skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can work, yes. Has the budget (in both money and engineer time), probably not. It’s not as easy as just installing a new appliance and flipping a switch, especially for companies with low risk appetite and strict SLAs around service uptime.

Plenty of enterprises have mission-critical applications running on mainframes because either no one understands the software enough to move it to more modern platforms or because the business can’t spare the time/money to have their engineers work on moving it. It’s hard to expect them to adopt zero-trust and BeyondCorp with that kind of culture.

I agree “don’t trust the network” and especially the idea that those four walls don’t offer any real protection, but enterprise culture is incredibly slow, inefficient, and risk averse.
> Almost a year into the grand work-from-home experiment, businesses are still adjusting.

Huh? More like half a year...
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I think it ultimately comes down to the decisions of the marginal worker. Most people are not indifferent to where they live. In the Bay Area, as long as the tech industry continues to grow at a rate faster than new local graduates, you have to pay people enough to convince them to migrate. Since the cost of living is much higher, they will demand more to move. In senior roles, many employees will put more of a premium on being able to afford a decent house and be less willing to live with roommates or in a tiny apartment, and so you see the rates for senior employees are much higher in the Bay Area.
Rents always suck upstate. A two bedroom in a nice development in a suburban town near me is about $1400/mo. Ownership is always cheaper.

As for the costs -- I cheat a bit. I've been able to build more equity over the years and refinanced into lower LTVs as time and rates went down. I bought my first house as a student at a SUNY school -- my mortgage was about the same as a "student ghetto" apartment. This house I bought about 15 years ago. In my urban neighborhood, houses sell for about $135 sqft today. In the suburbs, it's about 30% more, and you are basically paying for better schools.

You can get a small, nice house in a place like Fairport, NY for $150k. I don't know that area super well, but you might find lower costs in an adjacent county without the tax/infrastructure burden of Rochester.
250mm MAU really cuts the market for these devices. I won’t get one till they support Spotify so my house is filled with Echos and Google smart speakers. While all my TVs have Apple TV because it supports Spotify. They also need one with a screen for kitchen use to see recipes.
Recently I got a speedup that was literally 6-7 orders of magnitude by changing a few characters in a regex, which made it match its input in linear time instead of O(k^N) due to a crazy backtrack.

The speedup I measured could have been even greater if longer strings were being matched, but in practice the longest string I tested it with took over 14 hours to match before the change, and ~2 milliseconds after the change. This alone is a ~25 million times speedup.

It was such a fun problem to solve, and by far the largest speedup I had ever seen. It was also the first time I encountered this issue outside of compilation class in college, but the way this regex was constructed made the issue pretty obvious.
But they didn't do that, as I just mentioned and gave a fairly exact timestamp (to within a few seconds) for for you to check that they did not in fact do this.
MBTI is literally called psuedoscience and bullshit on the Wikipedia page. It may have nothing to do with you.
I hear you. San Franciscans historically had an extremely obnoxious tendency to only see the negative side of LA. Seems like it's fading a bit, though, partly because SF's are too severe to stay smug, and partly because LA keeps getting more interesting. I grew up in SF but moved to LA for a while in the late 90s to work in the software side of film compositing/editing. Finally opened my eyes to how much fun it is. My guess is that with electric cars and more urbanization, LA will may well become a warm, crowded, culturally varied and ethnically diverse place with sprawling suburbs and dense urban areas, a lucrative and creative entertainment sector and somewhat smaller tech sector, clean air and water, beaches, and eternally lousy traffic.
I think this is really true. Ive been getting great coffee and food in the smallest towns, tourist towns albeit, but metropolitan level fanciness on a gateway town to capital reef NP is impressive. I can get my fancy latte's in almost every nook in america, some might be closed on sundays though.
> You still can't find anything but Americanized Asian food

Anecdotally, I moved from the bay area to somewhere near los angeles a while ago, and the americanized chinese food here sucks compared to what I could get in the bay area. And it costs twice as much! :(
I lived in LA for a long time and I would say NYC has it beat by a large margin when it comes to bourgie restaurants. Most of the hip places in LA are uniformly terrible, the places that have been around a long time are about as good as the same kinds of places in NYC, and the various ethnic restaurants are better in LA (assuming they’re in their neighborhood enclaves).
While pay is being cut if you choose to move to another location, pay is still higher than ever if you decide to move into HCOL areas like the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle. This is especially true for senior engineers with some years of experience under their belt.
NAS TO CAST. I came up with the name. You do the engineering.
I have a wireless charger in the car, which has clasps to hold the phone. It has never misaligned. This simpler solution seems preferable to the more complex MagSafe solution.
That assumes having a large dedicated support staff had absolutely zero positives for the company. I think that’s extraordinarily unlikely as even just the feedback from support calls is valuable information. Remember, Facebook etc is making money by directly selling advertising and individual support calls can be quite profitable for them.

Sometimes a support call from a tiny new account that costs them 2$ can be worth a new 20,000$+/month revenue stream. Or that same account can walk away with a bad taste in their mouth. Similarly, if their getting thousands of calls about something that’s often a fixable problem which they would otherwise never know about.

Which isn’t to say it’s profitable in the short or long term, just significantly less expensive than the sticker shock suggests.
Personally I love serverless, but this article definitely mirrors my own experience.

In two jobs now I've been told to do things "serverless first" and both times I've ended up with an ECS solution. My reason always boils down to the other tooling, particularly in regards to HTTP endpoints. AWS API gateway is an absolutely infuriating product.

My current thoughts are if you're working in the AWS ecosystem, with AWS tools, Lambda works fantastically. Using Lambdas to set off alarms and run playbooks has never let me down, and I've done a lot of data processing hanging lambdas off streams and it just works. Really well in fact.

Where it falls over is interacting with the outside world in a sane fashion. HTTP endpoints are a nightmare to set up and deploy in a semi-automated fashion, I've had things that matched what was in the docs that just don't work because of some random gotcha, the undocumented silliness around a "HTTP API Gateway" vs a "REST API Gateway" is another mind bogglingly frustrating thing. Not to mention all the latency issues I've had, which are far too many to blame on a cold boot of the lambda.

Serverless has its niche and it works really well, and real cheaply to boot. But it's not a generalised tool like the loudest evangelists like to pretend it is.
Nice work my friend. As many demo-scene groups were active on newsgroups before going very dark almost 30 years ago I'm curious if you also have a collection that you can contribute to this basic collection https://archive.org/details/scenenotices . There's lots of this stuff going on throughout the decades but you may be in a position to help preserve history / lineage on the entire environment.
10s of billions in profit is forcing them.
Summer in the north, winter in the south.
>That sun can be intense!

For the two hours a day it's out!

Obviously an exaggeration but you can go to work in the dark and drive home in the dark on the shortest days of the year. Can be a real bummer for those that didn't grow up like that.
Many of the devices originally called phablets are small by today's standards. The iPhone 12 mini would have been called one ten years ago.
SBC and LDAC (via PulseAudio) on my XM3s feel fairly decent in terms of latency; it’s probably on the order of 100ms, maybe less. I suspect Bluetooth audio latency is mostly a result of implementation details.
I think the difference stated above, was that for messaging, calls and other phone related activities it’s not sent. I’m not sure you can say the same for Google.
Spotify is slow to implement features their customers want (see: Watch, HomePod, TV, Siri), which is not in their customers best interest. Other smaller services like Pandora seem to be able to do this [1], leading one to reasonably conclude Spotify is choosing not to.

This has nothing to do with the 30% cut, except that its likely Spotify is crippling themselves to make their regulatory case (similar to Epic's approach). See sibling comment [2] regarding Spotify's slant on their timeline post, in which they seem like they're entitled to certain things that the platform is not yet capable of (e.g. Watch apps in 2015 when the APIs were very crude).

Fast forward to 2020 when these issues have long since been sorted out and Spotify still lacks an offline Watch app. As a Spotify customer I'd love to be able to listen to music while on a run, but Spotify has decided this core use case of an extremely popular platform is not worth building.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/29/pandora-shows-spotify-how-to-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24771000
Engineers have developed a way to print biometric sensors onto skin
It sounds just enough like science for people to pay a lot of money for it, but not enough like science that it scares anyone. Of course, it's pretty much bullshit for many reasons.
Thanks! and yes I'm using Pory to convert the list I made in Airtable to this site. I've contacted Pory about the glitch so hope it's fixed soon.
I'm amazed how no-code services actually works. I didn't write a single line of code for this project.
If you can run docker, try https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-daapd. It actually from https://ejurgensen.github.io/forked-daapd/ It can connect to all the airplay-able devices in my home, and the remote app on iOS can be configured to control it, but I think one still needs to access its webpage to set which airplay device to use.
Why are many words censored? To take a completely random example (I just took one with many asterisks) where it makes the post completely illegible: https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=soc.sexuality.gen...

For an archive this is a big no-no. Respect the source material!

Otherwise, thank you for the time spent doing this.
1. Whose location is this: 38.0826966°, -122.0144075°?

2. “so even if it is not true now”

This is you admitting that you actually don’t know that they are doing what you said they were doing.

You actually have no idea what Apple is collecting. You are just speculating based on a legal disclaimer about what they could be doing.

3. “it can be true tomorrow.”

Again you admit that you know that it may not be true.

Asserting something to be true, when you know that you really don’t know whether it is true, is called lying.

You lied when you made the claim earlier in the thread, and you doubled down on that lie by asserting that it was not false, when you were challenged about the truth of your statement.
You are right that all desktop environments have their issues and sure open source gives you more freedom. But:

1. on mac os you can press cmd+backtick to cycle through the windows of the current app

2. except for some exceptions keyboard shortcuts are pretty unified across all apps on mac os and can even be configured in a single global place

3. from my biased point of view of being a software developer myself: If I see a file chooser modal component that locks all interaction then I see a wrong choice in a UI component that does not fit the usecase. But if I see a rendering glitch of a component in a promotional video, it looks to me as if the whole state space of the component or even of the GUI stack is ill defined. Visual states like this [1] should not appear. If they are inside a promotional video I assume that some people have seen it happening and either did not care or it is very hard to fix because the issue is rooted deeply in the system. Maybe I overreact but I stumble across glitches like this all the time I try to use linux on the desktop.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/oNgzmYC
Ack. I can't believe I messed that up. He wrote an awesome book: "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science".

https://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Science-T-Jaynes/d...

And there is a website with more information and a collection of his papers:

https://bayes.wustl.edu/

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/node1.html
I thought that all access to EC2/Azure IPs is over HTTPS or SSH so you don't need to tunnel to it. We use split tunnel for my work, all of my work's IPs go through the tunnel. Everything else is the individual HTTPS or SSH connection. If you were within your corporate wall, you'd still need HTTPS to get to Azure from inside, right?
Woke – detect non-inclusive language in your source code
How is that a better solution for the environment than using the windmills to power homes?
Also these companies may not want to work remotely in the long term. If they thought remote working was just as effective, presumably they would have done it before. If employees move away, and the company calls everyone back into the office at some point, a good portion of the workers that have moved will quit. In a sense, paying them the SF rate even though they're remote is sort of paying them to be "on reserve."
That's not an optimal solution though, because you're relying on your screen to do non-integer scaling and you'll have blurrier fonts etc. as a result.

If your software supports non-integer scaling it can render things with that knowledge and give you crisp edges on the edge of text and UI elements.
I missed it, can you describe what they did please?
Breakcore in particular.
As someone that's worked remotely for the last 10 years I don't understand decisions like this.

What's changed? Dropbox is a web company and I'd expect the majority of their management to know about remote work tools prior to the pandemic.

So they just didn't think it could work?

Heck any large company has multiple offices with some people in those separate offices working together. That's a distributed team already.

I can't believe they just didn't put 2 and 2 together until they were forced to.
In real life if you are really transmitting low power, not blasting signals all over the spectrum at power, and not interfering with other (people’s) devices, you are probably fine. It’s not like the FCC drives a test van all over the country just to catch uncertified tiny transmitters. But if you do interfere and got reported, the FCC will probably follow up and shut you down.
I think you do have some interesting things to say and could convey them better without the negativity of the last paragraph.

I'm coming from the perspective of someone whose extended-extended family ranges from dirt poor laborers to set-for-life landlords.

I'm also drawing on my own experiences. I'm a software engineer, currently on hiatus to work on a YouTube series. I lost a good chunk of change from non-housing assets in 2008 from the meager 401k my internship paid into. I lost the rest when I had to cash in the 401k and sell furniture to have enough cash to wrap up my startup when the market I was in dried up (more like soaked up and polluted by the giant 800lb sponges, plus numerous other factors nobody cares about) and Apple took Primesense out.

So here's what I am saying and relates to what I think everyone else is saying: at every point in my life where I've felt like "now is the time to buy a house," I've just been a few percent short on the down payment. So I keep working and getting promotions and raises and saving, and wouldn't you know, now I'm several more percent short on the down payment despite having more saved, because the treadmill keeps getting longer and spinning faster. And as for other assets, yeah, my stocks are up, but houses are still up more than my risk-tolerable gains.

Meanwhile the people who would have been able to buy reasonable houses in reasonable neighborhoods with reasonable jobs don't have stocks to begin with, and are priced out by migrants with portfolios from even higher cost areas and the massive investors I'm currently having to rent from.
I really have to disagree.

There is a lot going on under the hood regardless. That's how computers work. Your Python script has to deal with all the same memory allocation and cache locality issues.

C/C++ just gives you the opportunity to see what is happening under the hood and tune it.
Thanks. I liked your RL post. Will follow those links and try to play with it. Could you also provide more context about FPGA? what are some application areas and what can we use them for? Does it need any prior hardware knowledge?
Lots of people are moving to Montreal as they're priced out of Toronto
I had no idea this was still a thing! Does it work well? And what does it do if it can’t find a match? Will it let you play your unique song?
Average is useful but is Little o relevant outside of very low latency things like games? If the input is small it will run fast for any solution anyway.
Peer to peer discussion groups.
What is the complexity of creating an SDN with cloud hosted VPN. I am amazed their aren’t more people in the space.
I know what layout you're talking about and it's trivial with flexbox. Why would you need a grid for that?
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Can't find my 1980's posts. Probably I'm holding the search feature wrong..
What use is location based information to a repair shop? Is it simply that opening up this dealer-only content to 3rd parties will in turn share the location data? I can't see any benefit in sharing location specific info to a shop. Why not have the bill insulate that type of data...walled off, for dealer and owner only to access.
It does? Where else do we use “beg” for “raise”?
Do you see this changing though?
What was the actual change?
> "vitamin D is a powerful nuclear receptor-activating hormone of critical importance, especially to the immune system."

This just means there is a plausible mechanism of action. It in no way implies positive health effects for particular levels (except possibly in limiting cases)
Just to make sure I understand, your saying you have better options in LA and SF than in OC? Couldn't quite make out from your comment.
Thank you, I appreciate it.

It is very unlikely that FIN7 are aware of their successful exploitation of the golden triangle. They almost certainly just pursued what worked best for them, creating a lean mean cybercriming machine along the way. (And isn’t that the real treasure?)

Financially motivated crimes are essentially businesses, and so sometimes it can be useful to use business frameworks to understand the criminal enterprise. Fortunately FIN7 happen to be a particularly well documented, making such analysis possible.

I don’t really know what to say re: your meta comment. I wrote some posts for them under contract. I had complete editorial control. I have no idea if it is easier than in other fields. None of the other posts (not posted yet) are about “scary” topics, so I’m not sure if the observation is correct.
Thanks for posting this. After watching I searched for some diagrams on this process and came cross another one of George Gammon's videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLhO7tIAtoY). He comes off super sketchy trying to me, almost like a get rich quick salesman, but the actual information in the video seemed legit.

Anyway, based on the discussions and videos, it seems like QE by itself is relatively neutral with regards to inflation. what's really important is whether the process leads to more lending, but that is largely controlled by other factors.

It definitely didn't seem like QE was actually printing money though, because the govt still has to pay back the initial bond.

At least that was my novice interpretation.
This has been updated. Thank you so much for your fantastic feedback:

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I agree in general and actually wrote a similar comment regarding the pressure that will nudge companies in the direction of turnover in favor of remote/cheaper employees.

The only thing I'd push back on is

> The firm receives no benefit from the employee choosing to live somewhere expensive

They do benefit if there is a critical mass of employees in the same location and can have in-person meetings. There are definitely some industries/roles in which being physically together creates a competitive advantage. There are also benefits to time zone proximity, though these tend to be weaker (and it can be advantageous to have round-the-clock coverage).
> Also usually they are very beautiful too

Irrelevant
Well there's a decent chance you're going to be working for millennial and gen-X'ers nowadays. We're the ones who were hiding all our online lives (still) from our parents. I'm glad my Myspace was deleted to my teenage angst.

Point being a lot of us I think are really respective of privacy and the fact that people (even teachers and nurses!) have lives that don't revolve around work.
I've already made up my mind (delay as long as possible) so I won't be impacted.
Oh for sure, all egress at $0.09 is still frankly a rip-off and the one thing I do see AWS doing to keep people locked in.

If this cheap storage class allowed for real-time reads I'd just store all my data on s3 and mount it via some kind of fuse filesystem and never restore it all for $5000, just stream on demand the movies / mp3s I randomly want to watch and would likely be cheaper in the long run than owning a big nas with hard drives.
I'm bummed the didn't release a smart display. We're an iPhone/iPad/Mac/Apple TV family, but the Nest Hub Max has become a really great part of our lives. When combined with the Nest Hello, we get video of the front door in the kitchen when the doorbell rings, and the Google Homes in the bathrooms also notify us. We have a couple HomePods that we tried to use, but there's no doorbell integration we could find, and believe it or not, I really like having a photo display and visual cues when we interact with the kitchen device. I would spend the money to transition to an Apple smart display/doorbell and these HomePods, but they have stubbornly refused to produce the product so many others are selling. I just don't get it.
There are plenty of communities where 'begging the question' is used correctly. The most obvious are philosophy communities.
It would be nice if pro colab accounts came with gsuite enterprise
Highcharts is still pretty popular (and, IMO, worth the money)
Amazon's New AR App Synchs with QR Codes on Boxes
First, their interpretation of I/E is not the same that the Big5 label it. The Big 5 also don't look at it as binary.

I'm also not sure how to interpret your System 1 vs System 2 comment, as thats also not binary. Everyone uses both. Is it supposed to be a preference? Do you have a link describing that? It doesn't make sense to the way the two are described to me either.
US reinfection case raises question: how long does Covid immunity last?