losteric

Since when is bank balance considered in credit scores and checks?

There is no comfortable retirement if the process of obviating our own jobs is not coupled with appropriate socioeconomic changes.

This seems to target people who are both highly mobile and have broad networks of mobile contacts.

So as I understand it:

- Panzi is an isolated, hard-to-access area where malnutrition, prior epidemics, and seasonal flu have already weakened the population.

- Poor healthcare infrastructure and delayed medical intervention have amplified deaths.

- There is no evidence of rapid or widespread transmission. (see first point).

- Samples have been retrieved for testing. At this point, there is no information on transmission vector (assuming it’s even a disease)

Why does the architect of blob storage matter? The hash can be calculated as data streams in for the first write, before data gets dispersed into multiple physically stored blocks.

On my teams, if someone got paged off-hours they would just work less the day after the event. imo it should just be part of the regular salary/work expectations, incentivizing keeping oncall low

I have occasionally convinced teams to adopt both oncall and sprint cycles aligned with Tuesday [1] - the dev teams all loved it. Management was a harder sell, but by and large were happier with the extra days to communicate results/get metrics before their own Friday deadlines.

[1] also Wednesday/Thursdays. Wednesdays were my favorite in good working environments, it felt like running a successful marathon, but it was more prone to falling apart due to short-term thinking.

Perhaps selecting for posts with the highest quality reply engagement? If many different people were drawn to lengthy discussions, that suggests the content sparks thoughts that others then feel compelled to engage with. Or select for the emotional content of replies, awe/empathy/anger, depending on what one wants from HN?

It’s interesting that American neoliberalism perpetuates this thinking of staunch independence, an unrealistic notion that every man fully defends and stands for their own interests. It seems to espouse creating the terrifying Hobbesian “”natural state””… any notion of collective defense by default, as outlined here, is rejected as “idealistic socialism/paternal states”… even that phrase, “paternal”, being used as a pejorative says so much about the American psyche (I still blame Cold War-era anti-communist propaganda for lobotomizing America’s society thinking capabilities).

That’s really the key difference between US and European thinking on privacy. Europe was slow but always thought it was fucked up. Americans don’t seem to grasp why they should care or understand how perverse their blindsight is.

I read through the blog post and entry page twice each - yeah still confused. The pitch reads like an engineer celebrating their implementation.

What I took away is: it’s a collaborative IDE for infrastructure? with some nifty simulators to catch issues earlier, and “somehow” changes are managed outside the popular git+pipelines workflows?

There are elements of this that I like (faster validations that CDK deployments ). Those aspects are bundled with confusing, either unnecessary or poorly communicated, other elements. “Replacement for IaC” - is there a new paradigm? Or is IaC just now a graph in this local application? Because you tout being able to program new service models, so the code isn’t gone…

The essence seems to be

1. Amazon is suing this person on the basis of contracts which did not forbid this behavior

2. the DOJ is presumably involved because this looks like criminal kickbacks

3. This person is just arguing against (1)

I would guess the DOJ approached Amazon first, and this is part of Amazon trying to cover their ass and avoid deeper scrutiny into the company’s role of enabling and agreeing to alleged kickbacks

I’m confused by the therabreath story and how it relates to google trends being bad? I see data that matches all my expectations for searches of that mouthwash.

What are you missing? What do you want more of?

and one can absolutely get examined by a “pilot’s doctors”

Bans have helped fight other protection rackets.

Businesses are less willing to comply with the mob when the government is swinging a bigger stick. And payments/criminal rewards get pressured down when it’s blatantly illegal

Note the study involves injections. The oral route is subject to digestion.

itt people are talking about specific policy actions by Biden. Is there a causal effect we can attribute to Trump?

If height limits were raised with zoning for multi family housing, those investments would sky rocket faster than under NIMBY

Subsidized housing, through vouchers or rent control. At least in my city.

Usually? Can you share one example?

Why do you say that? I’ve never had that happen with any other of my Google data opt-outs.

It’s literally selecting for people who can tell the best stories. Not great for any company dependent on moving fast with autonomy, with a genuine mission.

Plus “looking for grit” really means “looking for someone to work long hours (typically without good odds of realizing fair equity)”… super unethical to even attempt to be selecting for people with trauatic and toxic Pasts.

If they wanted to select candidates for learning quickly, being adaptive, whatever… just test for that.

Has Gavin Newsom done something equally recent and newsworthy as failing to be nominated by his party? Otherwise... ???

Jamming or triangulate the phones? Also yes, anti satellite weapons.

> Look at Haskell and Rust jobs. They might have some of the most highest paying but most of them get paid less

I would bet that's because there are a large number projects that got written in Haskell/Rust by someone looking to learn on-the-job, for a highly non-technical business. Now anyone hired to implement new business capabilities is inherently locked in to "low-ROI" work, short of convincing the business of a big rewrite in a new language (unsurprisingly impossible)... and they'll probably get someone else looking to learn the language on the job :)

Then there are HFTs with valuable and effective software, which can fully exploit the skills of an advanced engineer to quickly make the company 10x+ their wages - naturally such jobs pay a bit more.

Jobs basically pay based on the rarity of the skill set and the profit capital owners can extract from the laborer.

Don't "invest" in a rare/difficult-to-acquire skill set which is not profitable (but also, don't assume life needs to be an investment - we only have the one :)

Duolingo is good at going from nothing to something. That’s important.

I noticed in this app, trying a language I don’t know, I immediately get blocked on lesson 1 step 2 - my answer is wrong, but I know nothing and there are zero mechanisms to learn without prior context to guess and extrapolate upon.

There’s definitely a gap for going from zero to something.

The guided conversation is too many words at once, it’s overwhelming. I immediately see a prompt to assemble two sentences from a list of words I don’t know without translations or hints. It’s the opposite problem of Duolingo drilling the same phrase a dozen times a day.

Do you thumbs down the bad responses?

Why would random individual people put in work, a scientist's life, into "getting people to pay new taxes without blowback"? Why would someone do that... just for fun?

And if there is a wealthy elite conspiracy behind it - why are they so bad at collusion? Taxes have only gone down over time.

There are no "global cloud seeding" projects. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/28/fac... anything like that would be trivially observed by layperson scientists.

(Also cloud seeding = more rain, drought = less rain)

Did you ever wonder to validate the things you "started hearing"?