skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really skeptical of remote work before I took my first and current remote job, which surprisingly paid better than my former non-remote job. Conceptually, It was totally outside my Overton window. But having experienced it, my perspective completely changed. I don't mind doing a good job, but I underestimated how valuable the autonomy of my time would be, it's such a blessing. An occasional hour or two mid-day break really suits me. Those days, I am stretching my work day, but more relaxed and less stressed. My output is higher than working in an office.
Rule of thumb: do not trust "adtech veterans" further than you can spit.
Numbers Getting Bigger: The Design and Math of Incremental Games
Yet retirement account startups are going gangbusters. They have similar challenges: older people have much more to invest and are hesitant to put it in newer tech.

So, it really just seems like a marketing issue.
Hyundai Introduces a “Bettah” Way to Park During the Super Bowl
The stuff about not eating shellfish or pork is a pretty straightforward example of this: avoiding certain foods would probably increase your group's lifespan, and so gives an edge over other groups.
Now that I work from home, my cat basically lives on my lap, so I'm never lonely. He does keep me from using my fancy keyboard on my lap like I'm used to, but it's a worthwhile trade.
Yeah, the centralization aspect is a big turnoff for me. I'd thought about the direct-manipulation issue (the rather crude visualization of skeletonization I linked below benefits a lot from it) but not the multiple-projections problem. Can't you put the entire state in one cell and then create multiple cells that render some reduced dimensionality projection of it? Or do you mean that there's no way to factor out the aggregation of three such projections into a reusable unit?

I recently walked my girlfriend through your explorable on populating landscapes with Perlin noise btw. It was great.
Interview with Dan Rose from FB and Amazon
this one was special... only person I know who worked for Bezos and Zuck -- really great episode.
This is a beautiful goodbye. I don’t recognize most of the names but now I want to.
It should happen. The web browser is not a particularly interesting problem to solve. Let's make the base layer the same and distinguish ourselves at a much higher level. It's like the JVM--would humanity really be benefited by having multiple competing implementations of the JVM?

This argument may not make sense applied to an operating system/kernel. There are obvious benefits to having multiple competing operating systems. The crucial difference between a kernel and a web browser is that the kernel is a product, whereas the web (ECMA, W3C) is an international standard. So the only functional differences allowed to exist between implementations are at a very high level e.g. UX or privacy. The benefits of competing implementations are from innovation, but innovation in a way that violates the standard is not allowed, so innovation in functionality happens in the standards space. Where does innovation matter? In performance. Who can implement the standard with the best performance? It makes sense to have competition only up to such a point where a winner becomes 10x better than its competition. After that point it becomes useless to bet on the losers (save for extreme niches like lynx). There wouldn't be enough reward to heroically save the tied-for-last-place losers in a winner-take-all game.

It has to happen eventually. I think it would be quite sad to have flying cars on Mars and still have people working on rendering HTML.
That's kind of an interesting footnote:

> We are grateful to Enrico Moretti

If I'm not mistaken, that's the same Enrico Moretti who wrote The New Geography of Jobs, which is a fascinating look at the economics of cities that are trying to attract jobs, as well as a paper on how zoning restrictions cost the US economy billions of dollars a year by keeping people out of productive places.
To lock up people forever for such things is to me unthinkable. There is no established responsibility to remember you password, or keep it safe. Memory failures are not very predictable
What a joy to work with Bryan et al. Probably the best paid education you could imagine.

Is Samsung doing nothing with joyent? Seems they could and should be competing heavily in the server space if not the public cloud itself more meaningfully than they seem to be today.
Elon Musk has a patent for initiating phone calls using the internet
I'd prefer a "Sky Burial" (look it up) where you're fed to the birds, bones and all
Ask HN: About Startup Equity to Another Organization
Currently our technology startup has two co-founders. Two of our past colleagues are having a consulting company with 4-5 employees with a couple of projects from their clients. Now, they are keen on helping us. They said that they could work without or very low compensation for a few months, spending some good amout of their shared time, we also know that they are capable. But they are asking for 10 Percent Pre Seed of our startup in the name of their company, not individually. I have gone through many startup equity related information and everyone is discussing about co-founders and employees. We are fine with 10 Percent, but is it fine, if we allocate startup equity to another company? Any thoughts?
That's A. not true as many studies have shown and B. very bad for the environment and for the cow and the calf that were required (to be killed) to get that glass of milk.
Ask HN: Anyone else noticing increase in SPAM emails?
We've noticed a noticeable increase in email spam mostly originating from Russia in the past 12 hours.

Anyone else seeing the same thing?
Shanghai traffic report (live vs. 1 year ago)
Honestly I don't understand this obsession people have with where their corpse goes.

I mean, you're dead. If you're buried, cremated, buried at sea or whatever it certainly doesn't matter to you, faith systems notwithstanding.

Perhaps your family will have some psychological attachment to being able to visit your grave but your body doesn't actually have to be there for any of this.

In some places space isn't an issue but in lots of places it is such that there are long waiting times, it's expensive, you only rent your grave spot or some combination of these.

I mean at some point doesn't the Earth become a giant graveyard, assuming death can outpace subduction.

Here's the areas where I have a real problem with the emotional attachment to your corpse: organ donation. Refusal to allow your dead body to literally save other people's lives is the very height of illogical selfishness.

Some religions even prohibit organ donation (or just make it practically impossible). I hope those who holds that view are consistent enough to refuse organ donations.
I don't know that (let me know if you find it!), but I use control-. to open the container menu and get a tab from there.
Milk is so heavily processed you wouldn't recognize it if you were drinking it right off the cow's utter.
> An occasional hour or two mid-day break really suits me.

What...like lunch? I don't know any software engineer who doesn't regularly take more than an hour for lunch.
Are there videos for MIT's distributed systems course ? Can't seem to locate it in the site.
Linux academy for cloud was great. Frontend masters is really good for web stuff. Pluralsight for c#/.net
This is a beautiful article
This isn’t a sympathy grab, just a present anecdote. My wife died 27 hours ago after a long bout with cancer.

I’m going to pay probably upwards of $15k for her funeral because i didn’t plan ahead and there’s no time after the fact. I’m fortunately in a position to do so and am paying for what i want knowing that I’m being taken advantage of. Lesson learned.

If you are planning to go an alternate route i would strongly advise making complete arrangements while you are healthy. You're going to be dealing with heavily entrenched local practitioners and it could be an uphill battle.
Thanks for the kind words. I don't drop those links to brag or troll for compliments, to be clear--more to establish bona fides. I've spent a lot of time building stuff for an open and interconnected web. I think you should be, too. But it looks like you aren't, and that sure seems like a real bummer.

I get that it's both unsexy and probably a little uncomfortable, but the thing is, the demand for control that you're expressing here by going against open and collaborative standards really and truly does matter. Like--fundamentally and inescapably, the messaging I'm getting from you is "it's 'open source' but we demand to own it." Why do you need to own the specification to do what you do? What is OpenAPI stopping you from doing? Did you try to work with the OAS folks to improve it to enable whatever (if anything) can't be expressed? Did you evaluate stuff like vendor extensions to it to express those things?

I get that the core of your Standard Library is open-source--but "open source" and "community collaboration" are pretty far apart. I understand the process for OpenAPI's evolution and change over time. What's yours? Whose commits get in? Who decides?

I realize that the likely answers to these questions are trivial in the power-politics/realpolitik sense. Which is why my hackles are up, TBH. Not playing in the sandbox with all the other kids is a clear indication that you have it in you, whether you are or not right this second, to raise barriers to entry against anyone else who'd consider doing something with your tech. And that leads to a fragmentation ("welp, we'll have to fork") that this space well and truly doesn't need. If this was using standard tools and standard approaches--which all totally work with this, by the way, I've written a simpler but spiritually similar thing just by using openapi-js to dynamically generate clients--I'd be cheering you on. As-is? This sure looks like pissing in a community pool for your own benefit.

How am I wrong? (Because, to be clear: I'd love to be. Stuff like this is important.)
I've understood expense reports to be buisness expenses that were first paid for by the employee and the employer compensates them for it. In that case it's not taxed as income as it was never really anything the employee "got".

It all depends on how your company accountants do it, they could be doing something unusual, but the way you've described it sounds like tax evasion.

I dont really care, but if you like the benefit you may not want to bring it up in public forums.
Microsoft gives devs the lowdown on Windows 10x
Ya emotions take a toll on the wallet at funerals.

Here's a cautionary tale if you're involved in estate planning ...

One relative of mine was not sentimental about death and had decades to plan for a cheap funeral. No visitors were expected aside from the wife and daughter. Cremation was fine with him, if no cheaper option was available. "Scatter the ashes on the lake."

What actually happened?

The widow blew so much on his funeral that she won't even admit the amount (think 5 figures.)

"Well we can afford it."
PerfFuzz: Automatically Generating Pathological Inputs (2018) [pdf]
More Data, More Problems in Automotive
When I worked at the office, "lunch" was available onsite from 11:30 to 1:30 and onsite was 30-90 minutes from my house, depending on a very wide range of traffic conditions. It can be food, it can be laundry, it can be errands. Things I couldn't squeeze in before.
No, it expired Dec. 12, 2017, it has been expired for a bit over two years now.

It was filed after 1995, so it expired 20 years from its filing date, which was Dec. 12, 1997.
I remember Google Voice working this way in the early days: First the caller initiates a call using the Google Voice web interface, then the caller gets a call on their phone, then the recipient gets a call to connect the two.
Several more humorous articles on the subject:

1. https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
2. https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens (I love The Slow Winter, but To Wash it All Away is probably more relevant here)
There seem to be only four OGR funeral homes in the whole of California. I better try to die in the right place.
Keys: A Browser Extension for Keyboard Navigation (Chrome and Safari)
Keys generates and renders shortcuts to make any website keyboard navigable. Just press G and shortcuts will be rendered (gorgeously) throughout the page. It really stinks that I can't attach images because it's a really beautiful extension. It's available on Chrome and Safari.
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keys/janfhenejaodaifcjjkddmlpjcnopjla
Safari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keys-for-safari/id1494642810?mt=12
Coronavirus: China reports 14,840 new cases, 242 new deaths
https://mobile.twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1227741314911031296
Evidence which could be spurious, arising of actions of an unrelated third party.
I didn't open my stats book to confirm this, but my hunch is that you can estimate the likelihood of what we observe (0/300M) with what we expect (600/300M) in the following way. Think of 1 six sided die. The odds of not rolling a six is 5/6. In two rolls, the chance of not seeing a six is 25/36, in 3 rolls (5/6)^3. At 4 rolls, the odds of not ever rolling a 6 are 0.47, at 20 rolls 0.02 and at 30 rolls 0.004.

So in this case, the category is being both born blind and developing schizophrenia. The odds of a single person being in this category are 2/1M, and the odds of a person not being in the category are 999998/1M. The expression for never observing a person in the category for a population of 300M is ((10^6-2)/(10^6))^(300x10^6). Wolfram Alpha says this is equal to 2.6x10^-261.

It is very unlikely that the two distributions for blindness and schizophrenia are independent!
Can you elaborate on what makes you think so?
Interesting results.
I am also a remote worker and glad to see this trend is picking up. Everything has upsides and downsides but upsides of working remotely outweigh downsides buy quite a margin. Not only working remotely gives peace of mind (little flexibility on working hours.); working in a familiar/comfortable environment increases productivity, especially for people like me who are a little uncomfortable when surrounded by other people. (bonus you can sit awkwardly in you PJs)
Vaguely being around other people, even if with no intent to socialize (e.g., a coffee shop with mostly laptops) seems to fill the gap. If you feel lonely, it seems to go a long way, compared to sitting at home.
> I don't trust startups to responsibly handle my PII.

Smart, but:

Any web developer knows most uploads go to a folder on disk ... likely readable by the web server process.

Harvest away!
The most serious and expensive software quality problems tend to c result from requirements analysis failures. Better programming languages and tools can't do much to mitigate those mistakes.
I remember feeling excited about this when it came out. But if you look at the github, it hasn't seen any updates for six years.
As a person who has seen Quora evolve over the years, I am truly surprised that it’s respected even nearly as much as it is. By all accounts it’s a glorified content mill that is the slightly smarter consumer’s answer to Yahoo Answers, fielding such important questions as “how is babby(sic) formed?”

This is an honest question— how many HN users are relying on Quora as a viable alternative to something like a Wikipedia search when researching? I’ve nearly never found that a Quora answer was sufficient to answer my question. I’ll admit that in terms of SEO they’ve got things figured out; they always appear near the top of DuckDuckGo searches, but as far as real content goes, they leave a lot to be desired.
The outsize influence of middle-school friends
Some people set up desks in their living room / common areas. I haven't seen anybody pass judgment for not maintaining a separate, dedicated room for remote work.
A Go Module Testbed
For context, the sudden jump is due to a change in the reporting criteria [1]:

> BEIJING: China's Hubei province on Thursday (Feb 13) reported a sharp rise in confirmed coronavirus cases and a surge in the death toll after the adoption of new methodology for diagnosis, health officials said.

> The death toll leapt by a record 242, more than double the prior provincial daily record of 103 set on Monday, while the number of new cases soared by 14,840 - also a daily record - to a total of 48,206 cases.

> Health officials in the province, the epicentre of the epidemic, said they had started including people diagnosed using the new methods from Thursday. Excluding cases confirmed using the new methods, the number of new cases rose by only 1,508, the official data showed.

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/wuhan-virus-hubei-...
It's definitely a tough problem to get right, but the status quo sucks so much that the only way is up.

I think one feature of the system that would mitigate any issues with indices or bidding is the ability for users to "default" a website to a particular domain name. To use another example than x.com - let's say GrubHub didn't exist, and it was being founded today, but GrubHub.com is parked. Instead of using a sub-optimal name or paying tons of money for a domain before they even have revenue, they could go ahead and launch GrubHub.com as a "secondary domain." Users of their iOS/Android app would be told "hey, to get your $10 signup bonus, tap on this link and press 'default as grubhub.com on all devices.'" The users would gladly oblige, because they'd rather have grubhub.com point to an actual service rather than some rent-seeker's landing page. That's especially if there's free money involved. Once GrubHub gets momentum, they will be well-positioned to win the eventual bid, which won't have many bidders. There aren't many companies named GrubHub out there. Again, if they anticipate very limited/no competition in an auction, they can just force the bid to happen before formally launching and maybe pay a few hundred dollars for grubhub.com.
Oh, after the fact? I would agree that is definitely obstruction. Before the fact - maybe for business, but not for personal. 5th amendment is to protect against forcing someone to provide evidence against themselves whether that is through torture or coercion, it does not matter.
In college, one of my lab courses required us to learn manufacturing techniques. We covered a wide range of methods for machining and shaping things, all out of metal.

Making gears was interesting, we had to first turn a rough blank of metal on a lathe to make a steel gear blank (about 12cm in diameter and 2cm thick) then drill out the center and broach a keyway for the axle that would go through the gear. This was all pretty straightforward, but the final piece of work was more difficult, it was cutting the teeth of the gear. The teeth of a properly made gear require complex shapes.

There are, as I recall, two ways to cut the teeth. Hobbing uses a helical cutting head turning on an axis that is roughly perpendicular to the axis of the gear. The cutting head and gear turn at the same time in a synchronized manner and the teeth are eventually cut out by the cutting head. See [1] for a video of a large complex gear being made this way.

The other method, broaching, uses a straight bar of tool steel that has thick straight across cutting teeth. The bar is pushed past the disk shaped gear blank. The cutting bar moves in a straight line parallel to the axis of the gear blank. Repeated passes over the gear blank cuts out the spaces between the gears teeth.

Master machinists taught us how to make these kinds of projects. They would produce a finished gear in about 15 minutes of instruction; then we would have something like two weeks to make the gear. They made everything look easy; it definitely wasn’t easy for me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rnTh6c19HM&feature=share
Neural Style Transfer on a Photograph of Singapore's CBD
CircleCI's UI is absolutely awful, and the new one isn't much better as it's one of those SPAs that's slow as an old pig and takes ages to load the first time.
Sort of like when people have the TV on at all times to not feel alone.

But isn't that just masking the symptoms of deeper issues regarding self-imposed isolation?
What if you don't give up your books that you're legally required to keep? What happens? How did they get them?
Thanks for pointing that out. I corrected the title.
It's not that hard if you have experience in writing compilers.
They don't need to scale, they need to pump out higher quality graduates.
Korean FinTech Startup Concat- Making Insurance Smarter
And that is why they will fail. You heard it here first.
I took "Become a Product Manager" (https://www.udemy.com/course/become-a-product-manager-learn-...) and was quite happy with it. The title is a bit tacky - it is not instantly going to turn you into a product manager. But it is a nice overview of the field.

I paid about 10 bucks during one of the countless sales. Never pay the full price at Udemy. Their pricing policy is ridiculous. I feel like you only have to wait a few days for the next 90%-off-discount to come along. I counted three times during the past few weeks.
I just did some googling and it looks like these aren't very accurate. At some point I may do the underwater method or go to a place with an InBody machine (which seems to be pretty accurate).
Isn't this what GraphQL was designed to solve?
Actually, that code should be deleted. At one time, I was experimenting with MathJax but don't use it anymore.
Definitely on the heavy side, but I can’t remember that ever being a problem for me (I also don’t wear shorts, so maybe that’s why).

If they could make that form factor lighter with aN edge to edge screen it’d be me ideal phone.
Calculating Air Pollution’s Death Toll, Across State Lines
> surprised that only 20% of people responded that they struggled with loneliness while working remote. In my experience this number seems to be higher.

Would you agree most lonely remote workers also tend to be younger?

It's somewhat unfortunate that we don't have additional data on the respondents since it may provide interesting insight (e.g. confounders that immediately spring to mind are country of residence and marital status), but there's a natural tendency to drift towards "exploitation" of existing relationships as one gets older as opposed to "exploring" new ones.

For instance, Doist's founder [1] cites being able to spend time with his son every morning as a major advantage.

In any case an even greater push towards remote work seems inevitable, especially as the tech workforce grows older.

[1] https://twitter.com/amix3k/status/1103740848519434240
I use this extension, which makes the colouring much more prominent: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-col...
Your book looks really great, how does it compare with the classic AoE?
CA already has some of the highest taxes in the nation but the roads and public transportation aren't leaps and bounds better than the cheaper states. I'm not convinced raising taxes would help without fixing the accountability issue.
Handling the dead is probably one of humanity's oldest rites. It would make sense that people innately care about what they do with their passed loved ones even if it was even logical. It wouldn't be ridiculous to think that we handled our dead in a special way before we even had tools.
One of the main benefits for me (I would consider it in the "Ability to work from home" category mentioned in the article) is how much better is the environment at home: I don't need to use headphones to avoid getting distracted and distracting other people with remote calls, I can stream some relaxing music from my computer, my chair is great, I have a huge L-shaped table, I have ilumination the way I like it, temperature.

I agree also with most of the other points in the article, both positive and negatives. Right now I work from home about 50% of the time, which I think is great. Most of the team also works remote part time, and anyway we are split between two cities (Madrid and Barcelona) so we must coordinate remotely even if we are at the office.