skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been there. I shut down a bunch of what looked like idle instances doing nothing to reduce spend. 80% of which were, in fact, doing nothing. I did drop off two vms that were supporting critical infrastructure.

Everyone who had done any work on them was long gone. I had done my due diligence to identify what they could possibly be.

Still, the day of reckoning came, and we got calls of services down a week after I turned them off. I spun them back up, and they were going again without any real impact to the business.

This turned out to be a blessing as the very next week the cert these same services depended on expired and if I hadn't learned about the system by turning them off we never would have known which boxes held up those services.

Also a lesson in what happens when people leave without any documentation on where the work they did lives and how it works.
I'm the authority on humor. A joke has some kind of structure, usually a setup, some kind of carry-through, and a punchline. What you have is a sentence.
A lot of the "truther" nonsense came from the day of the attack when nobody really had any idea what the hell was happening. It wasn't immediately clear that a plane hit the first tower to cause the damage, it wasn't clear it was an attack and not an accident until the second plane hit, and it wasn't clear the planes alone caused the collapse for days at least. Hell, for like an hour the Pentagon attack was considered either a potentially unrelated fire or a missile attack.

It's unfortunate that this at the moment reporting can reinforce conspiracy theories, but maintaining the uncertainty felt during the day provides a benefit. Much of the day was filled with shock and confusion, with everybody watching the news to try and figure out what was happening.
Medium is low-friction, aids discoverability, and makes monetisation easy - those are pretty compelling reasons compared to setting up your own blog.
https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2012/05/problem-and-solution-...

Not sure what anyone getting fired has to do with anything. Son preference refers to sex selection, not employment termination based on gender.
These people have virtually no interest in collecting taxes in comparison to their interest in creating criminals as a pretense for monitoring everyone.
Merkel has been chancellor for 16 years, and has maintained a longer track record for popularity than any US or UK leader I can remember. She also announced in October 2018 that she wasn’t going to seek a fifth term as Chancellor in the 2021 elections, after which the CDU opinion polls moved very little for 18 months before first going up to 40% for about a year and then going down to 20% now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2021_G...
Interesting study. The data collection & classification methods seem strong as does the underlying data set. However I’m unconvinced their analysis necessarily follows from the established facts.

- Knowledge workers are treated as a homogeneous population. But it seems unlikely a software engineer, a VP of software engineering, and a business development associate obtain the same benefit from frequent in person meetings.

- Remote teams aren’t merely in-person teams + Video/VOIP stack. Optimal process and culture is drastically different for each case. It seems possible that some/most of detrimental effects would disappear over time as new remote teams adopt better processes and discard legacy methods optimized for proximity.

- There is a lack of nuance. While I may be persuaded that on average in-person collaboration adds value I strongly suspect there is tremendous variability between individual meetings. I once worked for a very senior Ballmer-era product executive who jumped ship to an alluring startup. In the year before they were fired I easily spent over 200 hours meeting and collaborating with them. To say that each hour was merely empty and valueless would do a disservice to this individual’s talent for value deletion. The abrupt conversion to WFH was accompanied by a substantial increase in communication friction. In such cases I would expect lower value, less focused, and more vacuous meetings and network connections to be the first that are jettisoned. It seems dangerous to assume the collaboration dynamics associated with success pre- WFH will remain so post-WFH. This is a novel, potentially pattern breaking change.
Saudi Arabia has special circumstances.
I switched Chrome to use secure DNS with neither Croogle or CloudBlare (used OpenDNS) and now it works fine. Fuck the megacorps.
I turned down a job offer in a principal engineering role at Microsoft because they were not allowing long term remote work.
This seems like a really misguided and thoughtless connection. In particular, their weight-loss intervention was a low-carb, high-protein diet plus a pretty sharp overall calorie reduction. However, without saying anything about the actual foods consumed and how they were sourced, we have no way of knowing whether the reduced CO2 from the body mass of participants was dwarfed consuming more foods whose production creates more CO2. If you lose weight by eating a lot of beef, is that a net reduction? You'd have to show the math, but it doesn't seem like they considered this at all.

Surely the improved quality of life, longer lives etc are sufficient reason to pursue better nutrition and weight management.

And if you want to reduce carbon emissions, sure you can look at your diet, but in terms of emission reductions per unit of time or attention invested, losing weight has to be one of the worst/slowest right?
Rhonda Patrick actually founded FoundMyFitness.com .

Is there a name for this? ... when people try to get their views to look more legitimate by claiming their research received grants from legit-sounding institutions that they also happen to own? Dean Ornish and Deepak Chopra are some of the originators of this concept.
With my income state income tax becomes a massive consideration. I also don't think there are any LCOL areas of CA with decent schools.
Correlation !== Causation // true

Correlation != Causation // false

So Javascript really was right about having both operators. /s
Cloudflare DNS does not route efficiently with AWS CloudFront anycast DNS. I tracked down insanely slow `rustup update` downloads to incorrect selection of ideal routes to the AWS resources caused by using CF to resolve the DNS. Switching to a different resolver that works with anycast and EDNS fixed it.

CF saying “we break standard DNS geo routing but work with providers to route things right” isn’t very inspiring.
No one wants to own the payment instrument. That's useless, causes missed sales, and is a security nightmare. Companies don't reinvent their own Visa or Mastercard, for example, because that's a huge pain and the fees for using the existing products are low.

App developers were mad about Apple's egregious 30% cut for doing payment processing. If Apple wants everyone to accept Apple IAP, it can simply lower its fees to competitive payment processing rates.
I'd honestly swap your examples around.

"Thou shalt not Kill" provides for stability that enables for long-term societies to develop.

"Thou shalt have only one wife" just sounds like a rule made up by someone who wouldn't have a wife if Jerry next door was allowed to have two.
Lacking any protocol changes in the near term, is the best (portable and somewhat secure) approach for an average person to just put sensitive stuff in an encrypted zip file or something...?
I exited the Windows ecosystem completely in '19 and haven't had any issues since playing games on my Linux machine.

Just recently played Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1. Both worked almost flawlessly (one to two crashes each).
Does anyone know why they don’t have an interest/long-term goal of building an orbital rocket?
It’s a bit like the FTL neutrinos. We knew it couldn’t be, but the data showed otherwise, so they got to check everything down to the cable connections.
Poverty is.
Inflation bubbles over the horizon

Almost a fifth of ALL US dollars were created this year
https://www.cityam.com/almost-a-fifth-of-all-us-dollars-were...
This is already starting to happen, albeit quite slowly. I think it will gain a lot of momentum and it will lead to very interesting progress in AI.

For example, deep functions + probabilistic models yield things such as deep markov models, which are interpretable and can represent really complex distributions such as music.

Deep functions can also be used during sampling to generate sophisticated proposals in problems where standard algorithms struggle to navigate the posterior.

There are also equivalent ideas being explored in RL, such as the OP.
> Wildfires don’t spread much better in 90F vs 121F.

That's missing the point a bit. That said, vegetation sure does get dry fast in a 120 degree heat wave, though.
>Everything on archive.is is on archive.org. I would say 99% of stuff.

Given how a LOT of the stuff today is behind paywalls and Archive.today breaks through most of them and Archive.org doesn't, your "99%" figure is way, way off when it comes to popular stuff.

Anyway, I donate to both the Archive.today and Archive.org. They're extremely valuable to me. I feel like Archive.today is in a dire situation when it comes to funding so I donate more than double to them each month.

If you're able, please donate to these sites. They are running on fumes. And take a look at my profile for a list of other orgs to donate to.
I find this highly implausible, all of the accounts archive.is is "logged into" would have to be put there in a very explicit manner. I'd assume that all of the accounts are fake or appropriated accounts.

For example @volth on Github - as a person - is still around in other places, so I'm guessing that account was stolen and they don't have a way to get it back.
It to mention the hidden variable: “dysfunctional societies both end up poorer and treat their women badly”.
This doesn't work for me because I forget that I redirected a specific host and end up troubleshooting my network. Especially if a few medium articles showed up at the same time, months after I blocked it.
> Borland Pascal compilers that I mentioned had exactly the same memory models than their C++ counterparts, specially the Windows 3.1 versions, there was no difference between TPW 1.5 and TC++ 3.1.

The Turbo C 1.0 User's Guide [1] page 244 (257) "Turbo C's Six Memory Models" lists these as tiny, small, medium, compact, large, huge. Also, page 220 (233) "The near, far, and huge Modifiers".

You claim that these same capabilities were present in TP 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0 and TPW 1.5. Can you provide a reference for that?

[1] http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/tur...
Provided it is AES encryption, yeah it's not bad.

For storage, I would recommend Veracrypt though since it's more specifically designed for this purpose.
Perhaps imperfect, but how about [1]?

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-rea...
Oops, I really did project hard, didn't I? :D

Sorry!

> To the point that they aren't USING the tools they are learning, just learning how to use it in such depth that they paralyze themselves.

Yeah, I've met those. And I completely agree that what they do is unprofessional. At one point you should just sit on your arse and do what you are paid for!

> I don't know why you took this personally...

Same reason why many others do -- I projected. :) Apologies.

> Emacs has a web browser in Lisp, why?

I am sure many would chime in to say how they love never leaving Emacs or how back then good email clients and web browsers weren't a thing -- but I am with you here, I think the effort and tool duplication must absolutely stop already.

There aren't very many of us the programmers in the world (I mean those who get sh1t done) and we shouldn't spread our efforts in meaningless individualism.

> All I'm saying is use the tools. Customize it as needed, but don't become addicted to customization for customization's sake.

Yep, 100% this. I actually do my very best to customize very little. I spend a great amount of effort [every now and then] to find the canonical way a tool [is expected to] work/works and just do a very thin layer of customization on top of that, versioning it with GIT and overall making sure I can nuke my $HOME from orbit, clone a few repos on a new machine, issue a few installation commands and be on my merry way.
Protecting life breaks fugitive slave law? What? Which part of the Constitution is involved here?
It feels like the diamond in the story is the insertion of randomness in the backoff/retry. Networking protocols have an awkward habit of not doing this and accidentally inducing thundering herds of retries.

In the till situation, classic expo backoff would have been catastrophic: since all tills at Xmas are about equally busy, they'll all backoff and retry in the same way. So the randomness essentially simulates different levels of till busyness.
The 747s simulated were also near-empty and flying slow, as the assumption was an accidental collision from an airplane lost in fog trying to land. They never simulated one nearly full of fuel running full-tilt.
But when the user goes to use the IP address they got back, even more detailed information is going to be given to the endpoint; I can see this maybe being a benefit for TXT records or something?

Hiding ECS from DNS queries seems to mostly just further create imbalances between companies that can afford routing at the IP level over companies that want to do cheaper routing at the DNS level.

(And like, if you attempt to directly mitigate the final IP problem by using a VPN or CG-NAT or something, that same solution will work for the DNS resolver, so I really am seeing no benefit.)
I’ve not seen XMPP used for store-and-forward messaging, like email, but I suppose it could be done.

Every single XMPP client I’ve used sucks. Really suck. And there are always quirks setting up group chat and image sharing with XMPP servers.
It’s probably because they’re our people. It’s normal to most acknowledge our own victims.
So a tobacco company has done a research on health impact of tobacco. Here are the surprising findings they've made...
Large scary math symbols are just for-loops
$20 CPM is very high for advertising, but it's not all that high for a paywall that is working well, no?
I will be brave enough to claim that abortion specifically against girls is bad. I’d be brave enough to say that abortion specifically against boys is bad too.

I am confused as to why you think this requires much bravery though. It doesn’t feel like a particularly hidden belief that I’m letting out
Almost every photo I've seen of the event has not been "a couple of" anyone nor largely "boomers".

On a similar note, I somehow doubt if people broke through the doors to enter your home, assaulted people trying to protect it, yelled about how they want you dead, and then took some of your stuff you'd be calling it an "unguided tour".
In some (quite improbable) circumstances it actually could make it worse.

When you are actually losing weight the way that mass leaves your body is as CO₂ and water with about 85% of the lost mass as CO₂ and 15% as water.

If we were just barely below some irreversible tipping point and everyone decided to lose weight the CO₂ from the weight loss itself could push us over, at which point it then doesn't matter that at the end of our weight loss our bodies are emitting less CO₂ than they were before the weight loss.
And I should trust information coming out of Florida because...?
He didn't mean anticompetitive towards Archive.is, he meant with all content providers in general. By making them all less capable of delivering low-latency content, it makes Cloudfare appear better by comparison. Not sure how likely that would be but I'm pretty sure that was OP's meaning.
First half of 20/20 was really hard on a lot of people: the pandemic, civil unrest, political instability. It was a difficult time for sure. Then there is the whole shock of kids at home from school, spouses at home, potentially lost jobs, etc.. That said, I suppose it is intuitive to think that a bunch of people leaving campus life and suddenly working from home would have an adjustment period anyway.

I'm also a little skeptical of the their leap from their dependent variables to "other research suggests less innovation." It's probably a fallacy on my part, but I am also skeptical that a company with what must be billions of dollars invested in high tech campuses is going to find that remote work is just as good as a campus environment.

I have been working fully remote, in remote friendly or fully remote companies for 12 years or so now. It is definitely a different environment and different way of collaborating than working on a campus. I would be interested to see similar research on such companies. I suspect that the results would be replicated, but would be interesting to know for sure.

Related anecdote: I was visiting Microsoft campus in Redmond pretty regularly around 2018/2019. Most of the meetings I attended included many people calling in to their video conferencing system from around campus and sometimes from home. I thought at the time that it seemed like they were on their way to a remote work situation anyway.
Well, that doesn't speak for his judgement seeing as how 100% women is just as exclusionary as 100% men. It might be the 'right' type of exclusion in the ideological circles he frequents but that doesn't make it true.
I should have said 99% of stuff that is at risk of being lost forever. Paywalled content from major news companies isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Sure, but most gaming rigs suck 500w or more.
It could also have been as simple as Saddam had once tried to assassinate GW's daddy and GW was ok with anything detrimental to Iraq's leadership.
Merkel is horrible for a lot of things, but your example is a terrible one...

She's a conservative, and the conservative economic doctrine is austerity for the masses, but handouts for businesses. She and her economic minister presided over the Euro crisis terribly, causing hardships in Spain, Italy, Greece. People commited suicide because of it! Since Germany was the biggest economy in Europe of course what Berlin said was what Brussels would parrot.

And I'm glad she said Syrians were welcome, but after many years of telling Germans and other Europeans that they needed to tighten their belts, suddenly she said "we can do it!". It's freaking understandable that the people who've been indoctrinated that without the belt-tightening there'll be nothing left for their pensions are pissed off at the idea that several hundred thousand refugees would be fed, clothed, housed, etc, with their tax money.

Again I'm glad she welcomed the refugees, but after spreading austerity
doctrine all over Europe, the populist rightwing reaction is understandable. The rightwing party AfD is now a significant fraction in German state and federal parliaments, if you want to be cruel you can say Merkel did a better job of growing Nazism than a certain previuos German leader who had Europe-conquering ambitions..
If they're clicking on a link, discoverability is done. It's been discovered.
I feel like if you are used to programming in haskell, you'll have no problem with math syntax
You misspelt corporations.
If there was a vaccine that in one fell swoop (or rather two fell swoops) reduced the mortality rate of heart disease and cancer by 11x, I'd be shouting from the rooftops about it. Until then, let's stop with the false equivalencies.
Ah yes the poor and unstable Japan.
I read the article, I'm pretty sure you are mistaken.
Numbers differ by study and vaccine. The prescribing info for phizer mentions bells palsy, but not the calculated rate.

An analysis looking at the trial data puts it at 14-18/100k higher than the expected baseline

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

A analsys from the previously linked lancet study had a muck larger sample ~500k, but different collection methods and found smaller but nonzero results

>The age-standardised difference for the incidence compared with the background population was 41·5 (95% CI 11·7 to 71·4) for CoronaVac and 17·0 (−6·6 to 40·6) for BNT162b2, equivalent to an additional 4·8 cases per 100 000 people vaccinated for CoronaVac and 2·0 cases per 100 000 people vaccinated for BNT162b2.

Most if not all the vaccine trials saw small increases <1% in serious adverse events in the treatment arm
Companies will invoke even God to make employees return to offices. I don't trust Microsoft neither this study.
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I just say outright that the "special circumstances" means that their wealth comes from a magic hole in the ground and not something their society was capable of creating or producing.
You can read the twitter feed and decide for your self.
Pfizer. They simply sent me an SMS telling with the dates of the 2 doses and the vaccine they were going to use.

I could've have rejected it and asked for another one, but as a 30 year old I was okay with either Pfizer or Moderna.

The first one was ok, it only hurt a bit if I touched where they injected it. The second dose was worse. The next morning carrying my 1.5kg laptop on a backpack felt like 10 times heavier. Then headaches and a bit of fever. I woke like nothing happened the next morning.
You are right that obese people do not directly affect my health. Neither does my vaccination status directly affect yours because vaccinated people spread the virus too.

Obese people do affect my health if they take a hospital bed that I could have used when I need it. Isn't that one of the same arguments applied to the unvaccinated?

If we didn't have so many obese people, would the hospitals be overloaded? Would we have a shortage of healthcare workers?

I am repeating them because repeating works. See the Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge. It is also what the others are doing, by repeating the same "tired" lines over and over about how the unvaccinated are killing grandmas.

By the way, I'm not trolling. I'm serious. HN guidelines ask that you assume good faith.
>The utter superficiality of your comment is the perfect demonstration of the fashion driven nature of software development. You're not worried about the language. You're worried about the marketing and whether or not you feel cool...

You walk into a bookshop, undecided on what you want to read next. On every shelf are books in plain white covers. You pick one out at random and look at the front. There is no illustration at all to give you any hint as to what it's about. Just the plain white cover with the title of the book. You flip it over. On the back cover, instead of a summary of the plot, there is just an index of chapter titles.

If that's not enough for you upon which to base your decision on whether or not to purchase, then you're an incredibly shallow and fashion-led reader

[Feel free to create similar analogies. For example; a supermarket in which every tin, packet and bottle has a plain white label with 'Food' written on the front and nothing but an ingredients list on the back]