skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an oblivious Firefox user on Debian and Android, am I missing something by not using Chrome?
> Are remote contractors easier due to how things get billed out?

Yep, exactly. In the US, contractors are responsible for their own health insurance, taxes, vacation balance, etc.
While I agree with you, you can also look at a gene as a particular process for synthesizing its effects. It's not much different from source code in that perspective; doesn't matter how you created it, it matters what it creates.

Patent law is a bit nonsensical, IMO. It doesn't handle the real world well.
Yeah, there are definitely correlations. This was more a thought experiment.
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That’s correct, however, it is a one-stop shop instead of becoming a local employer. It can be tricky though because contractors without their own legal entity can be qualified as employees in many countries, especially if they have only one client or only a few clients.
Claws and bones are related. A genetic predisposition to softer claws would lead also to problems with hair, damaged whiskers and probably also skeleton deformities.
> Submitting a paper to a conference for it to be published 11 months later is not going to work - the paper will be hopelessly obsolete by then.

That's not how the VLDB process works. What they did was establish a PVLDB journal which has a monthly deadline, and it accepts 5-12 papers a month. The papers are public on the website a few months after acceptance. (See: https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol12.html) The VLDB conference is then all of the papers that appeared in PVLDB in the past year.

I would be in favor of exploring your model as well, but I also see the hybrid model developed by VLDB as superior to the standard conference submission and review process.
The argument for the bill is that corporations want to be able to monopolise human genes they discovered so only they are allowed to sell treatments and other products and services related to those genes.

Profit. Pharma and biotech corporations fund political campaigns, and in exchange they want laws that allow them to extract more profit. That's pretty much how the political process works.
Interesting! Excepting typescript, the “safer” languages also happen to be the ones I gravitate towards on a daily basis and actually enjoy writing programs in, while the others...

It’d be interesting to see whether programmers’ preferences uphold the division posited by the study, or whether they are widely variable—eg is it likely that if you prefer ruby you’ll also prefer typescript over JavaScript, if you prefer Haskell you’d choose clojure over c++ etc.
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I'm involved in work around reviewing medical care.

Generally, a "People" section that mentions processes not being followed is an incomplete root cause analysis.

Why was it was possible for the process not to be followed?

There's obviously a limit to how far it makes sense to drill down with why why why, but stopping at "someone didn't follow guidance" is too early.
Relevant essay for the uninitiated: https://alexdanco.com/2019/05/30/google-chrome-the-perfect-a...
When you submit your email after the breaches list there's this notice "Breach data provided by Have I Been Pwned", so I guess it's a joint effort.
>solely to benefit the military nuclear energy industry

For the state's POV, maintaining a nuclear capability is a very sufficient argument on its own! The voters may disagree, but no state really lets voters pick national security mechanisms they'd like.
How do you deal with the various legal issues, mainly local labor laws, local tax obligations and local social security insurance systems?
Containers are great to "containerize" cookies but that's about it.

If you have multiple "personas", like a personal account with bookmarks and a work account with another set of bookmarks and settings, you'll want a separate profile.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884832
> something like USE Together it's possible to have the equivalent of over the shoulder looks complete with easy input sharing.

That sounds neither as effective nor as fast as pointing at my screen with my finger.
In my experience it can work well for tech-centric companies where everyone, or almost everyone is working behind a computer all day. But in most companies where you might have factory workers, call centres, retail outlets, etc, it begins to make less sense. If you have the office space you may as well use it, and often developers will be required to work closely with other departments in the business - this can get difficult when they're all working remotely.

I've worked fully remote and part-remote for almost 10 years and really all I want is flexibility. Can I start a little later when I need to so long as I make back the time? Can I work remotely for a week or two if I need to visit family? These things alone are probably worth $5,000 - $10,000 per year to me.

We should also consider working remote full0time can be extremely isolating, and prolonged periods with little to no human contact in my experience was bad for my mental health. I worked in one place for over 5 years and felt like I never really got to know anyone. I made no real friends. And at times I felt like I was little more than a code monkey writing the next piece of code with no sense of a shared goal or purpose - which you often get when working closely with a team.

It can also be difficult to separate work and home life for some people, especially if you have a family and kids. I don't, but at times my partner might invite her friends or family around - some of whom do have children. Whenever this happened it was extremely difficult for me to get anything done. A few times I even had family come into my office while I was in a meeting with my boss which is far from ideal.

These things are all manageable of course, and I'm sure working fully remote works for some people, but for me I'm much happier working remotely a couple of times a week with some flexibility in my work times.
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I like reading all the posts where people are like, "Hey, that's my story, too!" Uplifting thread.

It most certainly takes motivation (I say passion) to become a self-taught programmer. I think the "larval stage" (http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/larval-stage) is critical. That transformation makes you a different kind of programmer.

I am also a self-taught programmer, but I came at it from a different angle, long before this internet age. I wasn't hacking on games (although I did do that sometimes). I was hacking the machine (PC-XT!) and the OS and software that ran on it. I was fascinated. I went from command-line, to scripting, to Microsoft C, and then it took off from there, and I've been at it professionally uninterrupted since 1990.

I didn't go back to school for CS, though. I wish I did, and am happy to see other people here have. I think that's important. I had to teach myself all the best practices (thank goodness for "Code Complete") or learn them on the job.

This probably isn't 100% kosher, but this kind of story is a good indicator when hiring. If you ask how someone got their start and it's this kind of self-motivated journey they invariably make good employees. Over the years we've most certainly noticed there is a significant difference in value between someone who chose programming because it's a job and someone where programming chose them.
Dropbox Paper. Excels at combining notes and todo lists with assignment and due dates. Easy markdown editing, code blocks, embedded content
It may simultaneously be true that more students have been choosing USA than Germany or Australia since Trump took over.
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Really?!?

Then you should advise Google on what they are doing wrong.

"The State of Kernel Self Protection Project by Kees Cook, Google"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkCKeZ8xZw
> A lot of work has disappeared into Slack DMs instof channels, visibility lost there.

We announce DM stats in our monthly company meeting. Our goal is everything in a public channel unless it absolutely is a private matter.

> something you get for free when you are all physically in the same place.

But did you really? Were all those conversations documented? What I realized is that many conversations end up being around what was talked about and what was the decision made X months ago. Many other conversations were around communicating said decision to someone else or someone new. All these telephone game style conversations go away if you can forward someone an email chain.
Ask HN: Company “accepted an investment” from private equity. Time to go?
The fed IT contractor I work for "accepted an investment" from a PE firm, CM Equity Partners.

My company has made assurances that no name, leadership, benefits, policies, contracts/customers, etc. will change, but the "everything is fine" corporate talk doesn't sit well with me. How quickly should I be jumping ship? FWIW I'm a lead-level engineer, been there over 5 years.
Note that if you don’t go during the festival, the downtown is pretty much dead. There is a nice knife shop that caters to tourists (刃物センター blade center) but the festival is definitely the best part of the year.
This isn't formal logic - it's basic reciprocal socialization. Humans believe in holding everyone to similar standards as a basic principle ("fairness"). You are simultaneously reaffirming your neighbor's standards for themselves, and rejecting them for yourself. This will be seen as hypocritical, and in the real world, if you try to defend this behavior by citing the Wikipedia article on "Affirming the consequent", you will rapidly find yourself on your neighbor's mental "pedantic asshole" list.
Send a note to your local antitrust authority/consumer protection/etc.

I've already checked my options and will hopefully be submitting one or more notes now that I got some more time on my hands.

If we all do the same it will be noticed. Also many agencies are already looking at Google and will probably welcome it.

(Note: I don't hate Google, I just want them to get a lesson or two like Microsoft got. They still earn loads of money but now without trashing my chosen OS.)
It's nice that remote-only works well for SureSwift, but they're a early stage finance company. As such, they don't really need a ton of collaboration between internal employees. Many firms with similar internal dynamics (some types of consultants, call centers, etc) can, I suspect, be mostly remote. But not every company operates like they that. Many companies even have, gasp, locations that must be staffed! Factories, warehouses, retail outlets, distribution nodes, etc.

I wish pieces like the posted article talked less about the "advantages" of remote work (which seem to be fairly obvious to everyone, no?), and more about the challenges they faced in successfully creating a remote-work culture. And how they overcame those challenges (and what didn't work too). I have found that the effectiveness remote teams is highly dependent on the little details of how they are managed, how communications works, etc. More color on those details might actually be helpful.
>It’s important to emphasize that the lead-crime hypothesis doesn’t claim that lead is solely responsible for crime. It primarily explains only one thing: the huge rise in crime of the 70s and 80s and the equally huge—and completely unexpected—decline in crime of the 90s and aughts.
I think the assertion is that US has lost core competency at things like steel and cars, so by making it harder to bring in mini-vans from Canada or whatever, they're proposing a magic rebirth of those industries in country. Those are the same competencies we'd need if we wanted to build tanks or battleships or bombers for another assault on Normandy. Which we don't, that was important 80 years ago but not now.

The reality of course is probably more like pandering to steel and auto workers.
Bag handling errors aren't going to be randomly distributed but heavily effected by airport and airline quality so it makes sense that the actual stats don't match any one person's anecdotal stats. If you live or fly out of an airport with a bad baggage system most people you know are probably using that same airport when they fly.
Chinese computer research body to cut ties with division of U.S.-based IEEE
Features are missing in Google Aps in Firefox. I use Firefox as well, but sometimes when I want to use Google Docs, I just switch back to Chrome.
Harvard breakthrough shows stem cells can be genetically edited in the body
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They created it... here "in nature" infers to be naturally occurring
I'm not so sure. If a company discovers a rare flower that produces a compound that has useful properties for something, I bet that company wants to monopolise the use of that particular flower. If this law allows that, they will. If this law doesn't allow that yet, the next one might.
What they really miss is a proper integration with GitHub/GitLab/etc. And some web interface to navigate through found problems. Like Coverity or LGTM/Semmle.
Productivity is an economic term of art, which IS the context of this discussion.

Productivity in the non—services sector of the economy has increased dramatically. You can buy much, much more stuff per inflation adjusted dollar.

There remains rigidity in the market, which doesn’t generally make it easy for people to work 15 hour weeks to earn a 1940s income, but really, productivity for goods has dramatically increased.
On Windows, I just use the Microsoft Sticky Notes app. I'd used text files for a long time, and tried various local and web-based apps, but the key feature for me is that the note has to be visible or I'll eventually forget about it. I've got a whiteboard beside my desk and that's good for some things, but having the notes on my desktop is easier to edit. My second monitor on each work computer is a mess of notes, but I never forget about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_Notes
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> And that’s fine. There is nothing special about biological parents being the ones to take care of kids.

There absolutely is an irreplaceable bond between natural parents and their children that can’t be replaced. If you spend time around a lot of kids it’s very easy to notice a happiness difference between those with a stay at home parent and those raised by paid professionals (who are usually taking care of many other children, unless you’re wealthy).

> Indeed, our parents and grandparents spent half as much time with their kids than we are spending today, and their kids (us) turned out fine

I mean, did we? The birth rate is dropping through the floor, marriage rates are down, and studies show women in particular are more unhappy than ever.

As my generation ages into their 40s I see a stark happiness divide between those that focused on their careers vs those that built families (strongly in favor of the latter).
Mind you, another way to say that is “malicious extension authors can no longer snoop on all network traffic.”

As someone who was, at one point, pitched a project proposal for a browser extension our company could make which would “make users think they’re getting one useful effect, while secretly using their browser as a node in a distributed web-scraping farm to social-network sites they’re logged into” — I’m sure this is more common than people think, and very wary of extensions saying they do one thing while doing quite another (which happens to fit into the same permissions set as the explicit purpose of the extension, making users none the wiser.)
The flexible environment is what we need to aim for.
how do you deal with some of the issues raised by other commenters?

- taxes
- employee motivation
- regulatory differences between jurisdictions
- healthcare
- contractor v employee

those seem to be the big 5 people have raised (outside of just not liking it)
Seems to be patent US6697730B2 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US6697730B2/en?inventor=St...

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A communications and computing based urban transit system based on digital cellular communication, GPS locating technology, and digital computers to provide real-time command and control of passengers and vehicles with the objective of minimizing the social costs of urban transportation.
That communication handbook is a fantastic resource. Thank you for sharing.
In the U.S. legal system, it depends whether the ruling is interpreting a law or a constitutional limitation.

If the court is interpreting a law passed by the legislature, the legislature is free to change the law. In effect, they would be saying "no, you misunderstood us--the law should be interpreted this way and we're revising it so that's clearer." Sometimes the bill drafters are very explicit about this, including a statement in the preamble to the bill or in the legislative history that the bill is being drafted for the specific purpose of overriding X decision.

(Tracking this is challenging--see this article for a good discussion https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...)

On the other hand, if a court finds that a law is unconstitutional, that means that the legislature does not have the authority to pass the law to begin with. A constitutional limitation can't be overridden by statute.

In this case, the Patent Act is a law passed by Congress and can be changed by Congress within the limits of its constitutional authority.
> Am I the exception? I think Remote work sucks.

Not at all. I think that some folks just don't work well in such circumstances. A close friend of mine was much like you: he craved the social environment, and the immediate collaboration with peers. Personally, I'm the opposite. I hate drive-bys, I crave the flexibility to work when I want and how I want, and the social interactions offer no real value to me.

I think it's great that you know how you best work. It's a key to happiness.

> If developers are remote, you will find that your code-base becomes the same. That critical FooBarAdapter becomes something that only Naimh can work on because without co-location if another developer is stuck on it, rather than grabbing her for a "Can you look at this?" over the shoulder, it gets slung over the fence in an issue or pull request.

That's just patently false. Not only can this happen in co-located work environments, but is often symptomatic of a poorly functioning team rather than how they're located on the planet.
In collaboration with others, I often use Trello, Asana, Notion, Google Drive.

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That said, if you have the time and inclination, you can always roll your own custom, personalized solution by combining tools at hand: editor/stack of choice, Git, rsync, grep, etc.

My own "system" has evolved over the years. These days I use (and continue to develop) a React app that serves a personal dashboard and watches a folder of Markdown files for live/hot reload. It has various features that I've added as needed, like calendar, events, to-do list, different "views" that organize and list the notes, extracting Markdown "front matter" for metadata like tags.. I also use it as a scratchpad for code.

The biggest advantage to this approach is the infinite extensibility. If I want, I can integrate my book collection and keep virtual shelves for "reading now" and "to read"; use Git for tracking tasks/time/progress; push the system to a remote server and put my dashboard behind a login, for different devices to access the central repo; share and up/download static files; dynamic spreadsheet-like functionality (calculate tax, currency conversions); add a text-based chat over WebSockets for collaboration..

But this is kind of how I've always used personal computers, by building my own systems. I get great enjoyment out of it, and the tools fit my needs perfectly (well, limited by my technical ability and there's always room for improvement).
First, if you know you've reused a password on one of the services listed, then you know to go change that password everywhere. Everyone should be using unique passwords and a password manager, but some of these breaches are so old they're before that was a commonly-used practice.

Second, you can look into each incident to see what exactly was breached -- personal information, payment info, and so on. It's good information to know.
I got the pun, but that's actually interesting point. Natural text also has both spatial and temporal components: when you read fiction, some paragraphs describe the scene, the character, the relationships, and others – how they evolve, change and interact.

For this reason, I sometimes enjoy watching movie before I read the book it's based on – the movie (visualization) so much better and showing how things look like, while text is still superior in following the story, living development of characters and so on.

So in this article I used graphics a lot – and even more so in the original slides. I actually had to write WebGL programs to show that visual aspect. That's one of the things that frustrates me a lot – it's so hard to just visualize what you mean, without being professional animator or programming 3D scenes. I'd love it to be as simple as writing a post on social network.

Textual literacy is still orders of magnitude more accessible, cheaper and widespread.
That becomes the contractor's problem unless you live in the few places where Gitlab has a legal presence.
> for free

It's not, though. It's actually quite costly. I agree with you that implementing procedures is annoying and that collaboration suffers somewhat; that is a cost too. But getting everyone to a single building every day is expensive in many ways as well.
Through what means did the Canadian public "demand" this policy? How was this public demand measured (in general, and in detail in order to craft the particulars of the policy)?
Pipe dream but it would be interesting to devise some increasing tax based on the number of flights you've done per year. They already ask for ID when you buy flights so it would be easily track-able. First flight 10%, second 20%, third 30%, etc. Just as a thought exercise but I'm aware of the friction this sort of idea would get. Related gif: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1013088775973556224
text/dns is a standard way to move DNS zones around - this means you can export this to a file, and possibly import it elsewhere, or just archive it as a point in time backup
Apparently no, from the same report

"29% of Steam sales revenue was attributed to Western Europe according to Valve. (GeekWire, 2018)"

The typical US == The World view.
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Since 1950 the retirement duration only grew by 50% (the life expectancy at 60 went from 77 years to 84 [1]) can you recall how much the productivity grew from that time ? If we cannot afford to pay 50% more when productivity grew by a factor 3[2], there is indeed a problem of repartition.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Life-e... https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...
But is your policy particularly welcoming? It’s basically, “you’re welcome here, but only if you speak English and preferably have a college degree.” I took the Canadian points-based immigration test for funsies (it’s online). If Trump rolled out the exact same test here—particularly with the focus on English language proficiency—it would be pilloried by our left as racist, classist, and xenophobic.
Immigration is one of the most divisive and polarised issues in US public policy, and one that brought to power the current POTUS. Saying the public unilateraly supports one side or another is naive at best, intentionally misleading at worst.
Mozilla and Apple, lately, are the only companies I trust my data to. Nice to see more from both.