skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i would guess this is generally impossible in america.

maybe a long shot would be to go to a doctor -- psychiatrist -- or ohter MD and get a recommendation to a psych -- and then from there try to see what they know about prescribing "two weeks bedrest" or similar.

that would presumably not be enough, but could be two weeks to formulate a plan.

wonder if your boss would be open to giving you a part-time gig.

the 4-day work week is raging -- presumably at least american companies would love to dump you off their insurance, which they would be able to do if you want part time -- anything less than 30 hours a week.

i suspect most managers would just say, effectively, "get your shit together or you're gonna be in trouble" -- i.e. we're going to pip you then fire you and put you through hell and humiliation while doing it.
Many Software Engineers are making more money than Pro Athletes
This analogy only makes sense if the world’s problems were that of technology. We have ample evidence that it is not.

There exists technology that can transport people over short to medium distances really efficiently and without much greenhouse gas emissions. All it would take would be for policy makers to allocate some funding to build out the infrastructure required, yet they don’t.

There exists technology to transport and distribute food wherever there is hunger. Even technology to grow food more efficiently and without additional greenhouse gas emissions. Yet we don’t apply that.

Most countries continue to pour money into their most devastating government institutions (the military and the police) that not only cause a world of societal problems on their own, but also pollute a bunch in the meantime for everybody else. At the same time they could be using that money to build infrastructure that would allow us to live a more sustainable lives. But they don’t.

If the technology existed that would take people to Proxima Centauri in 10 years, and we invented a bunch of good technology that would help us make our current world better. I bet this new technology would be used equally sparingly as our current technology.
In most countries the minister responsible for border control will have wide discretion about who is allowed in and out.

This means that if you’re politically well connected it can be trivial to get the necessary approvals. But for everyone else it will be extremely difficult, especially for countries like Australia and NZ which have very low vaccination rates.
"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

(It's not that the annoyances aren't annoying, it's that they're so common that they lead to repetitive offtopicness that compounds into more boring threads.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- The article says that "millionaire flight" out of California is a myth. This is mostly true and a good point.

- However, the article/research looks at outflow and doesn't find a trend but this is bad methodology. It looks like they are not factoring in the fact that less people are moving into California then had been previously even if the rate moving out isn't too different. It almost feels intentional given how clean and well-covered the data is on that.

This opening paragraph is good

>Every year from 2000 through 2015, more people left California than moved in from other states. This migration was not spread evenly across all income groups, a Sacramento Bee review of U.S. Census Bureau data found. The people leaving tend to be relatively poor, and many lack college degrees. Move higher up the income spectrum, and slightly more people are coming than going.

Source: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article136478098.html
Ahh. Surely this explains Klaus Fuchs, the most important spy in the Manhattan Project and a long-time communist?
I worked in a private space company, that I was told by SatOps folks. I remember they said only US citizens on US territory could process the photos.
Even FAANG exec's aren't allowed in, last time I checked. NZ doesn't care about that sort of thing. Only if you have $$$ to put in somewhere.

But maybe things got loosened up a little bit lately, pre-Delta, plus we don't know where Urs has citizenship.
> sympathetic to Republicans is immediately downvoted through the floor

Unfortunately there's a lot of truth in this. It is rather fashionable to be anti-GOP. As much as I loathe the current state of the party, they are not always wrong and on most traditional stances, especially those on the economic and foreign policy side, I tend to agree. That is to say you have company here in seeing that a countering point of view gets crapped on just for being a countering point of view.
It's not the government, at this stage it is just the EU Commission who are unelected. MEPs could still reject it.
Hmmmm who to believe, someone who was affected by the policy or the PR arm of the company involved.
Right. These government bodies didn't appear overnight. They were created for a reason.
Why do you care?

I've submitted resumes to companies directly and been ignored--probably dumped in an HR inbox somewhere. Then I later come in through a recruiter and had them pursue me aggressively.

Feel free to look through my comments--I'm not a recruiter.

If you go through the company directly, you won't get a straight answer on salary up-front. You can be as direct as you want on salary with a recruiter middleman without hurting anyone's feelings, though.
Markets crash every time Oreo releases an even greater-stuffed cookie
Those estimates are taken from the gcp pricing page [0] that say $0.02 (or 2c) per GB. Have you a source for your claim that I'm wrong?

[0] https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#price-tables
It is destroyed. But i believe there is a timeline where azure support can recover it for you until the deletion is final.
Yes, its nicknamed after him because he was the president of the organization now known as the MPAA when they developed the Motion Picture Production Code. That he was also a Republican politician is mostly beside the point; the modern left-right alignment of the parties and the particular association of Republicans with the religious and “family” groups to whose concerns the code was a response wasn't a thing in the 1930s.
I think there’s a very difficult line to draw between the author souring in Google and Google itself souring. There’s one parallel in particular that I thought was interesting - the org structure one from early on where MS orgs are all pointing guns at each other, then there’s a recent one where Amazon points the guns in whilst Google points the gun out to customers. I would say that’s fairly accurate. But it’s now not throwing stones at the competition. It’s reflection that Google is no better.
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I work roughly those hours (from NZ) - the time difference is 3-5 hours depending on time of year

Of course you've forgotten that dateline - Monday here is Sunday in the US
The distinction is the belief that there is no intended meaning beyond the literal meaning.
It’s not (just) marketing. You can try to “brute-force” your way up in image quality by increasing sensor size, better lens, etc, but there is a point where it gives you diminishing returns.

I’m not deeply familiar with high-end professional cameras, but low-mid pro cameras sort of slept for a long time while phone cameras had to play around the trivial upgrade route of bigger sensors and go the harder route to more intelligent sensors. There is a really interesting article about it that I may try to dig out, but there are such great tricks in modern phones like using the not that great lens stabilization to an advantage where minor movements of our hand will render the same physical position to several adjacent “colored” sensor positions and a clever NN can use this additional information to increase the lost sensors size inherent in colored picture taking. Also, HDR photos simply need intelligence.

All in all, in certain (rare) situations a newer iphone may very well shoot a much better photo than a DSLR camera no matter the comparatively tiny sensor size. Also, just think about the way the black hole was photographed - it also didn’t use an Earth-sized sensor, but the effect was similar if it have used one.
Chinese Government cracking down on several large Chinese tech companies
How was the tooling dumb?
Conspiracy theory... the real reason companies want you working on site is because they know you know they'll notice if you take off too much time to interview other places.
To the extent this is true today, I suspect it's precisely because the precision medicine approach is not yet the standard. I.e., insurance companies want you to do the standard of care, but if/when precision medicine _becomes_ the standard then insurance companies will embrace it (or that's my hypothesis, anyway).
NZer here. Why would you want to move here? Everything is expensive, the houses are made of cardboard, and local opportunities are extremely limited.
> "Any representative body would do better than a corporate monarchy."

In theory I wanna agree with you, but in practice, "representative bodies" often represent their corporate masters far more than they do the will of the people.
PNW heatwave would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change
I think having commercial users of software fund ongoing development is a good thing and does not inherently mean that the project is no longer "community-driven". Commercial users are part of the community.
I believe your story highlights precisely why more elevators don't include that functionality.
Maybe there are not so much ethical or unethical persons, as there are ethical or unethical positions?
Do you always believe disgruntled ex-employees?
I wouldn't want to wake up before dawn.
One time when working as a pentester, we were doing redteaming (read: breaking into target buildings, physically). Well, they were doing redteaming; I always wanted to, but never quite got the opportunity.

One of the ideas thrown around for achieving the objective was to somehow get ahold of an elevator key, stop it, and hide in there until the building closed.

I don't know if they actually did that, but it would've been hilarious to see them pop out like a scoobie doo villain and jack into an ethernet port while the janitor has no idea what's going on.
To extend this analogy further, in Judaism, we ascribe more value to the opinions of rabbis "closer to the source". So we would look at the tax code from 1000 years ago and try to interpret that. But we might also say, "John Marshall was a great justice and one of his opinions dealt with something similar, how can we apply that to our situation here?"
I haven't seen Juul or its founder "celebrated" to any great extent in Silicon Valley. Is this a common sentiment?
I do wonder if there will be trials of doing short chemotherapy or senescent cell clearing drugs in your 40s in the future. It might be better to kill these things before they even become noticeable as diseases…
To write workable code is easy, but to write readable code is hard
Tell HN: Get a high FPS Monitor
I recently bought a 240hz monitor. And I really enjoy the faster response times. So much that I now almost hate programming without it.
The analysis is completely wrong for a country that is not in the West.

Their first assumption is low interest rates for business loans and availability of investment capital. Again, we take these two for granted in the West, but they are not.

Second big assumption is the existence of distribution grid and storage. The fact is that we have almost 1 Billion people off grid and by making fossil fuels more expensive to them pretty much we decide that they need to stay impoverished for many generations to come.

Regarding your comment on renewable energy added in 2020, you failed to mention that the bulk of it comes from China, where the Party has made the strategic decision to do so regardless of cost.
Yeah, I was consuming so much and was only moderately active, that I can't believe it was all going to growth. Much of that time I wasn't even getting taller, or gaining weight, just maintaining. All I can figure is my body was throwing away a lot of it, one way or another. Maybe I had very hungry gut bacteria, which I killed by accident, somehow. I dunno.
The energy put into the process to grow and ferment the plants or algae is high enough to outweigh the offset use of fossil fuels. It's an energy negative process.

The same creator has a 15 minute video on that topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEB6hCpIGM
>Big Corps, much like liquid flowing downhill, tend to flow towards whatever makes them the most money for the least effort

People say this a lot but it's not the case when the CEO is an ideologue. A few weeks ago I was at a meeting where our CEO said customers were unhappy about the company's choice to insert politicized messages into its products. He said that they could potentially lose as much as 50% of their revenue because of it. And he still felt that he was doing the right thing.
At what point is it not a derivative work?
> this stems from the notion that the Jewish legal rules are of divine origin, and so if something was excluded, then its absence is intentional

I would like to understand the reasoning behind the belief that even legal rules of divine origin would include mention of things human culture would have had no concept of, and human language no word for, in the time the rule was made — such that the rules would be "complete for all future time" rather than "those relevant as of the time of covenant."

Wouldn't even a god think it more optimal to hold off on telling us rules about e.g. which synthetic meats are kosher, until we invent such things?

It seems awfully suspicious to the validity of that interpretation, that there are plenty of specific/concrete prohibitions given amongst divine rulings, but of those, none are about things that were entirely mysterious at the time, written down "as spoken" without understanding, only able to be made sense of centuries/millennia later.

In fact — the Hebrew god is an intercessor god, not an absent god; don't they already "amend" their own previous rules whenever they communicate specific orders / demands / requirements to particular people? Does that not, by itself, disrupt the interpretation of the initial set of laws given being a perfect closed set, never to be updated, applicable to all future circumstances? Would a perfect body of divine law not already imply those orders / demands / requirements, such that there would be no need for further communication?
Are there any software, hardware or cloud providers currently existing that you would trust to run your consciousness?
Want a sneak peek of the nightmare? Plenty of companies are now introducing conversational bots on their phone lines, desperately trying to prevent you from getting in touch with a human. And unlike traditional voice menus, pressing 0 or mashing the keypad doesn't work on them.

I recently wasted a good 10 minutes trying to reach a flesh-and-blood consultant of a phone company, and I actually wanted to buy stuff from them. I just needed a human to make sure it's on the record I'm requesting a non-default service (FTTH Internet with external ONT, so that I could swap a proper router in place of the piece of garbage they normally provide).

Their fancy bot actually understood what I wanted when I repeatedly said "I want to be connected with a consultant" - it kept replying, "I understand you want to talk to a consultant; before we do that, can you tell me [insert some random idiotic question]?". I almost blew a fuse there. I only persisted because for technical reasons, I couldn't go with other providers.
I think they do ask you what you are planning to use the resources for, what your qualifications are and make a decision to allocate and how many tpus based on that.
I ran into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus (Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse) awhile back, and it was so interesting to me that I ended up watching the entire 2 hours in one sitting.
Yeah, a DFA that recognizes a regular language can easily be implemented with O(n) worst case behavior.

My attitude is generally that one should use regexes for matching regular languages and if one needs a stack or even Turing completeness then handle that in code around the regex.
There are exceptions for the rich and famous, of course. [1]

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzea...
Crickets... no answer.
Another such list is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator#Special_operating_mod...

Wiki lists a "Riot mode", which is just amazing if it's a thing.
It seems that you are not quite clear about the meaning of those terms.

> Socialism and democracy cannot be compared because it would just be like comparing apples to oranges since socialism is an economic system while democracy is a political ideology. An economic system defines the manner of producing and distributing the goods and services of society while a political system refers to the institutions that will comprise a government and how the system will work.

http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/politics/diff...
This is clearly true, but this is also far cheaper that we could get this capability if we were to really staff a project.

If there are volunteers who are capable of and want to contribute to the information commons and are merely constrained by compute, we should clearly help them.
Assuming its a legit misunderstanding and not intentionally malicious, pay it back with interest seems reasonable to me.
So they made the wires longer and changed a switch?
[0]: "Studies suggest nicotine vaping may be less harmful than traditional cigarettes when people who regularly smoke switch to them as a complete replacement."

[1]: "Vaping Is Less Harmful Than Smoking, but It’s Still Not Safe"

[1] has some problems. It seems to be conflating the vitamin E acetate issue with vaping in general. ("However, there has also been an outbreak of lung injuries and deaths associated with vaping. As of Jan. 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed 60 deaths in patients with e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI).") The section on "Research Suggests Vaping Is Bad for Your Heart and Lungs" focuses on nicotine. Which raises your blood pressure. And not much else, according to other sources.
Looks like that project is @hashbang/aosp-build? Was just looking for something similar today. I have read some people attempt user-mode builds of LineageOS in order to re-lock the bootloader. Wish it was more common! Do you still contribute to this project?
People don't take time off for interviews, they fall sick or have mysterious appointments. And employers in that position don't really care, because it's better to let the employee leave voluntarily than to fire them and have to go through the entire HR process and pay unemployment.
Those “Pesky” Pull Requests Are Worth It
That seems like it it could be optimized?
I disagree that multiple frontend implementations is going to be a good thing for Rust. Multiple backends is great, but multiple frontends could result in Rust getting held back to the lowest common denominator. C and C++ have multiple frontends because of proprietary nonsense. Rust doesn’t have that problem.
> your claim that it's obvious that there's coordinated censorship.

> I don't think it is that obvious because, at least me personally, I haven't seen any evidence of this.

Not going to argue one way or another on this, but I do want to point out that you can change some words around and end up with:

"I think the downvotes are due to your claim that it's obvious there is systemic racism. I don't think it's obvious because I haven't seen evidence of it. Black people just happen to commit more crimes"
A close friend of mine immigrated to NZ in April on a work visa with his family. He's not rich at all, just a practicing doctor (not research). There seem to be exceptions other than buying your way in.
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I worked from Dubai last year for about a month. My company is on GMT-5/GMT-4, and Dubai is GMT+4. Their weekend is Friday/Saturday. So working remotely, I was working on nights before both days off. It wasn't a great schedule (but I didn't care because COVID made everything boring).
Euro 2020: ITV sorry for Apple TV streaming issue
> Only if you have $$$ to put in somewhere.

Which FAANG execs do
Create an AWS Cost Optimization Strategy
I'm not very familiar with Azure anymore, but AWS also offers deletion protection on RDS and other services. This forces a two-phase operation with Terraform. You must first apply configuration to remove the deletion protection, then in the second phase you may delete the RDS instance.

Unfortunately, I've never been able to get much mileage from the Terraform prevent_destroy lifecycle option because it can't be set from a variable. Most of my configurations use a module and pass different variable values per each environment. I'd want the lifecycle flag in production, but maybe not dev.
That's how I read it. Since Audacity is FOSS, I'm inferring that the developers believe that Audacity's new telemetry capabilities conflict with the "L" = "free as in freedom" bit of FLOSS.
It reads like the spokesperson specifically and precisely refuted the claim put to them exactly as it was stated. We can infer nothing - it might be that he thinks nobody should work remotely, or everyone should.
less free range propaganda.
Yes, they do but it's not really a grant and they don't really follow up on what you do unless you contact them yourself. You just fill a form and if you get accepted get an email later with access. At least that's how it was when I got accepted but things might've changed since last I've heard.
Here are a few implications:

* In a few years (maybe 5?), it might be possible to build a computer that you can trust has no intentional back doors in the CPU, but is modern enough to run software from within the last decade.

* If this catches on, and is used by enough people, economies of scale might kick in, and bring costs for advanced custom chips down by an order of magnitude (if the cpu is small enough, and if more fab capacity is built). Not Intel/AMD/ARM parts - those prices will remain stable, at first.

* Maybe we can have another decent consumer-grade router? No, this is a pipe-dream.

* Our Amiga accelerator boards will become SMOKING fast.
ionized particle moving in your frame can be recovered as energy while the particle itself can be used as reaction mass (He) or even as fusion fuel (H).