skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I have disliked about remote work is that more and more meetings are being recorded, and just regular meetings, not presentations and such. I don't recall having my team meetings recorded ever before COVID. It feels like Big Brother is watching, and definitely changes the dynamic of a discussion in a bad way.
I think the main issue is that it’s not difficult to create a vaccine resistant variant, modifying smallpox is apparently quite easy. Also current vaccines are only effective for around 5 years. I read about this recently, his other book about Ebola is worth a read too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon_in_the_Freezer
You can see it coming, so you can pivot your startup to be buzzword compliant with the new thing instead of the old thing, or you can make your startup into a consultancy to help people do the old thing that they now feel very behind on.
Many meetings only require a low level of attention. 90% is 1 or a few stakeholders discussing things, and the rest are there for occasional input. In a good chunk of my meetings I find myself actually tuning out too much, where I miss some important nuances because it was buried in the rest of the shit.

In an office you are forced to pay attention (laptops away…). It’s a new skill to balance between paying attention to irrelevant shit and missing the important details
Sensors for Our Five Senses
I've done this trick fairly often. Like many "tricks" in people management, it works until people figure it out, so you have to be a little careful with it. Nobody likes to feel manipulated.

However, I've found that being really open and collaborative with people helps mitigate the manipulation factor by a significant margin. In other words, you get them to agree that the project is not the highest priority or the highest ROI thing to be working on. You ask: "Given the list of W, X, Y, and Z, and keeping in mind that we only have enough resources to tackle two of these at a time, do you think X is the most important?" and they say "Well, X would be cool but yeah, W and Z would give us the most ROI, so let's hold off on X and Y until we have more time and resources."

The key is to be (or appear) really genuine with this. If it's obvious that you're kicking the can down the road because you don't want to do it, you won't win any friends or influence people. But if you can approach it with "I'd love to do X but the realities of our situation mean that we can't" in an authentic way, then you stand a much greater chance of having both sides walk away with a sense of accomplishment. They feel heard and valued, and you don't have to waste resources on something you don't think is a good idea.

If you can't be authentic about that, then I would just go the truthful route of "This isn't going to happen" and try and just be honest about the realities of the situation. They might feel hurt and rejected, but it's better than them feeling manipulated, IMO.
If masks and social distancing didn't work, you need to have some idea of why the Flu had its mildest year ever. Also, countless people have demonstrated with pulseox meters that blood oxygen saturation is unaffected by mask wearing, so while those findings are interesting, you are far too quick to draw any type of conclusions that masks don't work and/or are harmful.
Absolute insanity that people are still peddling this. Here in India I've seen people in their late 20s and 30s drop like flies from COVID.
Quite, here is an example of the right way to do it:

https://levien.com/patents.html
Pipes are still plenty useful for chaining simple functions that aren’t going to cause trouble (because you validated the inputs already, or whatever).
It's cathartic to read other people who have to go through this.

I'm fighting red tape for my team as we build out a dashboard.

Outlook is packed with 1–2 hour meetings for the next 3 months where so far I'm:

* being asked to load test our system to make sure it can handle the load (of 3 people?)

* being asked to integrate with various analytics platforms so we can alert some poor schmuck at 3 AM in case the API goes down then (it's not a vital part of any platform)

* told to have this run in k8s since everything runs in k8s

* other pedantic tasks by Sys Ops who think everything is a nail and love to argue their points ad exhaustium (or worse, argue why their fav stack is the golden child)

I understand the need for standards and making sure they're followed, but there really needs to be a human element of, "is this truly needed for what I'm trying to do?". So many engineering departments are all about automation, but don't truly think through how much automation is needed, rather than a 1 size fits all approach.

I appreciate that this article comes to the conclusion that the more correct an answer will be, the more complicated it tends to be. I wish more people in decision making positions would understand this.
That's because one of the requirements is willingness to get shot at.
Patents available to GNU GPL licensed software
Thanks, for some reason I was thinking RubyMine.
at 6'3" I find myself at the limit of what a standard bilge class airline seat has room for. I'd imagine that at 6'7" you really need that business class or a bulkhead or exit row. So don't you already pay more?
That's a great idea. I've unwittingly used similar techniques in the past. Now that I know it's a "real thing," I may have to start using it more. Thanks for sharing this!
Is it a superhost? I would never book a room that isn't from a superhost. Keep hitting them up on social media they will take notice.
There’s no one as dangerous as a new hire from “X,” where “X” is a well-known/esteemed company (FAANG, etc), in their first 3 months at a new firm.
yep - init is for things you can guarantee, not things you can't, like anything needing to make network or database calls.

handle_continue was added for these kinds of things that should happen when starting up gen_ processes.

the entire init chain is sequential, so not only will it risk crashing your entire supervisor tree, but it will slow startup
There’s a variant of pox for most animals, they aren’t dangerous to us. There’s even 2 variants of kangeroopox. Not even joking.
Being a hedgehog is useful on the journey to domain mastery because sticking to frameworks saves you time and headache compared to not having any frameworks at all.

The 3 stages of domain mastery:

Stage 1 - No knowledge or structure to approach a domain (everything is hard, pitfalls are everywhere)

Stage 2 - Frameworks that are useful to approach the domain (Map to avoid pitfall areas)

Stage 3 - Detailed understanding of the domain (in which you can move through pitfall areas freely and see where frameworks fall short)

Hedgehogs are at stage 2. You move from stage 1 to stage 2 by adopting frameworks; hence, hedgehogs are seen as "thought leaders" because they teach the frameworks that lead MOST people to more mastery. Except when you're at stage 3, in which case frameworks lead you to more inefficiencies compared to your own understanding.

All good decisions must be made by stage 3 persons, but ironically, training is most efficiently done by stage 2 persons. Hedgehogs get more limelight because 90% of the population is at stage 1 and values the knowledge of stage 2 (and can't grasp the complexities and nuances of stage 3).

Many hedgehogs struggle to touch stage 3, and instead see stage 2 as mastery. This is compounded by the positive feedback loops of success - the frameworks save time, it gives them reputation, it allows them to save stage 1 persons from their ignorance, and it's the foundation of their current level and achievements. Frameworks are also convenient and broadly applicable to many problems; detailed domain mastery in contrast is difficult, time consuming, and highly contextualized.

All of this makes it hard to move beyond stage 2 into stage 3.
Excellent idea! Also this whole experiment is really exciting. I'd heard of quantum entanglement being demonstrated with larger objects, but this is the first I've heard of measuring gravity between small objects. It seems like this must eventually lead to quantum gravity, or. . . something else!
What explains the 80% drop from early January to the end of February, a drop that experts are not attributing to the vaccine?
Do watch out for automated scans. Plex, for example (side-eye glare) will automatically scan your music library regularly and rack up your costs. I was spending $30/mo before I tracked it down without help from official sources. I now pay $2.50/mo for always-accessible music. But I’m still in the comments looking at alternatives.
It's just a lucky coincidence that the industry colludes to not test generics (or falsify studies claiming they are ineffective, as was done with hydroxychlorquine) so they can continue to develop on-patent $56k per year drugs to sell.
Remote work productivity mid-pandemic won’t necessarily translate post-pandemic because in the pandemic the other ways we could spend our time were so limited. In contrast, right mow I could be at the gym, having a long lunch with a friend, doing errands… The new freedom and temptation to do those things will gradually undermine the remote option, until
bosses finally tire of the cat and mouse and everyone must go back to their cubicles.
So does forth:

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It is a superhost surprisingly! They were very friendly until I reported the bed bugs.
Yeah, but if you decided to pay nurses/firefighters the same salary for putting in half the hours, you'd have to hire twice as many to cover the same shifts. Net result is your labor costs would double.
You would be persuasive if you weren't a blatant CCP astroturfing account. Constantly making strange arguments that seek to distract and confuse. Obvious to anyone familiar with the tactics.
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed plague of bunions in medieval Britain
> how rude Linus is.

In general, or you can point exact wording in his letter which you consider "rude", sorry?
Wow, this account is indefatigable in these threads. It's really something to behold.
The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn
> If you’re vaccinated you’re less likely to even catch

I don't think so. Can you point me to some studies for the above.

I believe you will catch it, and if vaccinated, you will have a milder reaction to the disease
I agree, this was a fantastic read.
I'm no professional biologist like some of you guys, but the coincidence of marsupialism across so many otherwise quite different species has long led me to presume that marsupial features were conferred across many species by a retrovirus... I actually thought that was the consensus. Mightn't this be a similar case?
You can use Ecto schemas and changesets without a database! It is an incredibly useful library, once you get over the somewhat steep learning curve.
For the blog part, it was a simple Multi-WordPress Setup. The idea was that anyone could start writing independently or as a collective and can be made private or public. It became rather evident that most people were comfortable writing in groups -- engineering, marketing, future-tech/R&D, etc. Initially, I started writing pretty much weekly, and then the crowd picked up.

The notable thing about the system was that people began to know their colleagues better, discover stuff together, and partner up to do interesting experiments.

Before that, I started by writing fortnightly newsletters to everyone in the company. It was just what happened in the last two weeks. I was just the messenger. I highlight designers, developers, DevOps, QA people, etc., with snippets of their exciting work. It became an instant hit.

I'm not particularly fond of managers/leads who do the talking for what their team or juniors did. So, I had to bring in that culture of every doer doing their talks or bringing them to the forefront. The only way to start that was to write to everyone who did what last week. Now, when I get in that junior developer to talk about what he did, his thinking behind it in the next meeting, people know and are prepared. Also, even if some managers/seniors continue to talk over their junior team, people already know who did the work.
Not the person you asked, but work has objective measures of the organization (bugs closed, number of commits, etc), and those doubled.

Then management said they thought planning and roadmap would implode, but those also (subjectively) went much better than usual this year, with written down decisions, and discrete decision points instead of useless repeated verbal syncs.

Also, it seems as though fewer high profile things slipped than usual, but that’s hard to measure year-to-year.

Finally, surveys say a large majority of the employees strongly prefer indefinite part or full time work from home.
people most certainly don't have the same density. If your body fat is <10% you will not easily float in water, whereas if you're 30%+ you're basically an inner tube. However that is beside OP's point. Someone like Lebron James is not overweight but it's entirely possible he would need to buy two tickets.
thank you for putting links to art-icles on here!
You're talking about a digital<->analog interface. Take a digitally encoded audio file, read it out and turn it into sound waves using a digital analog converter, play it out on physical speakers, record it back with a microphone, use that information to control a robotic arm with a magnet that will swipe over the physical medium... etc. They are absolutely analogous.
> What would the dogs do if they were never socialized?

Funny you should ask. I own a herding breed right now.

1. Socialization has really no impact on what a dog is bred to do or what it has an aptitude to do. Socialization mainly teaches dogs how to read "dog cues" and how to fit into the dog world. That is - to understand when another dog does or does not want to play, who the dominant one is, what the polite greetings are, etc.

2. My breed does certain things that are unique to the breed, and exhibits behaviors unique to the breed. She was not trained to do so. She lays prone on the outskirts of the field, anticipating a command from a human to move the stock in a given direction. She does this, despite never seeing a sheep/cow in her existence, nor being trained for herding in any way.

Whenever I see dogs of this breed at a dog park, they exhibit the exact same behaviors, down to the posture and eye focus.

The more I read your comments in this thread, the more I realize how little you actually know about dogs, nor did you actually read my comment before labeling it pseudoscience.

Partly, what I meant was that the causation is also irrelevant - if 1 breed is responsible for most attacks, and there is legislation against it that solves the issue - that doesn't mean anyone has been discriminated against. It just means there's going to be less attacks in the future.
But do you _really_ own all of your media when Plex, a proprietary black box, is acting as gatekeeper, and requires authentication with a Plex, Inc. account to gain access?

My biases are clear, just food for thought.
Dr. Steven Hatfill on HCQ
It affected services we have that are not located in the impacted AZ.
USPS doesn't have a set schedule to come to your house, and they have to enter your (perhaps fenced) yard.

It's very plausible that a responsible dog owner would have a dog out in the fenced yard when a postal worker came by, and then the breed is definitely going to be a factor.
The art of saying no without saying no.
Not only shunned, curated social media often automatically silences them.
Oh boy do I hate the term “alignment”. I get the concept of people operating in alignment but giving people veto power (“I’m not aligned”) versus decision power is a disaster.
I think that it would be better using NNTP and plain text, and then these problems are avoided anyways. Then the sender need not keep track of these things or to worry about the things that you mentioned, I think. Also can be good to include the text in the message if you can do and not usually needing a link, you can then access it even if you are not connected to the internet, too.

(I use email software that is not even capable of HTML email, and I don't want HTML email.)
It's very APL specific. Keys were APL symbols, operators in one keystroke. So if the sum key wasn't available, you'd decode base 1. That sort of thing...
The minor conclusion of this article was the more interesting (and perhaps more practical) of the two:

Hide concessions to various leaders in the project roadmap.

This isn’t just a “bureaucratic trick” as the OP suggested, it’s actually a way to convert unconditional advice into contingent advice, by encoding a priority.
True, but that has nothing to do with the comment you responded to. Regardless of whether tracking pixels are blocked or not, scummy marketers are still going to do that.

The question is, will it hurt the indie newsletter guys and gals, the people sending stuff you actually want? Certainly yes. They won't know if they're still giving their audience something of value.

The bigger problem, in my mind, is the unintended consequences of this. Will blocking tracking pixels actually cause those scummy marketers to send even more emails? My guess is, absolutely yes.

Post-tracking, nobody can prove the marketing department emails are ineffective or hurting deliverability by oversending, so let's blanket inboxes with as many as we can!
Yeah low power single board computer systems with all the right features tend to be very expensive and difficult to source without large orders. A ryzen system at 20 or 40 watts idle is something you can probably put up with for $400
> software is digital; genomes are not

False by definition: Digital data is "information represented as a string of discrete symbols each of which can take only one of a finite number of values"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_data
Reducing Python String Memory Use in Apache Arrow 0.12 (2019)
My reply to Linus: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/06/a-letter-to-linus-torvalds/ .
In the same way software code is digital but the hard drives that hold them are not?
Any data would be heavily skewed. I had about 5 projects designed to be commercial, only one of which was registered as a "startup", and that was long after making revenue. Our salary was about $40/month up until acquisition, but does that really count as paid salaries? However we took out a lot more from the bank for personal use, including flights and equipment.

We eventually sold it because we were getting into debt and the half-assed consulting we were doing to pay the bills just didn't allow us to focus on it. It would have gone much further if we could live off the salaries.
> How did we end up with such divergent views on renewables if we're broadly in tune about nuclear?

A big reason is that the price effectiveness of solar and the price effectiveness of solar+batteries are wildly different values.
Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes
> The CDC has a page describing past vaccine safety issues, the most recent being 2013[0].

That most recent one says there was a voluntary recall and no health problems were reported. Doesn't sound too concerning to me to be honest.

And because you mention long term effects a couple times -- how long would be long enough for you to feel okay about the safety of the vaccine, and how did you come up with this number?
>If tomorrow everyone looses faith in it, it disappears

Same with gold, at least in terms of its value
>>Remote work productivity mid-pandemic won’t necessarily translate post-pandemic

None of the 'problems' you mention will necessarily come to pass either. Unless you have a crystal ball, you're future is no more likely then any other...

Having worked from home for 20 years now, I can tell you that hasn't been my experience.
Long-term effects are just that: long-term. We can't know what long-term effects the vaccines have until they have been used for a long time, even if millions have had them.
Hmm, maybe. If someone is making a “universal” suggestion though, I think it would be hard to “wrestle objections”. These individuals probably know all the reasons why you should do X (since that’s their go to advice). Trying to get them to drop their suggestion could possibly backfire.

So when you get a suggestion from such an individual, it seems like an attractive option just to humor them and go build what you wanted to build.
I take it one further. "Okay, let's sit down together and write out a story that fully defines what you're asking me to do".

Half the time they won't bother. -Your- effort is free, but -their- effort has a cost.

The other half of the time they will, because they care about it, and so it goes into the backlog, and they get to see what stuff takes precedence (and it's a legitimately good faith effort on my part to see it ranked appropriately, and that they feel informed as to what is coming ahead of it and why).
> Never noticed that there

I'm quite sure this option wasn't there when this "experiment" was added.
One thing that the pandemic lockdowns have revealed in glowing detail is that the vast majority of the most critical and important jobs in society are among the lowest-paid: retail and foodservice.
And people are far too quick to think that masks do work and/or are not harmful.

What happened to the Precautionary Principle?
If that were always true, whistleblowing would not be a thing.
Depending on where you do it, yeah, it works. In the gmail interface for gmail, but also in the unsubscribe reason box for the sending platform. Both work.
I simply call hedgehogs ideologues. These people have a lens they see the whole world through and that tints everything a single color. It is a mental short-cut.

Some people like to call these mental models or lens, and that you should add as many as possible—switch out the green lens for a red lens and see if that makes things look better. And I agree, but I think if you have to consciously make “mental models” you are probably going to struggle to think critically about what the problems are anyway.

The truth is we probably all are a hedgehog at various times without realizing it. The only solution is to be as widely read as possible so that you do not short-cut to a few ideas that may or may not fit the challenge you are trying to solve.
I am not an ethicist expert. As many people are not in a great many things. But it doesn't mean I don't care.

My point is that there is more to an accident. And hell, there very much is ethics involved in a piece of malfunctioning equipment. Ask any air crash investigator.

No one blames a human, when faced with making millisecond decisions, for not doing much. We're simply not very capable in tiny timeframes.

But will people accept the same standard for a crafted program (through whatever means) who's very promise relies on constant vigilance and sub-millisecond decisions? And what are the decisions to be?

I like your wider perspective take too. "Move fast, break things" vs "Stay safe" is a development timeframe vs cost trade off.
Exactly, showing up at 9:05am makes us late, but feel free to keep us late on some fire drill to 7pm, light up our slack/email after hours and occasionally call us in the dead of night. (How many people logged into HN after dinner are still logged into work on another window?)

I worked somewhere where we had a multi-week emergency with basically the entire team working 12-16 hours/day including the weekend.

They then ceremonially gave us some comp days to use, not even making up for the weekend days loss, let alone the double/triple weekday time.

The joke of course is our firm already had "unlimited" vacation time so... infinity+X = infinity. Also they were picky about how soon we could use the days, and that we couldn't use them consecutively, etc etc.
Exactly! Where is the nuance here plus he’s not exactly mentioning what he’s comparing it to.