skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wind power is carbon-free and about 85% of turbine components, including steel, copper wire, electronics and gearing can be recycled or reused.

That’s a far cry from “no way”.
False positives for PCR can only plausibly happen through contaminated samples. You should take some time to investigate how PCR works.
Innate immunity.
if you are interviewing with a global company you also have to realize you are competing against potentially cheaper regions. If two candidates are anywhere close to similar levels, it may be that one candidate can be hired for drastically less money due to region. If you are living in a generally expensive region, this may be affecting you.
Very interesting use case
Hard sells and ‘toxic’ targets: How Indian edtech giant Byju’s fuels its rise
I really liked this video. I hope it helps.

https://youtu.be/lXfEK8G8CUI
The innate immune system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system
In Bulgaria, they offer a $170 T cell COVID-19 test. I'm surprised you can't get such tests in the States!
Hey, no big deal. Thanks a lot for coming back and even posting a picture. Now I know what to look for. Didn't even think they'd have the wifi as an separate module, what with integration these days.
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*Deep breath* *Opens can of worms*

What about defining the equipment as "repairably broken" and asserting that circumventing the license protection falls within right to repair?

*Opens even bigger can of worms*

What about invoking this in a situation where someone's using an older piece of equipment and does not want to pay for example $500k, $1m, or more to green-field replace an entire installation when 99% of the existing system has perhaps a decade or more life left in it?

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I'm not entirely read up on the finer points of the John Deere tractor situation (which is kind of the current poster child for this whole thing), but I actually think the above arguments actually resonate with the precedent set by this particular case.
A little warning in the README that it is going to send your file to GitHub might be prudent. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be expecting it to be rendering the markdown locally.
I think solar energy will ultimately be cheaper than wind energy and that will make it the leader in total installed capacity. But both resources are freely available so the fact that sun produces wind isn’t relevant to this question.
> “What’s worse, the data disruption and network activity warrants could be issued by a member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal – really?" she said.

> "It is outrageous that these warrants won’t come from a judge of a superior court that is appointed on their personal capacity.”

I'm having trouble with the terminology here, but does that mean that these types of warrants could be issued by the equivalent of a magistrate, rather than a judge?
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It's hard for me to separate the message from the messenger here. I've always been against the endless illegal (not authorized by Congress) wars, but they continued whether we elected a Democrat or a Republican. Finally we elected somebody who wasn't really either one of those, and progress on the endless war front began, but of course that president didn't have the Guardian's support. On the contrary, the Guardian bashed him at every possible opportunity.

Now we have another swamp creature at the helm. "The adults are back in the room." "The US is back." Yes, IIRC it took about a month before the US resumed bombings in the middle east. Of course I'm still against it, but it sure would be great to hear from some other organization than the Guardian about how bad it is.
That’s a reasonable explanation, of course, but it contradicts the two points in this thread that caused me to ask those questions:

1. It was claimed that the the China policy is authoritarian, but the U.S. policy is not authoritarian, because the latter is a democratic government.

2. It was claimed that any reported approval of the Chinese government by the Chinese population is irrelevant, either because the report is fake or because the people are manipulated or “brainwashed.”
‘Selling a promise’: what Silicon Valley learned from the fall of Theranos
This program uses CRC32 to compute hashes. This is a terrible idea - a 32bit hash is just too short and the probability of collisions is way too high. Only a few thousand files are enough to get 50% probability of a collision. Even though this is decreased by additional matching by extensions and sizes, I wouldn't trust it to delete any files.

Use fclones, fslint, jdupes, rdfind instead, which either use much stronger hashes (128-bit) or even verify files by direct byte-to-byte comparison.
The State of Project Valhalla with Brian Goetz
Young Chinese gamers vent at Beijing's new rules
Can holograms and avatars replace Zoom video calls?
I like remote because I can work on my mushrooms during work hours
Depends on your mental health and your desire to “advance” (whatever that means to you). No shame in riding it out and chilling but, also, it’s ok to move on.
Here's my guiding philosophy (on Twitter).

Zeminary to me is supposed to be an Ideamusicsheet.

I didn't want to call it that in my post cause that just ... sounds a bit kooky.

https://twitter.com/Zeminary/status/1432571606744899587

Zeminary is more for artists than technologists.

Artists are very concerned with relationships of meaning and time.

When I write, I really only have one main line of thought, but to grasp what that thought means, I have to decompose it. I need to write to the side, to show that at this point in time, this and other thoughts arise. I don't want just the final line, I want to see all the lines that make up that line.

That's overkill for alot of usecases, but necessary for mine.

I also do alot of annotations of dense philosophical works. I have to seriously grasp them because I want my art to cohere.

I guess you could say Zeminary is a metathinking app. Or a chordal or a contrapuntal thinking app. It makes Ideamusic more deliberate.

You can do the same work in other places, but Zeminary makes it alot easier for me. For example, writing in one place doesn't cause everything else to shift around. Images and extra context local to a specific grid can be hidden in that grid (scrollable). The soft shadows help to "bleed" ideas. You can unborder grids to separate context. The bareness and the lack of distracting UI helps me to focus. Movable mindmaps are easier to pull off. There's marks, there's multipoint comments. There's alot of subtle touches. Etc. I'll be adding more feature layers in the future.

One of my future art projects is to write a 4096 part work based on the King Wen Sequence. 64 x 64 = 4096. It'll be very dense. I'm making Zeminary Tensor for that.

Zeminary Tensors might even become an app of choice for anyone looking to author & publish large textworks.

And progressive summarization / expansion / composition.

And analogical thinking.
Wind acts like a battery (or capacitor) that smooths out fluctuations in solar energy. Radiant solar being more "direct" really has nothing to do with which is the better option.
They are around, but their existence and availability is assiduously kept out of the public discourse. I would bet even a large proportion of primary care physicians don't know about them. Any time the subject of natural immunity comes up you will still very often hear "but the antibodies wane after a few months" as though that is the sole determinant of how well protected a recovered individual is.

I will leave the reasons that our public health establishment might want measurement of natural immunity focused on a narrow and rapidly-decaying metric as an exercise for the reader.
Is it really correct to call people with a positive PCR test who never developed symptoms "patients"?
I can’t make it so, but you have my best wishes. This isn’t always the best place for kindness. I hope you’ll take mine as sincere.
Toyota restarts driverless vehicles after accident
My father always said that accidents tend to happen when two people make mistakes. Even when fault technically lies with a single party, it's often the case that both parties had a chance to prevent the mistake from becoming a collision.

For example, if a turning vehicle cuts off oncoming traffic, it could get hit. An attentive driver in the oncoming lane might see the problem and hit the brakes, while an inattentive or speeding driver might not react in time. The turning vehicle is at fault, but that doesn't mean they were the only one that could have prevented the collision.

There are sometimes events you cannot control, but a lot of those multi-vehicle collisions were preventable by either party.
Many covid symptoms are also common symptoms of other things (e.g. fatigue, headache, cough). People could legitimately report having covid symptoms while not having covid.
TDD is a cult. In my experience it's pushed by managers who last touched code in 2008. Just do what literally every other dev does and lie about using it.

A strong type system is one of the main ways to avoid the insanity of TDD, so it's interesting that you hate Typescript too.
Fossil fuels store energy like batteries too. You could store excess wind energy as synthetic diesel[0] or gasoline, it's just not commercially viable yet.

[0] like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel - the input is water, CO2 and electricity, and as such it's carbon neutral.
I don't have a professional eye but I'll try to explain why I like one of the photos, the one identified as Photo 20, in which there are two sunbathers, the one on the right flirtatiously peering at the camera. I like the way that their images are just barely recognizable as such but they still look like real people in a candid moment. The resolution is so poor can't even see where the second woman's back ends and where the background begins. But with just a hint you can make out a smile and a sparkling eye. It's similar to the way a clever caricature captures the essence of the subject with a few strokes. Are there flowers in their hair? A checkered blanket? The mind's eye starts to fill in the details as when reading a novel. You can't make out anything clearly but it still feels there's a whole story that the viewer is being invited to share in.
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If you are hired in to contribute to the core mission of the organization (whatever that may be) then you are much more likely to be in a high-functioning group and enjoy your time there. Even within those groups there will be the occasional 'cautionary tale' but that helps everyone else find their path.

Also, the productive groups tend to have more active small team management and less direct leadership from on high. That may seem counter-productive but in government organizations it keeps everyone more engaged and indicates there is actually a lot of work to be done.
How many people prosecuted under the Espionage Act in the last decade were spies? One, maybe? How many were journalists, or people assisting journalists? All the rest?

These people imprisoned were the only ones obeying the law, by reporting violation of laws, as required by law. Meanwhile, all the eager participants in torture programs are walking around loose, still collecting paychecks.

How can we get them prosecuted?
The people who were slaves were dealt a horribly bad hand. They were not just unlucky they were also victims of an inhumane crime.

Their present-day descendants don't have it as bad but they are still dealt a comparatively bad hand in terms of access to wealth education and opportunity. They are a minority that is being oppressed. The fact that their ancestors had it much worse doesn't change the fact that they are dealt a bad hand. Now, maybe people who live in Africa today are even worse off. But reasons for that are a different discussion.

I'm trying to pinpoint the logical flaw in your question. I think it is that you are comparing the circumstances of blacks who live in America with blacks who live in Africa. That's the hidden (presumably unintentional) racism in your question. You should be comparing the situation of blacks to situation of whites, not blacks vs. other blacks.
> original gangster TLD

thug.life
I mean, if they didn't make any memory T cells, they would presumably just get sicker until they die.

So.

I feel pretty good that they are making memory T cells.

edit: activated T cells. yes.
Undermining faith in the government has been a right wing project since riiiight around the time the federal government took a strong role in passing and enforcing civil rights law...
Remind was released in 1996. GPL3 was released in 2007. ;)
> then that scenario does say that the market believes that the retargeting is more effective than 50% of the other ads I could have been shown.

Yep, and again, that’s because you recently bought a mattress. This is likely not the case for the other 99.99% of people on the internet who have not recently bought a mattress online. Again, you’re mixing up the fact that a particular ad might be more effective for you at a particular time with the conclusion that all retargeting ads must be more effective than all other ads.

> I assume that if other companies had the ability to have a salesperson walk up to me when I entered a mattress store and advertise to me on a competing store -- I think they'd probably jump at that opportunity.

You think that a company that makes flotation devices for dogs would pay a full time salesperson to stand just outside the furniture store to make a pitch to you, given almost no data about your interest in dog life preservers? And likewise for the hundreds of thousands of other products in the world? Clearly that’s not the case. It’s very expensive to hire a salesperson, so you’re only going to see salespeople in places where they are likely to be very effective. If there were hypothetically an auction for the salesperson at that location, its almost certain that the furniture store would bid the highest.
Why databases specifically? Would you be open to other systems-type work? That would probably significantly expand your options.

My last job was at a company that makes data storage systems [link redacted]. That thing probably doesn't look like a database to most people, but that is exactly what it is under the hood. We had quite a few ex-Oracle people on staff too, and their skills were very useful.

The bugs were pretty fun actually. We've had to deal with network card firmware corrupting frames, a CPU bug, PCIe issues, and of course the much more numerous (and mundane) kernel bugs and run-of-the-mill null pointers and memory leaks.

And before anyone says "just use Rust": the company started many years before Rust was a thing and there was simply too much to rewrite.

There is almost always room for a good generalist developer in a company like that. You don't have to be a domain expert to join. But of course there will also be some people with PhDs on staff. Learning from them is another draw.
The usual solution is to out Impl in a separate implementation header, so that implementation headers of derived classes can include it, but the rest of the world doesn't need to see it.
RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia
That looks awesome! Do you have any evaluation of the speed? is this based on a paper? is there more documentation?
If you can't remove yourself from the oncall list...

...then you already have no agency.
It's all gaming platforms.

It will try to be enforced, through their social id (everybody in China has one, and it's already used for payments, and logins). There will be workarounds, at least for some platforms.

For instance nobody can stop you playing old games, games you bought on gog etc.

But I do expect bigger publishers like Xbox, PS, Steam, Epic to support this if they want to remain in China market.

I think 1.5 hr a day is a bit much. My kid gets 5hr a week of online games max, as long he has done his chores, but no more than 2hr in any single day.

On occasion we play some games (like Civilization or Xcom, or some old adventures) together and that doesn't count towards limit.

And I agree that it sounds distopian, but I wish western countries would recommend (recommend and not force being the operative word, and make sure all platforms have options to set this up), limiting online everything to children.
Your account has mostly been posting flamewar comments. If you keep that up, we're going to have to ban you—it's not at all what this site is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
I sort of disagree that a hobby can’t be doing the same thing over and over. I know because it sure is for me. I was diagnosed with ADHD around 36 when I had my first child and simultaneously was getting in to higher management, never before realising that my coping-mechanism had been going to be early. I mean, I knew it was a stress coping mechanism, but I only had to do it in really intense weeks, which was maybe 6-10 times a year, so it was just part of life.

Anyway, having a child destroyed that as well as my need for solitude to re-energise (another thing I wasn’t too aware or). Long story short I ended up with a diagnosis and a suggestion that I found myself a hobby, much like the author. I picked Blood Bowl which is Warhammer American football, and as such is a miniature hobby where you buy and glue together and then paint little plastic dolls.

One of the things I enjoy the most is actually putting the miniatures together, and while I do kitbash (creativity) some of them, the real mindfulness comes from the cleaning, the preparing and the painting the same red on 16 figures.

Years later I know that this is exactly why I mostly stopped programming professionally and got into management. I actually really enjoy programming, even if it’s the same stupid for loop over and over, what I don’t enjoy is co-operating with project managers and clients, constantly making creative changes rather than just implementing something. That sort of programming burned me out and that eventually pushes me into architecture and later when my bosses saw potential in me into management.

I can see how taking commissions for clay cups would be similar to that. But I don’t think that always making cups would not make it a hobby just because there is less creativity in it.
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There is in Starbase, Texas.

And there are efficient and agile governments in other countries.
Interesting, which vaccine did you get? Was it one of the mRNA ones?
There's nothing wrong with unashamedly chasing success, but it tends to result in a certain mindset and personality. Not surprising to see a lot of those here on HN.
>> How is adding or altering data different than planting evidence?

I guess it's considered as an undercover/impersonation/honeypot job.
Also adding to the critique of this paper:

"Participants were a convenience sample recruited at the University of Alabama at Birmingham" [0]

_Convenience sample_ being the keyword here. As far as I understand they first had their sample and then tested the hypothesis. I would expect that they choose a sample that could invalidate/validate their hypothesis and not the other way around.

I think we really need to replicate this multiple time. I think that 72 people is a very small sample to draw a conclusion about a disease that we don't understand that much how it works (example: why young people with apparent no predisposition are in ICU ...) we should take this as a good step toward understanding more, but it needs a lot of replication.

[0] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042-t1
This always seems like such an important caveat that is rarely included in these lines of thought - Assuming they're worried about being invaded.

Thankfully, most countries are not in a position where they're even slightly concerned about a physical invasion. We have almost universally decided that invasion/conquest is a morally bad thing to engage in, so to my mind the continued effort to expand military forces implies an intention to break this agreed upon moral standing or at the least a lack of commitment to the stance.

There are allegedly 20 aircraft in the Irish Air Corps [1] and I sure hope we're in advanced enough stage of society that we're not solely reliant on those to protect ourselves!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Air_Corps
Once while driving through the Navajo reservation, which is enormous and sparsely populated, my friend and I picked up two hitchhikers. I was shocked to see that their houses where we dropped them off seemed to have no power connections or any other visible utility infrastructure, in addition to being crudely built and small. The other houses on their road were similar. It's hard to believe that an entire region of the country is this poor.
nice. at least, in a way, honest.
What market in the US is a 100k comp competitive for a software engineer these days?
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SmartWindows is an all-in-one solution that makes your Windows 10 smarter enough to keep you away from tedious everyday tasks.
Not knowing exactly what your situation is, it is difficult to say what You should do. But...

I would suggest You take a sober second look at your manager's comments. Sometimes what appears to be malicious attacks are just clumsy attempts to motivate.

Has anyone else on your team had simmilar issues?

I know it is hard to deal with a pushy manager but sometimes You just have to suck it up and put your nose back into joint.

If You are convinced You will have to leave don't sell yourself short by taking a 30% pay cut. Find a better paying job than your current one, and it is always easier to find a new job while You still have one. That is mainly because it avoids the questions a possible employer has about why You left (especially if they pass You by without even asking).

It seems You are quite frustrated and discouraged, it might be worthwhile reaching out to Your manager and honestly and HUMBLY asking for help resolving the issues You are having rather than the "I hate this shit" scorched earth, bridge burning path.

Good luck in whatever You decide.
That's an exceptionally inefficient way to do it, and it comes with the risk of methane leaks (which would then have a climate warming effect).

Hydrogen can be used directly, which skips one conversion step and doesn't need air capture for the CO2. These days no gas plant should be build that can't be converted to 100% hydrogen in the future.
As someone who almost exclusively listens to classical music, popular and obsecure composers, I am glad someone is trying to create a better experience for people like me.
Spotify is terrible for classical music. It just treats it like pop music structure with albums and songs as the top level hierarchy. Then it keeps shuffling things around randomly and the saved pieces I have gets disorganized.

It is a bit better with Apple music but still there's a huge room for improvement here.

Classical music is the best thing I've discovered in my life. It gives me so much inspiration and happiness. It touches my heart in way nothing else does. It's truly magical in that sense.
Ask HN: Product development as a service business. Has anyone nailed it?
I have a small service business where we help founders without technical team build their products. We're a team of 13 based in India.

But the challenge I'm facing is, I don't know where my potential customers are, or how to reach them. Except that, I have leads coming in from my network but not always predictable.

Has anyone here really nailed this kind of business where the target customer group is so scattered and "hidden", that you cannot find them?

Is there any predictable sales method for this kind of business or is it not suitable for a business?