skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My (German immigrant) mother wanted to redecorate her dining room and bought feminine napkins because those sounded really pretty and like exactly the sort of thing she would want on her dining table to pretty it up for when she had company.

Yeah, no. She had a rude awakening when she got it home and opened the package.
I worked pretty much entirely remotely for 12 years. Remote work was a trade off. I got to live where my wife wanted while working for interesting companies, doing interesting things.

I made friends all around the world but I know relatively few people where I live. I’ve had to go out of my way to have social hobbies in order to meet people. With a family and a remote job (calls to the other side of the world do not happen in 9-5 hours), that wasn’t always possible.

Over all, I’d say my social skills did not suffer but my social life did and my sense of connection to where I live was perhaps less than it might have been otherwise.

Now I have my own business I’ve rented an office in town and am building a co-located team.

There are many benefits to remote work but, after more than a decade of it, I think I’m realistic about its downsides too.
I've been working remotely for the last 13 years. Still doing it. Feels like Robinson Crusoe sometimes, but look at it from the positive side: don't have to deal with annoying co-workers (like I used to, long ago)
Absolutely nothing. Some websites might be faster. Some might be slower. Users will attribute any difference to their internet connection, not the technology. A handful of developers will do something somewhat interesting with it, the rest of us will continue building shopping carts and blogs like we always have.
Yes, thanks. This is why I wrote "total compensation" instead of wages. There are many forms of compensation: health insurance and other benefits; how nice the working environment is; how nice your boss is; the reputation of the firm (for example, the value of having google on your resume vs an unknown company); etc.
Ask HN: RailsConf18 keynote DHH, how improvements kept Bascamp from sharding?
In the keynote titled FIXME by DHH, he mentions more memory and SDD among other technology improvements as keeping Basecamp from having to shard as they thought they would, but I am curious as to how they arrived at not having to? That is, I wish this point of new technologies solving a problem was elaborated on. I can only speculate as to how at this point and am not satisfied with my own ruminations..
>Well history suggests some answers to that question

Such as? American Natives arguably fared rather poorly with immigration. What other examples did you have in mind? Other countries don't seem keen on immigration. Is South Africa encouraging Europeans to come over? Mexico and a lot of Latam have difficult immigration laws. Hell I ended having to pay a few thousand dollars to have my Canadian daughter leave Guatemala because she overstayed her visa despite her mother being a citizen. Imagine the outrage if the US started applying fines to be able to leave!

>but they don’t have a solution, period.

Isn't it automation plus very very limited purpose-specific visas?
Almost no one on the parliamentary level is equipped to understand, though.
This puts in to words something I've been struggling with. My Apple Watch gives me enough information that I've gone to see my PCP twice for non problems.

However.

I've had good reason to pay attention the last few years.

I think I'll let go now.

https://blog.ryjones.org/2018/05/04/half-the-person-i-was-be...

https://blog.ryjones.org/2018/05/07/fully-quantified-self-2/
Background: I've worked remotely for 2 1/2 years. Before that, I worked in an office. Before that, I worked in retail. I am married and live with my wife in a 25ft Airstream.

Personally, I find that I am more careful with who I spend time with. I try not to read a lot of news and outside media to in order to focus on doing things I love and work on my craft (Development, photography, and video). I haven't found any changes with my confidence in speaking to others, and the way I look at it, unless you're are a complete recluse, you'll always interact with other people.

My wife and I spend a lot of time in campgrounds and in nature, so I do cherish the time I get to talk to people, even if that time is brief. After being on the road for almost a year, I reconnected with some old friends for a weekend on Albuquerque and had no social issues.
"The press" is so thoroughly compromised here that "press freedom" can be a bit of a distraction. I watched a "national" newscast yesterday with my dad; it was 100% local-type "news": fires, car accidents, human interest, etc. Meanwhile we're in multiple wars and are theoretically in negotiations to avoid multiple other wars. Meanwhile the big banks we bailed out are bigger than ever. Meanwhile we have more people in prison than any other nation on Earth, in the history of Earth. Etc. Did some judge or other official order NBC Nightly News to do such a thoroughly shitty job? Of course not, but that doesn't mean they're aren't incentives of some sort coming from the State.

If I want to know what our military or TLAs are doing, I don't consult an American source. This isn't a conspiracy; it is simply the case that American media conglomerates have decided they make more money catering to the shallow. It's not a problem for thoughtful news consumers: there are lots of other places for news. Perhaps I am naive, but I don't think our courts are so far gone that they're going to let anyone shut out TI, AJ, RT, various independent journalists, etc. Even if the courts did go along with such an effort, it seems doomed to fail.

That isn't to say that journalists have nothing to complain about. Telling the truth isn't the way to succeed in this field, at this time.
That’s definitely a problem, but the same thing is happening now.

If you are a otherwise progressive/liberal who has a moral objection to abortion, what do you do?
Actually, I'm mostly basing this on SSB, since it is the only one of these three I've used seriously, and I've followed its development since when it was just Dominic Tarr and Paul Frazee in an IRC chat.

The system has gotten a lot more complex since the early days, and although I no longer know all the internals, it seems that the pub servers are pretty integral to its operation, and you can't get someone onto the system without one. I agree that an SSB-like system with pub servers removed and replaced by STUN/TURN servers which would only facilitate WebRTC would not have this problem.

Just to be clear, the reason for this is that STUN/TURN servers are so lightweight and have very little to do with the actual operation of the system, so they could be put on a list on the main website and supported by very small donations.

Then again, like you said, one could describe such a system as "decentralized", not "federated". I also suspect it would have performance characteristics that many users would not like.
Yes, of course, that's the one. In the embedded shop I worked it I'm sure we looked at it briefly - it was overkill for our applications and also didn't have the natural advantage of being in any way compatible with the desktop computers we used for embedded software development.
It's pretty common for new higher quality video to look fake, simply because we're not used to them. It happens every time we go up in resolution or framerate, until you eventually get used to it.
Best thing to do is talk with a lawyer and an accountant for a one hour consultation to find out what your business needs to do to stay in compliance. As your requirements may be different from other businesses based on sales, employees, incorporation type, location, etc. As paying VAT may only apply to customers in Europe.

If you are going to offer subscriptions you should have some serious content that only subscribers have access too that is regularly updated and is premium quality to keep people coming back.

You should also continue to have information available for guests and non-subscribers to keep them, but the good stuff should be available to premium subscribers only. Many businesses only show 1/4th of the content or a synopsis of the content, though this is only successful if the premium content is long (1,000 words or more and heavy in value (detailed subscriber only videos and content, insure the URLs being served to subscribers are verified from your sites API to insure the content can only be accessed with an active subscription).

It is highly recommend to go the premium subscriber or subscriber tiers versus donations as donations are normally not as inclusive as actual subscribers wanting new premium content.
There's an Indian start up addressing some of the issues with long haul driving by turning them into short haul ones. This way people work closer to home. I thought that was innovative.
I mean, you're the one who decided to bring up a tweet he made a year ago and call the man despicable in a thread about how disliked a fictional character he played on tv was, but ok... I guess we're the bigots...
Homes in Pleasanton are expensive... not sure what you are on about..
Google Voice consolidates your message history
I find that creating a regime and structure is the only way to be able to work remotely in a sustainable way.

I have work hours and none work hours. I have a work out routine that makes me wake up early in the morning, which in turn makes me sleep at a reasonable time

I give myself lunch breaks that I use to go to the grocery store buy ingredients and cook good food.

I make plans for my after work hours to see friends, attend meetups..etc.

Working in an office setting you are forced into a structure, with working remotely you have to create your own structure.
There is no value judgement in whatever I have typed. I have just stated what I have experienced. Also, it is not the Chinese or Indians who are suffering in the long run. Chinese-American and Indian-Americans are at top everywhere in USA and their home countries will be substantially better in next 20 years compared to what they are today.

The racial hatred of white conservatives only hurts them on the long run as government continues to use immigration laws, anti-terrorism laws etc. to gain more power, regulate more and engage in trade wars that destroy American wealth.
I saw an argument not long ago that the revolving door ensures more rigorous review of the regulated company.
Basically, domain experts are hired out of a regulatory agency if they demonstrate their domain expertise by being a competent regulator. Would you want to hire someone who didn't do their job well? Also, the 'toughest' regulators are the ones who the companies don't want in their jobs anymore - they'd rather those people were on the other side of the fence, so they hire them.
The people who are soft (or incompetent) are useful in their role, so are left alone, not hired out.

Not sure this is actually true, but the incentive arguments seem like they run in the right direction.

This may not apply to patents as much as other regulatory agencies due to the way patents are argued (Not in court)?
Maybe they cover these arguments in the paper... I just read the abstract and didn't pay to get the whole thing.
Thanks for that! I got carried away and sank an hour watching stuff.

Totally off topic - My favourite was 'Optimistic Nihilism' -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14
I've had a Simple account for a few years, I use it for my non-bill, smaller expenses (dinners, lunches, groceries; I don't use it for things like new tires on my car). A nice thing with it is "goals". I set up a goal for June Dinners. I set aside $200 for it. But I have it fill out the goal over the course of the month. So on the 1st I have $7 (keep the math simple, I'm rounding) on Day 1. On Day 2 I have $14, etc. Now it's Saturday, 2 June, I have $14 I can spend on dinner out with friends. That means water, inexpensive entree, and no alcohol or dessert. If I saved it up for another week I'd have about $63 available. I like this method of "accumulating" money across the month (or months, for some expenses).

Prior to that there was an app called "Level", that did the same sort of thing across all your accounts. However it consistently failed to connect to my primary bank so it wasn't that useful.
If their business model is violating privacy, then sure.
FWIW, I get very different results from inside my Linux VM (MacBook Pro, 2.9 GHz Core i7):

jit: 1.433856 ns/call
plt: 1.700611 ns/call
ind: 1.404397 ns/call

The PLT is double-indirected (call->jmp->func), but the single-indirect call performs the same as the JIT. This backs up @tlb's note that modern x86 machines will predict indirect calls.
Wow, I was always worried that I was missing out on all the benefits of quantifying the self. Now it seems that things have come full-circle and my lifestyle is in fact cutting-edge.
James Miller wrote a really informative book that includes the Continental Shelf stations along with others. Here's the reference:

Miller, James (1995). Living and Working in the Sea. Plymouth, VT: Five Corners Publications, Ltd. ISBN 1886699011.
What we've learned about marketing on Reddit (with real data)
This seems old (2013ish?). There're newer "key/value on FPGA" papers that're more modern.

If memcached papers have one thing in common, it's an uncanny ability to get the comparison software to run as slowly as possible. 100k ops/sec/core is what you get when using a single client connection with blocking I/O. Using more clients (as per a normal prod setup) or pipelining queries is more like 1m ops+/core, with writes scaling worse than reads. In production it's easy to get some level of pipelining (multigets, clustered keys, etc), since you're rarely just fetching a key and then blocking.

A much better FPGA paper would show scales of at what level the syscall overhead becomes most of the CPU usage, as well as any measured latency improvements. I think some of the other papers address latency at least.

In reality it hardly matters. If you're hitting memcached hard enough with tiny values for it to matter, ensuring keys are clustered and pipelined is a lot less maintenance overhead than deploying FPGA's.
Also, there are more than a few reporters who are tools of various intelligence agencies who wouldn't like some of the inferences that might be drawn.

See also: Todd & Claire.
Intention is also very important. Are they focused on people in the office, or code on the computer?
PS4-5.05-Kernel-Exploit: A fully implemented kernel exploit for the PS4
I've always heard them called "rip tides", not "rip currents".

But whatever you call them, I got caught by one many years ago, when I was a kid.

It was Wrightsville Beach, near Wilmington NC. My friend and I were swimming near the pier.

It was all fun and games, for what seemed like a short time.

We kept checking, and the pier never moved. Until one time we checked, and the pier was gone.

Well, really we were gone and we didn't realize it. We were so far out into the ocean that we could barely see the end of the pier, much less the beach. I don't know how far out we were, but research indicates the pier is currently 1200 feet long. Ask yourself how far out you would have to be and not be able to see the pier from that far out.

Fortunately, I had been well-taught in school, and knew that we had to swim perpendicular (well, more diagonal) to the tide. We couldn't fight the tide and try to swim directly to shore, otherwise we would tire out and never make it. That part had been drilled into my head quite well by the school system of Wilmington, NC.

So, we started swimming perpendicular to the tide.

I also know that we couldn't swim south, since that's the direction the pier was in, and we didn't want to risk running into the pier.

So, we swam north. For what seemed like miles. We managed to keep the beach in view, barely.

When we did finally make land, it was way the bleeping heck to the north. We definitely couldn't see the pier from there.

So, we started our long trek to the south, walking through the wet sand, because we didn't have shoes.

I don't know how long it actually took to get back to where our parents were, but it sure seemed like hours and hours.

When we finally got there, they had never noticed that we had drifted out too far, or that we were gone at all.

Things could have turned out very differently, if not for the school system of Wilmington, NC.
> casual banter or engaging emotionally (see Starbucks and the let’s talk about race)

What you describe and what your parenthetical refers to are not the same thing.
Also born and raised in the Saratoga area, and that's where we live now. We moved back here because of family, and my also one of the local colleges has an outdoor education program my wife wanted to enroll in.

Switching from part-time to full-time remote is what allowed us to move here. We found ourselves spending most of our vacation time back this way anyway, so moving back here was a goal a year or two after we moved to Chicago.

If I ever lost this job, the backup plan is Boston while my wife stays with my family and finishes her degree. There's really not many places to work up this way, and none of them are willing to pay large city wages.

That said, we don't intend to settle down here. The risk is too high. Portland, ME is similar culturally with more opportunity. That's on our short list to head out to next.
My partner and I both work remotely. We are lucky to be close to downtown Vancouver. We can take a SeaBus into town and venture to one of the many co-working facilities if we feel we would like to work in a more bustling environment. My partner has a dedicated desk at WeWork. I prefer the home office because I love being around our plants and I am prone to random bouts of meditation.

Remote working has allowed me to flourish socially. I have a recreational hockey team, we are part of a nice Yoga community, and given that we spend lots of time around our neighbourhood, we have met many friends, from the lady who cleans our building to the dude who owns the coffeeshop. Soon, I will be volunteering at the local hospice.

When you decouple social contact from work, the onus is on you to find a healthy replacement with the extra time and flexibility that remote life affords you. As is often the case when starting something new, you may find the first leap into a new social scene to be a harrowing experience. But it is rewarding! Much of this is because we live an urban life-style. I imagine being in a sub-urban neighbourhood might be much tricker to manage, as the people and amenities are further away. Consider how likely you are to stay working remotely. Perhaps a more "vibrant" area of town that allows you to walk to wonders might suit you better?

As an interim solution, my partner and I have both found that scheduling purely social calls, or 'no agenda, just banter' group video chats to be a fruitful means of connecting with the people with which we work.
This is probably a dumb idea, but wouldn't it be cool to have scheduled blackouts like this from time to time?
"except for the external issues such as loss of value"

that was literally stated
I've said so in another thread a few weeks ago, but as a french, if I hear a woman say she's "pleine", I'd take it as her saying she's drunk.
Why did we decide to write Docker in Go
I would be interested to see a patent/intellectual property system that was incorporated into a market for licensing. Taxes would be levied on the market value. You would pay taxes based on the royalties collected in the open market, or you could release intellectual property into the public domain.
Not quite, necessarily. It means another program can't share the same DLL as that one. So you might well end up using more memory that way.
In Europe there will soon be a law called PSD2 which results in banks being obligated to provide an Api to access your bank account from external apps etc.

So no more paying for access to your own data...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive
Mutable vs. Immutable Objects in Python
Fortunately "native C" is not one, unchangeable thing. If the plt overhead really is important in your situation, you can still compile either static, or with "--fno-plt".
The embrace of neoliberalism in the 80s decimated the traditional middle class. Wages stagnated and labor share of income has taken a hit [1] while capital ascended.

Debt has become the biggest product leading to wide scale financialization and rent seeking. Lobbying and revolving doors has further added to entrenched interests benefiting at the cost of the whole.

This is at the heart of how you define a country, a collection of economic interests arbitrated by the market as an end in itself, or a 'society' with larger goals. The neoliberalism agenda has convinced many of the first.

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/05/capitals-share-incom...
Vermont passes first law to crack down on data brokers
That’s truly brilliant. It reminds me of the Wright Brothers, who would swap sides in arguments to represent the formerly opposing side, as a rhetorical exercise.
Having dealt with 2 DPAs (UK and DE) it is guilty until proven innocent I think you may be thinking of the rights of seeking damages under the GDPR which is utterly irrelevant to the core enforcement of it.

I think have way too of a rosy outlook on how laws are enforced in the EU much of the enforcement is contradictory to the ideals you hold in such high regard.

Charities are one of the most common targets of data protection enforcement in the EU even before the GDPR, in the UK they are collectively the sector that gets hit the most by the ICO and the picture isn’t much different on the continent and one of the main reasons for that is that they are easy targets (this does not mean they didnt do anything wrong but they are easy targets nonetheless).
Maybe photo vs film terminology? On my canon 5DSr, it is definitely the physical antialiasing filter that is removed to allow improved sharpness per pixel at the expense of greater risk of moire.
And consider shadow - let in colder air from shaded areas rather than warm air heated by surfaces in direct sunlight.
A non-American can not tell Americans what should be the their immigration policy but will always point out the fact that the immigration policy is racist and mostly formulated by minority of white conservatives. Whether it is good or bad is a separate issues. For example every American company is happy to employ non-Americans it is mostly no-skin-in-the-game bible belt politicians creating problems for them.

> Imagine the outrage if the US started applying fines to be able to leave!

Will ask my employer to pay for it every-time I leave USA for India. American shareholders will pay for it. At the moment my employer pays me competitive salary and also spends around $10k per 3 year in visa renewals. Harassment of immigrants gets passed down to American public as reduced shareholder value.
I'd say it made me more outgoing. If I wasn't, I wouldn't meet anyone! Especially when I was single I got in the habit of starting conversations with people (both men and women).

I also make a habit of going on walks in the neighbourhood. I'd find it harder to be self employed if I lived someplace I couldn't do that. But when I step outside there are parks full of people.

When I first moved out on my own I got terribly lonesome, until I started going to cafes. Talking with the staff at a local cafe is actually a good way to get a small dose of socialization each day.

I found, surprisingly, that I didn't need deep social connection on a daily basis, but I did need some social contact. In other words, for filling that need, a 3 min chat with a barista was as effective as an hour with a close friend.
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