skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your link doesn't say that or even lay the groundwork for that. It says the protest was organised by "a conservative group linked to Betsy DaVos [a conservative politician". There's no mention of funding anywhere.

Really, think about what you're implying here - that Americans somehow care so little about being placed under house arrest that they'd need to be paid to turn up to a protest about it? That's not the America I know.

As for "conservative group with links to conservative politicians", given the vague nature of the term "links" that's going to encompass a vast number of politically active people in the country. There's nothing surprising or sinister about people who distrust centralised state power organising protests against totalitarian actions. It's exactly what you'd expect to see.
One easy dumb trick I use to filter out "interesting" results that are likely just getting causality backwards is to flip the title around and see if it immediately sounds like an obvious truism. In the case of this article, it goes from:

> Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers

To something like:

> Higher-paid software developers more likely to be working remotely

And at that point, yes, it's fairly obviously going to be true. Working remotely is a perk for those who prefer it so we should expect it to be positively correlated with other forms of compensation.

I think all that your data really shows is a hidden variable: competence. Better software developers get paid more, work remotely more, and probably also get more paid time off, larger bonuses, and all sorts of other perks.
> optimizing the SSD-to-VRAM pipeline in a way that component-built PCs won’t be able to do until several new industry standards are developed, with potentially profound impacts on the way games are designed.

What are the innovations? I'm just seeing gen 4 pci-e paired with some sort of nvram solution (details are sparse). Apologies if I'm missing something spectacular here...
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Yeah I'm sure there are no possible scaling issues between your service (how many people use it / repos acitve) vs github or gitlab....
i have more here, and just added some by you https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#use...
Although I mostly agree with you about amzn, they do in fact have some really sophisticated pieces of code. The core aspects of why the company succeeded are not related directly to that code, but without it, it seems quite unlikely to me that they would have succeeded in the way that they have.
Part of the point of having release infrastructure is so that every engineer doesn't have to know how to manage a deployment, even. Having worked both with and without it, I have to say I favor the former. The occasional loss of productivity due to a service provider outage, or even due to whatever the hell's going on today, is vastly outweighed by the day-to-day baseline requiring next to no time spent on the mechanics of taking code from review approval to live in prod.
Sidebar, I just want to say, you are one of the few people I’ve observed doing actual “modern” web development.

When most people talk about “modern web” or modern anything in software they think it means “using all the latest tools”.

That often means things like ES6 and Webpack, which have nice surfaces, but which create nightmares under the hood.

That’s the opposite of what modern architecture was. It was about embracing the constraints of materials. Given the properties of concrete, what is the limit of what you can do with it. Go there, and no further. And don’t cover it up, just finish the dang slab and get on with the rest of the house.

ES6 means transpiling, which means webpack, which means a massive machine of hidden complexity, which if you’re lucky exposes a nice smooth surface where everything is arrow functions and named exports. And if you’re unlucky is a flimsy piece of cardboard over the nightmare underneath.

You (SourceHut) seem to be building a UI that actually takes note of how the browser is. And you are trying to push the big numbers... how reliable your service can be, how many endpoints can one person maintain, while letting the materials of the web (forms, urls) dictate the details.

That’s true modernism.

So, bravo. I’m glad to see you out in the world. It takes courage to step outside of the norm and I’m rooting for you.
This is a fantastic e-bike (made by Gazelle, a century-old Dutch company) that will probably do the trick. It gets me up the hills here, piece of cake: https://www.gazellebikes.com/en-us/gazelle-arroyo-c8-hmb-eli...
Would it be cheaper to download the bike route data to the device and simply do the processing there?

Generally bicyclists have a fixed starting point so you could cache the results and improve them over time. (Obviously cross-country would require further work to support efficiently.)

I’m all for “anything can be done in the cloud” but if the cloud can’t efficiently handle this, I still have a couple of supercomputers laying around that I’d be happy to let puzzle over my bicycling needs for a few minutes (or overnight, or for a few weeks when charging) if that helped me find a more scenic route someday that isn’t much slower than the direct one.
And you thought the delirium caused by extended vent usage was exciting, wait till you read about pumphead syndrome!
Who's to say? It's not GitHub scale, and even if everyone in this thread moved to SourceHut, it still wouldn't be GitHub scale, but it would be serving your needs just fine. I feel totally comfortable recommending SourceHut over GitHub as a service which can be expected to have better uptime and performance, because it is a fact - even if we operate at different scales.

And I believe sr.ht would beat out GitHub at their scale anyway. The services are an order of magnitude more lightweight. And the design is more fault tolerant: we use a distributed architecture, so one part of the system can go down without affecting anything else - as if GitHub's issues could go down without anything else being affected. And many of our tools are based on email, a global fault-tolerant system, which would allow you to get your work done more or less unaffected even if SourceHut was experiencing a total outage. We'd automatically get caught back up with what you were up to in the meanwhile once we're online, too.

I've spoken to GitHub engineers about some of the internal architectural design of GitHub, too, I'm confident that SourceHut's technical design beats out GitHub's in terms of scalability. And, despite already winning by a good margin, I'm still spending a lot of effort to push the envelope further on performance and scalability.
I think AWS was having issues yesterday and today as well. Do you think someone is targeting cloud providers?
Assume average movie length of 90 minutes and 4k Blu-ray price of $20 (I don't buy physical Blu-ray's but found some year or two old recent marvel movies cost about that much - new releases cost more, typical boxsets come out as costing less per item)

So that's 50GB/20$. Or $400/TB. So the content to fill those hard drives is about 5x the drives yourself. So it's not infeasible that people could fill them with legal movies.

Not to mention TV shows, video games, and content that is much denser in GB/$.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I've been spending a lot of time studying and implementing data structures and algorithms and other fundamentals, I've just avoided the leetcode problems. You make a lot of sense though. I have a lot to think about, I'm just trying to identify what efforts have the best chance of paying off.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but yes, there are plenty of businesses that can't afford an outage in the push-to-prod path.

But it might be worth keeping in mind that there are plenty of businesses that can afford afford delays, especially if they can save money in exchange for that higher risk.

As always, engineering isn't about the perfect solution for everybody, but the right tradeoffs for your particular use case.
Yeah apparently Centurylink and Comcast are having issues as well. Customers have been complaining about slow load times with our products today. Coworkers complaining about slow load times in general and especially with Salesforce. I’m being rerouted from my local CloudFlare data center to Chicago as well.

Not entirely sure what’s up, but this doesn’t thing like an issue limited to only GitHub.
Here is a great explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4xgcIaPeA

There are three main causes of hypoxemia (low blood o2):
1) "V/Q" (volume/flowrate), where uneven flow of blood carries unoxegenated blood past alveoli faster than it can oxygenate,
2) "Shunt" where blood flows through the lungs without being able to exchange gasses at all
3) "Diffusion Abnormality" - usually seen in COPD, this is where the membrane between alveoli and the capillaries becomes thicker or different. CO2 can diffuse through a thicker membrane more easily than oxygen, so that can explain some of the findings other posters are discussing.

Nothing peer reviewed on this yet, though we have techniques for analyzing exactly whats happening in the lungs by injecting inert gasses to the body and measuring how they leave.
Yes, but the population is even older than in Italy, which is also a big factor.
Great read..

I had always attributed the observation to Mel Books :P

"So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." — Dark Helmet, Spaceballs.
All cross-platform solutions suck. At least consider writing one native client for every supported platform. Only support the platforms that your customer base truly needs. Focus on the most important platform first.
> Pixel by LabCorp™ is not available in NY, NJ, MD, or RI due to restrictions on how laboratory tests may be ordered. Please talk with your healthcare provider about options for getting tested.

Ah wonderful, so this rules out states accounting for 45% of the confirmed cases.
No we don't. We can invent time travel later.

"What do we want? Time travel! When do we want it? It doesn't matter!"
To rest for what? To be more productive at work?

I'd argue your point isn't 'quite the contrary' but only emphasizes OP's point: you describe the time outside of work as 'after hours', and argue that 'forcing' people to spend this time in a particular way is a good thing.
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No causation without intervention.
That’s fair, but the main point still stands. Is tax avoidance ethical? I’d say no, but I’m sure many would disagree.
I dont mean like a literal loop, but gameplay loops that you cant automate.

This includes things like plopping down yet another mining base, plopping down yet more production, etc...

You can make blueprints for all theses things, but you can't automate the blueprint placing. Sometimes you need to reconfigure circuit stuff for special train stops, so they get the right products, and as far as I know this can't be done via blueprint.

It just gets tedious after a while, especially because it doesn't take all that much to build a rocket, making it unnecessary if you just want to beat the game.
Or he just likes to act like he's important. No one in positions of power cares what he has to say about pandemic modeling and they certainly aren't going to persecute him for it.
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No, but empirically it's what the justices have been using for over 50 years. Decisions like Wickard v. Filburn and Obergefell don't just come from "living constitutionalism" -- they are just completely made up out of whole cloth.
Blazing fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
Absolutely. I don't see where anyone is claiming that.
Interesting! Do you find most of your outbound hires through LinkedIn? Or what channels do you typically use to look for candidates? (referrals, GitHub, referrals, HN...?)

It took me a fair while to learn how to work productively while fully remote (thankfully it was on my own dime), and I feel like I've gotten the hang of it now. Bit annoying that the issue you're describing will make it harder to get remote work in the future.

This isn't a veiled hiring entreaty by the way, I'm happily employed, but this seems like something useful to know.
Yes, the 371 are listed on the sell sheet (see tweet above). Unclear if Stanford was involved, but I would suspect not.
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Uh yeah, same here. Like, I can remember what my daughter looks like as she sleeps in her crib, but visually what I see (with my eyes closed) is just blackness. I've always thought of it as something akin to a prerendering buffer or virtual display context in my mind. What the parent poster is saying makes me think that for them its more like experiencing an actual display, which seems like it would get really confusing layered onto the visual input from their eyes.

The only time I've ever experienced anything like that I was trying psychedelic mushrooms for the one (and so far, only) time, and so it was literally a hallucination.
I don't think so. I backed up the claim here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22936448

SourceHut is at least 10x lighter weight and has a distributed, fault tolerant design which would allow you to continue being productive even in the event of a total outage of all SourceHut services.
Maybe, maybe not. Their other tests have almost no demand right now due to coronavirus. How much of a killing they make will depend on which tests have better margins.
I am not asking for help. There is no "right place to ask for help". It's been made clear over 15 years that won't happen. Not the help I need. I am venting when a relevant topic comes up.

"Suicide isn't the answer" is the sort of platitude I mean. It is an answer. It solves the problems I am suffering. I am so tired of people who haven't slogged anywhere near as painfully and as long as I have telling me what is worth it or what I HAVE to do. People who don't understand at all what it's like or try and relate their relatively smaller issues or survivable resources and health to "knowing suffering". Everything you have said is to reinforce your own beliefs and comforts. It doesn't help me at all. Lest I sound ungrateful...I appreciate people trying...but it doesn't work or help and people and systems won't do what is required. My country has decided social systems are bad and wrong and denied me that assistance and Maslow's basic needs. I know I am worth it. I didn't cause any of this. I am a victim and that's a dirty word. Being angry about it is "wrong". Nobody arrives where I am because they have choices. It's a last desperate jump so the fire doesn't burn you up...even though you know you will fall and splat...to paraphrase DFW.

I'm happy to take the help to live...it's not there. It's "entitled" of me. It's me not "trying hard enough" whilst I am burning up. Everyone for themselves with the exception of a tiny few...and I've not had enough of those people in my life since this happened to me.
Thanks for the link (looking at it now), and for the terminology (sound, complete).

The trivial algorithm to determine termination is to just run the code. This algorithm is sound but not complete, and is not interesting from the point of view of a termination competition.

Very curious about complete but unsound approaches. First instinct is to just determine some rules that allow you to prune paths in the control flow of a program (e.g. prune away bounded loops). This doesn't help with recursion, though.

If we were dealing with recursive functions with constrained argument types, I can see rules like "for two calls, integer argument is moving closer to base case" being effective. Generalizing this still feels like it would be magical to me (which means I don't understand it at all).
As a huge fan of JetBrains products (I use WebStorm, PyCharm, DataGrip in roughly equal parts) I am considering:

https://www.jetbrains.com/space/

Anybody else got experience with that and/or TeamCity?
It was $20 during early access. So while that’s a significant price jump in terms of percentage, $10 more isn’t a big cost difference in total terms.

Compare that to AAA titles at $60 a pop, and Factorio is a steal.
I'm surprised this is being downvoted. Again and again we've seen really smart people who made a great photo app try to bring their approach to something that's genuinely hard for reasons that go beyond how to write code or build a SaaS business, and leave a trail of wreckage in their wake.

Healthcare, education, civic life, etc. are all extremely valuable problems, but only if you actually get it right. Humility doesn't mean don't tackle them, it means recognizing that your expertise in one thing doesn't translate to another automatically.

There are counterexamples, and they'll all tell you that the code was the easy part.
> "People may know the best decision–and not make it"

This idea is so old that it goes back at least as far as to the ancient greeks. They even had a name for it, they called this concept "Akrasia".
Support to allow them to stay home. It's not really a "choice" to stay home if that means they will starve or be evicted.
Likely not "at cost", since a for-profit company should be expected to be making a profit, but probably close, considering the herculean effort to get these things to market, despite the red tape.
You misunderstood the deadweight tonnage. There is nowhere near that much steel in the ship. Look at the light displacement number instead. Scrap value is a fraction of the asking price.
After reading this, my only question is, what do we do now? Western Digital already bought HGST and discontinued it. Maybe they felt safe enough to pull this because they know the alternate options are limited.
Bit of an understatement. Doing a study about remote developers and substituting geography with a proxy. At least for me it would seem really obvious we are disregarding a main factor. What are the numbers if we control for location?
> are you juggling credit cards to simultaneously maximize the benefits of opening new cards with promotional offers, limiting your interest rates, and maximizing your credit score?

I mean, I'm not personally doing that, because that's a bunch of manual work; but if I found about an API that I could use to automate doing that, I'd probably budget myself 30-or-so man-hours to trying to set something like that up on top of such an API.

> have you investigated the air quality of your working and living spaces?

Yes; I even bought a CO2 meter. I was feeling ill whenever I closed the windows or when there was no wind, and I wanted to eliminate obvious potential causes. Toxic mold was another possible cause.
1) Of course, there are SPoF =)
One is called google =)

2) Not exactly, it's the follow up of a closed semantics field and the client-server model. The internet can be very different. As it was intended to be

3) Again, we are talking about the semantics field. Web search doesn't work, as in barely

4) No, you cannot. You are searching through blackbox intermediaries. Always. Its called a knowledge graph. Moreover, you cant search for nearly 80% of the things. I don't need an ISP telling me what I can or cannot search. Currently, according to freedom house, ~24% of the internet is free. Why should I care about censorship of ISP's? For all I know (minor in history) censorship killed more people than all of the liberals put together. An example, holocaust or let's get closer to today's reality. COVID and whats happening in counties like China, Russia, etc

5) what it doesn't do now, doesn't mean it shouldn't do. The whole idea is that I want to know that what I searched for can be provable and relevant. With the current page rank its impossible. That has to be changed

6) No, it doesn't and it shouldn't! It allows you to change the flow of monetization and empower a non-zero sum game + let eCommerce flourish fairly

7) I wish it was. But this is just the reality

There is no need to reinvent the wheel. People search for questions, in which, it should be noted, there are no bad intentions. People get answers. It's as simple as eating a cake =)
What has to be changed is several things:
- Location-based addressing has to go (thanks ipfs, dat, swarm, git, and any blockchain or tangle like protocol)
- blackbox opinions
- data loss and re-selling
- one at a time ISP architecture
- censorship
- the understanding of how we use the internet as client-server
- the number of beneficiaries has to grow, drastically
> Do you remember landlines, and how responsive they were?

They weren't always, except for local calls. My Background: I made a lot overseas phone calls in the 1980's to talk to my father, from North America to Japan. I also took a telecom class going through uni.

When calling Japan, not only was it crazy expensive, but the connection was typically terrible. We considered it amazing to be calling Japan at all, so that was ok. Issues:

1. Latency, just start talking when the ringing stops. If you wait to hear the person say "hello" they'd generally hang up before they heard you. Sometimes it would be around 5s latency, we always said this must be "satellite" connections vs using undersea cables.

2. Voice quality. You could hear and recognize the person on the far side, but that's about it.

3. Cost. I don't remember the cost exactly since I was young, but I remember it was between $2-$5/min in 1980's dollars. Calls were short.

Latency was a major focus of telecom networks for a couple of reasons. One was human, obviously humans really prefer low latency in telecom networks. Good old school POTS lines also have to sidetone[1] the old fashioned way, and if the round trip time gets too high it's really disruptive to hear your own voice > 300ms later. But this causes a big echo problem, so have a shorter round trip time makes the echo cancellation filters shorter/easier.

1) Sidetone is hearing your own voice come out of the speaker. Analog POTS lines are super cool this way, on longer connections the signal is weaker so the sidetone is weaker, so the human speaks louder. This means their own voice is louder so the person at the far end can hear them over the weaker signal.
Why shouldn't Google do it? We should want as many people as possible to cycle. It's healthier, reduces traffic, no pollution.

Google maps is the default option for most people. Why would we want to make it harder for people to start cycling by forcing them to hunt down some specialist app that they don't even know exists? Why not just have the information in the app they're already using?
"We took the measures that mitigated a disaster, therefore the disaster was never going to happen" is an idiotic opinion.

A virus that spreads from close proximity with infected people, and you're arguing that shoving people back in close proximity is not going to contribute to spreading it? Why? On what basis will this not happen, despite this being exactly what happened?

Spain took about 1 month to go from "hm this coronavirus thing is spreading" to "if you're over 75 we're not going to bother with ventilators because we can't spare the capacity".

Things have to reopen eventually, but if you haven't actually increased your test and tracing capacity, then the effect is going to be exactly what happened in 1918 https://www.popsci.com/story/health/coronavirus-1918-flu-pan... (wherein an experiment with a control was accidentally run at a substantial cost in lives between two US cities).
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