skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really don't understand why there is such an aversion to doing an open-ish office, segmenting groups of desks into smaller closed off (floor to ceiling frosted glass) areas

Because that costs money, and open offices are a cost-savings measure. It's a way to be cheap while looking hip/stylish/whatever.

In some cases I think there's also a barely-concealed dick measuring thing going on, where companies put in open office space so that they can elevate some employees by giving them cubicles (and executives, obviously, will always get outer-ring offices with windows!). So you take away with one hand, give it back with the other, and suddenly what was formerly standard for everyone becomes an incentive you can hand out discretionarily.
> We would need 3x size of location(s) without open offices so I get it

This always comes up in these discussions. It's not a binary "everyone working at one long table" versus "everyone in their own hotel room". It's a continuum. There are options that allow each worker to have their own space at rather low cost. I don't buy the cost argument or the space argument.

I've been inside designs where workers have their own doors for a cost of a few thousand dollars and taking up very little extra space. Spread that out over ten years and you're talking a cost of $400 a year - if they don't have the money for that, you shouldn't be working there, because they don't have the money to pay you. Absolutely trivial relative to a six-figure salary.
I currently work where most people have offices with doors that close (though some share them with 1-2 others, the shared ones are large though), and I've noticed that the turnover is almost non-existent. Basically retirement?

My prior open plan (even with remote) offices had an average tenure of 2-3 years maybe?
Telegram adds ‘delete everywhere’ nuclear option – killing chat history
I'm confused by the `find | xargs | sha256 | curl` trick… Is it even remotely as efficient as the rolling checksum of an actual rsync?
An Englishman who saved Japan’s cherry blossoms
If you think that is a rant my sister would melt your eyes from your skull within about 10 minuets.
I hate them, but I'm pretty sure I'm part of a vocal minority and I suspect we're finding surveys to cite that are biased, or we're picking the ones that agree with what we want.

Employers do need to control costs like real estate, but they also have an interest in keeping employees productive. So they do surveys and listen to employees and I suspect the reality is people aren't complaining as much as we think they are.

Also, a lot of people who can't stand the noise already do work remotely. They would still be in the broader surveys complaining, but employers wouldn't hear them on internal surveys.

> I wonder if it's a cultural Europe/US thing?

It might be all the extra vacay in Europe. Noise is a stressor, and getting away from it lets that stress diminish.

> I have worked in a classic "cubicle" environment in the US for a few months, and I cannot say it affected my productivity significantly.

Most people filter that stuff out effectively, but some people don't, and if you're like me and your brain amps it up, it can be pretty hellish.
This saddens me as I wonder how much time it will take? As my name states I'd like to establish a connection to the human brain and digitalize it, though the mystery of consciousness is something I cannot grasp right now
Im a huge fan of the bullpen as well. You get the benefits of spontaneous conversation and collaboration, without the overwhelming anxiety that some of us feel in a crowded room. Its a solid compromise between collaboration and privacy.
This "synthetic" balance does closely remind me of "uninsured" balance I proposed for XLN (Lightning, extended with credit lines to solve capacity problem) https://github.com/fairlayer/wiki/blob/master/04_four_balanc...

The difference is synthetic balance is offered to be enforced from the collateral from the escrow. In XLN I proposed to try to enforce it by taking it from the other party's onchain balance.

Both options would work together even better ("synergy" haha)! From the first example:

1. blockchain dispute resolution code tries to take USDC from Alice's onchain balance (since Alice owes 750 to Bob).

2. if Alice still owes something, try to convert any other Alice's onchain balance into USDC using oracles, then return to Bob.

PS. will finish reading the paper sometime soon, so not sure if got it wrong.

Overall, happy to see new solutions coming to payment channels that do not imply full collateralization (via cross-asset synthetic collateralization as in here). Full prepaid collateral is stupid and limiting the growth.
I am still waiting for the time I can actually buy a phone running one of these alternate OSes. Jolla has a shop, but shop.jolla.com is "not available in my country". (I can't even see what they're selling!)
That's the point, open office spaces are essentially the panopticon idea from Jeremy Bentham in that regard. I used to work in a place where the managers would take the corner with two walls and all the workers would be observable.
There is difference between trading medicine and just "sending" it.

I think this comment explains the issue well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19481707
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What is the evidence that people want 'trustworthy' news?
Maybe if you have a scroll wheel, but with a Magic Mouse you can swipe in all directions and you would want it to pan around the map, not zoom.
It's a grabby title. However you're basically looking at the repo readme.
Like academic publications, every news article should be published along with acknowledgement of funding, conflict of interest and maybe data availability statement. It is a lot easier to judge a news article when you know who own the publication and such.
From my security perspective, this reads to me as if you are confirming to own an Asus laptop bought in that timeframe on a public forum.

Depending how paranoid you are, or should 'secure' you should be because of for example work, I would not have posted this.
For me, physical exercise helps with "thing-y" stuff but not "people-y" stuff. Meditation doesn't help me with anything (despite, or maybe because of, having grown up with a parent who was obsessed with that kind of spiritual woo). It basically just comes down to it taking a lot of mental energy for me to be "sociable", which then gets exponentially worse when I'm also trying to be "professional" and represent my company to a client.
Very interesting idea. However, having dabbled with Bayesian classifiers myself, I suspect that your decision to break the article into sentences may be a fatal flaw...both the Mturkers and the classifier lose out on valuable context that way. I know because I took a a similar approach in one of my own projects, and the classifier could never gain enough 'confidence' to classify things, even after thousands of trainings.

The approach might work pretty well if you broke it down to paragraphs, where some context is preserved, but the more context you provide, the better the classifier will perform, often for surprising reasons. For example, I built one classifier that was performing poorly until I re-trained it without stripping HTML and headers; after that it performed splendidly. Upon examination I found that tokens such as domains and IP addresses in headers and links were hugely influential (and rightly so) in the classification.

Just something to consider. :) Apologies if I incorrectly assumed that your classifier is Bayesian.
The NYT is part of the Western propaganda machine.

Why do you think that US citzens and EU citizens do not know about deadly sanctions as economic warfare?

Why do you think this post is downvoted despite linking verifiable facts?

Hedges: Journalism Should Be About Truth, Not Career - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself (2/7)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0oGJ2yrmc

No volunteers: EU countries bow to US pressure over alternative payment channel for Iran

https://www.rt.com/business/444051-eu-fears-us-sanctions-ira...

Who’s the boss? SWIFT defies EU, caving in to US pressure to cut off Iranian banks

https://www.rt.com/business/443315-swift-iran-us-sanctions/

Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE
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My last role (at a FAANG) had this lovely combination of short cubicle walls, standing desks that rise above the short walls, and mechanical keyboards. Dreaded it every day.
There are a hundred (at least) vendors who make AR-15 pattern rifles, Colt's patent expired several years ago.

The Armalite AR-15, the Colt AR-15, the Colt M4, Colt M4A1, FN M4A1, and the military M16, M16A1, M16A2, are all the same weapon with minor modifications. The significant differences are barrel length (interchangeable among most if not all), upper (slick side or with forward assist, not consistent among any of them), buffer weight (generally the full-auto versions have a heavier buffer), trigger model (full auto, 3rd burst, and semi-only -- many variants exist and are interchangeable among most models w/ exception that the civilian models do not have the upper hole that allows for the full-auto trigger components to be installed).
Not to mention the hearing damage I do to my ears in these environments. I can't get into flow unless I literally cannot hear or see activity around me.
I am sympathetic for those who are already working and may be left stranded by advances in AI. But I am skeptical of economic incentives which may lead to the birth of too many people in an attempt to preserve the status quo. So assume for now that AI will indeed lead to a decrease in the demand for human labor. Eventually that decrease will lead to a decrease in the human population.

Right now the explosion of the human population, which will peak sometime in this century or the next before declining, is destroying earth's natural habitats. I see the decrease in demand for human labor as a good thing in the long run, although there are lots of unfortunate short-term effects which hopefully we can mitigate.

The decrease in global human population is already being test-run in a few countries, and the effects are mild so far: very low unemployment rates, stable or declining property prices. One worry is paygo pension systems, but that is a small price to pay for what we have to do in the end. I simply do not understand the fear of a falling demand for labor and a falling population.
Interestingly, the M14 is only now finally getting entirely phased out. It found quite the niche doing exactly what it was designed for, middle to long range precision fire.

Entirely tangential, but I really don't think John Browning gets enough credit for how good his designs we're.

The M2 is still in regular use, and the M1911 keeps popping up despite the pentagon's best attempts to phase it out. An argument against design by committee.
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Show us amazingly long uptimes
I am always proud of my raspberrypi server at home. Its long uptime is almost 4 months!
[pi@rbp1]~$ uptime
15:31:17 up 114 days, 4:21, 2 users, load average: 0.42, 0.23, 0.17
show me yours!
Psychopath? That I would rather that all the terrible things in the world emerged randomly rather than being a part of some grand plan, or some supernatural game of Good Vs Evil?

I think you might be reaching for a label when you could have simply said we disagree.
That is actually true. And very very applicable to software development.
Amusingly, the overhead view of their structure looks vaguely like an overhead view of the brain
Last time I was there, Microsoft (Redmond campus) still had actual offices for all of their devs & QA (including contractors).
I went the with Dell XPS 13 for this refresh cycle. Typing on it now. Running Ubuntu 18.04 and its a great little machine. I can even use my already owned Apple USB-C to HDMI/USB adapter when giving presentations. I had switched in 2017 to using a Linux desktop full time for development and now I have the full Linux laptop again for the first time since switching to the Macbook in graduate school.
I think the intent is that, there is no web UI for the product itself. The UI for product itself is a terminal program, accessed via either SSH, or a web based terminal client. The product UI has zero HTML/CSS/etc.
> Having the scroll wheel move in y with no scroll to move in x just seems...weird.

Scroll wheels are still a thing in 2019 ? I can scroll in any direction using either the trackpad or a Magic Mouse in pretty much every app and website except Google Maps.
Isn't that situation only possible if config.push is set to matching? As far as I know, it's been set to simple by default since Git 2.0 [0].

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...
The police started acting long after the website owner removed Coinhive from his website.
I can't watch random nsfw videos on youtube in a open office, give me back my closed office so i can slack it!
Clickbait title; the company switched to "manual production", the ransomware only took down part of their IT.
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I think your outlook on the subject is extremely pessimistic and is a strong reflection of your own jaded feelings towards misinformation.
That is a website.
It's less critical now that browsers have standardized on the ARIA interface so it's more likely that JS sites will work, as long as you use ARIA correctly, but also note that many users are on older combinations — e.g. JAWS on IE11 is still fairly common — and you have no easy way to measure screen-reader activity so it's hard to tell whether, say, the 5% of your old IE traffic is a high percentage of your screen reader users.

The other challenge is that many JavaScript-heavy sites have horrible fallback mechanisms and you would want to test to make sure that at least someone with a screen reader would have an idea of why they're not hearing any content.
Serious question: if it's about decreasing costs, why not get rid of the workers?
pg.3 - this section also references, amongst others, this paper by the same authors: https://economics.mit.edu/files/15254
IMHO, journalism is slowly dying. These days you find more "opinion-based" or "make-it-viral" news pieces than proper investigative journalism. Services like this can help but at the same time they can create further segregation of true news vs poor news if most of the critics start growing to be biased.
The new trend of "You don't even get an assigned desk, anyone can take yours at any time" is beyond low. We're literally replaceable cogs now. Don't bother doing anything silly like leaving a water bottle at your desk, or pictures of your family, or god forbid, a plant: it's someone else's now.
I have to admit that this was a bigger challenge that I wish I had paid attention to before buying. I have gotten used to it after about a week though. A little more scrolling that I like but not unusable.

For my hardcore coding work I almost never use the laptop screen alone though. Either the laptop is plugged into an external or I am using my desktop rig with 3 monitors.
This is a great video, thank you for sharing!
Just to be clear, I should have said swarm. This is not about the whole HN and I've been here for a long time to see how it adjusted its directions from the top.

I should probably know better than to voice my opinion to a group of strangers, but no, I will not apologize for what I think.

I voiced my opinion and that part of HN crowd that heard me considered that I should shut up. Such is life
> Trial 1 Month 0.1E

> Subscription: 5E per Month

> ...

> I decided to charge 5$ (0.1$ trial)

So which is it? $ or E? And is E supposed to be €? Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number.
The rifle qualification for the USMC is 500 yards from a fixed point, Soldiers and Marines are generally expected to hit a man sized target from a supported position at 500-600 yards and non-supported at 200-300.
Hackers dropped a secret backdoor in Asus’ update software
We're effectively creating the rotten tomatoes for science at scite.ai. We rely upon a deep learning model to classify citation statements as supporting, contradicting, or mentioning.
NYPD cracks down on groups of delivery people gathering outside restaurant
Do you know anything about how EGCG affects absorption of 5-HTP?

I've read in several places that 5-HTP is more effective when consumed with EGCG (green tea extract), but I'm not sure if this is just urban legend or if it has any real–world effects.
This is fantastic. I've been super fascinated with the Long Lines program and would love any suggestions y'all have for additional reading that's in a format like this. There's a lot of great info on long-lines.net, but I'd love more higher-level writing like this to get more historical context.
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> It’s astonishing to me that new staff as well as new managers became such eager consumers and proponents of open offices just because a few big-IPO companies made it _seem_ avant-garde.

In my experience, it was rare that anyone was a proponent of it except as a cost-savings measure. In almost every case, everyone knew what it meant that the staff had open-plan but the people responsible for it had offices with doors.
I would have to agree. I have never taken RT evaluations seriously which is one of the reasons I was so disappointed to hear they would be involved in the project.
My macbook's touchpad doesn't seem to increment or decrement a type="number" input when I try to scroll within it.
Sounds cool. At the end of the day, someone will probably built it and deploy it and we'll get to see it succeed or fail. Very interesting time to be alive. A lot of good science going on. I think we will look back at this time as a fairly golden age in whatever we eventually call this (decentralized finance, or is that just one angle?). This will be the case regardless of what succeeds or fails. Really an industry you can make advances in.
Microsoft and Softbank are helping Abu Dhabi find its first big startup
Unfortunately that compact strategy doesn't work in the market, just ask Sony. Sony has been making compact phones with flagship specs for years without much success. The phones are great, too (good feel, more than powerful enough, great battery life, minimal android mods, etc). But they just don't sell. Everyone wants the latest and biggest Samsung. Sony hasn't been able to carve out a profitable niche here.

I have a Sony compact and people are constantly asking me questions about it with intrigue then shrug their shoulders and go back to their giant phones.

The main knock against Sony phones is the camera quality, which they intentionally nerf in order to not damage their DSLR business.
Who cares what articles say, if a company can still recruit employees?

When good candidates start turning down positions because of the office layout, that might create some pressure to change, though.

But I think one of the problems is that bad office layouts tend to exacerbate problems. They may be the ultimate underlying cause of retention problems, but they're typically not the proximate cause, and thus don't get the blame they're due. Someone might leave because of interpersonal conflicts or just "not fitting in" to their team, which might not seem like an office-layout issue. But who knows if they might have gelled better with their team if they weren't all sitting around with noise-cancelling headphones on, or glaring at each other for turning the lights on/off, or taking too many phone calls, or all the other annoyances of an open office.
Mostly resolved using heavier bullet weights. There are a bunch of different bullets out there (MK262 is the standard as I recall), and I think the 6.5/6.8 are unlikely to be adopted as supply chain logistics says to remain with 5.56.
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I'm still on a 6s and it's absolutely fine. I can't see myself upgrading in the foreseeable future, but when I do it will almost certainly be another iPhone. They've been really good to me and lasted many years as hand-me-downs, sometimes with a battery refurb just before they go out of support. The value proposition is just excellent.
When I had to work in an open office, I likewise used noise-cancelling headphones to isolate myself, but that didn't help with the visual distraction of all of the humans wriggling about in the distance and periphery. I probably would have done better if I could have faced a wall or other barrier, but I didn't have that option at the time. It was rough, I had to quit after a few unproductive months.
There's a lot of stuff I could say here, but I'll stick to

> Attempts to integrate it with other build systems have been met with hostility from the Rust & Cargo teams.

This is very much not true. We've put in a ton of work to support this. Arguably, we've put in too much design work and not enough implementation work; we've had a few different attempts at making this work even better than it does today, and we haven't finished them up. But this is very much something that is cared about and desired by the team.

It was literally on the 2017 roadmap: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/02/06/roadmap.html

> Rust should integrate easily into large build systems. Plans include working with large companies incorporating Rust to understand how best to equip Cargo to smooth the process.

I don't know how this is framed as "hostility".

As one example of the work done here: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5579
The one that exists for movies adjusted their public mirror reflection the moment the public voiced a contrarian opinion.

What would make a similar site for news safe from such trust abuse?
My key objection is that it doesn't offer any additional value: if you are the sort of customer who would do this, you are also the sort of customer who would implement the same chain of commands to backup to a virtual machine that you owned, eliminating the attractiveness of baxx.dev as a aggregated target.

What additional value can you add?
By "uncontroversial" I mean there is broad agreement among critics that this movie is worth watching. This does not necessarily mean the subject matter of the movie is uncontroversial.
Deducing from [1]: Currently somewhere on Digital Ocean infrastructure. Long term on Hetzner servers (apparently SX62 [2]), so at that stage it's either Germany or Finland.

1: https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/infra-and-pricin...

2: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx
In other words you have to harvest the parties' contact lists in order to do this matching?
Jesus, as though there isn't enough vain people working in the news business already. Society needs fewer trophies.
I like better open office as I can have interaction with other people, I would literally never interact with anyone (except my team members) if i had my own office, I am an introvert and there is that,
It doesn't.

Sending and receiving a message on Wave (^‿^)ﾉ is different from any other messaging platform.
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I'd love to see this in combination with Knowhere News (https://knowherenews.com/).
It's an AR-15 variant just like the HK-416 it's based on. Yes, it has a piston, but technically the DI system has a piston too -- it's just configured differently.
I work in an open office. The only thing that bothers me is people doing the "fake whisper", where they talk in a regular volume but with a strained whispery voice. Just talk normally, it's easier for both the listener to hear and for other people in the room to tune out.
Because the workers are willing to work in a reduced cost workspace.
Comparing objective truths to subjective opinions makes no sense to me.