skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is trying to become a nurse. Thanks to COVID screwing up her school schedule she's at least a year behind.

She's currently working as a residential assistant at rather nice elderly care facility where they are short staffed. She makes about what she would make at a fast food restaurant despite working in a semi-skilled position(requires CNA credentials) and working with COVID positive residents. They are just now discussing possible pay raises.

The pandemic experience is likely to push people out of health care and result in even less people choosing it as a career unless compensation and the workload changes. This comes just as the baby boomers are reaching an age when they'll start to need serious care.
I mean, we can keep restating our positions here:

aww_dang: there's always an opportunity somewhere

camgunz: that may be true, but it can also be true there are fewer opportunities, which I find worrying

aww_dang: but what does that matter if there's always one

camgunz: I think the total number of opportunities matters

aww_dang: I don't
We're not talking about things occurring "randomly". We're taking about reasonable probability assessments based on available information. Those refusing the vaccination are operating with the same level of information about long term effects as those that get it: none. People that get the vaccine have no empirical evidence that it will be beneficial or not harmful in the long run. No long term data exists for the techniques or methodology.

Your nutrition example is a great parallel because if we would have looked at the funding and long term data regarding the food pyramid, simple carbs, etc vs fats instead of just "trusting the experts" we wouldn't have an epidemic of obese, diabetic gen x and millennials. There's tons of sound empirical evidence about the long term health benefits of vegetables. It's complete false equivalence
We had smallpox for centuries, same with measles, mumps, rubella, polio, etc etc. AIDS came about in the 80s. How's that natural herd immunity for AIDS going?

You would have ended up with full hospitals everywhere and people dying in the streets, and the Delta variant way before a vaccine was ready if we didn't do lockdowns.
If anyone is aware of any grassroots efforts to reinstate NN, please comment. I had basically forgotten about the rollback under Ajit Pai, which, is in my cynical view, exactly what they want.
Kubernetes in VR: Building the K8s VR Experience
"WARNING: Might cause derealization and depression."
Seems like just a summary of the mentioned blog post, the author probably saw the same HN post we did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29861678
If Apple really wanted to force the issue, they could tell T-Mobile no more iPhone contracts unless you do it. Apple can survive and thrive on fewer networks - the iPhone was AT&T exclusive for a long time at the beginning.

Or the other cellular networks could start running ads touting that they let iPhone users use all of the iPhone features.

"Does your cell phone company hold you back? With Cincinnati Bell, you can do things with your iPhone that T-Mobile won't let you."

Apple could even help pay for the ads. It's not like companies with aligned interests don't do ad cost-sharing all the time anyway.
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How they rate masks as passing and failing is not transparent. They indicate they rate the masks on construction and smell but do not give the scores.
The data doesn't support your conclusion. Death isn't the only kind of harm. Even if what you're saying were accurate, some of us healthy people do actually interact with older or immunocompromised people, and have enough courtesy to avoid putting their health at undue risk.

If you have a gripe with the recency of mRNA technology, you could just as easily advocate for more traditional alternatives. If you're scared of needles and don't like being pressured to get an injection, you could just say that. As-is you're discrediting yourself entirely.

Sure they did [suggest that the vaccine would prevent infection 100% reliably]

The comment you're replying to (mine) certainly did not. I'm not sure who you're referring to.

They've destroyed young kids childhood development[2] and they can't let it go. You got young healthy people that have no business worrying about this virus still panicking and avoiding real social lives.

Sure. None of that is my preference and it isn't relevant to my comment.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. So will taking HN threads further into flamewar. No more of this, please.

Needless to say, using 'autistic' as a slur is also flamebait and therefore against the site guidelines. No more of that, please, either.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. You've broken it badly in this thread.
> Why were the Europeans able to colonize these places in the first place anyway?

But why was she assaulted? What was she doing? What was she wearing?

> Blaming colonialism makes it easy for developing countries to falsely imagine that if they could only overcome colonialism, they would have been prosperous too.

anthropomorphization much?
The odds of getting put into the ICU might be low, but the total number of cases is extremely high. The alpha variant peaked at 300,000 cases/day with a highest 7-day average of 260,000 cases in the USA. Omicron has hit over 1 million cases in a day with a 7-day average of 900,000.

Roll a 100-sided die enough times, and eventually you will get a LOT of ones.
And then in five years there's a log4j vuln and you've got to figure out how to upgrade a bunch of (potentially incompatible) versions to get a fix.

It's a different approach, with pros and cons. Personally I think the npm model has more downsides than other approaches, but it's not clearly always the wrong approach.
Be careful with mulberries, I had one in my last place (not sure if it was native), and it dropped 10lbs+ of incredibly soft berries, so effectively black dye into my back yard daily for several months a year
This is a false argument. You're switching the goal posts from cost of ingredients to cost of time in a society that literally purposefully ensures that you dont have time so you spend money.

We can discuss the system but its not a given. What is a given is the ingredients you use for your one meal at home should be cheaper than what it takes to make it at a restaurant. The inclusion of other humans to hire, manage, train, and then process, create, and discard the remainders of your order and clean alone should be indicative of that.
On what do you base that statement? In my experience, many people make a pretty sharp distinction between Hispanic (being about the linguistic aspect of culture) vs Latin (being about the geographic aspect - from "Latin America"). For example, contrast Spain vs. Brazil. Treating the two as synonyms is as fraught as "Latinx" is.
You imply that running any enterprise (public or private) at near capacity is a bad thing, but in fact it's an economic necessity. You also imply that making these public enterprises would make it possible to run them at less than near capacity, but it's pretty clear from rationing in, e.g., the UK, that this is not so. The reason public health care is run at near capacity is the same as private healthcare: wasting resources is silly.

Yes, I referred to profit, because profit is what "not wasting resources" translates to for the capitalist, but the real underlying moving force is economic and real regardless of ideology.
I'm not saying permanently set the MSRP to something obscene. Just for the first model year to get those Gotta Have It people with infinitely deep pockets their vehicles first, so that we can all move on.

Those people are going to pay that price anyway. It's just that dealers are going to piss off customers by taking orders they know they aren't going to honor because Deep Pockets Paul and/or Scalper Sally going to come along and pay the obscene ADM and nick the order from someone who got their hopes up.

The truck is worth $x but is selling for much less than $x. So, the sorts of people driving the Lighting are going to be the sort who can spend $500k (or whatever market value is) on a truck. It gets back to the fact that we are merely arguing over who is going to get this extra money: the manufacture, the dealership, or the original buyer.
Actually, forget I said anything about communism. My intent was to address the original topic, but I just couldn't resist inserting my take on communism to the original analogy used.
Doesn’t apply to this virus since vaccines don’t prevent transmission
Is it possible to take a page from the "YC Standard Deal" model and create a "Union Standard Deal" for tech workers, that offers an opinionated and non-comprehensive view of the basic necessities that any tech worker union should demand?

Tech is known for shooting the moon, but if we can stand up opinionated examples of "minimum viable bargains", maybe that would help everyone grasp what's being proposed, and contrast the MVB with their local union's offerings.
:) great us of LSP!
Tailwind CSS adapted for use in React Native
Yes, life in the developed world was still not as valuable back then.

However, covid in the 70s would have been substantially worse than the flu - a large reason covid nowadays is not deadly is due to increases in quality of care.
The People's Party (1890)
> Any state mandate must be enforced through violence or it has no effect.

I don't see how that is really true. The state can, for example, refuse to provide you services if you're not vaccinated. If you're not allowed to enter a government building while unvaccinated without a justification, so as not to endanger the civil servants in that building, I'd hardly call that "violence".
This was my first thought. The c# version of the Buffalo Buffalo sentence.
To add to what others have already said:

A password hash is a function with 3 inputs: the password, the difficulty factor, and a customization structure (most often just a salt, sometimes more). A cryptographic hash is a function with 1 input: the message.

Password hashing functions have variable performance in time and usually memory and cache use, controlled by the difficulty factor. Cryptographic hashes have fixed performance.

Password hashing functions take a salt and possibly other customization data (a secret "pepper", a fixed domain-separation string if it's also a key derivation function, etc).

It's possible to build password hashes from cryptographic hashes. One must be very careful about encoding the multiple inputs into a single "message" for the cryptographic hash, to avoid cannonicalization attacks.

Argon2id is a good password hashing function.
Perhaps I've only had to deal with sane Java codebases - I feel like magic is not the norm in Java.

Magic is built into the Ruby language, what with everything being "message passing" under the hood.
I am averse to the rhetoric about invasive species, but do believe that invasives are, in fact, frequently a real problem, not a contrived one. But I think that all the hatred poured on the plants/bugs/etc. is misplaced. IMO, the two most important things we can do are:

1. Create fewer disturbed environments. These plants are typically those that thrive in disturbed environments. As such, they may even be regarded as providing some kind of ecological service. Unfortunately, one of the reasons they out-compete natives is lack of predation. The Amur Honeysuckle I've been systematically removing still have beautiful leaves even in early Autumn, untouched by mold or bug.

2. Prevent the introduction of new species via the commercial nursery vector; hard to achieve any kind of ecological equilibrium when we are constantly disrupting it.
Are NFTs a joke?
My issue is that painted bike lanes are also de facto loading, waiting, and short term parking zones. The bike lane existing makes car drivers more hostile when I'm forced to enter "their" lane because of cars blocking mine.

Yes sure this is an enforcement issue I guess. Why not just build a physical barrier that doesn't require enforcement though.
> Vaccines are not exactly new science.

This tells you nothing about the predictability of the practice of the science. It also cannot be used to gild by association anything that wishes to be marketed as a "vaccine".
Pre-COVID this was my exact approach. I felt like there was a certain sense of randomness and adventure that was inspiring towards whatever I was working on.
Much of forensic science is fake, so that doesn't show much. They still do polygraphs too.
Well, pandemics suck, what's new? It's also bad if the kita has to shut down because all the staff are sick. It seems like a good balance to me.
C'mon now.
I'm a strong supporter of strong measures to combat covid, but your question about AIDS is obviously disingenuous. AIDS kills almost every one who gets it (e: in the 70s - of course as a reply mentions, it is not nearly as deadly today and very few caught HIV cases progress to AIDS in the first place now), but it didn't spread very far compared to covid, so of course no herd immunity would develop.
So you're fine with latinx as long as we're writing in English?
Fwiw these schedules seem to show up in a number of large organizations (both private and public).
Yeah, definitely a percentage of them are just "moved" links.. things that pointed to say a .html file before people realized that file extensions were out-of-date.
My similar scratch-my-own-itch solution is BrainTool[0] - a bookmarking extension which syncs to a shareable org-mode file. Nested topics, per-item notes and tab group support.

[0] https://braintool.org
When I click on the countdown, it links to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2022-....

Edit: On second examination, doesn’t appear to be linked. Not sure what I hit with my fat thumbs. :)
Thanks for checking and the kind words!

Yeah, I wish RM allowed "moving" notes from one PDF to a new version of it. But I recently found of a workaround [0]. It requires SSH access, so it's not for everyone. But I'm assuming it's not a problem for HN crowd. I would not be surprised if there's already some hack/software to automate it - or to write a simple script yourself.

Hope this helps!

[0] https://github.com/klimeryk/recalendar/issues/15#issuecommen...
> denied to smokers

Will be put at the end of recipient lists, or outright denied for organ transplants if you're an active smoker of the last 6 months.

> uninsured people

Will only be stabilized in the ER and sent home - actual treatment is only to stabilize the patient to get them back out the door as-per law.

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On motorcycles and obesity those are a bit harder to get into - but I will say that yes... for 2/4 of those we do actively deny medical treatment for better or worse. That makes me feel like we're already on the "slippery slope" - especially in regards to those without insurance... We literally have no problem denying life saving treatment to the uninsured here.

And hell - even as an ex-smoker I agree with the places that don't allow active smokers on their transplant lists. Ethically that makes perfect sense to me.
I wonder if this would this apply to MVNOs who use the TMobile\Sprint network?
> whatever the Julia one is called

https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl
I think you missed the point, twice. The point is it's also literally true that all the bad managers and colleagues are not autistic. And this is obvious. It's given. Unless you have gone out of your way to deliberately misinterpret it. And op then finds you toxic and presumably doesn't care about your personal issues on the topic.

Just paraphrasing OP as you seemed to miss the points he raised.
Carriers nat/proxy everything and in addition to bandwidth throttling, they will rate limit or otherwise whack misbehaving applications.

VPNing everything at scale will impact that monitoring/management. And that will absolutely impact towers, or cause the carriers to throttle users vs apps.
As the OP, I prefer my discussions to be mostly free of ad hominem.

If you don’t see why the topic is interesting and is a new angle on a new (“latinx” is quite new) phenomenon, there is little effort required to simply move on.

In the past 10 days I’ve submitted links about mathematics, computer science, the Defense Dept, physics, and libraries. But this is the one you decided to drop in on and complain about.
Björk talking about her TV (1988) [video]
Curious to see what a more realistic 75mph highway driving test would show. Guessing around 600 miles which is very impressive. Seems like a nobrainer for Tesla to acquire them if their claims pan out.
Yes, most are just Tumblr and Instagram trends.
A Victorian-Science Murder Mystery
> I think it should be referred to as a speed target; to imply that it is meant as both a minimum and a maximum.

Agreed, and I've actually seen signs for both on some highways.

> I feel like licensing and general requirements for operating a vehicle are too lax.

Agreed here as well. I wouldn't be opposed to have driving tests more than once in a lifetime. But this is a tough issue to tackle because I don't think a majority of people would be on board with it, and the DMVs are already being strained.
In my experience, it varied greatly from team to team.
The mobile coin pumpup powered by the nonprofit Signal Foundation was weird.

They got the coin up to $60 from something like $3.

This starts to be another hustle (and with the money folks can make exploiting a nonprofit in this way no surprise really).

Normally the nonprofit would own the asset it is improving in this situation or get a BIG cut of the upside for leveraging an asset like the Signal network (just as any crypto coin company would).

In this case it all seemed very very shady.

My guess is someone wants to cash out somewhere on using the nonprofit to pump things up perhaps? I'd pay attention to what they are doing in the crypto space recently to see if there are any correlated activities
The panic over the Covid pandemic has been a great leap forward in this transformation of Western societies away from a representative republic or democracy.

In the technocracy we are transforming into those that happen to occupy the territory are under the care, custody, and control of the administrative state and then there are those who are noncompliant. So from that viewpoint it is perfectly logical to deny the things the administrative state provide to the noncompliant, because in the technocratic administrative state the people are granted privileges instead of the state deriving its representative power from the people. Read more here [1].

[1] https://www.takimag.com/article/prisoners-of-the-new-order/
I would just like to say that in a world of SaaS SLAs, remote-first, and the specter of a 4 day work week, that what we actually need is a better way for people to collaborate when not colocated in time and space.

I shouldn't be limited to banker's hours for doing things, especially if that now means a 3 day weekend. What really should happen is that some of us should be working on Saturday but not Monday, or at 8 am versus 8 pm.

Otherwise 4 day work weeks just become 32 hours + permanent on-call, which is worse than nothing.
> It doesn't matter how much money you throw at things, the number of doctors isn't going to change drastically.

I don't think that's true. If being a doctor had the same work:pay ratio as being a SW dev I think you'd have more smart people choosing that career. Health regulations and extra procedures certainly helped to discourage employment as well, but I think pay would help.

> I don't see hospitals needing the same capacity in 3 years

The baby boomers are just starting to enter their mid 70s. Sure, it may not reach COVID-surge levels, but they are going to need a lot of health care.
> If you're net zero in the middle of winter

Only net zero on good days. And so far there have been plenty of bad days.

I would love to have gotten more because I'd like to add an electric car as well as some heat pumps. But my roof is only so big.

I didn't know that about the power companies being unhappy though.
Tiny sample size compared to the one from Israel that found the opposite.

And the CDC essentially admits the vaccines no longer do much to prevent spread (due to waning protection and new variants). Maybe previous natural immunity has seen the same reduction, but you can't assume that.
So, maybe next they will experimentally employ someone over 40?
Can anyone explain the case from T-Mobile's end?

(Not asking for sarcastic not-in-good-faith explanations of BS reasons that you are imagining.

Asking for anyone who understands more about a cell carrier's needs than I do, to explain what «the feature cuts off networks and servers from accessing vital network data and metadata and could impact “operator’s ability to efficiently manage telecommunication networks.» actually means, to someone who is not a telecom engineer but does understand engineering.

And/or other motives, but based on understanding more of their business than I do, not just wild guesses!)
> For reference to a Covid prevalence measurement that isn't sensitive to testing artifacts, check out the Boston wastewater analysis:

This would be confounded by the greater viral loads for Omicron, wouldn't it?
I've had pauses of a few months when there wasn't any good coffee around; sometimes there wasn't even any decent tea (green/black). There was mediocre chocolate (supermarket stuff) but I don't think I ate a whole lot of that either (as a caffeinated-coffee replacement). Mostly happened when I was doing a weird combination of travel for work and not knowing where the good coffee spots were, coming back home after being away for two weeks to then move to a house I bought that was finally ready to move in to so another few weeks of having too much stuff packed away to make any coffee (and too busy to do it anyway). And then when the move was over, on vacation for a few weeks, again with no clue where to get coffee and all there is, is Starbucks, gas stops, and restaurant coffee (which more often than not is terrible anyway).

Maybe it does have an effect but being too busy to notice masked it?

I've had shorter pauses as well, broke a few bones in a sporting accident and didn't really feel like getting or making coffee, was very into ginger infusions, sometimes tamed with a bit of honey or lemon.

On one hand this makes me very curious to just not drink coffee for a few weeks and see if it does anything, on the other hand I pretty much stopped drinking sugary drinks years ago so that just leaves water and tea for me, and tea would have to be paused as well because I have a variety of teas where some have caffeine as well. Maybe if there was a good decaf around I'd just drink that as an experiment, but I haven't found one that doesn't taste weird yet.

That said, I'm not drinking all that much coffee (1 or 2 filters or 2 espressos or maybe one of each is about average), and sometimes I just forget to make some if I'm busy doing stuff.
Or a cut for more vacation time. I've had to threaten to get a labor lawyer just for the right to actually take my 2 weeks off consecutively. They responded by letting me "purchase" a few more days off... but of course if you don't take them, you don't get your money back.
>work monday-thursday, all remote.