skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing the math... this looks like 1.5 (email) + 12 - 2 (work till dinner, minus break) + 2 (dinner to bed) = 13.5 hours of work a day. That sounds awful.
There's a great documentary produced by an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune that gives a great insight into this. As a member of the top of the top, Johnson was able to personally interview many mega-rich children like Ivanka Trump and others, and give a direct look at what they're like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km_JmxnzTvc
The Billion Versions of Facebook You’ve Never Seen
Ancient altar reveals Mayan 'Game of Thrones' dynasty
4 of the top 5 counties are above 80% Native American. The remaining one is mostly prison inmates.

None of the top 5 has any real correlation to a geographic area per se.

Thus "Depending on Where You Live" isn't really a great title.
It is never a waste of time to become a Plan 9 user!
>Yes, because any criminal organization can easily obtain a gun, whereas novichok is much more difficult to obtain.

That's beside the point.

If someone in disfavor was killed, everybody would still know that it wasn't some random "criminal organization" that did it. There just wouldn't be direct "evidence".

If anything, this would have made killing anybody else easier (because those taking the decision wouldn't have to risk sanctions, and embargoes, and diplomatic tension, and so on), so everybody that was in disfavor would have even more reason to fear for their life (as they'd could be killed just like that with little fuss).

>They don't want to avoid all the "BS hoopla". This is a deliberate provocation.

That's the problem with people watching too much movies like "The Dark Knight‎" where supervillains do anything just to provoke, and then apply this to states which have tons to lose, and don't just provoke for the sake of it (or to scare some third grade targets, as if they couldn't achieve it otherwise).
This is like going from real numbers to imaginary numbers. Thus: Imaginary Money. I have $Billions of imaginary dollars...

In all seriousness: It's not surprising that it's difficult to project human values onto a single dimension. This is an interesting concept, but seems very challenging -- it would take mass cultural change to take effect.
Surely not all burners come off this smugly?
Her "annual trends report" gets a lot of attention here every year. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mary%20meeker&sort=byPopularit...
Oops, I missed that! Yes, it's pretty close.

I don't like the look of #10. I'm a believer in single-point-of-return.
Sure the consequences might be different, but you still have to trust the other road participants just the same.
You absolutely could. I don't work at uber but work at another Big Tech company on a similar team. We have plenty of econometrics grads on our team. Forecasting is pretty resilient to hype methods, since extrapolating into the future is so hard, there is rarely some treasure trove of data to throw into an ML model to predict the future. The biggest drivers of uncertainty in these problems tend to be unforecastable, so data-hungry models don't offer much (depends on the horizon and specific problem, but this is true as a general rule).

I'd say my only observation has been economists who also meet the bar as software engineers are a force to be reckoned with.
Apple delete apps which send telemetry to Chinese servers (2-3 days old news), Google don't care.

So, Android devices sucks with privacy and cheap space to farming to other companies. Heard some Chinese companies sell phones with ad injections in default apps.
It depends on whether or not you pass it a basic comparator function, eg:

someArray.sort((a,b) => a - b);

But yeah the example would have needed this for the less complex example as well to be accurate.
Perception of risk is what drives decisions. Actual risk drives outcomes.
> This side of the veil, instead of looking for the “gene for intelligence”, we try to find “polygenic scores”. Given a person’s entire genome, what function best predicts their intelligence? The most recent such effort [citation in the original article] uses over a thousand genes and is able to predict 10% of variability in educational attainment. This isn’t much, but it’s a heck of a lot better than anyone was able to do under the old “dozen genes” model, and it’s getting better every year in the way healthy paradigms are supposed to.

I think that's a much more measured claim than you're giving credit for; "it works" is claiming to explain 10% of variance. Do you have specific complaints about the cited article? Or are you just arguing by analogy that since people were wrong in the past, they are probably wrong now?
But more importantly, it's very helpful for those we don't have affinities for!
> Wouldn't using HTML email (default in most modern clients and webmails) be frowned upon by the ML participants?

It depends on the mailing list. They may not mind in terms of general correspondence or review of code, but they would definitely have strict requirements for emails that contain patches that a maintainer would have to apply (so that it works with git am).
Rhythms and Harmonies of astronomical systems translated into sound and music
One of the studies mentioned in that article argues that in an open office, individuals use more electronic communications, fewer face to face communication. Arguably that's fewer distractions, not more.
Much Ado about nothing - Intel furnished modem on the iPhone uses x86 instructions!!!
My guess is simply that Intel has wanted to be on the iPhone for a long time instead of ARM and, in a very tiny way, it’s finally happened.

Just an interesting find/factoid more than anything earth shattering or important.
When you enjoy what you do and get paid well for it the math works out.
I believe that all of Intel's mobile networking products were purchased from infineon. So it wouldn't be surprising if they used ARM until now given that it takes time for these things to change. They even manufactured these chips at TSMC for a while.
A lot of the acquired expertise is just the analog stuff, which obviously doesn't care what the processor is very much.

If you're shipping one of the highest-dollar chips in the iPhone, I'm sure cutting out ARM is one of the juiciest moves possible. That would have been a very big target for them.
Awww man good point
Why is there so much pressure on Americans to leave their family's home as soon as possible? I lived with my parents and my two sisters in Mexico until I got married at 32 and I think that helped me avoid depression in my twenties. Had I've been alone in those years I think I would have killed myself.

And apart for having moral support it was financially sound. When I was doing well with my freelance gigs I would contribute to the household and everybody enjoyed the fruits of the excelente USD to MXN exchange ratio, when work dried up I knew I wouldn't starve.

There's always a character in US sitcoms that lives with their parents and is portrayed to be such a loser. I just don't get it.

I guess, what I say is: if you want to travel around the world do it. If you want to live alone or with annoying room mates do it. But if you're happy with your parents (and vice-versa) why does the culture wants force you to be miserable and alone?

Screw the culture.
> On a bike, you inherently have to make a physical connection with people. In a car, you're separated by glass and steel. But when you're out on a bike, you can actually see everybody, you can say hello to the people that you meet along the way.

This is an underrated aspect of commuting by bike. I ride 8 miles into San Francisco every day, and more often then not I get a little bit of human interaction somewhere along that route. It might be waving and saying "hi" to a member of the homeless community on the side of the bike path under a freeway interchange, or another bike commuter asking me about my electric bike, or just a driver smiling and waving me through an intersection ahead of them. These small human touches bring joy to me on a regular basis and are one of several reasons why I love my commute.
A Fire Upon the Deep
In Europe the children can go to a shared park or a playground. Strolling along a street is also safe and quite pleasant when there is little traffic. There is more space and things to do than you can have in your backyard. And more importantly, they get to play with other children.

This sounds exactly like the US suburbs I've been in!
> Though I think apples "pro privacy" stance is likely just a happy accident I tend to agree.

Don’t underestimate the lure of ad money, even to a company as large as Apple. They realize the second you start taking ad money your customers are no longer your customers, but your product.
Mission: Impossible spoof opens Apple iPhone event
Just between friends, doesn't "Ad Copy" more-or-less equate to "falsehoods and exaggerations"?

If so, isn't this an unethical use of AI? If the AI is sentient, it's perhaps even immoral, demanding that a sentient entity lie, and lie repeatedly, for its upkeep.
I think “externalities” is close to the concept I want to capture with the second dimension, but I want to bake this concept into the pricing model in such a fundamental way that it can’t be ignored.
Suppose the second dimension of price in my thought is an approximation of the “total external cost” — this metric undergoes market and actuarial optimization but the domain in which these barks are traded reflects a different set of overall constraints than are captured by the inflationary dollar monetary system. As a rough example, let’s say the inflation model for the “bark” currency is tied to the total number of tree years on the planet (I don’t think this would be the right way, but just trying it as a conceptual example). So there are roughly num_tree_years “barks” in existence growing at something approaching num_trees per year. Lets say as more trees are planted or time passes that every human is allocated a proportional share of “barks” commiserate to the “bark” growth rate (or loss rate if trees are cut down faster than they are growing). So the currency reflects an externality in a shared way that is also quantitative ... if someone wants to cut down an old growth forest to build a car park, they are gonna need to find a lot of people willing to loan them “barks” to pay for it as they will have to compensate the global balance for all the barks they remove — in addition to seeking the traditional investors who will loan them money for construction on the traditional basis of their sense of the likely desirability-profit of the parking garage ...

This “barks” toy example is definitely not the precise idea I want to capture and not at all fully fleshed out — but suppose a more developed version where there is a mechanism for estimating the externality costs of any transactions and where there are different rules that apply when paying for the “externalities cost” vs paying for its dollar price ...
Yea, work buddies can't be replaced by networking.. unless you are sort of born for that (networking)
> Also allow the use of force in defense of property wrongfully seized.

Will not end well. The more aggressive towing companies in Atlanta send their operators out in pairs, wearing mirrored sunglasses, body armor and carrying sidearms like they're mercenaries. You're outmanned and outgunned.

It's like they know they're engaged in business that might upset people or something.

The police, with all their training, still shoot civilians accidentally. I really wouldn't want to test the how-not-to-shoot-civilians training of some wannabe-Blackwater towing goon.
So, I just want to throw out there that your arstechnica uarch articles are one of the things that pushed me into computer engineering rather than straight CS. And Inside The Machine I consider to be up there with Patterson & Hennessy. Thanks for all of that! : )
The cyanobacteria literally terraformed thr planet so that it's habitable animal life. If only we could do the same!
It will be tough for Democrats to shift the narrative that way. Trump voters are not the people who would give very much attention to some new macroeconomic indicators promoted by MSNBC telling them the economy is actually in a bad shape despite the fact they are doing very well.
I agree that there's many explanations to this, but my point is that this is a separate issue from the remote work.
Apple criticised for making phones 'too big' for the average female hand
> For most folks who already have an account, it's just a matter of clicking the "edit" icon on the top right of a file, making the change, then saving it.

From what I've read, it could lead to badly formatted files and commit messages (since the online editor may not handle wrapping or spacing correctly). Plus, how does one test a change they make if they just made it in an online editor? If their contribution has syntax errors because they didn't even run the code, then is it a worthwhile contribution?
The ability to install an ad blocker natively on the default browser is the reason I switched, and cannot stand androids anymore (after 5 android phones previously).
> Thailand sucks. It’s filled with crime and people there are very petty. Usually it takes Americans several years of living there to realize this.

That's such a sweeping, verging on racist, terrible generalisation of Thai citizens. I have one friend who has lived in Thailand since 2002 and another who lived there up until ~2009 before his company shipped him off to the US.

Both have nothing but good things to say about their living experience there and the people they met. Sure you're going to encounter cultural differences (for god's sake don't say anything bad about the monarchy), but that's up to you to integrate. And by all accounts, in Thailand, it isn't that hard to make these adjustments compared to say certain countries in the middle east.
I think you're talking about something else. I'm talking about set up and configuration of these tools and servers. Other people's scripts may read those configuration files and apply them but it is the config itself that I do on my own. Even then, I sometimes edit those build scripts if they don't do what I want and I just need something customized. If some other tool set all that up for me, I'd never know how to do it or I'd have to learn it anyway, negating the need for this tool in the first place.
You act as if self driving cars are independent of infrastructure. These cars need roads. And if these cars are your solution to mass transit, far more will be on the road, requiring more upkeep. Roads are huge money sinks.

You seem to think self driving cars are magnificent devices that just glide over roads and don't need bridges or tunnels. For some reason, we never include these costs with cars when compared to mass transit. That is simply unfair.

I'm not against self driving cars by any means. But people misrepresent them all the time.
Flow, and creating the environment that allows devs to achieve it, is a major theme of Peopleware. Probably the central theme. So while it's always good to draw attention to the problem, the problem and its solutions are not breaking news.

As for a model for getting both management and devs on the same page for solving the problem, I always like the example presented by Paul O'Neill's safety-first campaign at Alcoa:

http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2012/05/13...

Tackle these seemingly middling but pervasive issues, both sides will see benefits and the whole company culture will probably transform for the better.

Of course, if you have the type of management that would read that article and meditate on its deep implications for their software development operation, then you probably aren't dealing with these types of issues in the first place.
He is also incredibly clear -- I've had the chance to hear a couple of his (technical) talks. He does not oversimplify, but has a way to explaining the heart of the issue in non-technical terms so one could follow without being an expert in the specific area being discussed. (Though I'd imagine experts would get even more out of his talks.)
> The big red patch in the south is very likely largely influenced by lower African American lifespans.

There is certainly a strong correlation[0].

[0]: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2015/06/12/americas-ur...
The Exquisite, Intricate Insanity of Riding a Bike at 168 MPH
> Facebook with asking for/getting insane levels of permissions from Android for their apps.

Why then use the app in the first place? I mean, the mobile sites of fb are pretty much functional to me. (Admittably, I am happy to have no notifications on my phone outside sms and calls)
Small claims judges in the US are generally supposed to follow precedent, but they don't make precedent. Regardless, in most cases a small claims case can be appealed to a regular circuit court and receive a de novo (completely new) review. (of course, for a corporation, that means hiring an attorney...)
Not remote but I started freelancing a few years ago out of necessity. At the time I had to put in every hour of the day to make ends meet and I was getting burned out quickly. There were no weekends nor a week work, everything blended in and I greatly missed the physical cutoff between work and play. I was also struggling with occasional bouts of depression. It didn't help that my foreign wife was dealing with depression which dragged me into it even further. It was my primary reason for moving to her native country to be closer to her family.

Fast forward a year and a half and I still work on my own but now as a consultant. I work at most 3-4 hours per week of actual focused work. The rest of the time I work on side projects that never seem to come to fruition but that's another story. Mental health wise I no longer feel depressed but that may have something to do with having a newborn son who keeps me plenty smiling and a reason to live. I still go to bed late (writing this at 2:15am in my bed) and I think this alone is having a terrible effect on my health but I feel powerless to stop it. These days I am more isolated than ever with zero real life friends and very few old friends I still talk to online. I don't feel the need for human connection as I know spend most of my spare time with my son but that could just be something I tell myself. Truthfully, I want to make friends I can meet with to hang out but it has become somewhat an impossibility with my current work situation and language barrier - not to mention the social barriers put up by people of this society. I am not sure where I am going with this or what the trick is to working remotely... I guess if I think there is one thing that helps, it's that working less is more beneficial than busting your ass day in day out.
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> They have a higher than average desire to be challenged

... perhaps somebody's ego needs to be challenged ... ;)
The Atlanta suburb is Alpharetta has a night-time population of about 60k people and a day-time population over 120k. Traffic during the day is bad and those office parks aren't exactly close together.

Another example with even worse traffic (but you can usually walk a little bit for lunch time) is Sandy Springs + Dunwoody.

FYI these two job centers are, easily, a 30 minutes drive from each other.

These are scattered all around the city so choosing to live in a suburbs really limits your working options if you need to get to an opposite-side suburb. (60 - 90 minutes one-way would be normal to get from Alpharetta to Marietta with any traffic)
Well, just for one:

Spectre affects almost all CPUs. It affects ARM CPUs.

But Meltdown only affects x86 CPUs. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili...

Maybe Intel used such an old core design in their baseband that it's not affected? Nah, that'd just be too good to be true.
Beginning of the article negates any point he tried to establish further along. It screams that if the election would have gone the other way that he wouldn't be writing it.
Blockstack
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Economics has overdeveloped tools for reasoning based on price information in a "free" market of "rational" agents, and underdeveloped tools for actually valuing resources from first principles (because predicting the future, of a system involving agents, is really really hard). The former corresponds to your first axis ("how much you want it") and the latter to the second axis ("how much it costs the world to let you have it"). That's why, when facing any hard problem, the economics solution is to assume that markets will figure it out i.e. the two axis are equivalent, or that the first axis is the one we ought to work with, when making decisions (Further, whether the two should be conflated is actually a political decision, which is ignored in this sly exchange!)

The challenge is that real interactions are very different from a free market, and human agents are far from rational (for any operational meaning of rational that isn't tautological), unless in very narrow settings.

Economics doesn't have an answer to that, which is understandable, because it is a hard problem. The annoying things is when people pretend that there is nothing missing, and that everything is fine and dandy with economic metrics and tools. (EDIT: Economics is nowhere close to the physical sciences in its level of empirical rigor. Comments implicitly comparing economics to the sciences only serve as proofs illustrating my previous sentence.)
C++ has a bunch of new semantics on top of C - classes, access modifiers, virtual functions, constructors/destructors, operator overloading, different casting rules, exceptions, namespaces, templates, etc. People who know both of them well consider them very distinct languages, because the programming style you use in a C++ program is very different from a C program.
US takes first step toward a quantum computing workforce
For Third party libraries I use
https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck
It loads as fast or faster for me, probably because I'm in Europe.

Pretty cool search engine, my tests so far give results in the same ballpark as DuckDuckGo.
Seems like a gimmick to me.

In a nutshell this has the same limitation has Xamarin.

The Business Logic is shared , but the UI Logic and the Technical Logic aren't shared or not completely.

The Xamarin community has been struggling with this issue for half a decade and they ended up re-writting their own rendering engine[0] (similar to Flutter) in C# on top of Xamarin to obtain truly MVVM Cross-Platform Framework.

My point here is very simple , getting Kotlin to run on iOS is great, but it's somewhat a waste of time because of how much time and effort it would talk to create a Runtime or Rendering Engine to normalize UI/UX on differents platforms.

[0]https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
If you keep posting uncivilly and unsubstantively like this we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Researchers prevent the disappearance of quantum information
You sound like tons of fun.
One has to be careful with this line of thought. If I spend all my money on necessities or have to work 80 hours a week to sustain myself, then I can't visit that forest unless I live so close that visiting costs me almost nothing in terms of time or money.

It's possible for there to be slippage between GDP and whatever metric you imagine, but they're well connected.
Great book.

"What specialty do we need the most?"
"You mean that can bring us the most income? Obviously: Programmer-Archeologist."