skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, I find the majority of offices too cold.

AC tempatures generally cover large areas and are controlled by the older managers who often like it colder than the yongers boots on the ground. This in turn means we end up wearing hoodies or cardigans indoor.

I actually worked for a bank, with a dress code, that was so cold I wore 3 hoodies. As a tech contractor I wear whatever I want, but I was questioned about it several times. Pretty bizarre really.
It's available again, but the price went up considerably, from around $850 to $1300, theoretically, because some design changes needed due to some components not available anymore.
Thank you for the free copy to HN crew.
Our values are so far skewed towards progress that actually directing that progress to be beneficial to all is almost an afterthought (or, work that most people aren't really allowed to contribute to). People also aren't rewarded for what they _didn't_ do, and as long as nothing changes we'll continue to motivate people to build with more or less reckless abandon wrt social impact. Investigating correct usage of power isn't immediately profitable, and in a capitalist reward system it's hard to see how that work would get prioritized to the same level as simply increasing power.

I'd never thought of this balancing of progress perspective, thanks for such a thought provoking comment!
Even my wife (Japanese) has problems identifying non-Japanese Asians. On the other hand I think I'm better at it (but it may be that I'm not as good as I think).
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I get a 404 but anyway a lot of people don’t know that Shen Yun is part of a cult (Falun Gong)
(I made this comment in another Github related post, but to repeat:)

If you view Github as just a Git (and occasionally static site) hosting service, then there's not lock-in whatsover; you can always move to somewhere like Gitlab or host your own. But the point is: Github isn't just a Git website anymore; it creates a community around it. Right now the reason why people aren't easily moving out of Github is because by moving to somewhere else, they have to risk getting less views, less recognition, and less pull requests for their libraries. Also, if you were a Sponsor in Github and earning $30000 a month and then had disagreements with Github's policies and want to get out, you now have to risk shaving off all your sponsors to switch to a different service like Liberapay. Maybe some of your passionate existing patrons will go towards the extra effort to switch alongside you, but the reality is: most won't.

There were lots of promises and hopes for the patron economy (or I would extend this to call it a "distributed economy"), where people can directly give money as reward for their work while avoiding the traditional hierarchical structure of corporations. However, because of the nature of the current society we live in, the ideal version of this economy would never come to fruition. Think of examples such as Patreon, Youtube, and recently Github; they're an enabler for diverse communities, rich subcultures, and innovative ideas, but the users still have to live under the guise of huge capitalistic forces. It seems that the distributed economy still has to live under the current technocratic system (where huge tech corporations have much higher leverage than small companies or non-profit organizations). To see this relationship between users and corporations as either symbiotic or exploitative is up to your choice, but I think the status-quo will stay for quite some time.
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Won't a restrictive license mean fewer users, and thus fewer sponsors?
And now Labor is careening in the same pro-coal direction. Sad!
"personally identifiable" is a tricky thing.

Even if you cannot use the data to identify a person, maybe your ISP or the police could, making the information "personally identifiable". According to https://www.groundlabs.com/what-is-pii-for-gdpr/ IP addresses count as PII.

> Some requests totally are identify-able though, for example if the user goes on to click one of our ads, buy something, and give us their postal address.

And if you operate at scale, that might happen thousands of times per day.

IMHO this is a serious GDPR infringement.

Do you notify users that you process PII, even if you don't bind on this request? Do you give users the option to opt-out before you do? If not, you are in serious trouble.
Did you even read the article? People have seen the dude getting on and off trains. There's physical evidence in the form of unlocked safety chains. How does reality "seem unlikely" to you?
I've been to places with thousands of Japanese (and the occasional Korean, which can be difficult to notice) and then just me. But on the other hand I've never, not once, been made to feel like an outsider.
I also used to work in buy-side ad-tech and the industry cannot possibly function without making a wide (global, industrial scale) swathe of individuals and institutions vulnerable to espionage, social engineering, blackmail etc... The fact that these vulnerabilities are not exploited more widely or more aggressively is a minor miracle (then again ... maybe they are and we just don't know about it yet...)
Great news! I hope this will enhance the development of many great open source projects.

This has already been discussed at GitLab and it would be nice if something similar is implemented on other platforms as well. Here's the issue with more details https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43468
I am saying there is no consensus because there are different conclusions about the situation drawn by different scholars. You are saying that's not a convincing approach to take, that you could do the same about tobacco, which I don't believe, actually. You then proceed to state your opinion as fact despite it being most likely the result of a, relatively speaking, cursory reading of others' writings on the topic. What leads you to dismiss the views of other scholars who happen to have come to a different conclusion on the Bengal famine?
I've been conditioned to think crashy windows 95 when I see that aesthetic. Which is unfair. Because it's really quite clean and straightforward.
There's another quite good view at Maho Beach in Saint Martin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maho_Beach#/media/File:Corsair...
I hope you're right. I really have my doubts, but have seen enough life not to be too confident in my predictions.
I want climate control, not aircon. ie - keep a single consistent sodding temperature. As it is we spend the day toggling the aircon on/off depending whether it's currently freezing or too warm in the office.

The consistency with which office aircon can be unfit for purpose is astonishing.
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If you were a Sponsor in Liberapay and earning $30000 a month and then had disagreements with Liberapay's policies and want to get out, you now have to risk shaving off all your sponsors to switch to a different service like GitHub. Maybe some of your passionate existing patrons will go towards the extra effort to switch alongside you, but the reality is: most won't.

This isn't an argument against GitHub or LiberaPay. This is an argument against being locked in to any financial intermediary.
Your Google search history will show if you have searched for a political party, religion and then your Google profile name is visible. How is that GDPR filtered?

I am also dubious since its Ireland and Google offices,servers is located on Ireland. Thus Ireland data regulation authority might rule in favor for Ireland.
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Hey, Devon here. :)

> The only question I have is how easy it would be for those who don’t use Github to subscribe to a recurring donation?

Thanks for the question buro9! All it takes to become a sponsor is an email address and payment method. Our goal is to make sponsorships as friction-free as possible.

Re: individual/repo/org question, GitHub Sponsors is launching small and simple, and as we learn from the initial beta program, we’ll look to expand the ways to participate. One thing we’ve done is put together an advisory panel of open source teams to better understand their unique needs. We’d love to have your voice on the panel, if you’re interested! Send me an email -- devonzuegel@github.com.
Cause there's gotta be a button on this thing for that thing, right?--Homer Simpson

Learning the fundamentals of your tools is a...fundamental of doing this job. If you don't want to know how your tools work, I question one's competence or desire to do this job.
Massive congrats to the team! Well deserved, Dependabot is an awesome tool!
Qubes is a Xen-based virtualization thing, it has nothing to do with tor by itself, you can think of it as a replacement to qemu or virtualbox (but not exactly). Qubes has official support for both Whonix and Tails.

It looks like whonix is what you are looking for, from wikipedia:

> Unlike Tails, Whonix is not "amnesic"; both the Gateway and the Workstation retain their past state across reboots
Totally agree! And it's already being discussed, here's the issue with more details about it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43468
Cuphead was well after indie games had been well-established. Go back a decade and change -- if it does well, this could be hardware's Cave Story or Braid or Spelunky.
It's worth noting that the same re-identification problem also applies to advert placement that doesn't use any information about the person being advertised to and is based solely on the topic of the website or webpage, and - according to this blog post - this investigation is in fact going after Google for using that information in ad placement. They're basically trying to kill Google's online advertising business full stop.
> Who lied about this ?

> It's pretty clear we didn't accepted any PRs since December 2016 until Red Hat decided to replace our code, which started early June 2018. That's 18 months.

You are asking: "why didn't RH help out", you also didn't accept any pull requests. That surely would answer the question about why they didn't bother with pull request.

The question is then, how exactly do you think they have helped?
When weighing up the likelihood of something it is valid to consider the opinions of experts. Dogma is believing what an authority says is incontrovertibly true. I am not saying that man made climate change is incontrovertibly true, only incontrovertibly highly likely. It is true that the view of the great majority of the experts in a field has authority, particularly in regards to science, but it is an justifiable authority, not one for example one built solely on tradition.
You are mistakenly conferring the correlation between long and short term trends I think. The reason for long term trends is (as far as I know) somewhat uncertain and might be having an effect, but the short term trend is mostly attributed to humans doing things and can be shown to massively correlate to events (like the industrial revolution in the UK, massive oil consumption etc).

The consensuses you mention were in their time not a 'consensus' and dubious at best and already recognized by the contemporaries of the time.

> This trend started long before humans started using oil

Correct to a certain extend (see other post for sources), they started using (very broadly as greenhouse gas emissions concern) agriculture/herding first, wood, and coal. Oil as a source of greenhouse gasses is mainly 20th century thing.
Thanks for the demo. I barely see a difference too.
The climate is a physical phenomenon.
> Try looking at the last 400,000 years and tell me how well you can predict those swings.

Actually if we had so reliable measurements for that period like we do for last hundred years, it would not be hard.

Your arguments have no basis, just an attempt to distract from the facts by grasping for what is not being discussed (e.g. 400 thousand years precise inference). Given the information we do have we have very good understanding of the relevant phenomena.
> There's a huge incentive for both EU and Google to have the latter just pay a fine every now and then and remain in business.

For the EU, making a decision frequently means getting the consensus of 28 governments with sometimes very different ideologies. I don't think it's capable of plotting.
OP Z was just released (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19987746#19990334)

You couldn’t find any on reverb dot com?
You're right that this wouldn't matter if the program is run with the same privileges as the caller. I was imagining if that wasn't the case (e.g. the user gives dstat setuid permissions), then letting it load arbitrary code could produce a security hole. Admittedly I didn't think too hard about whether/why something like this might be done -- if it wouldn't be, then never mind. As a matter of general safe practice I err on the side of caution, i.e. not depending on argv[0] to have any particular value for the correctness of the program, because otherwise you have to think through all the possible attack/error scenarios and likely document them for the user, etc... and I thought in any case it was worth pointing out that argv[0] did not necessarily correspond to the program location regardless.
Yeah I've had lots of Ulta detailed report requests from Japan too. Often it is clear they don't understand but keep asking.

Several had so many questions they asked for the actual code for a misc set of settings....

They were always meaningless rat hole type discussions and usually with enterprise customers. I'm not sure if they were impressing their bosses with big reports but oh man it was a pain.
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In Singapore I wouldn't walk 2 miles. The metro isn't great either unless you happen to be on the right line, I'd just get a cab or uber, they're very cheap.
> negative citations also count as citations.

If by "negative citations" you mean works that are widely criticised, I don't see the problem. Most scientific papers cite prior works in order to point out their limitations. This is not a bad thing. We need to understand how previous attempts fell short in order to understand how and why we might want to do better in the future.

Maybe however by "negative citations" you mean citations of works that are plainly wrong. I think this occurs very infrequently, to the point where it probably isn't an issue. I certainly haven't come across works in my area which are cited for being wrong. I don't see the point of citing them either; I'd rather cite a paper that points out the problems and analyses their impact (i.e. something constructive).
> In my experience small children never make any distinction either, anywhere in the world.

Are you familiar with The Clarks' doll experiments?

The doll experiment involved a child being presented with two dolls.
Both of these dolls were completely identical except for the skin and
hair color. One doll was white with yellow hair, while the other was
brown with black hair. The child was then asked questions inquiring
as to which one is the doll they would play with, which one is the nice
doll, which one looks bad, which one has the nicer color, etc. The
experiment showed a clear preference for the white doll among all
children in the study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_and_Mamie_Clark#Doll_e...

Though the effect was less intense for children from integrated schools.
Didn't Bostrom say the only way for us to survive was through massive surveillance, sounds about right.
Agreed, it'd be very difficult to aim squarely at your mouth
> Google will argue that while this data is intimate (religion, age, personal preferences), it is not personally identifiable.

IANAL but I would assume that all it takes is one incident of it actually being personally identifiable to erase this argument. All it takes is one data point that is "unique enough" to map it to one person. Imagine a very unique combination of these three values (religion, age, personal preferences: muslim, 21, likes curling) and add an equally unique location (Iceland) and you may be in trouble.
I want to see a power user OS. Something designed for humans who need to analyze huge amounts of data in arbitrary ways. Something that knows how to work with cloud resources to profile new data sources, simplifying the whole ETL challenge. With great APIs at the program level, so I can always pull datasets between apps, use the best app for the job, and automate everything I need to do twice.
I feel like this paper is blaming offices for cold temperatures. Is there any barrier to just wearing warmer clothes?
Uh, multiple times a day. I'm a professional programmer in a UNIX/BSD/Linux environment.
One requires a network that tracks your every step and analyzes your behavior in a way that makes most totalitarian regimes green with envy. The other knows nothing about you except that the site you are browsing right now is about computer hardware and there might be a slight chance that you want to buy computer hardware right now.
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> As early as the 1880s, Paul Lafargue, a son-in-law of Karl Marx, put forth the demand for a three-hour work day...

If three-hour work day seemed feasible back then it must be even more so today.

I think shorter working time is one of the most overlooked solutions to the climate catastrophe. And before you object by bringing up adverse economic effects, please consider that introducing 40-hour workweek did not collapse the economy.

"For example, in the U.S in the late 19th century it was estimated that the average work week was over 60 hours per week..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
From a language and semantics perspective, any comparisons to Nix?
If you don't have that interrupt in your brain that fires when you read something so outlandish that it surely must be deliberately provocative, you're going to spend a lot of time very upset about articles from The Onion.
Neurofeedback training has been very useful that I even forget that I have ADHD. Take a look at this post if interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19984126
> I don't use tilde much.

What?? I use it all the time: Tilde in vim for upper/downcase and bash for home and backtick for jumping to marks and in JS for template strings. Great key.
My dress code when interviewing at any company: never dress better than the CEO's profile photo on the company website.
You can always put more clothes on. There rapidly comes a point where taking clothes off when it's too hot gets you in hot water with HR...
@Github/Microsoft feature request:

It would be nice to see sponsorship or bounties for individual issues in Github.
This is something that annoyed me about “anonymous” ad techniques. It’s pretty easy, I think, for an unethical company to make a very specific ad that still has thousands of people “10 miles of DC, male, >60, English speaker, Spanish speaker, college graduate, etc” that still has a population in tens of thousands and have the click through offer a signup with email. So the site gets the email and knows from the targeted campaign lots of info about the person they would not share with the site normally.

Do this enough and you end up in Cambridge Analytica-town with portfolios on millions of email addresses that can then be sold independently of the advertiser’s knowledge.
The nice thing about Terraform (and Ansible) imo is that they don't require a daemon but just run locally (or on CI), with some shared state in a object store.
I always question what one's work day involves and how committed they are to their work when they say they hate the command line and avoid the shell. It says, to me, that they really don't want to delve very deeply into how computers work and don't care. If they care, but cannot understand, then I question their competence and whether they need to find another line of work.
Because generic ads are less likely to work.
Now compare it to other countries in Europe or even my home; Hong Kong, the region with the most expensive real estate in the world. I live and work in the equivalent of Zone 1 and pay 5.1 HKD (50p) to get to work, even less because there's currently a government fare subsidy scheme in operation.
I remember hacking my gp2x adding an USB port, plugging a gps on it, porting driver and a gis/map lib.. so much time to waste and learn new things!
I'd be interested to see the results of a survey of how many Emacs users use Emacs Lisp in any capacity beyond cut-and-pasting examples found online into their .emacs or .emacs.d/ configs.
Yup, admittedly quite frustrating because I want one but the new, higher price just pushes it a little bit too high for me to consider...
Individual governments on the other hand are, and in this case their interests align.
I work on Wall St (metaphorically of course) and people wear vests because it’s cold, windy, and you look good wearing one. They’re also light and sleaveless, so they’re easy to take off and they also make your arms look good.
Half of the media don't. Most of the media live from the climate catastrophe rhetoric
CDE project also should move from SourceForge to GitHub or GitLab to gain better visibility, and more contributors.
I'm not saying "open development" is not important but your message reads like its dismissive of people with different goals.

I'm a developer, I might create some tool for my needs and share it with others. I've got other income sources so there's no need for me to charge money for it. I just put it on GitHub as the easiest thing I can do to allow others benefit from it.

In some sense I would be open source developer. I don't care about "open development" though, I don't spend time pondering about software philosophy and its place in the world.

If there's a will to donate some money to me so I can justify spending some more time on the tool to make it more accessible in any way then I want the simplest way for both sides to facilitate the transaction.

Same goes for me being on the other side. I see a library I'd like to use, I believe author(s) made a good job, I'd like the library to be maintained, I want to pay for that with as little traction as possible. I don't care if the author created the library because he believes in "free software" or was simply bored and again, GitHub was the most convenient channel to share.

The same way I don't care what philosophy lies beneath music producer's work and what tools do we use while I'm paying him for his tutorials as long as it works for both of us.
I'm surprised you say that - I have an Apple Watch and I genuinely love the ability to scroll with the crown - I don't block the display with my finger and I get tactile feedback.
> This, to me, is one of the primary tenants of what is evil about naziism, or tyranny, or whatever you call it.

One of the biggest disservice that has been made towards humanity is the fabrication of this notion that evil totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany or Communist Russia are exceptional events created by exceptional individuals who are extraoedinarily evil up to a supernatural/cartoonish level. This fabricated sense of exceptionalisn leads people to believe that thesr massive levels of cruelty are impossible to reproduce, thus there is no likelihood that our little world could ever descend into that state of affairs, even when we repeatedly see cases where police forces assassinate citizens with complete impunity.