skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this comment so deeply. I spent all of my late teens and early 20s doing music in the US. I lived in a van or on a bus and only went ‘home’ for a few weeks consecutively at the most, and that was maybe three times a year. The world is viewed in a fundamentally different nature by those who are nomadic, and the rest of society has a very tough time dealing with those nomads.
I have often wondered about the point of those websites. What do they win out of this?
What is your basis for being pretty sure about that?
We live about an hour east of Raleigh and spend a lot of time there. I was commuting, but now fully remote. It’s a fantastic city. Gives you enough of the city amenities without the big city problems.
There are parts of the Mission that are extremely nice. The Tenderloin is far worse than the Mission and parts of SoMa rival the Mission for grossness.
Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar to Hunger
IBM Releases Power ISA v3.1; to Present POWER10 at Hot Chips 32
Another SF lover here. It is an amazing place. What I like so much about it is that you can just wander aimlessly through the city and stumble upon all sort fo cool stuff. Very walkable.

Also, in contrast to NYC, you can easily string together a day where you're in Muir Woods, then hit a winery or two in Sonoma, and be back in SF in time for the Symphony. Sure, I don't do stuff like that all the time, but on occasion when I have visitors in town.

Downsides are the high cost, the absolutely insane homeless and feces filled streets, and the monoculture.
As someone who learned (and is still learning) C++ on the job, what's wrong with cplusplus?
> it's not just for gamers anymore

Gamers never cared about the number of cores. Only recently has this slowly started to change. Intel is still king if you primarily care about gaming.
Ok, try giving up fibre in your diet for a while. Or vitamins A/B/C/D/whatever, or many other nutrients.
That seems unusual for a company to sponsor work visas for the country of your choosing. Care to elaborate on your situation or your suggestion for Americans to follow?
Also depends on when you started renting. I know people paying $700 a month in SF for a one bedroom but they moved here over a decade ago.
I expensed a large monitor, but that's about as much my company has offered to pay. I'd love to purchase a proper desk for myself while my spouse uses the other desk we have, but I don't have a lot of space for it, and honestly feel my employer should foot the bill, not me.
that sweet advertising money.
Could this channel be politically influenced, or do we think this is direct from scientists? I have no idea how to evaluate this possibility.
>Some people are competing with local labor.

Proximity might have been valued so highly that it felt like you were only competing locally, but I think this was just an illusion. You've always been competing with global labor.
On Windows it's around 1ms-15ms; I doubt on Linux it's very different. For reference 60fps gives 16.6ms.
Yea, I lived in East Africa for a bit and learned a lot about the struggles between the nomadic pastoralists and settled farmers. Also in Europe with the Roma people and their struggles.

I mean, I guess nomadic vs settled is probably a spectrum, with most of us not falling at anywhere near yhe extreme poles. Yet, yes, I feel you.
I recently came across some interesting research by the US DoD into optimal caffeine consumption for alertness based on an algorithm they were developing. I can't quite recall the details, but you can find a web version of the tool here: https://2b-alert-web.bhsai.org/

Anyhow, as I recall (and I could be wrong), you actually want to start low and end high. Obviously decaf in the evening may still be good though, given you want to be able to sleep without detriment.
Same as Greg K-H's new computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37RP9I3_TBo
If context switches are not happening, then what are your processes doing then? Shuffling memory around? Every time you do I/O a context switch happens (disk, network, ...). If your processes are not hitting disk or network, what are they doing then? Calculating something but keeping the results for itself?
I would love to work remotely from either Japan or Taiwan (preferably in Japan). I’m currently living in HK, but I reckon it’s time to move on.

How did you manage to find a remote company in Japan?
Why was it so bad?
Didn’t Gandhi sexually abuse young women? Haven’t we made progress on that front since his death?
Carbs are not essential indeed. But consuming carbs when available gave us net selective advantage, which is why it's been the biggest part of our post-agricultural diet. And those carbs didn't exist in isolation but in the context of other macro and micronutrients including vitamins.

Can't say the same about caffeine sources, they weren't consumed for their nutritional content, and the supposed selective advantage of their consumption apparently didn't matter as much as carbs'. We didn't witness a supremacy of caffeine using populations, but we witnessed ones that could utilize carbs.
> So it has always baffled me that tech companies do the exact opposite.

The primary inputs to the tech industry, especially but not exclusively consumer software industry, are culture, trends, and of course software engineering labor. All of these predominantly generated by cities, and among those, the big cities of the world.

The inputs to auto manufacture are materials, skilled manual labor, and schematics. The schematics like software, are a product of culture, and trends, and engineering research, all of which are cultural objects predominantly produced by major urban hubs. That is why auto manufacturers still design their cars in cities.

That doesn't mean that software can't be developed remotely or in cheaper COL places. But its most likely be to be designed in proximity to major cultural centers.
Hah thanks. Despite my self-deprecation at my blog posts, the product itself I'm extremely proud of. Hope you find it useful.
A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”
I don't know, something inside me cringes when someone who is able to live all the way to 113 is waving their finger calling for a revolution to treat the elderly better, when the average young person growing up today will be lucky to even live to 70 without some kind of debt forcing them to slave away until the day they kill themselves from depression and loneliness in a rotting society or die from a curable/preventable illness without affordable healthcare.

And it's not like I have no sympathy for the elderly as a young person. I just can't hear these complaints over the cries of all the young people with no hope, no future, who have no power to change a damn thing. If anything, the fact that these people are able to live past 100 says something positive about our world today, rather than that they've been forgotten or neglected in some way.

Anyone want to tell me I'm wrong? Am I the asshole here?
Building a computer in Conway's game of life
Yes, i love these points especially the last one. With remote, it’s no longer just two neighboring regions but so many different possible combinations.
True that they cannot limit you. Except working at a FLiNG company what I have noticed is (sadly) they dont really think much of talent unless you are a brand name (creator of any obscure framework we are stuck with and cannot get out of). Reality is given the normalizing nature of our interviewing processes (leetcode puzzles) without a Brand, a dev (regardless of experience) in the bay area is qualitatively "same" as their counter parts outside - except BA ones are a fair bit costlier.
Can you tell me more about how tax law would get in the way? Self-employed can take a "home office" deduction on their taxes. Full time workers can as well, but its slightly more complicated.

https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/deduct-home-office-v2/
Interesting, but the question is what it implies for public policy. In particular, a lot of people on the right argue this ifr is not much worse than the flu, so there should be no government dictated restrictions.

Well to address that we need to calculate the numbers. And to start, the flu death numbers are as low as they are because we have a vaccine, and every year there is an aggressive campaign aimed at the people most likely to die for the disease.

We don't yet have a covid vaccine, and it is highly transmissible, so if we did nothing to prevent its spread it would likely reach a majority of people. In the US that means at least 200 million.

Now multiply that by 0.2% and you get at least 400,000 deaths, 8 times the number for a bad flu season.

I say that is high enough to merit aggressive governmental action to halt transmission until we get a vaccine. For those who say no, I would ask what, if anything, would be a high enough number?
> All of the administration happens through a web portal. And its not a basic, geeky portal. Its literally a full desktop. They've implemented windowing, minimizing/maximizing, desktop shortcuts, a start menu, it feels like a literal desktop running in your web browser.

That's a feature of Sencha ExtJS [1]. Synology didn't do the heavy lifting there.

> They don't use ZFS or mdadm; they've implemented their own raid system they call "synology hybrid raid" (SHR).

Which is just mdadm with extra steps. (Create a RAID array spanning all devices up to the size of the smallest device; repeat with the remaining space as long as there are at least two devices; create a JBOD of those arrays.) It's a kind of hokey approach, honestly.

[1]: https://examples.sencha.com/extjs/6.0.0/examples/classic/des...
Because augmentation is done on the CPU, and a slower CPU can't keep up if you have 4x 2080ti's in your workstation training in fp16, which is how I prefer to run things. Moreover, a SATA SSD also can't keep up, so you need NVMe. And for that you need an extension cable, since NVMe stick will overheat in its default location (right under the GPU). Found out the hard way. This is also why AWS sucks so bad for deep learning workloads: on some workloads it's very easy to bottleneck on CPU, and unlike with Google Cloud, you can't just drag the slider and give your VM more cores when needed. Jeff Bezos determined that 4xV100 should get 32 hyperthreads, so you get 32 hyperthreads.
+1 just for the "Made with <3 in Canada".
> If you build a 16-drive RAID5 on some enterprise vendor's equipment and then suffer a multiple disk failure during a rebuild because that was a Bad Idea...

If I do that with a linux/solaris/mdadm/zfs/btrfs/whatever, and it fails, who will be the one blamed for the failure? Me of course.

If i select a propper raid setup, and it still failes, it's better if it fails on an IBM than on my duct-tape linux/mdadm/zfs/btrfs/whatever solution, because again, I personally can say, that i did what the vendor (IBM) recommended in their brochure, and their solution failed. If the duct-tape solution fails, there's noone else to blame, than me.

Either way, you have to restore from backup.

And if there is some random bug (eg. kernel oops when mounting volume), there's IBM support on the call. Working with standard options, means standard, well-known bugs, and that means that support can help fix them.

I know, that I (personally) sleep better, knowing there is a professional solution from a big-brand running in a "boring, enterprise" production.
Software RAID has always been superior - it's just that the vendors who were doing it right built enterprise arrays on their software stack and printed money. There aren't many standalone entities anymore, but the remains still exist. 3Par and Nimble (now HPe), EMC (now Dell), Solidfire (now NetApp), NetApp, Infinidat, IBM, etc.

And ironically, the biggest competitor in the NAS space to NetApp back in the day essentially went bankrupt BECAUSE they used hardware RAID and ran into a TFDL situation that cause customers to flee in droves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspex_Systems
I like the idea of working from Switzerland; it's a lovely country but the only thing about it that gives me pause is the taxation level.
The most puzzling thing is they already beat piracy with netflix but now they are trying to kill the convenience by splitting content over 20 platforms causing piracy to come back.
I've bought a System76 before, it was terrible and I never bought another one.
Yes, it has got harder since then. I graduated in 2011, and came to NZ on a Working Holiday visa. People told me I should try to get PR, but I didn't have the years of continuous relevant work experience.

I went to a few other places, then stayed in Taiwan for 4 years. At first it was going to be 2 years, but at year 1.5, NZ changed their rules to requiring 3 years. Then 2016 happened, with all the political problems in the UK and US. Everybody from English-speaking countries is trying to move here, and the waiting times have gone up dramatically. The 4th year in Taiwan is because I met my girlfriend. She also wanted to come to NZ, but she couldn't even get a Working Holiday visa (there's only 600 per year for Taiwanese).

Now I'm losing hope that it'll ever be possible. I've put in so much: emotionally, financially, and in time, towards this dream. If it does fail, I will be devastated and probably never be able to settle anywhere. (I have nationality issues and can't just "go back to your country").
Those things are great and also why I love SF. The problem is as I’ve gotten into my mid-late 30s those things I enjoyed in my 20s aren’t as magical as they used to be.

Most of this has to do with settling down and thinking more about a family than myself and career. My body also can’t recover from those nights in SF as well as I get older.

SF is a Peter Pan city though, you can stay young there forever and do fine. I know people who still go to the same bars and hang out with the same crowd they did a decade ago.
For long I had the same problem with Japanese language files being shown as binary in the GitHub diffs, and it is solved by having something like this in the .gitattributes file

*.php diff

Overall I am amazed that everything shows properly in GitHub.
https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...
Still, those enterprise junior executives didn't get fired for choosing mainframes! Their companies made bad decisions in hindsight, but they (and we) blame those bad choices on IBM having failed to meet the needs of the market, not on whatever random Fortune 500 companies bought S/390's instead of PC servers.

Which is the point. IBM was the conservative choice, and they remained so even past the point where they were the wrong choice. If you're a junior executive trying to climb the ladder, that kind of "decision security" has real value.
The whole OS is a binary.
To frame it as companies paying people mainly as a way to impose opportunity cost on their competitors doesn't reflect the comment, normal economics, or growth. While remote work will flatten the market, it will flatten both sides of the market (employers v. staff).

When you invest in a business, you pay people to manage it and deliver a yield. If you invest in a business to prevent another business from succeeding, that doesn't make any sense unless you are a government or state captured industry.

If your skills and potential value is undifferentiated, sure, someone could undercut you, but if you have something of value to offer, price is much less of a deciding factor.
Larger bezels allow you to open the laptop without putting fingerprints on the screen.
Agree. New York fatalities are already at .3% of the population (estimating population at 8.39 million and deaths at 23k). Antibody estimates are that only ~20% were infected.
Even https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-app ? That one seems to be missing with nothing but a bullshit DMCA notice in its place.
lol I grew up in Raleigh NC, and 5 bedroom mansions are not $400k, they're closer to $1mil even on the outskirts of town.
python and julia's way of accomplishing this is infinitely uglier and more adhoc than lisp's
Why would it have been difficult to stop for eBay, couldn't they have simply removed the PayPal button from their site if they didn't like it?
Why are you limiting your consideration to such and artificial and limited scope?

No one else is going to object if you consider whether a wallet vote is pretty blatantly encouraging and rewarding exploitive behavior.

It’s very hard to pretend the relationship is not exploitative.
Guadalajara or Merida. My heart is in Mexico
I’ve done the budget calculations based on my own personal spending and found that outside rent, the majority of what I spend money on costs essentially the same no matter where I live (if you normalize out taxes).
I have never used FreeBSD, but i am excited to see that there are only four (?) config interfaces used in these instructions!

That sounds about right, depending on how you count "copy this sample configuration file into place".

FreeBSD has the concept that /etc/rc.conf is a "master configuration file", not just for turning features on and off but also for setting command line options. More complex daemons -- e.g. devd and crond -- have their own configuration files as well, but in most cases they also have configuration directories allowing you to add configuration by creating new files rather than editing an existing one.
Google has a team of human evaluators called Raters that use a criteria.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...

You can read about what the criteria is, but in short, it directly asks raters to boost established sites and downrank things like forums, personal blogs, and niche websites.
You have become a class 'A' manipulator. I thought I could see through people's crap. But you take the cake.

Thankfully I felt "odd" when I signed up for your "interview" test and never fully finished it.

Also, you single handedly brought me out of hiatus from commenting on HN.

What you have done with this decision is a friggin stab in the gut. If you think your foolish "it's only X we are making public! Not Y!" means something other than "oops, we got caught, how do we cover this up?!" then you are deluding yourself.
My claim is that coffee makes you more industrious.

Alcohol does not enhance performance for most professions.
I'd split my time between where I live now - Tokyo, in a suburb surrounding Shibuya - with a second place out in the countryside, or perhaps near the Seto inland sea. Tokyo with a bicycle is pretty much as good as it gets for me, and the inland sea is one of the prettiest places I've been in Japan.
Enlighten me please?
The difference being that caffeine is consumed today pretty much the same way for hundreds of years (unlike modern cigarettes) and doesn’t have all the lobby behind it (at least not one as strong as alcohol or cigarettes, if any). The whole “smoking is healthy” phase was marketing (and the studies showing the link to cancer date back to 1920s) - same for eating bacon & eggs in the morning, or tricking people into consuming sugary corn flakes as if it’s a healthy food.

If I’d have to bet, I’d say we’ll trend to having purer caffeine drinks, or maybe better understand how it plays out with other chemicals.
Great sentiment, but it's just not a workable position.

These guys have massive resources at their disposal, and they will crush a handful of 10x'ers if that's what it takes to get what they want.

For goodness sake, Facebook has a bolo list complete with real-time location tracking. Writing "F--- you, Mark" will land you on that list [1]. They view themselves as a quasi-government [2].

If we don't act through Congress to control powerful groups like Facebook, our personal and professional lives will be less free and less fulfilling.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-trac...

[2] https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/4/9/17214752/zuckerber...
Minutephysics has an excellent explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elt0Gt9Cb6Q
Some of this is a terminology problem: properly a "context switch" refers to the kernel switching control between two user processes on the same CPU. If all you're doing is taking an interrupt in the kernel and returning to whatever was interrupted, that's about half the work of a "context switch" on most architectures (though still expensive, obviously!).

But FWIW: most HPC computing is, in fact, "shuffling memory around", yeah. Very few architectures are actually interrupt bound, and the ones that are work very hard to address that (because hardware interrupt parallelism is an even harder nut to crack than context switch overhead).
Amusingly, there was an early "scientific" word processor for the IBM PC, that simulated the Selectric math ball. You pressed one of the extra keys (maybe "alt" but I don't remember) and got the alternative ball. You could also move up and down by half lines. It was very quick to type math.

I used it for my dissertation. The page numbering feature could not be adapted to my university's requirements, so I printed out my manuscript without page numbers, and pasted them in by hand, then had the whole thing photocopied.
> Got any figures for that?

Assuming a 15W per sqft, and an average weight of 3lb per sqft, and assuming the output of a nuclear power plant is around 1GW, you'll need about 9e+4T of solar panel that you're gonna need to recycle over a lifespan of 40 years. Just the volume of this waste is 4.5e+3 truck load, and I'm not even getting started about recycling the silicon cells themselves (ie. very nasty chemicals), and all this is just about 1 equivalent plants. US wide, you'd probably need 200x this (to be significant), plus a 5x extra capacity to deal with fluctuation and non-peak production, that's another 3 order of magnitude. You also need to factor into account a redesign of the grid to accomodate with the mesh production, and the extra battery on each site.

Compare this to burying a few hundreds tons per year of low volume wastes for ~eternity in a cave in the middle of nowhere.

> Was Fukushima though?

No, Fukushima used BWR design from the 1060's, so geneneration 2.
We may have miscommunicated. I'm fine with making the box-ticking mandatory, but not the donation mandatory. In your earlier messages you asked about mandatory donation, not mandatory box-ticking.

Opt-in-by-default does have the disadvantage you mentioned, but I don't think it carries much weight. Society could solve this problem just by sending a certificate/card to people who opt-out to tell both them and medical practitioners of their choice.
1. I agree that the opinions are pretty wild in the surrounding metro. It seems that as you get to more of the affluent areas, the politics tend more to the right. I still think that the downtown/midtown areas are pretty liberal. At least from what I hear from friends living in that area.

2. I’m sorry that your barber’s neighbor had to go through that. The homelessness doesn’t really seem all that bad to me compared to SF though. My experiences are from my passing observations and I’ve never really been accosted by the homeless.

3. I didn’t grow up in either of those areas but I did grow up in a middle class area so my biases might be showing here but to me it seems like most larger metros have pockets of deep poverty. Yes, Granite Bay and Folsom are the upper class areas but I think there are more middle class areas than there are impoverished areas. I’m not super in tune with how local government is doing in the impoverished parts either.

4. In the context of working remotely I’m not sure how much this matters besides I guess being able to meet other people in tech. There’s also a decent amount of tech transplants moving to the area from what I’ve heard.