skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only way this backfires is if Amazon creates a clean-room CockroachDB workalike and offers it as a hosted service.

Or offers a managed service of one of the open source products competing in the same space. Or acquires one of the existing proprietary alternatives and offers it as a managed service. Perhaps even while paying Cockroach’s license fees, offering the most popular hosted Cockroach, and still encouraging customers to shift over time to lower-cost alternatives (Amazon already does this with Windows and SQL Server; no one trick pony first-party SaaS platform is going to be anywhere near what Microsoft has deployed against AWS.)
I like the promotion video.
Look as a geek i'm interested in and irrationally optimistic despite the odds about air-to-fuel stuff like prometheus.

But as a grownup. As a responsible adult. As someone who passed high-school math. You have to look at the challenge we face, and the timeframe we have to address it, and say "oh, time's up."

We don't get to play the "i'm hoping for X" technology game anymore. That phase is over. It's time, now, to shift everything we can as fast as we can using the things we have and know.

Hopefully air-to-fuel r&d gets somewhere in a decade, and hopefully it can be commercialized quickly thereafter. That'd be great. It would go a very long way toward saving the airline and international tourism industries. But w/r/t cars, TIME IS UP.
As a small business owner who’s had remote employees across the US, there are two big problems. (These are specifically about remote employees, not remote contractors.)

First, to pay payroll taxes to employees who live in different states, you have to jump through a bunch of hoops with each state’s government. For example, when we had an employee living in Colorado, we had to set up a business relationship with the state of Colorado - using a fax machine. They literally wouldn’t accept paperwork any other way - it had to be via fax. Later, when that employee moved to another state, we had to tear down our relationship with Colorado (or else keep paying business fees to Colorado), plus set up tax paperwork with the employee’s new state. All of this cost us time & money.

Second, health insurance was a lot more complex. We wanted to offer the best possible health insurance to all of our employees, but health insurance companies make that massively complicated, with various rules about where the majority of staff lived, where each person lived, which plans were available in which states, etc. If I could do it all over again, I probably would have just given each employee an allowance to use on their local state’s open health insurance market, but that’s a hot mess too.
I notice most of the article is written in straight text, rather than visually.
>How do we know the bees don't simply use a learned lookup-table

That was basically how i was taught times tables in school as a child, and many others.
I can definitely see that in a non remote first company, but what about a company where remote is in their DNA? I spent some time reading through alley.co ‘s manual on this yesterday and it seems like if you put a lot of thought into it you could mitigate some of that.

https://info.alley.co/remote-work
Design as a Competitive Advantage
Totally agree, although sometimes I feel like I might as well work remote when people sitting next to me start talking to me on Slack. Yes, I'm wearing noise-cancelling headphones most of the time, but that's because we have a very noisy open office with support and sales people and music.
Our diapered daughter was recently in the hospital and the only thing they asked us was to weigh a dry diaper as a reference, and then place any soiled diapers on a scale in the room so they could be weighed at the nurse's convenience so they could track I/O, which is otherwise challenging for babies/toddlers.
Money and prestige converge as the income gap grows. Also with more consolidation, the concept of stability changes since businesses themselves aren’t as stable as before.
You can't pay for someone to not work for 20 years; who's going to pay?

There isn't enough wealth to cover it. All the wealth of all the billionaires in the world is only the EU healthcare budget for five years.

Productivity is what generates wealth, and we can't afford to have a large class of people merely consumptive. People aren't producing enough to do it.

If you want to give 20k/yr to someone it has to come from someone else. That's putting younger generations into a dire financial position.

Work of some form has to be found, even if it isn't covering living expenses for pension-age people. Some form of off-setting the cost has to be implemented, or else there'll be a political and economic crisis.
> And before I knew it, the clock said 10:30 and I hadn’t accomplished a single thing on my to-do list.

Add 6 hours to that and that pretty much sums up how productive most people would be with the freedom of working from home without being monitored.
Looking at some fellow passengers I sometimes have the feeling that you could board the plane with a mid-sized SUV, if only you were able to lift it above your head to put it in the bin.

Some try to avoid bags in the hold (because of costs, time, risk) by cramming everything their cabin bag. And overpacking is pretty common.
That’s kinda like saying you’ll only take google seriously when they start releasing their SERP algorithms.

Zero-days are far more useful to them as exploitable points of entry as opposed to patches.
> Considering that people with mental health issues often don’t have a lot of money, I’m not sure what market they’re targeting with a price point of $200/month. That’s more than a student loan or cheap car payment!

That's not a target market. The target market is a bored housewife with a lot of disposable income. Or someone who believes they need a therapy because a person on a subway sat next to them, etc. The app is to a way to capture the extra money that is left on a table because therapists aren't conveniently located.

That's why the ads show Michael Phelps
Of course, there's a good chance the person you're talking to will not see it that way, instead making the same mistake dTal did.
that sounds like a nightmare with CO. I have heard about the nightmare of fully remote outside of the US, but I didn’t realize it was so bad within in
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I don't believe any explanation is required.
While the controversy centers around ad blockers, the most important aspect of the Chrome extension API changes seems to have been missing from the discussions of the past few months. You will not be able to fully control every aspect of a request in your own browser, despite installing extensions that run priviledged code that you trust.

HTTP headers can no longer be freely edited, unless they are part of a limited whitelist blessed by the Chrome team. This kills innovation in the browser extension space in its tracks, and ad blockers are just a subset of use cases that will be impacted.

The changes will inevitably find their way into Chromium forks which do not have the resources to maintain the deprecated API while merging upstream changes, further limiting choice and hindering innovation.
I would say it is different, not harder. It requires different styles of leadership and communication, and when you do gather in person, your time needs to be spent differently. It only seems hard if you've never done it and have to learn new habits while losing old ones.
I'm not sure it should be a factor since we would not want to apply this standard to two adults reproducing the more classical way. The risk should be disclosed to anyone seeking to use the option, but to enforce law based on it would be a form of state enforced eugenics, no?
Too Many People Want to Travel
Often it's not bad intent but just defaulting in their favor because of previous experiences or precaution. Never hurts to ask them to change it indeed.
I would more describe this as a natural extension of a large artisanal tradition of sword-makers—swords at one point being as common in Japan as guns are in America today, unlike most of Europe where the average personal-carry weapon was a knife. There were tons of swordsmiths around to fill all that demand (and no automation to let just a few swordsmiths fill it); and the descendants of all those sword-makers still have some of that knowledge, and nothing useful to do with it (there being only so much demand for decorative and ceremonial swords today to sustain a few swordsmiths.) So what do they turn their knowledge of swordsmithing to? Making tinier pieces of metal sharp using the same techniques. Like scissors. Or fountain-pen nibs.

Or just using those skills to entertain, like this guy: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nek3wk/rice-kitchen-knife...
This isn't universally true. I'm happy to report that the Cardiac Surgery step-down unit at Boston Children's does a fantastic job working with families to determine the least intrusive modes of nursing care based on their needs & condition.
It can but whether it does depends on your local IT. Which means it doesn't.
Neural network generating technical death metal, via livestream 24/7 to infinity
If anybody from Cloudflare sees this - this is another good reason to add multiple API keys with permissions!
I wondered this a lot before. I'm lucky enough that I haven't spent much time in a hospital in my life, but visiting people there I often heard how hard it was to sleep for them due to constant interruption, noise from neighboring beds or indensive care units where it's constantly busy.

Yet on the other hand it's so often emphasized how important good sleep is for health. It seems such a nobrainer to do everything possible to make sure people can sleep well in a hospital.
There's plenty of games that still embrace modding and sandboxes, you just have to look outside the AAA mainstream.
I my experience (back in the nineties when lost baggage was much more common) - no difference.
I wouldn't normally fly first class, mind. But I would fly business now and then, and I was upgraded to first a number of times.
I never noticed any difference in how often my case was lost. Big red "Priority" sticker never made any difference. Back then the case was lost so often that I can't give you any number, but it was so often that I got quite used to it. But it definitely made no difference on which class I was flying, or with a gold card or not, etc.
Only the airport and other conditions made a difference.
Here's the corresponding paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.06633.pdf
This isn't specific to coding. A properly motivated learner in any subject will vastly outperform an apathetic one.
Endava sells its fintech division to Worldpay
I work remote. Have been for 5 years.

> Because it's much harder to keep people motivated...

What? Are the beatings about to commence?

I stay motivated because I enjoy the product I work on. I stay motivated because I'm trusted to complete the work I promise to complete. If a company hires well, they won't have to "keep people motivated."

> ... and it's harder to create an environment with efficient communication.

Not really. Follow up every important conversation with an email. Do that and you're 99% there.
Outstanding post. Author might find it interesting to partner up with game designers on visually representing massive amount of data for quick grok by the masses.
Individually-plastic-packaged fruit and veg in Japanese grocery stores’ produce sections might be one large difference in how many things some people might find themselves cutting through per day.

Japan has never gotten on board with the whole “waste reduction” thing.
I was reminded of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)
This is still very much an open problem. Paypal, Square, Venmo, Google Wallet, PopMoney all possess idiosyncrasies. As well as friction arising in enrolling both parties and setting up bank account info. I prefer using Zelle as it's fast but there is a limit of $2500 per transaction.

Ideally you need a smart contract that creates a pool of funds that can be drawn upon via some secure identity mechanism. Instead of pushing the money out, participants can pull their allotments at their convenience. Implications for UBI are also extant. Using something like Paxos Stablecoin it may be possible to realize global, instant, feeless digital payments. But again every participant needs to be on the same standard.
We are all Ford Pintos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost-benefit_analys...
Communication is key. Whenever I need direction on a particular problem or opinions on an approach face to face wins (for me) every time.
Quicksort in Erlang is the TLDR
Using the existing population more effectively through structural changes would IMO very quickly hit diminishing returns. But it could be viable with various kinds of technologies designed to improve individual and organizational cognitive performance; hell, I think this is the very way from here to the "machines that think for us", so it's a part of the solution.
Most the time the fact that you are stranding there right next to the belt waiting. It’s a extreme high risk crime with little reward and no way for the criminal to make sure what they’ll get. They’d have a more profitable time trying to pick wallets from people waiting for their baggage.
Similar for me, but custom maps in wc3 instead.
Define "immigration". One of the problems that smart, educated, intern-level immigrants have is they are getting caught in the crossfire of millions of uneducated day-laborers streaming over the border.

We should have increased immigration on a merit-based system (obviously college students would be a strong merit).
Am I the exception? I think Remote work sucks.

I'd rather have proximity to co-workers so we can easily share ideas in informal ways.

Sometimes you don't want to formally disperse some information but are happy to let people overhear what you think.

An environment where people can find meeting rooms when they need them, can find peace and quiet when they need them but also generally have co-location means good team cohesion.

If developers are remote, you will find that your code-base becomes the same. That critical FooBarAdapter becomes something that only Naimh can work on because without co-location if another developer is stuck on it, rather than grabbing her for a "Can you look at this?" over the shoulder, it gets slung over the fence in an issue or pull request.

Yes, when working face to face too many (formal) meetings can be a problem, but don't abolish co-location just abolish the meetings.

And don't be a cubicle farm. Yes, if you think the alternative to remote work is an anonymous grey cubicle on the 5th floor of an anonymous office block (or just as bad, the 'trendy' exposed ducts open plan office), then remote work will look like nirvana.

Of course I'd also recommend being somewhere with good public transport and have flexible working hours so people aren't forced into long commutes in poluting personal transport. Also offer and allow occassional remote work to further ease that demand without losing the benefits of co-location.

But whole-team remote work? No thanks!
> I have dota plus. It doesn't give you any advantage on the current game.

ranked roles
I thought that the Java Robocode stuff was interesting and could help inject some fun or 'gamification' into development.
Would that not be a useful challenge for CS students?
https://robocode.sourceforge.io/
More likely Google bean counters went to chrome team and demanded they start generating money or at least stop loosing other divisions money.

The good news is that Firefox and soon Edge are on all (important) platforms and support ublock origin
This is true of literally every single airport i’ve ever traveled through. I guess experiences vary greatly.
Patents of that which is all around us should never be permitted. Patents are supposed to protect unique ideas and processes. If what you've come up with is readily available in nature then is it really so unique?
You both may like this video:

“Making $35,000 bonsai scissors”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TD2XGwmRJi8
You are thinking too small.
Yes, you need to put in some thought but it's possible, even for a large organization. Here at Cisco it's about half/half and it lets us dogfood our own collab tools (Webex Teams, telepresence gear, etc).
Earth Is Becoming 'Planet Plastic'
Or host your backups on DigitalOcean.
I think that being flexible is much more important than having specifically remote employees. I personally would love if I could work even 2 days a week from home, giving me a lot more flexibility to clear up life admin (when's the last time anyone had time to go to the bank when it's open? not taking PTO for that...).
I just check my block, and it's claiming 5 providers. Realistically, we have Spectrum, and that's really it.

It even claims we have AT&T fiber! Nearby neighborhoods do have it (along with google fiber) but not this one.
Put them where ?

Are you saying Canadian universities operate like airlines ? (overbook & bump)
Game development is the poster child of this goal; many a programmer (myself included) started this way, on their own. It offers a highly desirable goal (fun and a creative outlet) while forcing you to pick up many of the important programming concepts as the complexity of your code increases.
Did you not notice that Germany signed multi-decade/multi-billion dollar deals with Russia for their natural gas.

As Germany scaled up their solar and wind infrastructure they NECESSARILY also scaled up their use of natural gas and also supplemented high demand with imported coal and nuclear power from their neighbours. There is no such thing as a solar/wind deployment without natural gas. Natural gas providers are now one of the biggest lobby group for solar and wind.
> often shout at dead patients so they can hear me

Do they usually respond? Have you ever had a reply "from beyond"?
Would you be willing to offer a discount, say 5%, to customers who made an irrevocable payment? No chargebacks guaranteed.
one can only hope that firefox steps up its game. May be eventually the new rust engine can push firefox forward with performance, and renew the market from chrome's dominance.
And invalidate Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International by making software patents easy again. This is a gift to the patent trolls and medical extortionists.
This is why I love the gig economy. "Barista FIRE" sounds awful, but "Uber FIRE" sounds great.
Wait - we don't need geometrically expanding technological development. It becomes sufficient at some level? So 'diminishing returns' might not be a thing, if we can get to where we need to be with some level of population.

And I'm pretty sure we have a long way to go on using existing population better. We probably don't use 10% of the very-smart people - they live and die in some lonely village somewhere without ever being recognized. Remember Ramanujan - one of the few to find his way (almost by accident) into the academic world.
Not quite.

I do not believe there are that many fully automated production lines and even those ... needs people to maintain them and build them and develope them and fix broken parts etc.
Linus Torvalds Prefers Transparency, Despite Risks
> Yes, the difference is that you can synthesize numbers which are not (yet) in the look up table. It would be super amazing if one could show that bees are capable of doing that.

Or rather, we can synthesize lookup tables from preexisting lookup tables.
That's the problem with solar and wind. During peak times you get very good generation capacity and nothing or too little off-peak.
this sounds interesting, would you care to reference the paper in question?
I'd just recommend reading this essay by William Han, who despite having two Ivy league degree, and spending 15 years lawfully in the U.S., was still forced to leave: https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-bro...

There was a discussion here on HN on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764564
Isn't patent trolling great? Someone who got an overly broad patent and didnt do any of the work to build a company now gets to waste everyone's time by claiming ownership of the idea, as if the idea of ridesharing is so revolutionary, and try to use it to get money he doesnt deserve. Especially insane considering that smartphones didnt exist in 1999 in the way that made uber and Lyft possible, and that the infrastructure required is far far more than just an app that connects drivers to riders (think about the payments infrastructure, pool, maps integration, etc)
I'll try to answer the question from my perspective as the CEO of GitLab with 650 people in 50 countries and shared offices.

First of all as an industry we haven't agreed on a term. Remote first or remote friendly are used by companies that do have a headquarter but are open to remote work like Stripe. Since remote can have a negative connotation some companies like Wordpress like distributed but that is also used by companies that have offices in multiple locations. At GitLab we prefer to use all remote https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/

The three biggest companies as far as I know are Wordpress, InVision, and GitLab. Wordpress and InVision both have around 1000 people while we're 45% smaller. I've heard that InVision has people work east coast hours but that doesn't show in their job listings.

I think remote will become much more popular. It saves people commuting time and gives them more flexibility to care for family, go to the gym at a convenient time, travel more, and deal with sick children. For the company you are able to hire outside of competitive metro areas and you save money by that https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/ and on office costs.

It is early days for remote and it is still viewed as a risk by potential investors. But with tools like Zoom and better tools for asynchronous collaboration like InVision and GitLab I think it will become popular rapidly. Because you have to adjust you communication https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/ I think new startups will be all remote while existing companies will find it much harder to change.
The example is probably wrong or not working since the English questions uses "throgs neck" in lower case instead of the captialized "Throgs Neck" version.

Those are two different strings in SQL and shouldn't match exactly.

This already shows one difficulty of translating a natural language to a SQL query.
This was my take as well.

I am doubtful the author is truly managing people carelessly across 14 time zones without jumping through significant legal hoops, or is rather hiring contractors instead that manage their own legal responsibilities.
Remember the person who discovered how bad the lead pollution was in the world from leaded gasoline while dating the age of the planet, Clair Cameron Patterson: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson

He spent nearly twenty years fighting for lead to be removed from gasoline.
Right, so...patch it
This is not unique to forums. Anyone that’s owned a retail or retail-analog business (eg, medicine) has to deal with precisely this sort of crazy-ass behavior on a reasonably frequent basis.

A tiny sliver of the population is effing nuts.
You have exactly the same recourse with those that this person had with DigitalOcean: Be very loud and as public as possible with the problem and it'll get escalated to someone who can make a rational, reasonable choice (and we've seen the same sort of things happen to other big companies on here and twitter), or simply override prior choices purely for PR purposes. This is how many businesses operate now, with zero mechanisms to escalate outside of getting a torch-wielding mob riled up. It seems horribly counterproductive (I mean, my end impression of this whole incident is certainly not more positive about DO -- it's something that should never have happened), but it's how it's done now.