skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is not that society should take no effort to reduce preventable deaths. Society should do whatever we collectively want to do.

Rather, my point was that it's hypocritical to argue that anyone that does not want to continue major disruptions is either immoral, uncivilized, or an absolute monster.

Everyone attaches some value X to human life, and some value Z to normal functioning. Not everyone values these things the same. But everyone certainly has a value, and almost everyone is okay with allowing many tens of thousands annually to die a preventable death in order to avoid disruptions to life. That being true, let's stop the moralizing arguments, and focus instead on why coronavirus is worse than other illnesses, and why it's worth it to continue our efforts to disrupt it.

In other words, my argument is really about language and rhetoric, not the coronavirus itself.
Who is going to try and enforce the copyright in 2020? BSkyB?
FBI chief says China threatens families to coerce overseas critics to return
Never thought I'd hear that name on here, let alone that they were in Japan.
Well, yes... the problem is that if you're not reasonably proficient and observant then entire books worth of specification will be insufficient. Intel deals with this in their fabs by Copy Exactly! Not just the equipment and recipes, but the floor wax, the paint, the roof, soda machines, cafeteria... everything but the people who don't go inside except to fix stuff.

So, if you're in software enjoy the fact that you have the wonder of a compiler, an OS, and a CPU you can (mostly) trust. The rest of the physical world dreams of that level of control and repeatability for anything like the tiny incremental cost. Other than math and theoretical physics that's as close as you'll get to fully specified.
They have masters degrees from Stanford. I agree it's a bizarre accredidation since they have a few years of industry experience otherwise, which is, IMO, more relevant.
Seems totally reasonable, thanks for sharing your perspective. I’d agree that a lot of interviews can range from hard to insane. I’m really curious what that means in terms of measurable outcomes... like how many fresh CS graduates are completely failing to land a job? How many companies are failing to find candidates? Stuff like that...

FWIW, I warn people I’m going to ask questions they don’t know, and I ramp the questions up until people can’t answer them. I know it can be uncomfortable, but I also like finding the bounds of what people know. I do ask a lot of easy questions, and the majority of the interview isn’t knowledge questions at all, it’s open-ended conversation, usually about experience. I don’t have a sense for whether asking a few questions that are too hard for the candidate puts my interviews in the category you’re describing, or whether you’re talking about an entirely different level of arduous.
<checks age of author>

age = two years out of college.

I'm pushing 40. The competition for my time between doing a great job as a husband, colleague, son, family member, scientist, and human has never been greater. Indeed, at 24, I couldn't have perceived the competition between goals on which I place maximum weight.

It is possible not to have enough time to do things well. I care very much.
Are you also considering frontend or backend engineers for LA? I would be interested in LA.
When ‘Boundary Policing’ Becomes Intimidation: How the Media Protect Their Turf
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Yea... but let’s dive into the statistics. 1,200 deaths from cops - some unknown number justified (a shootout or whatever) and quite literally millions or tens of millions of interactions.

I think we need police reform. As a military veteran I think there is no reason that an MRAP should be on American streets, but I also think the police have pretty large responsibilities and need more training too.

We also (and I’ll say that I am a 2nd Amendment proponent - within reason) have police who have to enter into situations where the other person may be armed, which adds to the stress level.

Frankly, if you look at the stats I’m not even sure we have a police brutality problem; instead we have more of a police abuse of power problem.

Solutions that come to mind:

More training

More pay

More strict hiring
requirements

Abolition of police unions

Requiring police to carry insurance

No-hire once fired or terminated from a department (generally but there are specifics here to be discussed)

Sell off and no more spending on war equipment (MRAPs, assault rifles, smoke grenades, whatever)

Mandatory body cams, lack of use results in immediate suspension without pay while an investigation takes place, and if the camera is intentionally turned off immediate termination and no ability to be rehired anywhere in the country

That’s what I would start with
Does anyone have an idea of what the canonical tools for drawing are, which he mentions in the link?
Relevant to HN:

> But Times tech correspondent Cade Metz seemed to have found a way around this — not only by threatening to print Alexander’s name but also by writing a story about “the overlap between SSC and the Y Combinator/Andreessen-Horowitz crowd,” a reference to two prominent venture-capital firms. But wait: Neither Y Combinator (YC) nor Andreessen-Horowitz (a16z) funds or otherwise supports Slate Star Codex. Alexander says that while YC founder Paul Graham reads his blog, he “cannot remember ever meeting or conversing with anyone” affiliated with YC. And outside of self-help clickbait (“Nine Books Warren Buffett Thinks You Should Read This Year”), the reading habits of businesspeople rarely make headlines.
If I scroll back in discord I can go back to the first message I ever sent to the servers I hang out on.

In slack you can configure a retention period for files, messages, or both. Anything older than that gets wiped.
Wow, I had no idea. 1m was enough to work with, but... wow. Thanks for the reference.
I agree that it looks funny here. But I think it's more of a strategic thing: it reveals the target audience they're addressing, and trying to show "hey, we're one of you" before saying anything more controversial that follows (that it's at all controversial is more sad than funny however).
So why do you doubt the data based on your anecdote?
One of the best examples of Goodhart's Law I think is what has happened over the past 20 years in sports like gymnastics and figure skating.

The International Skating Union changed the figure skating scoring system after the 2002 Olympics scandal. The goal was to make the system more transparent and objective. Instead of a couple of 6.0 values, each element in a program would get a score based on difficulty and quality of execution.

The end result is that things that are essentially easily measured (like the number of revolutions in a jump) went up in value, while many feel like the overall quality and artistry of skating has suffered greatly. I'm not going to argue about how the "artistry" has suffered, even though I agree; artistry is subjective, and it is supposed to be a sport, after all. What I think is tragic about the scoring system, though, especially in women's figure skating, is that it is greatly biased towards girls, not women. The top "women" skaters these days are a trio of 16 year olds from Russia who excel at some of the quadruple jumps that were rare even among the men just a decade or so ago.

The issue is that it's nearly impossible for a fully developed woman (i.e. with breasts and hips) to do quadruple jumps - the physics just make it extremely difficult. So, sadly in my opinion, it has turned ladies figure skating into girls figure skating. Gone are the old days where you could follow a skater and see her improve and mature over multiple Olympics - now it's basically become a sport of mastering the difficult jumps and quads as quickly as possible until physical development eventually takes over.

I see more of this in society in general now, where with so much data and analytics there is a rush to "measure" everything. But I think it's important to acknowledge what is lost when "subjective" becomes a dirty word.
Based on my own experience at local government meetings, I don’t think the knowledge is all in one place.

The meeting I’m thinking of was the city council advocating extending a tax that was due to expire. They had a presentation deck full of the things they planned to use the money for. That’s all well and good, but when I raised my hand and asked what proportion of incoming revenue for the public works department and the overall city budget the tax currently made up... crickets.

No one there knew exactly how much public works was allocated, because the director of public works. They had the overall city budget numbers handy, but no one there had a breakdown by source, and no one knew where to find that information.
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> Another person who signed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in an effort to stay out of the growing storm, said she did not know who all the other signatories were when she agreed to participate, and if she had, she may not have signed.

Always condemn 'the enemy', even when you agree with them. Anything else could be interpreted as a sign of disloyalty.
Christians of the Strawman denomination.
Agree but one more:

- monitoring was broke so we didn't learn about it until it was too late
Netflix, Spotify, Amazon prime, Nytimes, HBR, Australian finance review https://afr.com, listing on https://hackerspad.net, Prime video, micro transactions on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kabam.doam... around ~100 per month.
Try that at my company and if you get caught, you would get fired so fast it would make your head spin.

Most large corporations are very concerned about which communication platforms you use for official business.
This person clearly doesn't have young children. I don't choose when I wake up, I have to wake up when the 1 year old wakes up. With no daycare because of COVID, I am juggling parenting and work from the moment I get up until I crash after they fall asleep.

It is literally non-stop. Finding time for the bathroom is a struggle. I get zero work done. I am typing this out while waiting for my four year old to finish going to the bathroom.

And now I have to go.
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Sweden recorded its first week of no excess mortality over a month ago: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden...

The economic gains part of it is not really relevant. Today each country is exposed to the global economy. If everyone else has economies that are broken then that will trickle over to Sweden inevitably. But that doesn’t mean that it is not worth pushing for Sweden’s strategy. If more countries did so, perhaps Sweden would collect economic gains.
Most people have similar justifications for their own actions. It's just that it's very, very common to not accept that logic from others if you dislike them.

You read ten times a day that it's not ok to criticize say, conflict minerals, if you own an iPhone.

In a vague way, calling yourself an "Objectivist" seems like you ought to be less susceptible to the so called "fundamental attribution error".
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Exactly. Boundless free time is often equivalent to no responsibilities. Im not sure how this piece ended up on HN.
As one of my friends said, there are always too many "vitally important" things to do. The only way to free up space for another "vitally important" thing is to push out one of the currently present things. The vital importance of many things is mis-perceived.
...pretty good chances of coming up with a vaccine in about 1 year.

This is just wishful thinking. We've never had effective vaccines for this sort of virus. (The yearly flu vaccine is like 30% effective.) Sure lots of research groups are working on vaccines, but many of them are academics who have no particular duty to work on research likely to have an immediate payoff. The researchers who do have such a duty, i.e. those who work for private drug firms, are mostly developing treatments like the antiviral remdesivir. Effective treatments of various sorts are closer than any vaccine, for COVID-19. IMHO, the most likely eventual winner will be a scaled-up version of the convalescent plasma therapy, which unlike the current version will be able to produce effective antibodies without drawing blood from humans.
> There isn't broad support for this as a policy.

Feel free to read it as “as broad as it is”, different polling from around the same time toward the end of when it was an active issue varied widely (I can find different polls from about the same time putting it at 30% and 11% support), and the exact breath of support isn't really relevant to my point.
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It's awesome trivia like this that keeps me hooked on hn.
Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale
The iPad was, for sure, the iPhone is a spinoff from the iPad project.
There might be something in the history of Empires like Rome, where over generations minority groups are assimilated into the dominant culture. Give it a few generations and nobody remembers relations 100 years ago.

In the US people today tend to forget the surge of nativist sentiment in 1920 towards... Italians. Or before that... Germans.
The author has clearly never heard of decision fatigue.

The mind is a muscle and while it can be strengthened, like any muscle it has limits. As one grows more experienced and gets a better understanding of their mental faculties, they come to realize — subconsciously or not — that they are only good for so much thinking in a day. Thus extreme measures like the Steve Jobs-ian "uniform" and chugging soylent instead of wasting five precious minutes every day pondering what to have for lunch.

I've been immersed in "startup culture" for just over a decade now, and if I have one acute observation, it's the shift from "never not working" as an ethos to obsessing over not burning out. There is an entire genre of people thinking very hard about mind-hacks to avoid it (yes, irony alert). Looking forward to when this dude slams into the wall.

(I'm guilty of the "uniform" strategy, incidentally, went to H&M and bought 20 identical black t-shirts and 10 white button-up dress shirts, best decision ever)

((second best decision was scheduling all meetings for the second half of the afternoon))
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NVIDIA also gave out dividends (I believe Tesla does not?). Looks like $500 in NVDA in 2009 becomes almost $20k of total return by today. (https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/)
I agree - I read this less as "you have time" and more as "I have time, and I assume my experience is universal so it applies to you."

I hope this blog stays up for 10 years so the author can look at it then in retrospect with years of accumulated knowledge.
I think a Gopherhole is to the Gopher protocol as a website is to HTTP.
Exactly this. I’ve taken pictures of whiteboard drawings using my phone for years. But that is completely against my current company’s policy because pictures get synced to iCloud.

It makes perfect sense why something I could do at small no name companies would be banned at BigCorp.
The blog post isn’t exactly wrong (leaving aside akrasia, fatigue, ...):

> The fact is that when one truly wants something and wants it more than everything else competing for the time in their day, one will absolutely make the time for that thing. Time does not come out of thin air. It comes from the other things we occupy ourselves doing.

It just so happens that “make sure my 3.5 year old and 1 year old are safe, healthy, more or less nice to each-other, doing interesting things with their time, making steady progress learning new skills, etc.” comes before “devote my full attention to my current programming problem 24/7”.
This has to be parody, surely? Many, many people work multiple physical labour jobs to make ends meet, some have kids to support, other people have health issues which limit their productive hours. Even sleep, different people have different biological needs - which vary over their lifetime.

Sure there are choices in there, but it's ignorant to suggest that everyone's starting out from the same place, and to call them liars for that is mean spirited.

The central premise - that everyone has 24hr and anyone saying they don't have the time is lying because we all have 24hr - seems to be willfully misunderstanding people. When someone says they don't have time, they're not saying their day is only 18hrs long, they're saying they don't have time after all the other more important things they do.
I've been also thinking about systems like this, but wouldn't you need constraints and counting?
I mean let's say you modeled human behavior based on basic economic principles, then you'd have constrains/rules like:

if money < x, stay home (and you wouldn't meet new people and have an impact)

if money < y, walk instead of taking a bus (and you would get only so far, your reach is small)

if money < z, have no energy to do new things (your behavior would stay the same)

if energy < c, die

edit: adjustments
youtubes competitive advantage is search... that plus the simple scale of users and content.
This post reeks of privilege.

There are people who quite literally do not have time. They are born into a world where they know nothing other than having a lack of time. They grow up in a household where their parent(s) work multiple jobs to keep food on the table and the lights on. They aren't contemplating taking gap years to travel or learn a new language.

While everyone has 24 hours in a day, not everyone can dictate what they do during them. Free time is a luxury.
Not right now, but that's the direction we're heading in for the next couple of weeks.
The people who built it up are now gone
You won't believe how much their most expensive product costs.
This doesn't resonate well with me either at 39 years of age. When I was single, lived alone in my 20s, I could put in 300-400 miles on my bike recreationally. Now that I'm married, 3 step kids, I'm lucky to have 1-2 hours free, and I usually spend it with my wife.
Since the iPhone was released in 2007 and the iPad in 2010, I’m going to suggest your timeline is backwards.
no what you are describing is how I keep up with someone after I've already found and followed them (ie Twitter / Youtube / other social platform). I asked about discovery ... because at the end of the day that is the difference maker.
Just tried that (twice) - it took literally a fraction of second to open. Probably it was a temporary issue?
It would take longer to complete the vaccine phase 3 clinical trials. We need to see that the vaccinated group has a significantly lower risk of infection than the control group. But if the disease spread is already slow due to other measures then we need either more time to be sure whether the vaccine really works.
>You could probably get it up to over 1GHz if you made a 68k at this size

That would be a fun upgrade if I had an old 68k Mac in good condition. I've thought occasionally about what if Motorola had had the resources to continue developing 68k like x86.
Some seriously ripe claim chowder on that blog regarding the imminent 25x performance of the PowerPC 620, due in 1996 at the latest!
The internal Google postmortem format does require a 1-2 sentence summary. Absolutely vital for being able to learn from mistakes. No one is going to parse walls of text when browsing through post-mortems.
Transformers - the gundam robots, not the electrical component.
I’d completely agree that asking some technical questions is pretty important, and my experience is that they don’t have to be particularly difficult at all, you can filter a lot of people with very basic questions. I have several first hand stories that match the one you heard about the FizzBuzz question. People who refuse to answer easy technical questions and/or get angry about being asked them are a HUGE red flag. Sometimes you have to do mundane tasks at work, and anyone who thinks they’re above it doesn’t deserve the job. Getting angry about easy questions is short-sighted, I mean they’re easy. It’s a sign the person doesn’t enjoy coding or work.

Anyway, you could be right, but I don’t think the GRE thing is selection bias, I looked this up a while back but I can’t find the study now - I’ll add a link if I can find it. Choices and scores were controlled for, and the takeaway was that people who are good at language truly did perform better in grad school. I think it’s plausible since success in grad school and primary output in grad school is papers & writing & a thesis. The same is true for working at a company, the majority of very successful people aren’t the coders (with some exceptions) but they are more often people who are good at communication, writing, planning, strategizing, and rallying others to work together.
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It's not wrong, it's a straw man. When someone says they don't have time, that's just shorthand for all their other more important commitments take up their time.

Making that out to be a lie or personal failure just strikes me as someone who lacks life experience.
I bought about $1000 worth of Apple in 2000 and sold in 2005 to take my profits. I try not to think about that too much.
I logged into an old Google account I hadn’t used since 2009 and realized I still had access to some documents from a company I had worked at back then - and the documents had been updated two years ago.

If I send a sensitive document in the approved chat app that uses SSO, once I quit. I don’t have access to it anymore.
3 ↑↑↑↑ 3 = g1, Graham's Number is g64. See the article for details.

I'd write it out, but this margin is too narrow.
It's likely to be an iPad + Procreate.
This seems like an incredibly unhealthy outlook on life. First of all, it completely ignores the concept of necessity. Some people need to go to a dialysis clinic several times a week, or they'll die. That takes time. Some people have to take their kids to school every day. Some people have to commute two hours to and from work because they can't afford to live closer. "Everyone has the same amount of time in a day" is a useless statement, because everyone does not have the same amount of obligations.

It's very important to be able to accept that sometimes you can't do what you want to do, no matter how much you want it. It's important to be able to understand that, for example, "choosing" to sleep 5 hours a night so you can grind harder might be a really stupid and unhealthy idea, even if you really want it.

It's true that many people talk about wanting things that they aren't really willing to work for, but that's ok! Relaxation is good for you, you shouldn't spend every waking second working through some prioritized list of life goals.

Finally, this is kind of petty, but running several miles without water does not make you "truly thirsty". It's not even abnormal, running 5-10 miles without water is fine, maybe slightly uncomfortable if you didn't hydrate a lot that day.
Also, a lot of YouTube's audience are teenagers, who are on average worse than adults at picking up facial emotional cues:

> We tested older children, adolescents and adults on a two-alternative forced-choice discrimination task using morphed faces that varied in emotional content ... adults displayed more sensitivity to subtle changes in emotional expression than children and adolescents ... The results provide evidence for late developmental changes in emotional expression recognition with some specificity in the time course for distinct emotions.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.469...