jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If the financials worked out nobody would care about how delusional the story of "We" was. I'd wager that the vast majority of people using WeWork Spaces didn't care about the fluff or the community or social events.

They had a desirable product for a reasonable price, and I enjoyed working out of WeWork spaces.

It seems like the only truly delusional party was well-capitalized investors throwing money at an (poorly executed) old-school business model with a thin veneer of innovation.
> Also, do you often send messages to people you don't know via chat apps linked to phone numbers?

Haha, thanks for the chuckle.
Isn't this what pipes are for?
It means their body responds to the virus, we aren't necessarily clear on why. Supposedly, this could be because they came in contact with SAR COV-2 OR some other virus which enabled the response.

In this case, 77% of participants were in the medical profession and were evaluated between May and June 2020. I suspect they came in contact with SAR COV-2 and didn't even realize it (body fought it off).

What this study is really suggesting is that your body either (a) has an immune response from previous contact (likely due to similarity with regular corona viruses) or (b) lots of people show no symptoms (we know this) and that they obtain an immune response from it.

In either case, the SAR COV-2 is likely far-less dangerous in the sense that more people have it and there are less deaths per infection OR many of us have a natural immune response (more than previously suspected).
> I think the question might be "why might someone gatekeep at all?"

We'd always go through the same thing with folks who were new to interviewing with a candidate who couldn't quite cut it.

In the following discussion they'd be hesitant to say no and maybe go into how they seemed nice or whatever. Then we'd ask "Ok, would you want them starting on your project with you tomorrow?" Well, no...
Stellar actually does nothing to prevent double-spends as it is the consensus layer and not the ledger. The ledger prevents double spends in mobilecoin by using a proof called a "key image" which is part of CryptoNote (https://bytecoin.org/old/whitepaper.pdf). Essentially, a ring signature is produced by the user which says "one of these N transactions belong to me" and the key image proves that one of the members of the set is a valid transaction without revealing which transaction was valid (and preventing future reuse of the valid input).
Just in case you're not already familiar with it - there's a niche sub-genre of games called "bridge simulators" that involve co-operative team play on a simulated starship bridge. Each player taking a different crew station (sensors, navigation, weapons, that sort of thing), plus a commander running the show - they all have to work together to complete "missions".

It's basically a game version of the bridge scenes you see on sci-fi shows like Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica.

Artemis Bridge Simulator is probably the best known one (though quite long in the tooth at this stage), there are a few others like Starship Horizons or Empty Epsilon.

This community should be a good source of info on the topic:
https://bridgesim.net/

They're sometimes used for educational and team-building purposes too - e.g. those "space camps" popular in the US that other users have mentioned here.

This one in particular seems geared towards that use case:
https://thoriumsim.com/docs/overview
Here's mine -
We were running on Cloud Foundry, had one DevOps person that mostly dealt with Jenkins, payed for 32-64GB RAM.
Decided to move to K8s (Azure AKS),
Three months later we have 4-6 DevOps people dealing with networking, cross-az replication, cluster size and autoscaling,
And we're paying thousands of $$$ pm for a minimum of 6 64GB VMs.
FAIL
Walnut creek (suburban city near San Francisco) budget is about $1500 per resident, Contra Costa county, which contains Walnut Creek, spends about $3500 per resident. San Francisco is like $14000 per resident.
Twitter along with Farcebook are making a gesture/paying homage to the the new Regime. Biden is their new King, they must please him to keep Section 230 away....

All theater for the masses....enjoy....
Yes, consider what has happened here carefully. Maybe she shouldn't be allowed to, and should consider that 20 minute code as not existing. (Because on day 1 of her week, she could have written it properly.) That does not make it technical debt of 1 day. It means it didn't actually exist.

Maybe this is really a variation of the sunk cost fallacy or something similar, where if something seems to exist in some form, then people can't get their minds around the fact htat only 20 minutes of it actually exists and the rest simply doesn't and needs to be written if they want it to.

EDIT: all these downvoters are wrong. You say "now you have both wasted time" but the 20 minutes wasn't debt. It was the cost of the call option. For example in the other poster's example where a salesperson sold some code that didn't exist, his non-programming version of it wasn't debt toward the final thing: it was the cost he paid for the call option of being able to sell the whole thing. Hopefully he sold the option under cost :) his payment on the option has nothing to do with it.
"In a handful of districts the response was too small to be reliable, which is why Northern Ireland was excluded."
Statements of CEOs and acquiring companies around the time of acquisition should be valued at exactly nothing. They'll do what ever they want to do in time no matter what they say today.
I'm not entirely sure you read the code I'm referring to. There's no box there.
There have been a few times when we've had customers reach out, and say that they're experiencing symptoms and that they want to order the test. Currently we sell the strips direct-to-consumer on our site, and our fastest shipping option is next business day. So in the event that the customer is experiencing symptoms, and doesn't have a test on-hand, we'll recommend they get in-person treatment.

However, we've just partnered with a major nationwide retailer to to make getting the test easier/faster, and are looking into same-day delivery options for e-commerce.

Additionally, we've seen a good number of customers buying the test preemptively.
Went to LA and Maui over the past two years and within a month after both I had to close the card.

So I've just been going into the station and paying with ApplePay if the POS device supports it. Then cash
Software written in dynamically typed languages can be robust, just as software written in the most strongly typed language can still be buggy.

As an user of such critical piece of software, I would ask the following questions:

* Is the software popular?

* For how many years it has been battle tested?

* Are there many reports of data corruption?

* Is it well maintained?

* Do the maintainers provide support?

Borg/Attic has been greatly used for many years now and check all the boxes above. I don't think I've ever read about data corruption that was caused by a bug in it.

Which language it is written in is nothing more than a mere curiosity for me.
DCA still wins 60% of the time over all rolling 12 month periods going back to 1926.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/05/the-lump-sum-vs-dol...
Planting trees will trap some atmospheric carbon in the lumber. However, once the lifespan of the tree is over and it starts rotting away, most of the carbon will get released back into the atmosphere, as it has been happening for millions of years.

In my opinion, it's not about planting the trees, it's about finding a way to turn the carbon trapped by them into something logistically and economically comparable to fossil fuels.
Yeah, that's what I was getting at by saying "dead".

But with the right amount of modafinil, I'm fine.

And without the lamotrigine, there's the risk that I'll go hypomanic. Which can get to be not fun for me and everyone around me.
xscreensaver can run any hack in the root window. Some work better than others depending on how they update/draw on the screen.
I agree the smartphone market is not a zero sum game, not any more than social networks, etc. I am trying to avoid a war, but explain what I am seeing. To be honest, I am rooting for both.

What I saw today was iPhone achieving parity with some of Android's features. What I also see is Android having more handsets, more manufacturers and carriers, and eventually more users. I think it is fair to say that the new iPhone was nice, but that it wasn't good enough to slow that momentum.

If it came off as fanboy, I apologize. Folks get deeply entrenched, so there's no way to make everyone happy.
Wow. That one was served up t-ball style.
This hits on one of the biggest obstacles to people perceiving web apps as "real apps". Most web pages feel, and in actually are, very disposable. You read an article at a site once, you don't want those assets to persist on your hard drive where they'll never be reused. Many people clear their caches regularly.

What we need is a way for a site to say "i'm an app" which will tell the browser to store the cache in a separate bucket. Then when users go to clear their cache, there is a separate checkbox for web apps which is uncheck by default (just how passwords are unchecked by default).

This is what Mozilla should be working on with it's web apps project. The installation part is just mascara. We need the browsers to do the distinguishing, not users.
It reads:

Arc90 ( Readability )
Copyright © Arc90 Inc. Readability is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Followed by the Apache 2 license.
Why is it so hard to understand?

Apple's objective isn't to become the largest. Apple does not see this as a winner-take-all platform war. Apple's core values are all about it's ability to change things, it's ability to think different, it's ability to move forward without obstacles.

Apple wants to make, and sell, the best and most beautiful devices they can imagine. For that they don't need to "own the market", their platform doesn't even need to "win". Whenever Apple thought that their platform was limiting their ability to innovate they have dumped the platform and build a better one. That's the kind of business Apple is.

Apple doesn't compete with Nokia for the €40 phone market, Nokia does a great job already in that market. Apple is competing in the high-end smart phone market and only in this small market does it want to "win" in any sense.

Apple sometimes finds itself in a situation where there is not competition, that's fine too. Just don't expect Apple to make something cheap for the lower-end of the market. More often then not, someone else will fill that niche soon enough.

Apple only needs two things: (one) An open market of multiple competing platforms with shared open standards and protocols so that devices can work together. (two) Something special to differentiate itself by, often a level of quality and total integration, the realization of a coherent idea.

About the only thing Apple can't accept is a market where someone else controls an essential part of the market, may it be either some piece of hardware, or software, a protocol, or even the structure of the market itself.

To have someone else control the market would mean that someone else controls the speed of change. It would severely limit Apple's ability to innovate. And it's ability to innovate is the heart and soul of Apple.
I've only used Windows Mobile on Symbol handheld scanners, and I have to say it's the worst OS EVER. It's a nightmare trying to get that thing configured properly for network connections since it still thinks that Dial-Up with a modem is a first class citizen.
Blackberry is actually the Windows of mobile
Acknowledgments
Portions of this Apple Software may utilize the following copyrighted material, the use of which is hereby acknowledged.

Then after several other acknowledgements:

Arc90 ( Readability )
Copyright © Arc90 Inc. Readability is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Followed by a full copy of the Apache License, V2
There are many sites that cover gadgets and their global hit. What I was doing here was talking about my own personal experience, which I believe is fair. Not everyone shares the same experience, and there are many outlets to share those viewpoints. But here in the US, AT&T is a major problem, and it has been such a bad problem, it has contributed greatly to my looking for an alternative.
PG posted exactly this poll about a week and a half ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445039
That is an developer answer if I've ever heard one! ;)
I'm blown away by the simplicity of this. Also, there's something that feels weird about taking two things people pay for (translation and learning a new language) and somehow simultaneously making them both free.

This is both exciting and ingenious.
That's probably useful in some cases but I'd still recommend pinning the version, since different versions of prettier format code differently and different team members will end up with conflicting changes.
This article sounds a lot like Russian roulette. Increasing the number of chambers making it safer to play. It's not clear to me that the virus would just die out. I'll probably end up talking out of my hat but with graph of all the connections (sexual encounters). Would it not be possible to show that you'd need a very connected graph where most people have a small number of encounters and that almost everyone sticks to a low number. One hyper connected infected person (or multitple), could end up infecting a large part of the graph. I would assume that if he affects a large enough number of people, they (before discovering their infection) could infect their connection and ... snowball. In their model, they seem to say that even if their are very promiscuous people, getting non promiscuous people to get more connected would improve the odds. I don't see how that would reduce the number of infected people and kill the virus.

Like I said, I have no clue if this is correct or complete crap, never done anything related to disease and how they spread.
What information do you not want to share that you think they have but don't need?
Yeah I know the trick and I explain it a bit more in another article on my blog.

Most of the time it's more keystrokes than using :s though, so I'm not a big fan of it. But I see the appeal :)
I'm not sure I understand your criticism. The USD is used to buy BTC. The BTC is then sold for EUR. There's no Forex trade, not directly at least.
How about we just ensure everyone has enough by implementing UBI or a negative tax rate, combined with medicare for all? Then everyone has what they need without the complexity of turning humans into financial objects.
Can you define “smart crowd”? It seems like all large gatherings are by definition “dumb” due to group dynamics that add friction to challenge existing norms. The “smartest crowd” may be the America due to the freedoms to create as many crowds—within reason—as one wants. A crowd of crowds as it were.
Here is something similar for Tech Leads: https://techleadcompass.com/
:accountant: :chart: :no-sign: :rocket:

That would sum most of it up.
Radix economy doesn't make sense on its own, IMO. You've got to incorporate signal strength somehow. Its like arguing that TPSK outperforms BPSK and QPSK on certain metrics. Meanwhile, the world moved on to higher-modulation QAM and OFDM.

Phrased a little differently: radix economy is obsolete - you should be using the Shannon channel capacity limit to analyze the system's information density.
I don't really understand what's the advantage of ECS compared to OOP composition.
Anyone here can shed some light on the matter?
It is for people who are working on side-projects, startups and or want to build a startup. It is open for everyone. It is to help each other as well as find someone to work with on a project.
When I worked in fast food in high school, we had a standing policy that all police officers got the 50% off employee discount. Generally, having a couple cruisers in the parking lot deterred trouble.
> clinically depressed people often build an elaborate, self-consistent understanding that, yes, they and their future are completely fucked

Which reinforces the apathy and anhedonia, which (assuming you're aware of them) just feed back into the mental model. Obvious vicious circle is obvious, but still vicious.
More days above 7.5% would be true even if the underlying trendline was going up anyway.

They really should plot the moving average and include a longer timeseries - plotting the trendline before and after would be trying to prove what they are trying to show, rather than trying to work out whether what they are trying to show (our fancy new design wasn't a complete waste of time) is actually true.
Marry her!
I've not had Flash installed for 2 years and the single barrier I have (streaming video) is replaced with VLC or youtube-dl. Not a problem in sight, though I originally expected there to be.
Well, if you do any unsafe operations, all bets are off. There aren't many useful things you can do on the moon that aren't unsafe operations. SpaceX is working on self-driving rockets that wrap some of the unsafe operations and provide a safe interface, but opinions vary on how safe the resulting system will actually be.
We're obviously going to take this opportunity to dunk of facebook because it's funny, but let's not forget that there are some valuable cultural assets that facebook hosts, with groups such as "Foods with threatening auras" and "Animals in predicaments."

I long ago tamed the facebook engagement algorithm by simply unfollowing everything and everyone except these legitimate, useful types of entertainment venues.
I run Arch Linux on Thinkpads. I’ve never had an issue with hibernation.

If you stick to “common” hardware and a high quality distribution you should be fine.
How though? Every past author of that script would be notified of such a change. It'd be insane if all of them would pretend they didn't see it and accept that change.
> You said it yourself, switching would be a complication, and manufacturers are happy to maximize that complication as much as possible.

Actually I said it would be a quality of life hit. I’m convinced that what I use are already the best choices, so switching to something else would feel like a quality of life hit. Bet you I’m not the only one that uses something just because I like it the most.

It would also be a complication, but for me, personally? Somewhere between a day and a weekend to bootstrap and I would replace things as I go. Actually I’ve done this at a few points in my life.

I feel your pain on the multi-protocol front. I used to be a heavy user of Adium, but at some point that wasn’t sustainable. Sticking mostly with iMessage does feel like a quality of life downgrade in many ways, but it’s also an upgrade in a few other ways, so call it it a wash? Sidegrade maybe?
I don't think the fault is with Ubuntu. configure scripts are responsible for coping with variations between different distros. lightning's configure script fails to accommodate the way Ubuntu installs the binutils-dev package. It works ok with (Red Hat based) Amazon Linux 2 on x86-64. It failed on Amazon Linux 2 on AArch64 though, with a seemingly unrelated issue, which was the second bug I reported.

I don't have the specifics to hand. I also don't know autotools, so I'm not well positioned to write a fix.
If there was a standard way to define hotkey bindings, a simple linter could take care of that. It just shows how far we still have to go in terms of good UI creation tooling.
5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.”

My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”
I'm curious what your reasoning is for having that opinion.
You know, whether right or wrong in this case, I think you're on to something. As a culture, we do like to focus on singletons - we like the idea of lone geniuses toiling away and changing the world and skip over the amount of team-work/collaboration that goes into real advances.

So I wonder: is this specific to our culture or is a multi-cultural thing? If it is multi-cultural, then an explanation might be that hyper-focus on individual accomplishment was a more accurate perspective in our hunter-gatherer days; fewer people means that each person has a bigger relative impact.
I would say something like Swift, which would empower him to make apps that could make money too.

http://www.learnswift.tips/

Also a Virtual Machine, such as VirtualBox would help him learn how other operating systems work without breaking his own computer.
>No sane person in the United States of whatever political party or creed would have said a rescue mission that had a reasonable chance of success was not worth the money and risk.

I think most of us have the sentimental and emotional content that we would want the rescue mission to go forward. However, if you were to ignore the feel-good effects, it is very difficult to argue that the mission would maximize human well-being. I only think it is an obvious decision with a failure of perspective. Let me try to characterize some of the considerations in the most approximate and non-rigorous manner.

Ignoring the risk to the rescuers, let's say the cost of the mission is something like $80M per astronaut life saved. If there is 80% chance of success that is equivalent to $100M/life or if there's a 10% chance of success that is $800M/life.

With big numbers, it starts to become a society-level decision about how individual lives are valued. What are the resources we're willing to devote to the rescue of a trapped coal-miner, the cancer treatment of a child with poor parents, a medical evacuation from Antarctica, or the rescue of someone who has been captured by pirates?

One could argue that these astronauts merit greater rescue efforts, since they are spearheading humanity's exploration into space, but you could also argue that they are sufficiently sophisticated to understand the risks they were taking on.

Let's say an aircraft carrier takes two days to meet up with a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean to airlift a girl with an appendicitis to its shipboard hospital. Does the $20M/day operating cost of a carrier count as resources spent on that one child? Probably not, because thousands of crew members are going about their regular training regardless of where they are, and carrier is doing its job of being some predetermined general vicinity. While the justification for the expense of those other goals can be debated, they don't happen to be an opportunity cost of rescuing that girl.

On the other hand, the shuttle crew rescue mission would likely have been entirely in pursuit of one singular goal. The depreciation and consumption of resources could not be considered to serve other purposes. The salaries paid might be thought of as a transfer rather than a destruction of wealth, yet they too represent the efforts of a large work force of highly competent people not doing another tasks for that same pay.

The other benefits of such a mission really are difficult to project. For example, maybe the value of additional capabilities that would have been developed in pursuit of rescuing the astronauts would have been worth it. Perhaps the feel-good effects alone would have been worth as much as anything else that we spend money on that inspires us.

While it is the task of good leaders to divine when unreasonable expenses should be taken when the incalculable benefits are worth it, terrible leaders can be characterized as people who fail to have perspective and don't appreciate costs, and who make rash decisions without considering the implications.
Why would you minify your code during development? Isn't minified code for production?