skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical community Covid "mild" is a far cry from common cold "mild".

I had a "mild" Covid Original Flavour. I "only" had a 103 fever for 3 weeks, swellings in places I didn't know could swell, and had my stamina shot to shit. It's been just over a year and I'm just now beginning to feel like I can start bringing myself back to pre-Covid healthiness levels.

And all that is "mild". I didn't lose my sense of smell. I didn't lose oxygenation. I never had to go to the emergency room.
> So, his experiences is very specific to his skills, his reach and societal perceptions about him.

I mean, that part is true for literally everyone?
The generalization has a lot of substance, I'm just trying to be general in order to avoid political flamewars here on HN. I'm referring to the set of right-wingers who are going down the Qanon rathole, and their like in cult-like evangelical groups who are so willfully ignorant as to insist on believing easily disproven conspiracy theories such as flat-earth, chemtrails, antivaxxers, Big Lie, etc.

I am absolutely not expecting any kind of blind faith in science, but an understanding of science. I'm talking about genuine debate, not anti-science aggression with the goal of destroying the notion that truth can be known.

Voltaire got it right long ago: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Those people who willfully ignore science for conspiracy theory, etc. are the targets of the leaders of that political wing and other media and online manipulators -- they are being happily led to believe absurdities, and will commit atrocities. One example was exactly one year ago today. There is no reason to expect it will be the last or the least.
The article also argues that severity of autism doesn't really make sense.
> People always over-estimate the complexity of stuff they don't understand.

Really? I see people hugely under-estimate how complex things are. Cellphones. Water reticulation systems. Networks. Software. Etcetera. Anything where they don’t know much about the problem, and they come up with a trite solution (as though they have some sort of amazing level of insight, and everybody else in the world must be just plain stupid).
I'm not disagreeing with what you say, but I am having trouble connecting your comment to mine - did you mean to reply to someone else?

> Put yourself in their shoes, and think about what they care about, what they value, and then whatever you want to do, express it to them with reference to their perspective.

Agreed, but applies equally to managers as it does to employees.

> Most fighting and animosity in the world is caused by people talking past each other, not engaging in actual constructive dialogue.

The challenge in doing this is that there is often a great deal of information asymmetry between employees and management. It's quite common for managers not to be completely transparent (and at times, they're not allowed to when it comes to things like compensation). This automatically (and in my opinion, fairly) results in employees withholding information (personal motives, etc) as well. When there is either a power or information asymmetry, you'll find that usually the one who has the more power/information has to put in more effort to win the trust of the other.
Using buildah you have pretty much complete control over layers. You can mount the image in filesystem, manipulate it in as many steps as you want, and then commit it (thus explicitly create layer) when you want.

On the flip side, it's a shell script that calls various buildah sub-commands rather than a nicer declarative DSL. Also you don't have the implicit auto cache reuse behaviour of Dockerfiles, since everything runs anew in next invocation. You would have to implement your own scheme for that, iirc breaking down the script into segments for each commit, writing the id to a file at the end of it, combining that with make worked for me.
Do not buy a wavian. I have two wavians and they're absolutely terrible Jerry cans. Let me explain why. The wavian safety spout is absolutely terrible and the crux of the entire shitty UX that is this Jerry can. I have no idea what they were thinking. When you attach the spout it forms a seal by pressure as set by the clamping mechanism. This is a problem and I'll explain why in a minute. The spout works on a design that if you apply pressure, it will retract (like foreskin) and allow fuel to exit the spout. These two combined make a massive design flaw. Imagine you're filling up a lawn mower. You insert your spout into the gas inlet on the lawnmower. Now what? Two options. Press hard as hell into your lawnmower so the spout allows fuel to flow, or, try and retract the spout using your third hand. I can now no longer do either of these because the spout retraction is so damn stiff, the pressure I exert causes the seal to break that I mentioned earlier, the one that is created when you first attach the safety spout and latch it in place. You now have gas coming from two places. Top this off with the fact that my safety spout is now so stiff it sticks open, and it's a completely unsafe and useless Jerry can that I will recommend against until I die. This has happened on BOTH of my cans, and my father's, and my brother in law's. We all bought them from Costco a little while back. I'm tempted to upload a YouTube video of just how unsafe these Jerry cans are.
Can you elaborate? How does loading a Julia module involve compiling c++?
I'd be really curious to know if this is what happened. Whats more interesting is he lives in Spain and his cell phone is on a Spanish carrier.

I also understand and agree with your argument about why they might have done what they did. But I still needed to counter with what I did in order to protect my business.
I wonder if any of those cover switching devices. You used to be able to say, "Hey Google, move that to the kitchen," and whatever you were listening to would stop and continue in the kitchen. It still understands the command, but then fails with an error. That feature was something that I used every morning as I moved through the house getting ready for the day.

I can't point to a single thing that these devices do better than they did two years ago, but I can list several features that were important to me that are now either broken or missing.
It looks great to me and is centered (i.e not right aligned) to me. Might be CSS not loading for you
Your funny comic doesn't make you not a hypocrite
What part of "passively monitor" permits automated shutoff? Police intervention might be problematic, especially if you're poor or non-white, but it's better than being shot at.

Edit: s/observe/monitor/
This sounds good, but what about discoverability?

There should probably be a way to merge project lists on various forges into a potentially huge index that can be browsed and searched, independently of each particular forge. Maybe it already exists?
> Stephen Jay Gould was actually fairly innumerate. It’s clear he didn’t understand even the rather simple math behind the PCA, which underpins IQ measurement. You might find this instructive: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-v-low-m.html?m=1

Not sure the blogpost supports Gould being innumerate or not understanding PCA.. also, an aside, I doubt the author Hsu would agree with your take here, considering his hero Feynman had an underwhelming IQ relative to his success.

BTW what do you mean by IQ measurement is underpinned by PCA (principal component analysis? or the requisite math?)?
On point 5. There was this website that tried to promote RSS and Atom but, unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore. You could get some ideas for how to explain why RSS/Atom is important, so here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200707230716/https://mg.guelke...
I don't think companies are black and white like that. Even the big ones. Sure management focuses on profit and loss and they keep an eye on legal hurdles. When I hire someone, I want their skillset (otherwise I wouldn't be offering them the job). My goal is to be fair with their rate while being mindful of the fact that I need to pay my other employees, and give enough room to hand out raises, pay for benefits, file for new patents, order parts, etc, etc, etc. I know that the person I've just interviewed is capable of getting a job elsewhere and may have other offers on the table, so it's in my best interest to give a fair offer that's within my comfort zone.

Having said all that, business does boil down to a lot more than just profits. Those are important but so is the livelihood of the employees, along with their expertise and tribal knowledge. I know those feed into profits, but I'm thinking beyond that. It's my job to ensure that my employees are able to take home the pay they've earned. Often, I have to put on more of a social worker hat and help out some of my employees with personal issues. That may be loaning a car at no charge, or giving a low interest loan to buy a house. In the past, I've paid for weddings and funerals. All of that goes with the job of being an employer. That doesn't mean every employer has to do those things. I'm fortunate to be in a position where I can help out in those ways, so I take advantage.

I think this highlights the point I'm trying to make: too many people focus on businesses trying to maximize profits and they push to enforce rules to help out the little guy. If businesses do that, then that's too bad. If you work for one of those businesses, then talk to your manager about it and if necessary, find a company that shares your outlook. Not all businesses are like that though - in fact, a lot of them aren't. Most businesses really do try to be fair and understand there's competition out there that may be trying to lure in some of your star employees.
> System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices - https://patents.google.com/patent/US9195258B2/en

This one in particular seems way too broad. So... they have a patent on the concept of deducting latency from a message to synchronize clocks? (and then sending data with a timestamp for when it will play?)
https://www.americantruffle.com/first-burgundy-truffle-harve... mentions a dog named Rico which is probably the same Rico as in the original article!
Would you say the same about potatoes, peppers and tomatoes which originated in the Americas.
> My paltry 50-60wpm doesn't feel like an impediment to putting thoughts into text, but maybe others feel differently.

That may be high enough that you don't have the impediment, but when you work with someone who types down around 10-15 WPM... You can definitely tell they're spending a lot of brainpower on hunt-and-peck instead of the problem they're actually trying to solve.

Basically there's diminishing returns on increasing WPM and you may be at or past the tipping point. I expect it'll be different not just for different people, but also for whatever they're currently working on.
My position is that after 13 years of Bitcoin and Ethereum and all cryptocurrencies I still cannot go to my local shop and buy anything with it.
Salman Khan talks about this a little. He said one of the things they learned from the Khan Academy is that you can sort of group everyone into either "convex" or "concave" learners and they all basically get to the same level of competence by time T, and it's more a matter of do they plateau at the beginning or at the end.

He seems to be very careful about placing value judgements on which is "better", and he's also very careful to crop the graph near time T. His big push is to make sure that teachers understand that people that are categorized as "slow learners" actually often take just as long to get to the same level of proficiency as "fast learners".
eh it's not really HN - this has been the narrative of certain elements for a long time now:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1085...

the left has become obsessed with authoritarianism under the guise of "liberalism". i don't think any of them know what the word means anymore. they rile up imaginary "injustice" to distract and sow discord. people who would do that are far more traitorous than grandma going on a larp in the capitol.
It was never a product of the underground — from the initial launch of Bitcoin it was a public project with a strong political vision. Some people tried to use it for underground activities but the claim was that those could be done anonymously on the public network, which is trivially blocked.
Citation needed for your definition of empathy. Oxford disagrees.
It might be possible to register numbers with them, but they still could get in trouble with the actual carrier of the cell number so it might not even matter.
That's the point the other commenters make. If that's what's happening, why does the 500wpm 100% accuracy?
Not sure which year LEAF and which timezone, but I think you can override it on mine. (And the LEAF doesn’t do a lot of timezone crossing trips.)

https://youtu.be/DHdlsS4jSo8&t=66
Do you think the mechanical side of a car is any better? Stuff routinely fails in weird "unforeseen" ways.
I wrote a comment and then thought "I should really look up where the term consumerism comes from".

Because I didn't know and maybe I should. I spent half my life unaware of the origin of "capitalism".

In the early 20th century, "consumerism" was supposedly used to mean something like "consumer protection".

But in the mid 20th century, it was apparently adopted as a preferred term to "capitalism" in order to contrast Western economies with communism.

Then, by the 60s or so, it morphed into something like the modern sense of "a policy of encouraging consumption".
Arguing with BLM stats is like arguing whether Mary was virgin - it’s a matter of religion not science. Would you expect 16th century religious Spaniard argue with you intricacy of Bible? No, he will just drug you to inquisition and let them deal with you. The same here - BLM/DEI crowd would want you gone and HR will oblige.
It said I needed Firefox Nightly, so I installed it, and it still doesn't work. How do I enable Shared Array Buffers? Google is no help..
>> The article says that we're still not sure how the fruit reproduces.

And when they got one, they ate it. I would have thought maybe breaking it up and I dunno, planting it or spreading it around might be a good idea.
there is a downside to it, platforms nowdays are so closed off that bloated web can be both cheaper and more competitive option
Hmm, I guess that is exactly what bothers me so much about death.

I’d rather spend an eternity worrying than a second in oblivion.
Early career devs need to accumulate a few things, roughly in this order of importance:
- projects where you made a key contribution, where you "owned" something
- senior people who will be mentors / boosters
- a portfolio of skills, technologies, domain areas, engineering practices, soft skills
- maybe a fancy name? A FAANG or a startup that hits big.

It sounds like you're getting a couple of these. Jobs that hit all these points at once don't grow on trees. But, always have your feelers out. Keep in touch with former colleagues and schoolmates.

Don't assume that senior people know what they're doing. They've probably been promoted to a role in which they're just trying to figure it out. It sounds like your manager and her boss are struggling. Have empathy, but don't get stuck paying for their mistakes. Managing up is a skill. I wish I had it.

Expect requirements to change. They usually do. You can't beat direct contact with end-users and rapid iteration based on their feedback. Serving real users is fun and even the most clueless and back-stabbing of bosses will respect it.

- Don't assume management cares about your best interest. Some will. Most won't.
- Don't think you can change a dysfunctional org from below. You can't.
- Don't beat yourself up. Look for lessons and keep on keepin' on.
- Don't stay in a bad situation. Everybody's hiring.
The only numbers I can quickly find is this at about a 30x difference:

For instance, Mayor Francis Suarez from Miami noted that TBC quoted $30 million for a tunnel under the Miami River. In comparison, the Miami-Dade County transit officials estimated a $900 million price tag for a tunnel about 2-miles long for the same project

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-boring-company-lvcc-loop...
I doubt autism correlates that strongly with resilience and grit. But I have long thought that groups benefit from having a portion of the population having autism. Variance in thinking means more potential strategies for success. Too much variance probably hurts group cohesion.
Hopefully big G won't find a way to weasel out now that they don't have as much executive favor with the US government as they used to.

Bear in mind this case is more than just Google using some common patents: Google worked with Sonos on a collaborative project as a way to gain access to internal details of how their technology worked, and then they stole it.
self learning is important if you want to get far
I got bit on my finger tip by a feral cat and had to get the first dose injection in the fingertip. It was not pleasant. The rest of them were in the butt which was not great but nothing compared to the fingertip. The cat did die and my parents were able to send it in and luckily the tests for the cat came back negative after a couple of days and I did not have to get all the doses.
You're still locked into an API that will definitely be obsolete in 10 years.
Wow - this is the best advice on HN (top comment to while I write) in a while.

For junior folks I REPEATEDLY say, if you find yourself getting stuck / slowing down touch base. Or keep me in the loop, let's check in regularly when you have a good moment to chat, I'd love to hear how its going.

Here's the other thing I noticed. I work with someone who is is my peer. Ie, 15 years+ experience etc. THEY check in with me proactively 5x as much as the folks who really need to be checking in.

I also like that they don't schedule a call, they just zoom me. I know this seems rude, but it actually saves time. If I'm busy I don't answer, but usually I can. This is a personal preference. For junior folks if you schedule some time for early next day that works well (my calendar auto-accepts).

Also, not end of world to socialize / connect with 1-2 other devs below your managers level to share tips / get help, just be sure to pass it on to the next FNG.
To what end then is it useful to drum up public fear of rabies in bats, if what actually leads to deaths seems to be economical problems? People only react stupidly to fear mongering. If you want a delightful read, the Merlin Tuttle Bat Conservancy has collected stories about how Fauchi's baseless, "idk, probably bats" reasoning has led to the extermination of entire populations. https://www.merlintuttle.org/

If you truly must live your life in fear of dying, look no further than heart disease and car accidents.
> Either your boss went off on you without communicating with your direct supervisor.(unlikely)

I think whether this is unlikely depends on the boss. I've worked under higher level bosses who would say lots of things in the spur of the moment in a meeting that they would have forgotten ten minutes after the meeting ended, and which certainly would not have led to any longer term consequences. They were just venting at whoever happened to be present. I agree this is not an ideal communication style, but that doesn't mean it's not out there. As a newbie in the organization, I would be asking for feedback from coworkers about the higher level boss's communication style.
Equifax Forces a Caste System
Yes I think you are right. But I don't think Twilio allows it unless I somehow register the number and authenticate that I own.

I could be wrong, but I think they have a way for me to register my cell number so I could "spoof" messages sent from it. But I would first have to prove to them that I own the number.
> Do you understand these are text messages being sent to one of like 3 employees at my small company? We are not generating outbound content or allowing anyone else to do so.

The bit that you are missing is that this sort of thing is between Twilio and Twilio's carrier partners (sometimes mediated by third-party aggregators), and has nothing to do with you or your particular use case. Carriers have very low tolerance for third parties like Twilio sending spam to their customers. If carriers get pissed off at Twilio, they'll stop delivering messages coming from Twilio (or will impose other restrictions, like low rate limits, or perhaps charge more, etc.). Good carrier relationships keep Twilio running; bad carrier relationships cause all sorts of problems for Twilio and Twilio's customers.

The carriers do not know or care that the spam/fraud message you tried to send to your employee was just you forwarding along a message that some other random person sent to the Twilio number. All they would care about is that a spam/fraud message came from Twilio's platform.

Having said that, I too am disappointed in the policy of auto-suspension, and in how long it took for you to get the problem resolved, and that phone support is expensive to come by.. I think the right approach is to catch these things at send time and just refuse to send them. Sure, if some very high percentage of traffic is all spam, maybe an auto-suspension might be warranted, but I assume (hope) that's not the case for your account.

(Disclosure: I work at Twilio, though not on the messaging platform. My words & opinion here are my own, and don't reflect Twilio's stance on anything. Throwaway for obvious reasons; Twilio doesn't allow the rank-and-file to speak publicly about this sort of thing.)
> If you buy a subscription for few dollars/month, don't expect a human being to answer your call.

For a "few" dollars a month, maybe not.

But here the OP said it was around $600/month, so that's a fairly substantial chunk of ongoing spend, just to have zero way to contact someone on the phone on a showstopper problem that needs fixing ASAP.

Contrast with more traditional businesses like PG&E or Comcast. Both hated companies for reasons, but even so they are heads and shoulders above these cloud provider companies (google/twilio/etc) in terms of customer support.

I spend way less than $600 with each (around $100 for my small office) and yet I can immediately reach a human on the phone if there's any problem with my electric or internet service.
Well most people are not your wife, friend, or neighbor, and since you don't give a single fuck about the kid who made your phone, the system falls apart at scale.
> It's true that most people fit into binary, but I don't really see how that's relevant.

It's relevant because it's efficient more than 99% of the time and removing it introduces ambiguity 99% of the time. The person you're responding to even said they didn't have a problem with adding more pronouns, just not making it worse by removing them.
> You are trying to use the word that once you get the match result back, it discards the most number of words.

This isn't strictly true either. Two N-sized subsets of words from a common initial set might have completely different difficulty in reducing further, because in the worst case there might not be a valid guess which nicely spreads the remaining words out among the 243 possible outcomes for that guess.

Set-size is a good heuristic, but it's just that - a heuristic.
This was a recruiting firm that would call itself a tech company. I doubt they treated engineers the exact way, but I heard similar stuff from data folks that worked there.
Sound, Precise, and Fast Abstract Interpretation with Tristate Numbers
I am not affiliated in any way but we used GitHub projects at my last gig and transitioned to ZenHub and finally Linear and didn't look back.

Cannot say enough good things about Linear.