skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the 'importance of face-to-face interaction' argument is a helplessly contrived one, an attempt to avoid the elephant in the room.

There are plenty of examples that show that working remotely without daily face-to-face interaction can work very well.

What's markedly different about environments that successfully adopted remote work are aspects like:

- a lack of cargo cult work organisation and office politics

- an atmosphere of trust rather than petty control freaks who need to constantly keep an eye on their subordinates in order to know they're still 'working'

- adapting to different forms of communication

When people say that they can't communicate as well with someone who isn't in the same room that doesn't necessarily mean that a remote setup doesn't work. It could simply mean they're just lazy and not willing to adjust to a different kind of work environment.

Working remotely requires the participants to be much more communicative because in such a setting communication for the most part doesn't just happen serendipitously, you have to work to make it happen.
Toba is possibly more fire and brimstone and hell on earth. Think about it, the sun would be blotted out, famine, war, destruction, ash everywhere. Its possibly the root source of our depictions of hell.
I think the flood is more likely to be related to our exit of the ice age and the resulting catastrophic flooding from the ice melt.

All speculative of course but its fun to speculate.
Population growth in many regions has already plateaued. At least the natural change. Europe, North America, Russia, China, Japan. The main outliers right now are India and Africa. But even those are expected to cool off after their initial burst. The true constraint is administrative capacity: will these countries be able to grow their infrastructure and improve their resource management before they turn their countries into deserts?

India will probably manage to, but some African countries probably won't. It's going to be quite bad for some unfortunate people living in these countries...
The nuclear part isn’t just used to generate electricity for the motors?
It's fine. Shit happens. I've had moments where I've seriously considered shuttering my OSS business (and I've closed a previous one, though for reasons other than money). Best of luck to you, as well.
and that's the difference between some exercise, and properly executed one. it might show in a month or 20 years, and usually it's already too late when pain comes (ie joint damage)
> Gone are the days of building a VM from scratch, following instructions for a previous version of the OS, installing 10 dependencies, installing the app, cursing when it fails half way through, installing another missing dependency, installing the app again, bouncing the server, and then having it all fall apart again because the app isn't registered to run as a service at startup (because you missed that step).

Weird, You wouldn't have to deal with Nginx and services for local development

What you describe doesn't sound like local development... But rather acceptance/manual integration or product/feature review/approval

But in places with good automation there's tools or a pipeline that automatically spins up instances (potentially containers) with your branch/feature and automatically link them to other services and exposes them

From this point of view, docker can be useful for deployments... But it's mostly useless for development, since it doesn't help with keeping prod/Dev environments identical to each other
...all agree on the necessity of invading Iraq to prevent the weapons of mass destruction...
As an outsider, I don't see the far left having an influence on American politics. The far right, on the other hand, does seem to have one. Or am I mistaken?
I'd be happier to see GTK+, Qt or another toolkit ported to .NET Core instead.
Scrum doesn’t say – a rant about what Scrum isn't
Maybe they just fear "being dad" I don't know
> mostly unbroken democratic systems

A system that vastly overpowers the southern states, allows rampant gerrymandering, and doesn't even guarantee voting rights to its citizens is neither democratic nor unbroken.
At the moment, I work 60% from home and 40% from the office, and this perfectly suits for me.
However, more and more I hate 9 to 5 working hours, but that is another topic.
With all due respect I couldn't care less about multi-millionaries/billionaires who can afford coastal properties in Shanghai, Rio, Miami etc.

I am far more concerned with people in Phillipines, Micronesia, Vanuatu etc who are at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods and literally having no where else to go. Especially with the climate in Western countries e.g. US, Australia being anti-refugee and anti-foreigner.

I really hope our children don't look back and look at this era as being equivalent to the Holocaust. Where we all sat back and watched as millions of people died needlessly.
Ableton announces Live 10
Yeah, if Electron had just one advantage, it would be that it's available and works today.
"His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation—its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships.":

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cognition-wild
Awesome. Starred!
I agree. What I mean is recognition of human nature. We do respond to incentives, there's no working around that (at least for now; maybe we'll have some mind-engineering tech in the future). We want people to do good, and to achieve this we need to both strengthen individual sense of morality and shape the incentives and engineer systems that protect from pressure - because we recognize no human is immune to incentives.

Will we find the right balance? I don't know, but I certainly hope so. The balance we have now is dynamic - people do bad things, but not enough of them to cause a societal collapse. Incentives are recursive, too - institutions are formed not out of abstract thinking, but because there were enough bad things happening on that some people had a powerful incentive to stop them.
It never stops astonishing me how many people claim the ends justify the means without the slightest indication of ever having considered the moral or ethical implications of such a stance. Sacrificing 95% of the population on earth for 5% to survive on mars also shows how fundamentally perverted the mindset is. Yes there are ethically grey areas but it's all about the journey because that's all there is. Anyway thanks for utterly destroying the GP so eloquently.
Most startups and companies (try to) act in good faith and will acquire a license. And, if they did not, they should foresee the legal and operational consequences.
Qt is under LGPL which allows static linking: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDyn...

This way, you can get under 20 megabytes: https://youtu.be/mbs3-XE0HNE?t=1180

Sadly I don't think it's possible to have at the same time "portable" (including to platforms without UIs at all, like DirectFB on linux) and small. Putty and depends.exe aren't portable at all.
Just.. not use iPhones?

These are unnecessary products.

Please don't make smartphones necessary products in everyday life.
> if you go around claiming that their are millions or hundreds of millions of Nazis these days,

Do you have a source for that?
> It is a fact that in Germany people have been attacked by antifa on the street for "looking like a Nazi"

Do you have a source for that?
Well we can't all make a living as authors or librarians. Ads supported this delusion for a while but historically most people trying to live from their creativity/written work (or modernly, video work) have actually starved to death.

If you're in it to get rich or to mke a living exclusively from your art, you better be good enough rather than expecting a sense of duty from your public to subsidise your effort.

Not to say one shouldn't be incentivised to be creative, but just that I do not agree that wanting to make a living makes ads or extracting value from your public by all means ok.
Thank you pjz and everyone who ever used or hacked on Aspen.

Thank you jordanmessina and steveklabnik and joeyespo and everyone who put us on HN way back at the start. Thank you marvinpinto for putting us back here one more time. ;)

Thank you everyone who funded my/our Gratipay habit directly by giving to myself or the Gratipay team on Gratipay. Especially UkuleleRod.

Thank you Jessica and Leah and Miriam and Sammy and Ruthie and all of our friends and family for absorbing so much stress over the years.
Another huge problem is the transition path from "everyone in the same office" to "everyone working remote". If you have 60% of your team sitting in the office, and 40% remote, you can be absolutely certain that those 40% will be out of touch on all those important decisions that just emerge during a watercooler conversation. (The watercooler also provides a way for different teams to get to know each other, even if they do not work with each other directly, thus forging bonds that might later turn out helpful.)

With all that (plus what you said), most individual employees will prefer the office over remote access. So remote would only work if you moved everyone from the office to remote access at a single point in time.
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I've addressed the popular mechanics article in other comments. It's difficult to square some of its key claims with the description of events in the accident report. In particular, the report gives no indication that any of the three pilots successfully identified that the plane was stalled.

The fundamental issue here is that if only one pilot has his hand on the stick (which should always be true) then linked sticks won't help much, and if both have their hands on the stick (which triggers both audio and visual warnings on the airbus) then they are already fighting over the sticks, indicating a total breakdown of cockpit discipline. The author of the popular mechanics article appears to think that it's normal for both pilots to be holding their sticks at the same time.

It's also worth noting that a half-competent PNF could have looked at (i) the pitch attitude, (ii) the throttle setting and (iii) the rate of descent and concluded that the plane was stalled. The fact that the PNF never managed to integrate these three very basic pieces of information makes it seem rather unlikely that he would have paid close attention to the position of his (hypothetically linked) control stick.

Note that when the PNF took over the controls briefly, he made a lateral input rather than pushing the stick forward! (p. 183)

Finally, sidesticks don't really have "a position". The airbus is usually flown using short movements away from center with the stick then returning to the center.
Sorry, I missread. That’s my bad. You are right, you did say you are European. Apologize.
Other governments take note: this is what good electronic security looks like.
If you define that so broadly, then sure. I got the impression that sgl was referring to directly doing deals with the US government where the US government pays in USD, which I suspect is a much less significant phenomenon.
How I threw away a work of art
How Agile Methodology Can Optimize Web Development
I wonder how many people consider smartphones necessary products.
I agree that practice is equally important, but you certainly need to have an understanding of the material and what is going on prior to implementing something or working through a proof.
The "other side" of?

I can't help but wonder why you immediately jump to what they look like rather than by what they say and do in publicly viewable spaces. How much might we wager that, if you actually have a source to show for your fact, what you're talking about has less than 1/10000th the occurrence rate of what the rest of us are talking about?
I actually take the bus to the office now, but get off ~3km before my stop so I can get a 30 minute walk in.
Their precarious living situation became a catch 22: while the truck allowed them to live near the hospital, when the social worker found out Isidoro was living in a truck, the hospital kicked Isidoro off the transplant list: he needed to live indoors to recover from a potential surgery to be eligible for a transplant. Luckily, after weeks of looking, Silvia’s sister in nearby Milpitas rented her a bedroom for $700/month this fall, where they’ve been staying since. The last she heard, they had to stay inside for a year for Isidoro to get back on the list.

Well, I think I officially feel ashamed to be an American now.

I slept in a tent for nearly six years to work on getting healthier, but I was not seeing a doctor. I was doing my own thing. That was frustrating enough, what with not getting taken seriously by a lot of people and facing classism online, etc. But, I kind of understand why I get given so much flak: people genuinely think what I am doing simply cannot be done. They have no mental framework for effectively engaging with me.

But to have a specialty hospital someplace so expensive and a requirement to live near it to get treatment and no help for complying with this expectation, then delist them for sleeping in a truck, it just seems monstrous. The hospital has to know that normal, healthy people can't afford housing here. They should also be fully well aware that people with health problems face the double whammy of high medical expenses plus reduced earnings.

America needs to fix both the medical system and affordable housing. It doesn't really deserve to be seen as a civilized, first world nation as things stand currently. I don't care what our GDP is. We are failing to take care of our people and it is monstrous.
What's weird is how many people are just planning for life like everything will be the same. Sure, _maybe_ there's some consideration to not buying land 10 meters from the beach 10 cm in elevation, but we're talking about an utterly lifechanging catastrophe that may well kill hundreds of millions (billions?) of people via increased disease, famine, drought, and warfare caused by same, and folks are still putting money in 401k's and talking about southern California like it's always going to have good weather.
These are points that I have found to be true as well. In many organisations where remote work is not allowed I found there to be generally worse communication, masked by meetings that achieve very little other than giving people a false sense of "work being done".

There also seems to be a lack of properly planning tasks and as such this lack of planning is papered over with the sort of serendipitous spontaneous communication that happens when you have to walk over to someone and ask them what on earth is going on.

A focused remote worker can be orders of magnitude more productive than the typical office worker who is simply doing "busy work".
Yes, you'd have to use just p. The convention in Lisp is it's just p unless the function name is multiple words anyway in which case the words are separated by hyphens and the suffix is -p.

I suppose it is more Pythonic to name predicates like "is_full" or something rather than "fullp". But whatever it is I've found I can't stand not using some kind of naming convention for predicates.
1) Do you exercise regularly? I don't mean some easy 'jogging' at most 2x per week, I mean some proper +-daily hard workouts where you end up sweaty and catching your breath regularly.

This regime brings what you write, and more, much more. Mostly on the mental side (don't shy away from physical suffering that hard workouts bring). But also physical - great cardio system, stronger joints, tendons, ligaments, tougher bones. This pill would go exactly in opposite direction.

We already have similar, albeit not the same thing - anabolic steroids. They help retain and gain muscle mass way above what normal body would do, using least required strength principle. Not very popular among general population, for good reasons
You would think that Twitter would have some type of "master" password where its employees would have to enter it in order to delete an account, and only a few would actually have that kind of authority. But I guess the employee didn't care.. I'm sure they'll blog about how awesome it was.. and half the people will praise and the other half will be outraged. Divided we stand.
There's no indication that they were fighting unknowingly. I'm not sure what you're concluding that on the basis of.

>Note that when the incorrect input was finally identified by someone other than Bonin, it was corrected immediately, it was just far too late.

So the popular mechanics article says, but it's not so clear in the report that this ever really happened.
Well, working remotely doesn't mean you can't commute!

I used to walk with my wife to her office and back when I started full remote work (it's been 6 years, in a fully remote company).

Also, you're free to rent coworking space or shared office space if you like to. Working remote means you have a choice - not that you have to work from home :)
> As of October 31, all users of faulty ID cards can update their security certificates remotely and at Estonian police and border guard service points.

I have been trying every day to do so but constantly getting “server is overloaded” errors.
Perhaps not forever, but even a couple more iterations of this buys them a LOT of time and cash reserves
Yeah, the incentives are better, to be sure. Personally, I just don't like the implementation. I see current cryptocurrencies as a huge and completely unnecessary waste of energy. I don't like waste, but the concept of paying with computational resources isn't bad per se, IMO, and definitely better than paying with my attention (and then again with the data the site collected on me).

[0] - in the days of energy crisis, when we can't even switch to safer sources fast enough not to risk cooking ourselves on this planet.
They most likely would have been aware of the audio and visual "dual input" warnings.
Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln were both Republicans.

Sorry, downvoter, but they were. You can, as they say, look it up.
Does a phishing attack and leaking that podesta's passwords were p@ssw0rd and runner1234 on to 4chan need explanation? I was monitoring 4chan when the password leaks happened. People were posting screenshots of tracking his iPad. Changing his bus schedule from NY to DC on Nov 8 to Nov 11. Tweeting that he converted and became a Trump supporter ( https://archive.fo/Cv6hK - note the "hi pol" this is a reference to the pol board on 4chan). And eventually wiping his iPad. Maybe the Russians downloaded a copy of all his emails during this chaos but trust me at least another dozen people did the same. He didn't realise his passwords were leaked onto 4chan for at least 12 hours. Quite honestly I do not trust any report that doesn't document what was happening on 4chan during these "hacks" as trust worthy.

So far I haven't seen any journalist go to the effect to document exactly what happened to Podesta on the day his passwords were leaked to 4chan.

Edit: I found this on slashdot from the time of the password leaks. https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/16/10/13/2025257/4chan-hac...

Edit 2: More proof that regular people gained access to his Gmail account. Seemingly whoever gained access to his twitter account did so via a password reset using his Gmail address. https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/78662164964259840...

This for me is the ultimate card that the leaks weren't a grand conspiracy to elect Trump. Rather a security illiterate person got completely owned by trolls on the internet.

Edit 3: Further more, if the Russians were really behind the phishing to capture Podesta's passwords why would they leak on 4chan where they would end up losing their control of his accounts? A state actor would try to maintain access for as long as possible. A troll would rather see everything explode.
Steve Scalise.
I think the far left's primary influence in 2016 was in pulling Hillary to the left during the primary, which caused lasting damage to her campaign (as she said) and helped lead to Trump's election.
I couldn't find my socks this morning. Those damn Russians.
That sounds like Google Books.
The nuclear power plant is heating water to generate steam.
"But as a conservative, he probably is against Martin Luther King and what MLK was after, no? "

No.
This article about storing files in Sqlite is spot on and it works. I did exactly this and i have tested it with GBs of data and 1000s of files and it works well. The table structure I use is:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS files (id TEXT, name TEXT, contents BLOB);

: as you can see the source code for the Javascript NodeJs web application file here:

https://github.com/zubairq/gosharedata/blob/master/src/index...
If you look at network activations in higher levels of a convolutional neural network, you will find some units that are activated by the individual parts of the hand. (There is a video out there where they show that for parts of the face, I'll be looking for a link.)

Those activations are a representation of the matched patterns at a similar level of abstraction as the compositional model humans might come up with. They are not exactly the same as what a child would draw, but mostly because the neural network isn't trained to draw with hands. With a bit of work, I'm sure a bunch of PhDs could make a neural network model generate child-like drawings from realistic images.
A hardware switch would do nicely.
I'm not sure what Japan would say. 2011 Tohoku earthquake was pretty disastorous.

If that type of earthquake hit SF or Tokyo, I don't really know how much earthquake-proofing will matter?

Stuff like this seems pretty scary for big buildings: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liquefaction_at_Ni...
LGPL does not allow static linking. From Qt's legal page:

In case of dynamic linking, it is possible, but not mandatory, to keep application source code proprietary as long as it is “work that uses the library” – typically achieved via dynamic linking of the library. In case of static linking of the library, the application itself may no longer be “work that uses the library” and thus become subject to LGPL. It is recommended to either link dynamically, or provide the application source code to the user under LGPL.
Hmm... don't most companies remove access to critical systems as soon as it becomes known that an employee is leaving? For whatever reason?

At some companies, turning in your two weeks notice gets you escorted off the premises immediately, with your personal items following you in a box.
I looked into using their Enterprise product for my employer about 6 months ago. It seemed to be a nice product but was shockingly expensive compared to its counterparts in the space. Also, when they say "enterprise" they meant it. They are targeting large companies with 10s of thousands of employees; our 300 user company was really on the low side. Of course this is a pretty new product and this type of thing tells me that it's not quite mature yet and probably difficult to support.