skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point isn't that Covid will be as fast as the Spanish Flu, it's that the Spanish Flu did not take a long time, and should not be dismissed as an example where it became milder eventually. In fact, we'd have to be quite lucky if covid became mild in the same time frame.
There are different philosophies about software copyright dates. A lot of people put the year of the initial release.
It certainly doesn't make you a bad anything. Your level of ambition is a personal thing. It's yours alone, and no one gets to look down on it[0]. This idea that a person's worth is tied to how far they want to and are able to go in their career is something that needs to die.

If you're happy with where you are, and happy with your salary and status, then it's fine to stay there! Certainly, as you say, continue to learn new things, make quality contributions, and get your work done.

Many companies will have what they call "terminal levels" for individual contributors (most probably don't really advertise this unless you specifically talk about it with your manager). The idea is that you can work at a level where you can get your day-to-day work done with minimal guidance, even if you need guidance on the bigger picture stuff (like what you should be working on, and why). You should certainly talk to your manager about this, if you feel comfortable. And if you don't, and/or they keep pushing you to climb the ladder further, then yeah, you should probably find a new gig.

One caveat: ageism is still an unfortunate thing in our industry, and as you get into your 40s and beyond, if you're still "only" a "senior software engineer", you may have trouble getting new jobs.

Companies don't want to get stuck with people who are perpetually "junior" and need a lot of hand-holding to get their jobs done. That's of course ok for a while someone is learning and growing, but if they aren't growing out of that, they're a liability and time sink. But once you're past that point, you should be ok. The only problem is if you end up at a weird place where no one wants to progress up through staff/principal/architect/fellow, in which case I wouldn't be surprised if everyone starts getting pressured to up their ambition. But that sort of scenario seems somewhat unlikely?

[0] Well, unless they are in your immediate family and your lack of ambition is putting their livelihood at risk in ways they can't mitigate. But I'm assuming that's not the case here ;)
You have to understand that banks make the money they lend. Banks do not lend against reserves.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

Giving this control to the government is a bad idea and will lead to the solviet-zation of the banking industry.
That depends on the document. We do not see the original document, only the embedding. You can argue that is sufficiently obfuscated to not count as PII. The good news is we are SOC2 compliant and GDPR-friendly and do a bunch of other stuff to help you meet security compliance requirements: https://www.pinecone.io/security/
It's so great.

I especially like f"{foo=}" for debugging.
The sophomoric response would be the trope that teenagers always think they are invincible and it won’t happen to me. I think some people never grow out of that phase.

There is also something called the normalcy bias which has an interplay with psychology and risk assessments.

Something like 1 in 400 can easily become 1 in 200. At what point does the majority notice and act appropriately?
Tesla crashes badly, taxi company suspends Model 3
God bless the Institute for Justice, they really do what it says on the tin, including actually winning cases. And that can have such huge leverage on national policy. They have a gift for choosing good cases and promoting them effectively. By bang per buck they're my favorite 501(c)(3).
Amir here. We allow users to download the cleaned data and load it into any visualization tool they want. That being said, we have found a lot of users (especially those who tell stories with data) have a lot of use for having the visualization as part of the same solution.
"Inspectors in many cities and towns can show up at any time and demand warrantless access to bedrooms, bathrooms and other private living quarters."

In the Bay Area, Building Inspectors are taking pictures of each room of your home, or building, when you ask/pay for a permit.

This is the routine:

You need that pesky permit to move a light switch over a foot.

You pay that rediculious permit fee.

The Inspector shows up, and you let him in.

He starts taking pictures of your home.

You tell him the permit is only for the switch in the bathroom.

He walks around your home, and takes pictures of everything.

Why?

So the town will have your hone on record.

If you do anything without a permit in the future they have you cold.

(Most people don't realize governmental officials have this much power. And please, I don't need the Nervous Nelly sticking up for a obviously broken system. A system that discourages home improvements. A system that encourages excessive fees. A system that encourages homeowners from forgoing permits.)
By radical, do you mean willing to get to the root of a problem?
Maybe that's it, thanks
If the USSR has things the USA didn't we should be very careful about adopting those things if it increases state power. It was a tyranny afterall
Yes incredible what they're getting done with a shoestring budget.

From the announcement "The number of people keeping this project going is tiny (currently just 121 supporters), but this small group of passionate Linux users are creating meaningful forward progress to improve the touchpad ecosystem for hundreds of thousands of Linux touchpad users. For those who don't want to rely on a future beholden to Apple, we hope that you'll consider supporting us? We could be getting more done if we had 250 supporters. "
I think we should put the TSA in charge of the payments system.
The government's justification for this is the open fields doctrine, which comes from a supreme court ruling that says that fourth amendment protections don't apply to 'open fields':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-fields_doctrine
What if threatening people causes suffering on earth?
Specialist knowledge. Hard problem. Company is located in Seattle.

Someone capable of doing a good job on this can make FAR more doing something else. $20K is a joke.
I am familiar with fractional reserve banking. Banks can obtain capital through other mechanisms than deposit accounts (CDs, bonds, etc) to enable their lending operations (mortgage debt, credit card debt, and auto loans are already securitized on the bond market, for example) and profit off of the (hopefully properly risk managed) spread. Commercial banks are not entitled to the deposits of citizens, nor should citizens have their financial lives beholden to commercial banks rent seeking off of their deposit accounts and cashflow. To your point about "giving this control to government", they already have it; they are the ones who set reserve requirements and oversee commercial banks (by way of the Fed and the OCC). Wells Fargo, Chase, and Bank of America are what soviet run banks would look like; wide spread abuses without sufficient repercussions to disincentivize reoccurrences (Wells [1]) and poor service for customers with the spoils funneled to the top (JPMC and BoA).

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/now/wells-fargo-scandals-the-complete-...
Honestly the industry is a decade away from meeting that standard. And given that AMI is the lowest bidder we shouldn't even expect them to meet current best practices.
The mu variant, which caused a lot of worry, went away. It apparently escaped vaccines better than delta but spread much more slowly, so delta out-competed it. Perhaps if there were no restrictions it would have done better. Hard to say though.
>They can be configured in your compositor. For those used to using i3, Sway makes this easy by being mostly compatible.

Pretty annoying to do this, too bad there's no easy import. A lot of effort for a lot of loss of functionality for smoother animations. Nice to know that redshift is updated thought!
> It implies that the expected behavior is the "happy path" (everything went well) and any deviations (errors) is unexpected.

Errors are the "happy path", though. Your network connection was lost for the data you were trying to transmit so you saved it to your hard drive instead means that everything went well! Throwing your hands up in the air and crashing your program because you had to make a decision is not something you would normally want to do. If statements are present in most happy paths for good reason. That the inputs presented you with a choice does not remove you from the happy path.

Now, if you made a programming mistake and tried to access an array index that is out of bounds, then there isn't much else you can do but crash. Exceptions are appropriate for that kind of problem. They are exceptional in that they should never happen. Errors, on the other hand, are expected to happen and you can happily deal with them.
A few small expansions, not to take away from your overall point:

>SpaceX F9 has 106 successful launches after their last failure. Ariane 5 has 106 launches since their last full failure.

Worth noting given these rockets' history (and also your mention of cargo), both have had a number of major variants (as well as minor evolutions). The only operational F9 is the current Block 5 (first launched in 2018) and for the Ariane 5 the ECA (first flown in 2005). F9 Block 5 has flown 75 times and all have been successful. Ariane 5 ECA has flown 77 times with 1 failure. They're reliable rockets, though the F9 has obviously had a higher cadence as well as the distinction of human flight.

>Of course, F9 is a little smaller, everything other than Delta IV Heavy is a little smaller

It's a little more complicated in terms of cargo. F9 expended (which I think is fair given the Ariane 5 is expended) actually does slightly more mass to LEO (22.8t vs 22t). But the A5 is more optimized given its staging around mass to GTO, where it beats out F9 (8.3t vs 10.9t). F9 of course loses quite a bit when reused (LEO: 15.6t, GTO: 5.5t), but at massively less cost so not quite the same thing.

Also when you say "everything other" you've completely forgotten about Falcon 9 Heavy :). That does 63.8t to LEO and 26.7t to GTO, and of course vastly outmasses either the F9 or A5.
It's a sign that there wasn't any QA whatsoever - if they have missed something as obvious as a typo on a label, how can you assume that all the technical parameters of the components are up to spec?
Not nearly to the extent directly controlling all transactions would give them.
Not even close.

What you are talking about is things like sanctioning foreign firms or individuals. Yes, the IRS could also come after your bank accounts but it takes some work and isn't suitable for mass population control.

This is and that's unacceptable.
> If the patient is contagious before developing symptoms, the virus can spread very effectively even if many patients die.

For better or worse all that means is that viruses may evolve to delay their symptoms rather than overall peak severity if that's possible. It means still just as delay but with a good enough delay to spread.

I don't really see the selective pressure however for this virus to become more benign. It seems to have enough people to infect without it given how contagious it is. It doesn't really have to become more benign to allow even more spread.
This is true of all developer evangelism in general.
A language shouldnt be optimized towards doc avoiding newbies at the cost of making things verbose and ugly.
Besides being a good clickbait headline, not clear to me what supports that opinion or conclusion. Just a contentious and personal nomination process?
Actually Gnome 2 was really nice about that modularity.
You could swap out the panel, the window manager or the file manager as you pleased.

That's what really turned me off Gnome 3, they basically threw away an entire ecosystem of third party apps.

MATE was able to pick of some of that, but especially when it comes to third party support, that level was never reached.
The Go code parsing libraries are quite good though. Not sure what else you could want re. code generation.
I'm totally ok with starting the Butlerian Jihad a few millennia early.

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
Reality TV star strikes gold with $50k a week in jarred fart sales
My point was that truth and facts have an uneasy relationship.

We may have 100 numbered facts. If I tell you all 100 facts, you probably arrive at something close to the truth.

If I tell you 5 facts, then {2,45,67,89,90} will give you one perceived truth and {68,69,70,71,72} another. Most of the time, you're only told 5 facts.
The GP said aspects of society you don't understand. You changed "don't understand" to "seems terrible". Those aren't the same thing. This doesn't require you to accept things that you find terrible.
I was skimming through a translation of Seneca, and one of the dialogs starts out with an agreement amongst the participants, to the effect of: "Of course we believe in the stuff that the philosophers believe (about death, the afterlife, etc.), not the stuff that the people believe."
> X11 is the antithesis of Unix philosophy.

Well, curiously, X11 has no compositor, no definition of clipboard, and a drawing API that no one uses. It seems to me that precisely it is not trying to do any of these things, but rather providing the mechanism by which some other process (or processes) can do these things.

E.g. if tomorrow I want to implement a toolkit that wants to have 3 clipboards, I can; even without changing the server or the compositor process.
I'm amused it doesn't immediately veer into David deciding whether to kill some strangers via trolly, or whether his organs would be harvested by a tiny violinist mind-controlled by a Martian.
Unfortunately, mink and white-tailed deer (the most common deer in the eastern US) are Covid reservoirs now. Probably other mammals as well.
Is the geothermal heat weakening the sea plug that keeps the land portion in check?

The timing seems suspect, is there new volcanic activity that explains this geothermal heating?

It's nice that there's an article in nature, but this is geology occurring under miles thick ice. I have my doubts that "geothermal heat flow" is responsible for threatening a glacier that can raise the sea level 10 feet.
I saw an HN comment once, purporting to come from a NASA engineer that quit over disillusionment from being certain that the sky crane maneuver would never work.
Mask and capacity limits until when? And why? What problem is being solved now? What’s the goal?
It feels like Wayland is mostly a Gnome project, sure there is also Sway but then that's it when it comes to stable desktops.
Years before “wokism” was a slur I stopped going to church because the sermons were just too biased against various out groups like gays or Muslims.

But even while I was still church-going I considered myself an agnostic. Many parts of Christianity were just too unscientific (intelligent design) or lacking in logic (“just have faith” they said).

But I still valued the community and various ideas on how to live a good life. Anyways, the church got way too political and now I’m an atheist.
Seems like there are three classes of tech people around web3:

1. Love it (for reasons)
2. Hate it (for reasons)
3. Confused Vince Vega Meme

I'm in category 3. Maybe I just need some RFCs to come out, 'cause Wikipedia ain't helping.
"Is it legal for the government to setup surveillance cameras on someone's land, to monitor their land?"

That is about to be found out in court.

"Although the case is proceeding in state court under the authority of the Tennessee Constitution, the central claims point to a nationwide problem. Starting about 100 years ago.."

But the issue behind, is a more complicated one.
Why does it take me something like one paragraph to recognize that someone is from the Lesswrong sphere? (I was myself a part of the community at one point, before it became a cult)
> Don't even get started on how our response completely decimated the working class

Odd that you say this, when every blue collar place around me is having trouble hiring staff. Between stimulus checks, rising wages, and becoming way pickier about which jobs they are taking, this is the sort of thing that I would expect the working class to do when they are doing better for themselves.

You know what actually decimates the working class? Catching COVID. Taking unpaid time from work, because they fall sick. Crippling medical bills, from trips to the doctor, or heaven forbid, the hospital. Lingering damage from long COVID. Strangely enough, the 'reopen everything' political movement also tends to oppose things like worker protections, mandated sick days, affordable healthcare, taxes on the rich...
Thanks for mentioning it. Just tried it and it seems to be faster than Faiss indeed on smaller scale searches.
I don't have screen tearing on x.org.

If you use GNOME and wayland I never once felt I had an issue, but GNOME is more limiting for configuration than OSX.
Yeah, which community?

I'm glad you had a place to hang out with your neighbors but lobbying by religious groups in the US have real negative consequences for a lot of people.
Weed killers and insecticides. Birds die when you poison and kill their food.
Screen tearing is mostly just a matter of configuration. The only platforms that really suffered from it were Nvidia systems, and with the v470/v495 drivers those have pretty much sorted out.

Font rendering is fine by my eyes, but apparently it has gotten significantly worse on GNOME 40/GTK4[0]. On KDE it's quite nice these days though, so I guess you should just give it another whirl and see for yourself.

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787
So I mean, the very first antivaccine movement involved firebombs (https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/13/1/82) not to mention some questionable research ethics; maybe none of this is really new.

Your comment reminds me of something I read a few years back and CANNOT find again which I think said something like:

* The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for a delusional disorder have sort of a carve-out for religion.

* Specifically if a lot of people live together in a community and all believe something disconnected from reality but it isn't hurting their day-to-day life this isn't a mental illness, it's just part of their culture and it should not be diagnosed as a mental illness.

* Modern use of the Internet has made it easy for people who share common interests to come together in a community and hang out together, where previously they would have formed an extreme minority of their community and had what were obviously non mainstream views.

* For example, people who believe that radiation causes terrible illness (electromagnetic hypersensitivity) can all live together in a city with no cell phones or power lines and maybe none of them would have any kind of mental illness because their beliefs were a norm - which previously would have been impossible.

I was struck by this observation but could never find it written down again.
Which is silly without evidence I agree. So, with no experience what value does she have? There's nothing in her academic work that shows some outstanding quality. Is she in ideologue? If so, of what type?
some people, mostly young people, might consider it 'fun'.

also, at a certain point, a real experiment may yield nothing in return, i.e. a risk was undertaken yet nothing at all was gained.
The FED already controls prices. That’s in its mission: keeping prices stable and limiting unemployment. The ECB is even worth: it’s sole mission is keeping inflation at 2%. The WSJ coverage is just poor.
> Apps stealing keystrokes? Sounds like an anti feature

Sounds like that right until the user tries to press Alt Tab on a full-screen VNC or VM client.
If it’s not immediately adjacent to a persons home, apparently so.
HN front page story based on quantitative measurements is flagged, yet no one has presented data to challenge the claims in the article. Would be interesting to combine HN flags (and reversals) with other media sources to derive signals on misinformed flagging.

From 1991, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-08/documents/hu...

> Recent studies by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have shown that ultrasonic and impeller (or "cool mist") humidifiers can disperse materials, such as microorganisms and minerals, from their water tanks into indoor air ... Breathing mist containing these pollutants has been implicated as causing a certain type of inflammation of the lungs. The Federal government has not concluded that the dispersal of minerals by home humidifiers poses a serious health risk. Nevertheless, using water with lower mineral content will reduce exposures to these materials.

Since 30 years have passed since the above statement, perhaps there have been more studies on the topic?
Or just print stacktrace with `debug.PrintStack()`
Check, not a fan of M1 being super closed, but "it's the Apple way" (and I don't buy Apple products). RISC-V is very interesting, but so far it seems to have been too niche and not exploited to its full capacity. Here's hoping that changes in the (near?) future!
This is my first time hearing about this too. I cannot believe I hadn't heard of this; it's amazing.
I suspect you’re joking but I think there’s a good argument to be had for now allowing the government to have any influence in transportation.
Moderna CEO equity sales for the last couple years. Nothing to see here, no reason to distrust them pushing endless boosters:

https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/insider/BANCEL%20STEPHANE...
For me it feels a lot more like proprioception. I understand the relationship of those things in the same way I understand where my arm is if I raise it over my head with my eyes closed. I have a very good directional sense, and I feel the same way about maps, etc. I can't visualize them at all, but I understand where things are in relation to each other.

I am 100% sure I cannot visualize things. I have been able, with _lot_ of concentration, "visualize" a blob of color. I was unable to control the shape or size, but could (kind of) control the color (between the choices of red, green, and purple). It was incredibly vivid, and I'm convinced that's what "visualizing means, and that people can do it with actual objects and scenes.
Religiously unaffiliated means they do not attend a church at all. A lot of people who are asked what their affiliation is just put whatever their parents were or what they grew up in, even if now fully lapsed. Churches have attendance statistics that put religious affiliation in the 5-6% range(Varies with the religion and area, Muslims the highest, but also the most rapidly declining as the youth in the USA/Canada are free to depart)