skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a pretty big downside to WFH: lack of in-person contact reduces team bonds which causes much more... volatility? I.e arguments are more likely to spiral out of control since you don't really know other people / care about them.

A concrete hypothesis might be: Less people would have left Base Camp if they were not remote.
Personally, I'd rather something equivalent to a mid-range android phone. Something that works decently well, but still affordable enough adoption isn't limited only to the wealthy looking for toys. I see most flagship phones that way myself.

For me, i need more than what the pinephone offers, but it doesn't need to have all the features of a high end phone. A decent processor and RAM would make the pinephone a lot more appealing just by itself.

if it was equivalent to a $300-$500 android phone, you still wouldn't have all the bells and whistles, but it would be a lot more viable for daily use.
> NewPipe as a YouTube adless replacement (YouTube web is not OK)

Actually, Invidious and the likes (viewtube?) are quite good for this. SponsorBlock even works there.

FreeTube makes the phone very hot and is very slow, unfortunately.

Something like NewPipe would be neat though.

> OSMAnd

Something like this is sorely missing. A-GPS isn't integrated in current distros too (a script can load AGPS data in the Phone's modem)
It's expensive to run things like that. Multiple "9"s are significantly more expensive to engineer than, say, 95% uptime.

In general, the correct amount of allowable downtime is when losses due to downtime are greater than the cost of increasing availability (which depends on the system). Should we raise taxes to increase government website availability? Not sure there's a clear cut case and it would definitely depend on each specific website and what utility it provides
No, your rewritten version misses the fact that they're trying to work around the problem, which is what takes it from "X is wrong because I say so" to "X is causing them tangible problems".
I don't know anyone who's noticed any crime at all. Sure, perhaps I'm in a bubble, but if you got an AirBnB to visit you would be in that same bubble.

This crime stats scare is nothing more than Eric Adams and his ilk trying the old Giuliani playbook.
Why is Linux Desktop viable (I'm certainly very happy with it at least) but phones are too much work?
There is a monumental mismatching between the way in which Tesla occupies the airwaves and the number of people who actually own them or would be able to draw a Model S if asked point blank.

I will never understand what is going on with this company, but one thing is for sure, there is an methodical effort to make this happen.

Besides on the internet nobody knows if you own a Tesla or ar just simping for Elon Musk hoping that he replies you and pumps your cryptocurrency.
I would go back to office if my commute was like 20 minutes by bike and I would share a small office with one to three other people on my team.

But my commute is 1 hour one way, some people don’t get seats on the train, U-Bahn in Berlin is like a can of sardines during rush hour and the bigger part of my team is in another country and the customer is at the other side of Germany. And the office is one big open office with ~40 people working. You need noise canceling headphones to keep your sanity. I couldn’t focus without them.

I‘m glad they don’t want to force us to come back.
They already have it so that you can order by phone. A touchpad/kiosk type thing would make perfect sense too except maybe it required more hardware than they wanted to spend money on?
they are came from somewhere too, nobody owns the city. It is ridiculous when you see some locals tell white people to "go back to Ohio".
Their parents came from somewhere else and had to face the same thing. Typical story of the bullied becoming a bully.
While everyone probably caches a bit more toilet paper than before, a whole swathe of people took the plunge on a bidet and will buy 90% less toilet paper in perpetuity.

At the face of it, a shortage looks great for producers, but can bite them in the long-term.
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“This is a nice little multi-trillion dollar industry you got here… it’d be a shame if anything happened to it.”
People still make good websites. You just can't find them with Google (unless you're writing keywords to search for the exact site).
I don't understand how these are mutually exclusive. Why should it being emergent mean it's absolutely impossible to move it out of the brain?

Of course it could turn out to be impossible in practice for some reason or another, or it may not happen for thousands of years, but I don't see any theoretical reason that makes it impossible a priori.
IRCcloud is no longer welcome on Freenode
Well people can drink their own blood. I actually knew people who were massacred in gulbarga society.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbarg_Society_massacre
Your screed reads like an apologia for Hitler.

I actually know Muslim friends in ahmedabad that cannot buy or rent a house in normal housing societies and have been ghettoized into Muslim enclaves with non existent municipal services.

I am glad that I live in the United states where nobody asks me for my religion or caste before renting or selling a home. United states is never going to be "dharmic", it got rid of its "dharmic" tendencies with the civil rights movement.

Edit: The dharmic comment was in response to another poster talking about United states becoming "dharmic".
As an American, I am sorry. It is sad that our wealth is used to export such media and indoctrination.
> Thanos would be extreme overkill for this number of metrics

Data volume is just one thing. Thanos makes Prometheus stateless and easy to shard, all in a non-invasive approach that is solid, boring, and just works. The architecture works well in small scale systems. I even use it in a single node k8s cluster in my homelab, pays only about ~$1 a month for Backblaze B2 so I never worry about data retention or disk usage.

> Single-node VictoriaMetrics can easily handle 1M metrics/sec

Even if I have disk access, I would think twice before deploying a database and manage it myself when I don't have to. Besides the maintenance burden and potential scaling issues in the future, it may cost you more to use block storage like EBS than S3.

Also, Prometheus memory usage overhead for remote write was wild[1], so, good luck with capacity planning and config tweaking.

1. https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/remote_write/
I mean, it’s your choice if you don’t want to meet up with your team. Lunch or coffee probably won’t be forbidden by company policy.
I have never heard of kde connect. Remote Desktop?
Search engines were pretty crappy when I first used the internet in the 90s. I’m not even sure that we had search engines, actually. Anyway, crappy search results were par for the course. The interesting content required some work to find. I think it’s still the same. There’s more content than ever, and a huge % is crap. Maybe that % is larger today then when we started, but there’s still a trove of good stuff out there. Way more, in absolute terms, than when I started.

I’m thankful for the internet and the career it’s given me. There’s plenty of room for improvement, but all the same, it’s pretty great.
Has there ever yet been a case of someone saying "animal testing is explotative, but it's actually pretty darn effective"?

I suspect that it's motivated reasoning. If you don't like animal testing, it's going to distort your perception of how effective it is.
One of my favorite bundles of docs to peruse through from time to time. I go in with a specific question and end up going down the rabbit hole of learning a ton of other interesting design patterns instead
For me, mostly from hobbyist magazines that led to BBS dial up numbers that had made copies of software and docs. Though that was tricky, since long distance calls were expensive. So you dealt mostly with whatever a local BBS had, which I assume varied in depth, breadth, quality, etc.
>Historically, breaking up monopolies has been very good for the end consumer.

Historically the US was the largest economy with the largest monopolies, so yes that was true then. It's not necessarily true now or going forward since the US govt can only break up US monopolies but not their foreign competitors.

That said, it sounds like this bill 1) does not break up US big tech, and 2) is applicable to any enterprise operating in the US, similar to how GDPR applies to all companies operating in EU.
I think making promises and taking money from people based on promises you very likely can't fulfill is enough to label something as a scam, and that seems to be the case with all of the points mentioned above.
Don't you think it's "bongoDB" that represents Mongo, and "beetleDB" references Cockroach? If not, why not; why should "beetle" be Mongo?
Skimming through the demo video on the homepage is rewarding.
The ones who randomly rearrange the seating however can disappear.

Reads to me like this is the exact chaff being separated from the wheat in the parent comment, and you know what: good. The less managers like that, the better for labor and the workforce at large IMO.

I think a few of us have had that manager and hopefully learned how not to lead and motivate people.
I'm at bullet one of this list and immediately, entirely skeptical, since that bullet suggests that a common core competency of infosec people is evaluating a CVE by its CVSS score (which, we're told, has meaning relative to your own environment; that's where the art lies, presumably).

But CVSS is an industry-wide joke. It means almost literally nothing (a 9+ is usually, but not always, more severe than a 2). It's a Ouija board, computed by a mysterious calculator and adjusted by imperceptible nudges until the score matches the intuitions of the scorer.
Within IRC culture networks exist to serve the projects and users not the other way around. Failing to understand this is why leenode is losing users in the first place.
Most promotions happen by moving jobs anyways, so eh.
A lot of meetings are much easier to have in person.

Socializing, as other people pointed out, is also much easier in person.
Effect of vitamin D3 supplementation on adverse effects of earthquakes
Sure, but I don't speak much ancient Greek and I didn't want to make too many assumptions about what carried over versus what changed.
Lawmakers press Biden to give Putin ultimatum on ransomware gangs
Git User Manual
The original Git User Manual because it doesn't get enough credit.
I don't have statistics, but I guess a home is sell once every 20-30 years, and is in the market for 3 months. So if I sell a cold offer to buy it, there is a 1% chance that it's on sale or the owner is wiling to sell it.

Most home sells have a reason, for example the owner died and the children and selling it, or the home is too small because they have a new children or too big because they have an empty nest. So outside the period it's in the market it's very difficult to convince the owner to sell.

Selling a house involve a lot of taxes and commissions, like 15% here in Argentina, perhaps more. So if I have to sell my home without a good reason, the buyer must pay like 20% more to cover all my fees and taxes. Add the fuss of moving (1 week to package, and 1 week to unpackaged, does the house need painting?), looking for a new home (1 month), smiling to the real state agents that while they try to screw me, discussing with my wife because she likes another house, crossing the finger because the new home can have the plumbing made of painted cardboard, or a very noisy neighbor, or a crazy neighbor, ... so to convince me to sell my home in a cold offer, you should add a 50% premium to the price.

With a 50% more of money, the buyer can get a better house, or have a lot of freedom to fix other house.
Perhaps satisfaction and contentment are more accurate?
There's some complexifiers to this that seem worth recognizing, especially since the "financially drained" that was mentioned was pandemic-related and therefore is likely part of a broader cluster of problems:

1. $5 and tail risk. Even if your financial hardship isn't that bad, if it's still making things more unpredictable, that could be $5 plus a cascade of overdraft fees one day. If things are worse, of course, it could also be your last meal for the month, or your last chance to not go homeless. Better get rid of any expense you can.

2. $5 and executive function. The payment card you were using expired. Are you going to remember to update the info when you're in constant low-grade panic or depression?

3. Relatedly to (2), $5 if you can get to that point in the first place. Maybe you had your site hosted on something more expensive, for… whatever reason. Now you have to remember how to transfer all the files and hope everything still works, and so on.

4. Kind of like (3), $5 except for the more-expensive domain name that seemed like a good idea at the time. Oops. Where are you going to move to? Will anyone be able to find it afterwards anyway?

5. $5 and relationship overhead. Which of these five-dollar hosters are trustworthy? Will they stay that way?

There's probably more.

If we care about preserving the independent Web, these sorts of problems definitely present themselves over the long run. I'm theoretically an affluent-by-many-standards technologist, but I've had issues over time that resulted in my previous sites going splat and just… couldn't really pull together what it would take to revive them, and wasn't that motivated. Decentralization of maintenance-energy overall while having individual sites relying on one or a few people has real inefficiencies that way if permanency is valuable.
Inside Xinjiang – The Cultural Erasure of the Uyghurs
Here in the UK, approx 10 million (about 16% of the population) people live outside of towns and cities. My nearest supermarket is seven miles away. Public transport is almost non-existent. Cars are a necessity not a luxury.

In cities (and I lived in London until six years ago) you needed a car for transporting shopping. Its either that or pay inflated prices at local convenience stores. Where I lived (Leyton) there were 1 or 2 supermarkets within a mile or two but other parts of London you had to travel further. Even with the much better public transport, you would not be able to carry more than a couple of bags of shopping. And much of London was just too dangerous to cycle on.

So I can understand why people like their cars even in cities.
I've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. If you continue to do that we will ban your main account as well, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’ll make your life even more complicated and suggest it’s neither of those things. It’s people burnout. This can happen anywhere. Some people have large, political families, and they burnout from those people. The solution is always the same, disassociate to endure, see if it helps, otherwise get around new people.

It can happen anywhere in life.
I switched my tech company to full WFH. I also implemented detailed surveillance on all employees, which I don’t disclose. It shows me keyboard/mouse activity levels and window update rates. It’s very interesting information, I have much better insight how and when people work, which are very different from each other. I also have other productivity measures and now I can really understand when someone is not working vs stuck or having difficulties. I expect for slackers this coming world will be harder to hide in.
Thanks! I might just learn it, 35 years after the fact :)
I can finally put MS Paint back on my resume under “technical” skills!

Amazing dedication, made my day!
Because state-of-the-art desktop hardware tends to work with Linux, due to the historical origins of the PC as a relatively non-proprietary technology. The same cannot be said of modern mobile phone hardware.
Most pitch decks turn out to be fiction. Try those.
A lot of myths have been built around Buddha or Ashoka, in the recent years to fit politics.

Buddha considered himself very much a Hindu.
I guess it's really impossible to know for sure but imagining an alternative history of the space race is always fun. I really liked how For All Mankind did it.
Isn't being "dharmic" a reference to performing your caste duties irrespective of whether you will be rewarded in this life. The reward comes next time in the form of a caste upgrade.

They are verses that specify that one must perform ones caste duties ("dharma") no matter what even if you are better at other things. Why on earth would United states turn dharmic?
I'm not sure how you think they differ. They are exactly what I am talking about. They had a real investment at the heart of them. The problem in 2008 was that the investments were bad. People were given mortgages that exceeded their ability to pay them back. But that is still a real investment with the intrinsic value of the real estate properties that were foreclosed on.
If you are interested in postmarketOS linux, I think there are some faster phones that have been bootstrapped: http://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
My commute is a 5 minute walk. And thats no accident. I very deliberately chose my flat to be quite near to work. Has saved me about 5000 hours of commute time so far.
Full Title:

"Effect of monthly vitamin D3 supplementation in healthy adults on adverse effects of earthquakes: randomised controlled trial"

Abstract:

"Objective To determine whether supplementation with vitamin D improves resilience to the adverse effects of earthquakes.

Design Opportunistic addition to an established randomised double blind placebo controlled trial.

Setting Christchurch, New Zealand, where a prolonged series of catastrophic earthquakes beginning on 4 September 2010 occurred, which caused widespread destruction, fatalities, and extensive psychological damage.

Participants 322 healthy adults (241 women; 81 men) aged 18-67 who were already participating in the vitamin D and acute respiratory infections study (VIDARIS) between February 2010 and November 2011.

Intervention Participants were randomised to receive an oral dose of either 200 000 IU vitamin D3 monthly for two months then 100 000 IU monthly (n=161) or placebo (n=161) for a total of 18 months.

Main outcome measure This is a post hoc analysis from the previously published VIDARIS trial. The primary endpoint in the current analysis was the self reported effects and overall adverse impact of the Christchurch earthquakes as assessed by questionnaire four months after the most destructive earthquake on 22 February 2011, which was used as the index event. The secondary end point was the number of “psychological” adverse events that participants reported at their usual monthly appointments as part of the original VIDARIS trial.

Results 308 participants completed the earthquake impact questionnaire (n=152 in the vitamin D group and 156 in the placebo group). There was no significant difference in the number of self reported adverse effects between those receiving vitamin D supplementation and those receiving placebo. There was also no difference in the overall adverse impact score between treatment groups (χ2 P=0.44). The exception was that those in the vitamin D group experienced more adverse effects on family relationships (22% v 13%; χ2 P=0.03). The number of psychological adverse events—such as fatigue, stress, anxiety, and insomnia—that participants reported at their usual monthly appointments was significantly higher after the earthquake (χ2 P=0.007) but did not differ between treatment groups.

Conclusion In this trial, vitamin D supplementation did not reduce the adverse impact of earthquakes in healthy adults.

Trial registration Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (anzctr.org.au) ACTRN12609000486224"
The Hugging Face course first four chapters will be released by tomorrow
Here's my recent gripes:

1. Nonsense spam messages. No content about their company or anything that shows they know anything about me. "Your experience at $COMPANY" doesn't count either.

2. Not using the Calendly (https://calendly.com/) link I send them for scheduling and instead trying to have a email chain of "What's your availability like?" "Does 8:30am work for you?" "What's the best # to reach you?" OMFG use the calendar schedule link I sent you at the beginning of our conversation! Also, my # is at the very top of my resume, so you just showed you didn't even glance at it.

3. Having blinders on when looking at a candidate. One thing I run into a lot is recruiters or interviewers trying to pigeon-hole me into some box like "backend Java developer" or "front-end react developer" or "swift iOS developer" I mean it when I say senior full-stack web and app software engineer. Don't try to reduce my experience and skills and scoff at me when I know what my time is worth and what salary I can expect, because I'm already making that much! You want a candidate that can do *everything* but at intern rates? Don't waste my time and don't ever, ever neg me for having standards that reflect my reality.

4. "Why do you want to work for this company?" Because you're hiring and money is a requisite for existence. Give up this whole "passion for the product or tech" nonsense. You sell a service that pipes data; anyone that pretends to be passionate about that is full of it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477783. Just trying to prune the top-heaviest threads.
This crystallized for me during a discussion about which websites people missed, when someone said “I would say Purevolume but there’s nothing that it did that SoundCloud or Bandcamp don’t do just as well”. I realized that it’s not the websites I’m nostalgic about — it’s the people, the culture and my younger self.
What does it mean regarding depression and laying in bed all day doing nothing “with ease” ?
The first point is no different from regular dead links or outdated URLs.

The second can be mitigated but is a legitimate issue.
My experience with git is it's organically grown, and regularly a mess. It works reasonably well and in fact is better than a lot of alternatives, but can become a monster quickly and unexpectedly. My experience with mercurial was better than with git.

But none of this matters, as git/github/gitlab is today the industry standard, or even the category killer for version control. You will have to deal with it in one capacity or another. So my advice is to deal with git, learn at least up to medium level. As industry standards go, things could be a lot worse than git.
I hear the thing these days is to see how long your former employer will pay you before realizing you aren't doing any work for them anymore. It sounds like a joke but I’ve seen it happen on multiple occasions. Coworker just stops showing up and 5 months later their Slack is deactivated.
Does it? I'd imagine you could collaborate with the Mint developers, most of the hard work in packaging seems to be done there already.
Making images executable sounds like a bad idea.
I'm also on Firefox (Focus) on Android. I found the GitHub link at the bottom of the page: https://github.com/MSPaintIDE/MSPaintIDE . It has screenshots and a video of usage.
Fresh Impact on Mars (2019)
Mars impact crater that formed between July and September 2018.