skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to tell you but one of the reasons why google ate the world was their hands-off management and peer-to-peer project management and feedback schemes, which are efficient and effective. I know experiences at large organizations can vary, but for years at that company I had managers who existed, yes, but never showed their faces and were there chiefly to make sure that everybody had desks and chairs and computers. This style scales extremely well. I also had managers who were just other ICs to whom I reported, because there had to be a path from Larry to everyone in the org chart, but who were otherwise peers. Not every large organization is choked with weekly/daily meetings and org charts full of useless functionaries.
More than one company can see tremendous success. This isn't a winner-takes-all scenario.
Is a star particularly complex, though? Is there much going on besides a lot of thermonuclear fusion? (Disclaimer: I don't know much about stars or astrophysics, so this question is coming from a place of ignorance.)
So many companies see their offices as a cost center. Why do you think we have so many open office plans despite our hate for them?

Prior to the Covid situation, we already had examples of successful remote-only companies (eg. GitLab). Now companies are using the circumstances to experiment with existing hypotheses of going remote-only or remote-mostly. I know my company was already wanting to experiment, and I think we would have done so even in the absence of the virus. Now we know it works.

Why pay rent when you can offload the cost to your engineers? Many already have a home office, and the cost of furnishing their home environment is negligible. Employees may even get a tax write off.

This may be the new norm for everyone.

I shudder to think about what's about to happen with the corporate real estate market, REIT stocks, etc. It's certainly yet another death knell for WeWork.

I also wonder if this will begin making cities with low cost of living and affordable real estate attractive. Who wants to work out of their tiny New York apartment every day when they can have a dedicated room for their office in another city?
End-to-end encryption reduces what an attacker in this position would be able to do, but it doesn't make the situation safe. Even if they can't observe or directly tamper with the data they're relaying, they can still observe metadata, like who the peers are and how much bandwidth is being relayed. Even just measuring the pattern of packet sizes can be disturbingly revealing:

https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~cwright/oakland08.pdf

Besides, end-to-end encryption doesn't do anything to allay concerns about abuse of users' resources.
I wonder how long it will be before backblaze moves to SSDs. Obviously a lot more expensive right now, but with the lower power consumption/heat and ability to cram way more in, might be sooner than we think?
Legitimate shocks are not. For example, when Apple announces bad earnings or as a more extreme example, 9/11.
> IIT is not a phenomenological measure.

Sure it is; brain imaging, which is how IIT tests for consciousness according to the article, is looking at phenomenology.
AHK is such a good text expander that I came back to Windows for it. It literally saves me thousands of keystrokes a month.
Why would I "socialize" with colleagues? I'd rather do that with communities I actually share an interest with. (If a colleague happens to be part of it, ok, but it's rare.)

For many of us, a workplace is a very small piece of our consciousness, and thus, the amount of shared interest with colleagues is bleak.
I think the crux of this is defining `consciousness`, which I haven't seen defined in a way that I feel is sufficient in this context and can be tested/measured.

I can program a chat app where if you ask `are you conscious` it will say `yes`, but I think we can all agree that does not amount to consciousness. So how do we define consciousness in order to determine whether human technology is capable of exhibiting it?

Ultimately, following a measureable definition as a guideline, I imagine that any number of people might argue whether human tech can become conscious... I would guess it really comes down to people having very different definitions of consciousness.

I so far lack an eloquent definition of my perspective, but I feel we fundamentally lack the ability to 'create' consciousness, and ideas of 'conscious AI' and 'digital afterlife' make me involuntarily roll my eyes.
Pro Tools is seen as the serious tool while the other DAWs you mention are toys for electronic music producers
I think the best answer around here is a careful explanation that can be summed up as "it depends". It depends on what is expected of that role at any given organization. And whatever the answer to that, the likelihood that the role highly depends on efficient communication, mediation between parties (multi-stakeholder approach and so on), the best tool is probably Thunderbird, or Office, or whatever floats one's boat.

Of course, at some point said Architect usually have to manage technological aspects, decisions, problems, projects - and for that the best tool is again "it depends", just like in any engineering endeavor. And yes, it might include a few sleepless nights doing low-level R&D, looking over code, fiddling with components, getting to the bottom of bugs, coming up with workarounds, strategy, proposals - or evaluating them, soliciting feedback, reviewing it et cetera.

And so, it depends, I might have been.

(But seriously, I usually found, that those high level tech decision makers/influencers who are not communicating enough, who are not organizing information enough, but are too lost in some specialized tool, to be completely useless. I use Google Docs and Spreadsheets to track things, because it can be easily and kind of "safely" shared with the required folks. Whereas every other tool is too slow. JIRA? Oh, that only works on the internal network, better wait months for VPN access. Oh here's a .xlsx attached to an email, fuck the actual devs that don't live on Office, and so on.

And on top of all that an "architect" is - at least in my experience - is a thankless job. Not high-profile enough to actually have authority to effect change, but usually sufficiently high on the ladder to get flak for any and all problems.

Finally, in large orgs it's not rare that the Architect role is the last line that has at least some connection to the actual tech/development, and up from there it's all about costs, headcount, opex/capex, schedules, compliance, governance, PR, and internal/external politics/sales/optics. And this makes it neigh impossible to execute well.)
How to handle poisonous and toxic people. The higher you get, the more there are.
"If technology continues apace, we'll have steam powered flying machines before the turn of the century!"
Without going too much into it (not my place) it exists.
I'm confused by the final message, why is the CEO asking us to do the battle and he is dropping the project? Am I missing something? After spending months working on it, now he is cutting the project and telling the audience to fight for what he is not?

I know this is not an easy battle, but if they have more users than the US population, they are precisely the group that should not resign.

I'm alone, making likes in their projects, talking people this is happening, and when the moment comes, the fight with the system, they drop at the first sentence? What is this? Was it just a US fight? The decentralization got destroyed by a single man?
Oh I think I see your perspective now. Yes, if you don't believe a vaccine will be developed then I can see where you're skeptical of the end game of testing and tracing.

But your certainty of the unlikelihood of a vaccine is far too strong far too early. There are on the order of ten to a hundred promising efforts toward developing a vaccine well under way. It may very well be that a year or two from now, each of those will have failed. If that is the case I will be open to hearing about how best to manage this indefinitely, and you may be right that testing and tracing won't help that much (but it still seems like we may want to control the order and rate at which people are exposed).

But we're really far from having the evidence to support your claim with any certainty. We haven't run out of ideas for how to make a vaccine yet, we're just getting started.
As someone who buys some of my gear from Patagonia, I'm very surprised to find their e-commerce was closed in North America — because it wasn't in Europe. I had numerous items delivered during the given time frame and I can't help but wonder what makes the operations different. Are the logistics more centralized in North America as opposed to Europe, or is something else at play here?

In general though, I have no doubt that Patagonia will be fine in the long run. They're a phenomenal brand with a cult following for all the right reasons: they're environmentally aware and active about it, have very clear principles they stand for and making money isn't by far the first of those.
I just edit files with masterpdf under the linux free version, and send them back with a transparent png of my signature merged. Good enough.
Honestly I’m surprised Gusto doesn’t handle more of the work of setting up in a new state. Seems like it would be in their wheelhouse.
A Piaggio MP3 with some panels on top? Hmm.
> We have to ask ourselves can we prove that we're any different than an input & output machine first

Conscious is not dependent on the senses or even (Input & Output). We can be asleep and be conscious while dreaming.
When I first read the headline, I thought it said GitHub and I was very perplexed. Realizing it is GrubHub makes much more sense and is interesting.
Except they didn't want to sell to Russia or Europe. They ALREADY sold to institutional investors in the US and wanted more. But they were attempting to not be subject to the SEC. Not gonna happen.

https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-telegram-idUSKB...
Anyone interested in this might like keylime.dev - its open source remote boot attestation platform.
I ve had the same question. I think it's because over the years, companies and employees have gone virtual

-- Companies have gone virtual, they exist in slack, basecamp-type tools etc. In the 2000s it would sound unthinkable to put your corporate secrets in someone else's server. Today it's commonplace

-- Employees have gone virtual. Their CVs are in github, and the flaky silicon valley market has made them conscious of their personal image / website. They prefer a supermarket of opportunities rather than a long-term relationship

These things oiled up the gears for the transition, and covid gave it a big push.
Thought this sounded familiar.
Tell that to the developers in India.

Honestly, if you go 100% remote, you are now competing with a much, much larger pool of developers. You are not going to command Silicon Valley prices.
https://archive.md/Uwedm
That's hardly extremely generous for a city. Many people have rents between 1-2k which each up a third to two thirds of that. I realize it may be generous in your situation though. Re: affordability/sustainability, the alternative is possibly a recession as great or worse than the great depression, so the government is willing to borrow as much as it can to prop up consumer spending during the crisis. The idea being that if we continue spending we can avoid a demand crash and recover quickly once we can stop social distancing safely.
I was on the Windows platform for 15 years and moved over to Linux about 6 years ago. One thing I miss from Windows Server is that it was very stable, updates never broke anything. If you got any updates that is.
I think most people use Windows server because they are locked into Microsoft technology.

I switched to Linux, and most importantly open source technology - in order to get out of the Windows ecosystem. I switched from an ASP stack to Node.JS, but it feels Microsoft is still stalking me, buying NPM, Github, releasing their own JavaScript flavor, releasing their own "open source" software bundled with proprietary add-ons, meanwhile suing Linux users for patent breach.
Qualia means the experience of a particular sensation, like colors, sounds, pains. It's not a sleight-of-hand. We do have those experiences. The difficulty is that they are subjective.
if you're concerned with Kite, you may want to try TabNine (https://tabnine.com), which works for JavaScript, Python, and all popular languages
It sort of did for us since we went remote. In case of that 2 or 3 colleagues I actually like to speak with, it's a shame, other than that, it would be ideal if I wasn't cut off from my other friends and groups.
Do they in yours? Every office I've ever worked in has offered unlimited sick days, and in every one there was a segment of people who just insisted on coming in sick anyway. When coronavirus was ramping up, the executives at my current place sent out series of increasingly severe messages that you must not come into work sick.
Giving feedback to your manager (Managing up)
Printing money is, by definition inflation. Printing money in to the hands of people who spend it is stealing from savers. Effectively discouraging responsible financial decisions in favour of lending.
This is great. Code needs to replace more drag n drop tools, at the very least to give people options.
I think it just depends on your personality type. my closest friends are mostly people that I just happened to spend a lot of time with and realized later that I really enjoyed their company. I find that if I do some activity with the explicit goal of making friends, I end up making shallow connections at best.
I've used AHK a fair bit, and while it's quite helpful I can't help but want for a better syntax and less limited core language. I think it would do much better as a lisp with more obviously defined syntax boundaries.
Payroll companies handle all the workers comp and payroll related duties for all different states and they do it for near nothing.

The only thing you are on your own for is tax filings and registration as a foreign entity. And that is only in some cases in some states. In most states, having a few remote employees is not enough to even trigger a filing requirement. In CA, which is probably one of the most draconian, we had to register as a foreign entity and then we have to file corporate taxes there and allocate taxes proportionally according to percentage of revenue that comes from CA, I believe.

And actually, they want your corporate income tax even if you don't have employees there, just because you sell to Californians. But they have had a hard time collecting for those that have no employees or other presence in the state.
The hotstrings feature is also present in Linux, where they are known as compose sequences. The default compose sequences can be found in the Compose files under /usr/share/X11/locale and you can also have custom compose sequences in ~/.XCompose. Some of the compose sequences make use of a special Compose key (written <Multi_key> in the rules). You may need to go to the keyboard settings to enable the compose key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

Edit: by the way, these compose sequences also work under Wayland. The only hiccup I found with wayland was that include directives didn't work so I had to put everything in a single file.
The premise of this article is largely based on anecdotes. The office will not be dead. Too many people will forever equate working from home with laziness.
> Are you basically proposing worker-owned cooperatives?

From what I know about them, they would be one example of what I am talking about, yes, since as I understand it, the cooperative makes all the business decisions--what products to build and sell, how much of what to produce, where to locate the factory, what supply chains to rely on, etc.

But I'm not just proposing that we adopt something that already exists, or tweak something that already exists a little. I suspect that if all, or even a significant majority, of people who are currently working for wages adopted the mentality I describe, the entire economy of the planet would look very different.
> Companies don't do this.

Some do. I've gotten this deal in the past personally and know others that have as well. Always for employees with tenure that they want to keep around.
Remote salaries in tech are typically well-above "local" rates, either way.
I’m far from rich, but see, remote work lets you own a property in a much nicer, cleaner, safer, area than in crowded cities for less money than a studio. A remote engineer doing work for a high paying company can be the richest outside crowded urban areas.
There is. When the Fed buys bonds they get the coupon payments for those bonds and they can wipe the money off the books then if they want. They can also sell the underlying bond if they want to remove the cash from the economy immediately. And--since they got a good deal by buying when the market was down--they can afford to sell a little below what the same bond would currently trade at and fixed income investors will line up around the block to buy
I've always wondered how the "unlimited pto" works in practice.

Can you just say "i'm taking the next week off" to your manager and that's it ?
In CA, municipal code encompasses both criminal and civil statutes.

That link is paywalled, but the article title only refers to shutting off utilities.
> Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored from the platform with no recourse

You have a persecution complex. Almost every conservative political figure and media personality has a twitter account that they post regularly on. Only a small number of abusive psychos (e.g. Milo) have been banned for breaking Twitter rules.
If you are into fungi you might enjoy this Joe Rogan episode with Paul Stamets

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ
Anyone using [insert service here] should be using MFA of some sort. This would solve so many of these problems. It does sound like OP is being hit by a phishing attack, but assuming it's not that, this can only be a lesson for everyone to turn on MFA now if you haven't already. Yes, MS' consumer platform (live, hotmail, outlook, etc) supports it.
I've never been in a pro audio studio that runs a windows machine and I've been in more than a few over the past 20 years.
Even at triple the price Logic would be a compelling product. Feature by feature it's an incredible piece of software, coming with a series of great instruments, effect and tons of loops. Feature-wise it covers more or less everything you'd need.

However after trying Ableton for a few weeks (they offer a 90 day trial + 30% discount) I recently switched from Logic and I find the Ableton interface and UX in general much more intuitive for electronic music. In Logic I always had the feeling that there's too much choice and couldn't really get into a flow.

Looking at these screenshots the new features probably sound great and look good but there's simply too much happening on the screen. Honestly Ableton's been a breath of fresh air for me.
I think this was a strong argument when Tesla was the rough highway only version it was two years ago. Now it’s dramatically better and continuing to accelerate.
> Do commercial solutions use simulations and stuff?

Yes

Here's a random news article on it

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...
the Fed is actually privately owned by a consortium of banks

https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-the-federal-reserve/1...
The EU is considering copying China's successes regarding Internet control
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/648784/IPOL_STU(2020)648784_EN.pdf

In this document, find "China". Also try "WeChat" and "Alipay".

Most interesting quote:

Action Plan 1: European Cloud / European Internet A European firewall/cloud/ internet would foster a digital ecosystem in Europe based on data and innovation. It would drive competition and set standards, similar to what has happened in China in the past 20 years. The foundations of such a European cloud are democratic values, transparency, competition and data protection.
GPU seems like a reasonable path to investigate. Would testing with an external GPU be able to validate this theory?
My recollection is that Snowden worked in remote/satellite facilities such as the Operations Center in Hawaii (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunia_Regional_SIGINT_Operatio...), but not from his house.
No? Just login to your JetBrains Account and it should just work in my experience? No need to fiddle around with license keys.
>>The wackiest one I've come across is a CMS (Crematorium Management System).

If anyone is looking for something to open source: Meet manager. Since the 90s it has been the go-to software for running competative swimming meets (timing, heats organization etc). It's a niche market but is alway a very broad and steady user base. (Similar software is also used for track and field meets.)

http://activesupport.force.com/hytekswimming/articles/en_US/...
Even if you thought Waymo technology was amazing and would be a huge success, there is a non-trivial risk that a self-driving car could kill people and turn into a PR nightmare. Thus it's totally reasonable that Google would want to insulate themselves against that risk considering that they own one of the world's most valuable brands in their search business. Also, it might make sense to have a real privacy wall between Google and a potential fleet of millions of cars outfitted with multiple cameras and sensors. The only way to do that effectively is to have a separate company do it.
Telsa is outright hostile in this regard, and several others. Regardless of if they make a good car, you have to accept a lot of negative things to purchase one.
What does Alberta have to do with anything?
Can't you login with your Jetbrains account (see Help => Register => Get licence from: JB Account)?
Your comment is too vague for me. I assume you're attempting to assert that sleeping while having awareness of being asleep would somehow make you different than a robot? I would challenge that notion if my assumption is correct on what you're expressing by simply stating a robot can be programmed to experience similar.
It's looking at a correlation, not the conscious experience itself. Brain images are of neural activity, which is different form a thought, desire, or sensation. You don't watch someone's dreams from brain imaging.
Can't you do something like:

-Stage1 needs A, B, C
-D needs Stage1
Even if you spend as little as possible and intend to leave an inheritance, you still must wonder how much you can safely withdraw from your investments, no? Simply wanting a particular outcome is seldom sufficient to make it so.
But see I don't see how that has to do with perks. That seems to have everything to do with your toxic culture at your job, or your inability to push back. I've never ever stayed for dinner or got sucked into breakfast to talk shop at my company (big tech).

I wouldn't be surprised if you were forced to go to a local restaurant or bar to talk shop with your company culture if the free food didn't exist.
I think that what people like to call consciousness might be just attention + self-awareness
Yes its a hoax. A real attempt at this would include a minimum, so folks know they're really intended to take time off.
That is true - I miss this kinds of chats and interaction. But our team grew up in the IRC days and we are used to long chats about such topics over slack. Tho indeed remote work is a matter of choice - doesn't mean we all have to enjoy it.

Re pool, i occasionally jump in during breaks, just enough to refresh my mind and have a clear view over why that microservice is misbehaving. I only started working remote 1.5 years ago and it may be the excitement of something new, but i am loving it thus far!