skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This got long, so, here's a TL;DR: Observational studies on humans are basically the best you're gonna get for most purposes. Other animal models (primates, dogs, rodents) have problems, but rodents are the best compromise. By using rodents to screen new interventions, we actually end up benefitting humans sooner than if we'd just started with people in the first place.

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Right. IMO anyone criticizing observational studies on humans needs to overcome the idea that it's hard to do controlled studies on humans, and when it is possible (e.g. vaccine trials), the studies don't last very long, because you can't really control peoples lives that long and there tends to be significant attrition over time.

Theoretically, chimps would be the next best thing, but experimenting on chimps is ethically questionable as well, and they also live a long time. That's great for chimps, but not so great for biological studies where you want to observe the effects of an intervention over an entire lifecycle. Monkeys would be the next best thing after chimps, but experimenting on monkeys has the same issues as with chimps.

Among common experimental animals, that basically leaves dogs and rodents. Dogs are relatively large and hard to deal with compared to rodents, and their relatively long lives (compared to rodents) makes them difficult to selectively breed. Even if we modified the embryos using CRISPR or something to include genes that were of interest, a dog's gestation period is about 3 months whereas for rats and mice it's about 3 weeks. Likewise, Beagles (one of the more common experimentally used dogs due in part to their relatively small size and friendly disposition) live for about 12-15 years, whereas wild-derived mice and rats both live around 2-4 years in captivity. The general public is also much less concerned when rodents get euthanized as part of an experiment than when dogs do. Whether that should be the case or not is somewhat debatable, but, nonetheless it is. It's all a big trade off between fidelity and logistics, but shouldn't an audience like HN's consisting of a disproportionate number of software people compared to the general public actually appreciate that? ;)

So, rats and mice a really the only reasonable choice if you need to experiment on a live mammal in less time than it takes to actually get a PhD. But, then that triggers the chorus of "in mice" replies we see to pretty much every biomedical article on preclinical research here. And, there are undoubtedly interventions that would work on humans that don't work on mice, just as there are many interventions that work on mice but don't transfer to humans. We miss out on those, but the ones that do make it through rodent trials and into humans got there by a process that weeds out a lot of things that couldn't possibly work, which ultimately means humans benefit sooner by starting with mice than if we just used people in the first place.
which are quantifiable

Are they really? I mean, I understand we can quantify generational or class-based inequality, but can we really quantify how much of that difference is attributable to slavery and/or segregation? Or is the implicit default to attribute 50% to slavery and attribute the other 50% to segregation?
They burned almost a billion dollars in operating cash flow last quarter, and nearly all of their profitability in the past flowed from retail, which has shifted down dramatically. Not quite as simple as extremely profitable.

Page 10 for basic breakdown:
https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q1...
Gemini and coinbase both freezing and laying off, i guess this will be the norm for crypto winter
I’m a Tech Director for a fintech start up. My mom says “he works for Bitcoin”.
Buying a plane ticket sounds impossible for someone without a job, but you would be surprised how much money you can make by busking, day labor, or just straight up begging. I've made over $100 in 2 hours just from flailing on a cheap guitar in a busy location.

Sure, I had to have a skill to begin with, but saying you can't do it is wrong. Just most people won't do it because they think they can't do it.
It is lying. It is deceit. We just dupe people new to the industry about these tactics. It's only the veterans who know that every person and company is completely full of shit.

Startups have "aspirational" speaking where they say they're using revolutionary "AI" and yadda-yadda to do such and such - even if they don't have any of that and there's nothing actually on the roadmap for it. It's a lie. You may want it but you don't.

If I say I have a billion dollars and fly to the moon on weekends - am I lying if I don't actually? In your words - no. I'm being "aspirational".
Eventually, people wise up: there's nothing. It's a scam, it's never been anything else.

The shills first shilled the coin itself, the Washington Post in 2015 had a very good summary https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/08/bitco...

> So the Bitcoin faithful have tried to not only convert people, but also convince them to martyr themselves, financially-speaking, for the crypto cause. It goes something like this. Hey, do you want to hear about the future? It's a digital currency called Bitcoin that lets you spend or move your money online without paying any fees. Sounds great. How does it do that? Well, Bitcoin saves you money by making transactions irreversible. So ... if I get scammed, I got scammed? There's nothing I can do about it? Yes. Okay, but is it at least easy to use? The thing is, I don't actually use it. I just hoard it. I'm waiting for some greater fools to push up the price by using theirs. Oh. Yeah. So you should buy some Bitcoins and use yours.

Then starting in 2017 but really gathering steam in 2018 came stablecoins.

And, of course, 2020 was the real start and 2021 the peak of NFTs.

Both stablecoins and NFTs are in ruins now. Note how quick NFT was compared to stablecoins -- and USDT still holds but that won't last either.

Unless a new shilling vehicle can be found, bitcoin is next.
If the war was going poorly for Ukraine, then it would be over and Russia would have won.

If the war was going so-so for Ukraine, half the country would be under Russian control.

IMO as long as Ukraine doesn't lost any substantive amount of territory over the summer and stalemates the Donbas/etc, they are winning the war and Russia will falter in the winter.

IMO strategically Ukraine is winning the war, they are getting better weapons, gaining experience, getting supplies, Putin is weakening, the World will adapt to the economic disruption, and Russian troop morale will continue to falter.

The West obviously loves Ukraine draining Putin of all his might. The risk of nuclear war is still ominous.
Generally with much reduced functionality compared to a full app. Can't mobile deposit from the web, and couldn't use a one-time access method to use my bank's ATM without my card (which did only occur once, but it was damn convenient).

Also, one of my banking institutions is a small credit union whose website does not work well on mobile, but has a well functioning android and iOS app.
Exploration of Escape Analysis in Language Implementations
> Third, while the French Foreign Legion is romantic and all, they won't take you if they find you have a criminal record.

This is not true unless you are wanted by interpol or a very serious record such as murder.

For an American, might crossing into Canada be an easier option?
Its worse when even the video games don't activate you....
I think your idea was sound, and the company just got hit by a bad set of economic and global circumstances. I hope you'll consider restarting a similar venture once things improve, a stronger one having learned the lessons from the first go around.
I like how you minimize the ethical implications by calling it a business decision. I do agree that screwing over a family member is different than screwing over a colleague, but let's also agree that both are bad.

And what appears to be a "business decision" could be a serious setback for the person on the other side of this transaction. Granted, as a startup founder, I am more exposed than someone at FAANG, but don't fool yourself - either way, someone wasted a lot of time and money on giving you a shot, and more importantly, they declined all other candidates. It really is such a selfish thing to do, and while sometimes you have no choice (health, etc), I didn't get the feeling from the OP that he felt particularly bad about it.

So to get back to your original question - no, I wouldn't give you a pass because you showed your dirty side in a business context. And if I thought you were dishonest, I would assume that your dishonesty extends across all facets of your life, and I would think I'd be doing my friends a favor by letting them know.
> So talking about generalities, there are plenty of statistics that show that women have lower paying jobs

Yes, that's not disputed by anyone serious.

> and get paid less even for the same jobs.

Also yes, but only if you don't account for hours worked and experience. A Harvard study found that after accounting for both the type of job and hours worked [1]. Google actually found women were paid more than male employees working the same job [2].

In short, the pay gap definitely exists in the sense that women's average pay check is less than the average man's. But there's not much evidence of discrimination in pay. Men make more because they work different jobs, work longer hours, and stay in their field for longer.

Also,

> you will also find lots of dismissive posts which shows that at least some people think QA jobs are inferior, because "they don't code, but just use the software".

One, this isn't calling QA "inferior". Compensation is not a moral judgement of work. Pointing out the fact that coding isn't a requirement explains why there's a larger potential labor pool and thus lower pay. My first job in QA was doing manual testing, following a script of things to check on canary and staging builds. I was paid $12.50 an hour. This wasn't some moral judgement about the value of this job, it's the fact that pretty much anyone could do it so there's no reason to offer more than minimum wage.

1. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bolotnyy/files/be_genderga...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-...
Even the BBC which used to be great on that kind of coverage, and is funded by the public has become a bit "propagandist" (alarmist) in tone.
> I literally set up these catch all employee tracking systems.

Does that bother you at all?

Not just about the employees you’re doing this to, but about being part of the system that normalises this kind of surveillance generally?

Is this really the kind of world you want to live in?
That’s a good one, I’m going to use this.
> The dopamine rush that comes from other people’s likes can leave you feeling celebratory. But there is a downside. The constant exposure to other people’s lives can hurt your body image, sleep, anxiety levels and productivity.

That is the problem.

It's about time for them to get away from the digital drugs companies and their products like Instagram™, Twitter™, Facebook™, TikTok™, etc feeding and manipulating their users with tons of nonsense and getting controlled on what is seen and unseen on their platforms to bring out their inner outrage towards others.

> “I got over that within a week,” she said. “I would just put my phone away. And before I knew it, I wasn’t getting the urge to scroll and see what’s happening in the world.”

Well done. If this person can do it, perhaps you also can too?
> It pushes away the good companies that will reward loyalty

Which are these companies that "reward loyalty"?

I can't name a single one in the US market. Every single company cares about one thing only: its bottom line.

They will retain any employee as long as it's good for their bottom line. Once it's not: adios.

I've never heard of a company retaining an employee due to their "loyalty". Maybe it was a thing in the previous century?
>While I understand the view that what many attorneys do is immoral or wrong - generally speaking to my knowledge there isn't widespread illegal behavior?

From my own experience, and the attorneys I've talked to, and the other fathers/husbands, certain practices are rampant. False allegations of abuse are regularly made by the female, which grant injunctions/TROs, ex parte, which are then used to withhold children. Perjury is never prosecuted. Not ever. Judges don't care about timelines, and regularly ignore the statutory limits on holding hearings, meaning that a TRO can be in effect indefinitely without a single hearing. Judges regularly don't read motions, do not rule on them.

Time is on the side of the most shameless liar. Both attorneys make more money in this kind of case, because it takes time, its very litigious. Both attorneys have every incentive to not just not deescalate, but escalate the situation. If you are representing yourself, they will try to overwhelm you with paperwork - my wife had one attorney who would, instead of filing motions, would keep appending to a single motion and resubmitting the entire omnibus. They filed invalid motions, they filed hearsay. The entire premise of the actions were to delay, keep the kids, increase the pain until I gave into all demands. From what I've heard, this is a common tactic, because it works. To hold out means to give up your kids for years. Everything, and I mean everything here, is in violation of statute, and no-one in power gives two fucks. Plus at the end of it they count on the fact that you're too exhausted to pursue any kind of remedy, and in fact your faith in the system has been so destroyed that you're convinced that it would do no good anyway. Like I said, they do it because it works.
> Dear God, what have we built?

An industry where people can get rich making something useful enough people want to buy it. It’s no less honorable or meaningful than any other way of doing that, like an insurance agent, wedding planner, toy manufacturer or sporting goods store and a lot better than being in a zero sum prestige racket.
Yeah they hit me up about a month ago. I've been a crypto-skeptic for a while so I chose to not step up to that slot machine. The pay was usually really good, and the work is interesting, but I can't sleep at night knowing that I'm helping scam people.
That kinda makes me think if it would be possible to write a tool that patches these cheat sheets into man pages that don't yet have an EXAMPLES section.
something tells me Zuck is ironically one of those parents who is very strict about screen time with his kids.
> Quitting without notice, which is what you're suggesting, is a great way to screw up that relationship.

You don't want to screw up the relationship you have with your colleagues and friends at work. My actual company, fuck 'em.
>It's Damore

Thanks, fixed
You don't get points for trying. If observational 'scientists' can't discern something about the world which stands up to scrutiny then they are wasting everyone's time, including theirs.
My 61 year-old Mom is not at all technically savvy, but she does have a surprisingly decent grasp of what I do. When I was working at Oculus, she bought a Quest 2 to try out my work <3
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If you can label them breathtakingly cynical, I’d label you breathtakingly naive. And label the grandparent experienced and realistic.

When it comes to being “default alive” there is _zero_ consideration for the human impact. I could not agree more strongly that there’s all sorts of social mores around employee behaving well but virtually zero around executive behavior (you put an exclamation after CEO as if it should be surprising, when the opposite should be).

I’ve read these CEOs brag about “generous severance” that turns out to be 3 weeks.

WSJ reported less than a week ago Coinbase execs netted BILLIONS in PERSONAL profits to execs in the last year. Think any of that money could have been used as a rainy day fund to not fuck over people who resigned from their last job expecting to start at Coinbase?

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/coinbase-leaders-net-1-2-bi...

The amount of apologism for tech execs who act so selfishly over and over again, while the cogs are held to these insanely high standards of behavior, is infuriating.

Call a spade a spade. Brian Armstrong is a selfish piece of trash who dumped hundreds of millions of his company stock for his own profit while reneging on people who took his company’s word for what it was and put their financial health in his hands.
Roger Linn's tribute to his friend Dave.

See https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/more/dave-smith
> By the way, what languages have books that makes you go from knowing zero to being able to jump into a standard X-language project repository after reading through the book?

Here is one example https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/
Small fish probably also don't feel so small in an aquarium vs. the ocean. I tend to agree, walled gardens and echo chambers are a natural consequence of everyone finding their tribes.
I'm constantly surprised that grown adults can believe modern "democracies" are actual democracies.

How many election cycles do you need to go through before you realise a change of government is largely ceremonial, with only a few slight tweaks of policy?

Much of the true power in a western democracy is not elected. Civil service, the judicial system, the media, big business. Being a prime minister can largely be seen as an apprenticeship before you can sit on a board of directors at a major corporation.

Is this an emperors new clothes thing? A cultural taboo to point it out? Your man on the street can see it plain as day, but some how educated people who become very knowledgeable about the official structure of government seem the most invested in democratic LARPing.

Am I the annoying guy pointing out that wrestling is fake when people are trying to enjoy the show?
What year is this? 1984?
I don’t assume any intention from a company neither good nor bad just like I wouldn’t assume that a wasp meant to do me harm if I were highly allergic to it. A business is just an entity I work for to support my addiction to food and shelter.

I assume they hired me because I could help make them money. If one day that assumption isn’t met and they need to lay me off (been there done that), I call my wife, I call my network to tell them I’m in the market. There are no hard feelings.
Elsewhere in this thread I pointed out that you would want to future proof your actions for the rest of your career. I wouldn't bet on the visibility of my actions being the same today as it will be in 20 years from now.
A really good book about circadian rhythms called "Life Time" was just released. Fascinating read if you're interested in it and it goes into details about the way we got to the western model of sleep. And challenges some of the assumptions that sleep must be continuous throughout the night to be good sleep.

Was interesting to read that in the middle ages their literature and records referenced a "first sleep" and "second sleep" in which it was common for people to sleep after dinner, get up again, do some things, and then sleep till morning!
Awesome. I was going to ask the same thing, but this answers everything that I was going to ask. Thanks!
I'm not especially convinced that the two are entirely separate. It feels to me that they sprout from the same source, more or less. I suppose it depends on where you want to draw a line around a very fuzzy word ("politics").

My intent in bringing up the issue originally was that when you have larger groups of people interacting, you get larger-scale patterns of communication. People form groups and sub-groups; people give support to groups based on trust of that group or one of its representatives, rather than getting to know everyone individually; higher-level conglomerations of ideals form because tracking every issue in detail is too much, etc.

There's a lot of gunk that comes along with that. But it is not all bad, or destructive. It can even be _con_structive.

I think that generally applies to institutional politics as well as national/world politics.
You might argue that the hardships imposed by the justice system aren't self-imposed. But this was about hiring criminals. Aside from certain special cases (like laws which prohibit hiring felons for certain jobs). any hardship that results because someone won't hire the criminal is self-imposed; the criminal's own actions are why potential employers don't trust him.
For Clojure specifically, there isn't one. But one that should be emulated in all languages is this: https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/
"He's an internet proctologist." "Oh, so content moderation?"
> ... we will extend our hiring pause for both new and backfill roles for the foreseeable future and rescind a number of accepted offers.

and later:

> We will also rescind a number of outstanding offers for people who have not started yet. ...

Will those rescinded offers get severance?
Notice periods are called extended breaks outside the USA. I've done them before and I put my feet up at my desk and let time pass. If you are a friend and worthwhile colleague then I will happily help you and my immediate team. I'm not there to screw up my teammates.
Do you think that the majority of people that had their reputations tarnished and lost their jobs were re-hired later in another place of equal or higher stature?

IOW, do you really think that Damore is the exception to the rule?
> so I began injecting my own money into the company—money I barely have—just to keep the lights on.

I'm never doing this again

If you need another data point
> Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not on Windows. I am a FreeBSD "Ports" (packaging) committer.

Whelp, we don’t know who you are but they do. How many could there be?
Now if we could only get rid of linkedin...