skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney," Martin says.

> Since all the world thought Martin was a vegetable, at the special care center where he spent his days he was often in front of the TV watching reruns of the children's cartoon hour after hour, day after day.

For a young adult with an intact mind... this sounds like hell on Earth.
> extended remote work may not be all it’s cracked up to be, at least for some job functions. While pre-pandemic studies found remote workers were just as efficient as those in offices, there were questions about how employees would perform under compulsory lockdowns.

Or maybe ya know... A pandemic has its own negative effect on productivity.
That’s what Urbit is: https://www.urbit.org
And yet we like to fool ourselves with ideas of a meritocracy.
The other viewpoint is that you provide the same value to your company whether you work in SF or in Kansas City (assuming WFH in both places). So basically you are saying "Hey, if I move to a cheaper place, please take 40% of my compensation and give it out to the C-Suite and shareholders, since I have no other options in my new city". I guess that is the reality of capitalism, and why ownership/equity is so important.
The beam-racing compositor is a cool idea. It seems to me, however, that it could create visible jitter for applications that use traditional vsync-driven frame timing --- e.g. an animation of vertical motion would see a one-frame latency change when the damage rectangle crosses some vertical threshold.
This is a lot of PDFs. Is there a basic summary of what hardware/software is involved available in HTML form?

Sorry if I don't really understand what this is, but it seems like there's a production-ready hardware and software description (written in 2013?) that is applicable today in 2020?

Edit:
Is this meant for academic study? And if so, is a basic newbie description available?
Does anyone have a copy of the 6600 word memo mentioned in this story?
Groovy, always looking for a new one and this looks good. I wonder when Dan Carlin is coming back?
(I put this comment on all duplicates of this post)

I posted what appears to be the top comment on the previous submission of a similar paper describing the probable laboratory origins of SARS-CoV-2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875758), so I'll try and do another quick summary here. (Caveat: I have no particular expertise in this area, I just read a lot of scientific research)

The lead author here is an immunologist who, unlike the authors of prior papers alleging laboratory origin, is Chinese and was trained in Chinese institutions. At the time of the outbreak Dr. Li-Meng Yan was working in a public health lab at Hong Kong University and was asked to investigate. She claims that she fled to the US after realizing that there was a cover-up going on and she knew too much already.

The most striking and novel claim made here is that the bat coronavirus RaTG13, which is a 96% genetic match to the novel coronarivus, is a total fabrication. This argument is based upon a few key observations:

1. RaTG13 was supposedly discovered in 2013 but not publicly reported until after the outbreak already started, in a paper (published by researchers closely affiliated with the WIV) that claimed it as evidence SARS-CoV-2 likely originated from bats.

2. A number of independent preprint papers raise significant concerns about the veracity of RaTG13, and one published paper indicates that the RaTG13 spike protein is actually ineffective at binding to ACE2 receptors in horseshoe bats (the supposed reservoir).

3. After excluding RaTG13, the next closest relatives are two bat coronaviruses (ZC45/ZXC21) that were discovered and characterized by Chinese military research labs. A Chinese lab published research near the start of the outbreak which identified these viruses as the closest relatives, and that same lab was apparently closed for "rectification" shortly thereafter.

The paper goes on under the assumption that ZC45 or ZXC21 was the backbone for engineering the SARS-CoV-2 virus, noting how the particular characteristics of the genomic match (100% E protein, 94% Orf8 protein) align with what one would expect after the gain-of-function modifications that produced the unusual RBM and furin cleavage site which were also identified in the Sørensen paper. This paper goes into much more detail on those two points, and provides counterfactuals to describe how unlikely these observations would be in a naturally-evolved virus.

In the second half of the paper the authors describe in detail how a lab with sufficient technical acumen could engineer a virus like SARS-CoV-2 through a sequence of well-defined steps, with references to published research demonstrating these capabilities. Then they postulate the exact components involved in engineering the actual SARS-CoV-2, along with a projected timeline of six months for the whole process.
When did the democrats do this?
> some customers insisted on a 'second source' for cpus

IBM required it. It was their business MO to protect themselves from losing access to a technology or having the market be dictated by one company. Intel acquiesced so that they would be the architecture of the IBM PC-series.
I had a friend die from CV-19. A parent got infected.

My home has been basically the center of racial justice protests: we’ve had fires set outside our door, tear gas wafting in to our windows, etc.

Even when there’s not a protest, the entire neighborhood is covered in protest-inspired murals that serve as a daily reminder that my life (as a Black person) doesn’t matter right now.

And these past few weeks we’ve been choking on wildfire smoke.

I don’t think this is from watching too much news or doom scrolling. There have been an unprecedented confluence of events that make most tech work seem meaningless right now.
We have Slack and Zoom both, but once we start to involve a bunch of people, we wind up moving to voice and video. Sure, we captured all 6 hours of the call —- Who is up for finding a random 15 second snippet of conversation?
You can get 2 VM from Oracle Cloud for free forever-ish.
Fair point.

The only experimental way I can think of checking this is how similar cloned animals are.

A quick googling seems to say clones are quite similar, but not really identical. Which I think somewhat contradicts my claim.
Any sensible short just sends their bad news stories to Business Insider/Seeking Alpha/Zerohedge. That way there's no SEC scrutiny because it's not the short that published the story.
> Employees always figure out how to abuse productivity metrics.

Targets aren't the same things as measures. Measures of productivity are easy, but targets are not.

For example, for a sufficiently large group of people (e.g. all young developers at JP Morgan), you can measure their productivity with how many lines of code they write on average. As long as you aren't using lines of code for performance evaluation, there is no reason any developer will perform needless large refactors or find other means for increasing their delta.

Edit: changed metric to target
This is pretty frustrating, clearly she said that she wanted her privacy respected, they even acknowledge that in the article, why did they publish her full name and a short description of her linkedin just to make it even easier to find her? What motivation did they have to do this?

But they hid the name of the software engineer that spoke on her credibility? Something seems a little off, either on the source's side or on the distributor's side.
Just in case you’re not trolling: this is an impossible ask. Advertising is a vital step in the success of a business and has been going on for literal millennia.
If tech recruiters were matchmakers
Don’t forget about getting them hooked on the money and perks.
I think there is a userspace version written in Go that shouldn't need root access.
Give it three minutes tops. If you cant focus it doesn’t matter that you might enjoy it.

/sarcasm :)

Whether to give it a month or three years depends on the ambition of the goal and the things learned in the process.
Ban algorithmic sort that favors engagement with partners' ads, and replace it with the superior chronological sort.
I've been programming (professionally) for over 20 years. I now do most of my development in Jupyter, and browser-based IDEs are preferable to me in almost every way.
Do you have a link to the auctioned off parts? I'm curious now
It's a good thought experiment, for sure. Do you have ideas of different directions for something fundamental? Outside the design of the computer system, I'm thinking about the problems we currently face with identity and trust. Maybe that's something that gets baked into a ground up reimplementation of TCP/IP.
Thank you!

I’ll take some time to try and better understand your post.
You might really like Portsmouth, NH. It's a cool seaside town with a lot of character, and easy trips to Maine, VT, NH White Mountains and Boston.
Are you planning to live there forever?
Yes, but that proves OP's point. If the productivity metric was equal to the measure of lines of code, then they would figure out that they can abuse the metric by artificially adjusting the output of the measurement.
Nice! I guess you'll be the first to publish an encoder for this format. I wonder if Fabrice Bellard deliberately never published his encoder in order to encourage curiosity leading to this kind of research. Even then I never expected I would see an analysis with this level of detail, it's almost like a course on compression techniques (but more entertaining).
Companies do this a lot with college grads, they sell them on a vision that they will have high impact and an important role in order to get them into their hiring funnel. It's not necessarily an operational failure more than it is a sleazy marketing tactic to prey on the lack of information by young ambitious people. Though it also results in an operational failure and a terrible waste of young talent.
Not really. Intel hasn't shown any legal or business moves to try to cancel it ever since they developed EM64T and integrated it in their entire product line. AMD existing protects them from antitrust considerations. They would just prefer AMD stay in the budget realm so they can continue selling high margin products (enthusiast, laptop and server chips) without competition.

Not that they would complain if AMD lost their license or ceased existing, they just don't seem to actively be trying to cancel the license at this point.
Companies don't pay employees based on "what they're worth to the company". Just like with other goods and services, the market dictates the price.

So, companies pay what they can to compete for talent in the market. This meant that in high-competition markets like SV, the price (for engineering talent) was very high.

If now the market dynamics have shifted by not limiting supply to the SV area, then you would SV companies to pay LESS for the same engineering talent. So, if you argue that people should be paid the same no matter where they live, then you should also be prepared for salaries for many engineers to fall.
I'm interested in understanding what you mean. What is "OR" shaped data? Are you thinking of data like, "The staff member must have either a salary or an hourly rate"?

Typically I would see this modelled with two db columns, with a DB constraint indicating that only one of these can have a value.
I have real doubts about how big this power of individuals are.

But if random FB engineers actually can affect global political power, it is 100% certain that the intelligence services of the world are putting serious efforts into placing their own people in these positions!
Its been tried, for example Taos:

https://sites.google.com/site/dicknewsite/home/computing/byt...

Very cool and groundbreaking technology!

NOTE: Discussed previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9802379

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15470338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15527936
The sad thing is, this is simultaneously the only way to stay safe AND also the underpinning of almost the entire ad industry - and in turn about half of the money that funds what we think of as "the internet" today.

It really sucks that it seems like we've built the most important infrastructure of our generation effectively on quicksand.
> Google Pay doesn't (officially) work on rooted phones.

As the original request was at least partially pointed in Google's direction, it's probably reasonable to treat it as including a request that google not punish the user in other ways for rooting.

I do believe fundamentally that if you don't have (or can't easily get) root on a device, you don't really own it. On the other hand, giving unlimited permission to third-party apps isn't a great idea in today's model where arbitrary app developers are most certainly not worthy of unlimited trust. I'd like to have a more sophisticated permissions model, to include things like allowing an app access to only specific files and directories rather than full filesystem access (I'm aware Android has a barely-usable form of this), or network access, but only to specific domain names.
It would be 100% user free, as well.

When we started moving to cell phones, you could still call a landline phone from one. When we created web browsers, they could hit gopher or ftp URLs. When Stroustrup created C++, he let C code freely interoperate, which let people migrate at their own pace, or even flip back and forth. When Windows was created, it let DOS programs run. When IBM introduces a new mainframe, they always have a way to run programs from the previous generation (back to the 1960s, at a minimum). In all of these cases, interoperability with the old system was essential for the growth of users for the new system.

How many computer users are there now? Three billion?
Break backward compatibility and interoperability, and you lock half the planet out - the half that uses computers. And the other half... if they decide to use a computer, are they going to use what everyone else uses, or are they going to decide that your completely incompatible new thing is the right answer? Even if (in some platonic sense) your new thing is the right answer, how are they going to know that?

So, like I said... zero users. 100% user free.
That's not how it works. There are multiple limiting factors which all conspire to limit human lifespan to an absolute maximum of about 120 years. Minor advancements in any of those individual factors won't significantly increase lifespan. One of the other limiting factors will just kill you soon after.

Look at the actual evidence. For centuries life expectancy in developed countries was on a general upward trend. Now it has flattened out and is no longer increasing. There is no scientific basis to think that curve will trend up at a rate of more than one year per year in our lifetimes. If you believe that will happen then it's based on faith, not science.
Maybe the same reason why a journalist tried to dox Slate Star Codex. Which is to say, who knows but it probably isn't good.
Not even super massive like amazon, even an app for a few
million users you’ll run into the performance problems of FKs. They are really overrated in their usefulness - as parent says, orphan records are really not a big deal. As soon as you get to any moderate scale, dealing with a small level of data inconsistencies is inevitable.
Especially as you grow into a multiple services, multiple databases type architecture where you fundamentally have to handle breaking fks btw systems
thats old code, nec is now 2020. i dont have an nec codebook...but pretty sure you cant use extension cord connected to the ups connected to another receptacle...the section of the relevant code would be labeled something like 'uses not permitted.'

the code you referenced states 'Between an existing receptacle outlet and an inlet'

the circuit is also unlikely to be arc fault protected, which would mostly likely be required.

also how the romex is run, is not to code.
I was very excited about SwiftUI and spent a lot of time learning from videos and articles. In theory it's awesome and I was ready to create my first project. Most Apple docs, videos and evangelists talk about how easy it is and coming from React I was already familiar with the pattern.

Sadly, excitement lasted 1 month after I realized that it's not ready. Obscure error messages, random bugs in controls and other annoyances turned my initial excitement into frustration. I managed to make things work but had this feeling of it being fragile.

I see the potential, hopefully in a few years.
What language is the server in? You just need a WebRTC implementation and you should be good to go!
> Even from a business perspective, what you're working on today, if it's tech or software related, will be horribly out-dated in 3 years.

Here's how outdated in tech usually works across three years:

We gotta switch to NoSQL, it's the new new hot hot thing! It's going to save us money, it's going to make our service much faster, it's going to be easier to manage. It's revolutionary, everybody says so. Our competition is switching too.

Three years later: we're going to switch away from NoSQL, turns out we didn't actually need to use that. It caused more problems than it solved in our case.

Outdated in three years is mostly only true in a small echo chamber of the tech industry obsessed with chasing fads 24/7. It's an almost entirely self-imposed form of torture by that part of the industry. There are exceptions of course, cases where things legitimately get outdated in just three years, and they're rare.

Was the NoSQL fad that so many people chased necessary? Nope. Are there great use cases for NoSQL systems? Of course. The legitimate use cases aren't fraudulent, it's the fad that is, the mania, the hype (which always implodes, then the headlines come rolling in about switching back).

That's a microcosm of the three year fad hopping that you're talking about (and there are obviously a lot of examples of it, from big data to AI/ML, to the latest framework craze). A small segment of the tech industry is like a dog that never stops chasing fad cars.
It wasn't designed for any other display. You can pretty much treat 128 as a symbol and leave it as that. Until you have more than two of those 190-line programs that target different displays, there's no point of refactoring it. ---my guess
If having the solutions is not a must, you could take a dive in trending oss repos. (https://github.com/trending)

I’d say to look for high coverage pieces, so that you prove your refactor is not breaking things.

Then ask for code review, maybe in something like
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
I really like your comment.

In my experience - heavily relying on relationships built before is how a lot of things are actually get done. While my company closed its offices in March - I see people getting `socially distanced` coffee with their co-workers more and more.

I think there are tasks / kind of work, that requires minimal communication or relationship building, and it's possible to optimize WFH setup to be very productive at it (way more productive than in the office). A lot of comments on HN are alluding to that some people figured that out and are good at it.

There are also tasks that are hard or borderline impossible to do remote. Relationships are harder. Negotiations are harder. Random lunch conversations don't happen anymore, the serendipity of new learnings is lost.

And yes, I can't wait to go back to the office.
“A lack of resources” is not a thing a 500+ billion dollar company gets to lean on, and Sophia does acknowledge that.

This is the old “don’t tell me what you care about, show me your balance sheet and I’ll tell you what you care about”.
My thinking was that real estate's lack of volatility comes from its illiquid nature. You can't buy and sell property on whim so there's less chance of temporary events (e.g. Trump tweets, earnings call results) having an outsized impact on prices.

Similarly, regional market pricing would prevent pan-region price crashes arising from someone dumping a large number of coins in this illiquid market. However, the more I think about this, I think it's a non-issue if you have large enough demand for this coin and a lack of liquidity.
> Are we really citing alt right collaborator Andy Ngo, who has already been exposed for spreading misinformation?

The only "Alt-Right" collaborator I know of is a Joe Biden supporter who perpetrated the Charlottesville massacre.[1] Of course, you could try to refute any of the evidence Ngo supplied in his tweets, but since you have nothing yourself, it's much easier to call him names, slander him and generally resort to FUD tactics, ad hominem and guilt by association. If you could actually refute anything Andy Ngo reported (and for all I know, maybe there's plenty), then go ahead and do it. It would be irrelevant to the particular claims I was citing, but at least it would be informative. What you've given us so far is an over-the-top innuendo narrative that is so sleazy even your average MLM salesperson would cringe.

[1]https://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-joe-biden-trump-mag...
The point is a little deeper than that. You might finish 10 to 20 different 3+ year projects which means almost nothing makes that cut. However, you can likely do 500+ one month projects. The second one is much closer to the number of interesting projects you might come up with in a lifetime and a month is long enough to see some real results on most things.

Spend 100+ hours learning to juggle over a month and you’re not doing tricks, but you’re going to be noticeably better at it. 3 years on the other hand is a long way from say mastering French, but it’s plenty to be useful on a trip. And that IMO is what separates two benchmarks, noticeable improvement is rarely worth much on it’s own.
https://cloudron.io can do most of this minus the hole punching . The port forward ing is very router specific. I think maybe there is some upnp interface for this but not sure how widely it is supported.
It would be pretty easy for the algorithm to be nudged a little so that you start seeing more and more mental health tiktokkers who suggest that your mental wellness would be improved if you started reading about qanon, or long boarders who also like to talk about putting immigrants in concentration camps.
> This is a good way to escape reality, but not much more

The news have been biased towards negative stories for many decades, way before the internet so I wouldn't say watching/reading the news gives a good, balanced picture of reality. Ideally you need to balance a minimum ingestion of neutral, informative news with staying in touch with the reality around you, by meeting and getting in touch with local people and events. You might be surprised how big the difference is between how the news presents the world and the reality.
Definitely in some companies, "senior" is just the very first promotion, coming with 3-4 years experience or a MS. Next comes prefixes like "principal and "senior principal".
also check out https://joinmastodon.org/
A lot of it was done by Democrats. Admittedly, largely during the late Third and early Fourth Party Systems, when the dedicated core of the Democratic Party was the ideological antecedent of the present dedicated core of the Republican Party (the names of the major parties have been the same from the Third through the present Sixth party system, but the ideological and geographical alignment of the parties has shifted radically.)
> I'm curious if this fake TikTok app would probably have been blocked at the outset in the Apple App Store review process because it's trying to masquerade as another business ?

Maybe this is too risky to do on the Apple App Store because you need to /pay/ for an account to publish on the app store, which means you more or less need to verify yourself. Doing something like this would make it too easy to lead back to you and get in trouble?