skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They definitely get involved when there's a meaningful impact on the company operations. Every business continuity plan involves top management; I've personally seen it in mid-size companies, and for the really big megacorps, just recently I was looking at a case study on the Maersk (#297 in fortune 500) management response to a cyberattack and it pretty much starts with the chairman being woken up at 4am local time. (e.g. source at https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/maersk-reinst... )

"presumably there can be some sort of crisis [...] but that's not exactly the same thing." - I'd say that it's exactly the same thing; on-call engineers are (or should be) just on an escalation path for crisis/emergency events; top managers are higher up in the escalation chain (if it's not a routine thing that others can easily resolve) but they're on escalation chain for every aspect of a large company. Of course, those events need to be rare - for example, as the original article states, up to 2-3 actual calls per year for a person being on-call; we should probably make a serious distinction between "on-call for emergencies" (which should be rare) and "routine out-of-hours support" (which might get triggered every week or even more frequently, obviously not an extraordinary event but a standard business process), which is something quite different and should have different solutions than emergency escalation.
My guess is that you didn't say "bonjour" first. Major faux pas.
I admit that is true, but I tried switching to PopOS and failed.

Non-software:
- Trackpad quality

- Screen quality (I was given a 1080p 13 touchscreen. The res should be enough, the digitizer grid is bad)

- meme but no audio

- Not as great battery life

Software:

- so much shortcut switching. Will probably be better with time, but still a problem.

- No default menubar (I realize I can swap DE but.. ain't got time for that)

- no GPU accel on browsers. YouTube stuck on 720/1080.

- Karabiner is a hard luxury to give up, finally found kmonad. ~equal?

- having to find replacement for all my QoL utilites (Alfred, Amethyst, Caffeine/Amphetamine, Quick Look)
Sorry friend, but most of your comments regarding "growing out of aphantasia" sound like we just need to pray it away, or similar nonsense. Have you thought perhaps it's not just a matter of "being more bold"? If being bold worked for you, have you thought that perhaps it might be harder for other people? Your advice feels a little too condescending to me.

It's like going to a short-sighted person and telling them to just to open their eyes more and everything will work out in the end. I don't think you understand what this phenomenon is.
True. All windows open. Some are harder to close back up than others.
its never too early for humour
In the town where I live, office and apartment buildings are assigned letter codes based upon energy efficiency, which are then publicly displayed. It's not unfeasible to imagine that something like that could be done for the health and safety profile of buildings. Even if many people chose to ignore such information, I think enough would feel hesitant to enter a building with an "F" grade that it would end up having a positive effect overall.
Thanks for this, I'll be sure to check out the keyboard preferences next time. I was referring to the "command-shift-/" key combo you mentioned when asking how to discover things in Mac OS, since it really feels that power-user functionality is hidden.

I'm not exactly a Windows fan, but (generally speaking) in a standard windowed program, just hitting alt focuses the menu. Windows is almost entirely navigable by keyboard by default, without a mouse. It's much more discoverable and efficient.... although that's been tanking since Win 95 :)
i wonder if we can use WebAssembly instead of a C++ like language? This way we can program it in many programming languages such as Rust and even C#
Insects and the origins of consciousness (2015)
Mu is more common than Xi, but we didn't skip that one.
It's a LEED rating thing.

If you can rely upon windows entirely for ventilation and thermal control, that's great.

Otherwise, windows that open leak more air when you don't want them to. They also let in more humid air, which in turn has a higher specific heat capacity and requires more energy to dry the air later. Their usage tends to be uneven, so you often have open windows while AC is also running elsewhere or in the same room, and this can upset air handling.

So, windows that open can paradoxically increase energy consumption in larger buildings.
I noticed this when I updated to iOS 15.
Wow I didn’t realize it costs more to clean up than the actual value of the mine’s production. That definitely seems broken in some way. It doesn’t seem practical to predict future costs and price them in though, so I’m not sure what a better solution looks like.
Some metacommentary: It is quite nice to see, in 2021, someone publishing original thoughts on a blog with their own photos (mostly). I did not see any advertisements. It seems quite old fashioned today.

Looking at the front page, most links are produced as part some commercial effort. I miss the old non-profit part of the internet.
It doesn't work immediately. You push saline from one nostril through the sinus cavity out the other nostril. It creates some turbulence and helps the mucus flow. Often water will end up stuck in your sinus and come out when you lean over later. Really, it just seems to help your sinuses clear themselves (did you know about nasal cycle which alternates congestion?). You still tend to just blow out more infected glop. Also, it's easier to tell when something bad is going on, because you'll actually see the blood in your mucus rather than just having dark boogers. That might encourage you to clean more than once.
I’d guess that most people don’t use keyboard shortcuts at all, and only very few use anything besides copy, paste, and maybe save. People are shocked when I “command+l, c, t, v, enter” to duplicate the current tab.
The point is police cannot tell the future.

They will have to wait for a violent event to happen first before doing anything.

Police is safe, SF voters get what they vote for, and thieves get goods. Win win win.
1991. UUCP to run a node off my local network group. For us back then, there was no active connection, it was called 'store and forward'.

Each node would dial in to the node upline and get whatever was waiting, be it email, usenet articles, etc. In turn each of the nodes downline would login and get what ever was waiting for them.

Did I mention that this was in the days of 300baud modems?

There was quite a bit of excitement in the group when one of our members told us that he had sent an email to the US and a reply had come back in less than 10 minutes.

Oh, and did I mention that this was also the time before those newfangled "billsmith@somecompany.com" email addresses became common? When we used email addresses like "!company1!company2!company3!departmenta!manager2!peasant4" (if I remember the format correctly) which showed the actual path to be taken by the email from the sender to the receiver.
Is there a project tracking bogons and analyzing them? I've been out of this game for a long time, but behind every false annoucement, there is a threat analysis to be done. The one case I am thinking of was the sudden announcement of routes by DoD during the changeover from the previous U.S. administration, which there was some speculation it had been used for internal numbering on Chinese networks, and this was a way to passively map the address space by hoovering up traffic to it.

Other use cases I could think of would be announcing routes to get traffic to botnet c&c services to gauge infections and compromises, or if you found a vulnerability in a piece of commercial software that phoned home, you could get an instant list of targets by annoucing the vendors routes and getting the heartbeat/update traffic. A bogon annoucement of routes from a major software vendor would indicate someone else knows what I know. Bogon announcements would still be the most interesting threat intel feed I can think of these days, as in spite of how trivial the attacks are, the actors are necessarily pretty sophisticated.

Cool project. I'm out of the loop, but if there were a site or twitter account monitoring this, that'd be pretty interesting.
Is the propaganda really that good? Or did they want to be skeptical to begin with?
> You are not really the target audience for Disney. My 6 and 8 year old daughters are Disney park's target.

I would argue that they're not the target audience.

Disney is hella fun for adults, and they have a lot more money than kids. The target audience is you and me.

The biggest Disney spender I ever met was a post-middle-aged, childless adult that I used to work with. He and his wife sunk a fortune into DVC, took the cruises, and spent pretty much every vacation day at Disney World (or, if they needed a fresh change of venue, Disney Land).

Disney may strategically appear to be marketing to the kids, but they're using the kids to coax us into going.
I wonder if it is true that everything is O(1) if there is an upper bound? Even for an algorithm with O(n^n) complexity, it is still O(1) if n is bounded, just with a extremely large constant.
What I noticed, either in iOS 15 or on my iPhone 13 Pro, is that swiping gestures often don’t complete. That means closing tabs in Safari, switching apps with the bottom bar, often “come back” as if I didn’t swipe fast enough. This is quite annoying because I have to repeat the gesture multiple times for it to be completed.

Safari has been behaving stupidly too: I type n, I see the autocomplete for news.ycombinator appear, I press the Go key… it searches Google for “n”. It’s maddening.
I'm sure you could pay me enough to be on call again, but so far nobody's offered.
No problem! https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5b5945a3f1a345f9aebe5c34f0c...

I got the idea from someone else but unfortunately forgotten who so can’t credit it.
Rich, well-connected anarchists don't become lawyers.
Your first & the easiest consulting client should be your current employer. Second and third clients should come from your network etc.

Don’t fall into freelance sites consulting gigs. It will be minimum wage type of work.
Delta is less deadly because more people have some immunity, either because of vaccination or because they have already been infected. Also it came late in the game, and many of the people who are the most at risk are already dead. Treatment has improved too.

So the virus itself isn't less deadly, it is just that we are better prepared.
I’ll third that. The idea of subscribing to basic features on a device that expensive makes it a non-starter.
Indeed H1N1 has popped up from time to time, with varying outcomes, not least as prior immunity waned. We are also much better at treating people, particularly bacterial coinfections.

Flu is a bit peculiar with viral RNA/DNA (I forget which) reassortment. However it did not fade out or transmute at the end of the 1918 pandemic due to a selection pressure to become less lethal (or at least, we have no evidence that that is the case)
He spent almost 50 years alone at 10k ft documenting climate change
Because of union.

The only union republicans support.
what would you say is big bucks?
He's overthinking it. I just call them "Blockheads" and 15 years from now they will be trying to pretend it never happened.
And if somebody ever leaves the company for any reason, who is on call for their stuff?
No. It does not mean this: "transforming your interests".
It does mean transforming your special knowledge into a product, and (with the help of zero marginal cost) replicating this knowledge (what naval call leverage).

Its not about you interests or hobbies.
> Would it be good if Omicron were more transmissible but less harmful?

Yes, provided that immunity gained by infection with Omicron also provided immunity for the other variants.
Case of Centrum för rättvisa vs. Sweden
True for the pro at $1600, but 16/512 for Air is $1400 against $2000 for the 14". Is it worth $600 for 2x GPU, ~2X CPU, 2x Memory bandwith, MiniLED display + size, great speakers, etc? Probably. But that $600 can feed my family for a month, and the actual performance difference to my workload would probably be +25% instead.
It's also on the Intrepid. The first time I saw it in person, my brain didn't understand how it could fly. It's massive. It looks like a space shuttle rather than a jet.
My impression is there is that you can get from one nostril to the other, but a sinus is a cavity attached to the side of that path with no other entry or exit point.
I can survive hunting and farming my own food.

unfortunately I can't get rid of teams and Intellij at work.

I use Xfce on Linux and 32 GB of RAM are just enough to not encounter problems in my day to day job, imagine those poor folks using something like MacOS or Windows...

At home I have a laptop with 4gb of RAM, it's usable, I use it to watch YouTube videos and as a media player.

On Ubuntu the 4GB of ram are constantly used and the system also uses no-less-than 4gb of swap space (thanks fast SSDs for making my life better)
Haven't done this, but our legal team (WSGR) said that it's possible, if needed to add an angel or two later on. IIUC, most investors will want a price round if investing more that $2-3M though.
Wait till you find out how overcrowded backcountry skiing has gotten too.
Over a decade ago we were laughing at poor corporations getting pwned because they ran IE and ActiveX and websites could do anything, same for Outlook or Word.

And here we are in 2021 and your dev tools are doing the same thing. Good luck with that.
RDBMS "transactions" work nothing like banking transactions; when you abandon a banking transaction you don't erase it as though it never happened, you keep a full record of what happened but the downstream consequences change. In fact the way traditional accounting is done, with transactions first committed to journals and then later asynchronously propagated into ledgers, is more closely akin to how Kafka-based systems work.
A testament to the plasticity of the human mind. Like getting (and losing) "sea legs". You walk your whole life on solid land; now you don't for a few days and your freaky brain figures it out. You're a kid and you don't know anything about boats, but you take the job parking the rentals. By the end of the summer, they move to your whim.

But steerage at slow speed is a tricky subject. I had a trawler I was terrified of at slow speed, because it was absolutely massive, and the rudder did nothing at low speed. Plus the transmission was iffy so putting it in reverse would take from 5-50 seconds. Plus being single screw her rear-end would pull to port in reverse. Never again! (A sail-boat with a big keel and big rudder, and much less beam and mass? No problem!)
If the nurzle for your RO spigot got contaminated with something that liked noses after being shoved into somebody's drink... it might start growing up there. I prefer to only fill the bottles with boiling liquid when dissolving the salt. I use a water boiler. Then you have to wait for it to cool. 20-30 sec in the microwave will bring it back to head temperature.

What I REALLY would not use is an old Britta that's been accumulating goo for the last year. Fungus is bad, hard to kill, and will eat your brain. Do you have sourdough, kombucha, or any other weird smells in your fridge? Keep it outta there!
princec! That name takes me back. Good to hear he's still going.
Honest question, have any of these ski towns tried allowing the construction of a significant amount of housing? I.e. housing growth that actually scales with the growth in demand? None of the ones I've visited seem at all dense. (Been to Vail, Beaver Creek, Park City, and all over Tahoe.)

All the consternation over the housing crisis is maddening to me because it seems like universally (in the US), we're willing to try everything and anything except the one thing that basic economics suggests would actually work. We're like a person who needs to drive a screw but will only use wrenches, hammers, and saws.
I’m British. Your 2nd amendment means nothing over here.

Additionally interesting you left the militia part out of your quote, seems to happen a lot.
Ehh, that might be a shallow search. The issue of limited supply runs throughout the piece: towns being surrounded by protected lands where building isn’t possible and NIMBYism.
I know UI is subjective, but when the Ribbon was introduced I thought it was the best UI idea I had ever seen. It made the Office apps interface much more discoverable and easy to use than without it. It's a shame that the Ribbon paradigm is patented.
That command-shift-/ shortcut is listed in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts.

Also, if I use the Finder help menu to search "keyboard shortcuts", it gives me a local help article "Use macOS keyboard shortcuts". This article talks about a bunch of ways to find keyboard shortcuts and also links to this knowledge base article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 (This is actually a sort of step backwards, from when I did exactly this around '07: at that point, the Mac Help system actually listed a bunch of handy keyboard shortcuts and didn't rely on online resources for them).
Where's this data from? From what I could find:

- CDC: a median of 5-12 days [0]
- a Belgian study, spring 2020, 14000+ patients: a median of 3-10 days [1]
- a Dutch study, spring 2021, 950 patients: a median of 7 days [2]

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guida...

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33080869/

[2] - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
The principle I've long held is that cities and towns should primarily be for those who reside in those towns.

In this case, only residents should be voting on things like ballot measures. This article talks about a few towns, some where I'm sure there are a lot of residents with multiple homes, some of which I'm sure that isn't the case. But nonresident owners shouldn't be dictating public policy, period.

So the first thing you do is you is put in a city income tax and make all homeowners residents for tax purposes. And that's tax on all your income. To those who say they'll just hide behind LLCs and trusts, you do two things:

1. You tax the beneficial owner of the property;

2. Properties with no clear beneficial owner are simply taxed punitively with property tax.

This article is just further evidence that AirBnB is a cancer on housing, as if we needed further confirmation (which we didn't).

At a higher level, we need to do something about the ultra-rich borrowing to avoid tax. A good starting point is that any borrowed funds, or at least any borrowed funds for certain purposes such as buying real estate, are treated as repatriated or realized income and taxed accordingly.

And while we're at it, let's starting non-primary residences on unrealized capital gains unless it's a long term rental.
SARS-CoV-2 is endemic worldwide in humans and multiple animal species. It will never be eradicated no matter how many people are vaccinated. The vaccines are good at preventing deaths, however they don't reliably prevent infection or transmission.

The current thinking is that new variants are most likely to evolve in immunocompromised patients who experience persistent infections. Vaccines aren't very effective for such patients.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...

I completely agree that we should donate vaccines to low income countries. The US federal government has donated 264M doses so far with more on the way.

https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/
I just started reading Thousand Brain’s Theory, which is a really great book so far (recommended by Bill Gates)

One thing it talks about is how the neo-cortex is basically the same all over. Even specialised bits still look the same as other bits that specialise in something completely different. The implication being that all ‘intelligence’ is basically the same thing. Seeing is hearing is poetry is tool use etc

I’m probably doing a crap job explaining it though so read it for yourself!

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54503521-a-thousand-b...
A father comforts his son on deathbed. The photo that changed the face of AIDS
Oh I'm a /lot/ more contemptuous of idiocy in educated, first world countries, how can one not be? There is a similar thing going on that is far, far less excusable and justifiable. Fauci is still hanging around like a toxic, noxious smell and he is a liar. He tells lies. Says who? Says Fauci himself! And he hasn't been crucified for having done it!! When you tell lies you incur a a debt to the truth, the interest rate is super steep. That is contributing to the problem we are seeing in the USA where an octogenarian un-elected politician like Fauci can fan the flames of vaccination as a partisan issue and be rewarded for it. Justify his "noble" lies all you like (and I can see the case for it even if I /strongly/ disagree). You can't justify keeping him on in a position of authority when that lie is exposed, when his presence fans the flames of mistrust contributing to the biggest problem the USA is facing in Covid policy right now. There's nobody else in the country who can do what Fauci does who isn't covered by that stench? I just don't believe it. He's 80. He should have retired more than a decade ago. When a vaccine hesitant person says the authorities are lying to us, that Fauci is a liar and hasn't had consequences for it we can't actually say that's wrong, because it isn't. That's the bed we're lying in. Any sensible democrat would be looking for a sensible, educated, establishment republican doctor and appoint them to public service and promote them as the number one doctor in the country. Such a republican will exist, thinking they don't is completely mental. (Everyone who disagrees with my political view is crazy style of paranoid mental).

[1]
"So, why weren't we told to wear masks in the beginning?

"Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply."

[1]https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...
Ironic coming from one of the media outlets responsible for destroying so many mountain towns by putting them on "must-visit" destination lists for the IG crowd.

But those $200 camp chairs and $800 puffy jackets aren't going to sell themselves, I suppose...
Me neither, but I'd like to keep getting paid to work on 24/7 availability systems, so I guess I'll put up with it, like all the other parts of my job I don't want to do.
>Oxford/AZ vaccine was funded by the university endowment

According to Wikipedia, that vaccine was developed with Venture Capital money from Oxford Sciences Innovation, Google Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, among others. However even if it was "public funding", that public funding is only possible due to the tax base created by the capital system the governments of the world tax to get their funding.

As to Cuba, I believe only 2 has passed Phase II Trials, and none are approved for international use by the World Health Organization. Time will tell if they are effective as they claim.
the A/B testing naturally favors "dark patterns" - it's not malicious design, it's just unintended consequences

Could there be such a thing as "meta-malicious design?" Bad consequences aren't executed directly, but conditions are put in place that cause the emergence of bad consequences.

I suspect, if AI ever does away with Homo sapiens it will be by convincing us not to breed by changing our incentive structures.