skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long ago I worked support at an advertising firm and we had a lot of color laser copiers with attached RIP engines for printing out not-quite proofs and whatnot. (Sidenote: Terrible software to have to support. FieryRIP can eat a bag of dicks. In general the RIP engines, which ran Win 2k I think...just never seemed to work right, I think lots of print queue issues, and calibration was a PITA?)

Out of the middle of nowhere we suddenly started getting jams on the machines. It was like an infection.

Turns out that some genius decided they'd save the company money (which it didn't need to do, it was rolling in dough) by switching to a cheaper paper. The new stuff ended up in the machines around the building in a seemingly random order.

Xerox sent a tech out. He inspected and cleaned some rollers, then concluded that our paper sucked. Proved it by printing ~500 pages on good paper he'd brought, and then using a ream of the old paper.

If your laser printer is mis-feeding or jamming a lot, buy better paper.

Also, humidity can be important. We had a "proof printer" room where the expensive color printers were that generated the actual "proofs" before stuff went off to get printed by the thousands-to-millions or shown to clients, and there was a household humidifier in the corner to keep things from getting too dry in the winter.
I have a Nokia (now Withings) Steel HR watch. Very minimal design as far as smart watches go but is extremely reliable and the battery still lasts a month even after 5 years of ownership and daily use.
It is - marketing platform links often track you (which is in breach of the GDPR btw), conceal the true target of the links (so you can't tell whether the final target is legitimate) and most marketing platforms are for some reason obsessed with HTTP even when the final target link is HTTPS, exposing you to risk on insecure networks.
No, they DoS'd themselves with their "viewable but not save-as-able" technique. Leaving connections open will do that. The image is visible right now but the browser can't save what appears to be an incomplete file.
I echo your sentiments about a Leatherman.

I carried a cheaper Wingman religiously for five years. I bought it on a whim during a sale at a hardware store thinking I would keep it in the car for emergencies. It quickly became a pocket staple. Over the five years that thing fixed my car on the side of the road, was used at my job every 30 minutes, hammered loose nails, fell off a roof, cut my dinner. You name it.

Another thing to mention is how well the tools that comprise the leatherman itself are integrated into the package. Depending on the loadout/model you choose, you can have an array of quick-access functionality without any fumbling. The hinge mechanism for the exterior tools I have used were always taut and locked strongly, and had very smooth deployment action. I could have my knife tip scraping at something faster than I could pull a phone out of my pocket.

I lost that Wingman but it was quickly replaced by a Wave+. Should you have an eye for tinkering, fixing or tweaking things a leatherman will elevate you at least a few percentage points towards having super powers. I was astounded at how many situations can be handled more effectively if you have a bit of mechanical advantage. And a knife.
It makes sense when you ask the question another way: "What is the likelihood that a preexisting assemblage of data contains all the nuances for my specific process?"

Some domains are intricately mapped in available data (e.g. equity pricing), but most, and especially most physical, are not (e.g. freight transportation).
The big tech companies (ie. FANG) all have huge demand for principal+ engineers and know how to scope and support them properly. The size means they have lots of them which reduces the snowflake nature of the role and makes career development, salary support, etc… more standardized. Since they are large, there can be some variance, but overall they are a good option if you are interested. I don’t know where in EU you are, but most of FANG has roles in EU and some even do remote as well.

Smaller companies tend to want principal engineers in theory, but as you are finding they can often struggle with how to utilize them properly. Often you see them playing a Chief Architect role or something similar which is more hybrid with PM than pure tech. So getting PM skills could help set you up for this direction as well.

Finally, you have said you did management for a bit before, so you should know if this is an interesting path or not. This is a very different role, so I would recommend you do this only if you have the passion and desire to do this full time. Most principal engineers I know have done management for a bit and gained a lot of skills related to it, but ultimately wasn’t what they wanted to do.
I think my keyboard [1 - pic][2 - site] is almost perfect. It is not full-sized but I don't have to compromise on features etc., as with a simple Num Lock toggle I can move between having a numpad and having access to arrow keys and the 'home row'.

My singular gripe is the fact that I can't assign macros to any of the numpad keys - "Num 1" and "Num 3" do literally nothing when Num Lock is off which is a bit of a waste. Was hopeful that a firmware update would come along to help with this but AFAIK none has.

[1] https://cdn.coolermaster.com/media/assets/1017/masterkeys-pr...

[2] https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/peripheral/keyboards/ma...
Ask HN: Which one is better – Read all or on Need basis
Which one is better -
a) Read all books/blogs/... about the relevant technologies related to a project and start working
b) Read books/blogs/... on need basis as you keep working on your project.

Which works or doesn't work?
Thanks...
Great idea. Anything that helps winnow down to a decidable list of movies is a good thing.

Just a quick note, something's wrong with the movie 'Retfærdighedens ryttere', gets a 404 and doesn't load the youtube preview.
I don’t indent my code, my autoformatter does. It is way less effort to get the braces right and then have the indent level inferred automatically
Sellers don’t have perfect information about the value of their home. They get a market value estimate from a realtor but that is just an estimate.

Of course iBuyers can’t perfectly forecast the market but that is why they add 3-7% fees, a very large buffer on a house purchase.

Again, this is where Zillow ran into problems: they reduced or eliminated that fee to win more deals versus opendoor.
Makes sense. Taking https://0ver.org/ to its logical conclusion.
(Straight) PVC is not acceptable for hot water supply lines.
Yeah, good question. I really don’t know but my guess would be no based on how little most specialists actually know about this stuff
> Flight time 12 mins

> Wireless link Wifi

> Range (environment dependent) 1 km

LoL... I'll pass. When a DJI Mini2 can give a 10KM range, why would one go for this?
I agree. But we need to invent a word for meat eaters first, the same way we have a word for racists, misogynists, elitists etc.
The Florida buildig collapse showed whqt happrns when regulation is "reduced".
Surprise Chef
You're right that the argument is fallacious, but you ALSO can't say that the high number of mutations make escape almost certain. Fact of the matter is, we don't know, and it's hard to say.

For there record, I'm predicting it would escape, but I'm far from certain about it, I'd put like a 75% prior.
I have no data to back this up, but this feels accurate to me.

Anecdotally, I still use the semicolon when I write. Sometimes it just seems like the most natural way to bridge two thoughts.
Range: 1km

That's not taking you too far into Area 51, I'm afraid.
Yeah, I'm gonna say that romanticizing mass surveillance is a bit much. Cambridge Analytica, the five eyes countries, Clearview - all these are using Facebook and Google's data to great effect.

Facebook and Google's data are not their own. That data is comprised of private lives, stripped bare pixel by pixel, bit by bit, and it's offensive to frame it as if they're doing something alchemical and special with it. Google's search dominance came from something special, creating the right algorithm and seizing the first mover advantage, but the relentless and ruthless invasion of privacy is a rent seeking race to the bottom.

All of the ills of the internet and political turmoil in the west from algorithmic amplification are the brainchilren of Facebook and Google. It turns out that "tailoring search results" and "targeted advertisement" are excuses for something that can cost far more than a society might want to pay.
African Swine Fever is like that

It is very stable, so it does not need to keep the host alive for long. A corpse is still infectious like weeks laters

We are lucky that it can only infect swines
Thanks for the suggestion, I’m open to reading another book so I’ll give it a shot.
Racism and fundamentalism are refusals of dialog. That's the point.
All I see is the price of real estate being driven up

Who is doing the selling? "Wall St Fat cat Co" or the average Joe who saw his house value go up by a LOT?
The fee on instant transactions is really country specific. Netherlands doesn't have fees and banks automatically pick the instant option if available. I've heard similar things from for example the nordics.
> I want to work hard, and see meaningful progression: in salary, in impact, in respect.

yes go for EM-> senior EM -> director.

Coding has no minimal respect, very limited impact and deadend salary progression.
What causes it to freeze where it does?
On the top of that EU companies looking at the EU historically bad legislation bodies to achieve "protection" against US based tech companies instead of innovating.

There is not a single company in the EU that could build S3 today. If there was such company we could have a cloud that uses S3 as storage and any computation platform to run most of the workload running on US based cloud companies today. There are several OSS software components that can be deployed on Nomad or k8s and have a solid infra just with these two. (I am leaving out IAM/AAA, obviously). Sure this is not the convenience level of AWS/Azure/GCP but at least a start that you can build on and if the EU is serious about it turn it into a real EU based cloud provider. Once you start to add additional services (for example TiDB, Presto, Kafka or even Qemu/Firecracker/KVM) you can build a cloud that has the best offerings of the hyperscalers.

Instead, the whole EU tech scene is hiring lawyers to pressure the EU to ban US based cloud computing. Somehow we lost our way in the EU and innovation happens in the US and in China.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/opinion/gaia-x-a-tr...
Love mcmaster.com. I spend plenty of time just browsing.

Might benefit from an image search feature.

Am noob DIYer. I often only have a vague sense of what I'm looking for. Usually by analogy. So I'll spend a lot of time both foraging as well as using any search term I can think of.

eg Most recently, I'm looking for "banker's clips", my SO's term for really long money clip looking things. Like sewing hemming clips, but wider, and with a finished edge (non sharp). Great for securing paper to backing boards. So artists can carry around their work.
The harsh reality of staff/principal engineering positions is the number of opportunities. There are a handful of companies that are big enough to have roles beyond senior engineers. In those big corporations, there are a few roles available and they are rarely open. Therefore, moving from one company to another is just so damn hard. There are more senior manager/director level roles than a principal engineering role where you oversee multiple teams or a department. If you want to make it to management, your best bet might be your own company or a startup. Happy to hear about your findings.
I’m not sure why this is called an AI. I feel like a deterministic algorithm to play Tetris in an efficient way is not super complicated to write.
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> I will primarily use more my skills in architecture, engineering, and communications to focus on large, important pieces of functionality, technical decisions with big impact, etc.

You are at the level where the choice is either become a technical expert, or become a leader. If you want to become a leader, you'll need to put the same effort into your people skills you've put into your technical skills. You'll also need to increase your visibility to non-technical leaders.
Of course HN uses this article to defend racism.
Whatever for? :D

You can't possibly say that without context.
Codex is the latin word for book in general.
Not sure I follow. They buy for 1m so they're out 1m. Market value is irrelevant when bought. They sell for 900k, optimally, so they then get back 900k. In total they're out 100k (900k minus 1m). Not counting fees, market movement and assuming they sell optimally.
Range: 1km

Flight time: 12min

How is that "good design"??
> why haven't they produced boosters for delta, gamma, etc...

When I first heard of boosters, this is what I remember being part of the discussion. Then that somehow disappeared.

It makes sense to me, especially with mRNA vaccines. This is outside my area of expertise, but it seems to me making boosters that target variants, with some kind of expedited safety review process, seems very doable?

Some variant of this happens with seasonal flu shots, so I imagine something like this would be possible with the coronavirus vaccines?
I think you're describing a collective pitch coaxial helicopter - these exist in full size as well.

But by your description, with more fine-grained control than a swash plate, maybe?
It's not really mentioned in the thread so far, but weirdly... PL/I was one of the inspirations for PL/M, which was the basis for CP/M... which was the basis for DOS... which led us to Windows... which leads us to today for those that don't use other OSs, etc, etc.
I had some chronic back pain for a while. I went to see a specialist and they basically told me - hard to diagnose, the discs in the back do degrade over time, the primary solution is to strengthen other muscles, especially core muscles, to support it.

I went to PT for a while and basically exacerbated whatever the issue is - badly. However, I took prednisone. This solved the issue temporarily, but allowed a reprive so that I could do muscle strengthening exercises.

This solved my issue for about 5 years until recently with COVID and kids and I stopped working out. Now the issue seems to be resurfacing.

I do think the primary solution is to work out more and strengthen my body.
This is the least useful answer I can imagine anyone giving to the original question.
This is a pretty common misconception about Netflix.

Netflix is running on AWS (using Linux) and the streaming service is not running on AWS using FreeBSD.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix-kinesi...

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix-nicedc...

https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/fosdem/looney-netflix_and_fr...
Thanks for the response. I’ve been doing yoga, swimming is not something I’ve tried. Agreed on how crude tools can be effective, I’ve already made lots of changes (I only use a standing desk).

I’m very skeptical of saying being effective, but am open to being wrong. I’ll check out that book, alleviate the rec!
It has gone up from years previous too. I was only citing the year-to-year. I grew up with friends who became NYC cops, and they and others have let me know their hesitancy to be very proactive due to all the negativity towards their profession and liability risks. If you don't think 'defund the police' and bail out 'protestors' with long criminal track records doesn't give a green light to those considering doing something lawless, let me tell you the story of my already-bad neighborhood when the blackout of 1977 occurred. If you haven't been in a riot or mass looting, you don't have the same fear of lawlessness and vulnerability that simply occurs when the lights go out. People getting sucker punched will be the last of your worries.
I believe the post above was only meant to be applied to interior doors. The explanation I've gotten in the past is interior doors open in so they don't block people outside the room, typically in a hallway, from being able to move towards the exit; Exterior doors open out so that the crowd of people rushing towards the exit can leave and you don't have a mass of panicked people stopping those at the front from having room to open the exterior doors.
Transmission chains could be broken by quarantine (supported by grocery delivery), masking, simultaneous vaccination and mass PCR testing. It is a coordination problem but it is way cheaper than letting the virus evolve freely.

Why do we want to live our lives in waves instead of eliminating it once and for all?
>In other words, there's no good control group here.

There isn't. We have to theorize on the move, so to speak.

>Frontloading the risk of infection versus vaccination may well be justified in the young and healthy population, but that opinion has been ostracized from the mainstream.

The problem is that people took the wrong assumptions when calculating the risk of disease. All our calculations of risk are based on hospital treatment being available: providing Oxygen, Dexamethasone and ECMO treatment to critically ill patients, and no extra deaths due to healthcare overload.

No scenario when we 'let it rip' involves being able to give Oxygen to all young people who need it, and there will be extra deaths due to overload. The clever people suggesting intentional infection assumed risk factors dependent on current policies without understanding that under their policies risk would shoot up.

>Beta didn't "kill itself off", it led to wave that rivaled Delta/Gamma in some cases. It ended up being outcompeted by Delta/Gamma.

That's functionally equivalent to 'killing itself off', or at least being much less of a threat. I recall Beta's transmission factor was lower than Alpha? Was it because it missed some key mutations, or because mutating to avoid immunity came with a cost?
Furin cleavage sites aren't as exclusive as you are making them out to be. It has already been established that such sites occur in other corona viruses.

https://virological.org/t/tackling-rumors-of-a-suspicious-or...
Maybe an integer overflow somewhere? Either that or the NES is just too bored at this point and cries uncle.
I understand where you’re coming from, it’s the production robustness paradigm of someone who has worked with such systems and knows what kind of controls are required to release code. eg live editing like that would almost certainly go against SOC2 controls.

However, I’m also tempted very much by a system that allows for fixing things so quickly, because it provides for a delightful customer experience. Most customers don’t report most issues, only when something is persistently wrong or is something they can’t get around. So being able to quickly fix it this way seems genuinely amazing. If I were to take this idea further… maybe some sort of customer isolated canary deploy/ feature flag might be the way to express this customer experience in todays world.

The problem is always that you might break other things with your fix. Maybe a battery of testing before canary deploys can raise confidence about the validity of the fix.
Ask HN: Do You Like Stocks Crypto or Precious Metals for 2022?
I think I may have tricked myself into a confirmation bias when it comes to my personal thoughts on the subject. It seems the algorithms have decided I like watching TEOTWAWKI type videos on Youtube and now my personalized adds are all for Prepper items and Bullion.

The stock markets have treated me quite well the last couple years but recently I have been feeling nervous.

I like the concept of crypto but do not have a strong understanding of it beyond the general ideas. In some ways I wonder how many people really know what is going on, very similar to the pre 2008 derivatives market build up.

I do like shiny things but am concerned that my current bullish mindset of precious metal might have more to do with being brainwashed to a certain extent from the media and advertising systems pushing that content to me.

So I was hoping I could humbly ask the YC community members to share their opinions on investing in one, two or all three of these market spaces.

As with anything regarding predicting the future there are no right or wrong answers and I understand any comments are opinions and not financial advice.:\

Thanks
And also significant rates of breakthrough infections in the vaccinated!

The nearly 2-year-old spike-protein formula in current vaxes quickly decays to 50%, or less, effectiveness versus mild (but still transmissable) infections.

For example, here in highly-vaxed San Francisco, the case rate in the vaxed is only half that in the unvaxed: https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-cases-and-deaths#new-cases-by-v...

(If you further think most breakthroughs are so mild they never appear in this statistic, the difference is even less. But even by the official numbers: San Francisco now has more cases each day in the vaxed than the unvaxed.)

This matches earlier case studies, for example of miners in French Guiana, or inmates in Texas, where after merely a month or few ater vaccination, a majority of people in confined spaces were infected by the Gamma or Delta variant.
It's because Go is a 90s (procedural) language in 2021 and I would maybe use it in a parallel universe where many other languages don't exist.
I would add that the Glock 19 might be the perfectly designed handgun. it is intuitive enough for someone who has never used a handgun before to be familiar in 30 seconds with how to clear it, how to load it, and how to shoot it.
> Fair enough, but what are you going to do?

Isolate them away from the population. We've already started to mandate vaccination for work in many places in US, mask mandates, etc.

If the area gets hot enough, then we lock down. We've been doing it already.

We can't force anyone to take the vaccine but we don't have to accept them.

Why do you think there has been so many protests in US and other countries because of the said mask/vaccine mandates?

Everyone's action has consequences, choosing not to get vaccinated does not mean they should be free from any consequences; their consequences are the isolation policies.

> If the hospitals need to set limits to ensure balanced distribution of resources - the unvaccinated should be alerted and then the “hospital rationing” begins.

They already have and not only that, they're losing a lot of hospital staff as well. A lot of hospitals have stopped or postponed surgeries, dealing with long lines of people in the ERs waiting a long time.

Remember, hospitals have the duty to save everyone, they should never be in the situation where they should start to deny help to everyone coming into ER.

The whole point of the original lockdowns was to "flatten the curve" where the hospitals can serve everyone as they come in.
> It's not AI if I can understand what it's doing

- found on the internet, 2021
Kind of. They're newer than the old classical ones, and don't have a physical retail network. Everything is done via a website or app.
> This article is asserting that enough people don't find that to be the case that it's become a problem.

Unpopular opinion: all entertainment does not have to be free, or approaching free. I'm able to buy access to thousands of hours of quality video entertainment for what just a few years ago was the cost of a single audio CD. It is annoying when you have to buy the whole subscription to watch a single show, though.
That only makes sense in English and it's not even funny
If you look very hard, you might be able to find a luggable 'laptop' version that was developed in-house for salefolks to cart around for demomstrations