skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said anything about fun. I said I don't want to ever die. 'Maybe we can't cope' sounds like a lot to take on faith. I'd rather live centuries or millenia and see for myself.
What are covid hospitalization rates for children currently?
Absolutely, classic case of “Tell me the incentive and I’ll tell you the outcome.”
People love these interferences without thinking of the real consequences.
NY is really trying to lose relevance and get rid of talent.
That's what FeedBurner [1] was for. Google put that into maintenance mode last July.

[1] https://feedburner.google.com/
I've frequently thought about how much net productivity loss automated phone systems cause for the economy. It seems like for every 10 minutes of my time is wasted on one the company I'm calling saved 1-2 minutes of customer service rep time.
Makes it much easier to avoid applying for such idiotic companies that they feel threatened by posting salary info.
This is amazing.

I’m imagining all the ways I could use this for offensive security tools.

If I had a way to import a js library that enabled running web servers, invoking OS commands, or running a reverse http proxy I’d be able to do so much damage to any target client.
The future may be analog - if you look far enough.

We are analog.
Having the interviewer in the room clearly creates a higher pressure situation.
The entire argument of "There shouldn't be different pay scales based on where you live" is often given by, say someone who lives in Florida. And a rather big hole in that argument is "If you think Florida should make SF money, why don't we just skip both and get someone out of China/India/Russia"
I define liberty differently than you do.

I don’t accept the popular, modern definition of negative rights vs positive rights as the bedrock or liberty. It leads to nonsensical conclusions.

There is no such thing under my definition as a “free dictatorship”. A system where rulers aren’t bound by legitimate laws is by definition un-free.

I don’t think my definition is super far off from yours though: liberty as non domination, one isn’t subject to the arbitrary will of another.
Almost no one lists compensation
There's also a difference between "merely popping a notification" and actively hoping to make your games a mindless part of players' days, as in your parent's quote.
The issue becomes when the human at the other end of a chat or phone conversation is limited to the same fixed set of responses and solutions that the bot is. So, they in effect become not much better than the bot because they are not allowed to use any non-scripted actions or reasoning. I have been encountering that more and more.
Without reading the actual law, I will say that all Colorado (similar law) postings I've looked at have made an effort to present a realistic salary range (90-120k depending on experience, etc).
Hold on there partner. In terms of journalistic integrity The Atlantic is just as much of a PR machine (rather than newsroom) similar to the Times.

I don’t know how long you’ve been an Atlantic reader but I can’t, for the life of me, remember them publishing anything of note within the past couple of years. In comparison to the New Yorker, Economist, Harpers, and Laphams, The Atlantic has been (in my opinion*) at the bottom of the totem pole for a while now.

Apart from that, here’s some food for thought: the following long read [1] posits in so many words that people concerned with the sex trafficking of minors are now paranoid and brushing up against conspiracy theorists, and that the “epidemic” here is that these people are confused and just not thinking straight. Furthermore, here’s [2] a picture of Laurene Powell Jobs in very casual attire with none other than Ghislaine Maxwell, the cheerleader for the closest thing to an ape-shit global underage sex trafficking conspiracy we, as a society, have ever seen.

Please do not mistake this as me conflating one thing for another. Whatever you think of this, it’s beyond a lapse of professional journalistic responsibility at best and outright psychotic at worst.

[1]
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/childre...

[2]
https://i.redd.it/td3bys2f9y481.jpg
I'm not against carbs, I just like macro ratios more like the earlier versions. Lots of carbs and polyunsaturated oils are in the literature as triglyceride boosters. If they offered a version with the fish oil back in and the old protein ratios I'd be interested, especially if the replaced the rice protein with the collagen or fish meal from the bait fish the oil came from. At least as sustainable as giant fields of rice and safflower and probably lower in heavy metals too. Rice sucks up the cadmium.
Oh, didn't know about that aspect. I'll check it out. Thanks.
Is it possible you have ADHD?
Okay. Where do you live, and why do you deserve 10x more than someone who lives in India or eastern Europe?
There's nothing similar between those quotes and your writing about how Einstein should be cloned and then made to work on quantum physics.

As an aside, those quotes come from earlier in his life. It's uncertain if he held the same opinions as he grew older and matured. People's views do change over time, as we can see with Einstein's rueful feelings over the a-bomb.
My brother had mild symptoms after being unvaccinated. So did my kids. So did my neighbors whose kids play at my house all the time.

So did the vast majority of South Africans who aren't vaccinated.

I push the vaccine onto all my high-risk family members. I recommend it to anybody as a tool to introduce your immune system to the virus.

But let's be honest about this:

The vaccines in circulation were created to stop the Alpha variant. The immune system response is too targeted to antigens on the spike protein that are no longer present in the newly evolved, vaccine escaping variants. The vaccine is a useful tool for mitigating severe disease, but it's an outdated vaccine for a variant that no longer exists. Just like the a flu shot for the wrong strain tends to have some positive benefit when you catch a mismatched strain via some cross immunity, that's what we get from this vaccine. And guess what? We get it from infection induced immunity as well.
It wasn’t a big thing when it was disabled by default and now it is because the default flipped?! I think this is a big issue regardless - it’s like selling a bike rack with every new car. It doesn’t seem right and enforces the wrong behavior.
I don't understand the hate for geographic arbitrage.
I think it's more of "if you want to use such an app on your own phone while doing military service, you are allowed to use only X". Same situation exists in companies where BYOD policies have limitations.
Self learn is the king, you should invest in your own learning style and google is your friend. Don't be stuck on a tutorial hell and start building things right away after you understand the concept.
Sounds like you're a Windows and/or Java programmer.
That promise is hearsay. Russia, however, did /sign/ an agreement with NATO in 90s and that agreement declares European countries can take "any measure for security" that they deem fit, including joining NATO. Look up "NATO-Russia Founding ACT".
That assumes good engineers could pass and bad engineers can't. But I come bearing a single data point! The worst backend engineer I know just got hired at meta. He knows stuff! But his execution was always horrible/careless and he spent most of the day on YouTube / reddit when we were in an office.
The cognitive dissonance I see on this issue is wild to observe. “Basecamp pays San Francisco salaries no matter where you are; I’m sure that’s what everyone else will decide to do…”

I’d bet heavily against that being the point of convergence.
Because compliance with that monetary policy is enforced with.. force? You must pay taxes in USD, and if you don't you go to jail. The government also conveniently controls the USD supply, which allows the to debase it as they see fit, forcing you to obtain a set amount of USD per year to pay taxes. If the government accepted tax revenue in gold or bitcoin or anything else they don't totally control, you'd be absolutely right.
You've just described FriendFeed. RIP. :(
https://copy.sh/v86/ is more modern but similar in spirit to jslinux. The archlinux demo at https://copy.sh/v86/ is particularly impressive.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220105/hospitalization-omi...

"The data suggests that three doses of vaccine provided an estimated 68% drop in the risk of being hospitalized with Omicron compared with people who were unvaccinated."
What do you think is different now from how offshoring has been done for the past 20+ years in the tech sector? Or 50+ years in manufacturing? My employer has thousands of engineers in India, and yet they are still hiring as many US based engineers as they can at the moment. Of course some organizations will do more offshoring as remote work becomes more common, but I don't see the shift to remote work resulting in too many organizations suddenly moving all their tech jobs to Vietnam in the next few years.
My guess is that this speaks more to the cheapness of hospitals in Canada and the greater likelihood to go to a hospital with a lesser case of COVID. For instance, you quote a 7.6% rate of the vaccinated moving from the hospital to the ICU and a 29.6% rate of the unvaccinated moving from the hospital to the ICU. Meanwhile, the US blended average seems to be around 30% (eyeballing the data.) That could be because the unvaccinated are an overwhelming percentage of the admitted (it's the same rate), or it could be because there is a higher bar to go to the hospital at all for either class.
I remember using this! I liked it and used it for a while! But not having it in the bookmarks bar, I kept forgetting about my feeds :/ and then I stopped installing it. I'm sorry :( Glad to hear it's still going strong though. Maybe I'll give it another shot!
Helpful, thanks.
I think it covers 5. Could be extended a bit (especially if in the future there really exists a group with activity that can be presented as well), but it's awesome and very close! Are you the author?

2 was different. I was thinking about what happens when a user clicks on a feed - it's not very user friendly, especially now that browsers just show the XML file content. If we had a mechanism that wraps that request and gives the user a way to subscribe directly via one of the many available feed reader, that would help a lot.

The idea is not completely novel, https://github.com/superfeedr/subtome goes into the direction but I think it is broken. A website carried by an independent group could be a solution. Maybe even something that could help in case browsers are open for some changes here, but don't want to create the UI part. Or when working on extending a CMS and instead of implementing that UI again, we use that mechanism to wrap the feed. As a web developer making it a website was probably an idea near to me, but there might be better solutions.
Why even then?

Just let the states do state things, having the federal make laws is typically unnecessary. If it benefits business, then companies will do it. If it benefits states, then states will do it.

I'm pretty confident posting wages will suppress wages
What prevents employers to game the rules with broad ranges like "30K-300K DOE"?
I wrote a Java Webstart app for internal users way back when. It was harder to work with and not as end user friendly as what I could create in VB5. Of course all my internal client were on Windows so VB was an option.

Then the web came in and stole the show. Even a slower web app was so much faster to develop and push out to 10k internal clients (that was a lot then hah).
Congratulations. You haven't had a bad cold or flu before. It's not uncommon for the flu to knock someone out for a good week. Or for a cold to leave a lingering cough for weeks.
Yes, s/he clarified it.
"[Edited, 5 Jan 2021, to add: Many people have been confused about the statement about delta, so I must have worded it poorly. I’m not saying delta originated in a lab leak. I’m saying delta escaped from a lab late in 2021 where it was being used in research. It’s an example of a research-related lab leak.]"
This is what Chomsky wrote about Ponchaud's Cambodia book in June 1977

"Ponchaud’s book is serious and worth reading, as distinct from much of the commentary it has elicited. He gives a grisly account of what refugees have reported to him about the barbarity of their treatment at the hands of the Khmer Rouge."

So a book about the barbarity of treatment by the Khmer Rouge is "serious and worth reading". That is what Chomsky actually wrote back then if anyone is actually curious. Does not sound like what you claim he was saying.
Sweden apparently put the values of kids time in school very high, since schools were open all pandemic long for many kids, I believe up to ninth grade, and only high schoolers had some limited periods of online/home schooling. College/university was of course different so more like the recommendations for everyone else.
When employers want to justify high pay for executives they always say it’s about the value you bring. If they want to justify low pay they say it’s because you are in a cheaper area.
I see a fundamental problem in the following general attitude: "make games a much more mindless/regular part of players' day vs. depending on users to actively seek out their game". Why do this? Why not just put the game out there, and if it's any good, players will start raving about it. Sure, in this case it's pretty harmless. But when most executives and/or developers start thinking this way, it turns into a sort of arms race for users' attention. User attention is basically the new "market share" that they seek to maximize. I think that as long as this is the general view on things, the companies' incentives (or individual developers, to a somewhat lesser extent) is misaligned with the public good.

And specifically on notifications, we have evidence that they don't have a positive impact on our attention spans:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2858036.2858359
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26121498/
The law has a "good faith" provision. More importantly, perhaps, if you post unrealistically low minimums you won't attract candidates. If you post unrealistically high maximums, your workers will be upset that they are underpaid vs what you say you pay.
It's not the end if governments keep playing covid theater games.

In Europe they definitely will with increased surveillance and digital IDs that have proven to do nothing to stop covid (as initially portrayed), but that won't stop govs from pushing them onwards and dehumanising any group who doesn't want to comply with their coercive measures.

It's an interesting time for people who really value freedom and human rights.
What cities with relocation programs in that article are in the rust belt?
In my experience, many musicians and artists in general are weird people. Art is often a way to try to express how we don't fit in the world, or an attempt to express that which we can't express in other ways. And when I say "we can't express in other ways", that can mean that it's impossible, but also that the specific individual has trouble expressing it in the usual ways that other people turn to. So, they are kinda related. It's kinda tragic if you are that type of artist yourself and then realize that great part of what drives your art is... disconnection from the rest of the world. How your art might be a cry in some form, the result of your helplessness.
It sounds more like the colleague wants a DSL. DSLs can be useful but should also be used with care since they are "mini languages" that stand apart from the host language. A perhaps better (though not necessarily stellar) alternative to the first would be to have a series of calls like:

function test_addition() {
given(2,3)
.when(add) // assume `add` is a function here
.result_is(5);
}

`when` could take a lambda as well so that you can pass in anything:

given(2,3)
.when(a,b => new Addition(a,b)) // to stick with your second example where the constructor returns a result
.result_is(5)

This is how many testing DSLs I've seen look, and it's not awful if this style of programming is already present in the language.

But I agree, if that first example is representative of what the colleague wants to do it introduces a lot of "magic". Where are the integers stored? Where is when_summed_up defined and how does it know which function/method to use? Is the entire test in its own class/module so that this can work? Or is this test class/module now polluted with, potentially, dozens of class/module scope variables to store all these hidden variables and many utility functions that disguise what is actually being tested?

Regarding "how to deal with this", bring it up in code reviews, offer alternatives like the above (or some palatable-to-you version of it) for some situations. If their style is so far from yours it may be easier to meet in the middle than to totally break them of it. Emphasize the complexity that their solution is bringing to the table (again, assuming that your example is actually representative, it does make it more complex).

A testing DSL like what I described can be written once, kept in its own modules, extended across the board (not on a per-test basis), and provides a uniform approach to a testing DSL. An ad hoc DSL per test (case or set) is a lot of extra work all around. It is fragile, potentially introduces race conditions which breaks the ability to run tests concurrently, and non-uniform. This last one is really important when working in teams and when working with outsiders to the team. With teams, it makes it harder for someone to jump into a test and understand it. The above DSL is more readily comprehended (even if requiring a bit more upfront study, that upfront study happens once). When working with outsiders from the team, they can look at a variety of tests and understand it well enough, if not perfectly, because it is consistent.
The Spanish flu largely overlapped with the WW1, and since its 2nd wave had a high toll among people with strong immune system (ex. young male) the perception was to a large degree mixed with the perception of war and its casualties, at least in Europe.

The name 'spanish flu' itself also stems from the fact that most countries involved in the war didn't want to talk too much about the Flu, while Spain retained neutrality and didn't have incentives to keep it in the dark - this could also be a reason that people were putting the aftermath of the pandemic in the same bucket as the outcome of the Great War imo.

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic
Not really. Cities like New York and Chicago built some downtown freeways, but jobs are still clustered in the downtown core. They're still very different from cities like Atlanta and Dallas that rapidly expanded in the mid-20th century around the highway system. The same for suburbs that grew up around traditional cities during the highway era. Loudoun, a booming part of Northern Virginia, was mostly farmland and exurbs even when we moved to the area in 1989. You're not going to make Loudoun look like New York any more than you can make New York look like Loudoun.
'Ok, great! Let's get started! [Ten emojis]'

(Probably)
The article links to another article [0] with the following quote:

require that employers disclose a salary range "from the
lowest to the highest salary the employer in good faith
believes at the time of the posting it would pay for the
advertised job, promotion or transfer opportunity" on all
job advertisements for positions located in New York City.

So it'll be great to see employers offering an SDE salary position from 10k to 999k/year in good faith.

[0] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-york-city-employers-wi...
It's easy to handwave away Bill's concern today because windows is still the main OS on PCs and laptops.

That's kind of missing the point. What you don't see is all the areas where MS could have 'won' had the world not moved in a more platform agnostic direction. Remember all of the little miniature laptops in the 90s? Practically all of them ran some version of windows even if it was laughably impractical for such a device. MS completely missed the 'mobile' train and could have dominated if they were paying attention.

Remember all of the enterprise systems running some version of windows server? Imagine a world where java didn't exist and the .net runtime was dominant. That's a cash cow without end.

As it is, MS missed out on both mobile and most of the enterprise infra pie. If they had managed to capture both they'd be an absolute behemoth.
I don’t think that’s common at all outside the US. I’d argue that even suggesting that would get you blank stares for its absurdity.

I don’t think anyone has been expecting a paid-for device for the past two years just because to work you have to install Zoom, even in the US.
https://archive.is/U8Ds6
It is disabled by default

> Norton Crypto is an opt-in feature only and is not enabled without user permission
Have we? There are certainly no shortage of interviews for all the jobs I interviewed for 6 months ago. None have requested anything less than a full day of leetcode interviews.
The strange case of the malformed shebang
The "What if human faces are actually power outlets?" theory.
But does it matter? If omicron becomes the "new flu" (or "the new cold") for the young and healthy, and with vaccines even for old and weak, do we have to call it a "pandemic" anymore?

I mean... did we have a "cold pandemic" or a "flu pandemic" before 2020? I'm pretty sure most of the planet had a cold every winter, and we just lived with it. Same with the flu... risk-groups died, and noone bothered the young with it, we just called it "normal life".
The contention was that there have been no meaningful improvements in our lives from technology. I just don't think that's the case, we are much better off in real terms, and that many of the improvements we do have were at least in part facilitated by that technology and associated quality of life. That's all. People still have problems to deal with, for sure.
We were training with simunition (paint rounds) and were told something similar. They said that if you're hit with sim rounds ignore it because if you fall down when you're hit in training you'll instinctively fall down when hit with real rounds.

Ten minutes later I was the point man while pushing upstairs and must have been hit about 10 times and I ignored it like Superman.
solving puzzles quickly is just an IQ test. Unfortunately there is no reliable method for increasing IQ
There are trouble brewing in EU over energy and food prices, but at the same time there are mitigating factors. The cut that middle men get for food has risen sharply the last few decades, especially for the kind of food that risen most in price. The more the customer pays in stores, the more incentive there is from the producers to cut the middle men. As an example, around 1/3 of the price for raw beef goes to the producer where I live, which is a result of low competition among the middle men, strict regulation, and a lack of innovation in the direct-to-customer space.

Energy prices was at a historical low just last year. This year the price has doubled compared to last year, but compared to 10 years ago its the same. People need to have a plan B, through hopefully it will involve investments to use modern standards and energy efficient heating.
I think like OP that it's mostly math and tricks, and that we're far from reaching it yet.

But then, the conclusion is not to be less forgiving, but more forgiving : we're all just meat machines, we should be forgiving toward each other's flaw (not naive mind you, but forgiving), and proud of what we reach collectively with our lowly condition.
I think it's because Omicron spreads more quickly and confers some immunity towards Delta. So before Delta has had a chance to infect a given person, they've probably already gotten some immunity from Omicron.