skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if those great people have any sense they will be working for a company that recognizes and rewards their skills and not simply offers a rate based on the area of the world they are in.

ie great people don't want to be competing on cost for work, unless they can capture some of the value of their greatness.

eg price for work completed rather than by the hour - so if they finish it in the half the time then they keep that value.

On the other hand, people currently average skill or below ( half... ) are more likely to be better off being paid by the hour.

So if you take a pure economic view, and everyone was behaving rationally, then a cost based hourly recruitment model gets you average and below workers.

ie you get what you pay for at equilibrium.

Of course what they are hoping is to exploit not being at equilibrium - countries with relatively high skills and low costs.

However they are going to be competing with companies based in those lower cost countries ( eg India ), who have both the low cost environment advantage and the ability to recruit locally and better select and retain employees.

My experience of working with even locally based companies that compete on price is high staff churn ( as the good ones find better employment ) - which really damages productivity.
I don't find any differentiation between early stage and later stage nor references to exponential functions:

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

If you find any source, idealy scientific papers on the subject, that shows that contagious diseases can be modelled with simple exponential functions, please share them. I am not an expert on that matter, so I would be really interessted to see some reliable sources confirming the use of exponential functions.
It is not an imperative language even though it is dressed up like one. You are describing a data structure, not a sequence of operations.
Aren't mixins a form of composition?
I have been washing my hands with the hottest temperature my skin could handle given it is plausible that heat would inactive more of the viruses.

I have read studies saying this doesn't help.

The skin on the back of my hand is becoming irritated, i am applying lotion.
One's investment plan should not rely on "if". Sit with a piece of paper - write down the scenarios that are possible, not the ones you want to happen. Now project forward - thinking what should I have done if each of these were true.
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Out of curiosity, what do you do with either of these "pet" machines? I always have an idea to make a virtual machine cluster, or something similar, but I haven't taken the plunge yet.
The Constitution requires that Congress setup laws for both copyright and patent, for the good of the nation. Patents were always intended for the overall wellbeing of the nation. That's not to say that is what has always been achieved by the patent system, but it's not some sort of conspiracy. If anything, in history, they were always OSTENSIBLY for good, but perhaps ACTUALLY bad. So I find your statement to be A) historically and factually inaccurate B) literally incorrect given your usage of ostensibly.
I cant say I agree with this. Every person should be able to to discern a fact from an opinion, know how to pick an argument apart and identify logical fallacies, and if people can't then getting rid of bots doesn't solve twitter's disinformation problem if people are just as good at propagating nonsense as bots.
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It depends on your definition of "new technology", but I would say it's almost certainly not true.

In a world where electric coffee grinders exist, and batteries exist, is a battery powered electric coffee grinder a new technology? Or just a new product. I'd say the latter.

There's certainly new software technology being produced every day, but much less than there are new software products being launched every day.

Yes this is true for other forms of technology too, but no, I don't think software alone outbalances technology being developed in all other fields combined, including materials science, semiconductor, medical, photonics, robotics, drones, power electronics, microscopy, machining, metrology, renewable energy, telecommunications, etc... I think it's just an indicator of a bubble perspective from someone who probably mostly interacts with software developers or follows software technology.
Good job asking from the other perspective. Here it is (over simplified to state a point, you would need to do more research).

Let's say Tesla stocks are at 700. If someone offered 2k in addition to the opportunity to buy tesla at $620 / share, I'm sure many people will be lined up to buy it. Not only do you get $2000 immediately in the bank, you also get to buy tesla stock at a 10% discount. Not a bad deal.
> “In IT we have a saying; stay away from the Three Os: Orientals, Old People and Ovaries.”

Wow, that's quite a number of offensive stereotypes in a single statement.
I think the opinion is that they exploit lack of laws in this area. Their business model is built to let people run essentially unlicensed hotels and rentals without those pesky restriction. They could easily prevent this but they have no interest in that. It is growth at all costs; who cares if "regular" people can't find apartments because people are buying them up as AirBNB properties. The regulations will eventually catch-up but it will take time.
Completely pointless tangent: the article uses `unwrap`ping as the -ing form of `unwrap`. That looks weird to me. It occurs to me that `X`->`X`ing is a better rule because of things like `leave`ing (not `leav`ing).
Ah, bad Perl code, outputting a four digit year by doing "19" . $year instead of 1900 + $year. I fixed a lot of those in 1999.
> And my ears are asymmetrical. It does show up in photos from front on (though perhaps not to the extent in this article).

Yeah, I was surprised the article made such a big deal about that. My ears are also a little asymmetrical, and Stephen Colbert's [1] are very obviously so.

[1] A famous American comedian with a nightly talk show.
I'm a lattice field theorist, exploring how to leverage NN in algorithms for quantum field theory that remain exact even with NNs in them, so that the NNs just provide acceleration.

One annoying thing I've encountered is that I have some symmetries that I cannot figure out how to enforce. For example, if I have two degrees of freedom a and b and know that my physical system has a symmetry under exchange of a and b. Suppose I want to train a network to compute something in my system. For each configuration of my system I can train on (a,b) and (b,a). But the order in which I feed those as training matters, so that the network only has _approximate_ exchange symmetry, rather than exact.

Is there a way around this inexactness?
There are people who think every carpentering problem can be solved with chisel and the only book they ever red is one that says how to solve every problem with a chisel.

The response to this is not to throw out all chisels.

The response is to learn to use various tools and once you know how to do this, how to apply different tools to different types of problems.

There is no shame in overusing a tool for a period of time. The novice carpenter must be able to play to learn limitations of tools but also to learn which inventive ways to use tools are actually helpful.

Master carpenter will understand that playtime is necessary step in getting to mastery and will not call out novices for their overuse of the chisel but instead will encourage play with the intent to speed up education.
They can't really sell the OS, so that makes sense for everyone as devs can offer the app for free too.

I wonder if there's a way to pay to opt out of their ads though...
H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine”
Does the same apply to actual engineers who stamp structural engineering projects, as opposed to self labelled “engineers”? Asking for a friend.
Today I read that it can survive for up to 3 days on some surfaces.
Too be fair, the EU also never managed to build a large scale software industry. I’m not saying this is only because of patents, but it’s not a great example to uphold.
I had a smartwatch for a while, and to my surprise I actually found it less stressful!

For me, one source of smartphone stress is that moment when its screen is out of view (in your pocket, sitting on a desk, etc.) and it makes a noise. At that moment, I have to choose between ignoring it or checking it.

If I ignore it, I have a little bit of worry in the back of my mind that I might be missing something important. If I check it, I have the interruption of figuring out where the phone is and grabbing it. And maybe of unlocking it.

With a smartwatch, the display is always within easy reach. I can check the notification very quickly and move on. I don't worry that maybe I ignored something important.

Also, it's cumbersome to do anything substantial on the smartwatch. On a smartphone, I am tempted to open up another app and get sidetracked with something. With a smartwatch, I don't have that temptation. Its limited usefulness is actually an advantage.
funny... so about those 1billion android devices that are no longer offered security updates.

I guess Google should be taking responsibility there as well?
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>We are lucky that the Y2k issue was so understandable by the public.

As someone who was forced to spend Y2K in a "prepped" cabin on the side of a mountain with two years of supplies buried underneath, I think you might overestimate the quality of the public's response to Y2K.

The public did not maturely understand that software needed to be updated and everything was OK.

There was some real panic out there. It was arguably the biggest "End Times" event of the modern era, definitely IMO surpassing "2012" and other "apocalypse panics".

The Y2k preppers and panic, I think, was the foundation for the modern prepper movement and the public's desire to flip from conspiracy to conspiracy to predict collapse.
The study you cite shows this is only true for when there is a positive expected risk premium, hence the evidence only supports cherry picked cases.

Additionally, if you read it, the paper admits the DA is inherently less risky than LS, so it attempted to even out risk by adjusting the investment amounts between the two methodologies until expected returns were even, and then compared. This method is arguably flawed for fairly evaluating total risk, since the total invested amounts at risk are different - that is, it relies on the reward to balance out the risk (ie. a positive risk premium). As so it's mostly tautological evidence...
Forever? Patents typically last 13 years
haha very true. I probably could have used it if I got super hard core about separating my domains up but it just seems to over complicate things.
If patents had a requirement that they must be licensed under "reasonable" terms (i.e. if brought to court you can argue that the license was designed to price out or discourage competitors) then I'm totally in support of them since it's supposed to be a reward for sharing your design with the world rather than keeping it a trade secret.
Nope: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/
Your strategy is a great one to work - no matter the prevailing trend! The trend for 10 years has been to become lax on protecting the downside. Even large funds have stopped protecting downside with puts. Your strategy doesn't produce the highest ROI year over year, but DOES protect premium year over year. Which is perfect.
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Sadly that ended with the fairness doctrine in the 80's. I don't ask for a lot - just no blatant lies or fake outrage designed to weaponise one side against the other.
Ok, no. This is a bad meme. Read the comments here and you can see why.

You know what startups came out of the 2008/2009 recession? A car sharing company. A rooms-for-lease company. Many, many different delivery companies and a sh*t-ton of gig economy jobs.

Do you know what they all have in common? Taking advantage of people's weak economic situation. That's the sort of company that comes out of bad economies. The ones that take advantage of people being in poor economic situations.

But starting something that matters? You have to do it when customers can actually buy your products. And that takes a GOOD economy.

I can't wait to see the slew of low-quality companies that come out of this next upcoming, inevitable recession
Yup you're not alone. After many years of developing and never using a whiteboard, my first attempt at a "whiteboard architecture talk" where I was forced to use a whiteboard was a 45min talk and I came out thinking it had gone quite well, looked back at the whiteboard and saw I had drawn a single box on it. Just one box with no label. I couldn't even remember what the box was supposed to signify.

Not everyone thinks visually. I'm also baffled when people ask for network layout diagrams or want to show me them. I just don't care about seeing that stuff in a diagram - it very seldom gives me information I feel I'm not getting somewhere else.

I've trained myself to do the whiteboard talk now because it seems to help some people. So if I'm communicating a design idea or whatever I'll often draw a diagram while I'm explaining it.
Countries that implemented extreme measures to slow the spread of the virus. It will be different for countries which haven't. The WHO and other health officials around the world are saying the same thing. This will spread to a large number of people. It's too late for containment, you can only hope to flatten the curve. That's why it's now a pandemic.
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A much more insidious problem with the Y2K bug was the leap year calculation. As you point out, the 20-digit-year thing was relatively easy to fix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Leap_years
It's also the HN way to downvote comments which include complaints about the comment being downvoted though [more so if they speculate the comment is being downvoted due to bots and followup with a request for moderator intervention]. Suspect that's the wider issue here.

More generally, political comments are bound to attract some downvotes from people who either support the other side or don't like politics on HN, although you'd normally expect more upvotes on a comment which is on-topic, only tangentially related to the figure's politics and well-reasoned and civil
These functions accept state and other dependencies

That "dependencies" term is very loaded. You need to define if you call "dependencies" what the functions in your module take as argument or you're talking about those other modules your module calls.

When I see a function, I expect it to be side effect free.

Why? though I think it's a commendable goal it's not a reasonable expectation from most languages.
We don't have anything to hide and having the error apparent leads to faster resolution. There are at least two other people other than me having access to the VM, so that if I sleep and they see a problem, they react. This way is simpler.
I understand your frustration and share it, but I personally believe that we are at the point where this behavior (i.e., failure to act) should be expected of tech companies. The economic incentives of the companies who run the most popular social networks seem to be negatively aligned against robust responses to the propagation of bots and disinformation, and that doesn't appear likely to change.

I also wonder whether the mitigation strategy for this type of societal threat is not to be found via strictly technological means anyway since the line between bot and human actor appears to be blurring more and more as time passes and technology improves (artificial face generation, improved NLP, statistically-informed posting and behavioral modeling, etc.). Imagine how complicated the process of discriminating between automated and human-controlled accounts might become in ten or twenty years from now; it seems as though there will have to be some sort of public education component to reduce the credulity of human users in online environments - an adjustment of weights in the network of information sources among the general population, if you will, in a direction that de-emphasizes online content.
The EU once upon a time was aggressively trying to implement them but they were canned by members . It's only a matter of time I feel before it is attempted again
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have fallen sharply over the last few days
I started doing this 3 weeks ago. Lucky me. The drop has been spectacular, as were the drops in 2008 and 2000. I only buy in after seeing spectacular drops. Again I’m not saying it’s the right strategy, I’m saying look into puts, study, observe, and maybe this works for you. Maybe not.
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Random analogy - is a flash drive a computer?
I'm not the first to make this observation but our search seems limited by our imagination which in turn is limited by our current level of technology. In the Victorian era canals were considered a technological innovation. So we looked for canals on the surface of Mars and some of us were sure we saw them. Radio was invented so we decided to search for radio signals from space. The concept of solar panels was invented so we decided to see if any civilizations were covering their star with a fleet of them. Lasers were invented and recently we're talking about powering light-sail probes with them so now we have optical SETI. LIGO detected gravity waves and so... well you get that point. I don't think we shouldn't look for all of these things but I think we should temper expectations. My suspicion is in a couple hundred years the idea of looking for ET radio broadcasts will seem as silly as looking for canals on Mars does to us now.
Does their royalty free license have any guarantees that the license stays royalty free? If not, it could be an potential trap..
Well when most of the bad Y2K code was written they knew it was bad, they just didn't think civilization would last until the year 2000. It was the Reagan years, after all.
That's just the Redis client call stack, once the connection failed.
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> who want a platform completely unburdened with apple or google

I don't think KaiOS will be. It seems that Google is one of the main investors in KaiOS Technologies[0][1].

[0]: https://www.kaiostech.com/google-leads-seriesa-investment-ro...
[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kai-technologies#sec...
I didn't realize how rich the normal match { } patterns can get until I saw these matches!() examples and was trying to figure out what that pattern syntax was. I've only ever used the basic enum matching/enum value unwrapping patterns.
The leaks will continue. They did massive damage already.

And, when you consider that much, much more has been happening in the meantime, its a certainty that the complex is on the defense against .. the people.

No matter how big the culture is, there will be dissent, and action.

It is a big mistake to assume that when/if Assange and Manning are 'dealt with' (i.e. dead, incarcerated, etc.) the leaks will cease.

The complex is on the run. Not everyone is so content to just bend over, these days. Of course, that is hard to see if you are actually in its bubble..
How can it be closed source? What licence was FirefoxOS originally released as? Or you mean that they added new bits to it and kept them closed source? In that case, what's their rationale?
A simple TypeScript example:

interface DuckTypedObject {
quack: true
bark?: false
eyes: 'beady'
}

This will require that any object used as a DuckTypedObject must have the `quack` and `eyes` properties and may optionally have a `bark` of `false`, but doesn't otherwise prescribe what the object actually has to be.
Starting something that matters? No better test of that than a bad economy...
Hey thanks for checking it out and for the feedback! I will make sure we add the --ts flag in the next release.

You can specify the directory with `npx qawolf create --rootDir=tests/integration` let me know if that works for you?
Can you justify the claim that Amazon is mostly software? Is it because they hire a lot of well-paid software developers?

Microsoft produces a lot of value from software, but how much new technology are they producing? Some for sure, but how much?

I don't think your metrics prove the claim...

Facebook has developed a software product, and earned a lot of value from advertising. They've also developed several new technologies along the way, but I'm not sure their advertising revenue or market cap are good trackers of their R&D output.

Software products obviously scale very well, which makes them very valuable. But are you counting new technologies in terms of dollars earned? That's very different than just the number of innovations, because it depends on the size of the market for them, your capacity to exploit it, etc.
I worked at a place that for a short while had a patent fan CTO.

They'd make plaques about the patents and hang them on walls around the company rotating them as they were filed.

I'd read them... like 90% of them I'd look at and they were straight up just a basic network design. Some I'm not even sure you could NOT do if you did any basic business process / built a computer network.

It was bonkers.
You assume a hell of a lot.
I think a pets vs. corn would be a better analogy as it's a high value single instance vs. a commodity farm.
This article is specifically about viruses, not bacteria. It claims specifically that water alone is not effective against viruses like COVID-19, because they stick to the skin too strongly. It also claims that soap and water together are very effective by ripping the virus apart chemically.

Additionally, streams are not generally safe to drink from, despite how pristine they may look[1].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/travel/index.html
I don't think you're making much sense here.

If 20% of a small number and 2% of a bigger number are the same number of people in hospital, the hospitals will be in the same situation. What is emotion driving? People showing up in emergency? These people will be triaged, and will not take up the most limited resource - ventilators - unless they need them.

I don't think 'panic' will overwhelm anything other than the triage nurses. This is not what you should be worried about.
What I'd like to understand is why viruses are less prevalent in the summer due to more humid air, but yet they can exist in the moist body and spread from moist spray from coughs / sneezes.

I haven't been able to phrase the question just right to find the answer to what seems like a conflict.

I think the spray is just a method of transmission with the virus "hoping" to dry out quickly on a dry surface before it falls apart.

But inside the body?