skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a semi-interesting piece (because of how poorly written it is and how hilariously confident the writer is), but it is embarrassing that the person writing claims to have a PhD in at least something semi-related to molecular biology, yet is trying to convince people that we can use independent probability when dealing with protein amino acid sequences. Certain sequences are seen time and time again in nature, just like certain traits visible to the naked eye have evolved independently. More importantly, this author dismisses natural mixing of SARS and HIV1 as "ridiculous" and provides no other explanation. It is possible that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab, but it is also possible that HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 co-infected a host.

Edit: to elaborate, certain amino acid sequences are seen again and again, and others are practically impossible to see in nature because amino-acids fold into 3D proteins...and each amino acid is like a Lego piece. There is a lot more detail needed to understand fully how tertiary and 4try protein structures form...but it is also possible to understand it decently well after an undergraduate degree in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, etc. A PhD in the field knows this inside and out. If I had to guess, the author of this post has a PhD in something like statistics or computer science, and thinks that they can apply high school level math to two fields (molecular biology and biochemistry) that they do not even have a high school level of understanding of.

To make a very stretched analogy (I am a doctoral student in the life sciences and a hobby programmer), this blog post is like saying that some Java source code is stolen because four of the class names are the same between two projects, and then using the number of possible characters in the class names and the length of the name to run some statistics. The problem being that no one has class names like "AeNOQ92bA"...in fact the vast majority of 8 character sequences will never be class names. Just like the vast majority of amino acid sequences (likely) do not exist in nature. And then you dig deeper and find out the class name is something like "MainDashboardSupervisorTree" (I do not know Java so forgive me). Then you also find out that the author of both classes...is the same guy who moved companies and likes particular naming convection, but never meant to copy stuff word for word. Similar to how SARS-CoV-2 could have naturally incorporated HIV-1 RNA into its genome when co-infecting a host.
You can pick multiple.
12 axle, 8 tire wide trailer makes that a 96 wheeled trailer, + 14 for the truck comes to 110 wheels. I wonder what the trailer weighs.
Spiders, mostly.
Complexity can solve issues but can also bring new ones.

For instance, I've been bitten recently by the new "universal" syntax to write variable definitions with only curly braces.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

int main() {
// Forty-two things:
vector<string> v1 { 42, "foo" };
vector<int> v2 { 42, 1 };
vector<char> v3 { 42, 'x' };

cout << v1.size() << " " << v2.size() << " " << v3.size() << endl;
return 0;
}

This prints, of course:

> 42 2 2
It’s so bad half the time I think they have to be trolling their own users.
I also found it confusing. I was wondering if it was this person's preferred pronoun but their Twitter [0] lists "she" as of "January 2022" and all the testimonials use "she" too [1].

[0]: https://twitter.com/EverfreeArtemis

[1}: https://artemis.sh/
^ all of the above

I really love my job. I believe in the product (it's open source), coworkers are great, management and leadership are excellent. Compensation is competitive, and I enjoy the problems I'm solving. I have no plans nor reason to leave.
Padlocks are easy to cut, a bigger padlock just needs a bigger tool. Some companies apparently start welding their containers shut, which raises the bar for thieves significantly (now they need a grinder and more time).
In America, the majority of loans (especially after 2008) are fixed interest rate for the life of the loan. So even if the FED/RBA raises the benchmark rate, the mortgage rate and the note associated with it will not change.
I wasn't trying to refute anything. I was just providing some context about the economics of fracking that I believed to be interesting to other HN readers.

Similar remarks have also been made by people in the oil and gas industry, it's not just an environmentalist meme:

> the technology that enables unconventional oil and gas production resulted in a 4-fold increase in oil and gas drilling costs from 2003 to 2014

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurberman/2017/07/05/shale-g...
Another pump and dump?
If you think you've got something that will give you a competitive advantage, seize that advantage. Otherwise, it will be no more than source code on a thumb drive that you'll eventually forget the encryption password to, or gets damaged during a move, or is lost when you stop paying for your cloud storage membership, is lost when you re-partition the wrong part of your hard drive, whatever.
Natural disasters are not astronomically low probability scenarios, they happen all the time. Astronomically low probability would be something that is unlikely to happen during the entire lifetime of the planet.
Yes, if not you can vote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937305
Westinghouse Electric Company (the reactor manufacturer) took over construction management in 2015 after the first constructor botched schedules and costs. Westinghouse subcontracted to Fluor. In 2016, adding Bechtel.

In 2017, Westinghouse declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy from construction losses, and the final owner Southern Company reselects Bechtel as the construction manager.

Current operational date looks like 3Q 2022, and on track.

tl;dr - Don't allow megaproject management experience to atrophy. The US military learned this (see: how the Navy builds carriers and nuclear subs). Have a prime and a secondary. Rotate. And, for god's sake keep the pipeline full. Skills atrophy and knowledge is forgotten.
Good on them. I really disliked the old name.
In general I wholeheartedly agree about all of the media twisting facts to suit narratives. But regardless of the noisy channels through which we get information, we can still reason in terms of objective theories and provable facts. If there is a straightforward explanation (as opposed to just different unsubstantiated claims being repeated within a different filter bubble), then surely you can explain it in several lines here. For context, I'm a libertarian who subscribes to Austrian economics.
>contrast actual lived experiences

what do you mean by this, as it relates to the comment you replied to?
It seems you might be lumping me in with some other claims that I have not made. I agree that it is wise to stick with the facts and keep speculation to a minimum. It is a shame that this topic has become so politicized because we deserve answers. We cannot prove what did happen, but through careful observation we maybe can eliminate the impossible.
That using TCP for streaming is insane. UDP only, in this context called RTP.
My approach as well. I’m not bothered with different people pronouncing my name differently. Does not stop me from being pedantic about pronouncing other people’s “correctly” :)
> Medicaid in 49 states and DC has a 5 year look back period (California is 30 months/2.5 years)

California is also phasing out the asset test, which will eliminate the need for a look-back period entirely (asset limit moving from $2k/$3k for individual/couple to $130k/$195k this July, planned for total elimination by July 2024.)
The difference between saying "Well now there is omicron and I'm young and healthy and have just had covid so I should do some back-of-the-napkin-math" versus "I don't believe in the idea of vaccinating populations as soon as the individual risk outweighs the population risk" (i.e. antivax) is pretty large.

Novak is now in the former category, but he was in the latter - which is why I don't want to give him the benefit of the doubt any more.
Wait so according to your model of the world top-performers become idiots in their next job? Where are all these top-performers who do get compensated enough and what companies do they work for that have no attrition?
Woobs out
Author here!

One of the interesting things about this project was the reality (and curse) of writing software when you don't have any constraints. I wrote a little bit about the experience here too: https://tripleodeon.com/2022/01/software-without-compromise
Linktree Is Kicking Many Sex Workers Off Its Site
Dying isn't the only outcome, and you can't work while you're sick. This isn't some flu, it has long term implications for 10-30% of those infected and is extremely contagious. Many ICUs are at capacity or beyond it, and it wasn't long ago NYC and Milan were storing bodies in refrigerated containers. A small percentage of a big number is still a big number, if anything our response has been underwhelming.

How do you want to explain away the excess death numbers? We are undercounting COVID deaths in the US, especially in rural areas where vaccination rates are lower. Globally the same thing is true. Excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 are higher than tallied COVID fatalities and other explanations don't account for the magnitude of the difference.

What's disingenuous is saying everyone is too afraid of the virus when non-tech sectors still have to go in to work, all of the financial support for those impacted dried up, 20% of all inpatient beds registered with the HHS are in use specifically for COVID, etc.

A million or more Americans are dead of COVID and most of those were easily preventable. The only thing saving us from that number being much higher is an extremely high-tech medical system and passable infrastructure. If we had a death rate like Brazil with the case loads we're experiencing maybe more people would take it seriously and get a jab. Or not, at this point I expect nothing from US citizens. It's unbelievable to me that antivax sentiment has been allowed to fester in the "marketplace for free ideas" that we've forgotten how life was before robust public vaccination campaigns.
IMO a worthy poll option would be the modern developer interview process. Even if I was interested in looking for a new opportunity I wouldn't want to go through that unless I really had to.
So, I am in a position that would work well for you but I'm debating if I want to join a bigger corp. I would need to work for a SV based company as I don't think many companies in my area could match the pay from what I am seeing from recruiters most are coming 20k below.

I develop apps for midsized manufacturing company as an IC. Sometimes I need to spend a lot of time with managers to figure out how to make something because things are not well documented. However, at some point I just write code, update devops, write some emails, touch base and document. I kind of enjoy it. I get to work as a full stack dev building and documenting everything. I work extremely flexible hours. If I can't work one day I will catch up on a weekend. Some days I work for a few hours then go somewhere and get back to it in the evening.

There is rarely any rush, unless things are really urgent. Deadlines are flexible.

Finding a job like this may be difficult, the position kind of fell into my lap as I met the VP of the company in school. However, try to interview with smaller companies and tell them what you want out of the job. Smaller companies have a harder time hiring talented people as the big companies have the prestige and high salaries.
Is the prepayment risk really much different from a callable commercial bond? Call protection is not universal in commercial or even agency bonds.
Fukushima currently has a body count of 1 and the city is perfectly habitable.

It was also basically the worst case scenario that could happen to that reactor design.

The tsunami and the earthquake killed 20000 for a scale.
Many people have variable rate mortgages, but the standard mortgage that most people try to get is a "30 year fixed", where the interest rate is locked for the entire 30 year term.

You pay a higher rate for a fixed than a variable, but you get a lot more certainty.
"Thanks kind of feel left out when folk here start remembering their c64 and Ataris and whatnot! My first computer was a celeron 500MHz..."

In a lot of ways, between the c64 and the celeron 500MHz is an enormous, almost unrecognizable leap, whereas between the celeron 500MHz and the machine in my hand is just a lot of incremental change. I had a machine ~2000 that was de facto a 500MHz Duron (running at its full 1GHz overheated very quickly), and I used the same basic paradigm on that as I'm using now. Emacs, browser, terminal windows, MP3 player. Wifi needed a dongle. The integrated webcam is new since then.
Metrication Matters (2007) [video]
Zelle is window dressing on top of ACH.
Yes, absolutely.

You should have confidence in the correctness of your code if you are publishing.

If your code is a shitshow, why do you trust it? Decent code is to your own advantage even if no one else ever looks at it.

In the best case, it’s possible to build a community around your code, to wide benefit and your career benefit. I’ve seen this with several peers and students.

As a hiring manager, it’s very nice indeed to read a paper and scan the code of an fresh grad applicant.

My lab’s approach is to put the repo in public and put the hash of the relevant commit in the paper. Then you can keep developing there but readers can be confident they can get the exact code used to justify the claims in the paper.

An exception is if you plan to make a company around your IP. You should estimate how likely this is to happen before defaulting to this.
the HIV-1 protein sequence is the same but not the DNA sequence. The moderna DNA sequence is identical. The odds of HIV-1 mixing with bat coronavirus, and then somehow finding the moderna DNA sequence, while not astronomically low, are pretty low.
A lot of people are single or close to single issue voters. So there is policy discussion but it's usually extremely shallow
IMHO it should start with some tools, so that changing the code is not too cumbersome. How git works, how the IDE works, how some basic OS commands work. Everyone starts with a different base but often it's the people who messed around with a computer a lot who know some shortcuts that to most coders are obvious.

The less pain you have with changing the code, the more code you can try.
Reading can also be a lot less mentally involved for me.

Often I am Gaming, thinking I am relaxing, but I am actually using my brain intensely and getting kind of riled up. This is sometimes true for a really exciting or intense novel, but usually much less so.
Wow, I was also EBV positive ~4 years ago (45 months), was symptomatic and I had post viral fatigue for around a year. It was 12 months before I could do light physical training and it was around 2.5 years before I could train physically at high intensity.
> Anyone in the US who is middle-class likely will have to sell their home or put it into a financial trust by the time they become very old in order to qualify for Medicaid,

In most states, your home is exempt (at least to certain far above median value, equity limit) from the Medicaid asset test, so, no, you probably won't.
> He told me that I couldn't just leave like that.

isn't the answer to that question "take it up with HR"? that was very gracious of you to even offer an 80/20 arrangement. Ironically, i bet HR would have a hard time with an 80/20 dual role setup.
> They are looking at 20 years if they get caught: 18 U.S. Code section 1991

likely not, see https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
Right. There are all kinds of great services that could be built on top of other peoples' web sites, but most sites want to own the relationship with their customer directly. And most of the great ideas for mashup services are predicated on the idea that the mashup will get most of the revenue, which is not going to fly with the underlying value providers. In an ad-supported web world, those who own the eyeballs call the shots.
"Negative societal impact" is missing from the list.

Or "Company ethics".
Residential is the single largest sector of electricity consumption in the United States:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/560927/us-retail-electri...

Electricity production represents 25% of GHG emissions in the US:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

Direct residential GHG emissions (i.e. from burning natural gas) are also significant.

In total, residential energy use of all kinds accounts for 20% of US GHG emissions:

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/32/19122
Yeah, I probably already commented on this some time ago, but I think Java is really, really bad as a teaching language. The language itself is just fine and much better than most people give it credit for, if you are a professional developer. As a teaching language is full of cerimony and it forces upon you an object model that you can't fully understand until much later. It's too much "in the weeds", if that makes sense.
I feel stuck. I am a C-level executive but dread every day of my job. I want to change careers at this point but have a family that depends on my income to get by. However, the company I work for is actually really great, I just happen to be burnt out.
> I have always struggled with how to advise my friends & family on this path of learning. It seems like everyone wants to be a WFH developer these days, but I don't know how to enable them to succeed on that path.

The best advice is to get a proper CS or Engineering degree honnestly.
Have you tried Fluent Python? It really helped to level up my knowledge of the language.
They don't really disincentive the behaviour though. Dye packs are a thing, people still rob banks.

People who feel they have nothing to lose don't care if they get caught either.

The solution is to provide people with a decent life by default. They can then contribute to society comfortably.
This is one area where the normal Silicon Valley strategy of "fake it til you make it" just won't fly. I deeply hope NRC keeps shooting this down until they actually do it right. Sounds like this company doesn't really have the chops to play this game, but maybe they are just sloppy, we'll see.
I've heard about their ‘freeze and seize’ business model in mid-late 2000s, so it's been going on for almost fifteen years already, maybe more.

Meanwhile Paypal's early top execs are icons of US business and techbros. This Musk is probably a really solid guy, what's not to like!
+1 it looks ok, although the stylistically I would personally prefer to split this file up into smaller parts (although maybe it's all related). I'm also not a big fan of macros but again without knowing more it's not too unreasonable.

Personally I wouldn't like to slog through this on a moment's notice but it seems named well and there are a lot of comments, and appears to have been through clang-tidy.
Yes. Once you have an audience just start selling sponsored posts.
I get up each morning excited to go to work, and this is after being here for 6 years. I keep waiting for the honeymoon phase to wear off, but it keeps going.

I'm doing important work, I'm surrounded by smart people, and I have the support of the company to grow my career in the direction(s) I'd like to take it. They'd have to pry me out of this job with a crowbar.
I was wondering the same thing about seeing the aerial footage in the Twitter thread.

I don’t even know that amount of stuff could be opened, filtered for valuables, and transported within a few hours time without dozens of people and some mid-size cargo trucks.

This seems like enough organized logistic planning that a bunch of homeless people or youth gangs would not be able to pull off at this level.
I'm confused about this part:

>A mortgage has a quirky little subcomponent called a Mortgage Servicing Right (MSR). Every month, it needs to collect money from the borrower and send that money… somewhere. This implies, minimally, a mailbox where you can send checks, someone to open the mail, and a phone number with a CS representative who can answer questions like “What is my current balance?” and “Did you get the last check I sent you?”

I thought mortgage payments were mostly done electronically now?
The most surprising example I found was Dell Alienware support. Not sure if it's different from Dell consumer support, but I'd guess so.

Had to RMA an ultra widescreen monitor I use for work, and the experience was as smooth as silk and always in the hands of actual humans, who would follow up and push things forward.
Yeah, I don't get the downvotes. It's worse that they won't reply why either. At least converse when you are in disagreement.

> The stated goal of govt seems to be low (but positive) levels of inflation and high growth.

Yes, and I disagree with that position too, but people are taught Keynesian economics, so even beginning to unfurl that mess is asking for a downvote storm.

The same people that will argue inflation is beneficial for growth tend to believe they are also open minded, free thinking, and well `educated`. It makes for a difficult argument often resulting in a lot of pointing to `authorities` on the matter.
No, the malware authors just target the least secure userbase. Because there's plenty of them to exploit. Why put in the extra work if you have plenty of weak targets?

Physical security works the same way. The point is to have better locks on your bike than the one beside it.

And opening ports reduces the need for central infrastructure for the malware makers, which leads to less chance of being discovered (no money trails etc).

PS Speaking of run of the mill malware/ransomware here obviously. If you get targeted by state actors you can kiss your ass goodbye either way :)
I'm curious about this, as well. In fact, I have 17 days left before I'm placed on unpaid leave for this very reason--despite being 100% remote and the coercion and adverse actions being violations of my state's employment law.
Censorship results in Preference Falsification, but doesn't actually effect change in the true preferences. It just makes them more subtle, and off the radar of officialdom.
Surely in the higher income brackets the tax on it brings down the net considerably?
Honestly, the fact that tankies exist in 2022, still bewilders me.
Holding other peoples money has a profit, not a cost. That float is valuable.
Try adding debug symbols or make a fatter binary. Nim (and to a lesser extent Zig) has an emphasis on producing tiny binaries. I suspect some of the same optimization outputs matches the signatures of malware (which often is written in heavily optimised code).
Sometimes you have to attach yourself to dumb ideas to sell the smart idea. There's a good chance these folks don't care about cypto at all and are just using this to obtain further investment and survive another day.
I applied at 3 jobs at once last year, two sent me take home coding tests, one just asked questions during the interview. I took the offer for that one.
Combination of "started recently", "compensation is good", and "you can't get a mortgage without a job, regardless of how much savings you have"
We basically fill a NAS running Plex with stuff we like for the kids, YouTube-dl helps a lot with this. You can access that via a raspi or similar running a Plex client. Big fan of this approach, there’s a lot of great educational stuff on YouTube.