skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There isn’t anyone popping over my shoulder, and general interruptions are almost nil in my case.
I think a lot of people are going to be super surprised what a quiet room and your playlist of choice can do to increase productivity. Just my 2 cents.

It's the same for me – at home, and the opposite at the office. I live alone.
There are two ways you can close the gap between low-income, in-person work, and high-income, remote work:

1. The straw man you're suggesting: get rid of remote work. This is obviously not universally possible.

2. Pay in-person workers more. Because you know, if someone is essential enough to die for their work, maybe they are also essential enough to be included in the American dream of owning their own home and car.
Logic is not just a step up from GarageBand, GarageBand is Logic re-skinned, if you use GarageBand and import into Logic, you can see how all the simpler instruments in GarageBand were created by configuring the more complex Logic instruments. Logic is probably integral to GarageBand not just as being the same code base, but as the creative tool in which the GarageBand instruments are designed and prototyped.
I'm pretty sure the salaries are heavily dependent on location related cost of living requirements.

Aren't salaries different in different locations? (ie. same company with offices in Vancouver Canada vs Seattle vs SF?) I've heard they are...

If pay was purely about talent, everyone would be paid the same.
https://archive.vn/CzBsi
Additionally, I think Farm Together is a good fit in this category.
The channel "Cuck Philosophy" on YT has a great explanation of both The Matrix and American Psycho using Baudrillard's theories found in "Simulacra and Simulation".

The Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf9J35yzM3E
American Psycho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJfurfb5_kw
A couple years ago I wrote Hello World in assembly language for Raspberry Pi using 6 entirely different methods, with the code kept as similar as possible so the differences between the methods are easier to compare.

https://github.com/ksaj/helloworld
Poha Recipe – Maharashtra, India Famous
Maybe, but it would also be good if more (tech) companies offered a decent working environment.

That's coming from personal experience btw, where most jobs / assignments I've had, it was usually open plan, flexible seat arrangements.

I have a new job now where I have a fixed desk with a set of drawers. It's a breath of fresh air and honestly it sounds so stupid and trivial. But employers don't have their employees' best interest in mind.

My cynical take on this move is that the company doesn't have to pay as much for office space + worker transport anymore.
Under normal circumstances, no one wants to be the first mover on something major like this because it's extremely disruptive to the way most people work without a clear example of the benefits. You're mentioning all of the upsides but there's a lot of execution risk in shifting a large organization to a remote setup. There's also a lot of management layers that are largely redundant with remote working and they've likely fought tooth and nail to prevent it.

Companies have touted open desk workspaces as some grand collaborative masterpiece for years now. It's a very big difference to advocate working from home because you also have to acknowledge that was a total farce.
It is called the futures and promises market.
The devil is in the details: evaluation of recent feature encoding methods(2011) [pdf]
Interference: Open-source distributed database with complex event processing
Who's us? :) as in, HN?

I will sure post something once it works (I have a test extension done manually in Rust already working, now need to get serious with it, there's all kinds of thread safety issues etc, challenging but fun)
It's a matter of priority. Do you want your mind blown, period, or do you want it blown with [some set of constraints on how and by whom]? I'd say the first condition is hard enough. FWIW "A Room of One's Own" (Virginia Wolf) has stuck with me forever, as has "The Lathe of Heaven" (Ursula K. LeGuin)
> I abhor the Java ecosystem for so many reasons I just don't have the energy to go into.

If you can gather some energy, I'd be interested in that.
Show HN: HoloLens 2 pure JavaScript WebGL simulator (prototype)
The fact that everyone goes out of their way to reinvent this really goes to show how awful the Make experience is.
> one of the functions of the ideological arm of capitalism is to argue that determining fair wage for a low-ranked laborer is so inscrutable that only "the market" can do it fairly, ...

You have not interpreted the comment correctly. This is deterministic. A capitalistic system or game has naturally emergent behaviors, but the propaganda excusing and defending the reluctance to add egalitarian rules is very much deterministic.
Thanks so much for (almost) all of these answers! I really appreciate getting substantive responses from y’all.
this was many years ago, so like the kh-11 details its not so sensitive. this is probably a management failure, perhaps on top of technical failures. So no details?
I think also Google share holder probably wont stomach unlimited investment in this. It allows Google stock growth to not be hampered by this investment
Real-estate cost is not an issue for most companies. Also, all fully remote companies that I know have company "retreats" twice a year for all employees, which is expensive. It's not mandatory of course but very important.

The bigger issue for me is what will happen to the US tech market. Why would Twitter hire people in the US if they can hire much cheaper people from Europa and other locations. The US government restricts immigration for the same reasons. They might need to intervene with remote work as well.
In a free market, the market does.

In most actual cases, some combination of a sort of free market, monopolies over labor (unions) and capital (large corporations), and government regulation does.
If they're unable to move, that's 100% right. If they're able to move, even if it's just closer, it could still be a win.
Is Waymo the Magic Leap of autonomous driving?
The West will go full communism, and it will make life better for all of us - no more rent, work or paying for groceries and everything will be taken care of so we can be creative in our time
If I was asked to work remotely I would ask for a 15% salary increase
Yes, there will be partial refunds.
Yimby win: Court rules Los Altos housing development may proceed
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I have similar sentiments about Cohelo's Alchemist and even Ayn Rands fountainhead (didn't read the second book).
Also a naive take. The idea that lobbyist contribute campaign donations and then magically get policy out of it is plainly obvious for anyone to see. In theory, yes. In practice, lobbying is institutionalized bribery for those with money to influence the government. Sure, anyone can "lobby" the government but the reality is that money walks and talks. If privacy groups got what they wanted, it's because they too donated to said elected officials.

Like I mean, come on: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-recipients
Using Python to build Android apps (soon)
Set a minimum if they're so concerned.
It's a wonderful language. I'd love to work with it server side it I found said job.
> In Vedas, Puranas and Tamil classics

> The term māyā occurs 70 times in Rigveda and around 27 times in the Atharvaveda; and in all these places Yaska, Sayana, Dayananda Saraswati agree the term means Prajñā, jnana-vishesha (specific knowledge). The term Asuri-Maya in the Yajurveda at one place was translated by Uvvat as the "knowledge of the vital air". With regard to the usage of the word Maya in the Rigveda, Radhakrishnan opines it was only used to signify might and power. Maya as the cause of illusion or as the sense of Avidya (lack of knowledge) has never been used in the Vedas. According to Monier Williams, Maya meant wisdom and extraordinary power in an earlier language, but later the word came to mean illusion and magic.

So, depending, "Maya" can mean "illusion" or "mirage", but the original meaning might be closer to Prajñā, which means "non-discriminating knowledge" or "intuitive apprehension". According to Chan and most Zen lines, those "states" of consciousness are obtained by practicing non-clinging discrimination in a given moment. Maybe one way of thinking about this is not adding to the observation of something that has been discriminated already.

Chan texts mention holding vexation and the polar observations of the vexation (good vs. evil or light vs. darkness as examples) without "adding" to the metaphor. The "adding" is the part that can be considered important (to not do). Consider the highly polarized topics that result from unfettered discourse on the Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

"Sitting with the rock is wet" without wondering how much longer it is going to rain.

Or, observing an imagined (in mind) scenario without "adding to it" in the moment that it is being perceived.
I highly recommend that you read the original SEC complaint. It lays out the reasoning quite clearly.
You could argue that the primary purpose of government over the last few centuries has been to support corporations. Many of the instigators of the American revolution were merchants who didn't want to compete with low prices from British importers.
I won't go near an open office after COVID19 and I doubt I'm alone, I think things will change greatly.
It’s hardly JS developers who think functional programming is cool. Scala became huge in the JVM world because of its functional nature. Kotlin includes a lot of functional programming, and Java itself continues to add functional capabilities.

And if you look at the .Net side of things, C# has basically been on a path to look increasingly like F# with every release. And of course, LINQ, one of C#’s most popular features, is little more than a functional subset of C#.

Arguably its backend developers moving to the front end who have been trying to bring functional concepts to front end programming.
Nah, it's best to read all 6 books by Frank Herbert. They're incredibly good.
This is exactly what I was looking for as a template for other locales. Thank you.
Is KiK still fighting SEC? This can't be good news for them as well.
Ah! I just watched it. The CGI from the staff part looks bad, agreed. The whole scene though looks pretty good, a homage to fight scenes from some Hong Kong flicks. I hope you're not implying there's anything bad with Hong Kong action flicks ;)

Besides some bad CGI like the staff fight, Matrix still has many awesome scenes with SFX that have aged pretty well, though.

One movie whose bad CGI is painful to see is The Lord of the Rings. Once you notice how bad the tiny "dolls" running around Moria look, you just cannot unsee it. And that cave troll and Legolas fight... :( A shame because when LotR did actual makeup and practical effects, they were awesome.
For WPF, data binding is idiomatic. It wasn't back in those days.

My point is basically that the tooling that we use for desktop UI development is still very much rooted in the RAD era - but as best practices around it changed, we dropped the "RAD" label. It was a gradual evolution, though.
Or you could say they are blocking obvious pump-and-dumps.
Fun fact: The Matrix producers tried to get Baudrillard to consult them for the sequels but he refused
Same happened with me
> Anybody have any thoughts on what Logic does for Apple that Aperture didn't?

I'm not familiar with Aperture. According to Wikipedia it and iPhotos were abandoned to the benefit of Photos. Not knowing why Apple made this choice, I don't know if doing something equivalent with Logic would make sense.

I do know Logic. It's a well respected DAW and some musicians do buy a Mac just to be able to use Logic. Also, DAWs take a long time term to learn well, so when the time comes for a Logic user to upgrade or replace an old machine, they'll probably buy a new Mac. (More convenient, less hassle.) All this of course helps Mac sales.

And while Mac sales might not be much these days compared to iPhone and iPad sales, the margins on Macs are still high, so why shouldn't Apple continue to sell Macs?
I imagine the OP is just bored of the generic startup technology churn cycle. It can feel as though the majority of "tech stack" articles on HN are just Yet Another Web Application Tool. We have solved making web applications so hard that we have ascended to meta-tools, tools that manage our tools or use our tools for us.

It is refreshing to be reminded of the myriad of ways computers can interact with the world! I recently refreshed my love for technology by getting into 3D printing, it's nice to have a tangible result for my efforts behind the keyboard. The machine is surprisingly rudimentary as well, and reminds me of old school CNC machines, so it's relaxing in the way driving a classic car can be. You can understand all the parts and their purpose intuitively, as they operate in the real world.
The thing I miss the most while WFH is the whiteboard conversations. It's nice to be able to drag your colleagues for quick tech discussion and go back to work. Pen is much faster than drawing diagrams online.
I design mobile mapping vehicles for a different company, so while I can't answer specifically about the Street View system, I might be able to provide some insight.

Our smallest portable system weighs around 25lbs and can mount to just about any vehicle using strong magnets or standard roof rack. It pulls less than 10 amps so it can be powered through a standard cigarette lighter outlet or wired directly to the vehicle's battery.

Our largest system weighs many hundreds of pounds and mounts on one specific vehicle in as many reinforced locations as possible. We utilize factory bolt holes on the roof, make custom brackets to support cantilevered weight off the back, and make modifications to the roof up front to support even more weight. The system typically pulls 40-50 amps however, the vehicle comes with a high output alternator and dual battery system from the factory so we don't need to upgrade them.

Based on the components of the current Street View system, a roof rack is sufficient to support it's weight. I'm guessing it pulls around 20 amps so it likely has a direct connection to the vehicles battery, but wouldn't require an alternator upgrade.
maybe i should stop eating beef now!
I think you answered your own question: if they are confident of Waymo

As I said a couple months ago, the "Waymo" name is a sign. If they really believed in the product, it would be called "Google Self-Driving Cars".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22632588
My idea from decades ago, which I'd love to see implemented, is to capture the height information of the painting and reconstruct it in the browser using physically based rendering. Let the viewer decide what environment to put the painting in, and be able to move around and inspect from every angle. That's the biggest thing that's missing when looking at paintings online: there's no depth and no setting. Some paintings literally shimmer from small dots of glossy paint, others are heavily built up, I want that recreated online.
You can buy a cheap sensor, like the MH-Z19B, connect it to a Raspberry Pi Zero W (or just about anything else), and set a reminder to open the windows once the value rises above some threshold.

Or just buy a finished product for this somewhere I guess.
That would be smart of them because I know I'm not the only one that chooses not to use Uber on the grounds that they represent just about everything wrong with today's big VC funded corporations. However, I think they're more likely to just swallow GrubHub.
It's strange how we went from open offices to always work from home 100% remote teams. I like going to the office. As an engineer, I very much dislike open offices, they're noisy, hard to work in, the extra collaboration is mostly just unnecessary interruption that could have been brought up in Sack, and as we now know also a really great way transmit contagions around a team. I'd be happy if we just go back to offices or even cubicles. I miss my cubicles with my mini-whiteboard and my own little corner with a desk with drawers. In the bay area at least we've been crammed into ever-larger open spaces like workers in a meatpacking plant, with smaller desks and more noise and disruption.
I know you hate this kind of logic. But...

If rising CO2 levels trigger cognitive impairment, you should be wary of everything else you think is triggered by rising CO2 levels. Because you, and all scientists, and all politicians, and Greta: You're cognitively impaired.
That doesn't seem to stop Nintendo from shutting down ROM sites left and right. For example, emuparadise has complied and taken down all ROMs: https://www.emuparadise.me/emuparadise-changing.php

But here is a complete NES ROM set, just sitting there, on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/NESrompack

I just find it strange. Nintendo is vehement about their IP. For archive.org to get an exception doesn't make sense to me.
Speeding Up Neural Network Training with Data Echoing
What is interference?
A bit of history. Several years ago, as part of an internal project, we tried to create a data analysis service that meets the following minimum requirements:

- as simple as possible integration with an existing java application

- support for persistent data storage

- indices support

- support for a distributed database and distributed operations, such as the ability to insert or modify data in a database from any of the available nodes

- the easiest cluster deployment

- transaction support

- basic SQL support with complex event processing and stream SQL support

One of the outcomes of this development was an open source product branch called interference. What can this service do?

Easy integration with java application. You include the library and then simply manage all the interference functions from within the java application using session methods, JPA annotations, queries and direct access to table objects. Interference is a distributed service. This means that this service can be used within a distributed cluster, or you can build a distributed event-driven application based solely on this service, without any additional services like coordinators and so on.

Now, we suggest you use interference as a distributed platform when developing data analysis applications.

Interference is not an RDBMS in the usual sense. You do not use JDBC or anything like that to access the data. Instead, direct object-relational mapping is used that works directly with persistent storage and remote event transport mechanisms.

Minimal common insert performance on standard i7/4core workstation is up to 10000recs/sec on indexed table with UC constraint check and up to 50000recs/sec on plain table w/o any checks.

In the next time, we plan to publish an article with a detailed review of the service architecture and performance metrics.

Now, read the documentation for a detailed understanding. We are always happy to answer your questions.
Just think of all the layoffs they'll get to do after they buy Uber!
I don't think independence wars are on the same category. They are much more likely to be beneficial, and having a well defined enemy, much less likely to grow unbounded.
Not affiliated, but Mural somewhat makes it less painful online
Max/MSP opened so many cool doors for me back in the day when I was studying interaction design. The audio design students used it to rig up cool instruments and audio performances. I connected tons of sensors and controlled outputs over midi, to hardware or other software. It was so cool to put everything together in a visual interface.
Moby Dick and Blood Meridian both have a certain biblical feel to them which really hits hard. Can't say they were mind bending but both were nice trips.
>the resource allocated to Logic is so small ( by today's Apple standard ) none of the management bother about it

I'm not really buying that because they've killed plenty of other things which would also be tiny investments in the grand scheme of Apple. Aperture, Shake and Motion come to mind.

Find it very strange they updated it at this point and really starting to wonder if the reason it still exists isn't something as stupid as by having an offering in the pro-audio space it gives executives more excuse to hang around with famous musicians. I mean it's pretty obvious Cook is celebrity obsessed.
"How Not to Die" by Michael Greger describes how a good plant-based diet can prevent and even reverse various common diseases
I'm not sure how your conclusion follows - it's undoubtedly true that more and more folks are involved in teams that at least partly remote. However, the skills needed to manage these effectively are mostly the same as co-located teams. To whatever degree "people person" was needed, it seems mostly the same to me.
I would guess the opposite. If more Bay Area companies allow WFH, there's less demand here.
well.. wealth owners probably would lobby that not to happen, but surprisingly to me that is happening already contrary to any common sense.
When I found it, it was for a place called Ike's in the Bay Area. All of the individual sandwich prices were $1-$2 more than if you ordered directly from the Ike's app. It wasn't because of a combo price reduction or anything. (And funnily enough, Ike's uses DoorDash's white label delivery service to actually deliver the food.)
You should reach out to them at hi@eatnyc.org! They're super responsive. I emailed them to request filtering by cuisine and they pushed it live the same day.
Woah. That's a lot of books. Between the math, physics, and cs sections, years from now you'd look back and wonder if you really should have downloaded all of them.
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Yeah I just took a WFH job and if I HAD to be near one city that would really limit my flexibility and is a huge negative. My company does bi-yearly get-togethers, or did.
The opening image looks like the start of a scam: https://telegra.ph/file/c6f281b62b5909d0c5bad.png

Group of faceless people against a scenic vista, arms around and supporting each other, under the flag of the "product", facing a gold mine that apparently self-produces gold and a sun that just so happens to be shining light on all that wonderful gold... with a dog(?) chasing a golden butterfly.

I've never used telegram before but I think the CEO should distance himself a bit more.
What if the other person costs less because they're being paid under the table? Unfortunately, that's been the case in a lot of lower income and manual labor jobs.

Construction and landscaping are notable examples. If the buyer only cares about cost, and the government adds 20-50% to the cost of wages, then the employer who bypasses the government thrives.

The double standard that enables many of our labor challenges is that people want a higher minimum wage, tend to oppose enforcement, and buy the cheapest option regardless of legality.

Laws that are helpful when fully enforced are destructive when partially enforced.

By the same token, if that next computer you buy is cheaper because it was built in a country with cheaper to implement labor laws than the ones you voted for in your country, how is that ethical?
Alphabet wants Waymo to become a company that can make it on its own steam, rather than be dependent on the Google revenue stream. For the first several years of Waymo's life they did exactly what your describing, but now they're at a point where they want to "push it out of the nest" a little bit. Sharing the profits is probably not much of a concern, if Waymo doesn't manage to become self sustaining there won't be any profits to split, so it makes sense to optimize for that.
The Google Books copy that MIT Press links to as the "Preview" includes the CC license:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...

https://books.google.com/books?id=a4-pBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP...