skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> think, for example, of all the extremely complicated narratives woven to explain COVID-19

As well as the simplistic counter-narratives deployed to combat those narratives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295618

This isn't a battle of facts vs facts as most people believe, but rather a battle of memes vs memes, where both sides are typically not telling the whole truth, but usually for different reasons. It's fascinating to observe the battle (and forum commentary on the battle) from an abstract perspective, if you can manage it, but not many people seem to even know such a perspective even exists, and it certainly isn't something we're taught in school or at home, at least "in The West".
I was emphasizing how uncommon Covid-19 is and, in particular, how rare Covid-19 deaths are.

At one choir practice, one person spread COVID-19 to 52 people, two of whom died. During dinner at a restaurant, one person infected four people sitting at the same table, and five people sitting at other tables.

You think because COVID-19 is rare right now that we should go back to work and the 2-hour meetings in conference rooms? Working back to back with someone in a cubicle? Just... going to a restaurant and eating?

COVID-19 in the US is rare because of the lockdowns. Deaths are rare because COVID-19 infections are rare because of the lockdowns.

(For some definition of rare.)
Hey, I hear you and I don't want reading my site to be uncomfortable! My site uses the solarized light colorscheme [1], which I chose because I use the solarized schemes for my text editors. I think they are lower contrast to lend themselves to long editing sessions without being jarring on the eyes, but maybe that's not ideal for webpages?

In any case, if I added a small JS powered button to switch into a higher contrast style, would that make the site more usable to you?

[1]: https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/
The low level part of that was standardized in C++17 as std::to_chars

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/to_chars
What I don't get about these ideas is that isn't the factor "how much do you need to be in the office?" If you don't need to be in the office, why not just keep salaries the same and then you select from a larger pool of candidates (this should give you a pretty good pick, but you're still limited by when waking hours overlap).

If you only need to be in the office once a month, dock a little as now you have to cover travel and lodging.

It really seems like the factor of pay should be based on how important physical presence is, not on where the person is. Because otherwise I don't see it as a rational thing for a headquarters to be in SF and an employee in Arizona to get paid less than an employee in NYC. There's more advantages for the company for having your employee(your average programmer, at least) be in AZ rather than NYC. You need them in the office? A whole lot easier/cheaper to get that AZ employee there.
Imagine paying an employee in a manner that you don't have to worry about them lying about where they are. Rather than judging how much to pay them based on where they live, you just pay them and not worry if you can screw them over or not.
DIV Games Studio, a language and IDE to develop DOS games on late 90's, used coroutines on a similar fashion. Even it had priority levels, signals and hierarchies of coroutines. On DIV parlance, this coroutines where called "process", and yield() was called "frame()".
I managed to remake this from scratch, using D fibers, for a pet/toy game engine that I'm writing.
I grew up in the Nashville area. I've thought about moving back there from the West coast. I have nostalgia from my childhood, but I'm also hesitant to move back for a few reasons:

1. Weather

2. Transportation

3. Discrimination

The climate in the Nashville area was very hot in the summer and damn cold in the winter. My family wasn't very well off. I had a Wal-Mart coat that wasn't so great. I remember freezing my ass standing at the bus stop every morning to get to school, and being a dumb kid, I thought that was "normal", as in, I didn't know that you can have warmer jackets or clothes to stay warm.

Growing up in Nashville (K-12), I literally believed people of my skin color and origin were actually inferior to white people. The South can be hospitable, and I don't mean to generalize. Regardless, the folks who don't want to welcome you are very clear about that and have the loudest voices. One of my best friends in high school wasn't allowed to come over my house. I certainly won't accept my children having to deal with that non-sense. In grade school and middle school, I was bullied often and being the only non-white and non-black kid, it was sort of like being treated as a pariah.

This was all back in the 90's to 2000's. I don't mind living in the West coast, and I think my current city is amazing except that housing is extremely expensive.

Nashville and the surrounding areas are a beautiful place. I assume they've become more progressive in the past 25 years, but I don't know. Unfortunately, the "God fearing Christian/Real Americans terrify me.
Haha U.G.! Amazing. The things you come across on HN. I was introduced to his book and videos of him by a christian friend at whose house he often stayed. (She also got me into Nisargadatta!) She said he'd eat nothing but cream. He helped end my religious period, and meant a lot to me at the time. The guru to end all gurus! He made a lot of sense, especially for people caught up in the spiritual world, "seekers". I just looked and wikipedia says he died in 2007, also that he ate a lot of salt and cream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._G._Krishnamurti
Race is always in it and always has been in it. YOU have decided to use that as a counter argument with zero evidence.
Japan, preferably the Kansai region.

If I could live in Nara, I feel as if my life would become instantly tolerable whilst simultaneously beneficial to those immediately around me.
> He keeps pointing out that if we all sold our houses in California we could buy a mega-compound in Oklahoma.

I hear one opened up in Plano that might be just right for you!
I've been curious about this sort of thing, but I haven't been able to find good info on it. For example, it seems to me that the format of "It's not x, it's y" is widely accepted. I'm not sure if that's by simple common use or by way of some nuance that I'm not aware of. Certainly in some cases it can be difficult to avoid both comma splices and sounding stilted. I'd love to know more -- I don't seem to recall anything about it from when I had a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style.
definitely true - but it's really hard to gauge what performance will actually be until you have the whole thing setup even with benchmarks.
This is the dream for many of those who left their relatives in another country from the lack of opportunities, and are seeing people they love getting older far away from them.

I would certainly take the first flight to my country and try to stay close to those I love the most before it is too late.
I'm European; So I can live anywhere in Europe essentially.

I'm pretty sure it would be Talinn, Estonia. Everyone there has a high competence with English, the entire society is built with "online first" and usually offered in three languages.

It has a good economy, is friendly and has reasonable social policies and a lovely wilderness.

Bit cold in the winter though. :)
Thanks, much appreciated!

I think WebAssembly is more used than it appears, just difficult to see/tell.

A few years ago I actually tried integrating AR via WebAssembly with Amazon. We couldn't get the approval due to poor performance on Amazon fire devices (which have low end hardware). It is a shame but it is what it is.

What is disappointing/annoying is - as a CTO - it is near impossible to hire someone with WebAssembly skills. It requires an extra curious Engineer with a passion for native and web. Training is always important for a team but when going down the WebAssembly route you need to extra focused and invest more than what a typical Engineer would be allocated (E.g. Increase training from 1 day a week to 2-3). I suppose this may put people off?
On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity
I would love to live in the South England countryside. My parents live out in the country near Windsor, and it's nice and quiet, but still pretty close to the city life amenities that we enjoy.

Unlike living in Silicon Valley, where even when I'm walking distance from a major downtown, that getting around is a nightmare, the UK is way easier for commuting.
What does your company do if the employee is entirely Nomadic? Officially I live somewhere, but I never go there.
This messes with my mind
It's bad writing but I think it's unusual to have that much trouble parsing it.
Coffee grounds are a crude form of activated charcoal, which is used to bind up metals and other toxic substances.
Intel Engineer Proposes Software-Based KVM Protected Memory Extension
I think Kevin Rose looked into recommendations at the dish level with a startup (milk?). You might consider checking to see if he posted any lessons learned.
I wonder if you’ll feel the same way after your first winter though
There are a variety of real-world SSD failure modes that depend on the specific controller, in addition to environmental factors (NAND doesn't like heat). I would not suggest using this reductive failure model for storage planning.
commit that added it if anyone is interested https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/com...
No, but once you go remote your competing against a much larger labor force. You might have been in the Nth percentile of local labor but now anyone anywhere can be your peer.
When you're talking at the levels that most engineering positions are paid pretty much anywhere in the US (even lower cost of living areas), you are unlikely to qualify for need-based aid anyways. A pay cut from (lets say) 200 -> 150 is significant, but I don't believe likely to qualify a student as "low income" by any means.
I use them when in Austin on business as the company pays tolls.
because, yeah, this is normal...

119 golfing days in 251 visits costing roughly $134m

https://trumpgolfcount.com/
Right where I am in New York City, or a tropical island. Too bad I can't have both at once.
Nvidia Researchers Demonstrate New Raytracing Algorithm
New Paltz is a very cool little town.
What is the mdadm use-case that requires lvm? I've used mdadm happily for over a decade and never used lvm.
I can confirm that I tried it and found the max to be 140 times ﷽
your rationale leaves something to be desired. I don't know if its really valid to consider something a dangerous tech just because it can be misused. Your computer can be very dangerous if misused - such as if you drop it out of a window on someone's head - that doesn't mean you shouldn't use a computer :)
That’s definitely possible! @FakeUnicode mentioned in the discussion that, when 280-character tweets were first introduced in September 2017, it was possible to tweet 280 single-codepoint emoji using TweetDeck.

https://twitter.com/fakeunicode/status/1197282221503041537

There are several amusing examples in the thread linked from this tweet.
The Ballad of Martin and Malcolm
The traffic is the #1 reason not to move to Portland. It's a six-lane city that only had three lanes planned for. Sure, the drivers may be better than Florida but at least Florida (outside Orlando) wasn't designed with confusing lanes the width of half a car.
“Probably not.”

How can you even begin to quantify this risk if you have no idea what the problem is, or if you’ve never actually checked? That’s irresponsible to tell people “nah you being run into this problem” or “Eh, RAID5 works great!” when you’ve never looked into the stats or supported people who end up getting all their data lost?

This is a real problem and anyone not running two drive redundancy in 2020 on data that they care about is going to lose their data eventually.

If they don’t care about the data, then sure it’s not a big deal. I myself have 2 Synologies where I back up one to the other. The backup Synology is raid 5 because I don’t care so much about losing data, but my main drive is RAID 6.
> The biggest loser, he predicted, would be California.

California had been downtown hostile to the tech industry and grown complacent work the status quo because the tech workers had to be there. If tech workers don't have to be there, they will start trickling out.

CA worked hard to make the bed they're about to lie in.
how self-replicating chemical systems ever came about in the first place

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that it's pretty much inevitable after Miller-Urey [1]. This process produces so much complexity from such simple ingredients. I think if we could travel to distant stars we would find simple, single-celled life all over the place. The tougher question is why we haven't found any intelligent life yet [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller–Urey_experiment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
I'm curious why you went for speedy deletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion
In the context of Berlin 10 years ago perhaps, not when compared to other world capitals.
This entry on workplace distancing is apropos:

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=3253
When somebody draws or writes something racist it's fascinating to watch how quickly a ton of other cursors rush to cover it up or change it. Glad to see most people not approving of swastikas and slurs.

EDIT: on a more entertaining note, I just saw somebody with great handwriting write "Incredible how fast something like this devolves into vulgarity". Vulgarity was immediately scratched out and replaced by a crudely written "dicks".
Why not? I am, and most worrying about "high crime" neighborhoods is pearl-grabbing by people who are afraid of visible poverty anyways.
> Occam's Razor tells us that

Occam's Razor may suggest something, but the actual truth of the matter remains unknown.

> Why are you interested in minimizing this or finding a media-based conspiracy to overreport?

An even better question is: why/how has your mind chosen to frame his words in a specific manner that is not actually contained within what he wrote, as well as assume (without evidence) a specific intent/motivation? Was this purely conscious and deliberate, or was it more instinctual?
Too soon, look at how long it took to get people to stay home, the first weekend, they all went to the parks.
First steps with Bosque – Part 2
I agree. This type of action is signalling the company doesn't actually pay you for your knowledge or output. It pisses me off. Flip the argument around; if FB hired you to work remotely from Montana, then you decided to move to San Francisco, would they INCREASE your pay based on COL?

If the answer is "no, of course not", then why is it okay for them (or any company) to pay you less, if you move to a lower COL area? It absolutely isn't fair, and companies want to eat their cake and have it too.
For a recently published comparison of various stack implementations, see here (pdf): https://kavon.farvard.in/papers/pldi20-stacks.pdf
You're still conflating RAID and NAS. These things are orthogonal.
Gonna Have Some Fun Tonight
Well - if they did then I'd start renting a much bigger/nicer place instead of the hellish in-law unit I have. (Cheapest thing I can find in San Carlos) After all - they're gonna pay me more then, right?

Here I come - $15000/month Woodside villa!
Don't Disrupt Agile. Drop It
It's time to leave "Agile" behind and embrace the Post-agile era.
Fair point. Perhaps some things get more standardized across regions, like income tax, and other things stay geographically defined. A balance between standardization and localization.

But overall, I have no idea. Just seems as if government hasn't known how to handle very well things that happen across geographic boundaries. Maybe that's because government is geographically bound.

If I sell a digital file online, if someone buys it in Spain, Germany, France, and Italy, I have to collect and submit VAT at four different rates for just four customers.

I'm not sure what the answers are, just really hoping we start discussing this as a society, because things may become even more geographically independent.
CryptoKitties: An Application of Blockchain That Led to Digital Cats Worth $100k
WebAssembly allows deterministic execution (with caveats: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Nondetermi...) of any code. I think it is a perfect platform for such type of testing.
Know of a similar chart for foods?
Standard C has no exceptions.

Goto is the typical way to handle errors without creating a hell mess of "hm, gotta close this file, free that buffer, blah blah" at every step where you might want to bail early. There are a few alternatives but none of them are better than goto and a few can be said to be worse.
There's a HUGE difference between paying in a locale based on COL and lowering an existing salary for a remote worker simply because they might have lower COL.
Can you recommend some locations in Taiwan? It's on my radar.
>it seems to me, one would always design for flexibilty (t2)

Clearly not - the OLAP field exists and brings in untold billions of dollars, so there is no shortage of takers. OLAP design is about finding an optimal point between two extremes:

1. put effort to pre-compute everything, gain a lot of speed while looking at the result.

2. don't pre-compute anything, spend more time waiting to visualize the result.

If things are fast enough for you in the extreme #2 then you don't need to precompute everything and you can enjoy the flexibility. But for many people this is not the case - they either want results in split-second (highly interactive systems, modeling with varying parameters over an over again), or they want to dramatically increase amount of data (e.g. not just all sales but also all page views).
That's their total comp including RSU if you rise the ranks.
Devil's advocate here, I don't personally think a company should adjust pay based on location and tend to agree with the thrust of your point. But one might think of it as FB (or whomever) paying an employee enough to live up to a certain standard of living/being able to save money in their given locale, rather than a strict salary number. Because that number is different depending on locale, it would make sense to vary it based on locale. X salary allows one to live a "good life," being able to go out regularly, afford luxuries, live in a nice place in a nice area of town, in San Francisco. X salary * .7 (or whatever) allows the same lifestyle in Cleveland. Your work isn't devalued, you're getting the same lifestyle.

I tend to think I should be paid X and should I choose to live in a more expensive region, that's the price I pay for choosing to reside in that region. If I decide saving million dollars is more important to me, then I move to Cleveland, maybe don't have the same scene as SF, but am able to save more, my choice.
My wife is from the Bay Area or obviously biased, but same thing. I'm from France and we both lived is over 10 cities/countries combined (together and separately) and recently came back to the Bay Area "for good".

Before coming back we tried pretty hard trying to find somewhere else we could go live (and be much wealthier, afford a bigger house, etc) but we couldn't and decided on going back to Oakland.
First Inklings of Fame
I use whiteboard notecards[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dry-Erase-Index-Cards-Reusable/dp/B... to write down tasks and ideas throughout the day. then I use neodynium magnets and and a 3-meter wide whiteboard to lay the ideas out on a 2-d grid of impact vs. effort.
Yeah, but what's the cost? RAID5's striping with parity is a cost-saving approach compared to mirroring. If you can afford to mirror all your data that will always be the better option.
Source? Those seem rather low.
> We also don't like how the political situation is changing with Amlo.

Could you expand on this? I'm not keeping up with Mexican politics so I don't know much besides him being left leaning.
My gut reaction was yes, world government.

But as someone else mentioned, these are problems amongst the US states even with a superceding government.

I'm starting to wonder if we'll ever have a government that is not geographically defined, and if so, what it might look like.
>Zuckerberg said Facebook will monitor adherence by checking where employees access its VPN. Facebook also uses its own apps' to track employee locations, according to CNBC

So all I need to do paycheck arbitrage is to use a VPN with private residential IP (yes, that's a thing), and a rooted/jailbroken phone that does location spoofing?
Wonder how hard it is to find a private corner to work in on that space ship campus. It certainly seems out of this world.
base216? Not base256?
Studies on that are inconclusive at best, mainly due to the fact that people who rely on caffeine for daily function often do so due to having issues with sleep in them first place.

And no it’s quite likely not the the chicken the the egg problem.

Don’t get me wrong downing 3 double espresso shots 30 min before bed time is probably not a good idea however there is nothing that indicates that caffeine consumption during the day would have an impact on sleep in fact many studies showed that moderate amounts of caffeine even 2 hours before bed did not have a negative impact on sleep and a few studies even showed improvement in REM sleep when caffeine was taken but again nutrition studies are notoriously problematic.
I wonder how hard it would be to try handle the segfault and allocate stack space on demand for these “threads”. Almost certainly stupid but a fun experiment to see if its possible...

EDIT: found a nice example of this here: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/handling-stack-overflow-on-custom...
No. I’ve seen companies offering up to $1,000 to buy products for their home office. I haven’t seen any companies offer rent subsidies. Anyone else?
A bit confusing since the APUs are offset by a generation, by the 3500U is a 12nm GF Zen+ part that is over a year old at this point (the first models launched last spring). The new (significantly better) 7nm Zen2 APUs are the 4000 series, which have been trickling out in models since April.
I think you are mostly right but reality, as usual, is much more complicated than that. HPVs give you cancer.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus_infection

Also there are other viruses that also cause cancer

See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Cancer

So you very well could have a cancer patient coughing on you and giving you cancer but the underlying cause is the virus that they have (that caused their cancer) rather than the cancer itself. So you have chaining of cancer (albeit via a virus).
Cool. Lets change the laws to make that legal.
Consultants are the often the first people to get axed when the going gets tough. Then again you may have some super specialist skill in very high demand (e.g. Windows device driver writer, or COBOL expert), in which case you should find a lot of work.
1. That's base pay. Stock is another ~20-40%. Bonus is another ~20%.

2. That's pay for an engineer. Juniors get ~30% less, seniors get ~30% more.

3. Senior is attainable by most people, and will get you ~350k all-in.

4. The next level is not attainable by most people, but will be getting you ~450k all-in.
Tallinn seems like an awesome place to live in the summer. So does Helsinki. I visited in May and it was perfect.

But I feel like I'd want to winter much closer to the Mediterranean, or somewhere in the Southern hemisphere.
Legal Address? It's a good question. Who knows, with modern technology it could be updated daily.

... I shuttered at that thought.
Personally I'd go a step further and say if you want to really read the book together you should read it together on Kindle and make shared notes and highlights as you're all reading so you can note where others, or you, are struggling. This would truly help it become a collaboration moreso than a retrospective.