skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, "ask a question via email, wait for a response" while using a nominally async channel isn't really adopting async processes (neither is your manager emailing you at 7pm your time and expecting a reply in less than 14h). At the minimum, that email should be going to an internal mailing list where some other knowledgeable employee can answer, and in any situation where that one Q is actually blocking and there is no other work that can be done in the interim, there ought to be a root cause analysis done, at least informally, to prevent that from happening in the future (probably resulting in some docs being updated or expanded).

Other async tools and channels: bug and issue trackers, kanban boards, wikis, forums, pull/merge requests, version control commit messages, annotation/commenting systems like hypothes.is, even NNTP.
Cheaper labor is cheaper for a reason. The economy is globalized enough that if you have an actually equivalent skillset, you're very likely able to pull an equivalent salary, no matter where you live.

You'll get outsourced regardless of where you work once a company is willing to take the tradeoffs that come with cheaper labor - a "worse" skillset.

There's certainly a little salary arbitrage to be had for actually equivalent skillsets, but not enough such that its worth firing someone with institutional knowledge. Usually companies will augment hiring via outsourcing or near/off-shoring, not replace people.

If a company is willing to fire you for that little amount, then (1) you were already essentially replaceable anyway in some form or another (sorry); or (2) they're making a huge blunder and perhaps their future is not so bright, so maybe its actually a blessing you have to leave?
> Taking 60,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D for several months has been shown to cause toxicity. This level is many times higher than the U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for most adults of 600 IU of vitamin D a day. [0]

I think you may be poisoning yourself.

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations (2019)
I think the hassle of taxes alone would make most companies don't want to do it.

Let's see if Airbnb can crack this, and then a lot of other companies can and will follow.

It is good for people who are dual citizen/US permanent residence, not good for US engineers who don't have anywhere else to live other than US.
Yeah, I know I'm not really in the target market. Like, I would absolutely spring for a locally controlled Vestaboard, but I know that most of these are probably sold to businesses.
You wouldn't have been banned from eBay for a single return like this. It would have to be a pattern that makes you at least appear like an undesirable buyer.
Yes, but async await isn't really complete without good support for streaming ops and APIs that support them first class. That includes merging streams, canceling them, etc (kinda like Rx). It probably needs both push and pull streams as well. We're not there yet, so in the meantime we have to use events and event listeners, in addition to async/await. I think that's perfectly fine.
FTA:

- In HATETRIS the game is over if a piece lands with any part of itself protruding into the spawning area. […] For the purposes of this piece of work, I used the HATETRIS game over rules.

- Height 2: the AI supplies a series of S blocks.

Doesn’t that mean a single S or Z block is sufficient to end the game? Those blocks always have a height of 3.
Same story with me and python, so don't worry :) I'll make the repo public during the next week.

Diffuser also makes a difference as the controller I'm using doesn't allow me to control the brightness. I should really write a blog post :D
If there was easy cheap labor standing by to replace you, it would have happened already regardless of WFH. In reality what a company gains by way of salary savings it has to spend several times over in inefficiency, communication issues, difficulties in management, loss of quality and lots more. This is exactly why the outsourcing boogieman hasn't caught up to the industry despite being talked about nonstop for literally decades now.
Honestly didn’t seem that difficult. They hired HR and legal people with some experience in the matter and it was their job.

I have a feeling those HR and legal skills are going to be in high demand for a long time.
"Properly managed, a team with members in multiple time zones can be enormously productive if the work is such that it can be handled in shifts. Software can actually be done this way. You have to be culturally willing to do it."

It's horrible for the people who have to work in such a system. We have people in India and during phases where you have to collaborate a lot, either the US people or the India people have to constantly work at night. And the company demands this in addition to regular working hours. We also have people in South america and that's much better to deal with because working hours overlap during the day.
Yes, you can use Python just about anywhere, and it is arguably more sane/readable. Prefer httpie over curl at the command-line as well.
i3/bspwm/dwm (x11) or sway (wayland). FancyZones is a poor imitation (but still worth using compared to not) of those window managers.
The current page seems to be up, though (https://kisslinux.org/). I'm not sure why we're looking at the archive page.
I find it funny that with the WFH movement people some to have forgotten the lessons learned from the early 2000s outsourcing/offshoring craze.

Many companies tried to move their development offices offshore to India, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Ukraine, anywhere with significantly cheaper labour. And the first lesson these companies learned was the second you've trained a person from that area to the point that you are happy, they will quit, because now they have the skills to get hired by another multinational and leave for a more affluent pastures.

It wasn't until people realized to took more to build offshore workforces. You have to build teams of people, you have to support their families (especially is south east asia), you need to provide benefits and incentives for them to stay in their home town. But most of all you need to become part of the local community. Otherwise you will always be a naive multinational to be taken advantage of as long as it's convenient. And the intelligent and driven people, the exact people you want to hire there, all know this.

I can see the exact same thing playing out in the WFH movement, with managers proclaiming that now that they can hire anywhere they can do away with much of the support and non-financial compensation inherit to office work. But they will run head first into the same problems as offshoring. A job is more than money, especially in an creative/problem solving industry like software development (and if you disagree, you are lying to yourself), your work, your colleagues and your company shape you, (should) support and reflect on you to all future employers. Loyalty has to be earned, and if all you are doing is relying on salary for this, then your loyalty is worth the dollars between you and your competitor.

My view is that we'll settle on a bimodal steady state. With WFH first companies that put in the time, money and effort needed to support a remote workforce. And traditional office work (with maybe a bit more flexibility) going back to full time face to face. I don't think the hybrid model can work.
If you have a vr headset, check out “Becoming Homeless” by Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab.
I couldn’t possibly agree more with everything you’ve said here.

I’ll only add that a lot of the class issues that affect white people seem to disproportionately affect black people, which is why a lot of “black issues” are shared with poor white people too, though certainly not all.

The men/woman thing is much more nuanced than that though.
Would you mind sharing in what ways going for walks made it worse for you?
Note that recovering some performance is possible when the system only ever runs trusted code. E.g., start the kernel with the mitigations=off option. For more, see:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-pa...

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/i...
White Paper for Network-Based Higher Ed
It's not like I'm inventing anything here. Back in the times and places where noble titles were taken seriously as markers of increased social legitimacy, stripping people of them was an acknowledged thing. Far more reversible than things like the guillotine, which in practice was way more comparable to your human-to-mulch machine - and that in its long-range society-wide effects, as much as its more immediate ones.
730 am est time is 630 am central time?
It would need to encrypt the messages in the browser before they are sent, for a start.
Over it's lifetime (From Nov 2014 to NOW) ARKK has lost to QQQ (popular index fund that tracks NASDAQ-100 Index).
Everything in moderation.

EDIT: Except lava.
Trillion dollar companies don't like funding their support departments any more than < million dollar companies do.
Having to give out your phone number (and even requiring a phone number in the first place) to have a private conversation is terrible for privacy.
Agreed; I've been on projects that I would count as having a bus factor of 0, because all the people who knew how to do any number of critical functions had been laid off. This is an attempt to make everything so simple and well-documented that that could never happen because anytime somebody wants to work on it they can pick it up and immediately be able to do everything.
I'm a noob. Does OpenBSD not have an alternative to config (make menuconfig) on Linux that does not to compile drivers you don't need?
Maybe you're thinking of tmux which splits your terminal into multiple panes and can look similar.
> replaced it with equality of outcomes

Not consistently. If you point out there are outcomes where "minorities" do better, e.g. women living longer than men on average, and suggest we fix this by e.g. spending more government funding on men's health research, suddenly the "pro-equality" people try to change the topic, or claim that the difference is "biological" and therefore shouldn't be meddled with (an attitude they would of course call sexist if the advantage were in the other direction).
Ah, ah :D

I don't even know if enlightening exist, to be honest.

For me, it doesn't matter. I don't need the promise of something potentially amazing in the future, I'm just interested in something that makes my life better right now.

In the center, I only met regular people with ordinary problems, even teachers. Getting a hang on suffering, one step at a time. Sometimes being completly off the mark, because humans are humans.

Meditation is also probably the most boring thing I ever encountered. It's unspectacular, tedious, slow and utterly mundane.

But it's the only thing that I've tried that brings consistent, increasing benefits in life.

I wish for everybody to find something that is as good for them, awakening or not.
Book a two week long float down the middle fork of the Salmon river and let me know how you feel after.
Yeah, if anything, this study proves people's ability to see through the experimenter's bullshit. Faith in humanity: restored
I have had multiple occasions where our India team was stuck for weeks on something despite sending daily messages back and forth. Then I called them late a night my time and could resolve the issue in a few minutes. It's funny that the same management that thinks collaboration needs everybody to sit in the same open office has no problem having workers in a timezone 12 hours off where you can never talk directly.
+ telemetry-spewing ms products give some of us the willies.
I want a first-class open-source local-first password manager. Like Enpass or legacy 1Password, without needing to trust my passwords to "the cloud." I paid for a full "lifetime" license of 1Password 4, and 6, and 7. I paid for a full lifetime license of Enpass. I'd gladly pay ~$70 for something with as good a UI as BitWarden but without a need for a server.

EDIT: pass and KeyPass are not even close to the same league, please don't suggest them.
0 is often (ab?)used like this, e.g. 'never stop' where it ought (by some sort of logic) to mean 'stop immediately' or whatever other time or repetition based thing.
I love writing in vs code and markdown (for my blog https://leloew.com/blog/20220227_5_lines_of_js_for_a_markdow...) they also have an unofficial grammarly plugin which works quite well.
> It's widely known in various traditions meditation can mess you up

Yeah, and the interesting thing is that in many Eastern traditions, meditation wasn't ever even recommended for the average person. And those that did do it, did so in an environment with teachers and safeguards. The McMindfulness fad is missing almost all of that, and I'm starting to see more and more stories of people hitting a dangerous wall without the cultural support they need to navigate to the other side.

Sam Harris is one of the current major proponents of meditation in the West, and I've heard him say "even if meditation were bad for people, I would still recommend they do it". I think that's irresponsible advice.
My current experience with hiring for remote positions says otherwise.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cover-story/id15946753...

The initial episode covers a story closer to a cult. But later this podcast reflects a lot of what you’ve mentioned anecdotally with respect to to modern psychedelic research.
Humans don't strive for equal opportunity at all. They constantly pull the ladders up that helped them get where they are now and they often ban people from building their own ladders using their own effort.
Please spell-out whether you are restrained by how-good or how-bad you consider current performance to be.
I’ve watched Louis Rossmann repair Macbooks for hours on YouTube before. Like watching paint dry in a kind of way.
I traveled (as did many at the time) quite extensively in countries around the world with minimal planning and/or knowledge and no phone and it was absolutely fine.

Secure personal storage of documents and cash is the only must. Politeness and respect for local people was also very helpful.

The big upside is that you have genuinely unexpected experiences.
> Your bash scripts won't work on Windows

Well neither would the code we're developing either so, not really a problem.

> Does your employer let you integrate GPL v3 code into your products?

Oh, most definitely. But then none of our products are closed-source, so we're an outlier, admittedly.
If they were easy to find, companies wouldn’t need to offer them billions per year or spend months paying headhunters.
I propose a name change to Aligory. Great read, thanks for sharing !
Technical reasons - the webserver isn't at the same place as the root domain any more & there are still non-WWW ports hosted on the root domain :)
Honestly I’m just surprised it’s so profitable to be so spammy that this stuff is persisting. That said, when I see shit results, I hardly ever bother to click on the second page any longer. Perhaps the seo spam taking up the near-but-not-top results are the biggest schmucks of all, since they are probably putting in at least a little money/effort to get there, I would imagine?
> GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the GNU System.

https://www.gnu.org/software/mes
For anyone looking for an org mode equivalent (also syncing via Working Copy on iOS), I built https://plainorg.com
Curious as to how frequently bitrot shows up? Has anyone modeled this in terms of bits flipped per gigabyte per year or something like this?

I have about half a terabyte of media, including some original music I made a long time ago and lost the project files for. Backups are great but it will just back of the corrupted versions
Actually I'm almost sure that was working with both options before. Weird.
Thanks anyway!
“I don't know the numbers”: a math puzzle
I use gmx.com and riseup.net; but - I'm not saying you should follow my example (and riseup.net isn't even intended for general public use). I've heard protonmail is nice.

More importantly, though: I use POP3 and a proper mail client, so I don't rely on GMX for my old email to continue to exist. I also back it up one in a while along with my other personal file backups.
well the project will stop dead right in tracks if a bus carrying the entire population of earth were to crash into a river, so I'd say the bus factor is very much finite.
Putting a few numbers in your phone is something I did and would recommend to others in whatever city is relevant. These can of course come in handy regardless of whether you practice mindfulness meditation.

My point was that the context of a class on loving-kindness was especially jarring. I fully advocate for everyone to take a class on basic first aid and know who to contact in response to a few basic classes of emergency, that seems as basic as having clean water in your house in case of an earthquake.

I can perform CPR, stop blood loss within reason, or call someone that knows how to do things I don't. I'm very happy to take suggestions for other skills that should be commonly known to be good community members.

https://sfgov.org/dosw/mental-health-services
Contrarian take:

Some people actually need to become more selfish.
Harassment is not okay but who cares if grandma think your job means you're gay. Grandma thinking you're gay (or thinking a job is girly or boyish) is not a real obstacle to opportunity and lumping it in with harassment just confuses the problem.

People will always have various pressures and cultural biases that inform what occupations are picked. Humans are not the same, not every difference of opinion needs to be stamped out however misguided you believe them to be.
That's a crazy amount. I had a very low blood test started supplementing with k2/5000 vitamin d several years ago and my blood levels have been fine ever since.
There is another recourse, which is legislation. Contact your representatives and let them know that the integrity of eBay's evidence collection methods should be eBay's problem to deal with, and not their customers'.
Used to use this - liked it a lot. Great work on the design :)
Global warming is extremely likely to lead to large areas that are well populated today becoming uninhabitable in the next 100 years - either through oceans rising or through extreme heat. This will likely lead to huge migrant crises - not hundreds of thousands, but tens of millions leaving places like Bangladesh. This in turn is very likely to lead to wars and other forms of extreme events. A world at war is very likely to stop growing economically, and we may not be able to require from a nuclear war the way we did after WW2.
I loved Perfect Dark but never completed the game as my system would always freeze due to the number of explosions during the last level’s boss battle. Even with the expansion memory pack thing.
>Went to the beach one week and got blood tested again and my vitamin D levels climbed significantly.

Well, I think I just justified my beach vacation. Thanks!
If I left the greatest tool civilization has ever developed at home, I would feel very uncomfortable. I'm closer to a demi-god than a man when I have one.
You've hit the nail on the head with this. I often see "big idea" thinkers who I find to be brilliant, like Jordan Peterson, criticized, and I think a lot of that comes from literal thinkers who 1. apply a rigorous evidentiary standard when assessing their writings, when they should instead see them as well-articulated cases for a "hunch" and thus not expect them to contain proof for their theories, and/or 2. don't see the utility of expositions of hunches.
But these people have said they don't want it. What about respecting their right to self determination?
Adafruit is leading the hobby industry towards their 99$ cloud platform for IoT devices.

It'll expand the audience immensely and probably be hugely profitable but I hate it.
Once.

What made it stand out?

The pitch letter from the recruiter wasn't the bog standard "I saw you have these skills, can you hop on the phone?" email: the recruiter didn't just rattle off a list of 'roles and responsibilities', but actually put down a few lines about a specific production challenge that he believed experience I had a previous role could help the team solve.

Having that kind of intel right up front made that first call and the entire interview pretty memorable. The whole time I kept thinking to myself how different this 'technical recruiter' was from so many others I had talked to. Turns out he was a former engineer who on a whim put his name up for a recruiter spot because he wanted to try it out, and got it.

Ended up working at that place for almost six years. Owe a lot of my career development to that team.
> the second you've trained a person from that area to the point that you are happy, they will quit

Isn't this a significant problem with developers in the USA also? I keep hearing the advice to change jobs every year or two in order to keep building skills and compensation.
ZFS on SMR Drives
It's not like simpler editors have saner defaults https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/sRT9BtjLWMk/m/BRtSXNU4... (yeah, I got bit by a variation of that one recently) (pro-tip: don't let your autoloader scan for non php file)
The Man that Uploaded 2M Videos to YouTube [video]
Over the course of more than a decade, Apple kept adding features to iTunes until the app become horribly slow, confusing, and buggy. Just about everyone hated it.

When Apple finally killed the Mac version of iTunes on stage at WWDC, they basically admitted that they'd tried to cram in too much functionality, by joking that they were considering a Calendar and Web Browser.
1000 is actually way below what you need probably, my doc put me on 2500 a day and it wasn't enough, I've moved to 5000 and been "normal" level ever since for several years for my annual checkout/blood/urine tests. If you have brown/black skin it can be even more, but better to start low and figure out what is enough under observation of a doctor.
It's not about what you reading it, it's about ensuring that someone else can do it.

Anyway, I hate to be Cassandra, I just lost count of how many stories I heard of people regretting taking "convenience over freedom" with critical software.
The point was that sunlight does more than raise vitamin D, not that it's better than supplementation at raising vitamin D.
Yes.

I really wish more people knew that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief at the Atlantic, literally beat political prisoners bloody while he was an IDF prison guard at the world's largest detainment camp.