skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same for tech giants. No need to rent an office to compete anymore. Global small teams can form overnight, grow and shrink dynamically. Entrepreneurs paradise.
It would have to be a programmable, distributed, eventually consistent wiki, that literally everyone can understand. Sounds... fantastical?
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Does this mean we can have Sudafed back?
Are you more, or less likely to breed the more social media you consume?
> I've heard of some US Government workers who are allowed to work from home, but only from home. Ostensibly for cybersecurity reasons, they aren't allowed to work from hotels, cafes, airports, WeWorks, etc.

I first thought that this didn't make so much sense, because you could just use a VPN. But this might be only partly because of network insecurity. It could be more because you have so little control over your neighbors and physical environment in public and semipublic spaces, and people who know you're there can easily arrange to be nearby you in order to try shoulder-surfing or higher-tech attacks.

For example, it might be challenging to get close enough to someone's home office to carry out an attack like this, but not so difficult in comparison in a café.

https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/handsoff/
Bird egg color is linked to the shape of their nests
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Even if you’re forced to go to the office 1-2 days a week that allows you to be much wider range of housing options. A 30 minute commute 5 days a week is the equivalent of a 100 minute commute 1.5 days a week. Granted that’s still a limited area, but it can easily make the difference between a high rise and having a yard.
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You’re close to describing the current arrangement, a mutually profitable agreement to develop and use new capacity. There wouldn’t be much to gain from TSMC not owning the fab because TSMC is better at selling the older process capacity to other chipmakers, which lets TMSC offer favorable terms to Apple. For Apple to own fab would essentially mean for Apple to build a slightly smaller clone of the entire TSMC organization.
If I am not wrong he also worked on Akka, the distributed actors library for Scala.
That depends. It’s awful for the libraries that your OS provides to support your desktop app, for example.
Yea, I found this odd that kids in US used diapers well above 2 years. I found a lot of kids potty trained in India around one. My kid's day care prohibited diapers for kids above 18 months!
You've modified your claim quite a bit.

> The value of a corporation is inevitably linked to its profits.

> Again, it all boils down to expectation of future profit.

Maybe you feel these are equivalent statements. I don't. I think they are fundamentally different. People's expectations about a company's future profitability are, to me, entirely different from a company's actual profit. Blue chip companies have stock values that are tightly tied to their actual profit, unless there's some reason to think they might be on the verge of some sort of breakthrough that will make the stock price climb dramatically (because of anticipated future growth). Non-blue-chips have stock values that have a substantial component derived entirely from 1st, 2nd or 3rd order expectations about profit, and this can move stock prices dramatically even though there is no actual change in the company's profitability.

So, if you had only said "it all boils down to (1st, 2nd or 3rd order expectation of future profit", I'd agree with you. But you started by saying "the value of a corporation is linked to its profits", and I can't agree with that except for blue chip (type) companies.
My wife put on an Oculus Quest and threw up within 5 minutes from simulator sickness. In this case, I think the average HN-Folk is _more_ likely to be interested in VR than the average person
IIRC, Steve Jobs stated that Apple had only 90 days of operating capital at the time they did the deal with Microsoft.
This is called parthenogensis, and is not unheard of for many animals in captivity. Sharks, in particular. A fascinating part of animal biology, to be sure.
A private license is not the equivalent of a college degree since it only allows incidental paid work like aerial photography and personal transportation for work.

To apply for an airline pilot job in the US, you need both a college degree and an ATP license, so it's around double what an Ivy league education would cost.

In addition, I don't think military service covers the private, but does after that.

You can easily be looking at $200,000 for the college degree and commercial now, then lost opportunity time while instructing, etc. for years before being able to apply to an airline, which requires an ATP.

In other words, it's insanely expensive.

I happened to get my commercial at the old rates, but prices for aircraft rental and CFI time are prohibitive (4x) today, esp. in California.

Also, if at any time you lose your medical, get a DUI, have a seizure, then you're permanently grounded. Hope your college degree wasn't tied to flying!
Some of what you're referring to can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Observ...

I'm not sure it's all that cut-and-dry. The story seems to be a general increase in the consumption statistics, but a decrease in criminal statistics. Maybe not a silver bullet for ending drug abuse, but a net benefit for Portugese society.

Alas, I don't live in Portugal... maybe someone who does can chime in?
is there any open design chasis? like a CAD file you can modify yourself? if you're living around shenzhen it's probably not expensive to find a manufacturer
Our current ecosystem is such that you either get big enough to gobble up all real competitors, or you're consigned to irrelevance.

Why that is is where the fundamental disagreement is. One of the proposed reasons is too much regulation, the other is too little. It's (in my opinion) probably both - too much poorly applied, and not enough where it's needed.
what shared delusion would that be?

using "they" to refer to a single person has been happening for far, far more than two years, by the way. more like 500 years, probably more.

have you not ever said something like "I bet they will love this" or "I hope they are ok" when talking about a single person? because I have been using that word in that way since started talking.

your chosen use of a word is not the only way a word can be used.
We have only one paying customer so far.

We got them form Twitter.
The New York Times on drugs (1927)
I'd be curious to know as well, but I'm guessing he means Europe. I used to work with other Data Scientists based in Europe and was always shocked to learn how little they got paid, usually less than 50% of american counterparts. And for work like DS where objectives are more abstract and harder to specify, Europeans have enough cultural and literal fluency to be able to fully replace someone from the US. This is in comparison to the situation as I understand it for India-based pure software development, where communication/cultural barriers requires tighter management to use the talent effectively (this is going off what I've heard, I have no personal experience here. so feel free to correct me if my understanding isn't accurate).

So previously being able to utilize offshore talent was basically a skill unto itself. Now you did two interviews with similarly skills candidates and one wants 50% less pay, they just have a british accent.
Well yeah. I'm all for locking up drunk drivers, offering rehab and then permanently revoking their drivers licenses if they do it again. That goes to the second decision to adversely affect others.
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the short answer is the real world is a lot more complicated and random than factorio. factorio is pretty complex for a video game, but trivial compared to a real world supply chain. most of the game mechanics are deterministic, and latencies are measured in minutes rather than weeks. you can analytically solve for how much iron ore you will need in the next hour, what the optimal ratio of copper wire to plastic bar assemblers is for a circuit factory, etc. unless you play with friends, there are no pesky humans to interfere with your perfectly optimized design.
I know i won't
Nothing wrong with fundamental research
The other user is right. In a low interest rate environment it’s well possible for risk-free to underperform inflation. You can see this in the current short-term US treasury rates. This is one of the reasons so much money is piling into riskier assets.
We just bought a house in SF, closed end of July. Furniture of all kinds is backordered... in some cases severely (think 26+ weeks).

Daily necessities are doing fine and most products aren't completely unavailable, but prices & lead times are increasing. There's a finite amount of time that can continue though... if companies can't get new delivery trucks or locomotive engines then eventually that will have a significant impact.

FWIW some companies have managed things much better. Our new Tesla Model Y was delivered in a bit under three months. Compared to what some auto makers are doing that's a miracle.
I was forced to torpedo a previous career because a relative got sick, and then I got sick...moving to the city wasn't a good idea but the only choice in that industry, so I had to move on (I grew up in the city in question, utter hellhole, commutes are horrendous, I would have moved because I loved the work but that was all).

Obviously, I have a biased perspective but what frustrated me wasn't the loss to my own career. I just got on with it, retrained, moved on. But the fact that I had useful skills, had spent years developing them, and the most rational thing for me to do was to literally start from zero in an industry that was more accommodating...which seems a bit silly.

So I wouldn't even frame this as a personal thing. The reason the career development opportunity is so large is because the opportunity for employers is so large...and, ofc, they are the ones resisting this.
I think https://hyper-traditionalist.tumblr.com/ would agree, advocating against the multidimensionality and expansion from the Big Bang (and yet, would also object to being described as being for or against any position, because a position would imply dimensions.)

Return to gravitational singularity, and all that.
The first line: “A widow and her four children have been driven insane by eating the marijuana plant.” Then it gets better: “Neighbors, hearing outbursts of crazed laughter, rushed to the house to find the entire family insane.”
Revoking the keys makes whatever existing artifacts and packages signed with old keys fail integrity checks.

Revoking the published packages and rotating compromised passwords should certainly also be done, but neither of those stop packages in mirrored or present in local caches from being used without further intervention (assuming your packaging ecosystem regularly verifies packages have valid signatures, which sadly I know ecosystems like NPM do not).
They pay $500m to Accenture to scrub the digital graffiti and hate speech off their walls.

$29bn in annual profit means they can pay a bit more.
If you don’t want that kind of reaction, phrase your point of view in a way that’s more curious and less with the tone and perspective of “those guys are clueless and wrong.”

I’m not a cosmologist. I don’t have a degree in physics. But when I read your comment, I was as upset as any of them would’ve been.
It’s corporate language for hiring in a similar timezone but less expensive country. Instead of hiring in the U.S. you put people in Mexico or South America.

Another term is “best shoring”, which is code for wherever you can find talent capable of doing the job for the least amount.
It should run the flaky tests N times, and report failure if any run fails. Hiding failures is not doing us a favor.
If you can stomach it, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror is a great audiobook. It is a pretty heavy listen but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Why, greater social goods and responsibility:

The vaccines still do seem to reduce infection among those who are exposed, and contribute to reducing (even if no longer eliminating) how contagious someone is when they are infected.

Combined with mask use while in public situations...

* Strangle out and eradicate the disease, or at least make very rare.

* Vastly decrease the load on our EMS and hospitals, which they could DIRELY use after almost 2 years of this BS and several waves of "beyond really bad" a year.

* Protect those who are not YET eligible for a vaccination, and who's parents hold views that prevent these innocents for receiving the most protection for disease possible.

* Reduction of spread, even if it doesn't eliminate the disease, will deprive it of chances to mutate which is better for everyone overall. Successful mutations will be like Delta vs Alpha, anything that we consider worse, relative to existing strains.

I would like the pandemic to END sometime, and we aren't getting there until as many as possible GET the vaccine and we finish the job of arming everyone to win the war.
Owls have “pre-tilted” ears… their heads are asymmetrical!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization_in_owls
> This will then allow for shipment of your package(s) through our network, directly to you

There are surely some crucial details missing here. What is this network?
I think time zones and tax laws may slow this a little. I find it a real pain to work with people whose time zones are 10 hours away from the company timezone. When things need to get done quickly or a problem can only be resolved by talking directly somebody has to work late in the evening or night. I guess the companies don't care but it's very hard for the workers in the long term.

In my company it's also very difficult to hire a full time employee in another country due to all kinds of regulations and the overhead they entail.

My prediction is that in the long run a lot of companies will still prefer people who are close. Managing remote people effectively is very difficult. A lot of managers will fail doing so. And a lot of people are also not cut out for remote work and need interaction at the office.

I remember when offshoring became popular in the 90s it looked all work would go to India but this didn't happen either.
Actually, it is by definition more complex :~)
> Yep. I've said it many times here and basically anywhere I can: Clamoring for remote-only work, maximum-introvert, never fly somewhere, don't value in-person communication/meetings/etc is a dangerous game to be playing.

What's interesting is that I flew in for a meeting with my company recently, the first I've had since I've been hired.

This took hours upon hours of my time. Time I could have spent working.

We spent it between a conference room and at restaurants, and much of the time was spent discussing things with the larger team that were not relevant to me. So I spent that time on my laptop fixing bugs, in the conference room.

There was zero benefit to any of this outside of a solid handshake and getting to "meet people in person".

However, I have 3 meetings a week with the entire team on HD video, so I already knew exactly who I was meeting and what their mannerisms and personalities were.

That included walking through an office where people jumped out of the cubicles and offices when they saw me and said "hey! Great to finally see you in person!" without a second thought. They knew exactly who I was without having ever met me.

Is this really necessary? This was a huge waste of company money that I could have spent working.
Unless Carmack doesn’t have the ability to quit, he’s choosing to continue working for Zuck every day.

As is every other fb employee.
Where is the side to side comparison of features and to-do between this and existing distributed actor implementations, such as erlang + otp or java and whatever thing it uses?

This approach of ignoring the rest of the world and explaining Swift concepts as if they exist in a vacuum is frustrating and counter-productive.

Even if this were a totally new feature, I'd expect links to research papers.

It is one thing to present end users with 'shiny new iphone' every year. It is another to treat developers like idiots and have every swift related announcement be this sales pitch of 'great new feature' when in reality they are all features other languages have had for decades (and are thus mature, while Swift is always half-baked and full of gotchas) and this is yet another re-implementation of what already exists with undocumented arbitrary differences that people then have to spend time to figure out (aka free beta test) when I'm sure the people who implement this stuff (hopefully) know full well what trade-offs they are making.
"Global small teams can form overnight, grow and shrink dynamically. "

This is freakishly hard to manage effectively. Sounds good in theory but most will fail trying.
The overwhelming majority of code isn't slow because it used the wrong algorithm, it's because the Product team can't demo or show off an increase in efficiency. It's because they aren't measured by their ability to reduce or control the growth of the AWS bill. And they probably wouldn't have the knowledge to ascertain a reasonable bill. So they push deadlines which pushes devs to take ugly but fast to write solutions using high level languages.

Also, performance improvements pay for themselves over months and years while new features usually pay for themselves faster (at least they do in forecasts).

And finally, touching working code to make a performance improvement necessarily has some risk and that risk might be worth more than a year of cost savings from the improvement.
Both parents are caregivers in a marriage, there's no single caregiver.

What happens if both work during regular office hours (as in my marriage)?

If you have very young kids, it's impossible to have a distraction free work environment at home unless you find someone to take care of the kids and enforce the no distractions rule.

People often assume, somewhat unfairly, that this person should be the mother. But what if mommy also has a professional career and ambitions?

During the pandemic, people who found working from home enjoyable tend to

a- not have very young children of an age they need constant watching or get bored if left to play alone, or

b- someone in the couple is a stay at home parent (usually the mother) who watches the children.
This is so hard to follow on twitter; I might recommend a blog post for this sort of thing.
I think by interstellar they mean beyond the heliopause [1] and hence “between stars”.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Heliopause
Probably not.

Communication is still a gigantic issue to overcome. So is managing teams and availability during the work day.

If anything, it might push more really smart people to start their own companies instead of working for someone else to achieve a lesser level of prosperity.
I definitely noticed that during COVID my company's IT department has upped its game a lot.
Now the developed world will compete with the developing world to lower wages in the developed world. The high salaries and perks for many USA tech jobs may not last much longer.

No need for companies to pay more for premium locations / perk offices.

No need for companies to deal with the hassle of H1B visas.

From a company perspective, why pay someone in the USA $165k/year to work from home in Trendyville when an Indian engineer is $35k/year in Bangalore?
Yes, eventually. From what I've read it's expected to take 6 months to a year after your "people believe there's a predictable level of demand" point.
Most cities used to have all the industry located in the centre. It led to huge slums (because there was insufficient supply and massive demand) and everyone leaving the city when the slums got cleared.

Even if you have great transportation (Tokyo, London, New York), the commute is still pretty brutal.

The only real "solution" that was ever presented to this problem was to create smaller garden cities that would have their own industries...this never worked out because everyone had to be in the city (perhaps coincident with more service-based economies, manufacturing did move out of big cities).

It is an extremely hard problem (and to be blunt, the solution of most planners has been: make me emperor, I will allocate the resources...it is a huge political/social/everything problem) but remote working is a very legitimate solution...although the response of any company towards better conditions for workers is always suspicion (if the workers are happier, don't we lose...somehow?).

(An extremely nerdy comparison is with proto-industry in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution...a lot of the intermediate production in textiles was done in homes by, what we would call today, independent contractors...as the capital intensity of the textile industry increased and new technology was developed so...to put it bluntly...that you could employ children to do the work then you saw industry move into city centres and slums appear. But before this time, you had people working in their own homes and on their own machines, and it was far more decentralised...although these people were often localised geographically as there was a whole supply chain. Definitely indicates that things don't really need to be the way they are.)
While the first one is probably really wrong, the other two are clearly fine.

Imagine a unique cat with an IQ of human. Would you say it is more worth to society, than any other cat? Probably so. Is there a magic IQ threshold that renders other cats not as worthy as humans to not be given the same kind of resources? In a way yes, as you would draw a line.

Intelligence is what makes humans humans.
I just spoke to somebody today and their strategy is to hire within a geographic region. Everybody will be default remote but they will be getting the team together 4-6 times a year on site for planning and social stuff. I could see this being the strategy for a lot of small and mid size companies.
Yes, people who don't see this coming are in for a potentially rude awakening.

The US tech worker is about to get NAFTA'd.
> "[0] Huge salaries to them being a high-five figure salary."

CheckSalary.co.uk puts the average salary for "a programmer" in the UK at £43K, Reed.co.uk says £41k, Glassdoor says £35K, Payscale says £31K... maybe devs here should upskill in English?

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/programmer-salary-SRCH_...
I wonder if it’s religion the true cause/s
Because it's super CRAZY fast.
This seems strange, I wonder what they'll call future headsets.
Don't you ever forget that intelligence is not directly proportional to encephalic mass. Intelligence is related to number of synapses.

Brains getting smaller doesn't mean any capacity is lost. Maybe the design was improved, as in metabolicaly less demanding, or developmentaly more reliable.

Who knows
"don't come to the office unless we want you there"

I work full time remote but this is the approach I would take as a company. Once your team is distributed across timezones a lot of things get really hard.