skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are three ways to make a living in this business - be first, be smarter, or cheat. Now I don't cheat. And although I like to think we have some pretty smart people in this building, it sure is a hell of lot easier to just be first.
Never heard of DBT before so can't comment on that. However, I think the decision to do the increase at once seems kinda "fair". I mean they could've just raised by 10 every year were most people might say "oh it's only 10 bucks, so no big deal..." till they creepingly hit the 100 as well. At least they are upfront.
No. Reasonable decisions are literally defined as "what a reasonable person would do." What is disingenuous and dishonest is moving goal posts from "a reasonable choice" to "the most reasonable decision."

It's true that the post didn't mention mandates, but any time a group of people are putting themselves in the position to decide whether a person's individual choice about their own body is "reasonable" or not, you are pretty damn mandate-adjacent.
First thing: don't be so hard on yourself. Everyone gets anxious in interviews because the stakes are high and the interviewer has almost all the power.

Some things that I've seen work...
1) do lots of interviews. Once you get used to the (awful) dynamic and realize it's the process, not you as a human, that's wrong, it feels a little more okay to fail, which should reduce anxiety
2) meditate before the interview. I like the headspace SOS meditations.
3) work on open source projects. I've seen this be the deciding factor not due to some vague community contribution, but because your potential employer can see your code and because it's been peer reviewed. This command a certain flavor of local celebrity that can be very powerful, especially if you slay in that domain.

Good luck.
>Links to Hunter’s pics

Links? You mean a picture of an https addresses that leads to a deleted tweet.

> Biden wasn’t part of federal government then FYI.

Sure but he had connections, and way to pull those images. See twit #8.
This has bugged me since the beginning of this mess. It ought to be possible to say "Hey this looks kind of funny, could the vaccines be having weird effects in this .0000001% of the population?" without daggers coming out all around.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me that "The SARS-Cov-2 vaccines occasionally cause health problems" and "Almost everyone should get vaccinated/boosted" are both entirely true statements.
I still have the vinyl of switched on Bach and one day I'll get a record player hooked up and play it from there instead of the mp3s. Fantastic record and given the time when it was made absolutely incredible, keep in mind that this was before MIDI and most music related software that we take for granted today.
> AI can effectively bootstrap itself and improve itself so it can then improve itself again

Does this not frighten anyone else? Or am I alone in this?
"stated" is an interesting choice there, especially when using "recorded" a few words later. It reads as being a bit untrusting of the COVID death numbers.
I've worked in "climate intelligence" for many years. The list overlooks one of the largest and most immediate opportunities around that market: the data infrastructure and analysis tools we have today are profoundly unfit for purpose. Just about everyone is essentially using cartography tools to do large-scale spatiotemporal analysis of sensor and telemetry data. The gaps for both features and practical scalability are massive.

It has made most of the climate intelligence analysis we'd like to do, and for which data is available, intractable. And what we can do is so computationally inefficient that we figuratively burn down a small forest every time we run an analysis on a non-trivial model, which isn't very green either.

(This is definitely something I'd work on if I had the bandwidth, it is a pretty pure deep tech software problem.)
I've always liked this idea! I think it should be device-level too, and not have a separate ephemeral identity. In other words if you get a new phone you have to start over.
Always remember that there is no punishment for messing up, even if it seems that way.
Would be interesting to see if this application would benefit to switching the JVM from openjdk to Azuls “high performance” JVM.

Rather than use a big bang deployment. Setup an A/B test, and gather a sampling of data.

I haven’t been able to truly test azul’s claims yet. Java apps that I manage/deploy were on a small scale in regards to requests/sec and I personally didn’t see much difference.
all just part of building a sustainable business in a rapidly shifting climate from "growth at all costs" to "break even as fast as possible".
Displacement is 1000nm, so 3 orders of magnitude less than 1mm. As for frequency response, looks like they tested up to 1000Hz. I see no reason why it wouldn't work at any frequency from 0Hz up to 1000Hz, and even higher. But because the displacement is so small you really need the higher frequencies to be able to sense the actuation.

That's just piezo's, you need to stack several layers to get a usual displacement. You do get high force, so they're typically used for high precision positioning.

I've been looking at piezo bimorph actuators as used in braille displays. Because they're cantilevered you're trading displacement for force (and size). That could perhaps be used to create a high resolution array with enough displacement at low frequency. Not really wearable like a glove, but certainly portable.
I don't live in Silicon Valley. I live in a place where trades are a much bigger portion of the economy, and much of my social circle is in them. This is the common meaning that everyone else around me knows. I've explained the programmer meaning of "it's OK to stick with bad tools and you should just expect the user's skills to make up the difference" to the people who actually work with physicals tools in the trades, and it is met with either befuddlement or open laughter. No one who actually works with physical tools for a living could possibly think what programmers think about tools. You only need to experience once in your life the night-and-day transition from a blunt saw to a sharp one to get it. A skilled user of saws does not sit there bashing away at wood with a blunt saw and expecting their "skill" to cut the wood. No job foreman will sit there watching you bash away with a dull saw and smile approvingly because he knows you're making it up with "skill".

This is a peculiarly programmer misconception of an aphorism that predates the entire industry of programming.
Yes, thank you. Also, important to call out ages here:

> Median age at death was 58 years (range 46–75 years).

I keep seeing "young men" over and over in the comments. These are not the people being studied here.
Makes total sense, that’s why poor people commit tax fraud, not rich people who have no reason to want more money!

/s
Thanks for the recollection, it is a nice testimony to how prejudiced we can become due to our environment, and props to you for recognizing it for what it was and dealing with it the way you did.
These are society-wide problems, not a failure of empathy on the part of "technical people."

The lack you find depressing is natural defensiveness in the face of hostility rooted in the fear, and in most cases, broad ignorance of both the legal and technical context and operation of these systems.

We might look at this and say, "there should have been a roll out with education and appropriate framing, they should have managed this better."

This may be true but of course, there is no "they"; so here we are.

I understand the fear, but my own empathy is blocked by hostility in specific interactions.
> leaving you free to just implement your business logic.

Often, engineers (and HN) forget that code is a means to an end - not an artistic expression that provides value by its pure existence.
>Who is "we", I have never seen anything other the claims that there were claims. Can you point me to an epidemiologist that made this claim.

https://twitter.com/guccibase/status/1488297386208378889

Included in the video: Rochelle Walensky, Monica Gandhi
The first thing I think about isn't snow or handles, it's the framing. Poor framing results in door sagging which results in sticking, wearing or even broken doors. A handle you can replace pretty easily with basic tools (and a crescent wrench and square tube works as a handle in a pinch). A poorly hung door requires more skill.
Do people really believe we can innovate our way through climate change?
This paper doesn't claim that mRNA vaccines are dangerous, it investigates through autopsy 35 people in a region of Germany who died within 20 days of vaccination and only 5 of the deaths are found to show myocarditis of which only 3 somewhat might be attributed to the vaccine.

This is not an expose of big Pharma or anything like that, I don't know why the HN comments are acting as if this is some kind of research supporting the anti vaxxer claims.

If you look into the statistics, it actually might be the case that those 35 deaths were attributed to the vaccine. They found for fact that 10 of those died actually died of something else.

This is also why it takes an expert in a field to evaluate the content and make conclusions. Despite the tone in the HN comments, this actually might suggest that the deaths attributed to the vaccine side effect might be significantly higher than the reality but it would take a research to say of this is the case.
Well, the issue is that a lot of the trans research that had been conducted by then got burned by the Nazis. The modern idea of gender identity which is now widely recognized as the best possible explanation for the empirical outcomes we see was just being formed, and the dominant players in the field were still "sexologists" who decided whether someone was trans based on how attracted they personally were to their patient.

(John Money, who created the idea of gender identity in the 50s, was wildly off base about the specifics, which resulted in the tragic human rights violation of David Reimer, a cisgender man forced to live as a girl with crippling gender dysphoria. He also lied about the success of his forced gender reassignments, which resulted in routine intersex genital mutilation -- the one procedure that every single right-wing US bill banning gender-affirming healthcare for minors carefully excludes!)

Or at least that's my read of the situation! I could be wrong.
Then why does NIST warn that we might need PQC algorithms by 2035?

Or is this claim ignoring progress of quantum computing?
Want to Experience the Future of Search? Go to You.com
Yes and it shouldn't just be risk of getting the virus, as it looks like the ability of the virus to migrate to the heart also matters.

With environmental infections, it's possible that most people fight the virus within other parts of the body, with the vaccine it looks like the immune response occurred in the heart for many in this study, specifically right heart, possibly due to proximity or accidental intravascular injection:

>we recorded inflammatory foci predominantly in the right heart, which may suggest a gradual blood-stream derived dilution effect and based on this finding it is at least tempting to speculate that inadvertent intravascular vaccine injection may be contributive
If we're talking about billions of dollars, the worst case is spending millions on lawyers to contest the status for years.
McMaster is also better for wandering the aisles than Amazon! Just hop onto a catalog page, and see related item after item.

Amazon tries to sell you things that are cross-correlated, so if you buy tiny resealable bags for your board game collection, they try to sell you portable precision scales.
Well yeah, but that includes things like their benefits package, which you'd typically be paying domestically otherwise. $7200 per year of administrative costs doesn't seem that high to be honest. Less than 10% of the average employee's salary, and the "fully loaded" cost per employee, hired domestically even, is usually much higher than $7200 per year (granted, that may include office and office admin fees for non-remote companies)
The SEC Wants More Stock Auctions
If you can't cash out of equity it makes a deeply insecure situation for everyone involved. It basically becomes a weird way to perform stock buy backs and would almost certainly be immediately exploited
I’m not suggesting charitable donations are bad, I’m saying the loopholes need to be fixed. Normal people can continue donating, that wouldn’t change.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory

Or White Pages, the non-commercial version.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory

Who lives where, and their telephone number has always been public record.

It only started to become a real problem once people started automating telephone spam. Once again, an example of how Sales/Marketing/Advertising ruins every attempt at implementing a well formed public network.
This article touches on search a bit, but it doesn’t quite capture how useful I’ve found its capabilities as a hobbyist.

For example, I needed to replace a bent gear axle for my lathe during the height of supply chain issues in the past few years. The part was proprietary to the vendor, who did not have any spares on hand and was awaiting an order from their manufacturer in China.

The top search results on McMaster for “axle” yielded both axle stock and pre-fabricated axles that would likely be great solutions in other scenarios, but ultimately neither of those categories contained a part that would solve my issue.

However, third on the list of results was a category for “axle bolts”, which makes sense based on my use of one of those strings in my search. But “axle bolts” weren’t a category of things you can find by manually navigating the menus to barrow down your search. Following the link to that category actually presented you with a list of products under the category of “shoulder screws”. Within these, I found a part that fit the bill for a temporary fix!

I found it incredibly useful that it helped me navigate through industry terms that I wasn’t familiar with. It almost seemed akin to Netflix’s highly specific “shadow” categories such as “90s sitcoms with female leads” or similar.

Actually (and perhaps it already can), a ChatGPT model that could help me design projects with specific tolerances by recommending parts from sources like McMaster would be very useful.

For example, I want to build a simple hoist with a working maximum weight of 1 ton. Which grade of steel bolts should I buy that are most effective for that application? What thickness of steel square bar do I need?

There are fairly straightforward ways of calculating what a material is capable of and modeling its performance using simulation software, but a passing grade doesn’t tell me that my choice of grade 12.9 bolts is less cost effective than grade 10.9 bolts, which are significantly cheaper.
What he is saying is not true. The large vaccine trials have always been about testing the effectiveness at combating disease directly (measuring rates of reported illness or hospitalization), with antibody titers used as a quick secondary check. His comment assumes the reverse happened. We still know surprisingly little about how long antibodies are measurable in the blood and for how long and how effective they are at what prevalence rate, etc.
Anyone interested in joining an unofficial Riffusion Discord, let's organize here: https://discord.gg/DevkvXMJaa

Would be nice to have a channel where people can share Riffs they come up with.
We're past that already.
This is great! Just a tip - add meta tags to your page so it shares nicer (I just shared on Twitter and there was no preview)

These tags are super easy to make, Google “SEO Meta Tags” or “Social Sharing Meta Tags” to learn how

They make you look much more professional. Also if you open source it, we can tag it up for you. Can also beat it to shit and get it performant
Let's shift your risk of immediate assault and death up by a few orders of magnitude. I'm sure that you'll see that as "just" something that was always a risk, pretty much status quo, right right?

Oh, life & death is different? Don't be so sure; there's good reasons to believe that livelihood (not to mention social credit) and life are closely related -- and also, the fundamental point doesn't depend on the specific example: you can't point to an orders-of-magnitude change and then claim we're dealing with a situation that's qualitatively like it's "always" been.

"Easier" doesn't begin to honestly represent what's happened here: we've crossed a threshold where we have technology for production by automated imitation at scale. And where that tech works primarily because of imitation, the work of those imitated has been a crucial part of that. Where that work has a reasonable claim of ownership, those who own it deserve to be recognized & compensated.
not within the git project so much as all the other code that depends on it
I am doing online reading sessions on Mastering Emacs
Designing a simple DIY wallet and multitool card
> Because very few people will know what you are talking about if you go up to a random person and ask them about Lada or BYD.

This is why parent said only innovation Tesla has managed is name recognition.
Proud that my college alum founded this group and my two friends work here
It feels like 2021 again.

Small sample size (n = 25), small number of incidents of myocarditis, no causal link found between myocarditis and adverse events (including, but not limited to, death) and no causal link found between mRNA vaccines and myocarditis.

But do you what does cause myocarditis? Getting Covid [1].

Covid and the (highly effective) vaccines are the most clearcut case of evolution in action [2] I've seen in my lifetime.

This isn't really worth worrying about this point. Countries (barring China) have largely decided they're over Covid. Get a vaccine, don't get a vaccine. Nobody cares. Looking for justification for not getting a vaccine however reminds me of creationists trying to equate "intelligent design" as "science".

[1]: https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/22/covid-19-infection-...

[2]: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1800059-larry-niven-think-of-it...
Every person I've asked (here in Sweden) who opted out of COVID-19 vaccination made their decision based on one year of case data covering the two first waves, which to them concluded that statistically they were at no risk based on their age and health status. Despite taking e.g. tetanus boosters, TBC vaccine etc., they are still being referred to as "antivaxxers".
It won't but it will help to create more support with the rest of the people. Do as I say but not as I do doesn't work with adults any more than it works with little children.
> “I can't remember last time when I've seen(in person) a transexual person.”

How do you know? Presumably you’re not doing a genital inspection on most people.

If you assume you can just tell, it’s easy to err into many false positives. (A section of the American far right seems to genuinely believe that Michelle Obama is trans — not just as an insult they like to throw around, but literally.)
And this from the "personal freedom" and "small government" party. It's actually Colorado law that the state government cannot compile a list of gun owners.
I think the only way a federated social network could possibly take off in the current environment (one in which launching new Internet protocols is really, really hard) is by piggybacking on the most-successful one that already exists.

Yes, that's right. Its transport protocol has to be email. Maybe with a side of RSS.
Ok, so if you believe your chance of dying of covid is improbably small due to age and overall health, why is it necessary to be vaccinated even if there's only a small chance of side effects? Rare is not zero.

I don't even take OTC pain killers like advil unless I absolutely feel like I have to.
> what is the risk tradeoff for a young child, who effectively has zero risk of serious covid?

This is only true if you consider death the only "serious" outcome. Around 25% of children and adolescents who get COVID-19 will get "long COVID", with long-term effects we've just begun to understand. Plenty of "young-ish healthy people" have suffered debilitating effects.
> Just do it

I think this is a little dismissive.

The most successful people I know all learned to be productive and to break apart tasks. I don't think it's unreasonable for people who don't have that skill/muscle for whatever reason to try and figure out how to build it. It is possible to get better at this.

And the "there's nothing to learn, just do it" argument that pops up so often in these kinds of threads to me ends up reading as a kind of moral/essentialist reduction of discipline and executive function. It's just super-unhelpful when going to someone and telling them "I don't know how to do X" to get a response back of "well you'd better learn." The whole point is that they don't know how.

> There’s no secret, shortcut, magic pill.

Highly agreed, but I think this is also part of the reason why "just do it" is such bad advice; it assumes that there is some kind of switch in someone's brain they can just flip to change their behavior. In reality, getting better at productivity is the result of a long, difficult, everyday effort to learn about yourself and to learn what strategies work and what strategies don't.

Most people can not decide to "just do it." They can't just make a resolution to not struggle with something. They have to instead take an inquisitive attitude about themselves and daily work on getting better little by little. And part of that process involves asking questions and getting tips. Even advice like exercise and sleep is not really useful if someone is struggling with getting the motivation to do that stuff in the first place.

> magic pill.

There is no universal magic pill, but medication in conjunction with therapy for some people does unlock additional strategies that would not be available otherwise. Half of the productivity strategies I use would not work if I was unmedicated. Keep a calendar so I don't miss events? The only reason I can do that is because I'm medicated.

Medication doesn't magically solve problems, it doesn't mean you don't have to care about the other stuff, but for some people, medication is an important part of the process. At its best, medication prompts a kind of spiral of success. If medication helps you eat/exercise more often, that gives you more willpower to do even more stuff. If it removes enough anxiety to get rid of insomnia, that can be a game-changer for motivation.

So not exactly a magic pill, but definitely occasionally a process that can kick-start other processes. Very individually dependent though.

> nobody else will look out for your well-being except you.

I guess as long as I'm quibbling; asking for help and taking proactive steps to better yourself is looking out for yourself.

You owe it to yourself and to the people around you to take your mental state seriously and to take your problems seriously, and if that means asking for help, then that's better than staying where you are and struggling to handle that entire process on your own.

Do what you have to do to better yourself, and let go of any ego about self-reliance. Don't let embarrassment about where you are prevent you from moving to a better place.
YC has generated enough wealth from these and other endless consumption ideas for a thousand lifetimes. The billionaire's playbook now dictates you focus on building your legacy by using disruptive technology to save the world.
It's not opensource, though I expect our control plane to be made open source very soon.

We've got some of the best devs working on this and we hope to impress!