skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I personally have no issue with working from home but both like my own company and am used to self motivating. I can imagine if you'd worked from an office for years then moved to remote work, you'd find it hard.
The bigger mistake is that paper and being clever will trump the power of guns.
more like , a big ship or something like a retired oil rig. It needs to go in deep waters (>200 miles off the coast) and stay there for extended periods of time (and weather). A cruise ship would be ideal as it can be relatively self-sustaining. A bunch of cruise ships would be enough to start a big city.
You saw your chance and you took it. And for that, I respect you.
This looks very nice - I use the rather lovely Knots 3D on iOS - an app that I've had installed for about 10 years or so? Handy if you are out on the road and lets you use a scrubber bar to see the construction of the knot and rotate it around 3 axes.
This country isn't just carbon neutral – it's carbon negative (2016)
Eurofins Scientific detects ransomware in some of its IT systems
Don't know about UK, but in Germany trains are obscenely expensive, especially when you compare them to low-cost airlines. There is nothing like "low-cost railway" so far, and I doubt there ever will be.
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"Burn-out is included in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon. It is not classified as a medical condition."

https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/burn-out/en/

Be careful of what you read and believe.
Didn't swift have a long, hidden development timeframe? Sure, rust has been public for longer, but it hasn't been stable for very long at all.
There's chargeback services who pay banks to tell them first so you get a chance to respond before it hits your merchant account.

This will let you refund and pay less fees at the merchant account level. I've used https://chargeback.com/
Amazon needs to be broken up. Marketplace should be distinct from Amazon retail. They can compete on the independent platform like anyone else.
Plus a lot of those fields of grain are subsidized during times of plenty for national security (and other) reasons.
RDL is on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rdl
True, but the point is still all cities in the US have plenty of resources to enforce whatever arbitrary thing they want to. (note that the courts might strike down some for constitutional reasons). That they don't have the resources to do all isn't anything new, even the richest person in the world cannot afford to do everything.
Offsetting is good because it starts the process of getting people to think of it as a cost until we get a true carbon tax. You don't need to ban plans, just getting people to save money by taking the train is a net win over what we've been doing for decades.
> The "simple" stuff has been by-and-large arbitraged away.

Purely theoretical conclusion then is that markets had been perfectly priced ahead over all time horizones.
The founder of the Seasteading Institute, Patri Friedman (son David Friedman and grandson of Milton Friedman), is a libertarian anarchist. So yeah, undermining the concept of the nation-state is really built into the DNA of the whole venture. It goes beyond tax avoidance.
I am genuinly curious; I promise I am not just trolling here...

Why is it important to call out the fact that is in [lang]?
polynesia pulled out of the agreement

> On March 3, 2018, a mayor from French Polynesia said the agreement was "not a legal document" and had expired at the end of 2017 in response to a challenger trying to make it an issue for the May, 2018 elections.
I can immerse myself more in presentations when I'm physically there. YT is not the same. I can also grab the speaker and ask them some questions.

Also going to some new interesting places.
As an end user, how can I tell the modal dialog is actually my bank?

It looks trivial for the vendor to man in the middle attack.

I’d take my business elsewhere if presented with a UI from some random e-commerce site asking for extra personal information.
The parent is BS. You are almost always allowed to use stopped escalators in London.

They are sometimes blocked off but it’s unusual.
This is probably an unpopular opinion amongst liberals like myself, but I personally think the idea that the "average joe" is going to be able to change their lifestyle and solve climate-change to be somewhat of a pipe-dream. If you want to live in an ecologically more-sustainable way (using renewable energy, becoming a vegetarian, avoiding disposables, etc), that's great! I honestly encourage that, and it's probably a good thing, I won't try and stop you.

However, I think it's unreasonable to expect everyone to do that on their own. For every person doing an ecologically responsible thing (taking trains instead of planes, taking public transit instead of driving, etc), there is just such a huge magnitude of people doing the "wrong" thing to cancel it out, largely because that (from a short-term-pragmatic-standpoint, the "wrong" thing is better) or at least cheaper. If you value your time at all, flying across the country is cheaper, meat is readibly available and inexpensive (and typically taste good), and driving to work is substantially easier than biking.

I don't know anything about ecology so I'll admit that I might regret writing this entire comment in a year, but it seems to me that the only way we're going to make a dent in climate change is to a) create technology that provides an experience that is competitive with the dirty version of something (electric cars could be a good example), or b) to start artificially taxing things that are really hurting the environment. If we started charging an extra dollar-per-gallon tax on gasoline, it would probably discourage people from driving as much, and put more economic incentive on point a).

I can commend someone not flying to conferences anymore, but I am afraid to say that I dont have the same self-discipline.
That was Mussolini with the trains.
Personally, I tend to work much longer hours when I'm remote.

Some of that is that the commute is shorter, so I can start work earlier and stop it later without while keeping the same amount of time at home.

Some of that is that my lunch breaks are typically much shorter. I don't have to take time to go to a restaurant if I fail to pack a lunch in the morning, and I'm much less likely to spend a while after lunch just chit-chatting with my colleagues.

A big part of it is that I just don't mind working longer hours when I'm remote, because the experience of working is more pleasurable - fewer distractions, I can listen to music without headphones, the lighting is much more pleasant (I made sure to give myself a window office at home), the people furnishing my home office were kind enough to buy me a chair that doesn't make my back ache, etc. etc. At an office, when the end of the day rolls around, I can't wait to get out of there. Working remotely, I'd rather finish up whatever I was in the middle of before shoving off for the day.
I don't know that much about Peterson, but from what I understand he would be aligned with believers in progress like Pinker, and therefore not "reactionary".

The article doesn't have to be perfectly balanced in criticism of different political groups of course, but if you can read it start to finish and think it doesn't have an obvious bias then I think you're deluding yourself. I picked an extract that seemed to me the post obviously politically focused, but if I wanted to choose a positive mention of a left-wing person, or a negative mention of a right-wing person, I could have chosen about forty different clauses.
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They would evade taxes from moving from where they currently live (and pay those taxes, which they're not able to evade via fancy constructs) to "Nowhere Land" where they (apparently) are not taxed at all.

Alas, "Nowhere Land" may figure at one point that they need to generate income for basic maintenence and other necessary expenses. Basic maintenance, which can be very, very costly out at sea.
The Unequal Recovery: Measuring Financial Distress by Zip Code
The poll asks what is most important to you, and they failed to leave out salary and other more obvious ones as one of the options.

It would be a much more sound poll if it was framed as "Among these options, which one is the most important when looking for a new job"
This is exactly correct. I have an astigmatism which causes chromatic abberation. Specifically, the B in RGB is usually out of focus when the R is in focus, although I can actually force my eyes to focus on the B and cause the opposite to occur.

This has been exacerbated by my recent "graduation" to progressive glasses. For whatever reason these seem to cause their own chromatic abberation issues.

Dark mode actually makes the fringing a bigger problem, but I configure everything not to use blues significantly and so it overall makes things more readable for me.
I don't know about other fields, but theorems often get proved at math conferences.
There is no real difference between prescription medicines and illicit drugs
Please tell that to the European employers.

Most, especially in the German speaking part of Europe, are still run like factories, barely have flexible working hours and don't even want to hear about remote work as managers prefer having a close eye on employees at all time.
My dad is 93 and can no longer drive independently. He lives in a semi-rural area that is not well served by traditional taxi companies, and so he is severely limited in terms of getting around.

I think there may be some opportunity to serve elderly people like him, but the fact is, there is a wide range of technical ability among the elderly. Even in his 70s and 80s, my dad could barely handle the complexity of a flip phone.

And while there are other elderly people who are more tech-savvy, I think the big shift is going to occur when self-driving cars become available. That's going to open up a lot of mobility for people who can't drive because of age, disability, etc.
I wasn't implying that humans should be taken out of the loop. I was more referring to the hierarchy of mitigation. Most preferable are to design the hazard out of the system, followed by engineering controls, and lastly procedural/administrative mitigation.

Too often systems are designed with procedural mitigation as the primary way of controlling a hazard without realizing all the human factors that come into play. Maybe the pilot is distracted because she just had a fight with her spouse. Maybe her co-pilot a bad night's sleep. Or maybe he isn't physically capable generating the force necessary to move the trim wheel.

I think too often designs can over rely on administrative mitigation because the engineering controls seem too costly or difficult to implement. In some cases, this rationalization that a person "just" has to do XYZ activities to control the outcome falls short because we don't acknowledge all the factors that person is dealing with in the moment.

In this case, to someone like me without intimate knowledge of the Boeing process, it looks like they failed at their hazard analysis. They did not design the hazard out of the system (airframe design), the engineering controls were inadequate (MCAS), and the administrative controls were poorly managed (pilots did not understand the procedures for disabling MCAS or the procedures were not capable of being executed effectively). In other words, they did not apply appropriate hazard analysis and mitigation. Hindsight is easy, I know, but when schedule pressure hits a lot of these processes are rushed.
I’m the same. I much prefer working from home and don’t suffer from the issues in this post. I think aside from having a personality well suited to remote work, my experience being an entrepreneur helps a lot. Nothing is more isolating than being a sole founder in my opinion. Working remote with a team is more than enough interaction for me. When I’m working in an office a lot of my time gets eaten in meetings that more often than not didn’t need to happen. Remote work forces the whole team to be more disciplined in how the work/time is structured.

I will say this advice seems highly tuned to a different generation than mine. I really don’t want my company talking to me about “self care” or playing weird slack games (slack itself is great for remote though).
Wow. Sorry. That sort of thing angers me.

I won't presume to give you advice here, but for the other people reading, there are many churches who do work in this space, supporting shelters for victims of violent crimes, recovery groups, addiction recovery programs (substance abuse is often involved in domestic abuse), support groups for divorced people, fostering, adoption, and so on. There are places for one to do some good in this particular space.
The problem with remote work is working for a team that hasn't committed to making remote work tenable. It's too easy to miss out on whiteboard sessions & hallway conversations, and resentment by people who don't like making special accommodations for remote workers definitely happens.
> it's gonna be private security firms, so it's not gonna be cheap

One could say that police and military are not cheap either
I agree that remote work needs a certain personality type. You need to be self sufficient but also be willing to reach out proactively when you have problems and not keep struggling in silence as I have seen before. This is a difficult balance for some people.

As far as depression and anxiety goes I get that from my current job sitting in a cube with constant noise and interruption. I feel it’s starting to really impact my mental health negatively.

In the end i don’t think remote work is for everybody. Some people will thrive with it and some people will thrive in an office. It’s good to know which you are.
I have no desire to yell at you, simply to cancel the account and request a refund. While sending an email is okay, it would be better if there was a link directly to a page to do so, just like unsubscribing from an email list. Regardless, I would recommend changing the wording from "yell" because that sounds hostile, and most people don't want the conflict.
FDA raises alarm over PFAS contamination in many products of human health risk
I think its obvious he's talking about the fact that Firefox is unusable on MacOS (on scaled resolutions). And it seems Mozilla has no ability to fix this for a large portion of their potential clientele.
Except tracking pixels aren't following you, they already exist on the properties you choose to visit. It's more analogous to mass surveillance of the public square with security cameras.

Most stalking laws apply to a single person who is targeting an individual, in the effort to harass, incite fear, or some other malevolent intent.
Location location location. I don't live in San Francisco. (in fact overall that city has a small population so most people don't deal with their rules - though the side effects of the rules do effect people in nearby cities)
>everything-I-do-is-right like the God of Abraham

Are we talking about the same god? The god that orders his most observant follower to sacrifice his own child then changes his mind when he attempts to obey, the god that apologises with rainbows after committing genocide, the god that has to incarnate as a member of his own creation and then be sacrificed by others before he truly gets what it is like to be mortal? That god?

If you read the bible as a story about this deity called Jehova or whatever, it does not read as everything-I-do-is-right, but more about a flawed character that slowly goes through a process of personal discovery, who hasn't really benefitted very much by having a load of hangers-on worshipping him. Was one of the things that convinced me as a child that the bible probably wasn't all that reliable as a guide to cosmology. God as portrayed in that book, is actually far too human to have created the universe, at least that was my rough opinion at the age of 11 and it hasn't really changed that much since.
HubSpot SVP Product on Experimentation, Reliability, & Customer Feedback
Research shows that listening to heavy metal is a healthy way of processing neg
There is still a big difference between attending a talk in person and watching it on screen. From AV issues (can you see their laser pointer) to the option of easily asking a question afterwards. Plus, many scientific conferences have poster sessions which are rarely accessible remotely.

And don't underestimate how important meeting new people and networking is! I would say that's probably my biggest motivation for going to conferences these days.
In Bavaria, they're dirt cheap, at least for the regional trains. For 25 Euros cash, you can go anywhere in Bavaria all you want, for 24 hours, in as many trips as you want. Of course, this doesn't really compete with airlines, as this is for inter-city trips within the state, and no two cities in Bavaria are that far apart.

But to say there's no "low-cost railway" is plainly false. Bavaria has probably one of the best train systems in the entire world, and it's not expensive by any means.
Hello,

Thank you for your question.

This is something we considered but ultimately decided against. The cost (time, money and focus) that comes with patching, supporting and maintaining multiple version of our backend/infrastructure is not worth it at this stage of the product. We understand that this will be a turn-off for a big chunk of the enterprise market, we're OK with that.
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"Embrace, extend, extinguish" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...

Call me a skeptic.
Would likely involve incinerators.
(Glances at the "Programming Rust" book which has been sitting on his desk for months and thinks about writing an indemnification clause in the LICENSE file)
Soviet Union. su: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

Czechoslovakia. cs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cs

Yugoslavia. yu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu
Sleeper services are usually much, much more expensive than a regular seat, so it doesn't help in trying to compete with air service (where you don't need sleeper service because it's so much faster).
It really depends on the company; the culture is a huge issue. Be wary of any company where remote workers are not a big percentage of the employees - it will be a constant, up-hill battle against negative perception. Even the best companies, against their best intentions, will tend to view equivalent remote employees as more negative than their local counterparts. It's just human nature to place people we can see and easily interact with as more important than those "others". I think a good chunk of that goes away once established, and everyone knows you, but even then I think there's a stead decay in your reputation that you need to fight against.

As for the personal effects of remote work, I find them almost entirely awesome, but I have a wife and son that I can interact with, but who are also out of the house during the day. You get to schedule your day more in your liking. I'm more productive first thing in the morning, and then once again in late evening. In the afternoon, I prefer to get up and move around more, as I get sleepy. Plus, you can generally live a heathier life, as you can go for walks, exercise, do chores, etc. when you are having lulls in productivity.

I'm back to a local company now, and switching from local to remote to local has definitely highlighted a lot of the differences. It's sooo much easier to maintain perception when you are local; if your manager or others have concerns you can see it and chat with them about things quickly and easily. My local boss knows why things might be taking longer, because I'm talking to him, intermittently every day.

It's also easier to come up to speed when working locally, a 15 minute face-to-face talk is easily worth an hour of remote slack/video chatting. Not to mention that text chats (even with slack) tends to suffer a lot more from misreads and misunderstandings of intentions. If you and I meet in the morning and I see you are cranky because you were dealing with your upset toddler all morning, I'm probably going to commiserate with you a bit before asking you tech questions, or I might skip them for now. Over Slack, I don't know that, and so I'm likely going to accidentally bug you and you, against your best desires, are going to respond more curtly, which will rub me the wrong way, then suddenly everything is more negative.

Definitely, the best way to do remote is to either know your boss ahead of time, or do local work for a while (months) and then transition to remote. Then the trust is built up, the tech transfer has largely happened, and generally everyone gets to know each other better first.

But when it works, I find it awesome.
This is both off topic and a flamewar topic, which the site guidelines ask people not to introduce.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please do not use such generalizations on HN.
In general the recommendation is that it’s best to have everyone remote. Mixed teams usually don’t work well.
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A round trip from New York to Paris is ~7300 miles.

A commute of 40 miles per day is ~9600 miles per year.

I'd wager there are more people who commute 30 minutes each way by car than there are who go on an annual holiday to Europe :)

Of course, reducing either would be a good thing.
Great article, explains things better than most O'Reilly books.
Why?

1 your reducing your effective hourly rate - and presumably your salary is less for remote.
2 It Development is a salaried role so you in theory have no fixed hours.
Well, the third part never came, so it's just "Embrace, extend". I'm ok with that.
Hot take™ on GitHub and Microsoft,

with Microsoft ownership of GitHub, they have effectively sized "open sources" means of production. They now own the defacto superhighway that much of "open source" reproduces itself.

Is GitHub becoming less a free host for git projects (not that they're suddenly charging) and becoming more a capital accumulator of free labor, enclosing open source software behind an invisible fence?

my concern is that github is becoming a marketplace where consumers of open source software (corporations, etc) can accumulate labor by reducing their own costs, they do this by externalizing the cost of developing software by appropriating it from open source projects.

it both makes it easy to for for-profit companies to externalize the cost of producing software and cheap (free) to consume OSS, and it drives the perception of the value of software to to nothing (the actual labor-time of the software creation is quite high). Much of the OSS labor being done is subsidized by the contributors paid day jobs.
The regular Deutsche Bahn prices are very expensive but the special prices are often rather cheap. A further 25% less for BahnCard 25 owners. I take a lot of cheap train rides that way.

https://ps.bahn.de/preissuche/preissuche/psc_angebotssuche.r...
> Same code, name name, same culture. Counterclaims are pure PR.

I don't think that's fair, there's major, objective moves in this direction:

- .NET Core is fully open source and they're moving towards it being the primary .NET implementation

- VS Code

- TypeScript

- React Native for Windows

- Windows Subsystem for Linux

- Broad support for major open source tooling on their Azure services

These are significant and measurable moves of the sort we wouldn't have seen from Microsoft a decade ago. While they may not have opened all their patents, they're also not pursuing implementers of open source software for them. It seems a shift of one sort or another occurred.