skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of so many folks in fang and my current job who’d disagree that you can’t get rich from a day job. Most of them got there by not being cynical about their employer’s goals and working with the team to make those happen.

I guess I’ve been incredibly lucky and probably am in a nice west coast dream bubble, but my bubble vision means I definitely don’t buy that am a rare unicorn. I don’t think I would feel happy about working with peers who had a cynical outlook and we’re not invested in the shared dream.

I am replying only because this was the top comment - I really hope I reach at least one person who’s on the fence about committing to a goal bigger than personal!
Great point. I try to apply it to myself. Instead of working twice as hard for 5 percent chance of any promotion or other benefit, I'd prefer working hard enough at minimum acceptable level and try to control things from expense side.
The key doesn't need to be strong, not even strong enough to turn the lock. The key only needs to get the pins to align. After that you can use a metal turning tool to actually rotate everything. A bent wire would do.
I don't get it. The article clearly outlines the factors accounted in the safety score, and vehicle speed is not one of them (at least not directly). Yet the author and apparently others are intentionally driving slowly to boost their score? That doesn't make sense.

You can definitely "game" the score (to an extent) by making unnecessary trips, i.e. driving to give it more data, but driving abnormally slowly on those trips doesn't help anything. That is, unless you think driving 55 mph will help in the measures, but I'm skeptical of that.

The forward collision measure is based on number of miles, so if you drive 100 miles with no warnings, that's scored the same way if you were driving at 55 mph or 80 mph.

For the others (hard braking, aggressive turning, and unsafe following), each computes the percentage of time you spend doing the unsafe thing relative to doing it safely. If you want to improve those measures, you need to actually spend more time braking, or turning, or following at >50 mph and less than 3 seconds distance. Just driving a slow constant 55 mph on the highway won't change those measures at all, as I understand it.

The forced disengagement measure is just whether or not the car put you into autopilot jail for not paying attention while autopilot was active. I'd hope no one is getting put in that jail, but especially not if they're trying to be on their best behavior.

Anyway, from the Tesla FAQ, I find the 'predicted collisions in 1 million miles' formula fascinating:

Predicted Collision Frequency (PCF) = 0.682854
x 1.014495^{Forward Collision Warning per 1,000 Miles}
x 1.127294^{Hard Braking}
x 1.019630^{Aggressive Turning}
x 1.001444^{Unsafe Following Time}
x 1.317958^{Forced Autopilot Disengagement}

Hard braking and forced autopilot disengagement are, in their model, big predictors of a collision. I'm surprised to see unsafe following at such a low weight.
I'm not sure what you mean by "accurate", since all of the interstellar drives that appear in sci-fi depictions are inconsistent with our best current understanding of the laws of physics.
Don't have anything substantive to add, but this is a Big Deal. I donate every month and would definitely subscribe if they offered.
I'd say 90/10. The positioning of the light in relation to the road is usually going to be a very good heuristic.

However if that light was a freaking arrow I'm going to think "oh, it must be one of those 10% of cases, it's a good thing that indicator was designed so well" shortly before I'm killed.
who gives a crap about most people you know?
Heroku's Managed DB's have been down for 2+ hours
Contractors is overly broad but plenty of contractors work overtime and very long, stressful hours including weekends and holidays.

Hospitals on the other hand, you're just downright wrong about that. Not only in general do hospital staff work 12 hour shifts including being on-call and having to work abrupt hours, especially over the past year their hours have been absolutely ridiculous. This includes nurses and MDs.

Feel free to review some studies on this issue, it's not hard to find nor is it some kind of secret. Basic Google search pops this up within the first few results:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200130302_The_Worki...

That study shows that in fact, nurses work their regularly scheduled shift less than 50% of the time, and 81% of their shifts involve overtime even though only 7% of it is scheduled in advance.

Here is a study looking at work hours among surgeons and physicians:

https://forums.ucdavis.edu/local_resources/docs/Freischlag-S...

It paints a very different picture from the idea that medical staff work very strict and well regulated hours. Their working hours are very chaotic and extreme.
When the electrical grid went out for a part of Canada and the US for a few August days a while back, we got a taste of what could happen. It would take a lot longer to get up and running again in the case of an overly-well directed EMP from the Sun.

As far as I know, we don't have technology for dealing with it if it does happen. But we have had practice and incentive to improve the outcomes.
Luckily we had followers in different zones by chance. Still scary though. What are the best solutions for replicating Heroku in different clouds?
China's Government Asks All Businesses to Restrict Electricity Usage
Going back to the late 90s, I think these are the only interesting bets taken by the industry:

- Ericsson's Erlang/OTP

- Sun's "The Network is the Computer" and "Utility Computing", IoT - "Jini" (Internet-connected toasters;), and non-PC devices - smartphones, set-top boxes, smart cards - JavaCard is still popular.

- Bell Labs/Lucent's Plan 9 and Inferno OS (neither is gained adoption)

- Semantic Web (which never took off).

IMO, XML and Enterprise Java were regression, but so is REST, JSON and dynamic scripting languages. The most recent example is GoLang.

EDIT: the XML itself is a good family of specs (especially XSD, XPath and XSLT), the problem was with abusing XML by forcing it onto everything: from configuration to logs to over-the-wire format like in XMPP. I remember IBM even sold XML Accelerator appliances ;)
Research has shown at least 50% of those who thought they had it got other colds or ailments and thought (or even hoped) it's long WuFlu.

I don't doubt there's some "struggle" in certain parts of the healthcare industrial complex - they're looking for ways to continue milking the government.
And if you bought BTC, $340,000
XML suffered from the verbosity of having both open and closing tags and the weird uncertainty around attributes vs. child tags, but the real problems came from consultant-driven programming wanting to put XML everywhere and use if for everything. Ant & Maven. SAML. XML for configuration and DI frameworks. *ML everything. Did you know there was a thing called VoxML[1]? Basically XML for phone menus (remember those? Press 1 for English, Press 2 for ... Press 9 to hear these options again).

SAX was the hammer applied to every problem.

1. http://xml.coverpages.org/voxML.html
I wasn't talking about the specific case, but about the general attitude of the JS ecosystem to replace a library very frequently.
Hi Apple employee. We trust you.
You can probably find a desktop CNC that can cut a key based on output from OpenSCAD. Maybe a little tweaking required, like plotting difference() of a cube that encases the key model.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter's_law
Really? I haven't found it an issue to get friends or family to sign up for Element. In fact it's even better because you don't need to use your mobile number for that.
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And also it is buggy when running on iOS devices. (crash app, media files not working)
What's that <h/>?
https://archive.is/IZEr0
> When a computer can accurately predict (90%~) sexuality

Oh you mean the thing where it still "works" with faces blurred out because it's not picking up face shape?

https://www.theregister.com/2019/03/05/ai_gaydar/

> criminal proclivity

You mean the smile detector?

https://www.callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_crim...

This stuff is bullshit and it can't work. The idea that it could work is magical thinking with no basis in reality.
Too right! I want my router rock-solid. I won't run software on it that isn't mission-critical router software.
Telegram supports E2EE only of you specifically switch to secret chats and I believe it is only supported in pm, not in groups.
Sorry, no. Although Telegrams has encryption it's by default Client-Server, you have to explicitly start a secret chat with individual people. Additionally group chats are not encrypted except between client and server.

I'm not sure of a good alternative as simple as Signal
A 1to 5 MW reactor isn't going to have a lot of actual fuel... you could probably pull the actual weaponizable fuel pellets and shielding into something the size of a briefcase and leave the generation infrastructure behind.

(I dunno if they are built this way, it just doesn't seem particularly impossible).
> You can and should practice both.

Yes.
The boss doesn't care if you're productive, he just wants you to be busy.
So that's a no (not accurate). Looks like you just see a faint glow/ball of light.

I saw something about when you travel near speed of light, lengths appear to contract. Maybe the lights becoming lines is just based on long exposure in photography of moving lights.
I believe Mozilla's contract with Cloudflare to provide Firefox Private Network provides great value, and I've been happy with it service for quite some time. Mozilla and Cloudflare are both well known organizations, and Mozilla acting as a buyer's agent is a good position to be in.
I agree with most of that; in fact, I've said similar things myself. I guess I just want anyone to be able to distinguish science that came from actual experiments run by honest scientists from pseudoscience that came from people just making stuff up and faking results. I mean, that shouldn't be a very high bar, but it's actually pretty hard to meet when you think about it. Respected scientists can get away with faking results for years sometimes.

As for technocrats: I find it hard to trust anyone who thinks their policy positions are simply the result of direct application of pure logic. That's not how it works. Logic and science can help you arrive at a policy position once you decide what your goals and priorities are, but different people have different goals and priorities, and those aren't determined by logic. Maybe there are some good technocrats out there, but to me it seems like their goals and priorities tend to somehow always gravitate towards the goals and priorities of lobbyists, think tanks, and wealthy people generally. Maximize shareholder value and don't rock the boat.
XML is the finest example of cargo cult engineering.

"The Web was a huge success, there must be a reason. Oh I know, it must have been HTML. We need more of that, and bigger, extensible! Behold, XML!"

I remember shaking my head in wonder during the height of the XML hype. What were all those supposedly very smart people thinking?

To me, HTML was already a huge mistake, the Web succeeded in spite, not because of it. What could you do in HTML/XML that you couldn't in s-expression, only simpler, more readable, and more writable? How many man-years have we collectively wasted having to read/write/generate/process/validate/... the mess that is HTML/XML, as opposed to a simpler, more sensible format such as s-expression?
You want agile and test driven development.

Once you have a working prototype you collect user stories to modify the prototype. Clean up your code and move it towards solid principals using TDD.
I agree. This is a peeve for me. I ripped toons for my kids and I can’t get the movie or to show view to display them appropriately. A directory view would have been perfect
Telegram is great!
I am only 32, but I luckily (maybe cause I am slightly on the spectrum and approached things in a super logical way) found out that I only actually work 3-4 hours a day, and the rest was meetings/lunch/cooler chat. So I stopped caring about those extra hours, and refused to go to meetings where I wasn't needed or didn't need to be meetings. I made sure I did all my work in 5-6 hours daily. I am good at what I do, but I never signed up for extra, I never stayed late. Sure I am on-call, and I have had a share of 3 am pager alerts, but those are far and few between.

I have always had very little burnout if any. I don't work on as many side projects lately, but I am keeping sane. I work 10-4, sometimes a little later. and I don't feel sorry about it. I get my stuff done, I get more done than most others, maybe less than some of the all-stars, but I know I am not underperforming, and thats fine.

I love what I do as a programmer, I plan to do it for many years, but I will never sacrifice my work-life balance for any company. Especially with my first child on the way.

I think because of this, I get more done, and seem to do more than the others, when in reality, I am doing a bit less, or at least waste less time.
At least today we have string types which know their own length and character set.

Two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"

The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"

"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."
You can encase it in a plaster mould and use lost wax casting to get a metal key. A bit more involved in terms of time and money, but not prohibitively so.
That solution is one of those things where the solution seems obvious as soon as it is mentioned. At least if you are familiar with Fourier transforms. You want to remove a periodic pattern from an image, and of course that will be easier to do in phase space than spatial space.

Interestingly, filtering out high frequency components from the Fourier transform of the image is exactly how JPEG lossy compression works, so compressing the image as a jpeg would likely have a similar result.
Most of his sermons and letters are still not in print in English, as well as a treatise on the Trinity, off the top of my head. Granted, as you point out, a large number of his works are in English but given his influence, it's surprising how many remain inaccessible.

There was a Latin collection that contained some of these works called the Corpus Reformatorum published in the 1800s.
What do you mean by "San Francisco school?"

I live in SF, and there's nothing good here from an intellectual standpoint - mostly goofball wokeism.

SF is just a 500,000 resident backwater attached to Silicon Valley.

Walking into a retail store and having the staff act all startled and fearful in case it's yet another thief is entering gets old fast.
I'm happy with time-to-prototype, and wouldn't even mind spending longer on it. I'm looking for patterns that allow me to deliver the prototype, but not get in the way when adding features later in development.
> Do you have a link to a study with adequate controls demonstrating that the Covid vaccines substantially reduce transmission?

It's not our job to educate you. Search for yourself. There are literally dozens of studies from around the world that show that the vaccines reduce transmission[1]. Why should we bother to dig up research when people like you have proved that they don't want to change their mind on the issue? Why don't you provide studies that prove your conclusion?

Also, no one cares primarily about transmission. If an infection were harmless, we wouldn't mind if it spread to 100% of all humans.

The vaccine is intended to reduce illness and death, which it does dramatically.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02054-z
Could a depth tag be added for accessibility? You could always know if you are moving up/down the tree
what you describe sounds a bit like https://www.tapwithus.com/ -- but i have never used it and i suspect it's more of a novelty than a genuine utility.
Related PBS documentary recently released: 'Boeing's Fatal Flaw' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXMO0bhPhCw
Casual Messaging? Family?

Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, Google Chat, and above all SMS / iMessage. Whatsapp by all accounts is the most popular (as much as I personally detest it).

I know I know, not HN-fare exactly, but they're easy, popular, and work. That's all that most of our's social network actually cares about. There's a lot of discussion in this thread about detailed encryption/security policy, but while I am a privacy nut, none of my non-IT friends/family could possibly care less... And they're not wrong. This convoluted encryption which severely limits multi device usability Andb frequently has louse ui is out of proportion with other comms methods such as email also used. While I may stand up for principles of privacy, my family isn't wrong asking why should their exchange of recipes or birthdays wishes be any harder than necessary.
I am a woman beyond 40 and I would have kicked my 20 year old selfs ass. I have been a daily runner (1okm) since 23 and yoga/pilates but 5 years ago I started krav maga training and eating more protein ( I started eating meat ) and my speed increased by 2 miles/hour and I can do 20 marine push ups in 20 seconds and pull ups. I feel really great. I also got rid of my chronic back pain by this muscle-building method (from scoliosis) coupled with stretching (yin stuff plus my own variations). Experts I visited were useless; and women I meet of all ages tell me "i'm just lucky/special" so this study spreading around I hope inspires people because it's hard to go on walks with my peers because they need to stop for rests. What will happen when I'm 20 years older?
Why hard work alone isn't enough to get ahead
Replace Chalk with Nanocolors in Babel
> Most of what I hear now is companies giving fake "shares"

Yep. It's a thing unfortunately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_stock
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/2030/

Take 2 https://xkcd.com/2267/
So, an appeal to tradition is all you have?

Just because it's a Buddhist practice, and it's ancient, that's all you need...?

The same can be said about any other religious practice.

You sound almost like a Christian preacher who could very well say,

"Well, the 20 centuries of Christianity, and all those priests and laypeople. I'm not sure if you consider all that they've said and written to be evidence, but I think you should."

You need reasons actually grounded in preferably personal practice.

That is, something treated like a scientific experiment performed on yourself, to see if following the steps affects you. Then, you look at the results others have attained.

And then you draw rational and logical conclusions based off of that cumulative data.
I set up a Mac mini as my HTPC about a year ago, and settled on Jellyfin to manage my media. Overall it's been great, and I'm really happy that Jellyfin exists. I use Kodi for the TV interface, with the Jellyfin for Kodi add-on to link the two [1]. I looked into Plex, but was turned off by how commercial it was and how hard they tried to push their paid services. The big advantage to Jellyfin is that I can start watching a show on my TV, and pick up exactly where I left off on any of my devices (I use the Jellyfin iPhone and iPad apps, as well as the web interface). I can also access my music library through Jellyfin, and at the recommendation of a comment on this post I just downloaded finamp, which seems like a great music player [2].

The initial setup took a bit of work, and there are definitely some quirks, but all-in-all it's worked for me really well. I would wholeheartedly recommend both Jellyfin and Kodi for anyone interested in a HTPC/home streaming setup.

[1] https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi
[2] https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp
Ask HN: Is the computer a bicycle of the mind, for you?
Steve Jobs promoted the "personal computer" with this concept that a bicycle (and a road) makes a human more efficient than any other animal, even a condor. And that a computer could amplify your mind in a similar way. https://youtube.com/watch?v=L40B08nWoMk

Today, I'd say wikipedia and knowledge in general is the biggest contributor (though, more internet than computer). The spreadsheet, in Jobs' time, was probably a pretty good example.

But I personally find that computers haven't helped my mind at all. Mathematics is still hard. Formulating and articulating ideas is still hard. In a nutshell:

deep learning doesn't help you understand deep learning (e.g. gradient descent)

Has the computer been a bicycle of your mind?
Matrix is the best alternative. I have been onboarding one friend/family member at a time. And it's slow ride but the advantage is they don't have to sign up to anything else ever again.
In my experience, "known good hardware" is ">2-year-old hardware" when it comes to Linux.

But, I'm a bit cheap, and I treat optimizing older tech as a challenge, so I think I've just declared myself both an outlier in general and a stereotypical Linux user.
HN folks whine about browser monoculture but it was this decision (and thousands more like it, but this one is pretty big) that meant you cannot have a simple browser implementation. Any 2nd year CS student could write an X(HT)ML parser. Writing an HTML5 parser requires FAANG resources.
Why is it required not to say "no" or suggest alternative directions in order to work with your employer to make their goals happen?

I don't think it's cynical at all. Quite the opposite: I think it's how functional teams work effectively.

Of course you can get rich from a FAANG job. But most of us don't work at FAANG. And there are plenty of slackers even at FAANG: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961560 "Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?"

My thesis here is that this person wasn't doing anything wrong. They don't need to feel bad about providing value to their employer by only "patching things together from an internal codebase" or "not deeply understanding every aspect of what they do." The vast majority of the world operates this way, and I'm not sure FAANG is much of an exception.
With regard to TDD I have been recommending many videos from this channel lately, and this one seems apt https://youtu.be/yfP_v6qCdcs

OP I agree with malthuswaswrong. About TDD, not malthus, I do not know who that is.
Thanks for the comment.

> Do you know what comes next?

Not really. As another comment put it “hey I need this car to work with both gas and diesel?”.
Again I think there is a curve :)

There is a point beyond which earning potential stops being a differentiator: you both have enough that it doesn’t matter. I agree there will be some hard conversations to get out of the preset habits though.

Till the point where the earning is necessary for your lifestyle - I can see how the first and second concept will play out: but that’s the trade off you’re taking for the benefits I mentioned.

I do agree all of this is based on the mutual agreement part. I was just pointing out it isn’t as dire as you say :)
Joan’s parent company, Visionect[1], also produces the Place & Play, a 13” or 36” eInk display[2]. Some guy created a rotating newspaper frame from it[3]. Looks quite amazing, and it has a 1 year battery life.

[1] https://www.visionect.com

[2] https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/

[3] blog: https://gregraiz.com/i-made-an-eink-newspaper/ and video: https://youtu.be/gECj1AE9D2c
and code: https://github.com/graiz/newsprint
I think WARP is a great value proposition for the use case of avoiding ISP sniffing. I use Firefox Private Network which leverages WARP, and as an added bonus, does not disclose my IP (unlike plain WARP).