skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individual flexibility can have detrimental impacts to team performance. So then shouldn’t the flexibility be awarded to whomever’s P&L is hit by a decrease to productivity? How else do you internalize the negative externalities? How would this differ from the pre-Covid status quo?
You realize Apple employs engineers right? The same engineers who use homebrew for their own job? If they go down that route, it's likely they'll need to support something like homebrew or similar.

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if it just meant distributing package via homebrew means signing the package, much like any other package manager. Yes, you can get something similar with checksums, but it doesn't provide any method of authenticity of the distributor.

Is it friction? Hell yeah. A pain? Yes. Is it purely bad? No. Does it have positives? Some. It's not black and white.
Caffeine gets a lot of love and hate. Personally, I think it's close to a miracle molecule. What other drug can give such an effective boost to wakefulness, mood, and focus with the only main side effects being possible sleep loss and jitteriness/discomfort? Many focus on physical side effects, but I have never seen any evidence of it negatively affecting mental health, despite being psychoactive. I have not consumed amphetamine, cocaine, or the like, but I have tried many legal "nootropics" and all are <= effective compared caffeine with more side-effects.

I take a small portion of a caffeine tablet under my tongue for exercising and occasionally for study and work. I am more healthy today than I was a year or more ago, a large part in thanks to caffeine getting me off my butt to run when I don't feel like running, and (safely) allowing me to push myself harder and get a better cardiovascular workout.

Is it accurate to call it a vitamin-like nutrient? No, because obviously it's not like vitamin D3 or C where very high levels are beneficial and we don't need caffeine to survive, but it can be taken in moderate doses indefinitely and still positively impact one's health. It depends on how you define "nutrient".
I moved from PA to NM last year. From PA's perspective, PA remains your domicile until you take steps to permanently establish a new residence somewhere else. Other states may or may not take the same position.

Those steps include, but are not limited to: buying/renting property as a primary residence, registering a car, registering to vote.
Sure, but there's a lot more than just the savings on the office space. What about savings on employee sick leave? At my last company there was always an 'office plague' at least once a year, around winter. What about employees no longer commuting? What about being able to hire talent when they don't want to move to wherever you're located - how much will that save you on recruiting? There are so many other wins. And losses.
Should it be updated?

South Dakota lets you establish tax domicile with no state income tax instantly. You need to show a receipt from a hotel or campground that you spent a night in the state. You also get a new driver's license and open a bank account. That's it. What stops me from setting up a remote workstation in SD, logging into work through VPN from there, and living wherever I want? :)

Once the pandemic lessens, I am switching my domicile from California to SD and semi-retiring away from Bay Area. I will have a legal presence and a computer in that area, but I will not live there.

There could be a business opportunity in setting up remote workstations in high rent areas to comply with these requirements.
It's also host to a pretty useful experiment page to try things out yourself. It's great for whipping up small scale prototypes with.
If I'm in NZ can I come visit? Looks lovely. How's the cheese shop?
And even if someone consistently cannot separate work from home life - 'traditional' employment will not vanish. Many companies will have zero WFH (or very little), while others will have a gradient between full-office worker and full-WFH.

I'm a "WFH Apologist", really, but I'll readily admit it's not for everyone. Many people genuinely like in-person socialisation at the office, others can't separate 'work' from 'home life', and we could go on forever on potential issues. Which is why no one will ever see me advocate for all tech companies to go as remote as possible normally - that would exclude a pretty wide pool of potential candidates.
Parents Be Warned: Screen Time Sucks
Agreed. I absolutely love it here. There's still the huge downside of the cost of living. And competition for good school is starting to take a toll. But everything about the people and the energy is like no place else.
Hey everyone! I wanted to share a tool I built a few months ago and have quietly been working on in the background. It's a little rough around the edges, so happy to take feedback, here, or hello@cameronbrown.co.uk.
Cape Town. Just visit it and you'll understand why.
I wonder is there extension that would do exactly opposite, only include google results from sites that i choose in order that i want.
Would recommend the Ahrefs videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWquNQV8Y0_defMKnGKrFOQ

Obviously they will push their product but it is very good and popular within the SEO space.

My suggestion is just to write good content that strengthens your brand and can be shared across multiple channels e.g. SEO, WhitePaper, Linkedin etc.
You don’t think “homeless people” are a bad thing!? The first step is recognizing the problem. More of the same is not a solution.
Unfortunately Microsoft saw this coming in 2012 and changed their database licensing off of per-socket and onto per-core.
There already is a financial incentive to misrepresent location regardless of whether Facebook is paying the same by location or not: locations themselves charge different tax rates, and there is a big temptation to say you live in an income-tax-free state and locality even if you do not. So this compliance problem exists regardless.

Facebook has a big target on its back here, and it would be terrible press and regulatory scrutiny if it came out that a large number of employees were evading state and local taxes by claiming false residence. Facebook can do some basic due diligence here to prevent that from happening.
Parent comment started:

>What's different here is presumably the scale the policy is being applied at

Suggesting that FB is somehow going to apply any policy to its employees that is at a larger scale than the US government is a bit ridiculous.

Yes, I agree that's what FB will do.
Was it the "You may also be interested in:" box on product pages? I remember going to a tech talk, many years ago, by the person who wrote that.
Trusted Types to prevent DOM-based XSS attacks
Usually it means they merged 'origin/master' with their local 'master'.

Git is distributed, so everyone can have their own copy of the same branch.
Given that writing systems we have today are pre-digital systems of marks made with the human body and tools, all encoding of text in our HCI is a simulation of writing. Simulations by nature cannot be 100% accurate. choices have to be made about what is represented and simulated. choices have to be made about what to leave out. Simulations are a form of communication, they put forward a perspective about what is the important part of what is being simulated.
Seeing a symbol like "﷽" really brought home for me some of the assumptions about writing that I take for granted, and are inherently "argued for" by the way text is handled in our digital systems.
In the US, deducting home office expenses are often a trigger for an audit, and can cause problems when it's time to sell the house. If your employer is paying for some of it, things could get really messy with regards to ownership. Consult a tax expert or CPA.
This. Despite being a management graduate and IELTS score of 8 bands I struggle to form cohesive sentences and almost lose the essence of my message especially in online forums like this.

I have seen people reply with so much consistency and grammatically well-formed sentences I almost cringe how they have honed their craft to this level. What's the secret? Any ideas on how to work on improving writing skills especially in formal settings & forums.

PS: had a boss who was so consistent in his writing that he used to reply in full sentences even on IM with punctuation and all that. I secretly admired him.

PPS: Is Grammarly premium worth it?
Im reading Permutation City right now and that message is really messing with my head
Yeah, I'm looking for something like this too. I would like to have Wikipedia at the top of the results.
center of the earth
When IKEA announced the switch from Futura to Verdana, I thought they had made a mistake. I was appalled. Now, Verdana’s grown on me (although Futura is still much nicer), and I wish they’d keep it.

Goes to show how critical familiarity is in building a strong brand.
I switched to the same CPU (+128GB of RAM) a few months back. Amazing value, IMO. Truly a fire breathing workstation. Costs less that the base config of Mac Pro, as well. In addition, while the first gen Threadripper boards were picky AF with respect to memory choice, the new TRX40 board took 128GB in 4 DIMMs like a champ, and is 100% stable at the memory's "XMP" settings. I'm pretty impressed with this and don't regret spending $1800 on the CPU. It's really a no-brainer for anyone who does deep learning or works with C/C++, or both, especially if you can write it off as a business expense.
Now that the 4700U is out I'd expect a decent set of laptops to come out for it if not already. I recently settled on a Precision 7740 (17", full keyboard+numpad, Intel+AMD GPUs, 128GB RAM, 4 NVMe bays, 4k, aluminum body) myself which gives you pretty much everything except the AMD CPU (which I wanted but couldn't wait to see how the 4700U panned out). Not sure if the 15" 7540 has the same options or not.
Unpopular opinion: This is how git rose to where it is today. If people were less blinded by celebrity status, they'd see that Linus' lack of exposure to paradigms beyond C such as OOP or FP (due to deliberate disdain; his loss) meant that C pointers were the primary abstraction on which he built git, and that it suffers greatly because of this. Not to mention that good UX is a rare skill among developers in general. See https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

Mercurial should have won. And Plastic SCM is awesome, designed conceptually from the ground up to build on lessons learned from git (and by an Associate Professor in CS). In fact, the whole concept of DVCSs is ridiculous in 99% of corporate contexts where you can't use your laptop / desktop at home without logging in into the VPN. Why do we even need distributed version control in such a setting? Subversion is perfectly enough and even non-developer users can actually understand and use Subversion effectively. See https://svnvsgit.com/

Mind you, I'm not a blind hater: I love that Linus did well in life. I'd be thrilled if his net worth was a billion instead of just $150 million. Surely, he contributed much more than that.
> tell if master node is not responsive because it is busy vs dead?

The postgres documentation will tell you that you'll need to set up your own mechanisms for this, and that they will need to integrate with OS facilities as appropriate. One-size-fits-all does not cut it. Not wrt. replication, not wrt. HA/failover.
I didn't say that RAID5 and RAID10 are similar in terms of reliability (most of my comment said that RAID10 had many upsides over RAID5 in terms of reliability). I said they you should consider them to have the same level of redundancy -- unless you like to play Russian roulette with your data. Yeah, if you have more drives there are less bullets in the revolver but I'd prefer to not play that game in the first place. If you need a system that can survive 2 independent disk failures, use 3-way mirrors.
Ordering is something that I'm not sure about (but I've myself been thinking about it for a future addon- if not the current one) that would 'weigh' the URLs like .edu/wikipedia etc. much higher. Would such a feature be helpful to you? And as a part of the same addon?

As for only results from specific websites, you may use Google Operators (like inurl, site, etc.)
It's not a straw man at all. It's in Facebook's vested best interest to prevent tax evasion of its salaries by its employees regardless. This is completely independent of whether salary is location-based or not; the tax fraud temptation is always there and it could pose real problems for Facebook if it were occurring en masse, perhaps even with tacit knowledge by many employees (i.e. teams chat amongst themselves).
I have quite a few in this category that would probably sell. Are you considering allowing listings?
Good bye corporate news from my search results! I am so fed up with a bunch of news articles always crowding out the top results for nearly every search query. No more having to wade though propaganda soup to find the things i want.
Not remote really but I'd like to live in Austria and run tours for Japanese anime fans who want to see towns that look like the European towns they've been shown for years. :)
The other weird thing about the standard RAID conversation is the assumption that every bit on your disk is equally valuable, and that losing a single bit is as catastrophic as losing an entire drive. Yes, RAID rebuilds are hard on a drive, and yes, you can get read failures during a rebuild that can cause data loss during a RAID5 rebuild. However, of the multiple TB stored on my drives, if I lose a few sectors to a read error on the rebuild, what are the chances that I will even notice? That error could be in unused space, or a movie I downloaded from iTunes, or any number of blocks that store necessary but non-personal data.

I wish that there was more data distinguishing total drive failures from single block errors and from everything in-between.
Companies that require skilled labour don’t move to places with cheap labour. They move to places with abundant skilled labour that’s available at a reasonable cost. Or, they spend money training and equipping the available labour. There’s no way around it.
Common, but something in initial employment agreement. This sounds like it is being forced on employees. If so, thus my reticence to seeing this practice as acceptable. If not, my mistake.
I just don't trust people in general...it has nothing to do with the team. I've been stabbed in the back too many times for trusting people to do the right thing.
The cost of my lunch is a trivial fraction of my family's grocery bill though. Are remote workers going to ask for a clothing stipend in lieu of company-branded T-shirts as well?
> the company needs to account for employee locations to avoid violating tax laws.

And you're potentially causing yourself a nice future tax issue.
Adding the dot (.) after the "nytimes.com" bypasses the paywall

https://www.nytimes.com./interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-corona...
Using goto is standard for handling errors in C. It's used pervasively in the Linux kernel.
Where I work there are one or two people that are online outside of normal hours (usually managers who already didn’t have great work life balance) most people seem to be pretty good.

Also, as someone who’s worked remotely before: working longer does not mean more work done!!! in fact I think I can safely say you’ll get less done if you start working more than ~7 hours a day because then your workspace and relaxing space start mixing together (and your brain will force you to relax sometimes.)
I do work remotely, and bounce between Philadelphia and Las Vegas, depending on my mood and the weather. Philly food, drink, art, and music scenes are all fantastic. Additionally, it’s a very “human scale” city. Large enough to support all of the above, but small enough that you can grasp the whole thing in your mind, and travel around it easily.
That would restrict all your hiring to the lowest wage markets.

For some considerations also see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
Not true. You can have your iCloud credentials but no device that runs iTunes. The iTunes requirement is the catch here for me personally.
Which other experience?
You mean like when then NFL started peddling Microsoft Surface? Those were funny times.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/18/13320664/bill-belichick-...
It's not like these companies are dumb. They'll factor the diversity coordinate into their equation.
I downvoted your suggestion because it's illegal (like, felony tax evasion and perjury illegal).
Gent is an awesome city! Beautiful cathedrals and castles, a nice downtown riverside area, good art museums, lots of terraced pubs/cafes with excellent beer selections, plenty of smart people doing PhD work at UGent. And while people speak Dutch most of the time, 99% of people are fluent in English.
I do same. First cup is regular. Then decaf rest of day.

For some reason, when I worked from home, I was getting a headache in the afternoon. All the time. Then one day I only got a chance to get my first cup of coffee. On that day, no headache. So upon further testing it turned out that I can only drink one regular cup when working from home. But on weekends or working from the office, this is not an issue. Only working from home.
Actually other PC company revenues are at least $200B so it’s probable roughly even.
I grew up in the outskirts of Portland OR. I've lived in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, London, Paris, Milano and NYC.

NYC is my place to be.
I'm semi nomading at the moment - got a flat in London and airbnb it and go off when I feel like. Thailand at the moment, airbnb not working presently due to viruses.
Somewhere in the suburb in Japan, or Indonesia. Currently NYC, working as SWE but the housing market is so bleakly expensive here.
stage of grief: denial
Ah so you did! I missed that.
Nah, I implemented a simple wrapper around an internal tool for auto-translating Oracle PLSQL to SparkQL. Data Engineers liked that a lot
I just upgraded from an 2015 i7 4/8 Core/Thread CPU to a Ryzen 7 3700X 8/16.

When I first starting using the new CPU the most striking thing was how /few/ of the cores were under-load during my compilations due to several bottlenecks in my build I didn't realize I had. Over half of my cores were near idle.

I was able to reduce compilation times by 75% (126~ sec to under 31~ sec), just by allowing several processes to run concurrently, and changing the order of a few others, so they weren't fighting over file system locks.

I went back and tested it on the old i7 machine, and still got a 30%~ improvement. My point is: Upgrade away, but make sure your tooling and scripts are designed for that type of concurrency otherwise you'll be wasting a lot of the potential. Mine weren't.
The lunch is comp for having to be on-site.
WiFi over Coax (2006)
This is rather un-motivational to those of us actively stopping the spread by staying home. We can chastise those who fail to fall in line, or we can praise those who are choosing to do the right thing, and focusing on the latter may be more beneficial. Doom-and-gloom headlines make one ponder "Why bother?" and further incentivize not trying, which is the opposite of what's needed at this time.
Effective time zone is somewhat more personal, though. As a night owl, working with local early risers sucks a lot.
Huh? Have you been on Blind? SWE's know how the game works.
I bought some book that was a bunch of excerpts from classic urban planning works. I bought a book called "Seeing like the state." I bought a book about the Clemente Course in Humanities (there is a website for this these days).

I no doubt bought other stuff. I also enjoyed "How buildings learn" but I don't think I bought it that day.

I run r/CitizenPlanners and there are some links there to videos and what not.
I see your point. For sure, the country's situation changed a lot since the 90s.
It is also very common to dismiss any russians who are critical of power to have "western eyes", as if you couldn't be russian and have issues with your government.
This mentality was already present in soviet times.

You seem to say that you gain immediate affinity with russians for having the same "orthodox" mindset, yet you are ready to dismiss any russian that doesnt think like you expect them to as "not really russian". People in russia are varied, just like everywhere else, there is just one voice which overpowers all the discourse.

Edit : I don't think people who criticise their country see "only the bad". They criticise because they care, so they probably see the good as well, what do you think?
> I'm tall, and there I feel normal

I've enjoyed numerous trips to the Netherlands, but one thing I did NOT like is that, as a 5'10 guy who dresses like a typical American (i.e. not so well), I felt even shorter and less attractive than the very well dressed, handsome, and uber-tall Dutch men. I know it's silly, but it does create an inferiority complex.

It wasn't as bad living in German, but it still made me realize that there is a huge advantage to being bigger, stronger, than average.

When I lived in India, not only did I enjoy the benefits of being white, but I was also taller and far 'bigger' and stronger than most other males, due to 30 years of eating more protein.

Which is kind of interesting now that we're all talking about our dream locations. I would definitely choose somewhere where 5'10" is taller than average and caucasians / Westerners get an automatic status bump. It does make life easier.
A ton, for every appetite and style! This is exactly why LA rocks, it's got a little something for everyone. DM me on Twitter @aloukissas and I can share some stuff. Pie 'n Burger in Pasadena though is insanely good.
Huh? Prometheus definitely exists.
Can you elaborate on the part "Lisp as a great code generating language"? Just curious. I tried to learn Scheme for SICP but then switched to the Python version.
I posit that you, sir/madam, are the one exhibiting poor logic. Giving up water for two weeks would lead to death. That's hardly the same as temporary mild withdrawal symptoms of coffee.
That is the difference between a drug/supplement like caffeine, and an essential nutrient like water or vitamin C.
The conference was amazing, and the portal was very usable! I really liked the page where you can find similar papers from a clustering map. Thank you and the team for the hard work, top stuff!
I went full remote last year and moved from Orange County, CA to Phoenix, AZ. It's awesome. The low taxes and greater freedom is just something I couldn't give up.
Yes, he is in charge of merging changes from ~200 subsystem git trees into the new release, every week. Every ~8 weeks they do a major version with big changes, and then they do weekly releases with bugfixes, and then they do a major version with big changes again.

The major releases are then maintained by Greg Kroah-Hartman (the number 2 person in Linux), who cherry-picks fixes from mainline that should go to stable. Distros have kernel teams that also maintain their own stable trees, with or without help from upstream stable maintainer.

Linus can't code review all the changes queued for the next major release, but he does make sure that in case the subsystem maintainer says "this is safe to merge, it has been tested" but actually it doesn't compile, then Linus will yell at him and call him bad words in Finnish. Because the subsystem maintainer is an important job, people rely on them, they have years of experience, they know better than to do pull requests with junk.

He is also involved with resolving disputes and fixing things that affects his own workflow.
Spent 3 months in Chia-yi. People are nice. In Taipei, everyone speaks english. Should not be a problem today.