skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a manager, it's literally their job to manage your performance as an employee, and that includes your work-life balance. Some managers are bad at their jobs (or belong to organizations which would prefer to burn out their employees or otherwise don't care about work-life balance), but if someone is working too many hours, or not taking enough vacation time, or is burning out because they're overwhelmed by their responsibilities or lack of support (either perceived or real), it's within their manager's power to identify those issues, and it's generally within the manager's power to fix them.
Would you consider your past as a time when politics "wasn't eating the world" then? Did you not look at things "through the eyes of clans and governance"?
No offense, but this is lunacy.

People are not going to use AirTags to more effectively stalk people than the existing GPS trackers on the market. GPS tracker would be much better in fact.
Tenured profs are generally paid to take a sabbatical and a lot of times are expected to write something to be published while they're gone.
Everywhere… IDK? FWIW most of my career has been remote in northern New England, working with companies in Boston or SF. Seriously, I’ve only received a single (non-founder) offer below 6 figures since I dropped out of college, at a non-tech company. I walked out cold when it got to negotiations because they were so far off base. A bit rude, yes, but I was genuinely insulted. It was three times lower than the next lowest offer I have received at that point.

I’ve been trying hard to just be an IC too ever since I burnt out on my own startup. Avoiding management hasn’t been hard with Ruby/JavaScript and a bit of Swift/Kotlin exp. I’ve only recently started entertaining eng.manager/director conversations and been clear that would take $600k+ to get me back into that world, and leading with number has not been a show stopper in my convos with FAANG companies.
> real estate

Well, yeah. Nobody is trying to hide this fact.

> gas

https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts

> food

Check the BLS data. In the short term, some food is def up, but less than 5%

Over the long term, it's down.

> cars

Down over the long term. Up in the last year.

> computer hardware

Yeah new hardware is gonna be expensive due to that whole chip shortage thing

> lumber

lol yeah all that lumber you're spending your money on

The only thing that's up by a factor of 2x is lumber, and I'm gonna bet that's only on your list because of all the headlines it's making.
Or, he founded a blockchain company only to realize that blockchain, and byzantine consensus, is a terrible way to do things.
I suspect that it's easier to get funding to research pretty plants or to try to preserve them, and less charismatic plants and animals are much more likely to attract scorn from small-government types trying to "ferret out government waste". And if the money's going to be raised from private donors the effect is going to be even worse: save the redwoods or pandas, lots of money. Save the snail darter (crickets).
One of the most important parts of my plan, and part of what I was referring to when I said "almost nothing that looks like work" is to keep a hard cap on computer time. This break is about other parts of my life.

Being in the right mental place to do that is part of why now is the right time.
Does misspelling count as obfuscation?
>So what you're saying is we're in a period of massive deflation.

For some goods like cars and electronics, yes. For other goods and services (e.g. education, healthcare, childcare), no.

Have a look here to see which goods’ prices have inflated, and which have deflated: https://cdn.howmuch.net/articles/price-changes-in-usa-in-pas...
I definitely acknowledge all that. I'm not questioning his motives, and I also agree with many of his arguments. I just don't agree with other arguments, or the conclusions, and I don't really understand the tone and ruthless hostility. I wouldn't even really understand it if the topic were just about anything else in the world.
I think the average age is 11 for boys, that means half are under 11 when they first encounter pornography...

also read somewhere that sexual assault perpetration is occurring at younger ages.
I'm pretty confident Simon Peyton-Jones would never find it acceptable that adding a new type class instance changes the behavior of existing code, regardless of what convenience it brings. Yes, the dot operator is useful (as SPJ acknowledges in that talk), but convenience at the cost of sacrificing the ability to reason about code and how its meaning evolves is not worth it to the typical Haskeller. SPJ isn't talking about Rust specifically in that talk; he's only talking about the convenience of IDE integration and namespacing based on the receiver.
Ooh that looks like a great podcast, thanks!
Not sure if you're in the US, but once you get your Open Water certification, you might want to see if there's a university near you that offers the AAUS[1] scientific diving course. It can be a path for being able to do underwater research, but without necessarily need a biology or ecology degree. I'm finishing it up right now, and the last time I took a biology course was sophomore year of high school.

[1] https://www.aaus.org/
It's like "Little Bobby Tables" grew up, and is no longer content with just causing a little inconvenience.
Flask 2.0.0 has been merged into master
I would be careful with such blanket statements. I would agree with you that companies do not expect people to expect that and will do everything they can to make people believe that exploitative relationships are OK.

Personally though yes I do expect tit for tat. And there are employers out there that understand this very well. At one of my previous places for example we had a few major traffic days which required a sort of "all hands on deck" for the day and part of the night. You probably worked an extra 2 hours in total but you were looking at the chat and production monitors regularly while going about your day and evening/night otherwise. You got an extra day off for that.

Also for production support via 'pager' any call from the NOC to you, even if it took 5 minutes of you just telling them 'yeah restart service X' was an automatic 1 hour billed at overtime rates.

No not contractors. Internal employees.

Also I do love my work and it's not work in that sense. But that does not preclude me from wanting and working actively towards a proper work environment. If you pay me for 40 hours you get 40 hours. 40 hours of 100% of me. Not 60 hours of 50% of me.
I have no opinion on the discontinuation of Code Editor, since I didn't use it. I just wanted to say that I wish more companies would handle similar situations like this. This article is comprehensive, articulate, respectful, and not written like a press release.
Galois’ Last Letter (2008)
You're assuming good wages and good education make people always happy.
"If Materialism is true, the United States is likely conscious."

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
That happened before though and it didn't work out. I don't know why it should be different that time.

Also, telegram is used a lot in Germany (compared to other countries) and together with Signal & others it got used much more recently. I don't think Whatsapp has much leverage here.

Not sure if Telegram is better for the users though.
The first blog linked from there is astonishing.

https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/
L.A. County expected to hit Covid-19 herd immunity by end of July
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27083806
If you lose your cellphone, don’t blame Wayne Dobson (2013)
Don't make the same mistake of under-estimating China in 2021, that the US made of underestimating Japan in 1941.

To see the mind-set of the US/Europeans in the 1940s, take the time to watch the miniseries "The Singapore Grip". The British in particular were very dismissive of the Japanese. They sent a whole two(!) battleships off to destroy the Japanese invasion fleet. The Japanese polished them off in about an hour and a half. [I see that moment as the point when the whole British Empire died. But it took the British another 15 years to recognise that death.]
Hades Canyon NUC: The best Mac mini Apple never made
Why would it be less of a factor? These things don't prevent spam. I can create a proper mail server with all these and send billion messages from it wherever I like. These technologies prevent various kinds of forgeries.

Quick look at my archive, of 37k spams only 7k fails SPF. (I accept all email no matter what.) So it's some signal, but not nearly enough.
Those are great aspects of email, and I certainly wouldn't want it to go away. But that doesn't mean it's the most effective or efficient tool for all use cases. Like the GP, our team switched to Slack some years back, and our email volume dropped to near zero, while quality of communication went way up.
Eh, many writers are part-time and have dayjobs.
I suggest https://www.levels.fyi/ as a starting point in setting your expectations. Make friends with a recruiter, helps to see the world from their perspective & learn what the bands are / who’s hiring.
My two cents: a good idea is 1, A great idea is also 1. It doesn’t mean jack till its usable.

So it would be more like -
Good idea (1) x good execution(10) = 10
Great idea (1) x great execution (100) = 100

Ex: my great idea is that faster-than-light travel will REVOLUTIONIZE HUMANITY! Of course I’m an idea guy, so I cant be bothered with physics and engineering and special relativity and all that riff-raff. Let a specialized team figure that out. But hear me out - this is a BRILLIANT IDEA when finished.
(That’ll be 100M seed funding, thank you very much.)
Did not know that! Thanks! My new one probably cost less than that anyway though.
I took 3 years off from about ages 27-30. I wasn’t making a ton of money at the time (this was about a decade ago) and figured retirement was unlikely so I may as well enjoy my life now. Leading up to that point I had been living cheaply, working a full time office job and doing freelance SEO writing on the side for 5 years.

I lived very cheaply, worked a few freelance jobs, burned through my savings, and ended up finding a job when I had about 6 months of expenses left in my savings account. Never had to dip into retirement or stocks though.

Best time of my life. Many people like the sound of this but have no interest in actually living that way. I lived in a tiny studio apartment, rode a bicycle everywhere, ate a cheap plant based diet, and bought almost nothing.
The improvements described look great to me. Some are advocating for PlatformIO, but I still reach for the Arduino IDE even though I usually prefer vim or CLI tools. It's convenient and tutorials frequently assume you'll use the IDE. The IDE is great for people that just want to dive in and see some results. Asking someone really new to programming to install a plugin in another tool or issue arcane commands in the terminal is probably asking too much. All of that can be discovered later.
Completely agree a DS shouldn't be responsible for all those things you mentioned (all the infrastructure, networking, security, etc.). In today's age, "data pipelines" can look like plugging into tools & frameworks that abstract away a lot of this complexity. For example - fivetran for extraction & dbt for data modelling. So once those engineering/devops heavy things you listed are abstracted away, I think it's fair for a DS to be responsible for building the data transformation logic in the pipeline. Of course, not all companies will have such tooling available, in which case it's not fair to place those expectations on a DS.
And perform periodic disaster recovery and restore exercises from those backups. If you don’t know the backups will restore, they’re worthless.
Atmos: Savings accounts built in React and Node that fund solar
The weakest link is always human. Dealing what that should be paramount to solve that problem.
Unless your website is small or uncontroversial, malicious traffic is a very real issue. For many webmasters it's a critical issue. Now consider that, from a webmaster's perspective, the more anonymous you are, the harder it is for us to distinguish you from this torrent of malicious traffic.

I run a fairly decent sized website (perhaps not as big as Hacker News but comparable in scope and magnitude) and I'm frequently analysing traffic samples to determine ways to profile abusive behaviour. Traffic from TOR is usually in excess of 95% robotic and malicious. For me it's just a waste of time to allow any of it. (But I do, so long as your browser already has a valid authentication cookie generated outside of TOR.)
I have a friend/coworker who refers to these as "boutique" ecosystems/organisms. They're the ones that are really easy to love/study/want to preserve, like coral reefs and clownfish, or kelp forests and sea otters.
Sadly email is starting to die as the universal protocol for communication it used to be. My organisation has now implemented so many filters and blocks that a huge range of simple things are just broken now. It's pretty hard to send an attachment through other than a few predefined doc types that wont get physically removed by the spam filter. Every link gets re-written in some horribly mangled way and virtually clicked that often causes undesirable side effects. Giant warnings and labels get inserted into the body text telling me this or that is suspicious, and subject lines are frequently rewritten, breaking the feeble semblance of threading that my poor email client attempts.

And meanwhile people are flocking to walled garden proprietary systems like Slack etc and saying how great they are. But half of it is to escape the monstrous mutilations that have been applied to email.

Email might be like the venerable cockroach that will survive nuclear war, but it's not a healthy cockroach.
New Flask, Werkzeug et al. major versions released
The germans can stretch their nouns all the way to orbit
Blue Host
> Generally in the security sphere we consider it the most ethical and responsible to give vendors plenty of time to patch vulnerabilities

Can you provide more context for this point? As somebody with some experience in infosec, I don’t think that’s actually so clear cut. There are people who believe coordinating with vendors is the right course, and people who believe embargoes compromise users’ ability to make safe choices. There are also people who think the right course depends on the individual vuln/system.
On the "not much else" note, it's worth pointing out that the kids these days are putting out some amazing work that lives up to the precedent set by BoC and Aphex. Skee Mask in particular is really great, and I think Four Tet's work is sometimes a little under-appreciated because he likes to make things very accessible and incorporate more commercial elements into his work. I really think his Sixteen Oceans album is a companion piece to Tomorrow's Harvest in disguise.
Thanks! Yes I am still pretty green so I need the info.
i'm not absolutely sure why everyone favors CoreXY for sand tables.. but here's another similar project from the makers of the MPCNC.[0]

CoreXY is appealing as a mechanism, I just don't know why it's being so widely uses in 'toy' applications when really any style of gantry can effectively move a magnet with little resistance against it. It's quite expensive to setup usually compared to most motion platforms. Maybe everyone just likes running them as fast as possible?

i've been contemplating making one of these just as a means to use up the spare steppers around here.

[0]: https://www.v1engineering.com/zenxy/
I don't think this is entirely true. (Although please let me know if I misunderstood your comment or if I'm wrong.) While it is true that CPUs' power usage increased significantly between the 1980s and 2006, I believe you were able to get much better performance "in the same thermal and power envelope" during that time period. There's two conflicting factors that made these energy efficiency gains less apparent in the market: power efficiency and power usage. Roughly until 2006, both Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law held, so you got ~2x performance efficiency (performance per watt/performance in the same thermal and power envelope) every 1.5 years. [1,2] Power consumption also increased at the same time [3], so you got both more performance in the same thermal and power envelope (useful for mobile/embedded chips) and greater power consumption (useful for desktop/server chips).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling#Relation_with_...

2. https://iscaconf.org/isca2018/docs/HennessyPattersonTuringLe... - slide 25

3. http://www.edwardbosworth.com/My5155_Slides/Chapter01/ThePow... - "Here is a Clue to the Problem" graph
Spectre Bug Rears Its Head Again – EEJournal
Well then how did I read your comment?
The SCP Foundation is a fictional wiki describing paranormal objects or entities (each labeled SCP-##), written from the perspective of the "SCP Foundation", SCP standing for Secure, Contain, Protect. Each page describes a new object, research done on the SCP, and containment protocols.

It's a fun read and easy to get sucked down a rabbithole
In that sense the tax code is working as designed but now overcharging the real estate market, given that NYC has traded Detroit-existential issues for gentrification ones.
Isreali Defense forces website under attack
Some of the CO2 sensors that I worked with use separate signals for deriving estimated VOC and CO2. For example the Senserion SGP30 [1] measures ethanol and H2, and uses H2 to determine eCO2 value. Indeed the Senseair S8 [2] used in AirGradient seem to feature a "more direct" NDIR CO2 sensor, so there's not really any issues there.

Is using H2 to detect CO2 "good enough" for all non life-or-death situations?

Edit: And to clarify, I was mainly asking the parent comment as to what is their application that demand NDIR or "more direct" CO2 sensors.

[1] https://www.sensirion.com/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/se...
[2] https://rmtplusstoragesenseair.blob.core.windows.net/docs/pu...
Supposedly they are forced to keep a "chinese wall" strategy due to possible legal concerns. How true that is hard to check, but there seems to be considerable variation and definitely less "design this cpu specifically for this phone" in Exynos line up, except maybe for first Samsung Galaxy S and SGS2.

P.S. Exynos and Apple A-series have common ancestry
Thats fun.
got a blob error trying to save my
beat as a ringtone on my cheap android phone(moto e)
How is it being in react appealing, if anything that's worse. Go native.
Well, he was still alive during the 2020 election, so the parent comment still stands.
I'm doing this now. Do you have any advice/insights?
Shame on corps needlessly making people work in offices.
Just do what every startup founder does and go by “gut check“. And hope that your instincts are right.
But, almost everyone does? Would you prefer all web articles to be strictly in plain text, same colour? No font changes between text and code, no colors for quotations, no indented multilevel bullet points? Basically, nothing that markdown can do. In your opinion, those things don’t improve ease of reading, right? What about syntax highlight in code - nobody needs that either, am I getting it right?
Agreed. I work for a remote first company and it’s night and day compared to previous employers’ policies. Life is just easier when one doesn’t need to justify their reasons for remote work.
There are different types of lathe used for plaster walls.

From chicken wire to mesh with 1/8, or less, inch rectangles.

I imagine the whole room would have to be covered with lathe. In good construction the lathe is covering every sq. inch of a room before the the base coat is put on.

Plaster wall are not typical anymore. Stucco is still used on exterior walls, but it usually just covers up ap the foundation, and might extent up the wall a few feet.

Plaster walls in a bathroom are the best walls though. The house I'm in has 1" thick plaster walls, and they hold up to a lot of abuse.

A well plastered plaster room would need screen on the door too, but that's doable.

If I was building a house, it would have stucco walls. Maybe only the exterior walls, and the ceilings? Then my signals could go room to room, but the world is locked out.

No one uses chicken wire, but it works just as well as the new smaller holed lathe sheets.

I still have no clue if modern sheets of lathe would act as a Faraday Cage?

I have fooled around with Faraday Cages, and tiny openings matter.

(I remember hearing about a guy who stole a vechicle with lowjack. He covered the vechicle with chicken wire, and the cell signal with through? He was caught.)
For that matter, does it make a difference if neurons are acoustically coupled or electrically coupled? Why do we think of brains as stopping at the skull?
Modern problems require modern solutions?
It is a strange job at leqst as a gp. What profession gets paided so much, given so much respect and than expected to work like a fast food cashier?

This results in legally defensible treatment but not necessarily the treatment you really need.

Hopefully the system can fix itself.
Do you have your music up anywhere? Your influences are ticking all of my boxes
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That's neat. I would love to return to duels for Congress. Just look at this gerontocracy:

Among congressmen 80 and over, 9 are Democrats and 2 are Republicans

Among congressmen 70 and over, 57 are Democrats and 19 are Republicans

Among senators 80 and over, 2 are Democrats and 3 are Republicans

Among senators 70 and over, 18 are Democrats and 7 are Republicans

Among senators 60 and over, 34 are Democrats and 28 are Republicans

If McConnell and Schumer hate either other that much, they should have PPV duel with the proceeds to going some charity.

If that's too grisly for folks maybe allow mutual combat. Remember when Biden told that voter to if he wanted to step outside and settle it?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/10/you-wanna-go-ou...

Hell yeah I would've loved that.
There's also the opposite scenario, willingly sharing location. This is pretty reasonable for a few reasons, but thinking of some for my female best friend:

- Going on a date

- While out running

- Going to a bar

Plenty of other things too but those come to mind first
The spaceship itself represents a huge chunk of information (such as the atomic arrangement of the metal atoms making up the bolts).
Creating data storytelling when you don't have any data to plot charts
>most can do it, their whole lives, they just do it, why can't we?

This whole comment, but especially this part, speaks to me. Thank you.
So how does Amazon earn money when selling fake reviews? I can't be just from extra overall sales, there must be some other source of income. Do those reviews typically go with ad spend so they turn blind eye (used to be the case with Google?