skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Returns are the mission as a fund. If you have this enormous pool of capital due to well placed bets (which YC has), would you not, over time, make more speculative bets to win even more over time? As your scale grows, the odds of suboptimal choices increases (even with domain expertise assisting in due diligence).

The reputational risk is minimal, and bad eggs can be written off as mistakes/chance character failures.
I used to work for a supplier for Aldi Aus. They used to treat suppliers really well while they were in the growing stage. Once growth slowed they relied on the manufacturer to take up more of the pricing slack.

It is all about price and nothing else, never once where they really concerned about quality of the product. If they could have products cheaper than Coles/Woolworths they would do it regardless of how many short cuts where taken to get there. Thus you could have something like yogurt that was $1 cheaper but tasted like glue.

No price shock but you would definitely notice the quality issue once you got home.

Funnily enough Aldi aus did a study a few years back and noted that people will cut food costs before they cut entertainment. It was aimed at Coles and Woolworths to highlight that when things get rough they would flock to Aldi. Looking at their shelves recently, provided the supply chain is still running ok, it might have been true.
Yea the middle game is the easy part /s
Why should the meaning of life we choose for ourselves be a delusion?

I get the point that this meaning is arbitrary (in the sense that it has no ground since the world is absurd).

But as long as this meaning works for you, who cares if others find it meaningless?

Loneliness may be an issue though, but this is where the internet, among other ways, makes a difference. You can look for like-minded people or
publish your work, your project, your ideas to attract people interested.

Some just can't stand a meaning world, but many as I consider this lack of meaning as a requirement for our freedom.

I'm an atheist ; the absurdity of the world appeared to me at an early age - as an experience than my body can feel, an emotion, that only my mind made a rationale of.

However, raised in an open-minded but deeply Catholic family, the Bible points that very clearly. God is said to have given humans the freedom to choose to follow the path of Jesus. Or not.

Faith implies doubt, by definition. Having faith is not to be absolutely sure of the existence of God. Faith is hope despite the doubt, and God asks of the believers their fortitude in their faith into Him.

The "ultra" believers, those who have no doubt, are not "in the faith". They are usually fanatics, those kinds of people who think they are always right and want others to be like them.

It's like courage: being courageous means going over our fears. If you have no fear to handle in doing something, then your courage is not tested.

If you have no doubt whatsoever in the meaning of life, you are either a fanatic (whatever you do, some are moneymaking fanatic, fame-fanatic, power-fanatic or racist misogynist incels, hate also provides meaning, onviously) or someone who avoid at all cost to face the absurdity of the world.

For example, I have close friends who are always super busy. If they have half an hour of free time, they feel bad: they feel an emptiness that they can't bare.

The world is absurd? Great, we are totally free to give ourselves the meaning we want to our life! Isn't that amazing?

Find your crowd! They are people out there sharing your meaning of life. Create a community of intention, so that you live in the world you want.

"Become who you are".

I'm not saying it's easy, and not everybody is in capacity to be free. But most educated people are, if they want to. But acting freely requires courage, much more than succeeding in the career and the way of life the society wants you to.

That meaning of life that works for you doesn't have to be "for life". One path may prove less meaningful that expected. Loving to dev on projects you want to work on is meaningful to many. Having a well-paid job as a developer can be utterly meaningless: hence the so many side-projects to retrieve a bit of spontaneous enthusiasm whike coding.

Sometimes, what has been meaningful for years is not anymore. Many men live that during their 40s, the so-called " mid-life crisis". Or you are done, that meaning doesn't work anymore. So what? Is it lost? No! As long as you had meaningful years, that's a huge win. Just time to move on and explore another part of yourself or becoming someone else.
If they are scheduling days in advance, then why would a failure of the scheduling system cause an instant outage?
Their tech wasn’t fraud as far as I know. There are a dozen other companies using the same technology. 16S rRNA gene sequencing. I used them and never felt deceived with the data I got.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Edit:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/ubiome-co-founders-char...

Nowhere here does it say the tech was fake. Mostly insurance fraud. I don’t think the label “theranos-lite” is correct.
Is it practical to run either 10 or 11 in a VM for doing ordinary chores on the Internet?
I have seen “SAP” tossed around in this industry and still have no clue what they do to earn money. Are they the equivalence of “salesforce”?
Does your assessment include kids who’s family life might be fucked and school is their sanctuary? Or does that not matter because only Covid matters.

It takes a hell of a lot of ignorant privilege to argue for closing schools for more than a year.
Canada: Despite the nomination of open banking lead, a question remains
... studies show people expect their break-ups to be longer and more painful than they are, in part because we forget that our psychological immune system will kick in and we’ll decide we never liked the person anyway.

I must be missing this "psychological immune system," as breakups of what (to me) were deeply committed relationships have been the most painful, longest-lasting things I've ever experienced.
What is worthwhile if not happiness?
"Either using gender purely as a pejorative modifier is ok or it isn't."

This is binary thinking, language is more flexible than this.

What's more, bro-science isn't purely pejorative, it's /descriptive/ of something that is happening as we speak on bodybuilding forums.

Afaik the term was invented by 'bros' for 'bros' as a way to caution against being too credulous when folks were discussing their personal training regime, supplement 'stack' or what have you with steroids and testosterone.

The closest term for it here in this forum would be 'trading anecdata' or 'Why we chose X to build Z-corp'.

For obvious reasons, they organically settled on 'bro-science' and it's fine for it to be that way.

Programmers often do the the same thing (replace 'supplement stack' with 'tech stack'), and for much the same reason as the gym 'bros', good data is hard to come by, but you need to muddle on and choose /something/.
Prior to the widespread use two way satellite time transfer (and secondarily GPS) for this purpose ( https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_view/133433-wo... )-- taking an atomic clock on a road trip was the standard way to obtain the second: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19820012622/downloads/19...

There were even more portable units built specifically for this time transfer purpose.

I don't think NIST has a regular service for this anymore, but since they do offer a host of calibration and verification services, I'd be surprised if you couldn't road trip a clock to obtain the second... at least for a price.

I've seen some publications on transportable optical clocks in recent years, which I assume are motivated by validating newer higher precision TWSTT and fiber time transfer techniques.
Is your statistic adjusted for population and age group?

It doesn’t matter if i cannot quantify the impact of keeping kids out of school. You are the one arguing for dramatic changes to their short childhood. You need to prove that the sacrifice is worth the cost, including all the second and third order effects. I don’t have to prove anything, that’s not how this works.

Thus far, I see no evidence that says we ever should have closed schools and other stuff for kids. We absolutely fucked kids in our myopic obsession with one very specific illness. And one must be willfully blind to not see the damage we caused our kids. Not cool.
You sure they didn't sacrifice a few horses for the meat as well? Seems difficult to keep enough horses pregnant to feed an army off of milk alone.
Also have a look at the MK-90 (1988), its processor is a PDP-11 on a chip and it runs DEC BASIC.

https://elektronika.su/en/calculators/elektronika-mk-90/
If you hit me up on my email I would be willing to try.
So basically, maximal happiness then is no different than TCP throughput.
What kind of information did it give you?
The wrong move for people who want a worthwhile life, maybe. I’m not convinced that I, and perhaps a significant fraction of humanity, would choose a worthwhile life if we could only pick one to optimize for.
I like hearing about different heterodox approaches.
Like https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Run... https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/features#sha... ?
Oh really? Because that was what was expected by all these “experts”. We were told to focus on Covid spread to the exclusion of literally everything else. And yes, lots of people were afraid. The only reason to support these measures are fear and a blind trust in authority (and a very narrow and cheery picked band of authority, mind you). Every argument for lockdowns and restrictions are ultimately based on one or the other.

Dismiss my argument all you want. I’m arguing from good faith. It is very possible to see what happened in the last two years and disagree with every bit of it. The idea everybody was supposed to just fall in line and agree with “the narrative” is wishful thinking. People should disagree and you should listen to them…

Maybe you are the one who is wrong.
The horrors of working at a place that treats IT staff as second class citizens is an interesting one.
I have to say, as someone who used to work in a supermarket during high school, Aldi looks like it would be a pretty good place to work in addition to the decent pay. All the cashiers have seats, and all they really have to do (at least in the AU ones) is just scan the barcodes and sling the item back over to the customer.
Maybe a mistake was detected and they needed to recalculate?
> The interesting thing is that people who multitask often feel very productive

Identifying these 'feelings' is what turned my productivity around.

There's a lot you can do at work that makes you feel productive - fiddling with LaTeX, answering emails, scheduling meetings - but that are not productive at all.

It takes a bit of introspection and pain to realise that I wasted my day doing nonsense, in the worst case with emails I am creating work for others while wasting my own time.

Realising when you're being fake-productive is a great skill to have.
I've been waiting for MS to start pressuring me. When I look at the Windows Update control panel, they aren't even trying to encourage the upgrade to 11, even though they say my computer meets the requirements.

i.e. "Some Windows 10 features aren't available in Windows 11. Certain apps and features may have additional requirements"

Wow, that sounds great. Literally the only thing they have to say is that it's a downgrade. I think that deserves a pause to consider how weird that is. I might even be a bit put out if I was an employee who worked on 11.
The function of the external temperature sensor is so that the furnace can put out a lower amount of (instantaneous) heat when it's less cold out, so that it can operate more efficiently. On cold days, it puts out a larger amount of heat to keep up with the larger heat loss requirements.

I had a similar failure with my hot water boiler, where an older solid state control failed such that when the circulator would kick on the burner would shut off. This allowed it to limp along heating, until a day when it was too cold out and I realized it wasn't keeping up.

re: libre software, my point isn't really about being able to audit the code, but rather about having a cross-device software-maintainer-maintained codebase that users choose to use.

FWIW another, probably better, way to mitigate this particular external temperature sensor failure mode would be a second larger control loop. When the indoor temperature is more than a few degrees below the setpoint (not as a result of a scheduled change), the furnace should be less-efficiently creating a larger amount of heat to get back up to the setpoint quicker. Which is funnily enough how people think most thermostats work when they ineffectively turn it up higher to get things warmer faster.
In fairness, the evil media is pretty picky and choosy on what it wants to make damn sure you know and think, and what it hopes you don’t know and think. Hence the term.

Not sure it necessarily applies in this case though.
It’s not the structure that he has wrong (fixed vs points); it’s that he doesn’t want to take too much money and is letting them decide what’s fair.
It seems like you think all of history was complete garbage for people until the last 200 years and neither technology nor living standards ever improved until then. Serfs worked an average of 40 or less hours per week. The luddites came about because capitalism made their lives worse instead of better. How much of our world is now polluted with heavy metals and toxic chemicals because of unfettered growth at all costs? Capitalism didn't give people public schooling or public infrastructure, and most important technological breakthroughs have come from the military, university grants, and government programs. Without those, capitalism wouldn't have managed jack. You can look at all the areas of the world with little to no government interference within business or economic matters. They haven't sprung to the forefront of technology and living standards because of free enterprise, in many of those places their lives have gotten worse. Russia was industrialized under a communist model, and no matter what flaws the corruption and struggles from within their government brought, the fact that they went from subsidence peasant farms to an industrial power in less than a generation is proof that capitalism isn't the only way forward nor the source of all economic gains.
Lots of people got vaccinated but opposed vaccine mandates. With respect to Massie, he had contracted covid before a vaccine was available and didn’t get vaccinated because of natural immunity. Studies repeatedly have borne out the effectiveness of natural immunity to covid: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220120/vaccine-plus-prior-...

> Jan. 20, 2022 -- A new study from California and New York found that people who were both vaccinated and had a prior COVID-19 infection had the most protection against the coronavirus last summer and fall.

> Unvaccinated people with a past infection came in second. By October, when the more contagious Delta variant had become dominant and booster shots weren’t available to most people, the unvaccinated group had a lower case rate than vaccinated people without a previous infection.

Massie is pretty much exactly the sort of person you’d expect to build a Powerwall from a wrecked Tesla. An MIT engineer who is smarter than his critics but also an arrogant asshole who can’t just go along to get along.
Are talking about software or teaching? My accountability is quite low compared to teachers and i make significantly more. I do believe those IBM contractors because it wouldnt motivate me. I'm already doing quite well so you have to get to 1/3 my yearly salary to actually change my behavior but Im a professional so i already give it my all. I do think teachers should make more and software devs should make less but it is not the world we live apparently.
> Of the original Commodore 64 design team … Albert Charpentier, Robert Yannes, and Charles Winterble, along with David Ziembicki and Bruce Crocket … left Commodore in the spring of 1983 and formed

what became Ensoniq which became part of Creative Technology and E-mu Systems.

Ensoniq made v cool sampler synths. E-mu made advanced audio peripherals. Creative made “SoundBlaster” audio cards for PCs.

Amazing productivity from the same group.
I didn't consider containers. I mostly run Alpine in virtual machines.
Egalitarianism would imply that 50% of metros have one outearning the other, as the differences would be noise. As opposed to the 91% of metros where men out earn women today in this age group.
Yep. It's more likely that [certain] studies show [a proportion of] people expect their break-ups to be longer and more painful than they actually are.

I would have liked to see links to those studies in the article to evaluate them. I was unexpectedly broken up with once (after committing for around 'just' a couple months), and it hurt for far longer and was more painful than I thought it might be. Things were mostly better after 4 months, and rarely thought of after around 8 months.
Contact the host. I can't recall if I've done this before but I do recall that it often works.
You can also host your own, maybe. I just don't like the way all major providers are heading.
This seems to be a win-win for open source devs and users, while of course being a little more complicated than hosted SAAS
https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/proposition-65-list

$ wc -l p65chemicalslist.csv
1056 p65chemicalslist.csv
That point about cutting back on food before entertainment definitely rings true. Back when I first moved out of home I'd do EXACTLY that - huge TV, games consoles, flashy computer etc but also eating 2 minute noodles, and chickpeas or eggs for a lot of meals and occasionally a chicken fillet as a treat.
That’s not what zero sum means.

One person being harmed isn’t always a benefit to one or more other people.

Though, really, seeing as utility between persons isn’t clearly commensurable, it isn’t clear to me that the statement that the world is zero sum even, like, makes sense as a claim, because there’s no “sum of everyone’s utility” to ask whether this sum is constant.

But, if there was such a sum, it wouldn’t be constant.
The Russians are leaving and sending the troops to break the Eastern front. They are not leaving because a Ukrainian push is making them intenable. Rather, it's because the Russians are invading with 3x fewer soldiers than the Ukrainians have deployed, so they need every soldier they can in the South, now that the southern cauldron has been formed and Mariupol is on the verge of being taken.

The fact that they have just recently been able to form the cauldron lends some credence to this theory. Now, the Russians will have to push the sides of the cauldron, which will necessitate a much higher amount of troops. If they succeed, the payoff is immense - the 100k+ troops of the Eastern front will have to retreat without mechanisation, making a fighting retreat impossible. The Ukrainian army will be greatly struck, and the Russians will be able to take a lot of prime terrain and perhaps try a push all the way to the Dnieper and then up, completely cutting of Kyiv from any mechanised supply line.

Some have speculated that the only reason they attacked the North is to prevent the Ukrainian army from rotating their forced to the Donbass, thus maximizing the effectiveness of their small invading force. I don't know if I buy that.

In any case, it's abundantly clear the Russians are leaving the North to send the troops in the East, and are not being pushed back.
> That's the universal trap.

What do you mean by 'trap'. Its something people have to do no?
I’d say Pi’s easier than a VPS in a number of ways.

With VPS, you typically must know how to SSH and be able to find your way around the system entirely without a GUI (which could be jarring at first). Personally, when starting out, I was always anxious about messing something up so that it makes the server impossible to boot remotely.

Pi, meanwhile, is just another computer you physically have and can do all the normal things you do with a computer you physically have with. It has some hardware peculiarities, but then it’s also simpler to set up than building your own desktop (which, by the way, is another thing non-engineers routinely do).
I tend to think it's more about addiction, and less about the drugs, or perhaps the consequences of said drug addiction.
Realistically - just create a new one - they don’t check for multiple accounts.

I never managed to get mine unblocked (didn’t do anything bad either) but I did create a new account without problems.
easier to learn as a kid
Amazon blocks those cards.
SAP are more known for ERP than CRM

They're absolutely colossal in size

My ex-girlfiend's father is an engineer there in Baden-Wurttemberg - I'd characterise them as closer to something like Oracle rather than Salesforce
Yeah, it's not working in any browser for me at the moment.
Myself, and a large number of folks I know in medicine, microbiology, etc. were pretty worried when it turned out they were doing most of their work without an IRB back in 2013.
I’ve heard a rule of thumb that a break-up will sting for twice the length of the relationship. Assuming you were not the instigator.
Aren't you paying for each service/resource/action with a cloud provider
There are several references to the time of writing in the piece, each with a date and the last one is

Yesterday (Feb 21, 1999) I rewrote [...]
I always applaud this behavior when I see it, and it was one of my favorite features of turbolinks when it was still in vogue. Some people are on satellite internet. Some people are still on dialup. Some people are on a tiny sliver of a 3G connection that is dropping in and out as they go in and out of train tunnels. Sometimes gasp the cloud itself gets slow. In all of these situations a progress bar for practically any network action is greatly appreciated. If you are on a fast connection with a fast CPU, you likely won't even see the loading bar. If you need it, you'll probably see it. What is there to complain about? Who wants a blank screen with no information where you end up looking at dev tools to determine whether something is actually loading?
Programming graphics, especially 2D stuff, is far more ergonomic and convenient in your native language already executing on the CPU. If you can get away with it performance wise, there's really no incentive to incur the myriad obnoxious bullshit inherent in GPU programming.

But with the advent of high dpi displays it's become problematic to do even simple 2D/UI rendering on the CPU just because of the enormous quantity of pixels.

When you pull in GPU support, now you're stuck having to pick a backend (gl/vulkan/d3d/metal) or some compatibility layer to make some/all of them work. You have to write shaders, you have to constantly move state in/out of the GPU across this GPU:CPU API boundary. It's just a total clusterfuck best avoided if possible.
Happens all the time in flu season:

https://amp.providencejournal.com/amp/16579156007

https://www.wpri.com/news/er-diversions-skyrocket-in-ri-foll...
Is there a nearest neighbor option? That gets you (mostly) halfway there at least.
Naive question: Can't you leverage a game engine for this? Why do you have to do all the low level work from scratch?
what the heck is the reverse state monad
Post viral crap happens with all other sorts of respiratory viruses. Covid is far from unique when it comes to that.
It said for "schedules for trains and staff". Crew scheduling is complicated and changes constantly.
because accidents and delays happen anytime, and if the schedule can't adapt, you can't run the trains.

people seem to believe that running trains is some simple thing. it is the exact opposite of a simple thing, even for small systems with only a few dozen trains
It can’t, they’re not wired like that. They’re engineered so any fault shows either red or nothing.