skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't I run a VPN on my laptop into SF Bay then run a second VPN session in a VM to show I'm connecting from SFO? Seems there are ways to play the system.
One hypothesis around the 20 amino acids relates to optimization of a quantum search algorithm [0]. Some recent work has added support to this idea [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0002037
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/12/133081/an-import...
It’s really astonishing how bad <ostream> is. It’s not just one or two problems—the <ostream> interface is just a total disaster. In my mind, fmt is not just a replacement for <ostream>, it’s a replacement for <cstdio>, which is a much higher bar to clear.

https://www.moria.us/articles/iostream-is-hopelessly-broken/
What place has California weather, can get by with English and his cheaper than California?
(Some) government services and their beneficiaries are geographically bound, so it makes sense that the fundraising for such services is also geographically bound.

On the face of it, this makes sense. Some services will always be locally bound, because things like police or fire wouldn't make much sense at a federal level; why should someone in Billings have input on policing in New York City, or vice versa? Should someone in Cork have say on how Bucharest is handling garbage pickup?

Whether or not the current legal subregion boundaries (for the US, the states) make much sense is another story, but the Founders were of the opinion that the imperfect state borders would be preferable to having the federal government exercise complete control lest it fall into the hands of a tyrant.
Also not all DNA mutations produced by DNA damage are equally common, and some of the redundancy lessens their deleterious effect.
Not to beat a dead horse, but I know. It doesn't change the fact that, in Western culture, swastikas of all stripes carry Nazi symbolism, and the fact that the Hindu one has subtle differences doesn't prevent it from being perceived as Nazi symbolism, intentionally or unintentionally. (I am very definitely not accusing Indians of Nazism (although let me say nothing about Modi here). I am only saying that choosing to carry that symbology into Western culture must come with an awareness of the consequences, whether or not they are just, or historically reasonable.)
Almost. Apps check if a phone is jailbroken, so that needs to be dealt with too.
Yes, but in 5 years, who has the option in living in SF?
> Otherwise everyone may just as well go to a bar for a beer.

Honestly, there's probably a sizeable 'market' for 'fairly broad interest group of strangers goes to a pub'.
Me too.

I thought I’d stay in the USA forever but the call of home is getting stronger.

The way things are right now I think it’d be a final decision as I’d be unlikely to get status again.

Either that or finally go for citizenship before that door slams too.
> if one drinks (I don't), it must be easier.

True in the past, but a non-issue these days, especially with younger colleagues.

> Also, being "white" helps, I think

Maybe in very provincial communities in parts of the country but not in the major cities - at least not since the 90s onwards. If anything I'd say the UK is one of the more open minded countries I've seen.
Never heard of a company punitively adjusting COL downward without being explicitly in contract, like with US Fedgov. Finance had people leave NY all the time for Midwestern and Southern states with the same company keeping their NYC paychecks.
Ask HN: How do you prefer to browse HN on the go?
Is there a specific mobile app that you prefer? Or do you use the browser on your phone?
Lets talk about Decaffeinated coffee (asking for a friend...)
(a) what benefits of coffee are not attributable to the caffeine, and
(b) does the decaffeination process introduce any "side effects" in terms of harmful chemicals etc.

Seriously - I was drinking far too much coffee during lockdown and have switched 2 days ago to decaf. Too early to tell, but it feels like less triggering of hyperness...
> If you try to cherry pick the obvious shiny stuff while skipping the slow/expensive less-obvious things, you are doomed to fail.

This is true with everything in life that you seek to do well: cooking, dancing, etc.

> Really awesome Practice A (skipping up-front requirements development, shorter QA cycles) is made possible by really tedious Practice B (pair programming, TDD).

A big nit: you don't exactly "skip up-front requirements development".

First, the appetizer:

One of the things you actively seek to avoid in an XP team is blocking: having people sitting around, doing nothing, because they are waiting for other teams/roles to hand them something.

Another thing you want to avoid is building things that are not needed, wanted, or required by either you or your customers.

Finally, customers are going to change their minds, and you can come to them with one of two answers, either, "we can't do that, it's not in the plan"; or, "sure, we can change direction".

Now, the meaty goodness:

You absolutely do market research, and probably have designers doing various types of prototype testing with Real Live Users (Or At Least Their Proxies) before you kick off any serious engineering work.

This will yield a pile of low-fidelity prototypes, assumptions to validate, and a tentative roadmap upon which your whole team (Product, Design, and Engineering) can begin execution.

You absolutely should have plans that stretch into the future, but the farther out those plans go, the lower their fidelity should be, because you are almost certain to change those plans as you build, experiment, and learn.
FWIW I've been using conventional (geo-stationary) satellite for the past 7 weeks. SSH is surprisingly not horrible, though it could obviously be snappier. RTT for servers that are physically ~250 km away is ~600ms. (Obviously you really shouldn't be ssh'ing into your servers anyway - that's what configuration management tools are for.)

No one wants to use satellite as their daily driver, but almost by definition some of the best places on the planet are necessarily a long way from a) people, and b) modern infrastructure. Everything is a tradeoff.

Most video games are perfectly playable -- but I suspect you meant most multiplayer video games, and yes, that latency's not going to work for you.
Agreed that Portland isn't a great place for cars. However I think if we grow healthily as a city we can maximize public transportation, expand the MAX and street car, have dedicated bus lanes, and make it so that it isn't a problem.

The suburbs can't escape cars, but I bet we can make Portland proper a utopia for pedestrians.

I already barely use cars. It's wonderful compared to Orlando (where I happened to grow up).
Lots of remote companies pay based off of location, and again don't require tracking. What makes facebook unique?
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Unfortunately, cancer is one of the big predisposing factors for thromboembolic disease, so I'm glad to hear that controlling this issue has helped her along.

Based on our institutional protocol, hospitalized COVID-19 patients receive therapeutic dose Lovenox, Eliquis, or IV heparin.[1] Lovenox is the first line treatment, but is contraindicated in patients with, among others things, severely impaired renal function. If these patients are able to tolerate oral medications, they can be given Eliquis. If not, they’re typically put on IV heparin drips (and are subject to the uncomfortable and burdensome blood draws that come with them).

Typically, all of these patients are discharged on two weeks of Eliquis if there are no major contraindications. The thinking is that the risk of damage to the body by microthrombi doesn’t necessarily end just because the patient is stable enough to go home.

Of course, with all of these medications, preventing clotting has to be balanced with preventing bleeding. We’ve had to stay vigilant for things like GI bleeds and hemorrhagic strokes, as these things become more common when everyone in the hospital is being heavily anticoagulated.

[1] Therapeutic dosing in this case is higher than typical prophylactic dosing. In the case of Lovenox, it would be something like 40 mg twice a day for the therapeutic dose versus 40 mg once a day for the prophylactic dose, which is what would be used in non-COVID-19 patients to prevent thromboembolism.
I mean that's great but you left out a lot of the bad parts. Human feces everywhere, homeless people, broken needles, expensive rent...

I think south bay you get less of the above with better weather.
But that's also sort of the point, isn't it? When you are dealing with a remote worker, the commute time doesn't matter. You don't need to consider paying geographical based salaries, because the location isn't relevant. There is no "paying with commute time."

You just need to pay the amount that enables you to get the workers you need. The "fair" thing to do is to pay people without regard to location and let them decide for themselves whether it is worth it to live in a HCOL area or not.
I'd probably stay in Amsterdam. It's a really nice city, my family lives nearby, my kids go to school here. There's no reason to live anywhere else.
HN itself is written in a lisp.

But I don't understand the unreadability claim: lisp syntax is extremely simple, and therefore (for me, someone is not a developer by profession) extremely readable.

What makes it unreadable for you? The parentheses? (https://i.redd.it/9gwghrz9rcs11.jpg)
There could certainly be virtual, geography-free, government-like, organizations that would be orthogonal to local government. You could be a "citizen" of both maybe? One could imagine health care, professional services, etc in exchange for some taxation? You still need local gov obviously for roads, police, etc.

One might even argue these virtual governments make more sense than, say, employer sponsored healthcare.

Estonia has one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Residency_of_Estonia
Back in uni, I found it deeply unsettling to learn that the weak interaction violates parity symmetry. It feels like a glaring aesthetic flaw in an otherwise very elegant physical “design”, so to speak.
Wikipedia Map: A web app for visualizing the connection of Wikipedia pages
It is not only that, banks have different needs comparing to a software company or a company like air bnb. Agile is less suitable because many times you need very accurate planning and synchronisation of various system which need to work perfectly in a certain time and according to strict regulations. There is no place for gradual incremental changes, it is money and everything must be perfect by the time it works. So the whole state of mind is more geared towards that and even when you do have projects which could work better by implementing certain agile practices, the general culture is different.
I've always really liked the idea of cooperative multitasking: fewer gotchas, possibly safer memory access, and easier to control where/when a thread switches. of course in those days we had to deal with timing issues, couldn't let a cpu hog block another cpu hog :)
Generally speaking, trying to scam the taxman unless you wealthy enough to hire people to find loopholes for you is a really, really bad idea.
As an aside, I always find the blue versus red states a bit of a farce.

When you remove the handful of outliers, you realize the vast majority of states have very close split, like 48/52.

So calling a state red when the split is 55/45 seems inaccurate.
>I realized that everything I want to do and which is important to me is connected with the place I happen to be.

The grass is greener on the other side for me. I always feel someplace else is better than here.
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It's not universal, but I've seen many restaurants do a pretty good job of sealing the bag, in order to combat this problem.
Just route all your work through your home in Seattle!
I've heard a fair amount over the years of Lisp as a great code generating language. I wonder what sort of thinking took place in this intersection between writing in a macro language and imagining what the generated language would do, and then the assembler...
You have no point.

Entire nations are on forced quarantine. That is slowing the spread (and deaths) of COVID-19 significantly. Without the quarantine, hospitals will be filled, leaving many who would otherwise live (with treatment) to die.

There are hundreds of thousands of at-risk individuals where COVID-19 is a deadly threat. No amount of "chilling out" or "exercise" will make that not true. To this, quarantine _is_ the precaution you speak about.

US states that have started to re-open are seeing surges in infection rates. Browse Google News to learn more.

Please do the bare minimum to be educated before throwing about your childish ramblings that can lead to deaths.
On GCC/Clang, pt uses goto and the “labels as values” GNU extension so it can avoid Duff’s device. This simplifies things, and allows yielding inside a switch statement.
For comparation,

2 years ago we build thumbor-like apps in python using vibora and opencv. A single aws m8 large($80/month?) can serve hundred millions images resizing in a month.

At that time we build it with only 2 people, copy pasting code from internet in a few days and vibora’s github readme also state that its in alpha release.
With $2K server, you need to cheat to make those inefficient implementation :)

Side note:
Several weeks later I found out about thumbor and replace our ‘emergency work’ with dockerized thumbor

I also tinkered with thumbot in aws lambda. But the cost raised to $500/month. I think we did something wrong with aws rekognition.
I've lived in Nashville for the past 4 years and am from a smaller city also in the south. The summers can be pretty brutal if you're out strolling around however the winters have been relatively mild while I've been here - little to no snow not many sub zero days I can remember typically it stays in the 20-30s at the worst.

The transportation system is pretty shitty, traffics pretty bad and theirs not any plan in place to improve it beyond making the roads bigger.

The discrimination I'd say is still here honestly. Some areas are more diverse like east nash but on average I dont know if I could say its improved since you lived here, but than again I'm white and have only lived here for a few years.

If ya got any questions about how its changed or what its like living here just lmk i'd be happy to answer
Without disputing your personal experience, the parents anecdote is reflective of how most people experience the addictive qualities of nicotine vs caffeine.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30061507/

"Conclusion: Dependence to traditional cigarettes and snus seem to be relatively similar while NR (nicotine replacement) was rated lower and coffee lowest."
Lean Canvas Model reimagined for digital agencies
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/152.mf1i.spring02/V...
That's awesome since you have a domain that it actually happened to they should give you an answer. Mine is just a good domain that I'm hoping it doesn't happen to.

Since the types and values of premium domains can vary a lot, I think the ability for a registry to arbitrarily declare a domain as premium presents a huge risk of abuse. I've searched a lot for info relating the rules for premium domains and I've never found anything. I'm super interested to hear what ICANN tells you.
Interestingly a number of these things on this list aren't unfettered good things. E.g reducing iron absorption, or increasing fuel efficiency, e.g if you're vegan, or you're trying to lose weight respectively those aren't good things. So I think that resolves the mystery, it's not a missing nutrient, it's just a chemical that can be used to offset consequences of other patterns of consuming exogenous molecules
I use Premii (https://github.com/premii/hn , https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435) on iOS. Here's a list of many such apps https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news
The reference is to ITA Software who wrote their code in lisp. The company was acquired by google.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
If it runs on C++ now, it's been rewritten. Sabre predates C by many, many years and it almost predates Bjarne Stroustrup himself. I suspect a lot of it got moved to IBM assembly when they moved to S/360 mainframes in the early 70's. TPF is a descendant of that project.
Hetzner, Vultr, Ovhcloud
In particular, nothing about heart damage. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/well...

The main issue with caffeine, however, is that it is very bitter and so most caffeinated beverages come with a large amount of sugar to mask the taste.
According to the Supreme Court, this type of "disparate impact" claim would probably not be accepted[1]:

> Additionally, the Court outlined the contours of an important defense to a plaintiff’s prima facie case, namely that “policies are not contrary to the disparate-impact requirement unless they are artificial, arbitrary, and unnecessary barriers.” Businesses must be given “leeway to state and explain the valid interest served by their policies,” and should be able “to make the practical business choices and profit-related decisions that sustain a vibrant and dynamic free-enterprise system.”

> Further, the Court cautioned, as it did in Wards Cove and Ricci, that when a defendant offers a legitimate business justification, a plaintiff cannot sustain a disparate-impact claim if it cannot prove “there is ‘an available alternative … practice that has less disparate impact and serves the [entity’s] legitimate needs.’” The Court’s decision appears to create a more lenient standard for defendants than the standard the federal government has proposed, in line with the Court’s holding in Wards Cove.

[1]https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/paul-hancock-fha/
I currently do remote work. That allowed me to leave California more than 2.5 years ago, move to a small town in Washington and get back into housing.

I was just looking for cheap rent, decent internet, a grocery store and a few eateries, basically. The town is a lot nicer than I expected it to be and I've really enjoyed living here so far.

I can certainly imagine scenarios where I would relocate, but my preference would be to shape this town into more of what I would like it to be.
> Caffeine's negatives are more hidden and second order effects that come from increased cortisol levels, lack of sleep, adrenal fatigue, etc. I've done a bunch of research on this and might write it up in a blog post someday.

Care to post any links to this research/citations for those claims?
The beach.

My hometown has a great one [0], the only way to improve that would be a beach where it's summer all round the year.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playa_de_la_Barrosa
Also from Pivotal: we had the exact same experience in working for the Federal government.
Very good way of expressing what I think.
My parents are actually from Taiwan and taiwanese, but me being born and raised in CA, I would still hesitate to live in Taiwan due to the language barrier.

I'm curious why someone like you, who likely speaks even less mandarin than me would want to live there?
And the baying tech workers!
Your own descriptions suggest the underlying reason for this - e.g. 'pull up' - the controller maps to the orientation of the thing you are controlling vs 'forward is look up' - the controller maps to where you want to look.
Probably stay where I am in Dublin, not that I’d want to work remotely permanently. Very much looking forward to being back in an office at some point.

EDIT: Though, at the moment the sun doesn’t go down til 22:00. I may have a different view if asked during the miserable bloody winter when the sun barely bothers rising at all. I am now wondering if it’d be practical to work remotely from Barcelona or somewhere from November to January...
While not being a prescribed way of doing things (deservedly) goto as well as some other "obsolete" tricks sometimes can actually make sense in low level C code especially on micro-controllers.

Denying potential job to a person on a basis of generic "goto is anathema" mantra is not a good idea until one looks at the code and understands what the "offensive" part is actually doing instead of using some code analyzer/text search blindly.
So, employees can move to rural, inexpensive parts of northeast California?
I'm curious what's your opinion on "dudes" that are doing deepthroat ?

Are they also forced to do it ?!

(or maybe they genuinely enjoy it)
That's honestly more a question for physicists and chemists. Biologists in my experience take a lot for granted because they don't really understand the fundamentals on small scales.
Same. Companies pay for headphones, webcams, chairs, even internet, but not rent.
Yeah but you don't need to break the tax code ... I mean, you could live in those small, more affordable yet decent places north of LA like Ventura or Simi Valley and report you are in SF... Not to mention living in a cabin in the Adirondacks or Brighton, NY for that matter but report you are living in NYC...
Good question. I’d actually say everyone should be paid according to their value to the company. Why should the company get to save 100k just because the employee lives somewhere cheaper.
A tool someone pointed me out on a group dedicated to the Zettelkasten organization method. We had been talking about ways of visualizing connections within the Zettelkasten and someone showed us this tool.
I saw similar scheming in DC Metro for high school sports. Live in high school X's area, but their basketball team is terrible? Rent the cheapest apt possible in high school Y's area and send your kid there to play ball. For a select few kids, it was worth full-rides at Big State U, so I can't hold it against them.
Are you looking for major cities/tech hubs? California is huge, plenty of very nice and affordable areas if you are ok with being away from a major hub.
That's only an issue if the use of a non-jailbroken/rooted phone is a requirement for doing the job. "I like my phone rooted/jailbroken" is a plausible excuse already.
They aren't paying market rate salaries in the market (remote work) from which they are purchasing. Nor are they even paying market rate salaries for local on-site work in the workers actual location, though that would cause the same problem as the actual policy. They are paying salaries based on a common base with cost-of-living based adjustments for the location of the employee’s residence. I bet if you chart BLS data for IT salaries against cost of living you'll find that this (as well as creating the same kind of incentives for deception about location as ignoring that remote work is a different market than local work does) that a system of CoL based adjustments doesn't map very well at all to local market pay.
There were four or five arcade pinball titles based on Star Trek properties. All missing.
Oh wow! I played around with getting a sim900 firmware running against qemu and open source tower implementations for finding exploits.

But this goes way farther than I had even planned! Connecting it to fuzzing infrastructure is super duper neat. I was just using it as a reproducible target to manually get it into weird states.
What are schools like in Lisbon?
Not to denigrate the profession, but the ‘theory of barbering’, would be the most infuriatingly mediocre 5 working weeks.

While plenty of barbers are smart people, you don’t need to smart to be a barber.

I’m fairly sure the
reason there’s 50 hours of anatomy alone is so the lowest common denominator can pass.