skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will the judge file injunctions against the next healthcare system that offers roles to ThedaCare ex employees? Where does it end? This judicial action warrants federal intervention. Otherwise we arguably don't have at will, somewhat free market employment, but instead crony capitalism feudalism ("you will work for who we allow you to work for").

Tangentially, ThedaCare's Level II Trauma accreditation (which hangs in the balance due to the departure of these workers [1]) should be re-evaluated.

[1] https://www.wispolitics.com/2022/thedacare-seeks-to-protect-...

Additional context:

> Timothy Breister, an Appleton resident and one of the seven employees involved in the systems' dispute, submitted a letter to McGinnis Friday before the hearing describing his experience.

> One of his colleagues received an offer from Ascension that was attractive "not just in pay but also a better work/life balance," which caused others on his team to apply, Breister wrote.

> After approaching ThedaCare with the chance to match the offers they'd been given, Breister wrote that they were told "the long term expense to ThedaCare was not worth the short term cost," and no counter-offer would be made.

https://news.yahoo.com/know-battle-over-fox-valley-235851212...
I realize you are mostly joking, but even having their lawyers go over the licensing contract would cost them far more than 1$. Actually transferring the knowledge of how to manufacture this stuff would probably require low 7 figures for them just to break even on the deal.
I'm sure you will get enough problems with the definition of "unrewarding" and time control to make the change a net loss. How stable is the travel speed of ants anyway? Because trails do change form all the time.
Those are not distributed. Implementing distributed X by adding a central X is a bit dishonest.
higher -> hire
Hopefully they'd be using something slightly textured like the screens on eink note takers so it wouldn't be glass-smooth.

For the single screen, wouldn't the overall effect be mostly the same?

The killer for me is mostly the size. As a portable I guess it's fine, but not what I want to use for full workdays.
You just do a sensor and lens manipulated opposite to where the unwanted light source are (earth, moon and sun) and sent the info back. I am not sure the radio channel the thing operate affect this approach. Just no one seem to think of this as complement to the earth one.

Synergy not fight then.
Mostly good advice, particularly regarding the use of visuals. But this is flat-out wrong:

> The TUE CLOSED is the most dominant element - the info that is least important and most negative is the focal point.

This is among the most important information. Travelling to a museum during - what are normally - peak operating hours only to learn that it is closed on that day of the week is a far worse UX than any possible formatting of operating hours.
Just curious, why does Google meet support blurring whereas zoom doesn't on linux?

This is on the same ThinkPad with 2 cores (broadwell era).

I tried Zoom's Blur function on an old as hell Dell Inspiron, probably the first generation i5 on windows and it works well there!
This goes back to the discussion we had on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998868, about whether sofware developers are really engineers or not. If you think "getting shit done" is the only or even the primary concern for an engineer, I think it is best if you stay in software (and please far away from any safety critical code).
For text-based interaction, current-generation E-ink is more than suficient.

Source: Own an Onyx BOOX Max Lumi and use it in this mode frequently.
> but the degree with the Covid is off the charts for peacetime action.

Actually, no. This is exactly the level of heavy handed, indiscriminate beaurocratic/government control that poorer people have always had to deal with - see for example how large scale city planning has tended to distribute its most disruptive consequences among the poorest neighbourhoods, or how public health systems have judged most harshly and intruded most forcefully into the lives of the poorest.

So again, nothing new.
The only new thing is that middle class and wealthy people - such as you and I - suddenly experience this and react in shock.

> Were the across-the-board outcomes worth it?

Lives saved, lives disrupted, jobs lost... I don't know.It's a complex calculus, requiring a dispassionate and objective inquiry, which you clearly are not in a position to make

> Those who made the decisions may be biased in their reflections on the matter

Whatever
You are fixing the bugs, not eliminating them.
The problem I see with Dynamicland and similar ideas is that the internet exists now, and there's no going back. A physical, room-sized computer system might have worked in the early 90s, but not any more. Collaborating asynchronously with people across the world is something we do regularly now, and Dynamicland doesn't lend itself well to such collaboration.

The beauty of computers is that information is not tied to any physical manifestation. Several people can work on a document, one using the screen of their phone in Palo Alto, another using a braille display in Puerto Rico and yet another using voice control in Beijing, all at the same time. Once one person updates their representation of the document, all the other representations follow. The document isn't inherently pixels or sound waves or Braille dots, those are merely manifestations of some underlying, more fundamental structure that exists purely in the digital realm.

Dynamicland takes this flexibility away. Once we start keeping code in binders in a desk, those binders effectively become the code, every other representation must ultimately be derived from the contents of those binders. More importantly, there's no way to automatically reflect the manipulations made to those alternate representations on the paper contained in the binders. This basically undoes everything the internet has given us, making technology much more elitist and harder to access.
I'd be interested in hearing more about this if you can point to some resources.
Why is this being downvoted? This is such a good point.
Bitcoin value tumbles almost 50% since record November
I've heard this story before, but I can't shake the impression that a lot of it is just luck that the problem is something that lends itself very well to a shell pipeline.

One thing that I'd love to hear more people talk about is how to apply shell-style composition to settings where it's not so obvious, or how to create new programs that lend themselves well to this programming style.
Well, there does seem to be a special Silicon Valley version of this where people get incredibly wealthy from their software/web businesses and conclude all they need to do is get into <some other radically-different field> and they'll get that "figured out" just as easily. It's a unique kind of hubris that doesn't usually pan out.
It's not just you. What you're talking about—an unclear or uncompelling mission and a lack of agency—is a big source of dissatisfaction in our industry. It leads to burnout and turnover. As far as I'm concerned, it's specifically a manager's job to address these problems. As much as anything else, manager is tasked with organizing the work of a team so that teammates all feel like their work has purpose and that they have agency over what they do.

There are a two big reasons for this. In some companies, a lack of profitability, or a desire for short term speed above all else, means that managers aren't given the space and resources to do their job well. A good manager will not stay in places like this for long. Even in companies where managers have resources and room to succeed, I think that companies very rarely train managers to do their job well. Often management is a promotion from IC to person in charge of making sure ICs ship products on time. But how to do this is not taught at any point in an IC's career. The trade offs involved in shipping products on time are counterintuitive: the things that work best over a 1 month time scale will kill your productivity over a year time scale.

If you feel like you have the raw materials to be good at what you do (you have the skills, you're interested, you have the time and can be dedicated) but you feel like your job isn't fulfilling, my advice is to start thinking about who you want to work under (or what kind of person) and include that as a top criteria in your future career moves.

I work at a major tech company and, yes, ultimately my team's goal is to increase company (and shareholder) profits. But my goal as a manager is to translate my teams directives into work that actually adds value to our customers, improves the work of our stakeholders, and uses the skills of my team in new and interesting ways. Yes, some work we have to do isn't the most fun, but everyone understands why and we're all bought into minimizing the work that sucks so we can get to the parts that are exciting.
I feel like giving everyone involved a half day off would be a pretty big celebration.
Wouldn't one use Leekspin for that?

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Alternate title for this article: mental shortcuts for arriving at a conclusion without actually applying logic or reasoning.

For example:

> This leads to a stunning possibility implied by the opening quote. True expert intuition may often be associated with poor explanations. We should therefore be extremely suspicious of neat explanations in the broadest domains.

Does anyone think this is actually a valid or plausible argument for its conclusion? "Expert explanations sometimes don't seem to make sense, therefore don't trust explanations that seem to broadly make sense?"

I understand the value of heuristics, but they're a crutch. You shouldn't be using crutches or wheelchairs all the time when you can walk (i.e. use logic). If you don't walk, your legs will wither away.
What's your budget / price-point?

New devices are available for < $200.

Used or displays are in the $50--$100 range, quite possibly less.

Pricing depends on size, resolution, greyscale ranges (1--16 bits, 4 is common for many smaller isplays), and refresh rates.
Totally agreed!

Here's a prototype from a few years ago where I tried to make this easier: https://github.com/akkartik/mu1#readme (read just the first few paragraphs)

I still think the full answer lies in this direction.
Pando (tree): the heaviest known organism
I notice the writeup only mentions Windows? Do they attack any Linux hosts?
I don’t want anyone to remain calm or wait, I’ve read MLK too much to think that’s a good idea, but I do I want this specific convicted felon to reflect on his decision making for a while before continuing to react as he does, because he’s clearly not getting the outcomes he wants for himself.
This is the actually the result of a free market. In the end, everything gets captured by whoever has the most capital / power.
Finally. These things should be illegal.
I don't understand the point of your argument, because nobody (including the announcement above) is talking about phones.

From the post:

> Imagine one of these small devices located in a vehicle to run AI algorithms for autonomous driving, or being able to monitor oil and gas plants in remote locations to perform predictive maintenance, or running workloads in a satellite as you would do in your own laptop. Now contrast this to centralized, highly controlled data centers where power and network conditions are usually very stable thanks to high available infrastructure — this is one of the key differences that define edge environments.

> Field-deployed devices are often Single Board Computers (SBCs) chosen based on performance-to-energy/cost ratio, usually with lower-end memory and CPU options. These devices are centrally imaged by the manufacturer or the end user’s central IT before getting shipped to remote sites such as roof-top cabinets housing 5G antennas, manufacturing plants, etc.

> At the remote site, a technician will screw the device to the wall, plug the power and the network cables and the work is done. Provisioning of these devices is “plug & go” with no console, keyboard or qualified personnel. In addition, these systems lack out-of-band management controllers so the provisioning model totally differs from those that we use with regular full-size servers.

I don't read this and think "phones". This sounds like it's targeted at embedded industrial / telecom devices. (At least based on the examples they chose, I'm sure you could use it for other things).

The word "mobile" doesn't actually appear anywhere on the page so I'm not sure where you got "mobile devices" from.
Very interested in this. So your c-reactive protein, d-dimer (sp?), etc etc showed negative? How did you find the clots? When you say "tiny", in medical terms do you mean mili or micro meters (I think that's right).

You might like the #1 book on Amazon under cardiology currently. Its thesis is cholesterol has nothing to do with heart diseases, its all in the clots. Good detail of the clotting process and relatively understandable.
I love the ThinkPad with the Arrow Key and PgUp/PgDown all next to each other.
It's amazing how powerful regular exercise is. It doesn't even have to be intense cardio, either. My wife and I bought a set of dumbbells for the house. We just grab a set and do exercises throughout the day. The feeling of physical satisfaction is very real. It helps us to get out of our heads.
Probably in C++ context this feels unreasonable but I'm arguing that C++ is wrong here. It's OK for the language to enforce that the lifetime of the string underpinning a slice must equal or exceed the lifetime of the slice despite the slice not "owning" the string.

In 2011 there probably wasn't a mainstream non-GC language doing that. C++ would have been innovating here, and maybe C++ in 2011 didn't want to be innovating. By 2017 when C++ 17 introduces std::string_view it's behind the curve, this is not an exciting new feature, it's a weak imitation of what everybody else was already doing better.
Trucks drive on my lake this time of year.
It's any interesting question whether or not it's rational to invest in a speculative bubble, solely on the basis of everyone else also investing in that same bubble. On a per-transaction basis, each step can be individually rational, even as it contributes to an eventual net loss systemically. Steering clear of such "Keynesian beauty contests" [0] is a curious sort of collective action problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
How do you know the things the chart says aren't happening really aren't happening?
I played this slimming-modern-linux-down game recently on a MIPS device. Getting it below 4MB is hard...too much cruft has accumulated in it.
My point is that before people go crazy about a judge not letting people quit, a judge also won’t let you work in this industry simply because you want to. It’s a highly regulated, government-interfered business so nurses being disallowed from jumping to another hospital is not surprising in the context of all the ways the market is managed.
An optimal algorithm for generating minimal perfect hash functions [pdf]
i would probably try to attack the root cause
Only i5 and i7 as CPU choices? That's not a workstation.

For me, having a Xeon (for ECC) defines a workstation.
Worked with a professor who knew this person. He talked about this not infrequently. All the grad students knew of the story as well, and would talk about it. Her death really shook up the NMR community. It was the reason we never use DEM in our lab, and why many try to avoid it at all costs even now. If I remember properly, and this was over 10 years ago, the reason its commonly used is to calibrate the spectrometers, so in some areas it gets hard to avoid.

Also, the article mentions you need nitrile gloves to protect yourself from it. This is not sufficient and is dangerously misinformed. You need silver shield gloves to protect yourself from it.
Similar to a fractal, the difference between an organism and a superorganism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superorganism) depends on how close you zoom in. It's easy to think about an ant colony as a superorganism, and from there to think about human civilization as a superorganism, and then the entire Earth's biosphere as a single superorganism. Then you can go the other way and think about how every human body is its own superorganism; your body is composed of approximately as many human cells as non-human cells (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome). You are an entire ecosystem.
I use ZeroTier. Works well with flaky internet
I recently wrote a single-process k8s distribution (for tests). Compiled into a linux/amd64 binary with no special settings it's 183M with go1.18beta1.

Kubernetes is a lot of code, plain and simple.
Just rename them to Fish Cubicles. Problem solved!

Edit: for those who are down voting: it's a criticism of cubicles, not a suggestion to continue abusing fish under a different name.
#2 is RFI suing E-Ink claiming E-ink infringed on RFI's patents.
Bret Victor: “Maybe it takes a hundred years. It was a hundred years from the invention of the printing press to books being part of the general culture.”

From a different article: https://tashian.com/articles/dynamicland/
It’s a sound point. Even a very small edge in precognition or mind reading (no matter how unreliable) would allow hedge funds to beat the market and make a killing. Ergo these effects do not exist because nobody is doing this.
Can someone steelman this judges reasoning here for me? I just can’t see it. This seems like insanity to me in at at will state. The worst part is that the damage has already been done. Employees that would have left their job to find better work will now be terrified of this happening to them unless we make laws explicitly forbidding this.

It’s just like non competes. They’re mostly unenforceable but employers don’t want to risk someone trying to enforce it so they just won’t hire you.
You know what is better? Not having the first build at all.

Microsoft packages a full set of binary libraries with a build.rs script for Rust/WinRT, otherwise no one would bother to wait for the build.

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/tree/master/.windows

Also seeing the same crate consumed in multiple version being compiled multiple times isn't fun.

For example, the image crate.
Yeah, I don’t think a single screen is problematic as long as the keycaps feel alright to type on.
The "fits of nervous laughter" paper by Wiseman & Schlitz (1998) was replicated by Wiseman & Schlitz (1999) [1], with a similar yet different result: RW (again) found no effect of staring, MS found a significant (p=0.05) effect of staring, but with opposite direction than the 1998 paper.

[1] https://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/expt2.pdf , found on

https://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/research/parapsychology...
Thanks for making this (despite the hiccups and error 500s). I love the aesthetics of that era so much: Efficient usage of screen space, clear borders between different elements - brings back happy memories!
Off the top of my head.. Mask advice at the start, deploying the police to stop anyone going further than 2km from their home for one. Shutting down outdoor public spaces for another. No scientific backing on lots of decisions made for another. Media controlled propaganda throughout (this one is debatable I guess). Keeping restrictions in place for inappropriate lengths of time - e.g. could have opened up at times last year, Merrion Gate, confusing and contradicting advice to the public after nearly every announcement, covid cert delays, closing off sections of shops - you could go to dealz and buy enough sugar to become diabetic but you couldn't buy some clothes in the same shop if you wanted.
I didn't know anything about this. The article talks about goldfish specifically - is this true for other fish?

My mother has had one of those really frilly fighting fish (betta?) in a bowl for I think several years. The bowl is larger than what is shown in this article, though. She moved it to separate it from other fish because it's very aggressive.
Yes. And that's ok! The world ran on artisans for hundreds of years.

It's even better than that right now, because we already have factories: the programs. Do we need factories to build the factories? I don't think we're there yet, not to mention we don't know how to build these meta-factories right.

Quoting myself from OP:

"Libraries with non-trivial functionality take a long time to get right, and in the meantime they are produced more like guilds of craftsmen than factories. (Even if the products themselves permit factory-like operation at scale.) In that initial bake-in period we are ill-served by conventional metaphors of software components, building blocks, etc. We should be dealing more in vertically-integrated self-contained systems rather than plug-and-play libraries. More OpenBSD, less `gem install`."

Efficiency is great, but it's not the only thing to optimize for.
We're pretty far away. Why?
The "See also" section has some similar phenomena.
I will not hire anyone to my software teams who thinks their job is to create art for its own sake. If you can’t tie your work back to creating value, you have no place on my teams, and that includes wasting time rebuilding worse versions of libraries that already exist.
What changes in blood work did you notice after not eating meat? And how long did you go without it?
Depends on the lawyers haha

But more seriously… if you aren’t willing to take a guaranteed decently large pay increase (which scales with future income growth) with the added chance of losing more to legal fees and arbitration later on… you probably shouldn’t get married. You’re probably correct that for a middle class family the pure fiscal return will likely be positive if your marriage lasts just a handful of years.
Can’t the Chinese replicate something like this pretty easily?
There are an awful lot of people who develop RSI from keyboard use, nearly all of which is preventable. Better training would help a lot, but better designed equipment would also make a big difference. Changing the QWERTY association between keys and letters shouldn’t be the highest priority, but the advantage it has is that it can be done in software, without change to physical devices. Reshaping the keyboard to better match human anatomy would make a bigger difference.
Everyone knew? I mean I can send videos if you'd like of Biden and left-wing politicians saying the vaccine would prevent you from getting it.

Also, prevention of the disease would mean that people are asymptomatic and/or that they aren't getting COVID. Hospitals in many areas are publishing data showing majority of people there for COVID are vaxxed. So much for prevention of the disease.
I've been wondering for a while whether syntax highlighting had a role in certain code style changes. Like the one where open curly brackets were placed at the start of a new line but nowadays are just appended to the end. Without syntax highlighting the older style seems to make more sense as it makes scope delimiters more visible without using colors.
This judge is a piece of work:

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/10/08/court-watch-42-days-in...

https://www.wjiinc.org/blog/outagamie-county-justice-the-fbo...

https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2018/12/20/reviewer-...

https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/education/2018/12/11...
It's amazing how few resources a Linux (or BSD) server requires. I have a twenty year old desktop machine (quality Fujitsu Siemens hardware but nothing unusal) reimaged as a storage/playground server and it's just fast enough. Can also handle some 18 TB storage.
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Having ruminants running around is very stable, but if we are then harvesting them for meat you start depriving that ecosystem of various nutrients. It’s significantly more stable, but still not “sustainable” indefinitely. On the other hand if we aren’t harvesting them it’s arguably kind of pointless.