skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For basic bookkeeping, yes, you can generate all the needed reports and tax filings from the books. I'm in Europe and I've had a couple of companies where I had no accountant - I just entered all the transactions in the software and it generated all the necessary filings for me. Payroll is also auto-generated, taxes handled etc.

For complex accounting and analysis you still need accountants and business analysts. It's a different type of job in that case though: instead of handling the common cases, you handle the edge cases that the software is unable to deal with.
To me it's clear that natural conditions appeared safe for experts, but in fact were not.

Since while surfing, communication and group behaviour are tricky, I'd say it's likely each of these people individually made their (incorrect) danger assessment.

That effectively puts the fatality rate in these specific conditions at 5/7, or ~70%.

So, to prevent this reoccurring, the specific conditions need to be identified, and other surfers need to be trained to avoid them. I'm thinking something like "Whenever waves are over 5 feet, there is an onshore wind, and a water sample maintains foam for more than 5 minutes, you are unlikely to survive"

Sadly, I doubt very much this will happen.
> including: the menu price of the food,

does this mean the apps have to disclose the amount they're marking up the food from the menu prices in the restaurant?
I’m nominally a DevOps engineer at a really big Germany-based auto parts (among other things) manufacturer, specializing in Azure and Kubernetes.

My real job many days is helping devs make peace with our various web proxies - even the special, relatively open, non-SSL-intercepting “dev proxy” requires CNTLM, which just celebrated its eighth anniversary on its current build. And of course, my little darlings take dependencies on it for things for which the masses absolutely not have access to it.
I'm a foreigner so I don't fully understand this, but here's my take:

1) Tesla is restarting the factory against local rules saying they can't, because their competition is in different localities with their local rules saying they can, and Tesla is at a disadvantage.

2) It's basically illegal for the workers to go to work, but Tesla is still insisting they do this?

3) the local council has said they won't do enforcement.

4) If the staff refuse (a potentially unsafe) order from Tesla to return to their jobs (to break the law) the govt will stop paying unemployment?

So, my understanding, the workers have to potentially risk their health and break the law or the govt won't pay them unemployment?

Have I made a mistake?

That's a messed up situation for those workers. Does Cali do anything like suspended sentences(you get sentenced to prison, but you don't have to go, but if you do another crime you have to go for both durations)? Would this impact workers in that situation?
'Almost certainly most operations accounts and tax filings could be fully auto generated from their bookkeeping - if the bookkeeping was good enough.'

I firmly disagree. I am supposed to be reviewing accounts right now....accruals, prepayments, deferred income, the difference between capital and expense, capital allowances, R&D allowances, dividends vs salaries, consolidation of groups. The average bookkeeper is not expected to work at this level. That all requires judgement and experience and expertise. That is why Xero stop at the easy bit
It would be nice to think so, but sadly, some students will cheat even on open-book tests.

Check out this recent Reddit thread, discussing an incident in which over 100 students were caught cheating in an introductory college calculus class after it was moved online due to COVID-19: https://www.removeddit.com/r/rutgers/comments/g9f57x/126_of_...
I want to know how much restaurants pay their cooks, busboys, waiters and delivery people(if any).

Why only delivery apps are subject to transparency rules?
If you want to hire A, you have to compete with local SF company that pay high wages.

If you want to hire B, you have to compete with local small town companies which pay low wages, plus a very small number of remote companies which are in the same position as you from a game-theoretical perspective.

I think it's obvious that in the long term, if remote work becomes widespread, wages (and thus cost of living) will level out, but in the short term if few enough companies do it they can beat the prisoner's dilemma and keep remote wages lower than the ones in Silicon Valley.
How might they lead you astray? It almost sounds like you have an example in mind.
Alphabet holding structure first and foremost is there to increase stock price. It’s specifically structured to separate and downsize risks. One of the investor’s concern is uncontrollable pouring of money into moonshots. Making them separate companies creates some transparency and illusion of accountability.
Top Tools for API and Load Testing
It is, however, they were Mini Disc not floppies.

I really wished for some years Mini Disc took off, I loved it as a format; compact, rewritable, protected, storage capacity of a CD.
The longer you leave that dependency graph up, the more it starts to look like the Huddle from Inside...
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. That is going to be one hell of a villain.
Can anyone explain the business model of a self-driving car company? We already have this service, except it’s powered by humans. Humans who own the cars, store the cars, clean them, and take care of all the maintenance.

A self-driving car company will have to own a huge depreciating asset, and they’ll still need staff to clean & take care of the cars in addition to an enormously expensive engineering team and/or licensing payments.

What business model are these companies trying to fulfill? It seems like they are trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
All in all no-one is beyond bias. Most of interview judgment comes from system 1 thinking. Meaning you feel some way about the candidate. And you only use system 2 to justify what you are feeling. So you use system 2 for cherry picking instead of determining whether candidate is good or not.
Diving into Load Testing
Sea foam can be natural... But a lot of it has artificial origins from various pollutants.

I really wouldn't be surprised if the extra foamyness leading to these deaths couldn't eventually be tracked back to some heavy nitrogen fertilizer applied to local fields a week ago, and a rainstorm...
A few suggestions. Please include some links to who the maker is, whether you store searches or not etc.

The tool is great. I love it. was going to build something similar myself, but the website contains no info, have an about section or something, more info signals trusts in the product.

btw, while writing this comment, decided to dig around, clicked on the Tweet button, and got to know the source/creator.

But, seriously a lot of twitter power users use advanced search a lot, including me, so including links to your profile/work would be beneficial to you.
Elon is playing with fire. This is punk mentality - let's get as close to self destruction as possible. It's OK to make decisions for yourself but health of others?
Can you give an example of that? What have you been doing?
If the restaurants were losing money on every order then they wouldn't be on Uber Eats in the first place.
SARS-CoV-2 genomic data from different US states shows how Covid-19 unfolded
On what, at the time, did you base the assumption that people walking slowly after reading words related to old age was clearly fantasy?

It doesn't sound likely to me, but neither do a bunch of other cognitive results (the gorilla running through the basketball court comes to mind).

I'm all for questioning and rerunning tests, but dismissing them because they seem clearly fanciful without data just brings us back to pre-science. Science which is only allowed to discover plausible-sounding things isn't science at all.
I’m expecting our first in a few months, so I’ll pass this great idea along to my husband, a mechanical engineer.
Microsoft: Developing an Open Source Icon System
doesn't this sort of financial restrictions kinda destroy the purpose of using bitcoins? Are they doing this to comply with regulations? Or is it a malicious chilling effect banks implement but still be seen as allowing for bitcoins?
The food still has to get to your house somehow.
VSCode is a great example. We’ve already established that the average joe out there doesn’t care about whether an app is implemented in electron or not. But VSCode’s success at the expense of every other editor out there indicates that even developers don’t care that much.

The important thing is features - which VSCode has, and the speed at which those features are developed and deployed on all platforms - where VSCode is nearly peerless.

If developers cared about performance and resource consumption above all else, no one would be using VSCode right now (you included). They’d be using vim, emacs or perhaps Sublime. But that isn’t the case.

So why does HN keep flogging the “electron is bad” meme?
Roger Penrose is probably the most interesting thinkers on this problem, and I lead towards his conclusions -- that consciousness is a byproduct of biology -- not intelligence or computation.

Highly recommend his book Shadows of the Mind -- it's on my list. In summary he believes that consciousness isn't a by-product of computation done by neurons (the traditional view), but rather quantum level effects created by MAP proteins within the brain as a result of this computation:

But perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in Shadows of the Mind is Penrose's excursion into microbiology, where he examines cytoskeletons and microtubules, minute substructures lying deep within the brain's neurons. (He argues that microtubules--not neurons--may indeed be the basic units of the brain, which, if nothing else, would dramatically increase the brain's computational power.) Furthermore, he contends that in consciousness some kind of global quantum state must take place across large areas of the brain, and that it within microtubules that these collective quantum effects are most likely to reside.
Sure and the next time you have a surgery the surgeon might be really, really bad at cutting inside you, but passed their exams because the other students helped out a lot.

Honestly, an exam should control the success of learning, nothing more. Passing an exam should always finish a course or topic. Failing an exam, though, should be quite normal and just lead to more repitition.
> If the student had been a coherent thinker, he probably wouldn't have needed to cheat.

This is a key point, but it may not be formulated the right way. Here is my take on it, as I explain it to my students:

If you are able to cheat so well that I can't catch you, it means you don't actually need to cheat. Corollary is that if you need to cheat and you do, I will see it, because you'll be bad at that too.
Oooh, neat! Thanks! I presume it would also defeat those idiotic "let's insert a backlink or an ad into the text you just copied" scripts.

Truly, there are very few legitimate reasons for a site to even know you've copied or pasted something. Makes me think this setting should be a whitelist.
This is, of course, the key problem.

I mean, I know that I'm conscious. Or at least, that's how it occurs for me.

But there's no way to experience another's consciousness. So behavior is all we have. And that's why we have the Turing test. For other people, though, it's mainly because they resemble us.
Binary is in ~/Downloads/dezoomify-rs/, image was saved in ~/.
If that's what we start calling pro-consumer companies then you will hardly find any pro-consumer companies. I can't even think of a company that is "perfect" if you are taking issues with such things.
How would figure out how it really got there though?

That you can, for the most part, peel back layers and trace steps back to an origin is one of my favorite things about code.

But for a heterogeneous system of opaque supply chains in the physical world?

For any given random stuff, I don’t know that I could make reliable progress in that endeavor.
If you want to have good objective judgement you must remove or at least be aware of your biases as much as possible.
Fun fact - margin isn't a synonym to profits.

Margins don't include operating expenses(ex salaries of employees)
I ordered kfc on grubhub, one item didn’t come. I marked it as such and they refunded me the cost of the item and the sales tax. They did NOT refund me the pro-rata share of their 12.5% fee or “20%” tip though.
My hypothesis for why tech has high salaries is stock compensation and fast growth. For example, Google stock is nearly 2x what it was 3-4 years ago. If you have a four year grant and had about half your comp in stock, then 2xing the stock means you're making 50% more now, assuming you didn't get any promotions or anything. If you're trying to hire folks away from these situations, your pre-stock-growth starting offer has to compete with their post-stock-growth comp, so starting offers have pressure to grow over time.
Harder than it sounds. A complete drop-in replacement requires an almost unbelievable amount of internationalisation and research. And even if you can get all of that lined up, B2B sales and marketing - and inertia - are a huge challenge.

It's not that it couldn't be done, but it's very much a moon shot and it's not going to happen without someone charismatic and experienced driving it and selling it.

Specific niche feature SAP-a-likes are more plausible on a smaller scale, but sales and marketing will always be the real challenge.
With all respect, this is an absurd summary and you're obviously not in any way an expert on this topic else you wouldn't write such nonsense. There is no 'ideological war with Islam'. There are many Islamic countries closely following the western model of economy and society. The conflict with China also has long stepped beyond just ideology and is much more about realpolitik, power projection, economic clout, etc than ideological conflict between a formally-communist-but-is-actually-just-a-typical-capitalist-autocracy and the hardcore capitalist that is the US (and which some would describe as at least an oligarchy).

there is not much points going into your other arguments which are equally absurd, except of course for the obvious oil-vs-guns deals between US and KSA and the spurious arguments for the war which we all know were lies and it's just astonishing how little the US population holds its leaders to account for starting a war over faked evidence.
Except self driving trucks can drive 24/7 and never take a break. You’ve seen those truck stops where there’s 30-40 trucks sitting idle while their drivers are sleeping and on mandated breaks? Wasteful.

If all cars are self driving we can eliminate red lights and traffic signals because of machine coordination.

Better utilisation of cars will lead to a 5x to 10x decrease in traffic, and route planning algorithms will optimise pickups and simultaneous package delivery.

Your car can go and ferry people around rather than sit idle taking up parking spaces while you’re at work (copy paste this for 200,000 workers in the city) and make you money

The car can go fuel and charge itself and drive itself to servicing and cleaning.
Or maybe they know Waymo is there to burn through cash without doing anything useful (like any other “research” project at any place that has infinite stream of money from oil or, let’s say, ads) and expect it to be overtaken by competition and want to get out.
We'll and up with a list going back to the first homosapiens....
Those are called aglets, and when I just now googled for “aglet manufacturers”, I got way more hits than I expected.
I don't see the need for a trade; SIP for example is an Android feature (I'm surmounting your "less-secure" to "Android"); why can they not support replacing the manufacturer keys, just like my UEFI laptop, so that I can modify my OS, build a custom kernel, sign everything and relock the bootloader?

I think we know the answer, and that is; the attitude towards things like mobile phones being different to that of a laptop; we don't really "own" or phones in the same sense and if shouldn't be that way.
It's just like I am playing Kerbal Space Program with all the infuriating physics.
Just had it in Germany with an application to a bank (DKB). Digitally signed one was rejected. I need to print on paper, sign and then scan. Signing the PDF in an iPad app was not OK.
You've missed coffee!
Did you ever look at pega, nintex and Appian?
ClickHouse-The Fastest Data Warehouse You've Not Heard Of – CMU DB Talk [video]
If the gui doesn't actually require interaction that doesn't really matter, does it? But most installations have a silent mode where they do not show a gui. All of the aforementioned applications are installed like that (inluding Miniconda i.e. Python), as is common when installing via package management in Powershell.
Serious question for any Uber engineers out there. Are they still holding onto you and are you finding not enough to keep you busy? I’ve heard under Travis that engineers were hired to keep them away from Lyft + FAANG poaching.
That's the most interesting part to me which will play the major role in how WFH situation will evolve. I 100% understand the logic in such situations, but:

1) If company like Twitter is saying: "From tomorrow our default is work from home, but you all get 20% salary cut". This will be essentially a salary cut, nothing more. If let's say Facebook says WFH=on-site developers from Twitter will be flowing to Facebook because of 20% salary cut

2) In order for everyone in FAANG to say simultaneously that we have to cut salaries 20% simply because it is WFH now - there should be a strong evidence that productivity in remote workers is 20% less and they will need to hire 20% more engineers to have the same amount of work done. If it is not correct then companies have incentive to drive this number down to 10% or 0%

3) FAANG and overall Valley residents must also consider the long term effect on their community. I doubt that Silicon Valley will survive going 100% virtual and concentration of innovation can be lost if people go 100% remote. So they might impose 10-20% cut on a premise that they want to create a community on-site. Not sure how C-suits evaluate such factor.

Overall I suppose if companies go WFH by default they will need to reevaluate their incentives structures to be competitive.
What gtk theme are you using? It looks so old school
It's not as strong as western Europe or Canada so what are you comparing it to? China? Brazil? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_th...

Also, moving up a quintile is not that great of a move when you have to be in the top 10% to have a nice life in the US.
Gitlab has been pretty great so far, but the code review tooling is so poor I think I need to look elsewhere. The pull request pages take forever to load, they can't handle pull requests with over 800 lines well at all. It will collapse files with over 100-200 lines of changes for seemingly no reason (hiding the comments within them). You can't ignore whitespace in diffs, and the comments disappear from the diff if they push new commits, you need to look at them in the overview again.
I've heard very similar things about being a SAP consultant here in Europe - basically, it sounds like a job for someone who:

- understands technology, but is not a big fan of it

- can communicate with clients

- can handle stress well

- is into salary maximization
You can probably checkout his code

https://github.com/tj/
Obviously you aren't located in the tech hot-spots - which is why you are being ignorant here.
Always working from home is NOT a benefit for the worker.
It screws up work life balance and basically makes you a drone with no personal life.
It looks like some exchanges and fiat-to-crypto on ramps are using chain analysis to track which addresses you are sending to (1).

(1) https://twitter.com/RonaldMcHodled/status/122217208461002752...
Well I want to know exactly how much of the money I pay is paid to the waiter and the cook.
Why do you get to choose what you want, but I get an FU?

The problem with hospitals, is that you aren't even provided with an estimate beforehand. It's a completely different issue.
Indeed. Categorization is how the brain works. On purpose or not, if you have two people with the same resume your initial impression of "Steve Smith" is better than your initial impression of "Bubba-Joe Willum Jr."
Consciousness is about subjective being and experience. From your subjective point of view, you cannot even say if other people are truly conscious or not. It is a really hard problem to figure out if machines can truly be conscious or not.

These scientists just have their own working definition of consciousness that allows them to make progress in some direction.
The day Microsoft releases Rust support for Visual Studio, VSCode gets kicked out of my PC.

Also, I wonder how much the Electron love overlapps with VSCode, after all many of those developers were pushing for Atom before VSCode was born.
Never, listen to anyone offering advice like this, go see a doctor, read up on the disease from reputable organizations such as the Mayo Clinic.

There are realities that must be faced, and planned for, you'll have plenty of time to "go to war" but for now, make sure you and your loved ones are as prepared as possible.
Definitely: “hackers phone number” is an oxymoron, because no somewhat experienced hacker would ever give out their personal number.

Don’t be shocked if it’s some twilio or google voice number
Why don't you try living in Ohio and then demand $500k salaries which big-tech pays to software engineers and see if it works out?
Ask HN: How is work from home going several weeks in?
I'm wondering how people are handling sudden work from home now that there's been some time to adapt, if it's better in any way or if it's harmed your productivity or mood a lot. Assuming most people here do work from home. If not feel free to share how your work is going anyway.
"that's why we have laws against animal abuse"

I think there is a step or two missing in between. Abusing dogs isn't just as bad as abusing something that suffers. It's, e.g., doing something that has no value to society (unlike animals being mistreated in a feed lot), or it's something that sews unacceptable levels of aggression. It feels much more complicated than you make it seem.
I managed to dig it up: https://web.archive.org/web/20170312041524/http:/www.brianwa.... It really is incredible to read Wansink's clueless non-rebuttals to the comments that point out his academic fraud.
Honestly I'm not having a great time. I'm typing this from my work computer at midnight because I didn't get much work done today or yesterday. I live in a small apartment with my girlfriend only, so don't have distracting kids or anything. I actually worked remotely for a few months before social distancing hit too, but that went better; the lack of mentally balancing in-person interactions and sports/exercise have dampened my mood pretty noticeably. So I've been having a lot of trouble focusing on my job. I feel pretty bad about how bad this has been, so for my own sanity am pretty curious about how others are doing. Of course, this might backfire, but I kind of doubt it. Tooling and stuff is fine since I've been doing it for a while, and it's nice that everyone else is in the same remote boat to some extent (more people sound like they woke up right before my morning standup). But on the whole I've had a pretty bad drop in how easily I can stay focused.
I'm not sure if that is accurate, ASLR defends against quite a range of attacks that are the result of code execution, which AFAIK can still occur in Go, Rowhammer comes to mind here as a universal crack against languages.

There is no downside to activating ASLR either, so I'm not sure why it isn't.