skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Only a small portion of the study participants — about 4 percent — had been vaccinated before their infections, and many of those with only a single dose."

Strong argument for the protective nature of the COVID vaccines. Although the virus certainly appears less damaging now in 2022 as opposed to when it first appeared.
I hadn't even considered the Death Star as a giant version of mountaintop removal
If you're at all interested (though I'm not doing releases yet), I have a fork called 'write-xl' (https://github.com/adamharrison/write-xl), which does have a git plugin that autocommits+pushes to git on double save (double ctrl+s), as well as a bunch of other standard markdown creative writing stuff (bolding on ctrl+b, spellcheck, etc..) . I use it on my android tablet for creative writing, and have disabled a bunch of the more expensive computations to get a smoother experience.

Are you interested in releases for something like that?
Many laws are like that

Even various key provisions of the Patriot Act

usually they are unceremoniously reauthorized by Congress because its just too much to think about

sometimes Congress forgets (or the related lobbyist forgot/couldnt get a lunch date with the co-sponsor)

but this isn't a perfect system its just more case load in practice that no individual person is aware of

I personally cant think of any debate that occurred on an upcoming sunset provision where people consciously said “yeah that has no more applicability let it expire” or “we have to reauthorize this or itll be a disaster” its just nobody has time to think about it so they rubber stamp it in the annual budget reconciliation bill to keep the government open
Don't be that guy. Let them vest and be on their way.

Being generous and parting on good terms is desirable, even when they suck. Even moreso on a small team.
Some anecdata... (two doses of Moderna, still haven't gotten the third shot available here and that's on me for not making time)

Got covid in the spring, lost my sense of taste, but it started gradually coming back after about six months.

Got it again a month ago, lost my senses of smell and taste, also have a persistent cough, persistent tinnitus, tiredness, and more frequent migraines.
1. Stadia wasn't even first to market. Multiple startups have a better product.

2. G-Suite did well because it was free and had a good collaboration model. It has stagnated, and things like search and folder navigation are hilariously bad. Quip has innovated much more in this space in recent years.

3. If they rolled old chat into new chat, it put my buddy list somewhere, and didn't just delete it without prompting, right? Google voice still exists with the old feature set? Can I have my auto deleted vanity number back? Presumably Meet is always e2e encrypted, like zoom, and its predecessor from Google, right? No? No to all these questions? Wow. Maybe they don't provide feature continuity after all.

4. I am typing this on a pixel 6 pro. Meh.

The following divisions would be better off as spinoffs, IMO:

Stadia (small companies lapped it), Waymo (small companies lapped it), their MVNO, android (then it could stop being a privacy tire fire), chrome (the Mozilla model works, and this would let Microsoft and Brave upstream more easily), g-suite+gmail (no tie in to search or ads), search, double click, AdWords, YouTube.
Can you consider any government provided income guaranteed for life? Next election season you might have your benefits programs slashed.
Even if the ARR is half of that, how do you keep your level of service as a single employee? Don't you take a break, go to a vacation? What happens if you're sick?
At the level that starts with $295 and goes up to $495 and $995, I guess that the customers expect the service to work all the time and have fast support.
Can't understand how it's done without employees at all.
Why is University of Washington so popular?
I am saying they are not straight even on the flat parts.
Don't forget to disable the Oracle tracking that phones home when you use vbox.

Larry is a family friend, so I don't worry about Big Red's lawyers banging my door down, but not everyone can count on his goodwill. Oracle has a history of going after vbox users in search of license fees.
Download is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Linux, Windows, and MacOS
>> look at the celebrations of war crimes in Russia

Unfortunately this point doesn't prove/refute any point about morality.

Because most of the russians pro-war idiots (including most propaganda producers) sincerely believe propaganda and from their moral perspective they really are doing good by fighting Ukranian war criminals.
Do you have any charts that are specific to a population receiving welfare vs non welfare recipients rather than the general population? Also one that accounts for the fairly significant confounding variable that was the covid pandemic?
> Employees as stockholders

I don't think owning 0.000001% of your employer's company is particularly meaningful.

> employees having a Board seat

That's... vanishingly rare, no?

> Profit shares

Unusual outside of small businesses, and even then...

I agree with the GP that employers are generally adversarial toward workers.
Covid assistance also increased unemployment benefits and increased how long you could claim unemployment.
Because that’s part of the deal. You sell the campaign to Dell and promise to do co-marketing and advertising - how effective it is when 90% of the prebuilt market is already Intel is left to the reader.
A framework is what happens when you write a ton of similar apps and factor out the common parts.

The quote here is no more literally true than the original lisp quote, but (just like the original) that doesn't stop it from being true in spirit.
Amazon owns the most important aggregator of second-hand bookshops - AbeBooks. It actually helps me to support second-hand bookshops because I can search and buy from anywhere in the country. Sometimes after buying I develop a relationship and start talking to the shop directly.
This is good and I pretty much agree. One thing though is that I think #1 and #4 actually also apply to framework'd applications. In my experience, even apps built on Rails end up with a business logic-level "framework" that is ad hoc and not obvious to newcomers, which results in bugs.

Not to mention, the frameworks tend to be hard to use "correctly". Rails devs will have heard the term "the Rails way". In fact this article has an awesome example. There's a snippet of code of a controller checking to see if a User exists with the given email. Any Rails veteran would know that you can just call `User.create` in the controller and rely on validations for that kind of check. But that's another problem with frameworks - you have to know the whole thing in order to use it well.
I thought everyone YOLOed it into Bitcoin or Gamestop stock?
Online service don't force me to use to use password managers.
I used to be a big proponent of UBI, I really believed it had the potential to solve a broad range of problems, but after the pandemic I have to say I think I was completely wrong, perhaps I projected my own "nature" on to other people. I think now that I am an outlier, and probably a lot of people who supported it are outliers as well, while a lot of people who opposed it are just regular people who understand just how lazy regular people are. I am still in shock at how many of my friends intentionally lost their (cushy, white collar, work 4 hours a day from home) jobs and went on unemployment, spent the summer watching sports, smoking weed, and playing games, how many people I knew did really shady stuff to get PPP money to fund luxury purchases, etc. (And all the while complaining about "the billionaires" and how unfair the system was.)

I'll say at least that from where we are now we just had by far the greatest natural experiment we could ever hope for and UBI stands invalidated. Those who still want to push it have a much greater burden of proof, and I'm a bit nervous about UBI programs getting rolled out without proper validation and where that will take us.
In some states in America it was a lot more than a 1 time payment. People got overpaid on unemployment and unemployment extended even to people that didn’t ever have a job to begin with. People were overpaid ten of thousands of dollars too. And on top of that businesses got PPP loans and that was even more money, hundreds of thousands if not millions. Everyone around me raised their truck or bought a camper. It definitely created a lot of government entitlement. I want to be clear I’m not judging this as good or bad but the one time “extra” money was nothing compared to the other payouts people were able to figure out

Just 1 link of many stories if you google it..
https://www.clickondetroit.com/consumer/help-me-hank/2022/07...
Whooooaaa, you missed the whole point!

You can read the Wikipedia pages on professional and profession if you don't trust my memory. (One of my general ed classes was on the history of professions.)

The word "professional," as used by bodies like The California Board of Professional Engineers, strictly means someone who is board-certified to practice that profession. (There are a bunch of requirements to get that certification and become a professional, but the specifics aren't important here.) It has nothing to do with whether or not someone accepted money and everything to do with acquiring and maintaining the credentials legally required to enter a regulated line of work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession
Except what escapes into the atmosphere; I think a substantial portion of that escapes the atmosphere entirely.
Can someone edit the title to say it is a trial run for 3 yr duration and 300 people. The title sounds like every Young Adult in LA can enroll into this program which is way more ambitious than what is happening here.
It's a simple choice.

Imagine 2 worlds: one, where you'd prefer someone in your position to act A, another, where he acts B.

Choose the option which aligns with the world you'd rather live in.
4) drugs and vacations
Where have you heard this? In general things not specifically discussed in a CBA default to management ("management rights") so this would seem to require a carpeting clause in the CBA.
Before they changed the default the first command I had to type on a new install was

$ chsh -s /bin/zsh

You can’t please everybody.
I literally just spent some time this weekend trying to get it working with a dnsresolver locally routing my home network there and then out to nextdns, all through tailscale. The issue really came down to something I didn't bother diagnosing, and very well could've been my router.

But. This just solved all those issues. Threw my nextdns address into tailscale and away i go. I swear every single time I run into some modern inconvenience of the web Tailscale (by mission statement) is there to solve it.
I'm afraid a majority of people on the streets have substance abuse problems. They need help, but not in the form of cash with no questions asked.
It has been argued that JS started out as Wittgenstein, with its prototypical approach objects instead of the Platonic ideal classes.
Just in time to compete with the Apple M4.
Dog food is regulated by the FDA, 'not for human consumption' doesn't get you out of food safety requirements.
> Could it be directly blamed on the degree of penetration of Amazon or Amazon Prime?

I feel like everyone in this thread is missing that these are second-hand bookshops. Amazon Prime isn’t a competitor, and e-books aren’t relevant.
What if the government paid in treasury bonds?
Isn't this because they're trying to make RCS universal and Google has that API locked down from anyone else using it while claiming "RCS is a universal open standard" lol. Typical "do no good" stance from the goog
There's a difference between giving _some_ people UBI and giving _all_ people UBI.

A simpler example: tell 300 people to drive on the other side of the road to everyone else. This will surely give us meaningful safety data.

When everyone has UBI the only people who benefit are the landlords. We might as well just write another zero to all banknotes and say we solved poverty.
On either side of the aisle it should be clear that you're giving politicians an extra lever they can use to manage the economy and prevent undesirable outcomes.

Obviously we want to stimulate people's self determination and hard work. On the other hand we don't want people to fall out of the bottom of the system.

With UBI in place as an extra tool, this can be tuned much better than without it.

Later both sides can argue over how much it should be, and what kinds of thing still needs separate subsidies versus where government spending can be reduced. But now they have an extra policy tool to implement their wishes, whichever side of the aisle they're on. Why wouldn't one pick it up?
Maintainability is how long it takes you to solve a problem. If the reliability of the framework exceeds that of code you could write then we're limiting the overall scope that must be maintained to begin with. Now on to what issues look like with frameworks, if you use the framework as designed, the code should follow convention - convention improves maintainability. If your framework can't do what's asked, it's been misapplied and another tool is needed. Using a tool improperly is terrible for maintenance
Many of the answers are in the report.

This comes up every time unemployment numbers come up. I remember a thread a year ago - “oh, it’s just multiple people doing jobs like Uber”.

Then someone read the report and replied “no, actually the number of people with more than one job dropped”.

It would be more interesting and spur a more in depth discussion if you dug into the report and answer some of the criticisms (valid criticisms) you pointed out.

Edit: softened tone
I think he's thinking of East Hastings in Vancouver or Kensington in Philadelphia. YouTube will likely shock you if you're not familiar with this subculture.
You seem to dislike FOSS *nix in general. Are they really that "obsolete" comparing to commercial UNIX and Windows?
Former Uber CSO Convicted of Federal Obstruction and Concealment Crimes
yeah, I understand. This program is targeting younger people around college age. So maybe they can get back on track.
In air, the combustion product of H2 is considered to be water, not hydrogen peroxide.
NB, not quite a dupe.

There was some discussion earlier but below the 20 comments threshold usually applied, here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33167184>

Yes, there have been multiple submissions of similar articles. That's fine by HN guidelines: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>

(Noting because I'd first thought this was a dupe, and having checked, it isn't.)
Central bank go rrrrrrrbbbbb! (That’s brrr in reverse).

Rates are going to keep increasing until inflation drops or the economy shows signs of a big slowdown.
I second this both as a manager and as someone who cold out reached to a careers page for my current remote gig.

There’s not a shortage of engineers. There IS a shortage of engineers who care enough to spend an extra 15 minutes on a task to finish it. Spending 15 minutes on a short note with your resume is the best way to show you have this trait.
I never learned touch typing--I basically never used a typewriter until college and a word processor afterwards. (Nor any formal shorthand.) But I still am a pretty fast typist so long as I can look at the keyboard and get frustrated in a hurry even doing searches--much less editing--on a tablet. I know people who even write a lot who can handle doing it on a tablet with an external keyboard but I'll travel with a laptop rather than trying it.
Using Brain tissue grown from stem cells for AI
> Can you consider any government provided income guaranteed for life?

Congress is sovereign. But states can strike binding contracts under federal law. (They have to lawfully cede their own, limited sovereign immunity, though.)
You forgot 4) Bought bitcoin.
Not sure about legal ramifications but can you offer them the opportunity to “depart now but remain on the books until vesting”?

I don’t know the compensation details and I’m not trying to be mean, but if you’re an early stage startup, odds are the options are worth negative dollars (zero minus strike price). It may be insulting to say, “we graciously kept you on so you’d have a chance to buy into the startup that’s firing you.”

What’s chiefly on my mind is that I think you shouldn’t unilaterally decide what’s best for them. Maybe they don’t want your stock and would have preferred you just be honest and prompt.
Seems on point to me.
Yet tech companies are implementing layoffs left, right, and center. .com bubble 2.0?
I thought it was when you were multiplying two matrices where the elements are 5x5 rather than a 5x5 matrix containing embedded matrices of arbitrary length, no?
> It's not necessarily a genre specific separarion even though I've presented it here that way.

> 1. Assuming, your filter is set to

My interpretation of OP is the following:

I have different situations for music. I might listen to certain tracks in the early morning, others when coding, and yet others at the gym. If I have song x, I can: like X in the morning, like X for coding, dislike for both, like it for both. Of course, expand the two options to n.

Just like Netflix has different recommendation profiles for different users in a family, music recommendation algorithms should have the ability to make distinct profiles for different moods of one user.
I think a number of places gave some one-off subsidies , or even two off (possibly on condition of repay-if-you-can).

I'm not sure many places actually initiated a program of unconditional monthly payments under conditions where people were permitted and encouraged to work.

(With covid, a lot of the payments were as compensation because people couldn't go to work, so you wouldn't see the effect of encouraging work :-/ )
A cash infusion and a couple of months of unemployment at a time when most people were afraid to leave their houses does not amount to a strong datapoint against (or for) UBI. Testing UBI's null hypothesis requires normal economic activity.
Turn boring stuff into low code
On the other hand already successful corps were acquihiring like crazy at that time. You didn't even need paying users. A big "BETA" next to your web 2.0 shiny logo was still required, though.
Check out the stellate ganglion block shot - seems promising for long covid. Hypothesis is that the body is stuck in "fight or flight" mode, and this shot stuns a few of the nerves responsible "long enough" for the autonomic nervous system to "reset."

Some of the reddit anecdotes are pretty amazing.
I don't think UBI is a good idea, and I don't think they should call this UBI. But I do think this plan could be the right help at the right time. They're still younger and have a chance.
>iPads are basically beefier versions of even that.

I'm happy using a good Chromebook for most things but I've never found an iPad--even with external keypad--to be an adequate substitute for anything involving text editing.
I'm also surprised at how negative the reaction here is to Google embracing an open standard. Both Android and iOS devices keep your passwords/keys encrypted end-to-end between your devices. You can absolutely share passkeys between devices (if you want to) and even make them exportable to another secrets manager (if you want to).

If you ask me what's one thing in 2030 people will look back on and say "I can't believe we did that!" I'd have to say "passwords". Passwords need to die and WebAuthn is a great step forward.
> Not all software has an implied framework within it.

The definitions of "framework" are always a sticky issue. If you take "framework" at face value, it's minimally a set of idioms. "an essential supporting structure which other things are built on top of" - which necessarily includes a mental model of execution. This relates closely to why naming, in software development, is considered so difficult.

All software has an inherent framework. First is the mental model and then the implementation. Implementation middleware to simplify utilizing these idioms or enforce them, are incidental. If you're lucky, you can derive some of the underlying design from documentation.

Ironically, those who claim that they never use a framework are largely making implicit claims about what they consider a framework to be or have.
> You understand that they're reporting the news and not predicting the future right?

No they’ve done the opposite of that here - saying he will pay is predicting the future (badly). Saying he’s been told to pay would have been reporting the news.

(The headline has been changed if you weren’t aware, so they must agree it was wrong.)
No, that's a particular unusual idea that I think Alex Jones would find very congenial, was the point I'm making. There are unusual ideas that he would find loathsome; that isn't one of them. I'm not saying anything more than that: it's a thread about Alex Jones, and you expressed a very Alex Jonesian unusual view. Seemed notable, that's all!
Who cares if it is "end-to-end encrypted" if the device with all your keys / credentials can be easily used to access all your online accounts? (And no online service forces me to use a password manager).
Vesting is part of compensation. Denying part of compensation after the fact is bad look. Keep in mind that they're options, and unless exercised, and there's a liquidity event, both of which are highly uncertain, it's all funny money.

If you terminate shortly before vesting:

1. You face the prospect of an expensive and distracting wrongful termination suit.

2. You're sending a blindingly obvious signal to all other employees, and potential employees, that you can, will, and have terminated employees immediately before vesting. That may well prove ruinous if you find yourself unable to hire and/or retain talent.

Let the vest happen. Whether you separate from the employee before or after is your call, though if you've made that determination, do so.

PIPs are fugly as hell for all involved but exist for a reason. You should probably look into setting that up as a process.

Fix your recruitment, training, and monitoring processes.
it's not all or nothing. you can let them go now and vest them 6 months. i would keep in mind, this person may not have been productive, but they have taught you an extremely valuable lesson. you should vest them at least the 6 months.
How much? The absurdity of inflation in Argentina – photo essay
I like the idea but predict legislatures would enact keep-alive bills that `renew *.law`.
I think they're trying to say if pubic schools worked ideally the demographics of selective high schools would reflect the demographics of the school district.
You can probably divide the number you're working from roughly in half, because probably half the damages in each case are for emotional damages, which don't compensate lost earnings but rather mitigate suffering already undergone or that will continue to be undergone. It's a distinction big enough that the IRS taxes those damages differently.
By this do you mean you think money is better spent by giving people food stamps, subsidized housing, and the like as opposed to simply giving someone cash?

UBI is not only more humane but also creates less overhead than the alternative of the government having to figure out not only how to allocate the funds, but how to actually distribute it to people that need it. Welfare is a complex system and there's a lot of available funding to different "targeted programs" but the burden of knowledge is placed on the people who need the assistance to seek those out. I find that burden unreasonable.
There is always a new reason why the most recent incarnation of socialism just didn’t happen to work out as expected this time around.
What will be the effects on betting once the outcomes from the models have been priced in. I suspect odds will get wildly out of balance.