skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to introduce firebreak sprints. Take a week off every fourth sprint (or whatever) and give devs the freedom to build whatever they think will need doing to make the system better overall. You’ll get a bunch of preventative maintenance that you knew needed doing but never found time to do, but you’ll also get the occasional mad idea that turns out to have big benefits.
https://ergodox-ez.com/

It is my first some keyboard and I still love it as much as when I first got it. There was definitely a learning curve, but it was worth it.
Really? I'm curious to read more.

It works very well for me under Ubuntu these days, but if I can get it working equivalently well on NixOS I may legitimately consider switching.
Hey, I’m sorry that you had to deal with what sounds like a rough situation. My position isn’t that patriarchy explains everything – I blame economics more, for example – but rather that it means that a fair number of us do not have good tools for dealing with our feelings and we often have social pressure compounding problems. For example, you mentioned going to therapy — my father never got any form of treatment for his manic depression because he had been raised to think of that as weak and effeminate, and real men just needed to power through. His life could have gone so much better if he’d ever found a stable balance but it wasn’t a tool many men of his generation thought they could use. Even when I was growing up in suburban California in the 80s and 90s therapy was the subject of jokes & stigma, often linked to the homophobia which a lot of boys & men spent time actively reinforcing.

Again, I’m not claiming that every problem is caused by patriarchy any more than every car accident was caused by the lack of antilock brakes - only that it left a lot of us vulnerable and less prepared for downsides in life, and that it’s unevenly given (e.g. I’ve heard more “man up” messaging from other men whose lives had generally gone well than those who had some experience with hard problems). If I had a magic wand, the thing I’d want would be for anyone to feel it’s normal to get help just like nobody blinks about seeing a doctor when you break your arm.
I've googled it for at least 2 minutes and I'm still trying to work out what an "executive off-site" actually is. A big meeting? An away-day?
Some countries show estimated excess deaths less than the confirmed Covid deaths. I imagine this might be attributed to lifestyle changes reducing deaths from other causes.

Of the countries that I have looked at, Sweden is perhaps the most interesting, as the figures tracked closely together until the beginning of 2021, and then diverged rapidly over the next few months.
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It’s also weighted by market cap which makes this a pain to manage.
I would not want to trust my bank account to all of the following:

* the people that run the Signal Servers (or whoever).

* The people that send the verification SMS.

* The phone company.

... even for a little while.

Two factor only verifies you, not the bank.
Cryptomator works on iOS devices, rclone does not :)
And when they find evidence of a CA misbehaving they revoke them, as here, they don’t go to the EU and say “hey we think you need to re audit this company” and then wait a few months/years while the business continues to pay the EU to remain in the root stores.
I haven't used NixOS directly yet myself, but I use nixpkgs regularly. It really does make my life easier, so I'm thankful for that. I've built some nixos vms with nix however, that's also pretty nifty.
Imagine that you have the power of gov. spending. Would you want that limited or rationalized? The 2% figure is defined by government statisticians. When those figures don't suit their spending desires, they will trot out concepts like "symmetric inflation".

If government statisticians measure inflation to be less than 2% for a period of time, they will claim that inflation above this rate is required to achieve a symmetric rate of 2%. Even if we accept these premises, why then is a lower rate not "symmetrically" targeted when government statisticians measure inflation to be 8%?

The system is better understood as a method of rationalization for gov. spending, political favors and "stimulus".

The question is a good one, but I think you would be better served by questioning some of the underlying premises before proceeding.

Why not allow the market to set interest rates? Why must capital be allocated by government technocrats? How can fallible men with imperfect information determine prices better than decentralized market mechanisms? When in history has price fixing been beneficial? What were the results of emperor Diocletian's edicts on maximum prices?

Also note the shifting definition of inflation itself. Price inflation vs. the original definition, inflation of the money supply.
I'd say let's go straight to SD and let AI paint the next move!
>Western governments all seem to target 2% annual inflation. Why is this?

When currencies operated via the gold standard. Inflation of gold was out of their control, gold mining, gold rush etc. Which tended to be about 2%. This goes back to antiquity. Roman emperors clipped metal off their coins and thus created inflation. Inflation doesn't exist in economics, inflation is a political tool.

This is it though, that's why it's 2%, nobody has ever had the courage to aim at anything lower.

But now that it's not gold standard, what is the 2%? This is actually government being able to print money for free. 2% of total money supply pays for quite a significant amount of government. This is compounding obviously, so it's not a long term strategy. However, this is what makes large currencies so powerful.

>Why not target 0% to make financial projections simpler for businesses and households?

The government has to raise taxes(not going to work) or reduce spending(very very not going to happen)

So aiming for 0% isn't plausible not because of economics, but because of politicians.

Something did happen in 2020, usa/canada/others no longer targeted 2%. They targeted >10%. The government printed a ton of money to pay for extreme spending. Canada for example put more debt on the books in the last few years than all other prime ministers in history combined; inflation adjusted. Someone will pay for this eventually or retirees are coming back to work.
People Cheering for Humanity’s End
I think this would also be fun to try with Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, which also has the advantage of being much faster to resolve with AI than taking a minute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tic-tac-toe
Physical activity is so important I'm surprised companies generally don't actively encourage employees to exercise. Instead they stock the kitchens with sodas and junk food.
I wouldn't make exercise mandatory but I'd try to encourage everyone to a 40 minute workout in the middle of the day a few times a week. Sure, not all companies are equipped for that but many are.
The thing is most people are too tired before or after work and during the weekends. If we can get them to move a bit during the day it will work. And people will be healthier, less burned out and more productive.
Prison slave labor doesn't seem ideal for building 4nm chips.
Agree with everything, but I wouldn't be too strict on the requirement that the CTO be able to do the work - within reason and depending on the org. They definitely have to be able to understand it and have an intelligible conversation.

For example, my current place does hardware and software - CTO comes from the software side so he's not a specialist on the hardware and can't contribute directly to the electrical engineering work. But at least he knows how to ask the right questions, learn when he needs to, and got the right people under him to get the job done. And to your point, he has no formal business education and our CEO is the founder, and an electrical engineer
Yes, but this new rule also adds interesting new mechanisms, like for instance the kamikaze check move with the queen, where the opponent's only move is to take with the king, hence losing the game (as it is also engine top move).

Mastering that kind of new threats does not seem easy IMO, and in fact could well be mastered by... computers ;-)
This reminded me, I used to have a portfolio site that was built around isometric pixel art.

I thought it was pretty exciting at the time, but it was actually amazing how few people really got it.

Celebrating pixels and pixel art only seemed to make sense to a small group within the overall population, even of portfolio-reviewing folks.

This came as a minor shock to me, as someone who was surfing Pouet and various pixel art sites all the time. :-)
Ya, like Elon Musk -- he really is a self-made man!
A study investigating the causes of the discrepancy:

https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

> An early response to Covid-19, including borders’ controls and a strong test and trace capacity, could improve epidemiological surveillance and minimize excess mortality, with stringent and lengthy lockdowns not providing a significant benefit.
I was trying to write a reply to call out the use of that word. People need to be more careful with their language.
> linux (the complete system)

Like Android?

>I’m not sure why nerds are still litigating this sort of thing years after the who gnu linux thing.

Because most Linux users are no longer interacting with GNU/Linux.
Oh are they. Time for extremely hardcore, long hours, high intensity then. Let's see if this helps.
Yeah this is the problem I have with COVID discourse. Simply no regard for elderlies because they don't dominate the pop culture discussion. They way we have sacrificed our older people to COVID will be one of the worst atrocities commited in human history.
eh if you have shell access anyway this is easy to circumvent.
Doesn't that incentivize speculation, bubbles and misallocation of capital?
I doubt that. I was not talking about AWS. The price I mentioned is from Hetzner (by heart though, so I might be a bit off) which is pretty cheap. I have also tested multiple budget VPS providers and they all don’t dare to go below aforementioned price even though there is a lot of competition in the VPS market. Sometimes the more budget providers provide more vCPUs but in my tests those usually turn out to be extremely slow.
If we train recursively-restricted reinforcement learning agents, could there be interesting differences in the behaviors that emerge? Could it even be used as a method for exploration?

Some set-up considerations: 1) Actions must be discrete, or at least binned for restriction, 2) The number of times to restrict is limited by the size of the action space

I would imagine for CartPole, the balancing would become more wobbly, while still somewhat successfully balancing. But in more complicated environments, it could result in much more different behaviors because the states visited (and trajectories) could be different.
Would police officers ruminate about mistakes they may have made during a shift? My suspicion is 'generally not', and if that's true, maybe they should?

But police - and most physicians, etc - don't have a WFH option. More and more tech folks working from home don't have an automatic 'mode switch' when you leave and come back. I know it's been talked about to death, but some separation between 'non-work life' and 'work life' is easier when there's a physical separation.
Or you could have the open source microG and miss out only on Google Pay (and some bank apps that wanna validate SafetyNet for some reason). If you disable FCM / push notification support, your phone won't even need to interact with Google servers at all.
This was great thanks...

Also there's this [1], which just boggles my mind. I can't make sense of this level of centralized message control and dissemination. It's straight out of 1984.

It's hard to believe "the media" (whoever "they" are) has an agenda... it's tinfoil hat stuff.. Usually I write it off as emergent behavior of collective groups of humans trying to make $$$ from clicks, standard selfish behavior + time, leading to a race towards the bottom that looks like this.

But watching those clip segments it's pretty clear there's a story/narrative being pitched by someone with the leverage to do so. Is this propaganda? What is propaganda? How can I recognize it? Is everything propaganda? Has "the media" been captured and become a tool of whatever "system" is controlling things? This is the kind of stuff Jean Baudrillard was writing about.

Sometimes we get journalism other times we get whatever that this stuff is. I don't have a problem with journalists sticking to the facts, SBF hasn't been charged, so lets not lynch him just yet. But hopefully he's being investigated (they usually don't announce when they are investigating someone, as it puts them on notice).

Overall I think this is a direct result the 1996 Telecommunications Act which eliminated the rules on the number of radio stations a company could own (which also was one of the most lobbied bills in history). In hindsight this was a big mistake, and set things up for the kind of centralized messaging we see. There was hope that internet "streams" would help reset things, but with FAANG we're back to a small group of companies controlling what you see and hear.

Distrust of the media is at an all time high because of this kind of stuff. It's hard to put your finger on, but your gut says something is very wrong. No wonder so many people go down the tinfoil hat rabbit hole. They're simply trying to make sense of the world they're now living in.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
> You probably mean it's not a GNU operating system.

He more likely means you don't manage it as a linux system.

A lot of linux systems don't use GNU, especially embedded ones, or containers. Busybox is very common. But you don't really treat these systems any differently from GNU/linux other than some relatively mundane command differences.
Nevertheless, there is something people call "Linux" that is a full OS (rather than just a kernel). Android differs substantially from that.

Just semantics.
Because of short-term mentality.
The C-suite and VPs go to a resort or someone's cabin for a few days to talk about business strategy
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Algorithms that can control their own energy usage and energy price can leak out into the real world.
> Is it because journalists do not understand crypto, like, at all?

No, I think it's because they understand it well enough to know that if they call what FTX was doing a scam (which it was) then the entire house of cards will collapse because all of the other big crypto exchanges/lenders/yield farms/funds are doing the exact same thing. SBF laid it all out to Matt Levine on Odd Lots back in April.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/sam-bankm...
>> Its higher than people with real stress like physicians, policemen and firefighters.

> The thing is with most non-office professions like that, especially those involving physical instead of cognitive work, it's much easier to disconnect and
relax mentally after work

I wouldn't say being a physician, police or firefighter is non-cognitive work. What you say might apply to some other professions, though. But the mentioned professions definitely see stuff that will haunt you and stay with you, and won't let you disconnect.
That’s usually a big part of it. Typically people in these positions don’t interact closely, but may be competing for resources or promotions. You want to discourage a culture where people are trying to kill each other.

Getting everyone together helps with that and takes people out of their daily context. For a company that prints money, sending everyone to some luxury resort is worth it. Where I work, we went to a local picnic grove and had barbecue for a day.
um, because the people making that decision are executives?
Along similar lines, the legal system ends up dealing with this as well. Because a crime is often defined both in terms of actions taken (e.g. "Person X stabbed person Y".) and in terms of outcomes (e.g. "Person Y died."), the legal system needs to connect the cause and the outcome. So, if X is a surgeon, and stabbing was part of an unsuccessful surgery trying to save Y's life, that wouldn't be murder.

* X stabs Y, and Y immediately dies. Simplest case, X is responsible for Y's death.

* X stabs Y as part of a surgery. Y was predicted to have 2 months to live, but instead dies on the operating table. X did not murder Y, even though they were the cause of Y's death occurring on that specific day, rather than 2 months later.

* X stabs Y as part of a mugging, and Y immediately dies. Coincidentally, Y was predicted to have 2 months to live, but instead dies in the mugging. X did murder Y, even though it was the same difference in total lifespan as the previous example than 2 months later, because the intent matters.

* X stabs Y as part of a mugging, but it only requires some light stitches. While Y is driving to the emergency room, they are killed in a car accident. X would be liable for causing injury, but wouldn't be liable for the death, because it was an unrelated coincidence.

* X stabs Y, and Y later dies of blood loss at the hospital after refusing treatment for religious reasons. The defense argues that this should be counted as manslaughter instead of murder, because Y's refusal of treatment breaks the chain of causality between the action and the eventual outcome. The judge disagrees, as "defendants must take their victims as they find them."

These are all hypotheticals based on my layman's understanding of the law, except for the last one, which occurred in the case of a Jehovah's Witness who refused blood transfusions for religious reasons [0]. This became more of a ramble than I intended, but I definitely agree that causation is tricky, and "cause" could be any of "action with a causal link", "immediately preceding cause", or "deviation from a just world that initiated a causal chain", and would lead to vastly different statistics depending on the definition.

[0] https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/1975/3.html
Show HN: CastDop – Search Inside Podcasts
Hi fellow hackers,

I made a website to search full episodes in podcasts. You can search by terms/words, or list all episodes of podcast and view their transcripts.
(To list available episodes, click on the podcast name in the search result)

- Search in transcripts
- View Full transcripts of episodes
- Highlight important section of podcast episode
- Currently only for English podcasts

There is another feature in transcripts which highlights important sentences in the podcast.

The website has around 2500 episodes transcribed from around 80 podcasts.
I am working on adding around 1000 episodes per day but the list is random.

If you provide your favorite podcast in comment / on the website form, then I can prioritize that.

Note that full transcript is not available for some episodes but search is working. For full episodes, you can look for 10 podcasts with full transcripts on the right side of the page.
e.g (Lex Fridman doesn't have search result for latest 20 podcasts but before that we have around 245 episodes full transcript and searchable.)

Few questions :
1. I know that sooner or later big companies like Apple / Google /Spotify might add this feature on their podcasts. Is it worth pursuing it ?

2. How can I make it self-sustainable for getting server costs?

Thanks to @wenbin, hackernews - for showing one person can build a product.

Any help / comment / feedback is appreciated.
Thanks
I don't think this is right. Every company I've worked at has had a busy season and a not-so-busy season. Plus I still take vacations.
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> Things like extended validation was invented solely to print more money and should be phased out of web browsers. They are not "more secure" and should not be regarded as such in any user interface.

I think it would be great if something like EV certificates were available from national governments.

We have pretty solid digital ID support in Austria, but all the tech for signing and authenticating documents (useful for invoices or account statements) require special software, and aren't built into web browsers and email clients that people use.

It would be nice if I clicked a link in an invoice email, if I could check that aws-billing.at is indeed a domain that belongs to "Amazon Web Services" registered in Austria or if it is a phishing attempt from a script kiddie in a foreign country.
I think many people do that - it's very hard to write up a compelling proposal without having spent some time working on the idea to see if it's viable, but there's often no funded way to do preliminary work on an idea. If you don't do something like what you describe, it's nearly impossible to branch into new areas, and that makes it nearly impossible to do good research. This is another problem with funding project proposals.

But what I was describing was slightly different - once the proposal is funded, many PIs feel compelled to deliver what they said they would, whereas in the two years since you wrote the proposal, the world has moved on, you've learned things, both from your early work on the project and from others, and more promising avenues are now possible. If you feel compelled by the funder to continue in the original direction, you'll very rarely deliver good research.
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Me too, but I'm wondering if I went through the trouble of deleting my LP account...
I feel like Apple is a much stronger offender than Spotify. You can literally not use billions of devices on this planet for your app* if you don't send something like a 25-50% cut of all your possible profits (15-30% of revenue(!)) to them. That makes apple effectively (in monetary terms) an owner of many businesses they shouldn't own.

* no, not any application can run fine in safari
> I don’t understand the arguments that claim Apple needs to rule the device with an iron fist.

Yes. And it's easy to think that for a single issue like this it's a minor problem. Just don't buy Apple products. But there's a larger issue.

> in 10 years we’ll all have cars with a half dozen subscriptions forced on us

Right. I want to opt out of that. I also want to opt out of the corporate oversight of my property or tools in general. And while we're at it, I want to opt out of the inflationary debt driven monetary policy. And I want to opt out of vehicle-centric neighbourhood planning. Also proxy wars propagated by my government. The list goes on. And there's a burden to all of this that I'm not sure how to deal with. Happily embrace the illusion of choice, I guess? I don't use Apple products, never have.
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There must be a threshold above which making an engine move is allowed. Because if there's a checkmate move, it will be the best engine move and needs to be allowed.
It's not technically a monopoly, but in so far as it might become one, it is someone else's responsibility to tweet and complain about it.

And there is a difference in scale between Apple's control and everyone else's.
I am sceptical that burnout has become very en vogue.

I also think this why immigrants are eating locals' breakfast (so to speak). I do a lot of hiring & (very anecdotally of course) burnout is almost exclusively a topic of developed countries' software engineers. So much so, that I don't like hiring them (DACH region/Austria/Germany lately). And yes; I believe work life balance is important.
I also thought about this. In 5-10 years it would equalize as consecutive years would have less deaths.

Then again you will have excess deaths because of mental health problems that covid causes, medical problems because medical care was not available and etc. These would not equalize.