skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without debating the whole article, I found this one excerpt to be somewhat indicative of his writing more broadly:

"Unfortunately, I turned out to be right. The short explanation is that the viruses that tend to win do so because they reproduce faster. Such a virus will grow faster inside a person, and will make that person more infectious, faster. It will also kill that person faster."

This is a fairly vague statement with broad implications (and a pinch of hubris) supported with insufficient evidence. I appreciate that he is trying to simplify a complex issue into lay-mens terms but I worry that writing like this only adds fodder to the anti-science movement because it is full of quasi-truths.
How can they move the source code from open to closed source? They don’t own the contributions. I guess they hope the small contributors won’t mount a legal challenge or they will pay them off to transfer the rights?

Seems like a lot of effort for this. What is their ultimate end game? I’m not sure that this is worth all the money they have invested is it?
Debunking the Fud Around Data Version Control Implementations
btw, we naturally produce more or less EPO
Ok - I get it now, fair point.
I am a similar way and at least for me I feel somewhat programmed to be needing to do something or maybe even feeling the need for someone to tell me to do something so that I can feel like I am creating value(not at all saying you are like this, just a personal account). I am in a position where I can be unemployed with little consequence, but I'm afraid that the free time will just go to waste. And I think on a larger scale that is a big problem.
In the words of the great bill burr, even if they're a psychopath, at least they're on a bicycle or in a space ship rather than spilling oil in the ocean. The more dumb stuff a rich person like this does, the less they're involved in doing truly bad shit.

Inb4 fumes from the ship killing earth.
Although you replied that you did not read the article first, I think you still do make a valid point. Here is an excerpt from the article:

> Of course, some lucky people already know exactly what they’re retiring to, answers firmly in hand.

> Examples:

> It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to quit my current career and take something lower paying and more meaningful: teaching or contributing to a non-profit.

> I’m going to do a lot of parenting. My kids can easily eat 14 hours a day, every day.

The _second_ example here already calls out that it's going to be common to do parenting 14 hours a day if people retire early. For someone who has kids, it's pretty unlikely to be able to roll with life and see what comes up. It just isn't possible, with or without a job, being financially independent or not. And whether we like it or not, a large percentage of the population above 40 do have kids.

This is purely my opinion, but I'm actually not sure that, for a child past 2 years old or so, if it's a good idea for a parent to be with their child 24/7. I think there's a lot of value in learning social interactions with other children in a daycare or preschool. I did this exact thing for 3 years and am transitioning the child to preschool at 3 years old, and it has been difficult.

On top of it all, let's say your kids are school age, somewhere between 3 to 16. Let's say they go to school during the day, and you have free time during the day. There is another discussion to be had about your kids' mentality if they grow up with parents who don't need to work. Sure, maybe in the near future, in this next generation, we'll enter a society where work is unnecessary and everyone lives off of UBI, and maybe the discussion is moot. But assuming that won't be the case, would you want your children to grow up with the impression that when they grow up into adults there's no need to do any productive work, or have parents as role models who contribute meaningfully to society?

Maybe I haven't thought it through, maybe I'm just not smart enough. I'm at a point in life where I could feasibly "lean FIRE" if I really want to, but for the sake of my child I'd rather continue to work. Which then leads to answering this post, my FI and retirement almost isn't about me, it's about my child/children. Or maybe that just means I'm that guy who said "I'm going to do a lot of parenting" then.
Intro to synthesis parts 1 and 2

https://youtu.be/atvtBE6t48M

https://youtu.be/gJkxGvhOS-M
Yeah, it's pretty well covered in the link I posted, and there is more data too.
In general the focus should be:

Be mindful. Informed. Increase your knowledge, consider alternatives, and make decisions given an expanded list of options. (Don't just go with the default, common, mainstream way of thinking that leads to people retiring at age 65 after decades of hating their job.)

I'm a proponent of many of the concepts of FIRE, but in some ways, the attitude started way before I started reading Get Rich Slowly, and Mr. Money Mustache. I'm all about putting effort into things I really care about, while being efficient and judicious with effort being put into things I don't care about. Work is usually not at the top of my list on things I care about. So I have changed jobs frequently to find ones that pay better than the last, and are also a better fit for me. Shorter commute. Better team. More engaging work.

Along the way, spending below my means and ensuring money I do spend actually provides the result I expect (i.e. lasting happiness that a lot of spending doesn't really provide) has been instrumental in making thoughtful decisions while also accumulating that cushion that can eventually wean me off paid work as a necessity.

In other words, I don't choose jobs that suck because they pay well, so I can get to a "finish line" faster. I put all the variables into play, and make sure I'm enjoying life now while also expanding the flexibility I'll have in the future.

While we agree on a lot of things, maybe we read different "FIRE discussions" because many of them factor these things in. Compulsory work limits your options, and even more so, spending all your money or beyond your means limits your options indefinitely. That doesn't mean retirement creates happiness, or is a prerequisite for a good life, but getting beyond that work requirement can certainly give you a lot more freedom in how you choose to use your time.
These non-orbital flights will be a footnote to the SpaceX chapter in history. In another decade humans will be hauling massive payloads to orbit, building on the Moon, Mars, in orbit, etc.
I would assemble your own using FreeNAS/TrueNAS or buy a TrueNAS system that is already built for you. Having a full FreeBSD based system with modern ZFS is much more robust and does not come with any restrictions.
Work as purpose is a rather novel idea. Max Weber is really helpful here, and his seminal book, while published in 1905, seems more relevant than ever.

It used to be that you worked just as much as you needed to, to sustain yourself. So much so that raising wages would immediately result in people working less, as they could earn the same amount of money with less work.

Then at some point work became a "calling" and working as hard as possible viewed as respectable, desirable and commendable.

I still think this is insane. There are so many things to do, so many things to think/dream about. So many moments to just do nothing and stare at nature. I don't have time for work.
That was it! Thank you. I recall a rocket exploding and couldn't hunt it down.

Even if you search Space Shuttle Challenger now you instantly get crud content.
It's not so much that vaccination is iatrogenic, it's that when you have a sizable percent vaccinated, but a sizable percent not, you're kind of in this worst of all possible worlds from an evolutionary standpoint.

If worldwide vaccination rates were very high, it would drive viral transmission down to negligible levels and effectively slow the rate of evolution by decreasing the viral population size to something very small.

If there were no vaccine, we'd be back where we were, but there would be no vaccine to evolve against as a selection pressure.

When you have, say, 50% vaccination, you have a sizable population to evolve in, and the vaccine as a pressure selecting random mutations.

If the vaccine is very effective in preventing asymptomatic transmission as well as symptomatic infection, it might not be such an issue. This might be why the delta variant seems to not be doing much in vaccinated individuals. But it seems vaccinated individuals do still transmit the virus asymptomatically at some nonnegligble rate, and then you have a sizable nonvaccinated population.

What I'm worried about now isn't so much the current state of the delta variant, it's where things are headed. Specifically, how this evolves in (1) the unvaccinated populations, and (2) what the future might hold for vaccine resistance in the future.

It's one reason I'm sort of angry with the FDA for playing this power game about approving a booster vaccine. It's not their job to evaluate the need for the booster, it's their job to evaluate the safety and efficacy of it. By the time they change their minds about need, it might be too late.
Sound Sultan’s death: understanding angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma
Clearly, several people (including me) think that you did imply it - so, regardless of whether or not you intended to do so, that's what you communicated in your post.

In particular, the way in which you mentioned extrapolation in the context of the study (and the conversation in general) carried the implication that the extrapolation was valid.
'misuse of mailing lists' section feels surprisingly modern
I don't think most people, except maybe in the EU, experience enough time-off to ever feel what it's like to not be working, and also not be trying to work. Weekends and evenings are barely enough—if they are at all—to catch up with chores and such that accumulated during working hours (that is, unpaid work). Most folks have a couple weeks of vacation, which will tend to be eaten up finally fixing the fence or that dripping faucet or else frantically trying to do some Big Thing (usually some kind of trip) because actual time off is so rare that you don't want to "waste it".

Most people don't get any useful amount of actual free time until they retire. No wonder so many are lost when they do. They've had no practice at it, and have had all their time-requiring interests beaten out of them over decades of the work-week utterly dominating the rhythms of their life.
> Apparently by throwing out radar signals they get smoother object recognition...

...and driving straight into barriers.

> the system doesn't know which input to trust

Well, clearly their camera network is untrustworthy, so...
You're talking about quality, but what about quantity?

If you need to develop:

- the back end for an application
- the front end for an application
- some external APIs for the application
- a structured data storage layer, say, with an RDBMS
- an object storage of some sort, for example, on top of S3
- some sort of reporting functionality
- mailing list functionality
- etc.

Then no matter how good your manager is, there'll be more work for 1 person to reasonably manage.

Furthermore, the quality of your work can be stellar, but if there are 5 different problems, all of which need solving and you tell your clients to pound sand, you might find yourself with no clients.

Understaffing feels like a real problem.
Probably because a new version was just released. Details here* but big news is debugger support. Looking forward to taking it for a spin.

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/NationalSe...
When billionaires spend their wealth it is far more beneficial than if they lock it up in stock.

When they buy a yacht it feeds that entire supply chain. not to mention all the other things along the way like docking fees, maintenance, insurance, etc...

Holding significant amounts of Amazon stock for example only benefits the billionaire, whereas if they sold the stock it could democratize ownership and allow many more to benefit from Amazon's growth.
I agree. Ideally, we get to an end-state where it doesn't matter what hours (or how many) you work as long as your team's outcomes are being met (and the outcomes are reasonable). There are a lot of caveats and complexities in that statement, but it's a state we can keep pushing towards as an industry.
The thing is though, I do feel like shit when I wake up after only 6 hours sleep :)

It's jut exercise saves me. At least it feels like it does.
Word does a subset of LaTeX, badly. For anything after high school, the limitations of it are painfully, painfully apparent.
competitive riders also have all the road for themselves, makes things a bit easier
Google rolls out more generous revenue sharing to attract new Stadia games
I have music on Apple Music but no artist profile as Apple won't let me submit a picture without my face shown. Fine for Daft Punk though.
The X Prize was privately funded, partially by the Ansari family, not government-funded as you claim.

https://www.xprize.org/about/people/the-ansari-family
> Why do we want to strive for an equal amount of parental leave so much? Seems like an obsession borne out of a political ideology rather than an increase in productivity.

The point of striving for equal parental leave in this instance is to even up the playing field economically for men and women. If they both have a roughly equal probability of going on parental leave and the time they'd take is roughly equal, then it makes no sense for a business to avoid hiring women of child-bearing age over men of child-having age (obviously it isn't as cut at dry, but generally there is a range of normal ages for men to dad's as well). It would of course not be perfect, but it has a chance of working at least.

Now if don't want to solve these issues (maybe you don't believe this is a problem) or if you want to look into entirely different ways of solving them (like universal basic income), then okay that's interesting but it's kind of a separate discussion.

> the FAANG can’t use parental leave as a selling point anymore.

Random aside. Why do we care if they use it as a selling point? If we want to remove that option we could also just make it national law. (Here I assume you're referring to the US since many countries have these laws already.)
DNT does nothing technically, but it has political power and that's where privacy happens to a great degree. When 70% of users say 'do not track me', it is hard to claim that they don't care about privacy.
There is also clojurescript which is fairly popular. I am not a large fan of using these for websites since they have their own heavy runtime that needs to be shipped. ReasonML did fairly well in this aspect but there is still a baggage.
No disrespect meant to their engineering team, because I actually think Netflix does a much better job and produces less buggy software than any other streaming app, but the hard part is acquiring and/or creating a catalog worth subscribing to. The quality of the user experience is overwhelmingly determined by the quality of what they're watching.

This is the basic reason why, though I'm sure they pay the engineers "well," they're not getting the $500 million deals the high profile writers and directors are getting.
If there is anything about the claims I highlighted in the article I linked to that you think is wrong, feel free to mention them.
I suspected it was too evil for Reddit. Killing off secret santa was lame, but threatening to sue your users is a different level. Plus, there would be no reason to threaten a lawsuit when they could just ban the account.

So, gaming this out, I don't think the person that ran SaveVideo was evil either. Assuming good faith, the most likely explanation that comes to mind is that someone fabricated a cease and desist notice.

Either that, or Reddit lost track of one of their lawyers on payroll, who got a bit too bored. (As strange as it sounds, this actually happens; I once received a C&D from Magic Leap merely for mirroring their Magic Leap developer manual to my personal site. No idea how they even found the link.)
I'm having trouble following your reasoning. It seems predicated on the assumption that Krav makes you a less skilled/unskilled striker/grappler when compared to say MMA or others, but I don't see any reason why this would be the case?

That aside, the main thrust of your argument seems to be, "If you can't land a non-lethal blow, then there's little or no chance of your landing a lethal blow." I don't think anyone disagrees with that. I think the disconnect is that once again your argument comes down to, "Krav automatically makes you less skilled than _______ (insert style here) and thus unable/unlikely to land any attacks."

But, once again, I don't think that follows unless there's a provable weakness/deficiency with Krav itself and/or you really do have a BJJ black belt vs. a level 1 Krav student, in which case I don't think anyone is going to disagree about the outcome.

Anyone who practices Krav on a regular basis and learns the techniques well can become a skilled striker, grappler, etc., in which case they will have an advantage over a straight MMA fighter of the same level simply because the Krav practitioner will be trained in very harmful attacks that MMA disallows (i.e., groin shots, eye attacks, etc.).
such great points! I've always found the tooling lacking for teaching beginners programming, sure there are good languages, but as he points out the environment is also vital. I find it very hard to introduce programming to my social science friends (who would actually benefit greatly from knowing how to manipulate data), most of those who have extra time go to learn excel or spss.
Is it not reddit's fault? Some sites such as imgur expand inline much like "native" videos. Is there any reason that twitter posts don't expand in the same way? Is it Reddit's fault, Twitters? I think it is pretty clear that it isn't the user's fault.
What math and trig? He's drawing shapes using a coordinate system, how would you use less math?
$ sudo apt install pio
[sudo] password for dheera:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package pio

Nope, pio isn't convenient. If I have to google for how to install it, it's not convenient. Googling for "pio" also gives a lot of seemingly irrelevant things, adding to the inconvenience. By the time I find it on Google, my FeatherS2, that presents itself as a USB drive, is flashed and ready to go.

Software installation, of all things, should be L5 autonomous in 2021.

Mind you, I built my own PIC programmer back in the day. It's just that we're in 2021 now, and I expected progress.
My experience is that weight-lifting increases my sleep requirements (and also improves quality of sleep).
I think this is a classic example of "Once trust is lost is next to impossible to regain"

They completely screwed the launch of their "telemetry" collection, so bad that no mount of "reasonableness" is even being considered by many in the community.
I have things I like and things I don't like about it.

I like it because I see it as a guide that helps people understand how to grow and also a framework for fair compensation.

Without guidance many people, especially early in their career, will not grow as fast as they want to grow. They will need to find other ways to get this guidance, such as a good mentor. Some people learn better with a mentor, some people learn better with a framework.

Without a compensation framework, it's hard to reason about whether people are fairly compensated across the board. So what happens is that people start to develop these anyways. If not done explicitly that means that everyone has to independently do the work of coming up with their own framework and then everyone ends up with different frameworks, resulting in things being less fair. A shared understanding and a shared language can be really helpful.

I don't like it because I feel like it will inevitably change from guidance to a checklist. And then it gets political and competitive. Just like you said, people definitely start focusing on the rating. A lot. I think there could be ways to combat this, but I think it's a difficult problem.

I think no matter what you implement, there's a tradeoff. For example, my current thought is that I want it to be more about guidance and less about compensation. So it's guidance on where to grow (if you aren't sure) and de-emphasize the compensation part. How do you do that? I think you basically need to make the guidance more general and then tailor it to a person. Therefore the guidance will be more hand wavy so you sacrifice some fairness. By de-emphasizing compensation, you'd probably also be making people who thrive on promotions and leveling up less happy.

I would honestly love to hear people's thoughts on this as I'm thinking about defining levels in the next few months.
Studies are never meant to be an ultimate answer to everything. And just because they're not the ultimate answer, doesn't mean that they are therefore worthless, bad or "bullshit".
How many more astrophysicists would we have if the current wealth of the top 10 billionaires went to our educational system and bringing people out of poverty? Sending billionaires into space accomplishes nothing that the rest of humanity can benefit from, and actually would do a good bit of damage to our future. Sure, the tech will get better, but it will be patented and upcharged in a way similar to our pharmaceutical industry, only with fewer regulations. Space is too important a frontier and space exploration is too important an endeavor to squander in this way. We need NASA in space, not billionaires.
Covid doesn't affect children to the same degree it affects adults so no, I don't really care that it isn't approved for children.
>Another question to consider is why the repair is 16k

If you watch the video on 'Rich Rebuilds' YouTube channel that this article comes from, they mention the problem... The battery pack _can_ be opened and repaired, but it requires special training, equipment, and a specialized area of the service center to perform the work. They mention that Tesla _used_ to do this work and some of the Service Centers were properly equipped/trained to do handle it. However, Tesla found it was cost prohibitive to do at individual Service Centers, so now they have one central facility that repairs/reprocesses packs.

Rather than equip and train every Service Center, they've found it makes more sense to just replace the whole battery pack and send the old one back to the one central facility for service.

The battery pack is considered a high-voltage part. Tesla, by their policy (safety and liability reasons, presumably), won't sell you any of the high-voltage components.
That's if you release the methane, not if you burn it; assuming you burn all of it, the resulting CO2 is the bigger concern.
Did he done steroid tests?
> For better or for worse (for society), it appears healthy-weight people under 50 making the choice to not get vaccinated on a calculus of myocarditis, menstrual complications, blood clotting, and various other longer-term risks are, in fact, not being "highly irrational"

I'd be curious to read source of the statistics you're referring to (i.e. what rates of these complications you see and how they compare to the complications of covid itself in the same age groups).