skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of it is just knowing how to read the ice and making sure it’s secure. About 10 days ago, the lake I live on was still open. A week ago, which had perfect ice, it was a little over 3” thick - which is borderline. People were out, but I didn’t trust it enough, so I stayed off. Today, the ice is a little over 6” deep, that’s safe for groups of people to be on and have some fun.

If I’m skating on my rink, I’m going to be pretty confident. I know the thickness of the ice and I know the contours of the lake bottom to know how to manage it. If I’m skating across the lake, then I’m either carrying a hockey stick or I’ve got my little ice picks in my sleeves.

In areas that get colder - like Minnesota, it’s pretty normal to be able to drive on the ice. In high school we got pulled over by the police for towing a sled behind the car on a frozen lake. It turns out that towing the sled was legal, but we needed to have something to prevent the sled from slipping under the car.

There’s also ways that you can take classes to learn how to drive on ice better. About a decade ago, I took a class with the local Audi owners club where they taught people how to drive on ice. You had to supply your own car (Audi or not) and acknowledge that your insurance does not cover you when driving on a lake. But aside from that it was a ton of fun and skill building. It’s still freaky when your car starts spinning, but its a lot less freaky when you’re on open ice and you know that you’re not going to hit anything.

And driving on ice isn’t some sort of edge case. For the residents of Angle Inlet, the 22 mile long winter ice road across Lake of the Woods[0] was literally a lifeline during the US/Canadian border closure because, for the most part, the residents had no other way to get to the rest of the United States.

[0]: https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/minnnesota-northwe...
Personally i dont kind the shop-focus too intrusive on my Aura HD. I do say, it's fairly impressive that an almost 9 year old device is still getting updates, features, & optimization. There were some really quiet years for updates but the Kobo team has been very active making updates, and many of them are real QoL wins.

Ill try the arduino shops for batteries. My battery died two months ago. I have a new motherboard/battery coming, but I'd love to figure out how to source variously sized lipos.

I havent yet done much futzing in Linux, but definitely interested. Also a shout out to the integrated Pocket reader, which has been a major major win for me, makes the device much more useful to me.
I started my chem grad school about a decade later and all the changes were well accepted and the field was still mourning her loss. What a tragedy.
Is it really "group recruitment" if each of the people applied independently vs being recruited or "poached"?
It only really needs to be so emphasized there because of the format of the other days, where multiple were grouped together. So you might misread that and think the museum is open.

The author's suggestion of listing out every day individually makes it clear even with the closed day is less visually heavy, because the diagram is simply easier to read.
I am sure one of these "New Products" developers will come here and share the story of the Evil Hotel Maid that comes to your room and toggles the physical switch on your computing products.
That's a very entertaining video. Looks like they are doing a mini-putt with tennis balls and hockey sticks. It looks like fun, especially with all of the quirky competitions and dress up. When we play we tend to do more of a "full golf" with regular balls and clubs over long distances. However we have tried tennis balls when it was so snowy that we were losing balls.
This is amazing. But I think I somewhat helped the HN hug of death hence getting intermittent 500s.

For folks passing through, the image is of a virtual Windows XP desktop complete with Bliss background, taskbar, and Outlook Express showing emails, where each email is an HN link. I may just need to set this as my new HN bookmark!
I think GP is talking about the ruling, not about people leaving for another employer.
> So no matter what, I'm still checking all the days for closing times.

The proposed format makes this process faster and easier. Once you have read the closing time of one day, you can immediately infer the closing time of all days of the same length.
> It’s untenable to have

Absolutely this. There's a wide ranging of programming activities that are domain-agnostic, but most of what programmers do requires deeper knowledge in a specific domain to be useful.
Similarly, if Berlin is there, should Paris / London / Milan be as well?

They all offer similar tech scene as Berlin. I might miss something here. I haven’t been there in a while
Yeah, I can totally relate.

What I'm trying to point out in OP is a third way beyond "build all the things" and "reuse all the things others built" that doesn't get explored as often: build/reuse less. Do without. You're absolutely right that the tools we have are the best way to operate at scale. Do we always need to operate at scale? I think we are well-served by constantly questioning that, fractally on every decision all the way down.
Ants are both hardware and software.
Yeah, everyone in the enthusiast space knew all bulldozers were dogs compared to basically any Intel offering, but the market iterates so quickly it's easy to get out of date.
But... isn't that the job of a manager?

As an SRE it's my job to make sure the computers I'm responsible for are working properly, and to actively pay attention and gather information about whether that's true. If there's too much load on the site for our current set of servers to handle, even if it's not my job to actually order more, it's certainly my job to say something to the people who can. If we're okay now but we won't be in a month, that's also my job. And if a disk fills up on a server and it stops working, "Oh, I wasn't monitoring disk space, and the program never logged anything" is no excuse. Nor is it an excuse that I'm not good at guessing what problems are likely to happen; that, also, is my job and why they look for people with experience doing this job successfully.

Isn't there all the more reason that someone whose job is looking after people and not computers should figure out if they're overworked or about to be overworked and if they're in comfortable, humane conditions?
How would smart balloon bombs make the U.S. more 'invadible'?
People that are vaxxed are still getting the disease.
The remainder of the quote Butler quoted matters;

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection." -- David Wheeler
I didn't know it was possible to make an HN post with both text, and an URL. Is this a new feature?
It seems a bit more limited than some are reporting:

"On Friday, an Outagamie County judge ruled in favor of ThedaCare and issued this order:

“Make available to ThedaCare one invasive radiology technician and one registered nurse of the individuals resigning their employment with ThedaCare to join Ascension, with their support to include on-call responsibilities or;

“Cease the hiring of the individuals referenced until ThedaCare has hired adequate staff to replace the departing IRC team members.”"

https://www.wbay.com/2022/01/20/thedacare-seeks-court-order-...
NFT Cartoon Rock Sells for $1.3M
SEC pls close this bucket shop.
To address just one of the many many poorly thought out points you made...
This is not the 4th strain. There have been an uncountable number of mutations, and many strains (omicron is not the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet - there have been other named strains that didn't spread)
This is the strain that spread like wildfire because it had evolved traits that allowed it to spread faster that all the other traits. The number of mutations is not important, the effect of the mutations is all that matters.

I don't think you have a good grasp of the basics of the mechanics of evolutionary selection, epidemiology or whatever. Maybe spend some time brushing up on the basics of the science before starting speculation on the why's and wherefore - stuff that appears suspicious to you now is actually a logical result of natural processes
WOW! Was just reading along, idle on a slow day and hit this.

The processing on that to achieve such a low latency is amazing, flat out.

Fun watch.
Exactly the same situation. I haven't received any communication from Google about this.

I only have 1 user (a restriction which was already in force at the time I registered for the free tier), so I'm wondering whether this even applies to me?
"relatively" is the operative word there. Compared to regular/full openshift, it is tiny. I would imagine they chose the word "relative" because in absolute terms nobody would call 160mb tiny.
I don’t see what the problem is because the courts and government can’t get involved in private matters (vaccines, mandates). Conversely, the courts and governments can get involved in private matters (abortions, vaccines, mandates). It’s all perfectly clear - do what those in control want and everything will be fine.

Unfortunately, this isn’t really sarcasm anymore.
Actually this only shows that this specific form does not exist, or has not been discovered, or possibly something else both of us have overlooked.
Is Unlimited PTO a Scam?
I agree with everything you say, and I agree that the proposed revision in that section is a lot better than the original. I just disagree with the claim that the fact that they're closed on Tuesdays is unimportant. It's extremely important, and any good design should communicate this unambiguously.
Hedge funds do beat the market, individually. Steve Cohen probably has psychic powers.
Thanks for the explanation. IIUC, the "wand" object that was used to generate data inside my mouth is not using any absolute location data, it's just scanning whatever it can and then the point meshing Just Works (TM) ? It seems quite remarkable - the wand is essentially being waved around completely freely, and I was amazed that you could build a model from the data generated in that way.
Looking at the shell script, I think it will always be somewhat slow as it's sorting twice. One pass to sort the words so that "uniq -c" can work correctly, then the reverse numeric sort.

I don't think the shell used matters, as most of the cpu time is in the sorting.
"500 internal error" and audible laughter sorry
> 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.

If you were paying attention, note the difference between saying it will prevent all retransmission versus reducing it, which is what happened. Also, try to compare what actual medical experts said as opposed to the political entertainers whose talking points you're repeating. The actual medical experts were quite clear on this, and Biden has been pretty clear that breakthrough infections are possible — hence the interest in masks to prevent spread and vaccination to mitigate the damage for the people who we know statistically will catch it.
currently getting an internal server error on your website, but I can't blame you for being on the front page!
Thank you very much for the comment. I will contemplate my decision when it comes to formal education. Also what I particularly found intriguing is "You don't have to pursue a degree, but some formal education might actually help you." It's true that studying college from start to finish is not the only option.
Interesting. Kinda seems like a one time event but not ideal. Thanks for pointing this out, I'm going to have to do some thinking about this.
You don't <<need>> a 160sqm house with a 800sqm garden to raise kids :-)))

You <<want>> that house, notice the difference?

I grew up in a very practically designed 2 bed room apartment of about 90sqm. It was more than adequate and to preempt comments, it wasn't "inhumane" or a "slum" or whatever. I'd live there today if Romania as a whole wouldn't have a lot of growing up to do.

A 100sqm apartment, made larger to account for modern sensibilities, is more than enough to raise 2 kids.
I think it would have to be a lot more drastic to change my mind.
You can also run LineageOS with no gapps or microg just fine. F-Droid has an amazing selection of apps.
>People like getting fucked up. It’s not that confusing.

If it's not confusing enough, they're not doing it as thoroughly as they could be . . .
At the end:
"provided there are no new variants…"

Does anyone actually believe there will be no new variants? That seems like hoping we don't get any more influenza variants (and flu is back up again this year, btw). Of course we will get new variants, we will always get new variants. Was this statement made in jest?
It's really hard to say because the article limited it to this:

> During his second week at Amazon, Smith was approached by workers involved in organizing the Amazon Labor Union. Although Smith loved his job, he thought there were things that could be improved. In particular, he said, he was concerned about the warehouse’s extremely rapid pace of work and lack of breaks.
How the ML community became “anti-science”
Not to mention that on the free tier the audit reports are limited, and you can't even get a csv of files shared along with who it's shared with.
The AMD Bulldozer architecture was really not great. And the updates weren't much better. Zen was a huge improvement.

The integrated GPUs were always significantly better than Intel, and sometimes the pricing was great, but if you wanted good CPU performance, in that time frame, you needed an Intel and the latest "core" architecture was usually the right choice. And then Intel stalled around Skylake/Kaby Lake.
Soft drinks, sodas, juices, mineral water, cocktails ... Non-alcoholic bear sometimes has 0.5% alcohol so if you are totally ditching alcohol keep an eye on this.

Conversation is my main reasons for hanging out. I don't need alcohol to get the conversation started. My friends know that I don't like to drink and there is no pressure from their side.
There's a periodic full refresh to clear any "ghosted" pixesl, often at a user-definable frequency. This occurs only during a display update, so yes, as long as you're looking at static text, there won't be a flash.

The trade-off is of pixel ghosting vs. flash. The more frequently the screen is fully refreshed, the less ghosting.

In practice, I tend to set this value to about 20 refreshes for reading texts, and will frequently manually refresh the display when reading Web content in a browser where scrolling is more prevalent.

For monospace (terminal) displays, the fact that each character tends to update in the same screen cell makes the ghosting issue less significant and noticeable. What happens is that the background gets somewhat greyer as text is read or scrolled, but there isn't the effect of strong imprints under the text as with graphic or typeset content. A refresh largely has the effect of brightening the background.

Noticeable, yes. Annoying? Largely not.
There would be evidence. The chart helpfully points out a specific kind of evidence that is more or less impossible to conceal with any kind of conspiracy.
James Robert Watson has some other amazing inventions on his site:

- Accessories for medical arm slings: https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/slingaccessories.html

- How to make elevators more user-friendly https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/elevatorbuttons.html

- Better layouts for queue lines https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/quelines.html

- Better rest area signage https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/restareasigns.html

- Better table numbers https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/tablenumbers.html

- Travelpants https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/travelpants.html
Just to play devil's advocate, how do you know they're not? A psychic hedge fund manager wouldn't necessarily reveal their secret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGukAoiGhZU
Definitely multifactorial, but the US army really did have a policy of killing buffalo w/ the aim of depriving the indians they were fighting of their primary food source.
It was around the time of CyanogenOS and the OnePlus One. I kinda suspect the more corporate stuff happening sketched people out. OnePlus ended up switching to their own skin anyway, not sure what that was all about.
That's a non-issue so far as I'm aware.

The displays will last and function for years. Long enough that other components are generally long obsolete.
Look for a technology focused company who's product definitely makes the world a worse place to live.
I discovered this paper in the late 90s. It changed the nature of my work for the next decade or so. An O(n) algorithm for generating MPH functions seemed like a miracle, at the time. Being able to solve "impossible" problems (at the time) gave me access to many opportunities.
Reverse. Higher costs lead to higher prices.
Cost can be pay or materials or taxes, doesn’t matter to business. Cost is cost.

Price is constrained by efficacy of competitors.

If your only person in town that digs holes, you can use a spoon and charge anything you want. Until someone buys a backhoe and Charges half your price.

Wages are constrained the same way.
If your making lots of money, and need more help but only 1 guy available. He is going to get paid a lot. If there 10 people free you offer the lowest that someone is willing to take that you still make money.

If your the government and want to spend money then you just print a bunch of money. This is true source of inflammation.
A fact is true (or not) regardless of the messenger. This credo is essentially an appeal to authority rather than addressing the assertion itself.
>Ask HN: What to do instead of drinking alcohol?

I prefer to put it in the gas tank of my truck.
Quintillion stellar-mass black holes are lurking in the universe
> I know that standard practice here is to tell the story of Clever Hans and then say That Is Why We Do Double-Blind Studies.

Yes, this is the answer to this entire article, and his attempt to dismiss this for some reason is strange to me.
Proving the value of a business case within a week, the power of the MVP
Is 10% wage increase even enough to keep up with inflation? They’ve tried nothing and are out of ideas
E-Ink has the worst product management team of any company I have ever watched. There are so many applications out there begging for low-cost, low-power displays, and they are just not addressing that market.

They have an extremely limited selection of products, and the ones they do have are priced unreasonably high. They seem to be reluctant to enter into bulk OEM agreements with anyone, and they charge exorbitant license fees for anyone who wants to manufacture displays themselves.

In short, they are considered to be terrible stewards of the technology.
I think there is a bit of a difference between "we have to make sure a level 1 trauma center exists" and "we will restrict people building more level 1 trauma centers indepedently", which is what I think the parent comment was implying.
The moderna application clearly distinguishes between Covid-19 (symptomatic disease) and SARS-CoV-2 infection, as the sibling comment says.

> On November 30, 2020, ModernaTX (the Sponsor, also referred to as Moderna) submitted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) request to FDA for an investigational COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) intended to prevent COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

https://www.fda.gov/media/144673/download
https://web.archive.org/web/20220122190454/https://hackerxp....
I really wish I didn't give away the Dell 316LT I came across a number of years ago (~2008?) at a swap meet. I had the whole kit - 386SX16, 8 MB of RAM, extra screens, the manuals, an external 5.25" drive, and all the diagnostic disks. But, my parents were moving us from a large house in Alabama to a small apartment in California and we didn't have the space for most of my parts (cough e-waste cough) collection.

Teenage me had no idea what to do with it. I didn't know how to compile a Linux kernel from source, at that point I'd barely started moving beyond Atmel AVRs and Java on LEGO Mindstorms.
hahaha, sneaky :)
Ah, the good ol’ ping of death days.
At a lower rate and with far less severity, which is exactly what we expected based on the initial data. Omicron's arrival means that more people are getting sick but when they do, it's still considerably less severe — which is good because Omicron is sending more people to the hospital even though it's ~40-50% less likely to do so compared to Delta.

I realize that you don't want to admit having been so wrong about this for so long but the evidence is very clear that the vaccines are safe and effective:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitali...
Yeah, but I imagine you know that thing about limited upside but potentially boundless downside?
just yesterday biking back i ran into a fleet of birds eating bread, as i got close to the first one, he flew away, then the others etc etc

I realized that it's probably just a safe heuristic to do what others do. It can lead to lemmings falling off a metaphorical cliff, but I'd bet 10$ our social nature is a direct descendant of that. Even mirroring desires that cause so much troubles in human lives.
Andrew Gelman had an interesting 9-years-too-late idea for what to do in cases like Bem's article:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/27/jpsp-done-...

Rather than publish all of the dubious speculations and the analysis whose problems took time to emerge, simply publish the data. The advantage, in his words:

> In the example of the ESP study, if anything’s valuable it’s the data. Publishing the data would get the journal off the hook regarding fairness, open-mindedness, and not missing a scoop, while enabling others to move on reanalyses right away, and without saddling the journal with an embarrassing endorsement of a weak theory that, it turns out, was not really supported by data at all.
It's a simple app but it's pleasant to be able to understand without knowing Elm.
100%.

And if the manager is competent and actually does this, then he probably will end up managing something more important than Amazon warehouses. Don’t underestimate the mediocrity and pettiness of the people who end up in charge of petty things.
There is more nuance in this. It is possible that kids were important infection vector from the beginning but it was under tested. It can also be that the first variant of the virus really affected them less.

During the delta wave the school children were very important infection vector and controlling infection in schools (by rapid antigen tests) has played important role in controlling the epidemic.

It is also possible that containment of viral load was relatively sufficient before also with cloth masks but is not anymore with omicron because of even higher viral load it creates.

Vaccines still limit spread but by smaller degree and it has been possible to increase (no, especially increase, not restore) the control to higher level but even here we have limitations. We could not expect one vaccine to perfectly control the virus that has evolved too far.

And so on.

I trust science or more precisely the scientific process. I think it is the best tool that we have to finally come to closest to the truth.

But it does not mean that I take every preprint or even print as truth. Far from it and I believe all of us should stay sharp and critical.

It does not mean that I believe only published things that confirm my prejudice. No, I read what the study has actually done. How much can we conclude from it? What are its limitations?

I think too few popularizers of the science help people to understand the limitations of the science. It should be done more. I think it is the cornerstone of the science.
Primel: Game where you guess a 5 digit prime number, each guess must be prime
Exactly. As a skeptic, I have no reason to believe. I don't believe it exists. If I believed that it did not exist, I would have a belief about it.