skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see. Sarcasm often doesn't come across in a post. But yes, I was surprised by your post, because it didn't sound like your usual position. I should have suspected sarcasm.

But I disagree with you. Bell Labs was adequate branding for C and Unix, but not for Limbo or Plan 9. Sun's branding (and relentless support) was necessary for Java, but who did the same for Python, Perl, or Ruby?

It's not just the branding or the marketing. Sooner or later, how well the language enables you to write programs has an effect on language popularity and uptake.

Programmers aren't just fashion-driven sheep led around by marketing departments. They actually use the languages, and they can in fact tell when the language makes things easier or harder.
ASO Teardown: How Uber Eats Competes on the App Store
I'm sorry, I misunderstood your tone as challenging, like "who is anyone to say what is fair or not?"

technically in the U.S. there is a federal (nation-wide) minimum wage, then there are minimum wages for each state. I am not sure how they are defined, e.g. the federal one is certainly not automatically pegged to inflation. there is a movement to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour but even that is hard or impossible to live on in many areas.
Blew my mind like no other book has. My favorite.
Coworking spaces exist.
> work tasks badly defined without the ability to verbally hash things out

The ability to hash things out verbally is a great escape hatch, but it has turned into a crutch. I hope universal WFH will push people to work to a standard where it can be the exception instead of the norm.

> Kids at home yelling at each other, other coworkers distracted

In my experience, working at home isn't much different from working at work. If you don't have a private office with a door, it's going to be very challenging to focus regardless of whether you're sharing space with your coworkers or your family. Long ago I worked in a cube farm that had the depressing gray regularity of a low-effort DOOM wod, and I'm not sure that wasn't better for productivity than the attractive, high-end open plan offices I've worked in since then.

In a couple of years, my wife and I will be living in a different house, and we will both have private offices, cost be damned. I've decided mine can be as small as 10'x6', as long as it has a door and a window.
Code extraction alert! Would not trust this company. Google them
They have to return the investments though,so I wouldn't say they "did fine". Back at square one, having spent a couple of years on a project.
As Recession Looms, Brex Stockpiles Cash, Cuts Credit
This is precisely what Mortimer Adler suggests in his book "How to Read a Book", to read above your current levels this is only how you grow your mind.

Strong advice but I feel it's much harder nowadays to go down that route when there are distractions like YouTube videos that are easy to watch and make you feel you're learning when really it's scratching a superficial curiosity itch with no depth.

That said, to answer OP's question, I got Mortimer's book called "Great Treasury of Western Thought" that has compiled quotes from Western classics into key themes (the human condition, love, religions, etc), and it provided the missing link between getting meaty samples of key concepts, versus actually reading ALL the classics (the book started as the the index or 'syntopicon' of the 'Great Books of the Western World', a full compilation of Western works)
Having tried Kite a few years ago, and then TabNine, I ended up sticking with TabNine.

The thing that convinced me in the end was that Kite had a super heavy editor integration UX that needing a constantly-running Electron "copilot" app, even uploading some of my code without clearly asking for consent first. This has maybe changed now, but at the time that was my impression.

Meanwhile, TabNine has almost no UI, it's just the tab button and nothing else, and somehow the autocomplete "just worked" amazingly well with any language I wrote, including English prose. The ratio of "fuss" to "gain" was just so different between the two. One I barely remembered I had even installed anything, my editor just suddenly became a pair programmer overnight, and the other felt like I was running a whole electron app just to get occasional library headers autocompleted and docstrings on hover (in only a few supported languages).

I wish the Kite team all the best though, and I hope to see their solution grow and improve. There is definitely room for more players in this space, and I know they've learned many lessons from their past issues with code uploading UX, so I hope people give them a break over that past PR gaffe.
Can you please elaborate a bit more on this "now being maintained and advanced with the latest versions of Ubuntu"?

I mean, is it really different from the Unity version you can still find and install from the 20.04 official package repository? The problem I see with this is that you have to trust a binary distribution (not just the package, but the entire OS) bundled by a not well-known team.

For me, it would be great if Unity could be maintained and developed just like any other desktop environment (i.e. XFCE) which is completely open source and you can get from your command line just apt'ing it in vanilla Ubuntu.
If I was told to work from home forever, the first thing I would do would be go and find a co-working space.
I love how Automattic refers to their work not as remote, but decentralized. Remote work indicates there is a central location, but there isn't one at Automattic.
Doesn't look like it. Waymo seems content to do taxi and delivery, though my guess is Google took such a large stake in Uber and Lyft in order to license the tech there. Or integrate Waymo fleets with their apps.

Despite the glut of subprime car loans, the newer generations are buying less cars, and Waymo is probably not going to try to sell vehicles.
I have Focusrite Solo [1] audio interface - I got it for guitar capture initially - then I plugged in my headphones in it and the DAC/AMP in it is amazing - this motivated me to go for studio headphones (beyerdynamic dt 990 pro) and now because of this crisis I went for AT 2020 condenser mic

[1] https://focusrite.com/en/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarle...

This setup costs ~400$ so if you are just in to calls I'm not sure if it's worth it - but for me it was just getting a mic and now I sound like a radio host on calls :D

I don't own a GoPro so if there is a clone that has this functionality out-of-the-box it would be ideal.
That's the whole point though. You're not going to be able to "keep your current compensation" if companies embrace this in earnest.
> it's too much of a hassle to just enjoy on its own

On its own it's a traditional Chinese dessert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_milk_curd
Individual Contributors. In this case, the engineers.
My company is on the smaller side, but we're 100% remote work and have employees and a management team spread across the US, Canada, Europe, and China.

We communicate extensively through video calls and Slack.
Yet they applied the google name to nest? Android remains without a google moniker (other issues there).

Point being that google has quite a few inconsistencies in their naming (which is a thing in itself) and their not applying Google brand to Waymo at this point is any indication.
Just wait until governments actually start attacking cryptocurrencies. They're dumb and slow but when they finally catch on, the game is up.

All these stupid glorified link lists have never been backed by anything other than speculation and eventually market forces will always win.
I'm a Google shareholder. If Waymo is a good business I have no problem with Google holding all of the equity.
And now we have come full circle. The government does indeed permit wildcatting or prospecting, but it requires that all investors are accredited. The same is true for TON and other bitcoins -- the govt is not trying to forbid them, but merely require the normal level of investor vetting that is in place across the rest of the economy.
The first two things I looked for are the price (free upgrade):

"Logic Pro X 10.5 is available today as a free update for all existing users, and is available on the Mac App Store for $199.99 (US) for new customers."

... and the system requirements (doesn't require Catalina):

"macOS 10.14.6 or later"
That first sentence needs to be taken out back and shot. :-)

I agree that "new grad" is the best case for being in the BA. Once you're ten or fifteen years into your career and have a wife and kids, the downsides of the BA are far more painful. And if you didn't spend those ten or fifteen years building up capital while living in the BA, moving there later can be all but impossible. That talent is simply not accessible to BA companies unless it's remote.

All that said, my point that given the same salary, or even a modestly smaller one, you net more if you're not paying for housing in the BA.
I could not think of a better answer. I've read this book 2 years ago and vowed to write a review or an interpretation of some sort when I got less excited. I didn't sleep for two days. And never wrote the review.
The burden of proof is on you, most institution of French social democracy where created in the thirty years following the soviet revolution; without knowing I think it's the same in the rest of western Europe.
Well, those billions of fake dollars are being used to buy Bitcoin, which props up its price, which attracts excited retail investors to buy Bitcoin — so in fact people are rushing to buy the USDT toilet paper, they just don't know it.
That’s the norm with ICOs, I don’t know why anyone is shocked by that anymore.
Ehhh. Russian journalists and others seem to die after doing things that would only get people a stern talking to or a social credit degrade in China.
If everyone's in on it...would it impact credit scores? My impression of credit scores is they're a metric for a bank or a financial institution to determine credibility for a loan. If everybody knows you'll default on said debt because it's "meant" to be defaulted on, how would that impact the bank's assessment for whether you need a mortgage?
I've just started it - I'm about 10% of the way in and I'm really engaged - enjoying it but with a kind of mental equivalent of full-body exhaustion way after a big day at the beach - it's fun but also hard and sometimes just plain difficult. I think DFW was swimming in so many ideas & feelings that Infinite Jest was a way of letting it all come out in a Kerouacian-stream without much thought for concision.

If it helps anyone decide whether to give it a go, two recent books I read and loved were 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and Underworld by Don DeLillo, and Infinite Jest is satisfying me in the hard-earned way they both did.
So who's your favorite sci-fi author?
Not really. They have to return $1.2B (either in cash or equity) and their burn rate is high. Now they have to find a new business model before the runway runs out.
Do you think WSL counts if not enabled?
yep. in this specific use case there can be pretty fast reads after a write, and dynamo stream latency is not great even intra-region.

Via the lambda integration you should probably expect ~1000ms p99 latency intra-region, and ~2100ms p99 from, e.g, east-1 to west-2. Shave maybe 200-300ms off of those numbers if you do a DIY stream consumer without the aws provided lambda connector.
>I never knew if I was intruding on somebody else's time

is this just a lack of understanding that (or a lack of your company embracing) chat/email is asynchronous communication?

I work remote, and all of the people who don't want to be disturbed have snoozed notifications and I understand that they'll get back to me when they're ready.
Absolute tin hat stuff mate.
Location: Philippines

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, React, Git, AWS, Postgres, MySQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrei-elizaga/
It's a great painting,

but I'm admittedly a little disappointed the headline didn't refer to some project around the Sergei Lukyanenko novel.
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A few things:
Addressing point 1, the commenter never said anything like that.

Addressing point 2, right now the US economy imperfectly applies wages to an individual worker based on the demand for their skills. If their skills become more scarce or they develop better skills their wages should increase. If we say pay them more without changing the demand or the skills they have who will pay them more? Where will the money come from?

The simple answer might be to pay the CEO less but their value is also set on Market rates for their skills and demand, so if a chain paid the CEO less they would leave and go somewhere were they got paid more. Then that chain would have to higher someone else for more than the reduced rate of the previous CEO.

I also like the idea of paying people at the bottom of the economy more, but the government shouldn't just mandate some people make more and other people make less. We must find a way to either change the skill level or demand for those employees.

Artificially changing demand for low skilled employees is a bit scary because it incentivizes investments in automation. I would be helpful if a demand increase plan lead to a technological innovation the reduced the need for any of those workers. In my opinion investing in the skills of low wage employees is the best way to solve income inequality.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
Europe is more of a geographic term... There isn't much joining and leaving involved
Thanks for the feedback. What do you think would make it more useful for you? Would a one-line description help? I was hoping the topics would give you a general idea, and then you could click the "subscribe" link to learn more about the newsletter and subscribe if you were interested.

The list is randomly ordered right now with an ordering that changes daily. What kind of ordering would be helpful? I don't currently have enough information on each newsletter to know its popularity or number of subscribers. I may add upvoting/favoriting to help with that.

I considered infinite scroll, but pagination works better for SEO purposes and was easier to implement with the tech stack I'm using. Might re-visit this in the future.
The higher you go up the older they get. It is a culture shift and lets be honest no one wants to leave their comfort zone.
Telegram abandons its TON blockchain platform
This is a great tool I use all the time. In addition to about 2 dozen hotstrings, I have a script that will automatically open my email editor, a script that will open my calendar to allow me to schedule a meeting, and a script that will open a new message in Slack to allow me to quickly fire off a message.

Huge time saver!
Technically, they are still negotiating, though negotiations stalled in 2016[1].

I can't ever see it happening; there is so much opposition. Human rights seems to be biggest sticking point, and is unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_Eur...
> Well, if you produce fuel with the carbon you capture you still release it into the atmosphere, so there's no benefit there.

It's just like EVs in that regard.

Unlike EVs, it ramps DCC tech to industrial scale, making it dirt cheap to go carbon negative if we can ever work up the political will.

> Plus you have to add the carbon and the cost of developing/manufacturing/operating your insanely large nuclear reactor (including mining the uranium)

Whether you're building a nuclear plant or a wind mill, either way you build a gigantic edifice of steel and concrete, but if it's a wind mill it will power a neighborhood some of the time and if it's a nuclear plant it will power a city, a large one, all of the time.

> On the scale of bad solutions from 1 to 10, this probably reach 11.

20% of our power already comes from nuclear. Solar only broke 1% in the last year or two. If we hadn't stopped deploying nuclear in the 80s, our energy would be roughly carbon neutral today. Not 50 years from now, today.

Instead, we pumped the atmosphere full of CO2 for 40 years (optimistically, 60 by the time solar is deployed), waiting for solar to become economical, all while we had a perfectly workable solution in hand that self-styled environmentalists effectively torpedoed.

On the scale of bad solutions from 1 to 10, that probably reaches 11.
I reread Moby Dick as an adult within the last couple years. Found it far more interesting than I did when I was young. The book plays on narration in far more complex ways than I remembered.

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. Seriously. Read it. The horrors of war leaked into your brain through a sci-fi novel. If you enjoy that, try Player Piano, a moral discourse on technology and its social effects. Even though it is old, the social complications are familiar.

To keep your brain busy, anything by Umberto Eco, but this would be my order: Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before.
I support jailing executives who willfully violate the law, especially if they think that they can get away with it by threatening to move their business elsewhere. We can't live in a society in which money buys you the right to violate the law.

You can believe that the county's rules are unwise, but they're in place in order to protect public health. Right or wrong, Musk is violating those rules and thinks he'll get away with it because he runs an important company. There has to be a clear message that he won't get away with it. Fining him won't make a difference. Prison time might.
>No other shut-down car company is complaining like Elon.

Elon is not complaining, he is reopening along with the other automakers. Workers for Ford, GM returned to work on the same day Tesla workers did (May 11) and the US Ford and GM factories will start running May 18.

Only some social media folks are enraged and freaking out about a business opening - they are the ones being petulant.

Of course this is going to be taken to the courts and we'll see how much a Governor's decree can accomplish when it comes to affecting critical industries that are supposed to remain open, of which auto manufacturing has been designated as one.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/11/michiga...
We identified a certificate problem at a large CDN provider
That's true. Bloomberg terminals are pretty awesome. The customer base for them are probably the customer base the most able to quantify how much value any software provides to their business, and could afford a far higher price as well. Though I imagine Thomson Reuters and other competitors might be getting in the way of bloomberg capturing more value than they already are.
The prohibition or the classification of marijuana as a schedule 1 narcotic.
I can confirm this. Firefox on iPad, latest version of both.
This does not appear to be a new study on the effects of CO2. It only mentions there will be more indoor co2 as a result of combustion?

Scihub didn’t work for this one so I can’t be sure. I’m quite interested in this topic, and there are a small number of studies indicating the issue may be real. However, it is unclear this adds to them.

IF the issue is real it is nonetheless useful to know what this study measures.
It's not in the OS - deliberately, because being able to record an audio stream you're playing makes it easy to copy.

But you can pay money for apps that make it happen, and you can also Homebrew free options like BlackHole. (SoundFlower used to do this, but the more recent MacOS security updates seem to have nuked it.)
The explanation is actually simple:

«Rob Pike doesn’t know what type theory is or why it is useful»

Look at his latest statement on «generics» in Go: https://evrone.com/rob-pike-interview

He acknowledges that parametric polymorphism is a good thing that Go is gonna get, but then repeats his ignorant view on types by conflating type theory with shitty OOP inheritance and class hierarchies.
The opening chapter is even a direct challenge to Diamonds book!

The rest is a really wild ride through history. Fascinating read.
> a flat-out ban on "the end justifies the means" is now absolutely reasonable

Especially because nobody ever completes the original phrase...

"The ends don't justify the means, because the means make the ends."

If you use war to prevent suffering, you get suffering.
If you use hate to stop hate, you get hate.
etc.

This is a long way of saying, we become the very thing we fight. Humans aren't capable of using "the ends justify the means" without that happening, due to our faulty, hostile wetware... as you note!
#1: LTTs are almost separate asset class from generic "T-bonds". They have a long duration, 20+ years to maturity. I get this data from the VUSTX fund, which tracks a long bond index.

#2: We used leverage to match volatility. This can realistically be done using futures. (and yes, I am claiming a leveraged bond portfolio is less risky than a 100% stock portfolio; the numbers back it!)
Wow so if I work for a company with an office in Chicago, but I work in their SF office - I could potentially relocate without a salary adjustment?
cloudcraft.com

Stupid mobile keyboards...
Me too.

I have colleagues who do the opposite. They often complain that they don't have the time to write documentation because they have to explain stuff to people all the time. Thus, I believe writing saves time eventually.
Personally - I'm thankful for you. The parents with kids at home are dragging down the average amount of work done. So - the rest of us look good in comparison - or my preferred choice - I get to work less. :) I just blame corona for lower productivity - not the fact that I hate my employer and am actively looking for a new job.
Inflatable E-Bike Fits in a Backpack
Announced just short of 2 years ago.

https://www.musicpressasia.com/2018/05/22/youtube-music-will...
> That first sentence needs to be taken out back and shot. :-)

Oh you're right I'm so sorry :P

> All that said, my point that given the same salary, or even a modestly smaller one, you net more if you're not paying for housing in the BA.

Ah, I somehow missed the (emphasized) do in your original sentence. I'll just leave now.
What's the guarantee that say your San Francisco/NYC employer will keep paying you city rates when you are living in a small town in mid-west. At some point they will catch up and start saving money this way. Everyone at a tech company is not a crucial employee. Don't get me wrong, I am all in for getting paid SF rates while living in a cheap Texas suburb.
They do. CQL is 33% faster with Scylla than Scylla with DynamoDB. The lack of topology knowledge and lack of prepared statement hurt
Yes to all that. I'll add: loved ones often have the idea that they will take care of the afflicted one until the very end.

What they don't realize is that caring for an Alzheimer's sufferer, in the later stages, can take years off the loved one's life. It is a hard, depressing, 24-hour job to take care of all the physical needs of someone who is no longer mentally there. Even worse if the caregiver is old or has health issues.

So do your family a favor, if finances allow, and urge them, while you still are able, to plan put you in an appropriate living arrangement (in an institution, or with full-time paid caregivers) when the time comes.

And I'm sorry about your diagnosis. Best wishes.