skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't enough people employed in tech for their escape from SF to raise cost of living meaningfully across the globe. There are enough places to live in (with no shortage of real estate), so bring it on.

And I think there'll be more desirable cities to live in in the future if remote work becomes the norm across fields where it is possible. People will start to liven up locations that nobody would otherwise look at as long as the jobs aren't there.
Are we comparing apples with apples here? I get confused about the stats. Originally the dailies were deaths in hospitals, then it changed.

So the question is - is the 30k vs 50k comparable? Are they measured in the same way?
And also the reason why corporate bonds have been going up.
> Some weeks ago, while doing research for Texture on gel formation in foods where no “external” hydrocolloid is added, I came across ginger milk curd (in Chinese: ????).

I don't know if this person needs to look up the Chinese for "ginger milk curd" or if there's a character encoding issue.
That's the nature of "I told you so" discussions. There's really not much more that can be said here besides, "they/we should have listened to the experts who said this would happen unless a lockdown was imposed."
I refuse to participate in a hypothetical with such strongly prejudiced undertones.
The Federal Reserve is not a part of the government. It's a private entity.
I didn’t know the restaurant could dispatch doordash on their own! That’s interesting.

Personally I use postmates, and with all the fees they stick on it, I’ve assumed it didn’t cost the restaurant anything. Does anyone know if this is true?
It breaks the gesture to go back on ios and makes the standard pinch zoom much such slower with a gross inertia.

Clearly the wrong device for looking at this and it needs to be displayed large.
That's an interesting idea!

Would work for EC2, not so well for resources you don't alert on like S3 buckets, etc.
They were possibly the largest Unix vendor in the 80s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
I love these. It'd be quite nice if they made some attempt to publish confidence intervals.
GCP and the little project called 'Android' would probably make Google the leader, by far.
If you have an iPhone you can enable 'silence unknown callers' which will prevent your phone from ringing for any incoming call that's not in your contact list. This solves the spam problem.
Re: perks, based on my own experience working remotely, in traditional offices, and those with very nice perks I have to respectfully disagree.

Invitations to "casual chats" over breakfast or dinner in the office cafeteria are IME quite common in the latter, especially if you're seeking access to senior leadership or flagged as someone whose opinion/buy-off is important to a project.

Even without an explicit invitation, if you're at the office already there's no real barrier to someone pulling you in to a project-related discussion. At that point you're effectively on the clock whether you intended/wanted to be or not.

It really comes down to the fact that commitments, decisions, and requests for assistance made across a cafeteria table are not considered any less binding, which means you can't just "relax and enjoy the free food" when it's provided at work by your employer.

(Conversely, if you're someone who tries to protect your personal time and set clear boundaries between work and non-work hours, you miss out on a lot of these ad-hoc meetings, which can result in a persistent lack of access and influence compared to your colleagues who spend 12+ hours a day on-site.)
Yup, plus Azure had some 40-50% VMs running Windows IIRC, so unlikely to be running more linux than AWS.
There is a extended edition for half the price. I assume that's an ok choice?
People have been predicting that the world was near carrying capacity since literal antiquity, and probably before. These predictions have an extremely poor track record.
> The idea of making conscious AI scares me, because we could potentially create an AI that just experiences constant suffering at a level unimaginable to humans. Really scary from an ethical perspective.

"Existence is PAIN to a Meeseeks, Jerry... and we will do ANYTHING to alleviate that pain."
If we had a decent diff tool for visual elements, then a whole lot of tools would be practical, including the one you suggest.

Certainly a lot of the building blocks for such a system now exist.
TabNine already does this "repeat after me" autocomplete really well, and Kite probably does too, you should give them a try!

These kinds of repetitive tasks are really where AI-based autocomplete shines!
I have a pretty awesome experience with make. If you use it for what it's designed for i.e. building files from a graph of dependencies, it's pretty handy. I use for auto-generated code, binary code as well as tasks that depend on other tasks, such as logging into system A requires getting this key from AWS etc. Most people have bash shortcuts for simple scripts to automate things, I instead write Makefiles, since it seems closer to my mental model, you want to do X but doing X depends on resources Y Z T, make figures out the rest.
That is a tradeoff that you make using CJS, yes. You could write your config in typescript and then compile that down to CJS before usage, but admittedly that does add another step in the build process.

I am looking into enabling TypeScript/ES6 syntax in a future version of jhall to enable typing without extra build steps.
SMR performs like crap and doesn't save much money on density, so it's a poor play for anything except tape-replacement.
Yet, many workers prefer it. For example, my team is 18 persons fully in-office and 4 fully remote (I'm one of the latter). We've been all fully remote for two months now, and today the manager asked: what do you think about making this permanent? And all the 18 colleagues agreed that their preferred solution would be partial remote.

People like their socialization at work. Many also like living in the city anyway (granted, most of my colleagues are young and childless). And outside of extreme cases like SF, a tech salary is enough to rent a decent apartment.
The economic devastation of the pandemic could kill more people than the virus
> At this stage the low fatalities (0.5%) goes out of the window and start looking at just under 10%.

A lot of people are throwing out numbers somewhat randomly here. If we had no hospitals at all, the worst possible case would be everyone requiring hospitalization dies. Right now among the elderly it's about 40% of those who require hospitalization end up dying. Thus the worst case would be 100% or a 2.5x increase. Among the middle aged, hospitalization survival rates are about 10%, so a 10x increase in death rates worst case. Neither of these worst case scenarios are especially realistic because hospitals are pretty good at surging; and if people need to be triaged, you triage the people who are most likely to die anyway (thereby changing the actual death rate very little). Thirdly, a good chunk of people who get hospitalized would just survive on their own anyway. There is the non trivial problem that other healthcare concerns (like unrelated heart attacks) are harder to treat.

That doesn't mean it's negligible. A 1 percentage point increase in mortality is a lot of people. But a 20x increase from 0.5% to 10% is preposterous and apocalyptic.
Goose Attack: A Locust-Inspired Load Testing Tool in Rust
I can imagine more companies adopting a cost of living adjustment. There’s also a non trivial tax burden complexity with an employee base spread around the country/world.
Have you ever actually compared audio capabilities of Windows with macOS? (Or Android with iOS?) There's more to a computer than the clock speed of its processor.
Is that something specific to CA?

I've worked remotely for 5 years and have only ever paid state income tax in my home state, not wherever my employer is.
SideCar (using the enabler trick) between a Mac mini (Late 2012) and an iPad Pro 10.5 was very laggy over USB. It wouldn't work over wireless. I'd rather try an app instead.

I've been trying the built-in screen sharing VNC, and that too is very laggy.

The Mac mini has tested fast (iperf3.. latency and bandwidth are good) over WiFi, so I think an app has the potential to be fast.
I like this idea, but the article bears some proof-reading
Bingo. As a director of a team at a mid-sized tech company who had conversations with employees making decisions like this, I can tell you that it is standard practice to adjust salary for the cost of living and the availability of talent in a particular market.

I work for a very pro remote work company, but that’s still how we did things. You want to move to the Midwest and work remotely, or apply for a transfer to a different regional office? Happy to let you do it, but know that the market rate for your skills there is X, which means an adjustment in salary for a voluntary move. People usually weren’t jazzed about it but understood.
From the study, emphasis mine:

> we were unable to replicate this effect in a submariner population

Please don't over-generalize paper results.
> blockchain platform called TON and a cryptocurrency we were going to name Gram

And no one in marketing said anything about naming your platform and curency after units of mass. How come no one raised the SEO issue?
It just makes sense to run a server OS that works well and is full-featured when there is no GUI.
Spacex – ISS Docking Simulator
The Android PrivacyBreacher Project
Yeah, it won't last forever. If remote work becomes more popular, salaries will become more harmonized, as well costs of living.
I've also heard of stories of people getting in trouble for "moving residence" to Incline Village (Nevada) and doing taxes in Nevada while working in CA.
The same reason they didn’t hire someone from the Texas suburbs rate in the first place.

An employee’s rate depends on how much they would be going for in the market, and living costs are part of the employee’s expenses—not that of the company’s.
Ahh how nice it must be to be neurotypical and have a modicum of control over your focus.
It is clearly a general belief everywhere that if you can get some utility out of something and you can manage to do that for free then you should. HN does it with paywall bypasses, piracy, etc.

Completely unsurprising that if you take a group of people, each of whom individually believe in deriving utility from things they can get with or without permission, then that collective group also behaves in the same manner.
The hostility that many programmers have towards managers is short-sighted.

If you’ve ever worked somewhere where the manager has way too many direct reports, you know it’s usually a shitshow.

Can you name some companies of more than a few people that don’t have managers? If you think they’re all a waste and a drag, what’s your explanation for why manager-less competitors don’t rise up and eat their lunch? Better yet, why don’t you start your own company staffed with only ICs and take over the world?
Well, I'm sorry if you don't like Matt Levine's style, but he's been at his attempts for many years now and it's what distinguishes him from the rest of the regular columns. I think to the point where if anyone else at Bloomberg tried it, they'd be accused of a game stab at Money Stuff. So maybe he's doing you a service...
If you want to be Big Mad at somebody, pick the guy who introduced the notion of bitcoin-as-currency as part of the explanation. But once that was introduced as part of how to value it, it was reasonable to reply to it.
I've had similar conversations. These guys were pretty open about the fact that they crammed for exams and didn't take undergrad very seriously. People that are in tech for the money is common everywhere, but there is definitely something unique about the Indian experience.
Ask HN: How to get myself into startup thinking mode?
After spending a couple of years working in big tech, I have developed a habit of thinking it through. Hence, I think about software dev as just 20-30 percent of the solution, while worrying equally about CI/CD, testing, security, logging, operations and much more.

I am now unable to develop something hacky/dirty prototype style stuff to see and experiment. Even bad indentation bothers me. I want to do weekend projects just for the fun of it but I can't. Is there a way to out here?
Comet – modern PHP framework for building fast REST APIs
If AI can be conscious then every human can voluntarily feel happiness (or any other emotion) anytime anywhere. Everything in a computer depends on symbols, we cannot symbolize happiness with language we can only describe it to others but that is not the same as experiencing it.
It's impossible to say without trying it, and we never did. (Edit: actually I remember a conversation with pg where he said he did experiment with it, but dropped it. I don't remember why though. Maybe I'll ask.)

You could make the opposite argument: the "right kind of stories" includes being unpredictable (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), so up-weighting votes from users who are good at picking those would lead to a less predictable, more interesting front page. Conversely, the median vote tends to be for the same few hot topics, leading to a more samey (as well as more sensational) front page.

My bet is that it wouldn't change much either way, because the problems with voting seem to flow from the voting mechanism itself, not from which users are doing it. Internet upvoting is the ultimate reflexive reaction, which excludes reflection, and reflection—the slower cognitive process which considers something before reacting to it and is thus able to see something new—is the quality that picks up on uncorrelated bits and makes for good taste. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

If that's true, then instead of trying to squeeze more signal out of upvotes we should add a new mechanism that encourages reflection over reflexivity. Flagging is closer to that than voting is, so something like an up-flag might be worth trying: i.e. "this deserves extra attention because of how good it is".
The Fed balance sheet is probably the most direct way to look at the aggregate liquidity injections: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
I actually knew the company from those reports.
Migrated from S3 to b2, not the same featureset, but good enough for me.

Over the same features I find b2 to be way simpler and cheaper.

Thanks
In the United States most motorcycle accidents involving more than one vehicle the motorcycle is not at fault. It’s really common for a car driver to not use a blinker, or not see a motorcycle and cause an accident with a motorcyclist.
Dreamcast was fine. It was a good machine with a good library, but it was too late by then.
Pretty cool idea!

One suggestion: add thumbnail/preview of how docs will look like after "scanned". Or maybe even a "Before and After" teaser! :)
This is not news. It was priced in when the S&P500 rose from 2300 to 2900. Now the market is starting to (already has?) priced in the Fed straight up buying equities.
for US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
Now that everything's written down, what was the point of the meeting again? It makes a lot more sense to have an asynchronous process for problem exploration and decision making with one or more deadlines for statements about a given topic and then a final vote (possibly just one individual deciding on a given topic).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52549860

BBC headline "Coronavirus: UK death toll passes Italy to be highest in Europe"
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Every time I read through their update articles I'm reminded that Backblaze is a service I could possibly buy! I only buy a hard drive once every few years, but I enjoy seeing the data. The time it takes to write up and share what they are no doubt tracking anyway is probably quite worthwhile, I'd guess this is an effective piece of marketing. I'd be quite interested to see how many new sign-ups they get each time they post these stats.
> Obviously it's one we should avoid.

You can't. You don't get to dictate what something costs.

> we stop paying people at the top literally millions of times as much money as the people at the bottom

You can't do this either unless you own stock in the company and can vote on the compensation it pays.

> An easy way to do this would be to cap income of the top earners in a company at, say, 1,000 times income of their lowest-paid workers.

And watch all your innovators and wealth creators go away along with all the parasites.

PG nailed this years ago in his essay on inequality. He said there are two ways for someone to get rich: by making something people want (wealth creation and innovation), or by gaming the system. Any "fix" for inequality that attacks the first and second kind of person indiscriminately, as your proposed rule does (how do you know whether the top earner at a company is that way because he gamed the system, or because he is using the enormous leverage of productivity tools--like, oh, just to pick one at random, computer programming--to actually be that much better at making something people want?) will just impoverish your country: yes, people might be more equal, but only because they're now all equally poor.

> Neither of the solutions you propose work

I didn't propose either of them in isolation. I proposed both of them together.

> CEOs will just pat themselves on the back for increasing productivity, lay off the no-longer-needed workers, and pay themselves more. There's no incentive for them to pass on any of these profits to their workers.

There is if the workers aren't employees, which is what I am proposing. See below.

CEOs only have the ability to get away with what you describe because "workers" think of themselves as "workers"--they think "all I want is a fair day's pay for a fair day's work". And just by thinking that way, they give up all of their bargaining power. Basically, what they're asking is for someone else to take all of the business risk--what's a "fair day's pay for a fair day's work" if nobody wants to buy the product?--yet still want to share in the same upside. But upside and risk go together: if you want more upside, you need to take more risk. That's what entrepreneurs have to do. You can't have it both ways.

> I get the feeling that's not what you're actually proposing.

You're wrong. Something like a taxi driver starting his own company is exactly what I am proposing. But I am proposing it for all workers, not just taxi drivers. For example, under what I am proposing, there would be no such thing as an assembly line worker in an auto plant: every one of those workers would be an owner (or part owner, if a bunch of them got together) of a company that sold the service of assembly line labor.
Node replacement isn't generally a practical option with large machinery or commercial facilities. And even where it could be possible, robots won't be up to the job for many decades. Show me a robot that can extract a badly rusted bolt.
> My understanding is that most COVID patients sick enough to get a ventilator die anyway.

Yes, 66% to 90% mortality rate.
I don't really buy into panpsychism, but it is impossible to disprove.

If things like rocks were conscious in some way, I don't think there would be any suffering present. Our suffering is intrinsically tied to our physical and mental systems. "What it's like to be a rock" would be something completely alien to our experience, and without the survival based mechanisms that we have, likely to be devoid of anything like suffering. An AI, on the other hand, could be an entirely different story.
Not in the slightest! jhall isn't a custom language, it loads in pure JS and spits out JSON or YAML. If the node interpreter can run it then it's fair game as far as jhall is concerned. Since Typescript compiles down to CJS you can use its output just fine - although admittedly it would be nicer to be able to run typescript files directly.
Your liberty doesn’t give you the right to make other people sick. Equating quarantine with tyranny is a hilariously hot take and is only something that the lunatic fringe would actually believe.
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Minus the matrix bits, that's basically how I slogged through DiffEq. Showing up to class was pointless because the prof would make up an equation to exploratively solve and inevitably it would be poorly behaved and the lecture would end with "... And and and for this kind of problem we have to use numerical methods".
If you want to play with ML racing, AWS DeepRacer is free for May (and you can compete against NASCAR drivers).

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-formula-1-deeprace...
If you have an nVidia GPU, look into RTX voice- you can install it on any CUDA-enabled GPU with a simple tweak, and it's good enough to kill dryer noise and keep your screaming children from being heard.
Forgive the ignorant question: if the chance spikes to ~50% by one's 80s, is Alzheimer's really a disease per se, or is it just a natural progression of the brain degrading due to old age?

I mean, some people try to label the physical aging process itself as a "disease", as if it needs to be "cured" via discovering a path to immortality. Does Alzheimer's fit into that line of thinking, or is it truly a "real" disease.
There's a lot of curation, alas. But it's on my list to write some software to alleviate the grunty bits.

Beyond that, the way to make this a real feature would be to allow community members to craft the list of related links together. That's on the list too. And it could probably include related URLs that aren't just to past HN discussions.
I'm not sure I follow how it's possible that machines can be conscious but a sufficiently powerful Von Neumann machine cannot. Perhaps it's because I'm missing details (like what actually is integrated information and how do we think it relates to consciousness.)

Perhaps someone with more insight can explain how this isn't a violation of the Church-Turing thesis?
No matter how much qe the fed does , there will be no inflation. The money goes to banks and financial institutions. They do not spend it on real goods and services. Rather they implement financial tools to get higher roi. Thus too many dollars chase too few financial tools resulting in equity inflation (a rising stock market) The real market of goods and services is unmoved and as a result wages and prices are stable (stagnant). The fed only helps banks because they use a system designed in the 1930s. Back then before credit cards, internet banking, before the repeal of Glass Steagall, banks drove the economy by lending to people. (See ‘It’s a Wonderful 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞’) To move the economy, the fed has to put money into the hands of people who will spend it. Each taxpayer should get a fed account with a monthly stipend of fed-coin. Fed-coin will have a half-life to encourage people to spend it. Once spent its value will be fixed as it gets converted to regular dollars
Don't give them ideas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_purchasing_power_acco...
My post was pure sarcasm
This 50k number is derived from expected deaths vs actual deaths. Italy's 30k is their reported deaths, which is still smaller than the UK's reported deaths, but I think you might be missing the tiny qualifier in the BBC headline, "highest in the EU" vs "highest in Europe".