skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bringing a car to market is going to require a lot of partnerships with a lot of companies, and google might prefer that they have skin in the game.
> This has about as much truth to it as people who say "perks are just to make you stay at the office longer!".

> i.e. it's typically not a problem and can be very beneficial to the worker.

Many states require payout of vacation time accrued at time of separation. How does that work for unlimited vacation?
Within continents it’s not much of a problem, just saying off continent can definitely be
Hey! I'm building QPage https://www.qpage.one/ - public beta phase
An end to end recruitment process automation and would love some feedback besides our Mom tests (even though their feedback is pretty brutal :))
It's all about bring the whole chain and services required in hiring process in one platform all built-in. From data consistency to remove cognitive unbiased decision to high quality assessment tests (Psychometric to Expertise Tests) and even video interview tool.
Offering free lifetime basic plan, so don't hesitate to sign up and start automating your recruitment process.
To be fair, JavaScript is also an extremely bad OOP language.

And I’m not complaining about its prototypical inheritance either (I actually like it), but the fact that it tries to hide its prototypical nature under a Java like veneer.
TLDR: They seem to be talking about global levels over time and also mention that indoor levels can be higher, depending on how well air is exchanged with outdoor air.

Probably good to be thinking about the latter, and in my well-insulated place, I often leave some windows cracked to help with this.

Over periods of centuries, presumably evolution would ameliorate most or all of the problem with global changes.
well you are going to miss out on the gargantuan salaries, which will likely still have a premium but maybe closer to 10% premium instead of 250% premium, but if you like networking with people working on cutting edge protocols you still can

the cities and towns themselves aren't spectacular though. I mean there are more spectacular ones to immerse yourself into if you are really just trying to relocate somewhere intersting
> I predict cookie cutter projects won't be an issue. If a candidate can talk in depth about their project, the choices they made, the things they learned - that's good signal.

I'd argue most capable people will come away with largely the same experience.

Like you, I have a bias toward projects and self-motivated individuals. What I'm saying here is that right now you filter toward that, because everybody has a good GPA, so it's not as strong of a signal. If you change the education system so that everybody has great project experience, you're going to swing back to some other metric to filter people out (like GPA/prestige of university/training program/etc.).

I don't think you can ever really escape it.

In my example, everybody has great project experience and a great GPA. So how do I decide? Well, I start looking at other things like maybe they're the captain of the volleyball team.

(speaking for university hires here at least).
Azure went GA with Rome in Feb and Google in April, so AWS is not that late. I wonder if supply is low. One disadvantage of AWS is that they're so large they can't GA anything in low quantities because it would run out immediately.
Talking to some of my team and coworkers the main thing I hear is they miss face to face interaction with the people they work with, and I do as well. I would like to see the 1 day a week "meeting day" but really try to focus on socializing than "this is the day we do all our meetings" since those seem to be working just as well with video conference. Maybe restrict it to things like 1:1s and group discussions.

Having a 1 day a week office would I think help people move away from high cost areas. If I only had to do it once a week a multi-hour or even flying to the office once a week wouldn't be bad (assuming that we return to our previous status quo with air travel.)
Why and how to make a technological watch in 2020?
> Pay in-person workers more.

Which in turn means whatever those workers are providing will cost more. In most of the jobs under discussion, labor costs are a large fraction of overall costs, so raising labor costs means making the overall good or service more expensive. And nobody wants to pay more--not even the workers themselves, who are also paying for similar services from other workers.

You left out the actual correct answer, which is a combination of:

3. Increase the productivity of individual workers. That means the workers are producing more value per unit of work.

4. Make the workers entrepreneurs. That means they are now owners of the capital constituted by their increased productivity and skills, so they capture more of the value they create.

In short: workers need to stop thinking of themselves as workers, and start thinking of themselves as owners of capital, since that's the better bargaining position to be in.
> Software developers on the other hand are like real estate developers. They don't build walls, they don't do structural analysis. Instead they combine systems. Unlike real estate developers, they mostly do the plumbing by themselves.

I like this analogy, because it confirms my personal biases/discomfort about web and app developing falling under the same umbrella of "engineering" as nuclear reactor design, missile guidance, and the worldwide chemical industry.

However, to advocate against my biases, in my field (ChemE), most of the fundamental work has been done. Very few BS graduates in chemical engineering will design a distillation column or a chemical reactor. Again, most of the basic science and engineering has been figured out long ago (which is why most research ChemE looks more like chemical physics, molecular/systems biology, and materials science than reactors and unit operations).

So, to an approximation, a chemical engineer won't "build" something. They'll stitch together components that were figured out a century ago. In fact, this was the entire point of "unit operations" -- black boxes that can be represented as a functional transformation on their inputs to produce outputs, and can be solved, quasi-linearly, to estimate the overall inputs and outputs of a chemical process.

In that case, by the same analogy, they wouldn't be "chemical process engineers", but "chemical process developers". Yet I wouldn't suggest a chemical engineer who pulls correlations out of Perry's isn't really an "engineer", so with critical review, it's hard for me to justify a believe that somebody who stitches together APIs for a living isn't equivalently an engineer.

[Edit: a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1988/ -- Most engineering doesn't seem to be that different]
At some point, unless working onsite is (really) essential — employees & employers that have onsite unnecessary office space should have to pay tax to do so, otherwise, them having an office space just paid for by those who are willing not to have an office.

Having non-essential spaces for people is complete unnecessary — and it: contributes in less health eating habits, traffic, cars, HVAC related energy costs, wasted time commuting, rising real estate costs, economic lost during pandemics due to downtime, etc.

Same principle holds true for non-essential travel.
This is fantastic!
I had no idea about Iyashikei as a genre, I knew it existed but had no idea that it had a name. I am particularly happy about this as I am just finishing my own Iyashikei game called Kanso.
Does anyone know of any good resources for Iyashikei? I'd like to dig deeper.
For CO2 specifically, one offline option is the "CO2Meter RAD-0301", also available as "TFA Dostmann AirCO2ntrol Mini" and possibly other labels. They have an unofficial USB interface too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22764488
Thanks ... that looks great! I always preferred Sara Bander's HTML version of SICP to the PDF version that is available for free download at everyone's favorite online bookstore.

If someone is looking for the PDF format of SICM, that's available now too for the second edition.
Yes, but expansive rollbacks are acceptable as they are very rare in production.
I think you are confusing the implementation with the spirit. If the government does not do what they were voted for they are simply an illegitimate government and subject to be disobeyed. The fact that no administration was voted on their public health policy means almost anything they do is against their voter's interest, so they should do as little as possible.
Would love to hear more about this. Documenting the experience anywhere?
Ask HN: Best Apple Pay Checkout Experience
Hi:

Who has implemented the best “frictionless” Apple Pay (app & www) buy/check out experience? TIA.
How much commission do they take? I heard it's a lot too but not as bad as others.
Restaurants aren't software though. The FOH cost doesn't disappear like terminated EC2 instances. The sometimes-lavish furnishings and rent on a pricy, high-profile location with a lot of foot traffic remain, even after firing (human) servers/waiters and other FOH staff.

Ghost restaurants, which are restaurants run out of commercial kitchens away from downtown areas, and with no physical presence to speak of, using the Internet to drive orders, are trying out running FOH-less operations, but for an existing restaurant that's a bit more difficult a move to make. (Since a restaurant with ~no FOH staff has no human servers/waiters, maybe we could call that model serverless.)
Don't worry, the salaries will still be platinum plated, they just might not be diamond encrusted.
https://dict.leo.org/german-english/Klar
This looks awesome! Yesterday I just started another OS rust walk through and now I have a hard choice between that and this.

Any thoughts on this[1] walkthrough in comparison? This one looks more explicitly up to date.

[1] https://os.phil-opp.com/
Unfortunately, even talking and breathing generates micro-droplets that remain airborne for hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2azcn7MqOU
That was definitely the N64 marketing back then. Reinforce quality over quantity (as a way to explain away lack of third-party games), and load times (as a way combat CDs).

Nothing you said is wrong, however. Cartridges and N64 games, in general, have aged better. But at the time, it cost them the console lead. Cartridges were a key reason why third party game support was so bad. If you were a fan of RPGs, Fighting games, and Sports games - you had to get a PSOne because the options on Nintendo were so bad. People were excited about CDs and FMV in video games. Huge multi-disc games were released for the PSOne that could never be ported to the N64 - further contributing to the dearth of games on the system.

Don't also discount the fact that the system came out almost 2 years after the PSOne due to various hardware delays AND lack of launch games (the system only launched with two!!). Plus the system and games were more expensive.
It's an inaccurate comparison. The problems are very different. Magic Leap is trying to create a viable product for a market that doesn't exist. What they are actually going to ship and how it's going to be useful is still up in the air.

Autonomous is going to be incredibly valuable and it's a hard problem that we'll have to keep hacking away at for a long time. Waymo has made more advancements than any other company. There is a big pack of companies all trying to get a piece of this pie and none of them may succeed in the short term, but Waymo looks to have the best shot.
Comparing Zettelkasten to Para
Speech and Language Processing
I loved Salinger's books when I was a teenager in the 80s. I just don't think his work is relevant today. The major themes are about how everyone else is a conformist and a phony. Both ideas have been turned inside out since Salinger wrote his books. What does being a "phony" mean if you're a YouTube star or say the President of the United States?
Well, it's not happening now. It's been happening gradually for a long time. All my friends in tech including FAANG have been working remotely to a certain degree. Some only once a week, others twice or even fully remote. And even those in the office work mostly in "remote" mode since they need to collaborate with people in offices all over.

For big companies it's harder to work fully remote. There are too many people and teams and dependencies. Twitter is not small but also not big.
tax payers -> fed govt -> "the fed" -> blackrock inc -> corporate ETFs -> american corporations which tax structure is in ireland.
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I agree. I would quit. This basically forces employees to get another room as an office. If my employers pays for it, fine. But if they don’t, it’s bs that I’ll have to continue to work from my living room because we don’t have a dedicated office space. It’s driving both me and my SO crazy because we want separate spaces to do our work but we are in a studio/open 1-bedroom.
I'm pretty skeptical of the threat model for (non-attested) memory encryption in public cloud; maybe there isn't one.
This is good for the environment.
this is exactly the reason I prefer the office .. I have 2 kids, 5 & 2, and if I'm home they are very much used to me being around them or doing something together, working from home is not ideal
haha, pretty nice phrases. I kinda liked the landing page and went to sign up process, but it seems personal email can not sign up for the service and that most likely is a hassle.
ha, yes, i'm glad you caught that little contradiction!
A lot of us would disagree with that. Housing is so expensive that lots of talented people simply cannot afford to move to the BA.

Looked at another way, "talented people" are often smart enough to realize that if they do get the same salary, they net a lot more if they live elsewhere.
It would be good if AWS and GCE were leveraged by workers at home as generic data centers to store their private data

Working on a UI and server for just that. Plug an API key for a cloud provider into the UI which will help users move data from their laptop to a private bucket for example, or spinup basic infra, enable sharing with other users accounts for opt-in data collection

Sell or donate access to specific data in your account on your terms.

The web is dead. With the right tools anyone can leverage the cloud to regain a ton of privacy and control of their data. Maybe we can dismantle through free market effort, the technocracy middleman now that building such software is trivial
I did this and after taxes and cost of living, I'm actually making slightly more on net.
If they're recording music, they can certainly still use Logic to do it, and Apple wants to give them reasons to keep doing so. It's hard not to notice that Apple has been courting YouTubers really heavily over the last few years.
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I feel like my cognitive ability has dwindles the past few years and while there are for sure much bigger factors playing into that, I wonder how much these environmental factors are a part of it.
Lots of conglomerates have sub brands to avoid antitrust attention. Also maybe they don’t want consumers to think the cars are watching them.
Yes, and maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Which has established rules and contracts guaranteeing and enforcing the rights of buyers and obligations of sellers.
That's for an N95 respirator combined with a surgical mask. Most of us are just wearing surgical-type masks, and I doubt they make any difference to oxygen levels.

(If they did, I'd be very worried about surgeons!)
That is a good point. There is a big difference between being forced to work from home, and choosing to work from home. In my case, I've actually been wanting to work from home for a while, and was already preparing for it in some ways, so being forced to work from home was not a hardship at all, but if you aren't prepared for it, I imagine it would be a lot harder.
You can take the mask off for a while if you're starting to get uncomfortable, but yes, it's probabaly not good to wear masks all day long, which is why the lockdown is important.
Phylo DNA Puzzle
Different brands can make sense though. Youtube isn't called Google Video and Blogger isn't Google Blogs.
The Big Ear radio telescope
There are many similar games that I play, such as House Flipper and American/European Truck Simulator. Car Mechanic and Farming Simulator are similar.
Looks like it's catching up with yarn (workspaces, overrides, etc). And re-thinking past decisions (installing peer-dependencies automatically …again)

I think I like it!

However, I think I'm still going to be using Yarn for the foreseeable future. Would like npm cli to prove itself for a while.
So it does! Thank you very much!
They will be made to sign it eventually by the people. Then we can all be a whole world as a country, one vision and full equality of resources and thoughts, and it will be beautiful
I am so angry, and we are so fucked.
Well, this sounds awesome.
Matrix seems to be a no-brainer after all.

Let's hope that the others won't switch to Wire
Diaspora was going to be my answer as well, the ending in particular. It kinda forced me to accept as inevitable that at some point my consciousness will cease, in one way or another.

I can plausibly see life extension technology arising that gives me hundreds, or even thousands of extra years of life. It doesn't seem entirely impossible to extend that premise to millions of years, but at billions it doesn't really seem fathomable, and trillions seems to be well beyond what we know about the likely fate of the universe. And once I accepted that inevitability, it suddenly seemed a lot more plausible that my time left was probably closer to decades than even centuries, let alone anything beyond that. There were definitely a fair few existential crises in the weeks and months after finishing that book.
It's very easy to download the copyrighted content. For example, here is a full NES ROM set: https://archive.org/details/NESrompack
Seems like Forza would be easier to interface with too, example: this guy built a virtual cockpit[0] using VW parts -- the shifter, tach/speedometer all work

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSEqO_2kdxLtslBK9FLqtxA
A blurred distinction between the home and the workplace could also have legal implications for side projects, 'everything you make during employment period belongs to us' clauses can sometimes be punched through or voided but it's harder to do if you can't show a clear work time and resources vs. personal time and resources boundary.
> This is a pretty awful, irrelevant post. Remote work is bad for low income earners, because it's not available for most low income earners. Some people are doing better while others are being impacted.

I don't understand your agreement.

How exactly is remote work bad because it's not available to those working physical jobs?

I also don't understand what you mean about being "impacted" - how does people working remotely negatively affect those that don't? If remote working was to really gain traction, I can only see potential positives - I'd expect house price inflation to reduce in cities, and I'd expect overcrowded public transport in those cities to become much more comfortable.
And my daughter wants a unicorn, I think her unicorn is more likely to happen
In East Asian economies, the workforce transitioned from farming to labor-intensive manufacturing before moving onto high-tech services. India, in contrast, had a booming tech consultancy sector before they had a strong manufacturing sector. A poor farmer in China, and Japan/Korea in the decades prior, could move to a city and make a better income on an assembly line despite not having any formal education. A poor farmer in India needs to jump up to a service job which needs a lot more training and preferably a diploma to prove it. So even if your local college is a shit diploma mill, you'll still send your kids to it because there's no other choice for upwards mobility. There's no factory job where your children can get hired at and save up so the next generation can go to a college with legitimate training.
Also Swedes (hence the Swiss mistake here)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype

> First released in August 2003, Skype was created by the Swede Niklas Zennström and the Dane Janus Friis, in cooperation with Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, Estonians who developed the backend that was also used in the music-sharing application Kazaa. In September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion.[11] In September 2009,[12] Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay, which attributed to the enterprise a market value of $2.92 billion. Microsoft bought Skype in May 2011 for $8.5 billion. Skype's division headquarters are in Luxembourg, but most of the development team and 44% of all the division's employees are still situated in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia.
'How many Bay Area coronavirus deaths did stay-at-home orders possibly prevent?'
Why keep the expensive office in your case?
At the time I read this I mostly understood his themes through the lens of mass production and product/lifestyle marketing, to some degree an extension of Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class and conspicuous consumption as class identity.

Lately I have begun thinking about this book again particularly in the context of Covid and the 2020 U.S. election, where the pandemic has made apparent the inability of our institutions to serve their functions (e.g. for the CDC to prepare and stockpile supplies in the event of a rare mass pandemic) or for either party to offer any authenticity behind their expressed purposes ("draining the swamp" by intensifying the culture of corruption in D.C. or helping Main Street through massive Wall Street bailouts). These institutions and parties are essentially emulating the familiar principles of the past while operating by the power structures that have captured them. We seem to take it for granted.
OK, but how are they impacted?
Good suggestions for improvement, but I don't think they fit this context. Face-to-face communications are extremely unsearchable.
You can buy a video capture device that lets you plug a GoPro or DSLR 's esque HDMI output to your computer.

How are you using the xlr mic? I have one but am using the USB output because I don't have a xlr port on my laptop.
Make is a 44 year old implementation of the DAG model. It is not the only possible one, and it has plenty of flaws. At least in principle, there is room for a better implementation of the DAG model, and even different implementations tailored for different ecosystems.

The Mother of all Demos was amazing 5 decades ago. And yet we're not stuck using the exact same UI toolkit as Douglas Engelbart.
Ask HN: What Happened to Skype?
Years ago "Skype" was a verb ("skype me", "let's skype") like "Zoom" is now. How did Skype go from being "The Name" in online calling to whatever it is today? I don't quite understand what caused Skype to fall and Zoom to rise.
There are several kinds of animals with long lifespans https://onekindplanet.org/top-10/top-10-worlds-longest-livin...
Even better, the young woman in the painting isn't a girl and she isn't even real. It's all imagined by Vermeer.

No one minds that she is called a 'girl' when she is most definitely a young woman even by today's standards and most definitely by the standards of the day.

All of this was 20 odd years ago though, for me, when the term chick was much more widely used in both the US and UK.