skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a related thought: is it ethical to pay a person less based purely on where they live? I understand that there are different cost of living factors for different places, but that's on the employee's side and should be none of the employer's business. If they employer can pay $200k/yr for a remote employee, it shouldn't matter where they live, and so scaling that value seems discriminatory to me.

Anyone have thoughts about this?
In your dream world, what do regular people pay for?
I'd still use Reaper
On the plus side, makes pen-testing easier.
As an executive (Product and Technology specifically) at a mostly work from home company: I find that engineers can do a pretty good job of effectively collaborating thanks to PR's, Slack, JIRA, and a host of other asynchronous tools.

It's on the product side that things are tougher. Great product work is often about finding meaningful insights in the data available to you, and that often involves long conversations between people with lots of different viewpoints. There's something about doing that in person that is just really hard to replicate remotely.

Even getting the environment exactly right only goes so far. I find that over Zoom people are just a little bit less engaged and that means getting to those really important insights takes a lot longer.

Previous to covid we had solved this by colocating our product team and then bringing the engineering team together once a quarter with product folks to engage them in those conversations. Now we're just sort of feeling our way though it...
I doubt they would be larger than AWS, specially for Linux.
If by "adopting remote protocols" we mean "writing things down instead of verbal tribal knowledge", I think I'm actually ok with that.
You've got the causality backwards. It's the writing-off that causes inflation (because now you have all that extra cash out in the economy that never comes back to the Fed in the form of loan repayment), not the other way around.
I'll bite, where, other than the usual suspects (similarly high CoL areas like NYC and arguably Seattle), or Chicago for the slim group of people working at the finance companies there, are making the same take home compensation as someone in the bay at one of the better paying companies (Google, Facebook, unicorns, etc.)?

You're looking at 160K gross for a new grad + the value of the various perks, and that doubles for someone with 5 years of experience. You're correct that for someone who wishes to own a home right out of school/within a year, the bay may not be the best choice (although working there for a year or two and then moving elsewhere probably is), but there are basically no other places where a SWE in their mid twenties can bank 100K a year after expenses.
Skype's founders are Danish and Swedish, and the business had offices in London, Luxembourg, Estonia (well that's Blue Moon, where the p2p was developed) and more.

I'm not sure how much diligence Ebay ever did on their purchase of Skype, but it never seemed to me like they had a credible business plan for what to do with it. Something something about integrating with sellers. Felt more like the leadership there suffered from some Bay Area strategic acquisition envy. I remember being on painful calls with Ebay and Skype engineering who had very different ideas of how infrastructure should be deployed.

Anyway, Ebay spun off Skype (at a loss) to private equity ... not to MS. Skype floated around in PE for a few years before the (enormous) MS purchase. MS promptly put Skype in an advertising division of all places. I've heard rumors that the DoJ encouraged MS to make the acquisition ... to get Skype calls in the hands of an entity that would be more favorable to lawful interception requests. MS certainly has a painful history with the DoJ, but I really don't know if it's credible or not.
Can you speak a little more about how those work? I understand word embeddings conceptually. And I can imagine using a similar process to embed the arbitrary data stored in a graph. Embedding an entire graph makes less sense to me, unless 'entire graph' means a subgraph of the general population.

I do social network stuff occasionally. If I hypothetically could create an embedding representation of everyone, I could imagine it might be useful to, say, TSNE it all as opposed to a force layout for viz. Or maybe run it as a pretty black box prediction input? Wondering if I'm missing something more obvious here
If I had to guess, I'd say Node is popular because the web has eaten the world, and if you already have a web app as the core of your development, it starts to make sense to make everything else just an extension of that, including your server so you can do things like server-side rendering.

A lot of that development seems to be TypeScript too, which helps mitigate a lot of the problems of raw JavaScript, and the structural typing makes working with JSON (something now pretty universal too) far easier than with a lot of languages.

There are a lot of things I hate about JavaScript itself, but TypeScript's type system is genuinely great.
Between Azure and WSL Microsoft might be shipping more Linux kernels than any other company out there.
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Nope, it depends pretty much on the OOP language, there are a couple of CS variants to chose from.
A note for anyone comparing to any other country: the UK is rather fast to get excess deaths up to date. So they show this metric earlier than others do.

50,000 deaths is awful. But be wary of comparisons to countries that haven’t updated yet. I’m in Quebec, and I don’t believe we even have March numbers yet. Govt here is pretty bad at data transparency overall.

Edit: yup, quebec is still stuck at February: https://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/statistiques/population-demograp...
You've never stopped at an inn to restore your party to full health, o weary traveller? It's hard to learn to swim if you're too busy drowning. There's nothing wrong with enjoying relaxing and aesthetically pleasing mediums before hopping back into the fight.
This reports that other sites report something, please submit the original source in such cases. this is also a duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23154792
Turns out I dislike working from home more than I thought I would. Video calls and screen sharing is a poor substitute for real life, spontaneous back-and-forths in front of a large screen with no lag, compression artefacts and frame drops.
It's inaccurate to count "all deaths above what would be expected" as Coronavirus deaths.

Plus it's very early to be making international comparisons of different data.
There is a growing divide because people can't help but cherry pick anything that fits their narrative. The government is spending hundreds of billions on unemployment, direct stimulus, and keeping people on payroll, but the only thing liberals have to say is that the money isn't enough and coming too slowly. I'm liberal myself and I can see why people feel frustrated, but I can also see why so many conservatives feel like progressives are being entitled.
Everyone is pointing out that those two are acquisitions, but they're missing Verily, Calico, Jigsaw, Wing, Chronicle, etc.

It's par the course for X graduates to get their own brand.
I recently came across a couple of institutions which required me to print, sign and send back a couple of documents. COVID and all of that means I don't have a printer at home. I made this website by inspiration from other posts here and now it's free to use! Code is open source so feel free to comment any new ideas or things you would like includede!
The above is a very good answer.

> the US, which is supposed to be a very capitalistic nation

1) large corporations write laws and engage in monopolies to prevent competition. They have no desire for any sort of capitalism as the average person would think of. This is crony capitalism.

2) corona is destroying the capital that smaller companies had to engage in authentic competition. This is the problem we really need to address in May, 2020 before we flush 200 years of progress down the toilet.

(When you see articles about billionaire investors crying in public this month, this is why. They look at the economic numbers and know what our country is throwing away over the flu.)
Yeah, I have to be pretty skeptical of the above take, for this reason:

1) I live in San Francisco. A ton of residents here commute to Mountain View and environs for work. A ton.

2) Most of those residents are young.

3) One of the few things that has been reliably proven to improve your happiness - even more than a salary bump! - is reducing your commute time.

4) With WFH (work from home) everyone who commutes from SF to elsewhere could cut their commute from 2 hrs round trip, daily, to 0.

5) Ergo, a ton of young people would quickly see the logic of this: WFH and cut your commute time to 0. They would want this option, and they will take it.

I know this complicated somewhat by the fact that you can work from the buses, but I still don't see the overcoming this widely shared preference, for no commute.
Sure, now that the borders are closed, let's send everyone back to work and see how the works out! Maybe some political rethoric will keep people safe from contagion. If it doesn't work we can always blame EU or China. I guess that was the plan from the begining anyway.
The navy has extensively studied performance in high CO2 environments on submarines, and found that it has no impact under levels much higher than you're likely to get indoors.

This study found no impact on decision making at 15000 ppm https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29789085/

That's 10x higher than you're likely to be exposed to in a poorly ventilated conference room.
I can't count the number of times, my team has run into a complex issue, be it a production issue or a coming up with a complicated algorithm design that would've been a lot more difficult to do remotely. My current team has 2 members that are remote only and one person who comes in once a week, or every other week depending on circumstances.

I think there's a lot of day to day work that is more productive at home but in an ideal world, you could have the best of both worlds.
This seems like one of those situations where the world benefits from one country doing the homework and moving to protect its citizens. I mean, if another country wants to okay pump and dump scam coins, or bogus medicine, or unsafe cars, they're free to do that. Otherwise, others might as well benefit from SEC, FDA, and NHTSA results unless overridden locally, no? Sure, US agencies not perfect, captured even sometimes, but pretty sure tiny Elbonia doesn't have the resources to vet securities, drugs, or cars.
> I said it because the article was suggesting that government should fix the WFH gap, and I assert that you can’t for the reasons I stated. That’s. It.

But government can fix the WFH gap, because letting everyone work from home is not the solution anyone was proposing, since everyone knows that isn't possible.

The WFH gap isn't that some people get to work from home and other people don't. If you're saying that's the problem, you're making a straw man argument.

The WFH gap is that the people who can't work from home, aren't getting compensated for risking their lives and aren't getting compensated for how essential they apparently are.

> I find it extremely weird and not a tiny bit annoying that you’re continuing to assert what you think I’m saying even as I correct you.

Okay, if you really intended to say that not everyone can work from home: sure. That's completely obvious, did not need to be said, and is irrelevant.
In this case, many of the features appear to be improvements upon features originally introduced in Garageband iOS, so the features are trickling backwards consumer -> pro.
I guarantee your opinion of AI-based autocomplete will change if you try it for a week. It's completely different than anything heuristics-based. In fact, it often suggests complete English phrases when I'm writing prose that are contextually relevant and grammatically valid (which makes sense, it uses GPT-2 under the hood I think). It's crazy how good it's gotten over the last few years.

I recommend TabNine but maybe kite is just as good these days, idk.
Yeah, I'm thinking of the person who either fell for the Mac propaganda or already had one. There still is a sizable advantage to knowing that things will probably work out the box on a Mac laptop vs random PC laptop but the price gap is unreal. Live Intro is definitely enough for most people to get a feel for things.
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While it may not completely change your life, a book that definitely opens your eyes (probably more so if you're white and male) when it comes to mondern-day racism and just how biased our thinking really is is "Biased" by Jennifer L. Eberhardt. You ask how many of the authors listed here a women but one could just as easily ask how many of the authors listed here are black and I think the answer would be just as shocking.
Our best option in a high pollution area is to live in a building that has made a good internal filtering system. I think it’s extremely difficult to setup in an individual house.

However, the outside air will not be high co2. That’s equal enough worldwide. I’m in a city and it’s about 450 ppm outside. Higher than global average but still fine for ventilation.

If you also measure particulates, you can get a sense of whether simply opening a window is sufficient.
robots with humans in the loop!

most robots are quite capable, but the AI isn't there
I still remember being such a young programmer -- and I much preferred WFH. I have no car and commuting on foot and via public transport, only to turn up at a noisy, productivity-sapping open-plan office, is tiring. I would rather save that hour and a half each day and just work from home.
This is the one of the hugest news of 2020 now.... Imagine all the implications!!
Bigger place with a home office.

Also generally if you live in the suburbs you probably co-habit with your family and probably spend your commuting life wishing you could see more of them (this is orthogonal to the city / suburb question really - it has more to do with the older / younger split).
Nope. Legit college whose students went onto excellent post graduate programs in US and Europe. 700 in a graduating class is chump change in India. Plenty of colleges whose annual batches are that size.

I never said they had trouble finding jobs. You jumped the gun. I said they were not happy with choosing computer science as a career.
Never been more proud of my former employer. This is amazing. Kudos, Twitter! Hope more Bay Area companies follow your lead. The last project I worked on at Twitter was a 3 person affair - me in SF, front end guy in Seattle, our manager in the sky, flying between usa & asia. Manager sent out specs on google doc, I video-confed the Seattle dev, we agreed upon the breakdown of work, I did the backend statistics stuff with apache math & finagle, he did the frontend in mustache.js, then we got code reviews & lgtm. That was one of the very few things that actually shipped with zero friction, because none of us ever saw each other in person. Everything was email & gdocs & git. Really enjoyed that experience.
Why Florence Nightingale matters today
> "(So it's certainly not about any profit from the software directly, and it's also not just a marketing 'halo'.)"

along these lines and in the absence of other evidence, in these kinds of peripheral situations it's always a good guess that the peripheral product supports the profits of the parent product, and it's value shows up not only in it's own profits but in the parent products' as well, that it's a flanking product meant to protect the primary.
Yes agreed, UK is a problem group. Unfortunately the thrust of the arguments above yours is that the UK is uniquely terrible. This is not because of the data, but because many people strongly despise the current rightwing government. This is why the quality of discussion here will be limited.
The BBC's headline on their top story on the day after we (UK) became the highest official death toll in Europe was "Coronavirus: Italy death toll tops 30,000, highest in EU" [1]

They've been a propaganda machine for the tories since the day Laura Kuenssberg took over as political editor, and as long as she's in charge they should be considered among the least trustworthy news sources in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52594570

Edit: Clarifying that by "we" I meant "the UK"
If I understand your reasoning, the difference between hospice care and staying at home with bedrest & fluids is a 9.5% death rate. Is that actually the model you work with? My understanding is that most COVID patients sick enough to get a ventilator die anyway.
Imagine you're 22. For the last 17 years you've showed up every day for an institution. It provided a schedule, a routine, social interaction with a community of peers who share common ground, even explicitly structured extracurricular events.

One day that just comes to a hard stop. You're sitting in your childhood bedroom on a computer. Your friends have all scattered to the wind. What now?

Of course it's possible to build a life from scratch, without the benefit of an institutional attachment. You can enforce a schedule for yourself. You can go chat up strangers in bars or meetup groups or whatever, and build a social network that way. But it's not hard to see how this level of flexibility, so suddenly, could be suffocating.

Contrast with a mid-career professional who already has a spouse, a well-developed social network gathered from the many communities he's been part of over the years, and the structure/routine of childrearing.
The idea of making conscious AI scares me, because we could potentially create an AI that just experiences constant suffering at a level unimaginable to humans. Really scary from an ethical perspective.

If integrated information theory is true, that gives me some comfort, since it says AI built on our current architecture is unlikely to ever be conscious. Although like the article said, some alternative architectures could theoretically have a higher degree of consciousness under IIT.

I feel like there are some big ethical questions around AI that revolve around more than just the standard "how do we create an AI that won't destroy us all".
Taiwan has had 7 deaths in comparison (0.3 per million) vs UK (482 per million). Of course they did things as soon as it appeared. UK and US waited weeks and months.
It's sad that Natural Rights is a dying concept among the modern intelligentsia. I hope it does not result in tyranny.
Is auto-vacuum enabled by default?
Mapping windows commands to equivalent Linux ones
This is, of course, the far-too-common "appeal to antiquity" fallacy.
Quality was not bad, calls didn't drop, no outages, good mobile support. Because it's p2p couldn't be hacked, it was replaced.
But the Fed QE from '08 didn't make it back if I understand it correctl...I think we managed to unwound about a quarter or a third (?) of the outstanding debt before this crisis hit and the Fed had to issue new QE all over again.

I'm not sure I understand what's stopping the Fed from buying back these loans that it issued? If it can't for some reason, what's stopping Congress or the states from creating "banks" to buy it back?

Didn't people say before '08 that inflation was caused by the money supply, and then we did QE, and inflation didn't happen? So now they're saying inflation is tied to velocity, or M1 vs. M2?
I am a strange loop by Douglas Hofstader. Very clear thinking and awesome thought experiments
One possible outcome of a more normalized WFH culture might be a dramatic reduction in rent prices for the types of living arrangements you describe, precisely because their central locations have lost a principal source of value (proximity to the office), so demand will wane.

Similarly, centralized corporate real estate is not going to be as in demand as it once was. This will take decades maybe, but it's easy to imagine some of these buildings getting converted to residences, increasing the supply (and therefore decreasing the costs of rent).

Instead of 3-4k/month for a downtown studio in NYC, you might see 2k/month. It'll take us a while to get there.

Conversely, one might reasonably expect suburban rents to jump up, as city-dwellers move there.
Re House of Leaves, I don't recall it being most pages. There was a flurry of those at the end, but I found it was an effective machination that heightened the drama rather than distracted.
But it would have everything to do with Waymo. Clearly this is something they’re thinking about, and one hopes they learned a lot from Uber’s accident in AZ.

I think if anything, it causes the bar to be super duper high to fully launch, which is why I’m very pessimistic on Level 5 driving happening anytime in the near future. AGI is not solved, not even remotely, and if death is the consequence, Waymo will probably dissolve before launch.
Just wait until January when Elon replaces Trump in the Oval Office.
Working from a separate country isn't usually allowed based on the labor laws of that country, since you are still paying your taxes to your home country while using the infrastructure of another. You can certainly do it, but your company may not want to know you are doing it.
The seigniorage profits are made by the fed, and mostly paid back to the Treasury. Only a tiny portion is paid out in dividends to member banks who are required by law to own non-voting shares of the regional reserve banks.
The Government operates with the consent of the governed, not the other way around!

The alternative is civil war.
There's an interesting theory about this based on game theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro%E2%80%93Stiglitz_theor...
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It's not that inaccurate and in the face of inadequate actual testing is all we've got.
> I am skeptical about this. Unless you can actively demonstrate competence (select few) you are not going to be favoured against someone with real degrees in the pile of resumes.

That's why I said, if you are willing to let go of the traditional path. If you have to compete against a pile of resume, you are near or on the traditional path.

Employment doesn't necessarily mean you have to be working for a company.
Bootstrap 4.5.0
Rijksmuseum releases 45 gigapixel photo of The Night Watch
I've taken a crack at adjusting the headline to use language from the article's opening paragraph. However, you're still only getting 1 of your 4. Have an ombudsman, at least.

If there were a way to squeeze banks in there, that'd be good too, but the 80 char limit stymied me.

Generally we take individuals' names out of titles rather than add them in, and adding "AFME" would be adding noise since few readers will have heard of it. In any case, it doesn't seem to matter as much which lobby group the director joined or which director it was who joined a lobby group.
Our organization has been working remotely for nearly 2 months. Last week I received an organization-wide email that we'll start to transition back to the office in mid-June. Chances are that my team will be one of the last brought back but I still felt sick about it.

My organization operates culturally at the pace of an insurance company. Despite the benefits of a semi-remote organization to my employer and the opportunity this pandemic provided for proof that productivity can remain high when working remotely, it will choose to have people on-site.

Now I'm searching for remote-only work.

[EDIT: Added "sick" in the last sentence of the first paragraph.]
Fewer miles, fewer accidents. One delivery truck can replace many personal car trips.
The real challenge of AI vis a vis real world problems is how to create infinite examples, labelled observations, etc at finite cost.