skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you really want to say that holding elections and kumbh didn't make the existing problem worst. As soon as the information of the new strain was received, a ban on international travel and increased restrictions should have ideally gotten things under control or just do anything about it. Instead we have the prime minister, instead of listening to the experts, declared victory over covid(yes this actually happened, twice) and went to campaign holding huge rallies(also boasted about the numbers on the twitter) with no covid protocol adherence[People in Political rallies in India are actually brought from the neighboring states, and are paid daily wages and it was done during the pandemic as well during the Bengal Elections as well & they must have also taken the virus back as well].

Anyways these aren't the only blunders the modi government has done, you can find a whole lot of information on the thoroughly incompetent supreme leader and his blunders with a single click quite easily. In case you belong to his fan-club, you would find every other media house(except the ones actually owned by the prominent right wingers) to be sold. (Anyone reading from US- Modi fan club members are very similar to the Trump Fan Club members and behave in the same manner as well)

Cases are exploding in Bangalore, because the city also had taken the restrictions lightly. I live in Bengaluru, and used to see good amount of traffic on the roads till the day lockdown was announced. A number of super spreader events in closed spaces such as colleges, marriages, cinemas where covid protocols weren't followed properly is also the reason mixed with the higher rate of spread of the new strain. This could have also been prevented for Bengaluru as well, if only the central government had taken some preventive action against the new information received. Instead we all know, what it chose to do.
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In my experience the office is a lonely place because it is completely fake. Everyone has to pretend to care, pretend they're making awesome progress and pretend they don't hate management. I'm a contractor precisely because it allows me to move around and avoid becoming entrenched in the fakery.
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See creator's previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667847
IIRC when I was doing NYT the super tricky rebuses (the one I remember was "bell" being the rebus and you could draw a bell in the square) are only allowed to be on one day of the week. Sunday, was it?
Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers
I found his comments on the Fed policy and its affect on big tech's stock performance interesting and wrote about them over the weekend [0]. In short, according to him a big reason the largest tech companies are up 60+% since beginning of 2020 is due to low interest rate policy of the Fed. Low rates juice equity returns and the biggest beneficiaries are large tech companies with really strong cashflow and low capital requirements. The 5 largest tech companies now comprise nearly 25% of the S&P500.

This was the single largest line item of covid spending. $3 trillion of the $12 trillion has gone directly into asset purchases (treasuries and mortgage backed securities) [1]

Another interesting thing I read about is how companies work around inflation. You see this in candy bars where the company shrinks the size of the bar rather than raise prices, eventually creating a "king size" to accommodate higher input prices. Other examples of include cutting corners and using cheaper material.

[0] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/where-did-the-12-trillio...

[1] https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/
Good. Large companies should not both be in both transmission and content. It's a conflict of interest.
Remember the "zero rating" issue for cellular.
That was my read too.

"I don't want to work for a place that's still super raw (best case) or a gigantic clusterfuck (worst case)."
I’m also in the “why wouldn’t you want to live forever” camp, but for selfish reasons. I’m of the opinion that for our species and society, a limited lifespan is a net benefit, as a motivator and as a way for popular opinion to change. Generally I do not think people are good at changing their stances, especially as they age.
wow, that's great. Now what I miss is to be able to put comments after each such line.
From Nand to Tetris (Building a Modern Computer From First Principles)
It is rather amusing how this product is neither TeX, nor emacs. Pretty sure the vast majority of folks assume it is related to at least one, if not both.
Only if you assume that you can (re)learn things and remember those experiences during that whole span of time.

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/suppl_5/v2
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I do electronics. Normally I help companies turn their idea into a prototype but at the moment all I seem to be doing is putting out fires related to the current part availability crisis. If you're affected by availability problems and want help finding replacement parts or re-engineering your product for manufacturability, I'm happy to help. Don't bother contacting me if you work in or for the car industry.

For more background on the current crisis, see my analysis here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932382

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Walmart has a huge online/mail component too. They basically bought and (unlike so many) successfully integrated and digested Jet (and now Bonobos) explicitly for that.
Competition is good, and from my experience with both Nomad feels like a more complete product than kubernetes
I love that he's "pouring" everything into the "shell".
Seriously , that is the coolest thing ever don't feel bad it was worth it. That picture is friggen epic and I think everyone here wants one...number one on hacker news pretty much sais that!
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It's a figure of speech. "Shovels" being the tools, e.g. shovels, hydraulic equipment, etc.
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I’ve got a pack of shepherds. They are all quite active. Even the old guy
I am just as sure that experts have been updating their advice, so I guess that leaves us at an impasse? It sounds like you disagree with some of their conclusions, which isn't the same thing as saying they haven't updated their opinions as new evidence comes in. Policy experts also have to weigh the second and third order effects of their statements - especially in a country like America, where the diversity of reactions to official statements ranges the gamut.
Yes they drove more dangerously. As in, taking risks while driving was cool fun thing. Not taking them made you look bad. As in drinking and driving was cool manly fun thing.

Yes, they were more likely to be alcoholics. As in, drinking whole salary worth of alcohol and not functioning. As in, your health being affected by it severly. Actual alcoholism.

As with food, 1921 was right after WWI. Food options were limited more by consequences of war and pauvrety, technologically you could eat basically whatever. But, ex soldiers treated the whole "I won't eat fat, sugar and what not, just to be healthy" as unmanly and spoiled.
> You're not wrong - kubectl is half the reason I use kubernetes. Solving the problems it does is reason enough to use it.

And that is honestly perfectly reasonable. I'd argue that it doesn't come for free, but if the benefits outweigh the cost then go for it. Again, I just don't often see customers who have so clearly argued as to why they'd need Kubernetes and not for instance Nomad.
>...From requiring pre-funding retirements years ago,

USPS pension funding gets brought up quite a bit as some kind of a conspiracy, but that doesn't appear to be accurate.

The issue for the postal service is that the law was changed so that the USPS would start funding their retirement health care costs since they are promised to the workers and the projected costs had exploded. This was supported by a bipartisan commission, the GAO, and the Postal Service itself:

>...Although retiree health benefits are often unfunded or poorly funded, two considerations suggested the Service’s retiree health care obligations should be funded: they are as firm a commitment as the Service’s pensions, and they had become enormous (about $75 billion by 2006). In 2003, the presidential commission suggested establishing a reserve fund for these obligations, and the Postal Service itself sent Congress a proposal for creating such a fund.

>Prior to 2006, the Service simply paid retirees’ health benefit premiums when they came due. The Service put aside no money when it promised the future benefits. Paying benefits when they come due rather than funding them in advance is known as the pay-as-you-go or unfunded approach.
>Early this century, Congress, the Administration, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), and a bipartisan presidential commission expressed concern about the lack of funding. Although retiree health benefits are often unfunded or poorly funded, two considerations suggested the Service’s retiree health care obligations should be funded: they are as firm a commitment as the Service’s pensions, and they had become enormous (about $75 billion by 2006). In 2003, the presidential commission suggested establishing a reserve fund for these obligations, and the Postal Service itself sent Congress a proposal for creating such a fund.

>In 2002-2003, it was discovered that the Service was contributing far more than necessary to fully fund its pensions, and Congress allowed the Service to contribute less. Congress decided the pension “savings” could help patch the retiree health benefit underfunding. In 2006, as part of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), the Postal Service Retirement Health Benefits Fund (RHBF) was established. Most of the Service’s contributions to the new fund could be paid using the pension “savings.” PAEA was bipartisan legislation with broad support.

https://taxfoundation.org/postal-service-reform-postal-servi...

>...If they didn't have to prepay pensions (something no other government agency, or private company in the world is required to do, or does), they'd be in great shape.

In relation to this, the USPS has posted this as part of a fact sheet:

>...More recently, the USPS Fairness Act was passed by the House. It would eliminate the requirement to prefund retiree health benefits and forgive our current defaulted prefunding payments. However, ultimate passage of the bill will not reduce our underlying retiree health benefits liability, nor improve our cash flow or long-term financial position.

https://about.usps.com/news/delivers-facts/usps-delivers-the...
They still get a vote and if there wind up being many more 500 year olds it'll still let them keep society comfortable and familiar for themselves
Children need consistency and reliability from their parents. It becomes even more apparent as they get older- they will not be able to take risks in their lives if they have been looking over their shoulders their whole lives trying to adapt to a capricious world of 'this week Mommy wants to be X, and Daddy's moving to be closer to his new girlfriend'. There is no amount of 'quality' you can add to a couple of afternoons that will replace the work done of being there day in, day out. It has nothing to do with quality of food or cleanliness of the bathroom.
my docs are a single page full of one liners for practical issues that have organically arisen several times over the years, with a table of contents at the front.

As I said, I write good docs, but no-one will read them until they have been caught out 3 times asking obvious questions had they gone to the doc first. If I am not around, I know the docs will be abandoned immediately despite it representing a tome of hard won knowledge that saves an incredible amount of aggregate time from never needing to figure out how to do the same task twice.
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I do electronics. Normally I help companies turn their idea into a prototype but at the moment all I seem to be doing is putting out fires related to the current part availability crisis. If you're affected by availability problems and want help finding replacement parts or re-engineering your product for manufacturability, I'm happy to help. Don't bother contacting me if you work in or for the car industry.

For more background on the current crisis, see my analysis here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932382

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Agreed, what you describe is the status quo, where we have small evolutions through diets and drugs.

But I'm not completely on the pessimistic side because there's one thing that could change everything: the moment someone discovers how to effectively revert human cell decay (which has already been done in lab rats btw), then reality changes completely and living to 200 and beyond is achievable.

It could very well be like turning lead into gold, an ideal so close but never achieved. But on aging, I think humans already know what needs to be done, so I wouldn't put all my bets against it.
Last May investigators at Sportradar, who spend most of their time identifying match-fixing, conducted a pilot scheme at two exhibition tennis tournaments where they tracked down trolls.

Those targeted included Taylor Townsend, who was abused by six trolls because of her skin colour, and a male tennis star who was threatened with physical violence against himself and his girlfriend. In total 44 people sent abusive messages to players during those weeks. Sportradar tracked down 21 of them.

They then alerted the appropriate authorities and helped them pursue an appropriate course of action – from kicking the trolls off social media platforms to working with law enforcement to bring legal proceedings. Of course the response was different depending on the severity of the threat and location. But it helped the victims feel as if someone was watching their backs.
If any app makes you feel bad, delete it and remove the stored credentials from your account. It worked really well for me.

Make your phone less useful. I don't have my work e-mail & Slack on my phone. So I can't even check my work calendar on it.

I used to have a few of the social networks apps and lots of utility apps that maybe I would use once a year. So I decided to delete them all.

Now, I only have some of the default Apple apps + WhatsApp, Telegram, Bank, Spotify, Lockwise, Scanner Pro, Google Authenticator, Google Map, and a few utility apps to manage cameras, smart LEDs, and my vacuum robot.
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OCD is going to find another outlet for you. For me, it transitions from AIDS to Rabies and then it'll find its way back to AIDS again, or maybe covid ... among many other issues.

You need to go after the OCD head-on, rather than the symptoms. My counselor recommended Brain Lock for me. I need to read it again, myself; but, I believe it to be a useful book and always recommend it.
I really wish there was incentive to have products be "done". It seems that so many products get to a great state and then get made worse over time because we need continuous growth (Evernote immediately comes to mind. Others seem to feel similar about 1Password) or in the case of Google, get shut down.
From a little bit of retail corporate experience: people are used to seeing Amazon roll over competitors with under-invested supply chains.

There aren't really any of those left.

Amazon taking on Walmart, Home Depot, or (I assume) Target is going to look very different. Because all have been shoveling money into their supply chain efficiencies for the last 10 years.
What's a law with no teeth?
No. USPS still has to stop by all of the houses anyway to pick up mail as well. So junk mail subsidizes the cost of going to all of those remote homes.
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN, regardless of how you feel about the postal system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I am not in a teacher's union, but if I were, I would want it to be focused on what's best for me - not the students. Parents and other groups are good advocates for the students.

Also, the resources available to private schools are very different than those available to public schools. The example provided shows that it is possible for some schools to return to in-person. It does not follow that it would be possible for all (or most) schools, especially as you have fewer resources available.
Yeah, they're not perfect examples, but those shows' characters live in the suburbs and spend most of their time even farther afield. The cities seem to serve as somewhat jarring juxtapositions to the places where the action and drama occur.
Yes, that's what gets me.
To be fair, it's a blog targeted at female founders. I think it's treated as a mom problem because of the audience, not the problem.

(I say this as a startup founder and dad, i.e. a man in exactly the situation the article describes. I first felt dismissed until I realized what website I was on)
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Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs
Also, for quick formatting a blob of JSON you've copied:

pbpaste | json_pp | pbcopy
Us older folks have also seen a lot of "new" ideas from the younger ones that have been repeatedly tried and failed. No need to try them again.

A healthy democracy needs the young for new ideas, and the old to warn them about the experience with those "new" ideas.

It's like software. The new guy just gets 'er done. The old guy says "your quadratic algorithm won't scale. did you encrypt the password database? did you make a backup? did you set aside money for the tax bill?"
I can’t think of any, but it would be trivial to do, just update bitplane 2. On some cards you need to update it during vsync.
Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for.

We've had to ask you this repeatedly in the past. We ban accounts that ignore such requests, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it's fine to shift. Some of my interests are seasonal. I think it's also good to note that things like guitar and cybersecurity are never finished. If you can even find 15 minutes a week to practice a couple riffs, that can at least keep you from completely forgetting it. Then you can spend more time in the future improving.
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My team and I, at Fortbinary.com, specialize in Ethereum based decentralizes applications. We have experience in building large scale blockchain systems and have some successful apps running on the mainnet (NFT marketplace, etc).

Would love to discuss your ideas and see how we can help.

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So it will all come down to money. But before everyone jumps in to say, that USPS needs more money from the federal government, it’s useful to remind where the current issue with money is: 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act requires prefunding for 75 years.

https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2020/02/house-votes-end...
A less clickbaity title would be "Don't base your arguments on analogies".

I agree with the premise put forth in part one: analogies are better for illustration than for argument.

In parts 2 and 3 they use two examples of bad analogies which I think aren't very good. They are both moral issues. In both cases, the counterargument is that the issue used in the analogue is too morally different from the original issue. But to the people in both examples they used that analogy because they think it they are morally comparable.

Jimmy likely thinks that smoking extra pot is about the same as eating icecream. That's probably why he chose the analogy. I imagine it is similar for the comparison between drug use and pregnancy out of wedlock. The OP's argument relies on everybody thinking everybody has similar moral values to themself.

It would have been better to stick to the ethernet vs road system analogy and used it to demonstrate his points in parts 2 and 3.
Point being that "shovels" change. Everyone always wants water or gold.
The person is claiming to have obsessive compulsive disorder, which can operate a bit different from regular addiction.
This is great! And the examples work on the phone just without any issues! Congratulations
Bee population steady in Dutch cities thanks to pollinator strategy