skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I confess I don't know what the laws are then. Presumably you don't pay both your state and CA taxes on your whole salary?

I confess I've never been in the position of being officially completely remote. I certainly don't pay taxes to the state where my company's HQ is but then I'm officially in an office in my state of residence. (And maybe the existence of that office would make a difference even if I weren't actually assigned there.)
It seems like a slightly bizarre system: have any of the "graduated" companies actually been successful by conventional (i.e. profitable) metrics?
I wanted some useable web/mobile version of org-mode synching from Dropbox for a long time! Just to confirm: is this a product non-free product?
Thanks for the thoughtful message!

We hope you'll give Kite another shot. We're always improving it and have covered a lot of ground in the last few years.

In particular, a common complaint about TabNine on Twitter is that it's heavyweight. Based on our comparisons of today's Kite versus today's TabNine, we believe Kite uses less CPU/battery, and far less memory. (My teammate dhung posted a longer comment about TabNine.)
This is mostly bullshit. Using ventilators was fairly standard care for the set of symptoms. It has come to light that alternate treatments are probably better in some circumstances. But you're writing this as if the disease is treatable. It's still not treatable. Most people who end up ventilators are, in fact, sick enough that they're likely to die.

The parent said nothing that lacked compassion for human life. Accusing doctors who are risking their lives trying to save patients with the best of their knowledge mass murderers is magnitudes more heartless.
And it meant that random users' computers were being drafted into running a supernode and relaying traffic for other users, without permission or even any notice. Not only did this consume CPU time and bandwidth on the affected users' computers, but it also put anyone running a supernode in a position to observe and tamper with network traffic between other users.
I have tried this sous-vide thinking about it as a normal custard ie make mixture, fill pot, circulate. It didn't work. My theory is that the proteases had already degraded by the time the milk got up to temp.

The recipe explicitly calls for the milk being hot, which I naively didn't do. I was doing it for a dinner so instead of doing some more tests sous vide I just did it old school since that had worked. If you try it with preheated milk please share the results!
perhaps twitter discovered vscode live share
I would say emotions are generated by different neural circuits. An AI may not have emotions coded, specifically beyond the point "this is good because it matches my prediction" and "this is surprising because it is not what I expect".

An AI may not specifically need fear, aggression, love, hunger, or whatever low level control mechanisms animals have evolved prior to neocortex.

This is just my opinion, of course.
Yeah so assets that are outside of the system altogether are a good hedge. This is why gold & Bitcoin are good hedges against the Great Monetary Experiment of 2020. Own the physical gold and hold your own keys.
Did you try host-managed SMR? Seems more promising, although significantly more effort.
Do you know why there are enough places to live? Because nobody wants to live there. That's why you can buy a 4BR house in Allamakee County for $115k: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/304-Highwa...

And, yes, maybe there are not enough software developers in SF, NYC, Austin, and other tech hubs to drive up prices, but this move will certainly drive down compensation. I have a hard time believing such a move would end up being good for workers.
Emotions and consciousness are not the same thing.
Are you deliberately not reading my post to try to appear clever? This wasn't the top story, the Italy one was. Mate.
Lock down kills the exponential growth. In California at the current infection rate it would take 130 years to infect another 5% of the population.

Buys time:

That allows epidemiologists to understand exactly what the risk factors are. So governments and businesses can begin to fine tune suppression measures.

Gives the biotech industry time to develop cheap and fast tests. Which you need to do contact tracing. Hopefully they can develop immunotherapy agents to prevent exposed people from developing the disease.

Time for public health officials to raise a small army to do contact tracing.

Allows doctors time to understand how best to treat the disease. For a disease with a serious mortality morbidity rate even partly effective treatments are important.

Allows sane people to grok what they need to do to keep themselves safe. And allows society to begin to reign in careless people, loons and deniers. Also give again sane people the opportunity to stay safe by not allowing businessmen like Musk to force them into unsafe working conditions.
When is it better to solve those problems through the organization of your code rather than an autocomplete feature?

The things you mentioned all seem to yield to the decorator pattern.

Creating the right abstraction (instead of using autocomplete) would benefit future collaborators who may not have access to the same autocomplete functionality.
Building Creativity into Remote Teams
For big companies, this is an international problem!

And then tax issues aren't just the employees' income taxes but the company's tax regime.
Sorry, nope. Do your own research using open sources, i.e., forums, review sites, and reviews, before you buy. Caveat emptor.
I've been thinking about this a lot, and I don't think AI will ever become conscious in the same way that humans are, rather, it'll be conscious on its own terms. Just like I can't know the mind of my wife, I can't know the mind of my cat, I also can't know the mind of an AI.

Depending on who you ask, a monkey or cat isn't conscious. From my point of view, I don't think you can really know that or recognize it. It's just a matter of degree of consciousness. I think it's safe to say that mammals are conscious to some extent. They have emotions, dreams, communication techniques, etc. we just have those (to some extent again) moreso than they do or we have them in different ways.

I think a question to ask is at what level or organization do we recognize self-direction? Am I conscious because I think so? What does that say about the bacteria that live inside of me that I rely on, or the individual neurons in my brain?

If both I and a dolphin are mostly the same, we have brains with neurons, we have blood cells, etc. how can you truly differentiate what is conscious and not? Even if you speak to another human it's not completely possible to say that they are conscious with certainty - only with what's most useful in day-to-day life.

At what level of circuity do we consider AI to be conscious? When it completes arbitrarily constructed tasks by humans? When it "feels"? How would you differentiate between sufficiently complex AI? Is there just AI or not? why?

/rambles
It's surprising to me that they use actual boot drives and don't just boot their machines off of USB sticks or via PXE or like those fancy Dell dual redundant internal sdcard modules.

But perhaps the boot drives are just leftovers that are too small to be used any more for storage?
WFH doesn't necessarily mean remote.
Since Sweden is acting as a control group we know that the lock downs have very little meaningful effect; if they do, they are certainly not worth the cost. So we need to protect the most vulnerable by isolating them (the old and sick) and the rest of us need to get back to work. The total death toll will be whatever the total death toll will be at this point. Focusing on it doesn't help anything right now.
I have been thinking about using this for some diagrams, but whats been on the back of my mind since I heard about it is how to combine it with Terraform, or Troposphere, and have your infrastructure as code also draw the diagrams automatically.
You are not factoring in the economies of scale that will kick in if Waymo really figures out autonomous driving. It will change the world forever, and the costs will go down.
The stock market doesn't have much to do with what is happening today, it is what investors think these companies might be worth in the future.
> The idea of making conscious AI scares me, because we could potentially create an AI that just experiences constant suffering

People choose to have babies with the knowledge that their children will suffer, and that their children might suffer a great deal. It seems like the same sort of ethical problem to me.
I can not not think about J. Schmidhuber's thoughts on consciousness whenever the topic comes up:

As we interact with the world to achieve goals, we are constructing internal models of the world, predicting and thus partially compressing the data history we are observing. If the predictor/compressor is a biological or artificial recurrent neural network (RNN), it will automatically create feature hierarchies, lower level neurons corresponding to simple feature detectors similar to those found in human brains, higher layer neurons typically corresponding to more abstract features, but fine-grained where necessary. Like any good compressor, the RNN will learn to identify shared regularities among different already existing internal data structures, and generate prototype encodings (across neuron populations) or symbols for frequently occurring observation sub-sequences, to shrink the storage space needed for the whole (we see this in our artificial RNNs all the time). Self-symbols may be viewed as a by-product of this, since there is one thing that is involved in all actions and sensory inputs of the agent, namely, the agent itself. To efficiently encode the entire data history through predictive coding, it will profit from creating some sort of internal prototype symbol or code (e. g. a neural activity pattern) representing itself. Whenever this representation becomes activated above a certain threshold, say, by activating the corresponding neurons through new incoming sensory inputs or an internal ‘search light’ or otherwise, the agent could be called self-aware. No need to see this as a mysterious process — it is just a natural by-product of partially compressing the observation history by efficiently encoding frequent observations.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_a...
- The Men Who Folded Himself is a book about a time traveler that falls in love and has sex with himself in several distinct time periods.

- All You Zombies is a short story that makes use of one of the most ingenious and mind-bending time travel conundrums to reflect on the nature of personal identity.

- The Door Into Summer is about the effects of suspended animation on personal relationships.

- Anything written by Philip K. Dick.
So... why not just leave that feature out of the US versions in the app store and everything is fine. Or am I missing something?
The office often has the same low level of productivity -- but without the guilt.
Thank you. I will try to correct.
I tried "Mere Christianity" at the urging of my mother. It was a series of logical fallacies one after the other. Although I will give him props, though, he tried to put a twist on most of them. Instead of a "false dilemma" it was a "false trilemma" and so on. It was still pretty silly.
What is Twitter even doing? Like I realize they likely have an infinite number of people working for them, but are any of them doing anything important at all? This is not like the usual "I just don't see how a company needs that many people" laments: this is specific to Twitter, as they seem to have at most one engineer working on new features... it took like five years for them to implement "increase size of Tweet to 280 characters", and the only feature of note I can think of since then was adding a half-assed ability to mute replies (which to me is a critical feature that prevents trolls and hate groups from using my audience to spread their hate; but the feature is somehow designed to take a reply that would have maybe been buried in hundreds of people replying to me and "mute" it by giving it a dedicated icon with a pop up dialog reminding people to go look at the content I muted, so in fact more people probably see the thing I muted now than before I muted it... it is ridiculous). Like I frankly feel the decision here is "I guess send all the employees home as it isn't like their productivity could be any lower, right? hell: maybe one of them gets inspired and finally builds something!".
Apple buying a company and axing their products for other platforms is all too common and has nothing to do with "people running Windows on shoddy devices". They kill all the projects for other platforms, strengthen theirs, and hurt users in the process. It's that simple.
I'm glad you are principled. Get paid what you're worth folks!
Appreciate the reply and the additional explanation, best of luck!
Definitely “No more Mr. Nice Guy” from Dr. Robert Glover. If you’re struggling in life buy this book today. It’s that good.

If you just need a book to boost your courage read “The alchemist” from Paulo Coelho.
Show HN: Serverless USGS Historical Topographic map tiles
I was just talking about taxes. Whether the company adjusts salaries based on your home address is orthogonal.
Haha, great job. There's also something to be said for the grim humour of how technology led us to this point.

Sadly, I'd also be extremely wary of sending the kind of documents that I need to print out and sign through some server-side black box.
US credit markets are not really working as "markets" anymore, properly speaking, because a single special buyer, the Fed, is setting both risk-free rates and credit spreads for all corporate borrowers. Just by announcing it is willing to buy corporate bond ETFs, the Fed has become the very visible hand of the bond market.

The "price" of a corporate bond no longer means what you think it means. It is now determined by the Fed's willingness to buy bond ETFs for reasons that may or may not have anything to do with the creditworthiness of individual companies.

This is both utterly shocking and completely predictable.
Usually the salaries are based on "market rates" and explicitly do not consider cost of living.

This is why London jobs are not paid more than SF - the "market rate" in London is lower despite living costs being the same or more than SF (especially when in London none of the FAANGs offer free transport to and from work and property prices are so much higher near transport hubs).

Market rates are murky - I guess it is based on competition and who employs in the area. There is some sort of shared database that loads of companies use from what I understand, but they are flawed since they don't include a lot of high-paying employers in finance et al.
PlantUML if you want to maintain the diagram in version control.

yEd for interactive use because of its auto-layout function. Not unintuitive to use though. It takes some effort to learn.

Enterprise Architect if your company pays the money and you really need its features (e.g. SysML diagrams).

Whatever is close by. For example, we use Confluence for our wikis. It has a Gliffy plugin, so I often use that for embedding diagrams.

I've seen photos of whiteboards, drawings in MS Paint, and other stuff. The tool rarely matters. What matters more is the content. A few tips for that:

Have clear meaning what a box means and what an arrow means. Don't make it inconsistent like "this box is a server, this box is a software component, and this box a message". If you need multiple types, then draw them differently (colors, rounded corners, dotted, etc).

One statement, one diagram. Don't make multiple statements in one diagram like "Here you see we send do more messages then necessary and you also see the undesirable coupling between Foo and Bar". Ok, there is also value in overview diagrams to show "everything" but those are for live use in discussions and not for documentation which should be understandable on its own.
Curios, What happen to founders ? Is there any product based on original Skype p2p tech ?
> traditional bailout scheme

It’s amazing how this is an accurate term now.

How do the Capitalism-is-king advocates reconcile corporate welfare?
I don't mind when people drop by to discuss things. I may take a small productivity hit in the short term, but I gain a lot of insight into what others are working on, and get a chance to point someone in the right direction before they file a PR that I then have to review and ask them to re-implement things in a different way, which is way more frustrating than just having a quick in-person conversation.

The added friction of having someone jump on a call vs sending a slack message and stopping by my desk has resulted in a lot more tedious PR reviews where you end up having to explain your approach with a wall of text and then still having to jump on a call and re-explain the same things in more depth.
From article:

"One interesting fact about these contracts is that they are effectively perpetual: the contracts themselves are for quite long terms and registry agreements typically provide for automatic renewal except under cases of significant misbehavior by the registry. In other words, this is a more or less permanent claim on the revenues for a given TLD."
India’s contact tracing app tops 100M users in 41 days
They don’t need to pay SF rates. 100K in Indianapolis buys you a way better standard of living than 200K in SF.
A thousand times, this. I love AHK. It, along with Ditto Clipboard Manager (Yes, I know W10 has its own. It sucks) changes my workflow so much for the better. Some of my favorite examples:

Right Alt becomes Ctrl Tab:
Ralt::^Tab

Common typos:
::teh::the
::alreadsy::already

::nopity::Call to undefined function pity()

::awk1::awk '{{} print $1 {}}'

::du-m::du -m --max-depth=1 | sort -n

But it goes waaay behond this. I once used AHK to assist my grandfather, who in his old age had caused him to lose dexterity. He was clicking both right and left mouse buttons at the same time. I used AHK to disable the might mouse button and then mapped right click to Number Pad +. Worked beautifully.

I actually wrote a Big Long Article about it once:
https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/10/using-autohotkey-to-...
Yes, and additionally we will also need a machanically safe case, as - even if the boot order is set to hard disk, it is not modifiable (without password) and the BIOS resists removing power and battery, noone would prevent you to detach the hard disk and either replace it with your own or more simply steal the hard disk and have a look at its data without hurries.

Security is tough.
Ask HN: If all code runs as machine lang, why do programing languages matter?
I am learning to code and know a bit of Java and C. What i understand is all the code we write ultimately converted to machine language which is run in the CPU. The optimization we look forward while coding is for best time and space complexity which looks to me like language agnostic. So why do we have so many programming languages and ardent followers supporting or opposing one another? Is it mainly based on the programming paradigm (OOO vs Procedural)? If so, why the same paradigm has multiple languages?
They can do many things. Laws are ignored everyday by officials.

They can also close down the factory without issuing an arrest. A dare is very specifically doing something to get a reaction out of somebody. Musk most certainly isn't hoping that the state will arrest him or anybody working at his factory. Quite the opposite.
Well, and eventually sets you up for some bad press. I assume a "I chose CRDB, and now I've lost all my data" story will hit at some point. And it won't be obvious for all the readers that they weren't a paying customer.
Article should have mentioned Cyc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc) as an important attempt at common-sense reasoning.
Judging by the sheer level of resentment the poster holds for management, as a whole, it sounds more like it could easily be a case of their manager needing to replace a report.
Emotions are the result of consciousness. So you don't need to be able to build emotions.
It is licensed under AGPL it seems. https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice
And you work on things that you want to work on. If something is a hassle you punt and if people complain, what do you expect from free code?

How often does free software - and I mean no paid positions - compete with commercial software? OSS puts companies out of business (because it turns out people think some things should just be $0) but the projects that actually compete are a very small fraction, aren’t they?
Culture embracing remote work would help disperse the wealth geographically. It would hurt some property owners in urban meccas I suppose
Name Me, Elon
ISS Docking Simulator
Not now, I meant in your hypothetical 'lock down early before you have it (or much of it)' scenario. Without also fully closing the borders or staying locked down, that doesn't work.
Largely the compensation in SV and NYC was high because those were the cultural centers, it is expensive to live there but "everyone" wanted to be there.

Make no mistake - work from home means the salaries are going to regress to the midwest level of pay.
Is this surprising to anyone? Microsoft has been competing head-to-head with AWS as a VM/ cloud provider for quite a while now and Linux is by far the largest platform people deploy to.

I know there is some demand for Windows VMs in the enterprise, but even that seems to be shrinking.
Ahh, I named a function print(). I had no idea this was built in! Thank you.

Edit: Fixed! Also, looks much better on phones now.
It was. At some point the Treasury and the Fed "merged" for all practical intents and purposes. There is no longer a clear separation of banking and state. It's fuzzier by the day. But ultimately, this is what power does. It consolidates. It corrupts. Decentralization is the only counterweight to the corrosive effects of power. The power to print money at will...it will prove to be our economy's undoing.