skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employees who attempt to wiggle around those compensation adjustments will be subject to “severe ramifications,” [Zuckerberg] said, as the company needs to account for employee locations to avoid violating tax laws. 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 [...]

(See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... about SNI.)
Bits of history, words of advice (Newspeak)
Don't think I've ever wanted to install an extension so fast. There are so, so many domains that I am content to literally never see in search results...
As a non-Indian I would say most places in India are way up there in the beauty stakes, be it the desert states, the southern tropics, the inland forests, the river deltas or the mountains .. but I think for lifestyle you really can't go past Kerala or Himachal Pradesh. They have it all.
I have no major beef with the rackables, despite having just had ALL 8 2.5"SAS drives RMA. They do understand 'no screw' replace issues in cramped locations. (iDrac is crap. just sayin)

But I got burned on the laptops, and the company got burned on the laptops, and repeatedly the worldwide warranty experience was poor, compared to what was IBM and is now Lenovo. We moved to ThinkPad and apart from a cooked batch of R- series with faulty ethernet, never regretted it.

I am glad Dell is maybe back on form in Laptop land. I probably won't be trying yet.
It's also "Server Name Indication", the piece of TLS that allows a single IP to serve multiple hosts by having the client signal the name they're requesting, and also "Secure Networks, Incorporated", my first dev job. You could just call it "snee!" (I advise the exclamation point as well), whimsically, and let people just deal with the weird etymology.

It's a big site! You stand a decent chance at introducing a new word to the lexicon!
Thanks - I really appreciate it!

I got a lot of inspiration for the model style (and a helpful making-of timelapse) from @librorumque on Twitter: https://twitter.com/librorumque/status/1205080756508352512
It's the transpose operation [1]. See property 3.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpose
My dad had a friend who did this in retirement and sailed the entire Caribbean, Mediterranean, and then was doing the Great Lakes last I heard. I'm right there with you on this though. I would love to sail the Pacific and see all the small islands between the US and Japan.
Dell and the special/magic firmware.

MegaRaidCtl and 1001 --options none of them very clear.

"sorry, that drive is FOREIGN"

"sorry, I can't do that unless you drop to BIOS and do seventeen things in a crude GUI nobody understands"
> The reason people believe these news about conspiracy theorists is because many of them have their relatives/friends/acquaintances who on a regular basis tend to...

A similar heuristic is someone who gets robbed at gunpoint by a black person, and then claims that all black people are violent. It's interesting how society seemed to be able to not only get over that popular form of stereotype (which is indeed not identical, but is also similar), but now largely abhors it, yet the very idea that not all "conspiracy theories/theorists" are identically flawed is considered (with no supporting evidence whatsoever) impossible.

> You can’t be theoretical in conspiracies. You can either prove it (or at least know facts others don’t) or you are crazy.

Is this a theory/opinion, or a fact? If it's a fact, can you provide some supporting evidence &/or reasoning?

I mean, I can certainly agree that this very much seems to be all that most people are currently capable of, but to say that humans are not capable of it at all, but they are capable of conceptualizing theories in virtually all other fields, seems rather odd.

Can you think of any reasons why people's conceptualization of conspiracy theories/theorists is so unlike virtually every other idea? Why is it that otherwise logical people are unable to exercise logic when the topic arises, but instead revert to almost purely heuristic reasoning, often accompanied by an inability to realize that is what they're doing? Surely there must be some underlying cause behind this mysterious anomaly, no?
I do work remote, and live in Southeast Asia. I earn USD and my family of three lives comfortably on less than $1000/mo.

Geoarbitrage is the easiest way to increase your wealth.
At least you won't get your Google account banned over bogus copyright claims.
How do you handle promotions and negotiating raises? I'd be concerned about the long term effect if I went remote. The bay area is expensive, but a 50% or 100% increase in compensation seems possible. That only seems possible in areas like the bay, Seattle, or NYC.
I'm not that old, but I've been closely following these trends since the late 1990s, and it seems to me like we are descending into madness now. We are wiping out years of single-core performance gains--which have been hard to come by over the last decade to begin with--through all of these mitigations. It seems to me like maybe the mental model is broken. If untrusted code is running on the same core/package/what have you, your security has already been breached.
That's my question ultimately. What the reporting sounds like is if you work from outside SV, even if fully remote, you are subject to an unagreed-upon wage reduction. Simply because a pandemic has forced employers to bend doesn't mean employees are forced to do so.

That said, I recognize the difference between ideal and practical reality of the situation. Employees at tech firms typically have little individual negotiation power, but an employment agreement typically can't be amended at the whim of one party. I'm not saying you see it that way, just an outside observer here.
ExoticVM is a good way to shop for unqiue hosting locations.
uBlacklist can also filter results on Duck Duck Go and Startpage (it's in settings if you go to chrome://extensions/ find uBlacklist, click on it, scroll to the bottom and click "Extension options"), but I've never tried it.
Softmodems, various virtualization technologies, emulators.
We’re building a platform for crowdsourcing the research process, from ideation to peer review at https://asone.ai.

It’s kind of like arXiv with voting and comments, but also supports collaboration for research in progress.

> You could literally do this process in a web interface that looked like Hacker News, but they already pretty much do.

I would love to hear your thoughts about how the current systems might be improved and if we’re on the right track.
> same for eating bacon & eggs in the morning

Eggs are pretty nutritious and don't have a lot of calories. I eat mine with a small amount of bacon and feel full 'til lunch. It is odd to me that you put it in the same breath as sugary cereals.
Or, to do it yourself, https://github.com/wking/rss2email
From Robin Hanson's "The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth"(2016):

> Today, people who are seen as “workaholics” tend to make more money, to be male, and to focus their socializing on scheduled times such as holidays. They also tend rise early to work alone and they often use stimulants (Kemeny 2002[0]; Currey 2013[1]).

[0]: Kemeny, Anna. 2002. “Driven to Excel: A Portrait of Canada’s Workaholics.” Canadian Social Trends 64, March 11.

[1]: Currey, Mason. 2013. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. Knopf, April 23.
I spent easily 10 000 hours using Mercurial over nearly 10 years. I was, and still am, a huge Hg fan. I switched to Git quite late (some time in 2018) and converted all projects, both home+work, cold turkey.

I recently revisited an old Hg project. It was really nostalgic. Hg is easier to use and TortoiseHg is the best GUI for SCM bar none.

But Git is simpler. The simplicity is a mind-opener. Git deserved to win. When you want to do something in Hg that's not built-in - even something like rebase - all the 30+ included extensions are all marked as "EXPERIMENTAL" and you can only safely interact with the data model by writing a custom Python 2 script.

With Git you can go into the .git directory and delete a refs file. Filter-branch is a first-class feature. A few basic concepts underpin more functionality. There are genuine multiple implementations. This is radical transparency.

Originally I thought I would have missed having draft phases, embedded branch names, and ordinal commit numbers. But in practice I don't miss these at all. And in retrospect these all actively work against code-sharing in general, and the pull-request model specifically with its working revisions. Git is inherently more social-capable and will always have a stronger network effect. Hg does not have separate author + committer.

With Git you can stage individual lines, not just hunks. This alone should be reason to use Git over Hg (oh, you can enable the optional crecord extension and do everything from the CLI? that's not Hg's famed ease-of-use).

I once started to develop a Gogs/Gitea clone for Hg. For compatibility it had to communicate by IPC with a standalone Python process, then I hit a roadblock because the wireproto was undocumented for bundles. Hg developers were also not enthusiastic about my proposal to switch from full+diff storage to chunk storage.

I do miss some things. A central .hgtags file would definitely resolve some tag conflicts and issues with coworkers re-pushing deleted tags.
This was a lot of years ago. Probably 19.5 years ago.

I left California more than 2.5 years ago. I don't plan to return to it.
All day long true - good point
You have a point, to some extent.

The way Popcorn Time is advertised makes it pretty clear:

>No restrictions. Watch any movie or TV show as many times as you want.
>Awesome catalogue. If the movie or TV show is out there, Popcorn Time will find the best version possible and start streaming it right away.

It's pretty clearly about piracy. That being said, it can obviously also be used to watch non-pirated movies, and the way things are going with Youtube at the moment (censoring various videos on non-copyright grounds) could actually make PT a great alternative.
It would be interesting if they also figured in the cost of providing office space, food, etc when recomputing remote workers’ pay.

The rule of thumb I’ve heard is that workers cost about 2x their salaries, with the additional money going to HR, taxes, IT, morale budgets and facilities. Facilities is the biggest of those costs.

(This completely ignores stock based compensation.)
I don't find London to be dirtier than SF. Also I get the sense that it's a much bigger city in general, and of course your Stratfords will differ significantly from your Westminsters, although this can be said about basically every city.

Also I think London is slightly cheaper. Still, working remotely from London proper is probably a terrible idea given the extent of public transportation. Just live in Croydon and catch overground to London when necessary IMO.
Plus possibly criminal fraud.
NAND blocks aren't precious now. Just buy large reliable SSD (may have around 500TBW) and just forget it.
It's the other way around, <username>+feedsub@gmail.com
> SWEs are notorious for accepting low pay

I am simultaneously one of the highest paid people in my peer group, and according to the ranks on HN "low paid".

There is an extreme disconnect between what people in tech seem to think of as normal wages and what the country as a whole (even college educated sectors) considers normal wages.
I do this too when I need to reduce my caffeine intake. It allows me decouple the habit of drinking coffee from the addiction to coffee.
What's the advantage over ifttt etc.?

Unfortunately, many sites don't provide an rss feed anymore. I have never understood what makes it better to support twitter, fb etc. instead of rss. Somebody will know the answer.
Linux 5.7-Rc7
Oxford's definition of esoteric: "intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest."

Today, C++ is a dominant programming language. Lisp is only used in niche applications. Therefore, it is likely only to be understood by a small number of people with specialized knowledge -- hence, it is esoteric.
Maybe so. All depends on the agreements at this point.
I grew up in Chicago and love it. A lot of people hate the winters but I welcome it--Ice hockey, cross country skiing, sledding.
Is there are other good resources like this? I am definitely going to read this.
I don't think WebMD is a bad source. Their drug interaction checker is great.
I mean, how silly would you have to be to buy a 32 core/64 thread processor if single threaded performance was a consideration at all. There is obviously going to be some sort of tradeoff in single core performance to obtain that density of cores.
My Favorite Startpage
Very good recommendations and I like the cleaned up articles and being able to see related articles. But I would add some way to see the comment count on the cards and maybe likes.
Ah, yeah, that seems like a good guess.
I've noticed the same thing sometimes. I particularly notice when there's a thing where there's an obvious flawed approach to the problem, but the flaws probably don't matter.

Interestingly, I can replicate that mind-state even without alcoho. The same is true of a couple other states of mind that I originally arrived at though the use of mind altering substances (sadly it does not work for caffeine though).
Monopolies are bad in generally free markets. Intellectual property and copyright are antithetical to markets. Copyright exists to grant (in the modern era thanks to Disney, permanent) monopolies to applicable works, thus divorcing them from the market. So you can't really frame a discussion on the behavior of rightsholders relative to markets when their "market" is manufactured by government and meant to keep their works monopoloized.

The real consideration in regards to copyright and market forces is how market forces right against copyright - the existence of tcp, bittorrent, popcorn time, the hundreds of websites streaming copyrighted material against the rightsholders will - they are all the actual market offering information without the monopolization aspect. Its the distortion in the intention because you aren't supposed to have options in procuring copyrighted works - the distribution channels were originally complicated and expensive enough that centralization was required to create copies and thus anyone violating copyright was targetable. The system becomes dysfunctional when millions of people are giving away copies for free, on demand, instantly, anywhere in the world via the Internet - or in the olden days, via CD or VHS rips. It was the advent of digitization of information that brought about the paradigm shift threatening the institution, not any one specific implementation of the concept.

But yea, monopoly is generally regarded as a bad thing in economics. Why is a huge segment of the economy then built around manufacturing artificial monopolies, primarily to the benefit of those with the means to enforce the terms of said monopolies - rarely an individual creator, often a fortune 500 company.
Japan,
But the work culture there and lower pay can't help me justify it. Right now its better for me to just take 2-3 month long vacations at a time there instead. Would have to start my own company there or get hired by a western firm and get sent there.
Smoking is also a natural Pomodoro technique, you take the necessary breaks for smoking so that keeps you going more.
thinking of making the move to SF soon - which neighborhood are you in?
Yeah, I support these people regularly. If you can replace "for" with "parfor" and it just goes faster, well, God bless you.

In my experience, 90% of these novices haven't the faintest clue of what's going on.

"It worked before, but now I'm running out of memory."

"Why are you telling me that I'm crushing disk I/O?"

"I went from 1 core to 40, and now it runs slower!"

"I requested 32 nodes--why doesn't it run 32x faster?"

"I requested one core, but MATLAB saw the awesome stuff in /proc/cpuinfo and ran 40 cores. Why is it even slower than ever?"

Bless the clueless, for they shall inherit the earth. (But please, don't let them write coronavirus models in public...)
Google for sure favors sites with its analytics code.
This is why we need a p2p git storage. I wonder if IPFS can handle this.
The complaint is that the content is getting split among these platforms.

Nobody would complain if a Netflix competitor emerged with a library at least as large.
LSD works more like a toxin than a nutrient. I don't mean that LSD is deadly, it is actually a pretty safe drug in that regard, but the way it works is similar to how toxins work.

The way it works is that to some neurons, it looks a lot like serotonin, a neurotransmitter produced by our own body. In technical terms, it is a 5-HT2A agonist. But unlike serotonin, it doesn't want to get out, causing the affected neuron to fire constantly.

Not so different from carbon monoxide, which takes the place of oxygen in red blood cells and doesn't want to let go.

Even if the effects are completely different, they are both caused a molecule that mimic what our body normally uses, but not only it doesn't behave normally, but it is also much more durable. Causing a large effect with a small dose.

And in fact, LSD is derived from ergot fungi, which are toxic and have causes many deaths in the past.
One way my group has done this is to tackle an author or a series together - that way we have some common ground in our reading.

However, if you’re doing it long-term, I much prefer just talking about what you’re reading right now. Over time, you will start to read each other’s recommendations and the discussion will catch up.

I’m sure there are a lot of ways to do this. (OH and it’s awesome that you fessed up about skimming the article - I am there with you the rest of the time. :D)
I highly recommend thread analyzer tool https://fastthread.io/
indeed thats probably also one of the most important reasons why they went on funding their own shows, and I don't think that there is another company that tries to bootstrap regional quality shows like netflix. As setting up your own streaming platform becomes easier most of the advantage netflix would provide is maybe just easier service offering outside of the main region of the network and less legal burden
I don’t agree with what the MPAA did, but they didn’t claim the code was infringing on their rights. They claimed the code facilitated infringement, which is also not allowed under the DMCA.
I am from a computer science background. I understand basic biology and genetics. I have been trying to understand what are reasons why code and that cells are biological computers is a poor assumption. Anecdotal evidence like the SARS-COV2 you mentioned or things I hear from biologist friends mostly along "it is not so simple". Are there good studies that shed light on what are the missing pieces and how can we simulate/model biological processes better?
Laughable, the EU needs the UK more.

Is the EU going to fund the SNP's welfare if they secede?
Could you go meatless once a week?
> in Bangalore that are getting paid peanuts because they can be exploited

The thing about Cost of Living is that poor schmuck in Banagalore may well be living like a king off those wages compared to his other options.

I made a pittance in west coast tech terms, but here in Iowa that means I own my house outright, I have a wife that doesn't need to work, and I have three kids.

From what I read on here that is a pipe dream for many of the same west coast tech people.

I'll take Iowa.
Just curious, which countries in SE Asia would you recommend?
> Live wherever you want and demand whatever salary you think you're producing at. If FB wants to leave high productivity labor on the table, let them.

You need leverage to make demands and the best way to have leverage is to have competing offers with similar or higher numbers. If more higher paying companies are open to remote work, then you can play that game, but if your only competing offers are from local companies who pay crappy non-tech-hub salaries then Facebook is just going to call your bluff when you ask for more money. It's still an open question how the future is going to pan out.
There are some comics I'd like to follow but I'm not interested in creating an Instagram account. If you can add an Instagram feed, I'd be serious in signing up to your service. For most other content, I'm happy enough to run rss2email myself.
do i now.. you have more comments in this thread about the discussion than the topic. that is offtopic spam. here's an idea. if you have nothing to say on topic, and want to discuss discussion, start a thread about discussions. crazy that people on a thread about intel want to read intel comments.
Thanks for checking it out. Those features are on the backlog, I hope to have them out soon.
> We are coming to a point where software is developing so fast and the abstractions getting better that soon we will have more software written by a smaller number of people

Maybe i m in the wrong planet, because all the software i see in the past ~10 years is an overcomplicated unmaintainable slow mess that needs more and more people to keep it from imploding.
No, not all web devs are “newbies”.
Jaydon Hayden arrested after viral Nursing Home assault video. Reverse racism?
This is a political piece. Casually mentioning words defined by feminism (microaggressions, stereotyping, ect) means you are going to have to deal with the politics the author brought in.

The article reads like a laundry list of things the author wants to receive, rather than dealing with what people are capable of giving. It is fundamentally risk averse and takes the worst part of egalitarianism to bring the team down to a slow pace the author can tolerate and receive what he or she intends to receive.

Egalitarian attitudes like the attempt buried in the "exp sharing" idea can be used as a great force for driving higher achievement. If my mate can do it, I can do it. I can try and equal a higher standard the team has achieved. The author does not do this and instead demands that high functioning individuals waste their time doing management's job of allocating work and spreading the challenge of work to people who won't have the opportunity to deploy the knowledge they gain from redistributed work.

Overall this kind of language policing and redistributive workplace mechanisms is how bureaucracy that grinds to a halt, is formed. I would leave this company, I have spent years at school, I don't mean to go back to another micro-managed institution and run at the slowest workers pace.

Downvotes without reply on a political post. Welcome to the gulag.
The names Adolf, Hitler and his moustache aren't making comeback any time soon either, that's just reality.
Could You Quit Amazon?
Show HN: Automate export SQL query to CSV, excel, JSON - python package sql2json
sql2json is a tool(python package) to automate export sql query to csv o excel.

I posted sql2json previously here, now it come with csv and excel support.

sql2json is Github: https://github.com/fsistemas/sql2json
sql2json in pypi: https://pypi.org/project/sql2json/

My use cases:
Run cron jobs to extract sales information and post to a geckoboard dataset(json format).
Run cron jobs to extract information in a csv then upload it to Google BigQuery.
Run cron jobs to extract information in a csv or excel format.

Comments are welcome.
>wikihow

I love wikihow, but probably not for the reasons they want to be loved.
A tool that does that on Reddit would be useful too. I don’t need commondreams and theroot opinion articles...