skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's what I was thinking of. (I think he has a couple of other posts along the same lines).
Maybe they want people to leave?
I think you're mistaken -- seigniorage is the difference between the cost and the value, it doesn't need to be a profit. Negative seigniorage is still seigniorage and many such papers treat it as such, e.g.;

https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/10.2307/3552184
I think overall things are better but definitely some areas of worry.

I took last week off and really just enjoyed a staycation of doing whatever I felt like. Practiced guitar, read some, played Magic like every day, and had the time & stress capacity to handle our fridge going out suddenly.

The main thing is I'm worried where things are going. For the first time, because of the market, I'm projected to make less this year than I did last, which is a first. I'm not on board with where my team's roadmap is going. The project I've been working on for two years has been on the chopping block the entire time...while I'm simultaneously told it's "super important." I get calls from my family in Texas as they're having to prepare for major power outages. My wife's super stressed from the school shooting (and we don't even have kids).

For the pay thing, I know I should be looking and applying, but just thinking about interviewing gives me dark thoughts. I just cannot believe that after 10+ years of doing this job and doing it well, I still have to explain to these dipshit recruiters that "no really, I'm a FULL-stack developer. I may not have direct experience with Your Thing but I've worked on a hundred things I didn't know because I can fucking Figure It OUT. I have the degrees, I have the experience. Oh and your little LeetCode problems are bullshit. NO ONE is out there finding the longest increasing subsequence of an integer array." Then I feel guilty for even applying because nearly no one will pay me more than what I currently make and still let me work the strict 9-5 I do. My work isn't stressful, it's just frustrating and pointless. But isn't all work? But how can I stand by a "promotion" that literally resulted in me earning less b/c of how much is in stock?

I guess I should count my blessings. Good health, decent wealth, and good free time. I've been enjoying my hobbies of playing Magic and guitar. The weather is getting to be nice enough for a cookout and I've got a 3day weekend in a few hours.
I’m old enough to remember asking people for directions.
I would think that this is neighborhood-dependent.
I know you've said native in capital letters, but it does work under proton / wine. There are a couple of "gotchas" – if you're using lutris, make sure you run it from the game's working directory. If you're using steam, use GloriousEggroll's latest version (https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases). In both cases, you'll need vkd3d-proton to get the dx12 shaders working (https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton).

I tried the game briefly. It's buggy, with a terrible UI that is obviously built for the X-box, and it's beyond punishing. It's just not my cup of tea at all.
On one hand, they're nice in that the exact value of your "points" is known and guaranteed.

On the other hand, the conversion often isn't that great, typically 1-3%. Meanwhile, earning rewards in "points" or "miles" can return value in the 5-10% range if you're savvy enough. The savings can be worth it, but some might just use a cash card out of principle (refusing to allow the card issuer to dictate how points are used) or laziness (Just don't feel like optimizing the return).

For me, I use a cash card out of laziness.
Glad Fabric is still around. But Ansible is simpler and the way to really go now.

You focus mainly on the tasks that you need with Ansible instead of the scripts.

Also you have a whole community of Ansible plugins that you can reuse for your own.

Fabric was good at one point, but it missed the migration period to Python 3, hence pushing everyone away.

I'm not even sure Fabric is on the safest Python 3.8 yet.

Fabric was fun though.
Having worked with many top tier graduates from many top schools, I think we need to dispense with the idea that academic performance is determined by intelligence.

In my experience it was highly correlated with work ethic, many top tier graduates would come in with a push to work exceptionally hard. Sometimes they’d come in with an attititude that they’d “made it” and not work hard enough.
COVID virus spike protein attaches directly to ACE2 receptors which are found all over the blood vessels in the body. It is uniquely evolved to target and damage the vascular system in the body.

edit: And people ARE tracking things like flu vs. COVID statistics. So far COVID-19 is roughly 10x as deadly as a bad flu year. Ten times...
Well if Ford is delivering vehicles, that's a big plus over the Cybertruck right now.
> monolithic eyesores that take up precious sidewalk space

To be fair, so were the pay phones they replaced. NYC just doesn't have enough sidewalk space in a lot of areas.
I remember working at a startup that had hired a lot of developers (not hundreds by any means) and saw some of the degrading effects this had. They were all, as far as I could tell, pretty good developers with goals to make the company successful.

But. (You knew there was a 'but' coming, right?)

There were definitely architectural choices that seemed (to me, as a new outsider) to have been built to keep the developers happy and/or busy, rather than because the company needed it.

They built their own analytics engine instead of using one of many many off the shelf options. Analytics was not part of their special sauce.
They work quite well. The biggest difference is that they're attached to the same plane so the sides of the gap between them don't move up and down independently of each other, which makes it slightly harder to tell which side is which by touch. The pad can still sense your finger through them so it knows where you're clicking. I can post the model after I return from vacation next week, but you'll have to shape and size it for the target touchpad anyway. It's essentially just a flat rectangle with a radiused corner that's half the length of the touchpad, with a semi-circle in the middle to index my finger on. The thickness is 0.6mm for the tallest part. This will vary depending on the geometry of the bottom edge of your pad. I used silicone glue so it's easily removable with no surface damage.

https://i.imgur.com/yQj8TYJ.jpg
I think it's a bigger assumption to believe that true intelligence is only possible with an organic group of neurons.

No other aspect of logic or simulation is dependent upon the substrate that models it.
Right, I quickly made peace with being a mediocre student at Stanford (and, still ended up getting into MIT for a physics PhD, where I was also a mediocre student but by then I didn't care :) ). I think the people who probably suffer the most at are probably premeds, where it really might be easier to get into med school by going to an "easier" school.
> obviously a cert that contains SANs for all the sites

This is where your example falls apart, because that's not a reasonable thing in the real world. Shared hosts should be (and mostly are) using SNI[1], "Server Name Indication". SNI basically adds "Tell me which certificate you want to see" to the protocol, so your browser starts the request with "I'm trying to connect to Site1", and the shared hosting provider will have certificates for each individual site they're hosting, and pick the right one.

For a real example of how this is dangerout, see jsmith45's comment above about wildcards and specific sites.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Developed countries tend to maintain rigorous public statistics on causes of death. There is no reason to fall back to anecdata.

If you're paranoid that your particular country is manipulating data, look at some other developed country's data.
> Taking Calculus at not-Stanford may have led to a very different result.

I doubt it. As my professor used to say, math is math. Plus, intro-level undergrad math courses are pretty standardized across the US. Similar textbooks, similar problem sets, and similar past exams.

There's nothing wrong to feel calculus is hard even if you're the top of your high school class. Most people hit a wall at certain abstraction level. Malcolm wrote in his book about smart people simply not being able to grok organic chemistry. Some of my smart classmates could not really understand the concept of limit intuitively. Some of them dropped out of abstract algebra course. I myself dropped out of model theory as I couldn't get why I should even bother with the course. None of these failures prevent people from finding success in other areas.
The problem is we've set-up asymmetric incentive structure. Say, there are some uncertainties regarding the risk and aftermath of COVID. If you genuinely underestimate the risk, then you are a pro-grandma killer and one of the worst human beings in the world. But if you overplay the risk, then you are an amazing human being whose only flaw is caring too much about human lives. Unfortunately this becomes another 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' story and also causes a lot of harm in the long run.
In a pond, water lilies multiply each day so as to double in size.

It takes 30 days to occupy half the pond.

How much time is left until the pond is full?

----

In other words: when we'll reach the limits, we won't have a lot of time to react.
The font fallback for sans-serif should be DejaVu Sans, not Serif. I didn't have any issue last time I used Arch.
This is almost certainly not the specific algorithm you're referring to, but Olivia MFSK sounds pleasing and can send 150 char/minute with a 7-bit ASCII data set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7a--ePSNs
It's important to make a favorable impression on people over time. Do good work, be trustworthy.

High-paid independent consulting gigs are based on a lot of mutual trust. You never know where the best referrals are going to come from, so do right by everyone.
> When tech- and progress-focused people can't figure out why some cultures/countries have "anti-progress" laws (France's protection of book stores, for instance), well, this is often part of why they do that.

This is an enormously under-appreciated perspective here, thanks for pointing it out. What appears to be a foolish luddite is often someone with a thoughtful, long-term perspective based on hard-won experience.
Governments can (and has!) "created arbitrarily without limit" metal currencies too. Given their monopoly on violence, they can just say "this coin now pays for ten pigs, not one, as you thought before". (Of course, they'd also decrease required tax payments correspondingly to maintain stable inflation.)
Tech leadership playbook to help your team achieve more when delivering value through software.
I have been using Starlink as my only internet since I got it about 6 months ago (working fully remote since COVID). It isn't flawless, but it's substantially more reliable than Comcast cable ever was in the various apartments I lived in when I was in the Bay Area.

>I also have issues doing my job if I can’t stream audio/video due to speed issues- and this happens even with a hardwired connection on occasion.

What on Earth are you streaming that causes issues on a hardwired connection? I never have had speed issues with meetings, on Starlink or broadband at previous residences. I do have occasional latency spikes, but those seem to be getting better.
I've never had this problem but I thought of a partial solution. Say you have you unit tests and they are using the same auth and logging mechanisms as prod. Create a user with a password like "ThisStringIsAPassword1234" and run the unit tests having them output logs to the disk. Then see if the logs contain that value.

Anybody ever do something like that? How effective it would be probably depends on unit test coverage.

You could also probably just do the same thing in prod with a dummy user.
This is the second time this 'datassette' has tricked me for the same reason.
i voted mostly good :)

i'm halfway done with university now. i want to use some free time to be outside more (i hear sun is good for health), and i can't wait to start my internship
Covid certainly has far a higher risk of heart damage on its own, and anecdote is not evidence, but there is a small amount of research that careless vaccination can cause damage as well.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/17917...
I've primarily used Guix System on my main PC for a few years now. It's a lot of fun.

The biggest negatives are packages being out of date or missing, updates failing due to a broken package, updates taking over 24 hours because you had bad timing and the build server hasn't built all the web browsers yet, and the configuration and packaging can seem complicated to a non-programmer. Oh, and qutebrowser is very broken and no one talks about it for some reason. I suspect at times that I'm its only user on Guix System...

I love having a list of packages easily edited with a text editor and then applied. Rollbacks are easy and useful. Partial upgrades help work around a few misbehaving packages stopping updates (whether broken or just long builds, you can skip them in the moment and then try updating them again later).

Most issues would be solved by having more contributors, which will probably come with time. Although you still need people who care about the same packages as you, or else your Guix Wishlist entries may sit around unpackaged for years, or your packaged things may stay on old versions.

I know several NixOS users, but I have struggled to get new people to stick with Guix System for more than a few weeks.

Things would also improve if I were to learn/contribute more myself, but I don't know that I have the spoons or the time. For now I'll just keep getting by with the little bit I know. Guix feels like the future, so I can't help but want to use it and support it, even when it's rough in some spots.
Someone should make a family tree of frameworks. Tetra is the child of LiveWire, is the grandchild of LiveView, is the cousin of …
> We have developed an unshakable faith in technology to address our problems.

The concern I have, especially WRT climate change, is this: We are not tackling climate change.

Yes, we solved ozone shrinkage, looming food shortages, deadly air pollution, acid rain (sorta), etc. all with technology. But we ACTUALLY tackled those problems; we banned lead gasoline, banned CFCs, starting scrubbing sulphur dioxide, improved crop yields.
I've been at the same company (more-or-less, due to acquisitions) for nearly 25 years, and I'm burning out, edging closer to pulling the eject lever. It's a bit daunting, since I haven't been to a job interview since the 90s. And I strongly suspect the reasons I want to leave won't necessarily be any better elsewhere.
> You can't compare suicide rates between countries. Too many confounding factors.

You can just as easily compare suicide rates as you can compare murder rates (which gun control advocates are inclined to do). Of course, you are right about confounding factors, which is why we should be careful about the conclusions we draw. However, I think we can safely conclude that the presence or absence of guns may not be the only factor in determining the suicide rate.

> But you can compare suicide rates between people in the same state who are gun owners and not. They did and it turned out that gun owners have 4 times higher risk of suicide (by any method) than others.

Not really much better than comparing across countries. There is more in common between these two groups, but it still isn't some randomized control trial.

CCW holders have a much lower crime rate than those without. Does that mean that if we take away their permits (and their guns) those same individuals will commit more crime? Probably not.

Likewise, while taking away guns probably will have some influence on the suicide rate, I doubt very much (or not as much as people think).

Not a scientific study, but having known gun owners who were either suicidal or successfully committed suicide, they tend to be the kind of people (men, typically) who carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. The suicidal tendencies come on strong when they feel either like they have failed the people who depend upon them, or that people don't need them anymore. Taking away their guns might keep them from committing suicide long enough for them to get help (or for the feeling to pass) but that is by no means a guarantee. We also cannot ignore the consequences of taking the guns: a psychological loss of agency, and potentially physical loss of security, etc. It's not a simple problem to solve.
Except systemd is almost the exact opposite of a monolith.
Systemd runs just fine even without systemd-oomd and can probably be disabled by a command as simple as:

> systemctl disable --now systemd-oomd

and doesn’t need to be installed in the first place.
I'd say it's not a terrible assumption given the fact you said yourself that the LTS release does become more stable over time. If picking between LTS and non-LTS, for stability, LTS is certainly the better choice.

That being said, the real solution here for "critical production" is to not run on a release that just came out, period. There's a reason Ubuntu LTS doesn't actually let you upgrade to the next LTS until the .1 release comes out. People should be deploying 20.04 if they want stability, and then upgrading to 22.04.1 when it comes out. Our infra team is still upgrading from 18.04->20.04, they won't be looking at 22.04 for a few years yet.
http://archive.today/OSyym
During my three years of working in law school admissions, GPA was a primary factor at my school and all the peer schools I knew about.

Each school would set a target median LSAT and GPA for the year's class because they were weighted heavily in the US News rankings. Applicants with both scores at or above the target median would get scholarships, applicants with one number at or above the median would be presumptively admitted, diverse applicants with solid numbers were admitted to fill out the class once LSAT and GPA were set, and then there would be a half-dozen or fewer judges' kids, politicians' kids, etc.
I am wondering how much immune "budget" do humans have for vaccines?
This topic is left unadressed and is extremely worrying, being an existential risk.
Basically, the body has a limited amount of unspecialized naive T cells in its lifetime, mostly located/modulated in the thymus gland, which involute quickly with age.

I suppose that 1) vaccines increase the rate of specialisation of naive T cells to mature t cells (hence the number of naive t cells diminish supraphysically)and I also believe that

2) those specific mature T cells, generating covid spike protein specific antibodies, have lost some or total ability to fight non-covid diseases as a cost of specialization.
1) would increase thymus involution rate and therefore age speed of immunosupression.

2) would reduce generic immune ability (learning other pathogens)

3) I believe the increased immune profile after a vaccine induce a long lasting (at least 6 month) increase of accelerated aging process in humans, via increased inflammation and therefore apoptosis, DNA mutations and oxidative stress, although in a mild form and hence in the medium term asymptomatic.

Above all the premises I enumerated, the 2) is the one I would draw the most attention to, which can be reformulated as:
do the repetitive administrations of a vaccine (here the 3 mRNA doses), reduce the effectiveness of the immune system for future non-COVID diseases, and even more importantly, does those doses reduce the immune learnability budget and therefore do those vaccines reduce the effectiveness of future vaccines against the next non-COVID pandemic?
There has to be a limit to immune memory, the question is, after how many vaccines do the effect become non-negligible on aging?

study backing chronic inflammation and therefore accelerated aging:
> vaccine-induced hypermetabolic lymph nodes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34857663/

study backing the depletion of lymphocite T helper cell production:
Study Shows Immune Cells Against Covid-19 Stay High in Number Six Months After Vaccination
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/....

Moreover, I have an issue understanding why would vaccine not massively lose effectiveness after the age of 70 since at 70 the thymus has ~completely involuted (although maybe the stem cells in the bone marrow suffice?).
This makes a common error in the direction of a causal arrow:

Technological progress is the result of ready access to fossil fuels. That is it is the result of our prosperity not it's cause.

The reason Malthus was wrong was because ready access to hydrocarbons made the Haber-Bosch process possible and easily scalable. In a world without massive amount of hydrocarbons the Haber-Bosch process is never discovered. We know this because technological advancement trail energy discovery.

I highly recommend reading through Smil's Energy and Civilization to get a better sense of this.

We are like yeast brewing in a giant vat of malted barely, seeing a what looks like an infinite amount of energy, expanding well beyond the sustainable carrying capacity of the vat. Suddenly some yeast scientists notice there is a concerning amount of alcohol in the atmosphere. Yeast economist point out this is nothing to worry about because we have solved every problem in the past, so there's nothing to really worry about.

I also can't stand the "look Malthus, Hubert and Jevons were all wrong!!!", on the scale of a 200k year species, predicted the ended within a few hundred years is pretty accurate. We just have trouble thinking beyond the time scale of a few human generations.

Finally, whale oil is a terrible example of a transition fuel. We stopped using it because we ran out of whales, but so far we've never decreased usage of an energy source that was still available to us [0]. This is no different than yeast that will consume energy filled sugars until the poison themselves. But hey, at least we get beer.

0. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...
NixOS uses systemd.
What does it mean for a company to "know better" than to do something?

It means some combination of the following: people don't make the mistake in the first place, the mistake is caught in code review, the mistake is caught in audits, the mistake is caught by automated tooling...
We don't have a steady 100%/day population growth rate, we have a 1%/year and falling growth rate.

Your analogy is off by several orders of magnitude, which leads to qualitative differences.
IV infusions with lidocaine may relieve chronic migraines
If you are lucky enough to be in a financially sound situation, why not consider a career change and try to pursue that which you've wanted?

My wife retook foundational courses for med school -- physics, biology, chemistry, etc. to pass the prerequisites, and then the MCAT. You can take classes at (any?) university, telling them they are "non-degree credits" which makes it easier for you to enroll.

For a PhD you're never too old. For medical school, likely as a "non-traditional" student, you'd have better luck at gaining admissions to a DO school than an MD school, despite the latter claiming they adore that class of student.
They are assuming a completely made up reality where they mix up an invented target with all potential victims.
The first pod is about bitcoin and the second one is about punch cards. I expected future database tech.
That is sad. I don't carry my cell phone with me everywhere, and I have never had a problem finding some one willing to lend me their phone if I needed to make a call. I have never been to Sicily before though :)
This is not new for anyone who had used Ubuntu with GNOME on low RAM machines (<2GB). earlyoom is the answer.

I upgraded to 22.04 (with GNOME) in my 2GB laptop and still is very usable.