skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've unfortunately become a payroll tax-witholding specialist.

You're required to withold taxes in the state that work is performed. If you're working from home, that's your work location.

You should get refunded for your CA taxes at the end of the year if they are being withheld.
Yes, on the flipside, it works exactly the same way in reverse if someone is moving to a higher cost market. We benchmark against data from Radford & Comtrix (salary/pricing data providers) and adjust upwards on a regular basis too.
I haven't tried this, but I'd think that having auto completion in this way, is highly distracting. I usually start out with the basic idea of what I want to write and while writing I go back, alter, jump around, etc. If some AI starts suggestion whole chunks of code for me, I'd just waste time reading what the completions are and not thinking about the actual problem I am writing.

Sure if you are just re-implementing the same thing over and over, then this might come in handy, but so would using OOP.

Again, haven't tried, just some thoughts.
I always love the Backblaze hard drive stats, even if I'm not in the market.

> During this quarter 4 (four) drive models, from 3 (three) manufacturers, had 0 (zero) drive failures. None of the Toshiba 4TB and Seagate 16TB drives failed in Q1, but both drives had less than 10,000 drive days during the quarter. As a consequence, the AFR can range widely from a small change in drive failures. For example, if just one Seagate 16TB drive had failed, the AFR would be 7.25% for the quarter. Similarly, the Toshiba 4TB drive AFR would be 4.05% with just one failure in the quarter.

Backblaze should consider adding interval estimates in addition to point estimates. It might help the reader understand the uncertainty of the point estimate.
Well, that's the last time I'll rm -rf / and not think twice about it.
Looks useful. One thing that I noticed is that the 'Model with inheritance' example uses extends instead of : for C#. AFAIK C# doesn't use extends.

Is there a way to contribute? I wouldn't mind peeking a look and potentially fixing the issue myself :).
Corporate bonds have actually been on a downward trend the past 30 days. Not sure why. But yes, they did recover from the panic days of mid-March. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LQD/
Like others have said, check with an accountant, I have worked remotely for the past 11 years in NC, for companies in GA, CT and NY, but because I'm 100% remote, I only have to pay NC taxes. None of them ever had an office in NC
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Once again Seagate putting on a poor show reliability wise - although, with only three companies really making hard drives these days I guess Backblaze doesn't have much choice but to also include their drives in their service.
At some point that might count as stalking?
You might want to consider providing something that optionally allows you to sign up.

There's a lot of details that are required for increasingly better projections, and sometimes people taking a glance at what your software has to offer might not necessarily have time during their lunch hour or on the weekends to fill everything out.

Yes, Personal Capital targets sub-HNWIs, but realize they run a business, and if they're targeting you, it's also a sign you're probably doing something right.
Depends on the capitalist. I know several that intensely hate these sorts of bailouts. Some think everything should crash, others think the government should take the companies over to oversee an orderly dismantling of them.

Ultimately sarcastic comments like this aren't useful except to vent into an echo chamber, because you can't actually bucket a real person's views this easily.
Agreed. I ate that book up for the first half, and when I came across the concept of "priming" I was obsessed. I looked it up only to find it had been largely debunked. Immediately lost interest. There are some great concepts in there, but it's not worth my time to tease out what is and is not legitimate.

I'd also want him to publish a revision, I've enjoyed listening to Kahneman on podcasts and have nothing against him as an author
I've started[1] to do similar things on macOS using Hammerspoon[2]. So far I've set it up to let me:

1. Use shift when pasting something to simulate typing in the text instead, getting around websites that block pasting.

2. Use ";" as a hyper key. By holding it down and pressing another key, I can switch between specific programs without cycling. I can also use hjkl as arrow keys.

3. Automatically switch audio input and output devices according to my specified priority order. Because macOS would frequently get it wrong, including treating my monitor as a speaker for some reason (it doesn't have built-in speakers).

4. Make control act as escape when tapped. I use this in conjunction with remapping caps lock to control in macOS system preferences. I previously used Karabiner Elements for making caps lock work as escape when tapped and control when held, but I was able to uninstall Karabiner because Hammerspoon was sufficient.

5. Disable the insert key because I've never wanted its functionality, but I would sometimes hit it accidentally.

[1]: https://github.com/dguo/dotfiles/blob/master/programs/hammer...

[2]: https://www.hammerspoon.org/
I assume it is trolling
Physically more fit, pass certain psych screenings, etc.

It's not exactly a good random sampling, they filter candidates very aggressively.
Here's what I use: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Not available on AMO or Chrome Webstore, unfortunately, but is very easy to install on Firefox, and requires just a bit of effort on Chrome.
They're easier to ignore in async forms of digital communication.
This whole theory seems like metaphysics because of this: it implies that among two systems with absolutely identical external behavior in all respects, one can have conscious and the other not have it.

Fundamentally, we can simulate neuromorphic computer (or even a quantum computer, or even the entire human brain) on Von Neumann machine (with performance degradation). According to our current understanding of physics, the behavior of these systems should be identical in all respects except the simulation will be slower. However integrated information theory says that a neuromorphic computer may be highly conscious and the brain is most definitely highly conscious, but their simulation isn't.

What's still unclear to me is whether this is indeed just metaphysics (i.e., the simulation and the real thing are absolutely identical and but we should still treat them differently from ethical standpoint), or is it a hypothesis about our physics (i.e., the brain somehow fundamentally cannot be simulated on a Von Neumann machine) as well as computational theory (i.e., neuromorphic or quantum computer cannot be simulated either).
I'm with you. GitLab would be near the top of my employer targets if not for their bizarre location-based salaries. I want a remote-work job in large part so that I can move around. I relocate every 2-3 years, all over the US and internationally. If I get hired in the NYC area I'm not willing to take a 50% paycut because I want to spend a year living somewhere else.

Their calculations and reasoning are completely irrational. Rent is more a lot more in NYC, but utilities are the same; medical costs are the same; groceries are roughly the same (I found them cheaper in Manhattan than in nearby suburbs); you don't own a car (or two, as a couple); you don't have the expense of maintaining a large home and yard; etc. It costs a lot to live in NYC, but you can't compare the rent on a 1BR NYC apartment with a 1BR suburban apartment and say it's three times as expensive. It's a completely different lifestyle, and the choice for people like me is between a shoebox in the city with the perks of city life, or a comfortable 3BR home with a yard in the suburbs and a car and maybe a swimming pool or a boat or something. It's not a cheaper life, it's just a different life.
The current price is the equilibrium of supply and demand. Not only are the holders holding, but the market makers are providing liquidity at those prices. Deep liquidity.
>" The more the current state of a system specifies its cause, the input, and its effect, the output, the more causal power the system has. Integrated information is a number that can be computed. The bigger the number for a system, the larger its integrated information, and the more conscious the system is."

I'm generally sympathetic to the idea that consciousness and "computational power" are not identical but the larger problem with all of these theories in my opinion is that they're really just stories that clarify intuitions one has about consciousness.

I think the problem with the consciousness question is really that it's hard to probe into what consciousness actually is. It's completely possible to give different accounts of conscious experience even though systems behave the same, including that consciousness doesn't exist at all, and really there's no empirical way to agree or disagree.

I've started to think of expressions about consciousness more or less the same way emotivists considers ethical statements. Emotivists argue that saying something like ""You acted wrongly in stealing that money" is equivalent to "You stole that money". The first statement does not add any true or false statement about the situation, it's merely an expression of emotional sentiment.

In the same sense I don't think "machine x does y" expresses fewer facts than "machine x does y, and it is conscious".
Congrats Kite, Adam & the entire team for launching JS & Pro. Been a fan for a while. Fingers crossed!
You and your friends can totally agree to do a knife fight. However as soon as someone dies you can’t get out of the jail free saying you all agreed.

You and others can’t make a pact to get infected with a deadly virus. If you do and someone dies others should be ready to go to prison!

As long as you understand that, it’s cool. Mostly people expect heath care workers to take deadly risk of getting infected themselves and working without PPE that’s no lockdown is basically a ruse from entitled people who want others to risk their life and liberty for them.
I'm not exactly a financial expert, but I feel like any stock market news is accompanied by a fleet of "This was already priced in" comments.
I think the question is more: can there be a system complex enough to mirror the physiological effects of an emotion, but without a consciousness also experiencing it? Or does the complexity of that system, by definition, cause consciousness to arise? This is sort of getting into the "Philosophical Zombie" problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
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Youtube was an acquisition.
The "chit chat" is a basic part of human interaction. Even for remote companies it still happens.
What the Modi gov got wrong on Covid-19
A Crematorium Management System built in Microsoft Access is still a Crematorium Management System.
Yup. wmctrl too; sometimes one is more friendly for the specific thing you need done, sometimes it's the other way.

Passersby, warning, both are Xorg-only. For wayland, see https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool but the naming is confusing, as it doesn't work exactly at the same level: ydotool is about keystrokes, not window management.
I was surprised to see that the web server for www.microsoft.com reports via the 'Server:' header that it runs on IIS 10.

To me that just seems weird... even though it's their product.
Any advice on how to balance learning/knowing theory vs practical stuff? As a kid, I read tons of books. While I don't regret it, I kinda wish I had spent some time outside doing socializing and physical activities. I'm in awe of people who seem perfectly happy with a book by themselves but also get along nicely with other people as needed.
You aren't wrong. Diversity is relative to what you have access to, but in the grand scheme of things tech is pretty homogenous.
> So why do we have so many programming languages and ardent followers supporting or opposing one another?

This is two questions. Having a diversity of languages helps (I'll get into why). We don't need ardent followers advocating getting into flame wars that benefit no one.

As you say, every language is ultimately converted into machine code. However, the final machine code is not the same. Each language has it's own strengths and weaknesses and this affects the final output. Some of these are

* Strong or weak type systems - stronger type systems allows you to encode invariants of your program, ensuring that the final machine code doesn't blow up in unexpected ways when your user runs it

* Interpreted or compiled - Interpreted languages (arguably) allow faster iteration while compiled languages have a more optimized end product. More here - [1]

* Light or heavy run times - part of that machine code might or might not include a runtime. This runtime could manage threading, garbage collection and so on for your program.

These are some of the many are trade-offs that languages make. Depending on the trade-offs chosen, the language is a good fit for some applications but not others. For example, a runtime like the one used by Java probably makes it unfit for embedded programs compared to C, while Java is probably a better fit for writing web servers compared to C. Overall, we're better off because we have the option of choosing Java or C (or Python or Rust or ...) depending on the problem we're trying to solve.

As for people fighting over languages, don't pay it too much attention. Such discussions can get quite heated but ultimately they're quite meaningless. People will choose what makes sense for them.

[1] - https://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html...
Too Lidl too late? (sorry)
> For the philosopher, it was something else entirely (if I remembered, I might be able to guess who it was).

"Qualia" perhaps, which is a sleight-of-hand which amounts to shoving the complexity around on the plate: Consciousness depends on qualia. What's qualia? Exactly.

I think consciousness is a continuum, and humans slide up and down that continuum all the time, from deep sleep to nearly-autonomic behaviors like doing purely rote tasks to, at the other end, being very aware of everything because you just heard a rattlesnake rattle and need to know where it is right now.

Is AI conscious? I think it fits somewhere at the lower end of the spectrum. Is a flatworm conscious?
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Yeah, my brief exploration with user feedback in a material style form of that sort returned of a lot expectations especially on HTML pages that the underlined things were "weird links" not editable form fields and they didn't know how to edit the content. Some of those were even Android users presumably seeing the same style of fields in their day-to-day apps. One said they hated it in Android apps too but had no way to control it.
very stoked on this! Thanks! Been using the python version for months and absolutely love it!
Anyone else find it funny that the first paragraph of a Knuth Prize announcement writes "treat like alike" instead of ``treat like alike?''
Same thing everywhere else. Cars not signalling, suddenly opening doors into traffic, idiots jumping out of bushes etc etc.

The distant second place is road condition - surprise potholes, open manholes, spits of concrete, pools of lubricant and cooling fluid after previous crashes is also nice.

And only then comes something that can be remotely called reckless riding.
What you just described is pretty much what nearly every startup in Silicon Valley does. Probably what 95% of startups anywhere do (very rarely, there's a startup where the "gold" is tangibly there, but it's a rare case).

Of course, if they issue securities, they have to comply with securities laws. If that's what Telegram is upset about, then I don't think they have much of a leg to stand on.
I'm not sure how that has to do with WFH. I still have to get ready, wake up, set an alarm clock. Except now I have to cook breakfast, clean the resulting dishes, and brew my coffee. Even more work before the day starts.

Are you saying that your company cares more about if you're in your seat at a certain time during normal days? Because that's a completely separate issue than WFH or not.
My god, this has to be the most depressing forum on the interwebs.

A downvote to zero for the suggestion of living locally and playing soccer ten minutes after work.

You are right. Why would you guys have friends?
> I'm reminded of how trans people in the UK have gone from a tiny minority whose treatment was gradually improving as part of the general process of queer liberation, to heavily attacked by high-publicity astroturf organisations, for no readily apparent reason. Is it really the case that mild criticism of a joke in Father Ted caused the writer to burn down all his public credibility and his marriage in a spite-driven counter-campaign against all trans people? It sounds extraordinary, but seems like the only reasonable explanation of what happened there.

Interesting, I had never heard that story before.

https://gcn.ie/graham-linehan-campaigns-against-trans-people...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7982837/How-hated-m...

I don't doubt that there was some spite involved in this case, but "seems like the only reasonable explanation of what happened there." seems like a fairly hasty conclusion to me.

Not sure why you seem to have been downvoted (speaking of spite LOL...I upvoted you, FWIW), I wonder if it was that comment?

I wish HN would consider whether it might be beneficial to the planet to introduce a new "mode" of some sort for certain topics, so we could start to get some insight into why people behave the way they do....in this case, it would be informative to have some insight into why people downvote your comment. As far as I know, there is not a single website on the internet that does this, and yet:

a) the internet is where a lot of this polarized behavior takes place

b) we constantly wring our hands about the consequences of polarization (politics, climate change, etc) in thread after thread, often with implicit or explicit accusations of "why doesn't <some person or organization> dooooooooooo something, this is super duper important, why can't people be intelligent and mature like us!!!???". If it wasn't like watching a preventable tragedy unfolding in front of your eyes, one that our children will have to live through, it would be downright hilarious.
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I'm sorry, but the estimates of covid-19 IFR range to over 1% to 0.1%. Out of ~2M people in Santa Clara County, the death toll is 129 as of today. Bump that up because some people died at home, but let's start with 129. If the IFR is ~0.5%, that means ~26K infections. 26K / 2M is 1.3% infected. And you think we've reached herd immunity here? The blog post predicts herd immunity at ~25%.
You can say that as matter of factly as you want but that doesn't change the long philosophical debates around determinism, liberalism (not the political kind), and free will.
> I think people get stuck in the mental construct of "office = socializing" therefore "no office = antisocial"

Not all cultures are like this. I had a German coworker who would always complain about how much time we spend socializing at work (while socializing with us).

He would tell us, "In Germany, we come to work, we put our heads down for seven hours and work, then we all go out and spend two hours drinking beer together before we go home to our families".
Little offtopic, but the new S3 integration works for you guys?

I tried to connect with s3cmd but it wasn't working. Unfortunately their support was not very helpful neither...
> ...have to learn so much afterwards, it's not even funny.

It's true.

The sad thing is these problems start well before university when high schools pressure students into "advanced" math coursework without demonstrating mastery of previous topics. It builds a shaky foundation and sets the student up for a lot of needless difficulty later on.

Much better to slow down, focus on fundamentals early on and then build breadth in university coursework.
Say what you will about Twitter, but is a globally distributed database with trillions of entries, which has to add and sort and display billions of those entries in real-time for 100+ million daily active users. And it has to resist nation-state bad actors doing everything they can to corrupt it.

As a result, I would guess a lot of Twitter's engineers are working on infrastructure, internal tooling, and moderation.

Regarding your example, doubling the size of a tweet, that was probably more work than one dev writing ALTER TABLE tweets MODIFY tweet_text VARCHAR(280). In fact, I don't know if you were around 20 years ago or so, but there was a similarly scoped project to double the number of digits we were storing the year in. ;)
The flipside is that it takes a lot more intentional effort, which many of us may struggle to put forth. The vast majority of friendships are made in incidental contexts: people you just happen to be around and interact with through the normal course of life. Many adults struggle to make and maintain friendships when they no longer have school forcing them to be around peers, and become very isolated. I think your interpretation is quite overly-optimistic.
Nobody sees any issues with the Fed being saddled with private sector debt? The same Fed that decides how much money is printed? The same money that is the world reserve currency (functionally, the new gold)?

What the fuck is happening?
Like many things the return on investment decreases with complexity. Assembly is easier than trying to program with the actual opcodes but is specific to a CPU. C and its ilk are portable between CPU's, easier to read, less error prone and easier to read for humans. After that the return starts to diminish.
This actually sounds like good actionable advice for a semi-technical person like a journalist.

Still leaves you vulnerable to bios compromise (e.g. get some malware running in SMM before your kernel), but that can be addressed by soldering the bios WP pin low and dropping some epoxy over the laptop case screws.

Edit: There are some SPI chips that have a write protect fuse that you can blow, leaving your bios in a known-good state. [1] pdf page 7.

[1] https://cloud.3mdeb.com/index.php/s/PBfAzZZQYcj3xbs
What about espanso? Cross platform including Linux

https://espanso.org/
From Canada or in Canada? A lot of the "Top Talent" in Canada simply couldn't make it to the US due to stricter visa requirements.
Yes. Perhaps not the government though, what I have in mind is an institution representing the commons and all individuals right to it. So the income from said auctions could not be used for arbitrary government spending but only for the interest of the commons: The ones agreeing to respect the ownership deal by being non-owners of the asset in question. I imagine most of the revenue would just be payed back as a dividend.

Edit: (I do not think of wealth in the form of art though. Imagine most wealth is tied up in capital assets$
This will just inflate the everything bubble further than it has ever gone before. Terrible news.
Simple. It's the difference between being able to find good paying work, and relying on others to find it.

You can be located in a cheap country making thousands a day while others make that in a month. Just need to be a good at finding people whose problems you can solve.