skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a human pathogen more contagious than measles? I remember reading this scenario that really gave me a sense of how contagious it is:

> The virus can linger in the air for about two hours after a person with measles has left the room. It can infect those who enter the room if they are unimmunized.

From: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
Classical control theory is often sufficient for dealing with changing loads, terrain and wear and tear. Rejecting unknown disturbances is what a control system does. No training is required. Perhaps somewhat less than impressive due to the choice of robotics platform, but:

Achieving natural behavior in a robot using neurally inspired hierarchical control Joseph W. Barter, Henry H. Yin
Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427862v1

Movie 8: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2021/01/25/202...

Movie 9: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2021/01/25/202...
I think you are missing an important distinction here: when the first planes got commercialised, even the first passenger flights weren't just amusement rides. They were expensive, sure, but they served a legit purpose.

The same is true to an even greater degree for mobile phones.

Joy rides to the edge of space however are neither new (Dennis Tito went all the way to the ISS back in 2001 and jet planes to the upper stratosphere could be booked for decades as well) nor in any way pushing progress.

Nonsense like this doesn't have to be stopped - everyone's free to spend their money however they wish - it's the glorification of the ultra-rich and their playthings (especially in the face of pending global ecological and social collapse) that's is being criticized.
pretty much the whole of Dreams for PS4 is based on SDFs.

here's an image from Dreams: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dc4ojwiX2EZ3iW8y4oBacZYrIRM=...

This was made using a dual shock controller.
Most FIRE people don't just stop working. They just stop working boring, 8-5's.

For example, I really want to open my own cidery. But doing so would be such a massive paycut that it wouldn't be worth pursuing right now, even though it's ultimately what I want to do.

So, I'm software engineering until I make enough to FIRE, after which I can pursue that dream.
> wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because

These already exist, and Chromium is far from perfect. I'm glad there's a viable competitor.
Why the Western Drought Will Have Major Ripple Effects
This doesn't disagree with the statement that space travel research is more useful to society than buying a personal yacht.
I smoke cigars on occasion. They dont make you sick quickly. Sure, if you do 3, 1hour burn cigars back to back, you'll feel like complete shit. But one cigar and a majority of people are done for a day or two.
Divide and conquer works, and works well.
> This poll was conducted between April 16-April 19, 2021 among a sample of 1992 Registered Voters

80% on an online positive-assertive survey ran on population that small it's a completely bogus statistic.

heck I can't even fathom how people would cite this, the methodological note is three lines, doesn't tell how the participants were selected, say votes were weighted but doesn't say the weights nor the weighted parameters; they have like 72 pages of demographics, probably a couple person for each, and say the error margin is 2%
Launch HN: Café (YC S21) – Find the best days to go to the office
Hey HN, we're Arthur and Tom, 2 brothers from France and founders of Café (https://at.cafe/). Our app lets you decide where to work, depending on who’ll be at the office or working remotely.

The world is going hybrid (mixing remote and office) faster than expected. Companies are using spreadsheets to see who’s at the offices and who’s not. People want to see each other, but they never know when and where to meet.

We were employees in the same French company during Covid lockdown. When going back to the office (June 2020) we struggled to see our team. We were only a team of 8 people and it was a mess to coordinate everyone because we had no visibility over each other's calendar. We were doing Slack polls for every day in the upcoming week. We couldn't make a decision because we had no data! We started talking to other companies (up to 200 interviews) and everyone was struggling with spreadsheets... We thought there was a better way and launched our MVP (a simple mobile app) in private beta in September with 5 companies.

Our mobile and web app shows you who's at the office, how many seats are available, and who's working from another location. You are invited to set your status for the current week and next week (10 days of visibility) and it's done in 10 clicks. You decide where to work from based on who’s where.

We're making it easy and flexible—you can customize the whole experience (name/emoji of status), set only half days, and specify the city you're working remotely from. Our solution is as engaging as possible so people actually input their plans.

Most companies are using Café to make decisions with data when it comes to their office (should they move out? keep it?) and save money. Some have used it to organize events (e.g. pick the days where there's the most people to do team building). Some are using it to better onboard new employees in their hybrid team.

We’re not a desk-booking tool. We're focused on engagement and hybrid employee experience. Our software isn't only about what’s happening between the 4 walls of the office, that’s why we include remote folks in the experience to enable meet-ups inside and outside the office.

You can use Café on desktop and web mobile or directly through mobile apps to declare where you'll be working from. We integrate with many tools, like Slack where your status is automatically synchronized, or with HR tools where your days off and paid leaves are synced without having to do anything. Here are quick demos to see how it works: 1-minute demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSOGPCXSIB8 and 3-minute demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQu3e0LzzA

To sign up (https://app.at.cafe/), you only need to have a valid business email. We offer a free plan for up to 50 users. Like Slack, our Premium plan only charges based on usage (for active users), starting at $5 / user / month.

We know the Hacker News community has a lot of remote-first people and we look forward to reading all of your feedback. Many thanks!
I'm looking forward to replacing Audacity with Tenacity. I don't know what's wrong with Muse Group, but virtually all the interactions with the communities of the applications they buy have been negative. The company clearly has some sort of culture issue.
Interesting idea. Here's my anecdote [or in other words, we should be dubious that there is any meaning here at all beyond coincidence].

Most of the work that I've done was for medical technology where the customer tends to deploy more often in Europe. I have seen very few finished products where I had a hand in implementing something.

However, one of my happiest experiences was years ago when we finished a rewrite of some hardware for a customer that had to be done because they didn't want to interrupt their sales pipeline (also their customers wanted to be able to continue buying with out their purchasing pipeline being interrupted either).

Anyway, so things had to move fast and once we were done soon after (months later iirc) there was a website up that had the new product that we had worked on.

It felt really good (even years later now thinking back) to be able to actually see and be able to show people I knew the product that we worked over a year on.
After deforming the space with a sine function there is no problem in calculating the gradient. The problem is calculating the new correct distance to the nearest surface after a space transformation. You can see this problem in 2D, here I made an example https://www.shadertoy.com/view/NtsSRf
It is better to put the salutation and the request in the same comm. Then it is perfectly appropriate and even professional to address your recipient in a cordial way.
All good! Thanks for your levelheaded reply.
...ok? So what's the problem here? We agree that what I'm saying is true, and you've found a news source that reported it to your satisfaction.

I haven't found that latter part to be true in general. We can disagree on that.
In the nigth my mind go a full speed too. I learn to have the same "dream" that I repeat (with dialogue an all that!) then help to make the characters mumble and say things without clarity. Some times it works!
We were typically awake for about 48-72 hours straight during field training exercises in a combat unit. Somewhere between 36 and 48 hours you start micro-napping, even in the middle of performing other tasks. I remember falling asleep while walking between buildings multiple times. I'm not sure what goes on today, I separated nearly 20 years ago, but back in the early 00s we were doing these FTXs at least twice a year between deployments.
Yes, I agree. By full contact, I meant in the sport sense (rules allow for physical impact) not in the sense that full force should be used.
TikTok's meteoric rise has been because it's so easy to share the content you like, including exporting content.

You can easily download a video and re-host it on another platform. You can send a link to a friend and they don't need to install the app to view it.

TikTok is proving that walled gardens are counterproductive and that if you want your app to go viral, it should be easy to export and share across any platform.
You want ID3 tags [0], there is a composer and many more fields. They are supported by pretty much any media player. The only problem is that, as far as I know, there is no standard for multiple entries for a field (like artist) and delimiters might be different across software.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3
> it's no wonder China already outpaced NASA in their space missions

So with this legislation France is going to outpace NASA too? So far European space projects were not doing nearly as well as American ones.
I explain my code to my cat. It always helps.
This is also in contrast to what I learned about illnesses - basically that the more “evolutionary successful” ones are the ones that are less dangerous, and kill the victim slower - think HIV or herpes.

Which, even logically, makes sense - it turns out that a mildly infectious alive person walking around is a better reproduction vector for the virus than a highly infectious dead person.
The technology advancements from the development of space are very significant and have big impacts for everyone back on the surface.

I haven't looked into it, but I'd guess those from yachts and the like are far less substantial.

> launches are pretty terrible, environmentally speaking

Individual launches are quite bad when compared to things like a single car. But on a macro scale, my understanding is that they are a rounding error on a rounding error.

I've heard the statistic that each orbital launch is the equivalent to the emissions of the cars of a few hundred people. There are currently about 100 orbital launches per year across the world. So even if we increased the number of launches by 100-fold (which would be absolutely bonkers -- feasible, but bonkers), it would a very small fraction of all non-commercial auto emissions in the US alone, for example.

Of course, this is only looking at greenhouse gas emissions, which I think is the most pressing issue. I'm less familiar with broader potential environmental issues with launches, so perhaps I'm missing something important there.

Edit: Fix a math error and cleaned up the comment in general.
It's a lot and I'm not surprised. Recent research in my country (from a reputable institute, the Netherlands) mentions 1 out of 6 people feel burnout and ranks IT industry in the top 3 sectors. This survey articulates it in quite a broad way however, just asking if respondents have 'feelings of burnout', which most of us have once in a while.

That doesn't mean they are burned out clinically speaking, or even if they have symptoms of burnout. It does point to a large, systematic problem in the industry (and society in general).
It's the asymptomatic spread that has caused a lot of the problems and concern. People with ebola for example rarely spread it because they become so quickly and acutely ill. But with COVID, you're going about your normal life for days while spreading it unknowingly before symptoms hit (if they even hit at all).
Nice.

This:
https://lnav.org/features#query-logs-using-sql

Reminded me of:
logParser
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=246...
Classical isn’t really different. It’s just that we only listen to cover bands. :)

Modern works are also often composed by someone different than the performers. The style guide listed describes fields for a separate composer(s) as well.
This reminds me of a lesson I got from a guy working in a specialised factory. Always when he got a call, in panic, for some new part that was needed, he would do nothing and call them back 30 minutes later to ask for details. In 90% of the cases, they solved the problem themselves. In the other 10%, he started working on it straight away
> The (apparent) reality that Delta appears to have a lower IFR and that hospitalization rate for vaccinated people for Alpha or Delta is extremely low do not seem to get the same level of coverage as context for the click/view-generating reporting.

Let's be clear: the good data so far is coming from a country with a high vaccination rate. I'm not willing to extrapolate from the UK data to countries who haven't vaccinated their vulnerable populations.
> Indeed, what is remarkable about human "consciousness" is firstly that so many humans spend so much of their time projecting reality instead of sensing and decoding it, and secondly, that they are unaware they do this. We see things not as they are, but as our model predicts.

Even more remarkable is that so many people find specific instances of this behavior to be a very big deal, often dangerous and believe "something should be done!!!"...but hardly anyone considers the ~abstract phenomenon (all instances and variations of it that occur within society) to be a big deal - it's rare to find anyone in the mainstream who even finds it interesting.
You Hacked: Cyber-Security and the Railways
> "Print this Document"

Is this some kind of in-joke?
I see. In your case it would still not be the almost EUR14/GB from the tweet but closer to it, for sure, about EUR9.14/GB. Anyway, I know it's bad here in Canada but I can't help but feel this report cherry picked their numbers.
It was a convenience but one I can live without. Purely from a LOC view ripping out features from browsers is something I welcome.
Your claim that the media is simply not reporting that vaccinated people are much better protected to the point of it basically not being a threat is not “a fact”.

Most media (except, of course, certain anti vaccine organs, which unfortunately seem to have infected an entire section of the mainstream US media) is reporting the significantly better outcomes for the vaccinated.

That being said, considering how small a percentage of people are vaccinated, it’s still a massive threat we cannot simply ignore.

We need to double down on vaccination even more. Delta only underscores that need that already existed.
It's very easy to lose weight. It's physically one of the easiest things you can possibly do, because you just have to not eat as much. Mentally it is hard, sure. But if you fail to do something because of weak mental, that is a personal failing. If you fail to quit smoking after years of trying, that is also a personal failing. Who else's failing would it be? You can shrug and say you're just going to remain fat because it's a public health issue, but while you do that, other people are eating less and losing weight.
Agreed this was one of the first things I thought outside the balance of energy required for the whole thing doesn't make much sense.

What are we supposed to take away from this project other than its kind of neat and that methane occurs natural in the environment? We are not about to mining ponds for methane - we already have plenty of it accessible at LFG, waste water treatment facilities, methane from O&G operations.
> With GraphQL, I can generate most of my client libraries while, and when I am writing a web client using typescript, I have full type checking on my apps. This makes me as a solo developer so much faster than using rest, with 0 client library generators, and 0 type safety. If my API changes response, my front end generated library will fail compilation with a type error.

> Moral of the ramble, new tech is great – sometimes.

> https://www.graphql-code-generator.com

You can do this with a boring REST API too. Most frameworks can automatically generate a swagger file, and there is a tool to generate clients from this in lots of different languages.
Location: Ukraine (UTC +3)
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C#, .NET Core, TypeScript, React, Angular, Redux, SQL, MongoDB

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1axMADuz1C1dAudYBap0S0Edu3yO...

Email: nsinreal@gmail.com

Eight years of commerce experience. Nerd with various areas of interest in IT. I started as a naive coder with an algorithmic background. Now I'm able to build a product using only high-level vision. Still love to dig into technologies internals.
I used Backblaze B2 for a project as the store of the files.

I had to switch to elsewhere once hitting production, when doing thousands of async upload requests, some would randomly 403 on me. Their customers rep solution was to handle it on my side (yeah, I know) but it was easier for me to just switch providers.

I guess for other products Backblaze is good, but I wouldn't recommend their Backblaze B2 to other fellow devs, those nines of availability in difference are noticeable on the long run
On the one hand I'm OK with removing features to keep the browser slim. OTOH Firefox is vastly fatter than it was in its early versions, which supported FTP (and Gopher!), so it doesn't seem like FTP or other minor protocols are an actual cause of complexity- and bloat-creep.

[EDIT] I'd actually be a lot happier with this if FF were more aggressively adding new Internet or alternative-Web protocols, or trying to use their platform to give things like federated social networks more visibility and better prominence (via, say, optional but tastefully promoted integration with the browser). That might also, you know, differentiate them and give me a reason to recommend it to non-nerds again, despite "it's way, way faster than anything else, and lighter on resources, and blocks pop-ups and has tabs and doesn't have an ad banner!" no longer being enough (or even true, for some of those qualities) like it was in the early days.
Maybe Lennon just liked the music with Yoko, possibly had opinions about it (arguably sophisticated ones, being a brilliant, immensely successful professional musician and songwriter), and didn't care if it was popular. We can't read Lennon's mind; any comments on someone else's thinking are BS without direct evidence from the person themself.

Many people see little relationship between the popularity of music and its 'quality', whatever that means, including me. The more sophisticated my understanding becomes in anything, the more I diverge from the public norm: in any domain, the public is unsophisticated because most people are unsophisticated - i.e., that includes me; you can't be sophisticated in more than a few things. We might expect Lennon had much different taste than others. I'd sure love to learn to see it from Lennon's perspective.
The most drag on a life without work, is put by having to buy physical products, that are not useful, except for status display or decoration. This is why AR- done right would be such a game-changer.

No more throw-away decoration bought at ikea. No more physical products like books, any stone with a small piece of cloth, could be a book.

No more displays of status by buying advertised products - instead, status is what you create, growing out of your footsteps as you walk down a public street.

If all those products fade to grey, lots of work will become unneeded.
And we are almost there.
More than happy to wear a mask, less than happy to take emergency vaccines.
A good reputation arrives on foot and leaves by horse, as the Dutch say.
This is just a project someone made to put in their portfolio, it's nothing serious.
No. "Work as purpose" is an observation, maybe a new observation (not sure about that). It's not like that a scholar invented an idea, then the mass followed the idea and the idea changed everyone's life. No scholar has this kind of magic power.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is called a theory. In its nature, it's a framework of psychological conceptions based on observations. It's not like Maslow tells people what they need and the human beings on this planet start to pursue their needs based on Maslow's demand.

Yes. People want to work less, but people can't just wonder around without purpose for a long time. When you find your purpose, and start to spend your time on it, you are "working" on that purpose. Nobody says work = work for a boss.
I can't say, I live in a country with a multi-party system.
Russia is well beyond the map.
There are 5EUR/mo for unlimited traffic (I consume ~50GB/mo for 5EUR)
..or a 3 line userscript that always redirects to corresponding old.reddit.com URL:

if ( window.location.host != "old.reddit.com" ) {
var oldReddit = window.location.protocol + "//" + "old.reddit.com" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search + window.location.hash;
window.location.replace (oldReddit);
}

// sorry, I'm not familiar with HN md
Try "how can I be a better manager?" or "do you have any suggestions for me or the team as a whole?"
Funnily enough the situation in T-Mobile’s home country has been close to Canada’s for a good while because they had a near-monopoly there (and still do to some extent in other areas, as they used to be state owned).
I just made mine look like the old black tab bar again with userChrome.css.
I wish more people would run FreeBSD because it would make both Linux and FreeBSD stronger.

Single platforms stagnate, we’ve seen it before with IE6 and we’re starting to see it again.
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
I know about the ID3 format, but my understanding is that most fields aren't standardized.
Any serious professional or academic study contains a "Definition of Terms" section that explains how the researchers are defining key elements in their study.

https://www.slideshare.net/myotakustyle/definition-of-terms-....

https://www.mvorganizing.org/why-is-a-definition-of-terms-se...
I suspect the big bang was meant as a code for believing the universe is more than several thousand years old. It's true that the scientifically minded participants could've interpreted it to mean something quite a lot more specific though.
Not that it really changes your point, but I suspect most dairy farms are small, but most milk comes from large dairy farms. Large farms have orders of magnitudes more cows than small farms.

This is great for the dairy industry, they love to advertise that most farms are small, family-owned operations, which is technically true, while selling you factory farm milk.

(If it's not intuitive, imagine a world with 10 farms with 50 cows each, and one farm with 3000 cows.

I suspect that herd size looks more like a power law distribution than a normal distribution, but a quick google search didn't turn up good data.)
Mind over Matter: The Right Mindset Changes the Conversation for Female Founders