skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also works (and is similarly disgusting) in a single country where the salary discrepancy is large.

I live in Poland, where the gap between IT and non-IT is staggering. Teaching programming easily nets me 5 times as much money as a regular public school teacher would get. Same goes for regular development work: developer salaries here are 4-6x the average salary. Are we making that much of a bigger impact on society?

Any time I visit a hairdresser, a car mechanic or anyone from the services sector and I wonder why things are expensive, I compare their hourly rates to mine. The hairdresser may be getting something like 20% of the money I'd make in that time ­– and they have to support the salon for some of that as well (also, they're just someone else's employee, so they get maybe half of that in the end). No longer does it seem expensive at all, and it goes for any service I can imagine.

Make these people better compensated... and I'd no longer be rich. We'd all be pretty much the same. Perhaps that's where the fear you see in some other comments here stemming from – "but this will lower the salaries for the top X%!". Yes. We'd have to admit that we're not special in terms of our contribution to society – just lucky enough to be in a booming industry. Or perhaps a growing bubble.

And sure – my work has the potential to produce a lot of value. I recently wrote software that will (indirectly) enable a large warehouse operator to essentially fire their entire workforce and replace them with robots. Last I checked, the individuals currently in that workforce make something like $5 an hour, and the business owner is proud enough to put that on their job ads. When the automation machine is finished, these people will be unemployed. How will they be making their living? Nobody in the process cares. So how has my work improved the society? In the end I'll still be stuffing myself with delivery sushi and roaring a big car on the highway – thanks to the growing supply of more and more cheap labour.

I've now digressed very far from the original discussion. But being aware of this is an endless source of frustration for me, and every discussion about "what is fair compensation" awakens it :|
This is excellent.

I've been working remotely for a little over 18 years, at first in a tiny 450sqft apt with 2 roommates and now in a house with an office with many other situations in-between in a few different cities.

The most important thing I've ever done for my sanity, productivity, and consistency is set up a permanent space to work. Same chair, same surface, work only. My whole life could be a complete shit-show but my "office" was tidy and available, even if that "office" was an edge of the kitchen table.

There are other things like making sure roommates and significant others understand the boundaries when working and such, but dedicating a workspace has always been the most fundamentally essential.
Using the internal keyboard AND internal microphone of a laptop is usually worse.
I heard salesforce is givng USD 250
Like "only Internet Explorer" or "only Safari"?
"Europe and the UK".

Not that hard, especially when it's a decision where lives can be at stake.
Think of it this way: for a screen reader, every bit of "identity" is a screaming popup.

Even a simple image saying "welcome to x" gets old really quick. It is already in the page title.

Narrative, linear, well delimited paginated interfaces like web search work much better, magic autoloading infinite or overly long lists do not.

Short version: if it looks fine when styles, images are disabled, it's probably ok, as long as it does not try to mess with input.
Some will, but many won't. There's a fair few frictions in that. Say you couldn't get a refund for whatever reason. Or your boss won't give you the time. Or whatever occasion you went for is passed.

It's not that I'm saying it's all lost, but you have to count on some share being lost.
Mea culpa. Makes sense when someone can't distinguish between themselves, their business and a country, so it would never be UTC. That would be too convenient for other people.
UAE has weird bans on many VOIP solutions, also VPNs are in a bit grey area - I guess that would make remote work too problematic with the tools they use internaly.
An alarm/phone that doesn’t wake up your spouse has been one of the most amazing features and has made Apple Watch worth it for me.
I just did some back-of-the-sleeve calculations on the incidence of Corona-infections in the US which make me wonder which continent is protected against which by this travel ban. My source of information is the video reporting by Dr. John Campbell [1] who thus far has been one of the more level-headed sources on the ongoing pandemic. Here goes:

The official number of cases in the US as reported by Campbell is 1084, with 33 dead. This number roughly tallied with what I see on the CDC site (they report 938 cases, 28 dead) [2].

The major of Seattle estimates there around 1100 infections in this city (source: Campbell's video), a number which could grow to about 70.000 in 6 weeks (source: Campbell's video, most likely based on the spread in Wuhan)

Seattle has a population of around 750.000 people, i.e. 0.146% of the population carries the infection.

The total population of the USA is around 328 million. 95% of the USA land mass consists of rural area with a total population of around 60 million (~20%), the other 80% of the population lives in metropolitan areas (source: Wikipedia).

If the infection rate of Seattle is used as a guide for the infection rate for the entire metropolitan population in the USA there are about 390.000 infected people in the country at the moment. While it is unlikely that this infection rate goes for the entire metropolitan population it is not out of the question given the high mobility of people in the USA. Even if actual the infection rate is a tenth of that in Seattle there are still around 38.000 infected people in the country.

Who is being protected against whom by this travel ban?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzXQ6Bu9JVI

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html
”Deaths will be overwhelming concentrated among older folks (death rates are about 0.2% for < 40, up to 15% for > 80)”

You can’t use relative risks to say something about absolute numbers; you also have to take group sizes into account.

Given the hugely varying population pyramids between countries there will be a lot of variation between countries, but with about 2% of the world’s population over 80, and about a third under 40, that factor of 75 goes down to around a factor of 5, globally. Still a large difference, but maybe not quite overwhelming.
How peak of cases is cut by social distancing; too much crashes with flu season
Since it might not really need to hide anything ?
This virus is going to be around for a very, very long time. As soon as it spread through the general population in China, it was over. Take China, everyone is talking as though they solved the problem, but it’s only a matter of time before it breaks out there again. In fact it’s almost certainly already happening.

Even draconian lockdowns of people entering the country can only delay the inevitable. Now delays can be valuable. The slower the spread, the lower the peak strain on health services, but it cannot be stopped. How long is Israel going to do this, a week? A month? Six months? What about next year when there’s another outbreak? Maybe we’ll have a vaccine by then, but maybe not.
You're presuming that because some (or even most) people grow bored easily, people who appreciate mechanical watches do.
"extremely low population density"

I'm not sure the average population density across the entire country is that relevant - it doesn't tell you anything about the distribution of population.

The US is actually rather an urban country - 82% live in urban areas which is more than Italy (75%):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country

Edit: Also noticed that Australia is 86% and Canada 81%!
That's like insisting Month/Day/Year is the one true way to write dates, and thus having a hard time ever spending time outside the USA.

Actually, the C, C++, Java, C# dynasty being the USA of programming languages seems quite fitting in terms of economics.
>What if you quit your job to start a startup that fails, and you can't find another? That could be a problem if you work in sales or marketing. In those fields it can take months to find a new job in a bad economy. But hackers seem to be more liquid. Good hackers can always get some kind of job. It might not be your dream job, but you're not going to starve.

Probably true but I think I would prefer the safe bet over the risky one. Why would I pass up on a 100% chance to make 100k when someone is offering a 0.01% chance to make a few million?

If the job was remote, maybe my mind would change. But VCs are
asking us to cram into cities with $4000 rent for reasons they can't explain.

And most startup interviews these days are theater.
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italian servers are facing major issues because a farm got contaminated, and now all of our bits are waving their hands and cursing god (the italian way)

here it is your smart answer to a smart question
The discussion was about one of this those systems. Deflecting attention to criticism of other systems during that discussion is not constructive, and comes across as apologetics.

You're right, they're not a dichotomy - so why bring them up?

Animal rights aren't dichotomous to the problem of the American prison establishment either. They're also irrelevant to the discussion except as a diversionary tactic too
Hoping to see what HN's armchair epidemologists (or bona fide ones, you never know here) think of the "too much social distancing can lead to new outbreak during flu season" argument.
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for but for some reason was unable to find.
Manage service robots remotely from the Kubernetes dashboard
I think the whole noise issue with mechanical keyboards is way overblown. I have two mech keyboards (with Cherry MX Brown and Black switches), and nobody at the office or at home has ever complained. The Apple butterfly keyboards that some of my coworkers use are subjectively just as loud as mine, if not louder (depending on typing style/force obviously – one of my colleagues seems to really hate his Macbook :) ).
Furthermore, rubber dome keyboards actually require you to bottom out on every keystroke, while with mechanical keyboards, there is at least the possibility to avoid that.
I've had a similar experience. I have a lightweight laptop that I carry with me to use wherever I feel most comfortable, be that at a desk (plugged into a monitor, or not), in an easy chair, on a couch, on the beach, in the woods... depends on where I feel most comfortable at the time.

For CPU intensive tasks, I've set up virtual remote desktops [1] that run on a heavy-duty machine or VPS, which I connect to over SSH or Chrome Remote Desktop. I can even connect to them using my phone in a pinch.

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/virtual-builders/tree/master/ma...
By GDP Italy is #8 and Spain is #13
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>> Take Cantor and his proof of countable and uncountable infinities.

But the non-experts would not even understand him.

As a matter of fact the more non-expert the person is, the higher the probability they would burn Cantor alive for not working in the fields instead.
You don't have to "hope". You can just ask them to read and reply appropriately (even if it's just with an "ok" or equivalent). Initially you might have to prod them explicitly, but people adjust rapidly and start acknowledging on their own.
True.

But it is not that trivial.

Paying the same will be unfair to those living in an expensive location, finding the means of living while others retain more for the same amount of job.
Good luck man. I hope things get better soon.
The land of the free*

*-free for the rich and powerful.
You could wear both: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/doing-the-two-wrist-tango-...

It looks a bit unusual at first but I've gotten used to a coworker doing that.
Thanks for clarifying.
Good luck on your final!
It is not new nor invented at Netfix (and I don't see the article suggesting that). According to Wikipedia the term was coined in 2005 by Alistair Cockburn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_architecture_(softwa...
It's worth taking a look at livegrep (Try it here: https://livegrep.com/search/linux) as an alternative to your git provider's code search.

Quoting patio11: "I intend to boot up a livegrep instance on the first day of every startup for the rest of my life. It borders on miraculous."

It is indeed very good.
Don't you find the idea sad that you would have self censor what you would read on the internet to not become of interest or concern to your government.
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And wearing a mask when you have the sniffles was already very common in Japan.
Didn't it come to an end because one crashed on a roof and lots of people got dismembered?
It works alright for me, it loads Redis News.
They're into AR, not VR. It seems that these two markets will remain separate.
Finally, scientific evidence of the vast healing power of God. /s
fwiw I doubt we'll see a vaccine anytime in the next years.

no doubt China tests very aggressively and trials the drugs on their prison population. They have a head-start because no human rights. (And now they also have more reasons to justify these crimes).

I wouldn't want to know how many were disappeared into body bags while they were still breathing just to keep reported numbers down.
If you collect enough monkeys with typewriters they will eventually finish writing War and Peace. That doesn’t mean that Tolstoy is overconfident in his abilities.

Also you are literally referencing a blog of a science which has serious troubles with the replication or it’s own studies.
If one is going to reinvent SOM, one really should reinvent DirectToSOM C++ too.
Has anyone attempted attacking SeL4 seriously? What were the results?

Having some experience with formal verification, I have a deep mistrust of the proofs.

It is so easy to mistake a proof of the property you want with the proof of a property you've written, or even with a minor misstatement of the environment
You don't really need to bring the Yoneda embedding into it. They're all just partial orders (for the gcd and lcm use the order defined by divisability), which can easily be shown to be categories with at most a single function between objects. After that it's just expanding definitions.
That's definitely one way of solving it.

The con is that (as an employer), you'll have to require each individual employee to incorporate their own LLC and contract out their services that way. For obvious reasons, I can see more than a few employees giving this a pass.
> Isn't it up to the user to choose their preferred screen density?

The actual density of pixels is physically fixed in the hardware.
navigation

https://mashable.com/article/google-maps-ar-augmented-realit...
Strange that no one brings the recent H1N1, maybe because it was a fail at trying to produce mass histeria?.
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Don't write off VR just yet. Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2 chipset might raise the performance bar enough to matter and headsets start hitting the ground this summer (without a supply chain disruption).
If viruses died at a fixed timespan, I think that would point to there being a stateful element that keeps track of elapsed time, like a molecular sand timer.

If viruses die because of spontaneous reactions, eg interaction with surfaces, interactions with photons, or a spontaneous chemical reaction like oxidation, then I would expect half-life decay similar to radioactive elements.

I don't know how viruses die. I wonder if they can be preserved near indefinitely in a non reactive gas or vacuum in the dark.
I've sold some AR projects to customers. Just product visualizations for trade fairs etc. nothing too fancy. It's cool and fun to work with but my takeaway was that for many practical applications it's pretty cost/time intensive to work on the non-technical parts of the projects (tuning the models and scenes so they look photorealistic). The devil is in the details. For example our typical projects involved getting CAD data from customers and turning it into a fairly simple AR-App. Most of the time was spent on fixing the models in various ways (and that's fairly hard to automate imo).
UX is also really tricky.

Reminds me a bit of the cost of working with data vs. the actual models in ML. The models and tuning them and playing with them is the cool stuff but most of the competitive advantages (imo) come from mastering the data part.

I learned a lot from my ventures into AR and it was fun and I've kept a mindset of pretending there was an AR device in contact-lense form to brainstorm what one could do with this breakthrough every now and then. But there's really not much beyond "novelty effect" and gaming I see as interesting products today. Even in areas where AR solutions are deployed in industry (warehousing and logistics), I feel that less glamorous solutions would provide similar benefits.

All that being said, long term I'm quite optimistic that the technology will bring very interesting changes and things I cannot imagine right now.
> Would the USA know if I flew to the UK, then the USA?

I would imagine they will have you fill in a recent travel form. And make it clear that you'll be in a lot of trouble if you don't answer truthfully.
The levenshtein distance between tourist and terrorist is only 4, so my prognosis looks bleak.

But fun aside, I think you are still fine. To my knowledge no flights from the US seem to be cancelled so far. If they really do cancel flights, you could try to use another route trough another EU country. But I think that is still unlikely to be required. That might change though, but probably not until Sunday.
For the people that don't like clicking links:

>Nearly 20,000 people are being tested every day for coronavirus in South Korea, more people per capita than anywhere else in the world.

>The whole process from test tube to test result is about five to six hours.
So you're saying everyone at Gitlab should have their wages slashed? I wonder how good their company would run if they couldn't afford employees in all major tech hubs.
No need to apologise for being political. This is clearly in the realm of politics.
I think one issue with any high-signal commenting platform is there's has to be some sort of standard minimum threshold and investment of emotional/intellectual effort/funds/time to apply. This reduces the tendency for destructive behaviors and low-signal convos.
Compared to similar areas elsewhere in the world, especially Asia, these areas are not dense at all. Wuhan, which you surely hadn't heard of before this crisis, is ~denser than~ nearly as dense as New York City, for example.
They did?
What I found interesting is that Gitlab's ability to operate in your country is a often overlooked limiting factor, and the list can be surprising.

France for instance is not supported for full time employees, as far as I know.
Thats where there actual value is - if the technology is getting smaller, leighter, they are a ip-claim on any competitor trying to get on the next onion layer around what is currently the cellphone market.

To be honest, as long as there IP is absolutly necessary for that to happen- they would have a valid claim for that evaluation. Lawyers might differ.
Is it common? I have never seen it in singular context in English grammar textbooks.
Well, I really enjoyed "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" - though I didn't think Reamde was very good, I don't think you need to have read the former to enjoy the latter.

I listened to the audiobook version twice now - I really enjoyed the links to Stephenson's other books (Not Reamde).
Training is a serious thing for VR, as is development. I had chat last year with a guy running a VR event space / escpe room. Seemed to run rather well. What kind of stunned me was, when I asked whether or not he had thought about branching out into training, he said they re not interessted in that.

I came from a stint at a company doing consulting and training for the defense sector mong other things. Considering the prices they asled, and got, from the government that is a big market. Adding some VR based training scenarios for the military, or emergency services, police, whatever, looks at frst glance interessting enough to at least dig deeper into. But no interesst. No idea why.
My amazfit bip lasts for over a month on a single charge
Wow so a pixel is actually a unit of angle, defined from inches of all units!
Show HN: I made a better search for Unicode characters
And now we got this fragments ecosystem of classic bare metal "Win32" apps, WinForms, WPF, UWP, and obviously a handful of 3rd party GUI libraries so vendors can completely redesign their UI so it is a special snowflake.

C# in 2008 was too early. It was still slow and resource hungry since .NET wasn't that optimized, but also PCs were a lot slower. They sold Vista machines with 1GB of RAM back then. half of that was eaten by the system without opening any actual program you wanted to use.

Using rust shouldn't significantly increase resource usage, and nobody is suggesting you go ahead and design yet another UI framework for it. I'm still perfectly fine with win32 apps today.
Sorry to hear you this didn't work for you!

I filed an issue on sourcegraph/sourcegraph, would you mind posting more details there about the errors you ran into? https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/8970
I dislike it too, but the reality is they're in competition with local companies subject to local taxes, etc.

It does sound quite rigid in its implementation though.
They should try whatever methods were so effective in preventing Chromecast from being sold of the platform.
Asbestos used to be in most homes. There was a good reason and a replacement for it, as well as good rules for disposal.

With high explosives, governments tend to go so far as to require a licence for handling. Fine for breaking that is enough of a deterrent. It's relatively easy to acquire, because otherwise that makes explosive use rather tricky to monitor.

Sales and widespread manufacturing is regulated separately.

Easier and cheaper to get than CFC gas license. Or the general chemical laboratory license required to do such experiments like synthesis. (You can go to a lab and practice there, with supervision. Much less silly, more expensive.)

They're of course limited by volume, just so you don't go building unlicensed rockets and mines.
No offence intended to Americans, but those guys are culturally much tougher negotiators than us. When they know they have leverage over you they don't hold back at all. We get caught out by this over and over again because we speak the same language so we think we understand what's going on, but we aren't awake to the nuances.

You might want to google Tizard Exchange for what happens when the US has us over a barrel. Or look at the outcomes of pretty much any attempt to extradite an American citizen vs US attempts to extradite a UK citizen.
Virus Proof Protocol Review, Legit or a Scam?
I looked into SeL4 some years back for a potential project and along the way learned a reasonable bit about it. I recall that one of the things they were trying to do was to verify not just the design but that the compilation outputs match the designed outputs.

Yep... I’ve checked the site and confirmed my fuzzy recollections. https://sel4.systems/Info/FAQ/proof.pml has a pretty good summary that also has a nice TLDR explaining just what they are proving. “The binary code of the ARM version of the seL4 microkernel correctly implements the behaviour described in its abstract specification and nothing more.”