skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few things:

- No one knows how much or what exactly they're buying but they're limited by the size of the overall facility and are primarily going to stick to investment grade with a carve out for fallen angel and HY ETFs. Blackrock needs to provide the Fed with a list of ETFs they may buy and disclosure on that is uncertain.

- They are not required to publish their holdings but will provide an aggregate number alongside the rest of the H.4.1 numbers published on Thursday.

- The main and other part of this secondary market facility is secondary market corporate bonds. There is a certification process that issuers need to complete in order for the Fed to buy their bonds. Given the backlash on PPP, issuers are reluctant to register and especially reluctant given that secondary markets are more or less functioning.

- Most of the impact of this and other facilities announced has been seen in the announcement; not through actual purchases. This is true for the Fed and has been true for the BoJ and ECB.

- With the announce impact/implicit backstop, a (current) cap on ETF purchases, and a reluctance for issuers to certify, if markets function properly, you may not see very many purchases by the Fed under this facility at all.
Why would I have local friends? I spent half my day at work, obviously most people I know are at work. half of my home awake time is with my online friends.
You’re vastly underestimating the work of “setting up an office” in a new state. Every state has a bunch of paperwork, like setting up your company as a foreign corporation in that state. Then there is state licensing. Also every state has its own worker’s compensation requirements and some have other requirements too.

Your payroll provider generally tells you that you’re on your own for all that stuff.

For every additional state there is a ton of overhead.

I’ve had employees in California, Washington, and New York. It took two years to unwind Washington after the one employee there left, and it took a year and 20 hours of lawyer time to unwind New York, who was trying to charge us $5,000 as a penalty for missing paperwork we didn’t think we had to file (we ended up being right after paying the lawyer).
I don’t know, but even if that’s the case it would seem like it’s working as intended?

It’s better to know if something will not succeed and you can’t easily tell without testing in the market.

The incentive alignment with equity seems like the most critical piece and it has the bonus of rewarding employees for taking on the extra risk.

This lets you spin out big ideas without spending all of your money - a little like running internal VC (one big success could make up for all of the other failures).

I think at this level capital is not really the main constraint. It's attracting talent and creating a culture/environment where success is possible, even then that's just a necessary but insufficient prerequisite for success among all of the other non-capital reasons a startup might not succeed.
Wouldn’t be crazy if Windows wasn’t a licensed closed source OS, but that’s exactly what it is. That’s the definition of vendor lock.
Yev here -> The boot drives are helpful for log storage/collection so the extra capacity is nice - plus they're not "large" drives so the costs associated are pretty minimal!
You know, I was thinking this, but honestly how much overhead is the Windows GUI when no one is logged into it? I know it's not nothing, but I suspect it's not that much, is it?
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I guess I don't buy the idea that there is such a strong dichotomy between in-person communication skills and digital communication skills.

Sure, there are adjustments to new needs and technologies. But fundamentally, that's the easy part, I think. Communication skills are needed, and they mostly transition well. I find it plausible there are some people who don't make the transition well (in either direction) but that hardly points to a paradigm change.

Do you really think there is a big pool of people who would be effective at these roles if they just didn't need to communicate in person? Doesn't match my experience at all. Certainly agree that people are stronger or weaker on various types of communication, but in my experience that is definitely a 2nd order effect, compared to whether or not they are skilled communicators at all.

I totally agree that all of this stuff is harder remote, but if anything that leans harder on communication skills.
Your first sentence is what New Zealand is doing. The rest we are not, but you can check in soon and see what the result has been.
Banks that need monthly financials to assure regulators that they are servicing their loans are also required to justify the documents to the regulator. If you just autogenerated it perhaps they’re wrong or falsified. While if you have to take out a pen and sign them that won’t happen.

Yes, absurd.
All this is underpinned by your definition of conscious.

I recall seeing Koch in debate with a philosopher (it was long ago I can't recall but one of the big ones: maybe Searle or Dennet) and they were talking past each other.

For Koch, at least in this debate, consciousness was something akin to attention. For the philosopher, it was something else entirely (if I remembered, I might be able to guess who it was).

Consciousness could mean: making a decision as opposed to having it pre-ordained, or the experience of your senses, or "feelings" or knowing you are a self, or who knows what else.

It isn't just a computer science issue, it is a philosophical and linguistic one too: just what do you mean by the word.
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I doubt you'd be able to keep that current compensation, though. Most people I've talked with who have moved out of the bay area (or another HCOL area) to somewhere with a lower cost of living have either gotten an immediate pay cut, or their company has told them that they won't be getting pay raises until their pay is in-line with their new local market.
Weirdly enough, some older MMOs (OSRS, to a lesser extent WoW Classic) fill that need for me. Sometimes, the repetitiveness of really simple grinding (think click tree, click inventory to drop log, click tree) lends itself to falling into a meditative state, especially when you have muscle memory built up for a particular action/click pattern.
There’s also the legacy of pro tools and logic.

For many years pro tools was the only game in town for serious non-linear audio editing, and did not support midi at all.

Around the same time period Logic was the only game in town for serious midi work and didn’t support audio at all.
It cuts both ways, right?

Companies: "I don't have to pay you $big_city rates because you live in $small_town and nobody there will offer you $big_city rates."

Candidates: "I don't have to accept $small_town rates because I work remotely and can work for a company in $big_city."
What is Deno and will it Replace Node.js?
> one-sided and of low-value

Ironic, because that's exactly what your comment is.
Not sure on that one actually. I think one of the main things for us was the rewrite performance, since we're constantly moving/copying/deleting/changing data we need that to be fairly performant - but not sure about the host-managed drives!
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No. The 50k number refers to “excess deaths”, which is the portion of “all cause mortality” above what you’d expect this time of year.
Agree 100%. Same employee, working remotely, but they move somewhere else? Great, we pay them less even though it affects their performance in no way at all. Makes sense /s
We need to break out of the entire dichotomy between paywalls vs ads. Both of those models are deeply anti-social at their core.

Of course, it's still essential that we fund creative work. But we need to stop presuming that the only options are paywalls or ads. If paywalls or ads bring enough funding, then the money exists. We just need to work out how to distribute it to the creative workers by means that aren't so compromised.
My personal anecdote is that I was a Skype user, had the desktop and phone app, had an account with maybe $20 in credit for the occasional call to a POTS number. Then Microsoft bought it, I had trouble logging in, used my "Live.com" account, had trouble logging in again, created a new account but no longer had my contact list, and eventually just found something else to use to call or video chat with relatives.

If MSFT had just left everything alone I'd still be using skype regularly.
I wonder what Bertrand Russell would say about that?
It is very similar to the one on Silkroad and Ross Ulbricht that Wired had previously done. I can easily see either/both/combined into a movie script.
I think killing off Aperture was as much a strategic focusing move as anything else. Prior to developing the current Photos app (Mac and iOS share a codebase), Apple was developing and maintaining Mac iPhotos, iOS iPhotos, Aperture and the old iOS Photos app (Pictures? I don’t even remember).

Reducing it all to one cross platform codebase allowed them to make the bundled app a bit more full featured, double down on a few headline mass market features like photos sync and theoretically add more features that are missing from Aperture over time. That said, they’ll probably never duplicate it all, probably don’t want to duplicate it all and they seem to have focused more of their photography effort on iPhone computational photography. Not to mention when Aperture was first released, Pixelmator, Acorn and Lightroom didn’t exist (on the market at least) yet.

Contrast with Logic where there still isn’t a lot like it and part of how you get to be a billion dollar business is by maintaining those hundred million dollar businesses. There’s a lot more YouTubers, DJs and Podcasters out there now, not just musicians and one thing they all have in common is they’re all dealing with audio production.
I would like to know what percentage of those core hours are servers (Windows Svr, Nano vs Unix) vs desktops (Azure virtual desktop). I know there has been a huge scale up in cloud desktops in the last few months.
the pay is based (as it should be) on market conditions, regulations and contractual obligations. Should not be based on ethics - those can vary in surprising ways.
You may want to talk to a CPA or tax specialist. You’re most likely violating your state law as well as overpaying on your taxes.
For a large fraction of "techies" at age 18 they uprooted themselves for 4 years for college, and then uprooted again after graduation.
They were Estonians pressed into service by Germany and who couldn’t be sent back home because their territories had been occupied by the Soviet Union and would have executed them.

So... just conscripts like any other, pressed into service by a power that was eventually defeated, and put to use by the victor.
It's much harder to make friends as an adult. Work colleagues end up being much easier friendships to make.

90% of my current friends were made through work.
Aside: The Syntopicon by Adler et. al. is an amazing resource. It is nearly incomprehensible and is keyed to specific editions of The Great Works of the Western World. But, my lord, if you get the ducks lined up in a row, the Syntopicon is an amazing piece of work.
Lazarillo de Tormes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarillo_de_Tormes
Sorry I didn't mean influencer from marketing context. I meant influencer - someone who influenced others to listen/make/practice music in a new way. Agree that
"innovator" is the correct word instead.
I used this when my mouse started opening more than one tab when I wheel clicked

MButton::
If (A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 150)
Return
Send {MButton}
Return
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I'm interested to know what the majority of the Windows machines are used for.

I can't think it'd be anything other than 'big enterprise' applications, where there seems to be a lot of bespoke stuff built specifically for Windows Server (e.g. finance software, healthcare systems, marriage registration, taxi licensing, nursing home management, etc).

Unfortunately this sort of stuff is fairly rare to be available in the open-source world, because there is such little demand for it by individuals.

The wackiest one I've come across is a CMS (Crematorium Management System). If anyone wants to create an open-source one with me, please get in touch...!
> diverse range of people

At a tech company?
I'm not an expert on windows or mac, but here's my run-down:

> There is no strong sandboxing in the standard desktop.

I don't know of any strong sandboxing in Windows or Mac OSX, but that could just be my ignorance.

> Most programs are written in memory unsafe languages such as C or C++

This is true on windows and Mac as well (let's include objective-c in there).

> It is a monolithic kernel written entirely in a memory unsafe language

Also true of windows and Mac.

> has hundreds of bugs, many being security vulnerabilities, found each month. In fact, there are so many bugs being found in the kernel, developers can’t keep up which results in many of the bugs staying unfixed for a long time

I don't know enough to comment on this.

> a compromised non-root user account with access to sudo is almost equal to full root compromise

Is this any different on windows or mac? Mac has sudo as well, and on windows, the main user is typically an administrator.

> X’s lack of GUI isolation

well, yeah. I don't know what the situation is like in windows and mac for this. But one of wayland's design goals is to fix this (although it also breaks things like screencasting...)
Functional programming actually brings some benefits to backend code. To take advantage of the extra cores in a CPU you add threads, but if these threads are continually needing to lock in order to access shared state then concurrency is diminished. The more cores you have, the more threads you have, and then the more you have to lock. Functional style solves this problem by not having mutable state, thus eliminating the need to lock.

But when it comes to JavaScript these benefits don't exist. That's not to say there are no benefits at all to incorporating some functional style into JavaScript code, but wholesale replacement of OOP with functional style is not warranted.
I've been working with Linux and BSD for so long, I don't even know of any Microsoft-only cloud applications. I'm completely *nix bubbled. I cannot imagine cloud programming on windows, probably because I only write user-space native apps. Is there a Puppet or Ansible for windows? I'd be completely lost.
What 'yaantc and 'rataata_jr said in this thread.

Not only does the desktop session remember and re-open the files, but it also remembers what frames you had open, what position on the screen and which screen the windows are on.

It is a huge convenience.
I believe this commit is the fix:

https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/subiquity/commit/7db70650fea...

I was a little surprised by how it did so just by adding a function, so I looked briefly into how the serialization seems to work.

The FileSystemModel holds a numbers of actions, which it renders[0] into a config for the Curtin program. Part of this process consists of converting instances of various classes into dicts[1] (which presumably become JSON later on). This config is written to various files in /var/log/installer/ during setup.

The conversion into dicts is highly dynamic: it looks up all the fields of the object to be converted, and for each field looks for a "serialize_<field_name>" function on the object. If such a function is present, it is used to serialize the field. If not, the field is typically serialized using its literal value.

One such action class is DM_Crypt[2], which has a "key" field containing the secret. With this commit, the serialize_key() function will be used to write the key itself into a temporary file, and only store the location of the file into the config.

0: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/subiquity/blob/7db70650feaf5...

1: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/subiquity/blob/7db70650feaf5...

2: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/subiquity/blob/7db70650feaf5...
By giving more than 80,000 rides in each car.
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Top talent will. The trick is to be good enough to be top talent.
Generally speaking, CoL adjustments don't really make you whole. You may make more if you're in SF but housing is still going to take a significantly bigger chunk of your paycheck and you may or may not come out ahead at the end of the day.

Being on the periphery of a high cost area is probably the best deal. For most companies, for example, I imagine that Boston/Cambridge will be considered the same as Boston suburbs--even though within an hour drive you can get to vastly cheaper housing than in the city proper.
I think being allowed to work from home doesn't mean that people actually will all suddenly start doing that. My boss put out a survey a week or two ago among my org (30 or so people), and 70% said that they want to work from the office, full time, 20% said some time or most of the time, and 10% said fully remote. And this is a group of people that would be largely well suited to working from home (young, no kids, etc). I just don't think that this will change much.
That's beyond absurd. The content of the document is what determines whether it's falsified or not, and you can inspect the content for inconsistencies on a generated PDF far more easily than a scanned one.
Define "largest" in the right way and that might be true, as the market was very fragmented, but certainly not in terms of market share.
Yeah... I find him refreshingly honest in contrast to the predominate western notion of meditation as a panacea. Few of his peers really elucidate the breadth of challenges of the dukkha nanas (the "dark night"), and none of the "apps" do (Calm, Dan Harris, Headspace).

I also really love the breadth in his analysis of awakening models. I would love to see this paradigm more often: here are the models of thought in this subject, and the pros and cons of each.

... and the "Fira Kasina" chapter was an absolute trip.
Linux users, see https://github.com/autokey/autokey . I use it for purposes very similar to those described by the article (little automation scripts, text expansion).

It's equally as {sometimes awesome, sometimes infuriatingly quirky} as its Windows inspiration :D , but I guess it's the nature of such a tool :) .

Won't work (yet?) on Wayland, though, https://github.com/autokey/autokey/issues/87 .
the thing that sucks about jetbrains is that you need to keep updating license keys on your own end every year, even though you're paying a yearly fee. they really need to make this much easier. the end user shouldn't have to do anything.
You can route the audio with soundflower
That is exactly the trade off. Which is why sometimes it is wrong despite the obvious advantages of being able to change
The current best scientific guesstimate is that there is no panacea. A suite of lifestyle changes and maybe some medications would be the mostly likely way to increase quality of life until there's an amyloid removal technique or vaccine.
I feel like our disagreement here is based on a different understanding of a fact that I might legitimately have wrong: my understanding is that the owners of Telegram are literally Russian citizens living in Europe; are they actually US citizens? (FWIW, a quick re-check of Wikipedia to verify my memory here is definitely making it sound like the Durov brothers are Russian nationals, but maybe they have now become official citizens of an island in the Caribbean as part of their "self-exile"? I don't think that Saint Kitts and Nevis is a US territory, though.)
Your convert and gs mastery is truly impressive, great job and great project.
> in the little bit of testing that I've done with this, .NET Core is faster on Linux than Windows.

My experience as well. In fact it was extremely much faster.

- Hello world took something like 5 seconds to run on Windows

- on Linux (a VM on the exact same laptop, with the same Windows running underneath in fact) it was so fast I had to use the time command to figure out how many milliseconds it took :-)

FTR: while it was hardly scientific I actually put some effort into trying to make sure it was equal.
It grinds my gears a bit when others think there's always something to do about it. Yes, I could get upset, but at the same time, if they aren't doing anything illegal, then there literally isn't anything you can do about it. You can go ask them what they're doing, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have to stop. So maybe finding out what I can do about it is trying to get things changed, but at that moment, there's not a whole lot. This is all predicated on the fact that whatever they are doing is legal as it stands now. I don't have to like it to have to accept it. If you don't like it, then you do things to mitigate or change the laws.

Similarly, last week I had a bunch of trees taken down from my back yard. They were near the property line, but distinctly on my side. My neighbor came storming over wondering what I was doing. I said I was cutting down my trees. He got upset because it changed the look of their yard (removing _my_ trees changed the look of his back yard), removed "privacy" (despite the fact their house is 30 feet higher than mine and therefore gave me no privacy), among a couple of other outlandish things. This, despite the fact that they were my trees. I told him it didn't matter, they were mine, and had them taken down. Everything I did was totally legal, but he didn't like it, but couldn't do anything about it.
AutoIt ( I know this is about AHK but hear me out) was my first actual coding language. this was way back in 2008 when I was a manual tester and I decided to work on an automation framework around testing our .net based app. the documentation was amazing. the language are incredibly simple. and the windows integration was insane.
In a way, if I hadn't worked on the automation framework using autoit, i probably wouldn't have decided to learn python, js and other languages and really wouldn't be where I am.

So, much love to the AHK/Autoit team.
The average American spends 4.3 hours per week commuting. If you go into the office every day, that gives you a 26.1 minute commute radius. If you go into the office twice a week, now your commute radius extends out to an hour.

Take a map around the office where you work. Look at the kinds of home prices you can find an hour out. See how much closer you can be to nature or other particular amenities that matter to you. Would you like to have those with zero total change to your commute time?

Sounds pretty nice to me.
Admins, please fix this clickbait title. Compare to the TechCrunch story that's titled "Telegram abandons its TON blockchain platform".
I did this. Started my first "proper" job in London (in an office). Used to go home at 5:30 and fiddle with my linux machine (that I was learning how to use) then go to bed.

So, I started going out to the London Linux User Group. I made friends there, and a few of us ended up going out for weekly curries/tech markets together, getting drinks, and eventually attending each others weddings (John, if you're reading this, we're all still sorry we laughed when the offical said your middle name was "Leonard").

I live in Manchester now, and have worked from home for about 12 years. I ran the local Ruby user group, and run the local Go group, and these groups have provided me with a group of great friends. Even in the relatively non-tech heavy NW England there's a tech event on most nights, and lots of non-tech groups to find.

I don't think the situation is as dire as you make out :)