skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, what was the 02 concentration? Did they just change the CO2 and N2 relative concentrations while keeping the O2 normal?

Not that I have detailed knowledge the implications of N2 vs CO2 on O2 uptake.

I could be wrong, but I would think the CO2 increase comes at an O2 loss. While there is about 20% of O2 in the atmosphere, and <1% CO2, but it only takes .2% of O2 --> CO2 to drop the relative concentration of oxygen by 1 percent, which should be noticeable, especially the more out of shape you are.

Naval seamen are also in a lot better shape, so they aren't on the borderline of O2 uptake (like a lot of the most vulnerable COVID-19 people).

The general population is much more out of shape.
Glad to see I wasn't the only one confused by the Xbox and game controller in the header.

(I mean, sure, it "just" runs Windows, but...)
> "Our car stops you from driving if it thinks you're incompetent" isn't something that sells more cars.

I could see something like that as part of a “supervised driver” safety feature. Like maybe you enable it when your kids use the car or if you rent the car out to strangers.
Candidate A probably wouldn't live in SF if he didn't have to
Reminder: have a secondary form of real-time communication for your team (e.g. Telegram).

What is everyone using?
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> Our failure rates were consistently much higher compared to Backblaze

That's interesting.

> The overall workload on the clusters was extremely heavy

That is the most likely explanation. We see higher failure rates when we are writing to the drives, for example as a new vault fills with customer data. Backup (our oldest business) has a fairly easy work load, it is not as punishing as a database that is pummeling the drives.

In certain circumstances when we are down more than 1 drive in a 20 drive Reed Solomon group we stop putting new data on that drive group until the parity is restored explicitly because this lowers the chances of an additional drive failing in the group. That gives us more time to rebuild the parity with less stress in our lives. When that last parity drive fails and one more drive failure means customers lose data the fun drains right out of this job. Red alerts are thrown, pagers go off in the middle of the night, datacenter techs start driving towards the datacenter at 3am to replace drives. We prefer the world nice and calm and relaxed with a good night's sleep.
It's Flash all over again, with a fresh coat of paint.
having trouble sending messages, some aren't making it through
There were breaks for sure, but I worked in a shared-codebase web/native app using RN and React, and it was overall pretty pleasant. How early were you using it? It was actually pretty reliable.
To your last point, what would be the closest comparison? Is there even one? I’m sympathetic to the reality that there are lots of variables at play here between work sectors, but do you think a reasonable analogue exists in another industry, and could any actionable models be taken from, iterated upon and applied to tech labor with the effects of equalizing the demand curve and negotiating change through all of this?*

Appreciate the back and forth on this, it’s an interesting set of conditions we’re wading through as a society and I enjoy the thought experiment.

———

* there may be a better way to phrase this question, unable to figure how to put it, at the moment-if you’ll accept the pleasantry as far as the hypothetical will warrant it.
That assumes they restrict remote work to America for work that was done previously in the states. If this picks up, and there are no legal restrictions on what country a remote employee must be in, then the low end might just go much lower than what it currently is in small cities.
Check out Shiori if you haven't, it does everything you want + archival.
Try this one-line ImageMagick command to make COMPACT pseudo-scanned files:

convert -density 150 ORIGINAL.pdf -colorspace gray +noise Gaussian -rotate 0.5 -depth 2 SCANNED.pdf

Consider using `-depth 1`, `-depth 3` as a final parameter to map colors to only 2¹=2 or 2³=8 instead of 2²=4 gray levels. Using a small number of gray levels SIGNIFICANTLY reduces file size and also gives your pseudo-scanned document a more pixelated, it-just-came-out-of-my-old-printer look.

Also consider using `-density 100` or even `-density 75` for long text documents. Using a density of 75 dpi produces documents that are 4x smaller than 150 dpi (75²=150²/4) and doesn't affect the readability of normal-sized (10-12pt) text that much.

Finally, sometimes it works best not to add Gaussian noise.
If I’m not mistaken, the hollowed out book in which Neo keeps his illegal floppy disk is Simulacra and Simulation.
Here [1], Ricky "Infil" Pusch explains the two more used methods to workaround lag in fighting games.
I'm not sure if this will be useful in your case, but it's a great read anyway. I'm not a gamer but really enjoyed reading it.

[1]: http://ki.infil.net/w02-netcode.html
Do you know your VO2 max by chance?
Given the history of this problem, I will wait until I see experts excited about it before worrying about whether it might be a good argument.
It does not require much work, and basically none of you use any standard libraries or frameworks, which handle it all for you.

And SPA doesn’t mean you can’t use real links or pages.
Karabiner Elements is really popular for this use case. I have Caps set to be escape when pressed and Hyper in conjunction with pressing another key.
We raised a $49k USD angel round from my bedroom
Yup...they are https://status.slack.com/
If you'd read the immediately following paragraph, you'll note that this distinction between domestic and international migration is extremely relevant to whether SF has net inflow or outflow.

> The discrepancy between international and domestic migration in the Bay Area can likely be explained by what economists call "gateway cities." These cities, often planted along the coast, serve as entry points for foreigners moving to the U.S. The immigrants will register in the gateway city, but often move to other parts of California or the country within months, according to Phuong Nguyen, a research specialist at the California Department of Finance.

Once you control for this variance, San Francisco, objectively, has a net outflow. That's the conclusion of the linked article, as well.
I see that almost every comment here begins with the implicit assumption that consciousness is a defined term that arises though biological means. Until we can determine the validity of these two premises there can be no progress to answering this question -which has been asked for thousands of years with a tendency towards the negative.
> Really I recall working for one on the big civil consultancies and we had one of our bridges fall of its supports once.

> And lets not mention the new airport in Berlin (or the NYC tube lines) in the context of low cost.

That seems to me a low-quality comment, sorry. The lack of punctuation and the spelling mistakes made it hard to parse, and until you flesh it out more, I'm not sure precisely what point you were trying to make. And more mentioning, less "lets not mention"-ing, please.
Two things come to mind. (1) work on large software projects that have been in production for many years. This will show you patterns that have emerged to solve issues that have crept up over its lifetime. (2) except in specific cases a large piece of software grew from a working smaller piece of software. Learn different ways of being prepared for future features and adding features. YAGNI is important too. Practice, lots of practice. Reading without practice is like watching a movie and nodding along, quickly forgotten if not committed through habits.
Some time ago I was reading a book, in a chapter there is a vivid description of a judeo-christian Hell. Both the author and the person reading the audiobook version felt the need to add trigger warning. In the case of the audiobook version the reader almost said that he regretted reading that chapter.

A bit before that I encountered this story, for me it will always be proof that it is possible to summon hell on earth.
Option 3: put a moratorium all loan payments, interest, rent, and real estate taxes denominated in USD. Loan principal stays the same, everything else is zeroed. Stop feeding the debt black hole.

When times are back to normal, actually raise interest rates so we aren't so pathetically overleveraged. And if need be, change the customary decimal separator to a comma and add a digit for mills to make the finance bros happy.
GitHub CLI allows you to close, reopen, and add metadata to issues and PR
Heh. Slack isn't down per se -- on their status page they do say there are only problems with 2 / 10 components.

Messaging and Connections.
> Is F2FS stuitable for production use?

It's widely deployed on Android, if that counts.
Steinberg
I'm pointing out that the long-term gain from a revolution is not a by product of the revolution itself, but from the pre and post conditions. The revolution was necessary to effect those changes, but it was the difference in condition that lead to the benefit.

Unless you are planning to massively alter the political (IE not have a democracy anymore) or economic system (IE not have capitalism anymore), a revolution does more harm than good, because you are only getting the short-term byproducts which are predominately bad. If the political and economic system remains largely the same, then a revolution is just a period of time where people are committing violence or protesting instead of making things.
A good CS program will touch on FizzBuzzesque questions early on as part of one of the introduction to programming classes, and in later classes do a deep dive on algorithms and their efficiency in pseudocode or real code.

I guess it's possible they didn't practice, but I have a hard time believing that they could get through an undergrad CS program and not be able to quickly remind themselves of some basic code logic beforehand if they don't already code regurarly.

Were they actually passionate about CS? Did they have bad professors?
Every restaurant that I have seen on Uber Eats charges more for items on UberEats than they do in store. In some cases, the prices are 50% higher.

However, they don't charge more on UE than they do on competing delivery apps.

Also, the attorneys general of CA and NY have begun investigating these app pricing policies, so it's very likely they'll be deemed illegal by the end of the year.
Give it control over its voltage regulators. Hmmm, that is some nice ripple current...moar ripplez!
The bits flip, and it's on a trip :-)
Not saying this site is, but it makes me think of all the (less legit) file conversion websites which are basically portals to harvest your documents (or your aging parents' documents that they don't otherwise know how to convert), and you later find they appear on crappy sites like Scribd. Or worse.
I live in Wyoming. A few years ago, I was debating about trying to build up some decent 'tech spaces/small campuses' in some of the more remote/less populated and desirable area's.

Some of my thoughts were:
- Make sure there is good high speed internet
- Good conferencing
- Good office / working conditions
- Great outdoor activities nearby

For a flat rate per month, a person could have a furnished apartment, a working space nearby, and access to the great outdoors. If I had multiple locations, you could switch locations after a week or two.

Why wouldn't someone in the Bay area want to go live in Sheridan, wyo for a few weeks, then possibly Laramie, Wyo. Maybe some Zion in Utah for a bit. Royal Gorge in Colorado.

Every few weeks, you just pack up your laptop, clothes, bikes, and go to the next spot.

I guess its office/lifestyle timeshare space.

I never pursued it beyond thinking about it.
The inflow for immigrants is attributed to the fact that SF is a gateway city, and doesn't really tell us much about SF's quality of life.

> The discrepancy between international and domestic migration in the Bay Area can likely be explained by what economists call "gateway cities." These cities, often planted along the coast, serve as entry points for foreigners moving to the U.S. The immigrants will register in the gateway city, but often move to other parts of California or the country within months, according to Phuong Nguyen, a research specialist at the California Department of Finance.

And while it might be statistically "insignificant" in the absolute, you have to look at how it compares to other cities to really understand how healthy that number is. A contrast: the net domestic migration of Sacramento County was +15,224. -2500 looks far less healthy next to that.
The web has become truly awful and it’s invading desktop apps. We need to refactor our technology stack.
> We like people with shared values and hobbies and opinions on important topics.

This is probably the crux of making someone likeable or not.

> If we assume that diversity of thought is a good thing

I don't really care what other people think.

> Seeing things from the perspective of folks different from us is the personal growth GP was talking about.

When did everyone start earning these self-help merit badges for themselves?
I hope they change the status page from "Incident" to "Outage". Too often lately have I seen status pages (mainly Github) reporting incidents when a feature or site is down completely. Seems like their SLAs are influencing the reporting of their uptime...
Yes this assumption is remote work to America only.
React, almost 10 years? It was only open sourced 7 years ago and definitely took time to fully catch on..
The problem is that physics is not the right level of abstraction and that we do not have an operational theory for working at the right level. I suppose it's also a problem that we can't seem to agree on the definition of consciousness.

Anyway, trying to understand consciousness by applying physics is just as silly as trying to understand why your complex fluid dynamics simulation is giving an incorrect result by peering at the CPU's transistors with an electron microscope: it's the wrong level of abstraction.

One thing that seems to be making our task a lot more difficult is that evolution doesn't even try to design the biology of systems with clean abstraction boundaries that we can understand. There are so many strange things going on in our bodies that we can barely describe them, never mind understand them. One example is what happens when a person consumes Ayahuasca [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca
My IRC bouncer (using thelounge, hosted on my own systems) continues to survive through various O365, Slack, etc outages. Can highly recommend.
Once an AI is advanced enough to make the question hard to answer, isn’t the odds that the AI will be advanced enough to simply decide the answer for us?

I imagine thane once someone manage to produce an AI with enough agency to seem sentient it will far exceed human capabilities.
Even happens in the US. This is why US tech companies don't give a shit about a diploma. Half of applicants then can't pass basically fizz buzz during a phone interview. It get's even worse once on site. As annoying and ineffective as tech interviews are we can at least weed out the people who have no idea how to program fairly effectively. Though too much of the focus is on that really. When it comes to higher level positions interviews can barely even start to gauge talent.
As far as I understand it, 5G doesn't have a wide reach, so it doesn't save that much when compared to aerial fiber.
> I REALLY don't understand at all why SEC cared about this one. There are far more shadier ones around than TON.

I guess it's because they believed that TON had the potential to actually become wide spread by it's Telegram integration.

Which makes the regulators sound quite evil. But you can reformulate that as it having potential to cause large, wide spread amounts of damages. ;=)
Are all messages timing out? The status page makes it sound like it only affects some people but no one on my team can send messages.
Other sources say it's AMC Networks and Daily Mail got it wrong.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/amc-tv-company-stock-pop...
> The possibility of working remotely isn’t available to everyone, with one Canadian study estimating that only 44 per cent of jobs are compatible with telecommuting. Remote work is particularly common among university graduates, managers and professionals, but its practice also depends on the sector and the nature of the job. Finance, for example, compared to manufacturing, is more suitable to remote work. Consequently, many workers are deprived of an alternative that allows them to continue working during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is due to a couple of different things. Our system for organizing production is outdated. The joint stock corporation is an outdated system. We need something more akin to DAOs. Then employees will be as equally empowered.

Additionally, the fiat monetary system encourages parasitism and inefficiency. With sound money, everyone can benefit. Unlike the current monetary system we have in place.

Cryptocurrency is a poor store of value, but I think is valuable in denoting ownership of something. If you’re given tokens in a DAO, it should be a token or coin that denotes ownership rather than a store of value. This way those who take on the lion’s share of risk, whether they are early investors or employees, will be rewarded the most. It also flattens the management structure substantially. Not much room in a DAO for parasites. Because you need to put your money where your mouth is, so to speak.

In summary, this inequality stems from outdated systems that need to be replaced. As I’ve stated in many previous comments, capitalism is the purest filter with which to perceive reality. There is no bullshit allowed. DAOs > corporations, crypto > stock ownership agreement.
WSJ had an interesting article the other day about why there are fewer startups now -
https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-theories-on-why-fast-growin...

tl;dr is that people are now more motivated by the idea of being an entrepreneur than by having a great business concept.
We use our pool 3-4 times per week in the summer.

But we have kids, and it gets hot as hell here, so summer after-work activities usually involves something with water.
No one on my team can send messages at all. Anyone else having any success?
Tell HN: Covid19 testing rates should be expressed in days
For example, if a country of 4.8 million people tests 12000 people a day, then, assuming that testing is evenly distributed across the whole population, every person will be tested, on average, once every 400 days.

To fully control the spread of disease, the testing rate probably has to be no more than a small multiple of the average incubation period of 5 days, ie 10-20 days.

If we adopt "days" as a standard way of describing testing rates, then it provides a number which everyone can easily compare to the incubation period of the disease.
Looks like it's now updated!
Why should it be the western companies that overcome the cultural barriers and not the indian workers?

Asking as an immigrant to the west.
api.slack.com is returning 503s

503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.

And thanks to the electron-ness of the app, on the mac you cannot even drag the window - the titlebar is drawn by javascript and without it, it cannot be dragged
You may want to purge the key in your repo (settings.py)
Oh dear: https://imgur.com/a/5aQkRvv
For this reason, I've been trying out Flutter or even considering to go back to native apps.

This says so much about the sad state of modern software development...

When native development is a last resort.
Are plants conscious? I wonder what Mr. Koch would say.
After conducting enough interviews to not be able to do them anymore because they depress me. I believe it.
Now might be a good time to add new custom emoji, because that service doesn't appear to be down.

https://cultofthepartyparrot.com/
This is a pretty aggressive response for what is a reasonable observation. There’s a growing sense by broad swaths of the population that Google is too powerful and doesn’t care much about your privacy. I know many non-techies who switched to iOS or refuse to use Android because of privacy concerns. It’s not crazy to think that they’d be reluctant to buy a car from Google. It’s definitely not “extremely paranoid”.
I think this will make the extremely expensive cities (e.g. SF, NYC) less attractive. Why not live in a quiet pretty place to raise kids and save on the commute. Life in SF has been kind of crazy over the last 5 years. It could use a downgrade.
> The ombudsman presented two findings of maladministration by the EBA. The first is the regulator should have “forbidden the job move.”

I'm not sure how legally enforceable that would be. I wonder if the Bosman ruling would make that move unlawful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosman_ruling
Yes, though work gets less efficient +/- 3 time zones or so.
Question, to build on your second line there. Does tech hiring becomes more or less competitive if this becomes widespread, in your opinion?
> In its typical configuration, Secure Boot can't provide any anti-theft guarantees because an attacker could just replace the contents of the disk with a new Windows installation and the workstation would be usable for them.

What's preventing an attacker from resetting the secureboot settings? You'd need some sort of activation scheme like on iOS.
>But when a computer reads a poem or sees the color blue will it feel it? I suspect that is unlikely.

That's just your meat-person bias. When someone can point to the part of the brain that causes the feeling of "feeling" something, then we'll be that much closer to creating a machine that replicates the behavior.
My understanding is that feature (database mirroring) was deprecated many years ago, for availability groups. There were some limitations in the Analytics area, but that customer was using another solution for most of that anyway. There were also some features of SQL Agent that were discarded (scheduling events or something) but in each case there is some officially supported route to accomplish the same task.

You can find most of the material we reviewed in the official MS documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...

For example, here's the note about deprecating database mirroring:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...

> Database mirroring, which was deprecated in SQL Server 2012, is not available on the Linux version of SQL Server nor will it be added. Customers still using database mirroring should start planning to migrate to availability groups, which is the replacement for database mirroring.
I never understand tesla fans.

Every accident, i hear them talk about how autopilot is not driverless, as fully self driving does not imply driverless. As it is a driver assistance system that requires human oversight and control.

On the other hand, there are constant claims of Tesla being the only one with driverless cars on the road.
If you know them sure. But for a professor who I took a class with? I would always call them Professor Whatever if my only interaction with them was in a classroom context.
Slack Status – Outage
You are not hanging out with the right people then. I think you will find the top students in any random state school are just as good as at an ivy league institution. Source: I've been at both.
false equivalency - there aren't slot machines in the office kitchen.
React Native isn't afraid to expose platform specific details when abstracting away cross platform APIs in uniform APIs. In my experience, it was fairly easy to use a native UI library inside a React Native app. (It takes more work to embed a React Native view inside a native view that's embedded in a react native view, but it's possible.)
I was very sceptical too, but when I watched it, it all sounded very common-sensical.