skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities are nice even with WFH to me. I don't care that much about the office, though it is easier to form bonds in person imho. I do care about having an active social life which is part of why I live in a city, and I'm very glad people are going out again generally and things are open with events happening (Seattle is where I'm at).
It's not like that. "Learning by doing" predates language much less writing. Apes do it. Many animals do I'm sure. That has never gone away even from the most stuffy old elitist realms of academia, has it?
Android Web Audio latency is over 200-300ms on many devices and is deliberately introduced to kill WebGL browser games that could otherwise bypass the Play Store and its 30% tax. Google has plenty of engineers smart of enough to fix such a glaring latency issue that so many of us have been complaining about for so long but Play Store game profits are in the billions and Google isn't going to let a frictionless browser game experience kill that.

The Superpowered Latency Database[1] has many measurements showing just how bad Android latency is. (A select few devices do OK.) Note that Apple latency measurements look pretty good, because Apple uses different strategies to kill WebGL browser games: (1) Make WebGL slow and lacking features; (2) Prevent browser apps from going fullscreen; (3) Don't even let browser games ask if they can use gyro/tilt control, just block this outright because "Privacy". After all, if Epic Games could just put Fortnite inside mobile Safari their case against Apple wouldn't be so desperate. There's a demo version of Minecraft for the browser that I've never seen work on mobile browsers[2].

[1] https://superpowered.com/latency

[2] https://classic.minecraft.net/
Scientific papers can be evaluated by reading the paper. Let's link a few peer-reviewed papers here to eliminate the middleman of Brownstone:

"One-year sustained cellular and humoral immunities of COVID-19 convalescents", Clinical Infectious Diseases, Oct 2021, https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

> SARS-CoV-2-specific cellular and humoral immunities are durable at least until one year after disease onset.

"Discrete Immune Response Signature to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination Versus Infection", Cell, May 2021, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3838993

> .. our analysis revealed significant qualitative differences between the two types of immune challenges. In COVID-19 patients, immune responses were characterized by a highly augmented interferon response which was largely absent in vaccine recipients. Increased interferon signaling likely contributed to the observed dramatic upregulation of cytotoxic genes in the peripheral T cells and innate-like lymphocytes in patients but not in immunized subjects. Analysis of B and T cell receptor repertoires revealed that while the majority of clonal B and T cells in COVID-19 patients were effector cells, in vaccine recipients clonally expanded cells were primarily circulating memory cells. Importantly, the divergence in immune subsets engaged, the transcriptional differences in key immune populations, and the differences in maturation of adaptive immune cells revealed by our analysis have far-ranging implications for immunity to this novel pathogen.

"SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans", Nature, May 2021, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4

> .. our data provide strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans robustly establishes the two arms of humoral immune memory: long-lived BMPCs and memory B cells. These findings provide an immunogenicity benchmark for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and a foundation for assessing the durability of primary humoral immune responses that are induced in humans after viral infections.
I spent years working on CPU validation. One classic method is random template based injection. You do three setup things: 1) pick a bunch of registers and busses that you will toggle to 1/0 in the RTL, 2) then code a bunch of mutexes of things that absolutely cannot happen (e.g., and AND cannot act like an XOR), 3) and then write checkers that look for bad conditions that should not happen. Then you press go literally run "coverage" by generating trillions of random test patterns and see if they toggle checker failures. There are behavioral tricks to reduce the search space (hierarchy helps), but it is one classic method. It can only be done a few times, so you really have to nail down your revision before you each up weeks of compute time on thousands of servers running random noise!
Honestly, given how bad Amazon’s reputation is I’d recommend just searching elsewhere. They were bleeding personnel before RTO became an issue.
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I remember being introduced to opensourceecology 10 years ago. At first I was very enthusiastic. However, it seems to have had a rocky trajectory, with many people coming, then leaving, and progress being very slow. And some critical thinking skills being missing in my opinion. For instance, instead of making a tractor from scratch, why not reverse engineer an existing tractor design, with all it's optimizations, and then re-optimize it for open source, repairability? Seems like nothing significant has happened on this project for the past 10 years.

Edit: this article itself is from 2013.
What makes a good experience vs. a poor one for you?
Europe only has good public transport in very few selected cities and you have to ignore strikes in France to pretend its working well and is reliable. The city with the best public transport in the world is probably Tokyo in terms of frequency and service reliability but it is constantly over capacity and things are not getting better. Crowded trains are hell.

so no commute is certainly better pretty much just anywhere.
The joke is that my inability to afford a Rolls-Royce does not mean there's a Rolls-Royce shortage.
This is because there's a point where you can do something but you don't know how, less even how to explain it. If you ever mentor a more junior engineer this comes up all the time, like "yeah I have no idea why you broke the build, we can fix it together but I am not sure I can step by step explain all my actions".
To summarise what you're saying: "the government did some things wrong while fighting COVID". Sure, I don't disagree.

That said, are bad government policies worse than the murder of civilians? I'll let you guess which one is more likely to make me go out and protest. Of course I'll ridicule people who call Australia an authoritarian state over the suboptimal handling of a public health problem. First of all because I know what an authoritarian state actually looks like, and second because having temporary movement restrictions is only a mild inconvenience for most people. Also, your government actually wants you out of your house working and spending money, and they would much rather not have lockdowns at all than lose votes over this. I never thought I'd see the day where I talk about an Australian politician in a non-critical way, but here we are.

> foreign citizens are forbidden from leaving the country

Only permanent residents are not allowed to leave without a permit, as per the home affairs page.
But to address your point, I can absolutely promise you that people did not go on protests for the sake of foreigners that couldn't leave Australia.
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The story tries so hard to make a point about casteism in algorithmic bias that it ignores the financial realities of the ground.

There's a huge Venture Capital bubble forming in India right now thanks to, among others, Andreesen Horowitz. Those guys have seemingly bottomless pits of money to throw at startups like Clubhouse and in India have gone and created Unicorns out of thin air on paper only.

The big money fight in India post the TikTok ban is what helped IG. Lots of upstarts running expensive advertisements on Television and getting brand endorsements, while the big, established networks in the Facebook family silently boosted content similar to the trash you find on TikTok through FB stories and Facebook stories on placements on top of feed/message inbox, upsells in feed etc

IG is far from winning the space. The competition is simply in disarray from trying to figure out branding and the "cool" factor that TikTok had.
The problems with virtual rooms is that you can't have small breakout conversations naturally. In-person I can walk around a space and talk to small groups of people. On a virtual conference call, if I'm speaking everyone has to listen to me, which makes speaking for some people even harder.
Just run the whole codebase through OpenAI Codex, then regenerate the source code.

Can't copyright an inferred artifact ;)
> Reddit: As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, they created tons of fake accounts to show a community.

My personal conspiracy theory right now is that they're behind 90% of awards on posts. It costs them nothing and normalises the behaviour.
IIRC it's not free for a wider identity deployment, it has incremental pricing that makes it look free. It works out somewhat cheaper than a third party solution.
article with details: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2019/10/01/simulating-depth-of-... (linked from the page itself, but I suspect that might not load well on some devices)
Moreover, in the case of video games comms, the users of the software are the customers. You don't find that with enterprise software much.
That’s not true the miners middle men.

You gotta pay to get your transaction executed, the miners take that.

Right now transactions are heavily subsidized by the mining reward, at some point there will no longer be a mining reward so the whole thing will be only supported by transaction fees, and they are likely to be spectacular, even today with the low transaction volumes, actual transactions can sit in the mempool for quite some time before getting executed unless you pony up fees.
When I was a kid we used to wedge playing cards under the seat of our bikes so that they’d flap against the rear wheel and make “motorcycle sounds.”
Note that if you're actually using CRCs in any serious way, you probably want to use CPU intrinsics rather than generic C code.
The first time I was in management, I failed because I couldn’t give away my LEGOs. I wanted to continue to micro-manage and still do the stuff I had done as an IC and wasn’t ready to trust the team to do things in my place. My fear was that things wouldn’t be done as well (which may have been true, although that doesn’t mean that wouldn’t have changed over time) and I wasn’t able to let go and focus on the stuff I needed to focus on as a leader. I failed.

I learned from that experience and the next time I was in management (and continuing today), I was so much better at letting things go, trusting my team to get stuff done, and focusing on the next challenge. That doesn’t mean you aren’t sometimes wistful or nervous, but I know for me, I had to learn to trust people to get things done and be OK even when things weren’t done exactly as I would do them.
ESP32 Trinity – Open-Source ESP32 Board for Controlling RGB Matrix Panels
Sure, but immigrants would be non-Han.
That's not how security risk assesment work. You do get to decide when and how long you remain hackable and implement mitigating security controls. Not everyone has the luxury of being tolerant to outages and it is terrible security practice to take a forceful uncompromising approach like that with no consideration to why and how the software is being used and in what context.

The last thing you want in securing a system is for your securitu effort itself to be a security risk (availability)
Not complaining about the use of a common script for all interviews. A good script would have many avenues where you can ask the person about his specific resume. I've done a lot of emc/netapp/pure storage as an example, but only xiv from ibm. the way amazon handles this is to not ask a single question about storage, for a storage role. this is the wrong way.

well, let me correct myself. for this sr position in storage, i was asked one question about storage. "what is the difference between object storage and file storage."

imagine you are interviewing to work as a mathematician. a sr level one, you walk in, and the ask you no math questions, except "what is the difference between multiplication and derivatives."

here is the issue i take with this completely undeveloped script: it tells you zero about someone's technical skills or abilities. this means the hiring criteria, for highly technical roles, might as well be what color car I drive. if this is what leadership uses to determine who is good during an interview, they're going to have useless, illogical, and bogus criteria for performance. and this means the job will be frustrating and will wear me out. oh look - that's what all the tech employees are saying about amazon on glassdoor.
Industrial-grade Soil Remote Monitor(Humidity/ Temperature/ PH/ N/ P/ K))
Also a follow up video on the engine here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf6H8kSunRA
Generally, given the CPU acceleration available, one should generally prefer SHA1 or SHA256. CRC/MD5 is really only advisable if you're being forced into it for some legit backward compatibility reason. Most embedded CPUs these days can handle SHA variants just fine (I've used SHA256 on an M3 and even more crazily on the Kalimba of a CSR8605 which is a 48-bit DSP with a char size of 24 bits as well as its coprocessor which is a 32-bit CPU which a char size of 16 bits).
That's why I said you've got it arse-about. You are getting the order of when things happened wrong.

You said:

> The problem is that when you make protests illegal and meet them with riot police only the most hardened/radical protesters will turn up.

This is not what happened. The initial response was, as is typical with all large scale protests - to have regular uniformed police monitoring it, and controlling traffic/the direction of the protest.

The specialist/better equipped teams like the Public Order Response Team are almost always on standby during a large protest/march. They're only deployed when things get heated or actually turn violent.

This is pretty much the same thing that happens in other western countries whenever there's a large protest.
Those margins are absolutely incredible, Goldmanesque.

Heck it it were Goldman or JP Morgan running it, you have the CEOs dragged in front of congress being asked why they are robbing poor old grandma while she’s just trying to say trade cryptos
that is kinda fascinating.... something I wouldn't mind after bouts of dev burnout...

though, I'd rather maybe start a tiny house community, w/ some shared spaces, and a glamping site that pays the bills so we can at least not be destitute... self-sustainable-neet'ism... if you will...

Maybe we'd build tiny homes from earth bags, and be very eco-friendly like earthship homes.... that'd be nice... we could also have an outdoor movie theater, and lots of outdoor activities...
Yes, and can you imagine a windows install by regular users without too many 3rd party repos? If you do then I suspect you may not understand how vast and complex the software ecosystem is in Windows land.
Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
Competence at being a CEO, competence in the core business (whether engineering or otherwise,) and competence at splitting focus between completely different levels of the business are all different competences. Being skilled at all three is the exception, but that doesn't make the non-exceptions incompetent.

If you always aim for the exception, what you actually end up doing is selecting for the third competence; someone who can code-switch. And if that person isn't exceptional, then you just have a CEO who is getting involved things outside their depth.
You’re right that being close to amenities is good, but you’re building up a false dichotomy between 1-2 hours from the office[0] and “move to the mountains”. You’re ignoring option C “move close to a smaller city”. Often 1-2 hours from the kinds of cities where major offices are located provide an inferior quality of life compared to a smaller city.

1-2 hours away from my old office is basically Burbank, which is still quite expensive and crowded. There are tons of small cities that provide better quality of life than Burbank for cheaper, including the small one I picked (Boise). Also, I can get to nature much easier from where I live.

0 - I’m assuming from context that the “major city” you reference is the one where the office is located.
I mean that you're literally playing fast loose with facts and are incorrect. If you are curious.
Bike & Bart. (Use a bike that you won't care if stolen)
The $500 could be senior to the rest of the capital structure and accruing maybe.
Employers won't hold it against you for being against tactics that involve privacy and surveillance issues in general (eg: "I wouldn't want to work at a place that spies on every single Slack message I send to coworkers"), because they give you the benefit of doubt that from their bottom line perspective you will be a net-positive contributor. The minute you include the word U-N-I-O... (eg: I wouldn't want to work at a place that spies on unionization efforts), that benefit of doubt is lost, and now everyone is wondering why that topic is on your mind.

None of this is a reflection of the value of unions from the employees' perspective. But it's important to realize that unions are one of the instances where the employees' and employers' interests are not aligned. So, emailing a recruiter and mentioning unions has only one possible outcome - none.
Chrome and Firefox, at least, have profiles which allow users to be signed into discord under different accounts, simultaneously.
I love that these aircraft are built so lightly and fly so high. They are probably cheaper than any missile capable of shooting them down. They could operate over enemy territory without much worry. Send dozens. Shooting them down will cost more than their replacement.
It doesn't strike me as too insane. Did I miss some terrible problem or bad practice involved with it, a la 737 Max?
I started reading and… yikes.
> "If i'm not doing anything wrong I have nothing to worry about"

The irony being that the current government seems particularly opposed to any form of accountability or public scrutiny.
I did not claim package managers are evil. I only claimed they are a bad fit for windows if if their usage is mandated because of the specifics and nuances of the windows software ecosystem which isn't exactly similar to the FOSS ecosystem.
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IMO, companies that do WFH well are ones that are designed for the work to be async.
no mention of their recent faults too... (https://www.reuters.com/article/airbus-zephyr-idUSKBN26J0NU)
Vancouver has some of the lowest (listed, admittedly) incomes in Canada too.
I don't see this conversation daily on HN. And as someone who has lost people to this disease I can't let go of any instance of this.
Check-writers beware: your checks can be cashed more than once (2015)
While I don’t disagree, saying that expensive equipment is expensive doesn’t really explain why it’s expensive in the first place.

The next two statements are more helpful.
An Introduction to Algebraic Effects and Handlers
This seems short sighted to me. Playing loud music might make it safer for you to cycle, but will also contribute to the public's general resentment towards cyclists. That resentment manifests as opposition to bike lanes, and unfortunately, drivers who deliberately fuck with cyclists.
They weren't downranked, just ensured they didn't spread too much. I wouldn't be surprised if that is how all those marginalized communities started to love TikTok, since it created all these pockets of positivity instead of spreading the same videos to everywhere and everyone where they start to face more scrutiny and downvotes. Downranked would mean that it would have a hard time everywhere even locally within their communities, but that isn't what happened.

I think they used that concept as a basis for their algorithms later, and just changing the recommendation algorithms changes the feel of the entire platform.
BART is overcrowded, but thanks to grade separation, it’s the most reliable system I’ve used.
The Roman Concrete Research Department had 200 years of trial-and-error to get the strongest concrete.

I’m quite sure they poured hectares worth of varied concrete mixture ratios and different material.

Probably had a guy with a sledgehammer have had given it a daily whack on each of the thousand of test plots.
>So they were having a conversation and I’m not? I don’t really get your point.

My point is there is a major contextual difference between someone entering a conversation between you and a third party to say rude things about the third party and someone making general statements in a public forum and you jumping in on behalf of a theoretical third party who may not actually be offended.
No, Germany did not fund Nordstream 2.

"Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell, Austria’s OMV, France’s Engie and Germany’s Uniper and Wintershall will each provide loans covering 10 per cent of the €9.5bn cost of the pipeline, with Gazprom providing the remaining 50 per cent."

Source: Financial Times, https://archive.vn/pirwk

Also, clean energy is a long way off and Europeans are still going to have to heat their houses. Personally, I'm happy that we're doing business with Russia, rather than being locked into more expensive, US gas imports.
> Every community has the right to control what it's going to be. If Van residents don't want to continue to jam everyone into skyscrapers, that is their right.

How far does the "right to control" extend? What if Van residents don't want Jews or Black people in their community? What if they don't want poor people? What if they just don't want any more people at all? Do they have the right to do any or all of these things?
I'd pay a jaw-dropping amount of money to have a small, handheld version of this device for riding the bus here in SF.

Only half-joking.
I've also been doing this and in 99% of cases the performance appears identical to me. You just need to have an extra keyboard/mouse available so that you can reduce latency.

There's one particular game lately, however, that I've been booting to Windows directly for. Assets seem to load extremely slowly even if I pass the entire hard drive directly to the VM. There might be a tweak for getting that to work but I don't really know what the source of the slowdown is.
I'll volunteer to be culled but I'd like Ted to go first then see how I feel after the Earth is saved.
Is an Ice Age Coming? – Space Time (2016)
When comparing Wireguard with OpenVPN, it’s worth mentioning that:

* While creating a point to point tunnel is straightforward with Wireguard, it’s the networking part that takes time.

You need to do a bit of networking to set up firewall, access internet and other networks, etc, that may not follow a standard formula depending on your set up.

* Wireguard creates a tunnel. OpenVPN does a lot more, such as authentication, etc. The tunneling part of OpenVPN is much smaller than the whole

* Wireguard doesn’t support TCP
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Top% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class
Algebraic Effects for Functional Programming [pdf]
Podman also has a docker desktop alternative in the works (Already works on Mac IIRC)[0]. Will be interesting to see how these two solutions play out.

0: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11494
Sure, FreeBSD's FireJail has been sandboxing software for decades.
It surely was.

I used mine for about a year. Ended up in some user group, who set me up. Was a teen at the time. I did notice the difference, but not as much as I might have. Did not begin to get any typing skills, until much later.

Today, I actually enjoy the occassional time I get the machine out. That keyboard looks really cool, and the little click brings me impressions from earlier, simpler times.