skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
28 with the neck of a 70 year old. Stenosis sucks. I hope for medical advancements that will make my life bearable when I'm 70.
We just had solar and battery backup bank quoted for our home (November/December 2020).

For enough power to run the fridge, freezer, AC intermittently, and charge/power for electronics (1 laptop, 2 phones), the cost of batteries for up to 1 week's supply was ~65k USD. We simply could not afford that. (subsequently, the solar to offset our ~200/mo power bill was ~65k on its own. Just outrageously expensive).
Ugh, the notion of gamifying my resume on social media sounds like a nightmare. Especially because I want to keep my professional and my personal life separate.
> Isn't there now a mountain of evidence, thanks to the pandemic, that remote employees were in fact more productive?

I never believed it to begin with. Seemed like a way to try to prop up confidence in markets, rather than hard science. Afaik, all organizations are horrible at measuring productivity.
> There's the root of the policy decision.

Or maybe, it's just as Apple says - iOS/iPadOS isn't MacOS and they're not meant to function the same way because they're intended for different use cases and security models.

No doubt they'd love for you to buy one of everything, but your chafing at the limitations of Apple's platform strategy isn't an indication of an ulterior motive, so much as an indication that Apple's platform strategy doesn't meet your needs. Alas.
I know a guy who works on a team that makes productivity apps for iOS, and there is a coupon system, but not many people use it (logistically it sounded a bit tricky).

There are ways to let someone upgrade to the new version for less than retail price, but you just don’t hear if that many people doing it.

Or maybe we don’t hear because so many apps are made by very small companies, or as a loss leader for other services. And maybe the latter should give them/us pause.
You can also just prepend arxiv.link to the url:

https://arxiv.link/https://dailymirror.co.za/2021/05/11/the-...
Is it dying? I genuinely don't know.
What does "strip out types in production" means ? I've never heard of that.

For what I do, Babel is the slow part. switching babel to esbuild (still with tsc) divided my build times by 10.
Been driving a Honda Civic 2005 since high school, still runs strong. I am convinced I am the happiest car owner ever.
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Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie (1995)
Every hiring is a discrimination in some way.
A lot of these resignations will be people leaving for other jobs, not just giving up employment entirely. To the company left behind, that makes no difference; it's a resignation either way.
How the stb_truetype Anti-Aliased Software Rasterizer v2 Works (2015)
Anecdotally, I'm one of them. I'm a single guy that gets paid well above my mortgage and I do not really like to endlessly consume stuff (same TV since around 2007 which my buddies always complain about when we get together to watch fights or whatever. I don't have a dishwasher or microwave, I like to live very simply). I've been seriously considering dropping to 50% or something so I can keep my insurance but drastically lower my stress and raise the amount of time I can just sit out on the porch playing my guitar
My point is it doesn't matter--on a large scale, movement _between_ jobs is a zero-sum game. Businesses might see a spike in hiring costs, but by your logic they'll just be making up for lost time so it's even more-so a non-story if that's the case.
I have to really question how the study was conducted if only 1-2% of python errors were considered type errors. Even if the only type error you consider is None vs not None, you'd get more than that. Certainly those errors account for more than 1% of the errors I see in my own professional experience using Python. I'm curious what his reasoning was so I'll watch the talk, but there's something screwy there.
Based on the application, some manufacturer do create custom controllers that monitor/capture environmental data in order to safeguard the equipment from experiencing catastrophic failure or performing triggered/scheduled reboots, brightness adjustments, etc based on specific events like local temp, fan speed, on-time hours, etc.
We are in an unfortunate state of hyper-polarization where, if one side advocates something, the other side feels compelled to reject it. Unfortunately, this has even extended into medicine. Many such cases! Sad!
Seems like no one there has read the manual:

"Throughout this book, six principles of effective crisis and risk communication are emphasized:

1. Be First: Crises are time-sensitive. Communicating information quickly is almost always important. For members of the public, the first source of information often becomes the preferred source.

2. Be Right: Accuracy establishes credibility. Information can include what is known, what is not known, and what is being done to fill in the gaps.

3. Be Credible: Honesty and truthfulness should not be compromised during crises.

4. Express Empathy: Crises create harm, and the suffering should be acknowledged in words. Addressing what people are feeling, and the challenges they face, builds trust and rapport.

5. Promote Action: Giving people meaningful things to do calms anxiety, helps restore order, and promotes a restored sense of control.

6. Show Respect: Respectful communication is particularly important when people feel vulnerable. Respectful communication promotes cooperation and rapport."
Remember, kids: actors are for concurrency. If you do not need concurrency, do not use actors.
> TEST AGAINST VARIOUS BROWSERS

I mean, how does that not just push all of this towards companies and open source solutions that provide access to old browsers and what not? I mean no matter what direction you push, it's going to be someone else's open source code that needs money.
Guy is pretty young (created babel in high school I read) so maybe that's part of it. I find that the older I get the more empathy I have.
There are a few companies that have "closed" systems that are nonetheless extremely easy to integrate into something like Home Assistant, or anything else. Lutron, for example, exposes a Telnet port on their (pro) hub that you can connect to and issue plain text commands. Sure, open standards are always better, but I'll take documented local control as a pretty close second.
The problem here is that each language has different features and different strengths and weaknesses.

For example, I would have very different implementations of, say, the A* algorithm in C++ vs Python, to the point that they would not translate into each other very well
There's a big difference between being restless -- i.e. going for a bunch of job interviews -- and actually switching jobs.

Articles like this highlight the very plausible idea that the post-Covid reawakening will include a lot of "Wanna hire me?" conversations. Perhaps even over meals with someone's expense account picking up the tab.

But as other posters say, a lot of that may be momentary flirtation. Plenty of exploring; not so much movement.
Where does the article say they snoop?

Drive is unencrypted because it is indexed for personal search. What is the snooping part?

> redistribution and performance rights for Drive

This is completely standard and required so that they can provide syncing and sharing.
While there's a lot of factors involved, the impact of lowering interest rate is usually underestimated.

I didn't pay an absurd amount of money for my house because the market was super hot and I had to outbid everyone in a bidding war (though I did have to do that).

I paid an absurd amount because with interest rates so low, it was cheaper than renting in term of monthly payment + maintenance.

I'd obviously be willing to go as high as my current rent, and probably a bit higher (to be allowed to do whatever I want with it), and that just came up to the price I paid.

The only thing blocking you, financially, is the down payment. The lower the interest rate, the higher the down payment will be for the same monthly payment. That's the problem.

To live in the house, if you can afford 1500/month (including insurance, HoA, maintenance), it doesn't matter if the house is worth 100k, 300k, 600k, 1 million...if the math adds up to 1500/month, you'll buy it. Interest rates go down, house value go up. Simple as that.

Now if you add all the other factors, like how home ownership becomes a potentially profitable investment, alongside society's pressure that "it's what you're supposed to do", and of course prices will skyrocket, shortage or not.

In turn, it raises rent prices, which makes the math above work out even more, and it's a self reinforcing cycle.
What about the communication tax of people asking instead of Googling to solve their issue?
I was involved with a project that had an approx 2m x 7m LED sign as part of it, and that portion cost roughly $500k.

It used the same components that you'd find in the LED billboards alongside highways in the US.
AFAIK for conditioned reflexes (and most habits), the basal ganglia is responsible. The amygdala is the alarm center that kicks in for life/death situations.

caveat: have cursory knowledge of neuroscience
In The Netherlands the house prices have only continued to go up during the pandemic. As a Millenial myself, buying a house is still out of reach.

No resignation for me anytime soon.
Since regan and the politically troubled vaccination programmes of the 70s, the senior staff at the CDC are all political appointments.

Effectively, they're in-house politicians who serve the (PR) interests of elected politicians.

Actual independent health professionals aren't the ones doing the communication; and have been generally forbidden from doing so.
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The way money is created in the modern world is not the only way to create money. There's a good chance we're in the last decade or so of "the way we create money" today continuing to appear to work, since we're just running around the same cycle any number of civilizations have run around before us. Even if we do have 'computers' this time.
On the other hand, sales people are quickly dismissed if they don't meet their goals; it's a double-edged sword.
I've been working on a VSCode extension that inlines blocks of code so that you can navigate, understand, and write code more easily than with just definition jumping.

It’s currently only on VSCode with Python and JavaScript supported, but with more languages and editors to come. I’ve added a form that you can use to sign up to be notified if/when I add support for an editor/language.

I’m currently a CS student and I’ve been working on this outside of school. If you guys have any feedback or advice, including what I should work on next, please let me know!

Here's a youtube with the demo as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EenznqbW5w8
Grandparent might mean median individual income instead (since household income graphs can be skewed by more people working - Elizabeth Warren writes about this in the Two Income Trap):

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
APUs are integrated graphics. Only integrated graphics share system RAM. Dedicated GPUs get their own RAM.
What about the gains from those not having to pay the tax ? Being interrupted and having to do context switches has a significant cost associated.
> I don't like Rust because it gives me memory safety, tons of languages do that. I love Rust because the tradeoffs it gives me worth the switch, and the overall tooling and ecosystem are very well made.

Same applies to the tooling of Ada/SPARK, but as you have said, it is pretty much a PR issue.
> setting aside the arguments of whether JIT code is a security concern (it is not unless your security model is one where codesigning exists to prevent the addition of new native code)

But, it is.

1) provide a JIT compiler

2) download code from the internet

3) provide code to JIT compiler

4) ???

5) Profit!

JIT code obfuscates the inspection of the app. It therefore is a security concern.
I think that is just the outcome that you inevitably get to if you start from the assumption that humans are lazy and just waiting to slack off and work back from there. If you believe that then work needs to be a prison to function.
That's ignoring all the other things MS was up to at the time. They did a lot of embrace-extend-extinguish to reduce the effectiveness of competitors, a lot of dirty dealing with OEMs to block alternate OSes. The IE thing was just one piece of a much larger case.
Its just part of the general online narrative that Amazon is "evil", while Apple, who still works with Foxconn in China and did things like have poor authentication on iCloud that cause celebrity photo leaks, goes largely unnoticed.

My guess is that tech people just really like the flashy Macbooks so the bias is present.
On one 1800s death certificate, the cause of death was listed as "drank Paris Green accidentally."

"What's Paris Green?" I asked an older family member.

"Insecticide" was was the reply. It's also a pigment once used in fireworks. Extremely toxic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green

What a terrible way to die.
I seem to recall this other time in Europe when travel papers were needed to prove you weren't part of a certain group. Some time back in the thirties i think it was under that government in Germany....
As far as I can tell, Medium is basically LiveJournal with better fonts and layouts.
A lot of these are still used, although some in slightly different contexts. A few of them could still be seen on death certificates. I have to wonder how the author decided on the list. Just looking at the first few letters:

We still describe widespread oedema as anasarca.
Apoplexy is still used, but only really in the context of pituitary apoplexy.
Atrophy is of course still in use.
Cerebritis is still used.
Cholera, obviously.
Chorea is still a description of abnormal movements (Huntington's Chorea, Sydenham's Chorea etc.)
Colic still used to describe a certain kind of abdominal pain.
Congestion is still a term.
Coryza is still used to describe the collection of symptoms you get from an URTI.
Cyanosis is still the correct term.
Cystitis is still the term for bladder inflammation.

Goes on and on...
This comment does the best job of explaining it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27118267

Writing like this is meant not to persuade, but to incite and coerce using emotion.
I think your reasons around productivity being greater in the office are valid. But there are lots of reasons why people can be more productive at home too. For example I can often concentrate better as there are fewer distractions. I can also take a quick 20 minute nap and then be productive for the rest of the day rather than sitting at my desk zombified for the whole afternoon because napping isn't socially acceptable, or there are no good places to nap.
Sailing has pushed Hydrofoiling to the next level there are 100m boats coming out that claim to be able to do 2.2x wind speed downwind. One of the things I miss the most living in Central Texas is sailing on trapeze and foiling. If I were back near the coast I'd buy one of these: https://iflysail.com/
I think the ISS will be dragged along until there's a plan for a new station which may include replacing the more ancient components instead of an entirely new station. I have a hard time seeing NASA and the US government giving up on having a continuously operated space station in LEO. What that likely means given the overall gridlock and every administration messing with the plans at NASA is that the ISS limps along until the modules themselves need to be replaced.
Vamp is joining CircleCI
> You'd never get manufacturer support for a BMW in the same circumstance either.

You don't need manufacturer support to repair most cars. Several car makers have left the industry, and their cars are still drivable and repairable. You can generally buy and repair cars with flood or wrecked title and repair them if you've got the time and patience; manufacturers will probably think you're crazy, but you can get service parts.
> I'm not much of a gift-giving person, so if a neighbor brought me cake, I'd feel like I owe them something in return, which is a weird feeling I don't want.

> And I don't feel any status pressure, because I never even talk to my neighbors. My lawn looks like shit, my neighbors probably know, who cares.

> Most of my neighbors are not people who I really want to be friends with. They're mostly older than me, mostly parents, probably with no shared hobbies or interests.

Lot of assumptions in this post, and they all seem to be coming from you.
This will be great for hiring managers with diversity quotas.
Come on, you were in the right, but now you've lost the argument. This is not the place for this kind of discussion.
I'm of the opinion that workers should retain 100% of the value they produce. Not for deontological reasons, but because I hold the belief that the outcomes of paying the "leaf nodes" in an organization maximally results in a healthier economy, a healthier population, and more democratic workplaces.

This is not limited to software engineers. I believe the same is true for any worker, from fast food to manufacturing to engineers.
https://youtu.be/Uo0SfynGFig

Diseases of Yore by MC Frontalot
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Do you have what it takes to start a new business?
- Had they figured out how to monetize it, you and me would not have had to try to solve this problem - monetizing is part of long term project sustainability cause time is money and living is not free..

- I don't hold any opinion on how to solve this problem or if they should get paid or not... consider this, 11K is the Yearly / Half yearly salary of a mid-level developers in most parts of Asia, double it and you can hire a decent senior developer for that price..

I can understand the dilemma the person is in, but, making 11k a month, this person is part of the top 10% of the richest people worldwide.. little hard to care too much.
It can be weird though. I had a hobby I kept meaning to get back to Some Day(tm) and when I did the app was on my device just like always, but I was now two devices later and it would simply crash on startup.

I’m fairly sure that at some point those devices ran low on space (less of a problem today, but mostly because I’ve been off the music treadmill for a while) and I had to delete things to keep working.
To be clear, it's about suffocating because the fan uses up the air in the room, or some such nonsense.
Among my early-20s friends, I don't think I've talked to a single person who thinks their office is running more effectively than it was before. If there is such a mountain of evidence, you should at least be able to point us to the foothills.
Share It My Passion
I am still using my 12 year old Intel® Core™ i7-870 for gaming, working, and doing other stuff.

I just use SublimeText (not bloated) instead of Visual Studio Code (bloated) and HeidiSQL (not bloated) instead of MySQL Workbench (bloated).

So, for my personal experience, yes this point has totally stood the test of time.

Will I get a new computer? Yes, eventually, when supply gets back to normal prices or when my current computer can no longer be of use to me.

Also: fuck bloated software. It is a much bigger waste of electricity than Bitcoin.
Exactly, SpaceX is a testament to what competition and ambition can bring about and how the government can use their funds more efficiently than siphoning money to senators home states.

Competition is good, government is good, corruption is bad.
This seems more like a how-to guide to leave your job (as if it is a new fashion trend) and reads more of a persuasion to leave your job post-pandemic.
People by scrapped ICE cars all the time. It may not be one of the mainstream options but it's not rare. It's common. It's possible to fix it up to get a rebuilt title after it had a salvage title from being an insurance write-off.

The fact that filling up a car at a charging/fueling station requires manufacturer support highlights how coupled everything is together.
I guess it depends on the industry and if you/the industry you work in has been effected by COVID.

Working as a bartender or cook at a restaurant? Doubt we will see a mass resignation. Unless people decide they are tired of shit treatment.

Working in IT or some similar position at a modern company? I bet we would see a larger number of people quitting. Why go back into the office? Why commute? Why do anything like that when COVID has shown that remote work is a viable option. Any company that cannot accept the new fact that workers want to be able to work remotely is going to struggle to find talent.
Just to give one data point I'm in Poland and I'm earning around 3500€ in a fully remote senior developer/engineer position working on AI tech in a company of around 1k employees. I'm one of the best paid people among my colleagues. The absolute top range job offers in this field in my country would be somewhere around 5000€ but that may be available only to a few developers in the entire 40 million country. I'm sure one could argue that one US engineer is worth 2+ polish engineers but I'm doubtful it's such a large difference. Quite the opposite in fact, I heard rumours that our engineers are quite valued internationally, once you get past the language barrier of course.

Just my 3 cents.
The two examples they give of how “open” Google has been in the past, are:

1. The “Atom” standard for… RSS feeds. (Google would, four years later, virtually destroy almost the entire RSS ecosystem by closing Google Reader.)

2. The geolocation API in browsers, helping web sites track your location.
The Space shuttle SRBs were somewhat re-usable while the external tank (arguably similar to the F9 second stage, except that it was used for the whole flight) was expended. The external tank was ~30,000 kg dry mass and was expended with each launch. The system could deliver ~27500kg to LEO (assuming the SRBs are fully reused which is not entirely accurate).

Falcon 9 FT Block 5 second stage has a dry mass of 4000 kg which is expended. It could deliver ~15,600 kg to LEO with first stage reuse.

The systems are definitely comparable!
A friend of mine used to go around saying "At any given point, we're only 72 hours away from complete chaos and anarchy and people don't realize it."
HN says I should have 15 years of expenses in a saving account before I consider moving out of my car and doing something extravagant like renting a studio apartment
Savage of Sebastian to call out Henry like that on twitter. Are you on drugs or something?
https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392019586833387522

Publicly accusing Henry of not actually working on the project seems short sighted. Only looking at a one year slice of contribution rather than the lifetime of the project masks the full picture of Henry's contributions. Also in Henry's defense, the past year has been a terribly difficult one for most all of us to get through this pandemic.

Not a good look for you Sebastian. Feels like you are looking for a place to point blame and unfortunately decided to direct that blame in Henry's direction. Henry Zhu is a great developer and contributor. Really deserves better than this.
TIL. Such a useful tip, thanks.
I've seen this data too, but I don't think it's representative of post-covid WFH productivity because: 1) there are far fewer productivity distractions during COVID due to everyone being cooped up at home 2) people are still learning how to slack off while seeming productive 3) the novelty of WFH helps spur productivity