skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People having been on the move for all of human history doesn’t mean that ancestry doesn’t exist. There is nothing bogus about reading data from your genome and using statistics to pinpoint which parts of the earth your ancestors came from. It’s math.
I’m not going to deny that is a concern.
I'd assume it depends on where the eggs come from: Are eggs that are from caged chickens fed antibiotics, the same as eggs that come from chickens that are free to run around and feed on food made only from organic plants?
Tourism is not education as evident by the fact that global tourism is at an all time high, yet people are extremely ignorant.

Teaching them to read again will be more fruitful than flying them around the globe if less ignorance is the goal.
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Good points, but the plus sides of Bangkok:

+ incredible night life with some of the best bars and clubs I've ever seen

+ from downtown to the most beautiful beaches in just 3 hours by car

+ more dream islands and beaches just 1 hour by inland flight away

+ several national parks in range for weekend tours

+ super easy and cheap to hop to exciting neighboring countries (Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore) for a few days

+ actually there are many super nice coworking spaces for around $120/month and many cafès allow sitting for hours

+ probably the best dating scene in the world for white and black men

+ Thai people are probably the friendliest, relaxed and most easy-going people in the world
Slack sucks ass from a UX perspective.
Wow, google has jumped the f*ing shark on that. Another reason to use www.startpage.com and duck.com I suppose
I don't think you're crazy. I would rather not see that kind of stuff myself.
After leaving SF in 2018, I have worked from Oxford/London/Mexico City/Istanbul. I would totally avoid Istanbul, I have been harassed by police officers way too many times in attempt to get bribes.

If I were to work with an American company as an engineer then London/Oxford is really good. The timezone difference is quite appropriate to take meetings without asking for too much rescheduling and adjustments, and the London food is way better than any city in the US, plus the location is quite appropriate to travel anywhere within Europe. It's not cheap, but city life is worth it. I don't quite like Oxford, but my family lives in Oxford, so it's kind of nice to be home and everything is taken care of yourself.

If I was in meeting heavy role like Product Manager, then Mexico City is impeccable. Good food, bay area weather, reasonable cost of living, just a quick flight away from bay area if you have to visit and easy to get visa as well. It's not at what you see in the news, and there are more starbucks on Reforma than they on Market St. in SF.
Yes that is the convention.

You cannot assume anything about process or thread lifetimes on Android, as the simple act of rotating the screen will restart your application, and it can be killed at any moment and restarted later, due to memory pressure, or because the use has switched applications.

So whatever was the state of your application can be completely different when the callback is supposed to be invoked later on.
I think the success of Slack is that it's so easy to set up a team. It feels like Trello: you are up and running in a minute. As a freelancer I got a list of Slack teams and it is just very easy to switch.

But like you said: that's about it. It is slow, the text input box is horrible and most of the time you loose track of conversations.

What I lately notice is that teams start to use WhatsApp groups as Slack replacement. To me that shows that Slack is just a messenger.
Does the fiber in a cooked carrot become digestible?
Romantic relationships are cemented by willful ignorance of unflattering sides
Facebook uses email for important business decisions, Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his children use an iPad, and now Slack don’t tolerate remote work.

Interesting, isn’t it.
There are other tips in the link below if you are interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671944

The military technique, to my surprise, worked. Not sure if it is effective for insomnia, but it helps you fall asleep in a minute or two rather than 1 or 2 hours.
This.

IMO, every successful founder has had at least one of these things in plentiful when starting up - money, connections, or deep insight into a painful problem. Luck, of course, cannot be overlooked.

I think learning what worked for someone is good. But more important is learning what did not work (which is only realised in hindsight)

There is a subreddit called r/shutdown. I keep visiting it from time to time to learn what not to do.
Do you have a google set or something similar where you can share your analysis? What about quality of education , safety and health care access ?
I wanted to read this blog post but it seems uncertain about its intended audience. It goes over a whole bunch of basics like turing machines, circuits, decidable languages, NP, etc. - but too briefly for people unfamiliar with those concepts to understand, and not briefly enough to keep the attention of everyone else. Then we jump to using something called the Hadamard component-wise product which is not defined. I'm sure there's a good post here but it could use trimming in some places and expansion in others.
I'm in the midwest. It would be a long list if I tried to name all the companies who (pre-covid) were not hiring remote. I haven't forgotten their names and hope others won't either. They all had the resources and know how, but the folks in control of these companies are all about power. My personal opinion is those companies should not end up in powerful positions in the market after this just because they were forced to do what they should've done in the first place.
For many projects, you still can - if you know where to look.

It's what makes FOSS "support" (i.e., having someone to talk to about a technical problem in a meaningful way, so that you get closer to resolving it) so much more effective than costly support contracts with big and faceless corporations that make you jump through all manners of hoops - only to end up with some expert level blame-shifting, and no real solution in the end.
Government gonna government
If a team isn't set up for remote work, a single employee moving to a new location and timezone (while the rest are in SF) is absolutely going to affect everyone's productivity.

Unless the role was remote to begin with, such requests would get denied at most companies, so I don't see what the big point of contention is here.
I've never really loved email, but hell it just works. What I like about email is that people don't interrupt me or try to chitchat with me, they just state the bussines of things and I can decide wether I want to react directly, in which folder to move or with which label to tag it (automatically or not), etc.

If somebody forgets something in a mail I could just write back or call. And if I really want to chat, matrix/irc or a signal group should be good.

For other things (by no means related to code only) repositories are good, or issue trackers like trac.

I never really liked slack although I tried. It doesn't really feels like it focuses the mind of a group and helps you move forward.
The irony being that this so-called terrorism is in reaction to clamping down of freedoms and arbitrarily adding national security laws into the Basic Law.

I want to know who falls for this nonsense.
You just proved my point about Qld.
Textual works well for me.
> the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to be separated from it by enough levels of indirection

That’s a great quip. Was talking to a friend that works in banking (fund management) who made a similar point; bankers aren’t necessarily evil. It’s just a modern bankers view on the world is mostly in the form of rows in a spreadsheet that need optimizing. Whether those rows represent green energy or weapons, and what the consequences of trading in them are, are not things that a clearly visible to a banker on a busy day. The bankers view is just numbers going up or down.
It hasn't even been assigned a bill number yet. This is very early.
The green card yearly family based quota is around 200k and the H1B quota is 65k. This seems backwards to me. The green card lottery primarily caters to unskilled labor and without any qualification criteria, while the h1b attracts _more_ skilled labor.

Given we have sufficient unskilled labor, we should just scrap the existing family based green card program and h1b program and roll all quotas into employment based green card.
uhhh i don't know if you've noticed, but Juuls sure seem pretty popular right now...
“Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but the people who have written it, and then those who need to maintain it. This is stupid, but also very, very true.“

This is exactly what happened to higher education. It seems to be a kind of entropy that signals that a system is in major need of complete overhaul so it can get back to doing what it was actually designed to do.
I'd rate it above most, but we are not sure about the side effects since there are no long term studies on it

imo it's good for certain things like coding but significantly reduces lateral thinking / creativity

kinda gives you "mental tunnel vision"
> among some of the most complex pieces of engineering

Do you think it will end up in the "20 years from now" category like many other technologies? I'm on the fence regarding how fast we can actually advance, QC is tough.

I've seen the same things said about fusion energy. Fusion is fairly simple, you can do it in your garage right now if you were so inclined, however getting net positive output is truly pushing the limits of what we know and can build. Quantum Computers have far more going on in comparison.
Mo software, mo problems. Either coders will become the people managing all the different "no-code" solutions or companies will pay dearly for when, inevitably, their no-code solution meets a limit that was never considered. The problem with all the no-code solutions though is that it becomes mind-bogglingly difficult to remember how to navigate the graphical interfaces of each platform while the coder can focus on and enjoy the superior ergonomics of mere text editing.
Nowadays, back in the 80's and early 90's no sane developer would used them on 8 and 16 bit home platforms if they cared about performance.

What C and C++ have going for them is 40 years of investment in optimizing compilers, to detriment of other languages, and abuse of UB in optimizers.

Now with shared compiler backends becoming a mainstream thing across most OSes, that advantage is getting thinner.
About 70% of what I am earning and spending these days is in Bitcoin.
The article really should have led with this second point, which is the most grounded in real-world conditions and most relatable to software engineers stuck in high CoL tech hubs, while the no-code first point is futuristic and the class consciousness of tech workers third point is sadly a little fanciful.
“No code” platforms aren’t going to replace software developers. I’ve tried out several of the major ones and came away with the conclusion they are this generation’s microsoft access. Someone who isn’t a programmer might be able to build something in them, but their IT department won’t want to support those solutions and they will definitely need support. I expect a cottage industry of no code consultants, who will be programmers under a different name.

I think something like airtable or microsoft lists is going to replace a lot more custom software. They are this generation’s microsoft excel.
Before all of this I would be very happy to dunk on Slack for this.

But _they are now doing remote like all of us_. They have fixed the problem.

Dunking culture that just doesn't let people get credit for improving is exhausting and just boring as hell.
As another commenter pointed out since it wasnt infringing directly (code wasn't infringing copyrighted code) it actually does not fall under that constraint.

Even if I'm wrong, this is a valid way to dos my repo. Like when it happens on YouTube people loose money right and that's some people's main income. This can be even worse.
For almost everyone, for almost all of our history as agricultural city-builders, traveling for pleasure has been a small or entirely absent feature of human lives. That's still true, today. Doesn't seem particularly necessary, given that.

Something to aspire to, that everyone can be a tourist more than very, very rarely in their lives? IDK, maybe. But remember that most in the US will pick Vegas or a Mexican all-inclusive beach resort or something like that over anything especially horizon-expanding, and people in the rest of the world probably aren't much different so far as that goes. So unless you're picking the destinations, I wouldn't count on most of a large increase in tourism-related travel to be especially ignorance-diminishing.
We use instana.io. It's UI is clunky but gets the job done. It allowed us to troubleshoot multiple severe bugs in production which would have been hard to solve otherwise.
rarely do i laugh on HN. thanks.
You're going to hate 2030...

I think by then macOS will need a jailbreak if you want to disable SIP and have genuine root access.
I see, keeping the reading short and focused plus an essay sounds effective. (I'm not good with alcohol, so I'll skip that part ;-) I can stay on track reasonably well without any external stimuli.)

This evening I'll be out at a nearby nature reserve with a fellow serious participant to talk about organizing an advanced study/discussion group on Greek & Roman philosophy -- mostly Hellenistic.

Thanks for the input, xapata, much appreciated.
The biggest problem with Slack for me is how slow it is. I have been using chat apps for a couple of decades now, starting from mIRC to IM chat applications. And slack is by far the slowest chat product that I have ever used. Takes a few seconds to startup, takes GBs of ram just so that I can send chat messages and the interface just isn't snappy. Earlier I would keep chat apps open in my system tray all the time since they were so lightweight and barely consumed any resources, but every now and then I need to shut slack down if I'm running out of memory.
Yes. In Taiwan for 2 years now from SF and it's amazing. I like to visit around Asia but this is most livable by far. Plus it's really underated so it's a bit under the radar which I think is a good kpi for remote centric work.

Agreed on cons, it's so good it softens you which is an overindulgence if efficiency problem.

Agreed startup scene is hurting. Ironically amazing for hiring and even in high tech. Taida is a serious school and companies like TSMC are here so serious engineering gets done. Ifni was in hardware I'd look to here as a black sheep vs shenzen.

Say hi if in Taipei!

Not to mention zero new local cases a month now! Enjoying restaurants and life daily :). Shhh don't share about Taiwan
It’s actually the 6th largest city, Phoenix beats it out for the number 5 spot.
I think the points about challenges or switching and the likely future of heterogeneous office/remote balances are all strong.

Where this lost me was on this claim about salaries:

> I suspect the multipliers companies use to determine wage per city will even out to the efficient frontier of wage to cost of living as employees allocate themselves to the optimal locations.

I think this is a temporary situation until there is a critical mass of remote roles/companies. If I live in a lower COL region but looking at remote roles I'm not competing with people near me, and the employers are not competing with employers near me. I'm competing with people who can do the work I do, and the employer is competing with all other remote-capable companies. I think the only shape of this that might work is treating the target time zone as a single market. Assuming comparable skills, a worker in Boston, Atlanta, NYC, Toronto, Nassau or Bogota shouldn't have wide compensation differences.

It's possible that this leads to a net reduction in salary for many, as big companies "figuring out" remote might make formerly-painful offshoring more workable and attractively inexpensive.
This is unlikely to be the case. Almost all servers out there require fairly frequent ping/pongs and if your client doesn't work right it'll just be entirely unusable (like "disconnect every 5 minutes")
Nope. I moved from Chiang Mai. It has some of the worst air quality in the world for a quarter of the year, and almost consistently worse than in Bangkok.
IMO they should get no credit for doing what they refused to do when they could but didn't have to. Now that they have to, and are doing it, what credit do they deserve?
This is just because they had no other choice.

It’s like complimenting a caught serial killer because, after being surrounded by policemen at every move, he stopped killing.
If there will be losers in the event of robust quantum computation not being realizable, they will likely be individuals who are working in the commercialization of the technology, not those academically involved in fundamental research. Programs at Google, Rigetti, IBM, D-Wave, Q-CTRL, Zapata, Horizon QC, Xanadu, etc. are all existentially tied to quantum computing through their business models[1] and they would have the financial incentive to “hold out”[2] on or not entertain opponents seriously.

I think somebody like Scott Aaronson—who has made an academic career in computer science and quantum computing—would gladly accept reality were it not to be what he hopes it is, and would be entirely willing to stand on a platform and broadcast the truth. Aaronson is in the business of understanding fundamental truths about computation, not (as far as anybody knows) being a shill for big business.

[1] Disclaimer: I’m not deeply familiar business-wise with all the companies listed, so take my “existential tie” with a grain of salt.

[2] I’m not claiming that any of these companies would conduct business dishonestly in the event that they were “wrong”.
It sure is an impressive effort. But how does it stack up as a font? Is it worthwhile to switch to it for "ordinary purposes", even when writing a single language?
Starz has been around since the mid-90s. It has some pretty good programming but it just doesn't get the attention that maybe HBO or Showtime does.

They had a really good short lived comedy series called "Party Down" that I loved. Had a great cast! https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1073507/

I think Outlander might be one of its more popular series now. Based on a book series and brought to TV by Ronald D Moore who did Battlestar Galactica (which personally I am cautious about because the last season or 2 of BSG was not my favorite)
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I'd blacklist that. Rarely if ever has an actual answer to the question asked in my experience and for some reason comments seem to get duplicated.
To clarify, in my metaphor I am comparing the efficiency of labor before and after the industrial revolution. Bangladesh is an industrialized country, so I am not sure I understand your point.

To weave enough cloth to make a single shirt by hand takes orders of magnitude more time than it takes for a loom to produce the same amount of cloth. This is true regardless of what country it happens in and how much the person operating the loom is paid. Yes, the cheap clothes one can buy at H&M, Uniqlo, or Gap are made in Southeast Asia, usually by workers being paid inhumanely low wages. But those clothes are universally made with fabric that is produced by looms and other modern machinery.

My point is just that the volume of clothes produced today (in southeast Asia, for example) would require orders of magnitude more workers to produce in a pre-industrial world.

Despite this massive efficiency jump, there are not less jobs in clothing and fashion related industries; there are more because we wear so much more clothes than we used to.
No, they just gave us a Laptop and a docking station.
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Doesn't work in Google Image Search :(

Anyone here work at Pinterest?
My reading is just that there was documented demand and they likely lost talent over it.
Well, such collaboration was pre-slack - it was called IRC.

I like it very much, it is like email, but faster, less formal (and no, it doesn't replace email, both have different uses for me).

It is similar to instant messaging, but you can ask a question to more than one person at once.
Thanks a lot for this!
Could someone recommend me a good book to start learning cell biology and genetics? I study physics and I'd like to learn about biophysics.
If supply is tapped, then the risk of a mis-hire also increases (higher wages, more difficult to replace in a timely manner, etc). This might counteract any downward pressure on the hiring bar.
Yeah, and here in Finland we have North American Beavers too, since someone decided to introduce them in the 30's. They have a somewhat devastating effect on the local forests...
The fake users are orthogonal to finding new users, which is what this post is about. The fake users were about retention, not new users. They kept people using reddit after they found reddit, but it wasn't a way to find new users.

Reddit launched on June 23rd, 2005, and Paul blogged about them in the first week of August. Only five weeks after launch. They were definitely still using the fake users then. In fact when I joined the company in 2007, we still had the ability to create new users on submit, we just didn't do it anymore.

Steve probably just didn't mention the PG blog post because he forgot. If you ask him, he'll gladly tell you about how PG basically forced the wide release of reddit by blogging about them despite Steve's objections.
We've only been looking for a gnat's blink, astronomically speaking. Once we've searched for a couple of million years, then we'll have a bit more data to draw conclusions from.
>A web store can now be made in minutes. A news site. A forum. Heck, there are tons of turnkey company intranet solutions...

Well, sure, yet demand for developers remains strong. They're now moving up the complexity chain, working on different problems, etc. And, of course many are integrating with turnkey solutions like some you mentioned. Notice how so many of these "turnkey" solutions offer APIs?

A web store or forum isn't going to differentiate a business to success any more than a snazzy website will. The bar is now higher. The cycle continues.
Is the success of the no-code trend really a given?

Insofar as I can tell no-code addresses configuration management of known entities. It’s not a dsl and it’s not a visual programming environment - it’s, generally speaking, a graphical layer on top of one or more yaml / xml / whatever-file(s) with a finite set of options.

That’s good enough in many, many cases. But it’s not a panacea. And it’s certainly not “no-code means no coders.”
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A key distinction between drugs and the other two is that the body easily develops an increasing tolerance and dependence on the former, unless strict moderation is applied. Yes, this also applies to sugar.
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It's a web-based algorithmic artwork and questions that "Do people miss the strangers in the streets during the pandemic days?"

I think this work can be considered an example of collage in the age algorithms in terms of canvas is shaped in real time with the face detection algorithm.