left our team... and upper management doesn't give two shits. It's like they're so uncaring of his incompetence that likely he isn't getting any sort of reprimand.

If my manager is learning lessons from all this garbage, good for fucking him, however it's his employees that are the ones paying the ultimate price for his lessons. I hate this guy like no one I've ever hated in my entire life.
Even better, you have to create a keyboard shortcut for each word.
> Einstein for example nearly died of starvation, yet he kept working.

Citation needed. I'm unable to find any sources that back this up.

Einstein was known as a mathematical GENIUS far beyond his years, even as a young person.
OKLO INC. – Denial of the Aurora Combined Operating License Application [pdf]
The bit you quoted is the definition made up by the folks who invented the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Etymology

But the standard definition I'm using has evolved a bit and is somewhat richer. Quoting the Wikipedia definition:

> Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor. In a capitalist market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by owners of wealth, property, ability to maneuver capital or production ability in capital and financial markets—whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.

I think that is a very good and uncontroversial definition of "capitalism", and that is the one I am using. It sounds like you have some non-mainstream definition in mind?
I can’t find the article, but I believe that hospital modified their statement to specify that he died *with* Omicron, not *from* Omicron.
Mac architecture lead Jeff Wilcox defects to Intel to design new SoCs
You're citing old data that doesn't even include delta or omnicron

> Primary infection was defined as the first PCR-positive swab. Reinfection was defined as the first PCR-positive swab obtained at least 90 days after the primary infection.

Many people can also be asymptomatic and may not bother getting a PCR test for their first infection. When their reinfection requires an ICU bed, would they be counted as primary infection or reinfection?

Also what is the point of making this distinction? Every antivaxer will need to infected at least once to build immunity. Are we supposed to purposely infect the unvaxed for them to build immunity (i.e. exactly what a vaccine is supposed to do)? And if they're unvaxed primary infection, we're back to where we started, as you said, they're the main cause of ICU capacity.
Sourcehut's and a more traditional approach is decentralized by using decentralized technology like git send mail, mailing lists, and IRC.

However I'm still happy to see this decentralized identity and ActivityPub integration. I hope it catches on more.
There's more to that, I would expect Bitcoin and Ethereum to be everywhere in the real world by now. I still don't see any shop around be accepting it, because the majority of people are only holding / investing in cryptocurrency. Not even PayPal is using it for payments [0]

Even if a shop uses either of these cryptocurrencies, it is comically slow to be used as such anyway rendering them useless. Not to mention the volatility impact.

So please tell me retail shop I can make a purchase using cryptocurrency that is fast, truly decentralised, eco-friendly and doesn't have exorbitant fees.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58277631
Communication, you need to actively communicate what you're doing. I didn't really hear anything about how you communicated yourself throughout the project in your description, only what you said/thought at the end, and the merits and elegance of your code and how hard you worked - that's all nice but you're not being paid for elegance, nor for struggle; you're getting paid to get business needs accomplished on a timeline, maybe you can do that in an elegant way and maybe it'll take a lot of work but that's all largely besides the point.

Work in companies is largely about expectation management. You set an expectation for how long something is gonna take, how much effort something will require; if you're going to overrun that or things get more difficult than you think, then you need to communicate early and often that that's going to be the case. This is a large part of what makes professionals "professional".

If there's a problem that you have a potential solution to, you communicate that you're going to work on that problem—maybe your boss actually thinks it isn't an important problem and will stop you from wasting your time and energy on something that doesn't really matter to the end goal. Maybe they'll let you know that the requirements are changing and actually you should focus on something else, which yes you couldn't have predicted but yes you also could have potentially realized earlier.

That can only happen if both you and your manager/boss are communicating well. So hold up your side of the communication channel, and communicate when you think your manager/boss isn't holding up their side. That can be a sensitive and culture/person-specific challenge, though, but that's the challenge of working on a team.

There is little direct value to the company for you to struggle on something or feel like you learned a lot from doing something, there's value when you produce things that help the company get stronger, and no amount of struggle or effort really factors into that end outcome. Best result is everyone gets the most done with the minimum effort in the shortest time frame, no way that happens without a lot of communication.

There's a lot of nerd-rage voices in this thread (and in HN in general) talking about how your boss is the evil pointy-haired boss and you should set the company ablaze. That may ultimately be true but I'd take that advice with a huge grain of salt, these are random people on the internet with their own eccentricities and bones to pick from their own experiences, who have no idea the nuance of the situation you're in. Don't get indignant, it doesn't help anyone, if it really is bad you can decide that after you've collected more evidence of things you don't like about working there and leave voluntarily, but really doesn't sound that bad just yet and doesn't sound like you think it is either.
Because the employers are the ones with access to the data, not the general public.
Too busy with casinos and over harvesting fish
> Tons of blacks have quit their jobs and safety nets and tried their luck in what was termed "the great migration"

You understand that for most of the people in the great migration, "quit their jobs" is shorthand for "escaped from indentured servitude as a sharecropper on the farm where their parents were born as human property", right?
Yet again you're just stating a technical description as if it implicitly justifies the state of things. Nobody here is confused about how Twilio can legally do this or how market incentives encourage them to do so.

We're discussing a higher level behavior and what ought to be. And getting a critical service pulled out from under you based on overzealous unaccountable spam filtering is certainly not what ought to be.
A formal case report by her physician would be satisfactory.
After Evergrande, China’s Shimao reignites property sector fears
Okay. I don't think this type of black box surveillance will be used for what you're hoping for. Do you really expect them to get a warrant and pull the private data for everyone who complains about every fender bender and road rage incident and does not result in major crash or injury? I doubt it. And I'm not sure that it would provide better evidence than cameras for this type of incident.

You could get yourself a dash cam (which are not the massive headache you think they are) and reflect on your own driving too (not saying you're at fault but if you're attentive and courteous and de-escalate incidents, it can really avoid most incidents). That will get you much better results.
I think the biggest risk vector taking us along that conga line is poor mental health. Vulnerable people feel weak and helpless enough to actually believe they ought to depend on on a system to take the work/responsibility out of their hands.
Open-source world is more and more closed: How Big Tech coopted free software
Great article. I can very much relate.

I’ve been writing open-source software for a very long time. This was mostly because I earned my pay as a manager. The job paid … not great, but enough to keep the lights on, and to let me save. It also wasn’t particularly demanding, and gave me time for extracurricular coding. I needed to code, to keep my chops up. Even in “nights and weekends,” I was able to get some fairly serious work done.

Then, in 2017, my company dragged all the distributed engineering back home (Japan). I knew it was coming for years, but had no interest in bailing. I had a team of engineers under my command, and would remain until the end.

Then, I found out that no one wanted me. Some folks were quite blunt about it.

After a few months of being insulted and patronized, I decided that, even if I found a job, I would be treated like garbage. I had no interest in that.

Fortunately, I am able to retire early (not that early. I was 55, when I left my job).

I need to work. If no one wants to pay me, I’ll do it for free; which is what I’ve been doing for the last couple of years. I took the first couple of years to learn up on stuff, and re-establish a full-time self-discipline.

These days, I work harder than I ever have in my life. I’m at my desk for at least eleven hours a day, seven days a week. It’s not all “production programming,” but most of it is.

The difference in productivity is astonishing. I often get more done by 8:30 AM (the standard start time for my day job), than I used to get done all day. My GitHub Activity Chart is solid green (and not “gamed,” either).

And I’m really enjoying it. I’m quite aware than many folks would find my life unenjoyable, but I’m weird. I like it.

The last year or so, I’ve been writing a fairly ambitious social media-like application, with some friends, as a 501(c)(3). It’s nearing completion, and is work that I’m proud of. Of course, like every project I’ve ever done, I’d like to rewrite it, using all the stuff I’ve learned, but I won’t do that. I’m pretty used to shipping, so we’ll have something nice.
start my new job the same day I give notice

This is bad advice. Most contracts in US explicitly prohibit this, so you could land in legal troubles if either company ever found out.
Blockchains are just starting. There are major innovations under development right now that will massively reduce the energy consumption, and increase the scalability, of blockchains, like zk-Rollups.
French version of the article:

https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2022/01/MUSELLI_LAURE/6422...
It may sound like semantics, but I've found it useful to think of "quitting" as actually "firing your boss". That is often the real reason people quit.
I had to take a drug test once for a development job. This wasn't recently but it was after marijuana had been legalized in several states (but not the one I was in at the time). I reached out to the recruiter who basically said "we have employees who are contracted out to the state. It's a state law that we need to drug test our employees. The law does not require that we report the results or even read them."

In general I don't think drug testing for certain jobs is a bad thing. What jobs get tested, how often, and what drugs get tested for is something reasonable people can disagree about.
A database corruption bug in SQLite is like...A security issue in OpenBSD or a crash of a Debian 3 server...you remember where you were, when you first heard about it:-)
My Dad started programming in the late 1950s and retired in 2000, and in all that time I think he was more in the "work to live" camp rather than spending much of his free time programming side projects like a lot of the folks here, or making programming a big part of his identity (or maybe that wasn't really a thing in ye olden days?).

However he's always been an enthusiast for puzzles, logic, and 'programming-like' systems. I think he is a programmer, and for people like that, I'm not sure they need to run from anything, besides obviously toxic work environments of course.
I’m struck by the juxtaposition of these cogent, reasonable assessments of new tech (ML, blockchain) I see a consensus on and looking for jobs on LinkedIn. Sometimes all I see are jobs for new companies based on ML/blockchain.

We have these tools that solve specific problems in specific contexts yet all these companies are on the hype marketing train. Are these investors not doing due diligence or am I missing something?
"just update"
OriGinal
> The Cyclorama promoters were fighting an unwinnable battle against technology.

Well, right up until those early webcomics that used horizontal scrolling for miles, anybody remember those? There was one that used icons instead of words for dialog too. Amazing use of cyclorama-style thinking and pretty funny.

Still the og cyclorama is pretty awesome to experience.
I type for fun and 76% is awful. If I dip below 85% I instantly stop. 76% means I have super cold fingers while having butter slathered all over the keyboard!
Roman Building Techniques
It seems preemptive to frame a future war as the fault of people speculating about the possibility of a future war. Speculating is not "jumping to war as the first option", as that implies a desire to enact, not a speculation of the future (and it's unclear what "first option" means here). You've made that leap explicit by simply stating it as a question in your parenthetical.
Isn't the problem of having universal accounts across servers independent of git and hosting code? I don't see how the two are related.

It's a good goal, b/c at the moment you only have "Login with Google" or "Login with Github (ie. M$)". But I hope the ultimate solution isn't compartmentalized to source code management

Maybe I'm not seeing some aspect which ties the two together?
that is not what is in beta now…
>>Those aren't the people using crypto, though.

How do you know?

>>And to the extent that people are using crypto as alternative to their local currency, they're almost all using it for some form of laundering (e.g. wealth extraction from the PRC).

Laundering in a country like the PRC with extreme capital controls is not necessarily a moral evil. It could very well just be an attempt to guard wealth from a repressive government that is known to confiscate the wealth of those who fall out of favor with the political elite.

By arguing against crypto, you are arguing for the PRC having more control over the people of China. But I guess that's par for the course for the anti-crypto crowd.

>>Objectively, crypto has been far more volatile than fiat currencies as a whole, not less.

Stablecoins are not volatile, and their usage is skyrocketing:

https://techstory.in/inflation-jumps-to-36-in-turkey-liras-v...
"Simple Jack panel, but computer controlled" is not novel and should not be patentable.
I still don't understand where this is going. If you're saying git is not a blockchain because it's not turing complete that means all blockchains must be turing complete. I don't think that is true.
I think the grandparent is referring to US professionals tending to be in the global 1%, not the US local 1%.
When I was a kid poking around around the early web and trying to learn how to code, I idolized him. It's sad to see he's turned into a bitter old pizza shop owner.
You're not required to give anything to anyone. There are just consequences if you don't. In this instance, that consequence is not getting a job.

It's never happened to me but I do know exactly one person who was required to provide pay stubs exactly one time. She complained about it too and they actually told her that it was their policy not to pay more than 10% above what someone was making at their last position. I wouldn't do it, but some people will. That's why it happens.
I worked with bats years ago. I remember when I went for my pre-exposure rabies shots, the nurse who gave me the shots was very concerned about the work I was going into. Apparently, her first ever patient was a man who ended up dying of rabies. A bat had flown into his tent while he was camping somewhere up north and landed on his head. He had a small bite but never went into the doctors or anything until the rabies symptoms started. By the time he went in to get checked out, it was too late, he ended up dying slowly over a month.

Even the pre-exposure rabies shots are only good for a year or two, at least when I got them. If I'd continued working with bats I would have needed yearly titer shots just to keep my immunity up enough to be safe around bats.

The problem with bats and rabies is, bats can be carriers without showing any symptoms until they're near death. The only way to know for sure if a bat that bites you has rabies or not is to take it in to be tested.
>How much CO2 pollution is each transaction responsible for

Near 0. PoW is about agreeing on what the current state is. A transaction itself doesn't cost very much energy. If you were to process 0 transactions for the next agreed upon state it would take just as much energy as processing thousands of them.
Yuval Noah Harari clearly meant that tongue-in-cheech, not to be taken literally.
Fair, I may have misunderstood GP's comment. I was under the impression they meant $40K in take-home income.
Email is still the best example of a true digitally decentralized protocol
Hopefully, it's a fluke because of the holidays and they just forgot to send in some documents?
House dust from 35 countries reveals our contaminant exposure and health risk
Why wouldn’t you? As a person with a job, are you ashamed of how much you make (either too much or too little)? Or is it a violation of your privacy? If you were a person looking for a new job, you want to know how much people are making in that company (or others in the same market) so you aren’t being undercut for the same job.

No reason why my coworkers should make more or less than me if we have the same title. Making salary information public either through averages per title or ranges (upper and lower) should naturally even out the salaries per title. As things stand, some people are privileged in all sorts of ways when it comes to a company’s undisclosed salary ranges. For example, in my last role I had a friend in the company who could confirm two separate salaries for the role I was applying and I was offered 10% lower than those two salaries. I can ask for a 15% increase in my counteroffer and be confident this is a valid number. If I didn’t have friends who were in the industry that weren’t comfortable sharing salary ranges, I’d have to stick to the Levels FYI site, but my last company wasn’t on there.

When I left, I learned new hires, who were new to tech, earned less than I did when I was at their title. It may be awkward socially to have people know how much I make (or even within a range) but it’s better than the economic disadvantages that unconnected applicants face in today’s job markets. Hope that offers some insight.
The problem Hawala solves is e.g. sending money from USA to Iran (substitute any other two countries where legal barriers are in place). Which, yes, is a loophole in foreign exchange regulations. Whether you believe that it's a valid use case depends on whether you believe those foreign exchange regulations are justifiable. It can be argued both ways, but don't assume that everybody agrees with you on this.
Why do a lot of people use "suspect" instead of "suspicious" :|
Does it matter? The article is talking about typing competition. The WPM is in this context. There's lots of competitions which seem to have no real world practical value other than people believing it's enough to put together a competition for it.
There is some newer data that show minoxidil in combination with tretinoin and/or microneedling is more effective. Preventing hair loss is pretty easy, just block 5AR DHT conversion with finasteride or dutasteride.

The trouble is, once hair loss is visually noticeable you've already lost about 50% density, and most people don't notice their hairline slowly receding.
Yup, but now they've lost their US market.