skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done this in the past - I live in Portland, and worked with a firm in Mount Vernon, WA, which is about three and a half hours north, one way. I didn't go in every week, more like a few days a month staying in a hotel, but I found it very agreeable. I quite enjoyed having a few days to collaborate intensively and then private time to finish the detail work.

That said, I'm notably introverted and happy as a clam during quarantine, more or less, so I'm probably not representative of the country as a whole. Of people currently working remote, I think we'll see about 20% of people who won't want to go back into offices. For my own selfish purposes I'm really hoping for a paradigm shift towards more remote work, but I accept it doesn't work well for some people.
That's what I did in my previous job, go there once a week at most and only socialize and goof around, no work
Indeed, and when it kills someone, nothing to do with Google.
>I think Apple putting the physical escape key back indicates that they agree it was broken, relative to a virtual escape key.

No it doesn't. All that it indicates is that there was a preference for it by part of their demographic. Again, developers are in the minority here. Most Macbook users don't care and it was an easy concession to make from Apple.
Children are not Covid-19 super spreaders: time to go back to school
Having spent a lot of time in the C-suites, I would say that I have never really gotten the bullshit vibe from many CEO's. I have gotten the sociopathic tendencies / devil may care, vibe from more than a few of them, but bullshitting seemed to be a sales exec's expertise. CEO's (at least successful ones) don't really care about the small stuff and the touchy feely, they tend to mow over that stuff for the big picture and a lot of bullshit focuses on the details and the emotional aspects of the conversation. That's not to say that they don't lie, they just don't tend to color it like a bullshitter does.
Is the asm!() macro going to stabilize? It seems important to ever make a real OS, right?
> those of us who knew this was coming

How does one join that club?
Ask HN: What two applications do you most wish were integrated?
This HN post on unbundling Zapier has gotten me thinking about software integrations and whether Zapier is "good enough": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126455

Curious to know what two applications you most want integrated, and why the Zapier integration is not good enough?
You're describing "prospecting", or (less charitably) "wildcatting", which is a legitimate business.

> We aren't allowed to sell people something that doesn't exist?

You're allowed to sell rights to things that might exist in the future.

If someone puts a ton of money into something stupid that's pretty clearly not going to pay off proportional to the expense, that's on them.

> you're promising your investors [a return]

This is somewhat different from your first paragraph. Overselling your confidence in the financial outcome of a bet is (usually obvious) fraud, but that's a different problem from selling a stake in a risky endeavor.

Not defending Telegram's stupid shitcoin, but trying to get the Government to stop this (whatever your probably loosely-held idea of "this" is) is probably not a good idea.
It's the rate the market dictates.
That would be the Mahabharat. The Gita is a single philosophical chapter from the epic.
That's the usual argument, and honestly I'm not even gonna put a lot of effort into arguing.

That's fine. I would like to explicitly point out that calling something the "usual" argument doesn't make it any less valid. You are both claiming to not bother arguing while also taking a fairly dismissive posture. My feedback is to instead ask people why they feel a certain way. I'll answer as though you had:

For your point about clarity and organization of written communication: I completely agree with you. I suspect you're an IC engineer without many non-technical responsibilities, though, because you're ignoring all things that exist outside of technical design and planning intended for technical audiences.

Not everything is well suited to diagrammed or long-cycle asynchronous communication. At some point in your career, you might need to start handling things like working with lawyers on requirements where they have varying degrees of product understanding, nuanced feedback from a large sales team, tough and iterative product roadmap decisions in the face of revenue shortfalls, personnel issues as they come up, and so on. For conversations that span disciplines or involve career development or crucial feedback, having a high bandwidth pipe through which to quickly identify gaps in understanding or holes in communication is invaluable. That higher level coordination is vital to the success of most businesses, and it became significantly more challenging. We have to do it, though, because the alternative is much worse.

My opinion is that remote work has been great for IC engineers. I generally support liberal use of remote work for IC engineers. The world doesn't work if everybody sits in that role, though.
I prefer working from home, but I also totally agree with you. Especially since they got rid of the uncompensated business expense deductions for individuals in the tax code, they're really just outsourcing the expense of maintaining an office.

However, I fully believe I can build a home office that's better (for me) than most employers can, at a fraction of the budget. It's a more efficient solution than a centralized office, but it's coming out of my pocket and not theirs, so it hurts me more.

Of course, your direct complaint seems to be the square footage, not the hardware (desks, etc). That's a tougher one to solve for, because larger square footage is opex instead of capex, and it'll be more challenging to get your employer to part with opex dollars.
Good news ! You don't have to be - just allow your work IT a full control of your home network and they'll have it secured to corporate standards !
Ask HN: Must have equipment to work remotely
Excluding laptop/desktop pc and a good internet connection, which type of equipment do you recommend to work healthy from home?

PS: rather than say ergonomic chairs, please share the one you are using (e.g. Herman Miller Cosm), it would be extremely helpful for the ones who are reading.
Florence Nightingale: Social reformer, statistician, founder of modern nursing
I trained with her team-- successful with cats, will try with raptors next.
Avoiding ORA-01555 is a matter of properly sizing your undo.
It doesn't need to be a lot younger or a lot fewer. The effect will almost certainly be virtually undetectable, especially when compared to many other evolutionary forces (e.g., diet, particulates in air, lack of exercise, social policies, etc.).

If you want to improve global quality of life, CO2 levels are almost certainly not the right place to start.
Wasm and weed is a powerful drug.
Typically the company will then reassess the office capacity needed to provide enough flexible space and accommodate all teams and their needs. But there's plenty of time to do that, since you cannot break (or not renew) a corporate lease overnight.
Doubtful since there’s never really a shortage of things to work on
I don't think that's a counterpoint. It depends on executives continuing to believe F2F is superior.

The evidence already existed that WFH is, generally, better. See Stanford's Bloom 2013.

But executives are afraid to take big risks like that. They doubt studies. They overindex on personal experience. Which this gave them.

Now that they see what WFH actually produces, their worldview shifts to what was already true. You get talent that's more productive. Lower costs so you can afford more talent, or, alternatively, more expensive talent. Fewer geographic restrictions so you can recruit a bigger pool of talent.

Once you're convinced WFH works, these advantages can give competition an edge. An executive doesn't want to be on the wrong side of that edge.

But they have to see it first.

There's no reason they go back to thinking F2F is better, unless it actually is, and currently no evidence suggests that is true.
People should accept the fact that people are busy and often don't have/take time to read documents offline.

I really like how Amazon mitigates that, you hold a doc review meeting. Everyone gets together, reads the document (in silence for ~30 min, or however long it takes), and then discusses. Then you know everyone has the proper context and knowledge for a good discussion.
Thank you for posting a bookshop.org link
Show HN: Webhook 2.7.0 Is Out
I made a UK Government Covid-19 themed “ambiguous slogan generator”
Same!! Although, an experienced C++ dev might just abhor the thought of pointer chasing everywhere, even if it's not a big deal in 90% of web backends.
Thus spoke zarathustra. If it isn't clicking within the first 25-50 pages, come back to it after you've become a bit disillusioned with humanity :)
Note that most government debt is owned by taxpayers in one form or another though. China and Japan are very large foreign owners though.
If a coworker or employee comes in to work distraught for some reason, it's far easier to reach out in person and find out that their dog got ran over/relationship broke up/parent is in the hospital. It's not impossible remote, but it's harder, on all levels. A manager that has strong in-person skills but is weaker on digital communication skills may result in poorer outcomes all around.

(I'm pro WFH but pretending it's the same just seems foolish to me.)
>The game is "rigged", so play along.

Yup, just keep buying long term debt.

Fun fact, long term us treasuries have crushed stocks over the last 25 years. 1.5x leveraged LTTs gained 1% more yearly that stocks since 1992, with the same volatility, but a maximum drop-down of 25% as compared to 50% for stocks. Thanks FED!
Indeed, we’ve come full (half?) circle. IIRC, it was renamed to Hacker News in part to discourage meta-discussion on intellectually stimulating posts, questioning why the front page had so many posts that weren’t about startups. Now we are instead discussing startup post fatigue.
Google Video was an actual product, competing with Youtube. When they decided to acquire the much more successful Youtube, its brand already had a lot of value and recognition, so it survived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video
Consume relevant data from reliable sources. The Fed was very clear they intended to provide "unlimited support" to "maintain liquidity" when they made their March statements.

> When asked if the Fed would run out of ammunition to support the economy, Powell said no.

> “When it comes to this lending, we're not going to run out of ammunition. That doesn't happen," he said.

TLDR "Okay, so you're going to buy everything you can without any discrimination about price to hack around fiscal policy failure, good to know."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone... (Federal Reserve announces extensive new measures to support the economy)

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-03-26/fed-chair... (Fed Chair Powell Says Will Provide Nearly Unlimited Lending)
> Of course, you are assuming the button actually does what it says. Maybe it just kills 50 people and saves a tree.

You really assumed the worst of me. Of course the button does what it says, that's the point of the thought experiment. The point is that it's _not_ what Elon is doing, and it shouldn't be put in that context. The point is, if Elon was doing that, then by all means please continue. The problem is people believe he is saving earth, not that saving earth is a bad idea (even at the cost of many, many lives).
There was some kind of artificial barrier to remote-only that COVID forced the industry to break through. Maybe there was some stigma associated with it. Maybe there was natural resistance to a workplace model which was somewhat untested at scale. I think the current mentality held by most executives who make these kinds of decisions is that face-to-face meetings are better than video-chat.

But now that the industry is on the other side of that barrier, it seems to have no reason to go back.
one may argue that civilization really took off with the invention of writing.
"How we've evolved" is a really poor argument.
Is there a realistic objective to lock-downs other than avoiding overrun hospitals?
Someone once said: “Bitcoin is the real OWS movement.”

The system is corrupt and unfixable. Exchange your dollars for an engineered money which can be confiscated via inflation or freely printed to funds endless wars.
All about China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission and JPL's Mars helicopter
Hello, all signs point to no. I've seen many threads about stabilizing asm, but most seem to say no this won't happen. In fact, the Rust compiler now throws a warning that asm!() is deprecated in favor of llvm_asm!().

This is the only reason I am still using nightly builds...because I'm forced to use the asm language feature, which is unstable, and because it's unstable, it cannot be used on the stable channel.

Edit: to respond to the second half, for out-of-the-box Rust builds, yes, I need global_asm! and asm!. However, asm! is for inline assembly only. Originally, I used GNU's assembler to assemble and then linked using GNU's ld. However, I have since switched to trying to make Rust do everything through its build manager, cargo.
Networthify is missing quite a few features. Namely social security, pensions, annuities, taxes, capital depletion. It makes you internalize everything in your head in real, after-tax terms as if inflation and taxes don't exist. Nesteggly is better in this respect because it gives you a picture of your financial future in actual dollar terms.

Personal Capital's Retirement Planner is quite a bit different too. For one, it's a Monte Carlo simulator. Two, it assumes your retirement income will remain constant for your entire retirement. Third, to use their calculator they make you sign up, link your accounts and endure the harassment of their financial advisors.
It's odd how HN does not reflect the reality I see.

I'm at a big (Google/Microsoft/Amazon) workplace and WFH has always been a last-resort thing. I can't even imagine my team moving toward this. Every day I do too many things in the office that are face-to-face. Drop by the architect to get an opinion about XYZ, drop by a PM to ask about their functional spec, drop by a coworker to ask about some comments they left on my PR. Get three people in a room to go over an ongoing incident that's impacting a major customer's operations.

All these things could be pings/video calls, but having done that for a few months now, it's just not as effective as being there.

I wonder if the "WFH" discussion on HN is simply silicon-valley wishful thinking, if it's only possible for highly independent contractors and startup-hopping tech bros, and if it will never actually work in a large workplace environment.
have you ever had a full course of acyclovir/valcyclovir?

https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/clinical-trials/valacyclo...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322463
Zoom is multi-person and more suited for team meetings (although, as they recently discovered, originally designed for internal corporate use, not general public).

Skype is mainly for person-to-person calls, but that tech has been commoditized and made into a one-click feature of Facetime, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, you name it. Downloading a separate app just for video connection seems excessive these days.
I've been working from home for about 16 months, and I'm afraid my partner doesn't quite get what a different head space I am in when I'm working, when she comes for a friendly visit if she isn't busy herself. I can seem cold and even abrupt, sometimes, when she comes to see me. But it takes so long to get in that space, it is hard to be brought out of it.

Ironic thing is, she also works from home about 80-90% of the time. Guess she inhabits that mind-set more easily than I do!
Anything that moves the air is fine. And yes, opening windows would be a sensible thing to do in that context.

That said, I'm not sure I buy the thesis as a whole. As far as I am aware, last time this came up, the Navy has done pretty detailed tests on CO2 concentration as a result of submarine warfare and found no significant impairments up to 1200ppm.
I took it that the monologues were a problem because they were confusing to people. They serve as a major bridge between what I called the superficial and symbolic layers. For example the dialogue/monologue with the architect was great. I found it very stimulating, but most bloggers made fun of it.
There are lots of ways. A basic vector is CSRF (like eg https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurit...), or the server side variant (SSRF). Then there's the DNS vector already mentioned. There are others too. Generally it's a bad idea to rely on home network boundary protections.
It comes with its own "conspiracy nut mode" for auto-generating slogans including 5G, bat soup and vaccine themes

oh ... and pull requests are welcome
i thought it was sarcasm, but apparently, based on downvotes, HN is full of left-leaning comrades.
What? On the contrary, remote work levels inequality by allowing workers from low-income regions to take high-income remote positions.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020
It's not so much "we the humans have mastered the environment" as, well, a generic sort of we. But yes, the notable thing about Watts is definitely not his sunny optimism.
That is not clear to me, since i can't imagine that :)

edit: by that i mean having that "neuroarchitecture" which just percieves, but can't imagine anything(visually). Reminds me of the relatively recent (6 months to a year ago?) discussions about not having an internal voice while thinking, which was obviously new to a large set of people, while my whole state of mind revolves around thinking without vocalizing. Alas, i digress...
There are successful, fully remote, companies, such as Automattic (Wordpress), Gitlab and more. If they can figure it out, seems more companies can as well.
The use of code "prettifiers" (in general) helps save effort on having a code style guide, and people following it. As you, and others have said, it depends on the project.

Clearly for projects where devs have the habit and follow a clear style, it's not necessary. However on mosy projects, you'll have the one guy who doesn't follow, or worse, the only one guy who follows the style. And so the prettifiers become absolutely necessary.
Node is a great choice for fast iteration for a rest api if all you're doing is hitting DB, firing off other services, etc.

Express is a solid choice imo due to the tremendous community support.

If you ever need to do anything that involves CPU crunching, you can move those requirements to another language that's better suited for it like Go.
Bingo! I often talk about how you can rent a 3BR apartment in my home town (Nowhere, Michigan) for like $900. This is true -- I've verified it recently. The drawback is that you have to live in my home town.

I can certainly see companies wanting to pay less based on CoL simply to make the bottom line better. Given the way capitalism works, I'd say this is a near inevitability. The end result will probably be that the big tech companies are going to start "offshoring" work to the Midwest, and other low to very low cost of living areas. ("We'll pay you $70k per year, but you can live wherever you want in the US!")

I can't see this being good for employees, because there are significant benefits to living in a place like NYC or the Bay Area, and those benefits would be lost if people had to live in the middle of nowhere to make it worthwhile.
Well now I feel like a dolt.
Any reason why they would continue to hire American Developers? Our shops in Moscow and Bangalore probably have better developers than our US office at <10% of the salary.
Well, I'm sure a nuanced argument about the boundaries between concepts can be settled by the first Google result.

I'll take your Google result and throw you this Oxford English Dictionary result, which admits a more nuanced interpretation: https://www.oed.com/oed2/00277885
Depending upon your needs you plug the XLR mic into a converter with USB out or into a mixer.
You can see the reasoning here (Aug 2007): https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html. Basically, pg got bored reading about nothing but startups.
I've watched both and really enjoyed them. Good recommendations.
Is the model on par with what https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23101077 discusses in terms of quality, though?
Binance Invested Exchange, Yellow Card Expands to Botswana and South Africa
It's also an enemy that can go home when they lose.

Afterwards you don't have to choose between coexisting with them, or killing them.
Google Video existed and was shut down after Google acquired YouTube:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video

Blogger was also an acquisition (from the future founder of Twitter), and it already had a strong brand.

Whereas in 2011 there was a lot of marketing tying self-driving cars <=> Google.

There could be other reasons for the separate brand, like managing bad PR from a crash, but I would also classify that under "don't have confidence".

In contrast Tesla seems to be staking their brand on self-driving. I feel like this could backfire in the next 5-10 years, but Elon will probably make some other advance/launch to distract from that. Self-driving has already fallen behind Tesla's claims, but he can keep the media busy enough with other stories.
I made my local pub in VR
That sounds like my interview experience too! It was crazy!
Yes, it is not representative at all. It's a stressful period, kids are always at home as schools are closed, the lockdown requires more organisation than usual in everyday life and there are less options to relieve stress.

We still manage to work with the same productivity in my company but we already had some experience with WFH.
You raise good points. I wonder what a copyright lawyer would have to say.
Howdy, I came here from http://discord.comma.ai. littlemtman, what related source code is available? How about more details and the code for connecting to the XBox controller interface, is it open?
Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It was a wild ride. Permanently raised the bar for fiction for me.
It will be interesting to see how this finally plays out. Initially the BBC were downplaying the body count and there was little acknowledgement of the fatalities in care homes. Only the Sunday Times (?) was reporting a total, based on their own research, that was significantly higher than other media outlets. Now all the newspapers seem onboard with the idea that the final total will be much, much higher than officially reported. The BBC was somewhat late in arriving at this position.
You Deserve to Eat Well
I'm a director of engineering with a team of 20 engineers. Been successfully remote for 6 years or so now. I guess I make it work, but hey, maybe at some point in my career I'll understand.
Show HN: An anonymous social internet search engine [alpha]
>I received an email today from Skype that someone had changed the email address on an old Skype account of mine. Presumably this means that they were able to gain access to a password. There was no mechanism in the email to block the action

I lost my Twilio account yesterday through the same method - haven't heard back and I've been wondering if I'm not the only one.
Japan is actually the largest, fwiw. These Fed programs are being financed by debt spending, not tax increases. So even if some of this debt is held by US tax payers, it's not at their expense. They're getting paid interest.
It's closer than it's ever been! The rough plan:

* move asm! to llvm_asm. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68404

* implement the actual asm! we want to stabilize: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2873

* stabilize it
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