skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent summary. I'm double-vaxxed and generally wear a mask. My social circle (work/ friends/family) is the upper-middle-class liberal set. My life is pretty set with this group of people and I'm not throwing anyone out of it over covid-opinion silliness. However I'm routinely disgusted by their self satisfaction on this topic. An exchange I heard yesterday between two people close to me, spoken with no irony:

Q: "Why won't people just get the vaccine?"
A: "Fear of Democrats."

Back in 2020 when this was all new, I encouraged them to wear masks while shopping, because that's what I saw people in asian countries doing and figured it wasn't unreasonable. They wanted none of it!

Them: "The CDC says we shouldn't wear masks."
Me: "Fuck the CDC! They don't know what's going on any better than we do. Wear masks, they will probably help"

Now, they conveniently have no memory of that exchange and regularly evaluate others on whether or not they're properly 'masking'.

After all the BS around this, I don't at all begrudge people their choice to not get vaccinated, even though I recognize that is probably responsible for hospitals hitting capacity.
> The vast majority of the deaths have been in age groups that are typically out of the workforce.

But I had the impression people were unable to retire or retiring significantly later.
The subscription doesn't have a limit on how many times you use the app, however. If you read 150 pages a month (~5 a day), then the math is equal.
The single necessary and sufficient condition for a business, says MIT’s Bill Aulet, is a paying customer.
"The Google Search index contains hundreds of billions of web pages and is well over 100,000,000 gigabytes in size."

https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/search/howsearchworks/craw...
He does cover them in some of his videos.
"It's not hard to move up the quantiles if you put the effort."

The statistics paint a different picture - there are only so many jobs above the median.

"In any case, 105k median income just goes to tell how big the opportunity is."

You mean limited? Clearly this is multiples lower than the author.

"The mean salary is useless in quantifying wether you, as an individual, have any agency in influencing your outcome."

No, not really. It allows you to set realistic expectations and understand the job market.
This is the most detailed summary I could find [0]

Basically there’s a private company, dsruptive subdermals, that has made NFC implants for a while. You can put whatever on there, including I guess your vaccine records, if you want. I don’t see why you would do that instead of just using a phone, but some people put like their credit cards and whatnot on such chips

I feel like a lot of the coverage (including the linked article) is a bit vague, maybe intentionally? It’s not like the government of Sweden is rolling these out

0: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/swedish-covid-vaccine...
The viewing distance makes the difference.

A CRT TV is larger and you sit further away. A computer monitor is in front of your face.
Well, let's say we do it, you're basically turning a single family home into a multifamily property with an ADU. How is that any different from say turning that single family home into a multi story multi family home?

I mean it should be clear that the laws regarding land ownership are serving owners at the expense of everyone else and not in a particularly efficient way.

In socialism everyone scrambles to get up early and be lucky enough to find what they need at the grocery store, in capitalism people are born early and scramble to get hold of land because it doesn't go "bad" unlike most physical goods including capital itself.
OK so you basically don't have any response on how to distinguish Bitcoin being given to someone vs being stolen without centralized entities being involved, got it. I won't be responding to you anymore since you have nothing to add.
> do they need line-of-sight.

Yes, they do.

> And how much it adds to latency since signals received and sent have to go through networking equipment within each satellite.

Negligible vs the impact “speed of light” (aka distance) already has added to the latency.
It's very simple, when people can't pay rent, they move more and more people into fewer and fewer apartments.
Daily Words – Improve your vocabulary day by day
I don't think they did very much leaving things alone. One of my biggest problems with GPM was that my uploads would seemingly get de-duplicated alongside some other record that wasn't exactly the same, like a reissue or a remaster of the same record that sounded noticeably different. Sometimes an album I uploaded would gain a mysterious bonus track. They also at some point hosed up the whole system in such a way that many of my records contained every track twice, which meant I had to make playlists out of my old albums just to remove the even-numbered tracks and make it listenable again.

If you takeout from YTM it says your music files are "Your originally uploaded audio file" which is nice. Since music in YTM may have been migrated from GPM, that seems to imply that GPM retained the originals.

When they shut down GPM I migrated to YTM, which doesn't seem to have these specific catalog problems. I also just re-organized my local copy of my FLACs using MusicBrainz Picard. Unlike this author I no longer have the giant wall of CDs!
Hello HN,

I built this to improve my vocabulary and my teenage kids kind of like it, so I thought I would share.

Each day you will get a set of virtual flashcards with seven challenging words to learn (think SAT/GRE level).

If you would rather not get a daily email, just visit https://content.dailywords.net/today when you want, as that link is updated daily.

You can also use it for personal flashcards, but there are lots of things that can do that.

Anyway, enjoy!
When can I reuse this calendar? – Year 2022
The world is fully capable of building what it needs, in this case. And if the world needs it, it'll get subscription products.
Circuit Design and Applied Optimization (Part 1)
Ahh, thank you, I did install HotA but I must have missed all the multi-player stuff you mention. Thanks, it really is great!
There is also an actively ventilated face pad from "BoboVR" that I've found to help a lot with the eyepieces fogging up, which they otherwise will do, especially with the snap-in prescription lenses from FramesDirect. (Those need ventilation holes too, though; they'll fog up in the space between the prescription lens and the stock one. I haven't taken a pin vise to mine yet, but intend soon to, as that's the only place I still have fogging problems with the fan running.)

The Quest 2 stock strap sucks. You really need an "elite strap" or something like it. For Beat Saber or anything even vaguely like it, you also want knuckle straps for the controllers, so you don't have to worry about holding on to them or about failing to hold on to them.
Ah I still play a lot of BGEE/BG2EE (judging from the time spent on Steam it's well into 200+ hours for each game) nowadays. I'm also picking up NWNEE as there are a lot of high quality modules.
To be clear, in case I have made myself misunderstood: I agree money supply affects prices.

In fact, whenever someone purchases or sells something, there are two objects being exchanged. One is a currency and the other being the object of sale. Supply and demand for the currency affects the price just as much as supply and demand for the thing being sold.

That's all I'm saying. It's very hard to convincingly put a direction on quantities so tightly intertwined.
We are a group of five programmers: 2 solidity, 3 react/svelte.

We all also have experience with AWS and have worked as DBA at some point of time.
My problem with Gmail is the false positives. (Or is it negatives?) They routinely send too much to the spam box and others tell me they have the same experience.

The worst is when they take email from one Google hosted domain and send it to spam in another Google hosted domain, even though the email didn't leave their network at all.

Still, I agree that the overall level is pretty good and hard to duplicate.
Yes, exactly like you can't distinguish wiring money to someone intentionally vs wire fraud.
>> 1) These Controller+Inverter combo units require a battery to turn on

Which is why you want to install disconnects between your battery bank and the electronics. In a worst-case scenario of total discharge you can then bypass the dead batteries, hook the control electronics up to car batteries if necessary (be careful about voltages) and perform some diagnostics or at least read the logs of what went wrong. But the controller+inverter should be running if supplied with voltage from solar/wind/generator regardless of how the batteries are doing.
I find it interesting to compare the written narrative vs the graphs.

The written explanation implies its entirely due to overly-generous unemployment compensation (the lazy youth meme that's millennia old). The graph in exhibit 10 implies at least half of it is due to long term demographic trends and early retirement (bye bye boomers). So the written explanation is blame lazy kids, and the graphical explanation is blame the tired elders.
Demand for housing in Europe is also huge as people move towards cities and supply hasn't caught up and struggles to catch up due to regulation and NIMBYism. This naturally leads to an increase in prices. The price changes of everyday items right now can be explained with effects from the pandemic.

Perhaps you are right and there is indeed a tipping point and we've crossed that point. Time will tell however people have also claimed we'd reach that tipping point any moment for the last 10 years or so, claiming Friedman was right because of the effects we now has strong broken clock vibes. Perhaps that's genuinely the case but it's still way too early to make that call.
You should look at that chart again. Prices in red states are almost uniformly lower than blue states where minimum wages are higher.
Definitely learn specific technologies and methodologies. But also look for mentorship. It doesn’t have to be formal at all, find people whose work and/or talent you admire and learn from them. Don’t be afraid to help them learn too, you probably have a lot to share too.

This, more than any particular tech or approach, helped me more than anything. Just working with and learning from/with really talented people.
PERMANENT RECORD
by Ed Snowden
eventEmitter.addEventListener returns a unsubscribe function to remove the event listeners. useEffect hook calls the passed function's return value if it is not a void.

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-effect.html#example-using-hoo...

So my eventEmitter.addEventListener method in the blog post returns an ubsubscriber when you call it :)
Yes. Find another avenue for virtue signaling that contributes on a local level. Paying for the right to be a roaming advert is what has been advertised to you, hence you are repeating the cycle.

I do wear these brands, but try to subdue any labeling. i.e. black sharpie on the nike logo.
This sounds like good advice. Don't worry about Containers, deployment or testing "best practices" until you really need it.

You'd be surprised at how many software companies' testing is "clicking around in the app", deployment is "upload to store/ rsync to server" and containers aren't used at all.

Start learning React (you can also take a look at Vue), do some tutorials and build some CRUD app which has a database.

Stay focused on the front-end, learn "just enough" of everything else when it comes up. I'd recommend getting into Cross-Platform Web app development using something like Electron (Desktop) or React Native/ Ionic (iOS/Android).

After learning the basics, dive into some frontend-heavy open source project that uses your framework, figure out how it works and try to fix some bugs.

For example, this is a Markdown editor using Vue and Electron:

https://github.com/marktext/marktext
In games like these it was cool to diff save states after spending resources, and then increase those bytes for fun and profit.
a few years ago i did manage to get a pm/ba type role at a small-medium size agency. giant mess of a place (norm for that industry i guess) but it was a meat grinder - all about billable hours (which were hard to come by since every project was undersold and over budget), which meant I worked 50+ hours every week with no salary increase or bonus. burnt out and left when it was obvious there was no opportunity there. although to your point the place was a revolving door and SO many hires were gone after 3-6 months, so perhaps ill look for places like that.
>I don't understand the hate toward cookie banners.

Because they fundamentally don't work. The EU politicians had to have known that they didn't work from previous experience, but decided to inflict us with these pop ups anyway. Their own damn website has this pop up.[0]

Reasons why cookie banners don't work:

1. They need to be implemented by the website. This means that if a website decides to ignore the cookie law they can set all the cookies they want and you won't be notified. If they are outside of the EU's jurisdiction they won't even care.

2. Targeted advertising is how a lot of websites pay the bills. This means that websites will use every trick in the book to get you to not click on the "refuse" button. Why wouldn't they? You're using their server time, but generating no revenue if you refuse. Websites will fight this process. They'll eventually lose, but the internet will either turn into a splinternet or cable TV. Ads are what make free websites work and cookies is how it happens right now.

3. Websites are made by people who aren't always well-versed in legalese and can't just hire a lawyer for everything. They don't always know whether they need a pop up or not. The safer option is to put it up there. If the EU's own website has one then probably so does yours.

4. Popups are annoying.

Cookies should be handled by the browser. Not some harebrained JavaScript.

[0] https://www.europa.eu
It makes for a fun meme, but not really. If anything it's an example for problems caused by even slight deviation in just schedules of regulation changes. (top of my head: The re-adjustment of what the letters mean (tightening the standard of what is good) is a recent EU change, that the UK also followed. Just not at the same cutoff date, so for an intermediate period products had to be labeled with both scales)
A few counterpoints I’ve heard over the years include:

* The prevailing system will never be toppled by the conscious choice of the individual consumer.

* No one person has the power to overturn capitalism, no matter how persistent.

* There is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.
Py Herald: PythonLand's Newspaper
If my attention has value, then the exchange should be taxed.
The difference between the medicine and the poison is in the dosage.

TFA states quite in the beginning that the point is not about becoming a contrarian, even less being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian. Seems like you are projecting quite a bit.
Take out cities in blue states and the prices are even lower
Why, exactly, would anybody "respect that"?
The problem isn't taxation of income. The problem is the lack of taxation of land. The problems in San Francisco got worse precisely because they have property tax freezes. They should give owner occupied units a tax rebate instead of freezing taxes. Also, property taxes should be levied on the value of the land and not the building to reduce bureaucracy and indirect taxation of income.
Then if they decide to fingerprint you, you should have no recourse either (other than to block it by yourself).
Habitat for Humanity's first 3D-printed home
See also
http://cyborganthropology.com/Diminished_Reality

or watch Steve Mann's explaination what the ey tap is good for:
https://youtu.be/DiFtmrpuwNY

I guess unfortunately the holo lense and alike will be rather used to inject ads to reality
advertizers vandalize the sensory experience across the board, they pollute our cognition with conditioned and conditional thinking, they remove our choices in a clandestine style, they reduce the world to a penny mill so the lunch is free while the consumers back is the table for a feast by candlelight
I disagree with everything you've said.

The only difference between myself and my other friends (who also have advanced degrees from top universities in the bay area) is that I abandoned my field of study and jumped into tech.

After 10 years, we have vastly different financial outcomes now.

A lot of hard working, well educated, dedicated people struggle financially around here, because they happened to not choose tech.

Add in the teachers and other under-appreciated careers, I do feel guilty that I should have so much, and they so little.
You meant to write "You cannot reduce your costs"
I dare say, this blog is as dangerous as tvtropes.

I keep going down the memory lane with Master of Orion, Master of Magic, etc. and I couldn’t stop!
False positives or negatives don't really matter with credit card systems because you have recourse from the perspective of the end-user. Obviously Capital One incurs costs around such things and so they have complicated infrastructure developed, sure.

However from the end user perspective:

If you have a credit card and a fraudulent charge appears you call the credit card, they freeze the transaction, contact the vendor who may or may not be able to corroborate the legitimacy of the charge, and it's done.

The alternative would be using cash, where it is not possible at all. So in comparison to the alternative, I do believe it's "trivial." That being said I regret using that word, I should've used "straightforward", instead.
If we get rid of all ads, how will advertisers trick our brain to buy stuff otherwise we would never buy?
Not really. Not relative to myself. If you're going to deviate from patterns, that starts with self.
> The great Naval once wrote: Be weary of anything that uses the word "social".

I was not aware of this quote, so I googled, and it turns out it's a Twitter account

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1383520778361065474
So you have 1000 man hours of research and you worry about how long it takes to write the report? As far as grammar goes, yeah I guess the grammar checking of Word helps. The number of words produced is a bit of a strange metric unless we measure the importance/quality of research by the pound.
SixSpotting – IPv6 network spotting game – Requires IPv6
I'm not sure it was a good test... Latex users do appear to be significantly faster at mathematical typing... which is obviously Latex's strong suit. What Latex is in general weaker than word at arbitrary formatting... its goal is to provide semantic markeup for large scale academic writing. Also, apparently its difficult to use Latex's table system compared to word (though tables in word are particularly easy!)
A world without corporate musicians? A-OK.

I'm not clear why there would be no musicians if it requires minimum wage, razor thin profit margins, etc.
Shipping containers are not designed to be good homes, they are only designed to be easy to transport...
Important note - custom domains for iCloud is a very limited feature:
- you can't send mails from more than 3 addresses per domain
- it doesn't support catch-all

Since I am in a time of moving to other city to study on university, I decided to abandon my mail server and migrate to iCloud... so now I am moving every of my service@domain.tld to prefix+service@domain.tld (tagging system that doesn't parse properly on some sites). It's no fun, but at least I'll take off my head caring whether my server is on fire, as it's now Apple's issue.
There is no antimemetics group
Never set feet into Japan, but the US construction industry is no better. The only difference is that what you get isn't tiny and made from concrete, instead it's huge and made from sheetrock and chipboard. But it's ugly, shoddy, poorly insulated and overpriced. And the industry and the permitting process is corrupt.
Exactly, the quitting is the bigger factor. It's not that the labor force has died in mass.
I don’t think blaming JVM is productive, but identifying “JVM” as a proxy for “language runtime designed to optimize multi processor machines” is the core element here.

One could imagine a vm or runtime that is async and multiprocess that also enforces quotas on cycles and heap such that these types of “noisy neighbor” events aren’t a problem.

In this direction there have been solutions that haven’t caught on; a multi tenant jvm existed at one time, and at least one js implementation has this ability. I’ve often thought Lua would be ideal for this.
There is a difference between acknowledging privilege and feeling guilty.

I got a fantastic education at two of the best public universities in the US, mostly funded by public money. Do I feel guilty about it? No. But I acknowledge that it was only possible because of policy choices made by Americans who came before me.
> Yeah I can work with raw terminals because I don't make silly mistakes.

This attitude will cost you dearly and is exactly the difference between being a responsible educator and someone who probably should pause to ask themselves if they are on the right track.

You are setting a bad example and many thousands of people will follow in your tracks adopting your very unsafe practices as though that's the way to do it. Some of them will end up hurt.

It pretty much validates my earlier assessment but I'm actually a bit surprised that you would come out to make it so obvious.

> Those balance wires were probably a rapid prototype pack where I was testing something.

Yes, but that's not what matters here. What matters here is that people see you work and believe that's the way it's done. With authority comes responsibility.

> And wow you're so dramatic about the balance wires why don't you criticize the companies that offer their pack configurations in ways that you complain about?

That's whataboutism. We're discussing you, not some company. These tricks don't really work on HN.

> There are many companies that throw these packs together and sell them to unsuspecting people, and you are giving me a hard time when making a quick pack to educate or test something?

Yes, I'm giving you a hard time because you are at the same time claiming to be educating and you are advocating unsafe practices while doing so.

> Give me a break

Unlikely, and after this comment far less so.

But thank you for clearing up any ambiguity about where your feeling about responsibility lies.
Sure, and inotifywatch is probably trivial too - to those who know.
In my industry, we draw from the same labor pool as the construction industry, which is on fire right now. So we fight for people. Each industry has it's own story to tell.
The nominal reason for h1-b to be a thing is for cases where you can't find someone locally with the skills you need. How exactly do you define "shortage" to be unrelated to that?
"Low 8 figures" is more like $25 per year, and that's a single service. Across all services it's more.
I think this project is worth being mentioned here: https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2