skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this mess.

People working with mice get bitten all the times. And maybe it is in Taiwan, but someone getting Covid doesn't seem like a newsworthy event.

The unusual part seems to be that one of the mouse was infected with Alpha, the other with Gamma, the scientist got Delta, which was the dominant strain at the time. And Omicron is the variant that is suspected to come from mice.

Also, SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus, bites are not supposed to be its primary way of transmission.

Unless there is a mistake somewhere, I don't see how this can not be a coincidence.
I think it really depends on the application of web scraping. (As someone who does, what is in my mind, ethical web scraping)

- Scraping public information from government websites to do analysis: ethical, it's the public's data

- Scraping to help some companies customers more effectively use that companies product, for example scraping a medical office's insurance claims to help them automate their insurance remittance process: ethical

- Scraping faces to build a surveillance-tech company: disgusting

- Scraping your own website because your internal processes are so broken you can't get it any other way: ethical

- Scraping to just copy someone's data they worked hard to generate to go and resell: unethical
Heh. This ties in with the "Amish Hackers" article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29905288, which states that the Amish use compressed air to store electricity.
When president President Tsai Ing-wen was elected it became difficult. In both 2016 and again in 2019. China banned solo travel from certain cities in China to Taiwan.
We don't need hundreds of English and Humanities majors—we need them, yes, but not as many as are enrolled. There is a supply and demand imbalance.
Everyone could get a better comp and work conditions but noo, that one lazy guy won't be fired, we can't have that!
Pretty much every job I’ve gotten in the last 10 years has come either directly or indirectly from LinkedIn.

It’s a good product, and I don’t understand the hate it gets here.

What’s the alternative? Begging some old coworkers or friends for a referral? That’s a relatively small net.
What matters is efficiency per dollar:

Efficiency / cost

I am worried that the cost is the driving factor here...
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Yes--if you target Node.js which I believe is supported first-class for AWS Lambda. ReScript compiles to very clean JS that looks almost hand-written. Should be easy to deploy to a lambda.
Black in there as a linter - I’ve had hood experiences with that
You can probably find a local job on LinkedIn but nothing decent remote.

I found my best remote job due to an announcement right here on HN. My 2nd best (and longest running) due to some open source involvement.

LinkedIn has been terrible in finding jobs. I actually tried to apply to a Google job being suggested to me and was shocked to see that I am being take to another portal to fill-in my data. I would have assumed my data being filled into LinkedIn automatically gets shared with the employees I apply to. Which means LinkedIn it not very practical.
Mainstream media is making Alex Jones to look like the calm and rational one with all the fear mongering.

Sota Mayorga at the Supreme Court hearing this week, citing 100k kids in hospital with Covid, is an example how misinformation is fuelling these terrible fiscal policies. Rationality is out. Scary "Virus" panic is still in.
I had a similar schedule when I was 25-26 and finishing my masters part time. I'd done the first half as a full time student, but needed to get a job and make money.

- Out of bed at 7:30am, at work at 9am.

- Leave work at 4:30pm or so for the 60-90 minute trip to campus

- Class until 8:30pm

- Home at 9:30pm

Classes were held two nights per week, so on the non-class nights, I was usually home from work by 6:30pm and would have a couple hours of studying to do.

It was an exhausting two years.
there's 3 clones in the app store right now. two are ripping off the Wordle name.
Raspberry Pis (at least Pi 4 model B) can be found new at list price in a few places, but you have to be patient.

Of the 8 or so Pis I currently test on, the average time from when I placed the order to when I got the Pi was about 3 months (the CM4s I bought took about 8 months).

But I did get them all at list price, plus a small shipping fee.
Goldman has army of analysts that are covering the field. Many many more than Even VCs that specialize in it. I would definitely write them off when it comes to smart investing.
Once a union is in place, it's hard to remove it, especially if you end up with a lot of union employees that act like the above. It's important for the workforce starting a union to choose, but they surely need to know both the pros and cons, right?
I think that we have a misunderstanding, so I am going to stress what I replied to: "the vaccines (falsely) claimed they would make me: immune" -> they weren't supposed to, they were developed based on another criteria. This is a problem of miscommunication in my opinion, as people sold vaccines as a way to reach immunity or herd immunity. People took bets and made guesses on something hard to model and predict. We like to give people news as they are 100 % sure, making simplification, even for good reasons. Scientific research and understanding does not work like this. Reality and complex, and if we have had a better approach at explaining the current scientific consensus regarding the COVID pandemic, including confidence levels, and lack of understanding or to make reliable predictions and such, science as a whole would probably not have suffered in terms of popularity and general trust.
Scalability of work?

The work of a few engineers can support a workflow of a million users.

That spending $1 on engineering can bring in $10 of revenue.
Except this past year it hasn't. Seen any articles about 'The Great Resignation' lately? The pandemic helped change employee attitudes and they're much more willing to quit for a better deal now (and there's plenty of companies desperate enough to give it to them).

Companies have always (at least the past few decades) been more willing to pay more for a new hire than to increase compensation to keep an existing employee, so now that everyone is short staffed, people are taking advantage of that reality and quitting their jobs for a new one much more frequently and getting the increases they're being denied from their former "stuck in pre-pandemic mindset" companies.
I am not sure that anything in that long winded diatribe says anything about the usefulness of unions.
So what you're saying is you think everyone should have a worse standard of living to prevent that one lazy guy from not pulling his weight?
Ask HN: My Job Is Great but They Don't Pay Me Enough for a Major Change
Hello HN,

I'm incredibly fortunate to be a US software dev working remotely from a very low CoL country. The company I work for is great too. Super understanding about stress and life commitments, and well managed projects without excessive meetings. Furthermore, we make a product that I actually believe is good.

My problem is that I will be moving back to the US in 1-2 year with my family and we want to live in a high CoL part of the US (where her family lives).

She is not a US citizen, so we will be single income for a while.

My raise last year was less than 10% with a promotion and it was the biggest on my team.

Is there a way I can communicate to my company that I would need at least a 50% raise over the next two years in order to provide for my family?

I know people here like to say "Just live somewhere cheaper", but I'm sure you could understand that we would very much like to live near her American family.
I'd care if I were an investor in such a company.
The fit thing is difficult, because actually do it properly requires specialized equipment. But for the general population, worrying about that may be letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

The rest of it is actually pretty easy to learn. Here's a two-minute video that explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoxpvDVo_NI
A tax on sugar's job is to reduce sugar sales. So it's the right metric to see if the tax itself is doing what it's supposed to do. What you seem to be arguing is on a metric of if the tax should have been implemented in the first place.

i.e. If the actual goal was reducing weight, then the obvious thought is all weight increasers should be taxed, not just sugar.
Exactly.

I think you have to delegate ownership down; "you have total control over everything and we won't second guess your decisions." This doesn't happen, so we just have meetings with the "owners" to try and convince them to do our thing. The result is less stuff getting done.
The more efficient version of this idea looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
> most of the cloth masks were effectively just for appearances because they didn't form a seal around the sides of your mouth

I remember people saying that, but I had always understood the primary benefit of cloth and other masks was to limit the wearer's ability to spread virus-containing droplets if they were infected by asymptomatic (or symptomatic and very reckless, I suppose). I thought it was widely acknowledged that they provided very limited protection for the wearer. "My mask protects you, your mask protects me." This is why, for example, there were recommendations to not wear vented N95 masks.

Of course, the fact that the mask doesn't form a tight seal around the mouth surely undermines its ability to provide both forms of protection, to some degree. But I seem to recall a fair amount of discussion of the fact that masks could still be fairly effective at reducing the number of virus-containing droplets expelled into the surrounding environment even in the absence of a tight fit. (And, for what its worth, that has always made fairly intuitive sense to me. Though I acknowledge that's not a very good reason to believe it.)

Maybe others' experiences differed, but I thought this was very clearly explained by the 'authorities.' Though that didn't stop people from misunderstanding or, in some cases, spreading misinformation to score political points by making mask proponents look stupid.
The big question is how on earth are they digging out these caverns? That seems like a huge challenge, given that they're so far underground. Everything else seems relatively straightforward
It’s clearly not an argument against unions, only a reminder that they’re corruptible just like any other organization.
Hot air should have higher pressure, so theoretically you could get more displacement. But your pumps also have to work harder to create a pressure differential. Hard to say which effect would be bigger.
> As an Android user, all I really want is a secure way to communicate with others by default, without having to figure out which secure messaging app I have in common with each of my peers.

I'd prefer the opposite: an OS with _no_ messaging app, and let users pick their own (both for Android and iOS). Expecting OS vendors to ship one out of the box is asking for a new IE-like scenario where whatever big tech companies pick becomes the standard, no matter how good or bad it may be.
Do you know where they don't charge? I'd be curious to see how it works there, how they fund that garbage pick up.
> Goldman Sachs agreed and invested $250 million from its private equity division.

Maybe they're referring to Goldman Sachs Capital partners which has 39.9B[0] under management which means this is 0.62% of their portfolio. In a totally chalk and cheese comparison that would be having 200k in your 401k and taking a $1,250 position in a stock, which isn't nothing but is a pretty small bet, I agree. Curious though if I'm guessing the part of GS correctly; I have no idea how they're structured and just spent like three minutes searching.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs_Capital_Partners
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Here's Bob Garry, featured in the article: https://mobile.twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1480930691919...
I didn’t say that Hong Kong was invaded. It is Taiwan that would require an invasion. Hence there isn’t really any comparing Hong Kong to Taiwan. So thanks for making my point.
"URL" is commonly pronounced as an initialism, rather than an acronym, i.e. the letters are pronounced separately (same as in "USA", for example): you - arrr - ell
I don't think you can take one number and then say that X measure is wrong.

AGES says that over 60% of infections where in a private setting, e.g. the kids/parents get sick and then they meet friends.

https://www.ages.at/themen/krankheitserreger/coronavirus/epi...

So it seems that the ffp2 measures are working.
> Preaching about safety in a globally inter-connected world devoid of privacy.

What kind of logic is that? "Because Google sells your data, I don't have to worry about memory safety bugs in my code." Come on.
So I guess unions do suck, thanks for clarifying. Hopefully people will be smart enough to not interfere with a firm's epic struggle for efficiency and polishing out the friction of overbearing worker compensation and benefits. Sounds like unions are too corrupt and will just interfere with the purity of corporate practices.

I love how people have an easier time imagining colonies on mars than giving labor a platform to express their interests.
I think the comment is more about being easy to do incorrectly/dangerously. Pumping water up into a reservoir seems easier/safer.
I thought that was being added (error handling).

Async runtime is neat, but it tends to be more trouble than it's worth. And I don't think any design has emerged as universal way to deal with it.

Time however has/should have a single representation.
network-manager UI, if I recall, just shows that the WG connection is turned on, not that there are packets coming back. (It's not a client-server, so this "makes sense")
Depends on whether you get a good union structure or not. As an observer, it doesn't seem like employees get a choice besides when voting whether or not to instate a union at all.
City company my dad's working at has SIX unions.
Whose leaders sit so deep in the city council pockets it is not even funny.
What made you decide to go to Australia as opposed to California with green card prospects? From my limited view point, the opportunity you left on the table was massive.
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> ridiculed for saying

> That most of the cloth masks were effectively just for appearances

Yes, because it is fallacious to say `if(protection < 100%) { masks are not useful }`.

Any level of protection is better than zero. We really can't afford to all wear PAPRs, and wearing the best that we can get is always the best solution. When (K)N95s were in short supply, the best we could reasonably have everyone wear was cloth.
Said hypothetical should include the disease originating around the lab, numerous conspicuous coverups and missing people, and a lack of transparent investigation. Should such a scenario happen, I think your argument becomes a bit of a strawman (i.e. that a segment of every nation's population would always cry foul in said scenario). I would expect more than just Russia would want access, and likewise that plenty of US citizens would protest as well.
I still have a daily job running a web scraper I first wrote with Scrapy back in 2017. I think I've had to update it 3 times over the years for changes to the site and web standards.

Good old government sites - rarely change!
Same as NFTs: hype and resale value. At least you can wear the sneakers once you've stopped flipping them.
I think you've buried a few interesting topics here and "new normal" is a big one. I live in NYC and am on probably my third or fourth version of "normal" in a few decades. None of the old normals were so great either.

When it comes to crossing the street, we accept an unreasonably high degree of risk even though we invest billions of dollars in enforcing extremely complex and rigid safety protocols that suck the life out of me on a daily basis yet they are "normal". And no one says the stop signs and seatbelts exist due to hand wringing and fear mongering. I'm still sitting her waiting for the bane of traffic mortality (and smog) to end, but I'm going to look both ways crossing the street until it does. People 100 years probably protested their heads off to keep cars off the road and it didn't work. The much milder Omicron variant is killing way more people than traffic. You'd be better off wearing a mask and jay walking than vice versa.

I certainly could have lived without the hand wringing and fear mongering over terrorism.

And incidentally, right on red is actually still illegal NYC.
Or, you can just pick a relevant textbook, which will be better than anything you can possibly google.
While I don't know about their numbers, having a "grid level battery" is definitely something people (or gov subsidies) will pay for.
If there is one single article about programming that I positively hate it is 'duplication is better than the wrong abstraction'. As the Jason Swett article points out the article seems to install a sort of fear of refactoring. If there is a 'wrong abstraction' nobody will every change it and now we are doomed to live with this wrong abstraction for all of eternity. The wrong abstraction can be turned into the right abstraction or can be undone if it is really not going anywhere. If that is what is happening at least people are trying to improve the code and if people try something it will eventually work. In many cases a bad code base is difficult to change because it is wrong in so many respects that it is difficult to tell where to start. If there is an attitude of refactoring and improvement things that are bad can be taken out quickly. Now, one should, of course not be stupid about removing duplication. If two functions just look vaguely similar but this is more of a coincidence than something that occurs because of the nature of the problem that these two functions are solving then they should absolutely not be one abstraction.... I suppose one might need to point that out to some developers but certainly not to ones who have been developers for some time and who actually have some talent as developers.
> Whether items are imported from a module should be left up to the developer and not done on their behalf.

Well, the developer wrote `import thing;` instead of either `static import thing;` or `import thing : specific, list;` so it was their decision.
In regards of "fact" checking this is where we at right now. That's also why I wrote not only in public but also in the scientific community, but you are right, maybe it is a Galileo situation.
Out of all the anti trust cases, this one feels like the least prepared and perhaps least warranted.

Facebook faces competition from Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube, Discord, Steam, VRChat, dating apps, Netflix, etc. They deal in attention, and there are a lot of attention seeking companies. Even in the social networking space.

I'm not defending the company by any means. I'm just pointing out the landscape.

The companies most applicable to break up scrutiny are Google, Apple, and Amazon in precisely that order.

Google owns the web. They control search. The desktop and mobile browser space. Web standards. The ads marketplace. Google Play and the associated profits. They lock people into their ecosystem of store, messaging and productivity apps, and force competitors to play nice using this leverage, despite Android being "open source". They're trashing the quality of the web for profit maximization and extorting advertisers. They're trying to strong arm all of the web into a hosted AMP-like platform that Google serves and controls.

Apple owns 50% of the mobile market and keeps it under a tight grip with rules and taxes. They have a deep ecosystem of hardware and software that only plays nice with itself. They're anti-repairability, anti-portability, and treat their platform as a Berlin Walled dictatorship. They drag their feet on web standards and don't allow any edge for competition, meanwhile they grow into the payments, ads, healthcare and other spaces. They've grown a protected republic that is 50+% of domestic computing. If you launch a business on Apple, you'll owe them 30%, must play by their rules, can't build a customer relationship, and will probably wind up competing with them. And when Apple wants to compete with an offering a small company in their app store has, they ban or remove them. As much as we hate ads, they can destroy billion dollar businesses with simple policy changes, acting as a gravitational wave proportional to the scale of their business.

Both of these companies frequently get caught colluding on labor and anticompetitive pacts.

Amazon treats its sellers like shit and copies the ideas that work at scale. They horizontally integrated to the point that they run half the Internet, a major grocer and food retailer, consumer electronics, logistics and transportation, multiple film studios, video gaming, etc. There's nothing their hands aren't in, and due to economies of scale they can push anyone else over. If you host on AWS, they're offering deep discounts to their internal competitor. They're also turning all of open source into "free labor" for Amazon and using it as a tool for lock in.

Each of these companies could easily be split up. Amazon probably the easiest, because it's plainly obvious where most of the business divisions lie. They're into everything. Apple the most difficult - maybe forcing them to open up their platform and divest of media interests is a better action.

This wouldn't be about about destroying value. It's about making our economy robust and resilient. Giants are not conducive to that as they can price out actual economic activities and innovation.
I'm guessing not. Earth's heat is way lower down. Think of a cave: always cold. I think what's going on is they're taking the heat out and storing it more efficiently than just dumping it down the ground, where (1) it would leak away, representing energy loss, and (2) as it leaks away, the air would lose pressure. (It would leak away b/c it's harder to insulate an entire mine, basically.) So, they pull it out ahead of time and put it back in when they decompress the air (which I think would add pressure back in due to heating a gas and maybe reduce problems caused by super-chilling other plant hardware? Anyway, seems fitting to add back what you took out if you're shooting for a closed system.)
(er, for the initial palette generation, that is)
Not saying I disagree with the idea of "trying unions again" but by your own admission, isn't 'telling anecdotes about "that one lazy guy who got paid for doing nothing"' something that you call tired?

What's to say that founders, managers and execs bleeding people dry isn't also something equally "tired" given that in today's labor market, any such leadership will bleed out talent that will vote with their feet for greener pastures?

As a sibling comment said, unions have their pros and cons.
>unless you are in tech and graduated from a respectable university

I was refuting this. I've never heard of anyone needing to attend a prestigious University to become a programmer?
It's ridiculous that the government is litigating this while ignoring the long standing monopolies that have been hurting consumers for decades. I would say it's also ridiculous that the government is putting the interests of advertisers over consumers, but that's not what they are doing. This is a transparent political maneuver by the bureaucrats in dc against the tech industry.