skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Antarctica's weird green snow set to spread due to climate change
I think for the purposes of UBI it’s enough of a criterion.

Implicitly I was contesting it against say trying it for a county or other political subdivision like state/province/canton. By state I meant sovereign state/nation.
The let the advanced users find the advanced functionality. Don't predicate operating your product on knowing every subtle in and out of it.

> But when I hear your justification, maybe the blame should fall on managers.

I'm really just describing the kind of software that I personally hate to use. But in any case, any time my manager asks me whether I can do something or how long it'll take, I just give him an honest estimate. If it's going to take me 3 weeks to even figure out a basic understanding of some new thing, I just tell him. If I just told him "yeah, I'll have that done in a day" every time, who exactly would be failing to communicate in that situation?
Would you live with a Trump supporter?
> I'm not going to pay someone who works on-site vs. remote the same.

Sound like you'll be bringing lower quality remote engineers into a lower quality remote environment. Don't be surprised when that strategy blows up.
I don’t know the IB system, but AP tests are equivalent to testing students on a first semester college class. In computer science in the US, that means basic data structures and simple algorithms, and it’s been that way for the last thirty five years at least.
Not the first sketchy thing spotted at The Intercept. Read also this excerpt on Glenn Greenwald's spurious reporting of Michael Flynn's prosecution: https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/05/19/glenn-greenwalds-inven...

Old adage about incompetence and maliciousness being indistinguishable applies, but having whistleblowers land in jail MULTIPLE times should raise eyebrows for such a young news organization.

Wondering if The Intercept belongs in the nether world of "news" organizations (read: thinly veiled propaganda outlets) along with InfoWars, RT, etc.
Having worked remotely for decades, and survived a few layoffs, I beg to differ.

If your job security rests on the boss seeing your face, many currently unemployed people will tell you, its not very secure.
This covid tracking project is part of The Atlantic's data journalism: https://covidtracking.com/about-project
fantastic. thank you for sharing that -- my anecdote about this problem is slightly dated -- it would have been late 2017 early 2018 we were seeing the issue, which indeed predates OTP 22 release.
I suspect if WFH becomes the norm, then people will flock to big cities even more, because suddenly you live in a massive suburban house but can go days without ever seeing a new face.

At least when you had a central office there was a place where you would meet some people and be in the middle of some sort of hustle and bustle.

Big cities might become even more attractive in a WFH future .
Most of what people talk about is going on a snowboarding trip while getting paid to "WFH" not the day to day reality of it.
A family friend does the same thing with their kid, and I really respect that. I feel bad for them too, because I've been present for them asking other people to not take photos, and some of them start nearly frothing at the mouth about "PC culture" or "That's so stupid". My father takes photos of us without asking or saying anything at all, even if we're not looking at the camera at all, and will post that onto Facebook. It really bothers me and I'm glad to hear others agree.
It probably is a free speech issue. Free speech is not the end-all and be-all, in Europe at least.

Person A wants to put a photograph of Person B on facebook.
Person B does not want their image on facebook.

Person A has a right to freedom of expression. Person B has a right to privacy. These two rights are in conflict in this case.

It's not that we're not respecting freedom of expression - it's simply not that absolute. It's that we're drawing the line between one person's rights and another's, and Europe often draws that line in different places than the US does.

But be clear - both A and B have rights here. The only way to be absolute about one person's rights is to disregard the other's.
That a huge part of the population choose unwisely and footgun themselves and the rest it's quite obvious. But the real, longterm solution is education, not censorship. But we have to admit that we are in an ultra-connected world like never before and fake, easy news are even more easily spread. So, critical thinking is a necessary skill to be taught.
Wages aren't set based on a calculation like "how much is this person worth?" — that just sets the max salary. Companies want to pay their workers as little as possible; they can just get away with lower salaries in other markets than they can in San Francisco.
Makes sense. They probably meant to say “...laughed at my story”.
This release had quite a few patches that just weren't quite ready to go out yet, so were not included.

There was some work done which reduces the per-connection overhead and allows many many more direct PG connections before performance degrades, while increasing overall performance with high connection counts by a ton...but it just wasn't quite ready and missed the deadline by a little.

The memory based stats collector is another patch in the same vein, where it wasn't quite ready for 13.

That said, many of these features are quite impressive and will offer nice wins for many workloads, incremental sorting is very cool, as is the memory bound hash aggregation.

I'm with you on automatically updated materialized views, it's been something i've needed and been waiting for a long while now, and I am hoping it gets more focus. The current patch-set being worked on for it seems to have quite a few limitations.
That just leaves the last two items.
The Atlantic is a monthly magazine, not a newspaper. Apple News+ is a decent bundle deal for (full) magazine content and includes The Atlantic.
for another fundamentals approach
https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Ground-Jonathan-Laine-Bartle...
I think it is a mistake to conflate the intrinsic value of a human with their point-in-time value as labor in a business relationship. They are very different things.

In a business relationship both parties need to find a price point that is mutually satisfying. If there is no agreement that doesn't mean that either party is treating the other like "disposable gadgets".

And the system is not static, value from both parties perspective changes over time, which means the mutually satisfactory price point can also change or even evaporate.
Unpacking the Mask Debate
In that case I completely agree. If the demo was there specifically to test technical setups, then it should not behave differently from the exam system. In particular, such a test system should be compliant to what is expressed in the FAQ.
It says the complaint was made after they fell out - I agree she should take them down, no question.

But the story could be read as the daughter spiting her mother by making her take down photos she was happy with before the fall out.

I'm not claiming that's what happened - maybe they fell out because of this - just saying we shouldn't rush to judgement on her motivation for pushing back.
The SDK? Those are all auto-generated
> where YouTube doesn't benefit from the "censorship"

Of course they do. You think they're spending all that money out of the kindness of their hearts?

Way to dodge actually engaging with the principles at play here. You can certainly assert your consequentialist/utilitarian arguments, but not everyone agrees with that ethical framework.
Yep, it's crazy when doctors like this look at tech and they even complain that we're overpaid.

You can make a ton of money as a doctor nearly anywhere in the United States. Software engineers don't get that freedom. Maybe now with more WFH being common place.

However, now to get to the point of being a physical you need to go under a ton of debt. That wasn't the case for our parents and grandparents.
That's why it's often formulated as a negative income tax
The Societal Cost of Cybercrime
Kind of off topic, but how much time is involved building processors with FPGA's, especially for modern architectures like RISC-V? I only have a very basic overview knowledge about FPGA's and almost none at the time about HDL's (I plan on learning!), but with the complexity involved in modern processors, I can't imagine this being a few weeks or even months or work.
I have very little need for a calculator of any caliber, but this narrative makes me want one on my desk. I wish that mindset was financially rewarded more often.
Privacy, Pandemics and the AI Era
Yeah I know a bunch of QA companies in Vietnam. How did your company find them? I am Vietnamese American myself and have spent a lot of time in the region. It is an amazing place w/ a hungry yet educated youth population, great food, beautiful beaches and quite fast internet. Surprised not many American companies heading there to recruit.
Not all, but businesses with that attitude are worth trusting about as far as you can throw them.
I hear you, and I think it’s valuable to delineate the intellectual from the emotional to some extent. With love being such a nebulous concept, I want to set out my narrow definition in the context of this conversation. Anthropomorphic love necessarily requires abstract cognition which is beyond the abilities of dolphins. Dolphins can love you, and love each other, but the love is entirely rooted in lower cognitive states which simply draw a connection between you and a few very tangible, primal things.

There’s love, and then there’s love love.
Not a mathematician so correct away:

I think the initial confusion stemmed from not pinning down the domain of x and y.

When he says “I don’t see the complex points” in the xy graph that is because they aren’t there: the xy graph is in R^2 and x^2 + 1 = y has no solution in the reals for y = 0.

But if you imagine, as he did, an extra dimension attached at each point then that is now a complex space, is it not?
Your question could be rephrased: why do so many projects depend on an external store for distributed consensus?

One answer is that coupling the consensus part of the system with parts that do active work results in harmful resource conflicts. Those resource conflicts can cause consensus algorithms to fail or take much longer to return answers. Example: Java VM clocks misbehave if the process can't get enough CPU. This can cause systems like ZK to lose quorum.
I personally perceive vaccination as a moral duty. For many vaccines nowadays (polio, chickenpox, diphtheria, rubella,etc), the chance to get the disease is lower than the chance to have a severe allergic reaction. For example, according to the CDC, the US has been polio free starting in 1979, but the chance of a severe allergic reaction to the polio vaccine is about 1 in 1 million. Why would you take a 10^(-6) risk to counter a zero risk? Because if you don't, and nobody else does, we lose the herd immunity and polio makes a comeback, and we are all worse off. Classic prisoner dilemma. Nature's way of solving prisoner's dilemma is morality. If something feels immoral to you, it's an underlying evolutionary solution to a prisoner's dilemma problem.

So here we are. I will personally take the Covid19 vaccine when it becomes available, knowing that I trade a smaller risk for a larger one, but also knowing that if everyone does the same we are all better off.
Well said, totally agree with the way you phrased it.
A lot of the UBI in Europe is benefits in kind. Healthcare is the obvious one, but also police forces with a higher degree of professionalism, better access to (and treatment by) the justice system, clean water, higher food standards, it goes on. Right now we are benefiting from a coherent and effective response to Covid-19. All these things can be found in the US - if you can afford to pay.
Concentrated wealth (i.e. The 100 or so billionaires that exist in the world) is able to more nimbly direct their money to change the world. However, when they're wrong, they're using 1/100 of the world's wealth/productivity to be wrong.

Less concentrated wealth (i.e. Some form of socialism + wealth redistribution) is going to be much more likely to be caught up in red tape, meander, and not reach consensus. On the other hand, being wrong isn't as impactful.

You get to choose between the 2012-2016 US Congress (nothing gets passed - good or bad - because no one can reach consensus and no one has the power to unilaterally decide) and FDR (nimbly navigated a war but definitely overreached on a few decisions and imprisoned the entire US Japanese population lol).
Germany has exclusions for persons and events of public interest. So journalists can still do their job.
what is really the minimally-functional enterprise size for a journalistic organization? you need reporters, editors and fact-checkers. that is the atlantic model. or, if you want just reporters, we can have pure indy reporting on massive platforms where it is a pure marketplace of ideas. the future does not appear to favor the atlantic model.
I'm assuming this can be mitigated by using SSL/TLS. Have a read over at https://crossbar.io/docs/Secure-WebSocket-and-HTTPS/ - Not sure how you would do certificate pinning though.
Many experiments have been done that involve giving UBI-like grants (and even large, one-time-only cash grants) to people in extreme poverty. The money gets spent in sensible ways, by and large. Investing in one's shelter (e.g. replacing a leaky roof), paying for children's education or buying assets for a profitable business venture are extremely common choices. Regardless of their "financial literacy" (people in extreme poverty are hardly used to dealing with financials!) people seem to grok that they're getting something quite valuable, and are not inclined to waste what they get.
Setting aside the fact that those protests end up smashing windows of helpless Chinese sushi chefs, rather than actual Japanese people, the PRC also doesn't legitimately want to provoke an international conflict with Japan. They just want to keep the flames of national passions burning, so that they can command the loyalty and unity of their citizenry.

If a Japanese expat got killed in some protest, it would be a major diplomatic problem and China might have to apologize, which would look bad.
One thing that I think may be important to successfully implementing team-wide WFH is easy access to drawing tablets. The "whiteboard experience" is an oft-cited plus to in-office collaboration, but there's really no reason it can't be replicated remotely.

A good, simple drawing tablet costs a couple hundred bucks (or less!) per employee and goes a huge way towards capturing that spontaneous, collaborative diagramming and drawing. It's really a different experience from drawing with a mouse or a finger and, at least IMO, stacks up very well to the in-person experience.
The Administration owns the land and property. They need the high salaried employees to stick around town to pay the exorbitant rents.

I hope that helps tie things together for you.
Even if there is a case for universal basic income these are not the droids you seek when it comes to endorsing it as a concept in fact my instinct tells me they'll fumble it and end up causing it to fall out of favour even if it could've been implemented

The reason is these two lead with their egos rather than engendering true community belonging
Take the median? Look in more detail how they calculate the values and pick the one that makes the most sense?
>Once something is posted on the internet, especially Facebook, it can not be un-posted. At least, that is what my understanding is.

But in the thread next door everyone is screaming that social media companies have complete, absolute and unchecked power over all forms of human communication and expression, and that when someone is deplatformed or their channel is banned, they and their content are all but permanently erased from human society.
Again, as I stated above...I've had the totally opposite experience. I've been promoted and survived
layoffs multiple times while working 100% remote.
They were saying this ten years ago...
She's not called "a grandma" which is folksy and so you would be correct.

She's referred to as "grandmother" to indicate the relationship which is relevant to the story and the presumable toxicity of the situation.
Only if they are informed about the topics I think are important primarily, with a focus on the facts that sway them to the positions I support. Otherwise they might support a government backing policies I disagree with.
Single and married folks with families get paid differently. We pay ~3-4x more for healthcare for people with families than individuals.

You've sort of dismissed my point, though. The dilemma is that salary choices create friction within companies. It's not as simple as "pay what it takes to get someone" and "it's none of your business" because it does, in fact, have repercussions on how well a company works.
The Tech youtube community is centered around clickbait and shoehorned brand warfare to generate views.

There are some worthwhile youtubers, but the vast majority create useless content to keep you watching.

>Scott Manley and Tim Dodd

Space is very very niche. But The Economist and Nature have provide some pretty good space content in recent memory.
Blendle had all major publication on board in the Netherlands for a few years. €0,10-€1 per article. It was heaven.

Also it was not profitable; most people read a few articles a month, netting them €1 or €2.

Now they only have a €10 a month subscription, giving unlimited access to a “selection of the best articles”.

I guess it’s better to have 5 customers paying you €10 every month, than 20 customers who might give you €1 or €2.
The rent you pay into the SF housing (renter) market is half your value.

You pay the Administration that owns that real estate a large portion of your salary.
U.S. Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy
85 comments and not one seems to have read past the headline here.

"The 68 staff cuts are mostly attributable to the collapse of the company's events business."

Reporters aren't losing their jobs here. Events staff with no events to run are.
And those are valid critique. I'm sorry - my prior response was harsh now I'm reading it again.

We all like to critizice things that offend our sense of aesthetics. But criticism always hurts the author. It's ok if it hurts if it is valid critique. And the only way to get understood is to be explicit.
> There's a line to be drawn here - and it's a tricky line, to be sure - but "YouTube should be totally neutral and not pull anything" is not a viable answer.

It sure can be given other means of combatting misinformation. But sure, let's just go with the sledgehammer every time.
tumbleweed...
On-call will still rotate amongst the developers. They wrote the system, they know how it breaks and can fix it.
What's grandma's global revenue?
I will add to that, I have a friend at Amazon. I visited him in Seattle this previous winter and he had to work on Christmas Eve while most other top companies do Two-day holidays over Christmas.
You are definitely not alone, I would be frustrated if not horrified if the WFH situation gets permanent.

Even physically, I find personally, it'll require quite bit of investment to make WFH viable/productive for it to be permanent, to have a permanent "work" room set up. Limited space shared with my personal computer and equipment are not very ideal for the productivity.

Still then, I would certainly prefer getting out of my place and working outside of my home.

It's one thing someone joins the company knowing that it's a remote job, I'm curious how people are adjusting to this change.
NewtonSoft JSON (an open source library included in official sample projects until Microsoft made their own) was first released in 2006, AFAIK.
Couldn't agree more! Just took over a project done in React. Rewrote it in plain html, css and JS. Went from megabytes down to kilobytes. At least 10x as performant. Ended up with about 360 LoC JS to implement everything that was previously done with a ton of imports.
this is relevant but not same system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
> At least you get to feel good about your purity when you're posting comments on HN, secure in the knowledge that you don't have a teenager or a parent that might die as a result.

What's this ad hominem crap doing here?

I don't know anything about the poster you're replying to, but I think I'm safe in assuming that they don't want your teenager or parent to die either. It's acceptable--essential, even--to be concerned about more than one thing at a time, even during a pandemic.
> As long as you can host your video on your own website, that's not the same.

Very few people even within this peer group have the capability of hosting videos on their own website unless the video is intended for a very small audience (say, less than 1000 viewers per day).

If you want to reach any significant number of people, you absolutely need to go through one of the major video hosters or pay for a CDN. And that's before you consider the network effects of YouTube.
It is hard to imagine things being different for people that have been going to an office for the last 5 or 10 years.

Reality is crumbling now that the pandemic proved that we can be as productive without an office. Some people are lying to themselves to justify why they have lost so many hours of their life in an office.
That is a beautiful text. Shockingly much more intuitive, better graphs and examples than what we had in high school in the early 90s.
No, not really. I would prefer a society where it's not possible for one person to accumulate this much power over other people.
You're going to want to change the name.

https://ulysses.app

Ulysses: The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone

A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export options make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.

Also, when naming a product, Google the name you're thinking of and the category.

For example: ulysses writing
Yes, my point is that this is the same mechanism that will reduce the inertia for "move half of our engineers to low-wage countries and squeeze the wages of the ones that are left"
Except now, employees have a much wider range of companies to work for.

And there is still a shortage of tech. workers...

I foresee tech salaries meeting in the middle
It will already take a while for companies to absorb the change of distributed organization in the US. Opening to the world brings yet another set of challenges: taxes, employment regulations in each country, timezone differences, cultural differences, etc.

I know FANG are really good at propaganda, but I don't see them going overnight from "good work can only be done with everyone in the office" to "well sure, one guy in SF, one in London, and a third in Sydney", no big deal, just jump on the zoom" without looking completely ridiculous.
There's a package called apulse, that tricks programs into thinking they are talking to PulseAudio while piping stuff internally to ALSA.

https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
She literally fucked her way to her money as well. Cold fucking bitch if you ask me.

Before people come at me, her wiki is clear. She snuck to the front of a lecture and seduced jobs, they had dinner that night, and her only business contributions are inheriting his trust fund as widower and spending the money.

Fuck this lady. She doesn't deserve our respect.