skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Always makes me wonder how many dysfunctional companies are out there letting deadbeat remote employees collect paychecks and do as little work as possible because nobody cares enough to press the issue.

I'll take a stab at it, and predict... all of them. Or nearly so. There seems to be an ever-present fraction of employees at any large corporation that are essentially worthless. Just along for the ride, raking in a paycheck while someone else does the meaningful work.

We've had stories here on HN about people exploiting it. There's a moment, I think, in many developers' careers where it occurs to them that there is almost never any reward for hard work. And when you're a wage slave for a large corporation, it's easy to blur the morality until it feels okay to take advantage of the situation.

When I find myself starting to think such thoughts, I know that it's time for me to move on to another opportunity. And a smaller company, even though it pays less, because it's better for your soul.
Sony Interactive Entertainment to Acquire Videogame Developer, Bungie
And 3D Compositing software like Nuke, Flame, Fusion, ....

And don't forget about Blender!
But we don’t subsidize them.

If I can’t find a job in my state based on my skillset, I can move to anywhere in the US. Heck, my company is on the opposite coast and I WFH. Knowledge workers have a lot more mobility and much less capital tied up in their labor.

In other words, if my state went to shit because CA is not subsidizing it, it wouldn’t affect me.
How are human trials on high-risk low-incidence diseases like this conducted?
Covid Stole Our Privacy
Reminds me of the lip syncing interview candidate that went viral a little while ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mfohGyeBg

This is why remote exams have all of those strict requirements like "show us your room" and "don't leave sight of the webcam"
So basically an "immoral debate" would be one that's propaganda in disguise? But why would it be inherently immoral to knowingly propagandize a false idea? What if believing a particular false idea leads to behavior that's safer in large scale? For example, you convince everyone that, I don't know, gasoline makes you impotent. Your rhetoric is so good that everyone is convinced, even in the absence of evidence, and people stop driving so much and pollution is reduced.

Is it immoral to use rhetoric to spread false ideas for a good reason?
Sadly, it's recently been concluded that monoclonals are completely ineffective against Omicron [1]. So if Joe got Delta, and people today believe his take that Regeneron will save them, they're in for a bit of a surprise.

[1] https://www.popsci.com/health/fda-monoclonal-antibody-treatm...
My take on it is that it was an intentional misspelling intended to describe the "armchair philosopher" that arises from many of us when we use THC products.

I could be wrong but it makes me chuckle every time I think of it.
I am wondering if this could work for async programming. I once used a Discrete Event Simulation software that had an excellen graph based program editor that really showed the dependencies of the model very clearly. I later realized that Discrete Event Simulation is conceptually very similar to async programming. I would love to explore async programs as an animated graph. Anyone know if such a thing has been tried?

The modelling software I was thinking about is FlexSim by the way
The new job that I was hired for is not the same one I interviewed for.
> Dumb cars aren't more expensive to produce.

Increasingly they are. Analog connections and dials, for example, are already more expensive than digital ones. It is like...if you wanted to buy a car without power steering you really couldn't.

I guess if you want a golf cart you can buy a dumb EV. I don't know how that translates into a real car, however.
* Laissez-Faire analysis update:

1. Include Google and Tesla as current and future competitors

2. Disney and Google as "blood money" inside Etfs (advertising, sports betting, crypto [Tesla])

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30148364

3. 2018 dip (repeat): https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/08/why-this-month-echoes-decemb....
I have a “liked songs” playlist that collects all the songs I’ve put a heart on, are you talking about a different feature I’m not aware of?
Your post missed the entire point of the frustration and arbitrates it away through an explanation that obfuscates clarity ad nauseum.

See what i did there. one sentence.

THE ISSUE PRESENTED IN THE POST: I want to use the product. I have to inconvenience my routine to use it.

This issue is pervasive in tech. It ASSUMES the idiot. Big Tech is defining what is best for the user. This is what we have bought. This post is pointing that out. From what I can tell, the Parent post here is a shill or is the typical 'doesn't happen to me tech elitist'.

That's about it. Found my login to make this comment. Logging out.
No one in this thread knows anything about vaccines or infectious disease. Each organism is different and requires a detailed understanding to see what the potential for the vaccine is. You can't just take COVID-19's performance and project that onto another disease. mRNA allows the targeting of specific proteins. The efficacy of the T-cell and B-cell responses are going to be highly dependent on that protein's structure, its importance and level of conservation in the pathogen, and other factors.

COVID-19 seems to require a persistently high level of neutralizing anti-bodies and the T-cell response seems to be less important (and also plays a role in auto-immunity). On the plus side, the wild-type vaccine has continued to be fairly effective against even highly mutated Omicron which is surprisingly good even if strategically, it is suboptimal that the virus has continued to mutate and evade the vaccine to ever greater degrees.
Better yet, hire developers who enjoy and excel at selecting and utilizing emerging technologies that will be a better long-term fit for the problem at hand. This is of course more difficult, but makes for a better team and product. I want my competitors to be afraid of technology and to de-prioritize hiring generalists.
What is VWRAP? (Linden's ten year old open Virtual World protocol)
I would hope plenty of people won't commit fraud to get a tech job.

>how would they know

Maybe someone could get off with it if they're early in their careers. But if you're more senior, lots of people probably know you.
Money isn't of real relevance to me, so if it costs more I don't really care unless it's a ridiculous difference
Lessons from a 5 year Meta-rollercoaster ride
Coming soon: a service that will have ringers do Zoom interviews on your behalf while using real-time deep fake tech to look and sound just like you.

All the pieces of the technology required to do something like that may already exist today.
the world of car reviewers and enthusiasts is also a bubble that's pretty far removed from what typical car owners care about. I care about hard buttons, analog tachs, manual transmissions, etc., but most people I know really don't. they are somewhere between complete apathy and genuine appreciation for all the new tech features. mainly they just want some form of awd crossover that makes them feel safe.
Gotta order from Deliveroo and watch some Netflix.
Not sure on the whether, only the potential.

Frankly, I'd be astonished not.
Not to mention the long term effects of COVID are known and way worst that what a vaccine can give you.

Vaccine are building an immune response, they're not drugs that try to cope the symptoms (eg. Panadol) and they are the safest drugs out there.

Is so interesting how people eat Panadol and many other drugs like candies (without reading the KNOWN side effects - which are also nasty), while they focus so much on things they know nothing about thinking that has mysterious "long term effects"
yeah, the other day I ran afoul of that practice

The top post in the relevant enthusiast sub recommending stuff to buy had no actual information, but it was stuffed with Amazon affiliate links. It was basically a "Top 5 X 2022" post except it was on Reddit instead of its own spam blog
Yup this is sometimes done, where the third party stuff is served out of a first party subdomain instead of a third party domain. It's still uncommon except in the big publishers because it requires more effort to do the integration.

The topic of "accurate metric" is also challenging. When I worked on this, I would often find discrepancies of up to 5% depending on the technical implementation of the metric. There was never a clear explanation, just that the sequence of events from mouseover to click to redirect to more redirects to the final landing looked more like a very wide funnel with leaky correlation than the straight pipeline you might naively assume.
Sony is about to sunset Playstation Plus and Now and merge them into a service that will try to compete with Xbox Gamepass, and to do that you need games.
Caddy doesn't emit static files in this case, instead it on-the-fly transforms your .md files on disk into HTML output that it serves directly to the client. Caddy is a server first, which includes a template engine for convenience.

If your workflow with static files cached by a CDN already works for you, then this is probably not going to help you.
Would a card for smoking tobacco have a similar acceptance? "I smoke, please don't bring up my breathing issues" I lean on they wouldn't, and the purpose is not comparing smoking to weight, just known health risks.
What should be the top hit to the query "new car"? What was the desired goal?

It's a good chance someone wanting to find a "car selling" website might use that phrase, no?
mRNA treatments likely will accelerate the trial process because their purview is so limited, compared to other molecule based treatments.

So more likely you’ll just get over a shorter release cycle and the longer one gets deprecated, relegated to certain style of treatment that mRNA based investment and research will run laps around anyway, further pushing people to evaluate and prioritize mRNA versions.

You can try to hold out for an arbitrary threshold of “long term” for your own comfort level. Its accurate that the state wont be helping you.

mRNA is like a file for a 3D printer, telling the body what to print for. Other styles of treatments were showing the body the payload. We will definitely learn how often we can get the body to do this, but I wouldn't call it an inferior beta status. Its just as good (or bad) as the longer process for different kinds of treatment. Same efficacy, which allows me personally to not focus on that.
> Can you give some specific examples of the math and physics that you think are beyond the capabilities of a bright high school graduate (that seems like a reasonable minimum bar to expect for someone picking up a book targeted at freshmen at MIT)?

Just look at some of the examples right at the start of the book, in the first chapter:

> This section describes two methods for checking the primality of an integer n, one with order of growth Theta(sqrt(n)), and a 'probabilistic' algorithm with order of growth Theta(log n).

> ...

> Fermat's Little Theorem: If n is a prime number and a is any positive integer less than n, then a raised to the nth power is congruent to a modulo n.

> ...

> When we first introduced the square-root procedure, in section 1.1.7, we mentioned that this was a special case of Newton's method. If x -> g(x) is a differentiable function, then a solution of the equation g(x) = 0 is a fixed point of the function x -> f(x) where [complex formula] and Dg(x) is the derivative of g evaluated at x.

As someone who has a masters degree in CS, I agree with OP. People mostly recommend SICP to beginners because they want to sound smart, not because it's a good intro to programming.
One place I worked, we hired someone into a senior developer position. A whole section of the interview is about what is expected of a senior (making juniors better, talking to clients, etc...)

He gets there day one and says he will only write code. Everyone in the interview process had good notes and positive recollection of him.

The two working theories were that either someone else interviewed for him, or that he expected to show up and export his work to someone else (all remote).
Large organizations are generally risk adverse, and extremely process oriented. If they approach "John" wrong, there might create additional problems for the company.
Thanks! I wonder how I haven't heard of this before.

Edit: Just saw that the Brawley is off-road only. It doesn't meet DOT standards. That would probably explain why I haven't heard of it.
I work for a F100 company. We have some consulting companies working for us, who themselves sometimes subcontract contracts, to subcontracting companies who sometimes themselves subcontract contracts.

One consultant (US citizen) checked the boxes of your situation. Young, graduated college recently, a sub-contracting company presents him as senior even though he had little or negligible experience before. They had him in a hotel being billed to the F100, and then later at (crummy) corporate housing when the contract was not renewed.

Another consultant (also a US citizen) was in a similar boat, but never in corporate housing, for another sub-contractor sub-contractor. He was older, but also pretty junior - new to programming - although they presented him as senior. He had to sign all of these things about how much he would owe the sub-contractor under various circumstances. Technically he signed something that he would owe them a lot of money for "training" if the contract was not renewed, but when he was let go they did not pursue it - why sue to try to get blood from a stone? He also had mandatory meetings at all three companies and was on the phone all of the time with the consulting companies after the regular work.

Both contractors did one three month contract and were not renewed.
As I said in that thread, "I think a big part of what's going on here is that people don't think deeply so they can be easily influenced by how questions are phrased." Progressives are the least likely to say yes if you ask it that way, so I think you're lying, just as you were lying about what my own data said. Please stop.
I miss IRC and Usenet but I'm pretty sure if they were popular today they'd suffer the same problems as everything else.
Not OP, and not advocating it, but I suspect with respect to drugs the problem isn't the amount of punishment. It's the liklihood of punishment. Imagine a dystopia where everyone takes a drug test every day, and if someone fails they go to jail. It seems likely drug use would plummet due to enforcement (and special ways to get around it would spring up for the select few).
Prohibition and its enforcement aren’t a zero cost affair, not to mention second-order effects
Drug dealers are routinely executed in countries where the death penalty exist for drugs, it doesn't seem to stop them.
People were sentenced to 20years in prison for a joint in the US, that didn't stop most people from trying it.

And you really can't deny the "do more harm than good" part. "don't take a very small risk for your health or we will hang you" doesn't exactly seem like harm reduction.
Sure, that's the best case scenario.

In my experience companies, especially the small ones, struggle to hire engineers. So, they try to spice their positions up with some hot new tech.
My 2016 Honda CR-V has everything in your first paragraph. I think Honda and Mazda are doing a good job of balancing physical controls versus touchscreen.
This is correct, though I can certainly see how someone would come to the conclusion that starting colors are not identical, as default painting mode is less than full opacity, so the mixed color is generally a lot more saturated than plain sRGB.

And a clarification, I wouldn't call this RGB linear mixing, to me that's mixing in a physical light intensity space. Rather, it's alpha compositing in an sRGB color space, which is probably the most common mode. It's possible to verify this by setting transparency to exactly 50%, painting 50% black over white, and 50% white over solid black, verifying that the color is the same, and measuring that - it's very close to sRGB (128, 128, 128). Linear mixing would give approximately (188, 188, 188). Incidentally, this also shows that Mixbox doesn't retain neutral hue when mixing black and white - it gives something closer to (129, 127, 130), a slight reddish-purplish tone compared with neutral gray.
It's important to remember that any community can spread it. Needle sharing among intravenous drug users comes to mind. However, you can't deny that HIV has struck a generational blow upon the LGBTQ+ community.

If this works it will be the end to an era of fear. Many will remember those that where lost and wish this only happened sooner. A new reason to celebrate is underselling the impact this will have.
Intel can't_ grow profits during a global chip shortage – where did't_ go wrong?
What do you mean by "UI component driven version of this" exactly? Like this, but to build UI components somehow?

FWIW, there are plenty of graph-based dev tools, especially in the data science & ML world, and they seem to only fit the nerdiest of audiences (like mine!) ; not very practical for most people.
I'm not sure content creators need to be paid for their work. At least, not all. What internet surveillance does is motivate people to create awful content that nobody in the market would pay for in order to skim dollars from what is largely a privacy invading, fraudulent vacuum of an industry.

People will pay for good content, they did for a long time before there was an internet or a surveillance industry. There were books, films, subscription TV services, paid for audio. There were also steady streams of novel manuscripts, demo tapes and screenplays that went straight into the bin because they were rubbish. Now the rubbish hangs around on a webpage surrounded by trackers, luring people in with clickbait titles and lies, and multiplying beyond the ability of even google to sort out.
You're vastly overestimating the potential harms caused by vaccines.
> IBM's DB2 Connect software on Windows ~20 years ago

So many really middling memories just came flooding back.
In aerospace engineering you would usually select technologies based on a concept of technology readiness level, which provides a framework for evaluating new technology and make sure you are in control of their maturity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level
Radon is produced naturally underground in areas near uranium deposits. Most of the time they are in such small amounts that they can be ignored, but Kansas has a lot of Radon, (https://kansasradonprogram.org/county-map). Having such a deep set building would allow more of it to seep in and settle, and it is doubtful that there is any form of radon mitigation system built into the building.

You might get lucky, the 4 ft of concrete might make a nigh impenetrable barrier, but the only way to know would be to test it.
Sellers will prefer cash or a stronger borrower in all markets when given the choice - that’s very relational to seek to reduce risk.

There are other ways to help craft an offer that could be stronger, including offering better other terms (usually not just the offering price).
>You used the words "snowflake" to describe someone who was trying to start a conversation

I'm not the one you're talking about.

>Yet you are the only one acting triggered and refusing to even talk through what they found so silly or offensive in other people's behavior.

If you can't even be bothered to reply to the right person, I don't see how we can have a productive conversation.
I can completely understand using shorthand for complicated proofs (defining what they mean at the start). After all that's what I do in code as well: I often import and alias variables in the local scope, but it's limited to a very well defined context and explicit.

What I disapprove of is using these very terse syntax in definitions like, say, in Wikipedia articles.

In other words it's like how I have no issue using a variable named "int i;" locally in a function, but I'd consider it a very bad practice if a library exported a global "extern int I;" in their public interface.
I think slowly will come the realization that mRNA vaccines aren’t as fast to develop as people thought. Sputnik/AstraZeneca vaccines were released almost at the same time as Moderna/Pfizer. Yes, the latter were first commercial mRNA vaccines, but the technology is nevertheless rather mature. I watched a lecture by the people credited with creating mRNA vaccines and it turns out people have been working on the technology for decades.

Now, the thing is that you can’t just sequence a virus, do bioinformatics, synthesize mRNA and package it into a nano particle. I mean, you can, but chances are it’s going to fail like the CureVac vaccine. The mRNA that gets packaged needs to be modified (I believe with alternative bases) to achieve desired effect.

If mRNA vaccine was as magical as it was marketed, we wouldn’t be getting 3-4(and soon 5?) doses of the same vaccine with the emergence of new variants. Rather, there would be delta- and omicron-specific vaccine.
This is definitely a positive for me. Any suggestions for channels/networks to start with? Haven’t used IRC regularly in a decade+ which coincides with me being unable to make any new online friends since then. Facebook seems to be where a lot of “older” folk have moved to but i refuse to engage with that platform.
I have fiber with 6ms ping to our windows machines, RDP connection. I've tried a few times to get these VDI setups close to matching what I have now and I can't. Either RDP is amazing, naked hardware is amazing, or VDI is a dog. I'm willing to pay.
Strictly speaking you can, and not knowing the exact reasons this approach is moved to human trials where others have not, I can only conjecture.

However, the mRNA vaccine may be more stable in a way that makes it easier to make or store or for entrance into the body. Not to mention purification steps may be easier. You don't need to make this in some exotic cell line which creates a protein soup you have to purify. It may be easier on the body (less likely to develop a severe immune reaction), or it may be better at generating a sufficient immune reaction because a lot of mRNA development has gone into finding molecules that are readily taken up by the immune system regardless of cargo.

These are a few reasons I can think I am sure I am missing some and there may be a stated answer out there that I have yet to search for.
Well-built cars are fundamentally durable, long-lasting machines.

So of course manufacturers are eager to sneak in anything to make a car seem "worn out" and in need of replacement sooner than later.

What's frustrating is there seems to be no shortage of willing buyers eating this crap up, apparently looking forward to replacing their vehicles in lockstep with their other consumer electronics.
Where does the "lazy" come from? Is that just another way to say that it's a dataflow graph?
I think the article is operating under the false assumption that most political discourse is meant to be a Socratic conversation. It's really not. Look at a political debate, or a talking heads show on cable news. There is no truth that is sought out, no hypotheses to accept, no exploration of if a conclusion follows the premises logically. All there is, is persuasive sound bytes, with no deference paid to the truth and no refraining from the "false opinion concerning the subjects of the present conversation".

The media drives a lot of this with the format of their shows/political debates. I'm sure these sound bytes are better for ratings, but they are poor for getting to the bottom of a political platform and how that's really best for the general population.
Obviously cis het people can spread HIV. But the AIDS pandemic was absolutely brutal—devastating—for a generation of LGBT people, especially gay men.
Free speech doesn't mean free from consequences.