skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see some potential flaws in this study: They are using a piezo disk to launch the particles into the air, might that alone kill or weaken the virus? They are putting an electric charge on the particles, could that kill or weaken the virus? They are holding the particles in an electric field, could that kill or weaken the virus? This seems to be a new method of suspending particles in air for long periods of time and I don't see any validation of this suspension method. They are still seeing 15% infectivity after 20 minutes and the curve seems very flat at that point in figure 1A, which suggests infection is still possible, perhaps for much longer periods of time (which they did not test).

Also some of the superspreading events and known cases of indoor spread seem to contradict these results, though I haven't seen detailed data on the time frame of those events. The virus seems able to live for periods much longer than 20 minutes on surfaces as well according to early research, which doesn't seem to jive. Another criticism of this study I've seen is that a person spreading the virus keeps putting new virus into the air, so even if the virus does die in 5-20 minutes, it is possible the total live virus in the air keeps growing over time as long as that person is still there. Without a comparison between the virus death rate and the rate of introduction of new particles, even if this data is correct, it's not useful for making any recommendations except perhaps saying a recently emptied space is safe after 20+ minutes. I'm not sure you can even say that since they didn't test beyond 20 minutes.

I'd like to see the apparatus validated, perhaps with a much safer virus and comparing it to an actual person sneezing, talking, coughing and sampling the air from the room they are in periodically.
I think a lot of anti-mask discussion is really just people love and absolutely cannot resist pointing out that someone else is "wrong" in their judgement. When that someone else is an expert, especially so. HN users are probably even more prone to this behavior (pointless pedantry seems more common in nerds).

Literally yesterday we had someone with a $250k test rig test dozens of masks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29878971 He also commented on how fit affects mask performance in great detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888381, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892032 In particular, he finds that a properly fitted N95 filters 99%+ of particles. A 75x boost in Covid protection seems reasonable in that case.
It depends who you want to work for. C# and Windows tend to be more popular with a certain type of company, often one more established.

The node/react world tends to be more popular with younger companies and startups.

You'll find overlap in these worlds but it is a hard road to go against the overall direction of a market. It'll limit opportunities but can be done. It's up to you to figure out which is more suitable. But it's not a dead-end. If you're looking around and noticing your peers aren't into the same things you are, you may be trying to go against the direction of the market. You could try changing your peers.
This is the issue with letting COLA types of pay increases lapse, then that employer may fall out of favor, be known to not treat people right and it could steamroll to where they can't get talent.
Not true, however, I'd wager that the opportunities won't be trendy and hip. You are more likely to be working on some dashboard for a 70 year old corporation as opposed to building parts of the stack for the next new hotness.
Talk to your professor.
I don't think Chrome supports Netflix in 4K under Windows.
MIT licenses enable closed source software that would otherwise have to be open source, is the point.
The conditions that lead an organization to utilize C#, .NET, etc in the first place do.
After these past two years, I will never again underestimate society's ability and willingness to ignore reality and base their decisions on wishful thinking and convenience. My community's school system is also closing their eyes and ears and insisting on the "We must keep schools open" dogma, despite student absences and running out of teachers, substitutes, and staff.
> The fact that in the US, treating minorities (BIPOC or otherwise) fairly is polarizing is sad.

It is, however "fairly" is a pretty loaded word that leaves too much unspecified. It's important to emphasize that "BIPOC" is a shibboleth, and you can be for "treating minorities fairly" without being aligned with the ideological faction the use of "BIPOC" indicates.

And just to be clear, a union effort will almost certain fail if it goes down political rabbit holes that are not strictly necessary for its function, even if those rabbit holes are righteous issues.
Feels like the wrong solution, having devs self-censor more is probably going to lead to more bottled-up situations
Monopolistic organizations of all kinds tend to be bad. The corporate monopolies are frowned upon and at least in theory, and sometimes in practice, curbed by the government. Union monopolies are actively protected by the government. If the unions operated more like competing guilds with low barrier to entry and anti-monopoly rules similar to corporations, and rules were e.g. you can only hire factory workers from a union but there are 5 competing unions in town, there could be an argument for their usefulness. As such they are about as evil (especially in the public sector where there's no competition pretty much by definition) as if e.g. Google had legal monopoly on internet search. Or Exxon had legal monopoly on oil production and unquestioning government support.
Ditto. I work for a big company with several FT recruiters, and AFAICT the only thing they do to look for new candidates is spam people on linkedin.
Would strongly disagree. I'd also suggest that in my experience MSFT shops tend to be more "conservative" on the whole vs a lot of other stacks.

By conservative I mean not rushing into new shiny things all the time, finding out later down the line that it isn't fit for purpose and having to rewrite it. If anything they are the other way round (too much .NET framework dev still going on IMO). The JS ecosystem is terrible for this and I find it really frustrating.

I would agree though that it is seen as quite an uncool stack and I don't see many startups use it, which is a shame as .NET core really changed the equation for me on the whole stack (I really disliked having to use windows server before).

However, there are still an enormous amount of corporates and SMEs that use it, so I can't see the work drying up. Often the pay is better as well at these firms than startups (but probably less chance of a big equity payoff).
One of the worst flu seasons we had in the last 20 years in term of deaths. Covid has 10x the mortality rate for the age range 0 to 49. If you look at the H1N1 pandemic, which infected half of Americans and killed 20,000. It's on a full different scale. Covid hasn't infected half of Americans.

Covid is killing people who don't have covid. Elective surgeries are getting stopped which include cancer removal surgeries. ERs are full. There's cases of people dying of treatable heart attacks in parking lots because there are no beds. Has flu ever done that in the last 50 years?

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

https://www.wvtm13.com/article/alabama-heart-patient-dies-af...
You are technically correct—the best kind of correct.

I think the big distinction here is that external marketing is trying to change public opinion in pursuit of profit to the detriment of competitors (presumably).

Internal marketing as discussed in the OP is trying to change employee opinion in pursuit of profit to the detriment of the employee.
Totally forgot about Google Talk and I agree - great name. It seems like it was right around that time that Google shifted gears from simple and effective development to fragmented and lacking in interdepartmental communication.

Which is pretty ironic now that I think about it because were talking about apps they likely used internally for COMMUNICATION
Here is my copy/paste response to another extremely similar comment:

> This is non-sense. There's no rule that says collectively bargained contracts can't include rewards or incentives for higher-performance. In fact, many do.

> Look at any professional sports contract. Players usually get bonuses for hitting predetermined stat goals on the field. Look at any teacher contract. Teachers get bonuses for attaining higher education and certifications, or simply taking on leadership roles.
Amendments not like the US Constitution amendments, but including ones that rewrite the whole of the constitution. That's how they've gone back and forth between a presidential system and a parliamentary system, and frankly between a semi functioning democracy and an outright dictatorship.

The point is, they're not simply keeping the collective bargaining rights because they're too difficult to change since the 1940s. The ROK have no qualms making massive changes to the very core of their constitution, including rewriting what got in the way of a corporatist dictatorship under Park.
Thats a good point, and I think in general I think using professional sports as an example either for or against unions is a bad faith argument because of the unique dynamics present.
I’ve encountered far fewer and nothing treacherous like the “you lost data but we didn’t tell you about it” stuff MySQL is famous for.
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Note:

> The utf8mb3 character set is deprecated and you should expect it to be removed in a future MySQL release. Please use utf8mb4 instead. utf8 is currently an alias for utf8mb3, but it is now deprecated as such, and utf8 is expected subsequently to become a reference to utf8mb4. Beginning with MySQL 8.0.28, utf8mb3 is also displayed in place of utf8 in columns of Information Schema tables, and in the output of SQL SHOW statements.

* https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-g11n-excerpt/8.0/en/charset-...
You’ll be fine; the way I look at it, AWS is built for product development and Azure is built for corporate IT. Many companies have simply accepted Microsoft lock-in. I have a number of clients moving from AWS into Azure to take advantage of free money and discounts from Microsoft for having an ESA for O365.

In short, Microsoft has the best B2B software sales engine that has ever existed. This has been true for at least 30 years. It’s the main reason for their success — they know how to get people to pay for their products. It’s not the flashiest tech but it’s enough of what their users need, and the sales engine makes doing business with Microsoft easy. AWS has a lot more friction in their enterprise sales process, so they rely a lot more on developer inertia and word of mouth.
The science has been very clear:

* masks don't work

* masks don't work and they harm you

* surgical masks and better work

* cloth masks, surgical and better all work and here's how to make one out of a tshirt

* cloth masks don't work, only surgical and better

* surgical masks don't work, only N95 and better

* ...

* (predicted) type 2-6 hazmat suits don't work, only type 1 work.
I am fully capable of recognizing the complexity of the world around me and still feeling bored once in awhile.
I haven't run into a required LinkedIn field before.

But, I have used LinkedIn to apply, as many employers have a direct application system through LinkedIn (approx. 1-click application if your profile is up-to-date). Success rate getting interviews this way was good given the low effort to apply.
> This is the bigger part that bugs me, I don't my job description enforced by committee.

unless you're self-employed, I have bad news
startups maybe - but large corporations might be a different question. At my last company, 40,000 people, they used MS Office and I had the impression the sales pitch and glide path from Microsoft to just embrace the Azure cloud was a strong one, so many teams use Azure ...
I don't know if putting a maggot through a grinder counts as acting sadistically. Boredom is dangerous though, sometimes when people are bored they do things like sneak a gun into a situation they know could turn violent and then pretend they're a hero
OCaml

I am but a fool
I have written a bit about combining Jupyter console with the command line [0]. Not exactly the workflow you describe, but perhaps still useful.

[0] https://datascienceatthecommandline.com/2e/chapter-10-polygl...
Partly this is a consequence of the relatively small number of unions compared to corporations (which is by design). For example, if you work in the auto industry, there are a lot of different corporations you could work for but only one major union. It also means that you generally have more choice in your employer than your union representation.
Impressed the author resisted using the phrase “The devil finds work for idle hands”.
That's a really popular idea on the internet because it's very easy to grasp, but the numbers don't work out well. The weights you can actually lift aren't much compared to the volume of a reservoir of water, and the heights you can lift them are but a fraction of the thousands of meters being discussed here. Yes, the concrete isn't going to require much maintenance, but the gearboxes needed are a significant engineering challenge. Pumping water or compressing air are a lot easier, and batteries are going to be hard to beat.
> It doesn’t matter if the company is registered on Mars, the Swedish government can come knock on their doors, because Swedish laws apply to people in Sweden.

But it does matter. In most EU countries limited-liability companies (like the Swedish Aktiebolag) are legal entities that are completely separate from their owners and employees. Your idea of Swedish authorities "knocking" on people's doors (who own a company registered abroad) and "convincing" them to hand over customer data appears to be more along to lines of https://xkcd.com/538/ but in this case (in the particular case of a country like Sweden that has a well-respected legal system) it doesn't seem to be grounded in reality.

For instance, Swedish law likely compells companies to hand over customer data under certain circumstances. But if you're the "just" the owner of that (limited-liability) company, the company's customers are not your customers, so authorities cannot compell you to give them access to those customers' data (because you are a separate legal entity).
If it is all one language you can have very nice code-sharing. Imagine a function that takes some matrices and does some operation on them. If you now want to execute this function on a GPU you can just swapt the matrix type to GPU matrices and as long as you implement kernels for all the operators the function uses the function can be executed on the GPU without any modification. This modularity removes the requirement for each package that wants to use GPUs to recreate and ship their own numpy-like implementation (like Tensorflow, PyTorch etc.).
It's probably feasible, I need to look into how the suggestion is stored and display it. You seem to have looked into it more than I, do you want to open an issue with your thoughts ?

I'm also hopping to integrate with https://pypi.org/project/friendly-traceback/ at some point.
The purpose wasn't to ask questions but to point out that our society, and societies around the world, have been prone to behavior that we consider wrong or a mistake due to righteousness. This was to directly support the original article and to refute the OP comment that righteousness can only be a good thing.

Maybe the style was a little rhetorical, but I do think the article has a point that we have to be wary of "righteous" behavior so that we can avoid doing something terrible. Of course, there probably are some (even many) useful points, as the original comment suggested. However, we do have to be conscious of the bad points to avoid going down a bad path.

Of course, the last question on the unvaccinated was draw immediacy to our own society which spawned things like r/HermanCainAward which celebrates the death of the unvaccinated, and other attitudes against them.
Is changing someone's mind wrong?

Is it wrong to belief that unions aren't all ponies and rainbows?

If the answer to both of those questions is "no" then I don't see a problem here.
In tech all that extra power individual workers have just means that multiple companies need to band together to suppress wages.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-apple-wage-suppression...
That is complete BS. The MSFT dev stack is alive and well, it is not going anywhere. Azure is widely used in enterprises and startups.
This is rather silly. NRC has never approved any new nuclear power plants in its entire 46 year existence. Time to sort it out, folks. The UK is getting two new nuclear power plants.
I believe we should focus on separating criminals from non-criminals instead of punishing and torturing them. Give them an environment where they can thrive without being harmful to themselves and others. Let them re-join the society ONLY when they pose acceptable risk. This means violent criminals may never get to re-join the society, but that's okay given that they are still given a humane environment where they can stay healthy and thrive.
Neigh-all human employees are profoundly irrational about changes in their pay. If I'm raising their pay, any justification from "busy season" to "in-demand skills" to "inflation" to "chocolate ice cream melts in the sun" is 100% reasonable and acceptable. Vs. if I'm lowering their pay, it doesn't much matter whether sales are soft, their skills have gone out of demand, the local cost of living went down, or what - they get pissed off, and argue over every penny.

Do not expect any experienced boss to be rational on a topic, when you neigh-certainly are not.
> At no point is anyone saying "we must keep this under wrap" or something along those lines.

Francis Collins, (at the time) director of the National Institutes of Health wrote:

> Wondering if there is something NIH can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy

put down is strange language, but Collins has used similar in an email that also ended up in Dr Fauci's inbox:

> The proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists who met with the Secretary seems to be getting a lot of attention

> There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises

take down, eh? And in the Washington Post[1]:

> This is a fringe component of epidemiology. This is not mainstream science. It's dangerous.

The fringe epidemiologists not doing mainstream science but dangerous things are:

Martin Kulldorff, PhD, a biostatistician, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School[2][3]

Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He directs Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging[4][5]

Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford[6][7]

The language doesn't match the claims, his or yours.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-herd-immunity/20...

[2] https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/m...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kulldorff

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya

[5] https://profiles.stanford.edu/jay-bhattacharya

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunetra_Gupta

[7] https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-sunetra-gupta
I agree that it ended and a new conflict would likely be named something different but formally there was never an armistice or peace treaty.
And probably after we expire :)
He says it in some of the comments further down:

https://old.reddit.com/r/overemployed/comments/s12c8l/i_star...

> There's a lot of sighing, a lot of "ahh this roadblock", a lot of "I ran out of time this week". There's been a ton of times that even I have been like "There is no way they actually take this excuse" and they always do.

He's basically saying "oops, I ran into a roadblock" or "I ran out of time" but he's not actually doing the work, so he's effectively lying to his bosses. This is not "free time".

https://old.reddit.com/r/overemployed/comments/s12c8l/i_star...

> I hang out at my desk from 8-5. Either working or playing games, or redditing, or whatever. I'm on call for 4 of the jobs, but they don't even know what that is supposed to mean so *I either ignore the pages* or never get called. I don't have any kids, so I don't know how big of a wrench that might throw in to things.

Here he's literally saying he knowingly ignores his job duties.
'And just wait for people to travel again and catch up with lost trips.'

It doesn't work like this in my family. A couple years of limited eating out and limited vacations are gone. It's not like a person can abstain until 70 years old and then make up for a lifetime of no sex.
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I mourn for your lost perfect waifu, but if it helps, your comment likely saved other waifus because we clicked [Download] instead of [Save].
Yea that's the best, when they start out saying how they went over your profile and all the amazing things you've done in XXX language even though that's not listed on your profile at all!
The University of Iowa campus has a steam system under the campus, installed in the last century. Nowadays the steam is recovered waste from the electric plant. But it's still in use!
Not a single one of those unions had legal backing though, they were just political movements and people working together. Not sure why you say they have anything to do with the theatre that are modern unions. Rather the concept of modern unions limits worker power, since it created a lot of laws preventing workers to organize as they wish and instead have to fit the very narrow framework that are modern unions. Workers had more power back then when they were free to organize without the limitations of modern unions.

For example, why even have a vote? Why have enforced term limits for unions that you can't kick them out before the limit is up? Why no bargaining as a group without a vote?
Do you have the source code and compilation flags for each case?
> If one understands even a little bit of how unimaginably complex, fantastic and incredible is that I exist

That sounds incredibly narcissistic... The universe doesn't give a single shit that a lump of carbon is doing some weird chemistry on a rock along side other carbon lumps.

> Boredom is just a sign of undeveloped human

Boredom is a sign of an impedance mismatch, a lack of stimulus or novelty.