skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> salary, and quality of life

I like to calculate dollars per hour worked when comparing roles, and I use a fairly generous overtime multiplier (ie, 35 hours a week base, then time and a half for the next 10 hours, then double time the next 15 then you can take your job and shove it)

All too often the big, hard, prestigious companies turn out to pay the same hourly rate as the second-tier places if not slightly less. But the same quality of life at 45 hours a week costs a lot more than at 35 hours a week. So you have to look at the prestige benefits and hope they pay off.
Marriot is an outsourced shop (TCS, Cognizant et. al). They are an empty shell run by “managers”.
A hash map is better than a hash table? I don't understand, genuine question, aren't they the same thing or am I getting confused about what you're saying?
The Blockchain Hype Cycle: A Natural Evolution
In 2020 open source conferencing software requires ZERO software apart from any recent browser or login.

e.g. https://meet.jit.si/hellozoomhowareyou
That was a pretty elaborate "nothing" and unnecessarily political. "The way forward" advises the government to do more than it has ever done before. Well, no shit Sherlock.
is there any introduction before this books, I've read first chapter (looking from first chapter, I already have a feeling this is a good book) and author saying there is a substantial idea that is missing from a lot of introduction statistics books (isn't necessarily wrong).
Sure, but 10K items is so little that you might as well not bother. If you're worried about memory usage you can also just scan the whole table each time (no such thing as a cache miss when the whole table fits in cache).
I think it's more than that. If you also consider AMP and various Chrome redesigns, there is this feeling that Google wants to take control of the web. URLs and site's actual locations are being de-emphasized, and searching is becoming more "ask question, get an answer" instead of "enter query, get documents best matching it".
A full text search with a good ranking is still a full text search. The point here is that Google used to do the job just fine, but no longer is.
Outside of the field most people see it as:

- It failed, the people in charge must be incompetent;

- It works, it's probably routine and simple;

- What works? Is that a thing?
That would be great, but they would never do that. It would make studying the organic search results much easier, allowing folks to better reverse-engineer the search algo; and game the system to a greater extent.
That's a pure fantasy in most jobs. You either sign a full contract or bye. Unless you are an unicorn that company desperately needs, there are processes, rules, internal politics, inflexible HR and so on.

In a small startup, that's more likely but most folks in Europe don't work in startups.
The joke via backdating the Cornell site could be a prank by both. Just change 3 dates.

Whiskey, Sake, come on. Just the Wodka and Russian coauthor are missing.
DPC++ is basically "just" SYCL, so no MPI.
Some buzzword recipes are impossible to google.

Overnight Oats as an Example. You just find pages upon pages of blogspam. And almost every page has the same useless information. No normal recipe site is somehow in the top 10 pages.
I've wondered why catapult designs haven't been studied for airports, since they're used frequently for launching fighter jets from aircraft carriers.

It would cut down on fuel consumption, emissions and noise when taking off.
ndjson isn't really batching though, it's a derivative of JSON (or a superset?) and there are a few variations of it[1][2][3].

It's also supported by quite a few libraries[4] and tools[5] too -- plus many others that don't document it as being ndjson/jsonl (such as AWS CloudTrail logs). I've got support for it in the non-POSIX UNIX/Linux shell I'd written too[6]

The issue is really more that, like with comments, JSON doesn't support streaming nor even multiple documents (something formats like YAML already have built into the spec) so it becomes something you need to advertise if you're writing a parser simply because it's not part of the standard JSON specification.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_streaming#Line-delimited_...

[2] http://ndjson.org/

[3] http://jsonlines.org/

[4] http://ndjson.org/libraries.html

[5] http://jsonlines.org/on_the_web/

[6] https://murex.rocks/docs/types/jsonl.html
Covid-19 Contact Tracing and Intelligent Quarantine
Why is there no major outbreak in India? One would expect it given the high population density.
Thank you so much for your work ! Good idea !
> Normally competition would take care of all this,

Not necessarily. When you find yourself with beancounters and MBAs at the helm, they for sure will optimize the company to outcompete others. Such companies will eventually die from the rot, but not before they drag down the entire industry they're operating in.
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Soo... what about china?
And fossil fuel companies using GCP?
Not US citizen so I only looked at it through the spectrum of some Ars Technica article, but I had the impression that this Wheeler guy had a pretty great record while leading FCC: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/how-a...
EU already does more than that, together with funding they get in touch with FOSS developers.

Please check https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eu-fossa-2/news/how-c...
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Misguidance in the form of suggesting cow urine as a protection against the virus; religiously-oriented obligations that discourage social distancing; and mass disregard and refusal to adhere to rules restricting and in some cases prohibiting altogether cultural gatherings suggest that such behavior escapes the particularity of any one religious, cultural and geographic identity.
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Can the author provide any relevant sources that proves the above fact.
If you write a column, you should be able to prove what you said. This hurts sentiments of Hindu's, a religion which consists of majority of Indian population.
It's a compelling quote but I think the seriousness came when bugs in software started to cause major mayhem in the real world. Yes please keep fun in computing, but keep the fun where fun belongs.
You can self-host the video/audio parts of Zoom

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363093-Deployin...
Estimating infections and impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19
Is this real, or an April Fool's Day prank?

The custom domain name + Google branding has the feel of a Yes Men[0] project designed to shame Google into doing the right thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men

Edit: Very tiny print at the bottom:

> This site is not sponsored by or supported in any way by Google. It is a parody site protected as "fair use" under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. If you work for the legal department of Google, and you believe your brand is being negatively affected by an announcement that you would want to halt the climate emergency, please email nyc@extinctionrebellion.us.
There is actually a dude who streams this https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga

I don't see how people can sit there and watch this live with him trying but normally the clipped/edited videos are pretty funny how much he can waste their time
Judging by the feature requests in the open issues, I'd say we are witnessing the inception of the text editor of the century.
The usual approach is to use salt, not alcohol. The virus does indeed not like alcohol based sanitizers, but then all respiratory virus illnesses would be treatable with that, and the common treatment is with saltwater. I just got a small tinnitus, which looks like a cold, and for sure I'll be treating it with salt, not whiskey
You can make a custom external object (with ape_object_make_external) that serves as a byte buffer and add byte_buffer_read/write functions.
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Author clearly doesn't know what secularism means.
"Zero contracts with fossil fuel companies" presumably covers GCP...

Does that mean hundreds of thousands of oil company employees will receive "access denied" when they try to log into their email this morning?

If so, that scares me - My industry isn't oil, but I don't want my service provider pulling the rug out from under me with zero notice based on it being 'good PR' to do so...
It's not hard, except when it is and it takes weeks of work. From my own experience:

1) httrack wasn't able to crawl anything for some reasons. wget only with special flags available in the latest version.

2) All the links are broken. Wiki have their own linking system between pages that are processed on the fly. The archive with all links hardcoded to wikidump.example.com/wikidump/page really doesn't work in place.

3) More challenges with saving pictures and attachments.

4) Unicode characters in some pages, that broke the page and/or the crawler.

5) Infinite crawling and a ton of useless pages. Consider that every URL with a query string is a separate page. /page?version=50&comparewith=49

6) Crawling large amount of documents takes forever. Could be an hour wasted on each try. Consider tens or hundreds of thousands of unique URLs to save, see point five. Really wish the crawler could parallelize and run on the same host as the wiki.
Something similar (and less of a parentheses hell) is Scalatags by the amazingly prolific scala programmer lihaoyi. The good things about Scalatags is that the same code can be used both in the backend and in the frontend. (I don't use scala on the backend anymore but Scala.js is really good!)
Imagine the commentary if Julian Assange published the cabinet meeting id like Boris just did.

Remember believing equality before the rule of law? I'd be really nice if we could believe in that again.
Updated Strolch Plc Documentation and Readme
To add another data point, my Google results for "gm" look like those on your screenshot, with a market summary card and then GMail being the first result, and General Motors second - with one extra difference that "Top Stories" card in my case is above, not below the GMail result.
Google executives finally doing the thing their employees have wanted for months.

https://medium.com/@googworkersac/google-workers-are-strikin...

[edit]: they got me good with their "In lieu of our normal April Fools’ joke, today we’re getting serious"
Better switch to AMD. No AVX512 but much faster. And safer.
See Nemo157's response to cerebellum42. He explains why having this in runtime is not the best approach for FSMs.
I was intern in 2008 and working very hard. Doing not only mandatory things, but also taking care of lab equipment and helping neighbor labs. Very loyal, no distractions, sitting in the lab until late and working probably 1,5x or even 2x more hours I was paid for.

And then boom! My manager came and told, they must throw away all the interns to save the costs. Throw away me and the other intern who worked in kitchen with coffee mug and was never in the lab. I felt really stupid. Since then I do my 40 hours what I get paid for. No more, no loyalty, no team spirit for the rest of my life. I was doing 200% in last 12 years only for startups as a co-founder, not that ability work hard disappeared completely.
> I missed important business calls when in US. Because they were calling using same area code where my sim card was registered, so I thought it was from the area local to me.

I just ignore calls from my prefix. There's literally nobody in my contacts that has the same prefix I have, and I consider it extremely unlikely that any legitimate calls will come from there. 90% of spam calls come from my prefix, and most of the rest come from out of state (different area code entirely).

Another way is to just ignore all calls not in your contacts, and use Google voice's voicemail transcription (I think I've read about some way to do this with Twilio or another service, but I might be wrong).
It had been widely reported, but I don't think anyone has suggested it is a commonly accepted practice among all Hindus.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-...
"just coasting through life"

Someone could be extremely active outside of work - its not just work that counts.

Edit: Even in the software world - what about all of the people who create stuff outside of formal "work"?
They're not. It's a fake.
I use it for Rust!
I'm really hoping one of these types of app builders backed by spreadsheets takes off. Not only will it empower non-devs, it will give devs the ability to prototype and iterate faster. Toga looks especially well thought out.

Are there plans/a path in the future where users can move off of spreadsheets to a relational database when the need arises?
G forces and the fact that a lot of noise isn't from takeoff itself but just from the low flying that occurs near takeoff and landing?
Outbreak of a pandemic doesn't give anyone right to spread hatred towards Asians.

The important aspect of the outbreak is not the fact that there is loss of human lives, but most importantly loosing the things that makes us human.
The HTTPS certificate is from Let's Encrypt, unlike most Google services.

The website also has some bugs, including a useless search bar and an inactive menu bar.

I would not put too much faith in this being real.
>The human neurons are sourced entirely ethically, from skin cells to stem cells that make neurons somehow.

Yes, and I'd wager the scale at which their experiment is currently operating is very likely ethical too. In fact, I'm not saying anything they're doing right now is unethical. My use of the term unethical was in context of hypothetical experiments on a scale that would make Dr. Frankenstein's stomach churn.

That said, my only point was that it's disconcerting to see these people—who are currently growing tiny brains in a vat—state that they're very interested in AGI come to fruition via way of using human neurons.
This is a parody site as it says on the very bottom:

> This site is not sponsored by or supported in any way by Google. It is a parody site protected as "fair use" under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. If you work for the legal department of Google, and you believe your brand is being negatively affected by an announcement that you would want to halt the climate emergency, please email nyc@extinctionrebellion.us.

IMHO it's a bit over the top; https://amazondating.co/ for example is obviously a parody and still achieves its objective great. This google site is not obvious at all, only a tiny notice with low contrast says it is on the bottom.
There's at least a couple of reasons that doesn't apply.

Software projects don't develop linearly. 20 years ago the Linux kernel was 8 years old, today it's 28 years old. The motivation to upgrade the relatively mature 2020 kernel will be much less than that to upgrade the immature 2000 kernel.

And perhaps the biggest one - computers have changed. 20 years ago a PC that could run Linux was a big power hungry thing. Today it's the size of a box of matches. Embedded Linux PCs with limited upgrade paths are everywhere today.

When I worked on satellites (stopped in 2015) we'd routinely use electronic test equipment which was running an embedded version of Windows 98. Given that the stuff shipping today is even further down the maturity curve, I think it's almost certain that it'll be used in 20 years (if it still works).
Results of COVID19: What It Looks Like from Space When Everything Stops
The public doesn't have much say in things, it consumes what it's given. Cheap candy is the cheapest to produce, so that's what gets delivered.
“ Single purchase, you also get "single development", and then it dies.”

This is a lie perpetuated by the saas industry. If you compare saas companies shutting down “services” to prior product companies stopping updating versions you don’t see much difference.

Also, sw engineers used to care about designing something well. So when you used something the first time it was occasionally delightful. Now it’s just “launch and we’ll worry about that in our next sprint”.
Linux Dialog Package Widgets
Engineering got 5-20% pay cuts, (50-100% at VP level and above), all perks cut, all the contractors got laid off, as did anyone low-skilled in Ops who has been there less than 2 years.

We are the UK arm of a US fintech.

The market is in trouble.
That does not explain why Google "finds" results that don't even match the query.
Who is Yoshua Wuyts?
> Using super likes or paying for Tinder Plus/Gold is a signal of desperation and so people don't readily admit to it.

This sounds like a random interpretation, it might just as well be seen as "dating is important enough for me that I'm happy to spend money on it".

People apparently get perceived value from super likes etc, so I have some doubts it actually hurts their chances.
I graduated in 1993, and had to do some pretty demeaning work to make rent before landing a decent Temp job that got me started towards a career.

Felt like I was finally in my element and ready for the big time Internet challenges by... 2001.

I was busted by the bust and didn't get back on track really until 2007, fortunately in a niche that didn't suffer much from the 2008 meltdown.

This might be just another phase of the cycle, though I admit it feels different this time, and not just because of the economic impact.

(Also, OT but: in 1993 San Francisco was cheap, friendly, pretty mellow and full of creative people. That made being broke a lot more tolerable. I wouldn't want to be 1993-me in 2020-SF.)
India was testing only 18 per million, until even 5 days back [1]. In comparison, South Korea did about 6900 tests per million. The true infection figures for India may become clearer only in the coming weeks.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/in-depth/with-just-18-tests-p...
maybe in 10 years pine or purism will have usable phones.
That would be true if they weren't using fuel to power it, which they are. Part of the article shows the alternator they were possibly going to use.
You don't even have to look that hard; micro-transaction and in-app purchases are mostly all about bragging and showing success
What I don't like about that approach is that it still copies into temp. buffers. The normal tape approach is to reference everything via int indices and keep the input buffer as is. This works also concurrently and with streaming. I don't see the need to copy at all. You don't need \0 delims for strings, just use the mem* API everywhere, all sizes are known.

And API wise filter hooks are needed to skip unneeded arrays or objects. This would also save a lot of unneeded buffering.
Knome – a partnership between GNOME and KDE
Did you look at the tweet? The installer lets anyone run any script as root. That seems fairly bad.
In the 1990s you had a bunch of places with arrays of monitors, which together showed images with 4k horizontal pixels.

Also - you really couldn't imagine a 5x increase in the pixel density per axis?

As for bandwidth - 100 Mb/sec Ethernet was introduced in 1995, and it was clear that this wasn't nearly the end of the line for bandwidth.
So you're saying that for-profit companies by nature don't provide value?
I strongly believe that food habits is an important factor. Most of friends are from India and they eat non vegetarian food occasionally.
If you're in NYC, check out https://shop.usepepper.com/

They deliver groceries from restaurant suppliers, so it's logistically more efficient, helps support those businesses through the crisis, and steers away from the AMZN monoculture.

Disclosure: friend of one of the founders
It’s a “parody” site
Except users don't realize that. They think they're sitting in a locked room that nobody else knows about, when in reality they're sitting at a restaurant table and most people just don't care to go bother them.
“ almost like suggesting Microsoft drop their desktop Office applications and just focus on Office365”

Not sure if you’re experience is different, but this seems to be exactly what they’re doing. Outlook windows app is buggy and terrible. Outlook 365 is great.

Excel is the only app better on native then web.
It seems macOS could use virtualization or permissions to run these scripts in some throw away environment to get rid of the problem altogether. Preflight check programs shouldn't be able to write anything to disk.
Normally you would be right. Service X is not the Internet.

But this doesn't really apply anymore once service X dominates the way a large proportion of the western population are trying to locate something - as opposed to clicking on links or bookmarks.

Reality is what actually matters. Not what people think or what they wish. It is what people do and what actually happens.

The reality is that Google not only holds a vastly dominant market position in search - but its search is the default way a majority of people interact with the Internet.

The address bar in your browser is not just an address bar. It is both a search bar and an address bar. And that makes a real difference when the search engine behind it is most often one search engine.
How old are you tho?
>We do things to convince ourselves of our qualities

This just seems like basic logic though? If you want to be X and Y provides the means, then it makes sense to do it right? There can't be a hidden agenda if you're actively pursuing it
> because iBooks

It's not because of iBooks, it's because Amazon would have to pay 30% to Apple if they sold through the app.
> The market is in trouble.

To elaborate on this,

1) Banks are worried people won't pay their mortgages/loans/cards and they will crash
2) Banks therefore don't buy our stuff, or will seek to pay less for it.
3) We therefore look to cut costs

Everyone is taking the cuts, because there aren't any other firms recruiting right now.
We have no idea if there is any major outbreak in India or not right now. Absence of evidence != Evidence of absence
I'm guessing you are not in the US :-) Over here, a lot of grocery delivery is done with personal cars, uber style.

Don't want to sound too much like a shill, but Peapod and https://shop.usepepper.com/ (NYC only) operate more like how you describe
I thought the same thing. If I'm running one of the only companies making layoffs the advice about paycuts rings true, but what about the situation we find ourselves in now where almost every company in the whole UK economy, and many beyond that, are in the same boat?

Of course, this piece has been written to provide advice in the face of the current situation, so I'm not simply dismissing it: just asking the question.
I don't think they are mutually exclusive.

In a recent interview question I was asked to find the largest three numbers in python list. My first attempt looped through the starting list, comparing the number to the previous minimum number in the result list - replacing the number if it was larger. I needed a get_minimum(function). It was the obvious solution that came to my head at thr time.

An hour later I realized a far more elegant solution was to sort the list and slice the last three elements. It felt far more elegant to me and was as easy to understand as the initial obvious solution that came into my head.

(Though this is why I dislike these type of interview questions. the first solution in an interview situation is not always the best or final one)
There is still a few years to go by for Apple's service bucks to surpass the hardware bucks, while Sony (the gaming division) is loosing money on hardware.
How is it even possible that this is posted again? This was killed earlier for good reasons https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746260
Release of Behavior Tree Engine moving up to 30 tons at DHL parcel centers
not really, because iphones have ridiculous huge profit margins. Apple services earnings is not even close to iphone selling earnings. But one does boost the other so that's what they are doing. But there is still a few years to go by for Apple's service bucks to surpass the hardware bucks.
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