skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know Googlers who literally never buy groceries because they eat all of their big meals at the office, grab a bottled smoothie on their way out the door, and get restaurant food on the weekends. It is cheaper to get groceries than to buy prepared food, but there’s a lot of spoilage that happens when you’re only cooking 2 days/week.
I sniff a second order sarcasm in your "unfortunately".
The government should have announced a specific date as the last day to get the bounty. Then all the breeders would kill all their cobras and turn them in on that day.

Still not ideal in that breeders are getting rewarded, but at least there isn't a bunch of cobras being released.
To be fair, it didn’t help that they left a psychopath in charge.
Realistically until your country or least your local area reaches herd immunity rates you should still be careful to try and help the people who cannot get the vaccine.
Relativistic effects dictate that it is impossible to distinguish changes in relative time and changes in relative position.

Because of relativity you cannot use local time to estimate remote time, and hence you cannot use local time to make the difference between time spoofing and location changes.
It looks like a prop from "The Prisoner."
From the time immemorial :) R-7 was flying with fully 32 chambers lit at the start. Damn, Musk couldn't allow that record sit unchallenged.

That's a joke, of course. The N1 problems were specifically in turbopumps - chambers themselves were relatively robust - and R-7 has those 32 chambers distributed among just 5 engines, one turbopump assembly each.

Regarding N1 I'd say the problem was not as much the complexity of the first stage, as complexity of engines, which couldn't be compensated enough by clever tricks of the rocket itself. NK-33, the next version of the engine, flew successfully at the first try after some 40+ years in storage.
Nice review. In a sense I find this something akin to the late David Graeber point on it’s column about bulling. How you can find data pointing towards the human society propensity for violence, and also data of human society propensity for cooperation and refusal to engage on violence even when confronted with losing their way of living, although he also raises the point when historically there has been more propensity to consider only the violent ugly aspect, as you can almost certainly find it on people who appeal to “human nature”.
I think it's fair to say "don't bet against human ingenuity and spirit".

I mean, we're here aren't we? We are alive, because of the will, intellect, and energy of those who came before us. Survival is essential to living things, so why expect that humans will degenerate to their worst in the absence of civilization rather than come together and make the best of it?
Why a downvote? I'm the only one who cared to list one.
The innovation argument is particularly frustrating. By far the most innovation in computing this century has occurred in open source software, which by its nature is completely distributed. People who work on the Linux kernel or Postgres or Rust would be pretty shocked to learn that whatever they’re doing must not be innovative since they’re not hanging out in the hallway.
Commuting means an immediate 14% pay cut in time alone (ignoring CoL due to required proximity and vehicle maintenance, so it's really closer to 20%.) There are real economic forcings on the worker side against required office presence.
I see docs.python.org as result 9 (of 10) in duckduckgo. And there's a helper box at the top right, with the summary from and link to docs.python.org
I thank Microsoft for building tools that make my life easier and my work a delight.

Yours was a very ungrounded commentary.
When I signed up for a twitter account I was immediately followed by some 'local' person who described themself as "a former libtard who saw the light".

Her posts would often mention being at some local business, but describe it in a weirdly akward way...and of course fake news spam.
Your job only has to pay for the cost of living delta between the two places to be financially worth it. That isn’t twice-thrice as much.
> The article somehow embraces tracking and targeting attrition yet acts surprised that the natural result is planned attrition.

That doesn't strike me as odd at all. Companies should track attrition. It's a metric that should be watched, and if it goes up over time, that should be alarming. The problem is that managers are apparently graded on this metric:

> Managers are even evaluated using this metric, known as "unregretted attrition rate" (URA).

... which is just completely bizarre. Basing part of a manager's performance review based on whether or not they fired enough people to match a company-wide expected attrition rate is completely bonkers. Managers should possibly be penalized if they fire (or lose) too many people (it shows that either they are really bad at hiring, or that their people hate them and leave), but being below that number shouldn't generally be cause for alarm. Certainly it could mean that a manager is keeping dead weight around, but that shouldn't be the default assumption.
What is LTS?
> The more I read these conversations it becomes clear your position depends on where you are in the introvert / extrovert scale.

In which direction?

As a strongly introverted person myself, I would expect that working from home would be easier for extroverts than introverts during normal times. Extroverts make friends more easily wherever they go, while introverts rely more on structured interactions such as work in their social life. Take the office away, and the introvert who has recently relocated may not know anyone in the area.
Nothing, in theory. There is a lot of clerical office work, or fixed flow work (like CNC machining) that doesn't need new programs. But there is also a fair amount of IT work that is hampered enough by whitelisting that IT is the one that does not want to do the whitelisting.

Some of this can be blamed on Windows IT admins finding it normal to download random binaries and run them for diagnostic information or configuration management, but that is not an easy problem to solve.
One reason to use that analogy would be to suggest that a lot of harm is consequently created by incentivizing the culling. Also a lot of people just don't think about team sports that much.
N1 was about as terrifying as Saturn-V. They are rather similar in weight, length... With Saturn-V, Americans had to solve the problem of immense trust per chamber - F-1 weren't easy to develop. With N-1 Russians were hitting quite high Isp, but didn't get the reliability of the engines in time. So, both monsters had to work with advanced at the time engines.
Does the book cover the experience more from
the boys’ perspective? I was a little disappointed the article was so light on the details of how they managed.
I believe his intention was pointing out that forcing kids go to school and be enforce them to wear masks is pointless and counterproductive.
>convert the DU into plutonium (PU)

one has to be a BG i guess to get that cycle permitted. I wonder what would happened if for example Iran tried to implement that cycle.

> gravity feed the control rods in and it stops

a bit of delay happened in the Chernobyl case, and the rods just couldn't fit into the channels anymore.
Yes, the patch is coated with the actual spike protein, with some modifications:

> The HD-MAP is a 1 x 1 cm solid polymer microprojection array containing 5,000 projections of 250 μm in length. Vaccine is coated onto the microprojections via a nitrogen-jet-based drying process before application to the skin at a velocity of 18-20 m/s via a spring-loaded applicator.

> Here, we explore HD-MAP delivery of a subunit vaccine candidate –a recombinant SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, termed HexaPro which has been stabilized in its prefusion conformation by removal of the furin cleavage site and the inclusion of six stabilizing proline mutations
So you are saying by charging more money to a customer, it makes that customer more likely to be unable to pay. It's like a self fulfilling prophecy.
> I often do/did paired programming

I think this is the only point in your list that is actually fundamental, the rest can be remediated by relatively simple lifestyle changes. If you like pair programming, then there is an almost certain probability that you'll prefer the office over remote. There is literally nothing one can do remote to replace the kind of in person interaction that pairing or over the shoulder reviews give you.

I personally paired full time for a few years and I hate it with the heat of a thousand sons. Between pair programming and getting a low paid service job, I'd take the latter. The fact that WFH lets me cut out at-work social interactions that cause me severe distress is a benefit I will never give up.
> Now that anyone who wants a vaccine is vaccinated in most places, it's not 'evil' to ask people to come back.

Just because it's not 'evil' doesn't mean it's not stupid. If someone isn't performing, separation probably makes sense.

But it shouldn't be because they've woken up and realized that being in an office all day is a soul sucking exercise that they'd rather avoid.

I firmly believe this will all level out with people deciding to do what is best for them, because too many people have had the opportunity to realize how much better life is without a commute and physical restraints around where they do their work.

(Side point: the idea that anyone who wants a vaccine can get one is incredibly privileged, myopic, and fundamentally wrong. Stare long and hard at this: https://blogs.imf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/pandemic-pl...)
PSV (Pipe) is also good, tabs can rarely show up in some sets of data like mail addresses if humans key them in. I usually go with one or the other if I have a choice.
I already had the skepticism in high school to think “How do you know what they wanted?”

English got worse for me in undergrad so I never reached the real experts.
What are some examples of hard left trends?
It does but only after a layout. Interpolating from `height: 0;` to `height: 10px` is easy, but interpolating to `height: auto` takes an additional layout. I always assumed that you can't do this either for performance reasons or because it would be really hard to implement.
Commutes also cost the one thing we can't get back; time.
I dont actually know anyone who uses ebay or paypal today. I looked at ebay for a used book ($$$$) a while back and they weren't competitive with used book dealers, especially once shipping was factored in.
Next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming
> Darwin and Newton both considered themselves "philosophers"

The word "scientist" was only coined in the 1830s. Science for the vast majority of its history existed as a branch of philosophy called natural philosophy.
Access to a greater quantity of information is totally meaningless if it's curated to exclude dissent and support the CCP's agenda. And mass censorship is curation; Someone who has been selectively denied knowledge against the CCP is more repressed/controlled regardless of what other neutral information they have. Greater quantities of "information access" is simply not a sign of less control. An educated physicist brainwashed into supporting the CCP is not any less repressed than an ignorant idiot brainwashed into supporting the CCP. This is like saying the added pillows and larger airholes in your prison cell points towards less detainment. Frankly, a hypothetical hardline policy like you speculated would be less dystopian as it would at least be clearer what's going on and harder to dismiss with totalitarian apologia.

And however much we might quibble over whether "small" is the appropriate word, it doesn't change the fact that the size of the internet allowed in China is far, far smaller than could be honestly called a real internet. I call it small because it's an unacceptably small fraction of important available information/communication that is just as effective, if not more, at repressing citizens. You can call it large and be no closer to arguing that this represents less of a repressive dystopia.

Beyond filtering and site blocks, China also does:

Targeted human monitoring: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/asia/china-surveill...

International surveillance and censorship: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...

Propaganda in search engines and social media: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/28/chinese-tech-firms-fueli...
Are you an adult who wants autonomy over your own life? Too bad, I’m your boss.
I don't think this is necessarily about tracking; companies should definitely track their attrition rate. The problem is setting an attrition target and penalizing managers if their numbers are below that target. Being too far above that target might indicate a problem with a manager, but being below it likely does not.
Recruiter spam doesn’t mean they’ll pay like Apple does.

I’ve had many offers in the last couple months and only one were offering something comparable to $400k/yr.
I still struggle to tell if CEOs are lying to our faces, or whether they've become delusional with their time on top.
i wouldn't call floating point numbers an abstraction on real numbers. It's a representation - like char[] is a representation of strings, which is itself an abstraction used to manipulate human readable text!
I don't really see why this is a problem. It seems like all this policy does is lead to the hiring of people who seem like more "iffy" hires during the interviewing process who are given the opportunity to work/learn/shine at Amazon.

I can see the point that maybe that employee would have taken another role instead of the Amazon one, but I highly doubt anyone who was "hired to be fired" who then showed they were a great fit/good employee was then fired to fulfil the policy.

If instead of being called "Hire to Fire" the policy was called "Rock or drop" (as in show you rock or you'll get dropped), would this even be worthy of an article? Why is the very idea that someone be given a chance that also comes with the reality that you might not make it so hard for some to accept?
Sutter Health grew market power and drove up California health care costs
But then who whitelist the whitelister?

Solarwind was fun for that. They provide safe update of signed binaries .
But their build system is corrupt, builds tampered stuffs and sign them.

I’m a just a user of those things: it seams that cryptography is not what is breaking the chain of trust. It’s the usage? But go fix phishing.

Maybe gov agencies should opt in for some tightly manage environments?
I can absolutely confirm that this is what it's like to diagnose weird bugs on nascent operating systems, particularly on or nearby "portability boundaries", which are not always what you think they are. Pull that thread, but be sure you're ready for jenga.
Drastic: Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story
> Management set goals in good faith and with honorable intentions

If so, then they are incompetent at setting goals. The goal should be for teams to be at or below a specified attrition rate, not exactly at it.
A problem with this is that Go code that uses native maps is non-deterministic, and is very annoying to make deterministic-ish when reproducing results is important.
Luckily I just never made an effort - I got by reading cliff notes and writing C/B grade essays. Enjoyment of reading intact.
Summoning Salt and pannenkoek2012 really helped me understand and appreciate speedrunnning.

I don't follow the speedrunning scene, but I always get really excited when Summoning Salt releases a new video.
The comments on this video are amazing. The fact that a content creator can bring this many people such joy is such a wonderful thing to see.
I guess I just can't comprehend a mindset where 3 meals a day at a company is this huge win. On the occasions when I went into an office with a non-free cafeteria, I didn't even always eat lunch.

ADDED: This subthread to me is such a bizarre look into a certain bubble of SV. [See also apparent disagreements with the statement that spending $60/day in restaurants is somehow abnormal.]
I had a sudden flashback remembering a "Lost In Space" episode on TV as a kid: haunted by the giant alien plants that threaten the Robinson family. I suppose the writer was rehashing "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers".
> One day you will discover that before you are able to make a point you need to learn to choose your words carefully first. Words, like science, have an exact meaning too.

One day you will discover that comments on HN don't matter. Also words do not have exact meanings. I suspect you're not an expert in linguistics, are you? ;).

I mean it's kinda funny that you got one of the basic tenants of lingustics wrong, in trying to argue that non-experts opinions matter, lol.

> And let's finally check your premises. What's your definition of an "expert"?

I don't find debating definitions to be interesting. It's just an arbitrary line, and you'll argue with whatever line I pick.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. You can fool yourself on social media. It fits in line with the anti-intellectualism of half the country, that think they can read a single study and then cock off about it.
$150 extra from 40 hours of AC is insanely high. That's about what I pay total in the middle of summer in Florida for a decent-size SFH. Check the insulation on your house for a leak. Also maybe consider upgrading to a ductless heat pump mini split. That would almost certainly cut your marginal cost to near $30/month.
Don't forget that no vaccine is 100% effective. There have been breakthrough cases requiring hospitalization and even some deaths.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a lot more people to talk to about everything. The groom got a lot more pals to tell dumb jokes to.

A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys.

But most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man.

When a couple has an argument, they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this:
“You are not enough people!”

— Kurt Vonnegut
Exact same thing happened with rats in Hanoi under French rule.
Tesla recalls 6k cars over risk of loose bolts
My coworkers are great, but do you know who is better? My family and friends.
Some admittedly unscientific looking at the local news FB pages that shared this (I live here) show the exact kind of ignorant, fear-based NIMBYism that you'd see anywhere else. Anyone trying to bring facts to that debate was haha-reacted and shouted down. Fukushima this and Chernobyl that.
> Being seen by my fellow employees helps keep me from becoming distracted.

Too real
What I find really disconcerting is that the senior leaders in the tech industry have been talking for years about increasing gender inclusivity. Yet very few major tech companies seem to be wholeheartedly embracing full remote, despite it being by far the most effective way to encourage more women to join the industry.

Research shows that women are 50% more likely to prefer full remote than men[1]. For better or worse, much more of the burden of childcare falls on mothers in our society.[2] Women are also much more likely to sacrifice their own careers to relocate for a spouse's career.[3] Along similar lines, that tends to mean women prefer careers with geographic flexibility.[4]

Tech companies have spent the past decade sprouting platitudes about creating a more welcoming workplace for women. Now they actually have a real opportunity to make a difference. Transitioning to a remote first model would massively improve gender inclusivity. Yet, despite widespread employee satisfaction with remote, senior management in most places seem to be pushing back as hard as possible.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/americans... [2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131769/ [3]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/28/why-c... [4]https://science.sciencemag.org/content/205/4412/1225.abstrac...
That’s not accurate at all. Investment banks rarely participate in fund raising rounds. They don’t usually hold a stake in the company at all. The way they make money is typically by charging a 6% commission on the shares that are floated in the IPO. The higher the IPO price, the higher their commission.
Fair enough. I believe there's some truth to this. I do think it's hard to separate between genuine friendships and transactional relationships that happen to be symbiotic while you're working together (but will rapidly deteriorate when you don't).

Sometimes I do wonder how much of this is the fault of skewed incentives of the workplace, versus just a paradox of human interaction. We think we're developing friendships by spending a lot of time with people, without realizing that time spent is of a transactional nature rather than furthering some connection. I spend a lot of time with coworkers, therefore a feel close to them. However, when asked, I realize I know almost nothing about them below the surface.

In any case, I can appreciate that forming friendships at work can be more challenging. But I do believe many people (including myself) have done this, and when it works it can be incredibly powerful and make work much more enjoyable.
Everything he says could be true, but still miss the point.

The actual point is that we are absolutely stuck with the F-35, so had better make it good--or at least take up thinking it's good, where we can't.

It is not correct to compare it to an F-16. It needs to be compared to a whole fleet of aircraft, because it costs as much as much as a fleet. Could it take on 8 F-16s at once?

It is not correct to compare it to an F-16 because you can afford to fly your plentiful F-16s in harm's way, but have to keep your paltry few F-35s a hundred miles back, out of any possibility of danger.

The reason we are stuck with the F-35, despite its still suffering over 600 class-A design flaws (each risks loss of airframe), is that it is built in 48 states. To kill it you would need to get senators from 24 of those states, and the other two besides, to vote against it. It could explode every time the gear doors shut, and we would still be stuck with it, and they know. Be glad it can take off and land.
Darn it, was secretly hoping I’d dislike it and not have to pick up a copy. Oh well. :-)
I don't doubt that what happened here was primarily the result of constellations of self-interest and incompetence, but do governments ever tend to change their public justifications for programs to be more accurate once the potential advantage to competing nations of having known about them ten or twenty years ago has faded away?
The S in IOT stands for security, after all.
Also Richard Rorty. I seem to never agree with anything he says—he always goes too far—but have all his books and find him very stimulating. Hilary Putnam talks in his books about their disagreements, and Putnam always seems to take the more sensible side. Putnam is a very clear and stimulating writer—his Realism with a Human Face is perhaps his best and a good place to start, filled with remarkably good essays.

p.s. Dewey's Art as Experience changed my life. I'm a musician/artist and philosophy student, and it solved all my problems concerning art, which each further book of analytic philosophy of art had only multiplied.
And if I pay it? Charging wildly inflated prices which were not disclosed before treatment is straight up fraud.