skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ninja originally used `.d` files as well (it was built while incrementally replacing a make-based system so it did many things like make). My recollection is that it was already faster than make without the deps log, but it is almost certainly project specific, and perhaps due to the ways we were abusing make (search for "clever hacks" on http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.h... for some discussion of this.

With that said, the deps log processing of .d files was a huge win for us. One thing to observe is that it's the same code and amount of work either way, but if you load them at startup they are processed during the critical path, while the deps log parsing happens during the build so their cost is amortized.
If the tesselation is performed on the GPU (surfaces uploaded to GPU in some non-triangle representation e.g image geometry/SDFs/patches) then I don’t think it’s ever viable to have the tesselated triangles loaded back from GPU memory even to RAM (never mind disk). This isn’t a lot of data. 2 triangles/1 vertex per pixel is just 8K triangles and 4K vertices every frame, that can be overwritten each frame. This is tiny. It’s <1MB!
FYI, no warrant is needed to set up a pen register on a person of interest. That's where LEOs request that the Post Office record the envelope metadata of all your correspondence.

ISTM that pen registers not requiring warrants is reasonable -- I'm not sure it's good for society, but it is reasonable.

ISTM that keeping track of cleartext metadata emitted by personal devices on the public Internet is exactly like a pen register.

DNS w/ QName minimization, DoH/DoE, and preferably DNSCurve, are techniques that can reduce the visibility of various metadata involved in gathering browsing history.
fuck hn
I find this kind of thing scary because it seems like it’s so easy to go down a rabbit hole and begin to believe crazy things that break your ability to reason.

Lots of people already believe crazy things, how easy is it to get trapped by conspiracy nonsense? Does exposure take an otherwise rational person and infect them with delusions? Does it require some underlying predisposition? Is there a good way to defend yourself?

It freaks me out in part because I suspect we’re all more vulnerable to it than we think we are. I think possibly even more than average because we’re more willing to question what we believe to be true, I just hope my tools of reasoning about what’s true continue to work.
I'm curious about how you're tackling some of the problems I've seen with prior recycled-plastic-to-filament projects. IIRC printer filament is very sensitive to moisture and impurities, which are hard to control for when using recycled materials (even when mixing with a proportion of virgin plastic)
That's incredible. I decided to do exactly the same thing in go (since I'm trying to learn it) and have some pieces working. Mine is command line based and I'm trying to build in an Emacs mode for it since it's my primary interface.
If you're unfamiliar with the batshit Plandemic video, the debunking at Science is probably the best starting point:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/fact-checking-judy-m...

The thing about Plandemic is, as big a deal as it was on Facebook, the backlash started almost immediately; in fact, the virality had probably as much to do with people dunking on it (and on anyone who seemed to be propagating it) than on any kind of adoption of its message. There are no doubt low-information people who believe the video, but my guess is that they'd believe some other random nonsense had this video not been released.
> and total length limit 255 (or thereabouts)

The continuous discussion about "thereabouts" is because the 255 bytes limit applies to encoded name fields (in DNS messages), not domain names as we usually write them in dotted format.

Since the encoded format is that each label is preceded by its length and the whole domain ends by 'root' (i.e. 0x00) this means that domains names as we usually write them are limited to 253 bytes, including the dots (we don't write the 'root' label and label lengths are replaced by dots except the first one, that's 2 bytes to subtract from 255).
What is your relationship with Hyperdrive & the Beaker Browser?
Jobs that scale linearly in proppotion to demand, like customer service and sales (anything where most of your time is spent focused on one client at a time), get cut when demand drops.
I've seriously considered getting some long and meaningless domain (although not that long) for some serious use. I'd probably go with something like a prefix of 'm' (for "mail") followed by 64 random bits in hex, so something like m95aaa5aea09bdc67.com.

Addresses there would only be used as the recovery addresses for vital services such as bank and brokerage accounts, domain registrar accounts, telephone company accounts, and mail hosting accounts, and that's probably all.

By "recovery address" I mean the address that the service provider will use if someone initiates an "I forgot my password and lost my 2FA device!" password reset. It's any address that if someone takes control of they can take over your account at that service starting from at most your user name on that service.

Why a meaningless name like m95aaa5aea09bdc67.com? To minimize the risk of someone coming in and trying to take it over via a trademark dispute. For this I want domain name that I can be very sure I can keep as long as the current domain system is still in place.
The cases/deaths per million stats by country (and by state in the US) are everywhere. The US is doing decent compared to most of Western Europe, especially Italy and Spain. Though Germany is doing far better than the US. Sweden isn't taking any significant measures to restrict their populace and while they're doing worse than their neighbors like Norway, they're still better than a lot of Europe.
See, now this sounds awesome. Everyone's getting offended for sport but what I'm referring to is the fact that we have a huge portion of the US who sits in a car all day and night, clogging up highways and polluting the air.

You bike to and from work? That's fantastic, if I could do that I'd be in the office a few days a week too, as I also road bike. But so many people don't do that.
> But I don't agree grinding leetcode is the way to measure such merit.

I think it's a much better way of measuring merit than people give it credit for. It measures a mix of problem solving ability and work ethic (it's not purely about innate skill, you can get much better at it through practice so it's also a test of whether you're willing to work for career advancement), both of which are probably things you want to hire for. You can also easily ratchet the difficulty of these things up or down depending on how selective you want to be when hiring. People complain about how "unrealistic" leetcode problems are but there's no intrinsic reason why the interview has to exactly replicate the job, it just has to be correlated with traits that are useful for the job.
Preview doesn't support a lot of stuff such dynamic forms. Most of the gov documents I need to sign are not displayed in preview.
HN will probably find this interesting, so when you launch it, please post it as a Show HN. You can email hn@ycombinator.com for some tips about how to present it if you want (same goes for anyone—just realize that we can't always reply quickly).
One thing to keep in mind is that this is NOT what working remotely is really like. During normal times if I am missing socialization at work I can make up for it by going out more during the week. During normal times if I want I can spend a few hours working from the local cafe. But the cafes are closed. During normal times, kids are at school for most of the day so they don't disrupt you. But schools are closed.

I'm not suggesting people will prefer what normal remote work life is like, but I don't think they're experiencing it right now.
For me it has reinforced my opposition to remote work. I feel like without a dedicated space for work, it is hard for me to mentally unplug from work. I'm already burned out from 2 months of this. I feel like I never know what day it is.

Pre-pandemic, I set my life up so that I was walking distance to everything I needed. My apartment is super small, but that's fine when things are open. I'm actually considering buying a car and moving out to the suburbs because I see my inner-city neighborhood rapidly descending into squalor. I think most city-dwellers with financial means are at least considering the same.
> In fact, maybe this scenario actually increases cost of living because now you need to both be close enough to downtown to commute a few days a week, and have enough space for a dedicated home office so you can work from home productively the other few days a week.

I agree completely. Like, I decided to live in a small apartment downtown Vancouver because the office is really close. To be comfortable working from home, I need a bigger place with an extra room. Either I go back to the office, or I move away from downtown and don't go back to the office.
A little searching will reveal some of the opsec apparently used by Osama bin Laden. Use of couriers with thumb drives rather than risk electronic communications, and other things.
I guess my comment wasn’t clear. Talking about how you could just grab a random terminal with your smart card at Sun, and get work done. True at Google, true at Sun back in the day, not true at most places.
I should have said "there is no singular Reddit community".

Pedantic notes aside, the point is that it's the least surprising thing ever to find that some subreddits have one attitude towards $THING and other subreddits have a different attitude. The site has hundreds of millions of active users.
Sporcle followed trivia fans from bars to Zoom and built a $2.5M business
At this point I consider the Adobe suite to be basically the same as malware. Their apps seem to want to take over your system, install all kinds of "helpers" that run in the background constantly doing god knows what, etc. And their security record is terrible.

It's a shame because as someone who has a lot of interest in design, photography, etc. I acknowledge that they create some very powerful tools. I still miss Lightroom. But I'm just not willing to give them this much control over my computing environment any longer.
This isn't the first time Reddit has tried something like this.

Back around 2015 they hired a dev called Ryan X Charles to build a Bitcoin based rewards system into Reddit.

https://ryanxcharlestimes.com/fix-reddit-with-bitcoin-7da3f8...

It proved to be a difficult task because it was right about the time that the Bitcoin core devs started actively discouraging Bitcoin's use in payments. This paired with a new investment round at Reddit resulted in the project being abandoned.

I do believe if they had seen this project through, Reddit would be in a much more healthy state right now
Yes you can. In fact, every property tax assessment in California decouples them.
==When my office door is closed, everyone knows I'm "at work". If you don't have a separate physical space where you only work, I can see how this might be a challenge.==

Now add a partner who also works from home. Will the extra space (and hardware) needed to comfortably fit all these new home workers be another cost shifted from companies to employees?

If my company wants me to work from home much longer; they need to provide a better desk chair, a new screen, and better keyboard/mouse attachments.
When we had daycare, I liked working from home. With no daycare, I can't get anything done at home.
I get where you are coming from, but my intuition is that we have actually created a massive bubble in land prices by restricting use so much. Land would get a hell of a lot cheaper if we massively decreased demand by letting people live in ways that use less land.
Of historical note is that more than 8 socket Opteron servers were implemented in similar way. There was an chip (IIRC called AMD Horus) that contained two HyperTransport/CoherentLink controllers connected back to back.
You can definitely find this for a bit < $200, its just kind of hard to find a trustworthy brand (maybe you know of one)? I think these may be reasonable markups to actually run a business with a finished safe product, to pay employees, ship these things, and offer warranties and handle returns.
I am 6'4" tall and so everyone is extremely used to looking up at me and it even can feel very strange seeing a camera looking down at me ;P. But I am more asking about stuff like "there is research which shows that if you are looking down you look like you are hiding something but if you look up it looks like you are arrogant or distracted or [fill in the blank]", not "is this a flattering camera angle" ;P.
Yellow journalism has been around forever
I actually think there may be a legitimate criticism here if you define demonstrating nuclear weapon/asymmetric warfare capability as employing terror toward political ends and stop there.
I'd tread carefully there though. That's a lot of sensitive history you're coloring with a rather unattractive brush. There is a lot that prevents that particular viewpoint from being convincing without dragging down a lot of the framework of Western political discourse, however, to the point you may find astonishingly few people willing to entertain it. In the West, it is generally accepted that application of violence is justifiable. Those examples you called up fit within that justifiable envelope, in the first case, near unanumously, and in the latter case, it fit enough for majority buy in, but with significant controversy as well.

Point being, the label of terrorism in the eyes of Western political discourse necessarily connotes violence of an unjustifiable or unsanctioned by the majority nature. I'm curious on your view of the Civil War. Would the secession and war waged by the Southern States (or by the Union retaking them) also qualify as terrorism?
As others have said, OneTab is great, but also check out the Shift+T fuzzy tab search in Vimium: https://vimium.github.io/
From what I understand, the employee loses leverage. If you don’t like the lower salary, often your only option is another company in your area that will also pay an equivalently low salary.

Hopefully if enough companies start hiring remote workers, our leverage will go up.
So, how's the tactile feel on this switch?
I'm planning to do the same. Put things into storage and get a better view. Any advice finding a place?
I left a decade ago. And my standard of living went way up.
> People who usually have family members at home, get too distracted compared to a office environment, to prefer working at home.

Don't mix up "working from home" with "remote work", once you leave the city of your office.

I know at least a few people who would love to go live near their "core communities" from their youth, to rent their own little office downtown near the only diner with unlimited coffee, next to the two lawyers & one dentist.

And at least for a couple of them, they'd love to "commute" once a month out of Middletown/Discovery Bay, stay at the same motel 6 in Sunnyvale for a Thursday, Friday & expense it as business travel.

Though, a lot of this isn't about economics, but mostly about personal goals.
My company provides a very generous allowance (~$1000) for work from home equipment (desk, etc). Yours should too, and if they don't, vote with your feet.
Can you say more? We explicitly do ask, at the end of each section, if founders want to (optionally) send us the results to build up their profile/"application"... so there's some above board data collection happening.

What's your main concern re: data collection with SS and/or trailhead?
Chamath Palihapitiya on Rebuilding Social Capital and SV Ponzi Scheme (2018)
What you described is already the case at most large companies, and it has not backfired, so I don't know what you are talking about.
> It's a damn shame ...

Let people do whatever they want! Adjust the system so people can actually choose how they would like to spend their days. This doesn't have to be a binary option - remote vs office! We have actually an opportunity to adjust the established system and build one that will be more versatile for people with families and folks in the middle class.

I'm really curious to know what is your position that you feel so damn empowered to judge people and group them into buckets of idiots? I'm really tired of people like you who feel so smart about the situation that they must push their points of view in every god damn post about remote work.
Your comment is exactly what I was expecting when I wrote mine. I'm not surprised to see it or the downvotes.

Your Brain on Porn is written by a non-scientist with an axe to grind.

> countless of self-reports by men in various "NoFap" communities make a pretty good case the porn-addiction is not a myth.

Self-reports and anecdotes are not controlled, blinded studies. They're not scientific. They tell us nothing.

If that kind of data were scientific, then we'd all be 100% certain that drinking certain herbal teas cures 50% of the flu, or that marijuana use has a causal relationship with using cocaine.

Sex and porn addiction may or may not be a myth, but the thing that Prause debunks in her various research is that the availability of porn and sex causes those addictions.

What researchers have found is that excessive, obsessive, and/or life-damaging usage of porn and sex are due to existing mental health issues. You don't have a healthy, happy man in a relationship suddenly see extreme porn for the first time and then stop going to work.
>It would be a nuisance to have to sign in at restaurants, especially with a physical address.

I have friends who carry a passport card because they've had unawanted contact from bouncers, bartenders etc.

This type of incident is super common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Passport_Card#Ca...
of course it's subjective. it depends on local norms (many of are unwritten and/or implicit) which vary a lot from place to place. a lot of it just boils down to treating other people the way (you think) they want to be treated. do you think there are a lot of cart attendants that are grateful for people scattering carts all over the parking lot?
Silicon Valley and San Francisco are two different things.

Most junior people in Silicon Valley live in cookie-cutter apartment buildings smack in the middle of a vast wasteland of anonymous subdivisions. Pull up some satellite views and take a look.

That's not desirable. It's just expensive.
This readily illustrates the problem with trying to fight a lie on equal grounds. Once the lie has gone viral it's no longer an even fight; you're now trying to convince a large portion of the world that what they read was wrong. Even worse the fact that the lie is now popular further shields it, because it becomes an argument of 'how could it be wrong when so many people have seen it' and 'no one would spread a lie like this'. You're no longer fighting a battle of fact vs fiction, you're fighting a battle of ideology which is much harder to win.

This can become seriously dangerous by preemptively trying to get people to avoid vaccination or by not taking basic measures to prevent disease spread such as wearing a mask.
You can literally go to the user page and see where the user is a mod. cyXie[0], who has been mentioned, is mod in hundreds of subreddits. /r/gaming, /r/pics, /r/movies, /r/IAmA and /r/EarthPorn are their top 5 by members, with anywhere in between 26 to 100 million members, depending on how much those communities overlap.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/cyXie
They have to pay more in higher CoL areas to attract candidates -- either ones from that area, or ones who would be moving in.

They don't have to pay more in cheaper areas to attract candidates, so they don't.

I took a substantial paycut at Google when I transferred from the US to Germany, for example, even though I was doing essentially the same work.
Nissan's Leaf has the ability to do this (V2G or V2H) and the devices needed to enable it are starting to become available[1].
It's a shame they're not more widespread though. A lot of 1st generation EVs are available secondhand for much less than the cost of a Tesla PowerWall, despite larger batteries.

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127590_nissan-leaf-as-...
The pairing of working in an office with a hellish commute is a bit odd.

Maybe SF really is a parallel universe. Here in the UK, basically anyone earning a tech salary can afford to live within 10-20 mins cycle of work, even if they want children.

You won't have a home with a garden and all the rest of the knick knacks, sure, but that's a different discussion.
Smartlights

A network of connected IoT-type stoplights that use sensors to read traffic patterns and most optimally direct traffic based on math

:)
Yeah, that's my romantic view, but probably unlikely.
Even if a PDF viewer is full of security holes like a colander, I don't see why this should lead to gaining root access.

Why on Earth should Acrobat have any part even running as root? This design seems detective.
Beagle Bros was one of my favorite things when I was a teenager. I had the peeks and pokes poster (http://beagle.applearchives.com/the_posters/poster_2.html) among others up on my wall and used GPLE (an editor) which was really nice. What I alwayss liked was their "Style" (old barbershop) and jokes.

Now I have an Apple IIe right next to my work computer (Floppy Emu). I connected it to a linux terminal and was able to do text Google searches and the SERP still renders fine at 80x24.
Adopting an open source build system doesn't exactly strike me as R&D
Who is taking care of the kids when the 'door is closed'? I guess it depends on how old your kids are... I have a 4 year old and a 1 year old, so someone has to be watching them all the time.

Also, my house only has 3 bedrooms, and the kids take two of them. My office is in the corner of the living room with no walls. I can't lock anyone out of it.

Your house has to be large enough to support a home office to work from home full time.

Although if I wasn't living in this city I could probably afford a bigger house... we pay a premium to live within 10 minutes of work, so we don't have to face that 'two hour commute' you speak of.
I think the real underlying justification for the lockdowns wasn't "we need to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed" so much as "hospitals might be overwhelmed and we need more information to see the tail risk exposure." People weren't distancing before the lockdowns because of fear of hospitals being overwhelmed, they were distancing because they did not personally want to get sick.
It certainly could, depending on how it's done, but consider the possibility that part of the motivation for allowing people to work remotely is to save on salaries, which are probably by far the biggest expense for a typical tech company.
Form editing is really poor in Preview.
By "digitally sign", do you mean insert a picture of your handwritten signature? It can do that: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/digitally-sign-a-pdf-using-.... If you mean cryptographically sign, then disregard my comment.
This may be a fun place to start. There is a lot of work in this area and this type of technique is great for baseball:
https://docs.pymc.io/notebooks/hierarchical_partial_pooling....
https://libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf

Books like that, I think there is a lot of value in just diving in and seeing what happens. I would highly recommend it.
open-source vs closed-source/proprietary vs SaaS
Is recently released Amazon Kedra available as open-source?