skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new version has a totally revamped networking stack that should be a lot faster and more reliable. Part of it includes a new UDP holepunching algorithm that's had a super high success rate for us in practice.

There are some diagrams describing this on the Hypercore Protocol [0] site, and the repo's can be found here.

[0] https://hypercore-protocol.org/#hyperswarm

[1] https://github.com/hyperswarm/hyperswarm
Get a forwarding mail box from Manhattan and tell your company that's where you live. I mean seriously if the company's gonna dick around w/ salaries like that. I mean other than mailing tax documents is it really their business where you live?
The FloopyEMU also has an LCD with menus and onboard controls to select images, change modes, etc.
Exactly what kind of death due to covid do you think shouldn't be classified as a covid death, and what are your medical credentials or evidentiary basis to justify such a stance?

Even the Fox news comment doctor said it's a reasonable stance, because the examples given about kidney and heart problems which are supposed to seem obviously unrelated to general public are clearly not to someone with medical background.
yes, this works. it fills in using the weird apple row addressing and everything.
Wow. Is there something other than PDFs that can be used to meet the same purpose? PDFs are looking really old and stanky right now.
Simple concept, but it hits me right in the nostalgia, presumably as intended. Very well done.
But what about...actually doing good at your job? Yes, you can BS about your actual job and accomplishments, hence why coding interviews supposedly exist. I acknowledge that.

But then - why do anything more than the bare minimum at your job to get by while devoting the rest of your time (including any downtime during your job's working hours) to study leetcode for interviews instead? At least until you get into an "endgame company" - FAANG or otherwise, where you feel comfortable staying a while.

Disclaimer: I actually do this to a certain extent - and I am not proud of it. In fact I am downright ashamed of it and angry at myself. It completely goes against my ethos of being the best engineer and best professional I can be. Which is how I worked when I was younger and more naive. But excelling above and beyond at my real, actual, work, will not get me anywhere, at least where I am now. I want to get into such an "endgame company" so that I can do my best work again.
That's odd, what browser?
Sure, I mean that Uber can engage in whatever cool tech projects that they want and publish whatever blog posts that they want.

This documented project's usefulness to the tech community is totally independent from its balance sheet. It's not like NOT publishing this eng blog post makes some material difference in Uber's long run ability to turn a profit...
We hold these truths (not rights) to be self evident." And it's the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
I wonder how that works, and haven't it run into problems? (E.g. relying on FindFirstFile for info). Maybe it's all right when comes to compiling... just this https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20111226-00/?p=88...
Sure, but that's likely only temporary. And if it's not, then we probably have much worse things to worry about than which cities are hip.
> Get a forwarding mail box from Manhattan and tell your company that's where you live.

Lying to your company about things like that is a great way to get fired.

Everyone should ignore this terrible advice.
Personally, I would choose the library environment every single time for software design and dev -- if the option were available to me.

I know that my productivity is much, much closer to optimum when I work under these conditions. Sadly they are almost impossible to find or arrange.
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Didn't know that - Thanks!
> it's not coming to suburbia or the boonies any time soon.

Time is generally cheap outside of cities, and capital less so, so I think most big SDC companies are targeting cities.
I think a better analogy is 'one man's investigative journalist is another man's conspiracy theorist'. We don't need #bigTech telling us which is which. Most of us can figure out who is dealing with real facts, events which have happened etc. The current crackdown on free speech is the equivalent to digital book burning. Free choice and free speech was ultimately reinstated after the european events during the 1930's.
It's not. But please make an issue on github[0] and if there's enough demand I will think about implementing this :)
Contributions are also welcome, though the codebase currently needs a bit of a refactor.

[0]:https://github.com/maciekmm/container-tabs-sidebar
Fair point. I do keep my clunker on a cooling stand, so I didn't notice. OpenEMU running a nds did drain crazy battery though.

My best experience was a gba emulator on android. I played through 2 castlevania games throughout my commutes last year.
But working from home doesn't require people to pull their kids out of daycare?
If they are remote employees, why would the employee's city matter to the employer in either of the cases you mentioned (beyond any tax or employment law implications)? If the company is sure enough that the remote candidate from Louisville is talented enough for the job, it makes no financial sense for the company to lose that candidate over salary if they would have paid the same amount to a candidate in a different, more expensive city.

One exception I can see is if the company would pay a premium for remote employees living in a city where they have an office, so that they can be asked to come in if there is an emergency.
If the masks are tested and don't meet the 95% standard, I wouldn't want to put that argument in front of a jury.
Yeah I think probably the biggest accelerating factor is out of the box user account & auth management. That gives you a huge leap from “hey my app works” to “I can literally deploy this to the public right now”.

The models and rest framework are convenient but you could probably do the same in close to the same amount of time in another language or framework.
This looks cool, and your pandemic commit rate is impressive :)
They should instead produce content that people don’t want to watch?
One interesting side effect is that local schools are already seeing declining enrollment as families can't afford to live here. I have hear rumors that my local school district, CUSD, may have to close a school and reduce staff because they don't have enough students.
That kinda stuff runs well in a VM. Not too GPU dependent, so you generally get very-near-native performance. The only problem I end up having is constantly blowing away my VMs, racking up too many new installs, and running afoul of key limits.
Hey Sylvian, YES! The entire program is remote.

We communicate both synchronously AND asynchronously, i.e. we set up weekly or biweekly -- depends on your preference -- meetings with teams and also are available via email + slack.

Our methodology is to be as non intrusive as possible (it's your project!) but we try to guide you in thinking about problems in the right way, and we've found that a lot of value we add is when people are looking to onboard first users.

We help a lot with messaging, cold email outreach, but much more!
God yes. That extra hour or two a day is worth any pay cut I might theoretically take. And I'm content maybe being a lead or a senior engineer for a while. I don't care that much about promotions.

I actually got a huge raise changing jobs from a fully in-office one to a fully remote one though.
I suspect on the (hopefully) other side of this, you're going to have some who really don't want to go back to an office full-time and others who can't wait to be back but hate that many of their co-workers no longer come in on a typical day.

Depending on the overall employment situation, a lot of people are going to find that the office situation at their employer is no longer one they want going forward.
I always lived near work, mostly with roommates. It's definitely possible to do, you just need to be willing to figure out a way. I would rather have a short commute than anything else, plus I prefer living with other people.
To be clear, what I’m saying is that “this is a problem with reinventing stuff”, I’m not saying “you shouldn’t reinvent stuff.”
How much of their concept of "rights" enters into the "positive vs negative" rights debate? Depending on one's perspective, this could heavily skew things in one direction or the other.
You'll end up paying New York income tax too, which is quite hefty.
Maybe not helpful, but shout out to one of my famous apps, evince (default gnome PDF viewer). really well polished app.

I use Xournal for editing PDFs. Would love if evince could do more than just annotations.
Yes, the Haiku User Guide is worth reading, there are a lot of little gems in there that are not easily discoverable otherwise :)
I have had a similar team lead. Mine spent all his time on the phone talking to his buddies - not work related. I often ended up picking up the pieces of his mess. I quit. Best day of my life! Went on a 3 month bicycle trip - LOVED IT. Found a better job.
It does a decent job for heavily text based pdfs like legal forms or manuals and even lets you annotate the document with a pen or highlighter but it chokes on more image based pdfs like slide decks or schematics.
The solution is good education. Teach children critical reading skills, i.e. question what you read, conduct a debate in your head rather than simply accepting it because it's the printed word.

Unfortunately, in the U.S. at least, children are not being taught to think critically. They barely have read a single book by the end of high school, let alone the panoply of the great classics. I know this for a fact; I have a high schooler currently finishing 9th grade and it seems as if her history and literature teachers are more focused on social justice topics than the grand pageant of Western culture. Too bad.
Most techies in SF could afford to live relatively close to work, or without roommates, or both.

The reason why they don't is still due to the high rent though. When living with a roommate or two, or living a bit further away means you get an extra $1000+ a month to spend on other things, that can be very enticing.
> All businesses operate on the model where they take dirty money and try to do clean things with at least some of that money.

That's a bit too cynical even for me. There do still exist businesses that simply produce a product or perform a service, selling it honestly without any tricks or subterfuge.
I didn't do much of the actual coding on that project but from my perspective the upgrade on our Django app went smooth.

We were excited to have Django Migrations (So long, South!) and honestly it's great to have access to current docs again.

We did have a snag with memory leaks in a threadpool in one of our non-django Python APIs. It was actually our worst outage in 5 years because it failed several hours after we deployed and we were no longer staring at our graphs.

(Maybe I can get August to write a blog post about how he accidentally sent a million emails to our personal inboxes while trying to clean that up)
Just because someone subsequently writes another program, that does not assure the superiority of the later edition. People who wrote Borg thought Omega was going to be better, but Omega failed except for a few things that got cherrypicked back into Borg.

I particularly can't agree that k8s is a necessarily friendlier Borg. Borg is on rails; there are fewer choices for the user to make. K8s tries to be flexible enough to be used in various production environments, which leads to it being harder to use rather than easier.
Stronger assumptions at compile time allows for higher quality code, invariants are amazing.
> Those examples you called up fit within that justifiable envelope, in the first case, near unanumously

I don't think this is true at all. Maybe if we define the West as America, but even then I think that's a stretch. I can say anecdotally in my circles that the trading of unwitting Japanese civilian lives en masse in exchange for American military lives is looked on with disgust.
>”obviously _something_ got done between last night and this morning”

https://youtu.be/yjdhNyEmYpo

I found this video last night lounging on the couch, the first segment talks about exactly what you’ve described, and the necessity to sometimes let the mind wander or do something else entirely when you’re “in the zone” but nevertheless stumped on a particular problem.

The video itself is about math and science but I think the applications extend far beyond.
I have built this in my spare time. https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2...

I want to build a blogging/writing/learning experience with program-ability, and collaboration (version control).

Is this the kind of idea you are looking for?

The long term goal is defining an interactive file format that is suitable for data exploration and explanation.
I rely on AppZapper for this. One-click delete of apps and all related files. https://www.appzapper.com/
Can't reply directly to Ikiris: It seems unfair to ask me another question without addressing my reference to Dr Birx statement. She is the one who's credentials this claim rest upon.

Edit: reply to Ikiris child comment. Innuendo is not a valid argument against evidence and does not change what Dr Birx said. You have the video of her saying it, so your claim this is some lone voice saying something is not a valid argument.
OTOH, Preview renders PDFs way better than Adobe Reader does. Tweaking the settings in AR didn't help either.

I only wish Preview would do two things:

- open files in "maximized" view.

- when opening a file, Left/Right arrow keys don't let you navigate the pages. Instead, they move the current page a few pixels left/right! (they work like horizontal scrollers)
Restaurants and bars require very little capital to open (the low barrier to entry explains why margins are so low in the industry). Even if many of the existing restaurants go out of business, new ones will quickly open up once the pandemic is over and people start going out again (which might take a little while, to be fair).
It's used to attribute individual excellence to generalized advantages of a certain group of people. If these advantages were as powerful and prevalent as you suggest, there wouldn't be more millions of white people in poverty. They certainly have some effect but it is often exaggerated to diminish the accomplishments of all people in the group. It is more fruitful to highlight the disadvantages that a group of people experience so that we may fix them and bring everyone up.
>Let people do whatever they want

Agreed. See, the funny thing here is you're pissed because I'm "pushing my views on every god damn post about remote work", when I see the exact opposite. Every post, everyone is against remote work. Those people do the exact same damn thing as you think I'm doing, which is "we should all be in the office 100%!"

First, I never said that everyone should be remote. Never said it once. I think we need flexibility, ie. the option to work from home. But the people who really don't like remote work, seem to despise the people who do. It's never been more apparent than this thread - either people are with me 100%, or want me dead.

The conclusion here is that everyone is totally insane, that's my takeaway.
The conspiratorial and alt-political videos are an extension of reality TV online. Unfortunately if you expose yourself to too much of them you end up co-opting some of their views.

NYT did a really good job covering this recently with their podcast Rabbit Hole:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/podcasts/rabbit-hole-prol...
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If this is a topic you're interested in, I strongly recommend Philip Tetlock's book Superforecasting. The Good Judgment project that he helped launch uses Brier scores to assess forecasters.
Important to remember the half-precision tensorcore misrepresentations where the 8x improvement over fp32 claimed on Imagenet with tensorcores (V100) was actually only 1.2-2x [1,2]. Furthermore, there are major precision issues with network architectures like variational autoencoders and many others.

We use V100s for Richardson-Lucy like deconvolutions for example, where we have near-exact photon counts up to 10,000 per pixel. fp32 is sufficient, tf32 is not.

V100 claimed 15 teraflops of FP32, A100 claims 19.5 teraflops. For most pytorch/tensorflow workflows out there, where FP32 dominates, this approximates closer to 30% improvement of last generation, which is reasonable and typical. Although FP64 does get a nice boost.

[1] https://lambdalabs.com/blog/best-gpu-tensorflow-2080-ti-vs-v...
[2] https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/TensorFlow-Performance...
In a world where a critical mass of companies that want top talent support full WFH I don't think this will be a huge issue. Google and Amazon already have offices around the country and Amazon's premium for SF/NYC vs all other markets only appears to be ~10%.
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Good call, I should just go get a new job in the middle of the worst destruction of jobs in history. After I do that, my one-time $1,000 stipend won't make my house bigger.

The point is that if more people are going to work from their houses, then houses will need to be bigger in the medium- to long-term.
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Awesome find. I grew up on the Apple IIe at school. I'm trying to do something like the author's rediscovery with a cheaply-found "luggable" 386 over here: https://justinmiller.io/posts/2020/04/26/project-386-part-1/ So far, it's proving much more difficult.
Interesting; Shopify doesn't use TruffleRuby, but instead prefers MRI?
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> Who is taking care of the kids when the 'door is closed'?

Same person taking care of them when you're at work. Except for 3 hours a day less
This is what I do, for both Fastmail and replicated for my own email domain.
> You can as long the person hasn't encrypted the PDF

I fill out forms in encrypted PDFs all the time with Preview, never had a problem.
I don't think arguing with strangers on the internet presents a valuable feedback loop for learnings in real-life discussions. It's just a very different world with different repercussions.
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I have read that website and the studies on it. I went through it in some detail with a friend who went through a breakup due to her boyfriend's excessive porn use.

The current scientific consensus[1] is the following:

- porn addiction and sex addiction may be real; the issue is still up for debate, although there wasn't enough evidence to consider porn addiction its own disorder yet

- excessive porn or sex are devastatingly harmful to some people, regardless of whether they're technically an addiction or not

- there are different causes for excessive uses of porn, some of which look like compulsive disorders, while others look like "hypersexuality" (abnormally high sex drive)

- there is no evidence that the increase in porn quality or availability are responsible for destructive porn usage

1. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/04/pornography
It's the other way around; prices go negative because you have too much power, not enough load, and you're paying someone to take that power because you can't curtail like solar or wind (perhaps you're a gas turbine or coal/nuclear generator that must run for frequency control purposes).
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Which is a suboptimal use of resources imo
What is amazing about this experiment is the 2nd experiment that if diner is given a towel before and after their meal, no one got infected! Would it be the best way to reopen the economy while keeping the risk low?
how about close to the left?
But you've added Covid status detection as a capability. To what net advantage is unclear.

Though yes, this shows the inherent risks of pervasive surveillance systems.
It's also amazing how much smaller transistors have become since 1978. The 76477 sound chip had about 200 transistors, and now chips have billions of transistors.
Well there are countervailing trends here: on one hand, land being extra scarce because it is used inefficiently, and on the other, land being extra valuable because it is used efficiently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox is probably the answer: Non-idiotic land use would make the cost of floor area decrease, but the cost of land increase.
Totally, it's a dangerous path to tread. Suddenly your potential worth as having you as an employee is tied to how small of a shanty you live in.

"Whoa, this guy's resume says he has 20 years experience and lives in a box down by the river, wonder if we he'll take a $7,000 salary?"
The market will take care of itself. It works like TCP but negated. Companies will drop the offers until the hiring success rate tanks, and then slowly creep it up until they get the headcount they need.

The question is, what kind of offers are the remote candidates living in Dirtcheapville, MI going to accept?
Currently, the market for location-based labor is deeper than the market for location-agnostic labor, so employers assume that their competition is local - and often it is.

That's less true for the top 20% or so of tech candidates. A person with known skills and a good network can obtain offers from multiple remote-friendly companies today. There's already a location-ignorant market for their skills (probably not at San Francisco comp, but also not at rural North Dakota comp).

As more remote jobs are available, more people will receive multiple remote offers, that is, they'll find a deeper location-ignorant market for their skills. Over time, one would expect this location-ignorant comp to settle around the actual value added.

(Longer explanation in a related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18900072#18903795)
This article is pretty low quality. The claim that the new million mile battery technology is coming to the China Model 3 first is not supported by a source and contrary to what people who follow this stuff closely have been saying.

The partnership with CATL is rumored to be for providing Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) cells for made in china Model 3 & Y. The million mile battery technology is rumored to be a combination of technologies that Tesla will use to manufacture batteries themselves w/o a partner. The million mile battery will probably be reserved for their higher end models in the near term while they continue to use Panasonic and CATL for some time while they ramp up production of their own cells.

The best source for info on all this that I've found is YouTube channels like Hyperchange

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB-yc-lVExw
The applesoft basic manual is on archive.org

This one is a pretty good primer:

https://archive.org/details/ATouchOfApplesoftBASIC/mode/2up

there are others (archive.org is a good resource for these things.)

https://archive.org/details/applesoft-tutorial/page/n37/mode...
I tried to use the @ as an A in an email address once and found it nearly impossible to relay to other humans.
We already do salary based on your locale...

If you are a software engineer and you show up to work in an office in Alabama, you already make less than the same software engineer showing up to work in an office in Manhattan.

The only difference here is that you don't show up to work in an office, you show up to work in your pajamas and the office is at home.
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I do this as well using a not so well know trick that exists on most major email providers including gmail and iCloud: myemail+permute@icloud.com. Those emails will arrive at myemail@icloud.com