skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't conflate all the different talking points. Environments are different, the number and scope of interruptions are different.

No one who knows what they're talking about would debate that engineers need large blocks of uninterrupted time to get anything done.

But at the same time, not all software projects can be divided up in such a way that individual engineers can just do their thing without frequent communication. This is the whole art of large scale software development, and it is incredibly difficult to get right. Minimizing overall meeting time so ICs can focus is just one consideration, you also need to make sure the right people have a seat at the table for certain decisions or you run the risk of building entirely the wrong thing.

As an engineer you have to fight for your own time, but also trade off against the greater good. If you put your work on a pedestal above everyone else around you (designers and product managers are also ICs that need focus time) then you'll hit a ceiling in terms of the impact you can drive (unless you are a researcher or deep specialist, but those roles are comparatively rare).
I think this greatly depends on whether you currently have 3 customers paying $100/mo, or 300 customers paying $1/mo.

If it's the former, then getting to $10k/mo seems possible. You have 3 people paying $100/mo, so there's a decent chance another 97 people are out there looking for your service, and you just need to focus on finding them. It also means you have a much higher budget for customer acquisition. You can burn $100 in ad spend to find a customer and quickly scale up.

Now, if you have 300 people paying $1, it's a more difficult problem. You need to find another 9,700 customers. Trying to acquire a customer for a few dollars is a far more difficult task, and likely not possible. You're also going to have a lot more support issues as you scale with such a large number of paying users.

I imagine you're somewhere in the middle. I'd start by finding my customer acquisition cost, and trying to bring that number down as low as possible. Then, I'd make sure the lifetime value of my customers is greater than the acquisition cost (potentially by increasing monthly rates). Then, I'd start dumping money into advertising and marketing and try to scale up. If these numbers don't work, then the business might not be sustainable.
mRNA vaccines have been researched for decades, and the only really novel part of the covid vaccine is the particular protein, which will also be present in a natural infection.

So if you trust the decades of mRNA vaccine research, you should consider the vaccine strictly safer than covid, as getting the disease will expose you to everything the vaccine exposes you to.
Nothing lasts forever. 46,000 years is a long time for a human artefact. Eventually the sun will burn up all of them in a billion years or so.
Hot pockets were never edible. ;-)

Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/...
It's sad that it took them thing long, but I am glad Google is leading the charge.

We are never going to move past this pandemic until anti-vaxxers face inconvenience. Until then, they can be selfish and continue to harm society as a whole with little to no personal impact.
Oh, that sounds terrible. I'm glad your story has a happy ending.

I should have added that we swim on Lake Ontario and it's usually pretty flat, so no rogue waves or riptide. We don't have any support boats for this swim, but I do swim with a couple of other groups that have more safety measures. On Saturdays there's an excellent group nearby that has kayaks and SUPs to help make sure everyone is safe: https://lostswimming.com/ A couple of folks who come out to swim have crossed the English Channel and done all sorts of longer swims, so you can learn a lot from them. People keep tabs on each other and try to make sure nobody is swimming alone. If I'm being really slow, people wait for me to catch up.

Over here we have to watch out for jet skis, so that's one reason to swim at sunrise -- we get out before the boat traffic gets heavy. Another issue is water temperature. You have to recognize early signs of hypothermia so that you don't get caught out far from shore and find yourself in a bad way. Basically you need to head back to shore before your decision making gets impaired to the point that you're not going to make good choices. Or just know how long you can generally handle being in the water at certain temperatures. If it's too cold for me, I stick close to shore.

So, based on that, it's always good to swim with a buddy, get out if you're shivering, etc.

I totally understand sticking to the pool. I had a mechanical problem on my road bike last summer and it ejected me (softly) onto someone's front lawn out in the country. It could have been much worse if I had hit asphalt or another rider. It took me almost a year before I got back onto a road bike that wasn't in my garage.
I'd love to see a site like Reddit or HN experiment with using relationship graphs to research this. Start with some fixed points of "this person is a credible source of information" vs "this person is a neo-nazi conspiracy theorist" and examine the networks of people who support them and oppose them, and use that to establish credibility-scoring system-wide and weigh people's votes based on that.

I mean, it would be super-biased but at this point I'm all about systems that are biased in favor of scientific consensus and human rights.

Yes, you could reverse the "credibility" of those paragon users and make a system where the people surrounding the neo-nazi conspiracy theorists are the ones who hold all the power but we already get sites like that without any moderation or voting at all so that would be redundant anyways.
Do you think Twitter using Scala had a big influence on the current state of its ecosystem?
Light bending and X-ray echoes from behind a supermassive black hole
It's cheaper overall since you don't need to worry about a heavy battery. This is already the case for larger vehicles: https://cafcp.org/sites/default/files/07-24-2020-Foothill-ZE...

This likely to be true for more types of vehicles as hydrogen gets cheaper.
You'll, of course, cite a source?

There aren't actually any virus particles in the mRNA vaccines, so there's no biological mechanism for that to happen.
Has there ever been serious long-term side effects caused by vaccines? Yes, a tiny number of people have had serious short-term complications from them, but I'll take five deaths over 3,000 deaths a day.

mRNA vaccines have been well studied - from a scientific standpoint it's hard to imagine how it even could cause problems.
Israel begins investigation into NSO Group spyware abuse
Where does it say that? I didn't see it mandating that people come back in, but maybe that's some background info not covered in the article.
There's a whole literature on the logic (and meta-logic) of deterrence called power transition theory that is worth looking into, as it sheds a lot of light on the unpleasant topic of nuclear deterrence and how that works.

In a more general sense, the solution to an elevated attack is not always a retaliatory attack, but perhaps a better defense that neutralizes it. Helmets can be used as weapons, but their primary purpose is to make weapons less effective and change the strategic calculus - now the enemy gets lesser results for the same effort, and either gives up or tires out and can be defeated with a smaller retaliation. In general, defense is thought to be somewhat stronger than offense, which is why surprise is so important. Technological edges tend to be negated over time.

Deeply understanding this takes a long time and a lot of study. Military science is a difficult but interesting subject, and tips over into systems theory.
I understand margin quite well. The whole point of the penalty is to make it painful enough they don't do it again. You can hide profit, you can't hide revenue.
Isn't that giving in? It's smart - it anticipates the lie, and so prepares you for the inevitable betrayal. But wouldn't it be better if we at least pretended that people mean what they say, rather than preemptively give them a pass on their hypocrisy? The trouble with world-weary cynicism is that undermines basic human values like integrity. It sets the bar lower the more powerful an entity is. And that's the reverse of how the world should be. The bar should be higher the more powerful the entity. The degree to which we hold an entity accountable should be proportional to its power.

So, my friend, I understand where you're coming from, but I would encourage you to set aside your cynicism. You'll notice that I used the word "should" in the previous paragraph. I think you're right about how it is but let's not give up on how things should be.
Well said "It's also possible that APIs delivered on every other platform, but not yet available on any iOS browser (because Apple), may unlock whole categories of experiences on the web."
Visa Global Payments, Down?
I'm not able to do any online VISA payments through Cardinal & AuthorizeNet. 3D Secure through Cardinal shows 404 not found. Anyone having issues too?

Haven't see any news outlets picking up on this one, saw many reports on Twitter. Those websites are behind Cloudflare, thought it was CF issue, but cloudflarestatus looks clean.
One feature of psychosis and mental illness, in general, is a lack of insight into one's own condition, or the lack of a complete picture into how symptoms impact one's thoughts and behaviors.

In psychosis, this very pronounced because many of those who experience psychosis don't know they're experiencing delusions or hallucinations. It's all very real to them.

The fact that you have an awareness of your distortions seems to suggest that you're not psychotic.
Just curious on #1, did you not just want to manage people or didn't want to lose valuable programming experience?
What egg?
> most archaeologists are in favor of making them even stronger.

Most archaelogists are public employees or employed by institutions dependent on public funds. This makes them more inclined to state intervention than the average citizen. Their paychecks literally depend on it.

> As a former archaeologist, we really don't care about random contextless artifacts.

Collectors do still value random artifacts, but a collection is much more valuable in context. A company that found such a site and could exploit it would be wise to hire archaeologists to improve the value of their property. You can sell the Crown Jewels for more than you can sell the individual jewels.
Show people mortality rates for various things around the world. I wonder how the ones banging the "civil responsibility" drum would react.
Taichi is a similar project focused on graphics: https://taichi.graphics/
Yes, an italic font is not merely a slanted version of a regular (Roman) font. The slanted version would be called an oblique font.

Italic fonts traditionally do have more of a handwritten character, but that isn't required. They are distinct fonts of their own, but should be harmonious with the Roman version of the same font.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_type
I get more spam from Microsoft and other tech giants than anyone else.

It's the companies whom you rely on for email that are the worst abuser e.g. airlines need to inform you about delays and abuse this trust with holiday adverts incessantly.

Any company that claims to require your email for two factor auth should be given automatically generated fines for every email they ever send that is not auth related.

That would shake up Oracle sales dept. :)
Personal vehicles also have a much larger carbon footprint in general (from manufacturing, maintenance, etc) aside from just emissions during operation of the vehicle.
RA: router advertisements.

The good riddance part of IPv4 DHCP is the server maintained state. The broadcast-config thing is still there. RADVD is the standard Linux daemon for this.
The way I understand full disk encryption (with LUKS at least) is that the device generates a random key which does the data encryption/decryption and the user entered password is used exclusively to encrypt that key. This allows encrypting the key with thousands of iterations (the number is picked in a way that it takes a few seconds on the currently used CPU). That way you can use a very slow encryption algorithm (meaning it's very slow to brute force) to get the actual key, which can then be used for fast encryption of the actual data.
This approach also allows changing passwords or using multiple passwords without rewriting the entire drive, since just the key has to be re-encrypted
> All in all I felt like a well-paid cog under enormous pressure to always be cogging harder.

This is why I've found myself gravitating toward smaller companies. Though I've done a stint or two at some bigcos (100k+ folks) I've almost always been happier at smaller companies (<100 people). You can see the results of your work more clearly, there's less process, and when a teammate isn't making the cut, it's clearer (less room to hide).

They aren't as sexy and well known, but if you can find the right smaller company, you can still be compensated pretty well, find technical challenges and grow.

Sure, you may still be a cog (you're an employee, after all) but you're a much bigger cog in a smaller machine. Yes please.
again, I got the vaccine and I'm not anti-vax, but why are people getting downvoted for making valid points just because they aren't following the popular narrative. Did this website become reddit?

You can acknowledge someone made a decent point and incorporate it into your own views while still getting & encouraging vaccines - engaging in honest discussion will do more to prevent creating more anti-vaxxers than ignoring any points that you don't want to deal with. Disregarding valid points only reinforces the narrative that everyone is brainwashed by big pharma and we can't trust vaccines or whatever the narrative is - almost starting to agree with them on the first point.
> would continue working from home I would assume

Is anybody proposing vaccine requirements for remote-only workers? The announcement this thread is based on literally carves out this exception.
You could specifically limit the processing to a microprocessor that doesn't have advanced features, and is implemented on an FPGA. You'd own all the RTL and could make a modern ASIC if you really wanted.

You can understand all the layers if the design is meant to be simplified; like project Oberon, but based on a system that runs C code (and the UI would need to be a little more modern).

You can understand all the layers, but the system has to be designed to be understood.
It would be amazing if those of you who have successfully self-hosted would get together and make a comprehensive write-up of how to self-host without getting blacklisted. I frequently see comments on both sides of this ("I can't send anything!" vs. "You just have to do it right") and it seems like if there could be some resource (that cuts down the complexity as far as is reasonable) on how to do this from the ground up, there could be much more wide-spread adoption of self-hosting.

Personally, I'm hesitant because I don't know if the end of all my effort will be constant blacklisting. If I could be confident that if I do it right I won't get blacklisted, I probably would.
(Sorry Australians) Australia is a deeply racist society. Indigenous Australians are very much "other". Not quite people.

They were only designated fully human (as in counted in the census, given most civil rights) in 1967. It took a referendum.

To give the Australians their due the vote was >90%bin favour

EDIT It was until 1983 that indigenous Australians had the same voting obligations as other Australians.
Weren’t we told, ‘this isn’t at all like the flu’?
The Israeli data is showing that the Pfizer's vaccine effectiveness against infection is waning over time among the fully vaccinated.

* Vaccinated in January: 16% protection

* Vaccinated in February: 44% protection

* Vaccinated in March: 67% protection

* Vaccinated in April: 75% protection

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-uk-data-offer-mixed-si...

See also video from John Campbell about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNbs4LCgrcY

The protection against hospitalisation is about 88% and seems stable over time.
> Desk, monitors, keyboard, mouse, external hard drive, and other things that go on a desk. I'm certainly not going to tear all that down every evening and set it back up every day.

At worst that's still only a desk of space wasted.

And if you're willing to commute, you should probably be willing to spend 2 minutes putting all that stuff away. If you still decide not to, then it's because that space isn't needed very much.

> Any setup other than having a specific office for work is, in my opinion, sub-optimal.

I agree, but this line of conversation is specifically about if you don't have a separate office.
Urban residential areas with houses with few people are the worst imo. They require a huge amount of infrastructure like paved roads. It might be ok to live like that if you have young kids. If you don't, while living like that, you are an environmental burden period. Also, please don't think that driving electric and feeding some birds and eating green etc can redeem living like that
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I can't plug my phone into my computer.

And this should already be deleted.
I think the problem of poor people not being able to afford adequate nutrition has to be tackled separately. You're right that there will be all kinds of unintended effects. You're also right (in my opinion) that the US political system seems incapable of solving those kinds of hard problems anyway.
I think we gotta take a step back and find something with some data; I offered pulled-from-my-ass conjecture and you countered with anecdotes. We gotta actually find a study or something of how much time people actually serve.
>> B. If one doesn’t take the vaccine, one’s chances of dying or being disabled for years or permanently are much higher.

>But for a young person with no co-morbidities, that chance is still basically 0%.

According to table "COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE:" at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se..., the mortality rate for everyone under 40 years of age is 0.2%. That "is basically 0", but means that for every 1000 people infected, 2 will die. Roughly half of the US is under 40 years old (https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...). If no-one had gotten vaccinated, you would expect to see 320,000 deaths in that age group. According to https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se..., we've had 286,000 deaths so far in that age group.

>> C. If one doesn’t take the vaccine there is a significant chance they give the virus to someone else, killing them.

> Even if others have taken the vaccine themselves? Either that particular risk is negligible if the vaccine works, or the vaccine doesn't work.

You're forgetting the number 1 law of large numbers. Things that have a very low chance of probability happen all the time at scale. The vaccine reduces the likelihood of individuals dying by orders of magnitude, and as a group it is a great tool to reduce the R0 under 1, but contagion and transmition is still possible, and every new infection we are rolling the dice on getting "lucky" with a new vaccine resistant variant.
I guess the negative part is that the people developing the vaccine can be a little bit less conservative with their design, since they have no incentive to be extra careful to avoid expensive lawsuits.
A function is a stack and a list of instructions.

If we're using an 80x86 processor, the function concept is more or less implemented by several facilities - you have a sequence of instructions somewhere in memory, you have a stack area (shared by everything in a given address-space, using a stack pointer in the cpu), you a call instruction that pushes the current instruction pointer to the stack as well as pushing flags and similar stuff to the stack and you have the return instruction, which does the opposite, restore instruction pointer and whatever else was pushed in the call.

Which is to say that on a raw, low level, functions don't "exist" in the fashion a programmer imagine at a higher level. That's not saying the concept is wrong but is saying that the people don't easily see functions as the natural building blocks of everything might be wrong either.
Targeted advertising has royally destroyed the internet. Zero moral values, tracking everyone constantly under the bullshit excuse of serving ads. Been disgusted for years
Uber had trouble with their app being hard to manage deployments for large for sanctioned downloads over cellular. I suggested they opt for a thin client approach. It can't work they said because it requires the internet to work. I'm unemployable in tech because of good reasons.
That is a statement of opinion, not a fact. It is misinformation statements like this that need to be stamped out in social media.
Covid-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning
Historically speaking, countries have refrained from forcing even medical workers and people caring for the elderly to get flu vaccines, even though this argument - that there are some people for whom the vaccine will not be effective - is even more true of that (in fact, as I understand it some studies suggest the flu vaccine might be basically ineffective at preventing serious complications and death in those at risk of them, leaving its ability to stop people from being infected and spreading it as the only way to reduce risk). As far as I can tell, the only reason to treat Covid differently basically boils down to partisan politics...
I'm not a Google employee, but my understanding of their policy is very few people will get approved for fully remote work. Everyone else will need a vaccine.
Interestingly, "those who kept their rage inside at all time, instead of expressing it" would come very close to Freud's general sense of repression, inhibition, and Melancholia. Thus depression. And it wouldn't chime badly with Blake's sense of angelic morality either. The symmetric contrast of outward and inward rage is theological in character, rather than poetic, which would more likely consider individual spirit before imposing moral abstractions like ideal rage. Current academic consensus on Dante is heavily influenced by Theology, notably Aquinas, it overlooks the heretical aspects of Dante's poetry. As for Scholars who view the interpretation as depression, Ernst Curtius is one.
Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring
It may be good but no one (in America) wants 48 miles. People complain about the range on current EV’s during winter. A nice round number like 100 has a much better chance of appealing to consumers.
They financed the construction of the dam and helped make NZ more relevant when it was even more of an insignificant island that it is now, they've provided stable, high paying jobs for a whole region for decades (when meatworks were closing right and center), these stable jobs have allowed families to send their children to university and have a decent life. Pollution wise they havent done so poorly, there is maybe some nastyish stuff buried on site, but other than that smelting bauxite is rather clean.

They produce the most 'green' aluminiy in the world, would you rather it be made with coal fired electricity?

As for providing 1000jobs, yeah, maybe directly, but those people spend money in town, not to mention the contracts Tiwai would bave with other companies in town.

The economic value has been huge.
Risk of car death was actually similar where I live to death from covid for my age.