skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn’t agree more, this is some serious judicial overreach bordering bordering on cruelty. Based on the recent discussion here about vaccination discrimination, I worry we are headed in a direction for much of the rest where you will be arrested if you leave the house unvaccinated.
I believe the article is missing some important cultural factors.

It focuses heavily on the 1970s, which were over four decades ago. Inflation in the 1970s was driven heavily by a shock in oil prices, which contribute to just about everything else. Wages didn't match inflation because the prices of inputs went up, and out of the country.

We haven't had anything to match that since the 1980s. Inflation has largely been around the Fed's target rate. For the past decade, it's been under the target rate. There has been inflation in the asset markets, driven by quantitative easing, but not much at the consumer level.

The other cultural factor is that objections to inflation depend partly on ideology. The loudest voices about inflation are also the ones promoting supply-side economics. The claim is that anything that helps the consumer side of economics, like minimum wage increases or subsidies for health care or college, will cause inflation -- while subsidies for the supply side (such as lower capital gains and corporate taxes) will create jobs and increase the economy.

This comes primarily from one set of economists, and is widely considered faulty by other economists. I bring it up not to debate the merits, but to point out that it may have less to do with individual perceptions of prices and wages than the article suggests.

Rather, I think a lot of it has to do with ideological unity: it's an accepted fact among some people that inflation is so inherently bad that it must be avoided at all costs. Whenever I hear such discussions, "inflation" and "hyperinflation" are treated as practically synonymous; any potentially inflationary move draws comparisons to Zimbabwe. The US hasn't turned into Zimbabwe despite more than a decade of very loose monetary policy, and yet I keep hearing it.

Of course nobody likes it that prices go up, regardless of the "veil of money". People who remember sub-$1 gasoline will always think of that as the right price, regardless of what wages have done since then.

So I don't think ideology accounts for all of it. But I believe the article needs to consider it to get a full picture. The 1970s were a time that has driven a lot of American political division, and that has more to do with who people believe they are rather than any considered economics. They'll pick the economists to suit their beliefs, not the other way around.
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I think in some cases either people are stupid or are just unreasonably scared.

I discussed this with a family member when AZ side effects started appearing on the news. I tried showing him the numbers (millions of inoculations, few “vaccine-related” deaths) but even presented with “The chances of getting sick with a vaccine are 0.00005%” (I don’t remember the exact number) he would not budge.

I told him “The chances of getting the virus + the chances of dying are hundreds of times higher.”

Nothing.

He just says “my friend got covid and he’s fine” and “that person on the news died from the vaccine.”

Stats and logic don’t work on some people.
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It's really not my intention to turn this into a political flame wars, but isn't there stuff in the works by the Biden administration now to clamp down on industry hegemonies (e.g. "big tech") in the name of healthy competition? How's that different? IMHO, what China is doing strikes me as having the same rationale, with it looking like protectionism against foreign powers being just a side effect. EU doesn't look too kindly on the American flavor of corporate warfare either, for example.

With this said, I think the CCP's rationale for Alibaba is different from their rationale for crypto. One other commenter mentioned something that I think is quite valid: China has a capital exodus problem; there are a non-trivial number of people who got rich through corruption who want to hide money outside of the country and China has been aggressively clamping down on this via exchange controls and other measures. Brazil has a similar problem (though not to the extent of banning the purchase of foreign capital over a threshold) and it tries to keep track of it via taxation. Brazil started to treat outgoing crypto like it does foreign currency purchases, China just looks to be doing the same, but using China's policy framework.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We go into it a bit in the blog post, but over the last two years our average data stored for Computer Backup increased by 15% - it's not just a handful of people pulling the number forward. That plus the rising cost of hardware over the last year and a half resulted in us having to make this adjustment.
I never found Australia to have particularly strict law enforcement in general. However, they have been taking covid very seriously and have had correspondingly low infection rates.
Reminds me of our Café Wifi project https://benguild.com/contents/#Caf%C3%A9%20Wifi
I much prefer Windows with animations turned off, it runs magnitudes faster and smoother. Same with phones & low-battery mode. Wish they'd stop developing new layers of cute UX tricks that ultimately just add bloat and instead focus on OS fundamentals.
Do you mean more productive so that you can return to work of some kind and accomplish more than you have in the past? If so, then even if your theory proves to be true, wouldn't you rather continue living happily instead of using that period of happiness to fuel more productivity even if it doesn't make you as happy?

Or by more productive, are you referring more to building more dams rather than working more?
Every time you save your edits Tramp makes a new connection to the remote server, it's slow(1sec vs 1ms) and becomes annoying waiting for the save all the time. For doing quick edits it doesn't matter but for doing dev all day it does.
At the end of the day, there's just not a lot of energy in human waste. Poop is what's left after your body has extract all the energy it can from food.
Of course they are. Sage Math and Wolfram Mathematica are top-notch.
There is some misery inherent to sitting on the dark side of a sunny window for the privilege of doing it all again the next day.
Maybe neither option is great? Have you ever considered that possibility?

It's funny because your post really offers nothing new, just another opinion of your own.

I've said before, I'm not an anti-vaxxer, I've taken vaccines before and if the Pfizer vaccine proves safe longer term, we know more about reported heart problems in younger males, I won't need to mix and match vaccines and have booster shots and all that type of rot, then yeah, I'll likely participate.

I'm just not prepared to jump right in because Internets tell me they feel it's safe to do so.

What's actually wrong with that? I don't see the issue?
The article is interesting but is misleading. What the article really says, is that if in average you receive a webhook every second or faster, it is better to poll every second an /events endpoint.

Well the best advantage of Webhooks over polling is that you receive events straightaway no matter the volume of events. If you already know the volume and the volume is high, of course polling is going to be better for everyone.
Only in low dose. On higher dosage pure nicotine can cause acute poisoning just as with any substance ( caffeine, cocaine, alcohol... ).

Due to this I believe addiction itself has an inherently bad quality: Users with more tolerance could seek to increase their dosage, and they're more at risk of overdose.

We are not sure if it's not carcinogenic, or not having other long term damages. But only due to limited data, and does not mean it actually is safe.
The question is: who maintains the queue of events, and pays for it?

Certainly the event producer is in a better position to maintain a queue without missing events, but it also means they need to buffer more data in their queue system to accommodate for your receiver's downtime
Yev from Backblaze here -> thank you! We didn't want to fill it with a bunch of fluff first and then give bad news. Went with the most pressing information up front since it's the most relevant, and then tucked the offer towards the back. I'll make sure that the team sees the feedback :)
I am burnt out from all the unnecessary updates so I can understand why the developers would be burnt out as well
SpaCy added to the Hugging Face hub
Lol, thanks for this comment, I glanced at this and thought it was a search engine for finding remote working spaces (like coffee shops).

The header is literally "Figure out where
to work from." but it's really "Decide if you want to work from home", as far as I understand.
>this is what the FIRE movement misunderstood.

Only if you take the narrowest view of what FIRE is. There's a reason the largest subreddit for it is called r/financialindependence. It's not about retiring as early as possible. It's not having to work to survive. It's choosing to work on things which are intrinsically meaningful, as much or as little as you like. I don't think anyone in the FIRE movement would tell you it's wise to retire to a beach and sip mojitos all day.
That conclusions section … publisher may want to reconsider whether this damages their brand. I certainly view this article as BS
Okay, I misread your energy to electricity-only comparison. Divide 0.55% by 5 and it’s still alarming.

You also need to quantify all the non-electricity energy use going into the Bitcoin equal system, including but not limited to hardware production, transportation, depreciation, etc. I’m not sure if those are negligible.
I can’t find the source right now but I believe it’s around 12Wh.
What about supporting fast lookup of the event endpoint, so it can be queried more frequently?

I think that a combo of webhooks / events is nice, but "what scope do we cut?" is an important question. Unfortunately, it feels like the events part is cut, when I'd argue that events is significantly more important.

Webhooks are flashier from a PM perspective because they are perceived as more real-time, but polling is just as good in practice.

Polling is also completely in your control, you will get an event within X seconds of it going live. That isn't true for webhooks, where a vendor may have delays on their outbound pipeline.
Yev from Backblaze here -> are you using version 8.0? It should be a lot more efficient on your machine.
Australia took quarantine really seriously. The plus side: less than a thousand deaths, hospitality mostly open, very few short lockdowns.

The downside is that the lockdowns that do happen are very heavy, and anyone breaching them is treated like a smoker in a fireworks factory.
Your very first submission! "Ask HN: how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of?"[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=939580
It's always a game of cat and mouse, but generally, someone good enough can always quickly figure it out, and it becomes costly for reddit to redeploy new ways to prevent it.

The goal of reddit being to limit it, although I'm not sure they can really make accurate enough stats to know how many people download videos with YDL.

The save vid bot is much more visible, which is the reason they reacted I guess.
That's a great summary of why being a dev is hard and taxing and stressful. My job is all those thing. And because I switched jobs 6 months ago, I haven't built up that confidence of previous accomplishment.
> When we get into "total population" statistics, we kinda leave the realm of statistics lol.

Not even close to accurate.
> "Help your team, set your status"

Not being able to skip this step is incredibly confusing and annoying
I hope this works well. I backed the Kickstarter for an external swappable iPhone battery case (CoBattery [0]) and I loved the thing. It was bulky and looked weird, but it was so nice having such long battery life. They shut down a while ago but it was great while it lasted.

[0]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cobattery/cobattery-nev...
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IMO, SQS is one of the best products that AWS offers. Airbnb built a queueing + scheduling system on SQS to great success [0] (disclaimer, I wrote this post). There are many others, e.g., Slack, that are building on top of SQS.

[0]: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/dynein-building-a-dist...
> EIEIO (“Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects”) provides an Object Oriented layer for Emacs Lisp, following the basic concepts of the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). It provides a framework for writing object-oriented applications in Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eieio/
SSM is much preferred to a jump host for a number of reasons.

1. You don't have to expose a jump host at all, which is one less exposed asset to manage and worry about.

2. Your security team should already be collecting Cloudtrail logs, so they get auditing of SSM/SSH "for free".

3. You can control SSM access via your SSO provider, which means you can trivially enforce a bunch of policies all in one place vs having to configure SSHD.

4. You can control SSM access via IAM.

5. You can limit session duration easily.

6. No more SSH agent hijacking, at least I don't think.

I also wouldn't call this a loophole, you have to explicitly have permissions to use SSM.
7 months in prison is an insane punishment for "you could possibly have COVID and your contractor could possibly not be able to get a vaccine or wear a mask or etc and he could also have immunocompromised family members". Note that Western Australia has a 7 day average of 1 covid case and not a single death since May 2020 (9 total COVID deaths) [0].

The maximum term for drunk driving in Perth is 18 months[1] and that's for a repeat offense with a BAC in excess of 0.15. Is our contractor scenario really ~5 times more dangerous than multiple driving-while-absolutely-hammered offenses?

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=covid+c...

[1]: https://www.gotocourt.com.au/drink-driving/wa/dui-penalties/
One thing not mentioned in the comments here so far is that in general, almost all analog synthesis uses subtractive models. That's perfectly fine, but you should be aware that there are other synthesis models too. Frequency Modulation (FM) is one, famously used by the Yamaha DX-7. Additive synthesis is another, and rarely if ever found on actual analog synth equipment. There are a few more that were developed in the digital realm and will never (or likely never) appear in analog form.

There's a whole world to explore in subtractive synthesis, but you may find yourself at some point wanting to go outside that paradigm, and if so, it's easier to explore in the digital realm.
Well, now he will get a government provided "quarantine".
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Reduced purchasing power that's disruptive to your way of life (read: starving to death) is the obvious reason why everybody cares about inflation.

The real reason we have actual policy to attempt to control inflation is that high inflation is bad for capital lenders, and capital lenders have significant power in human culture (all over the world).

Historically, inflation was used to "pay back" massive war and reconstruction debts from WW2. It was a great deal for all the regular people in those societies, but not so great for the (1% of) folks who lent them the money.

The article covers these points are more, it was a good read!
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Yes, much prefer a workflow where alerts that actually need to be looked at just come into an alert-specific Slack channel with some pretty decent basic info. We did it this way at my last job with Datadog/Slack hooks. It was easy to setup and worked great. Staring at dashboards or even checking them every hour or whatever makes little sense.
How strong is the magnet, can you pick the phone up by the battery pack or vice versa? Seems less practical than the battery case that doubles as protection for the device and charges faster too.
It's visible in one of the photos (11.13Wh)
How is it open source?
The problem is that they are self-fueling all the time where grass is if you are not aware or if you didn't teach well your horse to avoid eating each blade of grass on the way. The journey might be very long haha
Every one of your hypotheticals are going to be hard for your average Joe to hit on a trained fighter. They all involve you closing the distance enough to actually strike those vulnerable body parts - and a trained fighter will either be able to keep distance, or take advantage of you stepping into their range.
If they are intentionally not displaying 69 to avoid a childish joke, that is dumb.
What does my account age have to do with anything I've said?

Congrats you noticed my name is green, now stick to the discussion, don't attack me.

We shouldn't condone Cuba's regime by allowing trade and enriching them further without getting something for the people of Cuba in regards to liberty.
How efficient is wireless charging?

As a pandemic hobby, I've gotten into building batteries to power light vehicles, and it's an interesting problem to try to fit the maximum capacity you can into as small a package as possible. Efficiency is a huge concern here, as the more energy you lose to, for instance, a voltage conversion, the bigger your battery has to be to meet the required use-case.

So this kind of wireless charging is neat, but if there's a significant efficiency difference to just plugging in a power bank, it would be hard to feel like it's worth it.

This might be cool for something like a camera, where hot-swapping batteries faster has a major benefit to the use-case.
Brooks B17, plain street shorts, no chamois... it is like sitting in your favorite easy chair.
This article is just a trolling of China China China. Let me show you some useful info.

Bitcoin mining in China was legal. Because it can convert the waste electricity to money.

Now, the main reason for the ban is that China don't have enough electricity to manufacture due to the robust demand in export.

When China export drops or waste electricity increase, Bitcoin Mining will become legal again. This is where you can make money.
> Do you find Aaron Maté more credible?

The Grayzone is banned from Wikipedia because "there is consensus that The Grayzone publishes false or fabricated information." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...).

And pursuing the first link, I could also spot a couple of sloppy mistakes (text description showing a sloppy misreading of their document screenshot).

So is he more credible than that website you posted earlier? Probably, but only because that website is such a garbage fire. Does that mean he is actually credible? Not so much.
I don’t think you are correct. A lot of places spread it on crop fields historically and many still do.
It can be treated to remove (reduce?) the risk of disease transmission.

Animal manure is very good for plants and many gardeners seek out chicken, horse or cow manure.
And you don't have that kind of "previous work bank" of stuff you accomplished when something runs late, in a new job. And things always run late. In my new job they said here's this major piece of work. We already committed to it. 2 other teams and outside customers are expecting it. Can you do it in 2 months? I don't know, maybe, I guess? There's a great starting point, they said. Then it turned out to take 5 months. Everyone is mad at me, it was incredibly stressful, I worked 7 days a week. This is kind of a summary of the modern dev job.
very critical miss
Products are the least of most ppls worries. Family, housing, healthcare are way bigger costs
The tweets referenced from the article are gone. Maybe it is a rounding thing, and maybe the newer version gets data from the API using Celsius. 20C is 68F, and 21C is 69.8F and the app would display 70F.

Hopefully they've not gone ultra-puritan and decided an innocent number needs to be banned just because some adults know what it refers to and giggle about it...
Time to quit my job and become an inventor (actually something I thought was a real thing when I was a kid).

My idiot-layman brain says buy it from AirGas or capture from large emitters and pipe it into a geological structures like the do for storing helium. It could probably only get to gigatons if it's worldwide and we have enough geological structures capable of containing it.
> Webhooks are great for producers of events, and I'd argue that it's too cumbersome for them to provide an '/events' endpoint primary because of scaling. With webhooks, they can offload events at their own pace.

TBF they could do something similar with `/events`, instead of pushing events to a webhooks-sending queue just push them to the events buffer, which could even be a circular buffer just to point out that the essay is completely wrong. TFA is not asking for /events, they're asking for a very specific kind of /events with a large non-drained buffer. Something which would only ever work for low number of events: $dayjob's github integration takes in several events per second.

A proper event stream would be nice though, github's webhooks delivery system is not exactly reliable.
Would be more accurate if it was just titled "Mammals look weird if we draw them as if they were reptiles instead".
I would feel like a king with 20k a year and so I am trying to find the right degree to work 3, maybe 2 days a week to be able to achieve this?

Any suggestions?
"An easy[0] way for hybrid teams to see who's going to work where, to better coordinate shared work and foster team interaction"

[0] "delightful", "charming", substitute to one's taste for startupy-language.

[edit] improved significantly.
1460 mAh

https://imgur.com/1khiiEj
Lots of funny wordplay there: uitstoot = emissions but uitsloot translates as 'from the ditch'. grasmaaier = lawnmower ('grass mower'), but 'gasmaaier' = grass mower running on gas.
I liked the final third of Seveneves. The first 2/3rds were just a big downer, and I don't need that. I have https://www.washingtonpost.com/ for that.
Wow. Just starting to watch the talk. Very nice, dense introduction with all the questions I have asked myself about sharding. Let's see if I get how you approach LMAX, multiple regions, (and what not)
> I think most burnout is systematic, and caused by incomplete task breakdowns.

As a counterpoint, I think burnout can contributed to by overly granular task breakdowns that remove individual developer creativity and autonomy.
If I invited a contractor into my home and I knew there was say exposed live electricity wires. Even if the contractors was not damaged - I should be prosecuted.

So he exposed someone to a risk that was avoidable. Any other Health and Safety risk, would have been prosecuted in the same way (in the UK not Australia). [CDM regulations]
The problem is that in economic terms, there hasn't been a "long-term average" yet. It's a new financial instrument, and during what duration it's had, its price has been driven by an influx of interest.

At best, you can hope for a logistic curve, where the growth will flatten off when everybody on the planet (at least, those with money) has collectively decided to accept it. That will level off the price.

At worst, when that happens, the people who depended on the exponential growth will cash out their earnings in search of new opportunities. If that happens, the entire thing will crash rapidly.

I can't tell you which it's going to be. I'd call it a coin toss. But that makes it hard for me to consider it a "long term value". It's a valid best case scenario, but we haven't seen that best case yet, only an influx of new buyers who are drawn more by the upward curve rather than the potential flattening.