skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. The police in the city of Basel bought seven Teslas. It seems this wasn't OK regarding data protection. And I don't know if it's OK now or if the police were just allowed to keep the cars because they had already bought them. According to an article, written in German, the police had to replace the SIM cards inside the cars with Swiss SIM cards [1]. IMHO this looks (partly) like a pseudo action because there is still an internet connection. (However, according to the article the cars are considered to be OK now.)

[1]https://www.baublatt.ch/kommunal/datenschutzproblem-bei-tesl...
- Meditations on Quixote and the Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Iliad by Homer
We're talking about WannaCry here. It's a ransomware that already more or less nukes the host system. It encrypts the files with strong encryption, which is the same as shredding them if you don't have the ransom money. Sure, the malware author could go further and harm the system physically (e.g. forcefully overheat the CPU or something), but that's actually surprisingly hard to do reliably ^^.

Besides, history tells us that those malwares won't really have such "nuking" functionality. Gating it on the presence of a server is ridiculous, and would be found out eventually when the virus runs in a weird environment where, for instance, every DNS queries resolve (e.g. hotel WiFi).
Cool, sorry for editing my post out from under you.
Anathem is definitely my favorite Stephenson book. I've read all of his books except for his newest book, and I have yet to finish Seveneves - I didn't want it to end, so I put it down.
Not sure why you need to put down entrepreneurs while praising this kid.

Hacking a company together is really hard. Like tech hacking, it requires intelligence, creativity, and persistence.

There's no reason we can't read about and respect both on this site.
By that logic, the state should have the power to close any business whenever it wants. After all, we live in a world filled with communicable diseases. Those aint going away, and there is a good chance -- almost a certain chance -- that covid will become endemic like SARS I and just be with us permanently.

So, no, that is not enough evidence that the degree of danger warrants the personal restrictions and power grabs happening all over the state -- almost all by governor decree and without any laws being passed.
Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today.

As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
My company generates revenue and my talent directly affects the revenue. The salary that you give me is correlated to that revenue that I help to generate. The company figured out my value when they made me an offer.

My location during any of this transaction bears absolutely zero significance. If I'm worth $300k to generate $5mill for you don't worry about whether I'm living in NYC or on a ranch in Wyoming.

If you're willing to take $60k for a remote job you can make $160k at because that's the actual global market value you're doing all of us in the field a disservice by working for the low COL wage. It's bad enough salaries have barely risen for other fields since the 70s. Our field can work anywhere but we need to make sure we don't let our salaries slide by letting the Gitlab style take hold.

Often on hn I see people thinking they need to take a pay cut to work remotely. You don't! Same thing.
>is it more effective to scrub the CO2 or just to increase the partial oxygen pressure?

In all nuclear submarines (which stay submerged for months at a time) and spacecraft I know about, designers have chosen to scrub CO2.

I think they have no choice but to scrub CO2 because CO2 has important effects on the body (e.g., increasing acidity of the blood) that cannot be counteracted by any concentration of O2.

On subs, I think they react the CO2 with calcium hydroxide. On spacecraft, NASA has used lithium hydroxide (because lithium weighs less than calcium). The hydroxide gets used up during the mission. then NASA switched to some complicated system that does not use up a reagent.
I don't believe the numbers any more. Since it became a reportable disease many people who died of other illnesses have been categorised as Covid deaths.
The company needs to do payroll in a different state and you, as an individual, now pay taxes in your state of residence which isn't where company HQ is.

From a tax perspective it's mostly no different than if they had a small office in that state.

For big companies, in particular, it's not that big a deal as they're probably using a payroll service like ADP anyway. There may be some paperwork--and certainly more so if other countries are involved.
I don't think there would be a mass exodus of remote workers - living in a city still brings significant benefits that appeal to a large segment of the population.

I say all this from a British/European perspective though - I understand that politics, human rights, labour laws and discrimination in the US are very different than they are here, and it's true that my comment didn't take any of that into consideration.
Is it awesome? It raises the cost of everything everywhere else (because for the majority of young, educated people there aren't _that_ many desirable cities). We are already seeing that in places like Austin or Colorado.
> the gist of the idea is to have a timeline with dataflow elements embedded directly into it so that parts of the score can connect to other parts which happen earlier / after.

Why not allow nesting both ways? Why not allow timelines to be embedded within dataflow graphs, and then triggered by events that occur at arbitrary times? The outermost container can be a canvas embedding a single timeline if that's your thing.

The constant-clockspeed model underlying all track-based sequencers and DAWs is a straitjacket. Arbitrary pauses, jam breaks, and rubato sections make more sense as time-free elements which exist between discrete timelines rather than as modifications to timelines.
Also:

* Write clearly & concisely

* Use good headers and provide a table of contents

Here are some useful resources for writing better:

https://www.plainlanguage.gov/

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
CO2 is such a small proportion of the atmosphere that I have a hard time imagining its active mechanism for cognitive impairment is the displacement of oxygen. It seems you would have to scrub the CO2. Luckily, the easiest way to do this even in a big city is just to open a window.
As a free instrument for them to bang on while screaming ‘Papa!’ At the top of their lungs?
I sort of agree with this on the condition that "tampering with supply to keep wages in check" includes union-busting. If unions and other forms of labor power were not suppressed by a government owned by Capital, then we would have a chance to see the "free market" potentially arrive at some of the same outcomes that socialists seek, such as worker co-ownership of firms and fair profit distribution. However, it's a bit paradoxical because one of the mechanisms by which these changes would occur is by labor power overturning a lot of the rules of capitalism. A system which did not allow this to happen would still be unjust, supporting the status quo through its so-called laissez-faire neutrality.
Assuming such a de-aging mutation had occurred, the countless other ways to die would eventually kill all such people. Setting aside the fact that - in a long enough time line - an illness, accident, combat, or some external factor independent of one's baseline physical condition would be guaranteed to get you, other natural effects of longevity like e.g. cancer incidence may not be reduced by <insert whatever this hypothetical mutation does> either.

Aside from that, it's only in the last millennium or so that we have record keeping that we could plausibly consider credible enough to prove the existence of such a person - in ages before that we have countless myths of immortality or unnatural longevity that we immediately disregard as fictional. So if Methuselah really had lived 969 years due to this mutation, we'd all be none the wiser!
I work at an old fashioned, conservative, fortune 500 finance company. Our CEO recently had a town hall in which he said he'd done a complete 180 on remote workers. Before, he thought it didn't work, and that those workers weren't as effective, but that being forced into the situation proved to him that he had been wrong all along. He stopped plans to purchase new real estate and was expanding remote opportunities for the foreseeable future, covid or no covid. That's just one anecdata, but it's definitely not just tech bros.
I'm British and I see it like that too.
The tools and processes for remote work are completely different than co-located though. This will force the in-office folks to essentially adopt all of the remote protocols.

IME blended teams are by far the hardest to make work.
[begin tongue in cheek rant]
As someone who has worked from home for years, I'm really intrigued by your reasoning behind making blanket statements like this. I had no idea that my company should be providing free backup electricity for me. Should they provide free snacks and coffee too?
[end rant]

Seriously, working from home is a great privilege for some and a tremendous burden for others. It is wonderful that companies are realizing that there are tremendous benefits to giving employees freedom and choices.

One size (or approach) does not fit all.
Fascinating. This could form the basis of a serious zero-day.
I think the biggest argument for me against near 100% WFH is the space cost of a dedicated home office. Ideally I would need another room for it to be long term sustainable. Right now I live in a small 400 sq. feet (≈ 35 m²) studio apartment in city center, walking distance to everything (including the office in normal times). Property prices here are at around 1k USD / sq. feet (10 k USD / m²). An apartment with dedicated space for my home office would cost me like 100k USD extra.

The only viable option would be to move out from the city, but then I loose all the other benefits from living here.

(Of course the total cost is the same or higher today, but it's taken by the employer. It's not compleeetley unthinkable that the employer would compensate me for it, but it get's really tricky really fast. I would probably have to pay taxes for the extra salary, and how much "rent" would they pay? Are new grads supposed to work from their kitchen table, or far away just to afford an extra room?)
FYI, I appreciate your use of “acerbic”. Thank you for making the Effort to use a “fancy” word.
Yeah, after two kids I did manage to learn to deal better with interruptions, but I still feel a difference between "able to work" and "being in the zone". I am able to be interrupted in the middle of a list of actionable items and resume to it somewhat painlessly, but ask me to, e.g, plan a sprint or write a longer-term strategy doc and I will just wait until all the lights in the house (or office) are out.

I do disagree, however, about it being a problem related to lack of experience. It is good when someone can learn to handle interruptions, but it's even better when they don't have to. Handling interruptions and impediments are the main responsibility of a good manager, not of the developers.
Good question that as far as I know nobody has solved so far.
> There's also a talent gap. From my experience, a lot of tech workers in Vancouver simply couldn't meet the bar for the stricter US immigration.

Really? It doesn't seem to be this way to me. The academic requirements are, I believe, the same: a degree. I think in the US you also need a job offer (for H1B), but that hasn't been hard to get for a software engineer in the last 10 years.

The real "bar" for US immigration is a hard limit on visas, which are resolved via lottery. Your "ability" on winning a lottery doesn't say much about your talent for engineering.

Note: I moved from Europe to the Bay Area, I'm a bit familiar with the process.
If thiels involved im against it. Its a big lobbying firm. Nothing good can come from it. It means dilution of privacy and other good things.. for the sake of who exactly??
By your definition, Sweden, which has remained open, is the sickest man in Europe.
Have you told them (or have they been told) that they can work from somewhere besides there home?

Obviously there is an exception right now, but normally "working from home" means you can work from anywhere you want (different country, parents cottage, coffee shop, outside, where ever).

I work for a tech company and we have people who regularly go to Europe/other places for months and work from there just getting up/working later depending on timezone.

Most people assume that working from home or working remotely means sitting at home at a desk and working the exact same as you would an office. In which case you lose the office communication. But that's wrong.
Why is everyone here so dogmatic about this? Work from home is a choice here and just because you really like your choice and think it’s the best choice that’s ever been chosen, does not mean it’s the best for everyone else and that you should aggressively impose your choice onto others. This is how holy wars happen
I feel you on that. I was _just_ getting back into climbing after a multi-year hiatus, and I was _so_ excited. Found a climbing buddy, finally worked up the courage to get onto the walls again and "be bad" at it. I was also doing cardio classes multiple days a week. It's all gone now.

I told myself at the beginning of lockdown that if I wasn't going to be able to do that, I had to make another change to make up for it. I was already putting in all the effort, and I just needed to redirect it. For me that was doing intermittent fasting (I just don't buy breakfast foods these days), and investing in cooking, which I already loved but wasn't doing enough of.

Wish you the best buddy. I'm hoping as things open up outdoors (which is the steps we seem to be taking, at least in CA) you can get back outside for some activity.
It depends on the situation. It's almost a teenage meme at this point but I don't know how many problems in my professional life (for example, coding problems) that I've solved just stopping work and taking a walk where my mind is free to relax and then approach something anew. Just grinding all day doesn't always work.
Is your answer: "try being rich"? People with what you have are rarely sitting in cubicles or open offices any way.
Avid has pissed off a lot of users by being greedy while not providing a reliable product.

PT was pretty much the industry standard ten years ago, but since then there's been a lot of churn to other DAWs - primarily Logic and Cubase, although a lot of dance/rap newcomers use Live and FL Studio.

Bottom line is the resources Apple needs to devote to its media products are barely a rounding error, and the rewards are increased traction with professionals and a few extra hardware sales, especially at the high end.

It's a conservative strategy, and not a terrible one.

The disappointing part is that it could have been part of a consistent product plan ten years ago. Now there's always the worry that Apple will lose interest again for another 5-10 years.
I think that's yingw787's point. That as we get deeper into this crisis, the Fed's actions start to look more and more like "printing money", but with a veneer of fiscal^H^H^H^H^H^H monetary policy. The $2,001 notes at 0% is the absurd extreme of this path.

(EDIT: Yeah, I meant monetary)
Yeah, backup is missing. This question has been asked in the comments of every HN post about a new release.

It doesn’t make sense, they are missing out on lots of enthusiast/hacker adoption, people that can’t afford enterprise anyway.

Having backup as a “differentiating feature” for enterprise is such a stupid idea.
This is essentially the same as saying "the sky is blue because it just is"
The workplace is one of the last places where you're forced to interact face-to-face with a diverse range of people multiple times, on a regular basis. If you're young, and from out of town, you get a lot from that.

Certainly, there are different clubs and groups out there, but the people they attract are fairly homogenous, and monofocused on their topic of interest. There are coffee-houses and bars, but you'd be lucky to interact with anyone there repeatedly in such a way as to form any durable social bond.

The only other quick option for gaining automatic access to a well-rounded social environment that I can think of is a church, but educated young people tend to enter the workforce with a contempt of organized religion that ranges from passive to visceral.
Thanks for saying so, or I would have thought I'd responded to the wrong post :)
IMO, if one is interested in a computational approach to Linear Algebra, Trefethens book, Numerical Linear Algebra, is the best.

That book discusses the actual algorithms used for computation. It is a bit more advanced, but amazingly clear.
My personal experience: After fasting, I do not start craving sugar unless I eat it again.
Excess deaths are comparable to other 'out of control' EU countries, like Spain, Italy and Belgium, but UK is definitely among the problem group.

[charts halfway down the link]
https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...
Bitcoin Halving Has Happened, What’s Next? Stakeholders Share Their Expectations
Can you elaborate on the topic of battery degradation? isn't this a scenario that the iPad was built for? how would it be different from hours of watching videos?
Tough (sincerely), and congrats on finding a gig that rewards you daily with passion and enthusiasm.

But at the same time, I have little sympathy for people who hate Apple for a move like this - regardless of the optics and whether it was intentional.

No one has to use a Mac, but frankly, there’s a reason why the creative crowd does. And, it’s beyond just brand image. They have a clear and complete vision for their software (which yes, breaks at the edges), but overall provides the best foundation for the markets they cater to.

Apple doesn’t want to be hamstrung by people running Windows on shoddy devices for premium software and thus exited that market. They also don’t want to make software for shoddy Android devices, so are conservative where they do.

It’s not an attack on users, but a refocus on the golden path.
One company did that to me twice, the whole while telling me that they never allow remote work and I had to relocate to Mountain View, especially despite neither team I was interviewing with was based in Mountain View.

The team I had the most face-to-face interaction with was because I managed to talk the recruiter into to allowing me to interview in the SF office, where some of the team actually worked, despite continuing to insist I'd have to move to Mountain View if I got the job, that "no one" works in the SF office (despite the closest thing to a majority of the team I interviewed with did), and that remote work was also not an option. That trip the worst interview I had in the day was remotely with someone with "regularly works from home" seniority despite "it's not generally allowed". So much about that interview I suffocated in dumb mistakes because I was angry about a lot of details about that interaction given conversations I had had with the recruiters immediately before and after.

The second time the team was mostly based on the East Coast (closer to my home than Mountain View, lol), the recruiter insisted I had to interview in Mountain View, and the only person I interacted face to face with that entire cycle was a different recruiter (terrible flights and bad traffic included).

I had a very hard time not feeling very personally insulted at how much they wasted my time with remote interviews I could have done from home without needing to fly most of the way across the country, continuing to insist that remote work wasn't possible for the positions I was interviewing when very clearly remote work was already the default if they expected people to be in Mountain View working for teams in other cities. It was not a great way to sell Mountain View to me as an option, and I was already quite clear with them that Mountain View wasn't a city I find interesting to live in, if I could avoid it. (Not that I could probably afford SF or even East Bay, but very specifically if I want to live in the Exurbs of an American city, I don't have to leave home to find equally carbon copied wastelands of strip malls, parking lots, and bad traffic just like Mountain View.)
this is a poor ripoff of Lyn Alden's work:

https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/ (02/20/20)

https://www.lynalden.com/great-depression/ (03/12/20)

https://www.lynalden.com/quantitative-easing-mmt-inflation/ (05/01/20)
We used WWII-era warships. Keep in mind this was at a Navy contractor.

Total PITA by the way. App-Prod-DB-001, App-QA-007 or DB-Bak-003 tells me what the server does, and what sort of tier (Prod, Test/QA, Dev, misc.) and a couple of other details about just looking at it. Folks reading this post could probably make some guesses just by the names.

Meanwhile, what the hell do servers Leonidas and Hephaestus do? Both of em crashed -- how much should I be panicking about that?
TabNine has been absolutely life-changing for me, I spend most of my coding time these days just pressing tab.

I can't wait until they release a shell autocomplete solution, I imagine it'll blow the fish shell's (already amazing) autocomplete out of the water. (https://github.com/codota/TabNine/issues/171)
The irony is that even modern Basic is a clever language, and Python comprehensions are probably a PhD level feature, yet primary school children seem very at ease with those languages.
Great book. The current situation certainly brings his ideas to mind. While it may well be justified, the speed and ease with which many open, democratic societies have gone into strictly enforced Italy/Spain-style lockdowns (essentially crisis-driven totalitarianism), shows us how thin the veneer of freedom really is, and how seamlessly our institutions can be made to serve the "carceral state".
I don't consider it a statement about the future but rather about the inevitable consequence whenever this game is played. Maybe it should be rephrased as: For this statement one will receive prize A or C.

@Carapace I find joy in discussing the validity of answers like this and such discussion is not possible without posting the answer first. I do feel sorry if I spoiled someone the joy of puzzling themselves though.
House of Leaves blew me away when I read it after it came out. I agree that is a fresh take on narrative form, and I personally found the process of reading it quite fun.
What is "lefty" about them? They support rights regardless of political leaning.
> That's plausible but AVID Pro Tools is even more prestigious than Logic and AVID's market cap is only $250 million[0].

In no universe is Pro Tools more prestigious than any of its competition.

I think Pro Tools is viewed as The Thing That All Studio PHB Managers Purchased At Some Point So It's Reasonable For Studio Techs to Be Trained For. Kind of the "nobody ever got fired for picking IBM" of the music industry. In my opinion, AVID does not have a reputation for making innovative products. See what happened when they acquired Sibelius (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI).

My limited experience with the industry suggests that Ableton, Bitwig, and Logic are the Cool Tools for Producing Music, that Cubase (Steinberg) is particularly popular with composers, that FL Studio is the cool low-cost leader among students, and that Reason is The Outsider. Notice which software is not in this list.
I'm not really sure if the things you list as positives are a positive for an academic institution, but that's a question for you manager.
Robert Pattinson on Life in Isolation
Thanks for sharing, wasn't familiar with this body of work.