skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not hang out in a video call and hash ideas out on your individual whiteboards? I've done it this way for over a decade and it's been fine for "breaking new ground".

The most productive person I've ever worked with, who was responsible for the biggest initiatives at a previous company worked solo in Hong Kong while the rest of the team was in North America. Never presented an issue. He came up with many innovative ideas in NLP and other ML techniques (not my area). All of his collaboration was over video calls, was never an issue.

Perhaps you are not being inclusive of your remote workers in your brainstorming sessions?
No they don't

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1146/6024998

> Children are Infrequently Identified as the Index Case of Household SARS-CoV-2 Clusters

> In analysis of the cluster index cases, we included 43 articles, in which there were 213 SARS-CoV-2 transmission clusters; only 3.8% (8/213) were identified as having a pediatric index case (Table 1 and Supplementary Tables 1 and 3). Of 611 individuals in the 213 clusters, there were 102 children. These pediatric cases only caused 4.0% (16/398) of all secondary cases, compared with the 97.8% of secondary cases that occurred when an adult was identified as the index case in the cluster (Table 1).
You still can get your email from ISP's, but I don't know why you would. In my experience ISP based email is average.

But Hotmail and Yahoo for example have been around since the mid 90's. That's 27 years of free email.
Yes, and would also protect you from administrative outages like, "AWS shut off our account because we missed the email about our credit card expiring."

(But wouldn't protect you from software/configuration issues if you're running the same stack in every zone.)
Um, depending on where you live, wouldn't that create some legal headache?
Three bedroom apartment: Main router/wifi in a bedroom/office. There is also an auxiliary wifi access point in the living area.

The living-room wifi access point usually serves two iphones, a smart TV and a laptop.

The main router/wifi in the office serves the main server computer via ethernet cable, and a raspberry pi which is a UPS controller and dedicated web server also via ethernet cable.

A separate office laptop, when used, is served from the router's wifi. A wifi printer-scanner is also served from there.

The extra wifi access point in the living area is connected to the router via an Ethernet-over-Power-Lines adapter.

I used to have bandwidth problems in the living area until I added the extra wifi access point.

Occasional wifi connections are served to MP3 players, etc.

Most stuff has IP addresses allocated via a DHCP server in the router, though some pieces of equipment have reserved IP addresses, such as the printer, the main server, and the raspberry Pi.
It's pretty straightforward, even on the design part, just use screenshares and tools like Figma.
Uber is also a service that has a much lower tolerance for downtime: If people can't play a game, they're sad. If they're trying to get a ride and it doesn't work, or drivers apps stop working suddenly, the stranded people get very upset in a hurry, and the company loses a lot of customers.

It can be totally reasonable for Uber to pay for 2x the amount of infra they need for serving their products while not being worth it for a company like Roblox.
They can spend as much as they want - we are still going to build it
> or do they just want peaceful coexistence between the two species?

Are they truly speciated or can they interbreed producing fertile offspring?

"Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" doesn't really address this as Superman is not a member of genus homo.
They exist, just look at https://www.workatastartup.com and ask what the salary band is if it isn’t posted.
Yes they did, we just hadn't figured them out yet. If we were very wrong in them, we'd have to be wrong in a way that doesn't affect all the technology using the wrong theory - which is part of why we refined them, because shit didn't work.

That's what it means to be contradicting fundamental physics. It implies all of our other knowledge is wrong, but we are just lucky enough that our machines work anyway. Which, unless we see a phenomenon that we can't fit into our existing theories, seems unlikely
From the comments, on these posts and climate change ones...there's plenty of people with religionist/anti-science agendas lurking on Hacker news.

That's probably why, I mean one of the founders of Ycombinator is Thiel is a huge Trump backer/supporter and supposedly transfuses the blood of young men to increase longevity or telomere elasticity or something... (real or urban legend I don't know) very disturbing for the inequality of it, and I mean you don't get more exploitative than using healthy people's blood. Esp, when blood banks surely could put that to better use.

Edit: IT could be pure urban legend, heresay, or just something gleaned from Silicon Valley, but I'm pretty sure I read about it somewhere... maybe even on here.
Good news! The CDC does not identify every comorbidity as a risk factor. I’m glad they provide the data so you can make a more nuanced decision on your own.
Just from a third party perspective here: your tone in this post and all over the thread is not even remotely constructive. You have one point that you’ve made rudely in about five different places. We get it.
Risk = impact x probability. Impact is low for children, probability at this point is quite high.

Impact for the immunocompromised is high, as it is for people who have lived full lives. Social distancing works for them. I do not think it works for children, despite being told by the proverbial “science” that it would have no impact on kids.

I’m not going to continue asking my child to make sacrifices for a minority of people who can adapt and respond better than he can. As a two year old, he has missed out on enough.
We observed quantum effects before the theory. We haven't seen any phenomena so far which require physics that could lead to FTL
As a young officer candidate in the US Navy, I took a navigation class co-taught by a very weathered quartermaster (QMCS) whose love was celestial navigation. We spent several days on the subject, and ended with a case study of Shackleton's journey to South Georgia. There's nothing like a fascinating subject taught by an experienced and enthusiastic expert.

That was many moons ago.
Who Founded Venice? (2021)
France to lift Covid-19 restrictions in February
I meant something like calculate your home budget, simple todo list, etc.. Something you might actually even end up using after you finish the chapters.
First details leak on Project Iris, Google’s next AR headset
Wouldn't the value of companies track inflation making them an attractive store of value?
I'm married to a public (high) school teacher and while I don't have the same level of risk as she does with regards to direct exposure, I get a lot of detail about how kids are reacting to the pandemic. The kids are upset about a lot of stuff. Mask wearing is not one of those things. They're upset about friends and family being infected, they're upset about their parents who work hourly jobs being out of work due to illness. Some smaller number are upset about it being harder to get a 4.0 on all their AP courses.

My point, such as it is, is that there seem to be a lot of people who think that kids are stressed out by disease control measures. My belief is that the kids are stressed out by the disease itself and they're actually pretty happy to try to help in controlling the spread of the disease. Of course not everyone is the same, etc.
Prospective Learning: Back to the Future
At the time, no, but I haven't had a lack of noise since moving so I sleep fine, but if I ever end up in a quiet home again I will definitely do something to generate some sort of noise.
Slightly OT:

> the author seems to be forgetting (intentionally ignoring for the sake of their argument)

I agreed with many of the arguments in the article when I red it, but checking out the other submissions on that blog, I think there are a lot of suspicious omissions like this.

E.g. There is another post [1] about a transwoman and a transman both competing in the women's swimming team. Sounds weird and at first glance seems to confirm all the usual "trans agenda" accusations. Except, the linked original article [2] clears it up:

> Henig is eligible to compete on the women’s team as a trans man because he’s chosen not to receive gender-affirming hormones, also known as hormone replacement therapy, such as testosterone.

Any mention of that in the blog? Nope - on the contrary, she doubles down on the confusion and emphasizes it to push the "trans agenda" narrative:

> Can you ask any questions about this and whether it makes sense for women’s sports to become a free-for-all for all that leads to a man winning? Do you want to keep your job? Because by the definitions of the movement, Iszac is a male who cannot compete on a women’s team, right? This whole thing is becoming increasingly absurd.

So in closing, I think the source is heavily biased to push certain outrage-generating narratives and cannot really be taken serious - even though I absolutely empathize with a lot of her observations in the OP article.

[1] https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/tgif-the-pope-is-with-us

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trans-athlete-debat...
So far, I've been able to reproduce a few transformations:

* www[0-9].example.tld -> [0-9].example.tld,
e.g. www1.nyc.gov -> 1.nyc.gov

* example[ac|co|gov|edu].tld -> example.[ac|co|gov|edu].tld
e.g. exampleac.uk -> example.ac.uk

My guess, as someone else further down the comments mentioned, is that some URL handling library is doing more than expected to its input. I filed an internal bug report referencing some of the public reports from a dev build of Android 12, so hopefully this will get triaged soon if someone hasn't already done a similar reproduction.

(I work at Google, but on nothing remotely related to Android.)
>We've seen how many organizations can barely limp through a "digital transformation", so why should we expect them to be operating anywhere near optimally along other axes?

This is an excellent point that I'd never thought of. It demonstrates that a lot of companies resist change at their own peril, and not because it's the shrewd thing to do.
The CDC is still the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's mission includes but is not limited to infectious disease. Congress has mandated they cover, in addition to infectious disease, research on food borne pathogens, environmental effects on health, occupational safety, injury prevention and how best to promote health. They do research on, for example, obesity and diabetes which are noncommunicable. They also are tasked with education to improve the health of US citizens (or residents, it's unclear). They specifically and explicitly replaced the National Communicable Disease Center, as their mission grew.

Meanwhile, all they've tried to do is research gun violence, not "enter a debate".
My employer believed as you are claiming, and so we had office space. I had to fight tooth and nail to keep my work from home part time schedule pre-pandemic because they were so obsessed with people being in the office. Then the pandemic hit and they saw no discernable loss in productivity. They no longer require people to come in and in fact we expanded our hiring to allow remote workers because there was 0 reason not to.
Another 5-word play

https://imgur.com/a/043xxnM

A 4-word play would be impressive !
> People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true.

How is it obviously not true? I mean. I love remote work. I started working remotely way before it was mainstream and I'm advocate for it. I've managed remote teams for many years too. Even so, I can't claim there's no performance hit. I just think the performance hit is small enough that in most cases the benefits for people and businesses outweigh it.
I realize you're disclaiming them, but I'm trying to say you what you're asking for has consequences that you can't just "disclaim" like that. Practically every law will have unintended loopholes that legislators couldn't think of or practically enumerate when writing the law. If you keep "punting it back to lawmakers" instead of letting judges handle the exceptions, you obviously further obstruct the legislature's ability to move onto new, more pressing issues. Maybe that's fine with you—or maybe it's even your goal, I can't possibly know—but your optimization on that axis has severe consequences that will quite obviously lead to undesirable outcomes on many other axes that others (if not you) actually care about. You can disclaim the implications and the consequences, but that doesn't mean they won't come along with your idea.
For an amazing example of how far one can take this tool, take a look at Textual, by the same guy behind Rich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-dzzD6NQJ4
My kids are out of high school so I don't know as many Canadian teenagers as I once did. They know stuff. Nice to hear you had a pleasant childhood.
People like you are why the rest of us drink
Completely agreed. Post-viral syndromes are real, as is psychosomatic illness.

But we're now locked in cycle of speculation about speculation -- these papers on long Covid are usually stunningly bad, and dispense with basic things like controls, or even separating the subjects by age and severity of primary illness. So you get review articles postulating complex theories of biological mechanisms for "illnesses" where the primary evidence base consists of a web survey. It's madness, and it's almost impossible to properly debunk it all, given how quickly its being churned out.
They could buy back their own bonds at these discounted rates, no? It could be a good strategy to make a lot of noise about Bitcoin to crash prices and buy their own debt back cheaply.
Your comment said two things. You said that you don't like the generated implementation for enums and then you said "this approach does not suffer the problems described by the article."

The article listed literally one reason to not use enums, and that reason is because it requires to compiler to produce JavaScript code. So, if that's not what you're talking about, then I have no idea what "problems described by the article" you could possibly be talking about.

With all of your complaining about my response, you still didn't explain it.
> A few years back, a student of mine, a Syrian refugee, told her story
> about how she ended up in Canada. She brought in traditional Syrian
> foods, delicacies that her dad had stayed up all night cooking. It was
> one of the best days that I can remember.

On a tangent: is this... a healthy quality bar for a class presentation? Coming from the startup world, this sounds a lot like "and we all bonded so strongly at the 4 a.m. firefighting sessions." I'm glad the author enjoyed the delicacies the student's father labored all night to prepare, I guess.
> isn't exactly some sort of mass oppression

Tell that to BLM
There is if the parents make a big stink or if it hurts the students. Getting the students into the correct level class (in both directions!) is not entirely trivial.
If reading a postmortem makes the smoking gun obvious, then the postmortem is doing its job. Don't mistake the amount of investigation that goes into a postmortem for the available information and mental headspace during an outage.
It's possible they deal with so much load that they considered a day's worth of traffic to be sufficient load testing:

> The system had worked well with streaming at this level for a day before the incident started, so it wasn’t initially clear why it’s performance had changed.

And a short note later on how much load their caching system sees:

> These databases were unaffected by the outage, but the caching system, which regularly handles 1B requests-per-second across its multiple layers during regular system operation, was unhealthy.
Vaccine pass and indoor mask wearing will remain. That's not what I think of when I read "lift restrictions".
If I like neither Apple nor Google, how can I realistically choose a non-Apple non-Google ecosystem? It's getting increasingly difficult to find a bank that does not require one of these 2FA apps that are only available from the Play Store or App Store (and which refuse to work on Android phones with non-standard OSs like Lineage).
The intentionally slow bringup is to handle the thundering herd of having the system come back online to 100% at once. If a couple hundred users (small percentage of userbase) here or there are able to jump to queue, it's no real big deal.

As far as players figuring out the DNS steering scheme; the company has no responsibility to keep a non-advertised backend up. If it was a problem, disallow new connection to it and remove it from the main pool.
The app store does provide a lot of traceability. If you get pwned via an app store app there’s someone’s door to knock on vs some random url you end up on.

Not sure I agree that makes it justified, but it does sketch me out a bit the more low level systems my browser has access to
VAERS is for surfacing hypotheses about rare side effects

For serious risk quantification and causal analysis, we have things like the vaccine safety datalink, which links all electronic health records across a bunch of hospital systems, covering IIRC 3% of the US population. The UK has something similar I think. I think transparency in that system (VSD) could be better, but it has the same problem this thread is discussing, that anonymizing the records may be at odds with making the analysis reproducible.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34477809/
It is, when the criminals get to read your private data.

Somehow people don't want that, and only consider politicians criminals in all other aspects, except this.
They are not involved in writing traffic laws, but they most certainly are involved in researching traffic caused injuries. It makes sense, because they are a leading cause of death
Free Postgres databases for small projects
Because it adds a compatibility layer between your application and cloud services (plus local) by providing a common S3 API.

e.g. https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-gateway-for-azure.html
Causality might very well be locked to this universe/space.

I mean its all just sci-fi at the moment. But lots of things we take advantage of today was at one time in the past as well.

I prefer to be optimistic about potential breakthroughs.
I played the font game three times.

1) Looking at the font names I eventually picked my favorite/workhorse: IBM Plex.

2) With hidden names, I picked Courier Prime, which I disliked at first sight.

3) Again with hidden name, I picked Cousine, which looked alright in the simulator but had lines that were too strong and even on my more contrasted color scheme. I prefer fonts with varying line widths, which the game didn't really detect -- it was mostly unreadable versus readable.
You do have a choice, for all of your examples: you can buy an android device. The iOS ecosystem is successful because that is what many people want.

You want the android experience, but rather than getting an android, you want to force that on the people who prefer the iOS model. They like not having to worry about malware. Currently an iOS user can get all the software that they want from the iOS AppStore, and they don’t have to give random companies their CC#, they don’t have to worry about the app subverting their privacy, because they know apple kills software that does that whenever they find it. This law means they have to deal with multiple different stores, that have no incentive to maintain platform security or user privacy. In fact they’re incentivized to abuse user privacy.

As an iOS user I do not want the android experience. This law basically forces ios to have that. Malware and all.

The only things this does is reduce user security, and give scummy publishers the ability to bypass AppStore rules the protect users (like “you must make discounting if subscriptions trivial”, “you don’t get to run a cruptominer in the background”, etc).

Again, if you want to have the android experience, use android. Literally no one is stopping you.
I don’t think I’m getting anything at all. Good to feel wanted!
Not to mention a VP or three. A well-led company is going to have management in the line of fire, so to speak, so an outage of this scale would wake them as well.
Thank you for clarifying. English is my second language and grammar is not my strong skill.
People do it to hide their location from Netflix. Don't think they care about NSA.
I really miss my copy of the m68k programmers reference manual. when I finally had to learn x86, I remember being so frustrated at how fractured it was compared to the beauty that was m68k at the time.
> The theory goes that in most countries, people fled traditional text messaging faster than in the U.S., due to more onerous per-message fees–and Apple was just too late to the party.

Whose theory? Feels bogus: Here (and in most of Europe AFAIK), SMS has been free-unlimited since Idunnowhen, and hundreds included back when there were still limits shortly after the turn of the century. Pretty much all the whining about limits I can recall has been from Americans.

And that's not to mention the Gruber article they link to as "proof" of the iPhone's general superiority... Say what you want about that "fireball", but for a supposedly independent and critical Apple observer, he doesn't feel all that "daring"... That was the most revoltingly gushing piece of Appleologia I've seen in a long while.
Wearing a mask in school - or not wearing a mask in school - does nothing to impact the spread of the virus.
Generally some good advice here. I don't really understand the perspective of people who are railing against it. Maybe they didn't read TFA?

I think simply and politely declining is the most polite thing to do in some situations. And its something a lot of people struggle with.
"i was sheltered from the realities of the world i occupied and my children should be too"? whether or not your children are aware of climate change (or any of the things you listed) isn't going to change its impact when they're adults -- if anything, you're ensuring they won't be prepared.
> the author seems to note that faster than light travel is possible under Einstein’s physics

He's talking about a highly speculative form of "warp drive" he has proposed that supposedly does not require negative energy, as all previous "warp drive" solutions (such as the Alcubierre drive) did. His speculations have not been accepted as valid by other physicists working in the field. (Also, calling such travel "faster than light" is problematic, since a light beam emitted from inside a "warp bubble" would still outrun the bubble itself. These are really just highly counterintuitive spacetime geometries that are most likely not physically possible anyway because the kinds of materials that would be needed to create them don't exist and can't be manufactured.)
Just to offer a different perspective, I worked in a "normal" blue chip company, and people in most roles (finance, marketing, sales, logistics,legal) preferred by far to work away from the office the days it was allowed. Only R&D (for obvious reasons) didnt have that chance and even then it was not unheard of. Going to an open plan office destroys your soul.