skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry but what? work & family over the past 70-200 years is vastly different from work & family before them (most of human history).

the focus of former for most everyone was just to survive; you worked (probably sustenance farming) to survive, you married for resources, you had children to help with work, etc.

modern work and family is vastly different because work isn't solely motivated by the need for survival, many people today are privileged enough to think about other motivating factors like meaning, prestige, and satisfaction. only now do people had the ability to question things like how they structure relations and relationships, and find what works for them

I think trying to extrapolate in the way you are is flawed
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I agree with you broadly, though would the J&J sample size not be about 21.4 million? 15 is just the number of adverse events right?
A behavioral pattern can be useful but immoral.

Stealing is an obvious one.
Yes, the vscode remote development plugin is a game changer. It's the new benchmark for how client-server IDEs should work. I am (and more importantly, my team is) no longer constrained to the terminal and memorizing incredibly obscure emacs or vi commands to get stuff done on a remote instance. There is no input lag because vscode keeps all the IDE UI local while doing all the heavy lifting remotely. And to the article's point, it treats the remote as "cattle not pets": all of my vscode settings and preferences are local and synced to github, and any time I connect to a new instance, it's able to reinitialize all of my vscode remote state from scratch. Tramp may have been able to do some of that before... but its accessibility was lacking.
Sorry, that was a poor choice of wording: I know about the spec; I mean that I understood that few fields are supported universally by music software (i.e., as usual, different people implement different parts of the spec).
1200 down to 30 even if that rises to 50, or 60, means the link is materially broken.

there will always be a death a rate. im not sure what you were expecting ?
I keep some ebooks/PDFs or long form articles open for this purpose. Preferably something lightly technical that I can read a few paras at a time and highlight as I go along. Ideally the piece should be self contained and not link out to other places, and something that has stood the test of time, so that I stay invested in finished it.

I've skimmed and re-read a few books this way. And even the occasional paper.
Obviously not as much as HTTP(s) but still there are FTP links which show up after a google search from time to time...I guess now I have to context switch to the file explorer...Thunar is OK but does Windows Explorer even support FTP?
Does the $2/month extra cost for "Forever Version History" add-on not solve your concern?

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035247494
Now that the vaccine injuries can no longer be hidden from the public, the industry seeks to capture the discussion to retain their influence on public opinion. The core of the argument is risk assessment based on the statistics that they provided. The problem is, if they were lying about existence vaccine injuries, what is to stop them from lying about the statistics?

A better solution to restore a proper feedback mechanism for public safety would be to bring back full liability in the court of law to the manufacturers, practitioners, & providers. If they are negligent, they pay damages. If there is criminal misconduct, they go to prison. If they commit genocide, they are executed.

The contract between the citizens & the government is that the government protects the people from harm. If the government is to have credibility of authority, then it needs to take real action to protect the public from people who do the public harm.
It's not a problem for me since I'm an american, but people keep pushing for this model here. I don't want that. I don't want to be forced to have fewer children.
I seperate my compostables as well. I don't even use a trash bag in my bin anymore. My trash bin fill up so slowly that I go months without taking it to the street.
Recently I've been feeling more and more detached from work. I thought about taking annual leave but I'm covering for my boss who just went on paternity leave. My employer also coerced (forced) us to take a big chunk of our annual leave already because of concerns there will be a huge clash later in the year. So I feel reluctant to use even more of it and then suffer later in the year. I also thought about asking for unpaid leave but I just moved to a new role and it might be a bad look when I have my review in 6 months.

I'm having a harder and harder time sleeping. Sometimes I only get 2 or 3 hours and I'm up at 4am with what feels like a high level of anxiety, worrying about many kinds of scenarios. Sleeping pills I bought over the counter seem to have no effect.

Would be great if my employer gave us a week to breathe like some companies have, but we're also a startup who just got acquired, so no chance of that either. I'm struggling.
I agree it is sad. Also largely hypocritical of HN in general, since historically HN shows its contempt for the poor (read any post about zoning or rent regulation in SF) than the rich.
My dream replacement for full time work: study and make art (a hobby I have plateaued in); exercise; become a better software developer and data analyst (I'm a manager these days); work part time (very part time) on a couple businesses I am involved with - mostly in creative R&D. I've recently become aware of an "elite" engineering firm that looks far into the future to build original and innovative technologies for clients - I would focus similarly.
If backing up my synology to Backblaze what's the best practice to ensure full end to end encryption. I do not want backblaze to have any way to see my files (I'd probably be ok with filenames however)...
On the same logic, you can find tons of other 'easier' jobs that still experience burnout or boreout. What you're unconsciously doing is a form of the `fallacy of relative privation`. Sure, software engineering is an easier job than resident doctors or inner city math teachers or whatever. That doesn't mean it doesn't come with it's own baggage/challenges/frustrations/mental health issues and that engineers don't get to complain about them just because they're the least fucked in your view of what an 'easy' job is.

Software engineers are classified by the CDC wrt to suicide incidence higher than a lot of the jobs you're mentioning there (8th place out of 22). I guess being spoiled comes with the price of offing yourself more often than doctors, lawyers or teachers.
First impressions from the landing page: it took me a while to realize what the product was. It’s basically a real-time location status dashboard for hybrid and remote teams? With an admin side that lets you set policies for remote schedules?

The initial messaging wasn’t super clear and it takes a while to get specific:

> Figure out where to work from.

Okay, it’s a tool to find remote working spaces? Like cafes and coworking spaces?

> A simple and flexible tool for hybrid teams.

Okay, it’s a tool, but what does it do?

> Essential to your hybrid workforce

Puffery, still vague.

> Spreadsheet aren't a suitable solution for organizations. Café was designed as a foundational tool for any hybrid team.

Spreadsheets? What spreadsheets are we talking about? And more vague and flowery words about how great it is.

> Help people decide where they work from.

> [diagram of two working spaces with user avatars]

Okay, again sounds like it’s going to help me find working spaces?

> Engaging & simple to use

I get it, the tool is awesome and easy to use…

> Set your schedule in seconds and see who's where today and in the future.

Ahhhh, okay, so this about sharing information about where people are. And the way I used it is by setting my own schedule.
The FBI Allegedly Used at Least 12 Informants in the Michigan Kidnapping Case
Yes, but it's not hard to ignore DNT on Microsoft user agents, which are a small part of the population.
The size of the sample depends on how rare of an event that is being studied. For something that happens 80% of the time, 300 is a very reasonable number. Something that happens 1/1000 or 999/1000 would need a much larger sample size.
You can't walk away from Equifax. I can walk away from my drivers license.
> Of course people can choose not having spouse or kids. What do you mean there is zero alternative?

It's worth noting that these people are by definition going to be outliers in the population, as they don't reproduce, so there will always be a selection bias the other way.
I'm basically the opposite of you.

There is a pile of merge requests I need to review when I get time. And the reason I want to review X, Y, and Z is because I personally desire to see improvements X, Y, and Z to the niche FOSS software I maintain.

Funny thing is, we are on a forum named "Hacker News" and I'd speculate that I'm the outlier and yours is the common case.
'Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb says Bitcoin is worth zero
That sounds fine, but almost by definition not the subject matter of "learning".

I'd expect if you're at the meeting, you've probably learnt something of value. Otherwise I'd just invite the notebook.
I mostly agree re: the language itself but Compose is a lot more production ready than SwiftUI, unless you're only targeting iOS 14+, or really 15+

SwiftUI has horrendous bugs in each . release of iOS 13 and 14 has plenty of them too. It really needs to be deployed a la Jetpack Compose on Android, being tied to the OS makes it very difficult to ship reliable code using it.
The study is looking at total mobile service revenue. It says so right on the graph. What makes you think they are only looking at certain plans?
The new style is bullshit.

I've switched to ESR which still uses old tabs and I'll completely get rid of it once it gets updated to the new tab style.
All the major side effects I've heard of have been very small in scope, i.e. the chance of a healthy person developing one of the dangerous side effects is extremely small, and certainly orders of magnitude smaller than their chance of proportionally damaging side-effects from the disease itself. As every vaccine currently developed has a small side-effect risk, this seems reasonable, unless you have a major piece of data I'm missing.

As far as I can tell, any variables about the vaccines seem extremely safe compared to the unknown variables incurred by those with symptomatic infections.

I agree that people in high risk categories who can be vaccinated should do so. However, the vaccine is only mostly effective, not 100% effective, so to some extent their health is still influenced by the health of those around them.

As far as social pressure, pushing (but not forcing) people toward decisions that benefit everyone seems like the entire point of social pressure. People should be given all of the relevant information and should be free to make their own medical decisions. However, there should be some expectation that one tries not to spread deadly diseases to vulnerable populations, and schools / businesses / etc. should absolutely feel free to require vaccination (of those capable of being vaccinated).

But re: your other comment about wearing a mask, if you're one of the rare people who won't be vaccinated but still keep your mask on in all public places, wash your hands frequently, and stay 6 feet apart from everyone not in your household, you not getting vaccinated isn't a major concern. But the people who use these justifications (disclaimer: anecdata) aren't usually taking those precautions.
The whole value proposition of Backblaze and similar services is that I don't have to have sysadmin levels of knowledge. It just works.

If I wanted to deal with regular validation of backups and similar sysadmin tasks, I'd just run the whole thing myself.
> Monitor your hybrid policy

A lot of us would rather HR have to march around and guess at this :)

That being said, this would do a lot better job than BambooHR, which is the current tool we are using for this.
Even easier would be simply admitting they were wrong about the previous guidelines and explaining why, you know like grown ups.
> they know they don't need to even try, as you are going to resolve the problem for them

It's unlikely that the team is best served by you treating your coworkers like children who you are responsible for teaching.

> Worst case, they'll report to their manager that you're "blocking" them and they aren't able to work for the next 30 mins because of you.

If you are, what's the problem?
Having a poll in the field for two days is pretty common, and n=258 is definitely enough for a representative sample.
> Showing up and sitting in the branch manager's office until he fixed the problem worked. It was a $600 problem so it was worth the effort.

After being on hold for >1h, I went to my local bank branch. The manager told me they could only call the same support line. I was sure they must have an internal path to resolve things. He denied that this was an option. I don’t know if I believe that, as it seems unlikely.
How was the thief even able to login to your laptop?
Doesn't Google Domains do this at no extra charge if you host with them, or am I nuts?

(I may be nuts, its almost a certainty actually)
I was reading about car-free day, apparently it's been made official since long (1996 in EU).

And yeah we should push it up a bit more. Maybe preps some bike stock to make new people come to the party for a day and see. Also have more cargo bikes.

I can't push my heart anyway or I suffer consequences, I'm maxing out below 10mph just to let things come back. Even at those slow speed it's already having intense effect on my cardio.
The amount of cognitive dissonance here is intense.

>I can only make this decision based on my own research.

>Unfortunately I am not qualified to interpret the data meaningfully,

You do your own research but admit that you are unqualified to do that research.

> and I truly believe that if there was data suggesting that the vaccine was equally dangerous to the virus, it would be suppressed.

You believe institutions are untrustworthy yet somehow all of them are able to perfectly coordinate to suppress data.

>The publicized numbers for covid give me essentially a zero risk of any problems, because I am young, fit and healthy.

Nothing about your youth or fitness reduces your risk of transmitting this virus.

>I also know what to expect from a respiratory virus, because I've had those a number of times.

It's clear you either do not know nor desire to know how to protect yourself and others from respiratory viruses. This is a new virus that seems like it jumped to us from bats.

>There is also the aspect of direct action. If I get covid, darn that sucks but people get sick and that's life. If I get some bad side effects from an untrusted injection, I did that to myself and it will feel mentally much worse. All of this is to say, I don't care at all if I get covid, because I'll be fine.

You live in a society. Delta is looking to have an R0 of 4-9, that means if you are infected, on average, you will infect 4-9 new people with the virus. If you are infected and suffer long-term damage to your brain and lungs that makes you unable to work, you will qualify for disability, which is paid for by everyone.
I've had many trades as well, before ending up as a software engineer. My hardest, most exhausting job was in the food industry. Entering office live was easy, work a picnic. Plenty of energy coming home after work. With my previous attained 'work mentality' I could way more done! ... and last year I had an extreme burn-out event (hospitalised). In my experience burn-out is a combination of steadily (for a longer period of time) putting in more energy then available, not taking enough rest and most importantly: emotional disturbance (going against your nature/ will)

For example: Work hard, have a bad relationship at home or at work can easily lead to burn-out.

Furthermore, software engineering seem to have some unique combined traits which sets it apart:
1. Creative proces which is hard to manage and easily leads to misunderstandings and conflict with customer or employer.
2. Screen-working enables stretching concentration well beyond human limits.
3. Modern western society tends to personally identify oneself with work too much (which is an easy trigger for emotional disturbance)
4. Programming is fun! Devs are being treated so well! So why not endure those problems a bit longer ...
Here are the commits I could find that remove the "telemetry:"

commit 2a37cd19a022fd6bc63d1c0a403840eb300dfd1c
Author: Cookie Engineer <cookiengineer@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun Jul 4 10:22:57 2021 +0200

:shit: Remove Breakpad Crash Reports

commit 5728dd542fac39c0673dbb1c9d716838a25d69bd
Author: Cookie Engineer <cookiengineer@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun Jul 4 10:20:24 2021 +0200

:shit: Remove Update Check

commit bbf352d36d725335962718f91fc3591a1037f39b
Author: Cookie Engineer <cookiengineer@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun Jul 4 10:19:04 2021 +0200

:shit: Remove Sentry Reporting
Their API used to frequently have a _high_ error rate, to the point my exponential backoff retry loops were giving up occasionally.

Seems to have improved a lot in the last few years though.
https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0

This guy has a channel where he builds up analog synths from basic components. He does a great job explaining the intuition.
"placement in magnet schools and similar programs has been proven to have nothing to do with student intelligence or ability"

This is an extraordinary claim, and you have provided no evidence. Some magnet schools (e.g. Lowell in San Francisco) used to have purely merit-based admissions (you must exceed X on a test). Do you think this has 'nothing to do with student intelligence or ability'?
> That being said, considering how small a percentage of people are vaccinated, it’s still a massive threat we cannot simply ignore.

It is definitely a massive threat to people who cannot get vaccinated if they want to. In my country, we passed that threshold months ago, so the vast majority of deaths are people who simply chose to not get vaccinated.

Vaccination still continues apace, but nowadays it's mostly people under 25, who are much less likely to be hospitalized. When the vaccinations per day start falling below the max we can physically vaccinate, that'll be the point where everyone who wants a vaccine has gotten one.

Unfortunately for the people who have legitimate reasons to not get vaccinated, there are enough people who distrust vaccines that we'll never be truly free of COVID.
IMO browser should focus on HTTP/HTML support. There are plenty of protocols and there are plenty of programs with proper support for those protocols. I don't see nothing wrong with using transmission for torrents, WinSCP for FTP, etc.
After growing tired of modern software development practices a few years ago, I just quit my job. I had no plan on going back to work (although I did after 18 months), and I had no plan on what I was going to do other than improve my math skills (which I did to some small degree) and learn to touch type (which I did not do).

What I really learned is that my digestion problems and benign heart rhythm issues got a lot better during this period. I also just enjoyed parking my car in various locations within 20-40 minutes of my home and just reading, or studying, or listening to music.
You can get eInk Android tablets. Easier to use for stuff like that.
Nothing beats just getting your hands dirty. This video actually does a great job of covering the basics that are common to 99% of synths, physical or virtual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfJ9Dbjz6cs
Sure, but that has little or nothing to do with life satisfaction. Which is related to suicide rate.

In fact, being spoiled can lead to dissatisfaction. It's part of the problem I imagine.

Somebody doing something really hard for a tangible benefit to people they know, have really healthy life satisfaction. Like the plow truck driver in winter, folks like that. For the obvious reasons.

We're all social animals. Suicide has to do with that. Not how easy your job is!
https://archive.is/AptGn
Looks like a cute app, but why are you taking VC money? By my napkin math, for this to be a billion dollar company, you need at least 3 million paying MAU.
But chrome uses the GPU a lot more, thus making everything faster.
Firefox right now is like Linux a few years back: better CPU performance but little to no GPU acceleration
I think it's the print version of this document
My plan is to at least take the next year off to think things through. I don't have nearly enough money for an early retirement, so this will have to be it for now.

But anyway, an interesting thing happened. I am in talks to buy a small cheap piece of land that needs a lot of work. And suddenly I had all these ideas of what I could do there once I clean it up. Not only gardening again, but hobbies, learning new things etc. Basically all the things I want to do now, of which I just occasionally get to some of them, but am otherwise to drained to really get to it. So it's not about not working, it's not about not doing anything, I think I would die if it was like that. It's about doing something meaningful or at least something I don't feel is 60% BS.
What advantages does the approach to threading have over Go channels?
Issues forms beta for public repositories
See, the formula for velocity is v=s/t. We know the distance the object has traveled, so it's the time it took to get there that gets adjusted so as the resulting velocity never exceeds the speed of light. At least that's my understanding of it. I might be entirely wrong.
Any article/guide on how big open source projects like firefox, Linux kernel are released? I believe developers around world contribute to code. What's testing, release process like? How to they manage it?
I hate to be a party pooper (actually, I don't), but if your sleep is poor, you need to look inside yourself and calm your mind down. In the long run, exercising a lot won't compensate. You want to enter another world, not keep processing the daytime world.

Turn your phone off, do only non-stressful things and don't eat before bed, cover up all clocks in your bedroom, and yes, meditate. That's how you sleep better.
Also in the beginning "Depending on which figureyou use, it would put Delta’s R0 between 4 and 9" and toward the end he assume R0 of 8 when talking about herd immunity.

In the What About You section he doesnt even mention those that have had covid, only vaccinated and unvaccinated.
I would have noded and approved this article 24 hours ago.

Now vaccination is about to be made de-facto mandatory in France (with a snarky timing that will prevent some people from getting all their shots before restrictions pop in.) ; and I know that I'm going to be a bit less receptive, because of the tension between "this is sane science" and "this is a terrible bet on the future from a politician that got a lot of things wrong in the past."

That will probably last only for a few days ; I suppose I'll be back on the "let's trust science and hope for the best" _team_ in a few days. The cognitive dissonance is not particularly pleasant.

And I hate being forced into a _team_.
This is a locked stackoverflow question posted 11 years ago. Not sure what to see here?
This! Omri is amazing. I've been watching his videos since the pandemic started and taught myself modular using VCV from scratch. I even bought a few modules :)

VCV is an amazing tool, seriously amazing. I would have never dove into modular without it as the cost to entry is just too high. VCV also nice because you can play with what you want and just ditch it if you don't like it. Can't say that when you buy a $550 module.

Highly recommend VCV + Omri videos.