skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son is 5 and he knows what my door is for. He still comes in occasionally but it's pretty manageable. The 2 year old is a different matter, but soon we'll get daycares back so no biggie.
There are some siamese twins that are able to use the senses of the other (they share some brain regions, I believe) but it requires great concentration. There might be some insight there.
What about when this is over and you have access to your regular childcare?

I imagine a thoughtful approach to “everybody WFH” would include a coworking space credit if needed, a stipend to equip one’s home office if needed, etc.

“My home is too small / distracting / I like to be near people” => coworking space

“I don’t have an ergo chair / etc” => stipend
I mean. Can you imagine the shit storm that ensues if someone use GTA for autonomous training data and caused deaths IRL. I don’t even want to think about that news headlines.
So kickstarter is a place for whom?
If you mean "why do they prevent pasting?" -- because their talented and conscientious devs think password managers are insecure. I've tried emailing several webmasters about this but it's a waste of time.
My understanding is that though they're less reliable, it's cheaper to buy more of them and expect some to fail instead.
I'm adding this to the pending in GitHub, great idea
If you can relocate temporarily, most of Microsoft will let you go remote if you're a top performer (Top 10% roughly) after about 2 years.
Welcome to Westworld.
Absolutely true. I was just adding a more silent way to use sudo without being detected. In fact, without sudo, I can still piggy-back on peoples SSH connections if they don't disable multiplexing. As an added bonus, there are no syslog entries when I ride that channel.
All: this article deserves a better discussion than it's gotten so far. It's a rare thing: a new angle on one of the absolutely most-discussed topics here. That's interesting, regardless of where our reactions all land on agree/disagree, like/dislike, us/them and so on.

If you're going to add comments to this thread, can you please engage with the specifics of the article?
It's not in a browser per se but this New Yorker article from a few years ago goes into how a company uses various high-tech scanners to create very convincing reproduction of paintings that include their depth: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/the-factory-of...
Tooling in mind, and assume that the language is not the only language in existence. A large part of my career has been spent writing scripts to duct tape together tools from different languages or write custom tools to deal with friction in a development environment.
Shit, and what if it's so badly rusted that you have to drill it out and then use a tap to clear the remaining crud from the threads...
That’s something to explore.

In my vision people pay for packaged software, such as a packaged deb or rpm or whatever format consumers want to buy. They get access to the sources too, and can build themselves if that’s what they want.

I would really like to be able to buy services for my raspberry pi for example, knowing that I will get a packaged software that is maintained and tested. I have no issues to setup stuff myself, but if I can have for example a media player that I can buy and install via an APT equivalent, I would be quite happy. I find it really weird that I never had to pay for VLC given the amount of time I spent using it (I list it in my top 3 softwares of all time).

Also I want to be able to spend my time creating and selling tools and services that people can easily shop for and install.

Basically steam, but not for command line and services.

I find it really strange that we expect open source software to be free and have developers asking for donations instead of having more standard market dynamics. We don’t have this for games, or arts, or anything else that I’m aware of.

I know I can donate, I’ve done it multiple time. But I don’t think that make sense.
Resume scanning/filtering is a real problem.

Generally I start classifying resumes into two piles: those that put everything they know on their resume, and those that include a handful of relevant, interesting pieces of knowledge with a few lines of job experience to back those up.

When "everything they know" fits on four pages, in my experience they aren't worth interviewing.

When "interesting pieces of knowledge" makes me want to ask more questions about what they did, in my experience they are worth interviewing.

Unfortunately the HR system scans for keywords, which makes the "interesting pieces of knowledge" resume less likely to get through HR and "everything they know" more likely to get through HR, which is the opposite of what I want to see. HR needs to either admit that they need to hire a developer to scan resumes instead of using automated software or just admit defeat and pass all resumes on, regardless of source or quality. They just are not capable of filtering software developer resumes in their current form.
Blackrock is waiving ETF fees for this facility (don't know off the top of my head if other providers are as well) and overall fees for managing these facilities are not great. The Fed does not have the operational expertise to manage these facilities in-house. You could make an argument if all they were buying was ETFs but a majority of the facility is for corporate bonds and things can go real wrong if you don't know what you're doing there.
This argument makes no sense at all. They never offered to sell the gold. It's more like they offered to sell a share of the gold mining venture. Where the token represents a share of the business.

By that logic we should shut down every company in existence on the basis that there is uncertainty in their future. Especially now with the COVID-19, every airline company's survival is pure speculation; does that mean it should be illegal to buy shares of airline companies now?

I don't care at all about TON at all. But in the context of corporate America, this is completely arbitrary.
Fantastic. That's two books I will look into.

I did a little searching this morning and did find D.G. Myers old blog where he posts a few of his favorite novels, including Stoner. Link here: https://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-favorite-martians.ht...
I'm no expert, although I think I remember that a Monad is basically just like allowing a sequence of statements to be executed. Like executing a code file ;)

Functional languages are really weird, for instance it's possible to switch line order of statements and the compiler will still figure out how to stitch that together. I think even JS in parts has or at least had that behaviour. (Actually that's useful when having mathematical formulas that are interdependent and you're too lazy to order them topologically by dependence)

On the other hand, just executing a sequence of commands in order to do I/O is only a normal thing to do since recently as far as I understand. The sweet spot for FP is IMHO something like React where state is strictly separated from the functions. (Imagine writing Hello World using Normal Maths)

(Please correct me if I'm wrong, which is probably quite likely ;))
Too Big To Survive = too big to fail
If one needed more cpus, the advantage of "just more servers" vs this card I'm guessing is the extraordinarily lower latency and bandwidth available via PCIe vs some other interconnect?
The new "software engineer" is just a software assembly line worker. I guess the same goes for other engineers. I would imagine the quality of software engineer will get worse over time as it becomes easier to assemble software from an assortment of black boxes.
>Patients in a vegetative state lie in bed, are unable to voluntary move or speak, sometimes can't even move their eyes anymore, but the consciousness-meter tells us that about a fifth of them remain conscious.

> If I take my Tesla car and beat it up with a hammer, it's my right to do it. My neighbor might think that I am crazy, but it's my property.

So, by his own reasoning, you can take a hammer to 4 out of 5 humans in a vegetative state, because they aren't conscious, and thus are property?
Seems like your experiences with Mountain View are el camino real and the 101 to/from SJC...

Go about 3 miles west and you'll find beautiful mountain forests :)
What a pathetic govt then. I've taken almost every precaution (I was way ahead and have masks, hand sanitizer, touchless soap, open doors with disposable tissue and more) but you cannot keep small children under 3 cooped up all day - it's disgusting.

Seriously - I have always been a law and order person - but seeing acres and acres wide open space, that is totally uncrowded at all times (even weekends before covid) now off limits because of some bogus risk evaluation is ridiculous.

And no - I do not go grocery shopping AT ALL in two months. I ordered online very early, leave the food outside for 3 days after delivery, wash packages etc.

The govt has absolutely lost its mind with this horrendous logic. The reality - we have to believe there is some basis in the closure of things (clearly clubs / bars / social gatherings make sense) or people are going to stop putting up with 100% stupidity.

Shutting down huge outdoor spaces within walking distances of folks houses is the dumbest thing I've heard. Now we are all crowded on sidewalks.

And no - I cannot go and get tested even if I'm willing to pay because I can't certify I have the severity level of systems needed and a doctors order, and oh, the FDA and CDC blocked everyone from doing tests for a long time.

Let me give govt some suggestions.

Allow people to pay, out of pocket, with no doctors order for testing if they want to. Do free testing for folks who have a doctors order and meet your severe symptoms criteria.

Where is the contact tracing?

Focus the lockdown on high risk activities - not shutting down beaches. You are seriously going to lose the trust of folks with this stupidity.
There are a few SaaS products I've seen that do this, like https://basedash.io/
While the system gets even more top heavy. (Jeff Bezos gets more.)
Lots of companies are followers. I appreciate Twitter taking the lead here.
You have the stage, why won't you expand on your point a little.
"there are not any products or services that can be purchased with Grams" at the time of writing.

And I believe omitting the time variable is the greatest omission in what you quoted.
I disagree with both of those examples because the physical location of the job/house is the important factor affecting the cost. In the McDonalds example, the physical restaurant is embedded in the community and partakes in the market forces of that physical location. In the house example, same thing, the physical house is embedded in the community and partakes market forces derived from the demand of others wanting to live in that community. The location of the job or asset affects its value.

However, in remote work, this is no longer true to the degree of other jobs (disregarding regional taxes, paperwork, etc). The job can exist anywhere and the value derived from it (all else being equal, like worker quality, etc) does not change.
Flutter Over-the-air translation changes without app releases
If you have a university library account, ArtStor (https://www.artstor.org/) is probably the biggest resource out there for detailed paintings, although it's behind a paywall and some images are better quality than others.
The CMS for Twitter – tweets, threads, RTs scheduling platform
Okay, we can talk all day about the "should"s but the fact stands that almost everything that has brought any individual to billionaire status in today's world was the result of exploitation.
How about we have the governments break up Amazon instead ? I do not like the idea of one conglomerate (is this a congolomerate?) having influence on so many areas of my life.
I'm curious; what do you think this will accomplish?

If the Federal Reserve thinks this is within their dual mandate and you scare them into doing less than their mandate... what do you expect will happen (to the Fed, the economy, monetary and fiscal policy)?

In a certain prism, the Federal Reserve is the only national institution in the USA (yes, I'm aware it's technically a private entity) which is still effective at doing its job.
Facebook will pay $52M in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD
This is a bit misleading. The urban population of sweden sits at 85%, the UK at 83%. Yes there's lots of space in Sweden, and it's also true that barely anyone lives there.

I'm still hoping some researcher will publish a dataset of 'median lived density', rather than a simple density average. That is to say, a weighted density calculation. In other words, if 100 people live in one building in a vast desert the size of Texas, their 'lived/experienced density' or 'weighted density' is far greater than if 100 people live spread out in an area the size of a few football fields. Then we could have a more sophisticated discussion around density, as this issue aaaalways pops up when doing comparisons at the national level. (at the city level it's not as big of a problem, although even there some weird zoning differences can sometimes throw figures off.)
I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but it's funny how in the film The Matrix is kind of like Plato's cave rather than Baudrillard's idea. The Matrix "not real" and can be overcome by the protagonists, but I feel like Baudrillard would suggest that the protagonists wouldn't be able to tell what was and what wasn't.
I find all this code so hard to read, because there are very few elements being composed together. It reads like one monolithic chunk of code (and with a global state!).

I find code enjoyable to read and write when it's like Lego. You build small little self contained pieces and join them together. It makes a big difference when building large applications.

I wrote an example in [Concur](https://github.com/ajnsit/concur) to demonstrate what I mean - https://gist.github.com/ajnsit/f0fee9a83480289a5a052273ce21c.... The "app" is composed of self-contained widgets, each of which are short and easy to read, and have a defined purpose (show the searchbox, render a story etc.) In a larger app, they can be mixed and matched together in logical ways.
At this point, Backblaze is a serious "influencer", and HDD companies would be smart to make sure they get the best possible drives, even if the rest of us get junk.

I mean "doing it well for an influencer and shafting everyone else" is far cheaper and easier than just making a solid and reliable product consistently. That's such old-fashioned thinking these days. :)
Can you talk about your path to bootstrapping successfully? Working on that but I'm lost.
Tackling common challenges during an incident
Every accelerator, VC firm, corporation, division, manager, line worker, and homemaker is already optimizing for minimum employment. Human ingenuity at work - seeing patterns for where improvements can be made to ultimately achieve more. Even a guy laying on a couch watching football is trying to figure out how he can get another beer without having to get up.

Then the Federal Reserve comes along, declares all of our progress problematic, and manipulates the currency we transact in to make our progress invisible to each other.
Indent with 4 spaces at the start of each line for code blocks.
The Fed is not the US government.
Forget Apple and Google – Contact Tracing Apps Just Dealt Serious New Blow
I don't have an explanation for the experience of digesting food at the cellular level either. But I still do it. You don't have to explain conciousness to have it.

As for qualia, I'm reminded of the people coming to my door asking, "Do you believe in Jesus?" I reply, "Do you?" and when they assure me fervently that they do, I follow up with, "Well, okay, how do you know you do?" I think you could do the same with r/Jesus/qualia/g.
Because the value you provide is more fungible than you think, and it becomes an equation of supply and demand.
And does it actually have well tested, well known, reliable functionality on everything you tend to use? Configuration of programs using easy to edit text files vs some system of ticking checkboxes in a GUI?

RegEdit, is there a text version for that? Imo there's no comparison to the Linux ecosystem.

Windows is GUI first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

Go here, ctrl-f "country" and press enter a few times.
Can we tell male and female dinosaurs apart?
Many countries restrict work visas for people over 30. Is Germany one of them?
Sense: touch, seeing, smell and so on. One could argue what all senses are, but this is the characterization of it.

Emotion: a process that involves cognitive interpretations of your context (environment + thoughts) and a physiological feeling through the senses (heart rate, tingly sensations, weird feelings in eyes). Check out the James Lange theory. There are better theories, but this has the fundamentals.

I ad libbed this one, I wanted to show that there is a difference. It wasn't my intention to be pinpoint accurate.
Doesn't stop the problem from flowing the other direction. Often, ex-executives of major firms are now the heads of the regulatory agencies. Do these heads own lots of shares and have obvious conflicts of interest with their 'former' firms? Of course, if your significant other is on the board, well, nothing much the law can say about that either.

The real problem is far too much authority was vested (taken?) by the federal congress. Smaller government is the key to keeping the government in check.
This is annoyingly difficult in a browser.
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Then I would be 95% sure to get at least two things in my order wrong, rather than just 50% sure to get one wrong.

(There are several reasons I don't order out, and that's a biggie.)
So will smart investors now just follow the FED and invest in whomever they are propping up? If so they will pick the winners and the losers in every market.
Great, *nix has been available in that way for hmmm, maybe a few decades.
Running physical servers from Packet has been amazing for us. They open sourced their provisioning stuff too: https://tinkerbell.org/
Interesting. That was going to be my next question!
You might be misunderstanding that debate then because what's usually termed Libertarian Free Will which is the type that most people think they subjectively experience, that is the ability to choose from different paths at any given moment, almost certainly does not exist in humans and most philosophers agree on that at least.
Try to dock with the ISS with this SpaceX Crew Dragon simulator
Common at lots of Universities I think, at least in the UK, and probably in the US too. I knew most of my professors by their first names.
FTA:

“The different endpoints suggest that nicotine might be lowering viral load, or something of that nature, and nicotine is known to have some funky immunological effects. But the benefit, if it exists, can’t be attributed to nicotine until that’s established independently.”

Fortunately this might be easy to test given that transdermal nicotine patches can deliver nicotine without the associated smoke, tar, morning cough, etc. that the article mentions in passing. I’m curious how this plays out.
This is a broken link to: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/792548.612002
I'm expecting a resurgence of quantum bigfoot style drives.

So, while the idea was ridiculed in the press, the advent of SSD's and the usecase for harddrives these days actually means it makes a lot of sense given the area (and therefor the capacity) increases with the square. Combined with the slower spin rates also increasing the density, and you get a device which is far more generally useful for bulk storage than SMR.
To me, this is the other way round. Since coworkers cannot leave, there is no benefit in being somebody else. The only conformity is towards the boss because it is a non-equal power relation.

The personal growth comes from accepting somebody else the way he is.

Friends on the other hand, also choose. So if I want to spend time with them I have to conform to joined values. It's a non-issue most of the times because friends are chosen among people with similar values. Still, when it comes to conformity, it's the friendship that depends on it.
Another Backblaze stats release, another time I wish someone on the inside at Seagate would drop in and tell us what the deal is with their drives.

I have a lot of old Hitachis that still work, but every last one of my Seagates died years ago. Yes, they've gotten better since then, but they're still reliably trounced by Hitachi.

Where are the failures coming from? What did they cheap out on? Has the C-suite decided it's not financially worth increasing reliability? What are the internal feelings on being the outlier, year in and year out, in these stats? Does anyone care?
Ah. You've been duped into thinking that capitalism is something that it's not by someone who wants you to believe his propaganda.
and still, not a tiny dent in the two party system. Which proves that your history is anecdotal with very little (none?) significance statistically.
I've seen this movie before. The title should really be:
"Twitter will allow employees to work from home until a hedge fund forces Jack Dorsey to step down as CEO and Marissa Meyers fires everyone who hasn't been coming into the office"
My company is trying to solve similar challenges for automating common typing tasks on web pages (email, chat, CRM, etc...) with our Chrome Extension Text Blaze [1].

It was a pretty extensive formula support [2] enabling you to create dynamic snippets. In many ways it's kind of like Excel but for documents.

[1] https://blaze.today/

[2] https://blaze.today/formulas/reference/
Came here just to post this one. Life-changing book, esp. on parenting.
The website says "Earn money, make connections, and get noticed.The rates I earn from writing, usually $250 to $500 per article, add up." What are some ways to do that exactly?
Full blown Xeons on a PCI-e card?

Lately, I've been wondering as to why we don't see computers physically built more like old workstations, with processors on cards plugging into I/O backplanes. The modern incarnation might be CPU+RAM on a PCI-e x32 card, and a simple "motherboard" with power and PCI-e. (Does 32 lane PCI-e exist? I've never even seen photos.)
> one key element Tesla is lacking (currently) is handling pedestrians

There is a lot more that Tesla is lacking before self-driving. I'm baffled that people here are suggesting otherwise?
It's still far short of being suitable for use of any private documents.

https://github.com/baicunko/scanyourpdf/blob/master/pdfwebsi...

This is rather less than secure; output files are named, e.g., "Scan_2020512_{four random lower-case letters}.pdf" into a web-server-readable directory.

That gives a total of 456976 different possible filenames on a day. It's more than feasible to brute-force that many filenames in the hour before files get deleted.

OP: I don't think randomly-suffixed file names are an inherently bad way to approach this. But you should definitely consider using a longer random string, and definitely consider not using the `random` module too (it is not secure and is not intended to be).
A stone solid team behind this product makes it something you can easily rely on.
How they employ AI in such a product is also very interesting.
GCC's C, C++ and Fortran frontends are commercial products of at least Red Hat and SuSE, for example see https://developers.redhat.com/products/developertoolset/over... and https://suse.com/c/suse-linux-essentials-where-are-the-compi...

GCC's Go frontend is still commercially supported as part of RHEL7 but was replaced by the more popular Go implementation in later versions.

GCC's Java frontend used to be commercially supported in the days before OpenJDK.
Absolutely. If I could have one day a week in the office and four days from home, it would be ideal. That 1 on 1 connection ends up being so important, useful, and facilitates much easier communication using remote tools after the fact.