skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH if those were the only available choices, burgers would win. A much easier job.
How can they disable DoH? That's Dns over HTTPS.
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Site search provided by author seems like the best option on the first glance, but sadly in my experience those in-house full-text searches are most of the times way inferior than simple `site:` limited google search. If not in relevance then in speed -- I think it is understandable, one could hardly compete with Google in this field.

Two genuine anecdotal experiences:
- MDN search used to be super slow, and to this days its results page is not super nice and still slower than Google:

In-site: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=mutationObserve...
Google scoped: https://www.google.com/search?lr=lang_en&q=mutationObserver%...

- jQuery API docs search felt the same: slow and slightly confusing compared to GSERP. (Much better now with Algolia, but still prefer Google:

In-site: https://api.jquery.com/?s=off
Google scoped: https://www.google.com/search?q=off%20site:api.jquery.com
Thats DoT, DoH ist just a dns query over https(443)
> Being a software engineer in SF means constantly learning new tech and 'keeping up'

No, it does not.

> You would be surprised at how many people value their hometown or where they have settled.

I would love to see actual data about this rather than articles from hometown newspapers and posts by hometown residents, enthusiastically praising their way of life. It's easy to argue the counterpoint as well, right?

1). There are many jobs that have to be done in person
2). Many people prefer to live in large cities and accept the downsides in order to get the benefits

So, next time you want to make a claim like this, can you share anything objective about this? Thanks.
The standard term is “renewable”, and yes, there are environmental concerns for any type of human-engineered energy production.

For run-of-river hydro power, one mitigation is fish ladders:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder
I've been around long enough to see these claims over and over again. You and me will be right that this claim again is false, but I think each time developers get more productive, they can do more with less time, and at some point developers will be able to do so much with so little time that we need few of them. So far though, the need for software has continued to grow even as developer productivity has increased, thus there has been no significant employment issues.
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Nicotine without smoke is still not a great thing to consume and has it's own negative effects such are arterial hardening leading to increased heart attacks and strokes. While it is far better than smoking, it still known to cause long term health problems. Getting the stimulating effects of nicotine also takes fairly sensitive portion control. Too little and it is not going to stimulate, too much and you will want to barf for the next 45+ minutes.
eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs
What level of automation happened in electronic engineering?
Intel is still king if you want the last few frames per second squeezed out at the top end.

It's not king in bang-for-buck, even for gamers.
Describes an efficient way implementation of "Code generators based on bottom-up rewrite systems (BURS) automatically generated from machine description grammars". There's a short Wikipedia page for BURS [1]:

"BURS (bottom-up rewrite system) theory tackles the problem of taking a complex expression tree or intermediate language term and finding a good translation to machine code for a particular architecture. Implementations of BURS often employ dynamic programming to solve this problem."

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BURS
DDG lacks dates in search results or I would drop google completely.
It's funny the HN crowd complains about the constant distraction of open offices but loves the constant distraction of Slack.
The flight search was designed 20 years ago with the goal to disrupt mainframe-based flight search systems domain:

Here is some background on that particular application:

https://www.msri.org/people/members/sara/articles/airfares.p...

http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

> I suspect the issue is that a flight booking system is basically the only significant commercial system written in Lisp

How would you know that?
HN,

I was looking for a place to buy property and I figured this data would help SF'ers and NY'ers who are looking to move elsewhere.

Let me know if you have any feedback
Does anyone know if deepmind has published their code for Agent57?
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I typically check my email once a day, first thing. Occasionally I will also check them if I'm bored around 4. If I have to write an email, I normally suppose that takes half an hour. I don't if emails use less words than slack threads, but I think I spend more time producing them. So "shorter" seems like the wrong measurement.
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Haha, I was about to comment "right here".

I live in the small city where I was born, so within 30 minute walking distance of my parents, one of my sisters, and a few of my friends.

It's amazing because our kids can play together and we can easily have the proud grandparents come over for help. Plus, friends can come over for a drink and then walk back home.

I did live in Singapore, Vietnam, and the Canary Islands for a while, which was also great, but for different reasons.

I'd say the focus on travel in here just shows that most HN readers are younger than me, so they don't have to plan for kids yet.
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Seems like there's still MASSIVE room for arbitrage, just maybe not as massive as what people were hoping for. I.e. as long as you live in CA (which is not uniformly unaffordable) it'll be difficult for Zuck to argue that you should make a lot less. The price differential between "half an hour commute to the office" and "two hours one way" can be pretty staggering.
I’ll just mention that I personally like SLC better because it’s less dense than Utah valley. Things are getting pretty crowded there. But this is coming from a guy who’d live in the middle of rural nowhere if I had a remote job and access to internet :)
long-term visa in Taiwan can be challenging unless you have a local employer
Again, this is semantics. Redundancy is backup. That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to keep data in one physical box in one physical location. I also never implied that. Please follow HN guidelines paragraph 3.
Explanation =/= endorsement. The reality is those indoctrinated by western liberal values will clash those indoctrinated by CCP values, and ultimately the CCP themselves. That's an inevitable contradiction with 1C2S. At the end of the day 1.4 billion is not going to change for 7 million. The only realistic option for HK was to gravitate towards the Chinese system, the most optimal condition would be akin to Singapore, nominal dictatorship with many familiar freedoms circumscribed by one party restricted press. Last I checked, most Singaporeans liked Singapore fine. But the protesters opted to for universal suffrage & not one less, that will never happen especially after treasonous appeals to foreign parties. So the movement must to be broken, better cauterize the wound now than let it bleed and be infected by foreign agents in the difficult times ahead. No need to genocide or mass internment. Integrate HK into greater bayarea, squeeze protesters into margins of society and out of HK by blacklisting them from local opportunities, disperse 4/7 million rebellious voices until it's drowned out by 66/70 million pro-CCP voices. Basically what Social Credit was designed to do: expel non-productive people or those that burden Chinese development out of privileged areas and visibility. Indoctrinate new generation to comport to CCP values, replaced displaced dissenters with mainlanders. Two options after. HK becomes just another tamed Chinese city. 15 years into the process, they can start building HK back up into a model city filled with "loyal" citizenry, which leaves another 14 years to try to convince new voting generation in Taiwan that 1C2S could still work. Assuming US containment fails. Which it very well might.
That has nothing to do with the salary-question though. You could separate that completely (and many do via contractors: nobody asks a contractor where they live to set a price for their work): have one party in the company negotiate the salary, and have another deal with employee locations as required by law. Those two don't need to have any contact.
My old laptop with win 7 cant run youtube 144p (anymore). It just freezes up. If I download the videos in lubuntu, vlc plays the 720p but 480p is all I need. There is clearly nothing wrong with the hardware.
But you can still do it with search operators? It’s just more inconvenient but the feature is still there. Doubt that was why
Indeed - I believe people in the middle ages burnt mummies as fuel because of their bitumen content
If you stick around long enough you’ll see it pop back up. Shows that are sufficiently in demand get renegotiated every few years and move platforms.

My current frustration is stargate. It is not available digitally in my region in any legal way because mgm is trying to negotiate a buyout by apple and doesn’t want any streaming rights to get in the way. I wanted to show it to my son and my options are limited to ordering a physical disk for a one-off viewing, or piracy.
To be fair, you should be getting a proper adjustment for working from home, because the cost of the office is now on you. You use your own chair, desk, computer, living space, etc. So a % of your rent monthly + few $k on start as a care package.
Yes, it does depend highly on the context.
There were no talks of artificial intelligence some decades ago but now that they are appearing it seems a highly possible way to keep Humans superior by modifying the context.
Being a "living" or a "non-living" generates a different response in our daily life. This thought was based on the line that would ever "it" be considered different than what it is now!

Thanks for your thought.
I’ve always hated MongoBD, but here’s the thing
I think it's pretty funny that people seem to miss some central rules of the internet. The more connected something becomes the more centralized it becomes. So having more remote work will shift the best people even more to the GAFAM job opportunities and that's the main reason why they are doing this.
There are benefits to saving for a future income stream that apply even if you’re never made redundant.
Locality Pay if standard. The federal government had been doing it for decades. Base pay plus locality adjustment based on where you live.
Heh. It looks like ordinary NZ bush to me! I'm not sure I'd say the entire South Island though, as quite a bit of it is boring farmland.

Here are the places in the article: https://www.google.com/maps/@-41.051886,173.738907,51935m/da...

Pelorus Sound is in the middle and extends down to Havelock. French Pass is at the top. There's not nearly as much regular boat traffic through either anymore, as most inter-island traffic takes the big Interislander ferry which comes in to Picton (just south of map), and then there's a road to Nelson (over to the west).
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It is probably just me, but I have noticed a marked drop in rank for Stack Overflow links in search results, even on programming-type questions.

If in fact this is more of a general trend and not my little bubble, then I wonder if this is caused by Stack Overflow mods closing any question that may have an opinion in the answer and since these answers have not shown activity for years, perhaps other links and sites are slowly starting to eat SO's lunch.

Pure speculation on my side.
> ... wrote a persuasive piece on how companies should people based on what value they add, not pay them differently based on where they want to live.

I learned the concept of "golden handcuff" the hard way. We paid a remote worker a fraction of the salary they'd make at a major European city. But that salary was still a multiple of what they'd make at a local job.

This turned into a golden handcuff, as the employee started to lose interest in the job, yet would try hard to convince themselves that they're still interested. That was likely because any other job for them would mean a 66% pay cut at the least, and a significant downgrade in their standard of living (unless they'd find another employer as inexperienced as me).

Lesson learned: Negotiate close to market rate, and let the fulfillment of the job be the talent's biggest motivator.
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> The amount of money you are saving by WFH full-time, assuming you properly leverage the opportunity (i.e. cooking own meals and multitasking chores), far outweighs any paltry notion that could be provided in recompense for you dutifully enshrining a guest bedroom as your employment zone.

This one's really important. Prior to moving to my current job, I had a 15-20 minute drive to work every day. I was filling my car up with gas every 2 weeks like clockwork. I was also going out for lunch semi-regularly. Moving to WFH (before the pandemic, because this was a planned move for me) totally changed the math on a lot of stuff. I haven't filled my car up with gas since early February at this point, though even before social distancing the previous fillup was in early December. My insurance cost on my car went down due to no commute. Food costs went down because I was cooking when I wanted lunch. These changes made a pretty noticeable improvement to our finances and we're now getting ready to move into a house where I'll have a dedicated office for work instead of a corner of the basement, and that's going to have some nice tax impacts too.

My employer has done a really good job embracing remote. There was a time when they actually retracted all ability to work remotely and had everyone move to work at our main office or look for another job. A shift in regime happened, and remote eventually came back, and now we've got a whole pile of benefits specifically for our remote employees, to help counterbalance the fact that they don't get some of the benefits that our in-office employees get.

One thing that we all get is a stipend we're allowed to use generally on things that help improve our lives or help us grow as people (a few examples of expensible things would be a new mattress, cooking classes, voluntarily chosen equipment for our workspace, etc). So we really already had the ability to expense the things we need for WFH, which has definitely been a big help.

As far as Overwatch between PRs... I mean, let's be real. Think about how much time you spend in the office chatting with coworkers about weekend plans, or what was on TV last night, or any other thing. Or, for those of you that have something like it, playing pool or ping pong. This is just an evolution of that. Taking a break now and then to do something to blow off steam is good and healthy.
It just blows my mind that an "Artifact Evaluation" process wasn't proposed until so recently [1].

"A paper consists of a constellation of artifacts that extend beyond the document itself: software, proofs, models, test suites, benchmarks, and so on. In some cases, the quality of these artifacts is as important as that of the document itself, yet our conferences offer no formal means to submit and evaluate anything but the paper."

1: https://www.artifact-eval.org/about.html
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contrary to what whiteboard interviews test for, programming is more of an art than science, and computers are generally bad at determining what is good art.
This is really neat!

I am looking at the footage from the A77 on Youtube. The resolution doesn't seem to be 4K. Apeman seems to do a lot of software upscaling. Their highest-end model, the A100, claims 20MP resolution, 4K video, and an Panasonic MN34120 sensor.

Panasonic claims 16MP resolution -- so 4MP less than Apeman claims, and a maximum of 22fps at 4k. This isn't a linear slide, and I think the best Apeman could do is grab 1080p at 30fps and upscale.

https://industrial.panasonic.com/content/data/SC/ds/ds4/MN34...

The A77 doesn't say what chip it uses, but it's a model down. And looking at two Youtube videos, I'd say it's grabbing at best 720p and upscaling, likely less, but most of the video has enough action that I could be wrong (compression relics do things as well when scenes change quickly).

OP: Can you post some video frames and see if this setup works as claimed? If it does, it'd be really neat to play with. I'd even be happy with true 1080.

I'd consider this setup more for photos. Lightfield video will be hard without frame-synchronized videos. But once you get photos, one can think about how to invest in videos next.
> No, Fukushima used BWR design from the 1060's, so geneneration 2.

Wow, animal-powered nuclear fission? These Heian period horse-drawn neutron beams were pretty ahead of their time though.
To a modern person that would make sense yes, but the Egyptians were extraordinarily conservative, as the duration of their culture attests, and ancient people in general were, by our standards, shockingly incurious scientifically.
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I think it is an age thing. If you're younger or at least not "settled"/bound by family obligations you want to see/enjoy things e.g. you didn't or don't currently have in your life - most people prefer exotic places, e.g. "beach".

The importance of family and friends comes once you realize it actually doesn't really matter that much where you live (unless it is downright terrible to live there). Life is what you make off it - this goes for your "place" as well. And for some people, their friends are essential to do that. For others not at all.

I would have never moved for family unless it concerns my household. I only moved once because of "friends"/people I knew when deciding where to study. Wasn't really stupid, just the wrong reason. It is never easier to make friends than as an 18 year old beginning your studies.

I always intended to move after studying to work abroad for a few years. Scandinavia or California would have been awesome.

I prefer not to move at all now because I/we prefer stability in life now as parents. The doctors we know, the shops we know, the handymen we know - and life isn't that terrible where we are and the daily struggles interesting enough. I would work remote to be able to stay where I am right now, just as an example.

Having moved across the continent as a kid I don't fear moving - I just prefer not to unless really necessary. Moving across the country in a few years, to a place I know more "adolescent-friendly" and with "nicer people" to build a house is still an option for me though - but harder for my partner to feel comfortable with.

I guess a lot of people (including my dad) are more adventurous and need to see the "foreign land", but everyone has their own incentives and anchors.
This is what happened in Second Life.
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How almost every service provider reacts to DMCA notices is by taking down the content ASAP, and if they receive a counter-notice, putting it back up after 2 weeks. They do not make any decisions on whether the content is actually infringing or not. By doing that, they make themselves liable if it actually is copyright-infringing material.

If you aren't okay with that, use a service provider in a jurisdiction not governed by DMCA laws, or run your own service provider and take on that liability yourself.
You don't generate a key pair to share with the client? How does that even work when you want to disable a key or set a password?
Describing in minute detail what you want (knowing yourself as you put it), is software development.

It also means collapsing all uncertainty and replacing it by decision (behavioral or otherwise). Developers making that decision for the customer/user is the major source of friction.
> That's a terrible paraphrase, I think, from a PG essay?

PG likes to use the phrase counter intuitive. The idea, in fewest words, strive for originality/disruption not acceptance. Original ideas are not instantly popular as most people fear originality.
Why do you feel so entitled to such ultimate convenience?

Of course it's way better if you steal without consequence, but this is not a scalable approach.
If you can't sleep at 3AM and would like to, plan to do anything else afternoon than staring at the screen - like, try to walk and find a path to a moderately distant place in your city you know/like but have no idea how to get there on feet, without using a phone unless you really get lost. This can be fun and long walk and navigation will tire you down. You can think about what you're gonna do next time too.

Like taking up some challenges in life. Besides maintaining physical fitness and getting tired in the process, one thing I like is to create contraptions (does not have to be a "product") that could be useful to you or people you know. An air purifier, a charging station for a phone, a piece of wooden furniture, or anything else. Get some tools and get working.

If you prefer social activity, plan to do the above with a friend.
Very similar rules apply for tax deduction of a home office in Germany.
Really? What about an OS kernel code? How does "it's allcator" interacts "with the OS"? And what these allocators were written in?
News aside (whether true or not), this guy is definitely more evil than Jeff and Zuck combined.
I used netflix, I liked their content (99% of what I watch are series, so I don’t care about movies). What made me finally cancel was their UX that they seem hellbent on making worse and worse.

1. No, I don’t want to get rewatch suggestions.

2. Yes, I’d like to have always the same thumbnail for the same show.

3. Yes, I’d like to tell you "Never show me this show again".

4. No, I don’t want any automatic screen movement.

A cherry on top would be having a toggle to only show me shows with English subs.
This analogy fails on every level. There are points to be made against pirating, you made zero of them. Chocolate bars are consumed and digested, digital media is not,it can be resold, rented infinitely.

There is also the point GP may have already seen the movie in theaters, why should he have to pay to watch it again. Also gp wanted to rent the movie, not purchase it,and on top of that has multiple streaming services he is subscribed to, none of which offered the movie.

People are tired of having to hunt down what they want to watch, and many would happily pay for one service that had the full catalogaavailable regardless of region. Until this happens the MPAA will never win by greed and shooting themselves in the foot.
Not sure who this is for.

More than half of Windows devs need to use a widget kit to make GUI applications, which does not appear included.

Small console programs are already reasonably portable, with cmake solving most build problems.

The latest version of MSVC seems to be catching up, and for Qt style applications you can just target msvc/llvm.

Looks like the author choose to use some outdated practices and is struggling to get them to work.
Great effort!
The very first words on slack.com right now are:

> WORK FROM HOME

> Slack brings the team together, wherever you are

> With all of your communication and tools in one place, remote teams will stay productive no matter where you’re working from.

They are heavily marketing Slack as an essential tool for remote work since Covid hit.
Does that reduce the ram footprint and the slowness of the thing, or does it just mean the task manager/system resource monitor files it under "Firefox" instead of "Slack"?

(I write and dislike web apps since I tend to lose them. Having dedicated windows which don't host all the links I click on to documents is much more conducive to my organisation style. Actually, I would go so far as to say that I wish web browsers would still let you turn tabs off.)