skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really was nice back when I started to have a dedicated office. When I was at Shell even the "hot seat" SA who had to answer the hotline and customer emails rotated into an office dedicated to that task for their week in the hot seat.

But it wasn't all perfect - Chevron used to allow in office smoking. Fortunately for everyone else the two smokers had their own shared office but still everything in there was covered in a yellow tar miasma and the offices on either side didn't fare much better.

And Shell's offices were in a building that could be resold as a hospital, so we sat in rooms that were meant to be a private hospital room and were jammed in with easily removed furniture: in my case that meant sharing a room with four card tables and literally getting up and leaving the office so my office mate could walk past my desk and exit the room.
Add a bunch of regulator hoses, fins, air supply etc to someone not used to having them attached and the gap needs to be huge to not snare a hose and rip a full face mask off.

Even a semi experienced diver is far less aware of all their apparatus than a human who has been crawling around things since birth
> [Home ownership] creates labor market frictions by tying you to a place

I have never understood this line of reasoning. I agree that it increases friction, but there is a whole lot of friction that has nothing to do with renting vs. buying. Particularly friction in long-distance moves.
I'm using the usual casual meaning of progress that conveys some overall, non-necessarily monotonic but steady, betterment of humanity in all aspects.

And in particular I (and many scholars -- though others of course disagree) say that:

1) there's nothing inevitable about progress in the areas where it has been made. Even technologically we could regress a la Mad Max if we hit e.g. continuous climate conditions, or a lengthy major war (nuclear or not).

That this can happen locally is a plain fact -- there are tons of places where it has indeed. Libya, for one, were more technological advanced, prosperous, safe, and progressive a mere few decades ago. I'm also saying that it can happen globally too.

2) actual cumulative progress, while itself volatile (see 1), is only increasing for the most part in the area of technology and/or knowledge. Not in moral norms, or in arts, etc.

Morally populations can regress on a dime, and we have ups and downs all the time, plus there are modern norms that are worse (or less progressive by even our standards) than older norms. There are also eras that produced far crappier art than earlier or later eras (e.g. medieval art vs classical).
One of those (either annoyances, headers, or popups) broke a fork of Stylish. I'd click on the icon in the toolbar and the drop-down wouldn't appear. I noticed the user style also broke AWS navigation.
>(For youtube videos, when I'm trying to get information on something, I employ a "rule of third": just drop the slider a third of the way in and skip all the personal introduction and setup, to see if this video might actually get to the point.)

Aka the Wadsworth constant: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-wadsworth-constant
just came from trip in Bolivia - whole La Paz is a sea of red brick walls, without any paint (and since the place is 3600-4100m high, its always cold).

reason - finished painted buildings get taxed, so nobody ever finishes them, and rather lives fugly but cheap.

Also valid for other towns, but it was most visible in La Paz, especially when using teleferico.
Why can't other taxes pay for that? There are surely plenty of other tax revenue streams. My parents, who were on a fixed income, had to move from upstate NY in part because of property tax increases. You never truly get to own your house and are instead renting from the government.
The standard real estate brokerage fee in the U.S. is 6%. One also often pays "points" on the loan. A closing cost by any other name is still money that is in someone else's pocket when the dust settles.
Please for the love of god don't use code blocks to format quotes. This one is tough to read even on desktop due to the scrolling!
There are other streamers who have a cult like following that isn't toxic. Some of the Twitch streamers pull this off, if the streamer has mods who wield the ban hammer hard and earlier, it is possible to shape the community that grows up.

All of the cult of personality type of streamers are going to have a viewer base that is a bit odd, but they don't have to be malicious.

As an example, one community I'm part of decided one day that we were going to play punk music on stream. Since on Twitch, $=free speech, music requests are $3 a minute or so.

It (de?)volved into a battle of the bands as fans of different bands went back and forth.
Rails 5.2 added method write_multi to cache store
Cheating Fortnite players are flooding the internet with malware
True, but that doesn't imply one should turn most IF statements into polymorphism, or other OOP constructs. OOP is one of multiple tools in our toolbox.
I have also considered building OpenSimpleLidar [0] and putting that on top of my head (I also use snips.ai on my ar build to control things by voice, so i have [1] this headset, which allows me to attach things to the top of it) so that I can generate real time images of my environment, and have it display a map, like in a video game, with my location. I haven't got to that part yet - too many other projects :(

[0] https://github.com/iliasam/OpenSimpleLidar/
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CQ8CB8W/ref=oh_aui_sear...
You can't drag 1km of tough power and control cable behind a little robot, and autonomous robots aren't up to the job yet.
I've seen the "move to slow" argument bandied about here all the time. The all modern 3GL languages support fast development (they might need some help with code gen). Twitter suffered language level scaling issues. Period. They suffered architectural issues. When I see someone wanting to go to prod with Python/Ruby project, I know they will have to rewrite.

I do want to nuance this a bit. If you're doing AI or stats, Python makes sense. There are ways to scale that too. Use the right tool. My general argument is that Python is seldom the right tool for any at-scale web system.
I sadly got into the developer game a bit too late to know the paradise of private offices or even cubicles, and have had an open office my entire career.

Personally, I find them incredibly distracting; there is a TV right behind me playing the World Cup right now, and people cheering every couple minutes whenever something happens. I work relatively close to the eating area, so I have to hear lunch conversations.

I'm also not innocent of office annoyances; occasionally I will argue with my coworkers about a design or how some code should be written, and I'm sure that that is annoying to the other people sitting on my floor, not to mention me typing on my IBM Model F keyboard noisily.

I live in the NYC area, so I guess rents are expensive enough to where private offices are out of the question until you're a CTO or something, but I would definitely prefer if this trend of open offices were to die. It's gotten to a point to where I'm thinking that my next job will have to be remote so that I can work in my guest room on my desk.
A few weeks ago I tried to convert one of my asciinema recordings to a SVG with svg-term-cli [1], but the result had big problems with some browsers, so I took the more mainstream gif approach again.

Anybody tried termtosvg with different browsers yet?

[1]: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
I have been waiting for them to release this!
You are technicaly correct, but...

If x, y, z are just variables, the order of assignments doesn't make any practical difference.

OTOH, complex assignment targets (such as "a[i]" or "a.b") are not supported for := assignments.
Intel Reveals Initial 9000-Series Coffee Lake SKUs
Buys is the most suspect word in that. Seems more likely the kind of government that would do that is more the type to seize the company. I'm skeptical, like you, that this would end positively.
In Sweden this is already normal at big companies, and I'm getting so used to it that I may go down to 7 hours at my next job also (they are not as big).

It really is super nice to go home at 4 pm.
Am I the only one who wouldn't mind a responsible way for people to target me with things I don't know about which I might be interested in?
That's money towards the home itself though. The person I was responding to stated that it was a 6% tax, which is a very different thing.
Laptops don’t require road maintenance, emergency services, schools, etc. Real estate does.

If you don’t want society to pay for so much, maybe move to somewhere without one. Most of us want to live in a place where we all pitch in to help provide public services.
Airbus unveils Beluga XL transport aircraft with whale theme
iOS turns on the screen when you hold it up now. So it's just swipe left, click volume/shutter button :)
This happened with trains in the 19th century and it was an absolute disaster. Please learn your history on privatized public goods. It results in massive fragmentation in standards, extreme levels of corruption and an overall worse experience for most people.
I think Consider Phlebas was more of a generic action/adventure yarn, whereas Player of Games is a good tour of The Culture (by contrasting it with Azad).

I read Consider Phlebas first and enjoyed the hell out of it, but definitely think that Player of Games is, in 90% of situations, is the "correct" introduction novel.
Wouldn't that violate the provision of the GDPR where you still have to provide access, even if the end-user rejects the permissions?
Yeah, a definition of “syntactic sugar” which as broad as I'd bring proposed would seem to treat everything in any real praxmctical language as “static sugar” over some minimally Turing-complete subset of the language.
I never even heard of this guy until I was in a bar in Phoenix Arizona and listening to a flight attendant tell the story about how her plane was raided by SWAT armed response earlier that day, because of him. It looks like that was April 28 last year.

She was absolutely terrified and all of the passengers were asked to keep their window covers shut while armed personnel surrounded the plane and prepared to board from the rear entrance and take him out of there. It's a predictable consequence of him going places and streaming. He'll even say things like "I hope nobody figures out what plane I'm on and calls in a bomb threat" but honestly what actual law is being violated and by whom in this situation?

I mean I can personally see he knows he has antagonists and he is specifically egging them on, and he is profiting from it, but I don't know the specific actual law that he'd be breaking in this case, as much as I'd like for there to be one. Ruining dozens of peoples' day just isn't a violation of the law in and of itself.
That isn’t my view?

I just suspect it’s a component of why cultures tend to protect women in disasters.
Municipalities could pose a greater threat to privacy than the NSA
Being a physicist in computational (general) relativity, when I read about a "tensor toolbox" I would think about a code implementing some kind of tensor algebra, such as a syntax to do tensor contractions.
A while back I had the chance to watch user research interviews of streamers. People clearly loved doing it, but also struggled to find a healthy balance. Being on camera that much, especially with the expectation of continuous engagement with lots of followers, is an extraordinarily intense situation.

Long ago I was an exchange student in Ecuador, where some workers would still chew coca as they worked, basically the same way people consume coffee. It was normal and boring for locals. Refine that same leaf, though, to cocaine and crack, and you get something so compelling that it becomes dangerous.

I sort of think of streaming as a similar thing: it takes normal human sociality and refines is to a degree previously never seen. I'm sure some people will find healthy ways to deal with it, but I'm not shocked at all that it breaks people.
I do the opposite. If I'm finding the novel a slog, I'll read the Wikipedia synopsis. If the payoff seems worth it, I'll keep going - I think that most novels where a "twist" isn't the only selling point are worth reading even if you know the plot.

(And if the payoff doesn't, I drop the book. That's what I did with Mieville's Embassytown at the 50% mark.)
A five minute outage of the point-of-sale system during the lunch rush can easily cost even the smallest of restaurants several hundred dollars.

True, most websites do not have this problem, because most websites do not drive revenue like that. There are plenty of use cases where you need five nines, but only within limited not-24/7 time windows.
Indeed and it's a great experience, comes up as a
recommendation when searching for a route and acts like a hybrid between a bus and an Uber. CityMapper also shows dockless bikes now and it would be extremely surprising if they didn't get into the bike/scooter space too.

The convergence is fascinating.
Texas has reduced taxes. In my case it worked out to about a 20% reduction in taxable value.
Edge doesn't have an infinite budget, and they say they've tried to prioritize based on how common the standards are found used in the wild and how active the requests on UserVoice are. Doesn't look like there is even currently a tracked UserVoice for it:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
There's an interesting parallel here to the incident in 2013[1] where a Nigerian ship's cook survived for 60 hours in an air bubble 30 meters under the surface in a sunken capsized tugboat.

That was also a case where someone with no prior experience as a diver had to be extracted from a situation otherwise requiring some fairly advanced dive training. From the article:

> The rescuing divers fitted Okene with a diving helmet so he could breathe while being transferred into a closed diving bell and returned to the surface for decompression from saturation. Okene lost consciousness during the transfer.

According to the BBC[2] they'll probably end up doing something similar to extract those kids. They'd need to drag them over a long distance (probably one at a time) as "dead weight", but this method wouldn't require them to learn any diving skills.

> The Thai authorities have appealed for donations of full-face scuba diving masks small enough to fit the boys in order to reduce the risk of their breathing apparatus coming loose as they travel through flooded passageways.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquanaut#Accidental_aquanaut

2. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44692813
I would guess that no matter what they did they would be sued.
You need to compare highest spec model and US pricing
340i xDrive Premium starts @ 54K in US
I like the egalitarian nature of the community which discourages people from talking about aspects which are only there to fuel their feeling of self-entitlement (like IQ).
If I didn't say that I think that my potential is there based on IQ, there wouldn't be a downvote.

It's very telling. HN can be an unforgiven environment for specific topics such as problems with pride, ego and self-reflection. But on the other hand, it's just a downvote.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes. American business represent some of the absolute worst excesses of capitalist greed and have no place in somewhere as progressive and forward thinking in Europe, or even China. Pro-people laws like the GDRP and this copyright go a long way in fighting communities that the alt-right and neo Nazis fester in. Just imagine if that Nazi frog could be wiped from the internet and its posters arrested for hate speech.

I’m excited about this and it brings us closer to a world where America means less and people mean more.
>1.2% annual in my region

What is the denominator? Is it the current market price? The price you paid originally? Something else?
I get the pitch.

Customer wishes to go from A to B. Ride-sharing app will plan the trip and charge for each leg, because they own them all.

Personally, I don't think it's ever going to work that way, at least not on a single locked-in platform, and I think this is all hot air, fed by hot quantitative-easing cash.
We know about the downsides now. For example, the New York system was private and actually paid for itself. New York subsidized the system. Now it's inefficient, poorly maintained, and expensive due to excessive salaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhC3-9mSb4
Working from home... For some of us, that too, is becoming impossible due to noise.

I moved, to my own house, in part in the hope of starting to consult as a sideline. To end up tortured by a series of neighbors.

I just had another one move in next door, and find my previously quiet neighboring property now has a fellow who plays music while he works in his garage. At least that I can't hear, inside my own house with the windows closed and the A/C on.

This "all noise, all the time" culture has invaded home life, too. And, it seems, for more and more people, not just from those you choose (or, are forced to...) live with.

Like the selfish people with their straight pipe Harleys. The absolutely ridiculous car stereos, which around here at least, the police finally seem to have cracked down on, a bit. (Once we got a noise ordinance, that for a long time they weren't really enforcing, I felt like pointing out to them, "Look! Here's your revenue stream! Third or fourth violation: $1000. You can afford to buy some calibrated sound meters.")

Choose where you live carefully. Home, like work, is a place where inconsiderate -- or, bad -- neighbors can drag your life and productivity down. Whereupon your options shrink, rather than grow.
It's the same for classes that define it like:

def __enter__(self):
return self

which is a common pattern (used by open()), but there's no requirement that __enter__() return the same object.

In cases where __enter__() does something different, the assignment expression and the 'as' variable would have different values (the object of the 'with' statement, x, and the result of calling x.__enter__(), respectively).
DigitalOcean would be $10/month for your requirements and is pretty good. It is a little above your price range though.
The thing is, I have a strategy that looks a lot like tree shaking, works very well for years at a time, keeps the testers and business people very happy and makes me look like a miracle worker.

You pick one of the slowest modules and you concentrate on fixing all of the performance problems in it. Even the little 2% issues that would never make it onto the schedule. Then you tell your testers to retest “everything” about that one module. You get maybe a 20-30% overall improvement that way. Next cycle you do the next module. And the next. By the time you run out of modules you’ve had 2 years of steady quarterly improvements, 2 years of performance regressions, 2 years for the usage profile of your customers to shift, and 2 years to think up or learn new ideas about performance and code quality. You start over for another cycle of 15% gains.
Local tyrants preferred brexit, international tyrants preferred remain.
The Wikimedia Foundation hosts collaborative projects which are not encyclopedias. WikiNews for instance cuts right into the heart of what EC is trying to stop. Really shows how much thought the EC put into their "arbitrary exceptions to appease powerful entities" strategy.
Intel hasn't paid a cent of those fines, in fact they lately successfully appealed for the first time.

https://www.ft.com/content/f460ef98-930f-11e7-bdfa-eda243196...
"I think you really do not know much about the history of PC operating systems."

Well, that's a big assumption and rude at the same time. I post a lot here about the history of operating systems. I'm well aware of DOS and CP/M. I know little to nothing about Concurrent DOS or FlexOS because of no need. So, let's look at your link:

"IBM licensed Digital Research's real-time OS, FlexOS, for its point-of-sale machines."

...the article you link says "IBM originally chose DR Concurrent DOS 286 as the basis of their IBM 4680 computer for IBM Plant System products and Point-of-Sale terminals..." The original source I read those terminals said they were based on Concurrent DOS. So does my comment and this link. Clearly, I did some research. Kroger's POS's also said IBM 4680.

Let's see where FlexOS comes in: "IBM announced the adoption of FlexOS... as the basis of their IBM 4690 OS..." Ok, FlexOS was used for a different one I didn't look up because Kroger didn't use it.

So, you're saying I'm ignorant about OS's because I didn't study a proprietary OS (FlexOS) I've never seen, the local store didn't use, and that was likely inferior to most RTOS's I know of? I'm not sure what your aim was.
I'd imagine the psychological relief of seeing a human being rather than a robot has a lot to do with it.
LocalStorage is a very small space(can't recall the numbers right now) I've come to learn. And it varies between browsers.
Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS
Different NES game versions: is there any difference between them?
> but having a sales tax (more or less) of 6% on homes is completely unheard of

As with any tax, depends on where in the US. Per Wiki, it's 4% in Pittsburgh[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_transfer_tax
Evil people force open workspace on OTHERS because it is cheaper than caring for the employees.

Lying fucks continue to claim productivity. Emphasis on the 'lying' part.
My solution was to buy a car that has physical HVAC knobs and install a non-touchscreen aftermarket stereo.
Trump set to deny China Mobile access to US market
mastodon is only federated microblogging. The Solid webpage suggests address and contact management, file sharing, article publication and web annotation.
This is eerily similar of the stories about guided tours of Pyongyang.
What are the privacy policies of websites like these? I use a word counter website when writing responses that are supposed to be a certain length and have wondered about the business model. I only ever paste in text that isn’t confidential since I don’t really know.

I see this site has a word counter, so if it has a good privacy policy I’d be inclined to use it instead!
That doesn't sound very crowded.
I personally barely ever read the meat of the research papers. Usually I am only interested in the actual results, some of their related data or figures, and the abstract of the paper. I suspect that I am not alone in this, but I wonder if this is partly to blame for so many false research findings based on bad procedures and methodologies still surviving.

I think many people do take modern research papers for granted and assume that if it is published in a scientific journal, it must be true.
Terrorism "conspiracy" charges can be pretty wide-ranging. It sounds like that incident alone would have incurred tens of thousands of dollars of costs for both law enforcement and the airline.
>> I know people doing stupid stuff and misjudging pranks is nothing new, this isn't a "kids these days" complaint, but where did people get the idea

Back in 2005 I was at school when a local radio station had a water drinking contest. A woman died. Just yesterday I was watching a video about how airliners don't really use hydrocarbon fuel (another global warming conspiracy). There are plenty of morons out there.

Someone, many very smart people, thought this was a good idea: https://miepvonsydow.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/uz3wiuk.png

(The cat is fine. It was a zero-g experiment. Didn't go so well for the human.)
Cynet Raises $13M
This was a good read, but now the colors are all messed up. Nothing looks normal after looking at that green background for so long...