skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And suddenly the conspiracy theorist is not so crazy once again. This is a pretty scummy thing to do an jeopardizes future pandemic testing as people will feel they are being lied to and won’t trust testing. But by the. I suspect it won’t matter. They will have so many DNA samples that even if you are a slight relative they will be able to figure out who you are from a unknown sample of DNA.
This comes as a surprise to people?

Companies and other large groups have been able to get away effectively illegal activities in the name of covid for over 2 years already... Don't get me wrong I prefer that the righteous cross of public indignation is changing to target the fat cats who exploited this chaos, but frankly this is the same "ban the plastic straw" "use extra face masks in non workable settings" hypocrisy from the last 2 years.

If this company said doing this would improve vaccines 2 years ago there's a certain large group of public opinion that would have given this cart blanche regardless of the damage it could/will do...
Cycling is only approximately 25% mechanically efficient, so the parent is correct. There's a lot of heat to get rid of.
Oh wow, I've been on here a long time.
You mean your ancestors? Couldn't it just say "how did people survive before modern technology", that way it would be clearer. Otherwise you could say "they lived by working in factories", which doesn't seem to be the point. Europe used to be covered by a kilometre thick ice sheet, people didn't survive there then.
> Two programmers working on the same project at the same time is already slower than one programmer working twice as long because these two have to communicate. And during pair programming, the communication is sped up.

That's assuming two people pair programming would otherwise need to communicate about every individual line of code.
Well I, and my family took several tests with this firm - and I am very upset about this.

I will be speaking to a barrister today or on Monday to explore what, if any, remedies we can seek over this in court.

Please if anyone could recommend a London-based barrister who specialises in this sort of matter by DM or in reply that would be much appreciated.
They aren't "just" pair reprogramming -- they are practically married. They pair only with each other, forever, and they are best friends. It's not an arbitrary or rotating matchup.
Most For-Profit schools in the US are relatively cheap. They are also just complete crap and lure people in with false promises and are often unaccredited.

People quickly learn they are complete crap and perception is reality so the degree becomes worthless when looking for a job.

The actual price paid of four year colleges has been dropping even as the sticker price has going up in the US. The discount rate is at an all time high. Almost every student gets some kind of tuition discount.

If you want to save money going to college in the United States either get a scholarship (if you can) or go to two years of community college in-state, get good grades, and then transfer to the best in-state school with the program you want to major in. You will earn a four year degree for a reasonable price.
I'm sure there are innocent scientific pursuits that benefit from more data samples, even without other data to correlate to.

Then there's always government agencies interested in labeled name-DNA pairs which can be used to find criminals, or for general mass tracking (though that'd be a poor and error-prone way to do so).
His argument seems focused on a single output: developer velocity. That's a dangerous metric to optimize for.
YMMV but I'd never describe vscode as slow. Maybe not fast either, but pretty much normal. I've never noticed much about its speed, which would imply its not blindingly fast or painfully slow, just normal
I don't agree at all. The author only considers short term productivity and does not acknowledge the long term benefits of the skill sharing.

Let's make up a metric, du (dev units), for how much a developer produces in a day, and let's say an average developer produces 100du per day.

If we have two developers, Sally and Frank, producing 120du and 70du respectively. Short term, for these two people to pair program, the production of the pair programming has to be greater than or equal to 190du.

But if we instead consider how productivity increase as experience grow, perhaps the next day, Frank will produce 80du and Sally 121du, then this is definitely worth it long term.

I would agree with the author if the question was "ONLY pair programming" vs "ONLY individual programming", but that is a stupid question.
" They would need to be just to come even with airplanes."

Airplanes of the 1950s or airplanes of the 2020s? That is a huge difference.

It took the aviation industry 120 years to arrive at current levels of safety.
I would expect machine learning to be more useful in generating this kind of fluff.
> become a better candidate
is this a (worth) goal in itself? better person, better engineer, better manager, .. maybe. but Candidate.. eh. Think about it.. And do what you would have done/doing if you were already that wanted XYZ.
I'm confused. I'm being downvoted but you're saying I'm right?
> Let's start with the economics. Since we are employing two programmers to do work on the same keyboard at the same time, the output of pair programming must be greater than 2x the output of a single programmer to make sense.

this is immediately wrong. since you're using only one computer and desk, the output can break even at less than 2x/pair, since you're not paying maintenance for double the space.

the rest is absolutely missing any data backing it up, so it's completely pointless to argue about.
Is it capitalism or corporatism?

What's free-market about being compelled by the state to use these services?

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

Pick any major tech platform and you'll find similar connections. The CCP has their own platforms, just like Russia has their own.

Digital ID, pushed by WEF isn't being promoted by the free-market. It is better described as corporatism. Hopefully this more accurate terminology will help diffuse the more contentious implications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab#:~:text=Schwab%20....
LHR is a very busy airport. I imagine this is causing immense disruptions, as they don’t exactly have enough landing slots to accommodate lots of planes having multiple attempts… does anyone know if there’s a safe diversion that the planes are being sent to where necessary?
I think there’s a large correlation in the 0-3 years window. I agree there’s almost none in the 12-15 years window.
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The organization has one person who is also a member of Arm Embed, so it seems to be tied to Arm.
To be clear, this is regarding sentience, not sapience.
> Then add to that the resistance of Telegram towards any kind of moderation, especially from Western governments... and suddenly a bunch of conspiracy theorists, vaccine deniers and outright Nazis had the perfect platform. No moderation from the platform side, no content requirements other than "please don't spread CSAM", and effective management tools for group admins to yeet off counterspeech attempts. These days, you have QAnon groups numbering six-digit subscribers [1], and the same for German copycats [2].

How is that any different to WhatsApp? WhatsApp is used by neo-nazi groups[0], used to organise literal genocide[1] and is the main source of covid/vaccine conspiracy nonsense around the world (except for the U.S.)

[0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-suspends-29-cops-over-...

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-de...
I hate someone watching what I'm doing as often I'm trying things out and experimenting. However I've learned loads from watching others - usually its unrelated stuff like interesting tests, command line shortcuts, language features etc.
> "DNA sequencing is eventually going to be so cheap and ubiquitous that it will happen to everyone anyway"

Filming porn is going to be so cheap it's going to happen to everyone anyway
I like the transparency and fairness. I dislike that it rewards time rather than merit and will likely discourage people from developing expertise away from their core skillset as there could be an argument that their experience in that area isn't relevant, or that their relevant experience in this area is so small.
Hm, as far as I can tell FreeBSD has drivers for ac cards, but they only support WiFi 4 at the protocol level?
Of course. I'm simply saying that Caplan shouldn know that people are entrenched in the pro-education position (because this is the norm for centuries, because nigh certainly everyone who is in the education policy sphere has gone through many years of the usual schooling and higher ed, and virtually all of these policy experts are pro-education).

Plus it seems despite his many spreadsheets his model is not able to do causal inference, which means his tables are very verbose narrations or appendices to his arguments in prose, and not a decisive proof.

> to change your mind

Unless one is in a state of 100% confirmation bias then ideally every little piece of evidence counts. Sure, we are not perfect walking-talking sentient infinite resolution mathematical distributions, so in practice we simply discard a lot incoming information, as we have meta-(meta?)-heuristics that we depend on. (Eg. if our friends and family and the news and even random blogs claim X we start to take it seriously, but still, if it doesn't really affect us our attention won't bother. And so on.)
Yep. The most prolific conspiracies have always had an unfortunate nugget of truth behind them.

"They're using it to track us". Or "Its to make a database to remove our freedoms" claims don't looks crazy at first glance.

At the some time I'm now glad biology had such a reproducibility problem, they probably can't identify a human strand from a rat in most "biotech" start ups I reckon...
The lack of understanding that this article shows about the author is just amazing. The dude looks to have extensive history in engineering and I don’t doubt that his experience can help in making him decide on what could work for him. But almost every one of his statements are not how one should think of pair programming, or is the purpose of it to generate > 2x value at all. Considering the potential technical debt that almost always amounts to a long debt repayment period (that is if even that’s possible) or that what works for one programmer may not work for others!
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Until I saw the screenshots in the article I hadn't realised how much colour and contrast were missing from the Windows settings app. How tragic.
I used to think this too, it's a popular talking point in favor of strength training.

But as far as I know it's wrong.

A one hour session of strength training will involve some amount of work, and a lot of rest. Compared to doing cardio, where an hour of work is an entire hour of elevated energy expenditure, you're effectively burning a lot less during strength training.

In addition, the "after burn" effect is very minor (in the extra tens of calories only range).
the more stupid it sounds.. the deeper it goes.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/121/11/1771/3003...
One thing I have not seen mentioned here is the “slack status”. I find that it has a subtle stress inducing effect:

* if it’s green are people expecting me to reply right away? And if I don’t respond do they feel anxious?
* do employees feel pressure to keep it green to show they are working?

I told my team that I will keep my status to AWAY always, and they can feel free to do the same. Just because slack provides a surveillance method doesn’t mean you have to use it. This also reduces expectations of immediate replies and keeps it more async
It does, if people actually cared they'd be rioting in the streets, maybe burn down some corporate headquarters
>what you mean by invoking Vim

A tool praised by almost everyone and used by almost no one? :)
What open source license did AppGet use?

Seemed to me we need some carefully worded clause that help provide some compensation if something like this happens.

But M$ should be ashamed of themselves for not at least offering some compensation.
You can make this even 4 chars shorter by using relative move-to commands (small 'm'):

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Don't want to install it then. Win10 will do it for some time and then, let's see.
I wonder if Windows or its UI will ever get a ground up rework considering how scared newer developers must be to touch the underlying legacy code base. That would probably require breaking backwards compatibility at some level and that doesn't look a principle MS is keen on abandoning. Windows 10X and RT both got abandoned. But on the other hand they can't keep piling stuff on top without fixing the core forever right? The context menu hack is already an example of the cracks beginning to show in this approach.
What makes you think it wasn't peer reviewed? It says it was published in 'Explore', which is a peer reviewed journal. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/explore
In that case, explain to me how my house gets warm from burning caloric gas

... calories are obviously the measure of how much heat you get from burning something, not the heat itself that you're "burning"
Ask HN: Remote workers in US tech companies, how much do you work?
I live in a smaller European country where salaries are a lot lower than they are in the US. The upside is, I feel that the pace of work is also a bit easier; I get 5 weeks of paid vacation each year plus long(ish) parental leaves for each children born. Also, in reality, I don't have work nearly as much as my contract says I should be working. All around I would consider my work pace pretty chill.

I've been eyeing some American companies offering fully remote jobs with very high salaries and would consider applying, but I'm a bit anxious about the supposedly hard work culture in the US companies. So my question is, how many hours per day do people working on remote jobs in these companies _actually_ work? Do you have to be on the call around the clock if a critical bug needs to be patched? How much vacation do you get per year?

I get that probably higher paying positions are more stressful, but I would be pretty happy with something like 100k$, which seems to be in the lower end of US tech salaries.
Agreed it could be a bit quicker or more intuitive, but this seems to be a use-case I don't need to work with too often, so it's not bothered me.

I'm guessing there's a mix of performance concern and privacy concern. They want to make sure you're intentionally revealing the secret (image) and they want to hold off on decrypting the file until needed. It feels like decrypting a file is a fairly slow operation (although I'm not really sure why).

I just don't think comparing to the file in your local files is quite the same, since it's not encrypted / behind password protection. If you did this sort of thing a lot, you'd probably have it optimized down to a very accessible shortcut, after all.
I think simple to manage and “people who don’t like it won’t bother us about promotions” is high here. Whether that makes it worth losing out on corner cases where you’d benefit from a more individualized approach isn’t as clear to me, but there’s a lot of benefit from elimination of all promotion discussions, referring all of those to “check the calendar; if we haven’t fired you by X, you’ll be level Y on that day.”
> Regarding bunker oil, there are ships under construction that will use hydrogen instead of bunker oil. Also interesting is that while large ships burn bunker oil, they do so to power a generator that powers an electrical engine. This is true for modern oil tankers and large container ships.

That is not the case. They are often direct drive through a reversible engine for maximum efficiency without any clutches and the most minimal gearbox possible. The engines themselves tend to be low rpm ultra-long stroke two-stroke diesel engines. They often even have shaft generators to shut down the smaller more inefficient generators. This further forces a set design speed to have the correct electrical frequency.

Ferries, off-shore vessels and cruise ships are increasingly becoming diesel electric though due to both large electrical loads and larger variations in load due to their operational patterns.
Great read, thank you both. Have added this page to my reading list.

https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
Windows 10 control panel/settings app is FUBAR. In some versions, tasks as simple as change ip address etc. became mission impossible. There are two sets of UI, neither is working...
Umm, what is the CO2 cost ? Oh I forgot, the world is burning up, but it's buisness as usual...
I do appreciate the discussion, though , it's justsad to see a lack of concern for real existential worries...
Would burning down a building make it illegal to sell photos taken in public places?
> How is watching one hour of Line of Duty/Better Call Saul a day worse than reading 3-4 hours of any of the hundreds of nonsense romance novels

Watching doesn't require imagination. It doesn't activate the creative part of the brain that even the most idiotic dime store novel requires to interpret. That's how. Again, this isn't new; it was standard knowledge taught to children in the 1960s-1980s as to why television was mind-rot.
Every time I read an article like this on HN, I can't help but wonder, is anyone actually using a Linux/FreeBSD machine at their workplace? It seems these posts are all about personal machines.

I'd love to use Linux professionally, but convincing IT to let me run something outside of their management has always been impossible.

Edit: Geez HN, this is a legitimate question and it's currently at -2 karma. What's up with this place lately?
Wendy Carlos Beauty and the Beast is my fav non 12-tet piece of music. It is in two scales she made up herself

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2j1gy2

Terry Riley's Harp of New Albion is awesome as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6tptdvQbos

Harry Partch - Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales is so haunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GglpEGSXpXo
I feel like this phrase will be the motto of this year
I've yet to see anything better than years-of-experience (or years-in-company). I've worked in both FAANG and startups plenty, and personally I've seen worse outcomes from "impact-driven" OKRs, nepotism, team-surfing, than from coasting.

Coasting can be fixed by firing or layoffs (which I consider a healthy lifecycle for any company).

"Coasters" at least know that what they do today they might have to support for N years following, so design accordingly. (Although I've also heard horror stories when they make it intentionally hard to understand for job security reasons, fortunately never seen myself).
Cool! Finally they will be able to reuse their code when implementing Settings on Linux and macOS!

Though, I guess the previous N iterations of Settings will still be available behind hidden menus, right?

Windows is an abomination.
We have had our ups and downs over the years but this is still is my favorite website.
I think of this every time someone tells me they used AirBnB.
It appears no but we’re doing environmental studies to confirm. It feels like a lot of emission but it’s actually pretty small compared to the scale of the ocean and what people are pumping out in

It will only be ~10 m above the deck. Most of the CH4 is in the troposphere (the part we breathe); very little at higher altitudes.

There’s a short paragraph on the chemistry in the current Wired article on methane and Rob Jackson of Stanford. The author spoke with de Richter, one of the scientists who came up with this approach.
`sound.enable` currently enables pulseaudio.

If you want to use pipewire, you're supposed to set sound.enable to false, which will disable pulseaudio. If you leave it enabled, you'll likely get both. Which doesn't necessarily break anything, assuming your devices can handle at least two audio streams.

Or just leave sound.enable as it is, and eventually it'll get repurposed for pipewire.
It's not a cover, it's an explanation :)

Caplan shouldn't be surprised at the reception of his work, because people have this prior.

Of course as you say high priests of rationality examine their own biases as they reach for the book, and by the time they flip it to read the recommendations on the back they are already empty vessels for unadulterated pure non-chill-filtered high-octane data and nothing else. But most people working in public policy are just lowly humans. :/
We've had stuff like Tk since however, I don't remember anyone complaining about it.

An interpreted language being clue code for native widgets doesn't affect UI speed that much.
Thanks, that helps a lot. After spending some time on hn, I find most people here hate react and spa. And I thought I got manipulated by online blogs or so. I'm planning to do as you said.
Thanks again.
How dare you call me out like that!

But really, when you have trust rather than competition between colleagues it's absolutely ok to plan regular breaks and pull the emergency break when your focus juice has run out for the day. So depending on culture and how stable/jelled-in your team is pair programming shouldn't a exhaustive grind. That doesn't seem sustainable.
You can't ask for (nor give) a consent that broad: "use my dna for whatever research you want by whoever". Having been involved a bit with asking for informed consent in a hospital, it's sooo difficult to design a specific- and useful-enough consent form for legitimate not-for-profit medical research. I hope these jokers go to prison for a long time.
Indeed, that was plainly his intention. But what if it did sell for $69.3 million? Would he have taken the money?

Um, did it sell?
I am fully remote at my current job, and I actually rely on the Slack status to indicate whether I am "in the office" or not, because obviously my physical presence is not a useful indicator of my availability.

But you are right, it also sets an expectation that messages can only be asynchronous up to a point. Maybe this is one downside to remote work: there is no way to distinguish between "performatively demonstrating that I am actually working" and "currently available for active discussion".

I have noticed that some people actually schedule "heads down" time on their calendar and set their Slack status accordingly. I could try that and see if people respect it.