skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, the longevity "movement" actually talks about this.
nobody want to live to be 130 if it sucks. but if you have the same quality of life like a 40yo all of a sudden people are waaay more open to living longer (I have also observed a huge pushback against living longer from most people I've chatted about this - it's so ingrained in our way of thinking that saying you want to live to be 130 is heresy)
Do you have kids of toddler-age or younger and a spouse who also works during standard office hours? I find that makes the difference between "WFH works" and "WFH is hell on earth".

I have a 9-month old baby who is just starting to crawl all over the place and gets noisy and impatient when we don't pay attention to her. My wife and I work during office hours. Nursery is of course out of the question due to the lockdown and babysitters are illegal (because of the quarantine). Our stress levels are going through the roof. I want to go back to normality ASAP. Give me back my office, please!
This is not a casual product to start on. Getting access to a large enough supply of high quality source models and building a pipeline to convert and track and deliver them is far from trivial. The hard part of building IKEA's 3D kitchen design app isn't the 3D rendering, it's having the 3D models and having the data to configure the models.
Guess the keywords { orchestration, AI/ML, distributed, streaming } are left out for future enhancement of this beautiful prose.

And when one does an RCA on why that's happening across our industry - the cause could be just one of

- severe craving for resume pimping
- severe craving for ego-stroking
- severe incompetence and inability to recognize and control complexity.

With https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22796017 being last month, I guess the people are now ready call this out in a more bolder way, and that's good!
It is moving season...
I generally use Next.js, Bulma, Firebase Auth, and Firestore. For more complex apps, will move Firestore behind a REST API and use react-query for data fetching/caching.
>> Have we really not learned anything by these inventions?

Not really, and that is the problem.
We can create something that sort of works - but we don't understand it. The only thing we have learned is that we don't need to understand intelligence to build something that works on some tasks.
But until recently an unhandled promise failure was NOT a thrown error, and when it is it's not the error you want.
A semi-permanent shift to more remote work will have large impacts on a lot of different industries. For example, the lunch joints near office towers will have to significantly rethink their strategies.

Companies that make consumables like toilet paper and soap will have to scale their residential arms and reduce their commercial arms, which in some instances requires building entire new paper mills or production facilities.

Gas, electricity, and water utilities will all see "weekend all day" patterns that they'll need to adjust for. Internet providers might start offering commercial-light plans for home offices that come with an SLA but not full business support.
You're absolutely right about random interactions being essential for your career growth. And the worst part is, even if all the juniors go back to an office, a lot of the seniors will want to WFH, so you'll lose out on a lot of that benefit even at the office.

That being said, perhaps with all the seniors working at home there might be more chance for interaction with them while also at home?
Photographs, videos, or drawings of recipes in progress are copyrightable, and usually more helpful. Furthermore, they provide evidence that the recipe is actually viable.

That's why you shouldn't expect to make a cent from creating a new recipe, unless you have a chef and photographer/artist lined up, or own your own restaurant chain.
I'd maybe buy it if you broadened the claim to "quantification" or something. It's undoubtedly true that aggressively collecting and analyzing data has transformed society a lot: Taylorism, mass production, bureaucracies, science (not just data), even Guinness. However, this has been going on for ~150 years already.

As for deep learning specifically...meh.
I think it can be smart-ish about this (scrolling for you, but maybe I'm thinking about an extension). I've never found anything that handles virtualised lists/tables though, like screenshotting an entire Slack thread
Glad to hear you had fun! Yeah, I’m loading the mapbox stuff as it goes. There didn’t seem to be a good way to preload all the tiles. Thanks for calling out the bugs. I’ll take a look
No more XML. Check out NiFi 1.11.4, it does everything you need for easy ingest. If you are reading some files putting them into Kafka or S3 or a database or MongoDB or Hbase or Hive or Impala or Oracle or Kudu or ..., it's genius.

https://www.datainmotion.dev/
> Do you find it hard to believe it's possible to have an Indian team with who were high performers in college with fancy degrees and such?

Do you think that's what they were saying? Possibly you can apply an iota of charity and come with a couple of reasons why Minnesota and India are not fungible locations?
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They are proposing the syntax:

button{id: 'baz' class: ['foo' 'bar'] data: '1' onclick: f
'Hello '
em{'there'}
}

which is of course not possible to use at the moment, but thought I'd convert it to the closest thing that's possible right now:

button({id: 'baz' class: ['foo' 'bar'] data: '1' onclick: f},
'Hello ',
em('there')
)

Not too far!
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I'm sad this comment hasn't been upvoted higher. The comment explain how the mutation could be possible.

The key is that the mutation would prevent reproduction. If you never age, you never reproduce.

You can think about different cancers. A mutation that causes fatal childhood cancer doesn't get passed on. A mutation that causes prostate cancer can spread.
Yeah, the console I anecdotally associate with particularly easy/common piracy is the Dreamcast.
I'm glad to hear it! If those are mainlined I would be a lot more excited about this.

I imagine it uses u-boot already, that doesn't seem as hard to port to a system and upstream (I got vanilla u-boot working on a Novena, but it did not have some of the patches that bunnie and xobs put to it).
Soaring drug prices could bar access to future coronavirus treatments
>Living in rural Texas is much more concerning than living in Seattle during COVID19.

That may be true but living in a suburban/exurban area outside of the Seattle core might well be better than either for many. I'm not sure how many will ultimately make a change because of this though. It will depend on people's job/commuting situation and how diminished city living seems when lease renewal time comes around.
I am super scared of a future where remote work could be the default. I see the amazing creative works in technology, art, etc that come from the simple act of pushing smart people into the same place and having them rapidly iterate. Do we know how to do this in a remote-first setup?

I get it; you're super productive in your job during this pandemic but is this the same thing? It feels more like optimizing for efficiency in what you do now, vs. effectiveness to do something bigger than yourself.

I manage a lot of people who focus on making themselves x% better, where x ranges from 1% to maybe 15%. I believe to scale we need to make the system better, which is more like a fractional % improvement multipled by n. Is this easier to do remotely? not yet with the tools we have IME...
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I had something weird in March. It was a mix of a mild burning feeling in my chest, loss of appetite, and fatigue. I honestly thought it was just anxiety related to the quarantine manifesting in symptoms, and it very well might have been, but I have no idea.
Thanks! I wrote a few more of those. https://github.com/tspannhw/ExecuteClouderaML
I’ve heard mixed feedback on the turning. I think I was caught between 360 rotations vs larger circular rotations. Maybe this will have to be a setting, or I can introduce a rudder.
The market is usually wrong, but it's very hard to know when it will stop being wrong in one direction and start being wrong in the other (as in the great depression say).
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Hello everyone,

I am Vigneshwarar, I created this tool. I am not sure how many people find this tool useful, I am doing a lot of screen-recording these days and it's hard on many platforms like Loom, VideoAsk, or google meet to show or see your webcam(Your face) while sharing your screen so I made a simple tool which will float your webcam in the picture in picture mode after activating this you can start screen share(Floating cam appears on Entire Screen recording option only) or screen record.

Well If you have any use-cases for using this tool feel free to drop it ill mention that on the site.
I'd been looking for a remote job for a long time before this. Never could get one, I was frequently turned down because I lacked remote work experience.

Now that I have remote work experience, everyone else does as well.
So... no change in my competitive position vis-à-vis other remote job candidates. Booo, they'll just come up with new reasons to reject me :(

I like working from home, there are some disadvantages, but overall I definitely prefer it, and at a more macro level I think there's an opportunity here to fix some of the crowding issues (not to mention traffic and the concomitant pollution) in our cities by giving people flexibility in where they live and work. I for one, hate big cities, but a career in tech has generally meant living in a major metro area.

OTOH, companies are not going to just let all the office space they're paying for sit idle. If they can't divest themselves of some/most of it quickly (hello, commercial real-estate crash), all our asses are going to be back in our rickety office chairs under the flickering fluorescent lights.
Wait until he hears about dates.
> If you test positive, there is a 10% chance it's a false positive.

Well, don't misunderstand -- it's got nothing to do with the test per se, but with the probability that you had the disease in the first place.

The test itself has two probabilities:

1. If you've had COVID-19, the probability that it will report positive (sensitivity)

2. If you haven't had COVID-19, the probability that it will report negative (selectivity)

But those probabilities give you a mapping from reality -> test_result. What you want is the reverse of that -- and find the probability from a test_result -> reality. When you do that, you have to factor in the probability that you have the disease in the first place.

If 50% of the population have had COVID-19, then a positive test means a 99.9% probability of having had the virus. If 1% of the population, a positive test means 91% likely you have it. If only 1 in a million people had COVID-19, then the number of false positives would completely overwhelm the number of true positives.

This is sometimes called the "Base rate fallacy": forgetting to factor in the base rate when determining something like this.

It's important for things like, say, systems which automatically detect terrorists at airports. How many travelers at an airport are actually terrorists planning to attack a plane? It's got to be one in hundreds of millions, if not billions. With that low of a base rate, even if you had a system that was 99.999% accurate, the vast majority of people it flagged up would be innocent.
> we're all working remotely now

Except for the 33 million people out of jobs in the last 6 weeks.
> Each pair of polar surfaces within an orbital is able to productively contact neighboring atoms.

I have no idea what to visualize for "productively" contacting neighbors in this model.
The underlying assumption in a lot of these articles is that if you could work from home you'd move to the suburbs/country where space is cheaper. Very few assume people like living in a city.
Standard way to deal with that is have the company order a chair and have it shipped to your house.
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I didn't like the promise of XML on the web because I fetishize markup languages. I felt it is/was a good solution for the separation of data and presentation on the web.

A website could simultaneously be a site for a browser and an API for native or web apps by serving the exact same documents to everyone. The server side could focus on data and the client would be responsible for the display or processing.

It did the things modern JavaScript monstrosities do but natively in the browser. XForms even proposed to handle a lot of the stupid validation and state management that requires megabytes of JavaScript to handle today.

Tons of resources are wasted every second parsing and running JavaScript to do the same thing browsers can do natively.
> Does anyone have an intuitive explanation for why this is the case?

Imagine building a Eulerian path. You're standing at a node, trying to figure out which edge to go down next. Eventually, because it's a Eulerian path, you'll have to go down all the edges eventually. This means it doesn't matter which edge you go down--even if your path hits a dead end, you can magically go back in time and patch in a cycle to your original path.

Put another way, if you establish that a graph has a Eulerian path, every maximal set of edge-disjoint cycles in the graph constitutes that path. Just by looking and making decisions at a very localized context (every node), you can formulate a correct answer.

By contrast, Hamiltonian paths are rarer. Only some maximal sets of node-disjoint cycles can be combined to construct a Hamiltonian path. You don't have the property that you can trivially patch the cycles together if you make a mistake. Looking at a node and trying to decide which next node to pick, you'd have to understand the structure of the entire graph very well to understand if traversing to A will screw you up, and the ramifications are not local.
Thanks! I’ll keep on it.
Maybe, but what scenarios are there where you'd want that, be willing to spend 30 dollars on your microcontroller solution and not benefit from a more capable linux SOC? (With an optional $3 M0/M3 for realtime if required)
Just want to plug HTTrack [1] here as well. Not nearly as slick, but it's worked extremely well for me when Webrecorder couldn't do the job. Being usable through the command line also makes it useful for some projects WR can't do.

[1]: http://www.httrack.com/
How to Perform Classification with Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
It was Marcel Grossman who introduced him to Riemman's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Grossmann

There is no evidence that his wife provided any of the "mathematical muscle needed for GR", nor is there reason to suspect that she would have been in a position to do so, since she was not a mathematician and had failed the undergraduate physics degree at the institute where she met Einstein (Einstein himself barely passed though).

[0] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781402039997
Thanks! I’ll keep working on it ;)
Honestly, if you have a commute, do you actually have an opinion on WFH? If you can't separate commuting and the office, then isn't your opinion on WFH really just the inverse of your opinion of your commute? I'm pretty skeptical of people's opinions of something in which they've had no options or choice.
And your carrier, and anyone who does location based on IP, and anyone who does location based on inaudable noises only your phone can hear (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...), and...

But, this would still help protect against the simplest way to steal your location data, which is what a lot of services do
This meat bag is made from star dust, self-assembling from a single microscopic machine, into a form so complex that it's complexity, adaptability and computing power dwarves by several orders of magnitude all the machines and computers we have built or will build in the foreseeable future, combined. And billions of them exist, doing things like inventing imaginary worlds, loving each others, gardening and playing soccer. And they work only with a bit of water and food.

We'll get some sort of usable artificial intelligence (meaning robot slaves and autonomous rovers) at some point, but I think it's a mistake to underestimate human intelligence.
Work from home is here to stay after coronavirus
> I've seen customers fall into the trap of thinking they don't need expensive developers because you can drag and drop, just people who can use a mouse can crack on with NiFi.

That is sort of the key problem I see with NiFi (and equivalents). The heavy emphasis on graphical UI and visual paradigm sort of implies that its oriented towards non-developers, but problem is that it doesn't make non-developers suddenly expert system architects or developers even if they manage to click through the UI. And many developers probably prefer just defining stuff in code instead of having fancy UIs. So it sort of falls between these to categories.

Of course there is huge spectrum of skill in people, and there are probably plenty of "semi-technical" persons to whom this is perfect match, especially if supported by some more techy people.
> We know you’ll ignore the fact that you’re not us and we have enough engineers and resources to do whatever we like, but the decision will ruin your startup so it’s not like we’ll see your blog posts about your experience with $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY anytime soon.

Brilliant.
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That seems like at least half of HN.
I thought we weren't supposed to talk politics on HN these days!
that's like $165 per foot, or roughly 3x the most expensive AAA corporate space in North America. Not sure what they're getting beyond floor space - maybe furniture, ammenities and technology?
Yes. I think I’ve seen some preliminary papers with related ideas (because that seems like where ML is at) but I don’t remember anything substantial.

It could be an interesting area of research. Start branching out from ray tracing to other integration problems.
A couple of thoughts,
1. My company has been building new buildings that would add 3,000,000+ square feet of office space to the campus this year. I think they will probably nix working from home when this is all over just so they don't look dumb for building all that new office space.

2. My company has been leaning heavily into not just open office space, but what they call freestyle office space. They only allocate enough desk space for 50-75% of the people working in the building with the assumption that people will be in meetings or elsewhere for enough of the day to make it work out. You do not have an assigned desk and are not allowed to sit at a certain desk for more than 2 hours. (Yes, many/most of us think this is the height of stupidity - it's like being back in college and everyone is working in the library and you have to have a backpack to carry all your stuff from place to place). Of course, this whole seating arrangement is a nightmare in a social distancing situation. What they are saying now is that when we go back you can sit at a desk the whole day, but every other desk must be empty. So, intead of having enough desks for 50-75% of people, there will only be enough for 25-37.5% of people. Clearly they are going to have to allow working from home to continue for a certain percentage of people. I'm honestly not sure how they is all going to shake out.
How are things on the commonly used RTOSes? I'm not really into hardware much, only fairly recently learned basic electronics as a hobby, but I've seen ARM push their "mbed" (https://os.mbed.com/) thing in many places recently (most recently saw their logo printed on a nRF52 BLE dev kit). I've also seen Amazon get more involved with (in charge of?) FreeRTOS (https://aws.amazon.com/freertos/) quite some time ago.

Don't such things solve most of these issues?
I have been waiting forever for phone manufacturers to finally standardize the booting process, hardware detection, and driver support for phone hardware. It's a decade overdue now. I would have thought the nightmare of supporting dozens of different phone models would push manufacturers to do this, but instead they just said "fuck supporting older models" and let them die young.

The old excuse that the hardware was too limited to support that kind of functionality is long since over. There is really no excuse anymore.
El método (2005) is a really good take on corporate/personal dynamics.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/
I have not found that argument persuasive to the managers who believe that coding is inherently wasteful if what you’re trying to do is technically possible in a workflow builder GUI.
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Maybe we're headed for smaller office footprints with the same # of people. We can pack them in tighter with the super-duper open floor plan!
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Does it make sense with "shits"?

I mean really, if you stop to think about it, what does it mean to do things "for shits"? Is there a sensibly apparent meaning, or is it like the word "cool", where people attach meaning that the word doesn't formally have?

FYI, where I come from both phrases are considered reasonable. Without researching the matter, it isn't even clear to me that "shits and giggles" is the original phrase from which the other is derived. I suppose it's all a product of environment in the end.

I share the general sentiment though. I heard all kinds of "interesting" phrases growing up that didn't seem to be pointful. For example, people who would say "P.O.'d" in lieu of "pissed off", and become offended if you used the actual phrase. I always felt it was silly. Use the phrase or don't.
There's a hardware switch for the mic but yeah it's pretty hopeless to hide your location in those threat models.
It's more likely that the "giant monolithic office" is dead, and will transform into a hybrid of WeWork-esque distributed offices, complete with pay-per-minute only-works-half-the-time videoconferencing walls and $6 lattes.

If a new WeWork manages "subdivided office space" all around a city, then a company could lease space from all of them, and pay just slightly more than they used to, with the freedom that their employees can spend more time at the office because commuting is less of a chore. Supplement that with all the luxury add-ons and suddenly it looks like the office is reborn, not dead at all.

And remember: cities are getting bigger, not smaller. Why not rent an apartment in the same skyscraper as a coworking space, along with your co-workers who also live in your city? Especially if your job sets aside money to help pay for it? Again you can squeeze "more productivity" out of your little mechanical turks, but you don't have to deal with the management overhead of typical offices. Less logistics, more productivity, still (basically) an office.
Ask HN: Who do you use for DNS management and why? (2020)
It’s finally and unexpectedly time for me to move DNS management away from IBM Cloud (formerly SoftLayer). Who do you all use and why?

Backstory: After managing my DNS with IBM Cloud’s “Classic Infrastructure” for a while now (and with SoftLayer for many years before that), I logged in to discover that I have to enter a credit card and upgrade from the free plan in order to access my DNS records.

There wasn’t any notice that this change was coming, so imagine my surprise :)

On the plus side, IBM / SoftLayer DNS doesn’t support reverse DNS or CAA records, which I’ve been wanting for several of my domains.