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> I may move to Hawaii when the plague passes, and then my day would start at 6am. That'd be rough

I do this, but from New Zealand: 5am (in winter) is 10am in SF, so I wake up at 4:50am. I'm usually online by about 5:15am. I manage a software team, who are distributed across North and South America.

It works fine. There's more than enough overlap between all our timezones (some of my South America team have adjusted towards SF time, too, though I haven't asked them to). Many of my colleagues don't even know what time it is for me, which is kind of the idea - it makes it easier if I just stick to west coast office hours, then no-one else has to think about it.

The early starts do drag as winter goes on, but I have the first daylight savings coming up in about 6 weeks - that'll mean 6am starts - then another DST shift will make it 7am (but I'll probably do 6:30am).

I am a morning person, and though I wouldn't usually wake up at 5am by choice, I wake up and become fully alert quickly enough that it's fine.

Having a big contiguous block of time in the afternoon / evening is amazing. Even in the middle of winter I finish work at 1pm and I have ~4 hours of daylight left to do whatever. In summer I'll finish around 2pm and have 7 hours of daylight. It's like having a full day to do stuff, every day - provided I have the energy.
Glengarry Glen Ross

"If you can't think on your feet, you should keep your mouth closed."
It is an interesting theory; but I don't think it holds up very well on close inspection.

For one thing, human 'trust' is mostly about raw familiarity. If trust were linked to actual trustworthiness, politics would be completely different and "any publicity is good publicity" wouldn't be a proverb. Motivated untrustworthy people generally have great success getting people to trust them, drinking involved or otherwise.

In addition, trust even being an assessable characteristic is debatable, people's reliability is very dependent on context and circumstance. Nobody is trustworthy in a divorce court, for example.

"causes people to get along more freely and easily" makes a lot of sense, but the utility drunken parties for assessing trustworthiness seems weak.
Cabin filters were invented for a reason.

Change them at regular intervals, or, in extra heavy traffic, put the recirculator on.

It'll make the air stuffy, but will keep it cleaner than it would have been otherwise. Don't keep it on for too long though, as the CO2 levels will start to rise and you might begin to lose concentration.
People are going to wonder why cars and trucks were allowed?

A core part of our transportation network that delivers nearly every product we purchase and moves people around so they can work and have a social life.

People are going to wonder that?
You make a great point. I think you are right in your classification. But the basic point in my comment was that the Wim Hof technique is simpler than Pranayama, and is highly beneficial in itself. Pranayama is very technical, and I am always worried that I am "doing it wrong".
> I can see how the memo could be read entirely differently

Sure, but you can't hold the original author responsible for how it is being rewritten and reinterpreted in other people's minds. It's not a reasonable expectation that everyone should write everything with concern for how every cultural intersection might interpret it. That simply can't scale.
Being up all night actually is akin to drinking for your body, or so I’ve read. I’ve definitely felt the same effects from sleep deprivation.
It might be that the drinking is a social cover that permits everyone to “get real” at once, and that the drug that is alcohol is actually irrelevant in the social sense, much like how a fire alarm is more a signal of permission for a group to begin evacuating without social judgement or other cues.
> Is this guy an undertaker or a urologist? His tag seems to have both words but I do not speak Swedish.

His name tag says "Underläkare", which is a title meaning "assistant physician". The term is defined in this Swedish Wikipedia article:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underl%C3%A4kare

Google translates it as follows:

"Assistant physician in Sweden is a title for all the doctors on duty who do not have specialist competence..."

Underneath that it says "VO kirurgi och urologi" which translates as "Acting supervisor[1] - surgery and urology".

The red tag says "Läkare", which is just "Doctor".

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/VO (literally "officer on duty")
The challenge of discovering it internally is you have to have the injector installed and it has to fire on queries.

I believe Google is sensitive to complaints here due to legal jeopardy. That I am aware of, Google has been forbidden from showing advertisements from Canadian pharmacy's and Payday Loan vendors. Both things which pay well for clicks and you're basic slimeball Adtech guy is going to inject into Google pages when they think they might get a click.
Worse than World Star HipHop?
google wouldn't though because they already allow sideloading
Good thing that you're not in ex soviet zone. Not drinking there when someone offers is sign of weakness and personal offence to the one who offered to drink. Unless you have a proovable medical condition, but then everybody just feels pity for you. And what are you doing in this "dacha" anyway then :)

For reference see movie "Peculiarities of the National Hunt". Spoiler, it has nothing to do with hunting.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0114055/
So you have zero friends in life?
HBO Max blocks DRM license for Linux users
This sounds great. One hopes that in the years to come, all learning takes on such a multi-faceted structure.
I only wish there was a linear "wall" of learning, from baby arithmetic to algebraic cohomology, string theory, etc., with a clear(ish) path* of precedence for when you get stuck. (*generalized path, I suppose)

Maybe give latex a symbolic math system while we are at it, so that it may check our notes as we type them. ;)
Testing has been off in FL due to the hurricane closing sites.
> you have defective genetics (are an alcoholic) if you decide to stop drinking

Is it a commonly held belief that alcoholics are genetically inferior to non-alcoholics? I personally associate addiction problems with a poor environment (low social support, overly stressed, depression) or early childhood trauma more than genetics. However, I'm just one person with my own conceptions. I'm curious if it's seen as a genetic flaw.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. You spend most of your time with the people you work with. If you can’t get along with them your life is going to be bad.
While I have no problem doing this, most people actually can’t do it without alcohol I found.
Sure, which is why the word of authors undergoing transition at the time is worthless, and all the other clues. /s

It makes 100% sense to anyone who has seen the original screenplay floating on the internet since forever, which has more detail.

Why do you think there's a character that is a different gender in and out of the Matrix? (Switch.) It's not typical even in cyberpunk genre.

Why put in the doubts about being the one, or the pill rather than some other references?

Why put the woman in the red dress in the movie at all and make that a philosophical point?

Why say that general people (not unplugged) would defend the matrix when it is only agents attacking?

Why did the authors self-insert in the movie in a subtle rather than overt way? (Scene with cleaning windows.)

A full blown blockbuster directly about transitioning would be a literal box office flop back then, and even now. Imagine that.

At the time I watched the thing I believed the story to be about coming out. Believed many of the references to be gay culture. That was back in about 2000. It is actually completely clear now even with author's stamp on it.
Yeah, but it only works when they have some kind of leverage on you. A very lazy google search tells me that there are about 4 million Chinese Americans, which is 1.3% of the population. So 1.3% of Americans could be manipulated this way. That is a lot, and I think 'fringe' is hyperbole, but I still agree with the sentiment that the typical American can feel pretty safe from China. Expats and Americans with family or friends in China are obvious exceptions, as are people who have sent explicit photos or had affairs on Chinese apps, and people who are in debt with Chinese companies.

Those are what comes to mind for me, and maybe there are more ways China could threaten an individual in the US, but I still think it's at most 5% of Americans who could be personally targeted by China (and I do think it's good to ban TikTok because I do not want that number to go up).

Meanwhile US surveillance affects 100% of Americans. We have stronger rights and don't have to fear being disappeared for dissenting, but mass surveillance has the power to suppress or misdirect speech and there are entities in the US that are figuring out how to use that.
I don't follow. Google could lock this down if they wanted to. They own System.loadLibrary, dlopen, and the kernel. If they wanted to enforce that native libraries were covered by the same signature as signed the APK they could. Maybe not now that the horse has bolted.
Page 83 and 84 of the Musk deposition for Lopez.

Musk says that his private security told him that Tripp's colleague (who was living in his car begging for his job back) told him about a payment but the private security testified their investigation found no evidence. Musk himself doesn't explicitly testify that there was no evidence in that passage. I confused that section with his testimony about the lack of evidence linking Tripp to shortsellers on page 96.

So the entire claim about payment rests on the testimony of a QA technician who got fired for cause from Tesla, was living in his car and begging Tesla for his job back, a claim that Musk's own private investigator testified they could find no evidence for.
Question: isn't this thing valid also for tv shows from, e. G. Netflix?
I mean... Trump is known not to drink alcohol.
Not necessarily. She was a talented, young, attractive, single person who was in the adventure phase of her career, hopping from job to job around the world with no expenses of note, working in government with older staid stable people.
Nope, but a lot of America clearly sees the current policies as being a success :-/
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White fragility applies the term so broadly that it implies the author herself is a white supremecist.
I am always surprised when people feel like you have to drink if you go hang out in bars.

Order a coke and some cheese sticks and hang out with your drunk friends, it’s not an issue.
Was looking for this when I was typing that post up! Should have known it would be Malcom X. There's another great quote along the lines of "those concerned with how something is said than what is said" that I can't seem to remember the source on either that is very relevant here too.
If you missed the link, this was discussed in 2014.

I thought this deleted comment was interesting from that discussion -

Why not drinking is a sign of conservatism -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7798391
Just don’t get trashed.
> You're really convinced about being right

If you're going to resort to personal attacks, I have some thoughts of my own.
And if you never stand up for yourself, you'll find that all the people you befriend happen to be jerks.

In real life of course you have to find a balance. There is a line and its going to be different for every person
I'd love to see schema.org updated and used more. As someone still doing linked data work, albeit in academia, I mainly use it simply to provide more context to self-created, domain specific properties within ontologies using things like rdfs:seeAlso, skos:related, etc.

Ideally it'd be nice (imo) if schema.org had more domain specific extensions, similar to the bib[0] one which allows for things like comic book properties to be described.

[0] https://schema.org/docs/bib.home.html
How is Steam handling this by the way? It is accepted on iOS, but the steam library is way bigger and it includes adult-only games
As per #SaveJournalismFromBrahmanism 70% Editors are Brahmin who are just 3% in India;

I propose a separate country to Brahmin since https://archive.is/h3TBP

https://twitter.com/0x101/status/1291001732051263489
Poll: Where Are You From?
Trying to get a sense of how international the HN crowd is these days. If you want to be more specific in the comments by all means go for it …
That's interest on the side of the data consumer not the data provider, for lack of better words.

If the bank was the one owning the information they would not want it to be shared with others as that would allow their client to easily migrate to another bank which they definitely do not want.

But as the one receiving the data,sure, it would be nice to have others share it with me, they'd say.

I'm afraid without legislation data sharing is never going to be a thing.
Would a SQLite virtual table be provided, so that it can be used without a web page, and with command-line interface and stuff such as local joins and copies and views and so on?
I don’t really buy this explanation because vitriol against vegans is alive and well even in regions and communities where vegans are effectively non-existent. N.B.: I grew up in rural Wisconsin and have never knowingly met another vegan in my life.
FWIW, people who cut out alcohol for muscle building reasons (As opposed to direct weight loss/diet reasons) are well aware that the effects of oestrogen release lasts for weeks, up to 6, iirc. It’s a pretty good reason to not drink.
For general weight loss, I’m unsure if the alcohol effects anything on a chemical level, but alcoholic drinks are calorie dense as hell.
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I’ve lived in London and in Asia, and there’s as much drinking in Asia if not more. I remember reading that south korea is the biggest consumer of alcohol per capita in the world
> You mention this in the passing, but barring mechanical limitations of the new infra, reusing your business logic means retaining your APIs, auth models, data models, even database schemas, replication and deployment design decisions and tons of portable code. That is where the overwhelming majority of engineer hours go in an ordinary product anyway.

If you haven't read the Google SRE Handbook, I recommend it. It presents some good background on the topics here. Pretty much every aspect you listed is dependent on a custom Google-internal service, and would have to be rewritten.

https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/production-...

https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/release-eng...

> No, they don't.

They do. No need to come up with a rationalization for why it can't be the case, you can Google it and find out that it is true.
It surprised me that USDS, an org specifically created to disrupt government IT, only had one "maverick".
Is this actually illegal? And if so, how would a court proceeding look like? I am pretty sure especially in the US, if you have money for a good lawyer, you can wiggle yourself out of this one pretty easily. Just imagining the jury overseeing this...
Who is even the defendant? And what is the crime?

I imagine if such a case ever goes to court its going to be very interesting, because for the government, this should be like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Acknowledging this as "theft" kindof undermines their agenda to kill off alternative currency.

There is also another dimension to it. "Double spending" conceptually seems very similar to the government printing money, devaluing the dollar.
Except for the 13th month bonus, I’d say it’s pretty basic. You’d get those benefits working at a supermarket.

Five weeks vacation is a legal minimum. Most companies I worked for here in Denmark will give you six. It’s technically not five weeks, but 25 days.
I had a professor who was fond of saying "you have to jump in and do it" ("it" being whatever calculation, or problem, or whatever)

If you are timid and stay on the sidelines, you will never do anything. Of course in physics there is the small further problem where you are up against the smartest people who have ever lived, ...sans the math folk... and double points if you have been jailed in France, doing math during a war, or similar. eh... Really though, can't we all contribute if we work hard enough?
Doesn’t matter if you block the installation of other browsers when you want to let your kid use Pinterest, Messenger, or the zillion other apps that have embedded browsers.
>We're going to see a diaspora out of the city and into the countryside

I think that instead we will see cleaner air in cities since the economics of electric/hybrid cars will win, especially in city traffic. This trend can already be seen in SF where zero-emission hybrids and electrics make up a decent percentage of the traffic.
Poul Anderson in "Brain Wave" had a most interesting take on what increased intelligence would look like. People said less and less to each other, but conveyed more meaning.
American history x
True...but...

If I rent an EC2 instance, is it a personal device?

If I rent time on a Stadia instance, is that graphical output of that server a personal device?
37 Signals and Gitlab
Not drinking was never the main topic, just a passing topic. It was never an issue at all. Reconnection or not were due to other things.

But I must say that I never made friends on bars. My friends were neighbors and school friends (in my teens), then college friends, then a few coworkers. And their friends. So I go to the bar with them, not to make friends.

In nightclubs, to meet women, it had a larger impact, but not necessarily a negative one. It would be a conversation point, but I felt that some women actually preferred, maybe felt safer with someone that could better understand and respect limits, idk. I am not from US though, not sure how the culture is here. I never bought any woman a drink (not sure if it’s for real or just a movie thing)
Can I use actual IRC, rather than needing a browser extension? I don't use Chrome, and would like to use my own IRC client instead.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It highlights the true nature of mastery, how deep it goes, and what an actual master looks like. One of the chefs needed 10 years of experience before they would let him do the egg sushi. There's the deep networks that support it too, the master fishmongers, the master rice planters, and all the master brokers in between who knew how to find the good stuff.
The idea of a gender switch between online and real life has been a meme since at least the early 90s. 18/F/Cali anyone?

I don't understand the pill reference, other than that they behave diffently as medicines.

The woman in a red dress is...a woman in a red dress. Please elaborate.

I'm willing to be proven wrong here, I didn't even particularly like the movie, I just feel like the connections are rather vague.

It reminds me of a time in elementary school I won some award for a drawing I did because of my use of limited colors to express something. Truth is I was just lazy and liked red and black, but people see what they want. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

To express my own take, it was more about government, society, and the inevitable end we would come to some day as resources constrain. To say that's wrong and it's about the individual (neo) feels wrong, to me.

Edit to add -

One of the great things about works is people being able to take their own meaning away from things. Whether it's my view of societal collapse, a gay man's view of a person coming out, or a trans person's view of being trans, I like to think nobody is wrong. When an author then boxes it in after the fact with such vague references feels like an affront to the work.
I also don't get the hate. All other tools I had to use were garbage in comparison
Well, I would expect that the supply of rental units to flood the market. So those that can afford to pay rent will pit landlord against landlord seeking the best price. This will drop prices of rental units as landlords will have to accept a drop in rent to fill their units. That's good in the long run, but not good in the short term.

So for the people who can't afford to pay rent, well, a lot of them will end up on the street. No job, no home, no health insurance.

Keep in mind that in this economy the supply of money is not flowing anymore to the middle class, many of who were already living paycheck to paycheck. It's all being hoarded by those who have it seeking wealth preservation above all else first.
A couple of articles on tyre pollution:

https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/14/world/microplastic-pollut...
And next to the Western-European dev is one from the East of Europe, say Ukraine, that again takes half of that.
EV regen braking partially helps with the brake dust, at least. May be counteracted by the tire rubber because EVs can be driven in a more “spirited” way.
This is an interesting take which leads to a conundrum: how does the non-drinker "get real" with the drinker who usually just gets real in mutual drinking scenarios?
Don’t forget that EVs use regenerative braking heavily, which generates power instead of brake dust.
Yeah, I've been quite puzzled too, and figured perhaps they were anecdotal but perhaps they are not. I really like this definition of engineering process as "a decision making process (often iterative) in which the basic sciences, mathematics, and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_design_process) and have met too many, by their unwillingness to commit and take ownership of a decision, pretty much stall the entire engineering development progress.
From what I understand there were an awful lot of injuries from horses.
Sure, maybe. My point is that US companies have to pay more because more things need to be taken care of by the individual instead of it being socialized to different degrees. Also there is very little in terms or labor rights in the US. So it is a bit more complicated, than just taking some amount you think any European would just line up for work, without considering the conditions they are used to.

It is not like the possibility to work remotely for US companies that in absolute numbers pay more than the local ones is completely novel. But at least in my circles pretty much no one is interested in doing so.
Where I work lots of people have bottles of liquor on their desks, even some sprint retros or meetings are done with a bottle on the table. There are endless happy hours & days of the week where we get served alcohol on premise. Team outings cannot happen without alcohol being involved.

Take two sets of people: those who drink & those who do not - guess which set gets promoted/large raises/etc.