skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of curious here -- do you mean they're making valley level salaries doing remote work and basically "available" to all four companies at the same time and just juggle tasks as they come in? What happens if they double book a meeting? What do they do at standup?
It doesn't even scale to millions of users.

And basically every project that tries to claim different is just ignoring the problem and trying to pump their own price.

Everything in cryptocurrencies is a scam.
a free press and free elections make it not so much of a wash
But you added extra structure: associativity. Cohn's definition doesn't. It just says "set with operations" (well, finitary operations, but that's kind of always implicit in the definition of "operation").

So you're saying people shorten the phrase "algebraic structure" to "algebra"; this hasn't been my experience.
Storing value is considered to be one of the three functions of money [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Functions]. And the fact that BTC's value fluctuates so wildly (in an era where fiat currencies like the dollar tend to remain a lot more stable) is one of the obstacles to mass adoption.

It turns out that making a currency behave "gold-like" carried with it the disadvantages to the gold standard that induced so many countries to move away from it.
TeX is special in that it has perfect algorithms for doing things like line breaking, kerning, etc, etc, etc. The output of TeX is dramatically better than just about any other piece of software. It's insanely better than any word processor will output and there are probably only a handful of desktop publishing packages that are even close. If you need absolutely perfect print output, then TeX (and LaTeX) are a really good fit.

Because Donald Knuth.
If they meet expectations, how is that a scam? "Full time job" is a weird idea for salaried workers, anyway. They're paid $X to produce $(X + Y) value. Hours spent producing that value shouldn't mean much to the employer.
I would love a four day work week, but I don't think my child's daycare would be up for that. It's hard enough getting my child picked up by closing time as it is.
If you accept the axiom of choice, then you can cut up a sphere into finitely many pieces and reassemble them to a sphere with twice the volume. (The pieces are not measurable, naturally.)
Standards are superior to plugins I count that as a clear win. I don't thing there's a great goal other than being an application platform for the masses. New toys will come, old might go, but more likely stay with the spec (hi: <marquee>).

CSS layout had indeed evolved quite a bit (for the better), however we have great control now with flexbox and grid. They are much more than syntactic enhancements.

I wouldn't worry about browser lock-in, if you build stuff for browsers you are already "locked in" by definition.
Understanding the World with Program Synthesis
Chinese and Russians living outside of China and Russia will not be affected by the ban.

You keep calling it xenophobia even after you've been proven wrong when you claimed this is targetted at green-card holders. You are absolutely disengenuous and have no intention at good-faith discussion.
Demand for oil&gas will continue to grow for a long time due to:

- SUV/pick-up boom (America's best-selling car in 2018 is the F150 series!) and more cars + trucks in countries like Brazil, India, China, Indonesia

- crazy growth in air travel (look at order numbers of Airbus, see how many airports are under construction, see miles traveled via plane)

- simultaneous shift away from coal+ nuclear, giving a huge boost to natural gas in the long term (LNG build-out is only now beginning)

- the world getting richer (more and more humans are living like Westerners). We're on a path towards $100tn/y world GDP and 10bn humans.

I provide more detail + resources on my blog: https://mxschumacher.xyz/post/long_oil_and_gas/
My favorite thing about remote work is the written communication. It creates a form of documentation in itself.

I've worked remotely for 15 years. I can go back to any conversation on any feature we've ever had. It's extremely powerful.
No.

Montreal Protocol of 1987 forced a ban on the production and use of ozone depleting chemicals without alternatives. This was a way bigger problem than just refrigerants and aerosols. Asthma inhalers contain ozone depleting chemicals, but those are allowed due to no good alternatives (at the time). Those same companies "found" the alternatives and made them work because of it. By found, a multi-national decade long study through the UN found them before the protocol was signed. Those companies continuously fought the need to ban the old chemicals well into the 90s. No one cared or listened because of the environmental repercussions. Consumers didn't suffer from this in the least bit.

The idea it was some anti-consumer endeavor is just as silly as going green is anti-consumer because the consumer has to then pay more for oil down the road.
so are stocks
Sounds a bit like arguing that in order to use a programming language you should be able to build one. Not incorrect, but not very practical either.
That's a conspiracy theory, predicated upon the idea that all these entities are working together with malicious intent.

Or, more realistically...entrenched systems evolve slowly.
There are dozens of different mechanisms being proposed for carbon sequestration. If there was a viable market for it, at least one of them would become viable very quickly, in my opinion.
Do you mind me asking why you got off of it? Housing downturn?
Using one-off wallets increases the complexity of a financial forensics problem, but doesn't make it unsolvable. For one thing, you can't force everyone you do business with in the network to follow the same practice.
> "It seems you're almost implying Chinese and Russians are being randomly discriminated against for no reason, as if the kind of thing Gitlab is worried about has never happened before. Specifically with people loyal to those two countries. Yes, it is discrimination, whether it is baseless discrimination is much more debatable."

Do you have concrete numbers that prove Chinese/Russian workers are significantly more likely to act in bad faith against the companies they work in?

To quote Gitlab's chief legal officer, @cciresi:

> "The highest risk countries for hackers are: Romania, Brazil, Taiwan, Russia, Turkey, China and the United States (The US ranks number two in hackers according to ABC news). Surely, we aren't going to start restricting employment on all these countries?"
BTW, there is currently (until Nov. 18th 2019) a sale of BSD & Linux ebooks at humblebundle[0] Absolute OpenBSD and Absolute FreeBSD are in that bundle.

[0] https://humblebundle.com/books/linux-bsd-bookshelf-2019-book...
It would be great if there would be a free tier for people that want to learn C++ with VS. Something that lets you use VS online for small C++ programs (similar with Compiler Explorer but with support for running the generated binary) to build and run these small programs.
Interestingly enough, many people thought the original VSO was an online web IDE. And so in this case, we decided that it made sense to re-purpose the brand for a product that met many people’s expectations. Visual Studio Online: This time, it’s for real!
I sure hope my workers don’t develop skills
Generic HR inbox?

I don't think you're actually concerned about this.
Bayesian Data Analysis by Gelman et al (author of the linked blog, as it happens).
In my opinion, no. If anything we likely only benefited the company. Our department has very low costs and those costs would have occurred whether we were on site or not. When we were remote we used the communication tools that were already provided to the entire company. What we didn't use (benefiting the company) was electricity, water, space to occupy, network bandwidth, etc.

The productivity increase of being remote resulted in apps/updates to occur much quicker. We were able to take advantage of many things we now had access to such as faster internet, IPv6, better network experiences (no more IP conflicts, blocked web sites/filtering, other IT nonsense), self managing our desktops, and so on.
Just curiously asking, how does one pay for it if they don't have a job or lose their job? I think people should be less tied to their employers but how do they get coverage if they have no job? Who is paying for it?
I think that it is largely the cultural brainwashing in the USA.
We have a LOT of oil in the ground. If most of it doesn't get stranded we're in for much, much worse problems.
Yep! This is a high-priority, and you can keep track of progress on this GitHub issue: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/vsonline/issues/34.
rocket (UK) == arugula (US) for those confused by the ingredients like i was.
I would expect an algebra to be at least a ring, i.e. an algebra over a field, a vector space with a bilinear product. If you just say plain algebra, I think matrices and vectors or similar.

Most of the structures called algebras (e.g. boolean algebras) have at least two operations and these operations frequently interact via distributivity or something like that. Other examples are ring-like, like a sigma algebra in measure theory.

I've never really encountered anyone saying "algebra" for a generic algebraic structure. I think with this definition Cohn was trying to start a trend that didn't catch on.
I think an important point to consider in this discussion for the US is that when you look at GDP / productivity growth since the 70s alongside median wages, there's been a large steady growth in our output despite mostly stagnant wages. At this point a 4 day week rightly should be the norm, because if we're not going to be compensated for the growth we create we should be getting our time back.
I honestly can't tell whether you're joking or not.
You can't understand the why of the normal distribution without Fourier analysis though - which is pretty heavy going for anyone who's not hardcore science or engineering.
> Things like National Security letters and the PATRIOT act make the US to me, as a European, seem very hypocritical right now.

These are not even remotely comparable. China is an outright police state. Not saying the United States doesn't have a lot of work to do with regards to personal liberty, but the Government here has nothing close to the iron grip control that the CCP has; they may want it, and what Government doesn't, but they don't have it and a ton of our internal legal mechanisms are designed specifically to prevent it.
All money has value because people demand to hold it. In a hyperinflation scenario, people are dumping the currency for goods as fast as they can. They are using the money as a transactional medium only: get paid -> rush to buy goods to capture the value of your labor in something that won't be worthless tomorrow.

Dumping worthless paper currency is a form of speculation that the value won't unexpectedly rise before the goods purchased with it are consumed.

When people have confidence that the money they receive in exchange for their time will be able to transport that labor into the future, then they will demand to hold a balance in that money. That is why the money has value.

The "store of value" proposition of Bitcoin is that it can't be printed by a central bank, so you can be sure that your holdings relative to the size of the money supply cannot be diluted.
Show HN: Python package and CLI to generate stylistic word clouds
Makes sense to block eSNI than DoH/DoT then?(for people that desire the blockage). Even without eSNI sites can use CDN s with CNAME records being used for the TLS SNI (e.g.: site.com has xxx.cloudfront.com as CNAME,browser connects to cloudfront with CNAME record in SNI but requests site.com in the http Host header to get the correct site...essentially domain-fronting).

Even now many services use domain fronting. Law enforcement and IT/corp security alike need to focus on endpoints. Dragnet surveillance and perimitet filtering never did get the real bad targets.
I doubt it. The reason this works is that when combining oxygen atoms from two water molecules to produce an oxygen molecule, they need to have parallel spins; the magnet aligns the spins and therefore speeds up this process. However, when breaking the O2 molecule to combine it with hydrogen (in a fuel cell), the atoms are already parallel in spin and are going to an unordered state, so there's no benefit to attempting to align them.
Yep! This is high-pri on our roadmap. You can track progress on this GitHub issue, while we try to iterate rapidly during the public preview: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/vsonline/issues/34.
https://deadswitch.com
Ya, sounds like a real Russian Oligarch all right:

“ Eighteen months after Browder was deported, on June 4, 2007, Hermitage Capital's offices in Moscow were raided by twenty-five officers of Russia's Interior Ministry. Twenty-five more officers raided the Moscow office of Browder's American law firm, Firestone Duncan, seizing the corporate registration documents for Hermitage's investment holding companies. Browder assigned Sergei Magnitsky, head of the tax practice at Firestone Duncan, to investigate the purpose of the raid. He discovered that while those documents were in the custody of the police, they had been used to fraudulently reregister Hermitage's holding companies to the name of an ex-convict.[6]”
Dopamine author Pablo Samuel Castro on TalkRL: Reinforcement Learning Interviews
or:

you want a machine that has X cpu, X ram, and you quickly want to setup a dev environement, be it for test purposes, online collaboration, teaching etc..

now you can

i don't think "owning a workstation" is gonna be a thing in the future, power increase everyday

just like Stadia, these kind of stuff is what will enable people to use POWERFULL workstations without having to own super expensive machines, or having to constantly buy an upgrade

only visionary people can trully understand the potential of such service, it is the future, you better get ready and buy some stocks
So Gitlab will reject Tourist or Petr because they are Russian nationals (if they felt like working for Gitlab), I guess?
They’re able to operate this way because everything has been secret. With the new California law it’s probably just a few months until there’s a class action against any or all of these for discrimination against multiple protected classes.
Yes - it can have that stigma. ADHD is present, however, in many entrepreneurs. It can also be a hindrance in SaaS startups, I'm mentioning it as a help. Pre-plan to have someone help with the details and keep someone on track. You either focus on opportunity, or have a project manager.

I am not ADHD/ADD, but have interacted with a few in this situation..
> The problem with that reasoning

I never suggested they're perfect or that they'll even bring direct benefits to the customer but they are still at the customer's disposal and can server as leverage. A waiter has little recourse against the cook other than to find a way to make up or quit.

> the customer has a binary choice

This is all I was highlighting. The customer has a (relatively easy) choice compared to the waiter's choice against a cook.

I did leave at least once after waiting for about an hour for a regular dish, especially after seeing that everyone else at the tables around us were getting served. Whether this was an argument between the waiter and cook mattered less to me. Anecdotally, I know plenty of other people who also did it in similar situations. So while I don't know how widespread this is it's not just a viable measure, it's also plausible in practice.

And I'm never one to argue or be anything but nice to people that make and serve my food. After waiting for an hour the tip incentive for any of the staff is all but gone (they probably guess they won't get any) so the service level is less likely to suddenly shoot up. All you're doing is escalation of commitment [0]. I personally try to cut my losses when an evening already feels ruined. There's always a backup plan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
provides new opportunities for daycares that will.
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All this makes me wonder: How long until being a privacy-minded individual screws you over in the same way that paying cash for everything screws over your credit rating?

I shouldn't have to choose between privacy and being able to return a device at Best Buy.
Well, they could, but. Benefits, particularly health care, are very expensive for employers as well as employees, so employers, especially for lower wage work, look for ways to cut that. Not-quite-full-time is one way that's done.

Getting health insurance, whether public or private, out of the hands of employers is probably the single best thing that could be done for working conditions in America.
For someone who can’t distinguish between schooling and education to accuse others of anti-intellectualism is a bit rich. To read an article in which the author engaged with ideas and call him an anti-intellectual is practically self refuting. People who don’t care about ideas don’t think about them. They certainly don’t write about them.

The idea we live in an intellectually poor culture is wildly at odds with the facts. Most people don’t care about ideas, they never did. But now those who do can learn about them with greater ease than ever before, discuss them with more people and reach more people if they have anything to say.

You’re dismissing Byrne’s essay without being familiar with the economics literature on signaling in education and assuming that education can only happen in a university. Other people will learn about the signaling model of education[1] because of this. There’s an explosion of educational content on Youtube, free ebooks aplenty, edX, Coursera, the SEP. Most people don’t care but for those who do care about ideas this is probably the best time to be alive ever.

[1] https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/04/educational_sig_1.h...

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174655/th...
Well it depends on your employer/domain, but mostly it's the idea that most of what was learned falls under the category of "premature optimization", and makes the software more complex while making a negligible difference in efficiency.

Of course, if you're dealing with truly big data, like a FAANG company or something, this may not be true at all. But the reality is, 90% of the software needed is satisfied by a standard CRUD setup, and you will not need to use any of the algorithms learned in school. This can be frustrating for a new graduate, who feels an urge to do "real" development and get past the simple stuff. It is mostly simple stuff, and should mostly stay that way.

So basically, anything that wasn't CRUD (sort algorithms, processing that avoids just loading it all into memory, etc.) will usually be overkill. But, where you work it could always be different.
> Imagine you are in a cave

I thought you were going with a Platonic parable here, but then you threw in IE 11 into the mix :-(
You nailed my experience entirely. Every point. Working remote was incredible and I hope to find that again. I wish you the best of luck.
Yeah, it's just amazing how people completely forget that whole "bombed literally to bits in WWII" thing. Most Americans have no clue how long rationing lasted in the UK after WWII, and yet you guys managed to implement the NHS. Meanwhile, at the same time, the fabulously prospering USA has never managed to do anything to take care of this basic need of citizens, yet keeps calling itself "superior".
Is Bitcoin Really Un-Tethered? [pdf]
This post shows a Haskell-ish definition of Functor, then attempts to show the same thing in TypeScript.

interface Functor<A> {
map<B>(f: (a: A) => B): Functor<B>;
}

But the TypeScript definition loses something important: the point of a Functor is that you get back the same data type -- there's one `f` in the Haskell defn both in the argument and return type, while this TS definition can give you back any random data type. E.g. the implementation of Array.map could give you back an Either.

I don't mean this comment to be a random nitpick of the post. Trying to think these things through is hard, and trying to use things you know to help understand the new idea is not unreasonable. But in particular with PL each thing has so much associated baggage (here in TS, subtyping) that reasoning "by metaphor" often means you end up missing the critical point.
My understanding of the current law is benefits are mandatory for employees working more than 32 hours a week. I don't know what the rules are for exempt employees.
Google’s article suggestions now third-largest source of traffic
Be careful starting a startup. It will be hard to find an investor willing to invest in a company whose founder only works 4/7 days a week
This might be election season speaking, but I'd love to have people take a course based on case studies, telling misleading stats from suggestive stats from strong evidence. I'm so frustrated seeing misleading figures parroted around by talking heads in media, in politics, and online. Often it's not just misleading, it's wrong. I suspect it's because these people (or their teams) just don't have the practice digging in to do a cursory "Is this bullshit?" check.

As far as societal bang for your buck, I'd give people bullshit detecting classes. I'd focus on this goal specifically, not incidentally.
>2) occurs widespread

They're only found on the northern border of the empire, but that is consistent with being a finger glove maker too. It's colder, so more need for gloves.

I dismissed this explanation initially as a bit silly and mundane, but it really is the only one that makes sense to me. The knobs at the corners are perfectly designed to hold a loop of yarn and I can't see what else they're good for.
the article contains no actual survival tips
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Funny, my pre-baby boomer dad had his pension raided by the leadership of his employer. Employers abusing employees is a tale as old as time.
Similar - https://workflowy.com/ - Workflowy has been the one product to stick for note and task taking. Highly recommended.

Roam seems to have a lot of the same concepts.
I’m just as curious about how the managers were trained to be process-driven. Manager behavior seems to me just as if not more important than IC behavior here.

Since managers have power, and engineers usually don’t personally know their skip levels, managers can easily replace async documented process with lovely hours-long face-to-face 20-person meetings. And they can silence dissent! They can wreak havoc in a way no IC could ever do.
I have to commend Microsoft on the new Edge logo. It's different enough from the IE and old Edge logo that savvy users will notice the change, but similar enough that the users who "just click on the blue e to go to the internet" probably won't notice the change.
Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features
Your perspective depends a lot on where you're looking from. Small projects have no need for opt-out ("spying") telemetry. Explicitly reported bugs and telemetry from self-selected users will provide more than enough stuff to work on, and there really isn't that large a space for bugs to hide in anyway.

If you have 100 million users, depending in the bias inherent in opt-in reporting is deadly. You need the statistical correlations for a lot of things to be tractable. You can't afford to staff your development organization as a percentage of your user base, not if you have any competition at all. You'll have to get comfortable with some things that feel like software malpractice at smaller scales - such as accepting that bad RAM really is a significant source of problems when you have millions of users, and you'd better get a feel for what the resulting problems look like.
As a businessperson,yes. As a consumer it works quite well. When you offer services you become tracable. But alas XMR is not so traceable,one can always launder btc through XMR (and maybe profit?) Or zcash.