skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does everyone think about the ESP-IDF move to CMake? I personally thought their "legacy" Makefile setup was really nice and worked perfectly for me. What does CMake bring to the table that I haven't appreciated yet?

It would also be nice if their tooling was less Python-heavy, that's a common point of failure and slowdown when running commands.

Overall though I agree, the ESP-IDF is great and I wish more chip makers put a similar amount of effort into their tooling.
GP, while phrased a bit stridently, isn't totally off base here. Arguably, Blizzard led the charge in proliferating RPG systems into virtually all other genres and they proved the popular power of "grind" based systems.

The original RTS games (Warcraft 1-3, Starcraft 1) did not really contain these systems. But virtually everything else Blizzard has produced (including Starcraft 2) has grinding & collecting in it.

As mentioned, this spread to other genres, infusing Activision's flagship Call of Duty franchise with grinding & leveling. The mobile division, King, does all these things as a matter of course -- it's nearly 100% of the business and design models in mobile gaming.

To be fair, you can't blame Blizzard entirely for spreading these design choices. It was an industry wide shift. But they were one of the shining golden examples of its success, and they sure leaned into themselves.

Assuming gp was referring to these mechanics, there's a lively debate to be had about propensity to spur addictive behaviors.
But if others are already vaccinated, how does an unvaccinated coworker infect a vaccinated coworker?
> We will have a process for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons

What might "other reasons" be?
Looks really good. We’re currently looking for a replacement for GA, but before we’d consider testing a new platform like yours we would want to understand the pricing model.
As I said in my original post:

> Whether you choose to do them or rationalize a way to not do them doesn't matter that much

My point is that there is no meaningful solution. I present the best individual actions the average HN reader can take. Either do them or don’t.

The world 50-75 years from now is going to be unimaginably ugly for a huge number of people who just don’t think it can happen to them (or their kids/grandkids). This is regardless of whether I get on a plane again (I won’t) or whether we start planting trees.
the game is similar to "simon says" and has nothing to do with defusing the dummy
Come on GitHub >_<

https://github.community/t/cannot-reach-any-github-io-page-v...
The highly infectious Delta has optimised yield of all the steps in replication and an infected person soon reaches a virus titer of 1200 times the previous titer, 2 days quicker. That means each particle shaken loose by panting, shouting etc has 1200 times as much virus. In adition high frequency child voices shed 10 times as much as adult voices on the vocal folds - thus children are prone to fast and intense spread and even though they have historically higher survival rates, it is not clear if the youth advantage will enable them to survive the 10,000 times the viral titer AND the extra spread = an abundance of caution to protect the kids.

Virus replication requires making virus sub-units and assembling them into a virus. When the cell gets full it ruptures and spills completed viruses as well as a sea of unused and partially used subunits. There will be a 'critical path' that ends up maximizing complete viruses and minimizing wasted sub units.
There has been a lot of work studying the Delta variant and why it leads to over 1000 times as many virus particles in the blood. 1000 times as many means any expelled particle of sputum holds 1000 times as many chances to infect a person. This greater efficiency explains why it peaks it's infectivity ( as measured by virus titre (measured number of particles in the blood)) 1-2 days faster and why it spread so much faster.
This paper, and others are exploring this aspect of virus kinetics. It also reports that the vaccine efficacy is maintained, so a booster is a very good idea.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.08.443253v4....

A search under 'covid-19 delta variant replication kinetics' showed many similar papers.

I can not understand the hate? This is a true and valid situation.
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The parent poster mentioned having taken LSD and later experiencing HPPD (hallucinogen-persisting perception disorder). Visual disturbances and distortions are often associated with both. In rare cases it can last for months or years, if the HPPD is severe.
San Francisco robbery wave hits Gov Gavin Newsom's wine shop, 4th time this year
There's a joke in here somewhere that is less than $950.
Oh I use a password manager too. Just pointing out it isn’t a catch all
IIRC, unvaccinated are more likely to get infected and also typically have higher viral loads, which corresponds to higher infectiousness.
Religious most likely
Gasoline-engined planes are overwhelmingly for personal use.
This analogy is insufficient to capture what is going on.

In web dev, the client and server are doing fundamentally different things (eg UX vs data storage) and while sharing business logic is interesting it doesn't solve a huge problem.

CPU vs GPU is vaugly analogous to different web browsers on the client in the old days when they were very different. They have different performance characteristics, so shims worked but had performance impact. But they were widely used because it was too hard to do yourself.
I don't think it necessarily shows that. Their good ranking could be completely unrelated to bouceback.
Damn. Minimal figuring out and 50hrs/month for free.

As a fulltime working parent, 50 hours a month is more time than I am likely to spend anyway.

Awesome. Thank you!
> Everyone knew from that first cluster in Wuhan that this was much, much more dangerous. Everyone told you that. Everyone trustworthy, anyway.

I hope you find the CDC to be trustworthy because the CDC says on their website that the flu is more dangerous than covid for young people.

"For young children, especially children younger than 5 years old, the risk of serious complications is higher for flu compared with COVID-19."

"However, for adolescents, the risk of serious COVID-19 illness is less than in children younger than 5."

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm

I agree with you that there are people who cavalierly dismiss the dangers of covid. But there are also people who oversell and exaggerate the dangers as well. Both are doing a disservice to people and society in general in my opinion.

Perhaps you meant covid is much more dangerous to some portions of the population while the flu was more dangerous to other portions of the population? Though I guess things could change in the future with more data and information.
I agree with general sentiment that people mean different things by "technical debt" but don't buy the argument for the title.

Article says: "Debt repayment has three properties that are straightforward to grasp — principal amount, interest rate, and term [...] when comparing technical debt, there is no agreement on the principal, [...] there is no concept of an interest rate [...] , term length isn’t a fixed concept"

However, there are generally accepted meanings of the those terms for the technical debt:

- The "principal" is how many things is wrong with the code. It could be measured in features ("We need to implement unit tests and database layer to clear technical debt") or in time ("it will take 6 FTE-months to clear our technical debt")

- While "interest rate" is rarly used, "interest payment" is common -- this is extra time spent implementing the new feature. One can say: "This feature would take 1 day if we had database layer, but because of technical debt we own, it will take 4 days instead". In this case "3 days" is the "interest payment"

- Not all debt has fixed term. "revolving debt", like a credit card, has no term at all. Technical debt is like that as well.

(Of course getting the actual values for "pricipal" and "interest payment" is very hard and no two people are likely produce the same estimate for them. But even if don't know the values it does not change the fact the the terms are defined well -- so this is very much a "debt")

As for "not even technical" part: I am going to argue that everything indirectly affects competitiveness, costs, customer satisfaction etc.. A leaking roof will decrease morale, decrease development speed and can even kill the company. Judging by consequences does not really bring anything useful to the table, so if you want to qualify the term, let's use originating action. "Technical debt" if we don't have any tests. "Financial debt" if we took money from the bank. "Organizational debt" if we are not creating the positions we need, and so on...
Does this apply to the flu, varicella, meningitis, etc as well?
I haven't chosen the title yet. It was great to give a context
I'm thinking something along the lines of the taters scene in LotR.

"Stable boy! The horse's name is Potatoes!"

"Potatoes? Mi'lord?"

"Yah! POT-AYT-OES!"

writes Potoooooooo
If you don't get enough praise for not breaking things, get a days since a workplace accident sign, and update it every day.

Set it to zero when you break something.

Edit to add: you should be able to get some praise (or at least self-praise) at milestones like 30/60/90/180/365 days without an incident.
A decade without interruption is better than most enterprise IT departments manage despite considerably higher costs. I still have a couple of instance which have been upgraded a number of times over the year but aren’t quite ready to turn off yet.
If you lose smell, then the brain will shift smell-related resources to other functions.

Any large-scale body damage should cause "brain damage," though it's possibly a little misleading to call it that (of course I'm not enough of a neuroscientist to know if that's all that's at play here).

related: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/a-new-theory-of-dreami...
distributional evidence is the strongest form of evidence
Gotta give it to these folks, good hustle.
Synchron gets FDA permission to test brain implant in humans, beats Neuralink
> socially conservative

Not in any stereotypical sense. Pigeonholes—whether of the 1950s or today—don’t capture him well.
The default VPC setup in each region just has a two public subnet configuration by default. You boot up an EC2 instance and it has a public IP address reachable from the internet (if you open up the security group) and a private IP address.

If you want a totally private subnet to put your back end app servers on so they are not routable from the world as an extra layer of safety, then you can do that too. Or, if you'd like to boot up EC2 instances with only non-routable IP addresses for security, yet be able to have the instances reach out to the world, you can create private subnets and then route the traffic out of NAT Gateways.

VPC's offer the best of both worlds, rather easily too once you wrap your head around how all of the VPC objects and software defined networking work.
That claim isn't made or supported by the cited nature article (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00771-8).

It appears to come from a researcher contacted by the site for the article. And it's probably true.

However, there's a few reasons to believe that "long" covid like symptoms wouldn't come from the spike protein alone:

1. As a parent mentioned, you generate a lot fewer proteins w/ the vaccine than the virus

2. IIUC, those proteins are more localized. The soreness with an initial injection is inflammation due to spike protein creation, and that's usually localized to the injection site. The proteins themselves are less likely to travel as widely as the virus.

3. The proteins don't last very long. They're gone after a few days. So long term symptoms wouldn't be due to a continued immune response. They might be due to inflammation that hasn't gone down, I guess, but that seems unlikely to last months.

And again, all of these will be worse with the virus than the vaccine. You'll have more spike proteins, for longer, over a larger part of your body, and also have a virus attacking you in addition to the immune response.
Breakthrough infections and questions about transmissibility even if vaccinated aside, consider this: a second unvaccinated coworker.
You can still engender a sense of camaraderie that makes it easy to exploit passionate engineers and artists without resorting to creep shit, but it's probably harder.
It’s risky to link passion to your career. Look at musicians, comedians, video game industry, etc.
Breakthrough case

Not to mention if you don’t enforce the policy, unvaccinated-by-choice persons (henceforth referred to as “morons incapable of basic science and empathy”) will infect one another and further increase the probability of breakthrough cases
Yes, but without the pipeline and the complex instruction set!

That said, it will be interesting when one of these SOC vendors decides to make a 'south bridge' serial I/O bus (I'm thinking like four LVDS channels clocked at 100MHz)which then connects to a selection of peripheral modules. That would give customers a 2 chip solution that could have a lot more variety than trying to stock 100+ SKUs to meet various market needs.
Unfortunately, this loophole will negate the entire mandate.
Hard to call something like this "mandatory" if you can just opt-out for non-verifiable personal reasons.
As far as I'm aware, the answers to these questions is currently not known.
I think I follow your logic, but I think it has an ommission. Using your model, how do you explain the majority of people who use addictive things with no issue, they have reward pathways the same as the "addicts". Are there not other factors that make the difference between a user and an abuser of something?

To use your example of mild boredom: boredom is felt by everyone yet most people choose healthy choices over addictive behaviour. Is there simply some luck in how we are exposed to an addictive experience or do some people seek addictive rewards to overcome some greater pain?
There’s a whole line of discussion to be had around the realities of outsourcing to be had, but I’d like to focus on discussing employee rights.

Are we OK with employees being treated like this? Are we willing to make concessions on our relationships with our employer under threat of losing our jobs (outsourcing is just one of the many ways a job can be taken away).

I’m of the thinking that companies should not be able to abuse the inherent power they hold as employers to deny some pretty basic rights like the ability to sue from individual employees.
Fuck the pushback. We cannot let the worst of mankind condemn us all to death because we don’t want to upset the worst of mankind.
Craigslist killed the classified ads business. And now Facebook Marketplace is killing Craigslist.
Is there a VC out there that can just throw a few tens of millions of dollars at these employees and literally just teleport them from Blizzard to NewBlizzard in the same roles in a new company with a culture they prefer?

I'm actually surprised this isn't "a thing". If a large percentage of a well known, profitable company doesn't agree with a direction it's taking... why doesn't a VC or private equity just help finance a new company and absorb those people into it? If the people have anything to do with the products they create, they should be able to compete with their former employer as relative equals, and possibly even with an advantage because their former employer has lost a significant amount of staff.
Is there something like Linear Algebra Made Easy?
Jacob Geller has a neat video essay about what the passage of time means in a timeless animated show: "The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love"

https://youtu.be/1f5Xt5pZZZM
> If someone is vaccinated AND still spreading the virus, is it any different from having an asymthomatic case of COVID?

It carries about an order of magnitude lower risk of hospitalization or death, so... yes. Yes, it is very different. We don't know about long term effects, those are, y'know, long term and hard to study in this kind of timeframe. Which is why the linked article is notable.

Also note that risk of transmission is about 10x lower (vs. delta, better vs. the older variants) for the vaccinated. So even if they're just as likely to see long term CNS issues from infection they're vastly less likely to be infected in the first place.

I don't think this article changes the vaccine calculus at all. Get your shot. It's your best protection against everything to do with covid.
I've never worked at a place that treats juniors like that, so my experience is opposite of yours. It's totally fine for the more senior dev to push back and say, "I think you kind figure this one out, maybe look into X", but juniors should be asking questions, it's one of the primary ways to become un-junior.

I've never even heard of a junior fired for "asking too many questions".
Ask HN: Do you wear a mask when working at cafe/bar?
A Bayesian Puzzle: The Left-Handed Sister Problem
Cars Are Winning the War Against Pedestrians and Cyclists
But perhaps the pans temperature matters.
Uber Has Reduced Drunk Driving Deaths by 6 Percent, Study Finds
Not by 1996...

And by 1997-1998 everyone got a "Multimedia PC".
The $99 Jetson Nano gets you a computer that is more capable in nearly every dimension than the 1986 Thinking Machines CM-2 super computer. The CM-2 had more RAM, though a lot of it was spread across its 65536 processing engines. The CM-2 is way prettier though.
"They can still take the bus but they must sit in the back"

I'm getting downvoted but people who refuse to get vaccinated tend to be poor and minorities. And who can blame them for not wanting the government injecting a needle inside their body given the US history?

PS: I'm not antivax by any means, I got my two shots.
I’ve never had a job require me to prove those vaccines to come in.
About 6 months to switch - probably twice as long as it should have, because it was happening in parallel with maintaining and improving the no-code version, and the product requirements were evolving.

Switching off the no-code version was a happy day. We'd pushed it further than it was designed to go. The initial advantages of quick prototyping slowed down, and it was getting harder (very hard) to add new features without breaking old ones. Customizing the design (to our designer's high standards!) was... tough.

The coded version was better in every way - but part of that was because we learned a lot from the prototype. I personally probably wouldn't start a fresh project with it - but I would recommended it to (technical) non-programmers who want to get an idea out of their head to see if it's any good.
I've noticed this daily.

Would be interesting to see the actual content. Based on the small snippets in the search results, it takes content from other sites, like large Norwegian news sites, and somehow outranks them hard.

I wonder what the Google Search Console looks like for that domain, considering that it's probably getting millions worth of free traffic.

EDIT:
After looking more at it, it's insane how much it ranks for and how well. Straight up brand names seems to be the hardest to compere with, at least larger ones. Those seems to be around page 4-5 for me.

Some brands I was unable to find at all, but ironically another .dk domain showed up in it's place that did the same thing. There is also some .it domains using the same content.

I've found that it takes contents from multiple sources and glues it together in sometimes great ways. Like one sentence from this page, another thing from that page.

Maybe this is some ML that collects content and pieces a lot of it together sentences or half sentences to one large article? It's clearly from completely different sources, but about the same thing.

Example:
"wash car"

Result in google:
"A dark winter with snow and salt is hard on the car, and it's extra important to wash the car" - Collected from one article.

<some other text>

"Keep the pressure washer at 30-50 cm from the car..." - From another article.

Ironically, there is like 11 results all tied to this thing outranking the original articles(those are last), even if it's medium to large sized well known companies selling for billion(s) of dollars each year in Norway.

Sometimes it goes from one thing and switches to something completely unrelated, so I guess the spammers still have something to improve.

Weird.
It seems disingenuous to claim that the commitment level to get through the paywall on many of the newspaper sites we refer to is just "a few dollars" when there have been widespread and numerous reports (even on this very website) of nightmare-inducing subscription cancellation practices.

But your comment misses the point entirely: An organization's home page is its face. They should at least try to make their face look attractive. Even a newspaper stand shows a nice view of above the fold through the window.
Now that I remember, there is a separate key stored by the corporation that can also unlock the drive.
Individuals should have the ability to choose where they work and increasing the number of small businesses allows that. Reducing the number of small businesses means individuals have fewer employers to choose from. Communites with a higher number of businesses have a larger slice of wealth allocated towards the bottom 99%.
> the local network keeps the same local addresses

If you need that, you can assign local addresses from the ULA range. No one is forcibly taking your local addressing away. Now, yes, the "V6 ideology" is about globally routable public all the things, but you don't have to follow it.
E.g. Pavan lol
I peeked newer episodes a while back. The had major budget cuts, switched to Flash or whatever soul less vector graphic animation software those Canadian cartoons like Johnny Test and Total Drama Island use.
That VC would need a lot of confidence in the team to be willing to fully fund them with no revenue, clients, or IP.