skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skydiving in the USA has one death per 130k jumps. Since a jump from a typical 14k feet takes about 60 seconds of freefall, that means there is a death every 2,200 skydive-hours.

There were 390 motorcyclist deaths per billion vehicle miles in the USA in 2006. Assuming motorbikes average ~40mph (between city and highway), that works out a death every 64,000 motorbike-hours.

So skydiving is significantly more dangerous per unit time.
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You could have a USB-C port on the laptop but with the charger end of the cable connected by a proprietary magnetic plug.

So when travelling you could use any available charger, but when in the home or office you'd have the safety of the breakaway mag connection.
The BBC has all kinds of problems. Waiting for a 'line to take' from politicians is emphatically not one of them.
This is crazy misleading. According to OECD taxing wages 2019, only single tax payers on significantly above median salary pay more than 35% tax and social security contributions combined in Austria. This places Austria far in excess of the OECD average.

Rather than being some low tax paradise, the US is around the OECD average in most categories.

As for things like vat, they look far worse than they are when you realise a lot of goods are zero rated, and most people spend only a s portion of their income on good due VAT. Last I checked in the UK it adds ca 3 percentage points to my tax overall tax burden. I don't pay much more tax here than I would in any number of US states at my income level.

When factoring in health insurance, it gets even closer. Having spent time both places, I'd pick European tax levels over 'US conditions' (a term frequently used to scare voters in many European countries) any day.

As for being immoral: we've voted for these tax levels. Surveys in the UK often show us prepared to accept increases as long as they go to the right things, like the NHS.

Feel free to enjoy our trains - I've never met a European that is as concerned with subsidising foreigners travelling on them as you are on our behalf.
I dislike Reddit purely on a technical level - their new UI is a disaster and is way too heavy, they’re sending you more JavaScript than actual content.
I'm currently experiencing this, and especially the whole delivery vs discovery, knows vs unknowns and their impacts on estimations. It's quite interesting, especially how differently you have to handle delivery vs discovery projects.

Basically, my team consists of some devops engineers mostly working on maintaining and extending the config management, and some other technical consultants who deliver and execute projects, ideally fully standardized.

For the standard delivery projects, it's extremely valuable to hammer the scope down into a precisely known constant and track the time spent to implement specific parts, as well as the delays incurred for different reasons. This allows for a strong, deliberate optimization of execution time with a measurable, predictable business impact as well as a reliable estimation of these tasks.

Discovery projects on the other hand? Yeah. We're pretty good at giving a lower bound for the time necessary by tracking similar tasks in a job. Extending a database entity is going to take a roughly similar time each time. Packaging, downloading and extracting binaries isn't going to differ that much in time from the last 3 times we did that. If you can identify a bunch of similar tasks you've done some time ago already, you can give a lower bound - "The tasks we consider familiar will take about 2 weeks".

But after that? Who knows. At that point we're rather estimating by asking: When do you stop feeling silly about it? Do you need a year to do this? A month? Two weeks? A week? A day? So usually we hand our project managers something like "This will take 2 weeks we know, plus 3ish weeks we don't know".
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Probably the restaurants have a contract with Grubhub that allows them to use the restaurant's logo, name etc. for marketing purposes.
I know that kind of environment too. Usually some department head is a YES person, saying the delivery can be done in some timeframe X. Then timeframe X is told to the dev team and the dev team says X + 50 days. Then the dept. head goes back to the sales team and by that time it's too late. Then the entire organization pushes down on the dev team with fury. The product is of course released in X + 75. (because you always need to double or triple the dev team estimate)

Those environments are toxic and the sign of toxicity is that the estimation process is not up for discussion (AKA the dept head keeps doing it again and again and no heads roll)
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It seems every day the older generation becomes a worse threat for the younger generation
And then lots of people have bouncers to be there 24x7.
What I said was that you've clearly been using HN for ideological battle. That's clear from your comment history. It's not what this site is for—actually it's worse than that: it destroys what the site is for, i.e. intellectual curiosity. Therefore we have little choice but to ban accounts that do that, regardless of what flavor of ideology you favor.
I got the same thing. The actual course info / slides / lectures is here: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/fall17/lectures/
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Undernet has always been flaky.

I help run a irc network which was spawned out of Undernet #linux around 15 years ago, because even back then we were really unhappy with general instability and how Undernet was run. Back then, it would split or simply go down several times a day.

We were making the claim that “Undernet is dying” even back then.

A few people and #linux channel-ops legitimately asked “How hard can it be?” and surprise surprise: not very.

So here we are 15 years later, aside from some very few incidents, with almost zero downtime.

Some servers has gone, some new have arrived. Same with oppers.

But the network is still there and all the same IRC-clients and users can still reach us.

IRC is one of the best things Internet has to offer, and these days people are working furiously to avoid learning what has made it so great.
This reads like a request for a job/project/work-for-money. Feel free to add yourself to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325924
That might be true, but the reason for this recommendation is because botulism spores can exist in honey and the systems (mostly gut bacteria, from what I understand) of infants are not developed enough to deal with it, unlike older children and adults.

AFAIK, spores have not been observed in US-sourced honey, but that is no guarantee.
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>People will continue to argue about CO2, and it'd a red haring. Humanity needs to focus on the actual Flu and not the runny nose/sniffles.

You have to be careful about magnifying good plans into a design to destroy and replace every institution of power. If you let your views about how society should be organized piggyback on the need to solve problems, you'll end up fighting for a communist revolution instead of fighting climate change.

There are plenty of ways to address this issue that don't involve the larger problem, (the larger problem being society, human nature, the universal wavefunction and the boundary conditions of the universe...) and you can implement them without having to fight off opposition from everyone else on earth.

Regular old techniques like funding research and taxing externalities can help with this problem, and the opposition to them is going to be far smaller than the opposition to replacing capitalism, or whatever bigger-picture solution you're alluding to.
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"that these people exist"

Thats what I was responding to. I disagree, because the cult in the film is a device, not the central point of the film. The same logic would conclude that Kubric believes that there are obelisk gateways to hyperspace orbiting Jupiter.
It’s because if people were actually serious, they’d either stop using 90% of the power they use or be investing heavily in nuclear power, both making it cheaper and safer. There’s no short or mid term solutions for large scale batteries that will make renewables a viable alternative. But if we’d started moving from coal to nuclear when this crisis first was understood, it’d already be over.
Rust was created by/for systems programmers who are in exactly that situation - where performance and control are not optional - and thus have been stuck writing C++ for decades. Although C++ has evolved over the years, there are pain points, particularly regarding modularity, that persist and may require a clean break.

It's still somewhat early but I do already see software being written in Rust with best in class performance (take ripgrep for a prominent example), so lumping it in with Go and Python is really a category error in my opinion.

Personally, I'm still writing C++ for the platform support, etc. but not pretending to like it.
Can you provide some examples of documentation you do like?

While I can't ever remember reading some documentation and saying, "Wow, that was fun!", so I can't say there's any documentation I like. But I do find that the MSDN documentation usually gets me working, and not reading documentation much faster than others for e.g. Python, Java, JavaScript, CSS, my pedometer.
Not sure what part you think is a false flag. Hong Kong has a history of protests against China. That would basically have been HK government admitting that Chinese law supersedes HK law.

Could you imagine the UK passing a law that Brussels has jurisdiction over UK citizens? The brexiters would go absolutely nuts. HK has a history of resisting Chinese attempts to impose One China on them.
Not that high apparently, as there is no conclusive evidence for it.
That's fair. I do my own maintenance and drive cheap cars. YMMV.

Still, even at the full rate, two people back and forth, it's still cheaper to drive.
Please keep the "value signalling" BS out of HN.
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No worries! Looking for it at all puts you in the upper percentiles :)
This looks relevant: https://numenta.com/blog/2019/01/16/the-thousand-brains-theo...
Is this sort of how they're trying to make a Tesla without Musk? By just leaving one by one and recreating the company without Musk, instead of just firing him?

Really curious as to what the motivations might be here for all these people to leave (apart from the monetary benefits of joining another "Tesla" even earlier).
>If someone were standing here in front of me I could affect them with Reiki "energy" and demonstrate a "supernatural" phenomenon at will. As you said, it is just "more natural, more stuff with causal powers". But in my experience the intersection on the Venn diagram of "Science People" and "Reiki People" is very sparsely populated.

Well dang. A priori, I'd jump to a psychosomatic explanation, since your body's interoceptive afferents are extremely noisy, and so using top-down beliefs to engender an illusion that a vast energy is filling your body ought to be easier than generating other sorts of hallucinations.

(Why yes, this is my research field. Why do you ask?)

But we should still be testing this sort of thing. Assuming it is psychosomatic and nothing more complicated than that (which is already pretty reasonably complicated), what is it about the Reiki session that allows engendering powerful psychosomatic effects?
So one person said yup, and the other person said nope. ;-)

I agree it served to make the author look a bit foolish.
Oh man that's super cool using a set of users to identify another user.
If it's particularly rare and advanced, wont using it in interviews filter out a lot of good candidates as well?
I've worked remotely for almost all the last 18 years. My last true office job ended when the company failed in October of 2001.

I started out working independently doing web development work and project management, then joined a startup. The startup had office space in an incubator near my house, so we did use an office there for about 6 months. Then one of the founders bailed, and it was just me locally, so we gave up the office and I went back to working at home.

I joined my current company in 2007. For the first 3-4 years, I traveled a LOT, but then telepresence took root and now I almost NEVER go to customer sites. I haven't been to one in a nearly 3 years.

We have a small, very solid team. We communicate by chat, email, or phone constantly. The only downside is that we can't really hire baby devs, because there's no watercooler. A fresh graduate would be pretty adrift, especially since our market is kind of esoteric.

But that's a small thing.
Are there any fundamental incompatibilities between the HAProxy data plane api and Envoy's?

I wonder if something could sit in between and translate. It would be great for all the existing control planes to work with multiple data plane proxies.
If we have to implement all those things, is there really much of a remaining lift in implementing OIDC, apart from bringing in a library into a web app?
On a Mac I suggest you look into Bitbar: https://getbitbar.com

If it not already exists as a script, it would be very easy to create.
0.7 and 1 are not close to equivalent even when speaking informally. The difference is the same as driving normal highway speed vs license suspension (or jail) speed
They have no debugging skills worth a damn. If a problem occurs in a tool or library they are using at a level below what they are used to, they need help. They are not complete engineers.

You have to be a complete engineer because you take full responsibility for what you're doing. All your tools carry disclaimers in their licenses which absolve them of any responsibility if something goes wrong.

for LANG in Python, Ruby, Rust, Java, ... :

If $LANG has a bug, and because of that your $LANG program causes some harm to the customer's data, you can't blame $LANG.

If I'm in a situation that I'm somehow required to do something with Python, and something goes wrong, I can debug it right into the Python internals. If the problem is with how GCC compiled $LANG, I can debug that too, and I can drop to the machine level if needed
This has been on HN a month ago, with some comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044876

And more from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12871234

Also was posted several times with no reaction.
The last time police used force they used tear gas and rubber bullets, without warning, against an entirely peaceful demonstration. Like nkoren said previous demonstrations have been extra careful to consistently keep it peaceful.

This time they wait until the protest has effectively finished trashing the legislature, then go in with tear gas and have a big sign stuck on riot shields of "WARNING: TEAR SMOKE". Both police and protest seem to be taking a dramatically different approach. The peaceful demonstrations that have continued appear separate.

Maybe it is as presented, but it sure makes me suspicious given history.
> Humor is a generally positive thing and can't help but improve mental state while working.

Humor is subjective. All you have to do is reference "Office Space"'s "looks like somebody has a case of the Monday's!" scene to realize she thought it was funny, the "someone" did not.
One thing I learned from a Disney movie of Goofy driving is that multiplying a speed in miles per hour by 1.5 gives a surprisingly close approximation to feet per second.