skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are the single possible candidate for a job that is essential for the company, then you can use your monopoly power to get paid more than the “value” you bring.

In that scenario your value to the company, together with all the other "essential" budget items, is the total value of the company. If you're somehow getting more than that then the company simply doesn't have the budget to pay for all the essentials and is consequently going bankrupt.
Has anyone seen a viable antidote to curing corporate thirst for running scrum?
If only my Roomba was that smart, I wouldn't probably worry about eavesdropping: right now it can barely clean my floor and lock himself in the bathroom forever.

Jokes aside, which Robot Vacuum Cleaner is equiped with a LIDAR? So far the only ones that I've seen barely have a proximity sensor, fall sensor and IR sensors . It could be that I've only bought and seen the cheapest versions though.
There's some nuance to this. The current most common strain is theoretically the most genetically fit strain. Wide use of vaccines targeting conserved regions of the spike protein almost certainly would result in less genetically fit virus progeny becoming more common by simple selection. But, there's no predicting the virulence of the the less genetically fit strains that will pop up. ie) very deadly viruses aren't necessarily very genetically fit. The short of it is, the resultant strains will probably be less transmissible (the "R" number will decrease), but it's hard to predict their virulence/serverity.

I think consensus is we don't know for sure, but there's reason to be hopeful. SARS-CoV-2 probably won't evolve as fast as the flu, which undergoes a "sexual-like" evolution process called "re-assortment." On the other hand, CoV-2 has "re-combination," which gives similar results, and it does have zoonotic hosts.
Got an MBA.
Holy crap, that is awesome!

It looks like they are asking for testers, but I cannot seem to figure out how to add it. Do you have knowledge on how to do that (or a good place to point to to try it)?

It also looks like it is for downloading MMS only, it doesn't look like it has support (yet) for sending them.

> Wifi works perfectly for me as well, including excellent hotspot (via nmcli)

Sorry, that looks to be a typo by me, I meant to say it works just fine for me.
OP is asking what they can spend this budget on. Assuming it's from an employer, therapy isn't a valid answer to the question they're asking.
excuse me for my lack of Italian but is there any way you can find something in English or possibly outline what is happening?
See: Ant/AliPay etc.

In the grander scheme, whoever has your attention, is going to want become your financial provider.

Just like Google has your attention for search, they become the ad marketplace, they're going to want to financialize as well and displace Visa, banks, and your insurance companies.

There's an Anderssen Horowitz talk on this [1]

I'm not sure if I agree on how efficient or good this will be for net value creation, but 'it's the future'.

Banks and insurance companies should really really take note, because it's not hard to do insurance and mortgages and Google will do that as soon as they can.

[1] https://a16z.com/2020/01/21/every-company-will-be-a-fintech-...
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This is great! You should put out a book.

Also a meta-site on 'minimal way to do X' on all the random tech you've had to setup and assemble would be useful.

I guess that's 2 more tiny projects. Hmm, I guess they'd be tiny meta projects.
Disconnect for a couple weeks. Backpack or sail.
Pause and reflect.
Hey, re your first incentive. I've been musing on a somehow similar idea of a PKM using GPT-3 and social graphs. Discovered that I lack the technical skills to implement it on my own, so if anyone is interested to to unite forces -> more than happy to chat !

p.s. good luck on the other grand plans !
Well the simple answer is because they can? And I don't think there is actually anything wrong with that. You can buy a house for cheaper in the rust belt, and probably other things are cheaper too, hence a lower COL location.

Let's say I paid you 100k in the rust belt, and you're happy with that, you might not be happy with that in NYC because of the higher cost of living. The inverse is true too. If you're happy with 100k in NYC, you'll be more happy with it in a lower COL location. Which means I can pay you (and more importantly others) less and they'll still be happy. This changes the supply and demand equation.
Your strategies are those that optimize for jobs a monkey to do: "I need someone to flip this burger or turn this wrench". Paying for cheap labor, you get cheap results. I've seen this time and again across many different industries.

When it comes to knowledge / skill based work, the high end of the spectrum is a multiple of value over the low end. Sometimes that's 1.5x, sometimes it's 10x, sometimes it's 100+x.

It doesn't matter how many scientists you hired if you didn't hire the first one (or one of the first ones) to create a working and marketable COVID vaccine, for example. It doesn't matter how many engineers you hired at 50k/year if you didn't hire the guy for 2 million / year that finally got self-driving cars working.

At a less extreme scale, it doesn't matter how many junior devs you hire to do the work if one senior dev could have done it faster and with less headaches, which happens all the time in tech. On a daily basis, in my experience at multiple tech jobs.

And let's also remember that market salaries selects for talent before the talent is even there; today's smartest students that want a paycheck go for tech careers (and some other fields). If tech stops paying well, those people go into other fields, and you don't even get the option to hire that 10xer because they don't exist. If you stop paying well but your competitors continue to pay top dollar, your competitors will leave you in the dust.
Do we know if any of the cases on the treatment side of the study led to hospitalizations? (I.e. were the cases as mild as the average control group case, or did we have a selection effect where the cases that did turn up in the treatment group were more severe?)
Ask HN: What technical due diligence should be performed before M&A?
Hi HN, I'm a CTO tasked with performing a technical due diligence on tech company my employer is planning to acquire. A HN search led me to the link below. Would appreciate any other advice the HN hive-mind can provide. Cheers.

https://decodingvc.gitbooks.io/p9-startup-tech-due-diligence-calculator/content/section1-assessment.html
Sadly sway seems very very Linux-centric. It depends on a device-enumerator that ships w systemd, which is quite an invasive prerequisite.

I’m playing/hacking w swc[0] on NetBSD, and I’ve worked out my daily-driver, which to be clear, is actually fit for ~nobody in the grand scheme, because it’s essentially just multiplexing terminals.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4MTI
if school was preparation for adult life then it really should teach you to drive, cook, and an understanding of the law.

I don't know about now, but when I was in school (in the US), we were taught all those things and more (a bit of carpentry, metal work, engine repair, simple accounting, etc) YMMV.
Here's another way that you're not Dropbox (unless you are): you are not a public company that gets points from investors for removing [$35M] dollars from COGS (cost of goods sold), even if you spend [$40M] on R&D + capitalized expenditures to replace it.

Stories like this can be really misleading because large companies almost can't help but trick themselves into financial shenanigans. It's very possible that Dropbox just spent $100M upfront to start saving $35M / year relative to AWS current prices... but discovers in year 3 that they are no longer saving money because AWS has reduced prices via their own R&D, which is spread over a massively larger customer base.

Now, because Dropbox is a storage company, it may well make since for them to continue R&D and try to keep pace with AWS, at least for their own needs. But 99% of other companies - of any size - would likely fall on the wrong side of the scenario above.
It's also worth mentioning that Lambda School has sold (or "financed") many of these ISAs to investors, so Lambda gets paid in advance of the student getting paid (even if it's technically a line of credit).

It's a nice idea to align the incentives of the school and student, but the current implementation doesn't do that if the school sells/finances ISAs so that they get paid before the student does.
You're inferring something I didn't say.

We are seeing a dramatic rise in the suicide rate in the USA in the last few decades as the middle and working classes lose the economic advancements that their parents generation worked to attain. All the while the economic have gain more.

Not saying the non-rich were spared from the great depression.
Awesome initiative. I'm currently building a video game on libgdx. I wonder if I could rewrite the 2D UI using this (like, if they could be integrated at the InputProcessor and SpriteBatxh levels)
Ask HN: Election Efficiency in Populous Countries
US is the third most populous country in the world. First being China and the second, India.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/print.php

Election fraud certainly happens in India. I don’t think they even vote in China.

We have to reconsider the notion of democracy based on election/votes for our now ballooning American Republic.

This system isn’t working. It certainly won’t work in the future. It’s not 1778 anymore.
Impostor syndrome is kind of a corollary of the Dunning–Kruger effect. Since you know a lot about some discipline, you're better able to judge your gaps in knowledge, and you assume others know as much as you (because of a gap in knowledge on what others know, so you extrapolate from your on level of knowledge on that discipline, which is high).

The converse also happen, where you know enough to overestimate your knowledge of the thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
> It took an hour to read, I thought it would take an hour to write.
Yes, I believe the technical term is "rebound effect"

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/mind-read/alcohol_sleep...
> According to the market people would generally rather spend that money elsewhere

Or some people don't have the money to spend on it at all. This is the fundamental issue with using "willingness to pay" as proxy for "utility consumer gains."
I don't think it is reasonable to assume that police signed up to punish men, considering a vast majority of people who get arrested and charged are men?
The point is that Apple and Google have used their market power in other verticals (hardware, services) to lock all other competitors out of the mobile app distribution market. They are acting as private regulators of who can publish a mobile app, which is unacceptable if we still claim to support competitive, public markets.

How would a consumer even know if they were happy given the lack of options? Are they actually happy, or do they just have bigger issues to worry about? That's why we hire experts to act as regulators for new industries.
Protected classes are specifically excluded from market forces. That's why they're... protected.
But the M1 chip isn't competing with discrete graphics, at least yet. The M1 is replacing integrated graphics in these machines. Integrated graphics also trail discrete graphics by years so it isn't really a knock on the M1 that it does too.

That leaves two primary questions. Does the integrated graphics of the M1 beat integrated graphics of Intel and AMD? What does Apple plan to do to compete with discrete graphics in their higher end hardware and will that be a more powerful SOC, discrete graphics hardware from Apple, or something more traditional from AMD?
No but they're a symptom of the 'all work on the same product' situation - if they were split, the people wanting to update the UI etc would work on the new version alongside the kernel team for the new version.
netflix does not serve their bits over amazon. they have their own major infra, and operate a large and distributed cdn, including edge caches colocated within eyeball networks.

it would be insane for them to deliver their video content over aws.
> Why sell them

They don't. GOOG rents them.
For me, everything is on the remote desktop so I can work on any device via RDP (phone, tablet, chromebook, raspberrypi, etc).

The laptop needs no configuration. It doesn't need to be backed up, I don't need any software licenses. The laptop can be lost, stolen, damaged, etc and nothing will be lost.

If I was more mobile, the laptop specs would be more important but I work in the same physical space. It needs to be able to power some monitors and the keyboard needs to be decent for the few times a year I go out of town.

Currently using a Surface Go (8gb version).
On-Demand Minecraft Servers (Within Observable)
Jeremy Hammond (born January 8, 1985) is an American activist and computer hacker from Chicago. He founded the computer security training website HackThisSite in 2003. He was convicted of computer fraud in 2013 for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing data to WikiLeaks, and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond

"Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak"
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/15/jeremy-ham... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6740652)
I had to look up "having a moment" in American.

In British English it means being distracted, having a brain-fade, being a bit down. I think this article probably means the opposite...
The problem is you're dismissing a valid suggestion based on an assumption you came up with yourself. I understand your point but I feel like it was misplaced here.
You can transfer a regular epub to a Kobo, but it will trigger the ADE renderer, which is garbage. Think IE6-level rendering. Using a kepub file will trigger Kobo's better native renderer, which I strongly suspect is Webkit-based and can render lots of advanced CSS and even MathML.
There's tipping point in growing software companies where the primary cost goes from Software Developers to infrastructure and when that tipping point gets hit it swings towards infrastructure costs almost exponentially. The reason is simple: computers beget more computers at a much higher rate than Software Developers beget more Software Developers. Doubly or triply so when you're in the business of storage like Dropbox is.

At some point it might be interesting to calculate the size of your company in terms of how many racks you have and how many employees you have. These days a fully loaded rack costs a lot more than your typical Software Developer salary.
That was my first thought reading this article. As more of the workforce shifts to remote, the market price of talent should become less location-dependent.

> As an SF engineer, this'll probably pull my salary down, but the salary of engineers throughout the country up.

I'd say the salary of engineers throughout the world would go up.

I think this is a positive change that will make the overall industry more efficient and benefit society as producing high-quality software becomes more affordable. And I say this as an engineer in a high-pay city who benefits from the current inequality in the system.

I believe the change will be gradual enough that people like me can keep earning good pay by continuing to improve our skills and learn from experience.
> Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they're "highly employable".

Some people, when working on site, make more than other on site employees because they're "highly employable".

Bottom line is, being "highly employable" is the only relevant factor in negotiating, remote vs. on site is irrelevant, and you shouldn't let companies to bluff you otherwise.

If they like you a lot more than the other candidate, who just happens to live in a high cost of living location, are they really going to pass you over to hire the other candidate, if you demand the same wage that candidate would receive?

Capitalism isn't just for companies, you know.

If you're not "highly employable", get highly employable and negotiate knowing your worth.
During Covid this is not true, but my experience with Remote work is you need to be located next to a major international airport and/or US air hub for any travel requirements. The further you are for these locations make it incredible difficult to travel when the need comes up. Any company/employee that isn't based is a city center with good air travel would be limited with what they can do. This article clearly doesn't account for these differences.
The actual cost of living is the floor, but cost-of-living metrics frequently overestimate the actual cost of living.
Netflix plays both sides rather strongly, e.g. they run some of their hardware in your isp's buildings: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

By some measures, that's much more extreme than running your own datacenter.
This is great and really useful to me! I am also, like others here, in the process of writing my first "book": https://redis.pjam.me/. Mainly inspired by https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/, rebuilding Redis, instead of git, in Ruby.

> For my first few sections I wrote the code as I wrote the sections, but then Lak made the suggestion that it would probably be easier to write the code first and then write the chapter

I can echo this a thousand times, I've written the last three chapters this way and this has made a huge difference, wish I had known that earlier!

I will also add that it really made me learn so much because even though I thought I knew quite a bit about Ruby (I knew early on that I didn't know much about Redis). So many times I found myself trying to explain something and realizing that I didn't actually know how it worked and ended up spending hours (days?) researching the inner workings of said thing

PS: Using quotes around book mostly because that's the imposter syndrome kicking in, I was calling it "a series of blog post" for a while, to kinda downplay it
> They mention it in the article but we should really be calling this what it really is, 21st century eugenics.

No, we shouldn't call it that because that's not what it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

> In this period, people from across the political spectrum espoused eugenic ideas. Consequently, many countries adopted eugenic policies, intended to improve the quality of their populations' genetic stock. Such programs included both positive measures, such as encouraging individuals deemed particularly "fit" to reproduce, and negative measures, such as marriage prohibitions and forced sterilization of people deemed unfit for reproduction. Those deemed "unfit to reproduce" often included people with mental or physical disabilities, people who scored in the low ranges on different IQ tests, criminals and "deviants", and members of disfavored minority groups.

The key element, here, is that eugenics involves the state controlling the rights of the individual to reproduce in the first place.

In this case we're dealing with the exact opposite: providing additional information in support of a person's right to make a decision about whether they shouldn't reproduce.

I would make the claim that, given a positive test for a genetic disorder, forcing a person to bring that fetus to term is in fact far closer to the troubling elements of the eugenics movement--a direct intervention by the state in a person's reproductive decisions--than the current situation.
Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac
The House in the Middle (1954)
I am far from the top 5%/1%/.01%, and do not spend more money they I have...

Infact for the last 15 years I have made it a point to monthly expenses be less than 50% of my net income, which meant living with family, having room mate, Driving a very old car or doing other things to lower my expenses.
Not to be rude (I actually like it), but why build your own instead of using one of the many JavaScript REPLs already available?
This only works if you actually read them.
Sure, but we also have to consider the r0. For both the placebo and the non-placebo patients, they were generally operating in an environment where essentially ~90% of others effectively had the placebo (no immunity). As the number of people with the vaccine goes up, the number of transmission vectors goes down, further decreasing the spread. So even on the low end of the error bar, the impact here would be huge.
> API Terms of Use

> Applications using the Listen API must not pre-fetch, cache, index, or store any content on the server side.
Note that the id and the pub_date (e.g., latest_pub_date_ms, pub_date_ms...) of a podcast or an episode are exempt from the caching restriction.

Is that.. common? I've never knowingly come across anything like that before, seems weird to me. Sort of makes sense, in a 'you must not try to avoid needing to pay us more because we want more money' sort of way, but.. really? Also, almost entirely (basically, except OSS) undetectable, surely.

[Edit: failure to read my own quote correctly, thanks
xd1936] --- And if you really take it seriously - 'must not [...] store any content' - it really limits what you could even use it for, not being able to store the `id` even for a later reference. I don't think that's what's intended, but it seems to be what's written. ---

(Just so I don't sound like a grumpy old git (I'm not old, at least!) - I really really really like the docs page https://www.listennotes.com/api/docs/ only thing I'd suggest perhaps is embedding the OpenAPI 'HTML' contents below the other options, rather than it being a link to follow. Awesome though.)
That is what I do as well. Write everything down, and now that I am working from home: vocalizing what I am doing.

Vocalizing what you do is a good way to reinforce your attention.
Show HN: Running Falco and k3s at the edge with 64-bit ARM
Just to be clear: when I wrote "I have this product" I meant I have all the described functionality of this product already.

Unfortunately it's too late to edit the comment.
I have been experimenting with building software products from within the amazing Observable notebook environment. This is the most full featured attempt. You turn on VM hosts for X hours at a time so you never forget to turn them off.

I wrote up the range of techniques used to build this in a SaaS for Observable tutorial

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/saas-tutorial
I've been working on my first book with Manning (should be out in the next few months).

Without the structure a publisher provides it's likely I would not have come even vaguely close to finishing.

The marketing is icing, really.
Disagree. I know not everyone is lucky to have close friends but as someone who has always dealt with things alone, I feel guilty and vulnerable the few times I've spoken to therapists. Even years later I regret going.

I don't want someone who is impartial or non-judgmental. If I'm going to pay someone I want actionable advice from someone who has been in my shoes. Having friends who know me, who come from different backgrounds, cultures, countries does way more for me. Them saying "schoolornot, knock it off, you're acting immature" does way more for me than laying on a nobody's couch.

I'm not knocking it but it's not for me.