skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was doing high frequency trading before starting Amplitude. It was a great job: incredibly smart people, rewarding problems, great money and career progression. The only thing I didn't like was the ethos of secrecy in the industry.

It was clear the long term potential of positive impact on the world was way greater through building a company than anything else. And if you didn't quit you were very likely to get there. One of the things that most resonated with me was one of the Airbnb founders talking about how they were having the same dilemma as you. But then they saw someone who had started a company and realized the only difference was that they had made the decision to start a company and that's what made them realize they could make the same choice. I wouldn't recommend it if you have other life circumstances like debt or significant family obligations that constrain you. But if you don't have that I think it's a great path.

Better: Markets are way bigger and so the ecosystem has adapted around that. Funding is incredibly abundant (kids these days...). Information on how to start a company is more widely available. There's much more experienced help available. Tooling is much easier. What's crazy is people said the funding market was too hot in 2014: https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/05/its-time-for-vcs-to-run-to...

Worse: Hiring is harder. There is a lot more competition but I think it's outweighed by markets being bigger. I think talent is still the rate limiting factor overall for the growth of the ecosystem.
You may take some solace in this older article by Joel Spolsky, who speaks of the same issue: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

On a personal note, this exact thing happened to me two weeks ago, I literally couldn't start any task, regardless of whether it was coding related or not. For background, I have a history of depression and anxiety, and have several life challenges at play in my personal life (not forgetting Covid lockdowns and the remote working that entails).

What I did: The next day I spoke to my manager and took the rest of the week off sick. I then booked an appointment with my GP and re-started my antidepressive medication that I had been off for 4 years, and was signed up to a course of 8 counselling sessions (paid for by the state).

Felt great coming back to work, but that was largely psychosomatic / feeling refreshed from the time away. I spoke to my manager again, explained the situation, and asked him for some patience while the medication kicks in (4-6 weeks), and I ramp slowly back up to my usual workload.

My past failing was wanting to power through these times with sheer will power, or try to find a 'silver bullet' reason for why I was feeling the way I did. I now believe that a strategy of 1) personal coping mechanisms, 2) medication (if appropriate for you), 3) counselling, and 4) realising that sometimes these feelings will come and go occasionally no matter what you do, and you just have to ride it out the best you can.
People must be fired for blatant disobedience and non adherence to policy that violate the company's existing agreements.

Such employees should not be in this kind of position.

Sure you can make an argument for moral and ethical edge cases but this is not one
I stand corrected on the latest numbers.

But why hasn't the higher hospitalization rate played out in other countries?

And regardless, it seems odd that you can hit 70%+ vaccination rates and see a worse outcome than when the vaccination rate was ~5%.

The only way those numbers work is if Delta is several fold more deadly/severe disease causing than the prior variants, and that hasn't been seen elsewhere.
Mongolia’s Melting Ice Reveals Fragile Prehistoric Artifacts
By all means use dithered images on your website for stylistic reasons, but do not use them simply because dithering produces a slightly smaller PNG file.

First of all, no discussion of minimizing PNG sizes is complete without `pngcrush` which applies all kinds of optimizations to the PNG file (losslessly). In fact pngcrush reduces the author's 48kb dithered file down to 28kb.

And secondly, modern compression formats like webp and avif will blow PNG out of the water when compressing any kind of photographic image. Heck, just turn down your JPG quality, and your image will be much smaller, and still perfectly recognizable.

Know when to use the right tool for the job:

PNG -> diagrams, charts, anything with perfectly uniform areas of color and sharp transitions.

JPG/AVIF -> photos, anything with smooth variations in color.
> The GUI wasn’t stolen. It was licensed. That it was stolen is completely false.

Not only was it not stolen, several Xerox PARC people moved over to Apple since they wanted to see their ideas actually commercialized and not squandered like Xerox was doing, so a lot of it was even the same people!
The other part is dont over praise them. Last year we had a guy leave and the boss spent 10 minutes talking about how he was the best dev he's ever seen and wondering how we'll cope without him. Geez, he wasn't that good, I'm sure we'll be OK but now I'm wondering why the boss doesn't like us.
What scenario is that a huge factor? Most people have old x86 hardware laying around that isn't being used. If it is a huge factor, wouldn't you at that point just get a good router for less and have more space, or run virtualized computers on a server?
It takes a lot more energy to refute nonsense than to produce it. It takes almost no energy to downvote something.
You can remove an individual video from your watch history by going to library -> watch history.
I am not sure what to think about that sub, all I know is that where I live COVID hasn't been too bad, so it gives me a window into what it's like in the rest of the country. It mostly makes me feel bad, like looking at casualty lists from WW1 except someone told them they didn't have to go over the top. It's just so senseless and pointless.
Thanks for pointing all of this out. It's much better if we publicize the vaccine's potential risks in full context and alongside the much more significant benefits. If the anti-vaxxers are the only ones talking about inconvenient facts, a lot of people are going to go down a bad path.
Note that the OP didn’t quote the First Amendment, he cited a number of powerful speeches/writings about free speech. The two are as similar as the concept of a rectangle and a piece of paper.
Until now, what public health crisis would have necessitated it?
They’ve been prompting the user on new installs to set their preferences and themes, it’ll probably get rolled into that.
> It's difficult to even imagine a physical theory with unbounded local information. It seems to open the possibility to crazy things like hypercomputation, which do not seem very well defined. (For example: every 1-1/n seconds, (n>1) from now, flip a switch ON/OFF. At what state will the switch be at t>1s? An at exactly t=1s?)

I agree with the latter, but the former? Classical Newtonian mechanics is easy enough to imagine.

What baffles me a bit is that quantum mechanics seems to be linear, but we seem to see chaos in the real world. (And exactly that (mathematical) chaos is also what the article exploits.)
8000 deaths in the USA following a vaccine, vs almost 700k deaths after contracting COVID. Posting these examples is not a good argument imo.
FWIW, an anti-vax cousin of mine has had covid three different times. Each time he recovered, but each time he kept spreading it. So don't count having had covid once as a blanket "I don't need the vax" card.
You are right about information, but the comment you replied to is still right about precision.
It's a great community and idea. I wish by some miracle it became mainstream.

On the topic of YouTube tunnels ... tool/appliance restoration videos are pretty cool. There's a ton of them too.
I think you would benefit from reading some of what Daniel Ellsberg has to say, a man who knew the secret war plans.

https://www.ellsberg.net/doomsday/
I see all the time PhD's who, when dealing with matters in their own field, assiduously adhere to reason, facts, the scientific method, evidence, etc.

But step outside that field, and they latch on to something that emotionally appeals to them, and all that reason, facts, etc., flies right out the window.

Of course, I never do that myself.
An ounce of tact would help you so much. It's not that you're wrong, it's that you know how you're being and you don't do anything to help yourself and still expect a better outcome.
> Even if moderate sun exposure causes people to statistically live a bit longer on net

This reminded me that the weight range we term "overweight" has lower all-cause mortality than the weight range called "normal weight". (There is another tier above "overweight", "obese", which has high mortality.)
This is the first one that came to mind for me.
"I think you missed my point: There's no point to public discussion. Governments, health departments, infectious disease specialists, should all be determining the source of COVID-19, and if someone was at fault, making changes to prevent it."

Is that not naive though? Without public discussion and pressure these entities would very likely sweep everything under the rug in the interest of their own careers, etc.
Sure, but at the very best it means he did not object to somebody getting fired over it.

Legality of wage fixing aside for the moment, I don't think this should have been a fireable offense at all (reprimanding the recruiter to ensure it does not happen again would have been all that's needed to satisfy their little gentlemen's agreement).
Ask HN: Best data source for Covid outcome by vaccination status?
I’m looking for time series data that I can use to model vax and unvax as separate populations to calculate the rates of case/hospitalizations/death within each. Does such a data source exist?

Basically looking for data similar to that used in this study:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7037e1-H.pdf
I wonder if this is a continuous effect that eventually fades away, or a one-time permanent “debuff”. Did you have to practice a lot to get back to your level, or did it resolve by itself?
Parties are supposed to help with the "forming a consensus" part.
QM is even linear!
Yeah, it's pretty rare to get a PIP that isn't basically a "You're being fired in 3/6 months" notice. It's unfortunate because getting PIP'd is pretty stressful, so it hurts your ability to find another job as well.
> In confined spaces like airplanes

Airplanes have excellent filtration systems. You're probably fine on a plane.

It of course depends on the mask. Wear a well fitted N95 and you should be fine in almost any situation.
Yep. It's truly saddening and somewhat enraging.
Bad weather incentivizes industriousness
You can praise someone without putting anyone down.
Suica on an Apple Watch is one of the most convenient things ever in the Tokyo metro or at a konbini.
That's not going to change. Certainty and stability is what people want.
I’ve never known a toxic manager who people didn’t know was toxic. Me repeating that will have no influence, so why bother?
I thought Xeno's classic Paradoxes were pretty well dealt with by limits already?
There is no need for trusting anybody. The concept that we must trust the government or YouTube to determine truth is ridiculous. How about neither of them ban content they don’t like?

As individuals, we shouldn’t trust. We should verify.
Indeed. Such hubris is on the rise these days and simular sentiment has been casually expressed many times throughout this thread.
Huh? What does that have to do with anything here?
It’s not automated but IntelliJ does this.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/242/
Or large scale dissent in general.

No apps related to the largest current event that challenge the dominant narratives are alllwrd in the App Store at all.
> What you want is administration - a very different process where mature competent executives and managers who do not have Dark Triad personality traits make intelligent, informed, and compassionate decisions in the public interest based on evidence, expert guidance, and their own good instincts.

Which is basically inhuman. For an administration of any sort, you need a selection process and the selection process will then be gamed by exactly the people who seek power.

Which is why we have large bodies of political representatives: people will not stop seeking to acquire power and act in their interests and the interests of their backers, but they will be counteracted by people doing exactly the same but pursuing different ends. That’s a very human thing.
He's probably referring to the environment aspect of leaf blowers.

But it's unfortunately serious off-topic.
Even getting around Activation Lock on a stolen iPhone is probably a lot of hassle unless you know a guy who knows a guy who can unlock it for you
> and in the case of Bruno it was because of his heretical theological ideas (like the idea that the Trinity doesn't exist) rather than his scientific ideas.

No, it was not. See http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-a... - those things are not seperable.
The number of amoral geniuses purely driven by technical challenge is limited. Businesses making money on the edge of ethics have to treat their employees well to keep them. When there is no "big lofty goal", you need to get people motivated someway. Adtech, fintech, crypto...
But it contains all possible phone numbers.

(Assuming that phone numbers are less than, say, 100 digits.)
> The GUI was stolen from Xerox

Stolen...right. Xerox invited Apple's engineers to tour PARC and then Apple gave them millions of dollars of shares which Xerox later sold for a hefty profit. IIRC they made more off the Apple stock sale then sales of the Alto and Star.
This is a solid list, and it is true.

(Kindness/Responsibility) If I’m well paid, but someone is a full-on jerk to me/my team (particularly if they are at a very high level — in fact the higher the level the smaller the slight needs to be to have big impact), I will start to look, and it’s only a matter of time until more money finds me.

(Balance) If my wife starts telling me she misses me, or that my kids miss me, or asking why I couldn’t come to the performance, I will start to look, and it’s only a matter of time until more money finds me.

If I’m paid under market.. we’ll, I’m gonna find out soon, and then I will start to look…

One I didn’t see in your list is working to align people with work they want to do. Not always easy, but something can always be done, and the effort to try is almost as important as the result. If I’m stuck doing meaningless work, or never able to complete something, or (worst of all) watch the new hires come in and do my projects because I’m stuck working outages, I will start to look…
> The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast?

Invading countries with a diplomatic alliance like NATO behind you is as close to "okay" as you can get. A small country got beat up, but there was no risk of WWIII. And there was an attempt to install a democracy in place of a dictatorship and get out.

China claiming the territory owned by their neighbors is about slowly stealing land (and sea) and making them part of China. It's completely different.

But really, the US's moral high ground is a distraction. This thread is about whether China is taking actions that could be a threat to the United States.
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Lack of dates in articles annoyed me way before i started reading HN. So i don't see the problem (didn't know that was a thing on HN), but i respect your decision.
What would you have done differently than Xerox management?

Probably you, and most people on HN haven't been paying attention to them in a long time, but what happened in the last 15 years or so, is that they decided to diversify out from copiers into services.

It sounds vaguely plausible, people obviously deal with documents mostly on computers and not paper these days, so why can't they help with that?

Eventually they acquired a fairly big, but not a household name, outsourcing company called ACS. I used to wonder why Google couldn't do the same stuff, but they did in fact outsource, probably because it was the data processing equivalent of cleaning toilets.

But then a notorious corporate raider, aka Carl Icahn, came in and forced management to break up the company in the name of shareholder value, isolating the copiers in one business, and the document services in another, basically ACS under a new name.

Who's right? Diversify or get back to basics? It seems sometimes it's just random. You can come up with platitudes justifying either.

This may kind of seem like normal corporate America, but it just seems a bit uncharitable to call the CEO an idiot when you look at how the people running GameStop or whatever have had things a bit easier with billions being thrown at them.
Submitter here. Yes, absolutely the case. Throughout the late 2000s, the singular focus was on EPS 20. During that time they still had a deep bench of engineer talent, easily capable of building a capable public cloud. Unfortunately, layoffs were frequent and indiscriminate to performance. It was not uncommon to see entire job categories or departments eliminated.

Then, by the early 2010s IBM began to cry for 'cloud skills'. I never understood this. AWS was not built with 'cloud skills'. IBM had the breadth and depth in software and hardware, squandered it and ultimately failed to produce a cloud the world wants.
This is what the article is getting at, there are questions to be answered before you ever get to scientists evaluating evidence for and against different policies aimed at solving a problem.

What problem are we solving, what is or isn't a problem, what constitutes a better outcome, and what types of policies are allowable may be informed by science but are often (and often appropriately or at least inevitably) decided by culture, law, art, force majeure, etc.
Thanks for suggesting. I will try this
You’ve substituted “exploit” with “generate”. What is the technical definition of “generate”?
Wouldn't the inactive flat tabs all still end up looking like one continuous blob either way? The gradient on the inactive tabs in the image I linked is a top-to-bottom gradient; it does nothing to enhance the visibility of the edges between contiguous inactive tabs.
Perhaps it’s because Electron opens the door to a ton of applications that wouldn’t have existed before, so the average skews.

A lot of people complaining that Electron makes people choose an “act of not caring” but nobody actually does anything about it. Last I checked Electron didn’t make other UI kits go away.

I’m not without criticism for Electron. But I begin from a position of good faith on the subject, and appreciate that a lot of these apps simply wouldn’t have existed otherwise.
> Back in the day, the Internet was full of HTML discussion boards just like this one, and idiots were banned with no questions asked. It was beautiful, and no one complained.

Back in the day, the Internet wasn't dominated by Facebook and Google.
> “professional board members” who sit on multiple boards but have never had senior executive roles involving profit and loss

How do they get to this position without having been senior execs?
I'm saying that calling it the "Chinese flu" and combining it with Trump's nationalist rhetoric and other outright racist remarks is racism, yes.

And what is the point of stopping flights from China only? When there were global outbreaks?

Make a justification for the act itself, in terms of public good.

"Obama did it too" is not an argument.
Thank you for taking the time to put this all together and further your points. Jeez, the future looks dark when it comes to inquiry of truth. I've had discussions with other engineers who are supposed to be sufficiently trained about critical thinking and I see a very clear party-line ideologies getting mixed into their conscience.
I thought Google had killed the AMP project, I don't remember coming across an AMP page in a while
> you don't go outside without clothing for ~7 months in any given year in WA either because it's raining and unpleasant

Also because one doesn't want to get arrested.
They did. Read the article.
In no way is that "the government", and the most I can gather from that article is he's against mandates. Not the vaccines themselves.

I feel one of the biggest sources of divide right now is coming from all of those who try to conflate the two. Agree or not, one can be opposed to mandates to the point of rebellion while still rushing to take the vaccine. They are two completely separate things.

Even if he was one cog actively in "the government", I still would say that nothing here shows "That the government is still visibly divided over whether vaccination is a good idea"
Is that _not_ what Stripe invoicing is for?

https://stripe.com/invoicing
> > If you don't care about purity don't use FP.

> This is unhelpful.

You have to care about purity. The benefits of FP hinges on this. Saying you don't care about purity is the same as saying you don't care about FP.

That doesn't mean that anything less than "perfect purity" is worthless. You have to always aim for purity, even if you don't always achieve it, because without it there is no FP.
Poor attempt at humour. (No buy-in required. We moved off authorize.net though, so night and day)
In a strange twist, I have a rake and use it when I need to manage leaves. I use the leaf blower to blow grass clippings off the drive and walkway after cutting the lawn. And luckily, these electric blowers are both a bit less powerful and a lot less loud than those raucous gas models.
This is my primary take re: advancements like TikTok as well. Everybody I know keeps going on and on about how great the TikTok algorithm is, and you can't really say they stole that from some other place because it handily beats them all. China has rampant academic abuse but some universities like Tsinghua are churning out top-tier engineers. I feel like long-term the US's best bet is to be more open to skilled Chinese immigrants working in the US, because I have no doubts that elite Chinese engineers would jump ship for much higher pay and more freedom.
What makes event sourcing poor for general purpose stuff?
Read the article. Many computer companies used them before apple. Apple's use didnt revolutionize anything according to the article, because it was already in common use before them. Did we read the same thing?
Related—I wrote a novelty dithering Mac app and released it this week. It dithers photos and converts them to MacPaint format for display on old black and white Macs. As another commenter pointed out, dithering was less about compression and more about just making things look okay on the limited displays of the time. The original Macintosh had only black and white pixels (no grayscale).

Here's the app:
https://oaksnow.com/retrodither/

And here's my blog post talking about how I wrote it:
https://www.observationalhazard.com/2021/09/building-retro-d...
A Case Against Surrender
Social proof is a second order effect. Losing users, layoffs, or operational failures are the first order effects - usually of mismanagement.
That subreddit has mostly turned into people showing off their grandma's frying pan or grandpa's old Thermos. At least, it was the last time I read it and decided it was no longer worth reading because actual product recommendations were few and far between.
> It can be done, and it is done all the time all around the world. People just want to use their extreme case to justify both ways. We are saying “I fit my whole house in a fiat 500” and they are saying “I eat for 25 people every week so others must need it to”.

I agree with everything you wrote in this paragraph in terms of SUV vs. compact hatchbacks, but I stand by the fact that if all large crossovers and small SUVs were replaced by midsized station-wagons the roads would be a better place and the drivers would lose no utility.