skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Svelte looks like Javascript, but behaves completely different"

No. This is complete and absolute FUD that you are spouting. Svelte adds a thin feature or two on top of vanilla Javascript. The rest is just JS exactly like you know it.
The unit of capital allocation in airlines is one plane, and cancelling a flight or adding a new one probably requires some advance notice to airports and other agencies not to mention time for maintenance, flight crews, etc. to ready it or take it out of operation. Then there's pilots' unions etc.

So no, your decision does not immediately affect the number of planes flying, but if many people fly less the net effect will be fewer planes in the air after some time delay.
Isn't this story about people who want to work from home?
Hey hey—I didn't say one way or the other whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

But I've been in and out of Google (Waterloo). They were there long, long hours often. Just the same, people seemed happy and fulfilled.

I don't think I would be—I covet my time. But I recognize that it wasn't designed around me, so whatever.

It's a fact of the process though: Google wanted people in the office longer, so they installed resources to keep people in the office longer. In that way, it's not overly surprising to me that they're trying to get people back into the office. Similarly with Apple: they didn't build that big fancy ring for nothing.
MSFT patented snapping windows?
And even where there is coverage it frequently barely works. Many of the mountain areas around me have great signal strength but we're lucky to get 100KB/s download speed.
> The baseline expectation should be that it will do something reasonable

Surely baseline is that it does something correct. Reasonable (or just "not pathologically stupid" if you separate the two, with reasonable next) comes after. To my mind an optimising compiler is a compiler first, an optimiser second.
To contribute to the anecdotal evidences, at our company I would guess 25% and AFAIK they all live in the suburbs and drive to the nearest subway station in the city and use public transit the rest of the journey because traffic at start/end workday hours is a nightmare.
Maybe you did not read my last paragraph?
I see a lot of "this is a US-only problem" comments here lately on many topics and I just don't get it because it's usually just not remotely correct at all, nevermind relevant if most of the discussion IS based in the US, like for a US-based company. I lived in 3 different countries growing up, mostly with far more European influence than the US has now, and never at any time did most people I saw live in anything but individual houses that needed to be heated in the winter, and never at any time did my Dad not spend 1-2 hours commuting in a car every day. Yesterday someone was claiming MTV was a US-only thing. Sure, it's not universal, but claiming that it's US-only says more about their world view than any American IMO.

But aside from that, when I started being remote my social interactions went way up in terms of quantity and quality. I was free to choose where I lived, had lower cost of living, and had more time and less stress and other factors that would put me in a bad mood. Consequently, I spent more time with extended family members on both sides of my family. I played more with my children. I picked up healthier hobbies, including one where I train with a team at the gym. My social circle is far more diverse, more distinct from work. As others have experienced during COVID: I got to know my neighbors better, and we look out for each other. Having your social interaction primarily at work is very far from ideal, and in my experience and from many anecdotes here, cutting down the work interaction helps most others.
> (The 15% paycut for moving to Tahoe is most likely cherrypicked as crossing the state border into Nevada, which is in a lower band than California.)

Nevada doesn't have a state income tax though, so most people making that move will barely see a change in net pay. Washington is 10% off Bay Area/NYC peak salary for similar reasons.
I know that in my city, some restaurants closed in the downtown core but out in the population centers new restaurants open, a few friends in the business said revenue went up mostly in lunch service and afternoon happy hour time frame. That's after having 50% less tables because inside dining was closed.

The shift from doing lunch with your coworkers to doing lunch around your neighbors seems really positive to me.
Yes one of the most interesting bits of information we will get from the market forces of remote work is seeing how much value being in the office brings to an employer. Obviously this will vary by industry, but if we see huge differences in salary between in-office and remote employees, then that means companies are willing to pay that premium to some people to be in the office. If there is no/little difference in salary, then I think it would be fair to assume that the value of in-office work to employers is negligible. These types of things are rarely this simple though, so I'm going to hold off on having any strong opinions.
Many/most contracts--to the degree they're even contracts in this case--embody common understandings. In the case of employment agreements, they usually assume that, absent agreements to the contrary, you're usually coming into some particular office 5 days per week, between the hours of whatever, unless you're traveling.
$250M stolen in PolyNetwork hack
Every section in this article is a mistake.
For instance
- Map Reduce was not invented in 2004. it's a technique from the punch card days.

- Map reduce is not solely useful because it allows you to delete source data, it's a trivial method of parallel processing. It's not the most trivial or most modern. Just common
You learn to spend what's in your pocket.
Motherboard vendor GIGABYTE hit by RansomExx ransomware gang
Fair enough. I guess I've never felt that loyalty to any company and always view employment as a business agreement. "Family" rhetoric has always come off to me as marketing fluff.
Practical problems with it don't really matter (unless you are a pragmatist :)

There is no reason to suppose that, given an unknown position in that society, someone would choose to max-min. Someone might choose rather to maximize justice, for example. That's what most western philosophers did for a few thousands of years.

Rawls' argument assumes his own preferences are axioms without presenting them as such.

Many such cases.
>British university, CS course

Hmm.. In my experience this would have been discrete math at best which is normal in CS classes. You'd have to have taken an engineering elective or math elective to get linear algebra.

Today, with AI being so hot, I'd bet that the programs include math for engineers e.g. matrices and linear algebra. Maybe an intro course in stats and probability.
So it's based on where you live? Isn't it just a matter of some employees getting together to rent a cheap flat in a high-income area? Or you "swap" homes with your single city-dweller friend, who "moves" to a family home in the suburbs...
> Firefox now does catch-up paints for almost all user interactions, enabling a 10-20% improvement in response time to most user interactions.

What do you mean nothing about performance?
Kudos for 18 years at home, that's incredible! I've done ~5 years for the majority of time now, and now with four kids that need extensive time with me, I will forever take a WFH position. With discipline, it makes for an exceptional work/life balance.
Any more that seems to be the direction computers are going. I recall a time when most error messages, while obtuse, actually did give you a clue as to what went wrong. Nowadays it seems that if anything goes wrong you just get a variation of ":( Software has did a whoopsie! Our bad. Please try again". Even logs, where they exist, often have nothing useful in them. It makes it much more maddening to troubleshoot everything.
I would too, but if you've committed 100% of your income to expenses, you don't have that freedom.

Another argument for saving a little each month.
1. pnpMode: loose has worked well for us
2. the install production requires the workspace focus thing for a litany of reasons but yeah
3. yarn actually supports plugins with hooks into the entire lifecycle if an install, it’s much more expressive than the default lifecycle stuff
Meanwhile debian unstable is still on version 88, there hasn't even been an update to patch the various security vulns.
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/429302...
Ok. I spent a lot of research doing this. You can use unlimited text plans and do quite well. Certain carriers will block you quicker than others. As long as you are sending out SMS with a link so you can monitor the click rate - then you can disable that device from sending. If you disable that device for a few hours the carriers will let you start sending again. There are carriers that do not require an id for pay as you go sim cards with cash. With android you can also read the messages to and even respond to STOPS or add response conversations. Verizon seemed to be the best.

I was able to beat twilio for mass sms in pricing - but due to the carriers blocking a high percentage %10+ it isn't a good solution for 2fa etc. I have built apple labs too. Apple imessage used to allow quite a few messages before a block - but now they just block the entire device not the sim making it useless.

I had the devices just use a get request to check a queue in mysql.

my lab:

https://i.imgur.com/gKknrJn.jpg
Ask HN: Is Cost of Intelligence, Misery?
Are all of the intelligent sad? Or I just saw a poor sample data.
On the other hand, the naive people are more happier, and lively.

Can a intelligent person live happily forever?
Yeah I was going to say, this sounds like a problem on your end.

Glad you got it figured out. The UX of the forced theme change should be improved, however!
I think it’s actually a good way to look at the problem from a different, broader, perspective that isn’t the average HN user and privacy minded individual standpoint. Also, it interprets Apple’s decisions in the wider framework of their B2C business. Apple’s privacy engineers don’t have the luxury of being radical like their critics when it comes to taking a decision like this.
Given this state of things, have they picked the lesser of two evils to solve the thorny problem of CSAM detection? I think it’s fair to say yes, they did, while still criticizing them for it (which is what they were of course expecting anyway).
pnpMode: loose and log filters will help immensely
They have a database of known bad photos and they just check against it.
Killing superbugs with star-shaped polymers, not antibiotics
There's a world of difference between going for a nice cycle or taking the train to see a new place or even going for a drive in the country versus cramming onto a standing-room-only train or risking your life in rush hour traffic or crawling along the highway in a tailback. Commuting is absolutely part of work, it's an unpaid part sure, but people aren't choosing it of their own free will.
Most people living in NJ but working in NYC are taking trains or buses into the city, so the marginal carbon footprint there isn't as big as you might think.

There's only a couple suitable river crossings for this commute and they're already facing hour-long delays during commuting hours, so there's no room to add more cars commuting into NYC (nor anywhere for them to park in NYC anyway). Fortunately these river crossings have dedicated bus lanes during rush hour, which move more people than all the other lanes combined.
> Not sure how exactly the lack of these skills could benefit anyone.

Lower the standards across all levels -- high school graduation, college admissions, job placements. Eventually we end up with surgeons and lawyers that are illiterate. But at least it is equitable!
I hope Scilab and scicoslab/nsp jump into the Julia train.

Possibly with a DSL.
Niven's "A World Out of Time" is sublight, with time-dilation.
Isn't the entire field of software just people patting themselves on the back for some extremely basic relational algebra?

I don't know what I should be proud of when I learn something new, it all seems extremely basic compared as soon as I learn it.
The country talked about as the one subsidizing their products, leading to the problem elsewhere, is not Mexico. Not sure what you were reading here. It's the USA.

And apparently, see the current topic, Mexico too thinks having a functioning farming sector is more important than having access to the cheapest goods. Other wise they would welcome that the US pays for them being able to import the products more cheaply because of the subsidies.

So, given that, I'm not sure why you think pointing to Mexico refutes my point?
This is just awesome. It saves a lot of time.
If Google can't fill the offices because of work from home then what makes you think a start-up would be able to?
The Post Millennial story on this is quite light on details.

Here’s another article with more: https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-legislature-passes-bill-t...

And here’s the text of the bill (PDF): https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/Meas...

And here’s the Department of Education’s page on the Essential Skills Graduation Requirement: https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/essentialskill...

Key points from my quick read:

This is about suspending mandatory testing prior to graduation. They did that last year due to virtual learning, and are extending the suspension longer while things get back to normal, and while they assess whether the approach to testing they have is suitable (and in line with what other states are doing). It is not (yet) gone forever, just for a couple years. And you still have to pass courses in all of those subject orders in order to graduate.
> Purely coincidentally, the imminent next release of iOS adds new account recovery options

The scariest thing about this update to me is that it makes one's iCloud account incompatible (permanently?) with iOS and Mac devices that are not on iOS 15 or Monterey.
Ask HN: ML / Data Sci Resources for Product People
As the title says, looking for resources to help build an understanding of fundamental ML concepts for people who don’t already have a math/ML background. Not trying to build GANs or anything, just trying to grok the ideas better.

Been having that feeling that this exists but I haven’t found the right words to find it through searching.

Thanks HN!
I just don't understand how a 60 year old gay man doesn't see how insidious this all is, and somehow trusts law enforcement to be such a benevolent actor.
At our office, HR and Finance magically turned into "No Home Office" which means that when salaries are re-adjusted to discount WFH, they dont get paycuts in HR/Finance. Basically they gamed the system to show they were never paid a premium due to a home office (despite working out of the SF office) and hence shouldnt get a paycut now.
High energy physics sure moves fast. Last I knew there were quarks and anti-quarks, leptons, taus etc.

For a layman like me the standard model sure looks no different than greek alphabet soup.
But they say ‘MapReduce’, not ‘map reduce’. They’re talking about the specific model, not the general idea of map reduce.
i wonder if there is an editor that lets your places multiple files like tiles in the same buffer/window so it feels like the same file to you as an editor?

I am sure emacs can be made to do this, but I wonder if vscode has a plugin for it...
I always wondered.
Hope he doesn’t use a iPhone!
> Firefox now does catch-up paints for almost all user interactions, enabling a 10-20% improvement in response time to most user interactions.

What are catch up paints? A quick search didn’t turn anything up
You can't even use Linux on Intel Macs properly, no chance it'll work on the M1 anytime soon. The kernel might boot in some form, but last time I checked, even the SSD wasn't working on Intel Macs under Linux.
It's a shame Firefox is dying. I see more and more websites that simply refuse to work on Firefox and with the decreasing market share and breaking changes they seem to be introducing every update now it's harder than ever to justify not switching over to a chromium based browser.
I'm old, I don't really make friends with work people. I seem to be in the minority now and maybe that's because everyone I work with moved here as soon as they were done with school.

It's really strange and I sometimes feel like an outsider. But everyone's going on hikes on the weekend and going to movies together. I'm not going back into the office at this point and one thing that appeals to me about remote distributed work is that it's separate from the rest of my life. When I walk away from my laptop, it's just gone.
I'm so glad I switched to Brave.
Makes perfect sense to me.

A group can only move as fast as its slowest member.

h/t Eli Goldratt, Heather McGhee.
Big Telecom comes out on top in $65B broadband upgrade [Infrastructure Bill]
Probably not, your best bet is to shore up the damage with userChrome.css

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix is a really good set of styles to make proton usable (borders, icons, less padding, etc).
No, the ability to disable proton was removed a while ago. Or maybe in this release. I'm on FF-developer, which is ahead a bit.
Some companies don’t want attrition, particularly considering that there is a “shortage of qualified engineers” which is a political way of saying the software industry is underpaid already.
Also the number of people who need advanced math is so small in USA, so it’s more of a hobby than education. And people who need advanced math need more probability theory and statistics than calculus. In China, on the other hand… I might be extrapolating.
The problem with COL adjustments is that they are very crude. Different workers consume more (and consume different baskets), so see wildly different impacts.

Being "fair" then becomes risky from the point of view of everyone as they'll actually find it unfair. I think it's easier to align on market demand on which case I agree with OP - market rate adjustments by location don't make sense for remote workers.
People who insist that disparities in people are caused by _isms are just delusional. If i had to guess, these people are insecure and want to do these "endangered minorities" a favor to feel better about themselves. But i don't really know for sure.

I say this is a emotionally driven pattern and nothing rational or fact-based. In my eyes, the "systemic _ism" is just a pretext, the kind of pretext people make up to conceptualize their feelings. And i think it needs to be exposed to prevent it from interfering with the constructive talk.

What caused me to be bugged by irjustin's post: They accurately point out how humans pick the easy answers even when they are wrong, and he continues to make the exact same mistake in their next line. Just, how? Is it easier pointing at others than to reflect upon yourself?
> in the service of company productivity

This is the only thing I question, given the mix of data suggesting the opposite is true. Stanford ran a project about it some time ago: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/crunc...

That may boil down to execution, though. That project emerged out of pretty scathing posts from the boiler room programming environments of EA. I'm pretty confident Google operates very differently, and probably learned from those calamities.
mRNA: “A software for life” is set to soar
The question is the relative amount of electrify and gas used at home vs the office plus commute. Running the same computer at home or the office clearly is irrelevant for the environment.
> Rather than producing output data and then exiting, like a Hadoop job, a continuous MapReduce program continues to update its results incrementally and in real time as new data is added

So keeping track of min/max/average as you add new data is now "continous MapReduce"?

Don't get me wrong, a data platform that ingests data and computes useful user-defined aggregates from that sounds useful. But this article feels like an attempt to position that as some kind of incredible industry-leading insight that is a novel take on $buzzword, when it really isn't.
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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5
Here's the fifth "Meet the Batch" thread for YC's S21 batch. The previous thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073548, and if you're wondering what it's all about, the description is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280.

There are 7 startups in this thread. The initial order is random:

Clarity (YC S21) - Run your distributed team with a single weekly doc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128962

Mentorcam (YC S21) - Get advice from public figures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128958

Sirka (YC S21) - Tackling obesity in Southeast Asia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128964

Echoes HQ (YC S21) - Measure the effectiveness of engineering organizations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128961

PayHippo (YC S21) - Loans to small businesses in Nigeria - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130022

ContraForce (YC S21) - All-in-one cybersecurity platform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128959

Palenca (YC S21) - Payroll API for Latin America - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128960
Hey HN community! We are Ben and Rune, founders of Mentorcam (https://mentor.cam/), a marketplace where people can access public figures and high-profile individuals for personalized 1:1 advice. These types of individuals tend to be difficult to access and usually don’t make themselves available for advice to people they don’t know, but often get bombarded with inbound requests. By letting them set their own price to answer questions privately via short, asynchronous video messages on our app, we make it feasible to offer individually tailored advice without having to schedule anything.

For example, one of our mentors is Chris Yeh, a VC and the co-author of Blitzscaling. He uses Mentorcam to give fundraising advice, feedback on pitches, input on GTM strategy, etc. to people that wouldn't have access to him otherwise.

Users have told us that they’ve had the most impactful "conversation" of the their life on Mentorcam and that they’ve found the inspiration to fight through difficult phases of their life through their interaction with their mentor. Our customers have used Mentorcam to do things like get fundraising advice, decide on where to go to college, transition careers, and find a girlfriend. The latter surprised us, but demand for dating advice has turned out to be high, even though it's not the main thing we're focused on.

Happy to answer questions and read comments!