skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we're comparing human labour to rice. Let's be honest. If you're essential you'll negotiate your rates to be what you want.

It's obvious we're not comparing humans to rice here since we're not buying and selling humans. It's so obvious that I can only conclude you're acting in bad faith intentionally.
> What will you do with your new free time?

I'd focus on accumulating non-monetary assets. Board seats, political connections, et cetera.
And you learn to stop working with teams that are across big timezone gaps, for your own sanity.
I mean honestly I think the person advocating for the ski-race should probably get more time since that's the stance I am, and the audience presumably, are least familiar with.

There are some good faith and sound mind tests that should be applied here but if someone wants to genuinely make a case for choosing a political leader via athletic competition (which has no basis in history at all, nope) then why not hear them out? What are you afraid of?
Current proposals have not been written by long-time proponents of UBI afaik, it's been repurposed and repackaged, rather badly, by political opportunists who now see the need resonate well with electorate during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis?
Microsoft Research has had a lot of features and products come out of it. They also publish an incredible amount of basic research.
Do you have any companies or spaces you would recommend where theres hard problems but low signalling/barriers to entry? I'm autistic AF (no joke) and learn new domains in a frenzy of 3 months of joy and digging but its not easy to prove/signal that.
The best way to think about lambda at scale is as "glue layer" that is a way to call your backend (e.g. on GCP/AWS). But as you're getting started, you can just do all the functionality on serverless, w/o dealing with deploys, etc.
This hit me the hardest when for a brief, beautiful moment I was in Switzerland making roughly 4x my normal salary.

Those companies are only paying this much because the cost of living there is so high.

It's so obvious that I now feel silly for not realizing this fully before experiencing it myself.

Then again if companies can still turn a profit offering these salaries, then perhaps the work is actually that valuable?

On the other hand there might be an upside to being paid half: you're unlikely to deliver less value than your cost.

Any corona-related layoffs start with the most expensive (comparing to value brought) employees.
>The number of confirmed cases has dropped to four so far in May
One might also ask why in 2020 your taking an exam and then photographing it.

Some of those with problems actually had real computers as well.
Been using RabbitMQ for a lot of projects in production. It can handle quite a lot data and this thing never fails. Sometimes it can be running for an entire year and we force restart just because.
Especially if the more deadly variants are stuck in bodies of people being isolated. With quarantine measures in place, the less aggressive variants (if different variants with varying degrees of aggressiveness exist) will spread more.
Outside of a few counties in the US the process is very straight forward.
Ask HN: Which Schools Offer PhD in (AGI) Artificial General Intelligence?
Thank you for this - reading through the comments, I've been actually quite surprised that the general opinion seems to side with the students. The article suggests that the allowed image formats were clearly defined. Normally, if I were to take this test, I would definitely make sure that I am meeting the technical prerequisites.

Of course, you can argue that not everyone is familiar with the technicalities of image formats. But then again, let's not forget that today's students are "digital natives", so I assume they both now about JPEG and PNG and also about their phones.

However, if I now hear that this point was explicitly addressed in relevant FAQ's, all of the above really becomes irrelevant in my opinion, because it really doesn't leave much in terms of excuses.

At college, every test came with certain rules. For this exam, you're allowed to use any auxiliaries except computers. And stuff like that. You must write in permanent ink. etc. Images must be in one of the following format: ... IMO is just along the same lines.

There is an old principle in jurisdiction: ignorantia juris non excusat - basically stating that it's your responsibility to know the rules.
> I'll simply stop working

For a few months maybe. Soon, you will realise that to keep your previous lifestyle (or to simply fill your time with something other than browsing text-heavy sites) you need to work. So you will go back to work. And so will everyone else.
Thanks for the link. ABEM makes a lot of sense the way it's presented.

Out of interest, that article goes out of its way to argue that the whole BEM format is changed to CamelCase, so that the atomic modifier can use "-".

Why wouldn't you just use the existing BEM component separator "__", and then nothing else need change.

The CamelCase version is prettier granted, but rather than an extra bit of information, it's a completely new format.
doesn't chemotherapy does something similar to this:

"The ability of chemotherapy to kill cancer cells depends on its ability to halt cell division. Usually, cancer drugs work by damaging the RNA or DNA that tells the cell how to copy itself in division. If the cancer cells are unable to divide, they die."

So wouldn't a low dose chemotherapy work on this drug?
Debugging Error: NotPresent with Rust in Docker
Ha! Fair point. I didn’t mention that I’ve also had fingers pierced to the bone by birds.
They are news entertainment not just to him, pretty much all the mainstream sources are news entertainment. They're not objective. This argument seems like calling breakfast cereal breakfast whereas it's marketed as part of a complete breakfast. The differences are subtle, like the WHO is a political organization that covers medical topics. A decent write up of the broadcast transition: https://www.medialit.org/reading-room/whatever-happened-news
If you're able to dictate your income, then why even worry? Go ahead and live somewhere else and dictate your income. It's a voluntary exchange and if someone takes the other end of the deal then good for you!
YouTube/Google/Alphabet have repeatedly said they are removing things about COVID19 from non-government sources. They cannot simply be written off as a private agents who can do what they want with their platform, considering their dominance and monopoly on content.

This is textbook definition of Orwell's Ministry of Truth. Google is either becoming the Ministry of Truth, or by its policy, allowing governments to be the Ministers of Truth, with no room of any dissent.

This should be greatly troubling.
I am currently watching the video on YouTube. How is it banned?
Social Security's admin costs are ~.7% of the program's budget, eliminating admin overhead, means-testing, and fraud fighting won't get you many gains:

https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-...
It's funny because there was a policy that would been both restrictive on China, and made sense economically: the TPP. Unfortunately, populism took hold in the US, and globalism (and with it, the TPP) became the scapegoat.
Same with COVID.

It is quite deadly. But more information is needed to asses risk, e.g. >90% of deaths are to those with preexisting conditions.
Smoke pot and play video games while the fed prints me a paycheck. The American dream
Remote Facebook
Or at the very least consider taxing those collecting it. Data for services is bartering.
Yep, I have. I'm not saying freeways would be all roses, but I generally believe that connecting people can only be an overall good thing. It's absolutely true that viaduct structures, for example, are visible separations between low-lying neighborhoods, but they weren't intended to stay low-lying neighborhoods. The original planning documents for e.g. the Embarcadero Freeway talk about the proposed developments that would complement it.

I also think the common framing as freeways "cutting a path through neighborhoods" is exactly the wrong way to look at it. San Francisco's, for example, were based on this 1935 traffic study. The whole point was to get already-existing traffic up off the streets and keep neighborhoods livable: https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5409261018/in/album-...

There's (unfortunately) a real-world example I can point to showing this still holds up in the 21st Century. The northernmost part of the Central Freeway carried more than 50% crosstown (non-neighborhood) traffic in San Francisco but was torn down in the very early 2000s and replaced with the horrible Octavia Blvd that keeps killing cyclists and has made neighborhood traffic worse in every way, even necessitating crosswalk closures. Here's the full study on before and after the "Freeway Removal" (now there's a dogwhistle for ya!) https://www.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/2019-03/Final%20Re...

"In the absence of meaningful improvements to travel improvements, the reduction in automobile capacity has not been accompanied by noticeable mode shift. Instead, the neighborhood has been challenged to effectively deal with high peak‐period traffic levels and resulting congestion"
So much this.

Spend a month with a tech stack of any passing complexity, even ones at $FAANGco...

We're nowhere close to solving all the hard problems.
The only thing that changed is they got more effective PR. Or maybe there are just more gullible idiots on the net now, who are more susceptible to corporate propaganda that the average netizen was years ago.
> the conclusion sounded like we may have found a more reliable (read understood) way to tackle this virus.

No, but it gives doctors another thing to try with the possibility that it might work.

Interferon treatment isn't pleasant, so you won't do it without justification. This gives some justification to actually try it in humans if things are really bad.
Ask HN: How will more corporate acceptance of remote work play out?
Given that Facebook, Google, Twitter, Shopify, Coinbase, and many more companies are announcing long term plans to allow for vastly more remote positions, what do you think the effects will be to:

* The economy overall?

* High priced localities (SV, SF, NYC, Seattle, etc)?

* Rural economies?

* Engineer pay?

* Workers on visas, H1Bs?
The cynic in me is thinking that everyone has an extra $xxxx/month laying around.

How do I get people to give me their money? Maybe now that free app idea, can sell for $1 or $2. Maybe know I can charge $3/hour tutoring.
Companies are realising the amount they save with infrastructure Costs. Even indian service companies TCS is going 75 percent workers fully remote.
Just thank J Powell and Trump.
Are you currently only working just to subsist? Because most people on HN work much harder than they need to and make much more than they need to just to subsist.
Hi, you should be able to log in with your GitHub account on this page: https://git.koesters.xyz/user/login
Man I love this piece of software.. We used it as a bare-bones msg queue FIFO and some FAN-OUT patterns. Basically only scratch the service of what is possible. But this beast ran our ETL distributed update system at PriceCheck (S.A largest price comparison service). Haven't worked there now for a few years but back then the RabbitMQ was rock-solid for us !
I don't think the argument is that society "needs" it, it's that it's a better system than the one we have now.

I don't know much about the current proposals. In my head, it's an adjustment of the current economic system. Pay everyone money, provide jobs for anyone who wants more money, collect more taxes, remove redundant social services, etc. It seems like it could work better than what we have now so it sounds worthy of serious consideration.
> Why do you think that is? I suspect it was because he had control over something and found that too appealing to let go of. That’s not really a soldier’s dilemma of duty and responsibility.

Speaking solely on behalf of myself: we see a notable volume of fantasy and fetish posts as well as legitimate pleas for help that veer into extremely disturbing territory. The result is a situation where mods may well find themselves feeling substantially troubled with extended exposure.

I'm not about to impose that on someone else, and as a result of inevitable scope creep from the sub gaining readers, we've now got to sustain an environment that people use as either a first- or last-resort option while at the same time turning away significant populations of people (a subset of followers from influencers such as https://twitter.com/redditships/) who appear to relish creating drama from people calling for help. Great example: https://twitter.com/eganist/status/1263534755045412870

When staying imposes a burden on myself but leaving heightens the risk that people may be harmed, it's a lose-lose, and the trauma arises from this.

I'd show you some of the stuff we've had to mod out, but it's too dark for Hackernews.
Please note that there’s a box down on the left of that page, which is called “Stanford scholar explores pros, cons of ‘basic income’”, with the info and may be useful. This is the box link: https://news.stanford.edu/2018/08/08/stanford-scholar-explor...
One is MauiKit stylized MAUi and another is .NET MAUI. The acronyms for both are generic enough that this complaint feels like a reach
It's funny because the Lighting connector has been around since 2012, when Android phones were largely using Micro USB, with an awkward flirtation with the wide USB3 connector. Now they're standardizing on USB-C, so if you were upgrading frequently you may have needed 3 cables in the past 8 years.

Before then iPhones used the 30-pin connector, backwards compatible with 5-year-old iPod accessories. At that time other manufactures seemed to be shipping different barrel-plug chargers and proprietary cables for every model.

So that's 2 connectors introduced over a span of 18 years supported by dozens of product models that sold billions of units. Cables have been available from third parties for most of that time. The only dongles that might apply are 30-pin to Lightning or USB-A to USB-C.

The 30-pin's raison d'être was to provide features you couldn't get out of USB, like analog audio and video out. And Lightning was a much better designed connector than Micro USB due to being reversible, which informed the design of the Type C connector.

I'd agree that the Mac now has a dongle problem, but it's precisely _because_ it switched to USB-C, as you suggested.
A former colleague of mine suspects that Amazon is going to eventually run out of developers to hire because of how rapidly they burn through them.

Yet to know anyone who lasted more than a year or two there. Obviously some do, but they go through an enormous number of people.
Whoa, you just blew my mind. We need this in our lives :)
Seriously, it's not. It's an attribute setting on the file input field. The iPhone will do the conversion itself, it just needs to actually be told what to convert to, rather than having to guess.
I'd posit that Apple ought to assume the worst (ie nothing but JPEG and PNG is supported) if no format is specified. That's how we've built most of the web, to ensure backwards compatibility and avoid these kinds of problems.

That said, come on College Board. Fix your crap. What a stupid bug.
Yes, there are many possible options here for random mod status, limited terms, etc. I review a couple here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23263181
Man, it will take about 6hrs of driving total with all the traffic from concord to menlo park, could we just do a zoom meeting instead?
RabbitMQ has been awesome in my experience. One of the few tools that just works and has a super useful management web interface and Prometheus support among other plugins.

For those noting HA and scalability, it not meant for those use cases where (virtually infinite) horizontal scalability are the biggest concern. If you need horizontal scalability at a massive scale, use Kafka. But for the majority of cases, you can get away with limited scalability and the prod setup, development experience, and reliability of RabbitMQ are unmatched from my experience.
Facebook is going to handle everything (search, display, cart, checkout, payments) and will charge 5%.

Shopify is doing nothing on a transaction level & yet they have a stock that requires growth, so they are charging 2% per transaction.

I kid you not.
Thanks for the response, I misunderstood the flagging process.
How would that work in a city where an acre costs millions?
Show HN: Virtual Community for Engineers Affected by Covid Layoffs
Honestly, this is EXACTLY the problem with the current tech scene in SF.

SF used to be a place people moved to because they wanted to live in San Francisco, they wanted the culture, the access to nature and its beauty, the arts scene that was traditionally more cutting edge (citylights, burning man), the cutting edge food and wine scene, the walkability.

Nobody moves to San Francisco for that anymore. They move to San Francisco for work not life. They move to San Francisco to extract value from a job and then leave.

San Francisco is too amazing a city to be relegated to becoming a company town. If there is a positive outcome from this, it will hopefully result in a recalibration and people who want to be in SF because they WANT TO BE IN SAN FRANCISCO will stay and the people who came here to just smash and grab some cash will leave.
I disagree with your reasoning for the entire first half of your post regarding BillG, but I can absolutely agree with you on the last part.

The power to decide who is or isn't an expert, as well as the ability to restrict speech based on those decisions, is a pretty dangerous and scary path that I am vehemently opposed to taking.
I think flamewar is for when people will have polarized views on a particular topic and the poster posts only to bring the people to fight each other.

My post is what I think a necessary reminder in a topic that I honestly don't think is very polarizing. It just needs to be repeated, over, and over again. The same way it gets taught to kids at school so they teach it to their kids, and so on.

Because it is important.

Think about this: if something is taught to kids at school, how can you justify objecting to it on HN (I mean unless it is a topic that is obviously incorrectly taught, which I suppose this is not one of them)?
"Affordable" can mean a lot of things. Usually the official definition is housing that costs less than 30% of the income of someone at some multiple of the local poverty income level. Housing can meet that bar in a number of ways: rising incomes, smaller/less equipped units, no parking, public subsidy for rent, public subsidy for land or development fees, etc. Due to the terrible experience with public housing across the USA in the 1950s-1980s, most governments avoid owning the units if they can avoid it.
The Onion is on point as ever, but dolphins are a lot more social than cats.
A cheap used car provides a lot more utility than an equivalently priced used motorcycle so that's what most people tend to buy if they can only have one vehicle.
I think the world would be better off if no one ever referred to anything they watched on TV as “news” any more and kept it that news is something you read that can be cited and referenced.
This is what I don't understand. When Tbray left, he said he was doing so in solidarity with the distribution center types, but he held to the line that AWS was great. This despite nightmare stories like this one regularly bubbling up, and I've heard similar from friends.

What is it about tech culture that people within it refuse to admit the level of abuse-by-design that happens at these companies? Is it that they want to believe that they are somehow fundamentally different from the distribution and grocery store workers, and fundamentally similar to Bezos? I can't help but feel it's just this kind of false consciousness that prevents developers from _getting organized_.

Sidenote, payroll tax on Amazon in Seattle trying to get revived. It's a long and winding story. Check out taxamazon.net
Yup been my production experience as well ! Super solid system !
It’s the expensive Harley’s that are the most expensive AND loud, not the little scooters.
I know this is mean of me, but the student who was taking her Computer Science exam and who apparently thought that changing the file’s extension would change format? Yeah... she deserved to fail.
Taking the test again is a horrible solution. How is that ok?
The only issue I'm aware of with Go is garbage collection, however that is by design.
Digital literacy from an organization in charge of a standardized test for 6,000 colleges including Princeton, Harvard and MIT isn't too much to ask for in 2020.
The loaner thing is so true - having two bosses is THE PITS! That and not sleeping.

My first job out of college I had two bosses. HORRIBLE.

This came up recently, a manager, trying to be helpful, not sure they could manage someone said why don't we both manage them. NO!

The other things - trading sleep and shutting off friends - the first will destroy your quality of life and the second you will regret for a LONG time no matter how critical the day to day was.

I'm not perfect. Setting boundries. I focus on situations in my case - what situation lead to bad results. Also - you can sometimes trade time for reduced money - which in some of these situations is a NO BRAINER. I'm trying to do that. Society really IS NOT setup to support that.

I go home even if I'm behind. I sleep next to my wife and play with my kid. Covid has made catching back up with friends harder.

I think what folks from the outside don't realize is that folks making big money+ - you put a lot of pressure ON YOURSELF. You are given lots of money, often lots of responsibility, your work impacts lots of people (internally and externally). This is even if Jeff Bezos is not your boss.
Facebook announces permanent remote work for 50% of employees
I think it’s much more likely that, rather than empowering employees to live rich and fulfilling lives outside of work, a massive shift to remote will drive down wages everywhere to the level of the cheapest locations where talent can be found - so instead of living on an SF salary in Coer d’Alene you’ll be living on a Lagos or Jakarta salary - while obliterating the distinction between “work life” and “home life” and massively sharpening the knife of competition hanging over every engineer’s head

This may be different in firms where the workers actually have a say in the management of the company, but god knows there aren’t too many of those
> You need employers as much as they need employees.

I'm not sure I'd agree. When a company loses an employee it's an inconvenience but when an employee loses their job it's often devastating.
Money or not it's just highly consumerist and disgusting
I am definitely NOT pro-censorship, so I don't know why you're saying this to me. Please read a few comments up. The entire reason censorship is a topic on this subthread is that I brought it up as a problem.
> Whatever code you end up with is either going to be incompatible with normal compilers

I do not believe that this is necessarily the case.
UBI only makes sense in the science fiction world that Andrew Yang and other non-technical journalists think is somehow imminent. We still need people to make things. There are still guys hanging off the side of garbage trucks every day and people still pick fruits by hand. If no one does these things, you will starve and die. We cannot survive forever on financial engineering by bureaucrats and importing all our necessities from other countries that actually make things.
Also could be that the underwater sounds we humans create, is probably way less than it used to be.