skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if your government was downplaying the seriousness of licking eyeballs when the whole world knows how bad locking eyeballs is, you can lay at least a little blame on said government, right?

The US has over 200k dead from COVID-19. This could have been avoided if the government had been staunchly pro-mask and social distancing from the start. Instead, they downplayed it as nothing to be worried about at best and a full-on hoax at worst. If the government had done the right thing from the start, all these people who can’t manage themselves would at least be wearing masks and staying away from each other if for no other reason than their president told them it was the right thing to do. I think we can safely blame the government for this one.
>I go on a walk. I get interrupted once, twice, 15 times by one of my group texts.

Here's a problem. Walk/exercise WIHTOUT devices.
I literally couldn't come up with a better example of False Dilemma fallacy:

> Moving to the woods and going full Thoreau, for most of us, is simply not an option. The only long-term fix is making the background into foreground: calling out the exact ways digital technologies have colonized our lives, aggravating and expanding our burnout in the name of efficiency.

Technology didn't colonize anything, you invited over an annoying house guest that you refuse to kick out. Turn off your phone and go pet a dog. You'll be better for it.
For what it's worth, backing your statement of "it used to be simpler" with an example of how easy it used to be to get the wrong answer does not make for a good argument.

The example provided: "how many files in a directory? just pipe `ls` to `wc` and because `ls` output is one file per line, you've got your answer!" Except newlines are totally valid characters to have in filenames. Try it:

echo "foo" > 'test
file.txt'

ls | less
ls | wc -l

Pipe the output of `ls` to `less` to see the old-style one-line-per-file output to see what you get.
Run `ls | wc -l` and see the wrong answer pop up.
Sure, but it doesn’t matter enough that interviews should be built around this domain, especially to the extent they are around the Bay Area.

Having 0.5% of all engineers regularly engaged in working with the implementation details of data structures and algorithms does not justify putting 100% of engineering candidates through interviews centered on that topic.
The 3 years he quotes is from his perspective, which is from the view of "what company-spanning initiatives are we going to tackle" or "what teams and projects do we need to bootstrap or expand on?". It takes years for these things to get done and have the desired impact on the bottom line, but within those years are individuals and teams growing their respective businesses. Those businesses are absolutely monitored yearly/quarterly/weekly at some level of abstraction in the company.
Actually we did!

Disclaimer: main developer and co-founder here.

We started theoapp [1] in mid 2018 and we introduced it at FOSDEM 2019 [2]. We then launched AuthKeys [3], a company that offers it as SaaS.

From a technical standpoint, we chose a different approach than that described by this thread's O.P. More specifically we implemented our service as a client/server suite to integrate with the standard sshd authorizedKeysCommand feature. Rationale and more technical details can be found at the links below.

We've been in "stealth mode" until now (this is our very first public post!), while running the service with selected customers since December 2019.

Recent developments will soon allow us to widen the product’s offer with a self-hosted solution of AuthKeys.

Feedback from the HN community is more than welcome: we'd like to hear whether the website is effective and clear enough on explaining how AuthKeys works [4]. We realized the topic comes with a certain degree of complexity for some potential users while others really want to quickly spot how the internals work and how we managed to make it secure to trust and easy to use.

We’ll be happy to answer any questions on the matter, and to offer promo codes to HN readers in case you wish to give it a go.

[1] https://github.com/theoapp/
[2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/theo_keys_man...
[3] https://authkeys.io/
[4] https://authkeys.io/how-it-works
So far my top choice is the Moonlander https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
This is a very privileged statement. For upper middle class with no issues whatsoever (health or otherwise), maybe with meticulous planning, one could reach financial independence in a decade, and that's a massive stretch. It's still a decade slaving away. EDIT: oh, and that only allows you to be financially independent at the same spending levels (hilariously minimal) that you have held so far.

For anyone who doesn't have surplus income even after dropping down to the very basic necessities, it's not a choice at all.
> Conversely wouldn’t imply the other life’s impending extinction symmetrically?

Yes and?
An N95 is far more effective than a surgical mask.
This is really impressive. IS there anything else you're using Idris for in the context of Elixir/Erlang?
> Salt causing long-term damage is not the same thing.

Yes it is. Overconsumption of salt eventually leads to health problems because of the chemical imbalance it causes.

This was not someone who ate a bunch of licorice at once and immediately died from it. He adopted a diet almost solely based on licorice candy for three weeks. It's very much a long term effect of eating too much of it.

> An actual salt overdose is something that won't taste good.

Based on personal experience, as a lover of licorice, neither will a licorice overdose. I can't imagine eating pretty much only licorice for weeks on end because eating too much gives me headaches and stomach pains.

> It's not just being able to notice symptoms, it's having licorice start tasting bad to you.

Again, salt doesn't start tasting bad. It just doesn't have a good taste in concentration. An undiluted teaspoon of salt won't kill you, but it'll taste like crap to most people. To others it will taste good, which is partly why salt poisoning still occurs.

> If you have a lot of salt in you, salt starts tasting bad. If you have a lot of water, you're not thirsty, under the vast majority of circumstances.

...and after a couple of weeks of living on licorice?

> What I'm saying is that you could get the same amount of licorice active ingredient without it being a huge portion of your diet. You could even have a healthy-seeming diet that happens to be low in potassium. And then what do you do, when you have mystery symptoms?

Go to a doctor? What would you do if you started experiencing frequent palpitations and constant headaches with no clue as to what caused it? The idea that death from licorice will somehow creep up on you unnoticed although you have a "healthy-seeming" diet is entirely speculative. This case is extremely rare, even compared to water and salt poisoning, and the circumstances around it—that someone pretty much sustained themselves on mostly licorice—are absurd and grotesque.

But yes, by the weasely nature of the term "healthy-seeming" I guess it's true in the sense that it could happen to anyone to whom eating primarily licorice for weeks on end seems healthy.

> With that amount of sugar, someone with a healthy lifestyle could plausibly "feel when they're having too much candy for their own good". But if you get rid of that part, and focus on just the licorice, the claim that someone will "feel when they're having too much licorice for their own good" needs proof.

You mean that "Oh I'm having constant headaches and my heart is playing King Crimson songs but it's probably just sugar so I don't have to do anything about it" is a reasonable attitude, or do you mean for me to prove to you that hypokalemia has symptoms?
The $47T Heist
One trick to catch opportunists: start with those looking to increase their headcount faster than baseline (as any good opportunist will attempt), and then see if they will adopt an opposing logical argument as long as it leads to the conclusion that their headcount should grow.

This is a flavor of looking for those who make different arguments depending on the audience, which in general is a helpful warning signal.

Although it's impossible to entirely route out opportunists at a high quality, quickly growing company, as the author notes, I still find it is worthwhile to maximize the number of leaders in your company whom you trust to make arguments in the service of making the business work.
founder and loser are distinct states, and I have seen them overlap. and you can stop being a loser any moment you want. just recognize something dope you did today and bam.

either way, 45 isn't the midpoint, it's the average. the article shows a big chunk of founders in their 50s and a small slice in their 60s. it also shows that the probability of success rises with age, "at least until the late 50s." it crashes in the mid-to-late 60s, but an early 60s founder is still more likely to succeed than a founder who is younger than about 45.
In most cases this is because 1) they're not ergonomic to use and 2) you can create layers to access the function keys.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig-bootstrap
> We need (and have) reliable sources for new long-term customers.

You may need to elaborate on this. Where are your new long term customers coming from?
Sadly, I think a lot of the reason for this is that a lot of people, in much of the English-speaking world, haven't heard of a successful government program in their lifetimes.

Much of this is media bias (Murdoch-style media will only report on sensationalist failures) but the past decades of withering of state capacity and the growth of elite self-dealing means that successful government interventions are increasingly rare.

The idea that government can actually help people seems to be a dead letter in the United States (less so in other English-speaking countries) and this is killing people now we are faced with a pandemic that can only be mitigated through collective (governmental) action.
uber is one of the worst companies I ever had a car ride from drive took for ever and it smelt like puke...
More like, the house guest is a sweet talker who cajoles you into letting them stay every time despite them not doing much for you in return.

Let’s not pretend like technology isn’t vigorously A/B testing its way into being as psychologically addicting as possible.
High growth companies have made a lot of employees very rich.
Have a look at the Dell Optiplex Micro line - I just picked up one of these. Sips power, ultra quiet. Runs ESXI with no issues. https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Optiplex-i5-8600T-802-11ac-Bluet...
Let me clarify, it's not like these students love the theory either. They don't like CS in general. It's just that they've been forced into it, whether from their parents or just societal pressure.
I don't think this is a good example of burying the lede. If I wanted to bury the lede on this post, I'd do this:

> I've spent the last decade working on OT, and have always thought it was the right way to implement a collaborative editor. Then something amazing happened.

Instead, we get this:

> I saw Martin Kleppmann’s talk a few weeks ago about CRDTs, and I felt a deep sense of despair. Maybe all the work I’ve been doing for the past decade won’t be part of the future after all, because Martin’s work on CRDTs will supersede it. Its really good.

That seems like the opposite of burying the lede. The main point of the story is _not_ that CRDT stands for Conflict-free Replicated Data Type, it's that the author now favors CRDTs over OT for collaborative editors.
Yes effects are measures quarterly. But causes for those effects are not visible in 1 quarterly.
Even if your build system isn't set up for it, you could potentially do a cross-compiled build for just LLVM your target architecture, then just rely on those binaries?
If our way of hiring doesn't work then how come we're so rich!?
The irony in needing to manually verify job salaries/offers in the AI field is just so [img-italian-chef-kiss]
Wow, when I read this earlier, I was dismissive (because I am really happy with typescript). But reading through the comparison - it seems to have many of the great parts I like in Typescript.

Then, I noticed it has the pipe operator! I'm going to be giving this a try.
Google Play is now not better than Apple App Store
Logistics giant CMA CGM goes offline to block malware attack
There's an alternate reading of The Prince as a pro-democratic piece - throughout the entire work, Machiavelli reminds the titular Prince that the strongest cities, in terms of power, were those that were governed democratically, where all men of the city felt that they were defending, not just a prince, but an institution they were a part of. Almost all of his infamous pieces of advice are prefaced with "this is the second best answer, and only if you absolutely must hold on to as much personal power as you can."

EDIT: grammar, is -> are
sounds about right... I wish technology never existed... created more problems than it is worth...
These pithy, cynical takes are devoid of any real claims or suggestions. What are you actually proposing as a way to the top rung? Gaming the system and being cutthroat?
The SAFE model of onsites once a quarter seem fine. The company can fly everyone to one spot for 3-4 days.
I really like this post and your way of thinking.
As a software developer I am absolutely in a privileged position that allows me to have this freedom, but I simply don’t accept jobs that send constant notifications, require me to be online and available all the time, constant after hours work, etc. etc. I make a little bit less money for that privilege, but I work a very nice schedule and have almost no job stress. It’s been one of the best decisions of my life, and I highly recommend thinking about your employer and what role they have in your happiness.

I also have almost no notifications on my phone of any kind, text messages from my partner and friends is pretty much it. You may think you need notifications but you maybe surprised how little it impacts your life (expect less stress) not to have them.
For those interested, there appears to have been a follow up, peer reviewed study published this year, free to access:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20180582
Abuse isn’t an “advising style”: Consequences of MIT sheltering abusive mentors
I don't thinks who someone who thinks they can get more done with more people is being "opportunitist".
Ahhhh Google Wave. I was an early adopter and shed a tear when it went away. The closest I've felt to that product is Slack but find Slack too noisy. With Wave I felt like I was IN my work not in a "sidebar" application that was pulling my attention from my work. I suppose there were so many ways to use Wave and so many ways to use Slack that your experience could be completely different than mine. But RIP Google Wave.
Breaking AI performance records in MLPerf with TPUv4
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/j14sa0/openssh_84_r...
I'd really like to believe this.
Thus far, I've seen the same kind of ruthless self-interest in startups as well.
If you know of anywhere this is NOT the case, please share as I would love to work in an environment of people with good character who are genuinely seeking to do good. This is more important to me than money.
Maryland man sentenced to year in jail for holding parties during Covid pandemic
good! hope democratcs don't received there ballot.
"growing my skills" is extremely weakly correlated to "making more money for the company".
If you inherited money, it is not a choice. If you have to work for several years until you get the FI, it is not a choice either, since many people don't have the health, technical ability, or environmental conditions to do it.
I think so... and in their defense: I've been there.

I was sorta shoe-horned into super-mediocre Midwestern colleges here in America due to my mother working at a private institution in the same city that I grew up in. I went for art and computer science... outside of a couple of exceptions the professors were horrible, and the student body even worse being a dumping grounds for rich Illinois suburbs that thought their kids couldn't/wouldn't get in trouble in small town Iowa.

My point is - I can relate. So many of these kids are disenfranchised for some reason or another and I'm more empathetic to it because I couldn't haven given two s$@ts in college myself - there was zero value vs busting my butt on professional/personal programming projects. Like - teaching us Pascal in 2005 claiming "it's coming back" lacking of value. "Software isn't going to the internet" sorta lacking...

I even had to "snap back" for some courses like my elective electronics course. The prof really cared, and wanted to give you a solid understanding of the basics. He even threw out a poor test class-wide and redid a week of instruction once because, "mathematically that was on me, I'm sorry." Somehow it was way easier for me to put forth 100% effort in his class where I couldn't be bothered elsewhere. He gave me an actual reason to be there/care.

Overall I got burnt out on education, dropped out for a dev career that led to people calling me all sorts of "engineer" titles and learned in the school of the hard-knocks. Frankly, I sincerely feel apologetic to my past professors because I was dead-weight in their classroom just going through the minimal motions to GTFO to my real job which actually paid bills vs. putting me into debt. Just like the students failing the same test three times over: I could sincerely not have cared less... When a prof said I should chose between school and work expecting me to obviously choose school, I laughed in her face and dropped out the next day on general principal. I had a mom home going through chemo, my dad was long dead, my brother was an alcoholic, and I had bills.

Definitely playing devil's advocate here, but... I imagine so many of these kids, for some reason or another, are burnt-out on education just like I was/am. I was just lucky by the time I was burnt out that I "had an out".
Serious question here, but are there any concerns about potentially finding some type of non-intelligent life that could threaten us? Some kind of bacteria like organism that could wreak havoc on mankind? I’m sure there are a ton of strict processes around returning samples back to earth but I’ve never really read anything mentioning this threat when it comes to finding life outside our planet.
> “It looks like you are driving.” I lie to my phone.

This is such a shitty, irresponsible thing to do. People die every day from car accidents and this author thinks it is funny.
I think a lot of it comes down to whether or not it interests you. Basically every programmer I've ever known naturally got into programming because they screwed around on the computer in their free time and eventually stumbled onto some task they wanted to do that took them down that road. Who knows how many people are in the field now because they wanted to play around with Minecraft mods 10 years ago.

I think if the power of a computer is put at your fingertips and you don't want to dig deeper, or see what else you're capable of creating, that's just how it is. I don't think it's any different from how some people never get into sports. It's fine to introduce kids to it and I'm sure it'll take with some of them, but there's no need to force it any more than you would with any other field.
I meant this to be my takeaway. The data structure is nice. And I suspect it is a perfect fit for some use cases. I question the use case of shared editing. Not just the solution, but the use case.
Aren't nursing and teaching essentially 90% female?
On Campus, Freedom's Just Another Word for Before Covid
I don't think we know enough to say that for sure. If you are defining the great filter as the cause of the Fermi Paradox then it very well could be in our past. For example, the conditions or specific mutation that gave rise to multi-cellular life could be the great filter meaning that single celled life could be incredibly common but multicellular life might be almost entirely non-existent.
I am surprised by the results of this study. My own experience is that Time-Restricted Eating helps with weight loss when I decide to lean out. I tighten down the eating window. And, I lose weight without getting very strict on what I eat and I don't feel deprived.

I am thinking that it mostly works by just making it easier to eat fewer calories over the course of a week. When I was going through a a year plus when I was working on max strength weight lifting I could eat enough in my 8 hour window to gain muscle (and some fat) and reached my lifting goal.

When I had to skip the gym for awhile this spring due to COVID-19 I lost some of that muscle but kept eating (maybe due to stress) so I put on a couple more pounds of just fat. June first I decided to make a change and lean out. So I started restricting eating to 3 hours and sometimes down to 1 hour (OMAD). I did this M-F and gave myself freedom to eat additional meals on the weekend.

The weight immediately started dropping off. Then late June I started jogging and reduced weight lifting down to a maintenance level. I have continued all summer and lost about 7% of body weight - some muscle but mostly fat. I will likely continue this routine for awhile focusing on getting substantially leaner.

I have followed the research literature on TRE, IF, ADF and prolonged fasting, and read many personal accounts like mine that suggest TRE is an important component of overall metabolic and weight management. If this study stands up then it would seem that most of the observed effect of TRE is because it helps people eat less without feeling deprived. And, clearly it is easier and more approachable than prolonged fasting.

It will be interesting to read responses from other researchers in this space.
Someone explained recently that you can undermine unions by promoting labor to management and then firing the new managers.
Some perspective: a cherry-picked Quora thread [0] says that there have been 9,610,130+ english-language albums released.

It's really splitting hairs to take issue with the order of the top 0.0052% of albums.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-many-music-albums-are-available-in...
Scraping may violate of Google's own acceptable use policy, but it's not illegal.
That's a good example where I get zero results if I misspell the search term:

https://scryfall.com/search?q=black%20lotuss

Whereas I Google or Duck for "mtg black lotuss" I'll almost certainly get the correct results. I feel like I'd just get frustrated with the much worse text parsing of each site's search field.

Although it is interesting that this "Scryfall" site that owns "!mtg" isn't on the first SERP for Google or DDG.
Fond (YC W12) is hiring a Senior software engineer
So Apple Banned Fiery Feeds and Inoreader from the chinese App Store
I think it may be your sincere ambivalence that makes your article so great.

Also, unfortunately, I can assure you that your astute perception is exactly how (some parts of) the world works, especially at senior executive levels. There are complex, interlocking systems of “make me look good - take down that guy - do what’s good for us, not what’s good for the company” that can make this mentality legitimately powerful. At the C-level, correct but slightly misphrased statements can create a fired-in-90-days failure (literally the difference between “but” and “yes, and”). It’s _insane_.

Anyway, you’re doing gods work here lmao