skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience the use of a chatroom has been nothing but positive. We use Google Chat and it's largely where I do most of my work even. I'm able to talk to any person in the organization (which is very spread out physically) instantly.

All of my coworkers share information and ask each other questions either directly or in our shared rooms and all of that can be easily searched and found by anyone else who needs it.

Maybe it's just something Chat does better than Slack (no experience with it) but I can mute any person, room, or conversation in a room. Personally I don't use sound notifications so maybe that's more of a bother. Since Chat is just a tab I have open I can just look up and see the icon colour change when something new shows up (blue for new message, red for new direct message).

All of this also really hinges on the type of work you do I guess as well.
No. That is referring to the courts reaching the conclusion that the offer of continued employment is not consideration. It does not refer to the courts' (or lawyers') opinions on BigCo's workaround.
The article is right on the point out the hypocrisy in condemning slight missteps on the front of gender and diversity in one hand, and taking money from those that order unlawful murders in another.
KSA is not exactly under the rule of law.
Why is this a bad thing? A working abort system is a very good thing. Rockets fail.
Reading this, I have to mention Jayson Streets social engineering talks.

I am still sad that the superball walk in with a ladder was fake.
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Thanks for the insight. I don't think all societies can be all things to all people, but I don't 100% agree with your final conclusion. Europe has a great safety-net which allows people to take on risks that would be nuts to do elsewhere especially if you have a family.

For the kind of people like you who want to work long hours and reach the stars, I can agree Europe is probably not the place.

But there are many talented people with families who want a work-life balance. For them places like Hong Kong is not going to cut it. My wife has family there that have visited us, and IMHO they have zero work life balance there. It may be good for making money, but not for having a family.

They speak of kids committing suicide because they are so insanely stressed out about their life.

Still I found your perspective very interesting to read. I wish I get to hear sometime in the future how your life in Hong Kong turns out. I have always been very fascinated by the city and hoped to visit it some time in the future.
If we have EU cookie banners every time we turn the key in the ignition, I give up. I'm going to find some 80s pickups in Arizona or something and start stockpiling them.
I only found out about Balenciaga recently, and since then I’ve seen two people wearing their gear: a young guy wearing their shoes, and a young girl wearing one of their sweaters. My theory is that they’re status symbols for kids with rich parents.
Is it laziness, or efficient use of time, which could be put to a more productive use? It's a tricky question.
> "as to enforce equality of income". This is what puts me off of Europe!

It is one of the few ways to have an equal society. With to large income inequality the welfare state becomes unsustainable. The poor can't pay for services performed by the rich and ultimately you get a society like the US or worse. Everywhere doesn't have to be the same, no one is forced to live in Sweden. Swedes have very good visa conditions and generally do very well abroad.

> How are you going to convince them to go to Sweden instead of US?

Sweden is a small place. To the extent it needs top talent there is plenty available. People who want to make $300k shouldn't and largely won't move to Sweden anyways. This isn't a competition Sweden can win. Sweden is largely successful because it competes, or have competed, on its own terms. Not by trying to be a worse copy of something else.

Swedish society can, or could, attract people that wants things that are in line with what it is good at and not readily available in other places i.e. its unique selling proposition. Things like education, family and quality of life. There is a foundation to provide those things that has been lost in the last 10 years or so. A lot of people move for opportunities, making money is only one opportunity.

I think it is telling that you are also leaving the Netherlands as a significantly lower tax rate couldn't keep you there either. Note that I am not saying the Sweden is attractive at this point, just that I find it unlikely that taxes are the main problem.

Personally I don't like Hong Kong, but it will certainly be different. Don't miss out on going to Shenzhen.
Where is the latest ELF spec hosted these days? IIRC it used to be hosted by SCO shudder.
BaseCamp + Slack has been a general win for us.

We use BaseCamp for anything that should have any temporal meaning beyond the present, and Slack for water-cooler conversation, coordinating tests, coordinating releases, hot-topic issues, and similar. Basically, anything that is best served with a post-mortem or no record at all goes in Slack.

Slack can be totally ignored and one can remain a positively contributing member of the team; but it exists because we're social mammals and we _don't have an office_. Slack _shouldn't_ be ignored because it is a place of coordination and rapid response, but it _can_ be if one wants to focus on a particular task.

That said, Slack's VoIP for meetings sucks when you have more than a half-dozen people.
My favorite unpacking snippet is rotating a matrix

>>> matrix = [(1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9)]

>>> list(zip(*matrix))

[(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, 9)]

Not as readable as a real maths library, but pretty cool and educational.

Think I came across it in Python in a nut shell, by Alex Martelli

Edit: formatting
And movie stars and international police chiefs, apparently.
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Bad drivers can also destroy CRT monitors, hard drivers, Flash memory, CD-ROM's in CD drives, overheat graphic card (I had this bug with official NVidia drivers on decade old notebook), CPU (I had it too with AMD CPU), or motherboard, battery can catch fire if overcharged, and so on.
China's Social Credit System
Maybe 30+ years ago. Not these days.
But is a free press that has no checks and balances actually useful to democracy? I was going to make a complaint yesterday about a Fox News article that had some serious factual errors, but I see there is no agency in the USA to make such a complaint to. So basically you have all sorts of fake news being peddled and there's absolutely nothing that can be done about it.
Would you say Providence is similar?
Hmmm, what you are saying doesn't make sense.

Lets say there is an industrial machine that TCO is $50,000 per year to operate.

Lets say a human doing the same task, same quantity, and same outcome, for low pay only costs $20,000.

It would be crazy not to use humans. Trying to drop the cost of the machine is likely going to be very difficult because there will be no demand.

Now, give the humans a raise and insurance. Lets say that brings up the total human cost to $48,000. We'll, it is actually worth getting the machines now. Seems counter intuitive even when the machine is $2000 more. But it is almost granted the cost of the machines will drop now there is a mass market for them.
> But all of that is not QE

It's a distinction without a difference. QE recipients used QE funds to heal their balance sheets by buying deficit funding Treasury bonds as directed by the Fed. So we have both Fed created money funding deficit spending indirectly through QE and Fed created money funding deficit spending through direct monetization.

Dwelling on this minutia misses the point entire, and I suspect that's deliberate. The hazard is that -- as a result of these events -- we are now a nation with a propensity to print staggering amounts of money to deal with economic pressures. The question is; will we control that impulse or not?
Sure we do. We just do it away from the American Embassy & with more collateral damage.
Those Predator and Reaper drones in Afghanistan (Syria?, Iraq?) aren't just for surveillance. We track target cellphones and then drop a Hellfire on their car often enough that it doesn't even make the news.
This is something I've wondered about. People keep talking about how it's blue light that keeps you awake, but moonlight is pretty bluish. Why would humans have evolved to have that as the don't sleep wavelength?
I would definitely pay, but I know a lot of people who wouldn’t, and the value of a social network is also about having those people there.

I think a social network that’s paid from the start is doomed. It should be free at least at the beginning to attract a critical mass; once that’s done, people are hooked and have no easy way out, so you can start charging and most will stay (this is what allows Facebook to get away with pretty much anything nowadays, since people have no other alternatives).
you re right, but the article says one of the persons was actually italian and he just nodded and "asked them to switch to english so his photographer can understand". which makes it even more brilliant
Military bases are some of the most polluted sites in America. Lots of soil/groundwater contamination from BTEX and other poorly handled chemicals. However, Military bases provide a lot of research for remediation engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_Superfund_si...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016770120...
And effectively segregated, making it even more white in areas.
I am of the belief that we are better off trying to connect everyone in the world than going back to living in our community bubbles. I also think that it's too late to change the centralized nature of WWW. That ship sailed two decades ago. So we just need to live in the reality we have and try to incrementally make it better.
I'll take slack over email by a country mile.

A lot (maybe even most or all) of the negativity around slack in this thread is from misuse.

Slack is a tool. If it's becoming a distraction, change your approach.
Wow thanks for sharing. Facet sounds right for me as I work for a big company but looking to expand my experience into a smaller more impactful business/startup/consulting space.
This will most likely fit under the same exception to traditional sports betting rules as DraftKings and Fanduel. Apologies for that bug. We will address it ASAP
>The 80-year-old white stucco home...

Well there's your problem. Old houses have lead. It should be assumed to be that way unless there's reason to believe otherwise.

It'll be another 50+yr before most lead paint is gone. The fact of the matter is that labor is expensive in this country so lead paint is rarely dealt with unless it's conveniently within the scope of other work.

I don't think this article very meaningful unless we have more data points. Is base housing more or less likely to contain lead than similiar quality housing in other cities?
Would it though? A school name is essentially just that, no gender information there, even with the "women" prefix. If you discriminate other schools, you can do it too with those. FWIW there could be a difference in performance which the ML finds.
Some things don't deserve a response. In that cases it's perfectly acceptable to note this and move on with your life.

If you correct every brain-dead thing people tell you on the internet, either never say anything remotely controversial so you don't get ill-informed but confident replies, you spend all day correcting people, or you literally just started saying things on the internet to tell me how to live my life.
Some of my friends, who aren't in tech nor are privacy-inclined, were shocked to receive an alert that data on them had been exposed in a data breach.

The data had been collected by a third-party without their consent!

Not long after, the dataset became available and now it is one of the top result when you type their names in Google.

While the data isn't embarrassing, it includes some personal stuff they wanted to keep private.

That they had not even consented into giving that data made them feel violated. And truth is, that happens everyday. Which made me think that privacy is truly a consent issue at heart.

Now for a "fun" exercise, imagine how many CRMs out there run on insecure machines and what are the odds that there's someone incompetent enough to leave these databases publicly exposed and not password protected. IMO, it's extremely likely.

Well, they have very strong opinions on privacy now. I guess that's the only way people will care, sadly.
Ok look, Yes. There are camps in China.

Yes, there are genocidal Rwandan warlords stealing resources in the Congo.

Yes, Aung San Suu Kyi and her boys are doing a pretty brutal number on the Rohingya right now.

Yes, there are murderous cartels operating in Mexico.

Yes, the United States is holding children in camps in deserts.

Etc etc etc.

What I'm trying to say is, YES, there is a lot of misery in the world. But right now we're talking about the fact that you've taken a chainsaw to a reporter for saying that he thinks you might be too brutal. Can we stop with the what aboutism for a moment and just kind of let that sink in for a second?
Purely my own opinions:

I feel like scrum gives a lot of benefits from the top end of the organization -- it generates predictable results, there's a clear schedule of development, who's working on what. From leadership perspective, it feels clean and productive.

From the bottom, the perspective of devs actually doing the work, it feels more like a cog in a machine more than anything. After running on scrum for a while, it feels like you only matter for completing the tasks set up for you this week, and you start to only focus on that and not anything else in the business.

It's entirely possible that I've simply had bad experiences in companies running scrum, and had good experiences in companies not running scrum -- "correlation not causation".

I feel like in the instances I've been in where scrum was used, it may have been used as a process to fix other issues in the company/business, like the business not growing and needing to hit more aggressive schedules, or poor codebase structures or team structures causing development to be a pain and the company using scrum processes to solve that (translation: speed things up), etc.

I'm currently at an org that doesn't use scrum. We just do daily standups; and with a mature team, everyone knows what they are working on; we don't have a project manager breathing down our necks for status updates every day. Dev work is pleasant because code structures and team structures are good, the company/business is doing well so we're not in constant pressure to aggressively churn out more features more and more quickly. This is a huge contrast with a previous place (similar team size -- 15~20 devs), where the business wasn't going well (relatively flat growth), and leadership wanted more effective ways for the dev/product team to get out more big features more quickly.
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The drive itself was actually very powerful and capable, it just was very limited by having to talk to the C64 using the Vic20-compatible interface, which had issues.

That's why there were so many products for the c64 to fix it: Epyx Fast Load cartridges, for example. And plenty of games worked by having you first load a very simple file that just installed faster disk IO code and then used that code to load the rest of the game.

That's basically what Disk II drives did on the Apple II, just for EVERY (bootable) DISK instead of only some of them: The first bootloader is encoded in a simplified method so that they can save firmware space, but the first bootloader is just better disk IO routines to load the rest of the disk.
Email is also a tool that can be misused.
It's not perception. It's a byproduct of a few different things. Close interaction between people of different social classes, lack of faith in governmental institutions, massive changes in labor markets, and in the U.S. in particular massive disenfranchisement through gerrymandering and archaic voting and representation laws.
I think the 'marketplace of ideas' at least insofar as embodied in various internet outlets is what is failing and causing people to think that some speech is bad and should go away, due to the bullshit asymmetry principle and successful personal-hate targeting campaigns.

During the founding of this country we probably had trolls too, but its easier to regain a pleasant town square when the troll has to directly, physically, face the consequences of his free speech.
I am not sure if SMB is used over the Internet by "customers".
It is too bad that the reply to this message got [dead]'ed because it contained the typical mistake that people make when talking about "fixing" something - the gist was that for $15 it is possible to replace the sole of a $55 shoe.

Here's the thing:

$55-$200 shoe can be had at TJMaxx or Marshalls for $25. Quality sole replacement is claimed to be $15. That's not really correct - it is closer to $40 in sole + labor + you need another pair of shoes while your shoe is being replaced but lets say that it is $20.

So even if there's no wear on the top of the shoe replacement of a sole would cost $20. Objectively, soles in a city would last ~6-10 months based on daily wear. This means that what we are evaluating is:

Shoe 1: $0 NRC + $25 every 6 months

Shoe 2: $800 NRC + $20 every 6 months

Man it will take a long time to break even on shoe 2
> What kind of systems have this architecture?

The Web, for example.

> Why would you forward on a message and not know its contents 100%?

In the web architecture you can observe following cases:

* proxying, which itself is an umbrella term for a lot of different things, such as:

* request routing

* filtering

* access control

* logging

* caching

* load balancing

For example, a very typical scenario for load balancing is "sticky sessions". Basically, a reverse proxy (e.g. nginx) needs to inspect a HTTP request and analyze certain headers to find the server to forward request to (which already has user's session). Note that nginx can just pass headers without understanding what they mean. And it simply cannot understand the meaning of query part of URL or message body.

So, apparently, protobuf gives you a lot of HTTP's flexibility in a binary RPC format. So e.g. you can make a cache server which will cache responses without understanding them, so you can evolve your backend without updating cache server each time you add a new field to a response.

What I don't understand, however, is why they couldn't control that behavior using compiler options. Sometimes you want to be lax with validation, sometimes you don't. Why not give programmer a choice...
A few people have mentioned that! I'm keeping my eye out for a second one, so if I find one (or I figure out a way to talk to off-the-shelf hardware with this one) I'll send it his way and we can exchange disks.
I think you are wrong in your assertion that this could be fixed by making people more cynical. I think this could be fixed by making the cost of verifying information very very low.
How so? The scope of GPDR includes a lot of data that is not copyrighted or copyrightable – including anything purely factual in nature rather than creative, such as my IP address, net worth, choice of religion, etc. (Well, technically in the EU you can own 'database rights', which are similar to copyright, on large databases of facts, but only in certain conditions and subject to expiry and exemptions; GPDR has no such limits.)
Nice work with the title OP
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That kind of behavior is also common in Brazil, and used to be accepted (people would brag about it!), and yes people (sometimes as a team) would try to reciprocate any punishment they get from harming commons.

Then, suddenly something happened and the behaviors stopped being so well accepted. The revenge seeking after the punishment is still there, and the behaviors are still very common. That threw the country completely out of equilibrium.
We use Google Chat and it's largely where I do most of my work even

Most of us here have jobs where our actual work needs to be done outside of chat rooms.
Because of the federal real estate capital gains exclusion of half a mil, 20% marginal long term cap gains tax rate, and the difference between historical real estate appreciation vs SP500 returns being maybe 2% at absolute most, an average rate of increase of about 5% on a house, the average transaction cost of obtaining a mortgage is maybe 2% (stock transactions are practically free in comparison), S+P return after inflation is about 7% the median duration of owning a house being about nine years, extremely sloppy back of envelope calculation for $200K would be (200e3 * 9 * 0.07 * 0.8) - (200e3 * .02) or 96K for owning more stock with a mortgage for $200K and a 200e3 mortgage at this time would cost 9 * 12 * 946 in payments (assuming no PMI) or 102K for owning less stock with no mortgage so in the big scheme of things "not having a mortgage" saves about $6K over nine years or $55/month. (Edited, sorry I had to mess with this ten times to get it right)

You gotta look out for people who argue real estate transactions are as cheap and frictionless as stock market transactions, or insist on weird date ranges in historically bubble economies or rapidly changing demographic economies, or insist tax policy does not exist. Not everything is fundamentally an income stream and you need a plan when a simplification to that fails and you take a massive capital hit. If the error bars on the numbers are large enough, the same number can be interpreted to prove anything. Finally look out for people who confuse average/median with "everyone". All of those are HUGE effects when making financial decisions.

I'm not OP, but I have no mortgage and its worth pointing out that my personal break-even income is obviously twelve times the monthly payment lower than someone with a mortgage, and given a realistic 1/3 of income going to mortgage for most folks, obviously my runway is 1/3 longer than everyone with a mortgage. Also immensely lower stress.
This made me lol, but also reflect.

I bet the people that championed this deep work experiment, ironically, do not like social media for its distracting effects. It's the main reason I stay off social media.
I think communicating your do-gooder status in a hyper connected society is highly over rated. Its like trying to figure out who is the best ant in the ant-hill. Not because there is some value to it to the ant hill, but because the data allows us to count and rank things.

We have all this data pouring in and so have ant rankings. But if Bill Gates gets hit by a bus tomorrow world history isn't going to change much. Wasn't the case in a less connected world in the past.
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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_re..., Saudia Arabia forbids aircraft traveling to Israel from overflying Saudi airspace. Doesn't seem very friendly to me.
GDPR gives both parties access to the data which is how it should be. That way commerce can learn and so can the individual. Enlightenment for both.
It's still a lot of effort (time & $) for an individual to do any sort of legal defense.
I've been looking to ditch Slack in favor of Basecamp, isn't Campfire enough to replace Slack?