skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that's not a contradiction that's like just your opinion man. it's also the no true scotsman fallacy on your part.

I don't follow.

Useless work gets cited all the time. I'm not suggesting that there should be less accountability to be useful to society. I'm just pointing out that bibliometrics is a particularly bad way of measuring utility.

> until then you're just playing bait and switch wrt the current state of things.

Again, I don't follow. How am I playing bait and switch? I don't work in academia.

> replace panchanathan

Fortunately, that's not necessary. You don't put pressure on agencies like NSF by joining the civil service. Even high-ranking civil servants are... well, servants. You put pressure on federal agencies by having tons of money and free time. Which many lapsed academics in CS have in spades ;-)
Is there a good reason not to use GA for client side analytics? Is the juice worth the squeeze for a self-hosted/ FOSS solution?

Obvy client side isn't as 100% as looking at the logs, but I've worked with Adobe Analytics and GA (on the free plan) for a few years. UI in GA is much more intuitive to me than Adobe, and I use the tight integration with Google Datastudio pretty often to make reports or slide decks.

Personally I like the well documented GA API to run reports against + python and R API wrappers. For me the only downside is the level of sampling they use. With Adobe Analytics, the API is not as well documented, but they don't sample like GA, but also I wouldn't want to front the Adobe Analytics bill every month for my side projects.
The general ideas are fine, but the examples are pretty outdated. For modern SPA, CSS naming has become largely obsolete. A lot of the JS code shows the principles it is supposed to well but sadly includes other cruft.

Here's a guide I would recommend instead: https://github.com/labs42io/clean-code-typescript
Sure.

I'm a Senior SRE, started off my tech career (21 years ago) on a help desk at a law firm, worked up to where I am now through various startups, roles, promotions.

It's been my own personal observation in other tech communities when a Devops practitioner or Site Reliability Engineer is bemoaning some of the more common antipatterns[1] that manifest when companies decide "We're Devops now", the popular responses are some variation of "be the change you want to see".

The person doing the venting is often encouraged to seek out ways of slowly winning 'hearts and minds' to adopting better practices, implementing better processes that more closely align with the ideal state of Devops and Site Reliability Engineering, take on the additional work of being the guiding hand for your organization to help them become the kind of Devops that actually practices Devops versus merely pretending.

Sorry but...

bollocks.

At least for me. I've been down that road, done that work, it's exhausting, it's painful, it's gotten me fired, and its made me want to quit the industry entirely. I've taken less pay to join teams that were more self-aware about who they are, the challenges they had and what works for them and that's far more ideal than trying to slowly convert a business from (for a lack of a better phrase) pretend Devops to practiced devops.

Hope that clarifies what I mean, then, when I say 'I have zero interest in doing the hearts and minds thing'.

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[1] https://www.devopsgroup.com/blog/twelve-devops-anti-patterns...
Could you build a Rest API or website without internet access?
Let's imagine the internet just went down, and your in a small village. Everyone is an experienced software engineer, and you have Ubuntu installation media and 30 working laptops( assume they have Windows installed already).

Could you get a website up to allow for basic CRUD stuff, like tracking how many apples you have left?

I know Ubuntu has a basic web server built in, as well as Python.
> Apple has to pay costs to maintain the app store, the operating system for the app store, and the hosting costs in-between.

All of which should be covered by the $99 annual App Store developer fee.
Saying, ‘he didnt start Tesla’ as a way to imply it would still be where it is today without him is comical.
This seems like there's a communications failure on how severe omicron is, and what the current risks to avoid are.
Rails has people who do it full time as well, AFAIK Shopify workers like Rafael Faranca and I'm sure there are quite a few others. Besides them Rails has an army of volunteer committers, its one of the bigger open source framework communities, and the commit distribution is much healthier than Laravel's: Laravel looks like a one man show compared to Rails.
As for all these packages - Ruby has equivalents. It's hard to say what should come included in the framework and how opinionated Rails should be - many people think its already too opinionated.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903733
So the article is actually about how to send an email with python because the carriers do the text message part.
Fecal-oral transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is suspected to be possible, but I don't think it has ever been definitively established.
I've come to this realisation as well. there is a tipping point where the impact we have starts to become a critical factor. when i started in the industry I'm in, I apparently had absolutely no problem being entirely detached from the people I impact. Even not knowing what exactly my value to society was didn't scratch my curiosity. 8y later, I'm desperate for any initiative no matter how small that I get to know who it's helping.

It is now internalised, a strong demotivation happens each time something abstract comes my way, no matter how technically exciting the task is.
Something else wroth mentioning, the whole remote work somewhat becomes also a factor against content to be part of a labor community. It's not an issue the first few years, but total remote work for over 5 years has started to make me value proximity to business circles. proximity with my colleagues and proximity with who use whatever we make.
there is a sort of guilt that builds up when benefiting from the hard work of the local community to provide physical services (coffee shops, organic food markets, drivers, etc) and have our time spent online contributing to solutions with colleagues and paying users residing thousands of miles away, who only appear to exist as email addresses and occasional faces/voices spit out by a laptop.
Yeah, I used to engineer viruses and immune cells, etc. I've read that grant a few times. Again, a rejected _American_ grant for work to be done in Baric's lab in North Carolina. Most of the work outlined in it involved chimeric genomes that would be obvious. There's a few sentences about verifying properties of full-length quasispecies isolates, but the QS experiments aren't well outlined - a lot of chimeric experiments and re-syntheses, all which would likely leave pretty tell-tale signs.

Of course it's possible to describe a physically possible route to sampling, lab accident, and infection. Anyone can come up with these just-so stories. Professors too! Making a chimera of random isolates is crazy story. It's incredibly annoying to mess with 30kb RNA viruses. You have no idea. That's just not how a skilled practitioner would go about asking these questions. There's a reason most work on these things are in characterized strains.

These stories remain ludicrous when compared with the unambiguous epidemiological evidence for zoonosis that we have in hand. You're simultaneously alleging this tight collaboration between western scientists and WIV, but positing that somehow all these western scientists were in the dark about a conspiracy to do this massive amount of work without our knowledge, or an active conspiracy on the part of a significant percentage of western virology to hide it. All in a field that before the pandemic was a completely undramatic backwater of science!

The power of "lab-leak" isn't its strength as an evidence-backed scientific hypothesis, it's its power as a compelling work of fiction, and I doubt any amount of hard evidence will kill it.

The damage it does is distracting us from the unregulated wild-meat and fur industries that were the overwhelmingly likely cauldron for evolving these strains (as in SARS-1!). If we yet again fail to shut down those sources, we risk another pandemic just like this happening again in a few decades. That's where international attention and pressure should be applied, not this cockamamie distraction.
What is your definition of house? Does a studio condo count? And how far of a commute are you talking about?

Let's take Mountain View. Looking at "houses" and "townhouses" on Zillow, the cheapest one is this one[1] for $1,295,000. Zillow says the estimated monthly cost is $6,176. I don't think that's possible on a $100k salary once you factor in taxes. Zillow also says the rent "Zestimate" is $3,949/mo, so Zillow thinks it would be cheaper to rent than to buy. One hypothetical reason that renting could be cheaper than buying is that landlords buy for the expected price growth rather than just for the rental income.

> you're presumably living somewhere right now.

Maybe with roommate(s). If you buy 50% or 33% or 25% of a house with your roommate(s), that's not really $100k buying a house, that's $200k or $300k or $400k buying a house.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1993-Plymouth-St-APT-8-Mo...
Don't forget to tax out of that. And if they are well compensated to begin with that's at a high tax bracket. And for some of these people, the remaining amount just isn't worth it.
SpaceX's Boca Chica facility may be illegally dodging NEPA regulations
Switch teams without a 30% pay bump? Why bother, just interview.
Good flash atleast goes readonly (Sandisk USBs in my experience), bad flash, not so much. The controller is probably playing a part as well.
Very normal in my company. I was poached from another part of the company to the devops organization to lead a technical team that needed someone with better HR skills. I believe this was solely due to the reputation of me being well liked as well as professional. It wasn't an open position, I was just asked.
That last point is a very good way to describe MOND. It seems quite compelling, tbh. A minimum force is in line with a maximum speed and minimum area.

I'm aware the jury is out on it.
It's a mistake. It will be cloned and the original author will get nothing. This exact scenario played out with Flappy Bird.
I don't need to repair memory modules, though. I can toss them away and get a replacement for few dozen bucks.

Good luck finding a cheap commodity replacement for the whole motherboard.
We are in Victoria, AU - permanent "State of Disaster". In hindsight, we shouldn't have let our GC lottery win lapse a few years ago, some US states are looking OK still. Or we could get back to Belarus, which is (surprisingly!) somewhat sane in terms of C..D. Too bad the head honcho there is batshit crazy in all other aspects.

The problem is now a complete lack of energy to make any kind of move, even laterally to a neighboring state. The soul has been drained out of us and the remaining shell is not viable for much longer.
I wouldn’t use Reddit posts to justify a statement of “all the time”.
Does it advice on systemd timer jobs too?
I find it a bit frustrating that most analytics tools does not have support for sending events through api calls. Like in mixpanel where it is possible to send events from backend rather than embedding a js on frontend. Why is it so?
Yeah, places like MIT are where I got the model. Seeing how my peers were treating at places that are not like MIT is how I got the motivation to care.

Tippy-top programs in any particular field already operate in a way that treats grad students more like students than itinerant labor.

It's the other 99% of institutions that are gutting scientific human capital in the name of empowering incompetent middle management. (Professors are middle management. Most of them are incompetent at that job.)
If store shelves are empty then your purchasing power is zero regardless of how much money you have.
Discovery of WIV1:

[Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5389864/)

WIV1 grows in primary human airway epithelial cell cultures:

[SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence](https://www.pnas.org/content/113/11/3048)

> Together, the data demonstrate that the WIV1-CoV spike can mediate infection of human airway cultures with no significant adaptation required.

And thanks for putting words in my mouth but no, I'm not confusing those with MERS.
Also that makes up menus for restaurants, and then gets them bad reviews when the order post mates accepted hasn't been on the menu in years
It reminds me of "Flappy Bird" and how the developer suddenly gave up everything.
It was never said, but I suspected he was being extorted by some ranking (Vietnamese) government official.

Note: I'm not saying that the same thing is happening here.
Covid-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria
So when do masks go away?
whenever i see some catchy game like this or the countless others like flappy bird or whatever, i think of that star trek episode and don't get involved
Delta is nearly extinct.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...
Yes, I have been poached. The new team’s tech lead started planting the seed. I was just wrapping up my previous project, was unhappy with my management chain, and decided to take him up on it. I was friendly with the new team’s management, so the tech lead didn’t really need to pull any strings.
> That's exclusively a function of your spending and saving rates.

Saving rate is bounded above by your income. It's relevant.
> which is by a long shot the most convenient and fastest way to

scorch the earth. there, fixed it for you.
Nope sounds like a trash company. Just ghost ‘em and move on. No mercy for these boomers.
That's an interesting reference, thanks. I kinda skimmed through a couple episodes on YouTube actually. I don't think I watched enough to pick up on nuanced portrayal of prisoners but I do understand what you're saying nonetheless. I was lucky enough to go in and come out with a job but it appears any reason or amount of time is heavily stigmatized in so many other ways (total ban on immigration to many countries, automatic bans or denials for things that utilize background checks, negative judgment from friends and family, general assumption of guilt in many scenarios, etc).

I very much agree re: focus on education. I spent some time in a new facility and they had good classrooms and programs for it and I saw a lot of interest in them. That said, I think boredom is often seen by many as a desirable part of the punishment.
The prep itself may not be that hard. Depending on your non-work life, finding the time to do said prep may be difficult. I would like to double my comp. I also have young kids who occupy most of my wake-work and then work-sleep time. There are maybe three hours at the end of the day that aren't spoken for, but then there's housework, spouse time, and just being tired. It's difficult to fit "grind leetcode" in there. This is due to choices I've made, and I'm happy with those choices! I blame no one but myself for them. But I also think I'd make a good employee at leetcode interview companies were it not for the leetcode, and I think there are a good number of people like me.
It is only a plan only (partially implemented). I am separating code to clean and ad-hoc. Clean code is "supported" - maintained (jobs monitored/failures handled/bug fixed) by more professional developers, if somebody what to have a custom job, they more or less on their own.
When I am asked to fix problem in such "custom" job, first thing I do is refactoring code to follow standards (configuration, hardcoded paths and values, logging, alert notification to predefined list of people related to project, handling recovery, etc.), than it becomes a part of main pool - "maintained code".
In my general understanding, most life in the ocean livs at surface level, and you probably don't actually hurt much down below. Corals for example only live at shallow depth and they suffer from the acidity.

The abstract claims that acidity will rise in a few hundred years. So an overall acidity rise would happen 300 years from now.

It sounds like one of those "let's buy time" solutions. I'm ok with those. It also sounds expensive, and someone has to show that moving so much water below won't produce more co2 than it would save.
I'm trying to imagine a good counterargument to anonporridge's actual stated position. If they're fundamentally wrong about violence as the legitimizing factor of authority, then there has to be some more important/more powerful legitimizing factor. Something that trumps violence without using violence or the threat of it.

What works in the place of violence? Escape? Maybe you can have a diaspora society willing to run away and rebuild in any territory it can ever reach and live in. Nullifying defense? Say you have some kind of structure or device that makes you invincible without fighting back and all violence against you is a pointless waste of energy. Then you could just be, and voluntarily agree to some social contract you never use violence to uphold. Love? Maybe all violence could hypothetically be stopped if the violent person's emotions could be negotiated with to circumvent their desires and everyone ends up happy. These all seem totally utopian to depend on 100% purely at a societal level, but these are all nonviolent approaches I know people take to resist violence on a practical 1 to 1 level.
Would you give a sizable amount of money to someone you don't actually know?

Remember that one person can have multiple pseudonyms and that a lot of real life proof of existence or work cab be crafted to fool a typical person with a lot of money.

People have ran cons in real name, and succeeded. Given pseudonymity not linked to any real assets (unlike a company), it's even easier.

Heck, someone can claim to be a given Nym while not actually being that person, blockchain does not link Nyms to a legal person, and neither does any DAO known to me. The only proof would be paying gas to whoever tries to strike a real life contract off a big account with visible history. And even that can be faked if you're diligent enough and hunting for whales. Good luck fixing it.

If a government backed a DAO and had some link, there goes pseudonymity but you also have some legal recourse.
Why are most tools for analytics so expensive? Compared to other saas products I find them to be at least. Is there a significant amount of traffic that is the reason? I was thinking about implementing something myself once, but was worried about the cost of receiving all the event traffic.
I basically agree with you. The counterargument says that some innovation simply doesn't happen for centuries, until it finally occurs to someone. You want to incentivize those kinds of innovations as well, to get people to revisit old issues. For example, the stirrup. Evident once you see it, but a big innovation, or it would have shown up centuries earlier.
On LinkedIn, I see an average of 60-70 applicants for every engineering job I look at there. I also hire. Anecdotally, I see plenty of candidates and plenty of applicants, and zero shortage of qualified ones.
This article was better than I expected, since I misinterpreted the title as if it meant building over car-parks (i.e. putting buildings over them with the parking underneath), which is a good idea!

The amount of surface parking in the US does always astound me when I see photos and videos of US cities... The country I live in isn't especially short on space (Australia) but land is expensive in cities so car parks are usually either pretty small, or they're multi-story or under the building (either ground floor parking with the building above, or underground parking under the building). Just seems like such a waste of space to have these massive surface car-parks. Doing it like it's done in Australia has the advantage of things being a bit closer together, which is better for walking between properties or just walking/cycling in general.

But the interesting thing is that surface parking seems like it used to be a lot more common here from what I remember from my childhood, and development and zoning laws seem to have encouraged what were car parks to be re-developed into much more space efficient use. So it is possible - kind of like The Netherlands and cycling - I wish my city and cities in my country were more like that, but they're better now than Amsterdam was in the 1970s, and slowly going in the right direction. The change is possible.
> In spite of these truths, people flock to working for TSLA and CosmosY.

I often wonder how many of the people working at cool places are doing cool stuff and how many are doing the same things as elsewhere.

Does it help working in a place building autonomous cars, rockets if you’re not doing that, but doing the same web dev or door knob release software that you could do in a hedge fund, accountancy firm, or evil corp.

Anyone have any experience?
Did you try running jupyter locally? You can store notebooks and snippets in a git repo too.
A small team of us self poached - we worked on a project that got killed by politics, so made a pitch to transfer a different group that we respected a bit more. Won’t say it’s perfect, but it is better.
The mechanism is straightforward.

1. Vaccine mandates increase vaccination rates.

2. Increased vaccination rates mean the health system won't be overwhelmed, allowing society to open up.

The doctor you yourself cited agrees with step 2, as do most of the governments in the world that are managing their countries' transitions to endemicity. There are multiple examples showing that step 1 is correct.
It's interesting that I came to a very different answer than "many engineers" you quote.

If the money is the same, I'll happily take learning a new skillset, a new org, a new set of expectations. When I had not accumulated enough money early in my career, I consciously had to think about stable income. Now that I have accumulated non-trivial sum of money, I'd happily and readily take new and exciting challenges - i.e. I can take more risks as I can afford to, and I'm willing to take more risks for non-monetary reasons. And if the money is better, even better! Thus, in fact, that's exactly what I did in 2021 - I switched my job.
I never claimed they were purely rational actors. I beleieve it's an affront to their dignity to treat them otherwise, however.

Concealing dangerous information from them turns them into intellectual eunichs, and strip much of the vitality from the human experience.
It's arbitrary because of how human-centric it all is.

You're make my point.
Is Quantum Healing the Theory of Everything? Here’s What Science Has to Say
ClockworkPi, creator of a few different open-source hardware kits, published their apt repo's private key to GitHub on May 21.

The kicker? The dev has NO idea how bad this is.

https://github.com/clockworkpi/apt
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> Am I crazy?

No. If I had your sensory sensitivity I’m sure I would react similarly.

> Am I unreasonable?

Yes. In good companies, products are not designed with the CTOs personal color preferences in mind. Yes, even when those preferences are diagnosably strong.

You have three solutions:
1) Fight. Be warned, I suspect you will both lose the battle and alienate coworkers in the process.
2) Leave.
3) Develop coping mechanisms.

You should obviously do 3, even if you also do 1 or 2.

My 2c: If I were you I would seek professional help. I have a relative who had sound and tactile sensitivity as a child and a therapist was very helpful. If this is causing you so much distress, why not try and improve your ability to manage? What do you have to lose?
Work visas :D