skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one more condition you may be interested in: CFS/ME. It manifests itself primarily as a chronic fatigue and is believed to onset after a trigger event: virus, intoxication, hypoxia, stress, and the like.

I talked to some people with MS and most of them told me the same story: the trigger event, followed by some time, then onset of a full-blown MS.

I wonder: are those diseases really different? Or maybe this is the very same disease but with a bit different outcomes: myalgic encephalopathy vs sclerous plaques. Both are driven by the inflammation, both have the same initiating sequence.

What leads me to strongly suspect that it may be just different manifestations of the same disease is the involvement of mitochondria in both MS and CFS/ME.
I thought Canadian houses were purely to be investment vehicles for foreign speculators. Canadians actually live in homes they own?
I doubt that reducing the consequences to borrowing will lead to less borrowing. The opposite would happen.

Universities don't care if you default on your loans, they've already been paid.

If they're dischargeable, rates will just go up, or the government will have to subsidize them further. 17 year old kids aren't choosing whether to go to college based on whether the rate they get on their loan swings a few points in either direction.
A review of the housing market should disabuse one of this notion in a very big hurry.

Sure, after a point, it's not about the money.
Smaller as in essentially zero, and with a link back to this one.

An amusing detour.
This is simply not true in many cases I’ve seen and experienced first hand. There are a lot of interesting problems and people to work with, many times the pay is the final deal breaker or maker when deciding between options (and when deciding to leave).
GPD's mini laptops are probably the closest.
tl;dr: literally the first exception allows circumvention of DVD and Blu-ray encryption for various fair use purposes.
I'm in the same situation but I don't really know what to do. I've been trying to extricate myself from a lot of stuff but the way things are structured it doesn't seem like I'm going to be able to just focus on one role. It looks like a lot of openings are offering a fair amount more than my current salary as well. The only thing holding me back at the moment is that I really like the people I work with.
linux foundation model -- money talks
When Sesame Street was first popular in the 1970s my great aunt in Massachusetts famously forbade her grandchildren from watching it because she didn't want them to learn how to speak like New Yorkers.
As in fisticuffs?
The hoppy sodas too can be a nice replacement for beer though my dentist told me to cut back on sparkling water bc the high acidity can cause excess wear on your teeth. I sort of listened.
generally sorting options is a form of biasing in polling. Best to randomize them, maybe sort _after_ voting
> In July 2017, Google engineer James Damore distributed a memorandum [...]
> In essence, argued Damore, women are less interested in computing then men.

It still baffles me how that was even controversial. It's not rocket science that men tend be more interested in computers than women (anyone not lying to themselves will see that in high school or campuses).
The author gives the impression that women were well represented in the beginning, but were pushed out. We can look at photos of programming teams in industry, going back as far as you like, even to the 50s, to demonstrate that that's a fantasy. You would typically see one or two women and fifteen men.

There are graphs of "women in computing" over the years. It did indeed peak around 1982 and begin a long decline, but it was never as high as 50%. [1] shows it peaking around 35% and this is college majors not women actually working in computing.

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/52/65/3f5265aeeb87fd2f9675...
I'm considering leaving because the management clearly doesn't care about the developer experience. They don't have to write code for our app so they don't care how painful it is to work with.

Any attempt to convince them to give us time to improve our code is perpetually on the back burner.
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A bonanza, to be sure. But does that justify one guy taking 5 or 6 orders of magnitude more from that bonanza than the average employee? Where you land on that question doesn't matter.

The real problem is that if the employees themselves try to organize and ask that question for reals, they get stomped on hard. That is basically the definition of "screwed over". You are allowed to take what is given, but any questioning of the fairness is met with resistance, up to and including state force.

The actions that result in the harshest punishments are the ones the state/baron/company/etc fear most. Empirically, the thing they fear most is workers organizing to negotiate a better deal. Not to get a better deal, simply to ask whether it's possible. As some people say, hey, they are just asking questions.
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Wikipedia seems to consider the IBM 701 as mainframe and from the customers and special numeric format it had I assume it was used to replace entire floors of human calculators that did nothing but compute the same calculation over and over again. It was also rented for a monthly fee, so the cost comparison was probably straight forward.

I wouldn't be surprised if an advanced chat bot with science fiction level AI would replace entire floors of Microsoft call centers at some point in the far future.
Migrating Keeps.com to Next.js
>I like the way Chileans kind of sneak a zh in there: perzho.

Do Argentines do this too or is that with just ll?
not a bad idea!
The Russians are using their economic integration to try to get away with geopolitical shenanigans. The idea that deeper integration would stop this is ridiculous. Russia having more leverage would drag the EU into more conflict, it seems like.
They did this to my late wife's account.
They demanded that I prove she was dead, as if I didn't already have enough grief.
See the documentary Pain Warriors about that saga.

How do I sign up to be part of this suite?
Why would you pay off your house when you can keep the cash in an investment account making > 5% APR vs. the house loan which presumably is in the low 3s.
Apple acquired a large number of Intel chip designers and architects about 2 years prior to M1 launch. That might not have been enough time to impact the overall architecture of M1, but I think it is possible M1 carries a lot of Intel design influence. I'm thinking it is a little odd for Intel to attack the M1 when it was likely designed by Intel engineers.
The article appears to be wrong. Humble Choice is being revamped, but the core part of getting game keys every month for use on (primarily) Steam is still relatively unchanged: https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/441309165...

What is the Humble app?
The Humble app is the access point for the Humble Games Collection, a perk for Choice members launching February 1st, 2022.

What can I find in the Humble app?
The Humble Games Collection: A growing number of Humble Games published titles are available with an active Choice membership through the Humble app.

The Vault: The Vault will include over 50 Humble Original Games. Once downloaded, these games can be kept forever regardless of Choice Membership status.

Also: https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/441112762...

Which games do I get to keep forever?

All Humble Choice members receive a selection of hand-picked games redeemable via a key for select platforms, when available (Steam, Epic, Origin, GOG, etc.). You can find these games at the Humble Choice Hub after unlocking the current month of Choice. Games in the Humble app for Windows PC, including the Humble Games Collection, are only available to active Humble Choice members. New Humble Choice games are available on the first Tuesday of every month.
My wording is imprecise. You're right, what I suppose I meant to say was a standing centralized military. Those powers are to originally allow the funding of armies that are later disbanded, this attitude is also reflected in the 2nd amendment support of militias.

Navy was a different consideration at the time since it protects trade, which is required for commerce afaik.
When I left my company, after 27 years, I chose to take my pension in a lump sum. I had plenty of money in other investments, so I wasn't too worried about it.

I used the money to fund one of my companies, and tossed the rest into an index fund.

I made back the money I used to fund the company in a couple of years; just from the portion in the index fund (it's been crazy).

Earlier this year, my ex-employees told me that the company is shutting down their pension plan. I don't think that they are siphoning off the money, Jimmy Hoffa-style, but I think that I'm glad I took the cashout.
There are plenty of 10in Chromebooks out there, some can be setup to run Linux easily. I think some of the Acer models are below 2lbs. Other than that, there are some little 6 and 7in mini netbooks but they aren't cheap. You might as well just buy a decent phone or tablet for that price. I think the netbook phase was a means to an end where we now have very small, capable PCs in our pockets at all times.
Labor shortages are also a problem of workforce participation. While the big headline number that most news organizations cover is unemployment numbers, the one that is really important with the pandemic is Workforce Participation. AKA: "the proportion of the working-age population that is either working or actively looking for work". Check out the stats for this: [0]. We are still down 1.5% from where we were pre-pandemic (63.4 - 61.9). With the workforce age population being around 204 million people, that means that we are down about 3 million people.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
There will be, but it's not going to help. They were trying to deal with the fact that they knew they would be misinterpreted and deliberately misunderstood. That is something that didn't change.

Scientific outcry won't change that fact that this will be cited, forever, to undermine anything said by any scientist about COVID. Spreaders of misinformation don't care about overall scientific opinion. These scientists are called on to repent when they make a mistake, but the lairs aren't. They just move on to their next lie, with no repercussions.

Public health experts are required to manage people's perceptions, and their actions. If people were capable of evaluating and acting on scientific evidence themselves, we wouldn't need them. They're in an impossible position, and you'll get their mea culpas if you want them... but it won't fix anything.
Oh I've been looking for a similar Sony VAIO but that was packing a Core 2 Duo .. there's just so many Sony laptops I could never find which model it was (college prof used that on trips).

Anyway nice to see "old" machines getting by.

-- sent next to my thinkpad x61
I wish people would stop censoring information needed to make informed consent. If the study is non scientific then point that out, don't try to censor the post. You hurt your own cause by hiding information from intelligent people because that is what makes them suspicious.
Yep - and you can work from anywhere in Australia now, not just Sydney.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/?... meta analysis much better than a single poll
I recently left a “good steady pay, low learning, low growth” company for a “risky pay, tons of learning, high growth” company.

I think COVID exacerbated winners and losers. The gaps between companies offering opportunity and stale companies is growing. People won’t stay at a company that rewards 2 years of heads down pandemic work with “Due to current conditions, we can’t fund bonuses. Raises will be less than inflation, and we can only promote people when their boss leaves.”
Is technological lock-in, or "hostility" toward a user as you put it, an ethical issue?

I would think the use of Chinese labor abuses to make iPhones is the ethical issue. Funny you didn't mention that.
I would recommend the Thinkpads: it's rock solid and used by a lot of Linux contributors, so the hardware is well-supported and the installation is documented
I changed jobs this summer. Went from a remote position at excellent Eastern European company with a good Eaten European salary to a remote position at even better american company with a good american salary, x4 bump. And I was choosing between several very similar offers, too.

A lot of people here are saying that compensation isn't that important, but you clearly haven't had your income increase 4 times when you're already 14 years in your career.
I have (almost) no issue with accounts being frozen.
At the end of the day, it's a private company, they can chose if they want to do business with you or not. Likewise, holding for 180 days is aligned with most credit card chargeback limits, so they protect themselves. (There are other ways to go about this, which most other processors handle in a frictionless fashion, ie Stripe).

Having an account frozen is more than annoying, but it's their choice.

However seizing (stealing) funds is completely unacceptable, no matter how it's dressed up. Hell, even if they gave seized funds to charity it'd be slightly more palatable than lining their pockets from proceeds they deemed as "risky".
I have enough money to be comfortable and even mid six figures isn't enough money to justify renting out my brain and creative energy full time toward solving someone else's problems.

If companies want experienced SWEs like me, you need to offer very part time positions. My maximum commitment is 3 days/week.
I can recall reading many PayPal horror stories, but as I recall, they were all accounts frozen and then usually closed and paid out 6+months later. This story and others in comments suggest PayPal has decided not to pay out the frozen accounts anymore. Damages from freezing the money for 6 months are real, but may not be realistically legally actionable; damages from not paying the funds are clearly actionable.
I wonder how Wise (formerly TransferWise) accomplishes this.

They seem to be able to send money to bank accounts anywhere for extremely reasonable prices.
From the FAQ's for SOFTWARE engineers only, at least at the moment.
Didn't Google have a really great robocall demo, some time ago?
If they extort citizens of some other country, then that other country’s officials will make some attempt to prosecute them in their legal system.

You’re saying this expectation doesn’t match reality?
You don't want the OS to take care of reading from disk and page caching/eviction. You want the DB itself to have explicit control over that, because the DB has information on access patterns and table format that the OS is not aware of. It is better equipped than the OS to anticipate what portions of tables/indices need to be cached in memory. It is better equipped to calculate when/where/what/how much to prefetch from disk. It is better equipped to determine when to buffer writes and when to flush to disk.

Sure, it might be more work than using mmap. But it's also more correct, forces you to handle edge cases, and much more amenable to platform-specific improvements a la kqueue/io_uring.
As a young male gamer I consciously avoided majoring in computer science or applying to software jobs because of this stigma. It took a few years before I became a software engineer anyway and admitted that it is a career I enjoy. Social pressure sucks and must be that much worse for women.
"A language is a dialect with an army and navy"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
exactly - like the sticker on the desk of the "CEO" of a (eventually-failed) product sales website. WINNER TAKE ALL with some WIntel reference.. f-f-f-f-f-u
Someone should make a thread asking the opposite question: Why are people staying at their jobs?
The format of the poll biases the results. You can select multiple options, and compensation might be the one that most people have in common -- but not necessarily the reason why people are leaving.

In other words, I think the results can only show motivating factors, but can't satisfy it as a sufficient condition for departure.
I think the reason that "compile to Lua" isn't a more popular option in language development, even though the idea is often brought up, is because a lot of the "weirdness" of Lua comes from its data structures, or properly, its one data structure and its lookup semantics (__index/__newindex). If you try to build something on top of the core type semantics, you lose Lua's performance; if you modify them, you lose compatibility with other Lua code; if you change nothing, you lack selling points. Over the years, I've written and thrown out two half-baked Lua extensions after hitting this trilemma.

So Yuescript just looks like a polished and cleaned-up Moonscript, which is fine. But the elusive "new language which compiles to Lua" may never materialize, because Lua just isn't all that flexible.
It failed cause it took a team that worked in X way and made them work in Y way. Siloed work and faulty communication is an issue with in-person too, just differently.

Happy you found something that works for you, but you're overgeneralizing.
Dell, System76, Lenovo ThinkPads are some vendors you can check that have Linux laptops or are very compatible.
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Has policy ever been discussed as the main thing? It seems like at least American politics has always been about which faction you align with/how you self-identify.
Time to Ditch 120V AC? How a Low-Voltage, DC-Powered Home Might Work
> The paper itself is enough to reproduce all the results.

Unlikely. Following the algorithm from scratch may produce "similar" results, but not "reproduce", bugs and all. The only thing that can do that is your code.

Plus, typically, when you set out to reproduce a paper from only the algorithmic description, it's typically not until you're 2 or 3 weeks into coding that you realise the original paper made many assumptions in the code that were not explicitly stated in the paper.

> However, the implementation can easily take two months of work to get it right.

An even more important reason why you should release your code.

> In my field many scientists tend to not publish the code nor the data.

A regrettable state of affairs indeed.

> They would mostly write a note that code and data are available upon request.

I have personally come across many cases where this promise could no longer be honoured by the time of the request. Publish the code.

> I can see the pros of publishing the code as it's obviously better for open science and it makes the manuscript more solid and easier for anyone trying to replicate the work.

It is also increasingly a requirement for funding bodies

But on the other hand it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing

> Then don't. Release it under the CRAPL, stating as much. It is still better than nothing.

> it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism (e.g. coding style, etc).

If you were an entrepreneur hoping to peddle snake oil and not get found out, then I would see your point. But you're a scientist, you're supposed to welcome such criticism and opportunities for improvement. If anything, you might even get collaborations / more publications on the basis of improving on that code.

> Besides, many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage.

I would sincerely not feel very comfortable calling such people "scientists".
That’s a very indirect way to devalue a currency for foreign exchange purposes. Sure, you’d be massively increasing that supply, but it’s doesn’t necessarily follow that said supply would flow directly into forex markets.
That makes sense. I wasn't going right to the conclusion that working around mmap() issues was easier, but it didn't seem to be explored much. Is the contention around having one file mmap()ed, or is it reduced if you use more files?
Money and opportunity. I'll be leaving for 50% more pay and a company that's 1000x bigger than anything I could find locally. That means room for growth, knowledge, the ability to work in different areas and with more technology, and the ability to learn from the best in the industry.

The worst part, is also the part that enables this, it is a 100% remote position. Having multiple small children at home can be a challenge (even there is a sitter), as well as spouse that mostly works from home.
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This might help me with my analysis of Solana and Avalanche. Solana supports Rust smart contracts.

First time I tried to load it I got an error, but I'm sure I'll be able to view it sooner or later. Can confirm Notion is not great.
Giving raises and promotions only when people have outside offers invents awful behavior all around. Yet so many companies do this “just this one time…”
Someone can be quite happy with their jobs most days, be compensated at a historically very fair level, continue to get RSUs, etc. But, especially as a younger person or as someone with kids in school, etc. if Google comes along and says you can work remotely for 2x your current salary, that is really hard for most people to turn down.
GmbH looks more serious though
Another thing Electron has going for it is better built-in accessibility support, at least on Windows. wx is fine as long as you stick to the wrappers over native widgets; and there are caveats even then (e.g. having to use different wx classes to get a native list view on different platforms). Last time I checked, GTK is still inaccessible with screen readers on Windows and Mac. Qt seems OK; I haven't done a detailed evaluation lately, but I would still bet on Electron coming out ahead, particularly on Windows.
Publish the code as is and move on.
> According to epidemiological studies, the EBV is estimated to be positive in more than 90% of the world's populations

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6008310/

> A total of 2.8 million people are estimated to live with MS worldwide (35.9 per 100,000 population)

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720355/

Given that you have EBV, I guess you're in the unlucky 90%, increasing your odds from 359 in a million to a ...whopping... 399 in a million.