skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like an awesome way to run a business, with some pretty nasty caveats.

And those caveats are that (a) you have a substantial and enforced amount of employee empowerment (ability to push back on poor tasking from above) & (b) you have an incredibly objective and ungameable performance evaluation system.

If you're going to all in on measuring people by performance, then you'd better be really good at actually measuring performance (and preventing managers from influencing measurements).
UCLA team proposes non-photosynthetic biological conversion of CO2
If you are at all consulting focused, I think Principal is a great title. Flexible, but has credibility.
> it's still massively used for content distribution

Is it, though? Youtube doesn't use it, neither do Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Spotify, etc. Does anybody (except for Blizzard) use it? I don't think Steam or the Epic store or the App Store or the Play Store use it, either.

I'd be extremely glad to be proven wrong.
It also goes against the essence of many companies that want to grow and to do so make everyone more productive. So you want to cash in that productivity but so do they!
Yes there is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0m0_qtfzLs
ARM was probably what sank MIPS; it seems like the move to China is just a result of the company going under without any way to really make money.
> I think there are immediate negatives, like collaboration, synchronous decision-making.

This hits companies with teams who sit in the same office. Companies that are more spread out didn't suffer as much. My team of four people is spread of four cities, so we were always remote to each other.

The negatives come from equipment and socialisation:

- most homes are not equipped to be offices (anything from lack of proper chairs to lack of proper quiet places at home, especially if kids are on vacation)

- you do miss interactions with other people at the office even if they are not on your team: lunches together, coffee breaks etc. This can be mitigated (just ask freelancers how they cope), but it will eventually affect most people

- You often end up working more at the detriment of your work-life balance due to some routines just not being there. No one asks you to join them for lunch? You end up skipping lunch because you're working. People are not leaving for home en masse, you end up staying way beyond work hours hacking at "just one more bug and PR, and I'm done".
For solo writers propbaly not but for a writers room i could se it being a problem,

Ill have to ask one of our TTRPG streaming group who is a writer / co-producer on a netflix show.
There are quite a few quadruped robots that use them for legs: https://youtu.be/2k5lOUGenkE
This is pretty cool. Per-file hash trees is something I've been missing for some time now.
While reading one of the 2011 threads I came across this incredible comment by Eliezer (who I didn't know about before) replying to someone else:

> > In 100 years I hope to have grandchildren who knew me still living.

> > In 1000 years it's a stretch that there will still be an accurate note of my existence.

> > In 10000 there may not even be a myth about the existence of any of us here.

> 10,000 years from now, I'm going to remind you that you said that, and we'll both think it was pretty funny.

The thought of this for some reason captured my imagination, so I clicked on the username, and then his website, which led me to the AI-Box Experiment and oh boy... what a journey this was. Highly recommend reading about this.
The same thing also happens in ways that are harder to detect in other markets like wine. See https://priceonomics.com/post/46618070248/the-price-of-wine:

> In this range, brands can dramatically affect price. The same wine in two differently branded bottles can have very different costs, as shown by the prices offered by negociants such as Cameron Hughes:

> “Hughes signs confidentiality agreements that preserve a winery’s anonymity. After all, a producer of a $40 Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon doesn’t want his customers to know they can get a nearly identical wine from Hughes for $25. Yet the winery might need to move out surplus inventory, generate cash flow or make full use of capacity, a win-win-win situation for the producers, consumers and Hughes.”
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“If you talk about engineering, they certainly have an excellent engineering culture, but I don't think they're implicitly more talented than many other companies.”

If we took a random sample of Netflix engineers and compared them to a company with weak engineering cultures, like Blockbuster, I’m sure we could agree that Netflix engineers are more talented.
Emacs doctor is very rudimentary but can be surprisingly useful.
Ask HN: Why have the newsyc20/newsyc50 Twitter bots stopped tweeting?
The similar accounts newsyc100, newsyc150, etc. continue to send out stories, but nothing below 100 points.
I love the scale as well - the body fat measurements and the wifi-based sync makes it a pleasure to use.

I got around the approval delay for the Withings BPM Core by ordering the item from Amazon.fr and I suspect I will need to do the same for the Withings ScanWatch if I decide to get it. Not sure how/why the approval in EU is faster.
> proportionate to the attendant hype

From the original comment.

Also, just because it was 50% at some point, it doesn't really matter today. Paraphrasing, a technology is only as good as it's latest match result.

Perl was once powering the web, nowadays you have to look at the web with an electronic microscope to find it...
What's new in the Citus 9.4 extension to Postgres
Nihilism for example is extremely coherent as a philosophy. Not a good way of living though.
O guess these things also depend on country, in Eastern Europe where I'm from many high position successful women leaders have stated that gender quotas are actually offensive and they wouldn't want to be so called diversity hire. I think about it often how Americans who get into somewhere because of their knowledge and skill but are part of some minority think affirmative action (discrimination for us), it would be obvious for people to suspect then they are only there because of lowered exceptions.
Or if there's a vulnerability in a popular media player.
Nope, the problem is that software never upgrade their ssl stack to support the newer ciphers. Especially Microsoft that's easily 10 years behind on the current SSL version.

Without the ability to support multiple versions, it would be impossible to upgrade anything at all. That would be a whole load of other problems.
That’s why it’s good to have two things. One is to be able to easily pick up a job somewhere else for same pay and benefits if required. Second is to say no, ideally in a respectful way. Pretend you have another boss vying for those other 8 hours (this boss is you of course!)
> Between the engine and the 18 variable displacement pumps [...] was a 100-pound flywheel. It spun up to 12,000 rpm and could store .25 kWh of energy.
> The flywheel also allowed the vehicle to recuperate some energy from the pumps when the ASV came to a stop […] and ensured a smooth shutdown in case of a sudden loss of power.
> []always[] desirable

Nitpick: this not true[0] because some updates include or depend on secrity regressions either embedded in or misrepresented as[1] new features.

Strongly agree with the actual point that there's no reason to dismiss a security bug as unimportant just because (you think that) it's impossible or impractical to exploit.

0: at least of "security" "updates" in the sense of "discrete packets of data that move a program from one nominal version to another nominal version" "which fix security bugs and are described as such by relevant metadata" contrarespectively

1: the classic example being "We added support for javascript! Now any website you visit can remotely execute code on your computer!", but most cases are more subtle
> No thief is going to bother cutting my locks when there is a Campagnolo on the next rack.

Exactly, lock your bike close to a better one with a similar lock. The thieve will start from that one and could have no time left for yours.
qbittorrent, hands down :)
Open source, cross platform and relatively small footprint (native), uTorrent-like UI.

I believe it uses libtorrent under the hood, so this might be integrated soon.
Can you give some examples? It all sounds very... mysterious. At least, what kind of content are we talking about?
IANAL, but afaik this depends on whether the legislation is English law or Latin law from origin. Where Latin law is more about the intent and english, and therefore US law, is more about the letter of the law. Perhaps the distinction is along a different axis but this is how I remember.
if you're that sensitive you shouldn't try to learn about another culture
I lost more than 10 pounds simply by adding regular HIIT to my workouts. I'm not even overweight in the first place, so I thought that was quite a surprise. Basically from the upper bound of BMI to the lower bound in a few months. So it definitely works. (I still don't have a massive 6 pack though... what's up with that!?)

During lockdown I found it very difficult to stay motivated to work out. Thankfully lots of Youtubers were doing challenges, and I passed some of the time with a ridiculously hard "ab challenge." It was very hard to put in my typical level of oomph without the corresponding atmosphere to go with it. So while the abs stayed strong for the most part, just about everything else suffered. Adding weights now that the gym is open damn near killed me at first, so I realize that wasn't nearly enough.

Three weeks since my gym re-opened and I'm still not at the strength level I was back in March, but my fat percent is very close again. There is measurably steady and rapid progress every week, probably thanks to muscle memory. And the gym has never been so clean all the time!

Motivation is extremely important. Otherwise the H part of HIIT will suffer. It'll feel like you're putting a lot into it, but you have to pay attention to make sure you really are.
Well in New Zealand we used to charge-per-byte but as things got cheaper this has largely gone away. Some of the cheaper how fibre accounts have something like a 100G/month limit but I guess it isn't worth the trouble to charge even here where bandwidth is much more expensive than the US.
I've moved from using geographical boundaries to separate work from non-work to using time as the fence. Work starts at a given time and ends at a given time, very few exceptions. Laptop lid opens, laptop lid closes.

It's worked out well for me, but I can understand it not working as well for others.
As mentioned in sibling thread, unless GP is 80 years old and has had their head in the sand for the last 30 of them, the word in question is likely "svart" (black) rather than "neger" (negro).
The battery powered angle grinder gave thieves the advantage, but you'd think bike owners would have the advantage now that a battery powered transmitter can be tiny and easily hidden on a bike. People could (if police isn't interested in provoking crime which is illegal in some jurisdictions) plant nice looking bikes with transmitters, wait for them to be stolen, and follow the bike to what's presumably some kind of stash of stolen bikes. Repeat for a few years until thieves feel it's too dangerous.
And you point is Linux is a commodity bet they will use structured cabling also.

You don't get a paradime busting product without a tight co-located team
Have you tried using Google Colab and other online platforms?
I started the course a few days ago and so far Colab works well (I don’t really like Jupiter but that’s a detail...). It’s free and you have the choice between a CPU, a GPU, and a TPU.
Either tripping can be life altering or it can't alter your brain permanently. Both can't be true at the same time.
Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity has happened and prevailed not because there was a pro-EU protest, but because there was a blatant power abuse against innocent people.

"Deep connections" is an irrelevant argument, and Ukraine also had such connections.
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>I don't, but I believe "cancel culture" is entirely defined by the left, so again I find the notion of the left being "open-minded" entirely contrary to all lived experience.

So.. you actually do. Otherwise the idea of an open minded leftist wouldn't be incomprehensible to you.

> Can you point to a single piece of evidence for the left being more open-minded?

Leftist philosophy has its roots in the French Revolution and the Renaissance, it and the left/right political axis wasn't invented on Tumblr. Traditionally, leftist belief tends to be the secular and progressive counterpart to the conservatism and religious ideology of the right, so by definition, the left tends to be open to new ideas, whereas the right wants to maintain the status quo.

The left was more open minded about secular science versus religion when the right was burning heretics.

The left was more open minded about the viability of models of government other than rule by the Church and a King. The Magna Carta, Declaration of the Rights of Man and US Constitution are all leftist in principle.

The left is more open minded about sexual identity, accepting LGBT culture and nonbinary gender identity, as opposed to the right.

The left is more open minded about race and gender roles, being the side that embraces civil rights and feminism, rather than the right.

The left is more open minded about sexual expression than the right, which still believes any sexual expression outside of monogamous, heterosexual marriage is immoral.

The left is more open minded about cultural and artistic expression than the right. The left writes most of the books that get burned and movies that get banned, because the left is the side constantly transgressing societal norms (which makes them more open minded about than the right in that regard.)

The hacker ethos[0] is entirely leftist, and I can't think of a more open minded philosophy. The right definitely would not have come up with something that threatened the gatekeepers and information brokers keeping Ma Bell, the big 3 tv networks and newspapers at the top of the information pyramid.

And here's something that will blow your mind - not every leftist agrees with cancel culture. Leftists are even more open minded about that than the right, which, like yourself, seems to see the left as some kind of SJW hivemind.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
Ask HN: What, if any, is the most faithful HyperCard workalike in 2020?
Do you want to see my stamps collection?
Cool story... but I'd like to learn more about the titular loose lips.
Very interesting - I will definitely try that next time.

I agree! Flexible work would be a huge differentiator and I was ready to bend over backwards for it. I’ve heard that many companies won’t consider it because developers are just so darn expensive - it’s not worth it to pay a huge ransom and not get someone’s full attention.
I added an rpi0 to my Olivetti M10 (a Model 100 clone) and it is wonderful! So much data, a great keyboard, and a reason to sit and read and stop bothering about pixels .. ;)
In the 90’s, as a teen I was reading the Amiga ROM Kernel Manuals to try to learn programming on the Amiga.

The section on graphics and UI described BOOPSI - an object-oriented way of constructing UI elements with inheritance, etc. Had never been exposed to that before and it blew my mind.
The lack of fall detection in smartwatches other that AW4+ is a bit baffling. Garmin has an implementation but it only works during activities and not generally afaik. I got the AW4 for a parent primarily for the fall detection.
These sound like things most companies claim to have.

Most companies have a set of values. Some, like Amazon, actively encourage questioning things that go against those values. In my company, we haven't as deeply enshrined the notion of questioning things that go against the claimed company values. As a result, no one cares for the values, and people tend to ignore any org/department leader espousing any value (company or otherwise). The common refrain is "That's just talk, and few follow it." A company where you can actively question people's actions when they are inconsistent with the claimed values would be quite refreshing.

> You seek what is best for Netflix, rather than what is best for yourself or your group

First, to clarify different interpretations: They're likely saying to avoid decisions that will benefit you/your team/your department at the expense of the company as a whole. If that's the case, I understand the sentiment, and most companies claim the same. Mine definitely does. However, again, it's rarely practiced and the company is full of folks who do things to benefit themselves while hurting their team/department/company. If Netflix's culture solves this, then this is great! In any case, even if they fail at this, the statement is in line with most companies.

> You accomplish amazing amounts of important work

Well, a lot of companies want that. Probably few actually follow through like Netflix. I agree I probably wouldn't want to work there because of this, but I also don't think there is anything wrong with it. They're up front about it, pay a lot, and from what I hear they pay generous severance pay - the idea being that you're getting fired is not meant to be a statement about your abilities.
Disney’s Mulan thank Xinjiang security bureau involved with concentration camps
I wonder if this was related to the DARPA/ArmsTech partnership back on Shadow Moses.
I agree, as a non-American this thing is really weird, what's even weirder is that people can't even say the word. It reminds me of Harry Potter and how they call Voldermort as "the one who cannot be named" or something similar. This is really interesting as I don't think I've heard of another culture where some words are avoided in this way, by literally beeping the word in real life. I guess beeping is a big thing in the US after all.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m really willing to relearn typing as I got too much used to the (awesome) touchpads of macbooks.
Weed and beer are comparable imo. I would even pick weed as the healthier option. But synthetic drugs exist and those are a different story.

And what I ment with that is that you would unleash some other abusable substances into society.
Yes, because warez is the only valid use of bittorrent.

Most Linux distros offer an installation iso via torrent, large files with many blocks. If you can change just a small part of those files, you’ve got compromised machines before the install even begins.
You are pretty much describing a coworking space or a good library. I don’t know if you own a house, but you might change your opinion once you’ll be on the search.
This is a well-reasoned question, and something I think many people grapple with when they first dig deeper into machine learning. There are a couple things here:

1. Yes, most machine learning approaches are explicitly about sophisticated pattern recognition. To be clear, people working on machine learning have never been unclear about this. On this note, I'd recommend checking out some of the work done by Arthur Samuel, the man who coined the term "machine learning." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Samuel

2. Related to the above, there is a common conflation of the goals of machine learning research and our more sci-fi, AGI ambitions. The goal of a given model, typically, is to make predictions that score well on a given task. Generating passably human text, classifying images, whatever. I don't know of any recently released models whose stated purpose is to recreate complete human intelligence.

3. If we are going to judge machine learning efforts by their ability to recreate the exact mechanisms of human intelligence, we first need a much clearer image of what those mechanisms are.
Pyra Handheld? Open Pandora?

http://pyra-handheld.com

https://openpandora.org

Disclaimer: I love my OpenPandora!
Wow! That is pretty cool.

You can also play NES, SNES, Genesis and Windows games by the way. Some of the games are pretty big in size, games like Nox at ~200MB., well pulled off!
You mean paradigm.

The current deficiencies in remote work will create opportunities for new products to fill those gaps.

I find it nonsensical for people to commute 1 hour only to sit in front of a computer that is connected to the Internet. And, lately, that computer happens to be the same you could use at home: a laptop, making it even more nonsensical.

Saturating streets with 5 seat cars with one occupant in them, cars that do not even need to be there anyways, creates a miserable urban experience for everyone.

Working from home also makes people focus on deliverables rather than superficial aspects of work: clothes, haircut, fitness, etc.

Plus, I don't think "I want to see face muscles moving" (something you can do using a camera anyways) is a proper justification for ruining the environment. The #1 challenge of the 21st century is how to make each human have a lower carbon footprint, and working from home fits well into that narrative.

Unless you seek a physical intimacy or violence with your coworkers I don't see the need for being in the same room.
It's no longer the question of "engineering edge". People will subscribe to Disney+ even if it only offers 720p streams with long buffering times. Even now in some countries (I'm writing this from Sweden) Netflix is 70% Netflix content, 5% a small number of fairly recent movies, and 25% a hodgepodge of movies not more recent than 2005. For the sole reason that the main content hoarders, ahem, rights holders have stopped their broad licensing deals with Netflix (Disney, WB etc.) and are openly hostile towards Netflix.

If you don't have content, your technical edge means nothing. Netflix understood this the moment Disney (or was it WB?) announced they would cancel their licensing deal with Netflix a few years back, and Netflix started pumping billions of dollars into producing its own content.
YC backed Station (“one place for all your web apps”) pivots to browser add-on
Whenever I’ve moved abroad, home becomes by definition the new place. Anything left behind is given to friends, disposed of commercially and responsibly, or boxed into long-term storage.

Simply being resident overseas doesn’t terminate US citizenship; you can’t lose it accidentally (although you can lose your passport; pro tip: don’t). Taxation, especially inadvertent liability for double taxation on income, is a can of worms though, and it might limit where you live & work to nations that have an income tax treaty with the US. That is still much of the planet, but there are demons in the details so rather than attempt to interpret the smorgasbord of IRS regulations and treaties for you I’d recommend obtaining advice from an international tax professional, it’ll be worth it.

However you’ll find all of these issues pale into comparison with the logistics of finding somewhere to live, opening a bank account, maintaining resident alien status with employment rights, registering (and remaining in regulatory compliance) with local governmental entities, finding work/society and so on in another country and culture and maybe even different language and alphabet.

I’ve done this 𝖿̶𝗈̶𝗎̶𝗋̶ five times now. What we leave behind is the least of the problem. Fortunately, I don’t ever see it as a problem. It’s always been an incredible adventure.
On the whole, Eastern Europe seems to have done much better with gender equity than the US.

(That's a relative comparison)
I will second this comment. Angry customers not having a voice is effectively a non-issue in the world.

Engineering time would be best spent on solving real world problems.
Lasers, fusion research, GPS, the internet...
This falls apart when you examine prohibited goods. Guns are illegal in most countries because they are very useful.