skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn’t listen properly? It’s hard for me to imagine this working to one’s advantage over the long term. Many people need things explained to them multiple times and sometimes in different ways. I give a lot of presentations to people all over the org chart and people of all backgrounds can uptake information at embarrassingly low rates.

Have you considered that you’re not explaining it well enough?
Both Neutral Posture and BodyBilt build really good ergonomic chairs.

http://neutralposture.com/

https://bodybilt.com/

I've had a BodyBilt from even before the DotBomb so I never understood the fuss about Aerons.
This is a common misconception: without copyright, Microsoft would still have many legal means to force you to pay for every copy of windows, from contract law to patent licenses. Without copyright there would not be free software and copyleft as we know it.
You are completely right.

New discoveries rely on engineering breakthroughs. And engineering breakthroughs rely on new discoveries
Disappointing that I can't get one sooner, but that's fantastic news for Panic and Playdate.
I bought an used fully loaded Aeron for $320, delivered, on Craigslist 2 years ago. I wasn't sure it would be worth full price, so used seemed like the way to go.

I wouldn't think twice of spending full price ($1500?) for one now. But I doubt it will ever need replacing... it was built in 1998(!!), like a tank. Some time later I bought a new gas strut for $50 (the old designs wobble) and some Atomdoc castors so it would glide over the hardwood floor.

Adjusted it once when I first got it. Vastly reduced my back issues - though a chair is just one part of back care.
I find DDG is generally good or at least good enough when the data you need is relative popular and relative well distributed around the internet. DDG falls very, very flat when it comes to needing to scour the depths of the internet for something very specific.

Case in point is car parts - find an obscure part from a Japanese Honda, for example, and attempt to find it in DDG. I'll wait. :P
the failure to come to terms with the 0.1s limit in human cognition gave birth to modernity

I wonder what exactly he means by that. Sure, eyes may start betraying you at faster speeds but human cognition is in no way limited to one tenth of a second. For example, speedrunners reliably hit 1/60 of one second actions, and I'm sure many other human endeavors require similarly fast thinking.
You answered your own question. You nailed it.

Its a free for all. Winner takes all. High stakes in play
Front[1] is for customer-facing teams but functions roughly like this.

Teams collaborate on a shared inbox but Rules can route emails so they only show up in one individual’s inbox. With this setup, everyone else can still text or tag search and find the email but it’s only in the inbox of the person it is assigned to. If you are the lead for a given project then you’ll receive the client emails in your inbox but the rest of your team in To: or CC: will not. If you used to be the lead for something, handed it off months ago, and the client continues to include you on emails, you won’t see those emails because they’ll be assigned to the current lead.

[1] https://front.com/

edit: I guess this is still missing the sender intent component. A similar setup to what I mentioned above could be created for a single gmail inbox using rules and folders but the system falls apart without the sender being in on it.
Is that an example of decorator pattern?
to an extent, yes. However, it still uses the email protocols, etc. The more the underlying system changes, then its harder to replace the system.

A lot of what I was suggesting could be implemented as client-side rules?

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The 'priority email' is assigned to a person, and when the task is completed, no one is put in the 'to' and everyone who needs to know is in the 'cc'.

Further categories can be created to automatically 'archive' this, and maybe a weekend summary email - showing the completed and WIP ones.

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One of my pet peeves is folks using the same subject line, while changing the purpose of the email, or not using one at all.

I am hoping that AI can be used to catch these kind of emails somehow and make the sender improve it.
Perhaps in a few years, Bezos will be in his moon base, equally drunk, and send an email to Randall saying "I'd like to see you try!".
I've worked from home since March 2020 and I sit in a crappy folding chair from Costco. My office sent me a chair, and I also tried a kitchen chair, but I found the folding one the most comfortable, in that it doesn't lead to back pain after long use, while the others do.

I've found the most important thing is setting the heights of my screen and keyboard properly, that seems to be the main determinant of discomfort.
oh, sorry.

let's see... anatomical (I got called "HEED" because my hat size was larger than anyone else's there (it's a reference to So I Married An Axe Murderer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-OCjvbV2Z4))... sexual (your manliness was often called into question, usually humorously), combative (sometimes your reputation was called into question)... There are probably more categories of teasing I saw
Well except where thee clientes are, you also have to where the least competition is right? So another approach to look at this is the door dash way, where is the real big market without much competition!
The British shipwreck that changed the world, by the establishment of longitude
> The rest of the team is not as effective at quitting at the end of the day

In my experience, the older one gets the more effective one is at setting these limits.

Is that also your experience?
Rhythm games focus on this, with some crazy hit rates and bursts.
That is an excellent point
But this happens on a completely different UX, right...

I am thinking of a product that is built on top of existing clients like Outlook etc, and implements a set of rules and prevents emails from going out, explains why it blocks the sending etc.
Maybe, but they also need to be accountable.
That’s about as valid as saying “robbing someone’s house is legal as long as the victim has a high net worth, after all, they can afford it”.

That’s not how laws and society work — theft is theft, no matter who the victim is.
These thing’s are highly subjective and being on both ends of the spectrum doesn’t help someone. Email is bad no; email are perfect of course not. As long as it make your life easier and productive it’s a good thing.
Well, this was only a re-hash review of several studies.

Probably wiser to listen to very experienced specialist doctors who have actually treated hundreds of patients with covid19 using ivermectin within the MATH+ protocol and witnessed the substantial positive effects:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/network-support/the-flccc-al...

https://c19ivermectin.com/

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/I...
I'm not sure why a lot of disagreements surrounding this issue devolve in to pointing the finger at some issue that has nothing to do with COVID. I assume it's an attempt to diminish the severity of COVID, by comparing a transmittable disease to one that's not?

To but it simply, I don't risk dying from obesity simply by being in proximity with someone morbidly obese. I risk contracting COVID, and potentially dying by sitting next to someone who has COVID.

What's your thoughts on this?
There are plenty of reasons to live in a city that have nothing to do with work. I can walk to the library, cafe, grocery store, park. I can ride a bike to the beach, go to the opera, shows, etc.

I mean, I can't go to the opera _right now_, but soon enough I can.
Book sales follow a power law distribution, so "typical" is somewhat deceptive. Sales follow a power law because we typically buy books that have been recommended to us by others.

Rust in Action (https://www.manning.com/books/rust-in-action) is only one data point, but USD20k sounds very low over the lifetime of the book, especially when you consider translation rights and other channels like Safari.
Not a counterpoint, but there is an AWS CLI repl/shell out there with suggestions, type-ahead, and etc. I don't use it but I've seen it and it's pretty flash.
Your comment is very illustrative of how awful situation in SF must be.

Woodsy, shady hillside paths actually are romantic, and in a normal, functional society, everybody should want one next to their property. Believe it, or not, most of Europe is actually like that.

Problem is not in the surplus of unmonitored public spaces, it is the crime that’s the problem. Focusing on policing as the chief solution is a losers’ game.
Can someone more familiar with the virology comment on the meaning of this statistic? I keep hearing it, but I don't really know how to interpret it. Delta's obviously more infections than the original strain, but could one simply have a virus that "weighs more" than another virus, without being more contagious, and have it have 1000x more "viral mass" or "viral load?"

How should this stat be interpreted epidemiologically? Should we care more about R0 than viral load?
I love this. It’s such an uphill battle sometimes to explain how small things will save so much time and pain later on but people will cling to YAGNI as a reason to ignore everything. Maddening at times.
Why Robinhood Stock Fell 8% in Its Trading Debut–and What It Means
I agree, but for comparison, let's look at the laser than the NASA uses to measure the distance to the Moon. It has a pulse of 75mJ in 10ps, i.e. 7,000,000 Watts for a very short time, and they get back only a few photons. Alpha Centauri is 100,000,000 times more far away, so the signal is 1e16 times dimmer. You need a bigger laser or a lot of time just to be lucky to get a photon there.

Also, in comparison, the Sun has 3e26 Watts. That's distributed in the full spectrum, and the laser has a very narrow bandwidth. I can't find the exact number now, but from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_linewidth my guess is that it's 1/100000 of the energy is in the same band of the laser, that is 3e20Watts. Let's remove a few zeros to be sure, like 6 zeros, so my guess is something like 3e14Watts.

Comparing the guess of 3e14Watts of the Sun to the 7e6Watts of the laser. So it's not only difficult to see even a photon, there is a lot of noise in the background. I've measured signals like 1/100 of the noise level using a lock-in amplifier, and I think 1/1000 is possible, but 1/100.000.000 looks very difficult.

And now we must consider the quantum part, that is the interesting part of the post. If you generate a lot of pairs of entangled photons, after the trip you must match the photon that traveled with the photon you keep at home.

If you pick the right photon to compare, you theoretically get 100% of agreement, but my guess is that in a lab you will get 90% or less. After an interstellar trip, I'd be happy to get a 1% of correlation, and use a lot of redundancy and error correcting codes to fix it.

The problem is if you pick the wrong photon. You get perfect random noise. Absolutely no information. You can't fix it with redundancy. And with interstellar distances, you must generate a really huge number of photons just to be able to detect a photon in the other side of the communication.
Act-pot: Scripts to use pot to manage GitHub-act-runner in a FreeBSD jail
This x100. People would flip if some people had true 1st amendment protection. Can't even give an example because HN would ban me.
Python applications were widely used before either Google or YouTube existed
Squid Giant Axon
Worth mentioning the study referenced is here, and nowhere else that I can find (I'm glad to be corrected): https://virological.org/t/viral-infection-and-transmission-i...
Wouldn't landlords just raise the rent to compensate?
What Apple offers is Apple's vision of how they want the products they sell to work. You might not agree with Apple, but that's fine because alternative products are available.

Whereas Microsoft was using their operating system monopoly power to mandate how other companies' products could be configured prior to sale to customers.

(This distinction is why—in my opinion—Google is in more trouble against Epic than Apple. Because unlike Apple, Google has strong leverage over how other companies' Android devices can work.)
Alot of projection .. And not much 'me' only 'you'
The hand is faster than the eye - you can do things quicker than you can perceive doing them.

One time I reacted to a snake before I realized I saw the snake. There are also problems with laying down memories.

As the author of the post says, we still have trouble nailing this down in the modern day.
They're written by humans. I know someone who did this, she was paid by the word and would write "best 5 [product]" lists several times a month.

Obviously, you only have time to basically summarize points made on the listing and in the reviews for the product for it to be worthwhile.

This was pre GPT-2, though.
Since the fall of 2016, Tesla's website has said:

> "All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver."

Yet the original "HW1" computer was replaced by "HW2", which was replaced by "FSD Computer 2.5", which was replaced by "FSD Computer 3".

If you want to activate the Full Self-Driving package today on a Tesla you just bought in early 2019, they'll tell you that your "FSD Computer 2.5" is not capable enough for even today's level 2 autonomy features, you first have to replace it with "FSD Computer 3". And if your car's a bit older, but still sold as "has the hardware needed for full self-driving", you have to pay $1000 for that upgrade before you can pay for the "full self-driving" that isn't self-driving.

How many times does Tesla have to claim the hardware is good enough, but then change their minds a year later, before any reasonable person stops believing them?
weird how no one wants to mention china either
I recall when I used to read the Eve Online technical blog, thinking they were reinventing Erlang, badly.
I read/summarized chapter one to my 4yo today and we had a nice conversation:

Me: If x = the beach then dx = a piece of sand on the beach and ∫dx = all the little pieces of sand

4yo: ...and all of the parts of the ocean because that's the whole beach

I'm also excited to do more with him as he gets older :)
Most people underestimate the effects of latency.

If 0.1s makes any sense (as in humans processing 10 events per second), which I do honestly doubt, then 100ms -> 30ms still means that the other party is almost one full event behind.

That's massive.
I assert that content I post to my timeline and which you see on your feed as my friend shouldn't be subject to Facebook's commentary or opinions. I take strong issue with the claim that to obtain that I have to use Messenger--which is an entirely different content paradigm--and I think it is outright dishonest to try to claim that people posting to timelines means that "the recommendation based stream is more popular".

Facebook wants to recommend content to me from random people: that's their issue, and they should take responsibility for it--whether legally or simply morally--and thereby should have to be careful with what they show people (maybe to the point where they simply can't scale it to the scale they are at automatically! I will not cry over their loss). Facebook also shows me content from my "friends"... I opted in to the content from my friends: if I don't like my friends, I can and should unfriend them, as they were my responsibility, not Facebook's (in the same sense that if I call someone on the phone I don't whine to AT&T about how much they suck). I should not get labels from Facebook telling me my friends' content--content I explicitly wanted to see--is scary or wrong, and they certainly should not be banned from showing it to me.

I think the most egregious category error you are making here is to equate messaging with communication... the entire mechanism of social media to followers is primarily direct communication! We can see how ridiculous this has become by looking at how, even if you have a private account--one random people aren't even allowed to see!--Facebook, Twitter, and Google currently consider it their business what we post there... an account you post things to and which other people follow is identical to a chat channel that happens to maintain a buffer.

(FWIW, to steel man your argument as best I can, "yes": Facebook also applies recommendation algorithms to friend feeds. Twitter I believe still doesn't. Instagram didn't, but then started... AFAIK people don't like it that much, but it might be more profitable for Facebook? Either way: it is helping me reorder content I already curated, and so I don't feel a need to claim that this is something they published. There is simply still a fundamental difference from platforms surfacing "trending" content or suggesting new people or channels I might want to follow / posts I might want to see, and acting as an intermediary for content from people I was directly linked to from people I am communicating with. The former might as well be illegal as far as I am concerned, while the latter needs to be sacrosanct.)
> Usually after six hours of real actual work they need to go home and rest.

People think I'm nuts when I bring up a 6 hour work day. I do my best work in 6 hours, the rest isn't my best even if I'm still productive. Things I do during my personal time are part of what I bring to the table. When work takes away from fulfillment outside of work then I have less to offer.
None of this is accurate. Craigslist killed newspapers (it took their ad revenue). Citizen journalism hasn't replaced that; buzzfeed-style sites did. Hollywood is thriving. Netflix is also thriving. If Netflix is killing anything, it's cable providers. Blockchains have produced nothing of worth, especially if you consider anything outside of cryptocurrency (but let's be real, cryptocurrency is also worthless)
I have used my bed as an office since college.

I feel a subtle, but strong, push back to the office by most employers, and get I get it some situations. Jamie Diamond is right about certain jobs in finance, but most of us are not offered those apprentiship type white collar jobs.

You proved you can work from home, why make things more complicated? Oh yea, to the people whom have zero social life other than work friends, there are still bars. Yes that last sentence is a bit rough.

I'm waiting for the "Save the planet" by working from home argument. The amount of Carbon whatever saved by people not commuting must be great?

I feel like employers are passively aggressive over this whole return to a 2 hour commute, office bull crap, and and all the other bs we do out of convention.

Oh yea, so lets finally bury the tie for good.

(A bit of a rant--yes. I just feel like they are really worried about work from home common sense movement. On another note, but strongly related to Covid, and zero pre government planning, I've also noticed how seemingly liberal cities, like Sausalito CA, are doing everything in the "Move along you homeless person, we don't want you here, but we will Act sympathize during meetings time handbook".)
But that's for events that can be planned in advance, right? I wouldn't be surprised to find that while those people are very fast at responding in general, that for some things they've offloaded the timing to their nervous system through repetitious training and/or subconsciousness.

I doubt a major league baseball player has time to consciously decide exactly when to start the swing for many pitches, but instead relies on feel and training, and allows their mind to instead determine whether they should abort entirely. A speedrunner is just another form of highly trained individual, so I think whether they are good at hitting sub 100ms timing events (as long as they are advertised ahead of time or are regular) is sort of orthogonal as to whether people can consciously measure periods that small in general terms.
Math is not magical and the blockchain doesn't solve any of these problems. Let's look at the risks and see how the blockchain does nothing:

1. Vote machines change votes - Great, the blockchain would allow people to verify their vote! Well, the software that sums up all blockchain votes could still miscount them, regardless of what the blockchain contains. Ok! So we can audit the results! Great, we can already do that with paper ballots.

2. Dead people voting - Again, same as the audit before. We see a John Smith voted on the blockchain. We can look up John Smith based on a paper ballot, just as we can with the blockchain.

3. Illegals voting - The same process used for identifying voters and giving out private keys can be used for verifying voters

But what about risks you have introduced?

1. By making everything electronic, you've shifted the risk from local elections, to state actors.

Signing keys are not magic. If a country found a solution to the factorization problem, or solving discrete logarithms, the scheme would collapse and they could forge massive amounts of votes.

2. Getting 300m people to manage cryptographic keys is impossible. Keys will be stolen, just as bitcoin wallets are. Now you need to deal with revocation of votes, and other controls that nobody has yet invented.

tldr: blockchains are dumb
Policing reduces crime. Or does Europe disagree?
You make a good point in here. Being a financially successful author isn't just about being a successful writer - it's being a successful business person.
Obligatory mention of hilarious breakdown on the history of Nikola motors:

https://youtu.be/1oqqnkkTKVM
That's what I ended up doing. I think I pay something like $20 for what is now unlimited data, 6gb of tethering, and unlimited sms / phone.
There's a reasonable, substantial difference between not allowing material deemed indecent- porn and gore- and becoming an arbiter of "truth".
It's worth seeing who else besides Facebook funds the fact checkers. https://www.poynter.org/major-funders/
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Most misinformation is at least in part founded on truth, it is just that some of it is left out, some changed and a lot of BS is added.

The links to CDC forwarded on Facebook contain the misinformation in the description, very few actually click on the link and read it.

Facebook simply used their system to add clarification.

The misinformation that is spread says that CDC, banned RT-PCR, because it confused flu with covid. When in reality FDA approved new tests that test for both to save time and resources as the flu season is approaching.
If you like the idea of FW but can't get around the interface try Rimworld! Easily one of my favorite games of all time! Its like DF but with a Firefly theme and actual graphics.
Can you walk during calls, e.g. remote pair programming? Heavy breathing, noise from the treadmill and footsteps etc. affect you?

If not, what kind of mic are you using? I think a headset will suffer from the heavy breathing

Also - post your standing desk or its dimensions please
The new DLC is amazing as well!
Fuck vaxxers.

You fucking neo-nazi pieces of shit. I hope you all get ran over by cars. Go fucking kill yourselves - oh wait, you are already doing it.