skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that I've written an abridged mutli-generational autobiography, how does this relate to the topic? Simple - all of the above influence how I see myself.

I live in a town of 14k people, a few miles from the town of <200 people where I grew up. The median household annual income here is <$30k. The media per capita income is $16k. I work remotely for a West Coast tech company, and my salary alone puts us at over 5x the median income here. Relative to my community, I think it's fair to say that we're "white collar".

The people I work with come from a variety of backgrounds, but with few exceptions are third generation "white collar". Those born outside the US generally come from "merchant class" families or higher - otherwise, how would they have been able to afford to immigrate to the US in the first place? Relatively to my colleagues, I come from a "blue collar" world.

At one point, before I was able to reliably find remote work, we moved to Virginia where I was the first tech hire at a startup. The office I started in was actually a hotel meeting room that they had leased while they built out their permanent office space. While I was with that company, they expanded twice.

The second time they expanded, we were ready to move in to the new office space, except the desks hadn't arrived before the electricians left and it was going to be two weeks before they could get back out to wire them up. We _really_ needed the space, so I told the founders that I could install them in a couple of hours if the electricians could swing by in the afternoon to inspect the work for code compliance. In retrospect, I'm sure they thought I was nuts. They agreed, the electrician agreed, and I ran back to my apartment to grab my tools. By lunch I had all thirty or so of the desks wired up, the mess cleaned, and we were able to move everyone into the new space. I left the ceiling tiles open and the covers off the junction boxes in the ceiling so they could be easily inspected, but otherwise the job was 100% complete.

Why did I have the knowledge and tools to do that? After failing out of college, I'd worked for about a year as an apprentice electrician. I realized then that that all of my colleagues at that company came from multi-generational "academic class" families, and that that sort of thing was completely foreign to them. I spent the next two years at that company making good friends, comparing life experiences, and learning from each other. One of them shared his investment portfolio with me and walked me through his strategies and what his parents had taught him. I rented a garage and taught him basic auto maintenance - oil, tires, how an engine and drivetrain works, how to check each fluid and what they all did.
This is a very clear and technical text, something I have been looking for some time (to teach from). However, this should not be read on its own because it does not explain why the algorithms work beyond that the algebra works. We need to think a bit more about the design decisions behind the algorithms.

Nevertheless I am quite happy that the Shor's algorithm part includes probability analysis at the undergraduate level, something missing from a lot of other texts.
This is incredibly addicting
> Public domain. Concise. Effective. Choose any two.

A workaround to the "concise" problem would be a commonly understood convention for indicating that a file is CC0 with a single line comment. The officially recommended boilerplate for CC0 is painfully cumbersome:

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#May_I_apply_CC...

Something like this:

// Available under http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Come to think of it, it sure would be nice if "Available under [URL]" came to be a convention for FOSS licensing in general. I'm choosing "available" rather than "licensed" because it seems as though it would be generalizable to both copyright licenses and public domain dedications. (Caveat: though I'm fairly familiar with FOSS licensing for a layperson, I'm not a lawyer and so this would need to be reviewed by a lawyer to ensure for drafting soundness.)
Ukraine has 4 working nuclear power plants plus Chornobyl. Also, Ukraine has some nuclear facilities left from USSR times or freshly built. Ukraine has more than enough nuclear material to build dirty bombs or nuclear warheads.

For example, China Nuclear Corporation tries to buy Russian part of nuclear fuel facility almost built in Smolino[0], central Ukraine.
> Mt Gox

I always loved this one. Magic The Gathering Online: Exchange.

No, that's not a joke, the owner took a pre-existing website for trading Magic cards and turned it into a crypto exchange. And no, that's not a typo, it's not "Magic The Gathering: Online Exchange", they weren't even trading the real cards, they were virtual cards for the game Magic The Gathering: Online.
I refuse to get infected no matter how much political people seem to want me to
> Making my users do so might constitute cruel and unusual punishment

The very opposite. GPLv3 is written by lawyers and for very good reasons. The more detailed a license is the more clear it is. That's why it clearly defines what constitutes distribution and so on.

This is also why things like rent contracts have long lists of what is allowed and expected and what is not, and when and why and so on: it creates clarity.

Clarity means less debating in court.

If you want legal trouble, sign a very short contract.
I think the most straightforward thing would be to regulate mining operations as money transmitters and smart contracts as derivatives. Several jurisdictions have made noises about doing this; it seems to be more a matter of political will than any fundamental difficulty.
Same complaint from me. They also require vpn access for that overnight. So I have to leave my laptop on every night with an active vpn session just in case they want to patch.

It seems smarter just to download the patch in a background process, then prompt to patch at the end of the day.

A “hey, please leave your laptop on instead of logging out and we’ll shut down when we’re done” would be well received.
>There's a built-in assumption that Russia will observe some red lines whereas %your country% doesn't need to. This assumption may fail eventually if you try it.

You are saying that a military invasion is before the red line, and taking away TLDs is across the red line?
I imagine we'd protect Finland and or Sweden / Gotland. Though not a foreign policy expert or anything.

I think it's a bit of a practical trade off. I'm in London and while it's tempting to do a UK/US no fly zone I'm don't especially want the risk of an off his trolly Putin nuking here. But maybe we could slip some planes and missiles to Ukraine - depending on what we can get away with.
For stuff at your limit, it’s pretty rare that you go back and try it again.

Sometimes you’ll come back to add a sit start to a problem that you’ve done in the past, and in that case I’ve surprised myself on occasion by being able to do the (previously) hard stand start over and over again on demand. Other times, such as this one, the upper part becomes the crux again, since now you need to do it after tiring yourself out on the new lower bit.

But yes, it’s not uncommon to dial in the occasional hard problem as a party piece. There are a few fun ones in the forest that I make a point of repeating every time I’m in the area.
Covid sucks. My toddler (for various shitty reasons I was unable to prevent) got it three times in the last 12 months.

Even vaccinated (and never testing positive), the immune response I got from taking care of a highly infectious toddler screaming in my face was terrible and really brutal. I’m not old, fully functional immune system, etc. and it had me out for weeks, brain fog, exhaustion, off and on high fever, you name it. I suspect I still am suffering side effects from the last infection in Jan.

If I hadn’t been fully vaccinated just before the first time he got it, I’d probably be dead.

Pretending that someone who was not as strong or healthy, gets it, then dies didn’t ‘die from Covid’ is probably disingenuous at least 90% of the time.

We all die eventually, it’s the norm for whatever obvious change occurred to be blamed for it, not ‘inevitable entropic reality’ or whatever.

At the end of the day, someone has to made a judgement call about the appropriate factor in a complex system.
Politics plain and simple. COVID protocols are very unpopular at this point and not every effective. Florida and Texas are having big inflows, california and New York huge outflows. Whatever your viewpoint this is the fact politicians see. And yes taxes and cost of living are a huge driving force not only COVID, but as long as remote work goes on people will keep moving to low cost of living and low tax states.
I actually liked that it had both a timer and move limit - helps prevent analysis paralysis. My biggest complaint was that the blue and purple colours seemed very similar.
It's interesting to consider the group psychology aspect. During the 2020 summer protests, many also said that the huge crowds were not spreading covid. Maybe this is similar. When there is a larger issue people are focusing on, concerns about covid get pushed to the backburner. The real test will come when the Ukraine-Russia war subsides.
> The death rate for covid is significant but not substantial enough in itself to cause the world to lock down. The points above though, are.

For USA the death rate is still higher than times when we were not RTO.
Relicensing from second parties to third parties is acceptable, because so long as my publication is discoverable (via catalog, search engine, etc...), the third party could obtain the public-domain permission for (the copyrighted parts which are in fact) my work.

Somewhat analogously, in the United States you can publish copyrighted works that contain, and even largely consist of, public-domain content. An example off the top of my head is this book [ CliffsComplete Shakespeare's Hamlet ]( https://www.amazon.com/CliffsComplete-Shakespeares-Hamlet-Wi... ) that I used in school. This was how I was introduced to, and first read, the play. The bulk of the text consists of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", which is in the public domain in the United States, and does not require attribution or licensing. The annotations, footnotes, and explanations are original and copyrighted by the publisher (Cliff's Notes). However, I can extract the original play within and redistribute it, or novel works based on it, without worrying about violating rights held by Cliff's Notes.
> Few, if any NPCs can be attacked.

Sakon was a memorable case for me. I’m pretty sure he’s the only regular human you can kill in the whole series
So, by your definition, the unionized shops would attract only “average” developers. How competitive will they be against companies that are more aggressive about recruitment by offering more talented people more money?
I think a lot of people submit to HN from some kind of automated tool that strips out the "how" from headlines that begin with it
There are a number of github projects for both MacOS and Windows that send DCC brightness signals to monitors https://github.com/topics/brightness-control
Though personally I'm fully remote, everything I've read and seen suggests something like this is going to be extremely common. Most employees seem to want to come into an office on a semi-regular basis but not 5 days a week. And, if you're going to do that, you probably want some level of coordination whether it's at a company, facility, or team level.
Where Russia gets its chips
I mean, I'm frankly not surprised. GPS is a very weak signal and prone to jamming, and the Kremlin have known to be able to do this for a long time. I don't know anything about the military version of GPS -- it is probably much more robust to spoofing, but not necessarily to interference -- but I do know that every aviator trains to navigate without GPS. It's a "cherry on the top" rather than a critically available system.
Seems like the reason for this is that a lot of places don't accept them as special characters. The exclamation mark (!) and hash (#) are almost guaranteed to be on the special character list, so people likely choose them out of habit.
Just use the other i-word like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U...
I propose we just read it as "shit" from now on :)
That was true from the beginning. Legacy bureaucracies like the CDC are just recognizing what was clear in 2020.
From your article:

>The people dying from Covid-19 now tend to be younger than before, and they're overwhelmingly unvaccinated, experts say.

To be honest, I'm at the point now where the vaccine has been available for a year. Everyone who was going to get it has had it, and you're not likely to change the minds of those who won't get it. As heartless as this sounds, I'm tired of waiting for those people to come around. They are making the choice to not get it, let them live with whatever the consequences may be instead of keeping shit closed/restricted just because that group is making poor choices.

Edit: I realize that some people can't get it for various medical reasons, and I empathize with them. It's everyone else I'm referring to.
It was staged, so doesn’t count.
I don't think the Russians would do well against Finland and Sweden. Both are big economies, both produce a lot of arms, and the Finnish army is both large and modern.

They could maybe win against Sweden alone, since it's largely demilitarized, but they don't actually have a border, and I don't know why Finland wouldn't get involved.

PS: Finland also does conscription, so there's like a million fins who could be called up if a war broke out, and they'd all have training.
I think it is safe to say that most people do not have access to any expensive equipment.

I worked for Samsung for a little bit. And even there with operating system basically borrowed from Google, only very small portion of people ever needed to use any special tools. We got some prototypes but the one time we needed to do anything was to desolder and solder again a battery for a prototype watch. And that because a mistake (charging controller circuit badly designed, not powering properly from external power when battery drained). We had one guy do this for the rest of the team and everybody else was just working on software.
Really, do most employees contribute to innovation at all? Can they?

I certainly never have except in an explicit innovation job. The rest of the time I am an implementer. So keep me away from connections with the other parts of the business as that just becomes a sideways way to ask for feature requests I have no say in or other info/support requests.
You may be wrong.

I'm staunch in favour of remote. I like it, it works. But I recognise the benefits of in-person. I would wager that what most people like me want is a bit of control of their schedule and to be able to work in a hybrid manner. The end.

I know as that's what I was going to ask my boss, before he dragged us all back in to the office and stopped remote completely in Nov-21. Most of our team have left and I'm just about to leave.

Hybrid is a reasonable way forward. 100% on-site isn't given everything that's happened, and those are the companies who will lose their employees.
I used the bookmarklet. It grabs the html title element from the page, not the visible title.
Tito was a cult of personality. Many legends about him were just that - legends, fabricated for the sake of keeping the south Slavic people obedient and afraid.
It's not that though. While(1) doesn't include a counter that overflows.
Yes, but they're your repos, not an organization's. I'm certainly not going to question your self-knowledge. You may know that, and if you work with one or a couple other people closely they might know that too. The challenge is when you grow beyond that or don't always have the chance to communicate about these types of things, especially when they seem very obvious but might not be.
This style of writing sucks, and the abuse of the meaningless term "container" does nothing to clear it up. To reduce this CVE to one sentence: a process running in the top level control group, which has the ability to create user namespace, can take over the machine, because the kernel fails to check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

See how easy that was?
I know, that is why I am bullish on Bitcoin and bearish on shitcoins.
How would you prevent use of canvas? Browser plugin? Proxy filter?
You know, instead of fixing things people actually care about. Like that start bar.

Nice try though
Great job google docs team! The amount of innovation comming from this team is extreme! No competition in Sillicon Valley and worldwide
I found it hard to. But it didn’t plan, I was going kind of trial and error. I found this 4 steps solution after certainly more than 50 tries
The morals of US actions in the middle east are debatable but there is one massive objective difference between them and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The US went through all the procedure and protocol to make it legal under international law. They got ascent from other nations and put together a broad international coalition.

People always seem to forget that when they bring up Afghanistan and Iraq. That doesn't make it right but if you are going to condemn the US for it then you also have to condemn the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Korea and a slew of other nations as well.

And if you do also condemn them then cool, good for not being a hypocrite. But it was still legal under international law so sanctions of any kind don't really make sense.
What are the current limitations of the model which you're working on? Could you share some examples where the output is currently sub-optimal and what steps you're taking towards improving it?
> No surprise really since most adafruit stuff is rebranded Ali express merchandise.

I don't know that I've ever seen rebranded Aliexpress merch on Adafruit. Boards and such are primarily their own design. Proof being ... it's all open source and the design files are on Github. There's occasionally other vendor's products there, like Pimoroni. Again, not rebranded Aliexpress. Besides boards, there's tools and such, but those have all been on brand from what I've seen. Adafruit is how I found out about the fantastic Japanese ENGINEER brand. They generally put a lot of effort into combing through suppliers and finding good quality stuff.
He addresses that midway through the video. For general-purpose computers, probably not; digital logic has great error-minimization features that one really wants in operations.

Specialized tasks can (and do) gain advantages from this approach. When the system can be tuned around the imperfections, the imperfections become just one more parameter in the analog tuning logic.

(Sidebar: if he specifically says "for general purpose, maybe not," why is the title "We're Building Computers Wrong?" Clickbait is frustrating.)
The cost savings on fuel vs recharging makes long distance commuters (like me, NJ to NYC) look more at EVs.
You work at a digital sweatshop (AWS [1], who cannot hire fast enough for the talent they bleed) but still don't believe in the merits of organization, so what would the value be in attempting to change your mind? Not rhetorical, I am genuinely curious.

Higher level, I have a hypothesis that this boils down to empathy capacity, which some cohorts have more than others (and there is likely a genetic component [2] [3]), and therefore appeals are unlikely to sway opinions). You believe in optimizing for the individual, others believe in optimizing for the collective.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=aws+sweatshop

[2] https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-finds-that-genes-p...

[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180312085124.h...
same, It comes of as smug or some desire to prove he smarter, rather then genuinely trying to educate.

The videos are of educational, high quality, and the content is accurate. But the presentation is not for me.
Sadly, I suspect adtech is already working to target them too. What better way to fight adblockers?
The midterm elections is the only reason.
Cloth masks are estimated to be in the 50-60% effectiveness range. To me, that's quite effective, not ineffective. Especially when applied across an entire population.
Adafruit's response to this is appalling. Storing secrets in version control is one of the stupidest things you can do, and reflects poorly on the entire company. But the fact that they are choosing to not inform their customers that their PII was leaked due to their negligence is criminal (well, in certain jurisdictions).

Shame on Adafruit. Hope they get sued out of existence.
Compared to a day rate contractor, $2499/mo is very little, so if you have bitty requests rather than a need for a full time staff member, your "unlimited" could easily be not very much, but still better than finding someone to do your on and off work.
This is a great opportunity for start ups to eat the lunch of big companies by hiring all the talent that doesn’t want to commute.
Thank you!

The stoichiometric equation is:

2CO2 + 6H2 > C2H5OH (ethanol) + 3 H2O [∆G -107.4 +/- 36.8 kJ/mol]

You're absolutely right, we require low cost green hydrogen (electricity). The carbon balance depends a bit on what kind of carbon you use.
> There is a huge difference between "dying with COVID" and "dying from COVID".

The distinction you're making isn't new - it's literally years old at this point.
The homepage is mostly text but 1.3 MB. I'd work on that aspect first?
I'm sure the fact that protests are outside with the majority participants likely being mask wearers based on their affiliations also added to the risk calc.
Elections coming up as well
I'm very happy about this.

I'm building a company as a solo engineer right now, and I've been thinking a lot about growth in terms of firepower. I've decided to not anyone for a long time.

Part of the reason is that I hate being an employee, and I don't want to subject anyone to that: https://www.adama-platform.com/company.html

Instead, my bias is to find free people that enjoy their craft, and then use a waterfall model for various efforts.
That's nonsense. Mandates are going away because (1) mid-January was the predictable post-holiday travel and gathering spike, (2) several weeks later the numbers were predictably down, and then (3) lawmakers needed several more weeks to feel safe enough about the trend to act on it.

Lifting mandates now leaves enough time for another spike (followed by more restrictions) to arise before the elections. By your thinking that timing would be a disaster.

Lifting mandates 6-7 months from now would maximize the impact on the election and minimize the risk that restrictions will have to be rolled back before the election.

Everything is obviously political, but the conclusion that lifting mandates right now is strategically tied to elections in 8 months is so far from logical that I can't imagine arriving at it, only starting with it. The covid numbers provide a simple, logical explanation.
Are you reading Maria Montessori's book, The Absorbent Mind? If not, I highly recommend going straight to the source. There is a bit of a cult like mentality around the whole Montessori Method, which is odd to me. However, I do think Maria Montessori got most of it right.
"When it comes to EV performance in the winter, you get what you pay for" feels like a much better (and equally snappy imo) headline for this.
Well there's new data it's just not health related.

"In fact, support for mask mandates has reached its lowest level since we began asking in August 2021. Now, a narrow majority (51%) support their state or local government requiring masks in public places compared to the roughly 63% that had over the last 6 months."

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/axios-ipsos-coronavir...