skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that networking stuff feels pretty frustrating on Windows compared to POSIXey stuff; for the most part using a good networking library like (as mentioned above) ZeroMQ or even some of the built-in JVM socketing stuff will help abstract it, but Unix sockets are simply better out of the box.

Even a simpler example though; the fact that there wasn't really a built-in analog for the "pipe" until PowerShell sort of boggles the mind. Yes, I'm aware that Windows isn't command-line focused, but it baffles me that software engineers didn't really see a need in Windows to compose programs together. (Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong on this point, I haven't touched Windows in any serious capacity in almost a decade).
Microsoft supports SQL server on Linux. No need for Wine.
> my question is: in this hypothetical, did my skills somehow lose monetary value to the company because I left the west coast and bought a house in Indiana? What’s the calculation on that one? Let’s talk numbers.

It doesn't have anything to do with your skills. It's just that they believe they can replace you in Indiana with a lower salary.

I'm not saying it makes a lot of sense, just that they're probably thinking about it in that way.
IMO yes. Emotions could be thought as input into decision making process. They seem to be just black-box heuristic calculations that one sometimes needs to run inference with proper logic engine to decode correctly (other part of brain).
Oh man, I am using (abusing?) AHK so hard. I work with legacy software programs for structural analysis, where everything in the model has to be input with clunky form fields. Thousands of properties need to be defined for various structural components (beams, columns, etc). It used to be >2 weeks of entering numbers into fields and clicking buttons.

Now, AHK is set up to just reads my design spreadsheets and define everything in a few minutes. I hate the language syntax, but man is it useful! God bless AHK!
> Any AI that runs on such a chip, however intelligent it might behave, will still not be conscious like a human brain.... No. It doesn't matter whether the Von Neumann machine is running a weather simulation, playing poker, or simulating the human brain; its integrated information is minute. Consciousness is not about computation; it's a causal power associated with the physics of the system.

There are serious problems with this. Koch will have to explain how a simulation of a brain can reproduce to perfect detail all the possible behaviors of a brain without having an equivalent integrated information. Presumably integrated information is a property of the organization of a process, and as such it should have consequences for its set of possible behaviors. So if the von Neumann system has constrained integrated information, its behavior should be constrained as well in some externally identifiable way. But by assumption the simulation could be arbitrarily good. How does Koch break this tension?

The other glaring issue is the fact that consciousness under this view has no explanatory power for the system's behavior. If a non-conscious system can reproduce exactly the behavior of a conscious system, then there is nothing informative to the behavior from the property of conscious; it is entirely incidental to a conscious system's behavior. It doesn't explain why a conscious subject winces with pain after touching a hot stove, nor why it learns to never touch a hot stove bare-handed again. That's a pill too big to swallow.
I'd still take a heavily configurable and customizable "mess", as you put it, than the one that doesn't allow me to control how it works.

There's a good reason why Linux absolutely dominates the server space.
You can make far, far more than $200k in the bay area. An E6 at Facebook (not an extremely senior position) can make $600k+.
Maybe it’s time to remind the fed of who is in charge. Roll out the guillotine onto the Washington mall. A beheading in effigy.
New Baidu Algorithms Boost MRNA Vaccine Development for SARS-CoV-2
The Chinese 'propaganda' centers currently operating in the US
Maybe you can check out openbsd.

It's as opinionated as you are.

(FWIW there has always been a level of consistency in Linux w.r.t. file paths, if you stick to your distribution maintainers packages)
How to disable weak versions of SSL/TLS Protocols on Windows Servers (2019)
Nice suggestion. The headline appears misleading to me, I like what I see there, but it's really "Diagram as Config" not source code generally.
Now that the "audit the Fed" members of Congress have been effectively neutered by "crying wolf" too often, the Fed is content to just wander around eating villagers, knowing that nobody has any interest in enforcing the Fed's charter or imposing any restraints on their behavior.
I agree. I think one key element Tesla is lacking (currently) is handling pedestrians. No Tesla driving demo I could see included any humans outside their cars.
For me too many companies use the "family" aspect of things too much. No, we're not a family. My family would let me sleep on their couch if I got fired or lost my home. Does the company plan to let me live in the office if they let me go? Are we still doing Thanksgiving? What about a family tree, whos going to keep that up after I die?

But seriously, after seeing some nasty employee outcomes over a few jobs it kind of raises the "sleezy car salesman" flags when I hear it now. Like my emotional triggers (family) are being used to get me to comply (dont quit the company, sign the offer, work 80 hours with no overtime). It irks me even more when I see people new to the industry eat it up.

I saw a bunch of it recently in social media from college graduates. Lots of companies who signed new talent promising the offers are just on pause and telling candidates they have a start date in 3 months. And then watching people actually believe it because they've been brainwashed in the interview by the "family" mentality. It just made me really sad about how manipulative workplaces can be.
Not sure why this is downvoted.

This definitely would have been a consideration at some point along the journey.

You're naive if you think it wasn't.
This framing is merely convenient. I work in a company that has workers in several countries, and an equally valid framing is "Those in poorer countries are as productive as the Bay Area folks, it is unfair they get paid less. Therefore we will pay everyone equally".

The outcome is that Bay Area folks will get paid less than their current pay, and those in India get paid more than their current pay. Because there's no way my company can afford to pay all their developers Bay Area rates.

That would be using exactly the same rationale as your comment: Equal pay for equal productivity.
Group Policy Administrative Templates
> I now keep the window slightly open at all times.

Which makes you contribute more to CO2 levels than people who don't do that. You literally let the heat escape in the cold months.
I mean, that's what you'd expect from an OS that was originally for teaching, right? A worked example of the fundamental parts common to most other unix filesystems, just as I would naively expect the minix scheduler to just be round-robin or something, etc.
Agreed, I'm always surprised to see comments like the one you're replying to, and how often they're upvoted. I suppose HN tends to attract a slice of humanity that tends to appreciate casual social interaction a little less, even when compared to the tech sector as a whole. But in my experience transitioning from a very awkward asocial teenager (who would have shared such a view) to a slightly less awkward adult, I've come to really appreciate the trust and camaraderie you can develop even in the workplace setting. After all, humans have evolved to be social creatures and it's not random happenstance. There's tremendous value in being able to really know your teammates, to be able to rely on them, and to have them also be able to trust and rely on you in return. And a lot of that flows from basic social interactions that could be described as "chit chat."
This is what I worry about losing with remote work. I'm functioning just fine now because I already knew all my co-workers well before we started WFH. But if I were to go to a new company and start remote, I would feel completely lost. All the chit-chat can feel like a waste of time, but IMO a lot of useful information about the company is transferred that way. And there's no way I would jump on a video call with someone I don't personally know to just talk for an hour. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
For philosophers that adhere to modern or post-modern schools of thought consciousness is usually related to being self-aware enough to set up a framework to reason about things like "what is consciousness" or ask oneself or ourselves if we have a higher purpose besides keeping our bodies alive. The attention framework allows some quick thought tricks like equating your AIs behavior to non-human animal behavior and then you can use frameworks from ecology or biology to reason about it.

Other frameworks allow for more sophisticated experiments like setting up AIs to interact against each-other and see if they come up with systems or concepts similar to sociology or economy or at least reason that they decided that those were not useful. the attention framework needs to be stretched a bit to be able to justify this experiments.
What if we took that thinking and turned it around:

The minimum wage for a McDonalds cashier in NYC is $15/hour.

McDonalds also operates in India, and hires cashiers that do essentially the same work. If the employe was able to pay $15/hour for the same type of work in NYC, then shouldn't they pay the Indian cashier INR 1,125 / hour? Or what about the other way around, why shouldn't the NYC cashier get paid at the Indian cost-of-living?

And forget wages, how about the cost of goods and services? A 4BR house in Columbus, OH can cost about $300,000 — but the same house might cost about $3M in Palo Alto. Is this unfair / discriminatory? The house itself might be identical.
On a side note, I notice you call her "Cynthia" instead of Professor or Doctor. I've noticed other Harvard students do this with other professors too.

Is this a typical Harvard thing?
The market already included people outside of SV (big companies have many satellite offices). That hasn't depressed SV compensation because the best engineers cost a lot of money anywhere you look.
Isn't the life well-off people in the United States only possible in its current form because of massive exploitation of people and resources? How is that in any way sustainable, and why should it be sustained?
I find these points definitely true;

- "conference rooms" are inferior to an individual at an individual laptop with a headset on.

- If any collection of people are at a conference room together they're exchanging looks off camera or notes before or after the meeting.

- Being fully remote makes you think about online documentation first, not copying it later.
Have you used the data model features in newer versions of Excel? I haven't really used them myself (I generally keep all my code in SQL and just use Excel as a frontend) but my impression is that Microsoft is trying to do exactly that. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-Data-Model...
I'd love if it generated full terraform files with all the required information from the Python code, the rest from sane defaults.

Would also be great to import things with generic names:

from diagrams.aws.database import RDS as Database

which you could replace at a later point with:

from diagrams.gcp.database import SQL as Database

And have a provider neutral description that could eventually be compiled into a provider-specific Terraform description just by changing the imports.
You can try to bring the rate of new infections down to a level where they can be traced, and newly infected can be isolated early. This allows society to go more or less back to normal. That's what some Asian countries did successfully and what others are now seeking to replicate.
Cppcheck 2.0
I worked on a derivatives system for a bank where we had a few thousand servers globally running distributed calculations. We chose C# over Java as it was more powerful at the time. Windows server was rock solid throughout, it also had the benefit of being integrated with Windows security. Now Linux you can run dotnet applications OK we'd probably choose that because its cheaper not because its better. Most server applications you just need a bare OS and run a process, it doesn't need much.
Why is "send usage metrics" still on by default in the Kite.app preferences?

I was prepared to give Kite another shot but seeing that checkbox just made me lose confidence. Caddy almost got destroyed by this! Please please please reconsider and make telemetry opt-in, you don't have enough goodwill given Kite's history with exfiltration, and the product has access to too much vital information to be playing around with users trust like this.
I stand by the statement. You again pick and choose parts of statements.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+things+out+of+cont...

Do you really think there is less movement of people between San Joaquin County and these counties versus Marin County and these counties? Marin County is one of this group. Do you really think that Marin County is a densely populated urban area?

Marin County has ~250K people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_County%2C_California

San Joaquin County has probably >700K people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Joaquin_County%2C_Californ...

Furthermore, San Joaquin County has a higher population density than Marin County.

I-580 has ~300K per day in the Tri-Valley area connecting San Joaquin and Alameda counties.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-year-later-I-580-pa...

The Golden Gate Bridge connecting Marin County to San Francisco County has ~112K a day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge#Usage_and_t...

The Richmond San Rafael Bridge connecting Marin County to Contra Costa County has ~80K a day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond–San_Rafael_Bridge

300 >> (112 + 80).

And don't give me BS about other means of transportation. Those ferries from Marin carry in the low thousands a day. The trains and buses running from San Joaquin Valley in carry far more. It will skew even further on the side of San Joaquin County.

Your argument is repeatedly repudiated by the facts, your logic is weak, you try to score points on irrelevancies, and yet you continue to try to argue. e.g. You know nothing, Jon Snow.
Opening a window is much easier. You need a large number of fast growing plants to reduce CO2 levels significantly.
The hypothetic "economic devastation" has a very simple political solution.

An epidemic raging throughout the country doesn't.

The economic problem is only a problem if the political leadership decides to do nothing at all.
We are currently in the middle of the biggest Darwin moment in modern times. If the bleach didn`t cure them, herd immunity will...

With the lack of integrity in testing, I don`t see any of the reported data being useful at all.

It almost sounds like they need more people to experiment on with all of the dubious advice available.

I wonder what would Darwin do in this situation???
If the scenario you're describing happens, some startups will appear and pay SWEs 160k/year to live wherever they want, and the good engineers will leave to work at those startups.

The fundamental problem (for the cost-cutting employer) is that good engineering orgs really do generate that much value.

This happened with the wage-collusion attempts in the valley. Facebook was willing to give more raises than Google or Apple. In the latest roll of the dice, AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, and friensd were willing to pay more. It's the cycle of business.
Just note: written by "Nicholas Lewis, an independent Climate Science Researcher, based in the UK."

That is, this Lewis is Lewis from all "Lewis and Curry" papers, which are known to be among the favorites of various climate denialists.

Here is a non-inclusive list of Curry's misinformation:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/skeptic_Judith_Curry.htm

It seems that Lewis is "independent" but managing to more formally support these activities, writing papers with Curry.

Which doesn't mean that what he writes now in this article shouldn't be evaluated on its own merit -- it's just that everybody's "prior" for the expectations can be reasonably adjusted: personally, my first reaction was "well, interesting". My second reaction was "now, let's see who's this guy". My third reaction was... I've decided I personally won't spend much time investigating his claims, and I won't hope for much to turn out to be true, based on these (my own) priors. But it's only my own preference.

Also personally, the first time I've read the arguments "Sweden was soo different in measures" I almost believed it. But then I've just checked myself: their universities and schools were also closed at the time when most of the Europe had theirs closed too (the kindergartens weren't -- that's at least something different). Their workers also worked from homes. There was a lot of limiting of the contacts, even when politicians didn't made laws or orders or something for that. I could conclude that what happened in Sweden was definitely not what seemed that those who made the "difference" claims implied.

So reader beware. Check what is claimed as premises, and check if even that is true, before proceeding. Also carefully compare the real numbers. The last time I've checked, Sweden had more deaths per capita from Covid-19 than the U.S. and it's still open how much they have not counted and not reported: still, even comparing these reported, there were something like 4 dead Swedes for every 3 dead U.S. Americans, on average, even if it appears that Swedes do live a bit more healthy (~3 years longer life expectation, before). At least they did 40% more tests per capita than the U.S. up to now.
I'm a bit masochistic when it comes to typos. This is from my AHK script:

:*:netowrk::
Send, {Home}+{End}{Delete}
return

What it does: I have a really bad habit of misspelling "network" that way. I think my right hand is just so eager to get that 'o' keyed in that it doesn't wait for my left hand to hit the 'w' first. So I'm always screwing that word up when typing quickly.

So now, when I make that mistake, I'm punished by having the entire line of text deleted. '{Home}' moves the cursor to the start of the line, '+{End}' is the [Shift]+[End] key to highlight the whole thing, then {Delete} metes out the justice I deserve.
The Fed buying bond ETFs is a small portion of the overall SMCCF. They are buying bond ETFs right now because the issuer certification process for buying individual bonds has been dragged out and right now it seems that not many issuers want to register because of backlash from PPP.

I agree with your two initial points in the context of the Fed ONLY buying ETFs but that's only a small portion of the overall facility. With secondary bond purchases, the Fed is absolutely going to be favoring individual issuers not willingly but through the design of the program and the form of individual issuers' capital structures. If the Fed wanted to rush a program out to only buy ETFs, they did not need to take almost two months to do so. The underlying corporate bonds were the main target of this program, they ran into some operational problems launching that portion of the facility, and decided to go ahead with the ETF portion.

Agreed on the Matt Levine. He's fine for certain things but it seems like he's the ultimate source for tech people who want to talk about finance and he's not always right/is only one side of the story.
No, generally airports associated with cities are not in the cities. SFO isn't even in San Francisco county.
> Normal people look at 2 on day 1, 4 on day 4, 8 on day 7 and think "Oh, about 4 every 3 days. Shrug. No big deal." Horizontal.

Yeah well HN is mostly a bunch of software engineers who spend most of their day relying on the fundamental that at the end of 32 days in your example, there'll be 4 billion, so...

On the other hand your example is extremely contrived, because exponential growth in epidemiology is mostly not possible except for short periods.
Nor is there any consistency with the windows registry. Except that, by being such a pain in the posterior, noone edits it manually anymore and all changes are done through GUI apps. Editing config files is easier and faster (not to mention, automatable), so people don't bother creating "control panels" on Linux for the most part.

> What would be interesting is a complete re-imagining of a server OS

Not sure how 'complete', but aren't you after something like NixOS?
Natural selection is only a subset of all evolutionary processes, which are much broader than that.
Rolling Low and Avoiding Normalization of Deviance [video]
The same as you assume some people died at home, some people got infected without symptoms at home and are now recovered. Unless you do a mass test of antibodies it will be hard to estimate the real number of infected and recovered people.
I miss my mixed office/work from home life. It was the best.
To contrast with:

British work culture: spend 7 hours at work socializing, 2 hours at the pub after

French work culture: spend 2 hours at work socializing

Japanese work culture: spend 12 hours at work with your head down not working, then 5 hours at the pub
I don't think any of those pieces of software were in a position like Logic. Audio is a bit of a different beast.

You swap out Final Cut with DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere and you're going to have to relearn workflows and keyboard shortcuts, but it's not going to be radically different. You still start by creating audio and video first, and then cutting it all up and putting it back together in your video editing program.

Same with photo software like Aperture or Lightroom. You go out and create photos first, and then you come back and edit and arrange them. Most of what you do is just going to be the same kind of changes, like cropping, adjusting curves, etc.

Logic is different. You might be using Logic from the very first moment when you're writing a song. You might open Logic first, before you even have an idea for your song. It's like a musical instrument, in the sense that it has unique sounds and textures that you can get used to.
there will be no inflation because the money is not being spent. It is being invested. As for savings, no sane person would put their money into a savings account. Why lend your money to the bank (if you even have any to spare)?!
TBH I have really enjoyed working from home. I don't miss a bit the office and my co-workers.
I go to work to get things done and then go back to my life. I don't enjoy spending time at the office with my co-workers in social events. Work is work and I keep it extremely professional.

I prefer finish work asap and go back and spend time with my family and friends.

I wish companies would one day understand this. and at least in tech remote work should be the norm. No need for offices!
Cool!

Curious why not WASM also? I have no use case for that, just asking.
Shot you a message to the one in yours, though it might have gotten sent to spam.

I'd throw a contact address up on my HN profile if I used a provider with something resembling decent spam-filtering, but I don't presently and I don't really use mail enough to justify switching.