skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows IO model - including network - is arguably much more well designed than anything POSIX, thanks not least to Dave Cutler and his team.

From the get-go Windows NT (Win32) had a common model for overlapped IO (async IO in today's parlance). This async capability permeated everything from disk IO to network IO, and works well today with USB, Thunderbolt etc. Mind you, this model has not changed while Unix/Linux/POSIX still have not found a common model that works for all. See for instance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13407542/is-there-really...

Under the hood Windows was also designed with a completion-oriented model (IO completion ports) which scales better in most instances than the Linux readiness-oriented approach (I believe that MacOS uses a completion approach as well, so the readiness approach is not universal *nix). Basically, windows saves at least one context switch for every basic IO operation. Windows supports the Berkeley sockets API with some optional extensions to make socket operations overlapped/async as well, essentially supporting both the straight socket model as well as the completion oriented extensions.
CA only has $17.5 billion in reserve as of February. This will most definitively don't last until July.
And the government has made it clear they won't bail out states.
Once the money drys up CA can't afford to keep counties locked down indefinitely.
Ask HN: IT contracting in the US? –.compared to UK
I have been contracting as an IT professional in the UK (London) for a long time now and wanted to know how it compares to the equivalent in the US.

Hopefully, some of my peers here on HN have experience of either both locations so can provide valuable insights, or of contracting within the US and are prepared to talk about it a bit.

In the UK, I have worked in software engineer and platform engineer roles, under my own limited company, for a range of clients, each spanning from a few months to numerous years (rolling contract renewals).

Is there a contracting market in the US, how does it work, who can partake in it, who sources for roles, etc.

Happy to answer any questions if anything I've said is unclear or requires elaboration.
if you're a non-MS developer, you'd need to first install a proper OS on it of course. Long time MBP user, switched to XPS 5 years ago. Haven't looked back since.
Funny you mention that. Krogers, the largest super market in the US, announced today they are ending 'hazard' pay. Lasted for little over a month.
It was cool when the same director of public health decided to shut down restaurants selling groceries because they lacked grocery store licenses.
I feel like this just needs a better branding. For one thing, across California the stay at home orders have barely been enforced anyway. People are hanging out in parks, even meeting up with friends in parks all the time. So it's been an open secret this whole time that it's more voluntary than an "order". Now with curbside pickup, and restaurants partially opening, it seems like taking another step towards more targeted interventions and away from the broadest stay at home orders.

This all seems in line with what anyone would have expected. Anyone who thought that on June 1 when the stay-at-home orders officially end everyone would just jump back into normal life and it would magically be safe clearly hasn't been paying attention.

The difference between California and states like Georgia that have "opened up" actually seems to be quite minimal. Some people are taking more risks (which is not really being stopped in either place), the majority are still being very cautious. That's bad news for people hoping that the small businesses that have been financially hurt would spring back immediately, but hopefully good news for where we are in containment of the virus. And, knock on wood, at least for now it seems to be enough to keep the disease spread from ramping back up.

I still think it would have been nice to just go all the way with the lockdown from day 1 back in March, actually enforce the rules and keep more people inside, and squashed the curve faster so that by now we'd be a lot more open than we are. But instead we chose the route of making most people only moderately miserable instead for a long time, instead of even slightly more miserable but for a shorter time.
Look up the Intel Intel NUC 9 Extreme (aka Ghost Canyon), it's a very small form factor gaming PC in the arrangement you are talking of. The motherboard is one PCIe card, the graphics card is another with a dumb I/O plate connecting the two.

As a concept it's interesting, however the 238 x 216 x 96 mm size is just too big when the Velkase Velka 3 is 227 x 187 x 97 and uses an off the shelf ITX motherboard, same PSU and graphics card to achieve the same for much cheaper overall.

A very powerful and quiet flex ATX PSU can be had at https://www.sfftec.com/product-page/enhance-enp-7660b-pro so that's not a problem either. Same can be had as taobao item 533119895425, use a proxy like superbuy and note modular PSUs with the modular plugs sticking out are longer than the flex PSU standard so not compatible with the Velka 3 but there are plenty variants of this item which are.
This message said:

> prefer being fired/layed off through a text message [...]

where I suggest that a text message could be forged. From that point, either you don't pay attention to that possibility, and take the risk of being fired for real, or you request a confirmation through some other mean of communication, something that can be verified, and thus render the original message moot.

Or did that person imply that somehow message of that sort would be signed off cryptographically? I didn't think about that option, but I wonder how many companies deploy PKIs for emails between employees. Maybe this is more common than I think?
It's nice that someone now has the neural wiring diagram for part of a mouse brain. But we have the full wiring for a thousand-cell nematode, and OpenWorm still doesn't work very well.[1] OpenWorm is trying to get a neuron and cell level simulator for what's close to the simplest creature with a functioning nervous system - 302 neurons and 85 muscle cells. That needs to work before moving to more complexity.

[1] http://openworm.org/
I don't know the goal, but I see plenty indirect benefits in lockdowns around the world, and hope they'll happen more often, like for a heatwave or a pollution peak, to give nature a needed break
my favorite: https://plantuml.com/
Aside from being "over it", I think it's also that people are (correctly) perceiving their individual risk to be very low and acting accordingly.

It's a bit of a birthday paradox problem in that if you have large groups of people not social distancing in an area with pretty low prevalence like CA, the risk to any one person of contracting the virus could be extremely low, while the risk that some of those people will contract is extremely high.

Americans are, for better or worse, really not used to thinking in collectivist terms.
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> you can't decide to see the color blue

Once I have seen it I can always visualize the color blue because color can be stored in memory and IMO that is why computers can describe color. But even if I was once happy I can never visualize being happy I just have to experience it and that experience/ substance of happiness cannot be encoded.
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I’ve never really get very at home with Excel. I’ve used Lotus Improv, Quantrix Modeler, Apple Numbers and XCubes.

Then again I’ve got to the point where I build my balance sheets and profit & loss accounts as Python objects...
Thanks!

Would love to hear more about your project. Sounds very cool.

We're working on some computer vision problems (we plan to open-source soon). Perhaps there's an opportunity to collaborate? https://www.trekview.org/greenhouse/

Drop me an email dgreenwood at trekview dot org.
Can dumb matter become conscious? Apparently yes if you count us as conscious.

So the question becomes, what is to hinder AI for becoming conscious? How you answer that question defines if you can conclude.

For now I would say the answer is still. We don't know.
No they don’t really care about getting windows users to switch, they’re playing a longer game than that. Most people will never switch their operating system. They want people who want to get into music production to buy a Mac as their first computer.
there is no reason in this day and age for a tech company to have a physical location. if your servers are up in the cloud, there is no reason for your programmers, or any other staff for that matter, to be in an office.
Plus a clever way to invalidate all those old cheap grandfathered subscriptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864853
> The unspoken side benefit (whether intentional or not) here is to limit the government liability

If the government wants to limit its liability it should stop telling people what to do and let them decide for themselves.

> For the interim county health advisor, there's no benefit for going out on a limb and providing the rubber stamp to allow a plant to open as they'd ultimately individually be scape-goated if things went wrong.

So the only alternative is for the government, after imposing the costs of the lockdown on everybody, to simply refuse to accept the costs of reopening?
> it is unreasonable for users to force exclusively encrypted communication

Hard disagree. That's like saying it's unreasonable to expect cable modem routers to come with firewalls or websites to default to HTTPS. I think it's rather unconscionable that the opposite is the case: we had too many years of wifi routers come to market that were unencrypted by default.

4.1 doesn't agree with the law or common sense. Don't broadcast cleartext data if you don't intend it for the public space. TCP/IP packets or Morse code, the principle is the same.

Expecting every radio receiver to know whether broadcast cleartext was "intended for the public space" is impractical, and both law and radio culture reflect that impracticality. Expecting the radio recipient to decide whether your data is intended for public space or not would be like replacing telephones with megaphones and then fining people for listening to conversations.
I burned through a lot of Azure credit playing Football Manager on beefy instances, but presumably that's not representative.
Hah! Thats pretty wild, but I wish I could have some apps that use the touch bar like that. It seems so worthless now because I only really use it as a bunch of buttons. But if I used just one app that had that rich multi-touch input, it would be so fun I think.

I imagine its one where the vision of the product and what developers actually came up with never really aligned prroperly.
For your own sake, make sure to never read anything by Solzhenitsyn.
Fantastic film. Also recommend the book by the same title, as well as watching almost any of the (Ted) talks by Paul Stamets.
Everyone's situation is different. Unemployment isn't 100% and the class of 2021 won't have this gap. Think employers are rational enough to iron that out? Nah, you have more faith than me.
No, people are pretty over it in the Bay Area too. I don't know a single person who's staying within the letter of the stay-at-home orders any longer. (Admittedly, everyone I know has been pretty diligent about masks and handwashing since March.)
There are tons of restaurants that have their own specialty drinks like their home made soda or root beer or their own alcoholic beers, but most customers pick Budweiser and Coca Cola.

It's not crazy for them to suggest their own home-made soda first, it's marketing. Because that specialty soda makes them more money and differentiates them from their competitors who are just selling off-the-shelf stuff.

It's not crazy to not want to be a commodity.
My read is that he's also treating this as an exploration game, and that at least has some traction in AAA games.

I mean people are still playing Skyrim for Pete's sake.
For me the best was corporate offices. One order was an entire conference room of people ordering on the company dime with an auto 20% tip. Some times I would get close to $100 for a trip in the late 90s for 30 minutes to unload and load a car. Delivering flowers was also $10 a delivery. I would take off school on “flower holidays” and crush it at nursing homes and stuff. My parents were supportive of my hussle.
I wouldn’t say that partial WFH is of no benefit, but it’s of significantly lower benefit. If I’m coming to the office once a week, I still have to live in a ~1 hr ring around my office. If I’m full WFH I can live anywhere.

The former opens up more options, but it only opens up a tiny percentage of the options that the latter creates.
This is spectacular -- I suspect you can see at least as much as you'd be able to see with your eyes if you were able to get arbitrarily close to it.

Does anyone know what the text says? Extracted as best I could here:
https://i.imgur.com/iAsGPT8.png
My understanding is that if you're using Microsoft's Hypervisor product, the management console allows you to seamlessly deploy either to a VM on local hosts or in the Azure cloud (presumably through a VPN). I imagine that makes it easy to spin up those extra windows machines and licenses you need to support all the extra Active Directory add-ons you can get (inventory management, update management, SQL server to handle their data, etc) on Azure rather than procuring more hardware.
You're ignoring the fact that a non-negligible percentage of black people don't want to be called any version of "nigga" by anybody, including other black people.

The same is not even remotely true of bro or dude
Scotland is considering a universal basic income
Thanks....Is this setup still actively used? I'd think that the Loan payments are then made in the unit of account aspect would make it fairly obvious to consumers that their payments could increase suddenly.
Growth is slowing down. ICUs are still not completely full but getting there. Certain areas in the Andes do not have any cases which is great, but the infection rates in certain cities (like Iquitos) are high, mainly because of markets.

Summary: under control, but still not great.
At least some of the Halo games used Orleans as part of the multiplayer backend:

https://github.com/dotnet/orleans

Orleans can run on .NET Core now, but I don't believe .NET Core existed when those backends were first created. So they would've been running under the full .NET Framework on Windows.
> $500 million budget shortfall due to the ban on elective procedures.

I feel like that's a symptom of a much larger problem...
Having grown up under Solaris, which was BSD-flavored at one time, and then added SysV commands, and when Linux was on the ascent, added the GNU suite ... all I have to say is, bring it! All the inconsistent compile options for sed, find, things that look the same but don't act the same. Bah! :) It mystified me that epel packages install by default in /opt so you have to stick /opt/rh/blah/bin in PATH, and the attendant libraries. Considering the OS war in the 90s between Microsoft and Sun, it's a little funny, like cry-a-bit funny. Mr. McNealy would be surprise how his spats (probably for show) with Mssrs. Gates and Ballmer turn out.
Well, the metric is really no reported deaths...
There's a colloquial sense of building something that doesn't require that you do 100% of the work yourself. For example, when people say they're building a house, almost always they're just hiring someone else to actually build it and all they've contributed was money.

Besides that, there are some billionaires that did get their wealth honestly in my estimation, like JK Rowling and Markus Persson.
yeah, it doesn't necessarily seem like a lot for those affected. that said, an upper band of $50k for damages feels like it could be enough to motivate content moderation orgs to take this stuff more seriously?
I wish I could code in Python and compile down to run natively like C, or even Go. The more I've used the language, the more it just feels natural, but it's so limited in A.)native compilation and distribution, and B.)multithreading/processing just sucks so bad.
This is a big deal, especially given the apparent polarization on this issue. I would love to
(1) See the statistics being used by the government, with clear goals when stay-at-home orders can be lifted.
(2) How does the govt. plan to enforce this? People in LA weren't following it very well as it is.
Notably more negative sentiment in the comments here than I've seen in the past. I wonder if it's organic.
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> In the radio spectra, we do not.

But in the neighbor analogy we do, that is it is perfectly fine for my neighbor to stare at their walls, less so if they can see through it.

> If I pop my laptop open right now and look at the SSID list I can receive from the dozen houses on my block, am I being rude?

As far as I know I would need to play with my wifi drivers to store all the unencrypted data packets that reach the wifi antenna. I know that I am broadcasting some information about my wifi (at least the name, probably more), but I expect my neighbor not to methodically try and spy on me.

The same way I expect them not to install a security camera pointed at my windows.

I am blasting "radiation" also every time I speak or press a key on my laptop and similarly I expect my neighbor not to install a matrix of super sensitive microphones to record every word I say or try and reconstruct what I am writing from the sound and rythm of my key-presses (it was possible in some research projects I saw some time ago).

In the radio spectra the only difference I see is that it is unreasonable to demand of people that are already using antennas to filter out all unencrypted wifi data. I understand why this might be legal, I still think that google exploited and is clearly on the wrong side of morality regarding storing also the unencrypted payloads.
I see my question was rather daft.
That’s what someone said someone said. But if true it sounds like alcoholism. But nonetheless it sounds like focus during the day, get that over with then focus on socialising. Maybe this is deep work friendly.
But please don't try it on a real road. Find a spot where it can't endanger fellows. It's possible to find those places.
My title is "software engineer".

I don't have an engineering degree, or even a CS degree.

I feel pretty uncomfortable calling myself an engineer since it seems to carry a certain weight of responsibility, but seeing as the title was bestowed upon me by my work place, I'll continue using it.

IMO the designations are meaningless until there is a real standard in place for "software engineer" and what it entails (in the US at least).

I refer to myself as a "programmer" or "developer", but I use them interchangeably.

Anyone putting any real weight on the title is splitting hairs.
Lessons in Work Culture and Leadership from Formula 1
I'm just guessing, but I think Twitter isn't going to have any trouble finding talent anymore, if it ever needed more. Once you break down the walls of location, you now have access to orders of magnitude more talent.
I agree, we should see this for what it is: an unmet need to make WFH possible for more people and more job functions.

My two cents on how we might "use technology to raise up individuals who have been traditionally left out":

Our company employs 800-1000 "support"/"operations"-type roles, who normally commute to a call-center-esque "office" near Phoenix, AZ.

When COVID-19 happened, our (brilliant) IT team had them set up to work from home in a weekend, since our call center tech stack was based on chrome books, RBAC services, g-suite, and mostly self-hosted or non-proprietary business-specific software. This is not the typical story, but there's no reason it shouldn't be.

In the graphs shared here by the article, sales and operations-type roles are an outlier in terms of percentage of the economy, and percentage of the economy that "has no opportunity" to work from home. So, while the need for support centers is higher than ever, most call centers are letting people go or reducing their hours, because they can't fill their offices to capacity any more. This has a huge impact on those workers, because they are now either unemployed or are unable to make rent.

Call center software is really old, and its antiquity is currently holding these companies back in a way that hurts their bottom lines. If you can package this call-center-in-a-chromebook as a service, you can simultaneously reduce inequality and make the economy more efficient, by enabling a remote WFH call center job, for companies who hire support/ops roles in the 1000s+.
External investments can prove that Waymo was able to convince its own value outside of Alphabet, which might be a significant signal for future investors.

Alphabet can (and will likely) invest $xB more money for initial business ramp-up but if you want to create the next Google probably money from their own pocket might not be enough. This is particularly important as they need to heavily invest into physical assets with very high upfront costs.

FYI, Uber has 10 millions of drivers across the world and if you want to match that number, you're gonna need $100B even with super conservative assumption of $10k per car (and the actual cost will likely be much higher). Doing something like this by Alphabet alone is extremely risky given that the technology is still in a very young stage.
> you can do it in LaTeX pretty easily: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-sca...

Ironically, despite being hosted on tex.stackexchange.com, all of the answers use ImageMagick, Photoshop, or Windows 10/Adobe Acrobat.
> It's like saying given how many people the US killed, they have the best war track record.

Hard agree. Countries think twice before engaging the US in open military conflict. The US has a history of ending wars.

The analogy breaks down a bit because people in general don't like war, but people in general do like turn-by-turn live navigation on their phones.

> Collecting data on us is not a feature

Not by itself; it's fuel for features. It's actually the raw fuel that power most of the breakthroughs in machine learning that have brought sci-fi tech to our fingertips.

Gmail's spamblocker is built on cross-correlating spam signal from multiple inboxes. Google Ads' fraud detection is built on having enough of a sample of attempted fraud to know what fraud looks like in the abstract. Google Voice works because the company gained access to a massive library of real-world, low-quality voice samples via GOOG-411. Maps gets secondary traffic signal by having maps users ping-back the speed of the car, so it can detect where vehicles have started to crawl in what should be a high-speed area. And of course, search itself is powered by the extremely strong signal coming from people finding what they want via search.

Big data collection and interpretation is the core of Google's business model, and it's worked great. People really enjoy the products Google has crafted by collecting data on us.
I don't think this has sunk in yet for most people. We can be thankful that the disease is barely any more deadly than an average flu.

Here in Korea, some clubs were reopened and abrutly reclosed because of a spike in coronavirus cases linked to club. This totally confuses the objective. "Flattening the curve" is one thing, and "keeping everything closed until there is zero transmission ever again" is something else. It seems to me that the disease will be with us possibly forever. Whether we reopen today or 6 months from now. If LA County et al have this firm requirement of zero transmission to qualify for reopening:

(1) This is not "flattening the curve"
(2) This threshold may possibly never be reached
This is a very important comment. The comment made too many assumptions about the "nuclear family" ideal for many people. Sometimes work relationships are the ONLY relationship for some people.