skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Middle Management' is also not a well defined term.

For some, managers like you have described could be thought of as front line managers. Or supervisors.

And middle management are the layers, usually many, that separate the front line managers from the senior executives.

The role of middle management is often to oversee budgets, and be accountable for financial performance in certain geographic regions or business areas.

Middle managers don't employ workers. They employ other managers. Lots of these kinds of jobs will probably be made so simple that entire layers of management will just be removed.

Some examples from chain retail might be:

The franchisee of say, a McDonald's, is in some sense a middle manager. They hire store managers to run the stores in the area that they're responsible for. And they're accountable for the financial performance of all the McDonald's that they own.

The 'Regional Manager' of some large company. They won't be involved in the day to day activity of the business, but they're often an important cog in the wheel because they have local visibility on the financial performance of the business in the region, and are best positioned to allocate the budget in ways that maximize financial performance. Again, they don't hire workers, they hire other managers.
> and problems like access to medical history is way more basic but more prevalent.

This here is a problem I wish we could solve, get a central data broker that could hold aggregate medical history and just dole it out to companies. My wife has to get Medical supplies on a regular basis, the company we got them from got bought out by a PEC so we wanted to try switching companies. Months later we still can't get all the Drs insurance and supplier lined up.

The problem is of course as a security guy I know a centralized clearinghouse would be a nightmare from every stand point. The real solution may be in the development of a good protocol, but good luck getting the Med industry that is still putzing around on ASM/400s to adopt something like that. Even with the force of law, i.e. HIPPA
Hey, you don’t have to tell me, I quit immediately after the project, after bouts of both verbal and physical violence. I left likely tens of millions of future earnings behind as a result. But there’s simply no question that the guy was a visionary. I personally saw many other examples of crazy abusive behavior and I don’t believe the ends justify the means.
I can't upvote this enough
Well you can always be the general contractor and do just that for a standalone home. Shop around and hire the workers for each part. Most people don't because it takes time, work, and knowledge, so they would rather pay someone.

Alternatively, you can get a new prefabricated home built and delivered for about 100K or less.

I think a lot of cities have zoning regulations against doing that, but it's common in the country and counties.

Where I think you do have a point is the land. That's often the expensive part. It's not as wild as Bitcoin, but it certainly does follow the market.
For many of it was a life long dream to work at Apple, and to work with Jobs, but it didn’t take long to see it was not healthy.
UPDATE: I've read up a bit more about Long COVID. I believe a relative minority of people who suffered from COVID experience lingering health issues. I think Long COVID is currently ill-defined. The respiratory and cardiopulmonary symptoms make perfect sense given what is known about COVID. Other symptoms like mental fogginess make sense as secondary symptoms from respiratory and cardiopulmonary complications.

I still don't find this particular study convincing in its claims of hair loss and sexual dysfunction being mechanically related to COVID aside from the general stress of it.

As a layperson, I have some sort of cognitive dissonance calling it "Long COVID" as if it's a separate but related disease, or a continuation of the primary infection. People's bodies suffer long-lasting damage while successfully fighting off all sorts of infections. But I don't recall it being framed this way.

ORIGINAL: Like most people here in the comments, I'm coming at this report with a healthy amount of skepticism.

The relatively paltry numbers and self-reporting remind me of the folks in cancer clusters in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, who completely believe they're victims of the Three Mile Island accident even though it's scientifically impossible for that to be true.

I believe the symptoms are real. But about a million things can cause hair loss and sexual dysfunction, including stress. Perhaps the stress of getting sick during a pandemic when people are dying and you know you're infected with the same illness? The fear of the unknown? Seeing people survive with complications and worrying that the worst of your particular case is yet to come? The guilt from wondering why you were pardoned when so many others weren't so lucky?

I'm pretty sure there's historical precedent for psychological symptoms made physical among the survivors of pandemics throughout history.

That's not to say that there are no precedents of lingering disorders, for example encephalitis lethargica in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic. But my layperson's application of Occam's razor is telling me this is more Morgellons than encephalitis lethargica given the data currently available.

I would be more than happy to be proven wrong about so-called "long COVID" if it meant there could be a more effective treatment than the complicated world of psychiatric healthcare. If there could be a pill or a shot that could relieve these symptoms, I'd be delighted to eat crow.
Everyone wants to believe they're sizing up some psyops scheme. The dopamine chemistry is just too good: you've got an enemy, the feeling of being in a dramatic narrative where nothing's what it seems, the superiority of knowing that you've spotted something everyone missed, and a way of bucketing the stories you dislike as illegitimate. The threads are even worse, because if you've got an all-purpose argument for shutting down rebuttals, why not use it?
There's not a lot of 'switch' required. They're deploying the exact same PEDs (payment devices) they use in Canada, and the TCxSky/4690 and 4690 General Sales Application are nearly identical.

They just have to change one global config option and re-IPL the lanes and contactless will just work.
Absolutely this. Hand $100 to a local band that isn't having anybody show up and they're going to treat you like a damn VIP.

I find this whole kerfuffle especially ironic given that the band in question is Blink 182.

Blink 182, a band absolutely known for treating their fans shittily and putting on shitty concerts, are being berated by fans because they treated the fans shittily. I can't wait for the complaints about the shitty concerts to start.

Jeeze people. Take the hint and vote with your wallet.
mastodon.
archive is a godsend. so many paywalls
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Whatever the future holds, it’s clear that the industry is in no hurry to abandon silicon, despite the theoretical advantages of alternative materials.
“””

Such as? What a frustrating way to leave us dangling.
There is a maxim I apply to all these sorts of stories - the best explanation of a rule, political or otherwise, is not its purported reason for existence, it is the results. If a rule performs so badly, and everyone wants it changed, it just gets changed. If it doesn't get changed, it is usually because it is performing exactly as desired (if not always as intended).

I think it is based on a mathematical theorem or something, but i have long since forgotten.
Statistical mortality models are already more accurate than physicians for an average patient.
I really doubt that happens all that much. Far easier to find existing super fans and just make sure your preferred arguments make it to them. They’ll do the rest, for free.
I've framed stick built houses and assembled modular homes on site and let me tell you modular wins hands down for build quality.
This article is about long COVID, while your comment is about vaccines. What's the relation? Otherwise it seems completely off topic.

Do you imply vaccines cause long COVID? Any evidence of that?
I've owned three System76 desktops.

Highly recommended if you want a Linux desktop computer.
> they would be able to communicate with each other, and not think that their posts were deleted. However, the main forum members would never see these messages or replies by these people

Golden Rule of Trollception.
It sounds like they are taking a big bet on rewriting large components of the OS custom for Pop OS in Rust. I wish them the best but it sounds like a big commitment and I’m holding my breath for them to succeed.

I’m curious how System76 sees Pop_OS fitting into their business model which is primarily hardware.
- Nested Folders
Yosha has admitted that their analysis was flawed…
https://twitter.com/IglesiasYosha/status/1574308784566067201...
He started SpaceX, bought Tesla.
Thank you for posting this, I hadn't heard of it but it jives with my experience in very large companies.
Coherent communities are surprisingly good at detecting malicious interlopers and simply giving them a hard time is a surprisingly effective tactic. This paper from the Stanford social media lab showcases some nice research on the dynamics of competitive forum raiding on Reddit that are fairly generalizable to other contexts.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03697.pdf
We're building this at https://hello.fathom.fm :)
Almost any paper like this is worthless. It makes for good headlines. But it does nothing to further medical care
Reference needed supporting your claim that it was so widely understood.

My strong impression is that it wasn't until James Gleick published Chaos: Making a New Science in the 1980s that there was a popular treatment available to the lay public. And that book lays out many examples from the early 1960s at people like Edward Lorenz and Yoshisuke Ueda being surprised at extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, and having their discoveries met by doubt and disbelief. Which indicates pre-1960, only a fairly niche audience was strongly aware of chaos theory among either the lay public or scientists.
Congrats! Pop_OS rebuilt in Rust?? Sounds pretty sweet.

Really wish I had enough money for a System76 PC. Go on there at least 10 times a year and build out a PC or two just to dream...

Sorry for abandoning my cart with ridiculous PC specs built for one of those hoodie wearing hackers in media photos.

Edit: I'm posting too fast so for the person commenting on what boards they use...

https://tech-docs.system76.com - here is your answer.
I think most people realize this. But, how would this even work with the time delay and a closed environment?
For those curious about the capability of.something to present horrifying symptoms and still be psycho-somatic check out

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
Alas, like so many things in life we can't "solve" it, we can only minimize the negative, better ourselves, and learn to cope with it.
Just a happy Pop user- been rock solid for me for 3 years- the features they add are really seamless and well thought out. Congrats on 5 years!
Homepage History: Apple.com
This seems like unnecessary tone-policing. I said exactly what I think is incorrect in their comment and why, without any judgements about them.

If anything, my downvote comment was too childish. I was put-off by their line about not downvoting because it was “empirical”. Seemed to insinuate anyone who disagreed was just going against the facts.

Edit: oh, didn’t realize I was replying to you again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/20/ai-bots-gr... & https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/oag-fakecommentsreport...

> New York state attorney general issued a report on ... big telecommunications companies paid millions of dollars to specialist “AstroTurf” companies to generate public comments. These companies then stole people’s names and email addresses from old files and from hacked data dumps and attached them to 8.5 million public comments and half a million letters to members of Congress. All of them said that they supported the corporations’ position on something called “net neutrality,” the idea that telecommunications companies must treat all Internet content equally and not prioritize any company or service. Three AstroTurf companies — Fluent, Opt-Intelligence and React2Media — agreed to pay nearly $4 million in fines.

U.S. 2012 Smith-Mundt legalization of propaganda lead to an industrial-scale "grassroots PR" industry for use by any buyer in the "nudge" market, including a sizable subset of the global Fortune 500. This industry has since been active in online venues with meaningful audiences, http://www.techsoc.com/grassroots.html & https://twitter.com/evoleadership/status/761959456624082944 & https://qualpolicomm.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/q-a-with-ed-wa...

> Walker shows how repertoires of participation originally developed by advocacy organizations, electoral campaigns, and social movements are commercialized by public affairs consultants who offer them as professional services ... The result is an increasingly “subsidized public” where selective incentivization and rational prospecting by public affairs consultants looking to mobilize support for their clients’ interests work to get people involved in particular political processes.

2014 book http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IO0E69E/

> ..illuminates how elite consultants have adopted grassroots advocacy tactics for paying clients. Rather than being dismissed as mere 'astroturf', these consultants' campaigns should be seen as having real effects on political participation and policymaking

Organized (e.g. software-assisted) online pseudo-persona lobbyists of public opinion are usually outnumbered by individual humans, who can gain the experience to move such arms races towards higher quality debate.
Twitter Tries Calming Employees as Deal with Elon Musk Looms
I live outside a straight road.

What other motorcyclists do you see, other than recreational ones?
Behavioural Design 101: Psychology mechanisms in persuasive design
Interesting. I'll just mention, perhaps you knew, that CMYK is a little tricky since it is a little over-specified: 100% CMY the same as 100% ... in theory. What is it called, undercolor removal? (Yeah: [1])

Grayscale could be weird if gamma is taken into account. (I recall that there are blending modes at least that assume you convert to a 1.0 gamma, do the blend, then convert back to the original gamma.)

[1] http://printwiki.org/Undercolor_Removal
Seems kind of awkward to make the user decide which one is the hypotenuse.

If they make a mistake there, the program will say "not right angled".

It would be more user friendly if the program prompted for the three sides without any special labels, and the program could detect which is the hypotenuse.
probably posted when people stop being busy and browse before bed?
I really like Pop Os. I've always liked Debian descended distros, and prior to this I was using Ubuntu. While I like it, I always found a lot of rough edges esp. when it came to proprietary drivers, etc. where things didn't always work without some tweaking. Pop Os on the other hand seems to "just work" - it is like a polished version of Ubuntu with a nice selection of apps in the Pop Shop. Theme is pretty nice as well as a bonus.
Well, it can be looked at in more ways than one. Maybe he was just a jerk, or perhaps he was giving an object lesson. Details matter and the boss was paying attention. You decide.
Look simple rule based algos can be just as effective. The hard part is not diagnosis. It's getting the human to comply with treatment
> Really? You don't think that living in a pandemic and also getting the disease associated with that pandemic wouldn't be an inherently more stressful situation than not getting the disease?

Well, two things. First, I think I addressed that in the first point of my second paragraph. Second, I don't believe it matters what I think, as I'm not an expert, or even terribly well informed, on this subject.

Refer to the list of authors at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01909-w

It's possible that those 37 qualified & experienced professionals have missed some basic aspects of epidemiology, statistics, etc that are obvious to an untrained amateur who hasn't looked at the source data -- but that supposition shouldn't be the starting position of a casual reader, and it's that exhausting phenomenon I rail against.

HN readership includes some breathtakingly smart people - but the rest of us don't acquire that via forum-osmosis.
> We humans are incredibly good at elimination of factors & differential diagnosis.

I don't automatically buy this.

Didn't heart attack care in the ER get dramatically better when people started following checklists? That suggests that human doctors aren't that great at even getting the basics correct.

In addition, most doctors are below average. So, maybe the best doctors are better than the AI. However, I may not have access to that doctor and the AI may be better than all the doctors I have access to.
Plenty of people develop using wsl2 - perhaps the author should have asked for advice instead of writing a ranty blog post pointing out tradeoffs that are easy to work around for a big benefit
It's been crazy to watch how fast these flags are coming lol

IMO the more crazy the amount the more likely this gets overturned. It's probably counter-productive to the plantiffs stated objective to ask for trillions lol. Regardless, Jones or the businesses don't have to pay until all the appeals are done. So increasing the odds of appeal helps no one.

Fun Fact, 2.75T is approximately the GDP of France.
Respect for the craft and those that practice it.
> I am not convinced it will dent anything other than home and car prices.

It will. All corporations will see their debt servicing cost go up. A lot. They'll start the layoffs. How many posts on HN are about layoffs at this and that well-known tech company?

Once people fear for their job, they'll start being more cautious with their spending. Less demand means prices will go down.

At least that's how the Fed thinks. They are trying to destroy demand. They know they can't increase supply (obviously), so they are going after the demand. If 3.75% is not enough (spoiler alert, it won't be enough), they'll go to 4.5%. And then to 5%. If it's still not enough (spoiler alert, ... it won't be enough), they'll go higher.

You may not be convinced, and it looks like a lot of people are unconvinced, but the Fed means business. All the members of the Fed know history, and know that in the '70s the Fed lacked the backbone to keep the rates high enough long enough to beat the inflation. They were trying to have both low inflation and some semblance of growth. They got neither. Stagflation for a whole decade.

People who forget history repeat it. Powell will not let history repeat on his watch.
The science is fascinating, the conclusions compelling, but why didn't these mutations appear during Justinian's Plague?[1] And if mutations helping resistance to plague were already present from 550AD, why was the Black Plague so devastating 800 years later? 800 years is plenty of time for the mutations to have spread to all of Europe, and yet Black Plague killed as much as 60% of the total European population.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
This pretty much describes the political situation where I live (Vancouver) as well
If it did; which wouldn't take much - it sure would change what he was building.

I'm posting too fast so I'm editing this: If Elon slapped storage into each of those sats he could use a system like IPFS to store data and create say... a world wide censorship-proof social media company that not even governments could block (without direct action).
Lots of HN folks like underdogs who are sticking it to FAANG companies, which is the image that Brave is trying to present. Whether or not they are actually sticking it to anyone is debatable, but i really dont think its surprising that Brave fans hang out at hn.
Sketching and drawing can be easily done on iPad or iPad Air. OP specifically wanted to know what 'Pro' can do which other types of iPad can't.
Don’t upvote and then reply. Reply and then upvote. That’s when I’ve seen it most and how I handle it.
By that metric, rust must be the worst programming language ever ;)
Right-wing “Christianity” bears no resemblance to “Christianity” unless you count uniforms. These are still the times and they might be worse due to the internet-fueled crazies.
I read about this researcher using GANs to create synthetic patient data, cool stuff. She had a problem she couldn't solve though: how do you validate that your synthetic patients look real?
I would think anyone doing something like that would make contractors sign an NDA.
Lesion symptom mapping of depression identifies risk & resilience brain regions
Except that it's self-reported symptoms, from people who know whether or not they had COVID. Doesn't seem like especially reliable data.
I am yet to see the purported death of the internet that everyone was crying hoarse about during the net neutrality debate.
This is inaccurate- the legal rent remains the legal rent, and all increases are attached to the legal rent.

The landlord can decide to change the rent to anything up to the legal rent, but cannot go over.
Ask HN: Does Maslow's hierarchy break apart with the unemployed?
Scenario: you are long term unemployed, your immediate needs differ from the employed. Health insurance, and some welfare, might be taken care of with some outside (usually government) assistance. But, you are more likely in a worse motivational state to be very effective at finding work.

A highly popular view is that self-improvement should come before a job offer. If you have to emphasize esteem and social belonging to optimize your chances in being employable, but you also need the job to satisfy financial and physical needs, doesn't that turn some of the pyramid on its head?

Among almost everything people do, finding work is more optimized for people who are well-connected, confident, and respected. These traits are associated with middle-upper tiers of the pyramid, but are also often treated as recommended prerequisites to getting a job more quickly- something that most people need to satisfy physical and financial safety needs. At least in the way most job markets are set up.
AFAIK, Theranos employees weren't particularly well-compensated.
Nice try, Topic Dilutor
Amazing that HN of all places are taking this childish LARP seriously.

> Guys they are trying to disrupt my obscure forum about some niche technical subject!

> Who?

> Them!
Advocates want landlords to manage their property as unprofitably as possible. These kinds of anti-profit policies are enormously harmful to housing affordability/availability. See rent control for example:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
Minus

https://minus.social/
If you boost your DHT enough through exercise, you’ll lose even more hair :D
Interesting, could you explain more about the clinical markings? Was this mentioned in the paper itself or was it later commentary?
Something Toxic Flourishes in Your Brain After Too Much Hard Work
>In the Gambia, nearly 70 children died as a result of taking the syrups, prompting the WHO to issue a global alert earlier this month. The Indian authorities and the cough syrup manufacturer, Maiden Pharmaceuticals, said that the products had only been exported to the Gambia.

>The company has been blacklisted by Indian authorities numerous times for quality violations and is among nearly 40 Indian pharmaceutical companies blacklisted by Vietnam for exporting sub-standard products.

>Local media in Indonesia said that market traders were still selling the banned products, saying that buyers “know the risk”.

This sounds like a problem of lack of regulation, along with poverty leading to desperate decisions like buying the cheap cough medicine
All that reserve bank money printing had to go somewhere.