skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though I would love for this to be causal, this analysis needs to control for the experience level of the developer. IME, developers who work remotely tend to be more on the experienced end of the spectrum.
If you're sure the glut will disappear within two months there are lots of safe investments.
Makes you wonder how many GitHub accounts are pseudonyms for people who want to hide their open source contributions from their employer. (cue Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta)
I recently started using my bike as 100% of my personal transportation. The first time I went to my studio, I used GMaps to get me there. It took me through some very unsafe parts of town even though the normal route would have been so much safer. In this case, safer in the sense of getting jumped/mugged vs traffic safety. I trusted it the first time just to see wtf it was doing. Won't use it again, and went back to just using common sense.
Could this be selection bias?

Better developers have their choice of companies, and it makes sense that they would prefer WFH over working in an office.
They’re also upselling their Red Pro and Gold lines. Sleazy.
Because it creates an unreasonable restriction on your life outside of work. Its somewhat unprecedented in the global market as well.

Proofreaders are not prohibited from reading books.

Concept Artists are not prohibited from creating art.

Writers are not prohibited from writing.

Teachers from teaching.

Workers from volunteering work.
It seems quite unfortunate we’re coming up the other side of the U shaped price graph for HDD technology. From collusion between the three manufacturers and a consistent push towards flash it’s unlikely we’ll see any further reductions in price per GB without major performance hits like SMR.

This wouldn’t be a problem if flash were cheap enough in the volumes required for archival level storage, but it isn’t. Flash storage is actually going up this year as demand continues to increase.

I suspect there’s no ready answer for those that hoard data now or in the future.
This presupposes that past performance predicts future results. In a world where we have incomplete information and a limited timeframe to assess relative to the universe of possibilities (the real world), a 60% chance is effectively indistinguishable from a coin flip. Once you introduce the possibility of an antagonistic opponent who might flip the odds at any given time, and account for the early mover's advantage of being first to adapt to new information, acting on what's always worked in the past starts to look naive.
I might be in the market for an e-bike.

The Cowboy looks a bit better to me with its central motor and removable battery but the Vanmoof looks more comfy. The review doesn't mention anything about that.

Is there any other significant difference between the two bikes? If you bought one of those, which criteria were decisive in your decision?
This is regulated differently in the different countries. It is common that the intellectual property you create in the course of your employment automatically belongs to your employer. But of course, it is not your employer's business what you do in your spare time (as long as you do not use infrastructure or intellectual property of your employer for this purpose).
See e.g. http://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/sites/default/files/newsdocuments/...
Forth Lisp Python Continuum: A small highly-dynamic self-bootstrapping language
A couple examples of big infrastructure projects funded by private investment (mostly private equity):

Brightline / Virgin Trains USA [1]

Texas Central Railway[2] which aims to introduce Shinkansen-class high speed rail connecting Dallas and Houston

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Trains_USA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Central_Railway
You shut your mega-financed zero-sum mouth.
Oh damn. This is awesome, will have to give it a go.
That's not a revival, that's a birth. AMD has never found any success on the mobile market before. Even the APU didn't find much success.
> Even once I control for various observable factors (including age, experience, hours worked, size of employer, programming languages, and more)

(Note 'experience')
WD is far too large a company to have a soul so there is zero chance they're actually sorry.
While the GP doesn’t state this as an advantage, the Rust community would benefit from a fully Rust toolchain.
Perhaps you can answer this for me then: what is the goal in a game of factorio?
It depends just how bloated the cost estimates are from established players.
Can confirm. I graduated from computer engineering, which had a heavy electrical component. Knew a lot of electrical engineers as well. If my graduating class stayed in tech at all, it was in software.
That's a difficult problem to solve without getting into hot water about avoiding neighborhoods and appearing racist.
I doubt there's much overlap in people who have so little human contact that no one knows they're dead and people who catch viruses that are still present in only a tiny fraction of the population.

Oh, and a third condition that these people be such recluses that they don't even call a doctor when deathly ill.
Yes, but if the headline said "Experienced developers tend to have more freedom, like the ability to work remotely", we wouldn't click on this thread and talk about it.
Why should Apple care about portability of their Desktop apps to OS's like Windows? Native API's are almost by definition non-portable. That's why you need something like Qt to bridge the gap for you and provide a OS-agnostic API.
So this has you take a sample and ship it to their lab. How is this going to deal with the risk of biohazard for parcel delivery personnel?
Does Google do blue-sky software projects like this for the good of society anymore? I've heard rumors they've gotten more focused, I've seen their offerings shut down, and I am not sure this project would actually be profitable for them.

And I say this as an avid cyclist.
Even more surveillance capitalism, now even on my bike? No, thanks. I'd rather see more community- or municipality-driven efforts with an ethical, open approach to data and customers.
Most map apps allow some choices like 'avoid tolls', or 'avoid highways'. Biking should/could be similar. Prefer bike paths vs bike lanes. To be fair, it is hard for the Google Street view car to go down the bike lanes. Going to need to rig up a bike with the camera rig. They've done it for hiking trails, so why not?
HN may find this unpalatable, but it’s still legal and permissible.

Apple indicates this restriction against personal project work prior to hiring, and employees agree as part of being hired to adhere to it. If they do not, they are not hired.

Non-compete bans are generally structured to prohibit restricting an ex-employee’s choice of work after their departure, but only once you are an ex-employee and not before. I am aware of no laws guaranteeing the inalienable right to create and publish software IP while contractually bound not to do so.

Apple’s restriction does not prohibit contribution of work to open-source projects, but permits only those contributions approved by Apple as necessary and appropriate by Apple’s decision. The personal projects linked here were either denied that permission or never submitted for it.

Personally, I’d have to think quite hard about whether to accept this restriction if I considered working for Apple someday. Silver lining, my tiny projects are all unused abandonware, so it wouldn’t require finding new maintainers. I don’t envy the author of the linked tweet their duty to find others.
These policies, when they exist, tend to be very entrenched in the organization. The legal department will push management to keep them so they can avoid the associated risks.

I would look for another job. While these clauses are relatively common, it's also relatively easy to find employers with less restricting policies. You'll probably have better luck at tech-led companies, in general. I think I've also heard that California's employment law doesn't allow this sort of thing, FWIW.
Data Science launched a global fight against Covid-19
Well, there's still the operational cost of setting up and running the hardware (again, skilled labor), but at least the software is free.
Corporate America seeks legal protection for when coronavirus lockdowns lift
The results are also selected from a StackOverflow survey. It is hard to tell if SO survey respondents overrepresent higher-earning remote workers or not.
Archived a week ago: https://archive.is/zIO6z
The thing about bike commuting for a couple decades is you quickly learn that about half of the streets and and bike lanes are complete no go zone death traps, and there is no good way to really build this knowledge aside from just learning where you're going to get turned into repeatedly.

My city is super progressive and bike friendly, but even then it's effectively suicide to try and use certain bike lanes and everyone just has this communal knowledge.
(Claim at the time was because Amazon had its own game studio?!)

https://amazongames.com/ make games and a game engine called Lumberyard https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/ that's based on CryEngine.
Do one for fly.io! :D
>SMR is tested and proven technology that enables us to keep up with the growing volume of data for personal and business use.

Absolute baloney. SMR is useful if it allows you to attain capacities otherwise unattainable, which isn't the case here. Note that the higher capacity Red drives don't use SMR. Older Red drives of these capacities, and non-Red drives of these capacities, don't use SMR.

Also, notice how now they're openly admitting that these are SMR drives. Nowhere in this post do they admit that they previously deliberately concealed this fact.

EDIT: Also note that they talk about these being "drive-managed SMR" drives, and they are, but they reportedly don't advertise themselves to the OS as being drive-managed SMR, as they're supposed to do as per the ATA specifications (unlike other WD DMSMR drives which do). They literally designed the drives themselves to lie about this.

>Additionally, some of you have recently shared that in certain, more data intensive, continuous read/write use cases, the WD Red HDD-powered NAS systems are not performing as you would expect.

They literally built a NAS drive which can't handle RAID, and are acting like this isn't their failing.
I am not sure where the sarcasm comes from. This actually supports the company, because exhausted, overworked and sleepy coders aren't much of a use for anyone.

On the other hand employees have harder times to push their own ventures. I once worked with a guy doing some personal pet project on the side. Nothing came from it in the end, but it was consuming him to the point, when he was doing some work on this during work hours.
I mean, at this point you're just trying to mess around with definitions. Colloquially, sandbox games like Minecraft are considered video games.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guida...

> The largest cohort of >44,000 persons with COVID-19 from China showed that illness severity can range from mild to critical38:

> * Mild to moderate (mild symptoms up to mild pneumonia): 81%

> * Severe (dyspnea, hypoxia, or >50% lung involvement on imaging): 14%

> * Critical (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan system dysfunction): 5%
Would be interested if there is a company bias being seen here — a lot of the larger tech companies both pay more and, from my experience, are more flexible with working arrangements than traditional big companies.

My intuition is especially piqued by the fact that the author says the initial foray into remote work is where most of the effect is seen. Most of my peers and my experience is that working remotely once a week or so is not at all uncommon.
Article title:

Mouse tracking reveals structure knowledge in the absence of model-based choice

Link to the article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15696-w
if im less effective u fire me and that's that. if am able to do what you pay me to do in the time you pay me to do it then what i do after work is whatever i want.
Maybe I'm remembering "guilt by association". IBM was pushing the PS/2 line very hard because they wanted the compatible hardware to die and they assumed everyone would still trust them.

I don't remember ever trying to install OS/2 anywhere else.
Ask HN: What opportunities exist for soon-to-graduate CS students?
Given the state of the world, what opportunities exist for soon-to-graduate graduates of CS programs (for both masters and undergrad students).
Apple's IP, and their zealous guarding thereof, is why most of y'all carry MacBooks to work instead of Dells. So before you open your mouth to criticize, think about how policies like Apple's actually allow them more freedom to innovate.
How the internet has changed during lockdowns
> If you are encountering performance that is not what you expected, please consider our products designed for intensive workloads.

It seems very strange to argue that customers should just know beforehand what they need, while also at the same time acknowledging the hiding (or at the very least, omission) of the information customers need in order to make that decision.
If you work as a software engineer outside of a handful of cities, you earn much less. E.g. a software engineer working in Tulsa makes a lot less than one working in San Francisco. But if you work remote from Tulsa, you can work for a company in one of the top cities and will make a higher salary, on average than your local peers. I don't think remote workers in the valley make more than their peers - maybe less.

I've worked remote my whole career, and the main reason I do that is I get a substantially higher salary than my local peers because I don't live in the USA.
It's time cyclists discovered OpenStreetMaps. The cyclist community, as far as I can see (it's just a mode of transportation for me, so I'm not part of it), has been doing an excellent job of making sure cycling routes are properly mapped there. Doesn't solve the Street View problem, but you're really missing out if you haven't tried it for navigation.

Even in the Netherlands, it's often better than Google Maps. And it can serve as the basis for apps building on top of it like https://cycle.travel/.
I have a pseudonym account that I write all my software in. Currently my employer does not restrict me working on side-projects; however, I still don't want my professional persona to be associated with my side-projects.
Ben's analysis is fine. It's not really relevant to the big picture imo.

Andreesen needed to do more than just call for action in his blog post. He should have committed his own funds towards the goals he is calling for. Gates is doing a lot via his foundation. Dorsey is committing a significant portion of his net worth towards goals Dorsey wants. Without something more than a blog post, it's just a blog post.

This virus won't be defeated by 'software' in the Silicon Valley sense. It will be defeated by vaccines. So help the labs create and distribute a vaccine. Or if that's too short-term, look at any of the problems that this pandemic has laid bare- there's lots to fix that is not VC-funded startups.
I can think of ways to build this knowledge:

a) capture routes of bike trips taken while using nav apps
b) send camera-laden cars around, the same way these maps were originally built, and this time, measure bike trips
c) ask bicyclists

If everyone really has this communal knowledge, as you say, then it can be gathered.
> Note that NYC trains have just one conductor, AFAIK. The second person is the driver.

Sorry, that was lost in translation. By "conductor", I meant "driver". All the metro trains that I know have only one personnel on board, the driver.

Also, what do you mean by "dragging"? People or clothes getting stuck in a door? It seems to be very important, but I've never heard of this being a large problem in practice.
What legal risk is the company at without a clause like this?
I'm sure the parking space thing exists because of all the people who thought they only needed 1 space, but it turned out they needed at least 2. And then they parked in other spaces or in the way of everyone else because they were short-sighted.

And so it's just required now.
Thank you!

I hear you re tools. I think there's definitely room for simpler ones, available out of the box. Anyway, I'll save your comment for future reference when the topic comes up (I work on OpenJDK).

As for GC, ZGC will have lower latency and higher throughput than Go's GC within a year, and the only tuning it needs is setting the heap size, and I expect Java will gradually increase the performance advantage it already has over Go. BTW, perhaps my biggest intrinsic reason for preferring Java (other than ecosystem size) is observability, which is also getting better with each release, and is probably ahead of any other mainstream runtime/language out there (and most non-mainstream ones, too), followed by performance, maintainability and flexibility.
> The impact of letting a criminal go free (presumably to commit more crime, and have more chances to put them away) is minuscule compared to the impact of locking an innocent person in prison.

This depends to a large degree on the nature of the crime, as well as the implied reduction of risk of committing them. Abolishing criminal sentencing altogether would clearly reduce the number of innocent people convicted, but few would argue it would result in a net reduction in social harm.

Genuinely interested whether anyone's done some sort of study on whether dissenting jurors tend to be more 12 Angry Men style heroes who focus much more carefully than their peers on the standards of evidence rather than prevailing prejudices against the alleged perpetrator, or more stubborn contrarians whose prejudices against evidence presented by certain types of people or in favour of certain types of defendant haven't been uncovered by the jury selection process.
Is there a list of known not SMR WD RED drive model numbers? I have 4TB REDs in my Synology but they are a few years old; is there a way I can find out?
Did the text get cut off? All I read was some corporate PR nonsense, did I miss the real content? Never buying WD drives again!
Makes sense to me, in my company we allow for senior developers to be remote but not for junior ones, since they need more hand-holding, so there's a correlation between experience and being remote.
This is the sort of policy imposed company-wide where trying to get an individual exception is very difficult or impossible depending on how bureaucratic your organization is, possibly even damaging your career and relationships with your managers. This is exactly the kind of policy change that a union could help tech workers with.
Widden palettes.[1]

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[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4HK5c7VmBw
There is no way Japan's faux-success is due solely or even dominantly to asymptomatic cases, they had to be turning a blind eye to symptomatic ones as well and attributing them to pneumonia, flu etc.
The fact that the reported rates began rising only after the Tokyo Olympics were announced cancelled is almost a USSR-era farce.

Japan has a leading hospital-bed-per-capita capacity in the OECD which could help them conceal this but I believe if occupancy of those beds was graphed for the last two months we'd see a curve indicating an epidemic comparable with US and Europe.
That's fair. Feels like a "you know it when you see it" kind of thing. I feel guarded against the inevitable health zealots who need a much simpler model to proselytize against, and therefore bin everything into good or bad. I can get on board with "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." I also really like, "try to have a variety of colours on your plate" (not sure where I heard this one from).
Julia by Example
Just "transfer" ownership to your girlfriend or your brother and make contributions in their names. Problem solved.
> I wouldn't characterize these as fake news, they just appear to be massively automated sites generated from public press releases from local government.

In googling a few lines here and there in the articles, I couldn't find a way back to other content. I'm not saying they aren't using other documents as the seed for an article, but the writing appears to be unique upon a quick gut-check. Additionally, the photos appear to be unique as well. Again, super quick checks on my part.

To me, that means these things fit the bill of 'fake news' perfectly [0]. Maybe it was a very good bot that wrote the articles with a very good GAN image creator, maybe it was a mechanical turk that wrote them for ~$0.10. I don't really care. To me, it's fake news.

[0] Per Webster's: "False stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke"
Dissecting a Mechanical Voltage Regulator
Aside from the sibling comment's point, the majority of your $1000 smartphone's cost is large, high resolution touchscreen, ever-higher quality camera, and ever thinner case and battery to power them.

As for Apple in particular, it is worth pointing out they have a hard time getting laptop keyboards right, when keyboards in the general sense have been working fine for decades. They make tradeoffs for other values (thinness) and the product suffers as a result.
Add a REPL to any CLI tool
Why? Other than to prove it can be done what is the point.

If rust was a huge community okay, but face it, they are not. It is better therefore to focus their efforts where they can make a difference. A new x where the existing ones are just fine (this includes well maintained) is a waste of resources.

There are many possible good answers to the above question. However I'm not sure they apply, and worse I believe they will split resources that could be used to make something else better.
I see that cproc is under quite heavy development, but qbe had last commit at the end of November. Is it considered feature complete? I heard about it some months ago and was quite interested in QBE, but it did not enjoy high tempo of changes. It may be considered advantage, I know too little to judge.
Incremental Regular Expressions (2012)
If you're trying to implement a language with substantially different semantics from C (e.g. a substantially different memory model, or without UB) the semantics of C make it really unsuitable as an IR.

You can't use C's casts (undef for out of range float -> int conversions, for example), arithmetic (undef for signed overflow), or shift operators (implementation-defined behavior for signed right shifts, undefined behavior for left shifts into the signbit or shift counts not in [0, n)). You can work around these by defining functions with the semantics that your language needs, but they get gross pretty quickly (they are both much more verbose and more error-prone than having an IR with the semantics you really want, and they require optimizer heroics to reassemble them into the instructions you really want to generate). Alternatively, you can use intrinsics or compiler builtins, but then you're effectively locking yourself to a single backed anyway, and might as well use its IR.

The issues around memory models (especially aliasing, but also support for unaligned access, dynamic layouts, etc) are worse.

Even LLVM IR is too tightly coupled to the semantics of C and C++ to be easily usable as a really generic IR for arbitrary languages (Rust, Swift, and the new Fortran front end have all had some struggles with this, and they're more C-like than most languages). C is much worse in this regard.
The computer scientist who can't stop telling stories
As I pointed in other comment - restrictions on life outside work are common and reasonable. Most people can't work competitors after work.
How many had 1488?
People said this about 4k. Between gaming and having a huge monitor for work, I do not care about movies being in 8k.

8k, like 4k, is for gaming.
Same at my company. We actively looked for senior developers for this reason.