skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a software engineer, no company I have worked for has ever enforced a 40-hour work week. Heck the magic "40" number isn't even written down anywhere. The expectation is simply that you work Monday-Friday and are available during your team's standard working hours (which differ wildly based on location, role and more). People put in anywhere from a couple hours to 12+ in a single day, and it varies based on the workload, time of year, project stage and more.
Apple and Oranges...

It is safe to put your hand in a garbage disposal when the power is off! This comment clearly is talking about the safety of your hand from the dangers of a powered-on garbage disposal. The other comment about dropping a garbage dispoal on your foot? no, that does not apply...
iOS provides many more security protections beyond sandboxing.
It doesn’t matter whether what kind of weapon. And in fact if you go up to my first comment, you’ll see I used the more general term “arms”.

You’ve decided to focus on guns in your comments, but that’s not a distinction that matters to my point.
Sure, and Viagra was developed to treat hypertension. The fact that efficacy data changes with the completion of new studies or advent of new strains should be viewed as normal, not as a surprise or some kind of bait and switch.
What the wha? Just because consumers are using Apple devices does not equate to being more compute devices than the devices creating the data to be consumed.

What a strange strange twist of logic.
Conducting basic commerce is not the same thing as some jobs having specific job requirements.

Many things have been done in the past. Just because something was done in the past, that doesn't automatically make it the right thing to do.
> you're released and good to stay.

But unable to drive legally, work legally, apply for benefits legally, or do pretty much anything else. Sure you can board a flight; for whatever that's worth. TSA accepts foreign passports as identification too so...I wouldn't say it's worth all that much.
The solutions to this problem are completely obvious, and right in front of everyone's faces. The problem is it doesn't fit people's ideology so they simply refuse to see it.

But anyway, the article states clearly that Kariko floundered for years until Drew Weissman working at the _privately_ funded University of Pennsylvania picked her up. You wouldn't have even needed to look up if the University of Pennsylvania was privately funded, because just about every important breakthrough in science in the last 30 years occurred at a privately funded American university.

There is a reason why something like 10 privately funded American universities make more scientific breakthroughs than the 10,000 publicly funded universities around the world put together. It's right in front of everyone's faces, and no one is talking about it. It is seriously and elephant in the room.

Then the article comes up with a "solution" like this

>My answer? Bend over backward to fund a more diverse range of people and ideas, even deliberately including ideas that are currently perceived as unpopular, unworkable, obscure, and the like. After all, many scientific discoveries can be traced back to origins that didn’t seem promising

Seriously, is this the best you can do? Regardless, this idea would be impossible in the first place at a government funded institution so why even bother mentioning it.
> With the continued expansion of Prime member benefits as well as the rise in wages and transportation costs, Amazon will increase the price of a Prime membership in the U.S., with the monthly fee going from $12.99 to $14.99, and the annual membership from $119 to $139. This is the first time Amazon has raised the price of Prime since 2018. For new Prime members, the price change will go into effect on February 18, 2022, and for current Prime members, the new price will apply after March 25, 2022, on the date of their next renewal.
1. You clearly have no evidence that Apple is doing any surveillance advertising, otherwise you’d present it. Claiming they do is therefore a lie.

2. Just because Google pays someone money doesn’t mean they have a surveillance advertising business. Google buys chairs, computers, food etc. That doesn’t mean these suppliers have surveillance advertising businesses.

Face it. It’s just a falsehood.
I hope you and the other commenters are right :)
Yup. I remember my younger cousin showing me Musical.ly and thinking how horrible the app seemed. Should have realized she was ahead of the curve!
> I am trying to get good data to determine if vaccination is risky or not.

Rather than giving you a list of work that you may suspect of being curated, I will show you how to quickly find what you're looking for.

One of the great things about the National Library of Medicine is that a human looks at each and every paper and assigns standardized semantic tags to it. These are called "MeSH terms" and you can filter the entire library by them.

You mentioned interest in myocarditis, and the following would be an appropriate search query in pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov for this topic:

myocarditis[mh] AND vaccines[majr] AND COVID

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=myocarditis%5Bmh%5D+AN...

The "mh" selects articles that were tagged with that MeSH term. The "majr" selects articles that were tagged with that MeSH term and were mainly about that term. In this case, the structured query drills down from thousands of potential results to 61 results, which is manageable to triage manually.

Edit: Here's how you can figure out wish MeSH terms exist: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search
>A podcast consists of a sound file I can access via an RSS feed.

I think podcast has outgrown that definition some time ago.
their twitter published a statement 2 days after the article, they said they deleted the discord because people were spamming their dox
So why are we doing this then?
Ask HN: Is DeepMind better than everyone else?
In the US, work expenses for W2 workers are pretty much fully phased out as of 2018.
In several states it was a criminal charge that could see you fined and/or imprisoned. Having a criminal record bars you from employment and commerce opportunities no?

I know wearing a mask and taking the bare minimum to try to control a pandemic that has killed millions infringes on YOUR PRECIOUS FREEDOM but it seems a reasonable trade off for the state.

Also what restrictions to basic commerce are you facing? That you can't go get wasted in a bar? Give us a break.
> I f'ing hated the achievement-based unlocks in Into The Breach.

That's a fair perspective. For my part, I felt pretty consistently when I lost an ITB run that I deserved it— I hadn't lost to a heartless RNG, I had lost because I made a wrong choice, and the scenario would have been beatable if I'd made different tradeoffs.

I think what I liked about the progressive unlocking was that I was never overwhelmed by too much choice upfront as happens in some games (think old school RPGs with a spreadsheet character builder as the first screen), and I felt when I did get a new team unlocked like I'd really put in the effort and earned it; I was excited to try it out in a way that I wouldn't be if I just had them all available from the beginning (or unlocked via some other means that I hadn't worked for).
What’s the best way to check out transaction costs.

This site [0] shows the average transaction cost at US$1.675.

And the same site [1] shows ethereum at US$3.916.

This is much lower than the last time I checked. But still impractical for any real uses. A few dollars per transaction is bad, especially when the price can fluctuate 20% per day.

Here’s the blurb from their site “ Average Transaction Fee is at a current level of 3.916, up from 3.227 yesterday and down from 17.67 one year ago. This is a change of 21.36% from yesterday and -77.84% from one year ago.”

[0] https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_transaction_...
lol who cares about convincing you personally, besides, that's not even the point I was making.
I think this is an underrated idea in many domains. So many different things, including grant funding, university admissions, etc. should use a minimum threshold criteria with acceptances randomly granted to those meeting the criteria. The problem right now is that there are too many qualified people, leading to a rat race in which everyone's working for that extra 1% to set them apart from everyone else. But in reality, the standardized exams/scoring systems we use aren't sensitive enough to reliably differentiate people precisely. This leads to unneeded stress and wasted energy on trying to game the system to get that extra 1%.

Definitely a controversial idea and would pose huge challenges to the system we have now. We'd have to confront the idea that a Harvard pedigree or an R01 NIH grant aren't quite the strong indicators of success that we think they are. We’d also have to consider that brilliance can be found in places we haven’t looked more often than we think.
In what context/problem domain? In general? No
So why did they stop growing their balance sheets then?
>That does mean, technically, that due to vaccination the virus can indeed circulate but that people are not affected by the disease.

Are you suggesting that breakthrough cases of COVID don't exist?
This may not be true for everyone, but it was for me. In college, I was skipping classes and ignoring friends. I just stayed in my room and played WoW. Then my graphics card kicked the bucket, and the game was unplayable. So I stayed in the library and read random books, skipping classes and ignoring friends.

I wasn't addicted to WoW. I just had major depression. After dealing with that over many years, I got back into WoW. Played a lot less of it, then.
> "Which is probably still new to many Americans who remember good old days."

It's been straight up surreal watching the world turn into the George Orwell "1984" world we were all warned about as children, and seeing the USA (Land of "Freedom") gleefully join in the dystopian "fun".
Housing is a very different matter, one primarily defined by zoning. Zoning rules in major metros prevented supply from meeting demand by preventing new construction. Zoning rules outside major metros made the average new home 2X bigger. [1] Combined these make houses dramatically more expensive even though the cost per square foot on average, adjusted for inflation, is exactly the same as it has been since the 1970s.

Japan for instance has seen their M2 money supply 3X from 1990 to 2022, while the affordability of a house there hasn't decreased since 1995. [2]

This is due to their federal zoning rules which permit housing construction practically everywhere. [3]

The increase in price of housing is what's driving inflation, not vv imo.

And for what it's worth, I think Glass-Steagall (brought in as part of the post-Great Depression reforms) did a very good job of preventing retail banks from investing in toxic garbage and its repeal in 1999 was IMO a major contributing factor to the crisis in the first place. [4]

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIHOUAINMEI

[3] https://marketurbanism.com/2019/03/19/why-is-japanese-zoning...

[4] https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/glass-steagall-...
LTL also makes more sense with shorter trailers, since you can unload and reload the trailer quickly without having to play Jenga at the dock. It also encourages depot-to-depot runs vs supplier-to-client, which leads to the average trip length being shorter.

Another factor unmentioned is the amount of independent truckers in the US who own their trucks and who primarily do longhaul sorties spanning a week or more. Can't find any data on this but it is a very commonplace thing in the US for truckers to live in their trucks more than their homes and I'm not sure that is the case in the EU.
But the question is why is it that way? Why can't it be that the corporations pay taxes and then people will say "people shouldn't have to pay taxes because the company they work for does."
How long did it take you to figure out how to zoom around the mouse cursor. I spent way too many hours on that a few years ago.
Yes - this whole article and people who talk about lower productivity are missing the point.

Productivity per worker has been going up for decades. Real wages have been stagnant and we still work the same amount of hours even though we're a lot more productive now per hour worked than we used to be.

It's fine to lower productivity a bit in exchange for higher quality of life - it's been going up dramatically forever, but what's the point if we still all toil away just the same?
This is for two reasons:

One, measuring antibodies is MUCH easier than measuring T or B cell response. This is especially true early on in the pandemic, if you want to measure representative numbers of people, and you don't know when/whether they will be exposed or catch COVID (due to masking/lockdowns etc).

Two, when your problem is that the hospitals are filling up and you're facing a labor shortage for some essential workers for a a few months... then boosting antibodies for 4-6 months to reduce retransmission rates and minimizing symptomatic cases makes a lot of sense.
> Only deviating from free-market fundamentalism—giving everyone health care, for example—could lead to shortages

This is true, the symptoms the article is looking at are strong signals of non-free-market policies. Under capitalism, the failure mode is going to be very high prices. If the failure mode isn't high prices then the market probably isn't being run as a free market.

Like when there is a crisis and the government steps in to ration or fix prices and a breadline forms - that breadline isn't a capitalist problem! Capitalism was suspended because the government didn't like what would happen under capitalism (which, I think we all agree, would have been high prices to the point where there was still bread on the shelf that people could buy). The capitalist outcome isn't a utopia, and isn't even pleasant, but it also isn't a breadline.
You are speaking as if moving money around is some useless non-work. But it's the mechanism that makes the economy tick at scale, this is why you can easily buy potatoes grown in Idaho and order electronics assembled in China, while also buying a car without paying the cost upfront.

Let's declare, say, trucking as non-real work. Trucks produce nothing but pollution; why do truckers work the long hours they work, and command the high salaries they get? All the while the "real work" is done by other people?

(Disclaimer: I never worked for financial, trading, or trucking industries; my grandfather was a truck driver.)
Have they released any actual products?
> We all do, including you. [define what's inappropriate]

> There are also a lot of native americans who don't care...

> You can decide to give a shit about the N% of native americans who feel it's wack for white people to make dream catchers...

Okay, I decide to listen to the group of native americans who don't care. What now? Are you going to respect my choice, or is it still going to be a problem--and if so, why is it a problem, given that you've told me several times that it's my choice?
Where I live we have plentiful of clean water. However what constitutes a major part of the water bill is the sewage treatment. No separate metering for clean water vs sewage, they just assume that everything you use also goes out as sewage.
Who is holding the SOL from the created wETH by the hackers at the end?
Yeah, but refining tickets, programming and getting good code review feedback from a competent and professional senior engineer are what you need to acquire experience and competence.

Over time this means a better salary, a faster career, and more significant lifetime achievements.

Water-cooler BS, pandering to the local hierarchy is just investing in your regrets-folder.

Sociality and networking are more effectively cultivated and owned long-term on neutral-ground: user-groups, gym, local-whatever-chapter, Meetup.

Hear me
Hopes are high because if they don’t prevent spread, and breakthrough cases or effects on the unvaccinated/ineligible are bad enough, then there’s no off-ramp for NPIs.
I don't want to spoil a good thing, so keep it between the two of us, but if you can generate/afford $2k US a month, you will live well in Costa Rica.
U.K. Officials Want Even More Power to Punish You for Being Mean Online
> If the data is strong, you most likely wouldn't need mandates to convince people.

That's an awfully naive and rosy view of "people".
What's also quite cool that it discourages and additionally impedes usage of the function, because it really is called by a different name. I think it's true name is, ermmm, "nlnPrfrmNT". (I've ultimately decided to stay on the safe side too and not commit into writing the fullness of the dread name.)
In NL plenty of truckers own their own truck.
You don't need a absurdly high salary to raise a comfortable family or live a comfortable life.

Be careful with following that thinking trap. If you already think you're not making enough now, you'll fall down the rabbit hole of lifestyle creep where many high paying engineers struggle to get out of.
If the Sprinter took a comparable amount of maintenance to deliver the same service it would not have the reputation it does. It's not like people are jumping to conclusions based on brand either. It was initially branded as a Dodge or Freighter/Sterling. The only operators who like it are high end passenger fleets that depreciate them and then get new ones. Now, in its defense, people do generally hate the FWD Fiat van more...
Ask HN: Uhm a new type of ask; how is your mental health?
Don't we all need help?
Slackware Release Announcement
most people prefer a virtual gift card that can be emailed to them post-interview
I'm fairly ignorant of crypto, but wouldn't exchanges hold similar power?
Your average Karikó would not benefit directly from Universal Basic Income. Not that solving extreme poverty/deprivation while preserving economic freedom and efficiency isn't a good idea for plenty of other reasons, but it's not a free lunch either. The modal UBI recipient will probably be expending their time and effort on training for productive work, not long-term research with no immediate benefits for themselves.
They are not orthogonal. Allowing third-party stores/sideloading implies allowing third-party payments, at least for apps distributed outside the App Store. Forcing the Apple to allow apps that use third-party payments on the App Store and forcing Apple to allow sideloading are orthogonal though.
Now imagine you're hiking in the woods and, all of a sudden, you reach a fence with a sign "PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING". Years go by and even more rich people build such homes in the woods. Now you're hiking in the woods, constantly passing through gravel roads leading to these properties and hearing traffic noise of a more major road where some cars from some of these houses went to fill the propane tank, buy food supplies or whatever.
My son used to put his books on our shelves. Imagine if I had encouraged him rather than working silly hours for some future that never arrived
A buddy of mine once had a 4K monitor and was scaling it to 1.2 on his MacBook. Took him a while to realize that's why his fans were revving up all day long. haha

Seems like just telling apps to draw to a larger window is the way to go, which is why I don't understand why Apple and Wayland do it by scaling down an integer. Gotta be a good reason.
I didn't build it but I live in a modern home in the woods. Just outside Toronto, surrounded by trees about 600 metres from the nearest road or house.

Modern as in built 5 years ago but not a 'modern' design like the article. A flat roof without eaves looks great but is impractical in Canada. As well as protecting the walls and footings from rain, eaves allow the low winter sun to shine through the windows, but keep out the high summer sun (trees block the low summer sun for us).

The only connected service we have is electricity, I'm planning to add a barn with solar panels on the roof so we may not need that soon.
I've worked at a couple of companies now that introduce a "month off" day, which isn't tied to a particular holiday. At one place, they made it a "use it or lose it; your choice", so typically the last Friday of the month became an unofficial holiday. At my current place, it's preselected to be a day everyone takes off together.

When this was introduced at one company, they noticed that "sick days" actually dropped massively, to the point it really cost them nothing to introduce month off days.

Personally, it's amazing what that one day does for your mental health. You just pile on chores or take an extra day off, and boom - 4 day weekend which feels like a real vacation. And because everyone realistically is off together, you're not missing much.

I kind of see the 4 day week as an amplified version of the month off day, and would be curious to see if there's any comparison between the two ideas. And I'd be curious what the frequency of "sick days" taken are in a 4-day week company vs a 5-day company
It's too easy to dismiss something when you've never lacked for it.

"Why I Became an American" by Enes Kanter Freedom - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/why-enes-k...
It is not just about conservation and high consumption.

For example, it is lot easier to build infra when you charge people 4x their consumption cost as single item, than split into line items. When you need to build a new power plant the infra costs are going to shoot a lot and nobody would want to pay for that when they see an line item for infra.

Every SaaS company and all of Cloud is built on this human behavior . I would even go so far to say that even mortgage, insurance, any credit business depends on this behavior. Most people would pay extra for their server by hour or second rather than pay for consumption + infra.

Also infra costs split equally is unfair ? if you consume more, more of the infra costs have to be apportioned to that person right ? Basically if power plant producer 1000MW the person consuming 900MW has to pay 90% cost of building the plant in addition to paying 90% for consumables for generating that 1000MW .

The solution here is to have spread between buy / sell rates which account for distribution losses, maintenance, infra and storage and peak capacity planning etc
I avoid all mobile games because they're, for the most part, just spyware. I read though this list hoping to find something, clicking a few random games, everything looks pretty similar:

Data Linked to You The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
Location
Identifiers
Diagnostics
Other Data

I'm sorry, but no. You do not need my location, identifies or other data. gtfo
We work hard because we make stuff people want. We can make more, better stuff by working hard. I do think 50-60 hour weeks are often counterproductive, but the money we make ultimately comes from providing value to someone. It isn't turtles all the way down.

If your business is operating mainly on loans instead of revenue, it's because the lenders believe that you will provide value to someone in the future, and that you'll be able to capture some of that value and give it to the lenders. The lenders can be wrong, but it's still about giving people things they want.

There are some bad businesses, for sure, which are about tricking people into giving you money without giving them something in return. And a lot of business activity is about jostling for a good negotiation position (e.g. consolidation), so that you can capture more of the value you provide. But because people control their spending, you ultimately have to make something people want (or make them want what you have) if you want to make money.

Overall, you almost make it sound like the global trade of calories/textiles/etc is a bad thing, but it is an extremely good thing! It is one of the best things!!!