skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it actually makes sense that AirBnB might see business picking up in local rentals. With people generally being wary of air travel due to Covid, and the economic pressures to not spend as much, a road trip + an AirBnb do seem like an attractive vacation option: it's far enough from home, and it's more affordable than a hotel.

On the topic of luxury, I'm not sure people appreciate what air travel becoming a luxury really entails. My wife mentioned a few months ago that air travel from North America to China was going for something like $80k per ticket at some point (and this is for economy class!). If we see Covid case numbers increasing again due to the flu season coming up, and if we see subsequent governmental pressures to limit air travel for even more extending periods of time, then the laws of supply and demand might make air travel prohibitively expensive even for relatively well-off people, like FAANG folks.

Perhaps a silver lining is that in such a scenario, maybe places like Bali might get a chance to take a break from tourist ecological destruction.
Has it? You're not being very clear.
TL;DR from when I researched this the first time this came around:

• a properly-fit mask intended as a mask, is always best

• a COTTON buff is vastly better than nothing, and can be as effective as a cotton mask

• don't use transparent spandex, it's not effective*

* unless your intent is to conform in appearance only to own the libs
The 2008 attack in Mumbai lasted numerous days.
Soft brick vs. hard brick is a common (though equally ill-defined) term.

If the user cannot restore it to normal operation using tools that the average user has available, that is definitely a brick though, and I'd argue that it meets even the definition of a "hard brick".
First job or subsequent jobs?
If you can speak to the processes involved and have demonstrable knowledge about how to implement things learned from side-projects, what's the difference between having done it at work versus personal time? None in my opinion.
> when do you start?

<Bemused look> Err... I've penciled it in, right after transformatively improving how scale is taught K-undergrad, and creating a nucleons-up through materials leaning progression for K-6 ??? Not really... though I do wish I could find a community interested in such.

I sometimes see discussion threads, "describe a side project that you'd really like to see happen, but don't have time for, so that your documentation, and the group's critique, might set up and motivate someone else to take it on". I don't know that I've ever seen that on HN. And while there are some hackathons in geology, I don't quickly find any for geology education or outreach. Maybe the current trend towards virtual hackathons will encourage such.
The issue is that you get less choice and the only winners are large corporations who can handle it.

They know the regulations are tough, so they can corner the market and up charge accordingly.

(Big) Profits are not made in competitive markets.
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If one is not currently at a company with a "brand name", how else are they supposed to get noticed amongst a pile of other "brand name" applicants?

Is the same true for educational backgrounds? If you don't have an Ivy League degree, what methods can you use to put yourself in the running vs those that do? Side projects seems like a good option in both cases to appear competitive.
I've marked it off-topic now.

Just a reminder, so as not to pick on anybody personally, that the issue with these is not the comment itself but the upvotes that pin it to the top of a thread. It's a tragedy of the commons in that no one upvote does that, but the sum of the upvotes does. Then we end up with a generic argument about Facebook instead of a discussion about orcas.
I'm working on a project with John Gilmore to make those special addresses usable.

https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions

(note that most of the content in this repository was written by Dave Taht, who was running this project before; he got patches merged in the mainline Linux kernel that causes it to accept 0/8 and 240/4 as regular unicast addresses)

If anyone would like to talk more about any aspect of this, please get in touch!
The same way the NBA did. With strict rules around quarantining. If you're staff, you're part of that "70+ at risk population"
Boom Supersonic CEO: “We can live on the planet the way we would live in a city”
I work on side projects on hope that I can one day make enough money from one of it and have financial freedom to do anything I want anytime. Hopefully soon and not when I am 60.

If I die tomorrow and all I did was focus on my career that would be so sad.
Yup. That's why I've adopted Sen Mark Warner's idea of banning fremium. It's no way a cure all. But hopefully a step in the right direction.

Am eager to hear your thoughts, proposals.
It is nice to see a well reasoned response to a paper for once.

It is really a shame how some fields (cold fusion, climate change, now it is anything related to coronaviruses) are so loaded that one cannot published a their research without worrying about how it will be misconstrued by the public
You might want to have a look at straw panel construction. There's several across the EU. https://ecococon.eu/ is the major one.

Not affiliated with them. I built the walls of our summer house out of jumbo straw bales straight from the farm.
I prefer whatever the most common autoformatter for the language in question emits! \o/
I've been working from home since March and my experience matches yours exactly. In general, any task that requires you to allocate several hours of consecutive time with no interruptions (and coding is definitely like this) is much better from home.

So much better in fact that I wish I could continue to work from home at least a couple of days a week even after covid is over!

I suspect a part of this is due to the fact that developers/individual contributors are more used to using tools like git, ssh etc. that makes the transition almost seamless; my workflow is completely independent of even my machine, I could pick up any brand new laptop on amazon and I'd be productive within minutes. Maybe less familiarity with the technology stack is a significant source of additional attrition.
I can understand not letting your side project get in the way of your job. If you have a slow day at the office, it's not the time to be working on your side project - although many people do.

However, if it weren't for side projects, I would never have learned Linux, virtualization, handfuls of programming languages, or so many other things I ended up bringing into my 8-5 job.
Okay, but I read it as "zonsh", or maybe "Exxon Shell".
I am who I am due to my side-projects.

- They allow me to grow my skills and also test ideas in public.

- Every code pattern or library I use in my main job has been put to test on my side-projects.

If I had more hours per day, I would pour them all into my side-projects.
Well if your side project became a $1b company, you would have a very different story. A better advice: focus with no apologies on what really interest you.
Side Business > Side Project

A side project is a great way to get better at things you already have interest in.

A side business is a great way to discover new interests and challenges.
> First, most recruiters don’t care about your personal projects or how many meetups you went during the...

Why are you trying to impress recruiters? I mean, the entire point of the post is wrong, but impressing recruiters is downright stupid. Let's be frank: recruiters are bottom-of-the-totem-pole, lowest-common-denominator, bottom-feeders.

If you aren't trying to do your own thing (which, let's face it, is the most exciting prospect), at least try to impress CEOs or product managers, or -- my goodness -- at least hiring managers. I heard a fun anecdote of Evan Spiegel attending an LA hackathon maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Some nerdy engineer showed him that he figured out how to get around Snapchat's spam filter. Spiegel offered him a job on the spot. Could a recruiter ever do that? Hell to the no.
If you do TDD, give ping pong pairing a try.

One person writes a test, the other implements the test. Commit between non-passing test and passing implementation. Switch places, repeat.

In this way you don't have to rely on controlling the ux of a remote machine and you can just rely on the screen sharing video and voice communication.
So it's taken 25 years to get to ~30% adoption. And a few years ago APNIC reported [0] that the rate was going down - I haven't found an updated report.

In 2005 the US government mandated that all their computers be v6 connected by 2008. [1] This year they updated the mandate to 80% by 2025. [2]

I learned networking in college in 1996 and I remember v6 coming up but so far I've never had to use it and chances are that I'll be able to retire still getting away with only working with v4.

[0] https://blog.apnic.net/2018/05/21/what-drives-ipv6-deploymen...
[1] https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/omb/memoranda/fy...
[2] https://www.cio.gov/assets/resources/internet-protocol-versi...
Not sure why you are being down voted, models did show 2 million deaths in the US by now.
Used to be the lumber had to be cut from local trees on-site, and nails made by the blacksmith. Our current stick-built construction IS pre-fab by an older reckoning.

I guess its a matter of how much is too far? Windows come as a unit. So do some doors. Certainly the appliances do. Nobody has to get a tinker in to make the toaster. Even so, sometimes there are hitches.

I think we have to iron out the order-to-fit issues (wrong dimensions, wrong fuel, mismatch color or design) when done by rushed workpeople on a schedule. Fix that, and you could go much further without trepidation.

For now, my house was stick-built from a drawing (not an architect) and mostly correctly. The issues came when changes were made on-the-fly, not from the initial planning.
"Great Barrington Declaration" https://gbdeclaration.org/

"As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity."

Have we established that herd immunity is possible?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-00451-5

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02400-7

I cannot currently find the link on the (at least) one confirmed case of re-infection.

"Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent PCR testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home.* When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.*"

I would like to see this "comprehensive and detailed list of measures" before I make up my mind, but the suggestion for retired people does not sound exceptionally feasible. (There are over 50,000,000 people over the age of 65.)
and also using new tech in a work project is often a terrible idea unless you or someone else on the team has intimate experience with it. it's either going to be betamax or legacy spaghetti 9/10 times.
The title is designed to escape that perennial black hole, so let's steer clear.
We've been full 1984 for long enough now it feels cliche to even bother pointing it out.
> The courts have held that, absent fraud, misrepresentation or misconduct, a corporation has the right to eliminate minority stockholders through a reverse split.

I am sorry, but this sounds extremely implausible.

From what I am reading, the company basically tanked, which was the cause for the shares the loose value. Subsequent investment take in at already low valuation was simply an attempt to revitalize basically bankrupt business.
Windows 10 is a surprisingly good OS, with a thin layer of crap spread over it (the tracking). But it's still surprisingly easy to remove that layer, and the underlying things is pleasant to use, with wsl as a real game changer, wsl2 even more so.

I was always a windows person on my main computer and I liked 7 a lot but it still didn't quite feel right for devs, but windows 10 really makes us feel at home.

Also you went with a surface pro, which has been a genuinely top of the line hardware serie from microsoft
I agree, that despite it not being the future of the company, Windows and controlling the desktop is still a pretty bit contributor to the company's valuation. It would be pretty bad for MSFT if Windows was vaporized tomorrow.

But I think Microsoft is much less paranoid, simply because desktop is a much less attractive target. It's good owning it today, but why would any potential competitor go to war to establish a beachhead in a slowly dying market? Certainly the other big tech companies are much more potentially threatening to MS today. Nobody in 1999 could hit as hard as Google, Amazon, Apple or even Facebook could today.

But why would they even bother? Defending Windows is like Britain worrying about defending Gibraltar. It's still somewhat strategically important, but much less so than in the past. Because of that legacy, it's already defended way past the point of its value to any rational adversary.
> Many jobs don't allow for much exploration and you don't have leverage to call shots. It's usually uphil battle to even introduce any significant change. Also side projects shouldn't be just for goal of finding new jobs anyway. It should be for passion for creating things, realizing ideas.

You're right, but your point also indicates why business value side projects less than career projects. The skills and experience to complete the project don't overlap much between the two types of projects. The success criteria is usually quite different as well.
Maybe in a city like Dallas (I'm aware of the Charles Whitman case), but how many rifle-toting vigilantes could you really count on in San Francisco?
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Seems like people are getting away with shoddy work then.
If only you knew which one!
How would you go about choosing that one project?
I couldn't actually figure out how to opt out of third-party tracking. They say I have to visit my wireless account, but not sure where to from there.
I don't really think that's comparable. Tone has more nuance and is a different medium of communication than the literal words you're saying. There are two channels of delivery there: the tone used to signify sarcasm, and the words you're saying. Tone is more subtle and you can modulate it to be more or less obvious. For example, you could opt for a dry delivery using little to no sarcastic tone (which is what typing sarcasm without /s is closest to, in my opinion).

When you use /s, you're disclaiming the sarcasm immediately and in the same delivery as the words. It doesn't resemble tone at all, because you can't choose to be subtle. You don't get a beat in which the other person is initially surprised and then "gets it."
"Marcel has been built and tested on Linux. It seems to mostly work on Mac, except for the ps operator. Haven't tried Windows at all."

That's unfortunate, because as awful as bash may be, a shell that works natively on all three systems would be far more valuable. Python has all that platform abstraction already built-in.
What is special about Clover Health business?
How small the surface is is irrelevant, an internet connected car is more of a risk. I don't want all these features in a car.
>Frankly, I'm tired of hearing one-sided stories of how "everyone wants to come back to work!"

Which articles are those?
> If you can speak to the processes involved and have demonstrable knowledge about how to implement things learned from side-projects

As I mentioned in my comment, no difference if the person is starting out or if the project gets traction.

But for experienced positions like the post author was talking about. You don't get additional signals on the developer, like did the product scale well, how was the uptime, the performance optimisations he needed to do, evolving the product with customer feedback etc. Also, bigcos love to ask around conflicts within a team, working with other teams because it matters a lot to them.

As an engineer I can admire the dexterity of a solution even if unproven but how do I verify it in an interview span. Easier to do this if I can attach it with a company name or some numbers.

I hate this and I spent early part of my career trying to come up with methods that can make hiring easier and reduce biases like company name but I realised how difficult the process is with different stakeholders, each having his own criteria and biases.
Ask HN: How to create applications that hold user's money and not go to jail?
Hello I am thinking about create some FinTech apps but I concerned about how I would safely hold user's money? Has anyone done something similar? There has to a way to do because companies like Venmo exist but how does an individual person set this up?
Wow Nadella just passed Ballmer as my least favorite Microsoft CEO. Who could possibly endorse this idea in good faith? It sounds like something you’d use to keep 10-13 year olds accountable for schoolwork not something fitting for adults in a dynamic working environment.
I began my side-project [1] one year ago. I quit my very well-paid job 6 months ago to make my side-project my full-time job.

It is going quite well (I am nowhere near making the same money). Just 2 of us at the moment. I've learnt so much over this period. Like what you would get over 10 years in a big tech company while jumping over all the hierarchy.

Moreover, my very first side project turned me from a guy who knows only Python into a guy who can set up entire architecture on the cloud. Later, I became somewhat a "rockstar"/jack-of-all-trades engineer.

But I agree, unless you do your side-project just to do something then it is your hobby.

My advice would be: someone has to pay for your side project's product/service. Because only then you can show that it generates real business value. This is the only thing which should matter to your future employer. You generate business value.

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/
I believe that embedded programming, with IoT and edge computing (buzzword FTW!) growing, is going to explode.
Hello -- I've actually been working on this exact feature (well, ctrl+backspace at least) and will be adding it to the site in the next couple days. Thanks!
Mostly by keeping the organization lean. Which means that customer support staff is near non-existent and in case you need support you're pretty much on your own with their wiki and the forums. That, or hiring one of their third party certified partners.

However, the capabilities you get out of the router are very good at that price point.
I agree with you 100%. I never want to give up remote work. It suits my personality perfectly. Remote meetings are great. They tend to be shorter, get to the point, and if they begin to ramble and I don't need to engage, I can open up another tab and browse HN.

However, I do appreciate how lucky I am. My entire family are out of the house during my working hours. I have the luxury of a dedicated study in which I can work. I have multiple laptops and screens. I have a good webcam, microphone and speakers. I have an enormous desk for it all to sit on, and probably most importantly a fast and reliable broadband connection. I also have a dog to keep my company.

If working from home meant balancing a laptop on my knees while I sat on the edge of my bed, and tethered through my phone, I doubt I'd find it so pleasurable.
The best thing is to do both. Work at a top company, and have a side project that you can discuss with hiring managers.
I had a different experience, specifically it was my embedded software and hardware spare-time experience that gained me my most influential role to date (bridging iOS and embedded systems at a fast-growing start-up). It even helped me pass my technical screen as the CTO asked me to build a ring buffer. Little did he know I built one for an RS232 driver the week before.

I'm heading soon to do the same thing at another fast-growing startup.

I've actually talked about my side projects each time I've hopped jobs, and actually, when I took on advisory work. Niches are good!
I admire this approach and have many colleagues who operated this way. But for someone who didn’t get into a top school and had to start with “low prestige” jobs and work my way up focusing on side projects was essential to my career. By showing I could take risks and learn emerging technologies I was able to make myself attractive to startup and on the bleeding edge and just spent the last two years working in my dream field of AI/ML.

If you’re young and believe in yourself more than society’s ridged idea of credentialism has don’t be afraid to buck the trend. I failed out of a mid tier college. And while my 20s has my been a stressful hodgepodge of jobs I was under qualifying for. A public track record of my ability to create something with emerging technologies has always meant someone is willing and excited to work with me.
To me your thread feels like nitpicking.

I think that the idea is to optimise for preventing false positives (bad hires), at the cost of a higher rate of false negatives (good hires incorrectly weeded out). Interviews are imperfect: candidates can fail for a vast range of reasons that are completely unfair.

Also an applicant could train to avoid stage fright, just as they might train to learn algorithms if applying to Google. AFAIK many real actors have all the symptoms of stage fright, but they have learned to deal with it to be successful.

Disclaimer: I am not an interviewer.
There used to be soooo many small interactions that happen throughout the day that right now require way too much formal structure.

That's what I miss. It's those conversations in the hallway, or seeing someone in the break room that reminds you about something you meant to ask them about.

It's really hard to replicate that in WFH. I can't want to say "can't be replicated" or "shouldn't need to be". I think they absolutely should be replicated. But I don't know how. Things like slack help, but it's just too disconnected. You can have "fun meetings" (a contradiction in terms!), but those feel like a waste of time. Zoom happy hours exhaust me.
Matthew would never ever let that happen.
> "In reality very very few ISPs are giving one IPv6 address per customer"

In actual reality, global IPv6 adoption is at ~33% [0, 1], so I'd say this is, at best, a premature and naive presumption. ISPs actively engage in rent-seeking, and resource scarcity is another contributing factor. In-short, there's nothing in OPs comment that warrants the downvotes.

[0] - https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
[1] - https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/resources/our-thinking/state-of...
And working memory isn't part on an IQ test I score fairly high on IQ but have poor short term memory.
At any company of any decent size, your resume isn't going to get to the hiring manager if it doesn't get through the recruiter. The CEO of any large tech company is never going to meet you, much less see your resume.
Why not sue for breach of contract / design?