skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My common sense tells me not to waste decisionmaking effort on trying to figure out when I can get out of minor inconveniences. For example, instead if trying to figure out when I can get away with not using a turn signal, I'm as likely to put on a turn signal when turning in an empty parking lot or an empty road as I am in traffic.

Introducing decisionmaking makes you slower, and gives you the opportunity to get it horribly wrong. Not constantly trying to get out of doing little things allows me the time to contemplate more important things. I will never be the guy who gets on his motorcycle and goes "Should I wear a helmet? It's only two blocks away." Am I stupid?
That incentive might exist, but what really drives the lack of standardization is that every application has different needs, so you end up with a common CPU and wildly diverging configurations tailored to various applications.
They say in the same article, 0 have been compensated from the 600 that already applied

Also the the PREP Act states that liability is limited so only very special cases will be compensated under "pandemic state of emergency"

It is a bit like "Democratic Republic of North Korea", being in the name doesn't actually have to mean it
The End of China’s Rise
But wouldn’t a single purchase more than pay for the entire campaign?
Word of mouth is king. I've only seen 2 ads in the last year that were even relevant, and only 1 of 2 of them turned into a sales conversion. For the other product, I went to a competitor.
> too large to be legislated

You haven't cited any legislation.

The FTC is not powerful enough to regulate Facebook; the U.K. and Canada were snubbed by them--agreed. But none of that is legislation.

(To be clear, Facebook is more powerful than some legislatures. But not the Congress. Not by a long shot.)
VRland – A browser-based VRChat
Racists always implement racially discriminatory policies under the guise of moral superiority and California's legislature in this case is no exception. Somebody forgot to read their Sowell.
You still have to register as a business entity with each state's Secretary of State office if you employ a person in that state. I expect there are numerous reasons for this, but certainly among them is that the unemployment systems, healthcare benefits systems, and part of the tax system are all regulated/managed at the state level and so the state needs records of entities to deal with that. My company (Auxon) is Delaware C-corp headquartered in Portland, OR, but with a distributed team in different parts of the US and Canada.

We use Gusto to manage much of the ongoing headache of maintaining legal compliance across multiple regions. However, even with that there's often a manual bootstrapping process that has to happen that's still the old school bureaucratic navigation approach.

In some cases folks like Zenefits, Gusto, and ADP have services and capabilities to act as an agent for your business to make all the state-by-state stuff as invisible to you as possible, but it's not a perfect system. That said, we've not found the caveats to be particularly onerous either, so YMMV.
Putting aside the topic of remote work. The main problem here, is that the USA, like most of the rest of the world, is applying a band-aid over a gaping wound in hopes of stopping the bleeding.

Every single time we had a lockdown, or increase in restrictions, we then had the opposite happen shortly after. Restrictions were lifted arbitrarily or too soon, as well as push-back from a small minority who is either tired of how the government is/was handling the situation, in a dire living situation or being bombarded with misinformation and spreading it.

Why is it that in a country as developed and with the education level of the USA, we have to incentivize people to take a drug that could save them, either from death, a horrible experience or from chronic ailments after said experience in some cases.

We quite literally had states offering prize money, beer, food and other things so that people would get vaccinated. The fact that these programs had to exist in the first place is ludicrous. The fact that so many people who identify as anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers are so open about it and proudly and loudly scream it at others is in itself insane.

For the first wave of COVID, the world handled it as best as it could, for how prepared it was (not very). But after so many waves of COVID spread, we're still handling it poorly, with so many wrong or unclear voices that it is staggering.

I'm sorry for rambling on, but this topic is exhausting and a never ending cycle of doing without committing to it, which keeps us in the cycle.
To be accurate, employees are taxed by some combination of where they live and where they work--which usually ends up something like paying whichever is highest. [If they're remote only where they live matters for the most part, modulo various state tax rules that may require tax payments even for short stints of working on-site or otherwise in a different state.]
Fully agreed.

I usually don't need complex algorithms in my line of work, but I can't count how many times I've needed to implement topological sorts, for instance, or non-trivial tree traversals, or to rewrite code to increase parallelism, or to be able to quickly spot that a poorly performing algorithm was O(n^2) or O(n^3).

And sometimes, it actually gets complicated. Sometimes, it's about increasing cache hits. Sometimes, it's about making sure that stuff gets allocated in the right order or in the right place in memory. Sometimes, it's about rewriting the IPC layer. Sometimes, it's about reimplementing foreign key logics in a low-level database/file system. Sometimes, it's about writing custom locking data structures or non-blocking algorithms, or a custom memory allocator or GC to match specific performance requirements. Sometimes, you need to do all of this without a debugger or a profiler or even logging.

If you can't handle the simple tasks from the first list, well, how are you going to tackle the issues from the second?

And if you're not curious, how are you going to learn all of this?
In the hot flash of a moment of MySpace's dominance, did it manipulate its users to the extent FB does? My recollection of MySpace was just "holy shit this thing caught on. how do we keep it from falling down?" vs "we own the everybodies, let's see how we can make them feel today"
But almost a million cars gets stolen a year in US, totalling billions of value. How is that not the same scale?
The trial was stopped early because the results were overwhelmingly positive, and thus it was considered unethical to leave the placebo group untreated.
OK let's ask the question differently. The reason people aren't returning to the office is because of the COVID-19 situation. We have ways to fix that.

Mitigation: isolation, quarantine, social distancing of those suspected, their families, and the elderly

Suppression: All of the mitigation measures, but applied to the entire population, plus closure of all non-essential activity

We also have one we didn't have 18 months ago: a vaccine, and vaccine mandates.

CEOs could be going to their elected representatives and pushing hard for these to happen. Why aren't they doing that? Why is the US content with ineffective half-measures that are prolonging the economic disruption that CEOs are so concerned about? Instead of say 6-9 weeks of disruption followed by a safe return to pre-pandemic activities, the US re-opened too early because of pressure from business. They weren't thinking long term, and now instead of short-term pain we have entire industries and supply chains disrupted. And yes I know this a global thing but the failures of the US to behave as a world citizen are, arguably, driving the continued global disruption.
To me, that's the entire point of them - a single source of truth in an extremely formal language.
> We should stop using the term misinformation and call it untruth

Or just call it what it is. Lies.
> but I’ll never forgive or forget the amount of time they made me waste.

I understand. For me, it wasn’t the time but the frustration they caused me. So I won’t use their browser on any of my devices in order to keep their percentage market share one tiny tiny fraction lower.
The CEOs are trying to convince their existing workers to return to the office, not attract new ones. Maybe I'm not typical here, but I'd be pretty uncomfortable if my company announced a raise that only office attendees are eligible for with the explicit goal of pressuring people to go in.
ugh, you also have to pay the employees, too! why can't there just be some option where a company doesn't need to make any of these silly tradeoffs!?
Noone mention the dolphins and the whales...
> You can get away hiring foreign contractors but until there is real legislation to hire people anywhere easily, this is a pain in the neck especially for smaller companies.

This is what PEOs and EOR companies are for.

> Yes Gitlab does it and all but they have cash to spend and circumvent lot of BS regulations with employment and taxes.

They likely use a PEO/EOR for their foreign employees.

These are known issues with known solutions, they're just costly.

Just some of the players:

https://pilot.co/

https://papayaglobal.com/

https://velocityglobal.com/

https://www.trinet.com/
It completely undermines credibility. If there is a person in authority who may have been put there under affirmative action policies, the people under that authority will always wonder whether or not the person was put in that position because of their competence or because of the policy.
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Maybe I do! I've seen both fail just the same so it's not like ECUs are failure-proof or something.
> what other social media exists beyond Twitter?

Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit and Pinterest each have more MAUs than Twitter [1].

[1] https://www.searchenginejournal.com/social-media/biggest-soc...
No single CEO will be able to pull off the feat.

Just like it took a large exogenous shock to get companies to let people work from home, it's going to take another shock to get people back into office.

That shock will come in the next economic downturn, and employment market tilts in favor of employer.

Outside the U.S., people have long returned to office, and the trend is continuing.

Longer term, it will become more clear which industry and what companies WFH is a competitive edge vs liability.

Highly productive, self-motivated, competent workers are in certain sectors are over-represented on HN, but that's not the norm.

Having worked in sectors with distributed and WFH workforce, tighter supervision and protocols are required to keep competitive edge.
Saying big automakers don’t have a charging network is false? What about?: https://www.electrifyamerica.com/
Is this like an umbrella company?
Yes but you still have to register the business for Unemployment Insurance, payroll taxes etc in the state.
I don't understand how you skip the transaction fees. Are you batching the transfers from Coinbase?
The longer this WFH pandemic continues the more reinforcement my personal decision to not return to full time in office receives. I see absolutely no benefit to going to an office everyday. My team (and company) has functioned as well as we did the 5 years I worked there prior.
Can you mention which story are you calling about?
My father started his programming career in the 1970s when you were expected to wear a shirt and tie to the office every day. Then there was an energy crisis, and they turned up the temperature on the air conditioners. They also let everyone wear short sleeve shirts for the first time (still ties though). My father wore short sleeves for the rest of his career, even after the energy crisis was over and the temperature returned to normal. Once you give workers a benefit it's extremely hard to go back.
You specifically refer to guitarists’ problem with notation, not the mathematical non-uniqueness. You ask you want to know why “musical notation is a problem for guitarists.”

It’s not.
CPUs aren’t the only silicon out of stock right now. Most silicon doesn’t even run software.
I think "some" poverty for people born in the first half of the 20th century is correlated with long life spans.

People didn't eat much and had healthier food (more veggies because those were cheaper), spent a lot of time outdoors or doing physical work. They got the good stuff of the "olden times", but still reaped a lot of the benefits of modern medicine especially in their late years.

I am worried my generation won't live as long as my grandparents' on average.
Clojure Client for Google BigTable
There are multiple versions of WebGoat, for example WebGoat.Net, if Java isn't your language of choice to learn on.
> I'm sorry for rambling on,

If you have to qualify your text with this, you should reconsider posting it and perhaps revise the wording or message.
Merck (based in the US) is only called Merck in the US and Canada. Outside of those territories it should be referred to as MSD. Outside of the US, Merck is the company from Germany (which is the real one in the first place, until WW changed things with the nationalization of several German assets in the US).
To chime in as another TriNet "user" (e.g., employee of a startup that used them), they're pretty great on both ends. They handle a lot of regulatory and benefit management for the employer (state/local taxes, 401(k) programs, health benefits), and for the employee, TriNet's HR dashboard feels modern and easy to use. When my current company was abruptly forced to switch from "independent subsidiary of BigCo" to "division within BigCo", we had to switch from TriNet to all of BigCo's internal HR systems -- most of which are clearly powered by HR IT companies like Workday and UltiPro -- and they are all just terrible.

Uh, anyway, yes, PEOs seem like good ideas. :)
Note that tons of companies do it but deciding to just "1099" an employee is not really legal. Whether or not an employee is a W2 employee or a 1099 contractor is solely supposed to be a function of the work that employee does and how they do it. Importantly, neither the employer nor the employee just gets to "decide" how they want to be classified, and you're not supposed to have 1099 employees in essentially the same roles as W2 employees.

Like I said, tons of businesses still do this, and there are ways to structure the job so that someone can be correctly designated a 1099 contractor (e.g. they have more flexibility over their hours and equipment). Still just wanted to call this out because lots of people seem to be under the misperception that you get to just arbitrarily choose your employment classification.
I'm ok with obsessing about the data.

Presentation, an order of magnitude less.

Substance >>> style.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28720411
"Software is buggier than buildings because it is built on human made abstractions all the way down."

Software is buggier because:
- testing is expensive and takes time so it is a good candidate for cost saving
- "atomic requirements" - there is no such thing. As long as your function is part of a program you cannot consider it separately.
- "if it compiles ship it"
- "let's turn on -Werror and ship it". Let the user fix the bugs.
- "All the world is a VAX".
... and other such great ideas which have nothing to do with engineering.
If builders build buildings the way programmers build SW: every year the building code will change and you will not be able to connect old buildings to utilities ( or they will be disconnected), nobody will agree on a mean of transportation of building materials and after you build it someone will steal all your belongings because the windows will have no locks.
A lot of filesystems have snapshots. NTFS & others have transactional capabilities. I don't regard locking as necessary or helpful when the OS can provide these capabilities.
See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28720411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28720197
> I think most people just don't want to be under someone's control

I'm not sure it's as black and white as that!

I've worked from home for a number of years and I used to think people were insane to want to go into an office but I've changed my tune in the last year or so for one simple reason: hardly anyone is set up to work from home!

At my last company (small, only 21 employees - they got rid of their office earlier this year), I was one of only three people in the video calls with an actual home office. Everyone else was working from a living room, bedroom, or in two cases, the couch with a laptop on their knees.

One of the couch-workers left at around the same time as me recently for a company that worked from an office for the very reason that she could work from an office.

It's horses for courses: some people like it and have an actual space to work properly and others don't. In my case I have a desktop computer, two monitors, a comfy chair, a motorised stand-up desk etc. I'd never get this level of comfort in an actual office.

As well as the physical space issues, there is the psychological aspect too. I spend 5 days a week in the house all day by myself. I'm a contractor so making office friendships isn't something that motivates me (doesn't mean I hate everyone, just some people :D). I'm fine with that. I have a couple of friends I've known for many decades and that's enough for me. I can also get work done no problem and still put the washing on, nip out for groceries etc.

I know of colleagues that crave the human interaction... which is fine. I don't. I get enough from my family and the daily (and mostly pointless) video calls.

However, if I had to work from a laptop at my dining room table, It'd suck hard!
> 2D graphics is very different and mostly doesn't require the GPU's assistance.

There are interesting tasks in 2D graphics that may easily warrant GPU acceleration, such as smooth animation of composited surfaces (even something as simple as displaying a mouse pointer falls under this, and is accelerated in most systems) or rendering complex shapes including text.
With their willingness to kill products, my bank account is far from ever to be something I would slap the G brand on.
You are reframing the question then accusing the parent of not answering your goalposts-moved scenario.
There are some obvious statistical fallacies here:

1) I don't know what you consider "looking" as opposed to "science" so maybe you can help us out?

2) No, you're wrong that "What you have to do is compare stats of the results and frequency of accidents with helmets and accidents without." That takes as a prior that the bicyclist is going to have an accident.

The actual test is "head injuries from a bike accident while not wearing a helmet per units of helmet-less distance ridden." (I said "units of distance" because "miles" might be too big a unit here.)

3) who cares about motorcycles? We're talking bicycles here.
> the ills of social media, and how it's often framed as a Facebook problem

Facebook is the biggest. And we have evidence of the harm it, specifically, causes, in a way we don't for its competitors. They also have a spectacular track record of lying and lawbreaking.
Not only that but the police have refused to carry weapons multiple times here. Recent governments have attempted to approach the subject (with rumours of lobbying from large arms companies) but every time it's been taken to the police they have rejected the idea.
And that’s just one component.
Wow Azaan, this looks awesome congrats on launching. Can you tell us more about how you built it on the backend?
Ad-ops is way ahead of you. Facebook and other corporate surveillers will track you on the backend, like whenever you make a purchase or some other transaction on an unassociated site. Your client-side protections won't save you.
The power differential between govt and industry doesn’t seem to address the root issue, which is the power differential between individual humans and industry and/or govt.
The state of Delaware should start advertising itself as the easiest place in the US to hire remote workers. I don't know why you would want to live there but this is their chance to show off what they've got and attract new residents.
It literally took me years to understand it - how can you accelerate by accident? Until someone mentioned that all of these cars were automatics.

But every automatic I've ever driven (not many - I prefer a clutch) moves forward unless you're pushing the break in. In the rest state, it's in motion.

The problem isn't Toyota, the problem is a broken system.
I don't know about most, but I know that I personally don't mind going to work if I have a nice office. Open spaces are not nice. Having people behind my back bothers me for some reason, it makes me feel on the defensive and I'm not able to focus as much as I want. Open spaces also means that wearing a mask is mandatory, and 8 hours of mask-wearing gives me headaches at the end of the day. I do however like being able to take a day or two a week to WFH, as it's nice to be able to take care of the laundry or tasks like this during a work day.

My view may be biased by being young, not having a family and living alone. Though I'm glad that my older collegues are able to spend more time with their family. My parents didn't have WFH when I was young, and I can easily see how a day or two for each parent could have made everything better.

As a final point, as I don't have a very active social life, going to the office fills that "interacting with humans face to face" need for me. That's not a reason to force others to come, of course, but if society switch to more WFH, I hope alternatives will emerge for people like me that have a more "passive" style of socializing. Vocal chat just isn't the same, and webcams don't help.
Literally the thought I had :-) Been there, yelled at the kid!
Last sentence: really bad look for you there. Even if you're right, that "just wasn't that great" person could run into you, ace bicyclist that you are.

Whenever I talk to private pilots and mention people I know who've gotten killed flying a plane, they invariably say "I've looked at all those accidents and I'm confident I wouldn't have made that mistake."

Right. It's other people who have those accidents.
Apologies for the late reply; I don't have any notifications here.

It's really just the long hard road of low level, slowly increasing loads via exercise. There's no magic, just hard work. Talk to any PT and they'll tell you the same thing.
> calls (for censorship) are coming from inside the house at this point

They would in any orwellian society, the denial is in the assumption that people aligned with you are the "good guys", when it turns out the people who seemed to be for a free and open society will turn to thought control whenever it's "on their side".
Game engines are not as dependent on the network as web browsers. Usually they do all the disk I/O up front, are designed to drop events if the network goes bad, drop frames instead of hang if deadlines are missed. It’s like your compiler just skips an import if it the disk is slow.
In the UK, for a while at least, IE was pre-installed in desktop versions but would give you a browser choice on first run. I haven't installed Windows for a while. I don't think the server versions ever had that choice screen.
The terms are definitely overloaded and can differ subtly between vendors. Those "scalar-for-each-thread" instructions are prefixed v_ on AMD's GCN. The "v" doesn't stand for "scalar" ;)
This is the strongest antitrust case against Google in my opinion. They are the monopoly search engine. Tons of people google a website name instead of typing in the URL. Tons of people don't know the ads are actually ads and Google is making it harder to tell them apart from the every year[0]. It's basically like the mafia telling you to fork over money or else they put up your competitors' billboards in front of your store. Not a very scary mafia, but still.

[0] https://images.app.goo.gl/WjafWzujgjHT32Y17