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Ask HN: How do you debug yourself?
I start feeling lazy, tired, and cannot concentrate recently, and that has a huge negative impact on my performance. I have tried to get myself more sleeping, but that doesn't help.

How do you debug yourself?
I'm sure it wasn't free. Federal money for stuff like that usually has strings attached.
Yes. We all need to be prepared to take the risk in return for a free society.
Yes, ______ is a surefire way to shoot yourself in the foot. To be able to use it effectively, you essentially need a dedicated team that knows the ins and outs of a rather complex API as well as deep networking, Linux and distributed system knowledge.

Fill in the blank!

At the end of the day, yes Kubernetes is complicated but it is not for a company running 25 VPS servers.

How big is this market niche?
Discussions about monopolies aside, why do it this way? What service do the ISPs actually provide?

Wouldn't it make more sense for Utopia to just provide internet, given that they run and are directly charging you for the infrastructure?
I really dislike using Tasks over threads due to the reusability issues. Specifically that Tasks are not reusable and threads are. It makes parallel computational work a headache, because you need to implement the reusability in a higher scope than tasks, then make an effort to prevent race-conditions, double checkouts, etc.

Tasks are really meant for responsive computing, not proactive computing (yes, even TPL and Dataflow), and thus I don't think they are well suited to parallelized computation in areas like e.g. simulation.
Why is it not a matter of justice instead?

Preserving the peace, protecting the rights (of others), protecting property?
US real gdp growth per capita has been 1.33% for 2010-2016 [0] which is not an insignificant part of 3%.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(real...
The guy that introduced me to HN, is dating a girl who works in tech, for a company that sells brassieres. She codes mostly in Python and enjoys HN.

Girl, bra, snake, HN. Relevant enough for me.

Edit: it’s also objectively funny regardless of relevance.
I've used ios fsync() for some time.
I think my statement was too strong; I definetely don't mean to suggest that nobody who has never followed a curriculum of any sort can ever be successful. What I mean is that in general, as a policy, it is useful to have some curriculum to shed light on the unknown unknowns.

But to respond to "self-study isn't nothing": that's true, but your self study didn't replace college, it replaced self study. What I mean is that everyone has to do that self study and job training targeted at the specific stuff they're doing. Self study is necessary to expand "known knowns" in targeted areas, which is really necessary. It's just not as good at illuminating "unknown unknowns" as a curriculum put together by a person or group of people who know the breadth and history of a field.
You press F5?
You really don’t think there is any other means to get your word out than to depend on Facebook and Twitter? HN users are always telling musicians that they should make their money from touring and selling CDs. Why couldn’t people get speaking engagements, sell books, create podcasts (no you don’t have to be in the Apple Podcast directory, you can subscribe to a podcast directly from the RSS feed), newsletters, etc.

Yes, I do feel the bar has to be a lot higher - as in burning babies at an alter besides cute kittens -for an infrastructure company like an ISP or a domain register to ban you.
It's certainly bizarre to watch Republicans argue that we can fix this by giving government bureaucrats more control over private businesses and Democrats argue that we should break them up and then rely on the market to fix it for us.

Of course, it's hard to establish a connection between what this president says and actual policy action on the ground, but this is also a president who has been open about his willingness to order the DOJ around, so who knows.

That's the whole reason why there's been a strong norm around DOJ's Independence. Without that you never really know what their motivations are.
Or lookup incinerating toilets. Then you just get ash afterwards to cleanout weekly.

Seems to take about a kilowatt per flush.

If you have property, graywater isn't hard to handle in for landscaping/gardening.

Too bad fancy ones cost $5k. I think if we can get them for $500, we could see homes without any sewer connections at all.

https://www.cinderellaeco.com/ca
Ask HN: What do you consider a technical cofounder?
I am curious about what people think about how to judge who is and who is not a technical co-founder. For instance, if someone has a solid understanding of MVC and Ruby on Rails, understands version control, and how to break down features into user stories tracked on pivotal tracker (or whatever), are they technical? Especially if they are not actually writing the code? Or even let’s say that the development is maybe using React.js or Vue wrapped into the rails project, and they have little idea of how to actually write that code. Are they still qualified as a technical co-founder? Another way to ask it, if something breaks but they have to rely on other team members to fix it, are they the a technical co-founder?

I ask because tech stacks often change and often change underneath the feet of a founding team. And at some point, and maybe I’m wrong, no one person can fix all things.

So is appreciation for how to do development the qualification to honestly say you’re a technical co-founder, or should you only say that if you know the entire stack of your product to a high degree of individual competency? Asking for a friend ;-)
And with that you most likely lose any sort of protection/insurance Lyft gives you.
I think that 9e-66 is rather irrelevant.

If I flipped 216 coins, the exact sequence that I get back also has a probability of 9e-66.

If I flipped 532 coins, the probability that I get any specific subset that share the same side is the sum of all probability that gives that result.

What we know is that 132 out 694 villages, with the average number of born children for 3 months being 1.6, had zero girls. The other 562 villages with unknown average of children had girls. As such we can conclude that the probability must be the sum of all sequences of births that results in 132 out of 694 villages having exactly no girls born under the period of 3 months.

The probability of the 132 villages is thus undefined as we simply do not have enough data on the spectrum of sequences. Based on the global census of 943 females per 1,000 males we can suspect a bias and create a ball park guess, but there is simply not enough to say an exact number like 9e-66.
Since when did Facebook claim “common carrier status”?
I'm creating a tool that transforms contents into audio
Reminds me of that startup that recently got knocked off the web by digital oceans automated system.

Scary to think that for us average Joes, our accounts can be nuked with no recourse unless you have a large Twitter following to get someone important to notice
actually kubernetes also works for the small scale.
if you have more than 1 server you either need one of the following or combine it:

- automation
- configuration management
- scheduling
- load balancing
- provisioning

you can than either built it yourself, probably with the help of ansible/puppet,... or you can just use kubespray+k8s or any other "managed" k8s thingy.

of course if you try to manage more than 1 server you at least need some understanding of networking (but probably not that deep than you think), understanding of namepsaces or virtualisation (unless you think it's a good idea to run 1000 tools on one host without at least limit their cpu/memory/io usage) and you probably need knowledge of linux and also at least a little bit of knowing how distributed leader election might work.
But no matter what, if you run more than one system you need to have somebody that is capable of that.
Hospital paid Neil Armstrong's family $6M settlement after his death
It wasn't on purpose; that particular weekend we were going somewhere my phone didn't get any reception, but my wife's did. So, not exactly the same situation as OP.
Don’t worry. Give it a few years. The reason php has such a bad rap is that it was so important for low-skill web-devs, so there’s a lot of bad php out there. In 10 years, React will have the same reputation. Again, not because it’s bad, but because it’s usefulness is so high that all the worst devs will be using it.
Well when I'm grabbing beers with my manager and he's like "I don't get why X left. He was doing well. Guess it must have been <unsubstantiated reason that is a flaw in their character>" I fully believe that they just didn't understand. Frankly because they told me. I'd say "no, they left because <x,y,z,...>" And they'd respond "well that's dumb. Were about to get funded. They're missing out on a lot of money" (we had no equity and had asked several times, gotten bs answers). They still don't have funding and it's been 1.5 years (they had been working on with that investor for a year prior). It really was just delusions of grandeur.

Maybe they do realize now (I was the last to leave, even though the first to secure my ticket out). They thought I was leaving because I just wanted my PhD. I do want it, but there were a lot of reasons I left. Big part was being micromanaged on a project I won, I did all the work on, and I was the only one that had even basic knowledge in the subject (like knowing the difference between a proton and alpha particle. True story),this was the largest contact we currently had, and I was paid the least. They didn't see how insulting this was.

Sometimes people are blind. It's probably much more common in small companies too. We were <20 people. 5/12 engineers left within a 3 month period. All but 1 E1 left and all E2s left. When people are dropping like flies maybe it's not the best to continue blaming those people and find out what you can do to have higher retention.
More Americans have died in car crashes since 2000 than in both World Wars
Tick-borne illnesses can be transmitted in as little as 15 minutes, so it's hard to say whether it was fast enough or not.
Somehow we continue to consider this normal, and not to do anything substantive about it: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/was-the-automo...
It says in a different article that they will leave it untouched as a sanctuary? Does this mean they won't try to investigate clues as to what took it down?
This is a bit over the top isn’t it? It’s just task parallelism. It’s exactly what for example Haskell has been doing for decades isn’t it? It’s even the same demo and interface!
Automation gives you consistency. If you automate the incorrect process, you’ll get it done consistently wrong.

It still is a win because you’ll have a better chance on diagnosing and improving something that fails the same way as opposed to some manual process that has been done in a dozen different incorrect ways and you learn nothing from mistakes because there are no automated controls to feed back into.

Most people and organizations have a strong negative gut reaction when automation does something wrong but are okay when a manual process yields mistakes because we largely accept humans as fallible (at most, someone gets fired, and more bureaucracy is introduced), but the long-term economics of automation look ultimately better.

I’ve seen time and time again apparently innocent manual processes that, when not recognized as a liability, rapidly turn into entire departments (and entire management hierarchies), at which point it’s impossible to improve, because changing culture is harder than changing code. Having enough instances of that is what creates corporate whales without competitiveness.
> What exactly is incredible (relatively) about the current state of things?

Compared to 1999?

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA

Hear https://audio-samples.github.io/#section-4

Read https://grover.allenai.org/

These are not just ‘increasing numbers’. These are fucking witchcraft, and if we didn't live in a world with 5 inch blocks of magical silicon that talk to us and giant tubes of aluminium that fly in the sky the average person would still have the sense to recognize it.

> It is the way to save this field from [...]

For us to have a productive conversation here you need to either respond to my criticisms of this line of argument or accept that it's wrong. Being disingenuous because you like what the argument would encourage if it were true doesn't help when your argument isn't true.

> Is rote multiplication a task that we're interested in achieving with AI?

It's a measure for which improvement would have meaningful positive impact on our ability to reason, so it's a measure we should wish to improve all else equal. Yes, it's marginal, yes, it's silly, that's the point: failure in one corner does not equate to failure in them all.
You're right, it absolutely would work! I was just making a point that it might not be worth the effort to learn Kubernetes for that use case.
Hence the time-boxing.

Open outcry isn't the best Q&A / conversational model. It's HN's default.

The Scholastic Instruction model has merits: lectio, meditatio, quaestio, disputationes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism#Scholastic_instr...
Ask HN: Why isn't there an M in FANG/FAANG?
Does this acronym need to be deprecated? Is there a common thread between FANG companies I do not know about?
Would it be possible to add the invited page (https://news.ycombinator.com/invited) to the lists page? https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

It would be super helpful to also provide a 'lobbed' page. I didn't know about this practice, and I'm sure many other users don't know about this either. It's important in my opinion for the sake of transparency.
> The situation ironically illustrates why I didn’t write about this at the time. I did some testing on Windows 1809 last year, but I didn’t allow it to connect to the internet to finish setup. Good thing I didn’t. If you do, you can’t configure a local account.

It's been like that for ages, if I recall correctly.

I guess Microsoft is worried about losing that data point for serving targeted advertising. I would bet most people don't opt out, or use tools to disable that, or are a part of a corporate network and have group policies that do so.

* https://www.privacytools.io/operating-systems/#win10

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-conn...
In many cases, the CDC is the source (or at least funds them).
A refreshing view. So many people seem to emotionally need some sort of social vindication of their injury, or in some other way feel dissatisfied if there isn't third-party shaming/punishment/etc. involved in conflict resolution.

Sometimes, the best approach is "Yo, can you cut that out?"
At risk of oversimplification, sound is just energy and given the right amount of energy chemical changes can be carried out.
Ask HN: What's your profession, and what do you look for primarily in a new job?
I remember Facebook asking for my mobile number for 2FA purposes, with an explicit note that would be the only purpose.

I didn't trust them then; so didn't hand it over; but is this where they then re-used the mobile number anyway?
So this is a causative link between meat consumption and atherosclerosis-causing inflammation
I always feel like widespread high bandwidth cellular networks and ubiquitous smart phones are underappreciated in those sorts of discussions. We just achieved ubiquitous global high-resolution-video level mobile communication. I think this is very likely to go down in history as being on the order of the printing press in terms of technological breakthrough. We're still incorporating the fallout from this into our society. But apparently we're already stagnant!
Series A Term Sheet Negotiations
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (Norvig)
> All this stuff is decades old and still working it's way through the day to day infrastructure.

That's how science has always worked. It's rare to go from research to consumer goods in less than 10 years. Often it takes more.
I get the impression that the author vastly overestimates the capabilities of modern software. We don't even have reliable self-driving cars, yet they are hoping for reliable self-flying planes that can decide when and how to kill? Even the task of collecting training data for such a system would be monumental.
Jerusalem: 9k-year-old city found under vineyard
Headquartered in Silicon Valley. Facebook is in Menlo Park, Apple is in Cupertino, Netflix is in Los Gatos, Google is in Mountain View. Amazon and Microsoft are both in Seattle (well, Redmond for Microsoft).

If you expand out to FAANG there's no reason not to include Microsoft, but if you just want the top-4 tech companies by market cap I'm partial to MAGA, for Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon. Facebook and Netflix are a tier below in market cap.
what an odd endorsement of Google
That sounds like something is wrong with your password manager (as in _you_ didn't store your url or update your password correctly).

If you're saying Dropbox's password store process has been compromised, this would be a big accusation to make with your single data point.
This response misses the point of the article and perpetuates the same attitude that has caused the author and many others so much suffering. The medical community is starting to recognize that there is a gap in knowledge, diagnosis power, treatment options, and general understanding regarding PTLDS. Many of these people don't seek alternative treatments for the hell of it, they do it when doctors have dismissive attitudes like yours.
You’ve seen show living rooms, right? Where the furniture is new and pristine, nobody’s allowed to sit there and kids aren’t allowed to play there? Even some middle class people do this thing. Probably a similar concept, especially in bigger houses. Beyond some size, I suppose you have more space than you can effectively use, so rooms start emphasizing display rather than function.

Nice problem to have I guess!
It's an relatively old acronym from the financial markets. At the time, those were the hot tech stocks. M wasn't hot.
> precisely why you don't run any more OS threads than the number of cores

It’s often worth running more than your number of cores, in order to keep execution units busy during memory fetches for example, or integer units busy while float units are a bottleneck otherwise. (Did a PhD partially on this kind of thing.)
This like a good parallel story to the Cathedral and the Bazaar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

The Cathedral takes decades to build and is fragile , while the Bazaar is quick to assemble and resilient.
> Google's "containers" are most definitely not "docker containers".

erm what now?
I've had multiple drivers give me a business card and ask me to call them when I need a ride and not use the app. I've never taken them up on it, but I assume they can offer a lower rate and still take home more money.
That's a regular day for us non-car-owners. Nowadays you can even get combined routes with software like Citymapper and Rome2Rio.
This is a delightful read. It has the neuroticism of someone whom I admire quite a lot and yet has the urge of curiosity.
Thank you.
Scary to think that for us average Joes, our accounts can be nuked with no recourse unless you have a large Twitter following to get someone important to notice

Wasn't Google the original author of this kind of customer service? Don't be Evil, but do go ahead and be Kafkaesque.
I think it's to shame people into not using public toilets, as a disincentive, and at best to get people to leave as soon as possible. There are health consequences to pushing.
The reproducibility crisis doesn't bother you?
Hmmm. I wonder how much fun lawyers will have arguing about whether that "NC" clause means a model trained on this data cannot be used commercially by the researcher who built it?
This is where em rather than px (or rem) units is preferred.

body {
margin: 2rem auto;
padding: 2rem;
width: auto;
max-width: 45em;
}

Works in most instances, even without @media queries.

https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB
Frankly, a lot of this is worrisome. I lean libertarian/centrist/classic-liberal in terms of my views. Lately I feel that even trying to engage with anyone to the left is an effort in futility. Especially in Pacific-Coast tech companies. Reason doesn't seem to matter, only feelings.

I was blocked on twitter for nearly a week, while they reviewed my challenge and judged against me, for posting anti-violence messages of all things.

I can't help but feel if the likes of Google, Twitter and Facebook are censoring otherwise legal and non-violent content in favor of a political ideology, they deserve to lose section 230 protections.
Not a bad TeX reference either, great stuff!
What protection/insurance?
OMeta Language
If someone wants to read some real medical texts on the subject, I would encourage them to read the following:

NIH: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/chronic-lyme-d...

CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/postlds/index.html

Lantos, Paul M. "Chronic lyme disease." Infectious Disease Clinics 29.2 (2015): 325-340. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4477530/

> The CLD controversy does not, however, straddle a simple divide between 2 opposed scientific factions. Within the scientific community, the concept of CLD has for the most part been rejected. Clinical practice guidelines from numerous North American and European medical societies discourage the diagnosis of CLD and recommend against treating patients with prolonged or repeated antibiotic courses 1-21

> Many patients referred for Lyme disease are ultimately found to have a rheumatologic or neurologic diagnosis. Rheumatologic diagnoses commonly misdiagnosed as Lyme disease include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative diseases of the spine, and spondyloarthropathies.26,27,41 Some patients are found to have neurologic diseases, including multiple sclerosis, demyelinating diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, neuropathies, and dementia.27 Some CLD advocates have argued that these various conditions are simply manifestations of Lyme disease,24,42–44 but these hypotheses are untenable

In short, there is clearly evidence that people feel symptoms following Lyme Disease, but there is essentially zero evidence that these symptoms are some kind of prolonged, chronic infection that remains impervious to treatment. Extended courses of antibiotics do not improve the situation (and can fatally make it worse), and all the various woo (as mentioned in the article) do not help either.

"Chronic Lyme" is far more likely to be auto-immune (rheumatologic) or neurological in nature. It may be triggered by a lyme infection, just like it can be triggered by other non-lyme infections. Auto-immune responses are commonly triggered by severe bacterial or viral infections, and can persist/linger far after the infection itself has cleared up. But the concept of a "chronic" bacterial lyme infection has little to no medical bearing.

The fact that this continues is largel attributed to A) auto-immune disorders being difficult to diagnose and treat due to their unique nature and B) hucksters, con-artists, and snake-oil salesmen hawking the latest woo to patients desperately trying to solve their problems. And probably C) a general movement towars believeing random blogs (like the OP!) over medical providers, on the basis of "Big Pharma" or other general conspiracy theories.
What's wrong with pie charts? What would you suggest using when you want to see a percentage breakdown?
Someone call Jaron.
Some people just gotta live on the edge, I guess