skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I live in Mexico. She works remotely, I did that for 10+ years, now I'm building my thing and taking some occasional freelance projects.

I won't deny there are some horror stories coming from Mexico, but I'm a European and have been living here since 2009. I've never seen or experienced anything even remotely violent. I paid for a mordida once, that's it. I've lived in Mexico City, Estado de México, Veracruz, Cancún, and now near Querétaro. I've travelled to most states either for tourism or work. Although I'm from Spain I totally look like a gringo so I never pass unnoticed.

We live in a little village about 3 hours from Mexico City with almost no crime at all. We only lock our door when leaving town. We have 200Mbps fiber. We rent a 3bdr house with garden for about $500 USD. Life is really good for us.

My wife is Mexican and her mother passed away a couple of months ago so we're now planning to go back to Europe in 2-3 years once my gig starts generating some income. There is not much here for her and I'm a bit bored of Mexico. We also don't like how the political situation is changing with Amlo.
That makes sense. Thanks a lot! Of course, it's very useful for testing. I erroneously assumed it was for input validation.
Given Fb has offices in many states, couldn’t they simply “transfer” you to the state closer to your home, instead of keeping your base in California?
I wonder if part of Crossfit's popularity is that it's somewhat less of an individual activity.
I actually live in the country (maybe technically exurbs). No amount of sidewalks or bike paths or reasonable density bus routes is going to get me to either of my offices. This isn't a new thing. My house was built in 1823 well before things were designed for cars.
Arctic Norway, it's absolutely stunning, deeply peaceful. I went before lock-down on my own, stayed in an airbnb in the middle of no where and I never felt better.
Still Silicon Valley, but work from home everyday.
Shame it's so astronomically expensive. I don't think I could ever afford a nice family house there. Don't really understand where all the lecturers and tech workers live.
Perhaps I misinterpreted this line in your faq?

https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#can-i-remove-the-via-forward...

Note that the "free plan" comment was about migadu's service not your service, migadu only ever adds text to the email on the free plan (as far as I can tell).

PS. The link in the TOC to that line in the faq is broken, presumably because of the extra dash before "in".

PPS. I have no relation to migadu except that I just signed up for it. The first time I heard of it was yesterday.
The common thing done with it is:

#+nil(this expression (won't be read))

(Also done with #+and, and #+or.)

This is an unofficial Common Lisp s-expression level comment. One of these incredibly nice things that's missing in most programming languages. It comments out a single s-expression, no matter how complex. It's like a #|block comment|# in that it can span multiple lines, and like ; line comment in that you only put something at the beginning. Have a complex expression within a function, that you need to temporarily shut down? Just shove #+nil in front of it.

(The #+nil version is discouragd because there's a remote chance somebody will define a * feature * called :nil for some reason.)

A less-common thing done with it is library interop. Many libraries tend to add a tag to * features * to indicate they've been loaded, so in your library, you can use #+library_tag to detect that another library is a part of the same project, and conditionally compile-in some extensions or interoperability code.

(@dang, I think HN could use a way to escape the * * formatting marks. For a site and community that has a soft spot for Lisp, not being able to type in the "earmuffs" is something that always bewildered me.)
> * asking customers for more than £2 is a crime against humanity and will tank your retention faster than spilling broth and bringing cold pizza;

This was not my riffing around a hot-and-cold theme. This was the actual comparison that I made when I reported on the impact on retention of an AB-test on raising the order fee above £2: I used an established internal standard: unhappy meal (i.e. spilled liquid container or food is declared cold; either way the order is deemed inedible by the customer).

Deliveroo (myself included) had a ton of ex-Facebook: opinions were not welcome, hard data was. Key levers like the fee was tested in countless ways (including a subscription model) and the company is well-known in London for their experimentation practice. I’d know: that’s what I’ve done full time since, including a workshop at last PyData London.

You _can_ ask for more. Supper is a competitor to Deliveroo that offered a more premium experience in central London. Given how few restaurants they list and how expensive those restaurants are, I’m not sure they take a smaller commission: maybe the rate is lower, but not the amount. Fact is: no one has heard of them; no restaurant in this conversation recommends to use them; if you ask for options, their name don’t pop up. Last month, when all restaurants in London had to close, they were not mentioned as a potential option. Maybe they have the worst sales team in the world; I don’t know. But that’s when they barely take the fee to £3.25.
E.g. when each read should return the whole register's history the size of history grows O(n^2) compared to the case when the reads return just the head.

If you look at Elle's transaction generators, you can cap the size of any individual key, and use an uneven (e.g. exponential) distribution of key choices to get various frequencies. That way keys stay reasonably small (I use 1-10K writes/key), some keys are updated frequently to catch race conditions, and others last hundreds of seconds to catch long-lasting errors.

So I'm curios how would you have described the ability of finding violations with Elle using read-write registers with unique values vs the append-only lists?

RW registers are significantly weaker, though I don't know how to quantify the difference. I've still caught errors with registers, but the grounds for inferring anomalies are a.) less powerful and b.) can only be applied in certain circumstances--we talk about some of these details in the paper.
That's right, we're certainly keen to help all JVM users who wish to embed Crux, and for users sitting outside the JVM we have significantly more comprehensive JSON support and SQL queries in the works too.

Our upcoming SQL module is based on Apache Calcite which does a lot of heavy lifting and compiles SQL joins to Crux's native Datalog. For the curious: https://github.com/juxt/crux/blob/0f7d9c66db952a65efb4cba7e3...
I can't imagine wanting to use satellite internet as my daily driver. A quick search says that the physical limit for latency is around 500ms? That's unplayable for most video games, and would make things like SSH'ing to a server pretty annoying.

But I imagine you'd probably go there to get away from things, and just rely on internet when absolutely needed.
This submission provided a fun example of title editing. The article title exceeds HN's 80 char limit, so had to be changed. The submitted title was "Industries that provided in-person services may never operate in-person again", which is not bad, but it's a bit misleading. The qualifier "strictly" is important, because without it you get kind of the opposite of what the article is actually saying, which is more along the lines of this quote: "You’re going to still see your doctor, but now you’ll be adjunctively cared for virtually as well"

It's a subtle distinction, but it's consistently surprising how small nuances in titles produce widely divergent discussions. A comment like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23294773, to take an obvious example, is a reflexive objection to the submitted title ("may never operate in-person again") but the word "strictly" defangs that objection in advance. There are other comments in this thread that you can tell were mostly reacting to the submitted title, too, since they're arguing with something it said, rather than what the article says.

Why this is fun: it turns out that you can take a strict substring of the article title (in this case a tail) which solves the problem perfectly. That is my favorite category of title-shortening. Often the substring isn't obvious at first and you get a satisfying click when you realize it works.
I would wake up if I could, but I opened this string in vim and I can remember how to exit.
Giving a chance to threads/processes with the same priority to be scheduled without doing any I/O or syscall? Used this once.
I'm kind of impressed any distributed system gets off the ground. These things are hard to write!
Another big part of that stack is CSN.1. A long long lost spec.
I don’t know why you don’t think child care can be operated profitably. In Seattle you can have something like 6 kids per caretaker can charge about 2k/month a head. There is a minimum size though that makes sense because you get to take credit for contact staff so you can up that to 8+ if you have a cleaner or receptionist on site.

It’s not programmer money but it can generate decent stable revenue. Better that most non high tech low education required jobs.
SSID: Tejfel Lazalo
Protocol: Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac)
Security type: WPA2-Personal
Network band: 5 GHz
Network channel: 157
Link-local IPv6 address: fe80::1d0:5810:36ab:219d%8
IPv4 address: 10.0.0.148
IPv4 DNS servers: 64.71.255.204
64.71.255.198
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Description: Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9462
Driver version: 20.50.0.5
Physical address (MAC): 7C-2A-31-7B-02-46
There's also onanism.
A nocturnal king, that has to work midnight to 8am to keep up with the rest of the team, if that’s your thing :)

I lived like that for a month (working on a fully remote company, but the majority of the people were on US timezones). It’s not for everyone.
List of all Star Trek games in alphabetical order
I think you can argue that current day MS is a little more afraid of anti-trust action than 1990s MS. Game developers were legitimately scared that MS was going to do this for windows and start taking their own 30% cuts from all PC games. I'm not sure if Valve confirmed it, but it seems likely that SteamOS/Steam machines were at least partly a backup plan for ensuring there was a place to sell games without MS skimming off the top.
Do you know some good resources to build up storytelling skills?
> I don't see any reason why we should be more afraid of Coronavirus in 10 years than we are of Polio today

Perhaps not this same Coronavirus, but make no mistake, our pre-lockdown lifestyle is fragile. Giving billions of people unfettered access to move between any two points on the planet in under 24 hours is a recipe for another swift pandemic.
Seems great, but I see four foreseeable problems.

1) These greenhouses are enclosed spaces with reduced airflow compared to outside. We release respiratory droplets when we talk, cough, or sneeze, among other things. These respiratory droplets can remain in the air (if it is stagnant) for 8-14 minutes, according to one study. [1] Another study claims that SARS-CoV-2 was viable in droplets released 3 hours earlier. [2] There could be an unintended consequence here. Asymtompatic people will visit restaurants and could infect people who go inside the greenhouse after the infected person has left droplets carrying SARS-CoV-2 in the greenhouse which the next customers would inhale.

2) Many restaurants have limited frontage. Some with narrow pavements would struggle to fit any/very many of these greenhouses, especially in cities.

3) How much would these cost to make?

4) Have you sat in a greenhouse in the sun before?

Please prove me wrong. I'd love to see this work (and eat out again).

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/12/2006874117?mod...

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
It was the .club gTLD
I moved around a bunch when I was younger and hope to avoid having to move again in the future. Where we live now suits us fine. Working at home now, and it’s mostly going okay.
This is a lie because there's no such thing as a remote career. Remote work is how you become a commodity.
Top epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch on if we're winning or losing against Covid-19
Arch does not have a release cycle, sorry.
With all respect, I find this perspective incomprehensible, astonishing, deeply depressing.

My take, as a NYer, as someone working on a COVID project, as someone who so far has been lucky to only know of one serious hospitalization in my extended circle- it is exceptionally dangerous. I use the phrase "Russian Roulette" and I stand by that.

1% of likely-infected New Yorkers have died. Probably at least 80% of the NYC population remains at risk.

It does not just target and kill the elderly and infirm. Of teens and pre-teens, New York City has seen thousands of infections, hundreds of hospitalizations, many dozens of deaths. Every age, every demographic impacted.

There is so much we don't know about exposure to infection dynamics, about symptomatic vs asymptomatic progression, about medium and long term impacts.

Yes, life presents all kinds of dangers, people have to work, all sorts of essential jobs have to be staffed, the absolute failure of the Federal government "leadership" to do even the minimum from a financial, logistic, or medical perspective is unforgivably, sociopathically criminal and reduces the practical options on the table-

ALL that aside this virus is no effing joke.

The only reason body counts US-wide are not in the millions is because of shutdowns and various bits of behavioral and epidemiological good fortune the details of which we will only figure out later.

It is almost certainly the case that 90% or more of the US population remain vulnerable, and if people become careless, deaths will rise again.

One more point- I have been in many internet arguments about the various statistical/aggregate measures, eg suggestions that only 30% antibody prevalence may be enough for herd immunity, studies of superspreaders, etc-

Aggregate statistics are BS.

They tell you nothing about you or your family's individual risk in any specific situation. The number of people "doing everything right" yet winding up in the hospital is countless (as are the people doing everything wrong and remaining well). We know a lot yet are still just looking for the keys under the streetlamp.

We are not done with this. This may only be the end of the beginning.

Stay safe. Cheers.
Same drives, good; same batch, bad.
Coffee and caffeine are not mutually exclusive. Coffee is one of the best drinks for antioxidants (without milk). Caffeine in large quantities is bad for the health. Moderate and experiment.
My PC is almost 100% silent.
I would live in NYC, which is where I already live. NYC won't feel like NYC while we have SIP because there are no performances, no arts, etc.

But I'm hopeful that will all return in 18 months.

And so in my idealized remote setup, the balance I want is:

A) Work environment optimized for deep work. I run a company, but I've found a way to do that with very few meetings and very little email. Most weeks I just have one meeting and many days I don't send a single email.

B) Living environment optimized for people and culture. While a lot of restaurants are obviously going to have to declare for bankruptcy, I do think that people working from home are going to crave a social life and so I think the demand for pubs and restaurants will return.

NYC people resonate with me because I experience them as a diverse group of ambitious people. I'm constantly running into people in different industries, but who still share my basic interest/ambition to figure out how to succeed.

In order to make this work you need to have a decent office setup. But I'm sure that coworking will be able to meet the demands of people that want more work/life separation. That's a pattern that people who work for me often use: remote worker at a coworking desk. But I have a nice office setup for myself already even though NYC apartments are small.

(I am coupled, but we are intentionally child free.)
The same place I do now since I already work remotely. There are plenty of remote opportunities available.

As an aside, I am shocked how many of the responders here effectively say they will willfully violate local labor law in one or more countries and get their employers in potential legal trouble.
Ah that explains it. Don't use parity with btrfs (i.e. RAID5/6). If you really want that, that's a good reason not to use btrfs.
in fairness, the dell logo is quite visible and centered on dell latitude laptops too.
You want the same model but make sure they are from different batches.

When buying SANs the vendor will routinely mix the disks supplied to minimise the chance of any manufacturing defects taking out multiple drivers at once
How is it living there? I'm from Buenos Aires, but I'm seriously thinking of leaving. Being close and much freer Uruguay is a natural choice, but I'm not entirely sure. Would you recommend emigrating to Montevideo?
It was registered in 2014. I didn't care enough to try and fight them about it after talking with customer support, and Google domains was cheaper anyway.

EDIT: I sent an email to ICANN asking about this issue since I still have domains registered with namecheap. I will update here if they respond.
I think I understand this one. I would restate it as "Powerful static type systems usually encode more constraints than you can easily reason about." And that's good(it catches your errors) and bad(you start to fight the compiler instead of solving the problem).

With simpler, more gradual designs like what are in Typescript or Haxe or even static, native-code languages like D, you have more escape hatches available, so you can iterate on the specification a few times and get code running quickly but also aim to make it tighter over time.
Same person likely.
Not sure what presence or absence of the goto has to do with embedded programming.
I actually have a place I want to go: the village in the Andes that both sides of my wife’s family have called home for generations.

On top of a job that is truly remote, I am also waiting on my wife to trust that we could live there safely. That day may never come, despite anything I say.
"Unreadable" is a choice at this point.

Here's a simple trick to make Lisp instantly readable. Take a line of code from an algol-like language:

foo(bar(), baz(quux))

then, shift every opening parenthesis one token to the left:

(foo (bar), (baz quux))

and drop the commas:

(foo (bar) (baz quux))

Now you have an equivalent piece of Lisp code.
A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
I work remote. It means I live with my wife in a country that is neither of our homelands. Unfortunately, visa policy in our respective countries is especially unpleasant for married couples. I would rather work in an office tho. I hate working remote.
The Latitude 7390 has a thunderbolt port. I power the laptop through the usb-c/thunderbolt port when I am in the office via the thunderbolt docking station.

Your argument is invalid.
Pure Fluid Computer
"Pure fluid devices of the type utilized by the present invention have many advantages. They are both simple in design and inexpensive in fabrication. They use no moving parts and are therefore almost completely trouble free in operation."
I am mainly saying it is suitable for solving harder problems than Go. Most problems are not hard; Go is good enough for them, and easier to learn and use well.

All these languages are Turing-complete. The difference is in how much work it is to design and write the program, and in whether it can satisfy performance needs.

C++ wins here by being more expressive, making it better able to implement libraries that can be used in all cases. Rust is less capable, but stronger than other mainstream languages.
Most definitely. I was clickbaited by this. Even the correct headline puts a negative spin on something which is potentially even beneficial though.
Show HN: An open source Py/Django Ticket system to improve people charity.
True! I think it gets inexpensive very rapidly as one moves away from the centre - and thats where most workers live. I am single so I can afford living near the centre for now.
The belief that all hyper-successful people are hyper-intelligent is itself a narrative fallacy.
Are there any food service establishments out there that solely focus on delivery? No walk-ins, no dining in but only delivery? Their staff would pretty much consist of cooks and delivery employees and the facility would be big enough for a kitchen and prep area.

I would think a setup like that with good food would do well in this new reality we are in.

I imagine it would challenging for a restaurant to focus on a good dine-in experience alongside a good delivery service, especially considering the low margins.
The general public increasingly does care about wages. They care about it in a seemingly random manor, chiding certain industries and completely ignoring other, larger industries. But nonetheless, people do care more now than they seemed to in the past.
I think this is a good way to look at things, and there are vendors who do this! VoltDB, for instance, changed their defaults to be strict serializable even though it imposed a performance hit, following their Jepsen analysis. https://www.voltdb.com/blog/2016/07/voltdb-6-4-passes-offici...
Either Seattle or stay in Portland. I'm happily employed in Portland and not looking to change gigs, but if my current job went 100% remote I'd probably move to Seattle. I love the PNW, and Portland's just a bit too small of a city for me.

I did the nomad thing for a couple years and loved it, but I sort of got it out of my system. The lifestyle can be lonely. And at this point in my life I'd rather cultivate a life of my own instead of running around enjoying little bits of life elsewhere. Not that I wouldn't take advantage of the ability to travel much more freely!
I'm not convinced it is false--IIRC their claim is specifically w.r.t other Kafka side effects, and those they can control.
The article is about this: "a catalyst that will make remote working the norm", not this: "human behaviours changing so dramatically".
eh, that's the point: the xps 13 costs more and gives you less.

for the same money you could have bought a latitude that you could upgrade if you need to.
You let your kids interact with "fiends"? (Sorry, I just had to do it.)
Unrelated, but reminds of :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_state_machine
Agreed - I just posted about this before I saw your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295148
Starlink will be a LEO (low earth orbit) satellite network. Satellites travel at much lower altitudes resulting in much lower latencies (I think easily below 50ms was what I read before).
I've invested seven years of my life into this brand, and my choices are carefully considered.
I mean there are some people who have lost ZFS pools or a lot of data.

But for each one of those, there are tons more that have lost entire hardware RAIDs.

There's also tons more of those that had some horrible error and imagined their ZFS pool was gone for sure, only to find they just lost a couple of files, if anything at all.
10x does seem like too much (although no doubt there are some cases where this happens). JavaScript is usually faster than that these days.
> In the end, everyone deep down would rather not have to work for someone else, or to not work at all.

I very much disagree. I like that my company cares about things like sales/marketing/HR/finance so I don't have to. And anyway, for most jobs, you need a supporting structure that has your back, like a company or a government agency or whatever. Sure, you could start your own company, but at that point you'll most likely spend more time doing management rather than actual work. I like that I can focus on my technical role since I'm very much not a manager type.