skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but I'd theorise a big part of the outsourcing trend has reached its economic conclusion by now.

I started my career in Poland, just before the foreign startups decided it's an interesting market to outsource to. A number of US owned startups and medium-sized tech companies started offering salaries 2-3x higher than the local firms. I moved from a place where my last conversation was "No web developer can hope for more than $4/h rate, come on" to, well, a $10/h place. A lot of this was made easier by EU, a lot was just US companies being encouraged by the economic growth, stability and the prospect of saving the half of their bottom line. With salaries at ~$20-30k a year everyone was happier than before.

Then a natural thing happened, the market became increasingly competitive. Ten years later, a good senior developer in Poland could earn $60k, but crucially, costed the company close to $100k due to employer taxes and other costs of running business. Some companies are fine with it, but some understand that it's ever closer to what an employee in their HQ costs, and some are slowing down the growth or moving out alltogether. Surprise, over-the-pond communication is not so easy even on a good day, and there are cultural differences to deal with too. Some moved further east, I'm curious to see how that plays out.

Going back to the remote work pushing down the salaries, I think that's unlikely to be the reason, because lower wage locations are rarely saving that much in the long run. Maybe we see a temporary dip, but I also look forward to moving out of big city and lowering my cost of living.

What I think is more likely is that the economy shrinks and the endless supply of engineering jobs dries out, moving us back to employer's market. That can have all kinds of ripple effects on the local and outsourced jobs.
> Most workflows can benefit from multiple monitors. it's a silly thing to be bottlenecked by screen area on a fancy computer when used 1080p monitors are nearly free in 2020.

If this is your cup of tea, I recommend checking out VR Desktop style workflows (arguably a good way to experience "working in The Future™", with infinite screens, customizable environments, etc). Here is one for Linux that we've been working on for a few years: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula
>> Last mile for fixed rural wireless broadband seems like the obvious one.

I was under the impression that 5G has shorter range and requires smaller cells. That's exactly the opposite of being better for rural areas.
not OP but: tags (custom data types), more builtin data types (dates etc), more syntax variations (heredocuments, multiple ways to write a string,a boolean, etc), comments, references+aliases.

The language is vast, and most people use it without knowing it.

I love YAML, but I wish there was a "strict&sane yaml subset".
There is a great deal of research (eg., see Enrico Moretti and Ed Glaeser) that documents that you’re statement isn’t accurate. There are very strong network effects of educated cities, and unless you believe all future post-COVID network will be over Zoom or Slack (which feels rather dystopian), then post-COVID cities will do just fine.

In fact, you could argue that what will suffer is living close to suburban office nodes in order to save commute times. Even more young people may choose to live in cities if they can avoid the schlep out to their suburban office (think Google bused from SF to Mountain View, but where you only need to take them for big meetings in the office rather than every day).
Maybe we should ban prime numbers above 50 million also...

Or stop fighting reality...

:)
US attitudes towards China are at all time lows [1].

It doesn't seem as bad as the 1960's and the USSR, but I'm fearing that the rhetoric continues to get more polarizing until we're at "better dead than red".

Don't think China doesn't do this as well either, state media in China has been seeding anti-US sentiment for awhile.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/04/21/u-s-views-of-c...
It's not far off. Vandy's built for Falcon Heavy, and was at one time slated to host its debut flight. That got changed to the Cape during development, so it may at this point be a few hardware revisions behind, but that's not a big deal, and can certainly be done in the timeframe of a FH order.
Signature chain for the transformations. The video host signs the pre-recompressed video and provides the original signature.
I can totally see this happening.

This is the pathology of large business executives - once you have a mature business, it is boring, and pretty much anything else seems exciting, and so you focus on this new thing, and worse, start promoting it internally as a model for everything _that's actually successful_.

Due to my career wanderings, I've seen this a few times, and many times the hot new thing has been a mountain of technical debt that has spent the last few years doing everything possible to juice growth and spinning amazing stories to investors, the press, etc. They've been selected for telling a great story. The executives at OldCorp tend to have a natural immunity to the messaging and scheming of their interior ecosystem, but they are not used to these invasive species.

If this is what Gates is getting at, I think that's very astute of him.
Someone should map the sentiment in HN comments on working from home during Coronavirus articles, I bet it would look interesting. I feel like they're getting gradually more negative. (I personally can't wait to go back to the office.)
IDK, it's hard to point to a country in the world that has made domination so central to their identity. Rome, maybe? England for sure.
I am really looking forward to StarLink. Even if it is expensive many ISPs outside the cities that are now just monopolies will find they will have to improve customer service.
But grass is sometimes hot pink:

https://www.plantingtree.com/products/pink-muhly-grass
Again, every large power gets there by exercising it, continually, throughout the duration of their existence.

Look at standing rock, America's war against the indigenous isn't over.
lots of teachers are young. Lots of people who work at schools are young.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/how-man...

"one in four teachers (24%, or about 1.47 million people), have a condition that puts them at higher risk of serious illness from coronavirus. This percentage is the same as the one we found for workers overall"

Let the old stay home

How will the 1.47 million teachers mentioned above pay their bills and put food on the table?

Again what are you going to do if we dont get vaccines?

That's what everyone is trying to figure out. Telling the old and frail to quarantine themselves just isn't the answer, because old and and frail people work for a living, and live with relatives who have children, and live alone but have family members that come to care for them, etc. etc.
Grigori Rasputin
Hundreds of millions of Indians have been vegetarians for centuries without any meaningful difference in health outcomes. Any claim about adverse health effects needs to account for that history.

I have a very bleak view about humanity’s ability to overcome the senseless, mass slaughter and consumption of animals, even in spite of the existential risks of pandemic disease and environmental collapse that continuing to do so poses. But the idea that it’s a biological necessity (outside of a very small percentage of people with specific health conditions), seems easily disproven.
I ought to think twice before starting a comment thread on HN now
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Nah, it's very clear your hackles are raised. You're trying very hard to insult me and it's honestly hilarious.

> Your comment literally started by saying "No." In English, that means you disagree with what I wrote. It's followed by a comma, where in a standard English construction you would present your counterargument.

Do you respond this way to everything? I can just imagine your household.

...
DMCA notices are submitted under penalty of perjury, which means someone submitting false ones could be prosecuted criminally. We need an ambitious DA somewhere to enforce this, though.

I've been tracking lawsuits for false DMCA or trademark/patent claims, there's been a rising number, but any litigation takes time and money. I would support a law with punitive damages for such offenses, as well as a law making clear that such conduct is not legally protected (IP abusers have argued they have 1st amendment rights to say whatever they want, or similar argument.)

Note that it's sometimes possible to sue for antitrust violations, which carries a triple damages provision. I'm also currently attempting to get a RICO claim to work with an underlying wire fraud predicate, which would also lead to triple damages.
> we shouldn't automatically think

Ah yes, we surely shouldn't automatically about anything. We should use reason and data.
On the topic of the portability of Z3, does anyone know why this example runs fine on native amd64 but fails to solve when built with emscripten/wasm?

https://github.com/sielicki/z3wasm

Do a build by running, “mkdir bld && cd bld && emcmake cmake ../ -GNinja && emmake ninja”
When people are violently objecting to wearing a mask for 10 minutes in the store, I’m less worried about studies focusing on long-term mask usage and more worried about the impact of those spreading doubt.
The title of the first study is:

A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers

Not only is your presentation of its results in bad faith, you rely on people not reading the article.
Avoiding ? I wouldn't call this avoiding, it's lacking attention.
DMCA claims already must be submitted under penalty of perjury. It's just rare to see prosecutions.
Or just false negative of the test itself.
As with the chemical-free movement, there is needed context; It's not built specifically to grab eyeballs or profit off others. There are algorithms for decisions, but it's to choose what next to play from a given set rather than to motivate and pressure.
His point is more nuanced than that, and oversimplified complex ideas virally spreading through social media is part of what he talks about.

"Q: As someone who has built your life on science and logic, I’m curious what you think when you see so many people signing onto this anti-science view of the world.

A: Well, strangely, I’m involved in almost everything that anti-science is fighting. I’m involved with climate change, GMOs, and vaccines. The irony is that it’s digital social media that allows this kind of titillating, oversimplistic explanation of, “OK, there’s just an evil person, and that explains all of this.” And when you have [posts] encrypted, there is no way to know what it is. I personally believe government should not allow those types of lies or fraud or child pornography [to be hidden with encryption like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger].

Q: Well, you’re friends with Mark Zuckerberg. Have you talked to him about this?

After I said this publicly, he sent me mail. I like Mark, I think he’s got very good values, but he and I do disagree on the trade-offs involved there. The lies are so titillating you have to be able to see them and at least slow them down. Like that video where, what do they call her, the sperm woman? That got over 10 million views! [Note: It was more than 20 million.] Well how good are these guys at blocking things, where once something got the 10 million views and everybody was talking about it, they didn’t delete the link or the searchability? So it was meaningless. They claim, “Oh, now we don’t have it.” What effect did that have? Anybody can go watch that thing! So I am a little bit at odds with the way that these conspiracy theories spread, many of which are anti-vaccine things. We give literally tens of billions for vaccines to save lives, then people turn around saying, “No, we’re trying to make money and we’re trying to end lives.” That’s kind of a wild inversion of what our values are and what our track record is."
>releases of LTE 16 and 17

Nitpicking, 3GPP Rel 16 / 17. There is no such thing as LTE 16 :)

But generally yes. 5G is basically a much better 4G.
You're being downvoted unfairly, I think. The "fairest" approach is a lottery. Fair is not one of the goals here though.
It looks like this tool imports bank CSV. You can produce similar CSV with hledger's register command (or aregister, in master). Export one account and one currency at a time. Eg:

$ hledger -f examples/sample.journal reg checking cur:'\$' -O csv
"txnidx","date","code","description","account","amount","total"
"1","2008-01-01","","income","assets:bank:checking","$1","$1"
"2","2008-06-01","","gift","assets:bank:checking","$1","$2"
"3","2008-06-02","","save","assets:bank:checking","$-1","$1"
"5","2008-12-31","","pay off","assets:bank:checking","$-1","0"
Shiro wrote our "new" regex engine, to replace the one written in the 80's. It has served us very well.

https://franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/regexp.h...

(I say new, because it's a bunch of years old, at this point... I forget when he did it)
Not to mention the psychological effects it has. Research has shown Instagrams rise strongly correlated with rise in teen suicide rates. TikTok seems worse. Only a matter of time before people realize it's like cigarettes if not worse.
> You do realize that Japan did not surrender after the complete and utter destruction of Hiroshima.

Were you hoping I wouldn't check the dates? Hiroshima was bombed on August 6th, Nagasaki on the 9th, and Japan surrendered on the 15th. It took them 6 days after the 2nd bomb (and Soviet declaration of war) to surrender, but the 2nd bomb dropped 3 days after the 1st. Diplomacy takes time. If the US had dropped 10 nukes in 3 days, would you have said "Japan did not surrender after the 9th nuke - clearly the 10th was warranted"?

And nothing you wrote disproves that the Soviet declaration of war alone would have been enough for surrender, while the whole article is full of accounts indicating unconditional surrender was at hand (let alone conditional surrender). Just saying "nu-uh" won't make the article go away.

Not to mention the bombs could easily have been delayed by a week to check.
I agree in the sense that TikTok is a trust and safety disaster at the moment and I’m not sure Microsoft realizes the investment required to clean it up and make it truly safe.

One of the most disturbing features to me is that you can be logged out and download nearly any video to your phone. It would be naive to think pedophiles are not actively downloading videos of minors dancing provocatively and sharing it.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-you-use-leanplum...
Content moderation and editorial oversight is not censorship.
Until a third competitor is flying reliably it remains prudent to overpay for ULA. Even commercial satellite operators don't sole-source to the cheapest option because they want to keep other operators available. Space launch is a brittle business since a single failure will put a launcher out of commission for a significant fraction of a year.
In reality if Congress wants an expert they need to have a team of engineers at the company performing audits and code reviews.

No different than a company that does due diligence before an acquisition.
> In MS Word, OSX TextEdit, and most other editors/word processors, search and replace is front and center.

What about batch S&R in multiple files? What about S&R by regular expressions? What about both? There are entire dimensions of basic automation that aren't covered, except in editors used by programmers.

> In OS X Finder, you can batch-rename files by highlighting them, right-clicking, and clicking "Rename [N] Files..."

Didn't know that. I have only seen "batch rename" in Windows Explorer, and it's pretty basic (and not even advertised - whether you select one or multiple files, the option is always called just "Rename"). So if you want to turn "foo.exe" and "foo.dll" into "bar.exe" and "bar.dll", that'll work. If you want to turn a bunch of files into "foo1", "foo2", "foo3", I'm not sure if you can do that.

> In Excel, all kinds of repetitive, menial tasks are immediately discoverable to even a complete beginner

Agreed. On top of that, working with Excel is essentially programming (FRP at that), just not advertised as such. Altogether, this makes Excel one of the best pieces of software written in the history of mankind. But it's an exception that proves the rule.
Print stuff.

Its like multiple monitors, except its cheaper. Like $0.05 a page. A lot of paper-style documentation is still a gross force mutiplier, even in the age of multiple monitors.

Learn to use paper tools to create booklets that are useful to you. I like 2-hole punch (2.75" US Standard) and comb binders. Spending a few minutes honing your paper documentation for your current task can make you grossly faster.
Gain-of-Function research for Influenza – 2019
Most users will never feel any change despite who owns it, unless MS pull a FB and inject multiple streams of ads into it overnight.
I'm not so convinced. Let me first say, I can't stand TikTok and find its constant stream of annoying music angering.

That out of the way, my wife and daughter love it, and I can see why. It made it easy for anyone and everyone to share clips, with a touch of social. It makes YouTube look like a slow bloated dinosaur. I just don't see people giving it up.
Not any more; he stepped down earlier this year.

https://news.microsoft.com/2020/03/13/microsoft-announces-ch...
only a fool would call himself an expert.

What others call you is a different matter.
What exactly do you mean by that? What are you comparing?

I was just referring to the $10M penalty.

I agree that they should lose and that they should pay some kind of penalty.

I just think it shouldn’t be a lottery win for the people they filed against - they should definitely be made whole for the frivolous lawsuit - but not much more than that.

It’s worth pointing out too that the legal system clearly doesn’t consider the lawsuit frivolous.

Why is that, and why don’t we seem to care about it? Surely there are judges who have a responsibility to dismiss frivolous cases and prevent this kind of thing.
It’s more amazing to me that you wrote that in the present tense as if you would do it again.
I don't know if you know but 20 odd years ago what was called AI at universities was SMT/prolog etc. People where doing stuff like expressing common sense facts in logic and using programs to derive more common sense.
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Taxation fuels the digital divide across Africa
Keeping track of the little things. And of course saying no.

If you take 30-60 minutes a day to be sure that little things that are easy to take care of are actually complete, over time your coworkers will think you're 5x as productive as you are now. I have to work at this; I instinctively bury myself in 1 problem and put every single other thing aside.

It's really the same trade-off as working hard on a low priority issue, but being careful not to neglect the smaller, easier, but more important issues as they come up.
Same here! I usually just watch YouTube during work hours or go for a walk until I feel that “flow state” coming on then I’ll work until whenever.
Depends on how you run it. A screen is more than just "4k", or 4000 pixels wide. The amount of pixels in total spread out over the physical dimension, depending on the aspect ratio and the distance between you and the screen as well as the rendered density by the computer together make the result.

So, you could use a 27 inch 4k display at 16:9 aspect ratio (which is 3840 by 2160 pixels) in a way that gets you the native resolution which results in much more usable space but the displayed quality isn't all that great. You can run them at 2560x1440 rendering which sacrifices some pace for much improved quality. Works well when you don't sit super close to your screen. Or, if you like more space but still have a little better quality than the jagged mess that is the native resolution, you could run it at 3008x1692. Close to fully usable space but still way better in terms of quality.

The scale of your computer rendered interface and text versus the actual pixel size and density on your display gives you a balance to choose from for space vs. quality. Which one works best is a combination between physical distance to the screen and personal preference (which mostly forms based on cognitive load).
VS Code tries to do it, but it’s heuristic based and generally fallible. (Disclaimer, work on vscode, not on python extension)

I much prefer working in languages wherein the series of tokens absolutely defines the semantics (as opposed to Python where the series of tokens + the context define the semantics)
Hey just wanted to say, after reading some of your posts, your subject matter is exactly the things I'm trying to learn, so I much appreciate your writing. I will be following your progress.
And reading this a smirk came on my face, yo tesla open a comm channel to that car.
Back in the age, seeing the color spectrum rolled out by the prism made me conclude that it's the prism that colored it...

As odd, as it may seem, the presence of the object stole the attention away from the subject. Only later, learning about wave refraction/reflection on the media border has finally elucidated, so to speak, the priciple and placed the origin to the property of the sunlight.

It could've been summarized as "I believe in Prizm" :)
For consumer usage, that is still uncertain. Technically it should be better than 802.11ax, but no one has figure out the patents royalty issues for this use case.
Anecdotal: I work less hours and different hours under lockdown. Burnout means I barely do shit and no one can tell the difference because I was just doing the same thing (YouTube and Twitter) at work anyways.
This has happened many times: British spelling or pronunciation deviates in modern times -- often due to classist tensions special to England -- but then ultimately the British incorrectly suppose the American way is the "ahistorical" one.

Another famous one is "solder". Until about 1920, the British universally pronounced it like the Americans did (derived from the French "souder"). Then the British slowly revised their pronunciation.
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft [pdf]
I will stick to using https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl in the shell.
Permanent residency (C permit) is only possible after 5 and 10 years of residency in Switzerland, so not comparable with Japan's fast track system for highly skilled professionals. Only option 1 is possible. Visas for non-EU countries are restricted. This favors highly educated people anyway which is the same as in a point-based system. For example, if your salary is low, it's basically impossible to get a visa.
Only criminal cases are usually prosecuted on the personal level.

Imagine if somebody proposed taxing terrorist organizations for killing people. When they get caught, the CEO would get his bonus and retire, the organization would either go bankrupt or bailed out by the government because of its importance, and a VP could register the next company, hiring all his ex-colleagues who were just executing company orders.
In my experience, one set of exercise is akin to 2 cups of coffee in terms of wakefulness/alertness. I'm sensitive to caffeine. So by that I mean 2 cups of coffee as someone who's sensitive to caffeine.

Also, with 1 set of exercise you won't really start to sweat and you can do it every day.
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He is no longer part of the board. He isn't chairman since 2014 and left the board in March this year.