skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point, and understand it, but on the same note, food like pasture raised egg/milk etc is more expensive than the factory farmed version.

Isn't it worth comparing not only the financial cost, but the ethical one and the environmental impact of decisions?
Ask HN: Help me choose a new pc monitor in 2019
So it's come time for me to upgrade my current monitor setup.

I run a macbook pro 2018 (top specs) as my primary machine, so looking for a new monitor to replace my 200 year old piece of junk secondary monitor I already have.

At work I run a Dell 34" ultrawide curved display and it's quite nice, have enjoyed the wide screen..

At home I have narrowed down my search to the following (comments with each):

- A.) Philips BDM4037UW/00 40-Inch 4K UHD LCD PC Monitor- (3840x2160)- (Display Port, HDMI, VGA)

Looks like a nice option, curved and 4k, so offers decent screen real-estate

- B.) LG 43UD79 43 inch 4K UHD IPS Monitor (3840 x 2160, 4x HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C, 350 cd/m2, HDCP 2.2)

A slightly larger option, not curved, but seems to be a bit better overall than the Philips (43, IPS, USBC..)

- C.) Philips 499P9H/00 48.8" Super Widescreen VA W-LED Black Curved Multimedia Monitor (5120x1440/5ms/1xDP/2xHDMI)

A lovely high resolution super ultrawide display, looks great and I'd choose this, but not sure if perhaps the vertical height offered by a 4k monitor would be better?

- D.) Samsung UE55MU9000TXXU 55-Inch Ultra HD Smart Curved UHD LED TV - Black

A low input lag curved tv monitor, essentially just going wild and seeing if perhaps this could be the best of both worlds?

I am primarily a software developer and spend most of my time writing code, testing it and browsing the web. Occasional gameplay, but would never dare call myself a professional.

What would you choose and why? Are there any obvious winners from this list? (or something else perhaps...)
Oh, I don't know that I made this entirely clear, but I'm not saying that this is MS's FAULT necessarily. I agree, if Amazon or Google had purchased Github, it would have been the same thing.

I think the slight difference is that MS does have a history of shitting all over open-source software (Ballmer famously said Linux was cancer years ago). While I'm aware that companies change people all the time, it's unsurprising that some people get a little bit uneasy about them owning the largest distributor of open-source.
To me, it always seemed like a semi-jokey domain in the way solo developers used to have "Made with [heart/coffee emoji] in San Francisco" on the footer of their personal websites.
But with a drip of whodunit the thread made the product seem quite mysterious.
The biggest benefit of remote work is that it directly rewards productivity. At an office if you finish your work early you can’t just go home; you’re expected to do more work. With remote work, if you finish in 2 hours what takes other people your rank 8, you can stockpile commits and just take the day off.
It appears to me that work environment is a personal preference based on an array of personality traits and motivations mostly opaque to most people until they've had a chance to try a few out. Further, it seems that the preferences fall into a few categories that are broadly represented in the population. Each has objective pros and cons but for any individual, the cons are easily outweighed by our preferences and motivations.

Once you realize this, articles regarding "X environment has Y good and Z bad" stop providing any value. What I want to read about is how to effectively manage a company to allow my employees to 1) discover the environment they prefer 2) be in that environment and 3) maintain a high performing team across those environments. Given considerations around maintaining culture, communication challenges and "informal, de-facto decision makers" forming up where people to choose to work closely together, #3 is a challenge I haven't seen a good answer to. (e.g. office or co-working employees naturally have a networking advantage and can quickly form an "in group" that makes decisions while, at best, unconsciously leaving remote workers out)
The more important Bloomberg link is about the EV bubble
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-14/the-18-bi...
Download Dark Reader. It's a god send for me. It's a browser plugin that turns everything into a dark pallet and doesn't look like hot garbage.
Arbitrary kext and process patching on macOS
+1, Here's a piece explaining the details: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

I appreciate skohan's perspective and their comments in this thread very much. It won't take much to adapt the points to be technically correct while preserving the gist.
I've been working remotely for about nine months now and use my kids kindergarten schedule as my hard stop so don't accidentally overwork. Other peoples experiences might be different but I think guarding my work/life balance is much easier working remotely.
lol@45 min commute being excessively long
In the Bay Area many people have 1+ hour commutes. Even 2 hours is not uncommon.
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Fully functional e-ink displays with a good refresh rate and color-capable are the solution: lower power consumption and better for our eyes. I'm looking forward to that.
It almost always requires violence to create a state, and at the very least, it does require the capacity for violence. A State has a violence on monopoly and the ability to defend itself from anyone else who says, "You are part of my State/Country/Kingdom".

If you could hire a private army, or maybe an army of pirates, Seasteading would work. But you have to pay them. Conquerors often paid armies by charging taxes to the lands they conquered, placing them in debt. The solders who were injured and missing arms/legs got their reward by collecting taxes and maintaining the taken land.

The book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, goes into this concept in great detail. Another book in this genre is The Dictators Handbook.
Those regulatory incentives are there for a reason. They are written in blood for the most part.

It's one thing to scoff and believe "Oh, it's nothing! You're just holding us all back!"...

...Right up until a plane load of freight or people plunges out of the sky.

Free market economics optimizes for one thing, and one thing only as a first,order optimization. That's why we regulate. To ensure that all those nuisance secondary facets are accounted by everyone equally to ensure that market forces natural race to the bottom doesn't compromise the central tenet of air safety; that everyone and everything that goes up, comes back down, safely, controlled, and alive.

The business part, if you think about it, is secondary to the capability to make and safely deploy a new plane. A nice bonus.

Sacrificing the quality of the final product for the sake of looking better on the balance sheets us a cardinal sin. Plain and simple. Based on testimony from inside, that sin seems to be SOP at Boeing for the better part of the last decade.
People still crossed the oceans, they just took a bit longer. Nowadays you can still take a trip on a freight ship, but it'll take about 10-15 days to cross the Atlantic (EU-US).

Maybe once Starlink launches, one could treat it as a remote office. Definitively more comfortable than working through a red-eye.
The energy we use starts out as kinetic (wind, water), or heat (solar, thermal), or chemical, etc. We then use and it get it to do work, which in most cases converts much of it back into kinetic energy, and where there is inefficiency, heat, but even that part can end up in sinks which can find themselves ultimately back in places where heat already resided.
Always good to treat a religion of over a billion people as completely monolithic in their beliefs. This certainly isn't an anti-muslim trope.
It has a large % that is command based. Evidence is in scrambling municipalities when their investments are dictated and end up going bad anyway. (Or they prop up performance numbers to not catch anyones attention, this is leading to massive shadow-banking activity).
It's a bare minimum - try reading your paper/report/whatever aloud some time and you will realize that it's the only effective way to proofread.
> [...] you might as well use truly random passwords, which have more entropy.

At what point is more entropy simply diminishing returns? Five random words gives you 64 bits, and six gives you 77 bits (each word = 12.9 bites):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware
* https://www.rempe.us/diceware/#eff
>Doesn’t Microsoft still control almost 90% of desktops?

No, it's more like the high 70s now:

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

But what matters more is that the desktop itself has massively lost market share:

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

Microsoft is no longer a monopolist. They don't even exist on the main personal computing platform:

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
A bug so cool that the development team was reluctant to fix it
There is no such thing as a 1.5h flight. With security, traffic to and from the airport, "allow extra time for <x>", and actual airtime, you're looking at 4h door to door for pretty much the shortest travel distance that it makes sense to fly (LA to SF or DC to NY). The train compares much more favorably when you factor everything in.
A dictatorship is just more extreme than a democracy because the whole society moves in sync by necessity - they do or die. Whether it's a smart industrial move or a dumb one, a benevolent program or a genocidal one, if the leaders call for it, it gets done.

No single decision should be taken as proof that dictatorship is good.
You need a union. One that isn't in cahoots with management. Try the IWW.
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Can confirm, he can get a stay and work permit in the Netherlands rather easily as there's a business treaty between the 2 countries (he will need to be registered as some kind of freelancer though, but that's still pretty sweet). But he probably won't even need it, experience from the U.S is valued, he will likely find an employer to sponsor him.
Tools/Tech:

Poor teleconference tool.

Low quality headphones/microphones.

Low quality or no web cams.

Process:

Failure to auto-mute attendees when they join meeting

Failure to actively manage mute during the meeting (some nitwit always starts eating potato chips).

Failure to ensure mics are well placed in conference rooms.
Imagine if you distributed gains according to contribution. In our system capital is disproportionately rewarded.

IMO, carried interest should be rewarded less than labor.

I mean really, if you're just sitting there drawing interest on great grandpa's labor's capital, why is that better than getting up and going to work everyday?
It's not even that, it's like I mentally have trouble kick-starting my day without going through that routine of having a shower, brushing my teeth, leaving the flat. When WFH, some days I am no further along at 3pm than I was at 9pm, then come the deadlines.

Definitely something I wish I had figured out years earlier.
0.4% seems high when a sustained rate of 1% will get you kicked off VISA and Mastercard anyway.
I'm with you here, but you didn't need WSL to boot other operating systems in windows. It's just a VM, that's been possible for some time now.
Congratulations!! Love the philosophy around the product and the dynamic treatment of higher risk transactions with Checkout routing to 3DS.

It must feel great to be able to support such a "simple" product, as I know there must be a ton of complexity under the hood enabling the simple form factor.
> But, we have great flexibility - we can work from home on demand from day 1

Is there a policy that defines it? Is there a limit?

Would love to hear your experience as I'm doing some research into this right now.
Could you please talk a bit more about your Holland immigration experience? I will do my homework of course, but it would be good to hear from someone who has done it.

Regarding US - yes, I did explore, it doesn't seem that promising. I still have about 2 years left, so it is possible something might change, but I am not optimistic
Because people are looking for a societal scapegoat that enables them to ignore their untreated depression and reinforce their victim mentality.
I've been working remotely for most of my children's lives. Kids learn. Yes, there are some days where they don't understand, but you teach them and everything works out fine. That is no more of a learning curve than all people go through when learning to work remotely. Communication is different, work schedules differ... kids just part of the process of learning to work well in a remote environment.

As far as flexibility goes, I prefer remote work. I'm OK with office work is the commute is short. But I hate 100% flexibility. I do appreciate the ability to make exceptions to the norm as needed, but if everyone is 100% flexible, I find that is just makes you unsure where people are going to be each day, and doesn't really focus the working habits into one mold or the other. Either way can work, but the least productive teams I've ever been on have been mixed between remote and office.
When we parametrize complex systems in studies such as this, I feel we tend to lose the forest for the trees.

Okay, so maybe 25 cups of coffee a day won't destroy my heart.

But this is what happens when I have 5 cups of coffee a day:

1) I get jumpy and I feel anxious. If I drink too much I start to feel what I can only describe as existential dread (I know it's weird).

2) I can't hold on to things because my hands are shaking.

3) I don't sleep as well at night, even if I don't drink any coffee after 12pm.

4) My lymph nodes start to swell. (This last one was really weird for me when I found out that it was caffeine that was causing the lumps in my breast. I'm pretty sure it's the caffeine since both times I had the lumps I quit coffee cold-turkey and the lumps disappeared.)

I now limit myself to two cups of coffee per day. If I'm feeling indulgent I may have a third cup, but that's not daily.
look at what people eat and then look up oxolates, lectins, phytohormones, tanins and sugar toxicity - if you suffer any condition, look them up in combination with that
On one hand, I think the history is enough to be highly skeptical of MS: how many times does someone have to show you who they are before you believe it?

But that aside, I don't see how any corporation should be trusted to host such a large percentage of OSS. Whether it's a year from now or 10 years from now, what do you expect to happen when Microsoft's material interests cease to align with supporting OSS? Do you think they will subvert their own interests in the support of some "greater good"? Given the history of how corporations behave, I think that would be very unlikely.
Yup. Though I still prefer dark mode.

But you touch on something that makes this worse; I prefer a brighter screen when in dark mode, and a darker screen when in light mode. Again, a relative thing. This is why I want consistency, above all else.
It means that non-programmers can do "programming".
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Forget the cups, what's the milligrams? Cups can vary by hundreds.
>You misunderstand the point. 'Rightness' in Abrahamic theology is what God does and what he commands you to do, period. Everything he does is by definition right.

I'm not missing the point, I am making the point that this is just what his followers say and if you read the bible as a story about this character god, then you can get a very different impression.
Yep my comment mentions that.
One thing that frequently comes to my mind - rather than trying to convince people to move to a general-purpose programming language (and ignoring all the reasons that people turn to Excel in the first place), is it possible to turn an Excel-style spreadsheet into a general-purpose programming environment that is powerful enough to do that sort of stuff?

People really underrate Excel as a programming environment, honestly. Yes, it's crippled and leads people to produce massive gross un-debuggable hellsheets ... but there's reasons (beyond just "it was the only usable software that could be run on office computers") that end users with a problem to solve keep turning to it despite those flaws. The combination of reactive programming, data-first visibility, no hidden state, decent approximations to structured programming by way of click-drag-and-copy-paste, and being able to reference variables and values without needing to name them has some kind of magic to it.

There's quite a bit of interesting research I've seen from Microsoft on how to take something like Excel and turn it into a non-crippled programming environment - spreadsheet-defined functions (including recursion, lambdas, and higher-order functions natively in the spreadsheet environment, without having to drop into VBA!), dynamic arrays, an alternate computation-first textual view that exists simultaneously with the data-first spreadsheet view, first-class complex data structures ...

Between HyperCard, Jupyter/Mathematica notebooks, and Excel, there's a lot of common features that seem to point to a vision of a truly useful end-user-accessible programming tool, something that would let people write real, useful programs intuitively and quickly enough to be worth building them themselves for whatever they needed them for, without forcing them into condescendingly-simplified drag-and-drop "visual programming" codeless clunkfests.
This is not an idiom I’ve ever heard in the US.

But I agree, seems likely parent meant own-goal.
Oh but the US has been doing the same, just in the military branch instead of technology. They also bailed out the car industry after the 2008 crisis.
>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.

That part is easy if you think the article is as you suggested: "the real purpose is the simple, everyday attack on those who have different political opinions to the author."

Besides, you left out the part of the excerpt you chose which alluded more to the actual central criticism the previous comment was pointing out:

"...tied in some vague way to academia, which they use to validate their anti-intellectualism while passing their feelings off as philosophy and, worse, as (mis)guides for the misguided."
I don't have family or possessions, so it is not an issue.

I am not from EU, and my nationality gives zero advantage, unfortunately - that is why I posted the question in the first place :(
Pedantry aside...

"One infant daughter" may not represent "children", but "children" certainly represents "one infant daughter".
I would love to give it a read if you are ok with it :)
There's also the acrylamide, though. (I wonder how much we should really worry about it?)
Return times of random walks are power law distributed in some graphs. For example return to an interval on the line.
The easy answer is to stop investing in individual stocks and buy index funds. Stock picking is hard enough when you can read financial statements. Media-driven stock picking is rarely successful long-term.
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Not to be flippant but the larger suffering of others does not negate or even justify suffering.
Libraries are pretty underrated working environments. Generally quiet, and many have conferencing or study rooms for reservations
Did you read article? The government said "no, we didn't mean that when we said this". IEEE overreacted.
When you say it does work, do you mean it work well?

Because there might be a very good discussion, but the latest comments could be "my peepee is very big" and "no, your peepee is small!". And the good discussion would be overshadowed by garbage comments.

When there are hundreds or thousand of people talking, I do believe popularity is better than recency.
> * Forget about usernames. The password becomes an 'account key' and is all you need

When talking about your account, then -- such as when talking to Support -- how would you refer to your account? Would you be assigned an ID by the system, which you then have to save or remember?

Not saying it's good or bad or anything, just want to understand the expected user experience.
Technically mobility is limited to the rich right now - all of us are "environmentally rich," blissfully jetting about in environment-destroying airplanes while enjoying a relatively clean Earth.

Our offspring will be Earth-poor, suffering the consequences of our frivolous "spending."

In my mind a carbon tax is a wealth transfer from the present to the future. I think it's a good solution because we aren't exacting fair price for our activities. I read a great book once in which future generations sued the shoes off their elders for not paying fair price for their climate-changing activities.

Wealth inequality should be addressed. We shouldn't hamstring other solutions just because it also is a problem - we can work on them in parallel. I appreciate you bringing it up though, it is a good thing to be aware of.
Whats also new is that it's become a lot more pervasive.
Can you provide more detail on that?

I don't think, for example, that cruise ships are allowed to dump their shit (and other refuse) into the sea, provided they're in international waters.
I would wager that 10 times (perhaps 50 times or more) as many people can make a simple Excel worksheet as could program the same functionality in a mainstream, general purpose "programming" language.
The confusion was unintentional, but this is why I added a footnote in the article :)
In many ways this open source tooling is making them money. Developers tend to use what they know and are comfortable with, if you have to move off of C# say in order to write servers with better Linux compatibility or mobile apps you're going to learn something else and may not stay in their ecosystem.

If instead you use .NET Core for your Linux based services and buy Xamarin for your mobile apps, they're in a lot better condition, especially given that they can offer to host those Linux based services for you on Azure as well as dozens of open source databases and tools which may support them.

They're making a killing off this, many companies have gone to pure Azure services given that they're able to host everything they need there, had they not been able to that money may have gone to Amazon or Google, investing in open source is generally a good move for them financially.

They're now less and less reliant upon everyone using their exact stuff - as long as your corporation still wants a Windows domain controller and MS Office, they're on top of the list for cloud considerations and will easily make money hosting open source software - they lock companies in in other ways than software, like Office 365 and Active Directory login integration with your Azure hosted applications. There's big money in hosting and managing open source software, Amazon and Google discovered this before Microsoft, but Microsoft has been quite competitive given these advantages.
Can't part of the solution be the research required to come up with an alternative?
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I'm 39, which might make me old enough to have a perspective. 2008 was a unique, terrifying event. A certain amount of trigger happiness from market watchers is expected. But also, 2008 plus 2001 and maybe 1987 also marks a return to the above "business cycle", previously suppressed by a half century of Keynesianism. Now we can reliably expect capitalists to shit the bed every ten years before we have to rein them in and start over.