skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really amazing the lengths managers and organizations go to in order to feel like they own their employees. At my old job in finance, a random VP would always show up at like 11pm to do a "desk check" of the analysts. No one was explicitly reprimanded for not working at 11pm, but the message was clear: it's better to play candy crush on your phone until past midnight at the office instead of actually getting some goddamn sleep. It was a pretty common occurrence for average performers who lived in the office to get promoted over top performers who didn't work as many hours.

Companies don't want you to think of your job as a job, instead they want you to buy in, join the cult, and become a company man, someone who's identity is inextricably linked to the firm. This software is just the next evolution of in office desk checks that have probably been going on for centuries.

Another way to look at it is that companies have almost no transparency into how productive their employees actually are. The problem is especially acute among managers who are unable to verify the quality of their subordinates work. How does your boss know if you're simply not working very hard or working hard on a very hard problem? Without domain expertise, it's impossible.

The solution is for organizations to ditch desk checks, ditch standard working hours, invest in tools and structures to provide greater transparency into real performance, and make sure all managers have the same domain expertise as their subordinates.

If your need software to spy on your employees to make sure they're actually working, your company is far too broken for the software to help.
React Native at least only advertises that it only supports Android + iOS, whereas this adds "PCs, tablets, 2-in-1s, Xbox, Mixed reality devices, etc., as well as the MacOS desktop and laptop ecosystems"
> What's uncomputeable about the atoms that create me?

* There's a lot of them

* Universal time appears to be continuous

The three body problem is a great example of just how impossible a true simulation of our universe would be. We can't even get 3 atoms orbiting around each-other.
What if instead of consciousness being a yes/no, it's in terms of CU (consciousness units). Anything with >0 CUs is conscious. A bag of sand has 0 CUs, while a human has 1 CU. A grasshopper might have 0.0001 CUs, though, which is > 0.
Looks like the Matt Levine of crypto, even down to the "Things happen" section.
There are second order effects to firing people. Even if I'm doing a great job and enjoying my work, I'm going to get stressed out if I see 10% of my coworkers get fired every performance review cycle. Sure it would be nice if people who don't carry their weight were replaced but in any profession where productivity is non-objective, that's scary.
In summary you could say yes but I wanted to simplify the process for the not-so-techy person. I will work on a Standalone app that simplifies the command and shows a nice GUI for more private documents
I would argue that market rationality and efficiency described in economics textbooks does not exist, nor has ever existed.
They are probably asking why WASM (probably in .wat format) is not an option alongside x86/x86-64, ARM, AArch64, and RISC-V.
Source for Nebraska turning into a hotspot?

Looking at all the trackers I have bookmarked I'm not seeing much of an indication of this. Yes, confirmed cases seem to be up in the last week, but that seems to track with increased testing (a good thing). The rate of positives is showing a decline over the same time period.

More indicative of an outbreak would be increased hospitalizations or deaths. Hospital bed usage has been at the same level since mid April, and deaths have been at a steady 1 to 3 per day since the end of April.

Sources:

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en/test?state=NE

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/nebr...

https://infection2020.com/#
Initial AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Linux Performance Is Good
maybe an OpenGL type of rendering?
> One point against the traditional belief is that if you've ever read Aristotle you might be shocked to learn that the Greeks of antiquity believed that "soul" was quite physical

Aristotle's view is, to a large extent, the traditional religious belief (at least in the West). Aristotle would not have held that the soul was physical as you say, rather that the soul was the "form", or the animating principle of the physical body. The "magical phenomena" as the "residue of traditional religious beliefs" you mention is not really "traditional" at all. Descartes came along in the 17th century with his "res cogitans" and mucked up the whole issue by explicitly rejecting the traditional Aristotelian view.
Two thoughts:

1) without definition of 'AI' or 'conscious', all answers are correct. They do go into a bit of depth on what 'conscious' means, but not what 'AI' means.

2) there are a lot of related words here: conscious, self-aware, sentient, sapient, 'narrow AI', etc.

> Let's imagine that we simulate the brain in all biological details on a supercomputer. Will that supercomputer be conscious?

They say no, but fail to explore the more interesting corollary that the supercomputer won't be conscious but the program is, by their definition. It's just one level of abstraction up from Matter -> Brain -> Mind to Matter -> Computer -> Simulated Brain -> Mind.

I do find this definition of consciousness interesting from an ethical perspective, given their final thought experiments. It reminds me of the Presger, an alien race from the Ancillary Justice trilogy. They have the concept of 'Significant' species that have rights and if you aren't, you're basically inanimate matter or bugs or whathaveyou.
A propos as today is International Nurses Day.
I wonder when people will be allowed to draw the same parallels with Coronavirus.
Was it forgetting - memories fading?
What was wrong with Karabiner Elements?

I am using it and am curious what are the downsides
Is anyone able to provide a map of modern frameworks? With React-native, React-redux, Angular, Vue and probably a bunch of others.

I'm really not sure what's relevant now and what was relevant 6 months ago. I'm genuinely curious, but it's pretty difficult to grasp and no framework homepage is going to tell you "Don't use me, I'm about to be a dead project!" and every developer will tell you their preferred framework is the best framework.
US grocery costs jump the most in 46 years
AoE 2 was a seminal game. I remember playing it obsessively in the early days of ITA Software (circa 99). It was addictive and the graphics were amazing for the time, but my strongest memory is of the path-finding algorithms directing my troops right through the enemy’s position, to the slaughter — much to my frustration.
Electron supports multiple windows, but it ends up being annoying to do because each window runs in its own process. If your app has any kind of central state that's shared between windows, you end up copying data between processes frequently, which can be slow.

Rendering consistency is generally pretty good; I haven't run into any issues with that.
> Go to France, for example, and they're much lower.

Personally heard some horror stories from french IT, any particular reason that attitudes don't change there?
"HR" wasn't really involved in hiring, except as a secretary role here. The scanning and decisions were made by development managers and team leads. I think that's the way it should be.

(HR printed out all applications on paper. We sat in a meeting room to scan through them, and discuss them. The mechanism was: scan through each one; write your initial and then yay or nay. Obvious ones got into the yay/nay piles, then we debated the maybe pile. After all of that, HR set up interviews with the people who ended up in the yay pile.)
That's not really an information advantage — the employer can demand that information even without the need for employment paperwork (ignoring the impracticality of that for argument's sake). An employer has an interest in knowing in which time zone their remote employee is situated. If there is onsite work to be done with clients in different geographies, knowledge of where employees live so as to be able to efficiently deploy them is also another use case. And finally, the employer can simply demand that the employee divulge that information through negotiation leverage — the same way that they can force an employee to divulge their name.

Also, this argument can be used the other way around. Why should an employee know what the employer's finances are? Perhaps the employer has the raw ability to pay an employee more (even if it's not economically expedient), but why should the employee know this? Why should the employee know where the employer is physically situated?

In every market, the employee and employer both have information on where the other is situated and how much they are able to pay / receive. That's not really information asymmetry.

Also, at this point, remote software engineer salaries are some of the most well published in the industry, though there is definitely room for improvement in salary transparency. All that being said, I don't think you can convincingly argue that ALL remote software engineers ought to be paid exactly the same, regardless of their local cost of living. They can certainly try to negotiate their wages up, but there will also be downward pressure on wages if the labor market is loose enough.
Ok, from context it sounded like literal family so I was confused.

Still, I don’t think “work is not your family” is antagonistic and I don’t think it implies you can’t form meaningful relationships with your coworkers. I interpret it from the other direction more like “don’t expect your coworkers to be your family”.
I'm really excited, although the Mac part of this page is somewhat misleading — there isn't anything available on the Mac side yet (everything is "coming soon")
The Challenge Is Meatless Monday
I'm reading 'The Culture Code' and from what it says all elite teams qualify themselves as family

That most corporations fail at it doesn't mean it's not the ideal
Usually the misleadiness goes no deeper than the headline, but in this case the article is also contributing, and maybe not only the article but the statements the article is reporting on. "Stay-at-home orders will with all certainty be extended for the next three months" is a strange way to describe the process of opening up. Most likely this way of putting it is the product of some political constraint-solving.

I've replaced the title with a phrase from the article that manages to be both accurate and noncommittal.
If it's Permutation City, the character also becomes an entomologist and a skyscraper abseiler for similarly extended periods.
> from diagrams import Diagram

Slightly off-topic, but I wish JavaScript's import syntax was designed to be this way around, for better autocomplete in your editor.
I never thought I'd be into e-sports, but I started watching AoE2 streams on YouTube a little over a year ago and got pulled in. The community is quite nice and the pro scene is fun to watch.

T90[1] is probably the most well known streamer. He just hosted Hidden Cup 3, which was the biggest 1v1 AoE2 tournament prize pool since 2002. Crazy!

Props to Microsoft for making Definitive Edition a great remaster. They could have easily gone down the Warcraft III: Reforged path and botched the game, but it feels like they really care about the success of the franchise.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZUT79WUUpZlZ-XMF7l4CFg
Andrew Huang (?) - Four producers, one sample
Frankly I think if I'd had better technology as a child I'd be even more content-addicted and boredom-averse than I am now. At least the way I am I can make it through a wedding without checking my phone.
> JK Rowling

A good point. I wasn't aware that she was a billionaire and she apparently gave most of it away by now, dropping her well bellow a billion again.

> Markus Persson.

I remember that there was a lot of controversy around Minecraft, but I can't accurately recall the details to counter that.
How about just summoning without needing line of sight and shifting the responsibility of crashing to the human
Not sure what the advantage here is over Electron. I know the chromium engine is a resource hog, but the scalability/mix between platforms makes it worth it. Curious to know what your thoughts are folks!
This is what I see in my network; people continue to self isolate. The effect would be lower case/death peak at the expense of economic “back to normal” that seems to be priced into the stock market.
What would be the benefit over electron?
LA's beaches are starting to open tomorrow [1]. LA is making clear progress towards reopening. I understand they aren't doing it as fast as some want, but that isn't an excuse to pretend that no progress is being made at all.

[1] - https://twitter.com/lacdbh/status/1259933680408997888
...isn't that because people expected things to re-open on that date? All of those businesses ceased operation. It's not because people didn't want to go out. They couldn't even if they wanted to.

I rescheduled a haircut to the 16th because I figured that's when they will start cutting hair again.
This was 17 years ago when he said it, and he was talking about his time in Germany in the late 80s/ early 90s.

Maybe the culture has shifted since then.
The claim was that it’s harder for the USA to get the required levels of unobtanium than a smaller country because it needs more.

In reality the USA has more purchasing leverage because it can exploit (and is exploiting) geopolitics, and can obtain at least as much reagent/unobtanium per capita as other countries right now.

To put it in terms you might understand, the USA has a better ability to source reagent than you do - see if you as an individual are able to procure even 1 litre of the stuff!
Particularly outside of the US, in my experience. Having spent considerable time in React, RN, and Flutter the difference is remarkable. Unless devs are big fans of JS, Flutter is a compelling alternative [1].

1: https://blog.benroux.me/us-devs-are-sleeping-on-flutter/
Shouldn't they be? They actively try their hardest to hire the best and they are honest on the re-balancing they do. It's an alpha mentality.
Is that really it though?
> The previous threads about covid have a large number of comments basically saying you can choose between saving lives or the economy. Anybody who suggested we should open up was accused of being greedy and wanted people to die to avoid being inconvenienced.

What it has to do with my comment?
"""
Let's imagine that we simulate the brain in all biological details on a supercomputer. Will that supercomputer be conscious?

No. It doesn't matter whether the Von Neumann machine is running a weather simulation, playing poker, or simulating the human brain; its integrated information is minute. Consciousness is not about computation; it's a causal power associated with the physics of the system.
"""

I don't understand how anyone could answer this question this way. It's practically a tautology; if the simulation is accurate, then the person you're simulating is conscious. In other contexts, it's taken for granted that if this entire planet were running on a simulation, we wouldn't even be able to tell.

Less hypothetically, this "consciousness-meter" would give a different value for a physical chip, and a perfectly accurate emulation of that chip. They're doing the exact same thing, and your meter gives a different number? Why is anyone taking this person seriously?
Our little conversation amounts, to me, to "we allow people to sell dreams as long as these dreams are allowed to sell by us". I cannot see how you resolve your allowance for regularly failing kickstarters and your allowance-not for TON.

I see the value in TON beyond material. Compare it to Libra, to give you another point to discuss.

For me, at the very least, TON could be a viable alternative to Libra - it is architecturally about the same PBFT (with useful twists) and, frankly, it does not possess Facebook-or-Libra-associated flaws.
look, i get it but my family's livelihood isn't going to foot the bill for your fear.
Time to grow something in the backyard other than grass.
https://granolashotgun.com/2020/05/03/the-other-pitchforks/
In terms of volumetric density, flash is already much higher. A 4TB m.2 2280 SSD is ~70 times smaller than a 16TB 3.5" HDD.
I don't think its that simple, because it doesn't have to be all or nothing. I think CA has the right idea to lift restrictions at the state level so that less at-risk rural areas can try it out. It will give an idea as to what LA county would need to do: if things go okay then a reopen is reasonable, if people don't feel comfortable without some kind of "distancing" rules then those would need to be considered, or something else.

So yeah, of course there is a point in debating such a question. And there are real ways to find answers. Probably even better ones than what I said.
It's barely more deadly than the average flu when viewed across the entire population, but to the part of the population in a nursing home, it's basically like ebola. There have been multiple nursing homes just in my state that are seeing death rates between 20 and 40 percent, which is just bonkers.
It was while reading my above comments that I realised I should have shut up and contributed code instead, because that's definitely more helpful than being critical on HN, especially to a newcomer & their first project.

So that is what I've decided to do! First step: a PR coming out of getting this up and running on my Ubuntu box. :)
First article I've seen from what looks like a newly launched site. Seems like a neat niche--tech stories outside of the West. Any existing sites/newsletters already on this beat?
It's just that I have a hard time believing that three or four years of development for administrating windows through text is equivalent to 30 years development for administrating Unix through a CLI.
Not every place outside a large urban area has to be white picket fences. It can be what we reimagine.
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The other perversity is that grant conversion, i.e., forgiveness of the PPP loan, is contingent on rehiring. If the requisite number of former employees do not return, the business will be required to repay, and that is tantamount to paying employees with no ROI.
> And programming pays better than teaching.

Let's quantify that since most people don't understand just how bad the discrepancy is.

A lecturer in CS might get $4000 for a semester. That's 12+weeks at 40 hours a week of work preparing the lectures, grading, preparing tests, and answering student questions via email. Not joking.

That's right around minimum wage in most civilized places in the US (about $8 an hour).

I presume the discrepancy is much worse in other countries.
That’s what happens in pandemics: everyone’s freedom is restricted because everyone’s choices impact everyone else in serious, often fatal, ways.
I'd recommend GS after ImageMagick as IM will hugely increase the size of the output due to rasterization!
Albert Pierrepoint: The Executioner Who Took More Than 400 Lives
So it exists, but is the usability and functionality nearly equivalent? And the thing is that it also involves third-party software tools.
Perhaps you should read the report before opining on it, as I mentioned when I posted the link.
> What is artificial about artificial intelligence? Just the fact that we built it, instead of giving birth to it?

Yes.

artificial
1 Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/artificial
It's a fantastic tool. I've been using it for years and I love it. Also works great with the Elgato StreamDeck.
People feed their families and provide them with healthcare by working as waiters, bartenders, and stylists.

There are a lot of them. Stop acting like this is just about entitled tech workers demanding a night on the town.
Eyes are still much better at extracting 3D info from paintings (e.g. paint thickness, texture, etc.). This could potentially be replicated by photographing each point on the painting from two angles.
Self driving cars involves a lot of hardware, it's hardly just a software company
I swear to gosh Facebook, if you tempt my employer into making me write Windows apps...
There really is an embarrassment of wealth in terms of DAWs these days.

At the low end, Reaper, Cakewalk, GarageBand (not to mention Cubasis and Auria on the iPad), FL Studio, Reason Essentials, Bitwig 16-track et al. give you amazing capabilities for very little (sometimes no) money.

There is also an amazing wealth of great cheap or free instrument and effect plugins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqTnmn51Fg
> including treating my monitor as a speaker for some reason (it doesn't have built-in speakers).

This is quite common on HDMI monitors. Since the HDMI connection transmits both audio and video, the monitor just accepts both audio and video input. They would then have a 3.5-mm jack to allow you plug in an actual speaker or headphone to receive the audio output.
Perhaps it's more readable/writeable with Awk:

pbpaste | awk '{print " "$0}' | pbcopy

Although this also seems to do the same thing

pbpaste | sed 's/^/ &/' | pbcopy
To all the people says that they should have just followed security laws, you don't understand the purpose of TON and GRAM. It CAN NOT work if it is a security. The Idea was that Telegram user have a wallet and can store/send GRAMs to each-other Donate/tip and buy stuff. This is not possible/allowed with securities. You can only buy/sell securities form/to regulated exchanges. It completely destroys it's whole use-case.

Anyway they could still do it with some kind of distributed token generation, similar to mining so tokens are generated by the users and not sold. But this obviously would not make the investors happy because they get nothing then.
How to Achieve Water Security in Urban Areas
By crash I don't mean can't use the machine. I mean hard total lock requiring holding down the power button and no dump is even generated.
In part, I think some of the young there are on to something. I love working remote now, but one thing remote is bad at is training, especially the intensive training you want at a junior level. I would've had a much harder time learning core work skills (how to do actual work, but also time management, communication, ...) without the super close contact you get in person.

Imo, remote is a big perk once you have a couple of years of professional work under your belt, but a real challenge before that point.
Fun AutoHotKey abuse: Tom Scott's emoji keyboard[0]. It's every single emoji (at the time of recording) on 14 full keyboards with 1,000s of hand-placed bespoke stickers. He goes into more detail here[1], but it's beautiful.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U
I can provide you with a short video clip of spaghetti falling through the air, it's functionally equivalent
Steps to Digital Transformation While Simultaneously Cutting Costs