skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like this guy was reading my mind... he's likely using $THE_NEXT_BIG_TECH !!! I need to buy all the $TECH_PUBLISHER books, attend the $hot_location conferences and buy some $ONLINE_LEARNING courses. I also can't use my $old_free_ide , I need to buy a license for $new_ide (just a skin of the old one, actually, in the $old_tech, but that's not important).

$old_tech has a lot of free courses, blog posts, books, etc but all those ppl had it wrong - and it can't be that everyone selling $new_tech online courses, conferences, books, ides, tooling, etc is just trying to make money off my FOMTW[0], right?

[0] FOMTW = Fear Of Missing a Tech Wave
The next.js PI is beautifully simple. I completely agree with what you’re saying with regard to tradeoffs, but I’ve been remarkably impressed with the simplicity of the NextJS api and it’s clear, concise documentation.
I'd think the employee would basically be providing a dumb terminal to some sort of cloud instance- no company should trust their IP to a random endpoint.
Complexity is making you mad and stupid
> “Whenever you mention self-cooling cans, people’s eyes raise to the ceiling and they say, ‘Oh Lord, not again,’” John Nutting, editorial director of Sayers Publishing Group Ltd.

My sentiments exactly
> I just hope COVID-19 spells the end of open offices

Open offices are cheap. Re-configuring office space isn't cheap. So, no.

Some places are probably still hot-desking.
I've worked about half my career in an office and half from home.

Working from home just doesn't work that well if you're on a team. The constant communication with the other team members helps a great deal. For example, you can bring along the new guys and get them up to speed on how things work and what to do. Misunderstandings don't fester into disasters. Somebody veering off in the wrong direction can be quickly brought back to focus on the team goal.
And yet you don't get paid for your commute time.
No it does not. That means it also doesnt work for any news sites that you have subscriptions to.
Im using the joplin web clipper pretty heavily for this purpose.
Thanks. If you have any questions, just let me know.
Reading all the reasons in the article, I think this applies to classrooms as well.
> It may be interesting to recall that initially the only way to output HTML was by `document.write()` using strings (which was pretty declarative).

I think people also forget how slow a lot of JS was really until V8. I remember having server code generate JS arrays (creating them from an xhr request was too slow), that in turn would document.write (manipulating the DOM was also super slow) data on the client to make the web page 'interactive'. It was messy.
I had the same question about retesting. Here’s a quote from Scott Gottlieb (former FDA commissioner):

“While all of these tests can still generate false positives—a finding that you have the antibodies when you don’t—that risk can be sharply reduced by repeating the test if it comes back positive. The predictive value of two consecutive positive tests is high enough that you can be confident antibodies are present.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/antibody-knowledge-can-be-power...
Only in the US at the moment but planning for Canada later this year
These are sampled PCR tests, the 2.5% was 18 positive in a sample or something like that. (https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/7bd5627f82...)

The same high specificity sero test that estimated 10% in the Stockholm pop., found 20% with antibodies among hospital staff in one hospital
(https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2020/04/en-av-fem...)

> Unless you're assuming that there's a huge swath of people (like the significant majority) of Covid-19 cases that are entirely asymptomatic

I'm not. 50% sounds reasonable. But in Sweden, only people who are ill enough to be admitted to hospital have been tested so far (especially around the time of the earlier studies - now it's expanding to more general testing) and other than those it has been mostly hospital staff. So the missing number is all asymptomatic AND all the cases that aren't severe enough to require emergency care. And that's a significant number.

I thought there was a broad consensus now that is centering in on IFR of 0.3% in many places while others seem to have higher numbers like 0.5% or 0.8%. I haven’t seen many reports that suggest over 1%. CFR doesn’t really make any sense if you only ever confirm a fraction of the cases.
At 107, this artist just beat Covid-19. It was the second pandemic she survived
So why assume it's the latter and reject the former as an option? If you state that men and women have different personalities and attitudes then you must accept that carries over to interests as well. The fact that STEM fields collectively are balanced while different sectors have different ratios shows that there's really no major underlying issue and that personal preference is the overriding factor.
How are they hoarding? Why call them parasites? More people still rent out houses for long term (as investments) than STR and really, with no data to back up your claims and attacking people for creating something others demand seems... misguided.

A lot of STR's are homes that have always been second homes or homes that would never have full occupancy in cities they occupy. They're homes that bring skiers to mountains, friends and family to beach, loved ones to touristy areas.

They create lots of revenue, jobs and the impact in their local economies is huge - from property managers to cleaning services to Lowes/Homedepot/Ikea spend to tax revenue (VRBO does collect occupancy tax where required) to working with cities for legal operations.

I'd say STR owners are just people who invested and make money through other means of hard work (and risk - such as now). The "disturbing" people are the ones like yourself who can't fathom there are millions of people who work in the STR travel industry either directly or indirectly and you seem to hate them. Most STR owners still hold their day jobs and just want to share their house (and the burden).
I'd recommend the book if you haven't read it, I don't think my poor summaries do it justice, and it does address some of your objections from memory, and also doesn't attempt to throw out EMH, just questions whether it fully explains market behaviour.

Yes the chart compares measured return (divs) against projected return (prices) so it is not a prediction machine but I think it does illustrate well that market prices are usually far from true value.
if php had a html-in-php syntax, that might be true. but as anyone who has ever worked with php and jsx knows, this isn't true
Hard to remember, but in North America at the time, Sega was #1.
Wow, I did my undergrad EE with Ramses at UW! Good to see his company seems to be doing well!
Couple of options: You can build a small JavaScript package with a HTTP server to call your endpoint and puppeteer for actually running and interfacing with Chrome headless and then either Dockerize it or even run it as a Lambda / Google Cloud Function. Then there's https://github.com/browserless/chrome/ which is both a commercial service as well as being Open Source. Plenty of other OSS and commercial options as well, ultimately it comes down to your use-case. Personally I've found reliably taking a screenshot at the right point in time challenging since a page is never really "done" loading, i.e. there could always be a refresh or timeout which loads another URLs, adds an iframe or changes something else entirely, so there is no single "yes, we're done loading now" event to wait for. Source: I run the service at https://urlscan.io where we have the same problem ;)
It's one of those things that will have the rubber band effect, just like any other office trend.

First will be trendy tech organizations that will go the extreme and set a large window of WFH, then some will move a large chunk of operations to WFH, then a lot of tech companies will follow with bold claims of how good it is, and so on...

Then all of a sudden, one study or one article with the unpopular opinion - "working from home is not that good after all", then some people will vent out on how they dislike it in some situations, then one trendy company will make the bold claim: "We're bringing people back in!"

I can already see the headlines of Buzzfeed, Wired, and posts on medium: "The gold nugget of productivity! This company boosted their performance by bringing people back into what we used to call offices!", with comments of the CEO that's trying to lure in talent.

Just to end back in the middle term: some roles are suitable for work from home, while others make sense to bring in house, some people prefer work from home while others don't.

My prediction is this will all occur until 2022.

Just to make it clear: I like working from home.
> most people don’t have enough capital to be a part of that system.

Most people are not in the bottom quintile of income.
Sorry, it is not cool at all.

A system that runs subroutines faster according to how far they are from the start of the program is just badly designed. Robustness against poking in different line numbers is not worth trading off performance.

He should be ashamed.
From wikipedia:

> the open BPMS movement led by JBoss and Intalio Inc., IBM and Microsoft decided to combine these languages into a new language, BPEL4WS. In April 2003, BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and Siebel Systems submitted BPEL4WS 1.1 to OASIS for standardization via the Web Services BPEL Technical Committee

if that doesn't scare you, then oh boy...

Just look at the list of organizations mentioned there, I don't know if you could make it more enterprisy.
In many ways, including WFH explicitly in salary agreements would be unusual largely because workers incur a large number of other work related expenses that are not explicitly enumerated in the agreement. But those costs are implicitly included, as employers have to compete against each other to offer salary and benefits necessary to attract talent.

But practically speaking, it would not be surprising to see WFH companies offer slightly higher salaries largely due to the significant savings associated with no offices, as well as the reduced risk of not having a lease. If I save $27K a year per employee (from the article), I can easily offer candidates $10K more than my competitors with an office, increasing profit and attracting higher quality talent.
We hear you. We at $SOON_TO_BE_FAMOUS_COMPANY spent $N_YEARS developing our own version of $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY, because $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY didn't quite fit our use case in that we couldn't understand how to operate it well on our environment.

Look for our 25 part blog series at http://$SOON_TO_BE_FAMOUS_COMPANY.com/blog/#WEAREFUCKINGNINJ... on how to operate our version of $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY well on your environment.
It's a problem on the whole ARM architecture and is one reason that ARM servers have not taken off. Every ARM board and chip is a special snowflake with its own weird boot and driver and hardware setup incantations. There's a bit of de-facto standardization but it's rough and not dependable at all.
Maybe you misunderstood me. I didn't peg the amount of noise to CPU vs. GPU rendering.

I said that these renderers produce too much noise. All of them. And the solution is not denoising. The solutions are novel algorithms that produce faster convergence. There are other issues of course. Noise is just one.

What I implied was that the developers would better spend their time fixing these than trying make stuff fit into a GPU.

This[1] is a comparison of light sampling in 3Delight, Autodesk's Arnold and Pixar's RenderMan (RMan).

TLDR; The bottom of the page has a 'Conclusion' section which is worth reading.

The page is from around 2017 if my memory serves me right and was a private page requiring a password at the time.
Pixar asked 3Delight to not make it public until RMan 21 was out.
After which 3Delight re-ran the tests and RMan came out worse even. They never published the results because they do not care about publicity.

Mind you, these were all pure CPU renderers at the time.

Few people know about this. What everyone is exposed to is just the marketing mumbo jumbo on the vendors websites.

As one can guess even skimming over this comparisons there are many things one must get right.

E.g. speed of convergence. I.e.: what is the threshold of samples I can get away with? Some renderers converge linearly. An image with twice as much samples will have half the noise. But others manage to converge non-linear in a good or a bad way (twice the samples give you more than twice the quality or less than twice the quality).

Another is bias: does the image look the same when it has fewer samples and you squint or is it darker/brighter than a reference that has 'infinite' samples?

Very important for artists doing look development: time to first pixel. The graphs on the website have not changed much with recent versions of Arnold & RMan, unfortunately.

Note that shaders wise 3Delight already used OSL (byte-code, run-time interpreted) whereas Arnold & RMan used C++ (at the time).

Basically, what I tried to say was: if I was Pixar or Autodesk (insert any other renderer vendor here that came from CPU land) and saw this page (which Autodesk & Pixar did then) ... considering that the competition is running on the same metal, a CPU – maybe I'd try to get to the same level of speed/quality before putting a bunch of new problems on my plate that come when you strive for making this all work on a GPU.

[1] https://www.3delight.com/documentation/display/3DSP/Geo+Ligh...
I just could not deal with such an opinionated tool. ESLint would not let us adjust settings to accept some of our normal convection's and company code style guidelines.

I switched to jshint and have lived a much happier life.
Fake AWS Services – (Late) April Fools for 2020
Thankfully I currently don't. I'm sure it's gonna be zoo and hell on earth when I have one lol. My wife will most likely won't gonna be working when we have one.
Move the HQ to Nevada! I would like to live in a world where you can live other places than the Bay area/Seattle/NYC and work for great companies.
> Open offices are cheap. Re-configuring office space isn't cheap. So, no.

I think that's pre-covid thinking. The OP speaks about 1) companies dropping their office footprints due to increased WFH and 2) companies reducing office density and making other changes to accommodate social distancing. Both of those require office reconfiguration.

We'll be dealing with this pandemic for at least another year, and the psychological effects will last longer, so monomaniacal bottom-line focused thinking will have to accommodate it.
Seems like the author owned a ZX Spectrum and little else.

There were other 1-bit machines out there, like the Apple ][. Paul Lutus' Electric Duet managed to get two-voices out of the speaker and he describes the process here:

https://arachnoid.com/electric_duet/index.html
Well, sure. I wasn't intending to imply that the entire population of the globe is working remotely.
UBI doesn't mean we all get the same - it just means none of us starve, and can live with dignity no matter what we do ...or don't do.

We can explore a different mindset where a slice of tech improvements and automation also benefit us as a society in that sense. Is it really that bad a thought that the goal of tech is to finance a society where no one is left without food and basic, decent, shelter? In the sense that we take a radical turn where we don't motivate people through fear but rather through need? The need of having more than just food or shelter as oppose to the the fear of starving or homelessness? Why does it have to be a struggle for so many when we can just build tech that covers basic needs.
In higher-end rendering, a quad that can be non-planar is called a bilinear patch. Yes, it can curve (cross sections tend to give parabolas), and while you won't get infinitely sharp creases you will get saddle-shapes.

See, e.g.: http://www.sci.utah.edu/~kpotter/publications/ramsey-2004-RB...
was about to mention Mithril.

solid framework, but not great for large applications.
The results I got had a big FDA warning that positive results may be a result of other infections (ie, that the tests are not specific to covid).

I feel like the WHO (body may not produce antibodies as part of beating covid, antibodies have not been shown to confer any immunity) and now the FDA may be talking about true but theoretical issues.

What is the REAL rate, in the USA, of folks who have for example MERS antibodies that will trigger a false positive in this type of test. Ie, do these tests really come back positive for MERS antibodies and how likely am I to have had MERS but not covid so that I get that false positive?

Given the FDA warning (which was the biggest thing on my results) I'm guessing 30%+ of positives are a result of these situations? But interested in actual data
Bitcoin Halving Arrives: Mining Rewards Drop for Third Time in History
Yes. Here's a video that describes an approach using neural networks to estimate physics instead of using a traditional simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcKO15YVD8
This page really should just support get params in the url! Do you know how many people I could trick into believing this with ?FLASHY_LANGUAGE=rust&HYPED_TECHNOLOGY=kubernetes ??
No I mean the classic (I assume) dark wafer with white shortening in it. Now I also remembered how vile the white stuff is too - it kind of sticks to your upper palate.

There are sugar overloaded competitors [0], which are pretty shameless too. But at least they taste like an honest lot of sugar, flavouring, fat and flour.

I feel bad for kids getting fat on Oreos. If you get fat on real sweets, at least you taste something decent in the process. Oreos are vile. I have given them the benefit of a doubt!

I have even tried putting them in ice cream, thinking maybe they are just too sweet, and that their sweetness will fit better together with something else not as intensely sweet. But no, the ice cream just diluted the Oreo vile-ness. The perverted, gone-one-step-too-far industrial wiff of Cthulhu was still in there, carefully masking the fun from each spoonful of icecream.

Vile.

0: https://www.goteborgskex.se/products/
> am not sure what is the name of this drawing style

Corporate Memphis. https://www.are.na/claire-l-evans/corporate-memphis
I love static site generators but I often feel they are geared towards one type of site (like Jekyll or Hugo for blogs etc.)

We have a huge web based “operating system” and constantly adding more stuff. I spent a couple months architecting and implementing i18n and translations, for example. I looked at GNU language files and other formats and made our own JSON based one.

I tried my hand at static site generation, and it basically takes an existing site and renders certain URLs from the config (including looping through variable values) as a specific browser would fetch them. If you serve different versions of a resource to different browsers (eg mobile browser or css vendor prefixes) you’d have to generate different directories for each one, which can be cleanly chosen by a web server based on the user agent string.

This led to a whole host of issues that made us refactor our framework’s server->client data exports into two parts: session data and regular config data. So a static page would not have any session data. Any experience of being logged-in would have to be added via Javascript or widgets hosted in iframes.

We also have scripts like “combine.php” and “update.php” which minify and combine files, or look at file modification times and set up metadata with timestamps and hashes to use for subresource integrity.

Actually, I would say that the idea of “static site generation” can be a special case of CACHING. To achieve 90% of the benefits, just host your site through a CDN and set your web app server as an origin server. Pages can be rendered on demand and then cached on a CDN. You will have to separate out your session stuff, though! And any dynamicall generated content will need to go under that.

Finally... I would say that all this is actually pointless :) Because you should be building client-first apps. Assume Javascript is available and do all your routing, layouts, header, footer, locally.

There are TONS OF REASONS WHY THAT IS THE FUTURE. The rabbit hole goes much deeper:

https://qbix.com/blog/2020/01/02/the-case-for-building-clien...
Looked it up a bit: https://chillcan.com/

From 10 seconds of research, it seems to use depressurization. Actually a sort of cool idea... not sure why it didn't work out.
Lol, no.
The $2.5 trillion question[a] is whether companies will ever go back to using as much office space per person as they did prior to the pandemic, given that:

* they can save a ton of money by using less office space per person going forward, and

* so far, they are seeing equal or better productivity from remote employees, as this article points out.

The question answers itself, I think.

--

[a] That's the estimated value of office space in the US: https://www.reit.com/data-research/research/nareit-research/...
I love Paprika, but what keeps frustrating me is the inability to share recipes with my partner. I can Airdrop a single recipe to her, but doing this for all of them, one byone, super tedious, and then she makes some changes which I'd like to have too, and there seems to be no reliable way to get her changes back on my devices. It's all the more frustrating as Paprika does sync really well, but apparently just within a single Apple ID.
The 2008 recession didn't last that long.
Another New Yorker with a weird cold at the end of February here!
Silent reading time in my experience. 5-10m of a 30m meeting, and up to 30m for longer design reviews or program docs. I personally love the format but I know some people get tired of writing so much.
Interesting! Thank you. It would be nice if we had good onboarding material available online in the form of a course.
now --prod
That's true but, personally, I just avoid working for managers like that.
Using AI to Gain Context for Scientific Research
I recommend the BeagleBone as a better starting point than STM32s. It combines an ARM processor core capable of running linux with microcontrollers so you can run Linux on the CPU and realtime firmware on the MCU cores.

If you want to get into FPGA development, I would recommend a ZYNQ based board [1] which is similar to the BeagleBone except instead of microcontrollers, ZYNQ chips combine an ARM CPU with an FPGA. I'd recommend something like the Analog Discovery 2 [2] for data capture since 90% of FPGA development is test benches and validation.

[1] https://store.digilentinc.com/cora-z7-zynq-7000-single-core-...

[2] https://store.digilentinc.com/analog-discovery-2-100msps-usb...
Does this release support Yarn v2’s Plug’n’Play?
> But our CEO hates remote work. Upper management is already talking about getting some people back in the office in a few weeks. It's a bit depressing.

Same story with mine. (Minus the business booming - ours is fluttering along)

I've brought this up to our management: "We work in a space where most people sit within arms distance of each other. How are you going to manage that aspect?"

They said, "Oh, maybe we'll do a thing where half comes in one day and half comes in another. Like business one day, engineering another, etc."

I responded, "But... the office isn't setup for hot swapping desks at all. So, you'd have half of some teams come in? You'd force us all in small meeting rooms again with very poor ventilation where we can't do social distancing? What's the point if half of engineering is at home and half isn't? We don't have many bathrooms so we'd have a lot of shared touch points. Same with kitchen - etc."

As usual - they're not thinking past the initial words coming out of their mouth. It's utterly amazing how inept people are at all levels of the stack.
> If you test positive, there is a __% chance it's a false positive.

This percentage is based on both the test and the real infection rate.