skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too see some corporate competitive politics behind Novavax - Serum Institute of India (SII), one of the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world, had been licensed to manufacture Novavax in India last year, but apparently the US administration held it up by preventing exports of the raw material with their "US first" policy. That's kind of understandable, but even in the US, I don't think Novavax is so easily available (or perhaps it is but the US media is excessively giving attention to only the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna?). Even recently, SII said they are in talks to start production of Novavax this year, but it's still not available. It's not clear what is going on behind the scene with this particular vaccine.
Spot on about fasting, and keto has solid evidence as well - https://www.virtahealth.com/ are a great company focused on this.

The issue is we're starting to have a more nuanced understanding of the metabolic resistance people face when they undergo dietary changes - basically the body fights hard against you as you try to lose weight by dieting.

So it's now industry-standard among obesity specialist doctors to see obesity as a "metabolic disease" which, for the vast majority of people, needs a medical approach which doesn't rely on willpower.
This is a known "feature" of Twitter. If it assumes the user can be logged in, it will hold the page captive until you sign in. I've had it happen to me, though I'm not sure of the details. Like whether it's being A/B tested or what specifically it's hitting on to require login
I didn't say it is "ok". I said it is not a crime.
Isn't that another case of asking people to reduce rather than requiring it?
As someone who worked with mechanics, they didn’t seem to have any trouble in theater. In the US, only contractors were allowed to do some things.
> I do not likely share much in common with you culturally, but I sincerely delight in seeing an independently-minded thinker boldly taking the conversation to places they probably need to go.

Thank you. :)

I think the most important culture to share is being independently-minded, so I guess we share that at the very least, and that makes me happy, no matter what parts of culture we don't share.
I’ve vacationed with coworkers, stood up in two coworker’s weddings, and I still keep in touch with a core group from a job I left almost a decade ago.

To your point, this was possible because work provided an environment to meet these people.

But for every person I’m friends with or still stay in touch with, there are 100 I do not. Ongoing friendship has nothing to do with work, and everything to do with the people I met there.
If you want a smartphone that lasts, consider Librem 5 or Pinephone. They support mainline Linux kernel and will receive security updates forever.
Judge strikes down law classifying Uber, Lyft drivers as contractors
Does emacs or vim with lsp count as an IDE?
I tried Noom twice. I was the only man in the support group both times. It didn’t really speak to me or work for me.

Definitely interested in this!
I find it some what odd that you don't consider Waymos taxi service to be in an uncontrolled environment. Yes, it is an incredible well mapped environment but so are the highways Tesla drive on.
That last point trumps everything, really. You can't rely on preselected-target UAVs for most tasks. And we're far, far away from an AI smart enough to make those complex decisions on its own.
https://archive.md/9aU2W
It kind of depends on how we are defining IDE. Every developer I know who doesn't use an IDE uses either VS Code, vim or emacs with a bunch of plugins which approximate IDE functionality (but are much more customizable and configurable which I suspect is what they like about it). At the end of the day every IDE is just a text editor with plugins too. It really comes down to whether you want something that just works (and probably forces you to do some things THEIR way on some margin) or you want to tweak your dev environment to be just right for your workflow.
No thanks I can't live without Intellij Ultimate + ideavim, I just can't...
Does emacs/vim using lsp count as an IDE?
I don’t see how to reach anything on the same axis as that conclusion from the article, can you elaborate?
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In contrast, look at AutoCad or Photoshop, and ArcGis. Mega complex ui's, what they do is more like programming than office productivity. So user workflow is going to be more difficult.

I've worked on in a large bank doing sales with slow IT systems, (The Mainframe was awesome quick though, shout out to black screens!). The bank coached staff to use there tools in an order and structure their conversations so they'd have buffer for information and systems to be there when needed.

Warehouse work is very repeatable compared to most work with a computer.
I would probably read it as back to the workplace and not be infuriated by it.

If my employer does not believe we have been working this past 18 months I wish someone would have told me so I could have hiked the Pacific Crest Trail or taken up gardening full time.
> If you're shielding against EM weapons, the weight will quickly stack up more than just the signal wire.

Agreed. The signal wire while being large antenna for EMI isn’t a problem at all. Filters, rugged transceivers, chokes and your problem is solved there.

EMP is a threat where you are able to load all traces on the PCB and in the chips themselves with varying potentials instantly.

We’re used to securing transients on the signal lines. Not on the 10mm trace from chipA to chipB.
> If any of you have a good way of "turning off" in order to keep your family stable and mental health okay, please let me know.

Neil Fiore's "Unschedule"
You misunderstood.

Astronauts in Mars orbit need radiation shielding. So: dig their spacecraft/habitat into one of the Moons.

Humanoid robots: put them on Mars, instead of landing astronauts. That way, you don't need to bring them home afterwards. Meanwhile, with a good AR/VR rig, the astronauts (dug into the Phobos base) can control them remotely with no lag.
Is it powered by the FX Chip?
Smooth flying, Fox!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX
Why do you need to reliably order an older generation of phone?
Sounds like a nightmare for the residents!
> I believe there is nowadays this "detachment" between programmers and actual (expert) users that greatly impairs the usability of software.

I don't think this is new. I think it's a long standing issue and a huge issue. I worked on home appraisal software and I regret not learning more about the job up front. After like 2 years of developing the app and getting approximately nowhere in the market, the software team actually went on an appraisal. It was eye-opening.

I've also seen the "expert in the room" hired twice and neither time worked (small sample size). I think you need more info in the brain of the dev team, and to have solutions bounced off a bunch of users. One expert ends up as kind of a silo.
Well in a year or two, barring extra bad mutations, well have reached a Covid steady state of sorts. Right now we’re still very much in the initial phase.

Are you saying you want mask restrictions to end now or are you saying you support them until we’re out of the initial phases in a year or so?
The issue isn't with the use of a different font, the issue is that there are two series of data points differentiated by font that, according to the study design, should be relatively independent, but in fact have improbably similar cumulative distribution functions. This indicates that one of the series was fabricated from the other.
Ever think of branching into addiction? That's another place where evidence based care is sorely lacking.
Fuck Medium for making me login to read the story and then, after I logged in, asking me to 'upgrade', in order to read the story.
The model lifetime is too short. You can't get any idea of medium term reliability (as a proxy for long term reliability) until when the phones are discontinued.
I think one could make the case that IDEs enable the type of complexity you're referring to.

I don't know that I view that as a positive. A lot of software development is about managing complexity. IDEs allow developers to be sloppier.

In the same way that faster CPUs have resulted in less optimized software over the years, IDEs have resulted in more complex software.
Unlike others below I don't have an issue not being able to look at emails or work on weekends/evenings.

I do have a real big problem forgetting about work and all its problems to solve. Sometimes, it's not even my fault - the brain wakes me up with thoughts and worries and nightmares.

There's something structurally wrong here, I'd rather not focus on all the things that stress me. I find myself seeking out full distractions, like drinking or video games. Kratom helps.

Meditation takes me back to a place where I think. I'd rather not think.
A few hundred applications leading to 6 interviews is not "reasonable success" unless you were in a field where jobs are super-hard to get (say tenure track professor) or we were in a recession.

You need to debug your job hunt. Conventional wisdom is that you need to think only about the stage you are getting stuck: that is, if you ratio of applications to interviews is bad (it is) you need to improve your resume, CV, cover letters, who you apply to, etc.

The level of success you're describing in the interview process is not abysmal but I can tell you are worried about it and would say you also need to work on "presentation of self".

Most of the bootcamps out there are: (i) applications programming in Javascript or (ii) data science with Python. These don't work miracles but they might fill in a gap if there really is a gap.

What kind of jobs are you looking for?
I don't like words with perfectly clear meanings being hijacked. You end up with a word that has two meanings, and can no longer be used unambiguously.

"Decimate" used to mean to kill one in ten. It now seems to be used to mean either that one sports team soundly beat another one; or that a fighting unit was completely wiped out. The word is now useless.

"Exponential" used to be a particular mathematical function; nowadays seems to mean "grows quickly".

"Addiction" used to mean "dependent on a substance to the extent that withdrawal would result in serious symptoms". If it now means the condition of liking something so much that one is unwilling to forgo it, that's a shame. Now we need a new word for the physical condition.

I don't want anyone to have to endure suffering; but not all suffering is the result of addiction.
thank you! pls let us know if we can help with those questions when its time to evaluate us seriously.
Mostly because they're obsoleted and replaced by the freshly released Pixel 5a.
Sure. We [0] make APIs for live video and audio, so we do a lot of different kinds of network testing. Over time, we had cobbled together a variety of tools to support load/scaling testing, CI/CD, testing during development, and helping our customers debug and test their applications. For all of these, some ability to simulate packet loss, latency, jitter, and other network realities is somewhere between helpful and critical.

I'm a big fan of Snabb, and had a few conversations with Max Rottenkolber, one of the Snabb authors, about how we might tackle building a common network-simulation framework that we could use across all the different kinds of testing we do. Max suggested more or less the approach that you can see in the synthetic-network repo. (He wrote a series of documents during implementation that are really fun reading. They are in the /doc directory.)

Since we increasingly use Rust in various places, and our use case was a bit different than the core use cases for Snabb, Max took a swing at porting parts of Snabb to Rust for the synthetic-network project. That worked out really well, and that Snabb-implemented-in-Rust is now Rush!

[0] https://www.daily.co/
It uses Raft underneath as well which means there's a bunch of non-determinism and hell for anyone who invokes it as well from experience. The thing is cursed.

Source: several years dealing with vault and consul.
Prop. 22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional
I have run an infosec consultancy for the last 8 years with a couple partners. You got a lot of good advice already, but I’ll throw in my two points:

1. You need a hobby outside of business. Something you look forward to at a lot that is intrinsically rewarding. Physical in nature is a plus for me. BJJ is my hobby and it’s great.

2. Stoicism. The dichotomy of control specifically is powerful. Sort your life into buckets of what you can control and what you can’t. Acknowledge your limits. Can you really work productively and deeply even 60 or 70 hours a week?

Honestly, find a therapist. Someone you can lay out your mental goals with and be held accountable. You will need to explore this and find out what’s at the root of the overwork. What’s truly important to you? How can you get there healthy and sustainable.
I've found that using Twitter was more trouble than it's worth. Even when I filtered out as many keywords as I could, my feed was just filled with sad or inflammatory content. With their character limit, insightful discussion is basically DOA. I'd recommend sticking to niche forums for this kinda stuff: they might not be as large, but these communities are oftentimes much more dedicated to their field. There's no "I'm right you're wrong" because other people are there to hold them accountable.
BTW Samsung s20 FE is a good device. What do you think?
Interesting discussion (IME) has been unavailable there for a while (though I admit I sometimes enjoy the trolling and putdowns, it's very much not what you're after I suspect.)

Where it shines is quick access to reporting within particular spheres, by following journalists and news junkies, or by searching items with links, within your topic of interest. Discovery of communities of interest by the obvious means also works reasonably well (again, IME).

Unquestionably almost all links to reporting are posted with some agenda, even if it's just the simple agenda of a news org trying to get readers, but as a source of fresh links to interesting stuff it's probably the premier resource, when used appropriately.

Occasionally, if you follow politics (or indeed app store drama) tweets are themselves news, but that is the exception in twitter interest as far as I'm concerned.
You are right man.
Our plan is to take easy precautions like masks until we stop having massive waves whenever they’re relaxed that fill up icus like in Alabama. Probably in a year we’ll be able to relax them without that happening. What do you propose? Are you against the current mask mandates?
Linear algebra is reversible if you nudge the matrixes so that the determinant is non-zero.
In case you're also seeing 500 errors: https://archive.is/mDBZ9
Trump ended the economic sanctions on the Taliban as part of the peace deal (or at least committed to by Aug 20 2020). Maybe weapons sanctions are still in place though.
I'm on my way back to doom emacs after a year using intellij + ideavim.

I get 90% of the features with LSP. Faster performance. Magit. Extreme configurability. It's easier to write a quick function in elisp and have it at my fingertips at anytime. (ie. M-x my/do-repetitive-thing)
Site is down. Here's an Outline of it:

https://outline.com/q3Abye

First paragraph:

> A majority of people carry the potential to become a genius. There are factors that are far more important than genes and IQ. I have compiled a checklist that I believe should work, when followed. All you need to begin with is to be free and reasonably healthy. I try to list the factors that prevent many people from accomplishing their greatest potential. The list begins with the stumbling blocks that are most likely to occur on one's road to genius. Some factors need to be balanced against each other, and some factors overlap.
Stay tuned for Pandemic 2.0!
Why worry? If you’ve gone this long without it, you’re not missing out on anything.

Ignoring the potential utility Twitter can offer, the quality of “discussions” hasn’t improved one iota over the years. IMO no one could argue in good faith that the culture is better in 2021 than it was in 2011
Great Idea!I checked out the website and it looks like it is targeted towards older men (40+). Was there any particular reasoning for this? I'm in my 20s and I know a lot of men my age who are obese. Was the program developed specifically for older men?
Congrats on having a relatively easy time losing weight, but you're not the only person in the world, and not everyone's body works the same as yours. Your scolding of a clinically proven weight loss approach for not being what you did is solipsistic and ignorant. Your approach is, like the others, one among many that will work for some people.
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A decent therapist will help you learn the skills you need to manage your mental health. I've found therapy to be extraordinarily helpful, both as an external sounding board but also as a person who can help me find resources without spinning my wheels for hours and days.
What is the difference between Pixel 5, Pixel 5 5G and Pixel 5a? is “5a” better or worse than 5?
This is my favorite IDE feature! I don’t know how text editor folk do this
I fully relate as a business owner. Technology makes it easier than ever to stay plugged in and it costs quality of life and by some research years of life.

I resisted the smart phone and linked email for a long time. Once it finally invaded life changed. Just this morning a client lost her legal documents and needs a copy from me. It is so hard to stay away. Slowly I am learning to push away from the table and walk. It isn't always that easy.
I replied to the last paragraph of parent poster. If you study the few people getting dose 3 two weeks after, you're not going to learn anything about effectiveness of dose 3.
We should still call for breaking up bad busoness practices regardles of whether something is a monopoly or not. We forget that even considering a monopoly to require gov intervention is a somewhat novel concept. Right to repair comes to mind, especially for things like tractors. Im tired of paying for products and not truly owning them in the way I want to. Be it in the literal sense or being locked into iOS' walled garden or otherwise.
I would go one step further into the abstract and change this to "Only action against abuse of authority can solve the world's biggest problems"

We have come, or returned to, or never moved away from a point in history where "with great power comes great responsibility" exempts those it should matter most for.

We have mega-corporations that are responsible for significant chunks of the environmental damage caused over the last few decades, and others that could change the trajectory of these things.

We have trillion dollar companies that just keep growing, swallowing up competition and their centibillionaire owners that go to space for fun, while their workers live off of minimum wage and food stamps.

We have politicians that will to their dying breath defend the rights of those who fill their pockets instead of those they represent.

We have police officers that discriminate, provoke, steal, assault and kill and face no consequences.

Where's the responsibility? Where's the accountability? There is none. We hand out all this power, be it legal, social, financial, material or whatever, and we ask for nothing in return.

Corruption is the beast that does most of the damage. The power that certain key parts of the machine hold entirely free of responsibilities and outside pressure is what is keeping the beast alive.
real men use punchcards write bug free code from the get go
TLA+ as a formal language for specifying systems is quite good. But the quasi-official toolchain for working with it [1] including TLC and the sanitizer are not well maintained. They were pretty resistant to outside contributions when I tried. I have hope that a better toolchain for working with the TLA+ language can come along. The underpinning language is well designed. Lamport is no slouch.

[1] https://github.com/tlaplus/tlaplus
Site seems to be down:

https://archive.is/3Z48v
My daughter (high school) described the last 400 or so days as seemingly each one like the one before. I happen to agree.

While one could argue that commuting into work before the pandemic was each day running into the next, I think I would have to disagree. The random conversation and exchange with coworkers, talking about life plans over lunch ... it's missing over WebEx/Zoom.

No doubt some prefer to work remotely but I am beginning to think the idea of offices and collaboration between coworkers is neither an antiquated system that's long past due for the trash heap not is it a nefarious plot among corporate to enslave its workers. I'm beginning to think it evolved out of a necessity for the majority of workers to feel a sense of worker-community and camaraderie.
The article didn’t seem to mention anything about performance in other browsers, which I find surprising.
Twitter confuses the hell out of me. Always has. The "thread" is very difficult for me to follow, so I never understood how anyone ever has discussions of any depth on it.

The other thing that really confuses me is the tribal aspect of it. I recently noticed a string of tweets/replies where a user of race A replied to user of race B (in agreement) and was rudely told by another of user of race A to get out of "our discussion". Which is really strange to me, since the primary use case seems to be aimed at having wide-open inclusive discussions, but there's a huge segment of the userbase that seems to treat it more like leaving the backdoor unlocked so they can shoot anyone who "breaks in".
Too bad those weren't built like Internet of Things that need to call home to metrics and ads and stuff, otherwise they brick.

They would have become abandonware.

Perhaps getting the advertisers hands on the military will solve all global conflicts?
The Normalization of Violence in Commercial Kitchens Through Food Media
I know 10x engineers and very smart people. I would say this guide is great and is a accurate reflection of how they got to be so great.
The GUIX maintainers crusade against RMS is even bigger. You can easily classify him as the worst RMS defamer in recent history
Yes. Samsung have some good phones too.
I second this and will add that a "career or job coach" will be worth the money. They will help you get your resume, linkedin, and such in order. The big thing they offer is experience and insights into the process, and coaching / review on e2e process.

Finding a good coach is the hard part.
I'd rather have my doctor consulting recent knowledge base than use their 30 year old memories from school. Medicine is not set in stone and recommendations change.
Do you drink any caffeine at all?

I used to think (or I believe was told), that two cups and no more before noon is ok, but found my sleep was just an utter mess. I tried everything , sleep test, black out curtains, magnesium, CBD oil, melatonin, yet it never occurred to me it could be coffee as I never drank it outside of the morning.

I cut out caffeine completely. Had a horrible withdrawal; headache from hell, back ache , neck ache, everything ache, but then around day 6 or 7 I did something I had not done in years - slept all night AND had a vivid dream (showing I was in deep REM sleep).