skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately and I've decided that working remote IS the most important benefit of my job.

I've been fully remote doing iOS development for nearly four years now, and I am not interested in entertaining any new job offer unless my fully remote status can be retained.

Are there downsides to this mentality? Yes. Am I missing out on networking/schmoozing opportunities by being remote? Almost assuredly. But as I've been thinking about it lately, I don't think I want any of that stuff. I can't see myself enjoying the job of management or being a director, etc. I would probably enjoy the pay, but not the work.

So for me the most important thing is that I love my job, I get paid very well, and I'm home to watch my five kids grow up.

I don't think I'm interested in trading in that setup, not for any job title.
EU investigates Hungary over law threatening top university
I have lenses that you can wear for a month but sometimes slightly go over it as well.
If they fall on the table - I'll pick them up and rinse them, if they fall on the floor, they're gone.
Well, in future years they'll be able to generate additional economic activity by having to go back and install another new network.
> He was asked to leave the Drupal community by its community leader against the recommendations of its Code of Conduct board, to a large amount of backlash by pretty much everybody, including many of those evil social justice warriors.

Umm, no. The "Code of Conduct board" said he didn't violate the Code of Conduct, but they escalated the issue to Dries because _something_ came up that they felt needed his intervention.

We don't know exactly what _something_ is. Larry has decided to spin the narrative that it has to do with his Gorean belief and that this is "kink shaming", comparing himself to persecuted gay people. The counter-narrative has been "we're not going to say for confidentiality and liability reasons, but it has nothing to do with anything Larry wrote about."
Not taking sides, but I found this analysis by an experienced community manager interesting: https://subfictional.com/thoughts-on-recent-drupal-governanc...

"it's complicated"
They also have small support wheels that can be deployed to move the short distances from door to door.
> That will incentivize people to unblock ads.

But then they will likely start clicking on ads to increase their own revenue. Or just visit various websites in an automated way to make money.

I don't know if that would work.
Then educate thyself. Besides all the anedotal evidence of police militirazation, violence, the USA has THE largest prison population in the world and almost the highest % of population in prison, #2 (after seychelles) with 693 per 100k. Iran is way down list at #37 with 287.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

Also, the way Iran is today (i.e. not the progressive democratic country it was) is due to the UK/USA replacing elected government with a religious autocrat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
It depends on the office and your personal circumstances. If I dread going to the office for whatever reason (uncomfortable, noisy, bad commute, dislike coworkers) then of course I'd rather work from home.

I think this argument of WFH detracts somewhat from the issue of making the office itself a better place. There is so much that can be done in that area to alleviate some of the issues around not wanting staff to wfh.

For me, the main issues are noise, lack of privacy and lack of environmental control. I get some of the same stress in my office that I would get standing in a busy highstreet during rush hour. I dislike open plan office, hot-desking etc - give me a space, I'm comfortable working and relaxing in - a second home almost. Or maybe I'm just a spoilt millenial.
Pewpiepie makes tons of money from Youtube. He's not banned. And most of his videos are monetized. The fact that he's the most successful Youtuber and that he has differing views that Youtube shows that Youtube allows people with differing views to succeed.
I agree - you can pry sublime text from my cold, dead hands. VSC/Atom/whatever is way too slow for every day use
There was an election recount that found a significant difference between the paper count and machine count? I'd like to read more. Do you have a link?
Here in Knoxville I see billboards welcoming Gig-Speed internet by Comcast.

It costs something like $300/mo with a two year contract and some ridiculous $2000 or so installation price.

Gee, thanks?
I thought I had pink eye one time, went to the doctor weeks later after it had resolved itself and she said I had scarring from a corneal ulcer. If the scarring had been in the center of my eye as opposed to the corner, I might have lost vision. Was related to contacts.

More to the OP: Contact fluid has disinfectant in it, is it a solution to put a drop of it on the contact (inside) before putting it on? So any bad things that might get stuck under there are killed.
Ah yes, definitely don't have axes to grind here.
They decided, rather explicitly, that there was no code of conduct violation. I don't know what else to say.

Also: your quotations around kink shaming imply that you don't believe this is a real thing. The fact that I have multiple friends who've lost their jobs because someone sent their bosses a set of pictures taken off of Fetlife suggests otherwise.
Google cache:

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Booth Capturing and Ballot Stuffing were violent practices esp. in 80s and 90s in some places during Election. People actually died for every election cycle either perpetrating or protesting these kind of things.

Given the logistics, introduction of EVMs have reduced these kind of election day events, even though Election day violence is more clashes between supporters, the polling booths are much safer now than couple of decades ago.
> as I would when using opencl

Didn't you mean CUDA?
If those results are representative, it seems like AWS is the obvious choice.

What specific reasons are there for people to choose an alternative for hosting, particularly DigitalOcean?
That's definitely one solution, but at that point you're eliminating a lot of the benefits of working from home. If I'm going to be commuting to a coworking space anyway, why wouldn't I just commute to my actual office, and be physically colocated with my actual coworkers rather than random people? I should point out that my commute to work is only ten minutes one-way.

I suspect that the coworking space idea only works for people that are located a long distance from the main office (potentially 1000s of kms), but have a coworking space nearby.
Why is it sadistic to expect a corporation to fulfill their promises?
I'm not saying these machines are unhackable, but with the addition of additional constraints they are _almost_ perfectly secure.

For ex., On election day, mock voting and counting is done in the presence of all party representatives - the results are then erased before the actual counting. And representatives of all parties are mostly around when these machines are moved around and counted. Also, the way party symbols are listed is not pre-determined etc. and hence cannot be predicted by someone wanting to add votes to a particular party.

Source - my mom has been a presiding officer during elections a couple of times, and I've looked at the training manuals..
Note that this is ranking the companies for their laptop business as a whole. It doesn't say anything about particular individual laptops made by those companies. It's not clear that these rankings say anything useful to someone whose goal is to choose a laptop to buy.

It is quite possible that company X could handily outrank company Y, but for every segment of the laptop market that they both participate in Y's offering beats X's.

It looks like the main reason Apple is #5 on their ranking is a low score in "value & selection". Apple gets 6 points out of a possible 15. The top 4 get 14, 15, 15, and 14.

For that component of the score, they "[...] awarded points for offering a wide range of laptop types (budget, business, gaming, etc.) and for providing aggressive pricing".

Only Microsoft got a lower "value & selection" score (5). Microsoft also got slammed on innovation because the only new model since the last evaluation was the Surface Book with Performance Base, and that only changed the base. They got nailed on design too for not offering more colors for the Surface book.

Yet they call the Surface Pro 4 still "the best detachable on the market", and the Surface Book Pro with Performance Base "One of the most powerful 13-inch, non-gaming systems currently on the market", and say that Microsoft remains "a clear leader in 2-in-1 innovation".
Earth-sized telescope set to snap first picture of a black hole
Blender is probably one of the most successful OSS projects since Linux. In the span of five years, you wouldn't be caught dead using it over Maya. Now, its visa versa.
From what my optician recommended was to indeed blod them dry with a clean towel each time. But, I am not taking care of them that well, I rub them dry. I am not sure if blodding makes a difference.
Super interesting. It's a shift from straight meal kits that are more "healthy meals that you don't have time to shop for" to more wholistic kitchen foodstuffs management.

It's more like a personalized Instacart in that way. Could see this going the way of "Trunk Club for the kitchen"
"I wonder if that's intentional on NVIDIA's part."

I think that's a reasonable guess. NVIDIA only supports OpenCL 1.2 (and it took them about 6 years to get there from 1.0, while other vendors were at 2.x).

While I don't think NVIDIA ever outright stated OpenCL was on the back burner, their support clearly waned, which devs noticed (https://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2012-09-10/nvidias-industry-...).

As for why...well, why should NVIDIA participate? They don't have anything to gain when they already have CUDA dominating the industry.
I really think the best situation is a place that doesn't care all that much if you work from home, but you aren't technically a WFH employee. I used to be 100% remote and yes that had it's perks, but I think overall wasn't the best for me as someone who, left to their own devices, will likely sit out my couch at home all day every day. I actually enjoy going into the office for at least half the day and leave for home when I feel like it. Usually that's after breakfast and lunch from the cafeteria :)

It's nice though, to have real life friends at the office. Especially when you move to a new place and don't really have your old friends around. I don't really feel any loneliness because of this. I still keep in contact with my remote friends, but you know... it's not quite the same.
There is no software that is guaranteed not to contain vulnerabilities.
Windows and Linux have different philosophies. Whereas Windows likes the monolothic approach, unix likes the small utility approach.

This is why vim is a hell of a lot more useful to me on linux than on windows. In Linux, I actually prefer vim over sublime. In windows, I use sublime over vim.

It's not simply a matter of polish, the environments are completely different, and therefore the tools that are successful on the platforms are completely different.
> Though I suppose plenty of people were corrected in their 50s or older and lived much longer and never had an issue.

There was probably some animal testing too, with animals that age faster than us but still undergo similar changes.
"The Commission had announced a similar challenge in 2009 and it claimed no one could hack its EVMs."

No one can hack them, or nobody has had long enough with just "a week or 10 days". Hardware and software reverse engineering can take significantly longer, depending on the complexity of the machine. It's likely they will also be limited in what they are allowed to use. If they are so confident, open source the designs and let researchers take a look.

Another reason for why their claim may be false, is the value of somebody freely giving their hack away. Sure, a moments national glory as you get a targeted painted on you for publicly embarrassing your government - or - lots of bit coin on the black market to the highest bidder.

Ideas:

* Simply place a piece of pink paper over the top to change the details, so the buttons no longer correlate to their correct vote. Enough people in enough provinces would make a serious difference. At the end of the day, have somebody take the paper back off before the poll closes so that the evidence of tampering is gone.

* Large electro magnet to device, making all votes erased. Using statistical data from previous elections, as well as popularity polls from previous elections, predict which machines will be worth taking out to sway the vote. These devices are electronic, therefore likely to use some form of memory that is electromagnetically erasable or corruptible.

* Hack the device that retrieves the data from the machines.

* Social engineering, through bribery or blackmail.
If they're sensible, and I believe they have the ability to be, then you only have to show that many IP leads are dead ends (or rather, not the end). Tor exit nodes demonstrate that. Malware demonstrates that.

Leads are fine. Follow the lead, see where it goes. But if it goes nowhere, don't just lock a guy up until June anyway just because.
I love Sublime Text. I really dislike heavy IDEs, so for me, it's almost the perfect editor.

But... am I the only person who wants a minimal editor like Sublime, plus an inline debugger? Debugging where you edit code is one of those super-features that I really don't understand why people prefer not to have it.

Ideally it would be something generic and lightweight, with the ability to extend via plugins. The debugging plugins I've used so far just don't cut it though - if I can't click on a line number to add a breakpoint, it isn't good enough.
Just as an fyi, Zoroastrians did harbor Jews for a few centuries. There is a lot of combined ideology
I'm saying it's besides the point: the controversy became a distraction regardless of the morality behind either side, which was perpetuating an terrible divisiveness for too long in the board's estimation. We don't know what happened in the internal meetings about it, but we do know some of the fallout, e.g. OkCupid's redirection of Firefox users to other browsers. Eich's presence was toxic to the "brand" in a large segment of the community, and that's one of the primary duties of the CEO to keep in good standing - he became ineffective in that aspect, pure and simple.
As a programmer with a felony (Possession of a controlled substance) I can tell you that by far the greatest hurdle is getting past a background check. I am in the process of finding a new job and I am currently awaiting a decision for the THIRD time on whether my felony will keep me from being hired. In the past month and a half I have been extended offers on two positions only to have them rescinded after they do the background check. I should note I was very honest and upfront about what they would find beforehand. It is starting to become pretty frustrating. I have been clean for 3 years now and have even provided letters of recommendation from rehabilitation program supervisors as well as a letter from my sentencing judge. I have no violent crimes in my background just some possession/drug related charges the most recent of which was in 2013. I paid my debt to society, or so I thought. It appears the worst part of my sentence is having the felony on my record that I cannot have expunged until January of 2024 at the earliest. </rant>
This statement made me giggle :-)
Yea, this is the part that would kill me about work-from-home. I once had a job with a personal office and a close-able door. Staying in there was horrible--I felt like I was in solitary confinement. Ended up taking my laptop and working from the break room all day so I could at least see some people.
The article does not discuss the impact of the open office movement. I've worked from home, in actual offices, in cubicles both cramped and spacious, and open offices. It can be quite difficult to focus at home due to various distractions, especially if you do not have a separate room or area for work. It is difficult to separate work and non-work with a home office. There are a variety of communications issues with colleagues when working from home. However, programming requires high levels of concentration and focus; I work on complex algorithms and mathematical software which requires extremely high levels of concentration and focus. Open offices are simply too noisy and full of interruptions. Thus, given a choice between an open office and home, home wins.

But in general I would rather work in a quiet office near my colleagues. There is a clear separation between work and non-work. Communication is faster and easier, less prone to misunderstandings. This however means something like an actual office or a quiet spacious cubicle with high sound absorbent walls.

In his book Deep Work, Cal Newport argues in favor of a "hub and spoke" office layout where knowledge workers can work in quiet in offices on the spokes, but meet and collaborate at hubs, such as common areas with food, coffee machines, printers etc. This seems like a much better way to balance the need for deep concentration on the one hand with "collaboration," annoying MBA buzz-word at present.
It happened with Verizon in NYC. AFAIK the suit is ongoing.
> If prisoners are allowed to do any of that work they should be compensated at market rates to make sure there is no unfair competition.

The consequences of prisoners contributing to unfair competition is one of the major plot lines in Shawshank Redemption.
> you won't have repeats until you've fully gone through the playlist

The question is whether you will have runs of songs by the same musician or band.

Or from the article itself: "At first we didn’t understand what the users were trying to tell us by saying that the shuffling is not random, but then we read the comments more carefully and noticed that some people don’t want the same artist playing two or three times within a short time period."
Do tell us what really matters in the real world
The problem is that these types of wide pedelec do not cope with the way many councils provide cycle infrastructure requiring users to mix with cars. At which point being in a wider pedelec stops you filtering traffic and you just become 'stuck' in traffic.

Another issue is parking, with many bicycles, you can find a lampost/sheffield stand and just lock them to it, this seems to need a parking space.
My father was born with only one working eye. The only time it ever comes up is if you try to get his attention on his "bad" side and that we always avoid 3D movies.
Mystery of why shoelaces come undone unravelled by science
Do you see your community's future existence as secure?
structure to us not structure in itself.
I'm not disputing that ... I just thought that out-of-order execution was supposed to deal with that to an extend, with tens to even hundreds instruction in flight at a time.
Yup, remember Gmail ? It took years to go out of beta, didn't see anyone complain or worried.
Personally? No. But as stated, my primary laptop has an integrated GPU. Intel drivers tend to have support in the kernel so everything just works out-of-the-box. It's one of the reasons I tore the Broadcomm wifi card that came with the XPS13 and replaced it with an Intel 7265.

I am not sure whether the parent was using the nouveau drivers or the NVIDIA blobs. It's besides the point either way: GPU's on Linux are notoriously finicky, no matter your stack.

The recommendation to go with an integrated GPU is strictly pragmatic. I personally am a tinkerer and am willing to live with a little bit of pain as far as functionality or configuration for ideological reasons if it means supporting a FOSS distribution. But I can't make that same assumption for the parent's wife, and if she wants something that "just works" because she's unwilling to tolerate that level of pain, then an integrated GPU might be the way to go.
That strategy works if you have enough demand for your skills, and you don't price yourself out.
If I hadn't chosen from an early age to accept the stigma of wearing glasses over the hassle of using contacts, this would make me nope the fuck out of using contacts even if it meant having to use the lamest, most Steve Urkel glasses they had.
If it's a state government running the LAN at the prison they've failed to implement really basic standard LAN security measures like keeping ports down until they're actually in use by a known desktop PC or WAP, 802.1x, etc.
What can a normal person do to avoid harm from these things?

Obviously in earlier times people took all sorts of precautions as outlined in the original article about the items found in a chimney.

Is it that we don't cross paths with them as often as we did, or perhaps the concern to protect oneself in the past was overblown, or perhaps they don't even exist?

I admit I am very skeptical, but it's been interesting topic to discuss.

I hope you don't mind my many questions and wild speculations.
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I want to keep it simpler because I want users to use it without any worries of violation of privacy. I think once they hear the word 'server', they'll freak. This is why however much I want to add features like saving history in csv/tsv format (whatever that can organize the data), I can't...
This problem exists because companies and management are overly concerned and focusing on resource efficiency rather than for flow efficient.
http://www.jrothman.com/mpd/agile/2015/09/resource-efficienc...
Adtech discussions like this always raise the hair on the back of my neck.

The only thing that makes me feel better is that "my data" is being handled by a piece of software somewhere for the EXPRESS purpose of pushing advertising to me.

I don't believe it will feel like a privacy violation for most people UNTIL we start seeing high-profile incidents where actual human beings get caught looking up and acting upon individuals and their data as people and not programmatically as GUID's with bunch of metadata.

It makes me wonder if entities are buying their way into these adtech data streams for purposes OTHER than market research or directed advertising ?
Often doesn't happen. They'll just promise to deliver, not do it, and then wheedle their way around the penalties. Already this is playing out in New York: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/nyc-threatens-to...
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