skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I think it will very much be a "be careful what you wish for" type of situation in the end.

Time zones I think will be the biggest advantage to hire within the western hemisphere, nobody likes the PST <-> IST timezone meeting gap, there aren't many to hire in latin america and they speak English well and communicate well. If latin america had a large base of engineers to hire in the first place, I think many places would choose there just on a timezone and english communication skills basis.

But you see big compensation gaps even between NYC / SFO / SEA and the rest of the USA, so you could very well see a drop from that.
https://archive.is/Rs62D
What's wrong with The Guardian?
Just bing for "IDF shoots reporters."

That should keep you busy for a couple of days, since it's IDF policy.

They shoot foreign reporters in the legs/knees, but Arab reporters fatally. The targeted shooting proves it's deliberate, and the fact this has happened for decades that it's policy.
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> HIPPA is absolutely not too strict, it has many fundamental holes which need to be plugged.

Citation needed? It’s HIPAA, by the way; one P and two As.

> There is a developing liberty/security divide which is going very much in the direction of far too far.

Total drivel. I’m sick of lockdowns and mask mandates. If you’re legally and medically eligible for a vaccine and you haven’t gotten one, I’m happy for private businesses to refuse you service.
I live in a small town so the only time I drive more than 25 mi in a day is when I'm driving 200+ miles, and then I'm glad it takes gasoline. But yes, 50 mi would be better, but they already took the spare tire out to make room for battery as is (out of curiosity I googled it and wow, Tesla's don't have a spare either. That's probably my least favorite thing, I had to get towed my first week in the car because of the wimpy high-efficiency tires.)
Reservoir Cats is actually a movie! I feel like I've slipped into an alternative time stream.
> … "Anarchy Online" …

Wow. There's a game I haven't heard mentioned in a while. Had no idea it was still around until you mentioned it here.
While the FAANGs are certainly growing their monopolies , It doesn’t seem to be a big issue with the current US administration.
Most of them seem to allow you to select minimal tracking if you click twice.

Typically there's a button to allow all tracking and one that's non-committal, something like "see my settings". The second one, as you say, brings up 600 switches, but usually the "non-essential" ones are turned off and all you have to do is scroll to the bottom and click "save settings" or something like that.

They are obviously making it more difficult than it has to be, and probably that causes a lot of people to allow all, but once I got the hang of it, it isn't too much trouble.
"Being vaccinated isn't a perfect defense, but it reduces the risk to you of getting the disease, it drastically reduces the risk to you of dying from the disease or suffering long term life altering consequences from it, and it lowers the risk of you spreading it to others."

The general guidance hasn't changed. The risk to each other has gone up as Delta spreads, because it's more dangerous. There will probably be other dangerous variants given the huge breeding ground for the virus among the unvaccinated and immune compromised.

Get vaccinated, lower your risk, lower the risk to everyone around you and to the general population of the earth. (And it's incredibly harmless).
What's wrong with solving problems the unix guys already solved decades ago, and doing so less elegantly?
Doesn't every child get their DNA sampled and stored in most states if the parents want any hope of screening the baby against a variety of diseases?
they are not same because vaccinated are less likely to be infected and hence less likely to spread disease.

every vaccinated person is 40% less likely of getting infected compared to unvaccinated. so if a person goes to office with vaccine mandate, they are 64% less likely of getting infected compared to no vaccine mandate.
No it won't.

My employer mandated vaccines. Exceptions for sincere religious belief or documented medical reasons. I didn't want the vaccine but I wasn't going to lie about having a legitimate religious reason for it. Some people will, but most people wont.

So I got the shot, but if I have any serious side effects I will certainly be contacting a personal injury attorney.
It's the classic covid remote != normal remote comparison. COVID isn't completely gone so many are not comfortable going into the office.
I think https://github.com/dundee/gdu is faster than ncdu
most of my colleagues (40 odd engineers) might have been very enthusiastic about wfh at the start, but this has reverted to wanting to go back to the office for the social aspect of things with the understanding that wfh would be part of the equation going back.
Since this topic has always been such an unproductive hot-button, maybe a good way to achieve consensus (assuming that's the goal here) would be to concretely define exactly which particular statements/views people find too controversial for school.

As it stands, there seems to be no consensus on the definition of the theory, nor does there seem to be consensus on whether said theory is being taught in schools.
Honestly from using duolingo pretty heavily for a couple of years, attending language classes and doing my own individual study I've found duolingo pretty useless. It's "fun" and gives one the sense of progress without really accomplishing much.
So they are burning more trees instead of coal. Way to go.
Please don't take HN threads on tedious culture war tangents. This is covered by the site guidelines:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Use broot as tree is not necessary of course `tree | less` works for that but as hinted in the article broot contains a lot more features. Fuzzy finding, preview, multiwindow copy/paste, renaming, directory navigation etc
Looks expensive. Wonder how they are able to manage waves moving back and forth.

One of the better designs I have seen is to build concrete structures that are partially submerged in the sea, to capture the air flow caused by rising tidal waves, and use it to run a wind turbine.

Much less direct contact with sea water. Simpler construction and maintenance.
> No “papers please” to allow me to participate in normal society where the group in power gets to decide if I’m acceptable.

What are your thoughts on individuals contracting and spreading a disease that has killed millions already due to their refusal to comply with the most basic health and safety precautions?

Do you believe that someone's refusal to comply with basic sanitary precautions should take precedence over my and my family and loved one's desire to not die of a preventable disease?

And where do you draw the line in that refusal to comply with basic health and safety precautions? Do you also extend it to other viral diseases that are preventable by vaccination such as measles, or do you single out covid?
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That sounds like the slippery slope fallacy. COVID is a wide- and fast-spreading, current risk to public health. You don't need to ask for more, because nothing else is in the same ballpark.
Funny, never occurred to me to make shortcuts out of .., I like that
According to UN Habitat, cities consume 78 per cent of the world's energy and produce more than 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.

Population growth and corresponding high density cities are the driving force behind resource consumption. Those farms only use water so humans can eat. If they just stopped then we'd be starved instead of thirsty.

The efficiency of a city is exactly the cause of resource depletion. Land limitations used to be a limiting factor that would put breaks on run away growth. We are not unlike animals in this regard. Higher density is a taller geometry and less stable. Whether other megacities are more dense is moot.

I am not saying this because I have some solution. I am not saying this because cities and people are bad. I'm saying as a fact humans and our resource consumption has put the planet on a perilous path that will not end well.

Our problem is carrying capacity and if an area is reaching its max stable carrying capacity it may be time to limit housing. If housing is not limited and controlled a population can overshoot because the illusion of a kind climate that is actually only temporary.

Perhaps this is not the case for SF but it is and will be the case for many places.
Please don't take HN threads into tedious, predictable flamewars.

A longer version of this admonition is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27992893

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pfizer backs down over ‘unreasonable’ terms in South Africa vaccine deal
I'm surprised to learn that Na + K is liquid at room temperature; both Na and K on their own are solids at room temperature.

I enjoyed "Can we have the balcony for explosions"!
I built a custom keyboard with the arrow and navigation keys for my left hand. I pretty much only use the scroll wheel, though. Having one for both hands is a huge time saver in big documents since you keep small per click scroll precision but can input them twice as fast
That's not a SPA breaking the web, it's just misconfigured.
Be careful what you wish for. If your role can be done fully remotely, you will soon find yourself competing against the international market instead of just the local one.
Whoa - hauling in someone's personal details to use as ammunition in an argument is totally not cool. It's a particularly awful form of internet personal attack. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Doing it to turn an antivax flamewar into a religious flamewar as well is way beyond the pale. No more of this please!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Today the entire state of New York had ZERO covid related deaths. Yet this week we saw NYC and State employees and now major private corporations mandate the vaccine.

For the record I will never disclosure my health status so don’t assume one way or another.
I moved on to Babbel.
> Please don't complain about website formatting

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All also rare and not much different from similar effects of other viral infections such as the flu.
This happens for unpopular events too.

Memory Hole

"The alteration or outright disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a web site or other archive. Its origin comes from George Orwell's "1984", in which the memory hole was a small incinerator chute used for censoring, (through destroying), things Big Brother deemed necessary to censor."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Memory%20Hol...
I like the new motorolas, i have a moto e, <200$ off amazon, they are almost always running heavy promotions and have models for 200$ with decent performance, some are designed so you cant take the battery out which is frustrating but you can fix stuff if your patient/know how to follow YT tutorials.
You can just put a variable where you mention duolingo based on the recent market.
Glad to hear your anecdotes and the success story, sounds like hell.

I've found the work of Carl C Pfeiffer interesting, seems to apply to me, histedelia, although pun intended I do take it with a healthy dose of salt. I've seen a lot of professional dismissiveness towards the idea. More recent blog reading material seems to term it as a 'methylation' issue. What I found most 'appealing' about the theory was that he blames the substance abuse on the histadelics personal biology: when intoxicated the histadelic feels 'good' whereas they normally always feel 'terrible'. This is in contrast the average person who feels 'good' sober a lot of the time.

I would 'go nuts' every 18 months like clockwork before making a lot of diet changes after a year of psychosis a few years back. One thing that prevented issues in the past were high levels of physical exercise, so I had a handful of years here and there without issues.

I wouldn't say I'm 100% now but I have more good days than bad. I'll try this levomefolic acid.
> If you use life cycle management and data streams (which AWS doesn't have), you'd be able to control the sizes of your hot indices (i.e. the ones you write to)

AWS has lifecycle stuff, a year ago. And index management is not cluster scaling, its a good advice, but not what I asked about.
Why do they so badly want us back in the offices? I really don't understand what they stand to lose by SWEs working remotely.

I don't know anyone that actually want to be back in the office full time, some are ok with part-time work.

Most people seem to be (anecdotally at least) reporting that they and their teams are more productive at home and their quality of life is improved because they aren't wasting time commuting.

Businesses could save money by renting smaller offices or doing away with offices completely.

Good engineers are just going to jump ship to wherever they can work fully remotely.
somecommand | python -m json.tool

installed everywhere
I think spending time discussing how one race is oppressed, and another is the oppressor, it’s not the best use of time in the classroom. I think as children enter high school, there are better ways we can go about talking about race and culture, and having respect for one another, without making it about the oppressed and the oppressor. My core conflict with this methodology is that it divides people and pit them against one another, instead of focusing on how we can all be better, kinder, and more respectful of each other in general.
Pretty sure affects you too as it's the same for me, on multiple networks, multiple user-agents, multiple devices and so on.

Simply just trie one of the examples like "hvordan regne ut prosent"(how to calculate percentages) or, I don't know..."DNB aksje"(DNB stocks, DNB being the biggest bank in Norway). Sure enough, both ranks on the first page or as the one of the top results. (One is now using the www.nem-varmepumper.dk domain, that is the same thing).

EDIT: Now the DNB one moved from 2 and 3 place to page 2. Things are moving around quickly.
I hear this a lot and I don't buy it. There's still a big advantage to being in the same (or +/-a few hrs). I work in a remote team right now with people across the world. It is hard to make meeting times where everyone can join. There's also laws that make it easier to hire nationally vs internationally.

This claim is more a scare tactic than a real warning.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says company's next act is building the metaverse
This is weird, but I am actually a developer (and a woman) who works on EverQuest.

MMOs are quite difficult to make. There is a reason the most successful MMOs to date are quite.. old. FFXIV is the newest very successful MMO, but suffered greatly at initial release, which is it's own story. EQ, and WoW, both benefit from the 20+ years of development into their current architectures that don't need to be written today, just maintained. Adding something to these games now is building on top of a very established game which already has many features people want in a new game.

Most new MMO projects fail. In fact, the Amazon MMO project New World which was one of the game projects Amazon didn't cancel recently, has many former EQ developers. The MMO development world is small.

Aside from that, going off and starting your own game company, getting funding, building all the technology needed to run a game (payment, logins, account use, etc) is a lot of work and investment which these existing companies have built decades ago and maintain. It may also interest/surprise you to know that women generally do not get much VC funding (see https://hbr.org/2021/02/women-led-startups-received-just-2-3...), so I am not sure this idea works out that well in reality.
It serves as a useful tool for learning some fairly basic words and phrases, not much else. Languages have many subtle nuances that simply can not be taught via spaced repetition.
Language and some culture are a moat against this. Not insurmountable, but real.
> I think I would be terrified to have a job like that... 99.99% of the time everything is fine, which would make it hard to maintain constant vigilance when you might go multiple days without an incident. while needing to be prepared for that extremely small window of crisis.

You just described the current state of “self driving” cars.
The only thing needed? People shouldn't interfere with nature so much. Let it all balance naturally and optimality by doing: nothing. No research needed, no plans, no guidance, just let the earth do it's thing and Paradise returns quickly.
You have the freedom to say no, but it is certainly into the territority of "duress"
As someone in the games industry that has seen the stuff that foreign "helper" studios "contribute" I do not feel this is likely...
Exactly right. If your role can be done remotely, you will soon find yourself competing against the international market. It’s shortsighted to think that your value to the company is just completing development tasks which are easily completed by cheap offshore labour.
Thanks for the pointer.

Quick search gave this review: The main differences between Babbel vs Duolingo are: Babbel is best for learnings looking to completely master a language, whereas Duolingo is better for sporadic learners who want to dabble. Babbel offers lessons with conversational practice and cultural immersion, whereas Duolingo offers adaptive learning lessons.
Frost Giant.
Thanks for the rundown! So with unmodified engines, the lead mainly just helps make extra sure there’s no knocking, which is very important because the engine won’t compensate (any issue midair would be very bad)?
Oh wow, after 20 some years of not finding anyone else who had read these, and not remembering the name, I'd begun to think I had imagined them.
From the article:

> We found that for every $1 increase in minimum wage, the percentage of workers working more than 20 hours per week (making them eligible for retirement benefits) decreased by 23.0%, while the percentage of workers with more than 30 hours per week (making them eligible for health care benefits) decreased by 14.9%.

To be fair, this isn't an argument against minimum wage, but an argument for reform in health care and retirement funding. Keep in mind, this technique was always available to them, this almost seems a spiteful reaction, or at least they would have done it sooner if they'd thought to.

> More wealth creation means more wealth.

Does it mean more income to the lowest earners in a high-GDP country? Or does it just mean GDP has increased?
The real secret - if you're a lazy cook (like most people) you're better off buying a good non stick pan like these: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/shop/cookware/nonstick+fry-p...

Don't worry about having to cook at low temperatures, or with lots of fat, or to make sure it dries perfectly, or one of the 1000 other comments in this thread. Easy as heck to use and clean.
My personal experience leads me to disagree. I've been using Duolingo to learn Chinese for about 400 days now. I recently took another step and started taking private zoom lessons and my tutor said a few of her students have come from the same path. Duo has given me a good understanding of sentence structure and raw vocabulary. Even though my pronunciation needs work, Duo has given me so much for watching a few ads and I hope to continue with it. Given everything, my tutor said I would pass HSK 1 and maybe level 2.
Honestly, it's just too much of a hassle for me to be able to actually enjoy the running activity itself.

1. I have to prepare for the weather, organise proper clothes. Fine.

2. I sweat really hard. After a run I'm totally wet and I'd rather be indoors as little as possible, since sweat is dripping all over. And to get to a work shower I would have to go through an elevator and some other places. I'd feel people judging me if I'm sweating all over the place before getting to shower.

3. I'd prefer to not shower at work. I will have to also bring so much stuff along like changing clothes and must find a place to dry my sweaty clothes since they are dripping through. I must remember to not leave them there and I'm quite forgetful about things like that.
I don't know if you gonna read this, but I should give a credit for your take on the subject. This is what you were talking about:
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-l...
> Is routine drug testing universally considered acceptable? If I'm going to be a pilot, maybe. For a developer job, I would never consider one that asked for a drug test

Not to mention it would strike many positives thanks to prescription amphetamines being prevalent among developers. Then one would have to disclose psychiatric diagnosis (ADHD) to prove not being a druggie.
Huh. I genuinely didn’t think I was doing that. I had to look the issues up on the website to quote them.

The point isn’t that I disagree or think they’re demons or whatever. The point is that SF residents are vocally opposed to CA GOP stances. “Painting them as demons” isn’t necessary because their stated aim is already past the Overton window for SF residents.

It’s like saying “he’s painting non-vegans as demons to prevent them from being voted in at the vegan conference”. They’re vegans. You don’t have to paint the non-vegans as demons. The perfectly non-demonic non-vegan falls outside the window! Pointing that out isn’t flaming! It’s factual.

Considering I’m pretty right wing, it’s a bit perplexing that you’ve gone and assumed I’m making a partisan attack on Republicans. I have a Gadsden flag, mate. And currently live in Texas.

But whatever, it’s your site. Run it how you want.
I'm trying a language learning startup and surveyed a lot of people. The response is universal that everyone's tried Duolingo, and it didn't work for them in actually learning, despite monster streaks.

I think it's masterful as a dopamine machine and employing habit building tactics. Perhaps it's a good icebreaker for people in language learning, as long as people are resourceful enough to look beyond Duolingo.
This paper seems a really big deal. I can't think of a peer reviewed post like this before.

Think anything that grows, food, hemp, oils, wood, carbon sequestration, cotton, opium, hedges, grass cattle eat, flowers, erosion control, fish tanks plants, underwater forests that should be able to penetrate current ocean deserts.

This should win Elon Musks $100 million.

The press release mentions growing tree in wind swept areas since the roots are deeper they withstand higher winds.

Just like we jumped on covid, we should jump on this, unless there's a catch, like it's to expensive to implement in large crops? Could they be faking this? Are they generalising past starch plants to much? (Still a noble prize)
I know you're agreeing with me, so I'm not trying to bust your balls here, but I have a weird thought experiment about a real life scenario.

I have a friend whose white, a trans woman, and who worked at Blizzard for 10 years, but was a man during that time. I swear I'm not making this up.

Assuming she did none of the actual harassing, how responsible is she now as a white trans woman, for the culture at Blizzard?
I don't believe it. They're probably measuring mass and velocity and applying the formula afterwards. That doesn't prove anything. Back in Leibniz' days, they would use soft clay and measure the depths of the indentations made by falling weights. This was accurate enough to tell them that the kinetic energy was proportional to mv².
Sure, the market will decide.
True as ever... People think programming is a white collar job but it's a high paying blue collar job with an office or a desk.
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I appreciate your ironic tone.