skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not including opportunity cost: booking a flight means having a credit or debit card, having a method for getting to the airport, having documentation that gets you past security, and so forth. I suspect that these are disqualifying conditions for most people considering a $130 cross-country bus trip.
This decent 25minute version will do until then. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UChQHrjefVU] (Less a distinguished British accent. ;-> )
Unities web GL export has been in an experimental state for years now.
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Can I toot my own horn?

No? Okay, okay -- then Mike Perham from https://sidekiq.org is pretty great. I’d list others, but a lot of great single person businesses eventually turn into more than a single person business. And because of that, none come to mind right now other than Sidekiq.

(Currently trying to think of more...)
They may be louder but do you have a dump truck waking you up at 4am several times a week? I really don’t know what to do anymore. Obviously they need to pick up trash that early to beat the traffic and save a few bucks /s. But the city doesn’t care and I’m constantly told that condos/apartments are a more sustainable way of living. Thats great but I’m about done with this nonsense and about to move out to the burbs so I can sleep through the night.
For numbers, Metaculus collectively puts China annexing Taiwan by 2050 at around 50%: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5320/chinese-annexation-...

30 years is a long time for forecasting though, afaik forecasting accuracy in tournaments drops as a function of time.
I have now done so. Unless you were hoping I'd notice something else could you perhaps clarify what you meant by: "not one any individual can accurately represent to any reasonable degree of confidence" if that's where you feel the disconnect was? I'm not quite sure I followed what you meant there. If not, maybe you could clarify the particular part you fealt I needed to reread?

I've also got a reply to the original question by the GP that might clarify what I've been talking about by example of that's what was unclear.
> But that's completely ignoring any geological differences of course, so not very realistic.

I could imagine that there are several other features of a tunnel that might affect its price considerably: cross-section dimension, number of pipes, technique of construction, security installations, ventilation, the type of use (rail, automotive, both), ...

For example, the Fehmarnbelttunnel/Femern Bælt-tunnelen you mentioned will consist of four pipes for both, rail and automotive, and is not drilled but built out of prefabricated modules (42m x 9m x 217m) made of concrete placed in a trench on the seabed and then covered with stones and sand.[1]

[1] Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarnbelttunnel (in German)
As someone who has been in the industry for 20+ years I've noticed changes that may have lead to this point.

Daily standups, meetings, gluing frameworks

Daily standups are is a one size solution to a communication problem. Daily standups shouldn't be necessary with a team constantly communicating. Daily standups leads to cutting projects into small daily tasks. This leads to a system of micromanagement and it doesn't provide an opportunity of non-verbal self reflection and focuses you into threadmill small task thinking never connecting with the project as a whole.

Developers are expected to attend meetings more than ever. The focus required to deep dive into complex issues get's broken with meetings that developers shouldn't be attending. You can attend meetings or you program rarely can you do both effectively on the same day and rarely can you get the focus you once had.

No one wants to reinvent the wheel so gluing together packages is considered best practice. The work has become more about making decisions around the packages you choose rather than being given time to make the package.

Top pay with top companies seem to lead to burnout, lost purpose and this unhappiness. There is something unhealthy when companies get too large, force employees into promotions or unemployment, have an avg employment of under a year or designs interview processes around finding people who optimize for a high paycheck over those with a long history of experience.
The government keeps us safe in plenty of ways (food and drug regulations come to mind immediately). The TSA just happens to not be one of those ways.
It does sound ridiculous but I’ve lived in DC, London, and SF now and all were quieter than the suburbs I’ve lived in.

Mostly because of lawn stuff and garbage pickup. Also probably a factor that I’ve been in new city buildings with good insulation and not on the ground floor.
I am generally positive to EU's GPDR framework, and I was initially positive to the Cookie consent law (EPD) when it was first proposed - as I was hoping that websites would gradually retire cookies rather than inconvenience users.

The major problem as I see it, is that the EPD the way websites implement it, has in fact made it worse for those who set their browsers to refuse cookies. (As the consent dialog will pop every time you visit, because there is no way for them to store your setting of opt-in/opt-out.

So now there needs to be an (non EPD covered) API for websites to check if they're allowed to set cookies, if cookies are not allowed by the client then there is no need for a consent dialog.
People’s political beliefs are not, and should not be, protected classes.
Do not threaten Happy Fun Ball.
So the author doesn't visit their own site? It is incredibly trivial to host a web site these days. Screw medium.com.
I declared bankruptcy on an old email address (josephg@gmail) in part because of the quantity of junk that address receives. About 10-20 junk emails per day make it through to my inbox. In my case, it’s because there’s at least 3 different people who regularly misspell their email address and type mine instead. The emails tell their story - first through account creation emails, and then a series of emails with password reset codes. And I get a flood of attempts to reset my Facebook / Google / apple / etc account passwords. All mixed with genuine spam, phishing emails, pay stubs (!!), Indian cell phone bills, and all sorts of other cruft.

The spam has now filled up my Google storage quota, and I can’t use Google docs with that account any more. (I’ll probably just backup & delete all email in that mail box soon to restore the account)

If gmail’s spam detection is “crappy”, I’m very curious who you consider “good”.
"Practical Engineering" and "Real Engineering". Actual engineers who describe compromises and shortfalls of various topics.
B1M is a very weird channel that just seems to regurgitate whatever sugar-coated press releases the mega contractors running these projects shove out the door to justify their massively inflated budgets
https://greenbuildingadvisor.com. Reading about advances in energy-saving construction techniques and HVAC is loads of fun.
I did interact with Naggum in a limited fashion back in the mid/late 90s when I briefly worked as a writer. I can't recall the specifics, but he was deeply involved in a number of heated discussions on the no.general Usenet group. I sought his opinions in relation to one of these as it made for an interesting story.

I found him fiercely intelligent, strongly opinionated - and he probably made himself vulnerable by getting too personally involved in the topics. Yet, he spoke to me respectfully. I was very sorry to read of his early passing only just a decade and a bit later.
I think this is a common fallacy. We need water to survive. If there is safer way to survive without drinking water, please let us know. However, I am certain that anyone can survive without alcohol.
> lack of empathy towards

This should be:

… inability to empathize with…

Poor wording on my part.
I have looked through this feed

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ministryofdefenceua/

which is mostly the Ukrainian military training between 2014 and 2018. The only tank I've visually identified in that feed is the T-80U with reactive armor blocks.

The T-80 has a terrible reputation in Russia because they were shot up badly in the Chechen War. (Other tanks that weren't used in that war didn't have their reputation damaged!)

I wonder if the whole point of those Warsaw Pact "big brick" apartment buildings was to make Blitzkrieg obsolete. I mean, you can be on the sixth floor and drop pianos, anvils, molotov cocktails and anything else on a tank and there is nothing they can do about it because they can't raise the gun that high.
Not only that, but a city that is predominately built upon silt and backfill
>He played you

No, I just said he wasn't arguing in good faith, and I was right, which you proved. You're actually the one he played into clicking on his misleadingly-described youtube video link. I already knew he didn't have a valid argument without falling for the bait and clicking on his "racist skinhead" link. Be glad he didn't slow your roll by rick-rolling you.
Credit default swaps activated. Win for banks
You’d be surprised, a few times I’ve had to resort to using commit emails to reach someone because their contact information wasn’t anywhere else.

I’m not spamming, and I’ve never gotten a negative response. It’s just that some people don’t think about setting up a personal site / publishing contact info.
I was a trumpet player for years in high school and college, practiced all the time at home and so did my brother so I experienced the situation from both sides. My opinion now is that it is irresponsible to make playing an instrument your hobby or profession (an instrument that can't avoid making noise that will bother others) unless you have access to an appropriate practice space. There are churches, music schools, music stores that will rent out space. Yes it sucks but that's the breaks. Either make sure you have access or don't pick up that trumpet/violin/tuba. Or switch it out for a keyboard (which can be electronic and practiced with earphones in) or guitar. This is what I did in my young adult years after I had put down the trumpet and was playing piano as a hobby while living on my own in an apartment.
> With my speech and memory going, it’s already difficult to persuade doctors that I’m sufficiently “with it” to understand the gravity of what I’m doing

You don't need to convince them. Say nothing and just go.

Never explain yourself regarding fundamental values.
The modern definition of spam, used by gmail & other providers is “email the receiver does not want to receive”.

I consider the unsubscribe button a courtesy, but the “mark spam” button is the real unsubscribe link. I wish modern email systems had a button which did both - “unsubscribe, and mark any future email from this domain as spam”.
I keep a pen in hand and I write in my books as I’m reading. Underlining, bracketing, or rewording parts I find interesting. That seems to help provide a pseudo feedback loop for me. Of course that makes them pretty much untradeable afterwards.
Living in southern California, I don't think I've ever lived anywhere where there wasn't at least one annoying dog. This includes everything from apartments, condos to single family housing. I just hate it.

I wish designated dog free neighborhoods was a thing.
My thought on the most likely confounding factors is both requirement and proclivity to get tested. Vaccinated/boosted folk are more likely to be in situations requiring testing, thus finding more mild or asymptomatic cases. I'm not sure on who is more likely to get tested of their own volition for mild symptoms and could see arguments both ways, but could see it being a factor.

Agreed, the deaths by vaccination status shows a stronger benefit, particularly with age.
Well, maybe your preference is not to leak your confirmation time. In which case, you’d set up a background process to automatically retrieve and store. This is congruent to the traffic shape today.

And it wouldn’t be bad if store-and-forward catches on, because it relieves the storage pressure for big, free services, which would be the largest burden attempting free, anonymized messaging at scale.
I recently worked through a bout of stress induced sleep onset insomnia, which my sleep psych suspects was triggered by a series of sleep interruptions over 3 years from horrendous neighbors in the last few years (a party that started at 3 am apparently was what broke the camels back)

It took me a month of CBT to break the back of it, and everything is (mostly) back to normal now, but it just blows my mind how insensitive people are to those around them. I just don't understand it.
This seems strange though. Surely the Atlassian people, being funded with a bonkers amount of money and being able to afford the best people, have a decent setup wherever their cloud installs are.

With a lot of the AWS stuff (for example) you have to go out of your way to screw it up. Unless they aren't leaning on S3 / AuroraDB / managed services and doing everything on VMs.

Surely not though, nobody does that any more, right?
> We are not obscenely overpaid.

Everything following this line seems to point in the other direction. Just because a smaller percentage of higher-ups received more doesn't mean you / we are not obscenely overpaid, it just means "they" are phenomenally obscenely overpaid and at the top of the exponential scale of "what's wrong with shit these days".

Teachers and nurses, as the pandemic demonstrated, are essential to the daily functioning of society. I couldn't do what they do day-to-day, dealing with the full range of the bell curve - and their children - and their ailments and inability to see / relate to the world. Holy hell.

The annual inspection of the foundations of the ivory tower have been sub-sub-contracted to the lowest bidder, which is a company at the end of a series of shell corporations for whose ownership can only be determined with the cooperation of a string of people that have no legal obligation to cooperate.
Relevant New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/25/blowback
A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to Covid-19 [pdf]
But water isn't toxic to cells of the body, like alcohol is. It's just that killing or causing DNA damage to individual cells doesn't necessarily create an immediate noticeable effect, so it seems like there's little going on once the hangover clears. The doesn't mean it's doing nothing
https://every.to/napkin-math/, https://www.productlessons.xyz/, https://ofdollarsanddata.com/
I fucking loathe leaf blowers. I can tell what day of the week it is by which neighbor is going for an hour or two straight with the leaf blower. Get a damn rake!
One can say that Solomon Asch experiments on social conformity are great illustrations of the benefits of free speech. Diverse opinions discourage group think and encourage critical thinking and discourse. That works even if the opinion is bogus, since in that case it may encourage the individual to avoid adopting an overwhelming majority point of view. As you mentioned it is indeed a slower process, but a much more fault tolerant one. The simple analogy is the slower, complicated democratic process vs fast, simple autocratic process.
https://www.tsa.gov/about/tsa-mission

>Mission: Protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.
>Vision: An agile security agency, embodied by a professional workforce, that engages its partners and the American people to outmatch a dynamic threat.

I suppose that is vague enough to prevent anyone the government decides is not a person from using our "transportation system." Hmm...
"Spam is a non-issue in 2022."

Except when spam filtering effects deliverability and results in mail the recipient wants to receive going to a spam folder, with no way for the recipient to change the filter. For example, I have a friend who has his own domain based on his surname and his mail from that domain goes to Gmail's spam folder even when the recipient marks it as "Not spam".
> The fact that they were employed by local agencies rather than the feds doesn't change the fact that they searched everyone in basically the same manner as today. I had my bags x-rayed and walked through metal detectors every time I flew in the 80s and 90s.

I don't think I would consider today's screening techniques "basically the same" as those in the 1980s and 1990s. My understanding is that the liquid limit, shoe removal, and use of largely ineffective personal scanning machines are all post-9/11 changes. All of that is a significant departure from having your bags scanned and walking through a single metal detector.

(More generally, this raises the question: if things are "basically the same" in your opinion between now and the 1990s, why weren't we able to stop 9/11?)
That's pretty normal, alcohol causes high heart rate for a while
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I think maybe he means convincing the doctors in the undisclosed European country.
Said accounts did not have two-factor enabled.
Pretty sure the GPT-3 part starts at "So I started paying attention to myself." -- I put the outline at the top and his first self-written paragraph into the GPT-3 playground and tried four or five times until I got something that was pretty much the same.
Except apple doesn’t monetize user traffic. Unlike google, apple’s business model isn’t based on selling out their users.

Moreover there are already firewall products on the App Store that do enforce exactly the limits you’re talking about.
I think this means "with it" enough to pass the conditions by which the doctors will assist his suicide.
I’ve tested and thanks to the low volume I can hear more than I did with normal earbuds. Noise cancelling is great at blocking out constant sounds like wind and background traffic, but it doesn’t do much for acute noises like horns, nearby cars, bicycle bells, or people talking/shouting.

With regular earbuds they were cranked up to 80% to block out the wind so I couldn’t hear any of the acute sounds I can hear with noise canceling and volume at 20%.

Funfact: I ride my motorcycle with actual earplugs. The wind noise at 80mph causes permanent damage after 15min. You hear more of the important stuff with earplugs because they block the wind.
You can fit a 3D vector into 32 bits.
"In this guide, Jay shows us how to setup an IPSEC tunnel between a local machine running OpenBSD, and a remote VM hosted at OpenBSD Amsterdam..."

A tunnel to a vm hosted on a cloud provider is far from "running SMTP servers on a residential IP address" that OP was referring to.
9 out 10 times never read the article - comments often shine the light that there is a better X that is open source, or that the thing I wanted when reading the title is Mac or IOS only - save me the click and the time.

I do try to read the article / thing if I am going to comment - but that's not many.

Many times the comments let me know that other needed thing is not released yet - or that no pricing info is published - love those saved clicks.
I think mixing politics and morality is counterproductive at best and dangerous at worst. Politics isn’t a vehicle for imposing manners or enlightened attitudes.[1] I respect George W. Bush as an extremely moral person. He was also a bad President. Same thing for Carter. Meanwhile Clinton was an immoral person, but was a good President. I think Trump was extremely immoral, but his legacy will probably be one of the most profoundly positive turns in American foreign policy in generations: dismantling the Bush/Cheney neocon apparatus.

I think Trump is a boor and I certainly wouldn’t want my kids to emulate him. At the same time, I think many of his detractors have screwed up morals as well and worry about my kids absorbing those.

[1] I think treating “racism” as a political issue rather than something to be addressed through cultural means actively hurts “Black and brown people” by pissing away political capital on abstract debates that don’t actually help anyone.
Oh, I doubt he really wanted that. The sort of thing I suspect he was actually referencing is the "black people commit X% of all crimes" / "racial differences in IQ test scores show..." talking points. (Or their equivalents in other fields. Women-in-computer-science, etc.)
I can easily imagine such laws in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. They already exist in Australia. The consensual mass hallucination regarding those places is that they are democratic countries that profess to value free speech.

But of course, it is purely a hallucination.
Japanese people went to China, Korea, the Philippines and other places in Asia in the 30's and 40's and went "bang" and haven't apologized for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_disputes

White people don't have any monopoly on violence or imperialism.
Sounds blissful. Where did you move, if you don’t mind me asking?
I actually get lots of spam in my gmail account’s inbox
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> it’s not the React team’s fault

I wasn't intending to imply that it was the React team's fault.

Personally, I like React and think it has its uses. I was loosely referencing an old coworker who was successfully and comfortably using jQuery for over a decade.

> Blame the employer

I do. They wanted cheaper labour so they had a revolving door of junior developers straight out of online React boot camps and since it's all they know it's what they used on every project regardless of other technologies that were a better fit. Turnover can be expensive so the company caved in and turned every project into a React project.

> or yourself for not switching

Sometimes easier said than done. It can be hard for some people to up and leave when they like their boss/company that they've worked with for 20+ years.
I don’t work at AWS, but believe they at least have a public image issue with the culture and work life balance. Review sites like Team Blind are markedly more negative regarding AWS than other leading technology firms. I know several friends and colleagues who are afraid to work at AWS due to the negative reputation.

AWS really needs to address some of these reputation issues if they wish to attract talent. It’s hard for me to believe all the negative feedback is true, but it doesn’t seem like AWS is doing much to address it.
In HK, the further south you go the better it seems to be… bar TST of course!

I agree about the lack of double glazing here, if we ever buy, that will be one of the first things I’d try to change.

I imagine Penny’s Bay is quiet!
Like what do you think was driven by racial animus? People use the “Muslim ban” as an example, but it’s telling that other Muslim countries didn’t want refugees from those places either.
Attempting to fix an electronics addiction with an app is also pretty HN.
Partial to the Louis Prima version https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n7VT2EHa0b4
Wow, they managed to reproduce the effectiveness of the TSA and lack of oversight in an entirely different legal system? That's impressive... Who do you have to petition to get off of their no fly list?
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22766639
Humans fear novelty more than actual danger itself. This is also why nuclear consistently fails to gain traction while fossil fuels continue the status quo of killing millions.
Having a nice painless euthanasia experience is really helped by professional medical assistance. Yes, there are other ways. But.
CRDTs are pretty rad, I’m really excited to see what the future might hold for them particularly around development
I, too, agree that progressives are moral busybodies like Bush-era evangelicals.
As an aside is there a better way to consume these newsletters than email or unroll?