skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's not really comparable to this case I spent months in a coma. My wife tells me she was there 24/7 for the first week then hours after work every day. I'm told my family visited everyday as they had worked out a schedule. Every one them interacted with me or read to me or whatever. I remember nothing of it. I feel it did nothing for my recovery but who can say.

I remember only a very long nightmare I couldn't wake from. One bad dream after another. Normally I can wake myself from those types of dreams but this was permanent. Later I had to go to therapy to try to rid myself from those memories or at least learn to live with them. The therapist told me there was no way to tell if I had that experience during coma or during the time the - just short of od doses - drugs were withdrawn.

My waking experience was like swimming up to the surface of a clear blue ocean from very deep below. I remember hearing a tiny voice asking me to squeeze a finger and made a very small movement and remember a lot of shouting and stuff. Wife tells me everyone who visited me did the same thing every day but this one day I moved when she went through the ritual. When I became fully awake after all the drugs had worn off I realized I could barely speak and couldn't move my arms or legs. Months of rehab to follow. I still rage at movies and TV where a coma victim wakes and it's like nothing ever happened.

This was 10 years ago and as you can see it still effects me deeply.
I don't know anything about hardware or EE. Is this something that a person could actually build from scratch?
> That is the very definition of a waterfall design model.

No it doesn't mean that. When you can rely on your data it's easies to code and test than when you have to account for every bad data combination.

And remove the constraint is easier when you need it, than to add it later.

Thanks for the feedback!
Semi-automatic Ar-14 Assault Nukes with 30 round clip magazines. You'll need a $200 NFA tax stamp.
So are you developing for the sake of the process or for the sake of the result? The result is always faster and lighter if you don't pile additional abstraction layers on top of whatever your platform offers (DOM for web and Cocoa/AppKit for macOS).
Because, at least for the moment, it's unlikely that any company is going to offer that European $200k. It's about BATNA, not perceived fairness.

That said, this might change if remote work becomes a lot more common, and we might see a big flattening of salaries. Bad for SF real estate prices (and for high earners in those companies in general), since people in those HCOL markets will suddenly be competing a lot more directly with workers from elsewhere, modulo language skills, ease of scheduling, cultural fit, etc.
A DigitalOcean vps can be a pretty inexpensive and easy option.

I've done this with a Pi and Dyndns. It's pretty easy to setup but not as good (for me) as a DO vps because my home ISP limits data heading out. I would have to purchase a business plan to fix that and it still wouldn't be better or cheaper than what DO and others can provide.

A Pi can be used for development on your home network and it excels at that. And the older RPis can run [1]CouchDB and be configured to "Live Sync" with a CouchDB running on a commercial VPS. That too is a pretty easy to setup and it provides some pretty nice options. For example, you can make your app use the Cloud based CouchDB while you're out and about and it will sync your data with your local CouchDB. Then when you get home you can turn off the cloud access and even delete your data on the cloud DB.

1. The latest version of CoudhDB (v3.0+) doesn't run on the new ARM based Pi 4.
Booting off an SD card. I need to change that, but I’m lazy.

I do treat it like I would a Dropbox. I store photos I want to save, documents I want to save, etc. I was using it for recording trips for a brief bit, as well.

I’ve used it to share pictures with friends from our hikes, and I’m on a very fast internet connection.

My usage loads might be sufficiently low to not be a problem. I’m not constantly streaming from it like LTT does their NAS. For major software projects, I might use it as a remote git repo.

I probably have a high speed SD card.

There are times when it’s slow, but not too often. I forget what I’ve done to resolve that.

Also, running the NextCloud app on my computer has never been slow and that’s my normal use case for file management on it.
From what I’ve read, the violence that ultimately lead to Hitlers grab for power was mostly between rank and file brownshirts and communists: young, working class males who were stirred up by the exact same sort of deliberate misinformation that is propagating in social networks today.
“ because there is a survival advantage to elders sticking around and helping raising new generations with their wisdom (memetic transfer). ”

“I think the burden is on the immortalist to make an argument why they should live (longer) “

I would like to tie these two strings together here because there is a natural precedent for old age. You said it yourself, the previous generation can instruct the new one.

We could extend the period of doing serious lifelong work. Engage in more pleasure and leisure as well as personal development and research. You seem to hang on this notion that people are merely consumers, especially those who want to live longer, so they must die. A tortoise can live for 200 years. Why not yourself?

You approach this in utilitarian terms and I still ask so what? People want more pleasure? Why not? I won’t deny that I have a hedonistic streak in me but I’ve yet to see a convincing argument against hedonism which doesn’t take an extreme view of it. Your vocabulary set suggest an appreciation and maybe even training in science but the feeling is puritanical and punitive. I don’t share your misgivings and the burden of proof is not on the immoralist because there are no gods to judge us. Life extension would be our own decision to make. To deny it for your reasons infantilizes humanity, judging us as incapable of agency in our own lives. You would in fact render people as short lived consumers who are unable to chose. Peter Pan is on you after all. You want the natural order to crystallize as it is now, an eternal infancy of the human race as short lived by choice.

I don’t demand for you to be remembered nor do I expect you to earn your keep for eternity. I want everyone to live the life they want for as long as they want. Life extension is a part of that.
note: your paper link contains an unnecessary fingerprinting element after the # symbol, which can be removed (including #)
Thanks for sharing, I found it really cool and informative.

Also, just a great example of an innovative marketing strategy: provide legitimate value to people who are part of your target market.
Just because it cannot be measured to a high precision does not mean it can't be measured. People clearly have some sense of when they are and aren't productive.
Try to micro partition your space.

Have a desk to work and a table to have food, possibly facing different walls.

Sit on a couch to play videogames and on a (office) chair to work.

Don't play games or watch Netflix on the computer you use to work. Uninstall them.
In self-defense. In both cases, the kid was running away from them when they attacked.
Yes, I've seen debit cards that have $0 liability guarantees backed by the financial institution. Since this reflects well on the institution, it will typically advertise the guarantee somewhere prominent, such as a list of features.

In the US, debit cards command different processing fees for the card issuer depending on how the transaction is processed. Sometimes, when using a debit card in person, the checkout terminal will ask the customer to choose "credit" or "debit" for the transaction. Choosing "credit" instead of "debit" grants the card issuer a much larger processing fee. Some financial institutions only offer certain features (including liability guarantees or rewards) when the debit card is used to make a "credit" transaction. Almost all online debit card transactions are processed as "credit" (which does not require you to enter a PIN).

About the status of PayPal: it is licensed as a money transmitter but manages a network of bank subsidiaries and third-party bank accounts to profit from interest rate arbitrage and perform other activities that banks would do.

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/06/2136828/is-it-a-bank-...
We need far more builders working on compatible open source platforms, apps, and tools, so we stop rebuilding dead end proprietary apps or, even worse, successful walled gardens.
Chiming in here. I moved across the country to SoCal and returned to the company I left, (re)-starting in Sept. 2019 as full-time WFH. I worked 4-5 days in the office before the move.

I'm a good control here because I've worked for the same company:

1. In the office

2. WFH pre-Covid

3. WFH during-Covid

What's more, all of my favorite activities: golf, hiking, cooking--are largely unaffected by the pandemic. My income's been the same and the work activities have been roughly similar.

I felt relatively productive WFH pre-Covid but something has changed that's affected my productivity/motivation--and I can't put my finger on it. I think it's the general, subconscious, back-of-my-mind feeling that things are profoundly going to shit that's dragging me down. It's been a struggle now when it's not been before.

This is all purely anecdotal, but I think I'm a good case-in-point example of your position: that WFH is a convenient strawman to hand-wave away the effects of people living in the final pages of a Vonnegut novel.

I love WFH; I want to be productive; but I don't think that shoe-horning people back into offices (wearing a mask all day, nonetheless) is going to magically turn everyone back into creative, chipper good-time-charlies.
I wouldn't rule out a form of Magical Penis Theft - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)

Mass hysteria induced by bad conditions and language difficulties. You see a little of this in the report. The medical error making the woman infertile setting it off.

The alternative is medical fraud by a doctor who knows complaints are hard given their conditions.

But records will have to have been kept. What would the profit to risk be?

Why not do un-needed procedures that are not so permanent.
Agreed. There's unfortunately been a lot of wild accusations online about who's starting fires and why. But that's not a good reason to plaster his name, age, and face all over the article
> One of the key elements of Nikola’s advanced system is the Bosch Vehicle Control Unit

So… a Bosch ECU? That's hardly new. Bosch is one of the largest players in the market -- Ford, GM, BMW, and VW (among others) have been using their ECUs for ages.
That's among the least of my criticisms. But it's easy to criticize.

One unintuitive thing I wish was more easily explained:

Any given move to gain votes will lose other votes. It's a wicked hard optimization problem.
> Never believe stories like this, measuring productivity is an impossible problem

I want to start off by saying that I don't completely disagree with you, but all of us should take a step back and realize how an absurd of a position this is for us to be in a society.

This immeasurability is inversely proportional to the tangible, real value created. You can, for example, absolutely measure to the dollar the productivity of a plumber and you can easily compare two different plumbers, and see if environmental factors improve or decrease their productivity.

If you own a factory making screws you can unquestionably measure the valued added and therefor productivity of each and every employee. If you have a farm and you hire seasonal laborers to help you harvest, again you can easily measure the exact productivity of each worker, determine if a hot day makes them less productive etc.

Software engineers are a step removed from this in part because the things we make are of questionable value (especially in the extremes). Front-end contract engineers certainly seem to have measurable productivity. If someone can build you a working store front in 40 hours, you can compare this to another one how can do a worse job in 100 hours at the same rate.

But as software products grow more complex and the actual value more vague, then software engineer productivity likewise gets harder and harder to measure. And I think a real question every engineer who has worked at a large company has asked, even if they work their asses off, is "do I really create any value?"

Software engineers, again, are still closer to the side that you can measure real productivity because in at least most cases software itself is important. When you move on to other "office workers", those who are really struggling now, that value again is very hard to measure and therefore so is productivity.

The question that we need to ask more often is, if productivity is so hard to measure, maybe it is possibly because we might not be creating as much value as we have largely tricked ourselves into believing we have.
Electrical code is complex, but more importantly there is not one unified electrical code. Your municipal, county, or state government determines what the electrical code is in your location. Usually it will be the National Electrical Code (NEC) but inclusion, but probably an older version, and then most governments have implemented various changes on top of that.

So the first question to answer is what NEC allows, but you will then need to double-check for your specific context.

Further, the power inlets are NEC approved but that in no way means that they are approved for this use. I'm far from an expert on the NEC but I can pretty confidently assert that it allows such inlets only for specific uses, and you would need to check carefully that what you propose is one of those uses. A very rough rule of thumb is that you are not normally allowed to have more than one "user-removable plug" on the path to a device. There are a number of exceptions to this, but any time you're plugging into something that plugs into something else, you need to check carefully if what you're doing is allowed.
I tunnel everything through webRTC. It's a bit exotic but it gets you a direct bidirectional data connection to the self hosted device. You can put all users' self hosted content through a single domain name & SSL cert or you could have subdomains automatically provisioned for each device.

I'm using this WebRTC method for 3D printers at https://tegapp.io
I suppose the tone is open to interpretation, but I didn't try and mischaracterize the interaction. Both of us were incredulous as to the responses we were getting. When asking the same questions in a store, especially before agreeing to anything, I'd expect and have received clear answers or documents that do that.

Likewise, though I didn't mention this in the post, the first few emails Joe sent were not quotes, but payment requests with no further detail as to what was happening. I've gone ahead and updated the post.
I've always considered the Ferrari 250 GTO to be the prettiest car I've ever seen. It has also alluringly been way out of my reach financially for my entire life. I predict one will trade hands for North of $100 million in the next few years. Part of the reason is that they made so few.

But if one or two companies start making clones it's possible the price will get to the point I could afford it. But it has to have a V-12 and while I'd prefer a rebuilt Ferrari engine I'd accept either Mercedes or BMW V-12's especially if it brought down the price.
It's more of a statement of guided documentation than anything.

With enough study and motivation everything should be pretty accessible.

I've used it a bit (almost 20 years ago however), certainly still requires committed dedication, then again, just like anything else.
There's a current scam going on right now where people are getting calls to get in on the ground floor of the "Stripe IPO"...
Businesses don't do well building processes on top of someone's proprietary Incredible Journey.
> Work output was particularly affected on Mondays and Fridays, according to findings discussed by Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon in a private meeting with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts.

How would they measure that? It seems basically impossible, and the article has no details.
My dynamic IP address with Comcast is pretty much static but I guess it is not a guarantee... I can get it to change by spoofing my router MAC address though.
Agreed: I invested in a bunch of the Monoprice version a few years ago. 1.59USD today (+ S & H).

* https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5296
It's included only as a picture :)
How does Cgnat fit into this? Or do we have to forego any hopes of it as long as cgnat exists?
Maybe it was scraped off of a PDF? ;P

In all seriousness, though: it doesn't look like it was cut off; I think the final cd is just to return the docker builder thingee to the home directory? The file was already built and installed by that built.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVO3NJCPIoY
Those will tend to be mounted in/on something, like a clamshell case, that might get in the way.

The craft store should have unmounted mirrors, which might be easier to deal with.
What I've long wondered is- would it really be that hard/expensive to build an open source social media alternative that does exactly that? Updates & photos from friends & family, in chronological order, and little else. Social media has been around for a while now, I have to imagine that most of the hard problems around a customized feed and so on have been solved. Probably some idealistic ex-FB and IG engineers would join on, so we'd have their domain expertise. I bet some prominent, wealthy anti-FB types could kick in some seed money to get it off the ground. It could be set up as a non-profit, B corp or foundation of some sort.... You could run non-targeted display ads for brand advertising to help cover costs, with the added lure for advertisers that the site would be brand-friendly because it's non-controversial.

Of course it wouldn't have sophisticated features like photo tagging and such, and probably wouldn't be Hip And Cool for Gen Z, but it could be a functional bare-bones Facebook replacement. You'd have probably have to disable virality features, and maybe linking to external news sites just to prevent your racist uncle from posting Breitbart links, I don't know.

Would that really be so hard? Or do the servers, hosting, security and moderation costs just scale exponentially after some threshold of say 10 million users or what have you? Supposedly Instagram was running with a very small team when Facebook acquired them
When you see that SQL access can ruin data and make them invalid, it's usually a strong indicator of an inadequate DB design. (Maybe you did not have a chance to see a good one?)
Apples to Oranges. This is not Work From Home. This is Work From Home during a Pandemic during Natural Disasters. WFHPND is a bit long for an acronym though.

Productivity may, actually, fall for younger employees at home, but data from this year is not valid for a calculation vs prior years.
I decided I could fix my own cars when I “realized” that ‘if someone else can do it, I can do it’ as well. Turns out I had to learn a lot, but I learned it.
> This is just your world-view being shaped by your “news” sources. Maybe get off of social media for a while or only follow people who do not talk about politics/current events.

This is a good way to escape reality, but not much more. I've done this plenty of times, but the world doesn't stop moving because you're ignoring what's going on. You become ignorant, and that is far worse.

> Don’t shit on fields you don’t understand. It makes you look ignorant and blocks you from even realizing the opportunities in the world.

I took the comment as they are not interested in finance. Maybe they've worked in the field in the past and don't like it. They didn't "shit on" anything.
>And HTML 5 is very secure. Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language.

Javascript and CSS to replace the CAN-BUS? That'd be funny..

To spin the tyres you just need to add the CSS style:
{
animation:spin 4s linear infinite;
}

And reduce the duration to make the truck go faster..
Ahhhhh that might actually explain a lot - people's behaviour is affected by the design in that they end up unplugging more frequently due to the lack of a switch in the socket, so more cables laying around unplugged, versus the UK where plugs tend to be left in the socket but can be physically disconnected using the switch.
Did you google it?
> going to really suck for the people who have gotten used to earning $200K entry level in San Francisco

at first, yes, but wouldn't CoL eventually come down if everyone were earning a nationally based income?
Human rights are a subset of politics. (It's fashionable to label as “nonpolitical” any matter of politics that the speaker thinks is important, as if “politics” as a label only applied to trivialities, but that's not what it means and, more relevantly, not why HN often prefers to avoid things that are in that domain but not particularly intellectual novelties.)
Isn’t the burden of proof on the person making the claim? In this case, you’re claiming they’re worse, so the burden is on you to find a better one. Any would work. But to put the burden on the person claiming, in their own opinion, that they’re simply “the best on the market” doesn’t make sense.
Great background info; it reminds me--albeit on a greater scale--of an earlier HN thread to the effect of "how hard could possibly be to show street names on maps at with globally correct-seeming detail at arbitrary zoom level," which does sound kind of simple, if you've never tried to do it for real, but which has frustrated many smart people for a long time.
Right, it's about BATNA, but it stands to reason that especially in a time of ubiquitous remote work, offering remote workers salary parity will attract the highest talent from all regions, thereby providing a competitive advantage.
The first time I experienced this, I was travelling through the U.S in 2018, in what seems like a similar event. I almost didn't get them to agree to do it, but it was up to their discretion and they obliged. However, the kicker was that they had to mail it away and it'd be gone for at least a week. I tried numerous Apple stores on our way up through California. Some said they did do MB repairs in store, but their hands were tied, they'd have to mail it away. Insane.
>The question that we need to ask more often is, if productivity is so hard to measure, maybe it is possibly because we might not be creating as much value as we have largely tricked ourselves into believing we have.

at a very low level productivity is hard to measure because it's tacit and implicit rather than explicit. The reason why we can measure the productivity of a business is because it responds to price signals and you can put a literal number on what they put out.

You can try running some sort of market scheme within your company but at some point the trade-offs are bad and it adds too much complexity and creates strange incentives.

For software in particular if anything the opposite of your assumption is likely true. It adds a lot of value without necessarily being able to put a price tag on it. It's pretty hard to measure what wikipedia or vim is worth in terms of productivity as long as they're not charging, but that doesn't mean it's not worth anything.