skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see the motivation here for the SF legislation, it is problematic that we tend not to leave the office for lunch, but there are some major issues that the author, Asha Safai, has clearly missed:

(a) Twitter, Google, Facebook, and Genentech are grandfathered into their cafeterias, and it's fairly unlikely any other companies will build cafeterias.
(b) This is partially because most companies are too small for a dedicated cafeteria, so they use a catering service like ZeroCater, which source most meals from local restaurants that don't do much or any lunch service.
(c) There are other companies like Gap, which have a cafeteria largely because there is nothing near their office but parking lots, and they are next to UCSF which certainly has at least one cafeteria at that location.

I think there is work to be done here, I think that this does tie into other problems like housing and general rent, but I don't think it's a good solution to it.

One of the major ways this misses the boat is that there are lower paid employees in tech companies, often contractors, who have access to free food in ways that substantially makes life more affordable for them. So yes, engineers pulling six figures are maybe given a little toooo much perks, but when that is spread around, I'm strongly in favor of it. There are people in these tech offices making not much more than minimum wage, and I'm not just talking about janitorial and maintenance staff - I'm talking about CS, QA, UX contractors and all manner of other office work.

Safai is not really a progressive, so he's probably come up with this idea to overcompensate for that and appeal to progressives. This doesn't really sound like Aaron Peskin, either, who mostly works to coalition build and is primarily focused on housing policy.

I would suspect that Peskin is supporting this to get Safai to work with him on some other bill, and that he expects it to fail.
At my company we use slack because Skype was getting worse. We tried some alternatives, and slack was the friendliest, easier to use, with the right features. I don’t see any hype in our choice - simply it was the right one.
I have kept my account for the reason that I meet people in real life and that is very valuable to me. I try not to use it for much else, but event discovery and human connections are important enough for me to keep the account.
I used that for a while, until a billing network banned me for using too many cards with my name.
Channels default to unlisted and invite-only, and the per-channel permissions system is fine-grained.

It's pretty simple to adjust permissions using Riot - I haven't tried it with the other clients, though.
disclose a conflict? this is what politicians do here, the place one group against another to profit off of it come election time. this to them is a freebie because they believe they can only get good will from the populace as a whole by exploiting both wealth and privilege envy.

This is just skimming low hanging fruit and a free distraction from real problems they either cannot fix or don't consider worth their time. plus they win if the "elitist" complain about having to give up their free lunch

I can understand why some are outraged but this is the old adage of, I didn't speak up when they came for the .....
Investing 17% when you are worth 65 mil is different than when you are worth 65 k.

If you fail, you'll have just one vacation house in Miami instead of two. I could live with that.
I don't disagree with your point but it's an issue that plagues definitions in general. If something is "near" and slowly backs away, at some point it becomes "far," but there's no clear dividing point. On the other hand, according to law and custom, someone does suddenly stop being a minor when they become a legal adult. In that case we choose a clear arbitrary cutoff for simplicity's sake. A third type of definitional change is one where there is a clear non-arbitrary cutoff, e.g. a star turning into a black hole, or an irregularly shaped asteroid accreting enough matter through collisions to turn into a dwarf planet. Arguably, the barycenter moving from within one planet to outside of it would constitute this third type of change. So I think if two former planet/moon objects evolve to orbiting around an external barycenter, it's not arbitrary to state that the less massive no longer a moon of the other, even if, at some point in the past it was, and in the case of our Moon, will likely be again.
Good. Encouraging tech to diversify locations is a very effective solution to the demand-driven real-estate bubble that has been caused by the tech industry.
The Googleplex has over 20,000 employees, and food trucks are among the least efficient ways to feed them. You'd have huge convoys of food trucks entering and leaving the Googleplex for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Access control is vital in a location like a tech company's headquarters. With hundreds of random food trucks coming and going every day, such control will become impossible.

Finally, food trucks are notorious for cutting corners when it comes to food quality, especially any health concerns. I would now want myself or my employees eating from food trucks all day, every day.
This both sucks and is great. Sucks for me. Hopefully will be great for Mattermost and Matrix.

For HIPAA compliant shops Slack is a non-starter. Mattermost will hopefully get a lot of corporate $ now. I wish Matrix's dendrite[0] golang replacement homeserver was finished and in better shape. I'd much prefer to go the Riot/Matrix route, but it doesn't feel ready for prime time yet.

HipChat Server was SPOF but could be made to be HIPAA compliant by hoisting their AMI out and encrypting the base image.

I literally was at the tail end of hacking Hipchat Data Center to be fully HIPAA compliant and HA using Vault, Consul (+locks), Terraform, scaling groups and friends. I was so excited about getting to blog about it. sigh

Looks like I'll be re-engaging Mattermost. Last time I looked their E20 pricing was like 4x more expensive per user than it was costing for HipChat DC. Hopefully they finished their HipChat importing option.

[0] https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
Sign up for Privacy.com seems to be only in the app or with the extension, but after you sign up, you can sign in just in the browser and view your virtual cards. (I hope this comment will soon be outdated - a fix for that would be nice.)
Umm that already happens.

It is just that they are paid by Google instead of individual employees.
It's really slow, especially when you get to 40x40-ish. Does something like this need to be that slow? I'm curious if there are more optimized solutions.
I never really understand this. From the Wikipedia link: "At a constant acceleration of 1 g, a rocket could travel the diameter of our galaxy in about 12 years ship time, and about 113,000 years planetary time." But that's from the frame of reference of planet earth. If you are on the spaceship, earth will be moving away from you so time on earth will appear to be slower than your time. So if you come back to earth you will appear younger than should be to the people that stayed, but to you people that stayed will appear younger than should be. Frames of reference are equivalent, aren't they? Maybe I'm rambling, but I can't figure this out.
When was the last time you used Linux? I installed Ubuntu on a Dell lappy provided by work, everything just worked and it required less tweaking than osx would have for serious SWE work.
In my experience, Slack is the first chat application that both techies and non-techies actually use. I don't know why that is. But instead of asking when the hype is going to stop, it might be useful asking why the hype is there in the first place. [Edit:spelling]
SfB is ok for one-to-one or one-to-few communication, but the chats are pure garbage.
Actually, behavioral symmetry is not an issue with React Native so much as its an issue with poor UX design. Nothing about RN mandates that the apps behave similarly. That the iOS app and the desktop app look and behave similarly is simply a design choice made by the team to maintain a consistent look/feel/UX across the apps, not RN itself. We do not share Views. All Views across all the apps are custom.

However, as Discord's mobile teams grow and expand we're exploring alternative UX designs that are significantly more mobile friendly. So your feedback is heard loud and clear at HQ :)
Venezuela Tying the Bolivar to Its National Cryptocurrency
And you somehow trust Slack as a "secure alternative"?
Considering astrophysical evidence to the contrary as well as multiple simplifications(∆) underlying your argument, I'd say he was probably wrong.

∆) (Some of) the assumptions underlying your argument are the following:

Assumption 1: We're observers at infinity, observing time as given by the usual Schwarzschild/Kerr coordinate t (let's focus on Schwarzschild for simplicity). Yes, the argument in favor of this is that such observers observe Schwarzschild spacetime to be flat at infinity (which is more or less what we see) but there are certainly other[1] asymptotically flat foliations of Schwarzschild spacetime which don't have a coordinate singularity at the horizon and thus don't exhibit the behavior you describe. I have yet to see a convincing argument for why we, as observers, couldn't perceive any of these other foliations of Schwarzschild spacetime and for why we definitely wouldn't live to see someone else cross the event horizon. (I mean, the fact that this doesn't work in the usual Schwarzschild coordinates is really a consequence of their singular behavior at the horizon, so should be resolved by any smooth/non-singular choice of coordinates—of which there are infinitely many.)

Assumption 2: You're talking about a static black hole solution (or a simple spherical shell collapsing) while realistic scenarios of black hole formation are an entirely different beast.

Assumption 3: You cannot superpose / easily glue together solutions of Einstein's field equations. So I'd be at least careful making a statement about us, here on Earth, when it comes to a distant black hole.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullstrand–Painlevé_coordina...
I must admit I would have thought it'd have to be a joke but it seems the zoo doubled down

http://www.nogoumfm.net/news/2018/07/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A...

I did like the Gaza story on how for a real Zebra it'd cost $30,000 and it would have to be smuggled in through tunnels so they painted a donkey out of practicality.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/2...

Maybe it's just me but I think a story about seeing a fake zebra as a kid is a much better learning/life experience than seeing a real one. I assume I have seen a zebra in a zoo, but no actual idea, a fake one I'd remember.
Yeah it just doesn't work well for me or my friends we are always complaining. I don't know why and I don't really want to have nerd out with my chat app (just want it to work!).

As for using Slack, I am too scared of dropping 3am Friday/Saturday messages in my work chat instead of my group chat so keep separate apps.
Facebook’s Plunge Shatters Faith in Tech Companies’ Invulnerability
It could easily break a tie. If I can save an hour everyday because I don't have to figure out lunch/dinner, then that's more time for me.
Ensembles can disentangle, right? Then, if measuring only one side, how do you know the other side is entangled? How did experiments establish entanglement anyway? If you measure hundred runs and all correlate, sure you can say the next one will too, but that's literally a predetermined outcome.
For anyone less than enthused by that webpage's anti-HN redirect to a photograph of a testicle in an egg cup, here's an archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180322163944/https://www.jwz.o...
I've had similar problems with Linux.

Having the Slack Linux desktop client open means I don't get any notifications, even when I'm away from my computer.
> And that is by Mountain View that only applies to a single office development.

That is not true. The rule applies to all new offices in MTV. The Facebook office just happens to be the first new office that was completed with the intention to provide free food, since the law passed.

(Applying a rule like that to Facebook alone - on what basis, exactly? - would be discriminatory, unusual, and likely unenforceable.)

> The SF rule is on proposal stages and is unlikely to pass.

How do you know that?

It has some serious backers, and similar rules passed in nearby municipalities. What evidence do you have that it will not pass in SF as well?
Would it be possible to build a simple layout with two columns and a footer consisting of one column below? It seems the footer will also have to columns, no matter how I do things.
Yes, foreign direct investment is a poor measure in many regards and using foreign affiliates statistics instead seems very helpful. But referencing controversial Piketty doesn't help in advocating for their policy suggestions.

I would have liked to see an exploration of how high-tax countries encourage those differences in "Pre-tax corporate profits (% of compensation of employees)" and how the taxing of individuals has changed in the same time.

Germany for example has a progressive income tax capped at 42% yet while incomes rose over the decades, the tax exemption limits did not, effectively reducing the salary needed to reach that cap from 24-times-the-mean-wage two 2-times-the-mean-wage.
product traction
You don’t need a high resolution display to compare. Save the images, open them in irfanview.com or getpaint.net or other image viewer/editor that can set 100% zoom (with scrollbars). The hotkey for 100% zoom is Ctrl+H in irfanview, Ctrl+0 in paint.net.
> There's way too much noise in my email inbox, stuff gets lost.

I find that happens an order of magnitude more often in Slack than email. The number of times important things here don't get done on time (or at all) because "Oh, I must have missed that in Slack...)
Texas government don't pass intrusive policies ? They literally passed a law that forces women to bury aborted fetus. I mean that is 100x more intrusive than cafeterias

https://www.newsweek.com/abortion-texas-fetus-law-2017-57686...
Our architecture design is honestly pretty simple. Before the app fetches the JS bundle it checks a hash to see if it's on the right version, and if not, it fetches the other one instead. I honestly don't know enough about code push to speak to it, so I can't really answer this question. Generally speaking however, we try to be cognizant of increasing the amount of dependencies we have while still optimizing for speed.
Probably to shelve the idea.
Interesting thought. Thanks for the existential crisis.
Never read that, I'm afraid. I used Arfken and Riley as my main practical mathematical reference works, throughout my degree.
The good news is that Firefox somewhat recently switched to a proper API (i.e. WebExtensions), which should prevent that from happening.

But I guess you're probably sour from WebExtensions being introduced in the first place. Which I can understand, because it did lead to many extensions no longer working. Still, it should lead to that problem being one of the past.
One millennial options trader was killing it, then Facebook cost him $180,000
Bay Area should focus on fixing the housing crisis, homeless issue, traffic congestion, and a dying BART system.

But at the same time, I'm not shocked. This is a classic California move and government overstep.
I feel what you're saying, and that definitely is something that happens. Especially for people who move for the job, it's very easy to keep oneself separate from the community. But making it illegal to feed your employees is a very stupid, very authoritarian way of dealing with it that feels like a terrible idea. I don't want to be told where to shop, ever, for any reason, and I dislike that these local governments are trying to force people to spend money at specific places over others. It would be difficult to describe this as any part of a free economy, and if I were starting one of these startups it would be a bad indicator for what might happen in the future and I would be extremely reluctant to set up shop in the town. What if the next move is even more egregious? Can't risk it man.
Business Logic Vulnerabilities Series: A Story of a 4-Years-Old and Counting Bug
Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
There is only one city with the legislation in place, which is Mountain View. It only applies to Facebook's new offices near the San Antonia shopping center.
Awesome RSS!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/

https://shgysk8zer0.github.io/posts/2018/03/02/awesome-rss/
That's a valid criticism, but not one that has a better solution than "just ignore people with telemetry turned off". Which I am afraid is the best way to deal with this so far.
I wish that Vinge had written more about the Qeng Ho.

And re looping the galaxy, I'm reminded of Peter Watts' The Freeze-Frame Revolution. Mission time is hundreds of millions of years.
If you're an armchair quantum theorist, I have a suggestion. Rather than sitting around positing how the world works, build an actual quantum experiment, and spend some time just thinking about what's going on with your intuitive brain and comparing it to what you observe.

It's a bit pricey, but https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=69... is a full quantum erase experiment with a straightforward, visible path for the photons.

I personally found that arguing with people with pop-sci level of understanding of quantum to be pretty exhausting. If you can setup an experiment like this and understand it, it goes a long way to reconfiguring your brain to accept the counterintuitive implications of QM.

That said I still hold out an irrational hope for superdeterminism.
Show HN: Rogue.js – the “nearly invisible” SSR framework for React applications
Worms frozen for 42000 years brought back to life
As I said in another comment: this is a valid concern, but not one that has a better way to deal with it other than what Mozilla is doing now, i.e. ignoring telemetry-disabled users. Or at least, there's no better way of dealing with that that I know of.
If you want secure emails use GPG. Unlike slack, GPG is both open-source and offers government-level security. I don't think slack is more secure than GPG.
You just linked to an article discussing exactly the same situation that the post's article discusses.
The big question when something like this comes out of Google, FB or whatever: is it relevant to your company? Sometimes (very often) what's appropriate for a big company that's raking in money hand over fist and has a ton of people is not at all appropriate for your company.
I'm cool with that as well. Happy as a clam if we want to start making a bunch of sport distinctions around advantages such as height, T, bone density, etc.

However, until we do so, the problem remains that there are clearly advantages physically to being a man and that is why we have male and female sporting events. That distinction doesn't magically go away because someone does not identify with their gender. The division isn't about gender, it's about sex.
The only reason it's got all those permissions is because it is a native app, which can claim all those permissions. Sure, Electron app are browser wep apps marketed as a native application, but by definition, native apps can do everything Electron apps can do.
> the doc must raise prices to account for the new insurance

As I understand it, the portion of additional costs that the doctor eats and the portion that they charge to their patients actually depends on the elasticity of the market for the doctor's medical services. I can't comment on the market for the hypothetical doctor's medical services (in the U.S. AFAIK that market is very complex and opaque, and it probably depends on the doctor, location, and the specific service), so speaking generally about sellers and buyers:

The portion of a cost increase that is eaten by the seller or charged to the buyer depends on elasticity. Computer memory is highly elastic: If your costs go up and you try to increase your price $10/DIMM, then I'm going to buy my DIMM someplace else (unless your DIMMs are very special); a small change in price causes a large change in demand. Superstar developer salaries are highly inelastic: If the developer's costs increase (a new baby!) and they ask for more money, I probably have to give it to them because I'm not going to find a replacement. You see that more publicly with superstar athletes: Cristiano Ronaldo is irreplaceable; the market for his services is at the extreme of inelasticity; he can almost name his price for running around in shorts, playing games.
ASP.NET does this, you use its components and it generates client side javascript. In a more functional way, there's another language that does this caled Opa! http://opalang.org/
That's strange. I've never had that problem.

I keep Discord running on my desktop at work, plus I tend to have browser windows connected to it on my both my desktop and laptop at work. I still get phone notifications.
Worthy of note, this is not as clear-cut as one might think.

Within the SEC, there are dissenting voices:

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/peirce-dissent-34-...
Looking for reviews from SREs who have read this themselves. O'Reilly books are top notch in my experience, I am hoping this one is right up there with the rest that I have read.
from https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Docu...

Businesses within the Area paid $7.6 million more in payroll tax in 2013 than they did in
2010. While some increase would be expected because of the economic recovery, the
Area generated $7.1 million more in payroll tax than it would have, if it had grown at the
same rate as the rest of the city from 2010 to 2013.

Also based on payroll tax filings, there were 61 more businesses in the Area in 2013 than
there were in 2010. Again, some increase would be expected, but there were 32 more
than there would have been if the number of businesses in the Area grew the same rate
as the rest of the city from 2010 to 2013

Taxable sales, which reflect the health of neighborhood-serving retail businesses, grew
more slowly in the Area than the rest of the city from 2010 to 2013—a 10% increase as
opposed to a 25% increase in the rest of the city. Had taxable sales in the Area grown at
the same rate as the rest of the city, an additional $90,000 in sales tax would have been
generated.

An examination of trends in commercial rent, residential asking rents, and housing values
in the Area revealed that, while increases have been rapid since the exclusion took effect,
similarly rapid increases were seen in the rest of the city, and there was no appreciable
difference between the Area and the rest of the city in the growth of commercial and
residential rents, and housing prices.
Hey, can you elaborate a touch on the lack of HIPAA compliance with Slack? Some folks on my team seem to think it's compliant - and I'm not finding true hard answers either way (ignoring the BAA side of things)
If two companies offer offer same salary and similar in every other sense, but one doesn't offer free food, I will choose one that does. If the company that doesn't offer food has +$20 salary per day, I would probably still choose one with food. It's easier, more convenient and probably healthier as well.
There are huge parts of physics that remain a mystery( dark matter, dark energy, the big bang, like how on Earth does inflation make sense, a ton of crazy particle physics that go completely over my head). And the funny part is that a lot of these can't be really fit into our current models in a meaningful way. So until we deal with all those I still have hope for an FTL drive.
Yup. Prevent construction of new housing. Forcing prices up, putting more people on the streets or commuting from an Exurb.