skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the realistic reach of the signals of human civilization, it's a few tens of lightyears at best.

And once you factor in how inhumane it'd be to send children out to colonize foreign solar systems ... are we really sure we'll do that? That's 10 generations that live their entire lives in small metal boxes ... without the vast majority of everything we have on earth. Not so much as a single field of grass (or field of anything, building a big room in space will be a great challenge, especially since weightlessness means you don't really need room).

10 generations that will have absolutely zero power to do anything about their situation. It will take 100+ generations before anything remotely resembling earth level comfort will happen (assuming the planets encountered can at any point support human life. If they need to be terraformed, we're easily talking 1000+ generations)
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There is some possibility that ivermectin has some benefit for COVID, but right now there are few if any high quality studies showing that. The right answer is to do more higher quality studies.

There is zero justification for getting on the radio and YouTube and hyping it up to the point that ignorant or desperate people try to take horse paste, especially when you combine it with soft-pedal antivax bullshit that convinces people they can put horse paste in their coffee instead of getting the vaccine.

This stuff has killed people.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/241660405...

Numbers are similar in other places.
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You can make and freeze demi-glace cubes. Cool trick I saw on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IERauv-k5wo

EDIT: Forgot to add, fish sauce also adds a lot of umami and depth.
No , it's because of the thrill.

Street racing has an element of thrill and danger in the race itself, whereas pot only trill would be breaking the law given that it is impossible to OD and there is little to no harm.

The low toxicity and low harm are positives but only as long as there is some form of thrill to keep the population hooked on pot. That is: breaking the law.
One-on-one seems reasonable, that's negotiating with an employer. But when you bring in 'vinny and his friends' to put pressure on one side, that gets iffy.

Escalating the negotiation to extortion through back doors, is probably not the optimal way to go.
That's not what happens.

When I go to the pot stores in Massachusetts and California, most people just buy regular pot. There's plenty of edibles and vaping concentrate available, it's just that most people want to smoke the flower.
> I don’t see the issue.

Pretending to care about people when all you really care about is being able to use them for your own benefit is disingenuous, and I'd argue it probably rises to the level of "unethical" when you're a company that has come under so much fire for your labor practices.

The poor conditions and treatment of workers in Amazon warehouses, the tactics the company has used to prevent workers from organizing, and the company's laughable attempts at paying workers to defend it online are shameful.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-wo...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/01/study-amazon-workers-injured...

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1014632356/amazon-alabama-war...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56581266

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/style/amazon-fc-ambassado...
With remote work skyrocketing, how will we decorate our offices? Suggestions?
With remote work skyrocketing since Covid19 how are you guys modifying/enhancing your home offices and home itself with more time spent there?

I've gotten these customizable steel signs from MetalSignStudios.com for mine. Very unique and I can highly recommend the quality.

Any other suggestions?
Agree, I could barely follow the train of thought it’s so convoluted and circular
I would also add that being rude and not agreeing with somebody's statements are separate things.

For some reason people conflate the two and then it is difficult to have a civil discussion on the Internet.

Don't agree with somebody's response? Don't try to shift the discussion to something else like the particular choice of words and whether you "feel" it was rude. If you can't or are not willing to discuss the actual arguments it is better to stay silent.
I've suspected that for years. I remember my undergrad biology prof coming down on students depending on meta-analysis and insisting they were no substitute for attempting to replicate the experiments themselves.
Does that make this a supermetalist?
There are plenty of other things you can have done that are illegal and still get a clearance. Without touching if it's a good policy or not, drug use is a black mark during a clearance investigation not because it's illegal, but because you're using drugs.

I wouldn't be surprised if these agencies continue to disallow clearances due to legal drug use. Depending on the level of clearance, alcohol use, poor finances, multiple passports, and having contacts with foreign nationals from certain countries - all legal activities - are reasons for a clearance being denied.
Honestly, the number one thing any of us can do for the climate is to contact our representatives regularly about climate pricing. Absent that, we’ll never slow our pollution enough to stop runaway warming. Everything else is a micro optimization that may even distract us from the only thing that will get us over the line.
I sometimes try to understand the issue from an employer's point of view: why should they hire anyone on a permanent contract? I mean, in any field, not specifically in academia.

Sure, you have an interest in keeping the most talented and important employees but I would expect that there is a large belly of mostly replaceable workers in any company of size.

If that is actually true, wouldn't the cost of having to constantly retrain young recruits be offset by the savings you achieve by not keeping those around that have already moved up the salary ladder?
Ignoring the thread and dealing with the link within...

> Authentic participatory methods require a shift in power to the individuals and groups who have the most at stake yet the least-heard voice. Doing so is ethical and more effective, as people without institutional power hold essential knowledge that more “objective” stakeholders do not possess.

This seems to me like a good blueprint for activism but anathema to the idea of 'research'. Someone's degree of victimization does not determine the truth value of their statements.

> For example, in a participatory project on policing, the people who are policed—not the police—are the experts to include.

How does shutting out the voices of those determined to possess power (itself a subjective judgment...) help develop an inclusive and comprehensive understanding of any phenomenon?

The paper ostensibly comes out against 'objectivity' and 'rigor' but really seems to rewrite their definitions such that objectivity = the "essential-ness" of your subjects' knowledge, and rigor = how systematically you follow the participatory method rather than the scientific method.
If you put the microphone directly against the track, I would bet the friction and movement of the wheels against the track generates vibration that is fairly consistent for a given speed. Maybe a sensor that better detects slight vibration would be better than a microphone for this use case.

Additionally, train engines run as generators to actually power the wheels, which means they're likely running at consistent RPMs or a consistent range of set RPMs. This could be listened for.
We do that, too. For example, one of those Redditors owns 22,612 BRK.B shares and has been buying since late 2002.

Berkshire spent $25 billion in 2020 (all of its operating earnings) on buybacks at an average price of $205 per BRK.B share. That buying continued at almost the same pace in 2021 and the average price paid is $220 per BRK.B share.

We can't buy at that buyback price today, but many of us would gladly pay, say, $250 per share for BRK.B.
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"had to take a break"

more like: "wanted to get high on a nice day out"
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A lot of companies still have control their data centers or some portion of them. At least to an extent to control how things are scheduled on hardware.

Kubernetes is similar enough to Borg (the datacenter/cluster OS that Google uses) to efficiently schedule workloads over a cluster. There are ways to use it anyplace one has a cluster for that purpose. This is just to provide an example.
Agreed, you are describing the ceiling (high end) of the wage scale.

The issue is the floor (i.e. the bottom) of the wages. Employers will try to keep wages lower even when productivity improves
I think your comment inadvertently illustrates how much of this comes down to how you define the baseline. I think the comparison for a world-leading marathon runner shouldn't be someone who _never_ exercises but someone who's actually put some effort into fitness (say, an amateur runner) — yes, they're faster but it's nowhere near 10x[1] — just as our baseline for a 10x developer shouldn't be someone who's never written a line of code before but the median professional developer. It's easy to get an order of magnitude win over someone who's completely inept but once you get into more realistic territory you're chasing diminishing returns pretty hard.

The other big problem here is that you're talking about a complex skill but trying to reduce it to a single number. Tellingly, most of the 10x developer examples cited are cases where they know exactly what they want to do and have near-complete control over it, which isn't exactly how most developers work. It's really hard to quantify things like teamwork or the ability to distill what people need from what they say they need, and those are core skills for most of us in a way that optimizing a 3D engine is not.

1. I've done marathon length _hikes_ in far less than a single day, and I'm far from a hard-core athlete.
That subreddit is fine. It's documenting COVID deniers getting smacked upside the head with reality.

This post summarizes the spirit of the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/psyp4w/for...

The tl;tr version:

This sub Reddit is a consequence of the anger and frustration rest of us feel by repeatedly suffering because of your hatred, your ignorance, your irresponsibility, your lack of compassion and empathy and your childish defiance that you all wear like badges of honor. At least until you end up in the ICU on a ventilator, then suddenly it’s all “COVID IS NO JOKE!”and begging for Prayer Warriors.

All these things, as well as others too numerous to mention, have made this dark place we’re in possible and has allowed for the creation of the HCA. So, if you’re looking for someone to be outraged at, just take a look in a mirror.
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This is from June—it's interesting, but is there some particular reason to resurface it now? Has there been some recent development?
A nice "gateway drug" is an addressable (programmable) LED strip. Hook it up to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino and have at it! I bought cheap motion sensors and will be installing a strip along the inside of a staircase to light up when I approach it.

https://github.com/whyboris/Arduino-LED (see "stairs.ino")

Another project of mine is having the LEDs light up as I play piano:

https://github.com/whyboris/Digital-Piano-LED

Unsure where I'll go after I finish these projects, but LEDs are so much fun!
Oh, if I could buy my weed from Amazon I would in a heartbeat! The best pot store is about 25 minutes from my house, and my town will only approve medical-only stores.
In what way is it nonsense?
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How much is this outfit paying you to post here? Besides, these are just metal signs to hang on your door — assuming you're privileged enough to have a home office with a door. A lot of people working remote aren't so lucky.
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The estimates here are as good as anyone can make, I think.

Of course we can choose our postulates and come to any conclusion we want, as they have done here. When we've only really got conjecture and guess and golly to work with, it's all going to be a bit of an exersize in intellectual masturbation.

Quibbles about methodology are just comparing techniques: long v short stroke, with or without twist, etc. The input and the output is still the same and of the same value.
A rough guide: The GPS signal works on two codes: coarse acquisition (C/A) and precision (P) codes. The P codes are 1 week long and require a secret key even to this day. C/A is I think a few hundred milliseconds and easily locked onto.

They used to use C/A for what it says: coarse acquisition of where you are (space and time), to work out where you are in the P code signal to start looking. Apparently a difficult problem without the C/A to start you in the right place.

To stop baddies using GPS for anything evil, the C/A had an error built in. This error in C/A is what Bill Clinton removed.

To this day military still can use P codes and it is still possible for the C/A to go out to lunch. But practically this is unlikely to happen given the amount of civil applications dependent on accurate gps.
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the 2020 stats were in the article.
What are some of you using to enhance your home area and office?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again, it’s not a fiction. I’ve watched millions of dollars get wasted by that approach. It’s a great way to deliver nothing on time unless you know the domain well and your customer really knows what they want. But it is, sadly, quite real.
10x developers exist, but often they leave mess for others to clean up.
> Increased tax revenue for towns from outside buyers? Are these new issues that didn't exist in the black market?

For what it's worth, the Netherlands allow communities to ban foreigners from coffee shops - Maastricht already has such a ban, and proposals to do the same in Amsterdam crop up regularly (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/11/foreigners-fac...). The issue is that especially in border-adjacent cities coffee shops attract a lot of "weed tourism": people coming only for the weed but not spending much outside of the coffee shops, causing traffic issues and the likes, that are nowhere near appropriately covered by the pot taxes.

We Germans have a similar issue with prostitution - Germany is widely seen as the "biggest brothel of Europe", so especially French clients (where "thanks" to the "nordic model" prostitution is criminalized) overrun the brothels close to the border. In Czechia, prostitution is legal as well - but vastly cheaper than in Germany, which means a lot of Germans living near the border go there.
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You're supposed to use your velocity to figure out how many story points you can reasonably complete in a Sprint. But if the velocity is padded (by adding invisible capacity... extra hours unaccounted for in the velocity calculation) then you end up with unrealistic expectations.

If your velocity is correct you should end up with 100% completion and your employees having a work life balance. But I rarely see that.

If a developer finishes all their tickets they should help out other developers. And if by some stretch you overestimate... which I think may be a worlds first for software ;)... you're supposed to grab the next highest priority ticket from the backlog.

But I've also seen an approach where the sprint purposely has more than the velocity in it as kind of a "stretch goal" but everyone on the team knows anything bellow the velocity line is unlikely to get done.

I've also seem places where the stretch goal becomes the goal the client is told will be completed... those places are toxic, if you find yourself working at one, run.

Edit: If you are 100% complete on your first Sprint then yes, you probably incorrectly planned capacity. It takes 3 sprints to get a velocity. But once you have a velocity, it should be pretty stable.

Edit 2: This is why you prioritize your whole backlog, not just the current sprint. For the chance you end up with 100% completion. No use scheduling > 100%. IMO that just lends to the problem I mentioned of the stretch goal becoming the real goal.
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That is a good point... and gets back to the chief programmer of the MMM surgical team.

One of the aspects of having a chief programmer (and there's another HN article making the rounds on heroes for projects) is that they're able to conceptualize/structure/design an entire application or module.

A chief programmer, doing a "this is how we're doing it" and with all the parts in their head and working to that end will have better overall "idea to deploy" performance than someone who is given the task of "do X" and may have to come back to it again to reconcile their implementation of X with the design of the system and its goals.

The way to resolve that is to get everyone who is working on it on the same page for the design... and that takes meetings leading to the issues with adding more people to a project will make it later.
Totally agree that non-software benefits from traditional project planning. In a project management class it was taught that the project framework should be adapted to the project.

It sounds really formal but planning how you plan the project is key for some things. For example, I would guess building a nuclear power plant isn't an iterative type of project. Lots of risks and lots of sequential activities. A team could probably spend weeks to months just planning the plan.
You don’t need your own estimates to call BS on theirs. Including simply on the premise of the volume of the universe, most of the universe is an empty void. Even if you allow somehow for the traversal of intergalactic void in your local clusters this alone should put a much more serious dampening effect on the expansion of any given species.

It also assumes that species can even get to the technological level required for galactic and then intergalactic expansion and maintain that level pretty much indefinitely.

But then again this isn’t a research paper or even a particularly serious statement.
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It's not one data point. There are many many documented asteroid impacts. If you assume that hitting ANY spot on Earth is randomly distributed (or at least randomly outside the poles), and you know the rate of meteor impacts (even within an order of magnitude), you can easily calculate the probability of destroying a city to be extremely low. Particularly given the number of cities in 1650 BCE.
When I said ought… I mean it in the prescriptive sense not the descriptive.

The government should be held to a high standard, and when it fails we, the people, should fix it and not turn to private companies and ask why they didn’t step up to the plate.
As a father of a toddler, kids will always cry and be terrified for any thing they try for the first time (i.e. at the hairdressers). You can't always reason with the kids who don't understand anything. Kids don't look at experiences as "interesting things going on". And every kid is different so don't compare kids as if they are the same.
I think Jeff + Sanjay is arguably a better example of 100x developers. Goes way beyond just MapReduce.

Edit: I just noticed that you said the same yourself. Great minds...
Yeah I asked someone in human reliability about this not too long ago, she said even if it's made legal they are unlikely to change the restrictions any time soon. She said (and I'm not commenting on the validity of this line of reasoning myself, nor was she really) the argument is along the same lines of why you're also not supposed to be routinely getting wasted drinking -- it shows a pattern of unreliable behavior and there is also a risk of disclosing information when intoxicated. She did say that they might slightly relax the restrictions if weed was made fully legal.
Thanks!

I've been wanting to build a hackday project that takes images captured from our satellites and builds a video stream. (we gets hundreds of new shots from space every minute, for fun create a screensaver-like streaming video feed of interesting pictures)

perhaps I can build it with either ffmpeg or pion (using pkg/driver/screen as a model to create a virtual canvas to draw on)
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The second factor is the security key in the phone / hardware key.

The first factor is the biometric or PIN code to unlock the phone / hardware key.
They also want to open their hiring pool up to more low wage workers, and not have to pay for testing and marijuana related overhead. Employers will save lots of money if weed is legalized federally.
You're claiming inflationary currencies have never been suitable.

Nonsense. Until recently, we've seen the currencies of large empires like Britain and US do nothing but inflate, yet their currency and their economies function just fine.
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It's clear that Rogan himself is not an intellectual. He will be the first person to tell you that.

That seems to be the appeal of his show, though. He talks to experts (not all of them intellectuals) without being an expert himself. That's useful as a listener, because chances are you aren't an expert in any given field and listening to two experts talk would be borderline imcomprehensible to you.
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The rules aren’t “how to talk to children” they’re for the show’s dialogue.

Mr Rogers needs to be more careful than regular people in real life. He’s talking to thousands of children at once and can’t read the room or clarify things for them, but doesn’t want to be misunderstood. Also, he’s well aware that every word he says is being recorded to be scrutinized for ages to come.
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Define "small quantities". about 100? no. about 5000? maybe yes.
Of course. "news" is another word for "programming"
Agile is an idea, over the past ten to fifteen years it has been turned into a process complete with certifications. That difference captures the essence of the difference between working in a corporate environment and working in a startup environment - and I've worked in both environments. The "suits" like processes, methodologies, and certifications. Startups, especially self-funded startups, have to get results otherwise they can't make money. As negative as Corporate Agile may sound, it's a far cry better than what they were doing before.

Bottom line? "McKinsey Agile" isn't intended for startups and small organizations or large organizations whose product is tech.
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Personally, I don't remember seeing this in June. It doesn't seem that there's a recent development, but it seems important and interesting enough that it's worth posting.
Most people do not appreciate that when doing custom builds, it is often the case that it takes more time to build jigs and other things to help than it takes to do the actual build.
I personally use this project to proxy IP camera RTSP stream via Web Sockets as fragmented MP4 - https://github.com/deepch/RTSPtoWSMP4f

I'm not affiliated with the project, it's just really performant and reliable.
...and ethernet.