skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> paying the rent ia already a huge challenge

Or the alternative: you have the freedom to focus on improving yourself, your health and fitness, your social connections and your business, as opposed to stressing over just maintaining your employment.
I doubt it. Although I think a quiet private office is the best environment for those times when you need hours of uninterrupted concentration, other changes make open offices tolerable. My 4k screen occupies almost all of my field of view. I like ambient music for the coding trance.

Instead I predict the death of the office. Remote work in dispersed co-working spaces is even more cost-efficient than an open office.
I feel sorry that they paid you then
It's definitely sentimental, and probably more for ourselves than for anything else.

I found this line from the transcript of the President's speech interesting:

> This is a present from a small distant world...

That small distant world will almost certainly be the closest thing to the probe if it is found by some spacefaring civilization.
I've gone through the process many times. Most partnerships were failures. The only startup that succeeded was with this guy who added me on Facebook after I bought his book.

But by far, I find that the strongest indicator of a good partner is whether you're adding them on Facebook.

For one thing, partners that avoid you on social media are a little dodgy. Some would even see you as an adversary - this guy they negotiate against, that they're going to leave when business is over, that we're splitting equity with.

And often there's some subconscious disgust to people you're not willing to add to your friends list. The reason for this disgust often becomes clear in about 3 months. But we have years of experience with people - if something is off about them, we'll know.

The best partners to work with are the ones who you want to get closer to. The ones who match with you on an ideological level. The ones you feel that you can learn a lot from. And more importantly, the ones who you consider a real friend, or truly want to be friends with, and are willing to go to long extents to help.

If you feel the need to test this person just because they have a nice business model, I'd suggest that they've already failed the test.
SJWs seem mostly harmless, if mildly annoying. Don't feed the trolls, and move on. It's a solved problem. They have as much right to free speech as anyone else.

That said, "Think of the women!" seems to be the new "Think of the children!": an excuse for pushing through terrible policies in a way that no-one can publicly object to. Frankly the most disgusting thing about that is what it implies about women's agency.
Just a comment on the gameplay, the characters are moving way too fast for the size of the screen, the whole game is just too unstable and random.
Full text of the letter Elon Musk and 115 experts to ban killer robots
The one that also says it's bad taste to make a "the future is male" or "the future is white" shirt.
Well, some people do like the work they do. Doing work you enjoy is even better when you can focus on it without distractions, and frustrating when you can't.
It's probably the most comprehensive solution I've come across, congrats!
Yeah you're right, I'm quite jet lagged right now and it was a poor choice of phrasing. oops
>If you choose to read it as "the future is only female" you can do that, but I'm fairly certain that's not how it's meant to be read.

But there are many well-intentioned people that WILL read it as that. And with this I fault the the writer and not the reader.

I think this is one of the biggest problems modern liberal movements have with messaging. And I say this as someone who 100% is in support of "the future is more female than the past, which was predominantly male" and "black lives matter".

I don't think the issue is in the nature of brevity in communication. When these movements create their slogans, their number one goal seems to be motivating and incensing the base of people that already agree with them. It seems that the question is never asked: "how will this messaging come across to people who don't already agree with us?" - let alone, "how can we convince those people to acclimate to our viewpoint?" A shirt that says "the future is only female" seems likely to increase vitriol by pushing away and shutting down well-meaning disaffecteds that might otherwise be convinced of the liberal cause.
I hope so.

I didn't work in in one, but worked in a cubicle as an intern, then in an office with 3 other people focusing on the same project, then in my own office with a door, now at home. But I can only imagine the sensory distraction and just can't see why anyone thought it was a good idea for software development.

Sure I can see the photo-op image appeal for PR purposes "Oh look at our dynamic startup, working in an exposed brick re-purposed warehouse. So much collaboration, all the time, with everyone...". But then after the picture is taken everyone should have the option to grab an office or an isolated area to do actual work, or separate white-boarding conference room if they are talking or designing something".

I also find it interesting that these large tech companies at the bleeding edge of technology like Amazon, Google, Facebook are selling digital connectivity (ads, social connections, office suites, email, video chat, messengers, cloud infrastructure) -- and still require their employees to be physically present in the same building to do work.

Wonder if remote work in the next revolution in how our economy works. The more things are digitized, hopefully the less we'll be tied to a physical tech hub area. That could have pretty large effects on real estate, traffic, taxes, how developed various areas get (smaller towns might see some development) etc.
1% real income growth per year is still fairly substantial IMO. Over a 41 year career, your purchasing power goes up by half, yet that's treated as "stagnating" which implies something far worse than 1% per year.
What part of it makes you uncomfortable?
It's like LEGO's. The blocks are sturdy and the rules of how blocks fit together are simple. But building a mini Taj Mahal is still not easy. You do have to know basic physics & structural engineering, but if you do, the task is very do-able. Even fun.

Unlike if you were building a mini Taj Mahal out of match sticks, Elmer's glue, rope, and playing cards. Even a professional structural engineer would have a hard time with that. The rules of gluing a match stick and a playing card together are already complex (not to mention uncertainty about where to rope fits in), and it that makes it that much harder to make a final product.

This video goes into "simple" vs. "easy" https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
Their call is for the UN to make autonomous killing machines a prohibited type of weapon (like other weapons already prohibited).

A concern is the "industrialization" of war. Another is that these weapons are so fast ("faster than humans can comprehend") when they get used as terrorist weapons or rogue, it could be pretty harmful.

This would mean that if a country starts building them, they could be monitored, sanctioned, and preemptively dealt with.
I think there was some machine learning-based article from some dating site (PoF? Tinder?) a few years back that more-less supported those claims? I don't use dating apps so have no idea what the "market" is but I am sure dating sites have the ability to extract perfect stats - maybe somebody from there could chip in and tell us? "Applied Sociology" anyone?
You know what are great? Cubes. Cubes are great.

Arrange them in pods of 6-8 with one common entrance to the space and put a dev team in one (and windows at the end, ideally).

Easy as that.
Well as someone who is NOT a US Citizen (this doesn't work for US citizens) I'm able to base my tax residency in Thailand, which has no CFC Laws and enables me to remotely manage and control my offshore corporations and not pay tax on income abroad unless its remitted to Thailand within 12 months of earning it. In other words, I only pay tax on what I spend on Thailand. As for my local Thai company it exists mainly to issue work permits and pay a small amount of taxes to justify our existence. The profits from our creations are generated in overseas corps.

As for CoL costs it totally varies. Some of the local people I hire can live off their salary of $700 a month. A comfortable western lifestyle would be about $3k a month, imo. I spend a lot more due to travel.
It's funny how you can spot the junior devs, who are accustomed to one thing and refuse to learn another. There is a beauty about the JavaScript language that most people don't get, and how a lot of behavior can be added after the fact or mutated. Design time type safety is not the end all be all of languages
And with office space at a premium, private offices for everyone isn’t a realistic alternative, nor is it ideal.

I disagree. Privacy pods make me claustrophobic, and since I have some ear issues, noise canceling headphones are painful. Offices are only unaffordable if you don’t properly account for the cost of distracted developers.

I do agree proper meeting rooms are needed also.
TIL Areography!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/areography

> "The scientific study of the planet Mars' geographical features;"

Wait, theres that word again...

Also Topography refers to physical features whereas Geography is much more broad. Funny that there doesn't seem to be a single word for it.
Don't give them any ideas, or things will go the other way: Want an external monitor? That'll be $50/month. Access to the supply closet is $10/month.
The future is female, NOT male
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I'm afraid it's too late.
Indeed. I have lived in Thailand many years and the terribly dangerous driving habits are one of the very few things that make me wonder if I should move somewhere else. I drive quite a bit outside Bangkok and see very rude and dangerous behaviors constantly.

Thailand has the world's highest traffic fatality rate. A study concluded that it was because of high government corruption. I took a look at the data from the study that might be of interest to some people[1].

[1]https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bad-drivers-indicator-governm...
I'd wager entertainment and advertising plays a large part in it as well. Educated people see the folly in shows like the Kardashians, daytime soap operas and ads showing material wealth as virtuous and something to aspire to. Less critical thinkers lap that stuff up and misinterpret the source of happiness and contentment. TV shows can create toxic expectations that can't be practically met by everyone, and for many people these shows have replaced community culture and personal belief systems.

The culture of material expectation could help explain the difference between Canada and the US when it comes to relationship stability and partner selection. Obviously better social welfare in Canada/West Europe is a massive driver, but it would still need to be paired with a culture where the stigma of poverty isn't as great and material wealth isn't as coveted.
I've brought my own monitor into work before. Was about to do it with my current role until they finally got me a decent one.
Are you saying that the slogan makes you anxious, or that it hypothetically harms the cause by being read badly by people who want to read it badly?

Because I'm not sure that it's possible to come up with a slogan that isn't read badly by opponents. If you have examples, I'd love to see 'em.
Not if inflation is 3-4% per year.
I would be ok with our current trends in office planning if there was a better work from home policy.

Let me work one or two days a week from home where I have a decent desktop setup.
Sure...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14053716

Stop making stuff up.
The Wikipedia page covers these issues, albeit for crystalized rock instead of ice. The measurement is a ratio, so the key thing is establishing that Argon 40 is normally not present in rain or brand new ice.
I wasn't criticising the author - I was criticising the style. Anyone should be able to have a go at anything they want. If they are good, brilliant. I really don't give a monkey's whether the author identifies as fish, dolphin or attack helicopter. Just give me the science without your bloody life story and let me judge it. That's how science is supposed to work.
Vice is just trying to add more sensationalism to the event. Which in of itself is not necessary. So why they had to mention it is beyond me.
If one spends time integrating into their society (for example, learn their language instead of just using English all the time), then one may be treated a little more positively. They don't expect you to speak Thai because they see you as someone who won't stick around and as a result, like you said, merely a money source.
No. I'm married. With children. I'm very interested in the social aspects of this though.
A benefit, independent of marriage, which applies to those who cohabitate and roommates.
Well, you could be unmarried and living together.
What would be wrong with a female dominated world? Are women treated badly in a male dominated world or something?
Higher minimum wages means fewer employed people on public subsidies. It's less clear to me that it makes for fewer people overall on subsidies.

If the economic value of someone's labor is only $10/hr, they are less likely to be employed with a $15 minimum wage than a $9 minimum wage.
What if they gave everybody a desk with wheels? Then you can wheel your desk with your tools wherever you want to work that day.
I don't feel cheated. I'm married with kids and had great luck with women. I care about the social aspects of this.
Real income growth is, by definition, after accounting for inflation.

The opposing term is "nominal income growth" which does not account for inflation.
"Real income growth" is the growth in income post inflation.
We know.
He said 'real' income growth, which I take to mean adjusted for inflation and maybe also various cost of living increases/decreases.
That's a fair point. The current NBA is also incredibly weird and positionless; the current champions have a shooting guard who is slightly taller than their power forward and occasional center and a small forward who is even taller, and there's a generation of young players who are seven feet tall but have the skill set of point guards and wing players. If anyone is the predecessor of this style of player, it would be Kevin Durant, who is the style of lanky seven-footer who has been pushed out of the center position but developed wing skills to compensate.

The decline of the center position is really weird, though. The emphasis on three point shooting is driven by analytics--it turns out almost every player is more efficient shooting threes over midrange shots--so I wonder if a similar conclusion has been reached about the post game.
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Remote working may be fine for software development, but for professions where most of the day is spent interacting with people one way or another (for instance in my line of business - banking) it's a massive drop in efficiency.

That being said the trend I am seeing among banks is to favour cost savings over the efficiency of the business. For instance by moving departments to cities where few people want to go. Lots of people leaving, banks struggling to recruit there, but they seem to go ahead anyway.
What labor has value below the required amount to exist as a human? I think the reasoning is - if it's worth being done, it's worth paying someone a meager living wage to have it done.
This is what Valve does

http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
This. Read some interesting comments that I agreed with only to see them flagged after some time. Great work Gogglers. You "showed us" who is boss.
I have my own personal U3415W for my Visual Studio programming. I have brought it up in interviews, if any issues to my bringing it in.

(At home I have the Acer X34 Predator. The Dell came first; when I realised how good it was for programming I knew I needed one at work.)
Bad taste does not equal hate speech
We need to just peg the minimum wage to inflation so we don't have to do this every decade or two.
It is the consistent position of the United States Supreme Court that hate speech is protected free speech.
It's an anti male statement
No, I am not basically asking for that whatsoever. Automated emotion detection is NOT a solved problem (there are no services that reliably deliver prediction across untrained data sets), and the case of the elderly is clearly a case that would also need to be solved.

As an implementation note, I intuit that most of emotions could probably detected from the eyes, so the gravity-induced droop isn't necessarily problematic.

And no, don't go assume that I am biased against people with no eyes. What the hell...
wow they took the open office concept and somehow made it worse. Kudos, Dropbox.
It has also been open sourced and can be used on Linux and MacOS. Not sure if many people are using it on these systems though.
https://github.com/powershell/powershell
I have trouble coding while people are looking at me. It is distracting and prevents me from getting in the zone. Unless I can wheel my desk into a private office it still sounds terrible.
The price is steep.

But else, good idea.
What makes Thailand so attractive? Do you really need to ask?

Young white males can easily fuck attractive girls there. That's it.
The Valve approach eh?

Page 6: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
I would be happy to pay out of my own pocket for a better hardware than the POS I am forced to work with. All the machines are connected with 100Mbit, and we only just switched from Windows XP...
> "space to get into the zone" as an employee benefit.

A thing that used to be standard is now a benefit. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
As long as an office is considered a status symbol by management, then the open plan environment will stay. In a general sense, offices for any reason related to productivity is a non-starter today (has been so for a number of decades).

Offices are considered a reward for climbing the hierarchy not for actual work by the plebs (you know, those who would actually need it or benefit from it for work purposes).

And certainly, if the senior bods don't have offices then the junior workers will never get them.
"proven the existence of dark matter," to me, says that we've proven that there's a thing with some known properties that needs a lot more explaining. And that's the actual intent of the people who are saying it, too.

Same thing with dark energy, although even fewer of the properties of dark energy are known.
No offense, but millions of people have lived in Virginia at one point or another in their lives. Are you suggesting that anyone who has ever lived there is likely a government agent of some sort? That's just preposterous.
I've heard BSD and mac both use much older, non-GPLv3 versions of make. Portability means supporting older versions too.
> Very simple: As a first approximation, we are concerned about women being marginalized from positions of power, not about them being underrepresented in any particular profession.

...

I think that's all I need to know here. So feminists think that it's okay to go into an industry and demand that there be more women because it is a "powerful industry"? And somehow those of us who support Damore are the unreasonable ones?
I co-own a co-working space where most of us are in one open-plan room of around 10 people.

While home offices are more cost- and time-efficient (no commute, no office cost to employers), I still come into the office despite having a decent set up at home. I'm more productive here even with the open plan, the time lost commuting, etc. And we have had steady enquiries from prospective tenants, all in a similar situation.

Going by HN, not everyone loves open plan, but for me, the advantages of a shared, open office are: people being able to see my screen from afar mean I'm more likely to stay on task rather than get distracted and research holidays non-stop, I enjoy the social interactions with colleagues, and face-to-face is best for collaborating.

I think we'll see dispersed co-working spaces for a while, at least until VR is strong enough to emulate the benefits of working with peers.
He was always supposed to be replaced after the founders had enough experience, and is still the executive chairman. Maybe Uber should have done the same to begin with?
I bring my own keyboard and mouse.

I've considered monitors as well but those provided work well enough for my needs right now.
I'm not sure how you interpreted anxiety on my part here?

The slogan does not make me anxious. I know what it "really" means, and as I stated previously I am 100% in support of that message. I am frustrated because I believe there are better ways to communicate it to people in a way that is generally more persuasive.

I don't think it "hypothetically" harms the cause, I believe that it does. I only need speak to my more traditional extended family members, who will read slogans like this and react in a negative way, even though I know they could be convinced otherwise. Does it suck that they can't "read behind the lines" with slogans like this? Yeah. But public messaging is hard, and just amplifying existing messages won't solve that problem.

Lastly, "I'm not sure that it's possible to come up with a slogan that isn't read badly by opponents" seems like kind of a cop-out. Of course it's impossible to say something someone will take issue with. Communicating messages isn't an all-or-nothing game, what I am saying is I think people need to do a better job changing minds than they are now.
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When you add the anti male bit on it is.

"I love ny, not nj" is an anti nj statement.
Poland has many cities with "main market squares".

They probably meant this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Square,_Krak%C3%B3w
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It also externalizes the longer term health care costs.

Chronic stress is generally and scientifically recognized as a significant negative health factor.

And then there is the longer term lost productivity of those negatively impacted by it. All the way up to premature aging and death.
Free speech is not just the right to speak unimpeded by the government, but the right to speak so that you can be heard. (You don't have to be listened to. But people must have the option.) Systematically coordinating to keep speech off the internet is a violation of their moral right to speak, even if it is technically legal.
Many IEEE sub-groups have democratic elections. Most of my college organizations had elections and large turnover. My condo has elections, though it is difficult to find individuals who even want to run (and commit the necessary time.) The congregation I belong to had elections.
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