skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these are more annoyances than anything, but I do agree that following most of this advice will make you a more enjoyable coworker for everyone else.

As a manager, the part about not being a backseat manager hits home for me. There’s something about Slack chats that make some people feel like they need to be involved in every conversation even if they’re not contributing anything useful. I’ve had to coach a few people about how to ignore Slack conversations that aren’t relevant to their own work. Slack is hard enough to keep up with without a constant influx of unhelpful comments from unrelated people.

Another two habits that make for ineffective coworkers:

1) Trying to force everything to be synchronous. “Can we hop on a quick call?” can’t be your response to everything. You also can’t delay discussions until you can schedule a meeting slot with multiple people. Learn to leverage Slack and have productive quick discussions, escalating to a call or meeting only after you’ve tried a chat or e-mail.

2) Trying to force everything to be asynchronous. There are some people who think remote work should mean they can isolate themselves, get their work from the ticket tracker, and only respond to e-mail once per day. This doesn’t work in any collaborative environment where people’s work overlaps and depends on what other people are doing or have done. It’s important to find a balance between working in isolation and being part of discussions, but forcing everyone to work around your asynchronous work habits quickly grows old for everyone else. Be assertive about protecting your focus time, but make a point of being available and part of the conversation.
I also remember having IPv6 in Germany for years now, but it came with lots of problems: routers cannot forward things properly, thus self-hosting at home becomes tricky, or playing games with friends without dedicated servers (yes, they still exist, no, not all support IPv6). It gets even worse with "DS-Lite", where multiple customers share the same external IPv4 address, to enable support for all the webservices not supporting IPv6 yet.

All in all, I had so many troubles with setting up anything behind IPv6 or DS-lite, that I asked my ISP to give me an additional IPv4 address, so that I don't have troubles. While they usually provide bad service, this came for free -- but other ISPs, for example my parents' ISP, want you to pay 50 or more euros per month for an "enterprise contract" to get a dedicated IPv4. I still haven't found a way for my dad to setup his old webcam server at home such that others can reach it from the outside world, and I tried every couple months over the last 6 years or so.
Recently there have been a few companies formally distancing themselves from Google, and doing so with a press release. Is there a reason why this is happening now?

To my knowledge, Google's basic nature has been known for quite a while, and people who care have lined up on different sides depending on their ideologies and self-interests. What has changed in the last 6 months that makes so many companies change their opinions about working with them? Is it just that public opinion has crossed some tipping point where it makes sense to gamble on a temporary revenue hit in order to be on the "right side"? That seems unlikely, just because I don't know a lot of people who weren't skeptical of Google a year ago who are now.

Is it related to FLoC? That seems like a wonky issue that's under most people's radar. Is it the EU antitrust hearings? Also seems unlikely.

Honest question: why now?
No, that was 20-30 years ago.
> For the record, this is what genuinely useful people look like: “Is there anything I can do to help?”

Maybe. As anyone who’s played Overcooked knows, if you’re the critical resource in a crisis, too many “what can I do?” requests can quickly become of negative value.

Often better is to observe the situation, use your judgment to guess what they might need, and make a specific offer.

In Overcooked, that might be, “Looks like you’re going to need some tomatoes in a sec. I’ll start bringing them over.”

In a production outage, “I see your pager’s melting; do you want me to mute the alerts you already know about?” or to get meta, “I’ll start coordinating communication about the incident so you don’t have to keep repeating yourself to #outage newcomers who keep asking what’s going on or how they can help.”
Technically not holographic, but still a significant upgrade over autostereoscopic - there are way more views than 2, all without tracking, for multiple simultaneous viewers.
Is it odd they are going after SpaceX? The funding they received was earmarked to support unserved census blocks. If any company is in a position to help unserved rural areas it is SpaceX, no?
Well, the audio video quality is terrible, but the message -- in the second half, you have to power through a bunch of stuff about Crystal and Lucky -- is very interesting.

He describes his vision for "post open source" license, which he is currently developing. His goals seem to be to to empower software developers to take back power from megacorps which have in his view subverted the nature of open source and turned it into a "resource extraction" scheme.
> there is no _Later_, and _Next_ keeps slipping further into the future

"Later" can turn out to be functionally equivalent to "No" and still be as valuable as "No" can be.

Moving carefully can be valuable too, of course.
Gödel worried about this, and one of the lemmas leading up to their First Incompleteness theorem is that the encoding doesn't matter, as long as it's a bijection on valid algorithms. (Numbers which code for invalid algorithms, perhaps due to syntax errors, can be ignored.) Gödel also was the one who showed that such encodings are possible and useful in the first place, so the problem of arbitrary encodings started and ended with him.

You can phrase things like Gödel did. For any encoding of algorithms into natural numbers which is bijective (ignoring invalid syntax), enumerate the algorithms as 0, 1, 2, 3, ... using the bijection, and then run them in parallel by taking steps [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...] The user provides an encoding, without invoking the Axiom of Choice.
Small Summaries for Big Data
When lab workers studying the very thing they know best can make lethal mistakes, it's surprising that so many jumped to quell any hypothesis of a covid lab leak.

Scientists make mistakes all the time. They're human.

Imagine all of the mistakes you make in your job. Outages. Stupid bugs. It's the same with any profession.
Billing is the lesser reason. It's the networking that's the tricky bit.
Blender was extremely hostile to UI change suggestions as well until only recently when they changed things drastically with the insanely successful Blender 2.8 project. From then on donations (including corporate sponsors) grew massively. Blender has made massive strides in the past few years, and much of it can be attributed to them changing their stance on UI/UX changes.
Why mandate how emissions are cut, instead of heavily taxing carbon emissions and having the market find the best solution?
What is the broker’s motive?
Is there anything on the consumer level like this?
As much as I prefer iOS to Android, this is my biggest pet peave. They way they are so aggressive with bluetooth and wifi is annoying. I hate that they don't even go through DHCP most of the time and just assume that last known IP is still available, all to "help it connect quicker". Just get your own IP because having to toggle wifi on multiple devices is way slower and annoying. I get that AirDrop and FindMy** and other features require these things to work but how about just giving a (one-time) warning when people turn them off. Most people will never turn them off ever so let the subset of us who want them off have it work in a sane way.
>depending on your daily driving patterns

This is the key point. Modern highly efficient turbocharged 4 cylinder ICE vehicles can be equally or more efficient than a hybrid in the right circumstances as well. But the vast majority of driving is city streets <45mph, where ICE can't even come close to BEV.
Woman Will Be Tried Again for Shaken Baby Case from 1984
Eon Tuner: AutoML for constrained devices that also does DSP
Scientists (and logicians) avoid saying "shown to never", as it's much harder - almost impossible - to prove a negative[0]. This is also a black swan[1] type situation. The only way you can say something is never something is if you understand all occurrences of it; otherwise you can only report on what you've been shown.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
Can’t you just spray them into a hamburger meat grinder at a meat packing plant to protect the prions in beef? But it’d be a pretty ineffective terror attack if it takes 10 years for people to show symptoms… though that could also mean that attack was already made 5 years ago and we just don’t know yet.
There are v6 limitations at AWS though too, right? Can you use a v6 address to reach an RDS instance?
As someone who worked in an office for 5 years and has now worked remotely for 5 years, I have to say, this just isn't true. I get the same "peaceful reflection time" from simply walking my dog that I used to get from commuting.
Even your shortened version is a lot harder to remember and type than an IPv4 address.
I wonder if these arguments take into account decreased battery life with a smaller battery in a plug in hybrid. From what I know about li-ion, the larger battery should expect many more charge cycles before degradation than the smaller one, given the same power draw.

There would have to be some kind of argument that the bigger battery leaves capacity on the table during its life somehow, which would mean the battery is still expected to be useful when the car is retired?
I agree with the GP commenter. It's not about everyone being against you. All it takes is just a couple people, or even one.

I don't particularly care about downvotes myself. But the lazy and incorrect drive-by responses, the ones where you can tell the responder did not even read your full comment... Those just really get to me. Enough to upset my whole day and making it so I have to put effort into not ruminating on it.

Should I care less? Definitely. But that's not so easy for me. So more than half the time on HN I'll write a full comment, read it back, and then decide not to post it because it's not worth whatever incorrect response it will get. I don't comment on Reddit at all anymore because it's not worth it.

I've been waffling on whether or not it's even worth posting this comment, haha.
Prions infect animals of all sorts as well, so isolation of human populations is of lesser importance here.

If, say, oceanic fish were susceptible to some easily transmitted prions, you would have a worldwide epidemics in no time. Fish form a crucial part of almost all food chains on the planet.
> TFA does some handwaving about how it'll save democracy, but it's a crock of shit. All it does is make fewer people participate. crazy_horse tried to tell you that. The solution to saving democracy isn't reducing participation.

I don't see that this follows. Limiting participation is not just compatible with democratic systems, it's crucial. Democracy-the-system (the thing being "saved") has long built in safeguards against untempered application of democracy-the-concept. Constitutions, "upper houses", multi-branch government, representative democracy itself: the idea that the untempered whims of the masses are not a stable basis for govt is practically foundational to democratic systems.

Downvotes are even more egalitarian than the proxies that eg govt uses to temper pure democracy. This can make them a double-edged sword: they deter bad actors from causing disproportionate damage to a community (eg a troll starting a flamewar has a sizable blast radius), but they do so by the standards of the community. If the community's norms are "bad" by your definition, then deterring deviation from them is a bad thing. But there's no axiomatic basis for defining what "good" norms are, and the community's views (via downvotes) is a principled mechanism (again, the principle behind democracy).

IMO, the lack of any accountability feedback loop in downvotes alone means that it's a tough sole basis for a healthy community. The best fora I've been on have been on Reddit[1], combining the presence of downvotes with the "constitutional" approach of clearly-defined conversational norms (primarily civility and intellectual charity) and rigorous enforcement.

[1] I have a rule of not naming this family of subreddits on HN or other fora, because maintaining the community quality is a delicate balance and the average HNer would both find it attractive and utterly ruin it in large enough numbers.
That’s another reason I looked into scripting: fear of losing many hours of work through corruption. My last workflow meant writing scripts to define everything so I _always_ started from a blank slate. Naturally this rots over time as the API changes, but I feel much more confident I won’t lose work completely. Not a glowing review of Ghidra though :)
Sigh. More “Kubernetes == Containers” words to throw on the pile. It’s easy to find issues/point at problems with the post, but I’m happy the author is suggesting long-term view of your system and is making a suggestion that k8s could help, that may be true along some slices, but you are biting off learning a complexity you may not be ready for.
You can make your own 2D->3D conversion they’re charging to use their service to do it.
And only be able to afford a 700sqft studio if I'm lucky
If you want to try yourself if you can identify drowning, there's this great educational 'game':

http://spotthedrowningchild.com

It's pretty hard to spot it before your hear the lifeguard blowing their whistle. Turns out [1] that the game was actually inspired by a HN thread on the same article in 2015 [2].

[1] https://github.com/FrankSalad/spot-the-drowning-child

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9947237
I greatly dislike downvoting. Fundamentally, in my opinion, it's an act of censorship. Especially on sites that ultimately hide that information after a certain threshold, as HN does. It's no different in my mind than turning your nose up at someone or trying to talk over someone in a real-life conversation (assuming those still happen). I would much rather upvote the good comments, so that they rise to the top. I probably spend half my upvotes on this forum and others to undo what I consider to be unfair downvotes. If there is a comment I don't like and it bothers me, then it's better for me to reply to it rather than just signal my disapproval at it.

The only time I would downvote personally is for something like spam, and I rarely even do that.

I just think it's better all around to be positive instead of negative.
Many people who work remotely will go to a coffee shop or WeWork. But my point is this -- people who have this urge to be in person and can't be placated reasonably are both in the minority and are essentially a problem when what they want is much more expensive and damaging.
I have personally found that whenever I pair with someone and I'm explaining to them my thought process as I'm programming, my productivity and focus goes through the roof. If my work were open source, I would just stream it on twitch. I might just do that for my side-projects though. But I wish I could have a buddy that just sits with me. We don't even have to talk all the time, just having someone there flips a switch for me.
Not odd. Expected
>It is also why its fascinating that people will believe in conspiracy theories that supposedly involve tens / hundreds / thousands of people.

I have the same reasoning for the 9/11 truthers. Do people really believe that no one on the "inside" has come out to say it was all staged/planned/faked? Hijacking 4 planes and flying them into buildings is going to take a lot of planning. Not to mention that people claim there was no plane that hit the Pentagon. Like really? They go to all that planning and just think "let's just use a missle at the pentagon, no one will notice it wasn't a plane."
A maze and cheese simulator.
This is the one I bought (not affiliated with them): https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082NN972S

I called up the seller to buy more spare batteries and they said the 2 batteries the chair comes with, are under warranty for 1 year. And they should last another 2-3 years easily even with heavy use. So there's no point in buying spares now since the spares will lose the ability to charge over the same time.

We have been out for 2-3 hours per trip many times this year and not once has even one battery run out.
You are conflating lab leak with intentionally crafted bioweapon.
There is nothing that says public utilities can't treat their customers like crap...
If you turn it off via settings it stays off. The control center just disconnects for 24hrs.
For me, "I need an array" is a clear sign that the script should be done with Awk, Perl, Python, etc.
Have you tired the Logitech K480? It met all my needs for pairing to my phone and an Android tablet with a nifty rotary switch for changing inputs easily. They keycap shape was lackluster but overall it was a novel solution.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MUTWLW4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Scaling Hypothesis – The Path to Artificial General Intelligence?
Adding IPv6 support has never really been the issue. It's in every single piece of hardware or software I have. The problem is that people don't want to use it, as evidenced by the fact that people avoid it on overlay or virtual networks and use IPv4 if possible.

The very slight convenience you mention is far outweighed by 32+ digit IP addresses.

Also please don't bring up DNS. Anyone arguing that DNS is a solution to this problem has never done devops or IT.
Show HN: We Created a Platform for Investment Ideas and Insights
Hi Everyone,

I posted about our startup, Utradea, few months back and wanted to share our progress and updates since then (original post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893096)

Also - thank you to all the people who provided comments and feedback on our first post - we have made several changes and added some of the larger updates to our dev roadmap

Background:
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• Public and Private Chat rooms

• Reddit Sentiment Analysis Dashboard (to be expanded to other social media platforms)

• SEC Filing Analysis Using NLP

• Portfolio Rebalancer

What's on our dev roadmap?

• Light mode – So people have the option to switch between the two

• Automated DCF - Pre-populated and few adjustable inputs to quickly find the intrinsic value of a stock

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We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Thanks for checking it out!
StarCraft 2 doesn't seem to have hard counters aside from Immortals from earlier builds. (Zerglings beat Immortals. Immortals beat Roaches), back when the 10 dmg cap vs shields was a thing.

You have to play red alert to really know what the author is talking about. 50 riflemen probably loses to one flametank in command and conquer. Even the Immortal doesn't stand up to such odds and/or resource advantage. The flame tank isn't a capital ship either (not a battlecruiser or a mammoth tank in C&C world), it's just an anti-infantry tank that is highly effective at it's role.

That is, I'm pretty sure 50 Roaches beat one Immortal. And that's the closest thing to a hard counter I've seen from the StarCraft world.
It only effects something like 6% of blocks that SpaceX would get the funds for… so basically instead of SpaceX getting $880m they’ll get $825m.
What if we were to say that cryptocurrency has a 'gal' problem. Men say they can disrupt the Bitcoin gals.
Do you have any examples of downvote-bombing simple claims that climate change is real? I'd be beyond surprised to find out this phenomenon is real, even just based on the demographic prior of HN.

No worries if not, I get that it's not a trivial ask to dig up an example.
If up to $100 million of that was to places like highway medians and a "parking garage ... surrounded on all sides by multiple companies offering gigabit service," then no, it's not odd at all.
Depending on where your office is (typically some sort of city) this can actually be pretty dangerous (hit+run, crime, breathing very unhealthy air). Conversely if you work remotely, you can live in the suburbs or even somewhere more remote.

Additionally, I know in many in-person orgs leaving to go outside and smoke is super frowned upon and seen as a productivity drain. I assume "going for a quick run" would have the same effect at your off-the-shelf toxic org. In a remote org, no one is going to be breathing down your neck while you take 15 mins to go for a walk to collect your thoughts. Especially if we keep passing privacy legislation that limits the ability of the Amazons of the world to install spyware on worker machines.
I don't think downvotes are the problem.

I think the problem largely comes from the echo-chamberization of platforms.
The people who would normally upvote your honest good faith against the grain take are no longer on the platform, because the reigning ideology pushed them out. That doesn't mean you are necessarily ideologically aligned with these people, reality is much more nuanced then black and white.
A downvote is not "disagreeing". It doesn't require the downvoter to be able to justify their action, they can just do it, and it is closer to violence than to communication.
Very interesting implantation method. I never would've thought it possible to use a stent like this. I think the most valuable IP produced from Synchron will be implementing ECoG without an extremely expensive (and risky!) craniotomy.
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