skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a huge Aphex Twin and BoC fan, they've changed my life too, since the early 90s, but there's so much amazing music out there! It's heartbreaking to imagine listening to only them. Although, great picks if you were going to be exclusive.

I'd definitely take Aphex Twin's music to the proverbial desert island. Some of his stuff is the most emotionally moving and rich music I know.
I'd like to plug in a small tool that I run. It's called EmailThis and it brings bookmarking/read-later functionality(similar to Pocket and Instapaper) to your email inbox.

[0] https://www.emailthis.me
Thanks for the response, yeah the UI is a little tricky there. But it works OK when you figure it out. I really like painting the notes in on the grid, feels kind of different!

sequencer64.com/sequencer/609b496c86fd88ad6d31e43c

The share UI might need a UI tweak as well -- if you save locally without login first, then login, you see your track but can't AFAICT generate a share URL.
Marketing person asked to find a catchy name: "This is literally a Covid vaccine, I'll just grab a handful of scrabble pieces and it'll sell anyway"
Not the longest, but my favorite long-running experiment is the E. coli LTEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...

EDIT: I just realized that the LTEE and Beal’s experiment are being conducted at the same place, Michigan State University!
Quite a few people are working from home these days. Stuff that used to be contained in hardwired office PCs is now flying over home
WiFi.
Where can I get such a test that is accurate and shows a quantitative number)? Quest charges $80.
They did this themselves. Fauci, CDC and WHO constantly have gone back and forth between each other and themselves.
There are people like me, with an unexplained immunodeficiency, who should still wear masks. I had the vaccinations on the recommendation of my immunologist, but since there were no studies done with immunocompromised people (they were omitted from the vaccine studies), no one knows if the vaccine will actually work with me. It's likely it won't, because my body doesn't make antibodies like it is supposed to.

Everything is not a political statement as some seem to believe.
The Miracle of the Commons
Not sure i follow - surely it’s not going to reduce your total comp but if company valuation say doubles over 1 year they’ll just give you half of your previous grant. So don’t think I’d call this a carrot.
I'm hoping it will be since I have longcovid and don't want the vaccine. Anyone who is willing to pay for the new T-Cell test [1] and is positive should be given the same rights as any vaccine passport provides.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23/t-cell-sc...
> At least with email, it just works and there are minimal security issues, and it’s an open protocol etc etc, even if it’s a bit old fashioned.

Here in China, most people only use email at work.
If it were not for Google and Microsoft effectively gatekeeping SMTP I'd support the OP's proposition but it's been years since I gave-up running Postfix + Dovecot on Linux VM's simply due to the mindless thuggery of Outlook/Hotmail and Gmail. Google has effectively become the unelected dictator of the internet.
No, we haven't. Failing to shut down the CDC power grab was Trump's biggest failure. Not firing Fauci changed me from an enthusiastic Trump supporter into a reluctant one.
Yeah, some of those images are nightmare material.
>Start a website under your own name and your own URL. Not on Medium or Substack but on your own domain. You can call the blog part something fancy but the URL is your name.

It sounds like he's talking about James Howard Kunstler.
That is...so the opposite of my experience. Sampling has the critical benefit of not biasing the profiling towards frequent-but-fast spots. Tracing profilers give you very precise but inaccurate information on your hotspots.
You aren’t going to get that if people that want to believe there are no downsides to companies from wfh, and so do believe it, downvote everyone that disagrees. That’s how you get a bubble and a poor model of the world.
If you take this advice, remember that there's a good chance you'll be fired, so there's that.

Also - it's wrong and arrogant to make the claim that there is universal disdain for office work. You can have your view, that's fine, but don't assume that it's consistent with the views of others.
The T cell immunity test is what will be relevant for anyone who was infected a significant amount of time ago, and last I saw those were about $200.
> The spike protein is the most unchanging part, and all the vaccine will teach your body to attack.

Does that mean that a natural immunity may offer protection against other coronaviruses that have a different spike protein structure? The logic being that the less targeted defenses built through a natural immunity would latch onto some other commonality?
I followed a very similar path, but to stave off boredom, I spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina through 17 countries, then three years driving all the way around Africa through 35 countries.

They cost about the same per month as living in a city and going to work, so it's really not a big deal, financially.

I do some freelance writing for magazines, I've written a few books, I do speaking engagements. I have less money than when I was slinging code, and I'm about 9000 times happier and can hardly remember work stress as a thing.

I'm just about to set off on my next major expedition, and at age 39 I couldn't be happier I decided to quit the rate race when I did! I wouldn't go back for all the money in the world.
I wonder what is the true server cost of one user to the system. Of course, the initial costs and human costs are quite high, but in a running system, what could be the cost?

They are E2E, so it is unlikely that the servers need to do any heavy processing. I see that I unused about 3GB of data for about a year, and with 3GB costing $0.30 even at AWS extortion prices, $1 seems like a good estimate.
Anything can be exploited. Normal compilers too, especially if you're running code someone else supplied. But I wouldn't say there are any especially severe vulnerabilities unique to JITing.
I have been thinking something similar. Certainly if budget is the defining constraint, lean makes way more sense, because it's resource to progress ratio. First principles is more about upside maximization, which benefits a lot from removing short term resource constraints in the VC sense.
Living here for a few years, I’m slowly getting used to a lot of really habitual, yet ultimately bad things being (almost) banned. Uncontrolled rents, video surveillance, firing people, taking pictures of people - just to name a few. Imo, not each of these bans is the ultimate good solution, but I love and respect these kind of stances. Facebook would just be one of many like that. It’s not essential, and I can’t imagine germans - or people who came here to live in a country with those values - come out on the streets in its support
I mean, the vaccine in the US is $0, so it's kind of moot, a test will cost more than the vaccine.

I was sort of thinking of the cost of doing the test when I said $5, rather than the retail cost (really, that's what I was thinking about!).
Sure, but the point is that the physical light speed delay is a tiny fraction of the typical latency problems on the Internet. It’s a rare web application that is so well-optimized that shrinking the physical wire will make a significant improvement.
They aren't scientists doing research, they are cops keeping dangerous things in prison. Secure, contain, protect.
The grass is always greener, right? But this is pretty idealistic.

Picture changes drastically if you have an abusive boss or a toxic work culture. There have to be a bunch of people on HN who physically cringed when they saw 40 hours, some have even talked themselves into being macho about it.
Should USA chip production happen? Probably. But it won't happen without gov't subsidies. US labor is wayy more than some slave in a Foxconn factory trying to commit suicide by jumping off the building (hence the nets). I'm not saying I agree with subsidies, or think the USA should foot the bill, but the honest to god truth is that shareholders and board members WILL not approve of US companies paying for all this. No one wants to see their stock price drop.

How do you remedy this? Create a "National Security" issue and have Uncle Sam fund it.
The military has the same playbook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJjlaggbK0 .
If we narrowly pursued our comparative advantage without government investing in tech all along we'd be just trading in furs and stuff.

We did just like China starting out, rather than be stuck undeveloped, enslaved to comparative advantage, we stole trade secrets from the more powerful nation, heavily subsidized R&D, and education (as you point out as a good thing), etc. See for instance "Slater the Traitor" as the British knew him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

If the WTO existed back then we might have gotten invaded and blockaded over it.

All the Asian tiger countries avoided almost all of our free trade advice and did heavily protectionist policies in order to achieve their rapid development. Most of the countries that bought into it remained third world, pursuing their comparative advantage as an undeveloped nation against developed ones, which seems to basically be shorthand for having their natural resources looted.

The book Bad Samaritans goes into how that development occurred in S. Korea, and other similar countries that successfully broke out of the comparative advantage trap:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Z9L4NA
Article is old, 2019. Kyl/Bingman is already being loosened up:

https://spacenews.com/u-s-government-to-allow-sale-of-high-r...

SpaceX also got in a little bit of trouble when they launched the Tesla Roadster with Starman aboard. The unlicensed live camera above a certain altitude was a no-no.
Like I said upthread:

> I think simply pushing back against the length of an embargo should not be characterized as breaking an embargo.

I didn’t like the “secret club” comment either.
This also sends a signal though, if other employees know you let the guy go because remote wasn't an option then they're going to just assume their is no negotiation and quit.

Although some may see the extra leverage they now have because losing multiple people at once is far worse than losing a single person.
GPS trackers with LTE radios have battery limitations. AirTags are only communicating with local iPhones so they can be smaller and last longer.
> Take breaks or you will break.

Life is waaaaayyy to short for that shit. Work so hard you are in danger of injuring yourself. No thanks.
That quote from Wikipedia has no source defending the widely believed claim
In my experience RSUs are granted in a dollar amount at whatever the price of the stock is at grant time. If the stock price rises over the year, your grant value will increase. What I meant by the “carrot” is the dangling of this vesting/payday over x amount of years/quarters with no real guarantee.
And that’s why we feel ownership over the code we’re paid to write. The gardens were hired to tend.
Ok, emotional me really hated this site, so rational me will try to calm down a bit and explain why.

I started with the "Dislikes about email are Questionable" post, which was perhaps my mistake, but every point in that post had a dripping "I'm sorry peasant, you're doing it wrong" vibe to it.

I can fully understand why someone may choose to use email over other forms of communication, but to be incredibly dismissive of problems other people have with the medium, while furthermore often not even addressing some of the root frustrations people have, is incredibly condescending.

Take the "email is unreliable" point. You can write all the missives you want about how email is the most reliable form of communication known to man, at the end of the day a huge number of messages can get "sent" which never make it to the intended recipient for a myriad of reasons. And furthermore, pretty much everyone has had an experience where this has happened.
> You can if they fire you though...

As far as I know, that's if you're fired without cause. Who do you think the state contacts to find out why you were let go? Be careful going down that route.
While I tend to agree with you, aren't title like these understood to be short hand for what you described?
Maybe I'm being willfully naive, but isn't the violence of today the reason why? You don't want to give extremists ready access to more detailed targeting information than they already have. Having never aimed a rocket before I don't know how it works, but I'd imagine it would be helpful to have detailed satellite maps showing possible weak spots in infrastructure and strategic locations.
I kind of can understand it a little bit within a family, but how do you ask a friend if you can track them 24/7 without sounding like a giant creep?

My dog has a "Whistle" GPS tracker on her collar. Friends have no problem with it when they watch her even though they know what it is and that it can track them every time they take the dog out. They even keep it charged.
Saying that coronavirus infections in general produce long-lasting immunity is too strong, I think. For non-SARS coronaviruses (e.g. HCoV-OC43), immunity seems to drop off within a year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1083-1
I'm not even sure if you are joking or you are that out of touch with reality.
There's been plenty of unforced errors on the part of the government agencies. Claiming that masks don't help because they didn't want average citizens to buy them all up and still saying you shouldn't wear a K/N95 mask come to mind. Also, the horrific early failures with broken tests and bans on testing anyone who hadn't been in a specific area of China until it was far too late. Heck, the CDC just this week finally admitted the virus was airborne, something that anyone paying attention knew literally a year ago just from looking at early contact tracing of how the virus spread.
Possibly not. I can't really follow most of this, but from the abstract it sounds like the (Pfizer) vaccines don't necessarily trigger a B-cell/T-cell reaction unless you've previously been infected (in which case the vaccines strengthen what was already there due to natural immunity), and that's where long-lasting immunity comes from, since antibodies will eventually degrade over time (we're just not sure how long it would take for that to happen).

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/04/29/scie...

> After one dose, individuals with prior infection showed enhanced T cell immunity, antibody secreting memory B cell response to spike and neutralizing antibodies effective against B.1.1.7 and B.1.351. By comparison, HCW receiving one vaccine dose without prior infection showed reduced immunity against variants. B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 spike mutations resulted in increased, abrogated or unchanged T cell responses depending on human leukocyte antigen (HLA) polymorphisms. Single dose vaccination with BNT162b2 in the context of prior infection with a heterologous variant substantially enhances neutralizing antibody responses against variants.
I 100% understand. I sometimes wonder if it's an age thing. Or is it a pandemic thing. Is it connected to a mix of burned out people in a firm, and an influx of new people in the firm who don't seem burned out. Is it the existential dread of wondering, What If I don't try something else, take the risk, and risk regretting it if I don't.
You can sue USCIS. Check wasden baniyas law firm. They've been able to obtain EAD cards for many H4 spouses by going to court over such unreasonable delays.
Someone will probably figure out a way to disable the speaker.
If ads were illegal, there would be a search engine without ads. Unless either 1. web search is not worth the money it costs to provide or 2. markets don't work.
Ridiculing someone for asking for a source for something you think is "trivial" is also a weird flex.
You’re right. Saved sequences need a link field that appears as a button for each once synced.
Hi, the 1980s called and wants its political hot takes back.

Israel is a key ally in a very strategic location in the middle east and crucial to US foreign policy is the real answer.
A Free Bootcamp, What?
Please don't link to pay-walled articles.
I would dispute the idea that OpenBSD is being punished here, based on the information that's been made public. OpenBSD argued explicitly and repeatedly that embargoed early access to vulnerabilities put them in an untenable position. Both sides of this controversy have, effectively, agreed to delay disclosure to OpenBSD.
My wife likes sharing her phone's location with me full-time just in case she's ever in trouble, I'll know where to look for her. I, in turn, share my location with her. She's not very specific about what kind of "trouble" she's expecting, but it makes her more comfortable knowing that I know where she is.

It also comes in handy if, for example, she goes to the store and I realized I forgot something and want to see if she's still there so she can pick it up. Or when she wants to know how soon I'll be home so she knows when to start dinner (my bike ride from work is around an hour)
A good summary of the rumors… GS101 “Whitechapel” chip: https://9to5google.com/2021/04/09/everything-we-know-google-...
> That said, there are few (if any) reasons not to do both

If recovery grants equivalent immunity, there's not only no reason to get a vaccine, there's reason to not get any vaccine: However rare complications are from the vaccines, there's no reason to risk them.
Keep in mind that from inside the cave, it's always blinding outside. But the moment you step out, your eyes will adapt and it won't be as bad. Cheers mate
In this profession, "burnout" has a well-understood meaning. If you say you're suffering from burnout, people will mostly know what you mean, if you say "exhaustion" people will figure you're just not sleeping enough.

No one is going to assume you did a ton of psychedelics or speed and broke your brain, even if that's what happened (I rather suspect stimulant use is a factor in more programmer burnout than one might like to think).
Israel is by no means a US partner, but the biggest headache
As a professional software engineer of ~20 years who's dabbled in music for as long as you've dabbled in software, I'm humbled and impressed. Just wanted to say "great job!", and wish you a long, fulfilling career combining your passions and talents.
Samsung sells "Commercial signage displays" to people, $1k for a 65" display.

e.g. the Samsung QB65R on Amazon

So yeah it's like $100-200 more expensive, but hardly seems.. unapproachable?
> Perhaps Facebook believes that the regulator has stepped beyond its legal authority and would prefer to have a court decide the matter?

Then they can contest the injunction and if wasn't justified, it will be revoked. But they can't just ignore it.
Well actually, what you did was negotiate, but with the leverage of a good BATNA. Having a good BATNA is what makes negotiation much easier and much more likely to be to your advantage. In things like a job negotiation, it's also evidence of objective market conditions - i.e. it's not just you being unreasonable.
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> If we narrowly pursued our comparative advantage without government investing in tech

Why are you holding government R&D as mutually exclusive of free trade policy and an open economy?

> we'd be just trading in furs and stuff.

Asinine straw man.

> rather than be stuck undeveloped, enslaved to comparative advantage, we stole trade secrets from the more powerful nation, heavily subsidized R&D

Either/or fallacy once again.

> All the Asian tiger countries avoided almost all of our free trade advice and did heavily protectionist policies in order to achieve their rapid development.

This statement is laughably false. Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan are practically famous for having leveraged free trade and open economies to catapult to economic stardom.

On the whole, this is a stunningly poor counterargument. It's so lacking in sense that it reads like it was generated by GPT-3.
One of them decided to spend his evenings working. His manager told him it wasn't required and he'll burn out. He did it anyways and burned out.
JetBrains IDEs provide a huge amount of functionality that VSCode doesn’t, so it’s not really fair to compare them.
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There's a way to play it in a less antagonistic fashion.

If you really want to stay, you can still look for another offer with the conditions you want, and use it to point out that the company is being unreasonable in its demands and that market conditions for labour have shifted, and actually they are putting themselves in a bad position trying to enforce their preferences against prevailing conditions.

(IMO most people shouldn't go more than a few years without checking the job market and getting an offer, even without intent to switch jobs.)
The old oral polio vaccine (Sabin) didn't provide lifetime immunity like the newer injection. (Reading about the immunities both confer, I'm not clear on the distinction between "gut immunity" preventing asymptomatic shedding, versus "immunity" that prevents the virus from causing serious nervous system disease)
I don't actually understand what you're proposing here?

Sibling comments point out that opting out of the AirTag network is a setting in a given iOS device, which I didn't know, but I don't think that's what you mean.
Facebook or the Hamburg Data Protection and Freedom of Information?
I am not an electrical engineer, but AFAIK no. You want your ground path to be the favored path, rather then say, a sweaty human hand if there's a short.
More about this history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidade_real_de_valor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano_Real

A subtlety about the name is that "real" in Portuguese has two different meanings with two different etymologies: 'real, genuine' from Latin realis (res + -alis) 'pertaining to a thing', and 'royal' from Latin regalis (rex + -alis) 'pertaining to a king'. Portuguese often loses historical intervocalic consonants (the word for consonant itself is "consoante"!), so the words corresponding to English "real" and "regal" are the same in Portuguese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/real#Portuguese

My current understanding is that the use of this name for the currency was an intentional pun: there was a Portuguese currency with this name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_real) where it was interpreted, and meant to be interpreted, entirely as royal (it was issued only under the Portuguese monarchy), while the URV explicitly intended people to think of the real, genuine interpretation of the name.
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Nice to see this here 20 years later, I'm the "chaosmachine" mentioned in the article :)