skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get good at what you repeatedly practice. But I don't think that's what you're really asking--it sounds like you want a career focus, which is different (and might be entirely unrelated to what you're good at).

What do you enjoy doing over and over, where you lose track of time? What do other people tell you you're good at? When you were young, what did you most enjoy doing? Start with those kinds of questions, and give them some real thought.

Based only on long personal experience, I'd also say: don't waste time looking for an epiphany. That's just not how things work. Also, often motivation follows commitment, not the other way around. In other words, we paradoxically often like and become good at what we decide to do.
this must be studied, heavily
I thought average was around $1m, but that's even more "wow" at $3m+.

I guess I can see how if you get in early, the property can really appreciate. I've seen that to an extent with my house going up 10% in a couple years of ownership.
What is the meaning of this reply in the context of the comment you're responding to?
There are much more dangerous things to worry about in life. I'm happy to take chances with Covid, the only thing I won't do is risk hurting others.
It feels like a trope to even say it but it amazes me how badly Google have handled the transition from Google Play Music to YT Music. For me YT Music is an inferior experience in every single way.
It's not that the world is vastly more complex than before. It's that we have vastly more sources of information to wade through. We are now more than ever better equipped to learn about the complexities of the world and what we are learning is its more complex than we thought. It's always been. It's kind of like opening a door to a room you though was a small basement but it turns out to be a large cavernous tunnel system than leads everywhere and nowhere.
Then again, the very statements of "we should eat less meat" or "animal cruelty" seem provocative to most people regardless who utters it. Any time those phrases rear their heads they seem to ignite a bunch of defensive hysterics.

Just like our enlightenment values such as liberty and reason, all progress on this issue certainly does depend on human conversation. However, I'm wary of tasking a single group of people to usher us into an enlightenment. I also think it's all too convenient to go "well, vegans should improve their marketing if they want me to change."

The thing is, we don't need vegans to convince us. They didn't invent animal ethics, they are merely the first practitioners. It wasn't the first human to rethink the ethics of rape or slavery that convinced everyone else nor had to.

We humans came up with animal ethics, slavery ethics, women suffrage ethics, liberalism, and everything else from first principles.

A first principle of animal ethics isn't vegan voodoo, it's "why should a sentient being be grown and killed for my pleasure?" After all, we already hold that standard for other humans and, for most people, even our pets. It's a small leap of reason to extend the courtesy to other animals.
I’m absolutely sure. This practice is illegal in the EU. You can’t log stuff unless you get explicit permission from the employee, listing the exact metrics and purposes of the data logged (also things like where and how long it will be stored).

It’s baffling that Microsoft thought this was a good idea in the first place.
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Yes, it was unplanned. Grace usually is.
The article says:

> the team found that the number of people whose immune system didn’t robustly respond to the vaccine ranged from less than half of one percent of white participants to nearly 10 percent of Asian participants. ... our preliminary results suggest that, on average, people of Black or Asian ancestry could have a slightly increased risk of vaccine ineffectiveness

It would be more accurate to say that a person's race may have an effect on the effectiveness of a vaccine but it's still relevant to class them as minorities in the places where the effectiveness is being studied. If a vaccine is being studied in a population of 40000 and only 100 of those people are black, you won't be able to learn as much about the vaccine's effects on people of a certain race because of the low sample size. It's of course relevant for those in countries where those races are majority and more studies need to be done in those places as well.
theres a huge hysteria market for this virus. it seemed like at one point and article was coming out weekly saying long term effects were worse and worse and worse. i don’t believe it
They also talk about a way to perhaps fix this:

> Gifford and PhD students Ge Liu and Brandon Carter also presented a promising new ML-based approach for improving the vaccines’ effectiveness with certain populations: adding a small number of additional Covid-19 peptides to a given dose of the vaccine.

> The team’s “augmentation” vaccines use vaccine components that have been observed to cause immune system responses in COVID-19 patients. As shown in the below chart, by adding somewhere between 5 and 50 additional peptides to a particular dose, the team says that preliminary tests show that they improved the vaccine’s effectiveness to nearly 100 percent in all populations.

Is adding peptides to a vaccine something that has been done before, or is this new? And how do you add peptides to a vaccine?
And how to forget the small percentage of Asian people that live in the world.
I find that usually having a second set of eyes when you do it again usually forces the person to focus, whereas when it wasn't working before they probably had something else on the brain or were on autopilot. I like to call it the IT magic touch or job security.
I've worked on large music platforms and this kind of spam is always an ongoing battle. You'll see artists pop up with the same name as a popular song, songs named 'play [genre]', and all sorts of things.
> world war 1 and 2, and the American civil war

More Americans have died from COVID in the last 9 months than the Americans who died in WWI, and we've surpassed the American South's Civil War deaths, and are approaching how many died fighting for the North, too.
I used the models for YouTube videos. It was convenient since most of them are free to use if you credit the author.
Nasdaq Takes Aim at All-White, Male Company Boards with Diversity Proposal
Calvin Trillin comes close.
Google Play Music was so trash but I stuck with it because I had too many tracks sent by friends/my own on it (which Google Play would randomly delete altogether at times).

When they forced the transition to YouTube music, I gave up the service for good.
It matters to know if it was seen as an issue in the first place or not.

That’s the difference between moving a feature to some other random place and let people assume it disappeared, and removing a feature completely on ethical grounds.
It keeps playing a song called "My Likes"

Meanwhile, here in Siri Land...

Me: Hey, Siri, add "tomatoes" to my Groceries list.

Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to?

Me: Groceries.

Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to?

Me: Groceries.

Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to?

Me: Groceries.

Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to?

Me: Groceries.

Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to?

Me: Cancel.

I've gone back to paper grocery lists. They Just Work™.
From the sub-headline (?)

> some health experts have expressed caution about the companies’ confident assertions that the vaccines are 95 percent effective for all populations.

Obviously a vaccine isn't going to erase preexisting differences in health outcomes. Closer to a factor on some prior susceptibility (though of course not so cleanly linear in reality).
The base price is reasonable, but the RAM and Storage upgrade costs are extortionate.
Wonderful work. There is a similar project called Terra that someone at Mapbox did, but the raster tiles for that aren't working anymore (prob due to API change) so it's nice to see an alternative -- a whole library no less.
The user terminal is in scope for their bug bounty program:

https://bugcrowd.com/spacex

That said I don't really expect SpaceX to subsidize his research with a free replacement.
Virtual conferences are easy? lol ok. (part 1)
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> Microsoft apologizes for workplace surveillance feature

How about

"Microsoft regrets the bad PR raised by workplace surveillance feature"

Or even

"Microsoft delighted at PR raised by workplace surveillance feature and wants to continue the publicity"
My dim and distant recollection is that Beam and/or GCP Data Flow require someone to implement PCollections and PTransforms to get the benefit of that magic. That's not a trivial exercise, compared to writing SQL.
“In computing, a materialized view is a database object that contains the results of a query. For example, it may be a local copy of data located remotely, or may be a subset of the rows and/or columns of a table or join result, or may be a summary using an aggregate function.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialized_view
Or was rediscovering the "invisible hand".
I thought the same but it literally doesn't work for me. Just tried it. It plays something random. I tried it on my phone to see what it was doing and it picked "my supermix" once and the song "my likes" the next time.
For me personally the unknowns of such a new virus mean that the existence of the case studies would be enough to be concerned. And the strongest case is made by the fact that this virus' closest relative known to infect humans has caused lasting damage to people with cases that lead to hospitalization:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6

"Evidence from people infected with other coronaviruses suggests that the damage will linger for some. A study published in February recorded long-term lung harm from SARS, which is caused by SARS-CoV-1. Between 2003 and 2018, Peixun Zhang at Peking University People’s Hospital in Beijing and his colleagues tracked the health of 71 people who had been hospitalized with SARS. Even after 15 years, 4.6% still had visible lesions on their lungs, and 38% had reduced diffusion capacity, meaning that their lungs were poor at transferring oxygen into the blood and removing carbon dioxide from it."

We know this much and SARS is poorly studied because it faded away so we generally lost interest in it. This virus is both similar and different enough to be very, very wide spread so even minor negative effects over the total population that gets moderate to mild cases will have the potential to have very large impacts on worldwide health.

As time goes on we are going to better document the consequences of mild and moderate cases and understand these things better, caution seems advisable until we do.
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I would say HN is way too anti-China ( due to it's heavy American audience ).

I tend to be neutral.
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I never knew that was the reason the track was named that! One of my favorites.
updated results of a query - eg if you do some aggregation or filtering on a table, or join two tables, or anything of the sort - materialized view will give you the updated results of the query in a separate table
Yes, we all know it's a terrible word for this purpose.
Interesting take that whipingnout all eXAa
Video of ARM Windows virtualization on M1 Macs: 2x faster than Surface Pro X
Funny to see this now. One of the things my wife and I have been doing to engage our brains during the pandemic is to brush up on our knowledge of hard science. Of particular fascination for both of us has been cosmology and the frontiers of physics.

We knocked into Sean Carroll's video series on YouTube by first encountering one of his lectures at the Royal Institution [1],[2]. We've been working our way through his "Biggest Ideas in the Universe!" series where he talks through history of physics and cosmology through to modern practice.

I've also been reading through one of his books (and have read Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Roger Penrose, Brian Greene, Lee Smolin, and others) and all of this has gotten me to a point where I could listen to an actual presentation to physics students and faculty on quantum mechanics and understand what was being discussed, despite not being up to doing the math myself.

Yet this expedition over the last few months has made me wonder how someone who only encounters science through the media's presentation of it as "truth" could even know where to rest their hands to grapple with these ideas.

Perhaps I'm being fooled into thinking I have some grasp of the matters discussed. Though I certainly feel as though I have a much better idea of the limits of my understanding, maybe that's wrong. Yet, I wonder how much of what the author opines of here is the usual emergence of Sturgeon's Law. Maybe 90% of "science writing" is crap.

Is there evidence of it getting worse? (It feels like it, because of social media and Tweet-based reporting with the pandemic, but that's subjective.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Institution
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hVmeOCJjOU
Ask HN: Marketer Getting into Technology. Advice?
Hey guys,
I'm a marketer, specifically a copywriter, and I'm looking to get acquainted with technology.

The company I started working for offers products such as git repositories, CI/CD, cloud compute. I've been reading some guides on the internet but most of them use jargon which makes it harder for me to understand the general concepts.

I don't necessarily want to learn coding, but at least start thinking as a programmer.

To be honest, I think I'd enjoy even coding but there are so many terms and jargons that get me so overwhelmed when reading something on the web.

What would be your advice for someone who knows little about tech, and wants to get more acquainted with it in order to do a better job as a marketer.

As I said, I don't think I need to learn any specific coding languages, but concepts like Git, continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud compute I'd need to get very, very familiar with.

Please, excuse my questions if they seem silly.

Cheers,
This is reminiscent of the short story I, Pencil [1], which was written in 1958 about the very same topic.

> I am seemingly so simple. Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn't it?

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
I started in the 8-bit days. So learned BASIC. Then learned assembly language for the computers processor. Then next computer learn changes to the BASIC and the new processors assemble language. But after a point more languages became available on those computers and eventually I had to decide which was best for me to focus on. Now I try to what there is I could be learning about and decide how much about each I should learn about and how deeply. Starting now I don't know where I'd start.
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Fascinating! How does Sherlock use it?

Or put differently, you are completely wrong about Sherlock using it in Sign of the Four. Prove me wrong! ;)
It's basically never done well on here. This is not a place where funny people post, I'm sorry.
To apply a financial analogy I once read in the money/finance network on the Stack Exchange "we can afford to buy anything, we cannot afford to buy everything"
Ah, my bad... didn't find the personal acc number as well. The passwords are way too easy to find, yes, but you're not tracking down a security engineer but an "everyday Karen" :)
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Humor is incredibly subjective. In general, a person's humor is substantially less funny to others than it is to themselves (this is a cognitive bias that professional comedians have to train themselves out of).

In the case of HN, it has rules against noisy comments, further fighting against making bad jokes.

The one time I made a successful joke on HN was when Uber announced UberPool, and I made a comment asking if Uber is going into the swimming business.
Strictly speaking it isn't impossible, just much slower since you'd have to implement on software what the hardware does.

In practice though pretty much every compiler that uses that as an optimization has a flag to disable it and chances are you'll be needing to use other system and/or compiler specific stuff anyway.
> meat and fish are absolutely packed with all sorts of compounds our body makes use of

I pulled up the nutrition of chicken and salmon. For chicken, I'd say "not really;" it's protein, fat, some B-6, and the rest of the micronutrients are <10% of the RDA per serving. The main notable nutrient difference between chicken and salon is more B-12.

Except for B-12 and omega 3 fatty acids, meat isn't where you're going to get micronutrients.
Yes, they do, all layering steps additive and subtractive are done in vacuum environments.
This wasn’t a “mistake”, like pushing a bug to production. It was intentional. Product managers drew up a spec for the feature. Designers designed it. Engineers built it. Technical writers wrote documentation for it. Marketers promoted it. In all likelihood, the VP writing the statement knew about it as well. Plenty of people had meetings and thought about and discussed exactly what the feature was going to do.

The failure we’re talking about is an organizational failure. For whatever reason, whole teams of people at Microsoft proactively decided to build a workplace surveillance tool. Microsoft can’t fix that by making small changes to what they’ve already built to appease the public. They have to change the organization so that it doesn’t happen again.
Yes with all the attention being paid to big tech - this is just asking to be thrown under the bus by Amazon and Google, face book etc

"we are just honest business man - just look at the extremely creepy shit Microsoft get up to"
I think the idea with the MS tool is that a nontechnical manager can see these scores and potentially have bias or take action based on how “productive” people are when these metrics are really meaningless for most (except maybe customer service people, but they will already be measured with different tools.) the network and mdm teams’ surveillance is more deep and sensitive, but it’s not likely to be accessible directly to your supervisors.
I'm not sure what to make of this article. It had potential but it is intermixed with political ranting that is unproductive. This is disappointing both because politics seems irrelevant and also because the unsubstantive political jabs undermine the credibility of this entire effort by giving away the author's bias.

But leaving the political bits aside, I can't help but think this is an article written for the uninformed. Complexity isn't a bad thing. It is the consequence of specialization and technological advancement. A lot of people bemoan things like complexity in our financial system without understanding why things are the way they are, and without honest consideration that this complexity might actually make sense. That ignorance then causes them to distrust the system or pursue change for change sake, which is what it seems like this article is setting up for.

For me, I can accept complexity in many aspects of my surroundings because people voluntarily built up much of that complexity through mutually-beneficial transactions (that is, free trade, supply-demand, and other market dynamics). It means those complexities have survived Democratic policy-making processes, survived market pressures, survived individuals accepting the beneficial tradeoffs that come with complexity, and so on. Without knowing specifics about some complex system, there is automatically a lot for me to trust and accept as a black box.

The reality is that complexity and lack of understanding is inevitable, and it has also always been the state of things even before human-created complexity. No matter what, an individual will not be omniscient and will need to take some things as they come. Some aspects of life and our environment will remain black boxes. That doesn't mean they are broken or need adjustment to fit our fragile egos. It means we need to accept this situation with humility, and learn more about some area with earnest curiosity rather than viewing it as "too complex".
Government censorship is significantly more impactful than what companies can do. One makes the rules. The others operate within. It’s best not to equate the two.

And yes, HN has a diverse audience and you’ll always find someone celebrating a story.

Regardless, as a westerner, I feel sorry for the people of Pakistan.
Related phenomenon/technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_ducking
You have to frame the number in percentage of population. More people died because there are more people period.

Also you need to make your timeline bigger. Extend the timeline to Past the dark ages.
If it constitutes significantly less than 20% of their revenue, it's not a "hose that pours money out". So no, Google has not yet found a second hose, even if they've found other revenue streams.
This is my experience with any 'smart assistant' product that is or ever has been.

It's always frustrating but never particularly hard to find the special incantation that will invoke it to do the thing that you want it to. Overall though it's simply not worth the effort which is probably why I end up using these overwhelmingly complex devices only for their most mundane functions like timers and getting the weather.

Trying for anything moderately complex, and I might as well be asking the dog to do it for me.
Yes, I let go of "counters" some two decades ago. Personally prefer index or just i, instead.

The way it used to go. Call something counter. Increment it each loop. Use goto for looping. Over time, add more gotos and change "counter" value. It tends to creep in, and clear names are important.
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I am already fantasizing about a future "workplace" where remote work is common and good satellite internet is everywhere so you can work from whatever corner of the world you wanted to.
TSMC's 3nm will still be FinFETs rather than any of the more 3D-ish transistor designs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16041/where-are-my-gaafets-ts...

Other "3D stacking" tech you may have been hearing about is packaging tech that isn't really tied to particular fab nodes—and that's one of the main motivations for advanced 3D packaging: you don't need to make all your chiplets on the same process.
Moderna has a statement that, "Efficacy was consistent across age, race and ethnicity, and gender demographics. The 196 COVID-19 cases included 33 older adults (ages 65+) and 42 participants identifying as being from diverse communities (including 29 Hispanic or LatinX, 6 Black or African Americans, 4 Asian Americans and 3 multiracial participants)." https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

The article makes it sound like they're not basing their finding on the actual vaccine trial data, so is this hyperbole?
Automation has been going on for 300 years. Jobs have disappeared, but other jobs appeared. People can be replaced with automation, or with other cheaper people. What difference does it make if you lose your job because your output can be done now more efficiently by a script, or by someone in Mumbai, or by a kid fresh out of school? I personally came to terms with the idea that at some point in my career I will be subject to a round of layoffs. I am not looking forward for that moment, but if/when that happens, I'm sure I'll feel so happy when I'll deposit my first paycheck from my new job. It's like being young again. What's not to like ;) ?
The search in most application is an anti-feature.