skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing good documentation is exactly like writing good software: you need to start with a known foundation (the readers prior knowledge/the OS platform) and then build layers of knowledge/software on top of that. One layer at a time. And never have circular dependencies. This is why I recommend only hiring software developers who communicate clearly. Software developers who can’t communicate clearly will write software that is badly structured and hard to maintain. A confused/unclear/unsystematic mind will write confusing/unclear/unsystematic documentation/software.
Yes, I know we could. This sums up my thoughts better than I could:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30533995
This discussion itself is of nothing important. However, that doesn't preclude it from being a place where moral relativity exists and can be debated. I am not sure I understand your assumption that the importance of a claim or discussion is related to whether it can be morally judged.
It's way more than just interruptions, travel, etc.

I recently found /r/overemployed [1] on VC Twitter, and a lot of folks are using this setup to work two (or more) jobs. They know that they'll only need to dedicate 4 hours a day to any given job and as long as they can schedule non-overlapping meetings, they can get away with it.

It's got me thinking though - this might be an opportunity for startups to knowingly hire less than full time employed engineering staff at a reduced comp rate with low stress / low pressure work. Say, 10-20 hours a week, choose your own hours. You might be able to grab a few MANGA/FAANG folks and get them to work on your project instead of their "110% time" pet project at the giantcorp. It might be an operational advantage.

Has anyone looked into this?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed ; the lingo is J2 = "job two", J3, etc.
Nice psyop.

Lol jk (somewhat). How much would you say the US mission in Afghanistan is influenced by this kind of humanitarian directive vs. some nebulous geopolitical motivations?
I love this, is a bit rough around the edges, but I love it, is insanely fast, and the remote development support in a native editor is something im really looking forward to. I'm following this closely.
Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Are Coming. Here’s How to Get Ready.
If you think you have mild or moderate hearing loss, there are ways to prepare for one of the less-expensive hearing aids coming to your drugstore

By

Julie Jargon
Dec. 11, 2021 9:00 am ET

A hearing-aid disruption is under way, with inexpensive hearing aids heading to drugstores and other retailers sometime next year. But if you’re experiencing hearing loss, doctors and hearing experts say it isn’t wise to just wait for them to arrive.

The Food and Drug Administration is expected in the next few months to finalize a rule it proposed in October allowing people to buy hearing aids without getting a medical exam first. The rule would take effect 60 days after it’s published, following a public comment period that ends next month. https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/over-the-counter-hearing-ai...
Generally the plan is to put down a pad once you've got the first ship there.

There's some cool NASA concepts around for what is basically a household microwave with wheels that melts the regolith into a ceramic type material.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/35319/can-you-real...
> Despite fully reloading the page, the HTML version of Gmail consumes fewer network resources (~70KiB) and takes less overall time to return to interaction.

Reminds me of the article "Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out" [1]. It's really shocking that we've got technology that from an a priori standpoint has the capability of making web browsing faster, yet consistently due to poor development practices somehow it manages to make everything worse.

[1] https://carter.sande.duodecima.technology/javascript-page-na...
How about this: https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment/

The China communist party has taken over Tibet, where they have implemented a police state and forced people into camps.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54260732

Same thing in East Turkistan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

And now Hong Kong.

Same game play. Invade the place, liquidate/supress the population. Move your own people in.
No, they certainly shouldn't... for various reasons I did a vipassana 10 day silent retreat back in 2010, and, ended up triggering a bipolar episode[0]. No, there was no history of that in my family, it was a complete surprise.

This obviously doesn't happen to everyone doing it, but, while my blog is very much buried now, I still get yearly mails from people saying that the same thing happened to them..

[0]. http://livingvipassana.blogspot.com/2010/02/bipolar-chronicl...
> It is possible to run code from anywhere without having to trust it, thanks to this new model of computing.

Capability security is almost as old as access control lists. That's the only quibble I have with your post.
Nothing says respect like a mandate.
Right, this is how I understand it too. Is it not true if you took two photos of the same subject, with say a 24mmm lens and 70mm lens, and the then cropped and enlarged the image from the 24mm lens shot, you'd end up with the same image with the same perspective?
Doesn't mean there's value to it. This is a perfect example of manufactured moral outrage, justified post-hoc.

The onus is on the outrage to justify it, not on the accused to defend against it.

In this context, someone was expecting another person to exhibit a particular response to earn redemption based on an absolutely benign incident. At a certain point, the yelling just becomes tedious and unproductive regardless of the philosophical value of debate and discussion.

"I'm outraged because someone was wrong and no one was hurt and no harm was done" is just hubris.
My company allows whatever you want. Partners company allows hybrid, not full remote unless that was something you negotiated at the start or got them to change. Those are two very different things.
Superpower is a specific term. Nations without global power projection can not be superpowers.
Likewise, I've found my exploration of meditation and similar things has left me feeling less in control (in some ways, at least), less "me", and much less of what I expected from the outset. I suppose I expected the inverse, in a way... To feel more grounded, connected, and in touch with myself. Instead it seems I've only found that myself isn't what I thought it was.

I suppose the most profound aspect is realizing that you aren't who or what you thought you were. Your free will is a facade, and it can feel unsettling.

I try to see the silver linings, like you mentioned. The first time I heard someone nail this on the head after quite a long time of sensing it, but not understanding it, was Sam Harris. I know many others have talked about this phenomenon and perhaps they've done it better, but he helped me understand it and feel better about it quite a lot. It was very unexpected, too – until that point, I'd never really listened to him.

He advocates a lot for forgiving others on account of this lack of free will, which I really like. It's maybe the brightest silver lining. I find it easier than ever in my life to let things be when it comes to external matters. I'm a lot more compassionate towards people I may have only been bothered by in the past. It's easy to get into a headspace in which I see myself in people, and recognize how I never intend to be wrong, or bad, or whatever – and that's likely no different for them.

I sometimes miss living in the facade. At the risk of sounding dramatic, I don't know who or what I am anymore. It was nice not having to consider it before. Sometimes I can't help thinking about the cellular activity and electrical signals in my body, apparently generating whatever this life is, whatever I am. It can interfere with every day life even. It can be sort of disassociating almost. I think a significant challenge going into my 40s will be finding a way to not care about these things and just let them be, and to focus on making the most of things.
Ask HN: How is the Ukraine war being viewed within Russia?
Feels like the Iron Curtain is coming down once again, something you would have thought the information age would have retired. We in the west read the news... wondering if anyone in Russia can speak to how the invasion of Ukraine is being viewed on the "street"? Are there any scenes of rising unrest against Putin or is the "state" view still being believed?
Give it to someone that might need it like a student who can't afford to buy laptop
Do we have to make this joke every single time anything WebAssembly comes up. We get it Write Once Run Anywhere was done before.
For sure it’s a regional power but that isn’t what I said I specifically said superpower. Also who believes Russia to be a superpower? They are weaker economically than France or Britain, both of which likely have greater force projection power on a global scale than Russia. A nation with the economy of a mid-rate European power (Italy) can not be a superpower.
P.J. O’Rourke played a huge part in the formation of my world view and my transformation from an idealistic, liberal college kid to a conservative grown-up, as he might say. I stumbled upon him while reading the “Best of American Travel Writing” annual series and I had no idea at the time that his wit would eventually win me over and lead me to adopt a pragmatic and realistic approach to solving the world’s problems (and my own).

Rest in peace, sir. Hopefully with a cigarette and some fine scotch in hand. I will miss you greatly.
Public service: 9334 km/h.
My company was all in office culture until they could no longer hire or only hire really fresh/average workers in the local market. Ive been remotely for 4yrs (precovid), and promoted 3 times in that period. But im a SWE not a csuite or in hr or marketing.

Your job is what you make of it. I personally see WFH as the progression brought about by the internet; not covid. Covid just sped up the transition that was already happening. Covid brought about collective PSTD which forced peoples hand like any other trauma in ones life. It was the reason people stopped putting off there happiness, for the dream of success.
Would they really be silent?

Ion thrusters are very efficient because they accelerate particles to high velocities (typically 30 km/s exhaust velocity, up to 80). They're low-thrust because they do this to a very tiny quantity of them—nanograms per second. This is fine once you're already in orbit and you can plan your maneuvers and a 3-hour burn isn't a big deal.

Compare this to a typical kerosene rocket exhaust, ~3 km/s velocity but much more of it, over 2,500 kg/sec of fuel flow in the extreme cases (e.g. Apollo F-1), and maybe between 0.5 and 10 kg/sec for a passenger jet engine in atmosphere (very efficient because it doesn't have to carry its own oxygen).

So it seems to me if you've got enough thrust to fly a plane, even with a very gentle impulse, something that's almost a glider, it's still going to make some noise. Probably very high frequency, maybe high enough that it won't be audible. If you're hauling people or cargo, then I think it would be as loud as any jet.
I assumed that too. Matching $15,000 of donations from every user would put them and parent company Microsoft out of business in no time. Even paying users would be a black hole in the budget.
It isn’t, but I’ve heard the same thing about Wayfair.
But there is no gambling in Fortnite and shortly after Epic acquired Rocket League they removed their loot boxes too.

The only gambling there was in Fortnite was in the paid version of the game that nobody really played anyway. The game that is actually popular doesn't have it.
That defeats the purpose of the Olympics.
It's not nationalism, it's a fucking competition, jfc.
Of those not mentioned elsewhere and most interesting/useful:

Tree Style Tabs - second thing I install after Ublock origin
SponsorBlock For Youtube - to help avoid even more ads when I've already paid youtube to avoid ads..
Bye Rupert - to help avoid trashy biased news sources owned by Rupert Murdoch

Still use Firefox.
Here's a fun table at which field strengths various superconductors fall out of the superconducting mode https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Upper-critical-fields-an...

ITER uses NbTi, SPARC uses YBCO.
> In the legislation above: "White supremacists and other far-right-wing extremists are the most significant domestic terrorism threat facing the United States."

This isn't just something the legislators made up, it's a factually true statement.

From the CSIS[1]:

> Far-right terrorism has significantly outpaced terrorism from other types of perpetrators, including from far-left networks and individuals inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Right-wing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994, and the total number of right-wing attacks and plots has grown significantly during the past six years. Right-wing extremists perpetrated two thirds of the attacks and plots in the United States in 2019 and over 90 percent between January 1 and May 8, 2020.

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-u...
Nobody is arguing China isn’t a regional power though? It being a regional power is irrelevant and a bit of a strawman argument. Superpowers, by definition, are global powers a level above great power.
Especially once you get big enough to require a retention policy and have to delete your years of knowledge repository! Better off documenting separately from the start.
If graphene is cheap by either source, there's a net benefit regardless. When tech adds flexibility, we converge on more efficient uses overall because we don't have to push them through a bottleneck. And graphene manufacturing is believed to reduce our footprint in other areas by being "stronger and lighter" per unit: less used, less transported, less wasted.

And if waste food becomes a major resource, that acts as a direct encouragement to subsidize food overproduction, which is not really a bad thing(nobody wants their nation to starve in a bad season).
It makes me think of when i visited Japan, just so many shops that carry every single possible different piece of inventory possible. While in the US, if it's not selling, they'll just stop stocking it, so you're left with a way less variety of things you can buy.
I mean, mine too. I’m very disappointed and worried about this. I’m less worried about the possible tech changes than I am about supporting a crappy company that I hate.
Word is a lot of folks in Europe are happy that Biden has stepped up to bring things together but don't think the same would happen if Trump was still around. So, they're planning on ensuring they can move forward if the US's leadership weakens in another couple years.
> Wouldn't the dust technically become the atmosphere?

No, because it's not a gas (dust has basically zero pressure) and it won't stay aloft at a constant or nearly constant altitude. It will either fall back to the surface or escape.
Exactly. Force projection is one of the main qualifiers for what makes a superpower. China is a great power, for sure, but it isn’t a superpower.
The OP is talking about tech people, obviously. I don't think we need to discuss that a table in a stair case is still awesome compared to working in a coal mine. But these conditions would be borderline even for a small company on the countryside.

Disclaimer: Just going from your two comments, never saw Google's offices.
I think it's specifically a play on Stripe's mission statement to "increase the GDP of the internet" so in that light he "works for the internet".

I like his writing, but his miss on that Japan covid thing (linked in threads elsewhere) and his knee-jerk (imo, at least overly general) anti-crypto hostility has caused me to down-rank my prior for him a bit.

That said, if you write a lot publicly you're going to be wrong sometimes. I don't expect people to be perfectly consistent or perfectly correct (I'm certainly not).

I also don't care that brilliant people sometimes come off a little abrasively, it's better imo than pseudo-humble crap. I don't even think it really applies to patio11 who comes across earnest and helpful in his writing and goes out of his way to do good (salary negotiation article is still best source on the net, the vaccine availability thing).
It's a good thing there aren't any known classes of architectural attacks exploiting the interaction of speculative execution and caches to exfiltrate sensitive data, nor are there classes of attacks which exploit the physical properties of DRAM to evade memory protection.

Yes indeed; running untrusted code blobs on my home computers and cloud servers alike is truly and finally solved by running them in a VM.
You linked a Senate Bill that, as far as I can tell, never became law. It looks like similar bills were issued in 2020 and 2021 and also failed to pass.

And this is even before we attempt to tease apart why you think that conservatives would be confused with White supremacists.
Emby is pretty good.
By your definition maybe, but no one cares about that.
Found with: https://locserendipity.com/edu.html
Posse Comitatus only applies to title 10 organizations like the military.
> where you can live wherever in the world you want

People fantasize about this, but I don't really understand the need for so much stimulation, and lack of appreciation for continuity, simplicity, familiarity, and "putting roots down".

Then again, I suppose you might want these things, but your roots are in Ohio, and you simultaneously want to work for a Bay Area company.
(I work at Stripe.) This was a painful read. I'm sorry. We could have done a lot better. We're working on remediations now, and we're sending another, corrected email tonight with the updated CSV file of failed invoices as of March 1st.
It's not nuts, it's Christian. The author states he is a Christian. Some Christian sects think that Yoga and meditation are rituals that open up the dark side. I hear all the time how meditation lets the demons in.

6 Reasons to Reject Eastern Meditation and Yoga
https://rosilindjukic.com/eastern-meditation-differs-biblica...

I'm bipolar and I meditate - I sit queitly, focus on my breath and try to let my thoughts quiet down. It's a way of relaxing. The end goal is to be at peace in the moment, not some crazy drug-like experience
False equivalence between BLM and Republicans. They aren’t two sides of the same coin.

Further, BLM activists don’t blow up federal buildings (and nurseries) or bring zip-ties and gallows to their riots trying to overthrow the government. You sound silly.
>these currencies are highly stable

Can you truly call them stable with 7+% official inflation, negative real interest rates, and China owning 3+ trillion USD-nominated assets, which it probably will start to gradually sell in the wake of sanctions against the Central Bank of Russia?
Yep, certainly none of that happening on the Internet…
You're absolutely right -- it can definitely become difficult to achieve that ideal with certain clients, and as you've also said, "simple" and "maintainable" can be a very subjective thing. I admit that it's tacit knowledge in my case, and also a gamble that the next developer will preserve their sanity. There's no formal yet practical way of gauging simplicity and maintainability.

Your point on mental comfort is also spot on -- ideally, there should be a satisfaction between developer comfort and fulfilled clients. Sadly, that could also come with its own compromises. Heh, development is fundamentally a game of figuring out the sacrifices with the least impact for all parties involed.
I thought McVeigh was left wing?
I am not an attorney myself. But I have noticed that people working in law tends to rank their happiness/satisfaction levels lower that people in most other industries. Law seems to attract a large percentage of narcissistic/sociopathic individuals. Is that your impression as well?
Google cafeteria is pretty rare; delicious food free.

https://www.seriouseats.com/lunch-at-google-insanely-awesome...
This would explain a lot of the strange “road only” movement in the north. Glad I read it!
It’s always been garbage and I wish I could have told the Angel.co folks they were making a huge sucker mistake years ago by acquiring it. But their founder had clout on Twitter and used it to his advantage.
> It's discrimination any way you slice it. You can't lower the bar for one person without raising it for another so long as the class sizes remain the same.

I'm against affirmative action altogether but the best kind mostly avoids this problem: only consider ethnicity when it helps the application. Consider whites, Asians, Jews, and others as part of the same category.
As an example, in the month before Jan 6, he made regular posts showing pictures of people in other countries rioting which he claimed they were doing because they were so upset about America’s “stolen election”. He continually used terminology centered around fighting and rising up around these posts. I remember how utterly contrived it seemed to me, like the posts were intended to spur a certain idea in the minds of his followers.
CIG? Lol
"QDU" returns nothing relevant on a google search. What does this mean?

> and my own in-head foldback PA

What is this?

I think you're saying you don't like Zoom, and I'm with you on that.
Jepsen does much more than basic end-to-end tests, including intentionally partitioning the cluster. Tests written for a non-distributed system are downright friendly compared to what Jepsen does to distributed systems.
I thought Google Doc had solved this with single-version model and automatic change history with easy restoration.
YouTube is awfully slow - back when I used it I dreaded accidentally mis-clicking on something because it would initiate 3 seconds of stuttering and shit moving around everywhere while their terrible SPA (poorly) reloaded the page.

Nowadays I use Invidious which is a proxy that renders good old server-side-rendered pages and it manages to be faster despite being a proxy.
> He didn't check to make sure the integration was working correctly

But what is your definition of "check to make sure the integration was working correctly"? Once you know what was going wrong, it's easy but unhelpful to say "you should have checked to see if that thing was going wrong".

He had dashboards indicating "situation normal", and there was no specific advice that he check that an avalanche of draft invoices was silently piling up.

Given that Stripe advertises itself as making payments easy, it seems like it should take responsibility for making them easy, instead of having hidden pitfalls that silently tank your revenue.
How do you hire and trust people to perform PsyOps?

Presumably they'd know what levers you're pulling, and they may be able to pull the same levers in YOU.

Is it just a pay cheque and finding people who already believe what you believe?