skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not leaving my job yet, but strongly thinking about doing it in the near future.

The reason is simple: I am not employable.

I mean that in a good way.

I hate being an employee. I hate having to go by the rules that other people make up even though I strongly disagree with. I hate being in an industry that does not share my engineering values.

So to that end, I voted "company culture" on this pool.

More importantly, I want to create things of value.

All the jobs I've worked so far have been bullshit jobs. The thing I'm paid to make ultimately does not provide any real value to society - sometimes it provides negative value.

And, I want to set an example to my children: don't be an employee, and don't strive to be one.
> Trump tried to secure the capital with troops, only to have Pelosi etal insert themselves

this is not something that happened

> Which was itself unconstitutional and extremely concerning

Right, because this would be stupid if it were real. If the speaker of the house wanted the national guard they would make a request through the chain of command. But it's not something that happened.

> The police/security force for the capital building itself btw is not part of the executive branch (for this exact reasoning) and answers directly to Pelosi.

No, it doesn't.
Notice of Class Action Settlement in Re Plaid Inc. Privacy Litigation
Plonky2: Major milestone for zero-knowledge cryptography
And you now have (had?) exactly 10000 points.

(I checked your profile to see if I could see where you work : )

Edit: I'm feeling childish but in a good way.
I'm finishing my second year at my very first programming job. This is the only real employment I've had in my career path and I'm proud to have gotten it. It's a small/medium sized company, I think we're around 60-70 people. I wouldn't say I'm being compensated as equally as engineers that live in the same place I do, but I enjoy the people I work with most of all. I'd rather have that then go to a bigger company with more salary, with a possibility of not enjoying the people. Devil I know is better than the devil I don't I suppose
> Think about explaining this to a new C++ developer.

How's this:

The code allocates and initializes a new Foo instance with args. By using make_unique you guarantee that the destructor is called when foo goes out of scope for any reason.
Yes, the browser wasn't sure if its render engine would get stuck, but there was a big chance it would only end up dumping a bunch of garbled text on screen anyway (of a different sort than usual :) ). Therefore it decided to simply not load the file at all.

In other words, Firefox literally blocked the website from loading and that's precisely what I said.
No, not very different. But as I understand it, most commercial bonds are not callable, whereas most mortgages are pre-payable with no penalty.
Do you have a source for this? We’re seeing similar things in my country and I’d love to understand why (and how we can make it go away) a little more
Looks like it's getting the HN hug of death. The progress bar goes to 100% and just freezes there. What's the performance bottleneck? Clearly it's not the CDN/hosting since the site is loading fine.
They don't need to run a fear campaign, they already own you. Most companies are losing money, especially the ones generally calling the shots. Kind of hard to exploit the plebes when they keep getting sick and infecting all the other serfs.

Really pathetic how human brains prefer good narratives to simple ones. A novel coronavirus (from the world that brought you Ebola, H1N1, Zika) becoming super prevalent and disrupting volatile networks of interdependence <<< a global conspiracy to further control citizens that already live under a so-called "Patriot Act" surveillance state.
One quibble one of the best uses for RAII is not memory management but any external resource like db connections or file handles or mutexes.

The built in smart pointers take care of much of memory management.
(Although they use RAII internally)
Where's "Got no other prospects. Need the money. Got 3 kids from 3 different women."?
old.reddit.com until they finally kill it off, then I'll just stop going.
The cost of attrition is very real, probably higher than the cost of keeping low-performers on the team for large companies. For small startups the cost of attrition is probably negligible. Maybe the solution for big companies is to break them up into small independent startup like entities.
^YES! This is 100% of the reason I'm not looking for another job.
I don't know about Australia, but in Canada mortgages are amortized over (usually) 30 years at first issuance, but they are on (usually) 5 year terms.

This means you'll renew your mortgage roughly five times before it is repaid, at the prevailing rates at that time. There's no such thing here as a mortgage with fixed interest rate over 30 years like, as I understand it, there is in the US.
> I don't know what he's actually called in english

His english name is Captain Fray (a name that was presumably carefully chosen in order to avoid the need for redrawing his shirt, which has a big F on it)
Sure, but as a home buyer, what happened to your mortgage after you purchase your home only really matters to you as far as who the servicer is... you don't care or even know who owns the other parts.

US home owners use mortgages for the same purpose as people in other countries... to be able to pay off their home over time. How is it any different as a home owner in the US verse the rest of the world?
Health care. I’m in the USA, and quality health care is tied to employment.
Sodium has great thermal conductivity and runs at high power density.

Fast reactors need a large load of fuel (often high enrichment) to attain a critical mass. High power density helps pay for the fuel. It also means the reactor is smaller and the capital cost goes down compared to, say, a lead cooled reactor.

If you get fuel damage the most biologically dangerous fission product is iodine. The iodine reacts with the coolant to form NI salt, that salt dissolves in the sodium. Dangerous iodine isotopes decay in a few weeks. An experimental reactor melted down in the suburbs of LA in the 1950s and they never saw the iodine because it stayed put and it decayed in place.

Sodium reactors can run at high temperatures compared to water reactors. In the 1970s it was assumed that sodium reactors were attached to steam turbines and it was assumed fast reactors would cost more than thermal reactors, even though the performance of the steam turbine improves at high temperature.

Modern thinking is that a closed-cycle gas turbine is 10% the size of a steam turbine and the same for the heat exchangers so a high temperature reactor could beat the LWR for capital cost and be competitive with other power sources. A sodium reactor is a good match for a CCGT.
Ask HN: Biggest FOSS reward without ruining the project?
This year I intend to launch one of my side projects. If it becomes successful, I want to give the people who made the FOSS projects it depends on a proper reward.

That made me think. Let's take an unrealistic, extreme scenario:

My app turns me into a Jeff Bezos with a conscience. One of the dependencies for my app is made by a single developer. I give them a million dollars. That would probably change their life so much that it may even hurt the project, right? What if they decide to travel the world, and forget about the project?

So my question to you: what would be a good reward, both for the creator and their project?
It offers unconditional full tuition remission for a masters degree I just started. Other than that - I dont know what else to pursue and I dont seem to gel in any work environment other than the one Im in. No pursuit is interesting when I depend on it for income.
And that ... Theory about the lockdowns supposedly not being because of the virus but to hide a larger financial crisis/weath reallocation is spreading quite quickly at least at far as I can tell. That's not going to reduce tensions in that regard, that's for sure.

There is only circumstantial evidence but the story sounds plausible. If things continue like this, I'd wager that trump will return in 24
You replied to me and I replied not to you, but to the original post.
As an example of how the cold dark matter (CDM) establishment behaves, http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/fanmail2014.html
Anemia is just one of a myriad of problems humans would face on a Mars trip. My chief concern, and the one that's probably hardest to tease out, would be the psychological stress. There's no escape pod, no truncated emergency schedule, no one to greet you on the other end, and potentially not enough work to keep you busy. These conditions are hard if not impossible to replicate on earth.
In my area, homes have doubled in the past 4 years since I bought my house. its great, seeing the neighbors sell their home for what seems like crazy money, except, while I could do that, I would then need to buy a home. Only way it makes sense, is to sell and move somewhere much less costly, but right now, even remote places are crazy expensive.
Correct. I think the main reason is that this "security" is geared more around Customs & Border enforcement than anything else.
"Compensation" needs to be unpacked. It includes healthcare, contractual and scheduling freedom to pursue side projects, and company sponsored and encouraged opportunities for self-investment in skills and learning. Most of those "other" things are nontaxable.
> Ironically, i bet HR would have a hard time with an 80/20 dual role setup.

I guess I thought I did my best to avoid burning any bridges, but I was actually bargaining against myself.
It is. You have to understand that the way you see yourself is not necessarily the way other people see themselves. For centuries people hid this from society, but now people are open about it and it turns out that it's pretty OK.
> Wait until you find about about languages like Hindi where the plural form can be used for respect even when referring to an individual :)

In fact it’s pretty common amongst a lot of languages. Most Latin-derived languages use the plural to show respect. But of course, never to talk about yourself. You’ll use the pluralized form when talking to strangers or to people who are over you hierarchically (but this usage tends to disappear in a lot companies).

As a French, reading someone speaking about itself as "we" is shocking not because it looks like there is multiple people involved (but it also does) but because it looks like the person tries to be "above" you hierarchically. Of course i know it isn’t what’s intended but language interpretation is an automatic mechanism.
I think you've got it backwards.
File storage is free up to 10GB, NoSQL is free forever
The EU only recognises past infections for a limited time. I think it varies by country but in the range six to nine months.
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WPF Airspace Decorator repo fork with fixes for high DPI support (2016)
>To clarify this sequence has not been identified in any other virus in the wild.

>this sequence

>this

>sequence
Ok I sent an email report explaining the issue with additional info. Let's see what happens.

Edit: Got a reply:

> Thank you for contacting CrowdStrike’s public AV scanner team! If you have not done so yet, please upload a sample of the file in question to Hybrid Analysis at https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/. Furthermore, please make sure that your request contains the SHA256 hash of the file.

I look forward to them no longer flagging one specific Nim binary produced just as an example.
Does the prepayment risk even matter for most mortgages in the US since they are sold to the government sponsored enterprises?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-sponsored_enterpris...

As I understand, the goal of those entities is to simply lower the costs and increase access to loans to the US public.
Other: high pay, flexible hours, low stress, recent child, health issues.
What do you mean? How can a number be ridiculous/overwhelming when you don't know it yet?
Well sure, but given that viruses mutate on the order of millions of times a day (since they replicate on the order of gazillions of times a day) it's not terribly unreasonable that this sequence could have developed by accident, even through the relatively winding path you described.

Hell, the entire genetic code of every variant of COVID-19 exists somewhere in the digits of Pi, but that doesn't mean that mathematicians created COVID. This reeks of a slightly more advanced form of numerology to me.
> You seem to be arguing that you can't ever prevent minors from using your service

Oh, I actually meant you shouldn't be able to exclude an adult based on them violating the ToS when they were a minor.
As an aside, if anyone is looking for an absolutely insane pepper mill, get the Männkitchen Pepper Cannon. You will never need another one. It's a big solid hunk of aluminum, stainless steel burrs, and puts out 5-10x the amount that other mills do per crank. Easier to adjust fineness of grind than any other mill out there. Evenness of grind is also superior.

It has changed my entire life in the kitchen.
Of course, part of that 'upgrading' is that homes in a lot of urban areas have become impractically expensive for anyone who wants enough space for a family... but you still have to buy in ASAP if you don't want to be left behind by further market inflation. So cue 'starter home' nonsense.
Whatever culpability you imagine Nancy Pelosi has regarding Jan 6, Mitch McConnell would share the same. Nonetheless, neither of them bears the culpability you imagine, because they don't have the kind of oversight you are implying. The Capitol Police are controlled by a board of the Capitol Architect, and the Sergeants at Arms for the two chambers of the Congress. The Capitol Architect is appointed by the President for a 10 year term and the Sergeants at Arms are appointed by the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader. But the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader do not control the Capitol police as you imagine, nor should they if you think about it.

I think there was a failure in security that day, but it's still a big question as to exactly what that was. This is part of the scope of the Jan 6 Committee, and we should get some answers here this year.
We don't really know. A recent manuscript submitted to Nature shows minute persistence in various tissues as long as 230 days or more post-infection. [1] RNA is fragile, if the infection is completely cleared or not integrated into the genome in some way we would not expect it to persist.

[1] https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1139035/v1_covere... (Figure 1)
I suspect somewhere in the Riemann-Zeta function is a reciprocal that only cancels out all the imaginary terms once and only once, thus any number with more than one factor wouldn't cancel out.

I haven't the math skills to find that reciprocal.
Inertia and/or fear. Health issues mean that if I leave my position and I find out my new position is more demanding, I'm fucked. I have a mortgage to pay.

I am getting kind of sick and tired of the pressure though. Partly put on by myself, partly put on by expectation of continued excellence in face of stressful deadlines.
There is almost certainly an organized crime element interacting with the individuals performing the looting. Typically, the organized elements are at the "fencing" level, where they are paying the individuals (almost certainly mostly drug addicts) small fractions of the resale value for various items in cash/drugs.

This is a standard pattern in areas with lax law enforcement, which these days is all of California, and also places like Manhattan. Political leaders in the LA, SF, Manhattan areas have bought into the Bolshevik era explanation of crime being caused by social injustice, and therefore see criminals as victims of a corrupt society rife with inequality. This kind of chaos is an inevitable result. Treating criminals like hapless victims acting out of desperation ignores the fact that many have agency, are intelligent, and make cost/benefit calculations that completely change when they know they won't get prosecuted if they are caught.
I had to pay an extra $90 when crossing the border into Zimbabwe. I was a little slow and asked all innocently why I had to pay more then the official entry tax when the guy in front of me paid the normal amount. The guy just shifted his AK-47 a bit and repeated the request. I figured it out at that point and forked it over.
That's pretty unique to the US, I think. Canada has no comparable product and the difference between "fixed" and "variable rate" mortgages here is that fixed mortgages are fixed for five years.
In Australia the amount you can overpay a fixed mortgage before you incur fees is relatively low. (Ie if you pay beyond an additional $20,000 per annum you start incurring fees.) Is it the same in the states?

Do people just pay the principal and interest for 30 years?
> Seems like you have an ax to grind

I don't feel like this is at all a fair or appropriate response to GP. They all seemed like very valid points. Which points fall under the "grinding an axe" category, as opposed to "valid criticism" category?
I had an employee who used to tell me: “there are only two people in my life that I have explicitly chosen to be with: my wife - and you”
I screenshotted the milestone. :)

I work for amino-dot-com, a healthcare/financial wellness startup. Elevator pitch: big companies contract with us to tell their employees which doctors they should go to and how much it'll cost, and we'll even book the appointment for them.
Probably Turing Complete. Good enough for me.
Did they care about what they were leaving to their heirs? What happened to the house after they both died in that house? Did the kids keep it? Sell it?

Even if you never use it as an asset in your life, it is still an asset.
There's also "accumulated trust built up with coworkers" (perhaps a subset of "enjoy coworkers"), "don't want to reset the parental leave clock", and "have family and hence no time to learn a whole new problem domain".
I Was an Engineer at a Major Automaker. Here’s the Dark Side of the Job
Missing answer: burn out
I am in a role now as a Director of Engg. I see my tech skills dropping and not as sharp as they used to. I am focusing more on managerial skills. So, my opportunities are also less outside with Immigration as an added bonus.
That's called fuzzy golden handcuffs.
One of those groups marched to the capitol.

Another one of those groups broke into the capitol building, stole things, destroyed things, fought with guards, smeared poop on the walls, audibly shouting about looking for specific senators. and at least one person has been found guilty of carrying a gun. Multiple people found to have discussed killing the senators.
personally i've always thought the best way to teach is with already working code. given a reference (the internet will do these days), some well written working code with examples of all constructs and idioms in it for a lesson, and possibly a sequence of prompts to change what it does with increasing difficulty, seems the best way.

most importantly, it must do something that the learner at least has some remote interest in and for best results the activity should be creative and constructive.
This was a study conducted by the military on soldiers. They all contributed three blood samples over a period of time that were tested for a large number of conditions. EBV was the only one that contributed to MS.
That poses the potential problem of circular reasoning. How do we arrive at this estimate of 1%? Maybe it is more than 1% of the actual value because the estimate is wrong.
I imagine for most people it's an interplay between most things being at least "good enough" and the effort/risk (things don't always work out) of job hunting and starting in a new place in a possibly new role.
According to the American Council on Aging, "In most cases, one’s home, home furnishings, and vehicle are exempt." (from the asset test).
I really only use the native ios app and figured anything that did what I want would be taken down for violating some tos
Unlikely to be survivable for an airliner. Most air to air missiles are designed not to hit the target but to blow up close to it and destroy the aircraft using the shockwave. So it may target an engine exhaust but the explosion will damage the wing and main fuselage as well.
It was 1-5% chance of hospitalization for the unvaccinated, compared to less than 1% for the vaccinated. You should do more reading as well. Democrats were more likely to accurately guess the hospitalization rates for vaccinated individuals and Republicans were more likely to know the number for unvaccinated ones. Wonder why that is?
It's not the responsibility of people with domain knowledge to go around and debunk every substack post. But to believe this post you have to believe that no one else discovered this, or, of they did, they are suppressing it.
Which is comical. Most scientists would rush to publish a new finding and take credit. There's no "establishment" conspiracy to suppress evidence of the lab leak theory. The Biden administration ordered further investigation as one of their first acts. No suppression there. So, who then? The WHO is being too nice to China? I agree! Doesn't prove anything.
If it's as easy as the OP says, we would know.
Employers make the mistake of seeing employees as a cost center instead of as revenue generators.

I recently finished a leadership class and the primary focus was on treating employees as people / human. This perspective makes it possible to make decisions that make for happy employees which, in turn, makes for more productive employees.

Employers that focus solely on cost are missing the forest for the trees; it's extremely short sighted.

I now work for a DAO in which decisions are made by "the community" (those with tokens have voting power). Not having a traditional leadership structure has been so liberating. Everything is fully transparent.
Some counterintuitive things:

- the floor rent is too damn high, but the land rent is two damn low

- Ownership is very hard to price, but the existance of the instutition of ownership is a choice! By raising the land rent the price of ownership shrivels up, and that clamps down on the risks from this volatile and ill-defined problem.

- Rent is just better, what is bad is rent paid to owners, integrating the flow into the stock. Rent that cycles right back around as citizen divdend or gov services stays as a flow and is good. (And what ever evil inclinations states might have, profits are not one of them in the fiat era. (States == federal government in this case. State, local, and invididual departments could still be money grubbers.))
I'm confused about the source of the NO2 product. From trace amounts of nitrogen compounds (NO2 and N2O) in natural gas? What conflates the trace amounts to dangerous concentrations?
> - Froze the business accounts of all shareholders by name search (different corporate entities, different businesses) - 5kEU

> - Froze the business accounts that the shareholders held (again, different corps, different businesses) - another 5kEU

Shareholders? Not execs, but shareholders?

If true, this is one of the worst things that I have ever seen a company do, and this should probably be the top comment.
A non-trivial percentage of Hacker News was 8 years old in 2008. :)