skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dance lessons in a group setting work well. My dance classes have made the transition to online lessons. Zoom can get laggy sometimes so tap doesn't work well in real-time. I've improved my tap tremendously from the amount of practice and the ability to replay tutorial videos.

I have my laptop placed such that the webcam acts as a mirror and the tutorial video or Zoom meeting of the class on my second screen. When the teachers shows positions that are obfuscated they turns to face the camera in a 45 degree angle. The only 360 view missing is the Chinese whispers / follow the leader view of seeing the other dancers in the class is when my eyeline is out of view.
Really? I'm a dev (although not at Facebook) and I travel for work several times a year. Also, all of the remote employees I've worked with have traveled to the office occasionally.
Back during the dot-com era, we lost an array to the "Deathstar" drives. They were all from the same production batch (we bought them at the same time). So when one died the others were not far behind. It was actually comical, in a sick & sad way. When the first drive died, we tell the data center tech to go replace it. But before he could walk over to our cage with the replacement, the second drive died. We tell him to run. And then the third drive died and the data was toast.
I already stressed that Covid-19 was very infectious, so why you're bringing this up is beyond me. But...

"At one choir practice, one person spread COVID-19 to 52 people, two of whom died."

There were 61 people present. The sick singers' average age was 69 [shades of "Nearer My God to Thee!"]. Of those, two died of Covid-19. 2 of 61 is pretty good odds, if you ask me, BUT...

how can we be certain that both deaths were due to presence at choir practice? Maybe they caught Covid from their grandchildren, a neighbor, or the postman, .... Similarly for the restaurant case, the affected could have caught the virus from someone other than the assumed.

Did the two deceased choir members have comorbidities (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, lung disease or asthma, AIDS, cancer treatment, an immune-suppressed system, etc.)?

We should avoid the 2-hour meetings b/c they are unproductive and boring.

Back to back in cubicles puts the actual effective recommended 1 metre social spacing into play. The 2-metre value was a judgment, a non-scientific value, tossed out by a British official:

https://sports.yahoo.com/coronavirus-social-distancing-lockd...

From that URL:

"Robert Dingwall, from the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said the [2-metre] rule was 'conjured up out of nowhere'. The sociology professor at Nottingham Trent University said scientific evidence supports a one-metre gap, but the two-metre advice was a 'rule of thumb'.

Laura Ingraham may indeed have been correct when she claimed during her May 4 Fox News broadcast:

"Although, intuitively, I think it probably seemed like social distancing would be necessary, there was no real scientific basis for believing that since it had never been studied,"

Covid-19 is rare and will remain rare. The lock-downs reduce spread but destroy the economy, which also kills people.

It remains to be seen whether the "cure" of lock-downs is any better than the disease of Covid-19. It is almost certainly not less expensive.
I guess what got me on this tack was the thought that advertising serves vendors. It should in the sense that they're the ones paying for it, but a bunch of problems arise therefrom. What would it look like if I, the consumer, took that responsibility on myself, and was willing to pay for it?

There's a case to be made that people get the marketing they deserve, as evidenced in their voting patterns and buying behavior. It's interesting to contemplate what things would be like if consumer groups, like department stores, had "buyers." YouTube reviewers or industry mags supposedly serve that role right now, but inevitably get corrupted because of where the money comes from.
The trust approval either never happens or it happened once and I don't remember. I also find it's a quicker interface than Airdrop, which is slow and also lengthened by my having to turn on bluetooth and then turn it off in the settings at the end. File transfer is much quicker.

Finding a USB cable though, sometimes that does take a search and a wee bit of cursing!
Fucking quora!

For image search, fucking pinterest!
See also: Airbnb and Craigslist.
It depends on your level and is total comp, not just base salary.

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/
Anything which can serve MP4 over http can stream to a Chromecast; the only trick is telling the Chromecast to start.
I never personally used Bing much (but memes have told me the same about its search quality). I will take into consideration for the next execution.

I have been also mildly pissed at Youtube results and given how permeated it is into a 'learner's' life, I have been thinking about Youtube too. But in that case I'll have to take more usability into account to allow for right-click>add_to_blacklist kind of thing since there are so many low-quality ad-loaded channels.
I've come across a few other startups that got started this way, but from this research it was interesting to see that wasn't big for any of the biggest consumer apps.

Since you've got a SaaS product, (hopefully) you'll be happy to hear I'm doing a follow-up looking at how the fastest growing SaaS companies got started.
I think his point was about drives silently returning corrupt data, not that you shouldn’t have redundancy. Absolutely you should have redundancy and backups.

At the (tens of) thousands of drives scale (and where you treat drives as cattle) having some extra checks and balances for what you write is an excellent idea. Even better is doing that in a distributed way so multiple machines make that same decision. Occasionally you will run into a drive where the firmware has jumped the shark or some such. (Or CPUs or memory or bus issue for that matter).

But generally speaking drives DO know when they are returning bad data and will error before they will do that. The odds are about as good as other forms of hardware errors that will eat your data.
I would guess that there was a feature :nil defined in the NIL [1] system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL_(programming_language)
My company will not pay you. They will allow you to buy common equipment through their supplier and have it shipped to your house, obviously after manager approval.
> yes, goroutines are fast and easy... but this thread is about python.

The OP was commenting on what in his opinion was the easiest. That explicitly represents a judgement of Python's features compared with those offered by other languages.

Are we supposed to only praise Python in threads about Python?
>Don’t be entitled

Because you want to maximize your earnings based on the value you bring? LOL..
It's theoretically possible but I'm afraid of operation failure for such complex array. So It's nice to have simple user interface like Synology.
The key element of most clickbait headlines is that it teases some interesting information, often making it look more interesting than it actually is, while at the same time omitting the key fact from the headline itself.

Just enough to make you curious, but force you to click if you actually want to get any information, and leave you with a nagging unpleasant feeling if you _don't_ click.

Typically, this will be a fact that would easily fit in the headline, and would make the headline a sufficient summary for a large number of readers to no longer feel the need to click through to get that one word out of the article.

For example (real HN post): "Bitcoin stealer infected 700 libraries of major programming language" -- if you don't click, you risk missing a critical security issue that affects you. If the authors put "Ruby" in the headline, 90% would know a) all they want to know about the incident b) that they're not affected.

A positive example: "CDC’s New ‘Best Estimate’ Implies a Covid-19 Infection Fatality Rate Below 0.3%" -- a clickbait version of this would be "CDC’s New ‘Best Estimate’ Implies surprisingly low Covid-19 Infection Fatality Rate"

For the link posted here, the content of the article can't be easily summarized in one word, so I wouldn't call it clickbait, but the headline still matches the same structure clickbait headlines use, which makes people assume the worst. In particular, claiming that some finding is "surprising" seems to be a very common theme in clickbait: "YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT..." or "Ten facts about ... #3 will SHOCK you!" is the stereotypical clickbait headline.
I can say the same about alcohol
At least in Amazon's case they used their massive hiring power to force everyone into a small region of the city owned by Paul Allen, developed by Vulcan Inc. Then Amazon payed four times the market rate for the properties from Allen.
I would also wonder about the surrounding ecosystem of tooling & libraries.

Imagine there was a programming language which had rather inconsistent naming, poor automated testing support, and a history of guiding its users toward security vulnerabilities. A culture would grow up around that language and the most successful members would be those who could best tolerate those properties. People generally self-select into language communities. So unless some powerful influence pushed random programmers to use the language or made it easier to add new tooling, the culture would continue to undervalue what the language originally lacked.

I suspect the same social dynamic would apply to a database.
Agree with everything you said, but the weather makes it an instant disqualifier for me.
They smoked indoors back then
> A moment of thought will tell you that lost productivity by being all remote outweighs the benefits money that the FAANGs are saving.

I don’t think any productivity differences between distributed and co-located teams have been conclusively demonstrated one way or another.

Besides, even if your claim were true, a company that hired outside of a single metro area (in most cases, the SFBA) stands to gain more from drawing upon a much larger talent pool in the long run.
I'm not sure this makes sense. Did I not include these people? Wage as a function of distance, right? I didn't say that everyone gets paid the same. And is it not more advantageous for the employer to be able to select from a larger pool of candidates?

> Imagine it goes up to a livable $40/hr. Now these high school kids are competing with people with college degrees for the same job.

Do they? This doesn't mean that every job that pays under $40/hr (which is pretty high! You must be living in the Bay) becomes $40/hr and jobs higher do not go up as well. But rather now those companies have to compete (you can compete in ways more than wage, especially if it is $40/hr!). High school kids may have to compete with people with college degrees for things like McDonalds, but now an engineering firm like Boeing (who pays less than $40/hr for starting salaries in most locations) has to compete with McDonalds. The competition doesn't work only in one direction.

Of course, I'm sure that there's a upperbound to how well this works though, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was under $80k/yr
I left NZ in 2011 and came back recently. It's still more or less the same place I remember. If you are an active outdoorsy type, I don't think there are many places in the world that compare to NZ. Where I live I can be at a surfing beach within 10 minutes. Rock climbing in the hills in 10 minutes. Skiing in the Southern Alps in 2 hours. Hiking a beautiful trail in 2 hours (with warm modern huts available for 5 NZD/night). All while having access to free healthcare, and a decent disposable income thanks to a relatively low living cost (Auckland is an exception).

Downsides are poor public transport (cheap Japanese imports mean everyone chooses to own a vehicle), expensive food compared to EU or USA, and few jobs outside of the tourism & service industries.
My first thought too!
The real power of concepts was the “concept_map” construct. Gaby & Bjarne wanted predicated checking instead of structural checking. Without structural checking there’s no “natural” way in C++ syntax to specify a concept_map. The problem is that predicate checking isn’t that great.

I can send you the turd of a PhD thesis that was left after my doctorate was bombed by the removal of concepts from C++0x.
I know of a university teacher who is looking into solving the arduous task of grading without going crazy. I approve of a tool being built to facilitate this.

This is a different thing to me and a better suggestion: Solve the problem of someone you personally know whose work you believe in.

That's completely different in my mind from "pull some generic education-related blurb off the internet and build that." Even if, nominally, the two projects sound like exactly the same thing.

In practice, they probably aren't remotely the same thing, which is part of why we have memes like "Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything."
One of my pet peeves is misuse of the term arbitrage. It in no way applies here.
South Korea, I have family there through marriage, and have spent a bit of time there over the years. I wouldn't want to work in a Korean company, but working remote for a U.S. firm and at U.S. pay would be pretty swell. I find it to be a great country to stay in and the pace of change keeps it constantly interesting. Cost of living isn't bad, and if in Seoul you would get to live in a world class city. In all the years I've been going back and forth there, I've never run out of interesting things to see or do, or taste.

At the moment at least, the government is moving the right directions, and their recent performance for COVID-19 was astonishing from a public health perspective.
It has a much bigger target on its back.
Super cool project. Awesome that Hugh Howey is next up. Wool is mind-blowing.
In what way is it security theater?

It’s real and it works better than the technology it replaced.
The real reason may just be the failure of a legitimate second hub after the Bay Area: Facebook needs to hire 10k more people this year and maybe tens of thousands more over the next decade. There is no single place they can do that, and by the time they tally up all the possible other offices it might just make more sense to shrug your shoulders and make it officially and literally “anywhere.” In this version, it’s likely the emerging technology hubs which lose to cities with simply great quality of life or low costs, and the Bay Area continues relatively unaffected.
I currently live in Kaiwaka not far from Mangawhai and have since Symantec bought out Ghost in '98, as that helped me afford a first house. It's a wonderful place to live. I did a lot remotely back then and once Symantec closed in NZ a decade ago I've been 100% remote from home ever since.

While I don't have an ocean view, and only about 2ha of land, it's a wonderful place to be. However, there are pretty significant drawbacks in getting gigs as there just aren't many local firms doing anything at all intellectually challenging and US firms still just apparently aren't interested in talent in this country who don't want to suffer being forced to relocate to awful places to live.

I don't see that changing, either; the fact is that people who really place proper value on a quality lifestyle tend to be older, and few firms really place much value on older talent either. Younger people are cheaper and more willing to suffer abuses such as moving to unpleasant, expensive metro areas in countries with alien values.
ZFS RAIDZ expansion is in development here.
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/8853
Even if it makes some people more productive, it also doesn't necessarily apply to everyone, and wasn't a core complaint of remote workers that remote work policy was too one-size-fits-all?

I would imagine you would see more flexibility afforded by employers but full remote is probably a fantasy.
This does look interesting, but it requires much more permissions and personally I hesitate to grant those for any non-monitored extension.
I agree that price corelate to quality.

My point is if restaurant A sell burger for $1+$9 fee, restaurant B sell burger for $9+$1 fee, I would judge the quality of these 2 the same way.

Just because restaurant A burger cost $1 (for the restaurant), doesn't mean I have to judge them lightly.
I interviewed for a job working on Sabre in the late 80s, I was told it was written in C.
Working remote just makes so much more sense. My old routine was - get up, have some coffee, start dreading the one hour commute, then do the one hour commute, then get to work and spend an hour decompressing from the one hour commute... now it’s get up, pour a cup of coffee, start enjoying working on stuff in my bathrobe. And the coffee is way better than what the office was paying for :-)
I work remote now (well I run my own software co), and with nothing tying me down I settled on San Diego a few years ago. Love it here, but it's very expensive (looking to buy soon) and I miss the mountains (and green stuff)... so I'm planning to move to Tahoe as soon as the restrictions lift.
With so many jobs switching to remote work, what is to stop employees from simultaneously working multiple jobs at once? Not that they probably don't already, but it becomes even easier once many high paying jobs are remote. Plus, they can outsource a lot of it, so employees become mini software dev houses in their own right. Then one guy snaps up all the top positions because he is a 1000x developer due to his keen outsourcing sense. Etc.
How does this address a office in SF and a remote worker in NYC making more than a remote worker in Phoenix? Both workers are remote. How does the NYC worker provide ~2x utility to the company compared to the AZ worker (remember, both are remote).
Moscow or Saint Petersburg. I'm ethnically Sri Lankan, born and educated in Toronto and I've spent quite a bit of time in the Bay Area, but I've become disillusioned with the West. It just amazes my friends that you can live a comfortable middle-class life in Russia on $800 per month. But aside from being cheap, I just feel like it's a place of great opportunity and future power. There's that immense energy of Russian patriotism, determined to "stick it" to a world that has sanctioned them. The vibe I get in Russia now is what I imagine it must've been like to strike it out in America in the 60s. There's definitely a place for the young, broke, lonely and bold. And unlike China or other rising Asian economies, it has that strictly European lifestyle that I love - a baroque Old World appreciation of the fine arts that is now lost on the West.
Interesting observation. I think it could be argued that the average nicotine user today us a dramatically different kind of person than they were then.

During the time frame that the user you replied to was referencing, nicotine consumption was the norm. Now, with the extensive change in societal perspective that nicotine consumption has undergone, those who still use gravitate towards the uneducated and less successful.
SpaceX's first astronaut launch breaking new ground for style
Thanks jedberg <3
Ask HN: Do you remove UTM parameters from links when including them in messages?
I always remove UTM parameters from links before including them in messages/emails. I was wondering if anyone else on HN does that and whether you think it is ethical?
No. I think humans drink caffeine because it's a dopamine agonist and highly addictive.

The longest I've made it is four months. Currently a couple weeks back drinking coffee, about to quit again. It's ridiculously hard.
I think Bing is better than Google when it comes to NSFW stuff (friend told me) and probably Image Search
Glassdoor. It's a national average, so your specific area may be higher.
VW broke the law by deliberately defeating regulations which applied to them. Is there a regulation that applies to Intel and AMD which requires them to allocate die space and performance to improving security?

I'm not even sure they could have delivered equal performance at the high end if they had included these mitigations earlier. Whether to produce processors which are safer or faster depends on what customers prefer, even now. Not everyone needs ultimate security or wants to pay for it (in money or performance). So unless the law says less-secure processors must never be sold, this situation was and still is inevitable.
8-bay NAS also costs. 2x 12TB and 2-bay NAS makes sense for speed, reliability and not too expensive.
> What if jumping in front of a train ("trainspotting") worked regardless of whether you understood why?

Not sure if I understand you here (I don't get the 'trainspotting' reference), but: in a world where not jumping in front of trains was fatal, parents would instruct their kids to jump in front of trains, and the ones who took their advice would survive.

In a world where it didn't matter so much either way, who knows, maybe some parents would needlessly forbid their children from jumping in front of trains. So the kids who didn't blindly follow their parents' advice might benefit from their curiosity. But if they made a habit of ignoring their parents' advice until they fully understood the reasoning behind it, they would do a bunch of other stupidly dangerous things and probably die.

> Can you visualize the mechanism? You either do or you don't. Maybe the visualization is misleading. Maybe it's not. But if you're at least doing the motions there, you're revising the mechanism rather than reinventing the wheel from scratch.

I think there's a big gap between having some kind of mental model, and having a sufficiently detailed, accurate, robust mental model to make independent judgments in important contexts. Sure, a rough high-level understanding can be useful as a preliminary bullshit detector, pinging for things that should be taken with great scepticism pending further investigation; but unless you understand a topic in full detail, you're always at risk of making 'logical' deductions that fail because of unknown (to you) unknowns.
sounds like your work life is reasonably ordered and easy to navigate.

Some of us live in high pressure high demand work lives. in order to fit that and personal life needs in, we need a push.

While I wouldn't go down the path of "hard drugs", Caffeine is a daily boost when needed.
This is very inspirational! Actually I have something similar in mind- 1. to allow subscribing to friend's or network's lists. and/or 2. Make it a 'window' to your search experience. So it's privacy focused personal/social logic that offers you Google or any search engine that way you prefer. I think PageRank is not enough (or may be too much) for me...
That's amazing
The tax authorities won't see it that way.
wow, i thought geeksforgeeks is like leetcode.
I can't wait until I get home and try this. I am completely sick to death of Google image search results being full of videos. It's impossible to find an actual gif to imbed in an HTML comment post because the results are drowning in videos from Giphy, Tenor, etc. It'll be so delicious to consign them to oblivion.

Edit: unfortunately it doesn't work on image search. Oh well.
Strangely, I already see this breakdown. Especially for senior talent.

Excluding the FAANG companies, I see offers in SF consistently for 160-190K for most startups.

And I've seen similar offers here in Nebraska - Omaha, even Lincoln, for a similar level of salary. Obviously less offerings, but they are there.