skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that there is political power in employing a lot of people.
They aren't- that's the point. My examples are equally bad since they're also incomplete. I'm not really arguing the opposite as much as I'm trying to illustrate why nuance and data are important. Some things are getting better, some are getting worse, but it helps the author sell their book if they can get you to ignore one aspect of it. You might even say that there's a lot of self interest in the way the argument is made
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Absolutely, this is a very nicely-executed build. Though most monitor backlights are only about half as bright as that LED bulb. I wonder if you were willing to sacrifice detail if you couldn't use smaller screens (smartphone, say), farther from the paper shade...
Thank you for saying what I could not articulate.
Magnus Mitbo (rock climber) had a cool video where they tried the technique for climbing.
Results were a bit mixed but still interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2SLdjmapXs
Flip side, get fully comfortable with your own beliefs all the way through, and suddenly the pill is no threat at all
There's nothing to see there.
You could say the same about gambling, which is something else people actually want, but society sees fit to regulate due to its second-order effects. (like gambling addiction destroying families)
We are actively working on the FF bugs, the experience is quite non-ideal on it. Hoping to get it sorted asap.

Airtable is amazing and ️ fast for smaller projects, however like you mentioned, we want to be more comprehensive and scalable. One big differentiator there is that we support adding custom endpoints and APIs that can include custom business logic as well.

We realise the documentation is a bit sparse around auth login and permissions. I'll make sure the documentation is updated soon for the same with a guide and examples.

Thank you for your feedback!
It is nice with a lot of innovation now in the ahead-of-time compiled languages camp.

What worries me is the fragmentation, and the fact that no one language seems to check all of the (subjective set of) boxes for a general purpose high-speed, ahead-of-time compiled language [0].

E.g, Crystal seems to be the only one supporting a modern concurrency story (similar to Go), but has a huge problem with compile times.

Nim looks nice in many respects, but last I checked, they don't have anything like Go-like concurrency. Maybe not on everyone's wishlist, but as the world move toward flow everything/everywhere[1], I personally find this to be a problem.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BAiJR026ih1U8HoRw__n...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Architectures-Streaming-Event-Dr...
- How quickly can you trigger it?

Immediately with a breath (as in start inhaling, it happens). Without a breath, maybe 5 seconds or so?

- Also, have you felt it as in waves going up and down? or just located in same place ?

It's all over the body, although I can focus on just one part of the body and do it there, but that takes me a little longer. (We're still talking about seconds here though. Maybe 20?)

- And lastly, does it have any health utility?

Maybe? Haha, hard to say. If anything probably indirectly, since this has come from a meditation practice, and meditation itself has numerous documented/studied health benefits.
Some of these influencers messages are a lot kinder than the ones trying to sell me remote developers on linkedin...
It doesn't sound exactly like taking responsibility to me. It's more an acknowledgment of the fact and damage control. Taking responsibility would suggest admitting fault and taking action to make things right. His statement doesn't have any of these. 'I am looking into it' is too vague and doesn't mean much.

Probably Amazon's legal department doesn't let him say much more, but then his statement sounds unconvincing and doesn't serve the purpose of taking responsibility and assuring the comunity of their good intentions.
I've got a bag of these right here. A bit sweet, but aptly named ("cotton candy grapes"). They taste eerily like cotton candy the same way that a cotton candy Jelly Belly does. Kids love them of course. The company’s "gum drop" and "moon drop" grapes are _amazing_.

They also sell something called "rosé strawberries" but I haven't found them on the east coast yet.
It's usually a heading in a description of how something works.

It is more natural to say either "How it works" (with no question mark) or "How does it work?"
>I don't agree and there isn't much if any recorded history to support that assertion. Information and expression doesn't kill

What the hell? Are you serious? Yes, anti-semitism never killed anyone, anti-vaccine misinformation never hurt anyone, and calling Covid a hoax didn't cause any unnecessary death either /s.

>it's not a virus

It's not, because it spreads far, far faster than even the most dangerous virus.
Yeah, the stock driver assists in most cars still need a LOT of work. I drove from San Diego to LA last weekend with a comma, and openpilot handled the entire trip without a single disengagement until I got off the highway. I’d be really impressed to see a stock LKA manage the same (although I’ve heard great things about super cruise!)
We are still humans with values. I, and I guess you too, don't want to live in a world where everyone just does their bare minimum to fulfill the law.

The fair usage principle can create much more value than complex and often unnecessary strict regulations.

I guess the author would not have complained if a small company had done what aws did just to stay afloat.
That's like the old "BSD License Advertising Clause"
Interesting. I recently had mine evaluated and they suggested fractal tones (zen tones from widex). Mines stress related and I’m sure plays into my misophonia so I’m excited to learn about this treatment
People also by default want more than other people. For some reason we outlaw stealing, murder and fraud.

That's what a society is.
With the common cold and flu they mutate a lot more than Covid, the chance is that it will be around for a long period of time then fizzle off because of the advance of meds together with low rate significant of mutations.
This is amazing!

I have said for a while that if someone built a tool that would let me be signed into multiple AWS accounts, and switch as needed at the same time, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

You have my 20 dollars now.

One request, though. I would like a way to show the name of the workspace on the workspace switcher panel, instead of just ctrl+1/2/as etc
Are you talking about washington or oregon? :)

(which had a half-dozen fires PLUS they get winter and rain and... )
You cannot copyright a license.
Nice weather really isn't secondary. It's the entire reason Southern California is what it is. Anywhere the weather's nice, people flock. If location becomes irrelevant, that will just make people flock even faster. Everywhere the weather sucks, ask around and you'll find the cheap place people go all the time for vacation, and wish they could live, if they could but afford it. For Atlanta where I live, it's nearby Destin, or Savannah. Nice weather is a primary determinant of where people choose to retire. It pumps land values up 10x or more.

I'll turn your argument around and say that the only truly location-dependent industries are extraction based. Everything else moves where the people are. And people will pay through the nose to live where it's nice.
Do you think the results would be different if people were asked "If A implies B then does not B imply not A"?

This could just be about using the right prompt - I do not know how information is stored in the brain and whether most people would be able to access the correct answer: "not B implies not A" if the prompt were just "what can we say about not A and not B".

Assuming that most people would actually know the answer if prompted the right way, one reason the prompt given in the article may not lead them to the answer could be that most people do not need to apply Modus Tollens outside of a class on Logic. And thus, since the concept has never been widely applied, at least in their heads, it is not accessible?

This is all conjecture of course.
To clarify, you are saying that Raoult's study is bogus right? Because I don't think he at any point ever did a real randomized controlled trial.
"but to actually perform thinking writing" <- This is well articulated, thanks for framing this in a way that is widely understandable.

We have a guide that covers top attributes of great remote hires. This will be merged into that guide soon: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...
Using open source software is different than selling it and profiting off of it without even contacting the project's maintainers.
> Kind of like the PC BIOS is still around.

Not any more. The BIOS has been replaced with UEFI on most new machines for about a decade now.
There are 2 curves in any market. The demand curve and the supply curve. The supply curve is usually fairly easy to figure out (borderline trivial). The demand curve on the other hand does very odd things and tries to measure things there is no measurement for. Even economies where there is no real price and there is only a monopoly has to conform to the two curves. Most economic policies fail because of poor forecasting of external items on changes in the demand curve. For example maybe I had an egg for breakfast and that made me feel full for lunch. So I do not want to eat a hamburger at any price for the rest of the week. Yet the demand curve would predict I would buy it at a particular price.

Economics a lot of hand wavy predictions. It is good at saying what happened after the fact but usually makes poor predictions. Most sciences would say the model is broken.

The Veblen good that you mention is one of those examples. Where raising the price creates a desirability that should not be there. That is because pricing is a signal of scarcity. Some people desire the idea they have something scarce and others dont. Which makes demand curves hard as even the price you pick changes the curve!
I'll try to answer these, just for fun, even though I am not doing an interview. I have not Googled anything, so if things are horribly wrong, let me know.

- I have no idea, but I could try answering this through thinking through the problem. Generally a linked list has a pointer to from one item to the other. An array list I assume uses arrays for holding the items using indexes.

What are the available operations generally for a data structure?

Search - Search would be O(1) in array list and O(N) in linked list, can't be this.

Insert - Insert in a linked list is actually quite quick if you have the node since you could just move the pointers. For an array list, you would have to shift everything over. I think this is the answer.

Remove - Same deal as Insert.

Did I get this right?

- Because processes cannot access each others memory, the OS prevents from happening. A pointer is a pointer to an address in memory so you generally cannot do this. In terms of where would this work, umm, maybe in an old OS that didn't have the protection, or perhaps dynamically linking libs?

- Neither, it's pass by copy from what I recall. Or something of the sorts. Maybe call by sharing? I would just explain how it works since that's easier, generally everything in Java is copied, so it's pass by value in the traditional sense. But when you think pass by value, are objects copied? The answer is no, objects copy their pointer instead in Java. So when you modify a passed object, it does modify the underlying data in that object, but you can never re-assign the object.

- Nope, I don't think so. From what I recall, I've always had programs fail to run if I use the same IP + Port + Interface. You can do virtual hosts in Apache/Nginx tho where you can handle multiple different domains on the same port.

- Volatile is generally used when working with threading. I cannot fully recall what it is, but it's required in thread safety. I would generally use thread safety operations and data structures instead here, but I do recall having to use volatile a few times.

- I don't know how a breakpoint works exactly, but it's a marker placed in code and when a debugger runs into it, it stops the process. I assume since the Java code gets converted to byte code for the JVM to process, it would be a byte code added between the lines where the breakpoint lives.

Note: haven't used Java in 4 years.
My position isn't that everything is fine. My position is that everything is nuanced, and that its easy to use anecdotes and emotion to convey an unnuanced worldview to sell a book
Huh, gotta check that out then I guess? I was going off "Enemy of the State" :P
To my understanding, the GPL does not require acknowledging the original author's contributions any more publicly than the Apache license (used by the project). The Apache license already requires preserving the copyright notice, which AWS did. I think the issue is the author wanted a more public acknowledgement of his work, which is a very fair ask. As far as I know, no license requires this (and, I believe such a license would be GPL-incompatible).

In my view, no license can enforce being a good citizen of the open source community. In the embedded space, I've seen vendors bound by the GPL follow it in letter but not in spirit (ie, delivering unusable code with a ridiculous toolchain), or just straight up ignore it (what are we going to do, sue?). On the flipside, good citizen vendors frequently contribute upstream even when they don't have to.
Choosing a four layer stackup was a really instructive point for the purposes of his blog post, but kind of a bad rule of thumb to carry forward on a professional level.

PCBs are built in a sandwich stack. The middle dielectric layer, or "prepreg", is way thicker than the dielectric layers in the outer layers. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but for the speeds that a DDR interface runs at, it creates a higher impedance return loop for whatever you end up routing on layer 3. (Typically DQs, in my experience.)

You can avoid this entirely by building with a six layer stackup, and routing your DRAM signals on layers 1/2/3, keeping layer 2 as an unbroken ground plane. The result: nice, low impedance return tracks.

Yes, Jay is right - most of the time, this doesn't create problems. But when it does, it's pretty challenging to fix without a board spin, and when you're doing this professionally, that loses you time, creates risk, and is generally hella stressful.
This matches up so precisely with my experience it's scary (and a little sad).

Everyone is so quick to "have a quick call" that inevitably sucks 20 minutes out of everyone's day because (and I've heard this verbatim a dozen times in the past 6 months alone) "it's too much to type out" or "it's easier than sending an email," but then wonder why nothing gets done when all the dev tasks are eighteen 20-minute segments of work instead of two 3-hour segments.

To your last graph, I think there are absolutely times where this makes sense, but "business owner has a new feature request for a large existing product" is not one of them.
Skepticism is likely warranted, but it reads as if you are suggesting nerves are not related to neurological disease. That’s extra confusing since a neurological disorder affects the nervous system of which nerves are a part.
people are having sex a lot less frequently than they are breathing air, though
Was it a moon shot when China or any other country with comparably sized high speed rail systems did it?

A quick google shows China's existing high speed rail system at 23,600 mi, in comparison to the total of 800 miles planned for CA.

I don't disagree that it was a moon shot, but it was not a moon shot for reasons of technical difficulty or novelty, but for the reason that it is now so systemically difficult to competently implement any large scale infrastructure in America, and California particularly. I won't comment on what the reasons for that might be.

My interpretation is that this kind of decay in capability is that the author is driving at.
I thought that was the case too for a while.

I felt this was a really interesting piece explaining how covid deaths are reported deaths versus flu deaths are just estimated and how the two are very different numbers to base comparisons off.

I also kind of liked how the article was written with the narrative of the eureka moment in realising how the stats were not comparable.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...

> I decided to call colleagues around the country who work in other emergency departments and in intensive care units to ask a simple question: how many patients could they remember dying from the flu? Most of the physicians I surveyed couldn’t remember a single one over their careers. Some said they recalled a few. All of them seemed to be having the same light bulb moment I had already experienced: For too long, we have blindly accepted a statistic that does not match our clinical experience.

> The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC’s reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths—that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus—has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620, which far lower than the numbers commonly repeated by public officials and even public health experts.
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> The people of France were itching to go to war with Prussia/Germany to reclaim Alsace and Lorraine. Which created a massive arms race till WW1.

Eh... not really. Anger at the loss of Alsace-Lorraine peaked in the immediate aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, when France couldn't do anything, but by the 1880s and 1890s, France had resigned itself to the loss. The massive divisions in French society under the Third Republic meant that it was in no position to do anything to reclaim it. A parallel might well be drawn to Finland's position today over Karelia: they'd certainly like it back, but they're not about to fight for it. It wasn't until World War I broke out that restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to French rule really became feasible, and hence it became a major war aim, but it wasn't a factor until after war had already broken out.

The arms race in question is the naval arms race between Britain and Germany, which itself subsided in 1912 because Germany couldn't afford to keep up.
I don't think it's a language thing so much as dedicated "hire shops" not being much of a thing in the US outside of certain touristy areas. Even then, they tend to be really low-budget operations that rely on foot traffic or hotel partnerships.
Would love to hear the community’s response to these questions. Post it as an Ask HN if you’re up for it!

Pleroma has been the front runner for a community of mine that has about 1,000 members in the Portland, Oregon area. (In that context, joining the fediverse is a bonus and not a core reason for using Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.)

About half our members are on Meetup and the other half is on Facebook, and the community has definitely bifarcated after we paused our in-person meetups due to physical distancing.

I’m hoping groups and group chats become a thing for Pleroma soon, and those are more or less the 2 features I’m waiting for before scheduling time for the build.

I was originally leaning toward OpenSocial, but ActivityPub for Drupal had only just reached alpha within the last few weeks.
May have similar results as overwriting your bootloader binary with the same number of bytes from /dev/random.
> New Toyota's (MY 2020)

> I have a Subaru with Eyesight, not a Toyota.

I'm guessing MY = Model Year?
Chewing and saliva helps a lot to break down food before your system needs their own methods to further breaking them down. This makes sense
"cases of flu are remarkably low this year because of all the mask wearing, social distancing &c."

And yet if COVID-19 was no more dangerous than the flu you'd expect to see equal result form those mask wearing and social distancing measures.. but you don't.

COVID-19 is just way more deadly.
Wow, I had no idea that HCQ truthers still existed. Got any real randomized controlled trials to share?
> stealing other people’s ideas without acknowledgement’

Huh, I never heard of 'stealing with acknowledgement'. That'd be plain usage.

> I’d be inclined to agree with the coworker.

I'd think that co-worker would be subject of constant derision where people would run every trivial thing by them asking if they had thought it originally.

Edit: To be clear I support directly confronting folks taking ideas often without attribution or taking to higher ups if that is so important. But social shaming means the person better be prepared to live up to much higher public standards than it would be for some interpersonal issue.
It's possible that in 30 years the climate in Detroit will be better than the climate in Northern California. Wildfires and drought could be the new norm.
I shifted from software engineering to technical program management because I was interested in the bigger picture of shipping software (after having been an engineer on a couple multi-year projects that floundered and failed due to mismanagement), but did not want to be personally responsible for hiring and firing people. I don’t have the constitution to make such big decisions impacting other people’s lives. :\
To continue an RCT once it reveals strong evidence for benefit in the treatment group, you have to deliberately inflict suffering on the control group. You can't do that ethically.
I like "modern malaise" exactly because you are not going to get randomly killed.

"In the old days it was better", "golden age" - no it was not better. There were incompetent people in 1960's, there were scummy and incompetent clerks in 1500's. History lessons are about great people.

Maybe competition model is not that good, because instead of fighting for survival some people could start working on inventing their own things. Just like now billionaires are playing with rockets and having results. I would say there can be a lot of creativity when people are left alone and can build things, without having to think about threat of war. Going to the moon was necessity caused by knife on the throat, not some noble achievement because people wanted go to the moon. That is why no one went to the moon since then again.
Is it just me or is here a great amount of Wim Hof articles lately? I have this feeling that it appears at least twice a day and everybody praises it. Is it really that good?
> It's becoming apparent that our consciousness can extend further than we previously believed

If by "we" you mean the mainstream western world, then you are correct. However, the notion that consciousness extends, or can extend, further than our minds and bodies, has been known and practiced upon for thousands of years.

On a tangent, I've personally thought about the "infinite cycle of why" a lot and have come to the conclusion that: 1) like you point out, there is no final why, which technically means there is no "real why" for anything at all, only whatever we accept at the moment as the answer, and 2) we are addicted to using language/words - which are useful but imperfect and incomplete tools to communicate things that are impossible to fully describe with them, like feelings, experiences and consciousness, this leads to innumerable problems as inevitably pretty much every message uttered by anyone is distorted into an almost invisible game of telephone.