skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rippetoe's Starting Strength is widely considered the go-to book for beginners.

Starting off by doing compound exercises like squats, deadlifts, bench press, and OH press is a great way to get your base strength levels up. You can add accessories later to zero in on specific muscle groups that need work. (You'll know which ones need work.)

Best tip is don't be a showoff. Use only the amount of weight you can actually handle while keeping your form correct. Proper technique is better than big numbers. Strength will come with effort and technique.

Oh, and your diet will change. Get ready to sate those cravings you'll get for protein-rich and fatty foods your body needs to repair your broken-down muscles. And get used to delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS); it's the "pain" in "no pain, no gain". Other forms of pain may not be so good.
I like the irony of suggesting that search result demonstrates "what many people on HN seem to be interested in," when talking about spurious correlations.
I was responding to someone's argument along the lines of mining needs energy, the cheapest energy is renewable, therefore mining would drive an increase in the supply of renewable energy, and a forthcoming decline of mining would free up a supply of renewable energy.

I broke this chain of logic by pointing out that renewable is an unnecessary consideration and that mining activities will choose the cheapest option regardless of its renewability.

Furthermore I claim that renewable is not the cheapest. Various subsidies aside, renewable is often many times more expensive to deliver where and when required. The total system cost is many times higher.
> It is engineering’s job to own their software

I'll accept this responsibility so long as it comes with the corresponding authority.

Now tell me, do I really own the software?
I’m your Fan is a tribute album, notable for having the John Cale version of Hallelujah which was arguably the cover that led to the song getting over-covered.
I found this to be pretty interesting:

Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise
by Alex Hutchinson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11115311-which-comes-fir...
Below a certain level I mostly agree with you. One company in my past didn't work this way, and one too many pages in the middle of the night for a business I wasn't personally invested in made it an easy job to walk away from.

That said, there is a level of seniority at which "their problem" is "your problem." If you'd chuck the business out the door rather than getting paged a few times a year, you're not ready for that level yet. This varies by company and organization size, but fundamentally you can't (and shouldn't try to) anticipate everything up front. Sometimes you need the knowledge, judgement, or simply signing authority (literal or metaphorical) of someone specific.
English has million and milliard [0], but American English preferred the short scale and that has had more influence over the language. The UK only officially switched over to the "American" system in 1974.

Many European languages have the long scale, English is the odd one out here, as is Brazilian Portugese if you'd still classify that as a European language.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale
One of thousands of unpatched (either at the sysops level, or the distro level) kernel RCE vulns.
Here's a couple examples of what I experience. I apologize that one is a little gory. This morning I walked past my kid's room and they had a pencil in their hand and were jumping on the bed. I literally saw her falling and getting stabbed in the face. I saw her falling down many different ways, and scrapes and blood. And in real life I ran in and stopped her and everything is fine. But those images are like memories to me that I can still see.
As a less gory example, I do computational geometry and I'm visualizing all of the time. I'm rotating objects around and fitting them into and next to each other in my mind. I'm slicing them, scaling them, projecting them. And yes, I can later draw a picture of or write a textual description of what I imagined.

Edit: Again, I'm not saying that you've missed out on anything in your life. The point is just that this is something people really do experience.
Hell no, you're not a monster for not wanting to be on call. You're normal. Being on call is fundamentally not that fun.

You're also totally normal if you respond to an incentive structure of offering senior level and above employees the perk of not having to carry a pager. Some companies use this to hire senior talent because, hey, it works.

As a side note: there's a shitload of negative solidarity in this thread. That's the attitude of: "If I must eat shit, everyone else must eat some too". I think this article (while a little flawed) makes a good pivot towards positive solidarity, and asking the question: "Is there a way to achieve this goal where everyone eats less shit?"
Many of the examples contain well, obvious mistakes. It would be nice to get the post fixed. - Thanks
Everyone is always seduced by the new — the new idea, the rewrite. But often what one finds is that as development goes deeper, the same bugs resurface, the same challenges. Our society is full of grand, ambitious, “let’s do it right from scratch” plans — Le Corbusier, etc — and they often fail. The blank page is seductive, but it begins the to fall apart with the first mark of the pen.
Seems like wash trading in this way would cannibalize your gains if you don't withdraw before too long. I actually don't think that's what's happening. I think it's the memecoin effect. The constitution DAO got a lot of media attention and that's driving speculation on their $PEOPLE token.
> It's a good book at a certain stage in your career.

Such as?
In addition, the entire advertising-based consumer economy is based on getting the potential consumer to buy the product by whatever means available.

A public education system that creates a population conditioned to believe whatever any 'authority figure' says is also a system designed to create a population ripe for exploitation by advertisers. Similarly, the ideal authoritarian state desires a population that is generally ignorant and obedient, and that's what's been created in much of the United States.

A general population that has the tools and skills needed to independently analyze the claims of government authority figures and cable TV and Internet advertisers, that's not what an elitist-authoritarian system desires.

It's very sad to see people who completely lack these tools and skills attempting to do their own well-intentioned analysis, they're so easily manipulated by dishonest actors. They know enough to distrust 'authority figures', but not enough to conduct independent evaluations of claims. Such people have been sabotaged by the educational system.
You only test positive on PCR after a few days (at least for the Delta variant). So the infections can't really have happened on the plane, but before. And at that point 10% would be unbelievably high if the people on the plane were all independent and not in previous contact.

It's a bit hard to put this number into context though if you don't know anything about the passengers. It would be much more plausible if e.g. a large part of the passengers were in the same hotel before or something like that.
When I saw someone with a cold going on the same plane as myself, I could be 100% sure I will get off of the plane with a cold...
So it seems like sensationalising indeed, at least from my anecdotal experience.
They don't have a union so they hoover up the boss' arbitrary bullshit. Very simple. Most people just comply. They are the worse because they set unreasonable expectations for everyone else. Unions protect you from the other emoloyees' bad deals.
That’s huge though.
If people behaved like game theory says they should then lottery, addictions and casinos wouldn't exist.
When's the last time you checked yours, before this story?
Thanks! That is a very reasonable concern, hopefully won't be an issue but you never know. Perhaps at some point I will add that feature to ensure people don't get locked out in some unforeseen circumstance in the future.
My team is distributed across the world. We ensure that we have multiple SME’s for the most critical systems in each region. No one has to wake up at 3 AM.
Maybe it’s just me, but this comment seems so macabre. Like ambulance chasing. “So, lots of people are going to die, but I intend to make some money of it so that’s okay.”
More of This from Russia, Please
A Chicago tribute band in Russia. The things you find on Quora.
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@dang could we make this the submission url? It seems to be the same info, by the same individual.
Excellent analogy. I wonder if someone would be kind enough to shed some light on this graph: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/denmark/

If you scroll down to "Total Coronavirus Deaths" and click near the middle on December 11th, you'll notice a very rapid increase in deaths. December 11th was when we started vaccinating against covid.

I'm not saying that the vax is killing people, but this is a diehard argument from those who are negative against the covid vaccine.

What could a reasonable explanation be?

PS: Someone filed for more insight with our national institute of health (SSI) and they replied that following the first shots in December 2020, about 4.500 people died within 30 days. This is generally understood to be because the group we vaccinated first was already above the mean expected age, so their time was already up so to speak, ie. death could have been caused by anything, including old age.

I think it only caught the attention of the mainstream, because in all of 2020 we had a total of 1.250 "deaths with covid" whereof about 1.000 of these had more than 2 co-morbidities.
I believe they are excluding the pirates off the coat of Africa: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48581197
It seems perfectly okay if you were hired at a job where on-call is a stated requirement. Is this a controversial opinion? I’ll admit that I sometimes find myself out of phase with some of the dominant HN views on at-will employment, but it would be useful for me to know what the perceived flaw in my stance is.
"Gear" is drugs, for any unknowing Westerners.
But then everyone has a signature that you exited at 200
Illegal coal is. Because if your plant has been shut down for being too dirty, you have no other option but to continue to operate illegally or just straight up die, and bitcoin is by FAR the best option for consuming that illegal-dirty-plant energy.

The reason it's the cheapest is that you're negotiating with somebody who is desperate and has no options left. They have to sell the energy to you for bitcoin production because there's literally nowhere else they can turn.

The more green energy proliferates and climate change action expands, the more of these plants will be reduced to this desperation. The worst energy production is the cheapest, so long as it's been outlawed and the plant has no other options.
agree. I’ve inherited codebases from new “architects” who seemingly have just read GoF.
What you describe is indeed a viable threat in certain conditions.

It's called "Eclipse Attack". But it's a threat for single nodes not for the network as a whole.
I’ve definitely seen my exec team get paged in the middle of the night, and they didn’t give any indication that it was unreasonable or uncommon. If anything they seemed to enjoy it, which to be honest I do as well. Being woken up to solve a problem (on rare occasion) can be validation that you’re an important person working on important things.
Hi everyone. I'm an engineer at GitHub and I just posted a response to this issue here: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8149#discussi....
> I learnt that (from Alan Kay), OOP is about message passing

I just like to point out that Alan Kay has a very particular idea of OOP that doesn't match the current mainstream usage. None of the modern OOP languages are “object oriented“ in Alan Kay's meaning of the term.
Thanks for the comment, currently they're hosted on S3 but I toyed around with the idea of having a downloadable application that syncs the emails to your own device and deletes them from the server. Is that something you'd find valuable for the sake of privacy?

I will work to address the TOS soon, good thinking.
What do you think 'hacker' means?
>I’m a software engineer. I’m paid well partly because things like oncall are necessary. It’s priced into the compensation.

Or you priced yourself down.
Case in point: children in Finland bike to school [1] even at -17C/2F.
Studded tires work really well, even if it‘s a bit icy.

[1] https://www.boredpanda.com/students-bicycle-school-winter-sn...
But it's the same in English up until the number 20. 16 for example, six-ten. The English just count differently after 20. But I could imagine "four and seventy" for example.
T2_sde Linux starts bounty program, paying their users to implement new features
Maybe twitter isn't the best place to publish this kind of article
Ahh the ownership argument, dashed upon the rocks.
Being on call is separable from your role as a software developer and can be compensated separately. My wife’s (non-technical) organization has a requirement for a junior and a senior duty officer to be available 24/7/365. These shifts are compensated and available for people to sign up for. If shifts don’t get filled, they fall to senior managers in a rotation. You can be sure these managers somehow pay enough that they only very rarely need to take shifts themselves.
Yup. It supports arrays of strings.

https://docs.rs/arrow/6.2.0/arrow/array/type.LargeStringArra...

As for performance, YMMV but I think it could be faster since storing a list of strings as a numpy array would involve padding. Arrow arrays can get away without padding
Can we legislate our way to technological enlightenment?
There is a market for crypto and it is potentially large - here is a list:

* Money laundering (create a fake NFT and “sell” it to yourself to clean your money).
* Illegal Activities (no more money trail for your drug trades!)
* Billionaries Transfering Money outside of the bank system (no more pesky gift taxes!)
* Pump and Dump Schemes (securities without regulation!)
* Bribing Politicians (again, no money trail)
* …

Here also a list of legal things you can do with it that you can’t with a centralized system:
Imo, this is the level of discourse we need on vaccine efficacy, risk, and data. It's funny and demonstrates some mastery of the concept of the sample bias behind it.

When 80% of the population is vaccinated, the base rate of dying of anything at all carries over with them as people change their own status from one category to the next, creating a false causality link between the base rate of dying anyway and their status change to vaccinated. I'd say now do covid and its variants, but regardless, well done.

We need smarter and more compelling people making these cases for important things instead of feeding lines to actors and poli-sci bureaucrats on television. The hardest part of the pandemic I think will have been establishments everywhere realizing that people thought they were too dumb to be believed. One of my favorite Holzer truisms is, "A lack of charisma can be fatal," and I when I look at how this has played out, it's because the people announcing information and policies couldn't be taken seriously by 30%+ of the population even when they were telling the truth - which, unfortunately, was less than the whole time as well.
What is a "reverse" open-air prison, what part of imprisonment are you suggesting is reversed?
It's even funnier when you're learning multiplications and divisions. We still have to think when we do 4 times 20, and every time we realize it's right there in the name.
I find that in German you often have to wait for the end of a complete sentence, often including a couple of subordinate clauses, to have a clue what is going on. Let's just say that backwards numbers are the least of my problems living in Bavaria.
Net imports: 7.8 MMb/d
Net consumption: 18.1 MMb/d

So, we get slightly more than half from domestic wells. (We could fully cover it if we choose not to export)

But either way, that means the SPR still covers ~500 days of consumption. Still sizable enough to impact the market significantly, I'd say
An unfortunate reality of on call is that companies care about projects delivered, not disasters averted.

Unless your stepping in to right the ship when a company is on fire operationally, and can point to specific action/results you delivered to right the ship - getting pages 8x per week does nothing for your career.
>There is nothing immoral about deciding you’re happy.

It is when it sends a signal (about the job, market, etc) that also affects others.
The problem with, “let’s wait until Earth’s problems are taken care of”, is that Earth’s problems are never going to be truly taken care of. Reduced yes, eliminated no, and there will always be someone arguing that we’re not yet at the threshold at which settling other planets is ok.

This is dangerous because we don’t know how much of a window we have for doing these things. We have the capability to get into space and out of Earth’s gravity well now, but there’s no guarantee that we will continue to. It’s not hard to imagine that as part of efforts to “solve Earth’s problems”, the launch industry becomes restricted to satellite launches only and atrophies to a point where taking a crew beyond Earth’s orbit can’t be done without a decade+ of relearning.

Its better to continually develop these capabilities and make use of them so the field is always moving forward and more entities gain them, making them harder to lose.

We have enough people and resources to do that alongside environmental disaster prevention efforts… it’s just a matter of political will. If you ask me, the biggest problem that is in most dire need of solving at this particular moment is actually obstruction of environmental reform coming from powerful corporate entity superpolluters — chiefly, manufacturers, ocean cargo shippers, airlines, and the the oil industry that feeds all of them.
Ooops. Yes, I meant right to left. Not enough karma to edit and fix my mistake. Thank you.
Most will have a medical prosecute to remove it
"Free" market just means people bound by monetary considerations...
Acknowledging the fact that everything perishes, including humans, because we are not special, does not imply that there is nothing wrong with suicide (though I’d like to see you successfully argue that point—but that’s a separate discussion). You’re making a huge leap here.

I mean, sure, we can do both, but I do maintain that since, right now, the only success that we can guarantee from exploring space with our current tools is to gather knowledge, anybody who genuinely believes and is committed to the idea that we have a moral obligation to prolong the life of our species should be trying to save Earth right now.
Will it have a tracker interface?
>>On call typically means you gotta be online and respond within 15 minutes if paged.

No place I have ever worked has this kind of oncall policy.

Most I have seen have a response time of 1hr, note resolution, but response.

Amazon is large enough they should have people staffed 24/7 just by staggering the timezone codes at the different offices. This is how Cisco TAC works, you call them you get what ever timezone code is "day time" at that time.

So I would agree that 15min on call is abusive, luckily this is not my experience as "typical" in the industry, hell even fully staffed 24/7 call centers typically do not have a 15min response time
Yes, the "halvfems", "half five", could be translated as "half of the fifth twenty", or even "halfway of the fifth twenty (from the full fourth one)".

Luckily it is only numbers 50 to 99 that work that way. 31 is simply "enogtredive", as in "one and three tens". A hundred is "hundred", not "fems", as it could be (five twenties).
It's the "superhero" complex so many software engineers have. The dopamine hit they get when they resolve some outage or thorny bug or whatever (and the ensuing accolades from their peers) interferes with their ability to reason clearly about their compensation and the circumstances of their employment.
> The insistence, by some, that evolution only works from the neck down, remains a persistent anti-scientific belief and as Jonathan Haidt points out, the main source of science-denying on the left.

Well, at least we know where you stand on that subject then. It may be a source of science denying on the left, I'm not aware of that but I am aware that it is is a main source of racism from the rabid right.
Not an SWE, but how common is on call duty, and are there no companies that pay spot bonuses per issue?
That's been my observation as well. Feeding people more information or giving them more tools often doesn't change their minds, it just gives them more ways to argue a position that was decided upon by the beginning. This shouldn't be a surprise; almost no one who advocates these solutions thinks that it will change their own views on [HOT TOPIC OF THE DAY], but rather that that everyone else will come to agree with their own pre-determined position.

Another solution might be convincing people to not pay attention to so many hot botton issues and not turn everything into a debate. A certain amount of detachment is probably more healthy for individuals and for the society.
Studded tires work great. People use them at ski resorts and mountain towns from Colorado to Alaska.
Asking "what's the correct client?" will always be a subjective question

Bitcoin doesn't decide what is called bitcoin, we as a community do
I returned my Remarkable2
It’s a thought experiment, not a factual statement.
It depends on the populations. School, colder weather and the resumption of winter sports like basketball have contributed to a spike in many areas. Many are breakthrough cases.

My son’s school, which has had 2 cases through early November, had 20% of the student body positive.
Nothing wrong being on call as long as you are being paid to adequately. I always refuse being on-call if I am not being paid full hours plus extra for outside 9 to 5 for the entire duration regardless if anyone called.
I've seen it reported that the latter was explicitly over what you think what the reason was, so this may be wrong.
Other big non-FANG companies also need Staff/Principal Engineers. You can find them in AI consulting companies, banks, insurance, and pretty much everywhere when you know what to look for. This includes most European cities if you have a EU passport.
Downvoted the above for hollier-than-thou preaching and missing the point.
Vierzehn and Vierundfünfzig are single words in German, but separate words in English. "Fourteen" (four and ten) being a single word is actually strange in English because the language normally splits words like these.

English has decided to use single words up to 20. Other European languages stop at 100. Both are arbitrary and right or wrong in their own way.

The English word would be "five and forty" because "fiveforty" would probably mean 200 going by traditional English (in the same say "four score and seven" means 4*20+7, not 24+7).
The OP article I read did not not seem to be a critique of statistics or the scientific method?
There is no reward for OnCall work...except for a lack of respect. The OnCall people have always been viewed as less. I'm not doing anything on call unless our department head is on the bridge the entire time. OnCall is a pain that is inflicted during working hours.
You realize you have been treated the same as somebody that 2k was all his belongings and now walked without cash to the private security firm :))))

For what history says about such firms, look up Pinkerton agents and London's policing before the current system.
I’ve wondered about this too. How many past pandemics has similar mutations? We have no idea. Maybe less. Maybe more.