skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been fully remote since mid 2016. I've never received positive comments on my work attitude before this position.

- I am thin and tall, constantly feeling cold in air-conditioned offices.

- The office lights hurt my eyes.

- I prefer music playing instead of people talking, and I do not feel bad for taking an hour long break when I feel exhausted or frustrated.

- I usually wake up around 8, so I get out the door after coffee&breakfast is done, and we get dressed with the wife. We don't leave the house before 9:30 on average.

- I also think commuting longer than a 15 minute walk/bus ride is a waste of my time.

- I am working from a laptop, so I think it should be completely acceptable to send a mail in the morning saying "I'll be working from under a warm blanket & my cat today" when there is no in-person meeting scheduled.

In my current position I'm assigned projects that get done on time and feedback is positive. Work is done, all is well. Noone cares when you start the day, just show up for the calls, which are never scheduled before 9:30 on my request.

We got a junior fired because she couldn't keep up with expectations. I think full-remote wasn't for her. She also had untreated schizophrenia, I bet that didn't help either. When you are a couple screws loose, it helps to have people around to keep you grounded. On winter days I almost exclusively work from cafes, so as to avoid winter depression.
Someone recently pointed out here that in the UK you still have pox parties because the chickenpox vaccine is considered too expensive by NHS. So that's another way to lower costs, of course you now have a 20% possibility of getting shingles and dealing with that pain.
From the KDE mailing list that it's linked[1] where the article mentions why they didn't go with Kickstarter

[1]https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2018q4/004976.h...
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SublimeText is not a heavy monstrosity at all, its really very lightweight. Certainly not in the category as Electron based apps.
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> Where do you live that these are hard to find?

I live in south France, and I have zero idea where to find something like a Nokia 3310... Now, and not for now, I only see smartphones of various (crappy) kind or phone for old people that mimic classic phone but with a crappiness of '90s-style dot-com era business software...

Of course 3310 was proprietary but simple enough to have fable means for spying me and the level of centralization is far, far less than now. Banally yes, my carrier can spy on me. But only my carrier, not a super-giant multinational data-mining company. And my carrier is subject of my country's law I know a bit about so I have a certain protection. With Android&c devices there are tons of different subjects that can spy on me from any country of the world. I have essentially ZERO protection. And modern devices can do far more than mere audio recording at carrier level...

> Infotainment systems have been becoming too invasive

Oh but I do not really care about infotainment I do care about being unable to switch ABS off when on snow so to have chances to brake the car under my own control, I do care about the ability to switch on the engine without any possible software crash interference (a friend of mine remain locked inside it's top-of-the-line Audi because of a software fault, for instance). I do care about NOT having the ability of power on my car via a smartphone witch means having a remote control device that connect my car with it's vendor and me via internet, all on proprietary software I do not know nor control.

I can't really use a Nissan Micra, I normally use a car for 30-60Km to 300+Km trips, not distances nor environments to be done with a citycar...

And even on simplest citycars: a friend of mine few days ago ask me if I can help because he left light on and shes car's battery is drained. I came, it was evening with not good light and it's raining. I see a big red plate aside a pole of the battery and a black cable on the opposite pole. My cable nipper start sparking fire suddenly when I connect what I'm thinking it was the + pole... With sound imprecations I grab a headlight and see: TWO damn battery poles are without a fucing +/- sign, TWO have black big cables and the damn big red plate have a rigid connection UNDER the plate, black painted as the battery, that attach it to the farthermost* pole. I do not know how an mechanical engineer can be so dumb to design such a thing.
US health spending in aggregate is between 2-3% more than comparable European countries. Life expectancy is several years lower.
Yep... just as I suspected...nothing but crickets.
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That is a bit out of the question, and is also a matter of personal taste.

Apart from the taste, making good concert/event photos is challenging, especially with modern, narrow band lighting systems (LEDs), where if there's blue light on the stage, it will only hit the blue sensors, which is usually 1/4th of the total pixels you have.
Accept it or change it.

Accepting it is transitioning from the realisation that you’re doing it because it’s interesting to doing it because it pays the bills and funds other interests.

Changing it is transitioning something else into the place that is currently occupied by work.

Both of these require finding something that interests you so start there.

But remember, life is long, interests wax and wane so this is perfectly normal and don’t sweat it as some failure or worry about it being a wrong attitude.

Edit: Just to add I’ve been through this twice. First I changed it (electrical engineering to software engineering). Now I accept it because my interests will never pay the bills I have :)
Where I live you know the cost before you go to the doctor since you will only pay a symbolic sum of 30 USD even if the visit ends up with something like a life long cancer treatment. If you need medicine you will pay at most 120 USD per year regardless of the costs.

The idea that your access to healthcare should be linked to your own or your parents financial is crazy.
Why would someone book a hotel room with a fake card and not show up? Maybe to generate fake expenses ?
I'm surprised that a lot of people are missing the point that they also chose to use the image. If there are tons of much more talented but replaceable photographers that are willing to give their work away for free, why did they have to use his photo?
"Confusing" is perhaps too harsh (although destructuring over several levels can be terribly confounding). By "hard to read" I mean primarily the fact that when you are "scanning" code, destructuring statements are syntactically way too similar to literal declarations. It severely degrades, IMHO, the speed with which you can effectively "scan" code in JS. It's not really that you _can't_ understand it when you slow down and analyze - it's that you _have to_ slow down to see the difference between "let a = [0,1]" and "let [,a] = [0,1]". Whereas in ES5, whenever you saw the brackets you could know without reading into the code there was an object or array being declared.

That's not to say that I think destructuring is all bad - it certainly saves lines of code - but aftet working with it for a few years, I would gladly trade it back for more scannable code, easier syntax for beginners, etc.
Come on now, security isn't easy but it's not rocket science. If someone is competent enough to be developing applications they're certainly competent enough to do security correctly by researching first.
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"Legal rights" is a vague phrase. I certainly don't think migrant fruit pickers should be able to copyright their fruits!

Copyright is a tool for giving a temporary government monopoly—a distortion of the free market—for the promotion of "science and useful arts". It attempts to emulate the market behavior of physical objects (like, oh, fruits) when the valuable work is easy to copy. I believe certain things about its appropriate use and the markets to which it is suited. That has little bearing on my beliefs about other markets or the value of free markets in general. I believe copyright is a bad tool to protect labor rights (just as I believe machine guns are a bad tool to protect labor rights); that doesn't mean I think labor rights aren't worth protecting.

Besides, my actual belief is migrant farm laborers should be documented (i.e., we should have open borders, the historic policy of America back when it allegedly was "great") and unionized and receive a UBI and preferably live under fully automated luxury gay space communism. At that point copyright doesn't really matter, certainly not as a tool to protect fungible workers.
> I really like programming

What about programming do you like?
Not necessarily. Needless to say containers and kubernetes are pretty new technologies and nation wide deployment requirement existed before docker / k8s.

Most of the old big companies aren't using docker or k8s for their core services. They're all using legacy fat apps that are load balanced in baremetal or vms.
Well, it doesn't technically require it...
It wouldn't have to be the e2e software as the delivery app for the payload or tooling. Regardless it was more about the fact that governments and other actors have options. Phones are just like any other software platform.
I think a full, accepted specification that is adjusted in line with design decisions is still a bit out. Because as soon as you have a blessed specification, people and tools and such are going to depend on it, which limits the ability to change and break the spec down the line.

I don't think Rust is stable enough yet for a real specification.
I have a t440, the weight of the mbp is not comparable. It's more like a carbon and there's huge advantage to being able to move easily without a heavy laptop.
Something I worry about, and that maybe you can help shed some light on, is what the ramifications of such a move would be.

You mentioned the grading of schools leading to higher quality. Do we know if any metric suffered as a result? One guess I have is that teachers started teaching for the test rather than for the foundation.

Take that same question and apply it back to the issue of hospital cost. If there's more transparency, the obvious conclusion is that there will be increased competition and an overall lowering of costs for patients. Does that come at the cost of quality of care? My gut says no, but my brain says that hospital administrators are incredibly talented at cutting costs. Maybe we have other safeguards such as HCAHPS to prevent the worsening of quality.

And as my own comment on this situation - how does this move fit into the insurance realm? My understanding is that hospitals will display the overinflated prices, but not the individual insurance negotiated prices. So how does this increased 'transparency' help?
>Part ownership of content production would be morally superior

Whether or not this is true, the band is transgressing a hidden rule that is actually more important than copyright. They are changing the deal after the fact. If they had required the photographer to sign away his rights, he would have had the option to find another band that didn't. By not requiring any signatures but then turning around and acting like they got them, they are essentially tricking everyone. The idea that you are not supposed to do this is both pretty intuitive to everyone, and also is more or less the fundamental axiom of contract law. I'd expect an anarchist metal band to be anti-civic, but not like that! ;)
Welcome to the US.

I'm currently fighting insurance because they won't cover a GI tract test without "proof" from another test first.

OK that's understandable. You don't want random people asking for tests all the time, but the Dr already saw me, and gave me meds to fix the issue that would give the insurance company "proof." There's just new complications now.

So I get to wait until everything comes back in full force. Last time I couldn't work for a few weeks, but hey at least they're saving a few hundred at most now....

This is still a better experience than the issues I had with my jaw. The jaw issues are the only pain in my life that was bad enough I blacked out twice from it. But insurance won't cover that because they think it's a dental issue, dental won't cover it because it's the jaw.

The only treatment for the jaw I got was because a jaw specialist lied on the insurance papers. He said he wrote down headpains, not jaw issues. He said he learned that telling insurance companies the truth is not what gets them to cover their clients.

/sidenote
that jaw pain is second to none. It runs circles around any migraines (the dark room, no sound kind) I've ever had. Never knew there was such pain before.
They are also a bad joke against those of us who have underpowered or older machines. I love my 2006 MacBook (with OpenBSD) and I sure won't be running Electron on there even if it supported the OS. Emacs is wonderfully fast.
It's also worth pointing out that they consciously chose his photograph to use in their promotional material, which means that out of every photographer that was present he is the most likely to be skilled. If the sponsor had used a random grainy cellphone picture my heartstrings would be a little more elastic, but they clearly went for the one they thought was the most professional.
Hi Fabio,

Congratulations on Notable, it's very slick, and exactly the kind of note taking app I was after.

I'm mostly concerned about keeping my data offline these days, so Google Keep and Evernote were no fit for me. I take tons of notes every day, and ended up using the note app from Kontact (the PIM suite for KDE), mostly because I'm a heavy KDE user and it was properly integrated with Akonadi (KDE's PIM backend). But it is very raw, especially compared to Notable.

Given Notable data is just plain text, it means I can get it indexed by Baloo (KDE's desktop search), so it's perfect for me. Thanks a lot :) And nevermind Electron haters, having an app in an AppImage, released on github, so that I can subscribe to release's RSS feed and just download/drop the update if I want to is furiously awesome.

One suggestion : I would love, when I create a new note when having a Notebook selected, that this new note is automatically added with this tag (currently, manually importing data from Kontact is painfully long). Autocompletion of tags could do too.
> I cannot conceive of how anyone would think those phrases would result in useful, effective, or even interpretable irony or sarcasm.

Well, that is the root of the disagreement (and one of the main issues with this whole fiasco). When you isolate opposing side enough, you can paint them in whatever way you want, because "I cannot understand them, therefore I assume worst interpretation possible" sounds so logical to you . . .

But from the context given in comments I see just how bad the ban is, and how detached from reality are these judgments of Sargon et al. But you will keep shunning him, understand him even less, and make more opponents to progressive cause ...

Streissand effect in full power. It makes me really sad, as I hate modern right wing ideas.
something you have (phone) & something you know (password)
Hi Colin.

Why is freebsd-update(8) so slow? When upgrading between releases, it's significantly slower than apt, yum, dnf, Solaris IPS, pkgin, FreeBSD's own pkg(8), Windows Update, macOS update, while fundamentally doing less than any of these tools. It's bordering on being unusably slow.

What's the problem here? Thanks.
Where’s the second factor?
When someone says everyone is a photographer today because smartphones, I kinda want to see their photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7aLiIL75q0&t=4m46s

It's like saying most people can grow hair and move their heads around, and today everybody can distort and speed up any sound file on their phone, so who needs metal bands.
What I don’t understand is why Apple isn’t fixing this.

It’s simple - it’s broken UI, Android has done it, people want it, it doesn’t help in any way, so why keep it? I mean why? Hell, if you really want to keep it, give an option to disable it.
It might be a little off topic, but I'd like to share a project which its intent is of growing krita reach and community: Pepper and Carrot, a cutesy comic 100% open (libre) made 100% with krita.

https://www.peppercarrot.com/

Even translations are community driven :)

Disclosure: I'm just a reader of P&C, who found the comic not so long ago and fell in love with it!
That's interesting, it sounds like something that was being repeatedly sent to my Motorola flip phone in China in 2007. I had the ability to reject this SMS/MMS thankfully.
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Before we were married my wife had an MRI. Having not met her deductible they sent her a bill for 1.5k. Not ideal but we were able to afford it and paid the bill. 364 days later we received another bill for roughly the same. We thought there was an error. After months of back and forth, even after they had told us for 2months that “they took care of it and we would not be charged” we ended up having to pay another $500. This whole process was beyond infuriating.

The other bill apparently came from the Dr who read the MRI. The fun part was we were never contacted by that Dr about the results. She eventually left the hospital and she canceled our follow up appointment.
It's also confusing that there are:

1. A first edition that is marked as outdated [1]
2. A second editions that seems to be not outdated [2] but
3. also the book without any edition marker that differs from the second edition [3]
4. As well as the second edition for various rust versions (eg [4] or [5])

And all of them are only distinguishable via the url. I guess the book without any version or edition marker [3] is the nightly version? But I am not sure. I guess the second-edition does not differ much between the rust versions as the chapters look the same, except for bug fixes? I am not sure.

As a beginner learning rust that is really confusing because I am never sure if I am reading the correct book or if there is some other version with more information.

Eg why differs [6] so much from [7] when both are the "second edition"?

Ok, while writing this comment I now see that [2] are only empty pages linking to [8] and that all that books and documentation are generated for each rust version. But my point still stands: When coming from the google search result page to the rust documentation there is some confusion of what I am looking at.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/index.html
[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/index.html
[3]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
[4]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.28.0/book/second-edition/forewor...
[5]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.29.0/book/second-edition/forewor...
[6]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/appendix-04-ma...
[7]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.30.0/book/second-edition/appendi...
[8]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.30.0/book/second-edition/
> They are changing the deal after the fact

What deal is that?

The way I see it, the photographer and the band each had different ideas of "the deal". The degree to which the deal "changed" is the difference between prior conceptions of the deal and the reconciliation when the conceptions came into conflict and reached a synthesis.

The band thought they were creating something and thought they could merchandise it.

The photographer thought he was creating something and thought he could stop someone else merchandising it.

The photographer was legally right. I suspect the band is more morally right than wrong in an ideal world of copyrights - and I think copyright is a very imperfect concept - and I think they have the economic power to ensure their merchandise is legally sound in future, having learned this lesson.
55g of sugar per 100ml of product would be insane. Coca Cola has about 10-12g per 100ml. Starbucks Mulled Fruit Drink (widely reported in the UK as a very sugary drink) has about 14g per 100ml.
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This was my experience when my partner received treatment and the insurance company refused to cover the anesthesia charges (they claimed anesthesia was optional for the procedure and thus wasn't covered). The anesthesiologist's office was surprised that it wasn't covered and waived the charges.

It was the only bright spot in a prolonged battle with the insurance company and the hospital.
How come this one is on the front page when I submitted it more than 12 hours before it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18766327 ?

Edit: and when I complain about stolen karma I get more downvotes. What a weird place.
Playing the devil's advocate for a sec here. But If you paid out of pocket and later got reimbursed by the insurance company, I think, you would have to deal with the insurance company later.
The system in the US is quite different and although broken it can be fixed by just fairer price comparison mandated by law.
Things very rarely break, either it works or it doesn’t (cue the people who will say an update ate their homework...).

The big difference is that the chance that ALL devices on a brand new laptop will work out of the box (including all the bells and whistles like sleep modes, audio routing when adding/removing Bluetooth gear, multiple external displays with different DPIs, etc) is nearly 100% on Windows and in my experience nearly 0% on even the most up to date linux distros, at least unless you did very careful research before buying your machine.

This isn’t a criticism of linux desktop distros vs windows but it’s pointing out that the most important things you need when making a desktop OS for general purpose hardware is a big market share and relations with hw vendors. It’s a chicken and egg problem for linux.

Also: people generally aren’t interested in understanding or properly solving some problem. If a reinstall solves their problem that’s in many cases easier for most than editing a config file! Windows Systems are (can and often should be) ephemeral. I wish windows would make the nightly-wipe I have seen in university classroom installs of windows the default for home editions.
Most spam calls in the US originate overseas (India) and ignore US regulation such as do-not-call registries.
Another big tip: if you need an X-Ray or any kind of exam done, don't do it in a hospital. Go to a clinic (if applicable of course) that specializes in those kind of exams and is covered by your insurance company if you can, it will cost a lot less usually. You can usually call your primary and ask them what clinics or labs they recommend. You'd be surprised what a huge difference that makes.
Hum no, being "platform" for independent communicating software succeed at first (unix), after reach it's limit and it now appear clear that ancient idea pre/against unix of "fully integrated environment" in witch "programs" are only a module/code inside the "big" environment/framework succeed, unfortunately only partially because complexity it's too high to evolve it properly at "modern speed"...

So we do not have now nothing that can really work at a scale only various horrid, hard to maintain and future-less hybrid solutions like Windows, GNU/Linux, AiX, HP_UX, True64, ... ...

On today's web no it't certainly nothing like Emacs. In Emacs YOU have the full control of your environment, in modern web you only think to have a certain control but in the reality you are a powerless puppet of few giants companies...

The sole similarity is the concept of hypertext itself that offer a kind of integration similar to Emacs one, but it's similar at a very superficial level because in Emacs it's integrated anything, not only the presentation level. In Emacs you can modify your software at runtime during normal use, not only link/integrate any text around your documents :-)