skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry, long before then we'll pass the Crypo Event Horizon, when it becomes uneconomical to compute anything but crypto, and civilization will gratefully collapse. Our descendents will curse the blockchain and evolve other means for exchange of value.
Netflix has got to be the most annoyingly irritating website to browse that I've ever had the misfortune to come across. What makes it even more annoying is that every other similar site [eg. BBC iPlayer, Amazon Prime Video] seems to have decided to copy their piss-poor navigation, as well.
> I don't see why crypto needs to be involved

But others can and that’s the important point here.
Safe­Vac 2.0: Smart­phone App to Sur­vey Tol­er­a­bil­I­ty of Covid-19 Vac­cines
It's a hugely risky business, especially if you're not a national chain. Most mom-and-pop restaurants don't last long. 10% isn't that big a return for that kind of risk.
I’m not sure how losing 1/3rd of your staff, including the head of design and the entire iOS team could be seen as anything other than a massive issue.
The article makes no comparison to any other fields.

Factories had pretty tough working conditions full of repetitive, dangerous work, and most of the things that rich world workers take for granted (weekends, an 8-hour week, even minimum amounts of breaks for toilets and lunch) were fought for with blood, sweat and tears. The article argues that the continued drive for ever-increasing productivity encouraged studies to figure out how to make workers less fatigued, in the best scenarios for workers' own benefit and in the worst scenario to try and squeeze them dry.
I haven't heard of data fudging in Bangalore from media, so far.

Here are some reports about Gujarat[1][2]

[1] https://scroll.in/article/992217/as-the-dead-pile-up-in-guja...
[2] https://caravanmagazine.in/health/how-gujarat-is-undercounti...
Is that true? I thought you had to do VPC peering for regions to use those backbones
Why didn't the psychiatry and GP want to fill in the Temporary Disability papers? Does the healthcare system disincentivize them from doing so?
Well exactly. No IPO, no buyout on the horizon. Stocks would be a less valuable compensation than cash.

But the allure of partaking in massive success in a revolutionary startup is pretty significant. Less so if you have a steady salary perhaps, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a few of these people use the safety net of savings and a solid technical rep to try some riskier innovation.

I really can't believe I'm explaining startup allure on HN.
One feature of the Kerala case, which does not get discussed much, is that the load is more or less evenly distributed throughout all the districts. This makes it easier to handle critical cases well.
Yes, but why do you think the government is supporting them and why do you think they’re failing?

My own experience is that failing firms pay more. They can’t offer security, and tend to lay off as many people as possible. The layoffs leave the firm top-heavy. In order to recruit new staff they have to pay more. Who wants to be VP of a failing company?

Regarding propping them up, I don’t see how making up the difference between a given wage and the amount necessary to live a decent life is propping up the company.

I’m very much in favor of minimum wage laws. But I don’t see them as government propping up failing companies.
It’s certainly possible for one strain to have more mutations than another (relative to the variant that initially spread in China), though that doesn’t necessarily correlate with dangerousness.
>> There is no such thing as "very mutated". Something is either mutated or not.

Well if there are 1 billion genes and one virus strain has 1 mutated gene while another virus has 1,000,000 mutated genes then the latter is "very mutated".

Like a white human and a black human are somewhat mutated relative to each other but both humans are "very mutated" as compared to a chimpanzee. Although 98% humans and chimpanzees are the same animal, let's call it humpanzee.
> If I want to right now, I can get a multimillion dollar loan, no questions asked, against most any crypto I own for an interest rate lower than credit cards or scammy payday loans will charge

Giving people loans with "no questions asked" has lead to significant amount of problems in the past.
According to...well, everyone, that was a NYS thing, not NYC specifically.
Lol he lost his job - this didn’t protect his career.
They linked this: https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/pyramid-of...

I don't see what the big yikes is about that.
No there's no such study. There has been a lot of focus on election rallies and Kumbh Mela in press, but it seems to be mostly due to people turning the tragedy of the second wave into a political opportunity to attack Modi. But Kumbh Mela is one event, and elections are only taking place in a few states. The reality is that India was handling the pandemic quite well through a policy of highly localized containment, and general mobility among the populace was increasing in response to improved pandemic conditions and the trickling of vaccines (although India gave away tens of millions of vaccine doses to other nations and hurt its own drive as a result of that generosity). I suspect that the reality of this wave is that many factors contributed - increased general mobility, some large events, and likely new variants that aren't well understood yet and may spread more easily. Prior to that, everything and everyone being blamed right now is just speculative and opportunist.
I think with more and more remote work social ties get weaker - at least from what I have seen people are easier to leave because the group isn't as tightly connected when everyone knows each other just from some remote meetings and PRs.
What's a reasonable wage? Should any business in developing countries exist, given the incredibly low wages? Their wages can't be considered reasonable, right?
Hmm this is somewhat scary... does anyone know how much actually is required for this to happen? I work 10-13 hour days quite often. I love every second of it, but it can be intense.

Also... what foods are high in glucose or whatever brain food I need?
Let me add one data point: Hungary has currently the highest mortality for covid-19 in the world, and still currently higher than India, for apparently the same reason, healthcare over capacity.

(The trend is different though, there's hope)
> Git desperately needs a layer above the commit that groups related commits together into a semantically commit-like object that you can show in history

That's what a merge commit does. The first parent is the base commit and the second parent is the head of the branch that was merged into the base branch.

So, if you run git log first_parent..second_parent, you would see a list of related commits (related by being in the same branch).
I'm simply trying to get to the heart of people's beliefs, and understand why they think the way they do.
Where I live (Germany) all of these actions would be illegal.

I think broadly speaking governments do a lot to set the tone of what's acceptable in the pandemic, by what they say, and what they do. A big government rally is powerful legitimation for being selfish.
Talented people will also have higher standards (want large compensation package, or interesting work, or something else), and figuring out whether a job opening is up to that standard takes time. The result is that even for developers in high demand it takes a lot of time to find a new job.
Oh come on. I thought it was a given that "no P/R" means "no ugly P/R" – e.g. don't shit on your co-worker for being Muslim, don't shame your co-worker for voting for Trump. But it is fine to mention that you are fasting for Ramadan. Basically I think they should've just used HN's commenting guidelines instead of saying no politics.
Stars burn whether the energy they produce is used or not, so this doesn't accelerate the heat death of the universe. You'd have to merge stars for that (because larger, heavier stars have a higher rate of fusion).
Well that's an unfortunate phrase to choose.
I'm not sure what you mean. I'm assuming that if they hire people as contractors they only do so until they've hired new people to fill the vacant positions.
How do you buy bitcoins without it touching some financial institution at some point? You can buy bitcoin with cash, yes, but if it has to go through a financial institution or other regulated entity at any point then it is not delivering on any promise of independence from those institutions.
What tool is being used for the interactive animations? They are really impressive.
Assuming you always have to flow back to fiat?

At some point we will have CBDCs which crypto exchanges and banks will support, so legacy bank chokepoints should disappear altogether.
The order by Governor Cuomo sending infected patients into nursing homes was preemptive, which then led to strain on the health care system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_ho...
I think it was good leadership actually
If that is so easy, why was the war on drugs never won?

The government can deliver serious blows to BTC but I’m not sure it can be totally destroyed.
I don't necessarily doubt the author, but how do you chronically deprive your brain of glucose?

Afaik you would get glucose back whenever you ate anything. Unless you were doing keto, but then your body and brain run on ketones. And if you did somehow deprive your brain of fuel, you would get symptoms in a much shorter span.

Maybe undereating, but he doesn't list weight loss, and if you're rapidly losing weight and start to notice these symptoms it would seem pretty obvious to try eating more.
Watching over my cousin's shoulder as he debugged a downhill skiing game he wrote for a class he was taking. This was on his newly acquired Apple IIe circa 1983.
Covid: Australians could face jail or fines if they return from India
> I think we will eventually see a return to company 'data centers' away from IaaS plays

I don’t see why. Cloud providers have been offering dedicated hardware for a long time. If this problem isn‘t reliably fixable then more customers will make use of these options.
Someone who is from UP and lived in Kerala for few months, that state is world apart in terms of basic facilities. I mean computers in primary school (not to mention Linux)!!! In U.P., you won't find teachers teaching in most scholls.
There has to be a diagnosis. "Dunno " doesn't go on the form.
>From what you've said, it could be that crematoriums were already operating just below capacity and are now just above capacity, causing growing backlogs even with only a very small increase in demand.

Can't be the case throughout the country in all affected districts and all densely populated states.

You see reports of crematoriums running 24/7 and still not able to fulfill the demand for cremations and find it reasonable to land on any other conclusion but people are dying. I think I've presented enough.
Anyone ever own a vectrex? I find them fascinating and never saw one until adulthood.

Curious of your experience with them and what the best games were and why?
I've lived in Kerala for twenty years. Can attest to this being due to better healthcare. There's also very little underreporting of deaths happening (my sister's a doctor directly involved with the government effort).

It's a bit like Cuba, with the Communist past and healthcare/life-expectancy that stands out (compared to say, per-capita income which is average).
Not subtweeting their entire workforce on their extremely popular blog would probably be a good start.

Even if they decided to go with a “no politics” rule, doing it publicly was unbelievably shitty to their employees. Such policy changes really should’ve been done in private, especially since it was clear based on the phrasing that this was in response to a specific incident.
Keychron K2. It's the closest to a 'do everything well' keyboard I could get. It's wireless at home, but wired at work (usb C too). It's mechancial and feels good. It's got a switch for mac & pc layouts. It's got a good utility illumination without looking too gamer. Only thing I don't like about it is it's a bit thick/high, means you have to use a rest with it.
You don't need any special "brain food." You just need to take breaks and eat regularly.

Edit: And of course you should try to eat a balanced, "healthy" diet, but the issue being described in the Twitter thread is pushing through far beyond what's physically or psychologically healthy.
Like David Brin's messengers in Existence.
> This is, to begin with, not true.

I will never stop being amazed at how Americans argue that something decent is wrong, or untrue, or even impossible... when Europe exists.
I don't think you can compare both. It's abstractions all the way down, for both. Modern ICE are made from metals compounds that were unknown a few years ago and are the reason they are efficient. Just as you can send bytes over a wire without TCP, you can build an ICE from pure iron. But both then have just very low fault tolerances and break rather quickly.
The cases spiked after April. If it was not mutation the total number of active cases would have still going up from last October. Active cases suddenly dropped from October with no good factors to indicate why it dropped.

I have been to 3 wedding after the drop. Almost no one was wearing mask. As far i know govt was still asking people to wear mask. There were major Hindu festivals after October and coming winter were everyone was worried the cases would rise. Did the virus simply hide and rose rapidly?
That's a stupid pyramid.
Arch Wiki for all distros!
That's great. I'd probably subscribe if I still kept up with stuff like that.

If that sub were defining things, you would be right. But the people they're making fun of are defining things. My vote for the new axis goes to individualism vs. collectivism.
Sure, that's why I wrote the rest of the text. Thanks for the comment, just upgraded the post to be more to the point.
I like the detailed explanations and animations. It reminds me of another page, which doesn't look as polished, but has a few additional designs:

http://animatedengines.com
Lookup the SHS series by Stoor. Here is one.

https://youtu.be/lC4gA8ImpK0
Which is a healthy cleanse of an exploitive economy, and America definitely has an exploitive economy, make no mistake.

A minimum wage is a decision a society makes, that says "this is the minimum market rate for a human that we consider non-exploitive", it's not an economic decision made to maximize GDP or profit. If a company can't afford to operate in a way that's non-exploitive then it needs to reconfigure or die out, because it doesn't belong in your society.
What happened to the proof-of-useful-space algorithms? Eg. the promise of Filecoin: A proof of space based distributed cryptocoin, where the space is offered as usable storage for end-users who pays the said crypto.

Has the industry given up on that?
Eating foods high in glucose seems like a good way to give yourself insulin resistance and diabetes. That does not seem like the answer.
> But still it's absolutely innocent fun.

Not if you're one of the injured parties.
Beautifully written and researched piece of... contemporary computer anthropology. Thank you. That was a wild ride. Was afraid to try the game because bedtime.
> Where/why would someone say that

Maybe someone asks them about their faith, in an informal setting, such as during lunch, and then they answer the question that was asked of them regarding how their faith applied to gay marriage.

If you then punished them for this, then that would absolutely be an example of illegal discrimination, on your part.
The leader makes a decision, but usually that decision is either fully defined or heavily constrained by the wishes of the team. Being in charge often feels more like figuring out what your subordinates want to do and putting out some compromise in a way everybody can agree to than coming up with directions yourself
This is such a great article man. Love for the effort you put into this article.

I seriously wish I had teachers and schools like this. I used to imagine the four strokes when I was in school but it is very hard to relate all the moving parts and how everything connects together in that age where I've never used a motorcycle or a car.

Thanks for writing this.
And you just presumed everyone on that list was in the "down" group. Why?
Yes: Many banks, at least in the US, are now open for limited times on Saturdays & Sundays. I can walk into one bank, get a cashiers check, and bring it to another bank, all with zero transaction costs. And possibly faster than Bitcoin, depending on the transaction fee I was willing to pay.
really inspiring
I would not believe any numbers coming out of India right now. I have family in the medical field and they all agree that deaths are underreported by a factor of 5-10 based on where you are located. The FT did a story on it as well that showed the deaths were grossly undereeported
When burnout similar to OP hit me, the company I was working at had free soda available all the time. I'd get slow while working stupid hours, and so I'd be guzzling soda to pep me up (or so I convinced myself... actually I was just addicted to the sugar). It was the lack of rest that was the cause of the debilitating burnout that destroyed me for years, and not for lack of glucose.
Was that meant to be 100MB each, or an 8TB drive?
It's not an exclusive option. It is both. You don't have to be "professional" if you're a Supreme King - in fact, you don't need to be anything, the more power you have, the less limitations are placed on you for the sake of others. If you have a lot of power, you can demand from the management to expunge everybody from the company that dares to support wrong political ideas, or demand the management to perform acts of supplication to the right set of political ideas, or turn the profits to causes that you want to be served - instead of causes the management wants to be served. Being able to do that is a power, and we have seen exercise of this power before. Some company leaders are ok with giving a vocal minority of their workers this kind of power, some are not. As a member of a non-vocal minority that does not want my work to serve the power of vocal minority, I would sincerely hope there would be more of the latter.
I wish we could tackle the core issues and not just the symptoms (like dirty rivers).
The real problem here is that a lot of countries simply do not have the regulations / infrastructure / money to handle garbage well.
I honestly think that part of the problem is that the older people who make decisions on things like minimum wage remember their own minimum wage jobs. My first job paid $3.35/hr. $15/hr is $30K a year full-time. I barely made more than that at my first professional programming job out of college. It sounds insane to me on first hearing that $15/hr is not "decent" pay for an entry level, non-skilled position.
Now imagine he was offered 6 months pay to not show up ever again!
Making fun of ethnic names isn't 'innocent fun' when your company purports to be diverse, equal, and inclusive.

If you don't believe me, well, DHH himself agrees with this: it's a problem when you acknowledge the pyramid of hate, as he does.

What's at issue is that he acknowledges all of this, then refuses to recognize any wrongdoing, dresses down employees in public, and claims that "political talk" -- about the company, about whether these practices are correct, about whether this is an inclusive and equal place -- is banned.
One explanation I heard from a doctor recently is this:

the younger population is infected/affected more this time because they have been infected and has been asymptomatic or mild all these months and with that the virus has mutated more amongst younger people. So the second wave is affecting the younger population much more intensely this time than before.

I don't know how scientific this explanation is.

My own gut thinking is that lockdown nowhere nearly as effective this time as last year. Even simple social mechanics that were in effect last year – like telcos changing their ring/busy tone to covid PSA message isn't there. People are not being reminded to take social distancing, washing hands, wearing masks precautions seriously.

And people are not doing it as seriously as they did last time. This has been the reality for the months of March and April where it seem to have spread silently. The weather change between Feb-April (very windy, cold to dry heat conditions) could also be a factor. And now, it is too serious and now people may change their behavior but it is too late.
Well, I am only objecting to unsupported numbers being thrown around. How do you go from "crematoriums being pushed to the limit" to 10-100X Covid deaths?

Extraordinary claims (such as up to 3 million deaths in ten days) require extraordinary evidence. My response, if you notice, was specifically about that claim. And I also did not fail to mention that deaths are underreported.
“I’ll bet Basecamp is a better place to work now than it was a week ago”

I don’t know, if my week at work concluded with one of the founders going on a blocking spree and leading the Rails community to start discussing disassociating itself from him, I wouldn’t consider that “better”. :)
Officially having policy to not discussing politics is very good. In my experience, it is rarelly imposed but there is always someone who crosses line and it comes handy.

On side note, sadly in my (unpopular) opinion, north americans are focused too much on being politically correct in speech instead of being correct in action and thoughts.Hope this will not be their downfall.
> with all of the medical, psychological and sociological evidence, you refuse to accept that gender identity is an individual's choice

Look, I really don't want to be confrontational, but I would like to know more about this evidence. Can you provide me with some sources?
Bitcoin provides literally no property rights. All bitcoin does is say this address has that many bitcoins (in this particular blockchain).
As a counter point, my flight was unable to land some years ago because some moron was flying his drone in the airport airspace.
I love my job, but if I'd be offered my half-year salary right now to leave, I'd at least seriously think about it. It's a fat chunk of money. I'm not saying I'd take it, but I'd at least spend a couple of days thinking about it.
It doesn't really work in practise. For example you could have two clients sharing a hard drive with both claiming to independently store the same files. There is no way of actually proving the data is being usefully stored.
Hell yeah!

I'm hopeful to see some features by the time stable gets released. Notably the tasks app[0] and Nextcloud integration[1].

[0] https://github.com/elementary/tasks/

[1] https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/63
Sure but 46/57 employees count as long-term.
It doesn't matter how they got unhappy and activist. Unless you want to spend your time making them happy (instead of building products), what matters is to get them out.

I'm a firm believer that you can help toxic people become normal (again). But it takes a lot of time and effort that you can't spend otherwise, and you might alienate others over it who don't want to suffer under the (maybe reforming) toxic person. The question is whether you want to help someone, or build products. Basecamp seems to have opted for not turning themselves into a SuperPAC/self-help group.
It's perfectly fine if they want to claim:

> Lasts for 10 years!*

> * Based on a total lifetime of X PB and typical usage of Y GB/month.

But if they claim "Lasts for 10 years.", then their implied warrantee is "Lasts for 10 years.".
Wouldn't money created by chinese miners be more correct?
I think they reference a "standard daily use"?

But even if that's not strictly quantified, I think the manufacturer position is justifiable, in particular when advertising to consumers.
And we used the calm times to ramp up the infrastructure. But if cases are rising beyond control, this will fail too.