skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's in flight mode usually, except once a day. If I've missed a call I call back the next day. My main issue are the spam callers. I turn the cell phone connection on temporarily when needed, for instance for using https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/
or if I'm waiting for a call.
There might be a shortage of cool fun things to work on though.
lol, imagine wanting to have a 2 hour public transit commute (one way) from SF to the googleplex
I have personally used Davinci, and I can vouch that is is a super easy software to use. The bad, like they say, is that it does indeed shut down from time to time, which is super frustrating. But, since I have windows, Davinci is supposed to be the best
I haven't read that particular book of Dawkins, but I have encountered a mathematical argument I find somewhat troubling, though I don't have the background to really examine it in depth.

It's discussed in this interview here:

https://youtu.be/noj4phMT9OE

Essentially the number of possible configurations of the sequence of a piece of genetic code required to produce the instructions for producing a usable protein are something like 10^77 to 1. The state space is filled with an astronomical amount of unusable junk.

The next part of the argument hinges on the Cambrian explosion. They claim that mathematically there isn't enough time for life produce enough trials to give rise to the amount of species seen during that period given the duration of the period and the sheer number of combinations life has to try in order to find viable ones.

They sort of say that Darwin was like Newton. A good enough explanation of a large portion of observable phenomenon, but it breaks down at the edges and a new theory is needed.

They seem to want to fill it with Intelligent Design. I'm an atheist myself, so I don't feel compelled to fill it with the god of the gaps, so to speak. But I'm finding it hard to accept Darwin as the whole answer.

Does Dawkins book address this? Is there any book that addresses this?
Average commute travel time per day?
Yeah, I get what you mean. Native applications store your data locally, which is privacy-friendly, but sharing is hard. SaaS brought easy sharing of data, but it also brought data mining. So the goal is to have data in the cloud, but isolated, rather than in a big shared database in some SaaS provider.

If you trust the privacy of cloud providers, you can spin up a server and use https://sandstorm.io/, which is designed around that: private infra, with granular sharing of data.

If you don't, you need local compute and encryption. Keybase would be a decent example - while you can't use your own cloud account, they only see encrypted data.

That said, there's a reason a lot of people deleted their Keybase accounts when they got acquired by Zoom. Data mining is very enticing, so outside of projects ran by idealist volunteers - which will always have a hard time competing with funded companies -, how do you keep developers from adding mining abilities even to the native/self-hosted applications?
In this theme, "The Mind's I" by Hofstadter and Dennett is an interesting combination of short-form sci-fi and philosophy of consciousness.

It presents a well-chosen sci-fi story that explores an extreme modification to one of the parameters of consciousness, followed by an essay analyzing the consequences of that thought experiment.
Interesting data. Overall surprised at how few failures they saw.

From an interview last year, it sounds like they don't use SMR drives[1]. I would be interested if there is any good source for failure rates of those.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-backblaze-buys-hard-drive...
Self-reply: Here's a comparative review of Noble+Daniel vs. Strang: https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/271586/1-s2.0-S002437950...
What does "partial" mean? Will investors sue him?
They primarily make software right? 3Bn seems like a lot of cash for a software company to need. That’s 2m dollars per employee. What am I missing here? Am I just old and out of touch?
The body language thing is important. I think it helps to position the camera and your hands in a way that lets people see your gestures.
Interesting the idea that the original plan was that your votes count for more if you vote for the right kind of stories. Would seem to create an echo chamber effect where what’s already popular stays popular and new stuff doesn’t.
And I wouldn't call those developers engineers either. I said as much in the next line of my comment...

Google and Apple would employ a mix of engineers and developers.
For those put off by the stultifying prose, here is an alternate version, translated from "English into American."

http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/vie...
"look guys, at end of class, exam is always long list of silly second order system of differential equations.

Well, every time, we can make so-called "guess" that solution looks like e*rt. Why? We know that because professors will only give well-behaved systems on final exams because it's hard to grade the other kind.

So we know characteristic polynomials look like so (because of course they do, you can just memorize this) ... so now we lift out the coefficients into nifty thing called _matrix_ and now follow these easy four steps to get roots, plug back in, and incidentally these are "eigenvalues", we'll talk about this later ...

Bam. Done. A-, easy. No sweat."
It's building up to a tricky denouement, but if you're not also enjoying the journey, I'd say it's not for you. Some of what I like about Vinge:

- Imaginatively exploring grand futures.

- Evocative hints you have to fill in yourself.

- Intelligent characters.

- Computer security as an often central concern.

- Tightness. There's a reason he barely manages a novel a decade.

- The prose style just breathes sense-of-wonder to me.
Will people start streaming out of the Bay Area, though? The thing that always interested me about the Bay Area was that my friends in Mountain View would be posting long bike rides throughout the winter. Where it's snowy and below freezing in New York, it's 55 degrees and sunny there. I imagine people like that a lot, and is part of the reason it's a popular place to live.

There are other places in the US that are warm in the winter, of course, but less of them are also nice in the summer. Then among those, very few of them match the Bay Area in friendliness to things like LGBT causes.

I have a feeling that many people will continue gravitating to the Bay Area.
Yes you're correct, I'm just giving the intuition that I found helpful to understand the Principle of Least Action.
I edited my post out from under you, but my intent was just to clarify what I was saying, not to make your post look bad. Does this change your response?
Since Uber has publicly stated that they will lay off 20% of their employees rather soon, how does this new decision to acquire GrubHub square with that [0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011146
Is this a popular thing inside of gitlab? Personally, I'm conflicted: it's an interesting experiment, and I get where it comes from, but it's perhaps a bit too nearsighted.

In the end, I think zipcode (and COL) is a weak proxy for talent. It's very easy to measure zipcode, compared to talent.

But, think about it from the other angle: if you have a history of this talent (earning high salaries in high-COL zip codes or otherwise), why on earth would you accept anything less than that, when moving to a lower COL area?

To me, it seems like a decision that would hurt the employer more than help them, since the people with proven talent would work for companies that don't discriminate on zip codes. And that costs more than the investment in assessing incoming talent levels.
There's a question of goals there.

Is the goal to create tools that make not-boring music? Or is the goal to make tools that enable you (or some other person) make not-boring music? Automating the creation of music seems to have very little upside. Enabling people to more fully expore their own creative has a lot, but that leaves people faced with lots of "incredibly hard" stuff to do by themselves.
> I guess most top executives are people persons so not seeing things like body language or using body language takes away an important skill set of theirs.

This might also be a trust thing. Studies have found that in-person social interaction leads to increased levels of trust among the group, but remote social interaction doesn't have this affect. The higher you go up the management chain, the more trust is required to perform your job effectively. ICs usually work under well-defined, measurable conditions: you can determine from their work product whether an engineer, salesperson, or designer is being productive. Executives do not work under these conditions, and arguably the job of an executive is to define those metrics. To get everyone rowing in the same direction requires an immense amount of trust and collaboration amongst the high-level leadership of the company, and it seems like it'd be challenging to achieve that virtually.
>I think that you're basing this argument on the amount of stuff you get to see online

I think you are incorrect, and your comment is not really within the site guidelines.

He has done security work on all that you mention above, and many others.
My employer gave us the clear message early on that personal / family care comes first, take the time you need to deal with crisis, etc. And we have indeed had plenty of family issues to deal with and it's been very difficult to concentrate on work.

The problem is going to be when performance is evaluated -- no matter how much leeway has been given now, I will be compared in some respect to my coworkers who have been able to manage this transition better, who haven't had a turbulent home life, etc. etc.

This is giving me the stressies.
I'm not a hacker so my reverse engineering is about getting TB3 working on OSX instead of attacking it but it requires the same level of understanding. I have personally tested flashing modified ARC code on Alpine and Titan ridge and can confirm that it fails with an "authentication error" making the author's first claim demonstrably false. https://osy.gitbook.io/hac-mini-guide/details/thunderbolt-3-...
Building new machine learning driven feature using a self-service data platform
It's clever but From a UX perspective moving all the surrounding text anytime you click on anything makes it extremely hard for the eye and brain to maintain context. There's a reason why GUI text editors have affordances like menu bars.
Without more information about the lists there's no particular reason to click on any of them. You have to already know you're interested, or just click at random.

There doesn't seem to be any order to the list.

Don't put it on multiple pages, use one page (infinite scroll if you have to.)

This could be very useful but right now it doesn't add enough value IMO.
The big question on Air vs Pro is what the thermal budget is. Generally, I've found that Airs will down-clock pretty quickly when running computationally intensive work for more than a minute or two. Pros have more ability to dissipate heat, which lets them run faster for longer.
Python notebooks are flawed and the world needs a successor
Never to have joined seems rather different from having joined and then, some decades later, drunkenly staggered out again, bouncing off both doorposts on the way.
People are starting to care. In 2016 Bernie almost got elected on this platform, Trump did get elected on this platform, and in 2020 the DNC had to throw an election just to keep Bernie at bay.
No, arcticbull is right in this regard. The way Keynesian economics and encouraging the velocity of money works is that it discourages hoarding and encourages the speed at which money passes hands in an economy. It's great for the banks and rentier class but it's crappy for laborers and savers.

In such an environment you want to get rid of your USD as fast as possible and turn them into something you value, whether it be land or whatever. The money itself is by design an inflationary currency. Most people don't understand this, which is just fine with the people who print the money and the ones who distribute and loan it out.

Now, having lots of liquid cash AKA liquidity is a good thing as long as you get rid of it soon by putting it in assets. Lots of people gladly go into debt taking out loans to buy productive assets and declare bankruptcy multiple times playing this kind of game. It's kind of insane in a way.
It will go away. I'm in Europe where things are closer to normal already. I meet friends, people go shopping (with hygiene measures and masks), schools and gyms are opening.

Also keep in mind that there was always a threat of infectious diseases. And it will persist until we find a universal cure for all viruses. Being somewhat of a germophobe myself, I was always aware of it.

Hopefully, people will stay at home when they are sick, though.
> I also don't understand what you mean about being "impacted" - how does people working remotely negatively affect those that don't? If remote working was to really gain traction, I can only see potential positives - I'd expect house price inflation to reduce in cities, and I'd expect overcrowded public transport in those cities to become much more comfortable.

As high earners leave, you can expect investment in public services and infrastructure to go down as well. See for example how white flight to the suburbs in the mid–20th century US affected cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#United_States
And unless you fully close borders (which very few countries have done) that won't be short, unless all you wanted was to delay.
Regarding raw talent, didn't Google, Apple, etc. form a cartel a while back to suppress the wages of engineers? I highly doubt wages are tightly bound to value output.

In my own experience throughout my career I've been both severely overpaid and underpaid relative to my economic impact.
As I understand, you're allowed to (but not required to) work from home. So it seems like a win-win for both groups?
It last several years beyond the acquisition of YouTube. In college, I used to be something of a history buff and remember watching and enjoying many old documentaries on WW2 and Cold War stuff on Google Videos. According to the Wiki article, they only turned off uploading to Google Videos in 2011, almost 6 years after acquiring YT.
I'm pretty sure delivery drivers also get into car accidents.
I’m really starting to resent my childless co-workers and their ability to just work happily all day long.

My day is basically split up into maybe 20m at a time where I can do something before being distracted.

I end up working during the night to catch up (just got done), but this is unsustainable long term.
[edit: what is in your control is quality of life. Yours. Those you love.]

Plan for long term care. Have a living will. Figure out who you want to have power of attorney. Figure out who you want to have access to medical records behind Hipaa. Choose a lawyer. Do all that stuff now while it's less messy and there is a low probability of crisis. These are things that are good to do even without diagnosis of a debilitating illness. They are good things to do orthogonally to software engineering.

In the US, there is the Alzheimer's Association. https://www.alz.org/ similar groups are likely in other places. There are resources. But they are stretched thin because Alzheimer's lasts a long time without underlying morbidity. Again, acting early matters because waiting lists are long.

Consider moving into an assisted living facility:

with step up to nursing home with a memory care unit

That's not all of them. There is a high demand. There are waiting lists. There is screening against people with a history of violence. Violence often accompanies Alzheimer's. Not always. But often. Start managing your disease as a disease don't use software engineer as an excuse. The search is going to take time and effort. Right now, you get a full say. You get a chance to see what is available and what it costs.

Well fuck, this all sucks. I'm sad to learn of your diagnosis. Saying "we all die" probably doesn't help. What's in your control is some of the circumstances in which your disease progresses. There's no manual. No instruction book. And it's all going to involve institutions where your unique circumstances are mostly irrelevant beyond your illness. Institutions that deal with the normal problems. Institutions that can't act quickly when someone calls for resources in crisis. Plan and act now for the people you love.
If inflation rises, there needs to be a mechanism to have it paid back. All the Fed QE at least theoretically goes back into the bank once markets recover and the assets purchased can be sold to make that so.

Who is going to buy individual loans which are never repaid if inflation starts to rise?
Did you reuse the password at any other site? Check your haveibeenpawned.
From the last time this story was posted I recall that Alphabet was only offering Waymo investment opportunities to automakers. This would be an important aspect of fostering strategic partnerships, since Waymo is probably not planning to get deep into the car manufacturing business.
That's recreating a water cooler with an HR drone sitting there spying.
I think you guys are kind of overestimating how useful pictures of people's houses taken once every couple years are. I guess you can see what years I did a good job of watering my plants and what years I didn't. That's about it.

We should be wary of surveillance from tech companies, but the messages you send your friends from your phone are a lot more useful than a picture of your house.
Instagram iOS update brings bulk comment deleting; control for mentions, tags
Original title too long. It was:

Instagram iOS update brings bulk comment deleting, control for who can mention or tag you
I loved A Fire Upon the Deep, but I thought Deepness was a little disappointing because the aliens aren't alien enough. They seem like regular people who happen to look like bugs and who sometimes need to hibernate because of how their sun works. Ironically, it seems like the all-human Emergency is Vinge's vehicle to explore an alien way of thinking.

A Fire Upon the Deep has a much bigger scope and includes a menagerie of truly weird aliens.
For some reason they really didn't like GTA being seen as a research platform and C&D'd projects.
Immortality deserves a better headline than this.
One of my favorite recent games too. Thanks for sharing!
I was surprised to read California, as I thought the state provides pretty strong worker protections. This site [0] seems to say that you are owed the vacation time upon separation in CA. IANAL and all that.

[0]: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-rules-vac...
This is fantastic. Perhaps there are other posts like it and I find these would be a much better introduction to Git coming from other another VCS than so many of the git tutorials.

Just title it "How Git (Really) Works" or something. This would have saved me so much time at the start of being lost.
This is why assigning an "onboarding buddy" is so important (even on-site) ... a new team member isn't going to feel empowered to ask questions and interrupt people right off the bat usually. Their more-senior onboarding buddy can make the introductions and get their questions answered by the right person without feeling awkward about it.

This isn't really a remote-only problem
on the other hand, lockdowns have reduced CO2 emissions in significant levels

The solution is not rooms with air-filtration-conditioning or whatever, there are natural processes for that, the long term solution I see is just a reduced economic activity like during lockdowns, focused on essential sectors (so not luxury, entertainment, ..)
What Writing DRY Code Means
There is a map item you can make which adds areas to it when you are holding it and in those areas, which depicts other areas as black.

Not sure if filling out these maps is what they meant.
Before this, I was just not able to work at home. I was always distracted and would only get a half day of work in at best. But finally had to actually buckle down and set up my desk. And set boundaries for interruptions. I could really use an actual KVM, but otherwise working from home is finally nice for me.
"More info available on the Bloomberg Terminal"

Did I get tricked into a Paywall Ad?

I have been debating for a long time of creating a Hacker News feed that filters out specific domains. Bloomberg is on that list without a doubt.
Well, AI is giving plenty of services from automating job description suggestions to Resume Parsing, Candidate Matching and many more
Lennon, Tesla, and JFK were deeply flawed human beings living in a different time, with far less media coverage than today. I suspect your view of the past may be unfairly rosy due to the effects of time.
> Firstly, home is not an effective place of work

This is a huge generalization, and is not true for many people. For me, the office is not an effective place to work.

We should give the option for people that work effectively at home. I've worked at two fully remote companies, and our work output is equivalent or better than any in office job I've had, and I'm much happier now that I don't have to deal with the open office bullshit.

I agree it doesn't work for everyone, but it certainly can be very effective for the right people.
I think some of the replies here are misguided, I've interviewed (and turned down offers from) some well-known companies who were doing remote work and renting office space for face to face meetings 1 day a week while they were constructing a new office in my city.

This is the best of both worlds for a company.
No, there's a big difference lol, the economy is managed and administered at the will of the people to benefit the people. This fraud is being administered by a shady cabal in the BVI with offices in Hong Kong to the benefit of themselves.
Exploring an abandoned missile engine testing site (CGP Grey)
If you have central heat/ac your thermostat might have a switch to convert it from 'auto' to 'on'. You can combine that with turning off the heat/cooling such that it's just a house/apartment-wide fan. I do that at night before going to bed to deal with poor airflow in my bedroom and according to my CO2 sensor, it works. It works correctly even if I leave it set to cool or heat, the thermostat still controls whether it's actually heating or circulating air. Likely what you have is the same.
While I don't _quite_ share your enthusiasm. I sure do share your appreciation. Nobody else at their level appears to be sharing this data. This is not something they had any obligation to share with us.

It certainly is useful and interesting.
Google Killing Google Play Music for YouTube Music in 2020
A potential compromise I am hoping for would be an increased willingness of companies to open satellite or smaller offices in secondary or tertiary real estate markets.
ICs?
You do all of those things because you can not because you have to. When I worked in the office I would routinely do those things as well, but I knew I just wanted to get up, walk around, and shoot the shit with whoever else was bored of their 3 grey walls.
You said:

> A large percentage of low income work is service work that requires physical presence. You can’t make the typical burger joint remote friendly without automating all the jobs away.

If you don't think anyone disagrees with this, then why did you say it?

And if you do think people disagree with this, then you're making the straw man argument I said you were.
Implement In-App Update in Android