skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just last week I received an email from a manager saying "Never do (this), especially with US customers."

Three days after that email I ran into (this) situation and emailed him asking what I am to do. He said frustratingly that I should do (this) since it wasn't a US customer.

I emailed him both his quotes, the ones that said never do (this) and the one that said, of course, you should do (this). I pointed out that was confusing. He said it was my fault for being confused and to email him when I am.

Middle management is often desperately trying to justify their job by creating purposeful confusion. I swear he's trying to trip me up looking for reasons to put marks on my record.
It's worse than you make it sound, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkIe60y2GI

In short, it isn't just that we have more computables than non-computables; there are categories of numbers like "normal" that nominally contain "all the numbers" but we can barely even name a handful.
“and file timestamps modified to make this change not show up in a git diff”

...ok
I'm not located in the US, Hulu is not available.
> I think, generally, everyone should try to use that phrasing, because it opens the door to discussion in a way that a command doesn't.

I think the opposite. Nothing personal, but I've used the deferential style for years and the ambiguity and false deference can cloud things.

Person X may not want to do task Y. They might be more interested in their current task. They might not think it's their responsibility. If you don't want to discuss it, don't leave the door open to discussion.

"Person X: drop everything and work on task Y. Thanks."
What If Everyone’s Wrong About China?
>Good luck getting water out of an automatic faucet or push button water fountain.

Yikes! I hadn't realized that. I always praised plumbing as a good example of a well-designed, robust system that works even when the power is out, and how only the naive, self-styled 10xers would break that to be trendy ... and yet, they did it already.

Hopefully the auto-flushing toilets don't have this problem?
Both of my kickball teams use for game attendance, etc. There are plenty of social events to be found on FB. There's a lot of reasons to keep using it. A lot people use it as their main communication vehicle. There's more reasons than what I listed.
I've still got a LowEndTalk forums special kicking around somewhere.

15 Eur per year for a 2 CPU/1GB/ipv4/1TB traffic KVM. edit...its one from alpha vps. So far so good - feel snappier than a google free vm. But that was on a deep discount special.

It's not that hard to find cheap stuff on specials if you're ok with taking a calculated risk on the providers.

If I go the cloud route I'll probably jump on a Azure of AWS intro credit plan.
Metabolism increases can also affect you long after a workout, and building muscle instead of fat is also beneficial for the system as a whole. These cannot be recreated with just diet.
I have already retired from a City job, and am working still. I am reaping great income from doing this, but my time working will be ending soon. I plan on having a active retirement with my wife and staying healthy as a result. (Less than 1 year and counting @ 60 yrs old)...
There are a lot of problems with group selection as a hypothesis.

Human groups don't reproduce in pairs and undergo selection, but individual humans do. It's hard to find any examples of genetic material of a group being lost when that group was outcompeted by another group.
There are very large sections of the rural US in decline, in the northeast, midwest, and south. Far more than are growing, which are mostly in the Rocky Mountains and west of there.
Interesting. I would like to take a look at that softcore model.
I prefer simpletask for Android.
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The difference for many people is more than a ten minute commute. I'd enjoy 20 minutes a day of quiet time, but in my situation it'd be an hour per day.

The trick to making family understand when you're on the clock is training them to treat the closed office door as though it was locked. If you come out of the room, your attention is free game at that point, but once that door is closed, you're not home. Takes awhile of effective communication and discipline, but once enforced makes remote work incredibly enjoyable, even with family at home.
No. We weren't sure if that'd be a good idea since it wasn't trained with low-precision, and 345M thankfully didn't require going that far. 744M might, though. (Another option is model parallelism since I have 2 GPUs and that might be enough, perhaps freezing more layers and training incrementally, or reducing the 1024 token window to smaller ones like 700.)
But why. What are the advantages and disadvantages?
I had a high quality 6M for a long time, and streaming was fine; much nicer (less buffering) when I got a bigger pipe though, although the bigger pipe was less consistent
Love the way people seem to believe they have to walk on eggshells when someone is 'on the spectrum'. I wonder what is done if a person on the spectrum is accused of some form of sexual assault or reasonably offensive language. Do they get a pass because of that behavior?
I've been using this for about a year now, and having tried out many many others over the last 20 years of IT and management. Taskwarrior was ideal when managing departments, as I was tracking 200-500 tasks at any given time.

Now that I no longer manage people or large projects this works excellent for me. I use todotxt.net for Windows, I forget what I was using when I used to use macOS, I think just vim. In windows if i'm doing some sort of batch operation I open it with notepad++ (I manage a someday.txt and horizon.txt to keep focused).

The android app is excellent, with quick widget shortcuts to add tasks, including a panel. I very often when browsing reddit, or whatever else, will "share" anything i'm interested in and then process and sort them later. Things without a context are considered my "inbox".

When I add a due date, the due date actually gets entered into my calendar as a reminder (This is EXCELLENT). Since everything is synced, it doesn't matter if I enter this from a text editor or not, the android app sees it and does the entry. I use dropbox for sync for now, which is not ideal, but I can't be bothered at the time to get my workflow setup on my sync app of choice.
It's not that you can go walking in a rural environment but that in an urban environment with no car you have to go walking.

There's a baseline amount of exercise you're going to get regardless.
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Look, I like RMS. I casually know him. We had dinner a few times, mostly with other people at the table. He is very interesting to talk to.

It pains me to say it but he is a Luddite. He would be quite happy in the world of late 1980s because that's where him and his quaint way of technology, society and progress fits in swimmingly. And maybe he is right.

But here's the thing: he simply outsourced his need for modern communications to others -- he does not call restaurants to make reservations, his hosts do. He does not use GPS and maps -- drivers that his hosts use do. He does not need to use a banking app/deal with payments/scheduling/etc that are needed for him to appear at conferences -- those that invite him do.

I wish I could have a life like that. Probably a lot of us would. All the advantages and none of the inconveniences.
Largely because the corporations are just following public opinion. The article does cover how more and more people think that content they find offensive should be refused by platforms. Corporations aren't the cause of this loss of ability to speak in my view. It's the shift in public opinion, and corporations respond to shifts in public opinion akin to a sailor responding to changes in the wind.
Music on YouTube is resampled to 48kHz for Opus. YouTube's resampler is probably optimised for speed over precision. Resampling to 48kHz before uploading can yield better results.
If we are in the business of telling society what they SHOULD care about I'd wager about a hundred other things are more important than free software.
Mercurial support was the one reason for me to still use Bitbucket: there is no other Bitbucket feature I can think of that Github doesn't already have, while Github's community is miles ahead since everyone and their dog is already there.

More importantly, Bitbucket leaves the migration to you (if I read the article correctly). Once I download my repo and convert it to git, why would I stay with the company that just made me go through an annoying (and often painful) process, when I can migrate to Github with the exact same command? And why isn't there a "migrate this repo to git" button right there?

I want to believe that Bitbucket has smart people and that this choice is a good one. But I'm with you there - to me, this definitely looks like Bitbucket will die.
That one moved from an incompetent manager to a narcissist sociopath quite quickly.
Just have the bot post it as a comment in the new post’s thread? Optionally sticky that comment, but probably not necessary, it will probably be voted near the top.
Alas, I don't think my request was clear at all, if it seemed like I was asking you to stop commenting. Please don't! You are welcome here, and welcome to share your experience and perspective. It's just necessary to do it in the right spirit. To pick one example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20307074 is the sort of comment that we would interpret as political battle.
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1. Not possible due to failing health.

2. Do you mean Braille? Yes, large print can suffice sometimes... Audiobooks if your hearing is adequate.

3. Add some motor coordination problems and this is not happening.

4. It is boring for many.

5. Sure, with failing healthy and being less able to move. Not impossible, just not likely.

6. Too late for many things.

Most people forget that were talking 70 years old people or so. Some remain spry, but they are a minority.

6b. And what makes you think you will have better ideas then? Or have any actual energy?

By the time they're 60, most people attain at least one chronic health problem. If they're lucky, it's manageable for normal full energy life without such excesses.

Some fade much earlier than that.

Finally, the main problem is gradual loss of connections, friends, family etc.
I know, I once worked at a startup where I made the mistake to ask for a laptop instead of a good old boring workstation, figuring that I might want to use it from home sometimes... I did only once.

My desk was a bit too close to the conference room and I could hear people talking aloud on the phone, it was overall extremely unpleasant.

Of course I could kinda work with the laptop and the noise, but I never attained the magic -flow-
Yesterday, while googling around to gather clues for reverse-engineering the protocol for a Garmin smart watch, I stumbled upon an e-mail on a listserv, discussing pieces of Garmin BT communication. Only after a while I noticed it had been written by Linus, who apparently worked on diving software. Now this appears on HN frontpage. I wonder what prompted the OP...
He is Indian let him have his moment man.
> Tech has changed in the last decade, to where I don't think someone "on the spectrum," could survive very long in a west coast company without being preyed upon by people who trade on other attributes.

What do you mean by "being preyed upon by people who trade on other attributes"? In my opinion their employment would be mostly limited by them unknowingly saying the kind of things that get you reported to HR and made to do some mandatory sensitivity training. East coast tech doesn't seem to care so much about that kind of thing (yet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin
> they can't charge a premium for gas when the power fails

We had gasoline shortages a few years ago in New York. I can't find the article now, but a newspaper–The Economist, I believe–noted how supply disruptions for illicit drugs were virtually nonexistent because a small price bump compensated for maintaining inventory. Meanwhile, "price gouging" laws virtually ensured lines at the petrol stations.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html

Actually, they listed most of software companies in their set of malware. While I don't necessarily agree with them, but their stance have been at least consistent.
>You now need to expend energy to gather those minerals from somewhere else and then put them in the water

Did you mean the white stuff coming out :)
How is that? All the claims are strictly true. They just carry a moral judgement some people disagree with, and most people don't care about. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's enumeration of facts.
I don't fantasize about being lazy and playing golf. I'll just work, tinker, fix stuff, whatever. I have way, way too much interests and hobbies and could use some extra hours in the day.
Yes, I rarely see memes, super political posts, or such. A lot of what I see on FB is stuff that people would tell me in person if I was standing next to them at the time. You can also somewhat filter what you see by unfollowing or unfriending people that post a lot of stuff you dislike.
>Good luck getting through any badge reader doors in your office or apartment complex.

Depends on the type of lock. Doors that use a big electromagnet to hold a plate fail-open, locks that actuate a latch fail-secure.
If I may ask why did you get it, which reasons? I like the cool non x86 factor but it's quite expensive...

EDIT: Forgot to mention the open argument which is quite amazing as well (I've followed what Talos does).
Launching: Gigs.today (job board meets Supreme)
Hey HN,

I wanted to share a new project that I just launched called gigs.today (https://gigs.today).

gigs.today is what you get when you cross a job board with Supreme (At least I think...). New jobs drop every 3 hours, sourced straight from the job boards of over 500 tech startups and not-so-startups, and disappear after 24 hours.

The project was inspired by a student I was mentoring who was applying to junior developer jobs and kept wondering where to look for new job openings that he could apply to. All the companies on Linkedin were too corporate for him, and Indeed was too random. AngelList was pretty good, but some of the companies there were too early stage / underfunded. gigs.today is what I hope fills that gap.

If this helps you in your job-hunting journey, then I'd love to know! Any questions? Feedback? Comments? Ideas?

Launching: gigs.today (job board meets Supreme)
Yup. I don't think it's likely, BTW, that anyone gets fired for a single unexplained "no".

But the unexplained "no" opens a social question, and it's the kind of interaction that if it's repeated without finding the true root cause will impair a working relationship. And "the person I'm talking to has autism and takes everything I say completely literally", outside of tech circles where autism is over-represented, is a pretty rare root cause.
When an earthquake has shifted a house a meter to the right, the plus code is (a) still good enough and (b) doesn't matter because there is not much of a house left to "locate".

I'd even argue that especially in those catastrophic scenarios, location (as in GPS coordinates) is still more important than addresses that depend on physical features (like a street) that may simply be gone.
It must be a helluva lot longer than 15 years.
Anyone still using Facebook at this point is insane or has some direct financial motivation to continue using it. I don't know what else people need to see to stop using it.
That's like asking how to undo `rm -rf`
As I understand it, Germany relies on exports and foreign investment?

It doesn't work if every country does it. In order for some countries to export more than they import (resulting in savings invested abroad), other countries need to import more than they export and pay for it by satisfying international demand for investments.

So, on the one side you have counties like Japan and Germany and on the other you have the US.

The demand for savings is apparently what drives this. People need to invest their savings somewhere. If "safe" investments aren't available, financial markets will somehow invent them. This may or may not actually be safe or productive.
Animals that eat fluoride-containing plants may accumulate fluoride. However, the fluoride accumulates primarily in the bones or shell rather than in edible meat.
Over copper it's easier to provide asymetric connections because the provider can better manage interference between different cables. When there's no interference problem it's only a question of allocating the bandwidth. Ideally the connection would auto-adjust and provide up to the full bandwidth in both directions instead of constant half/half or 0.9/0.1.
But uses to drive traffic in a deeply unappealing way.
For us, everyone except HR and Accounts are on the open floor. Even the executives/VPs have to look for seating.
Cable television got huge in the 80's. Prior to that, there was just less consistent incentive to sit in front of the TV.
> Everything I do in social interactions, in order to fit in, is a learned behavior that I didn't pick up until my university years.

You might be improperly socialized or have Aspergers, or you might be a sociopath (I don't mean this in a derogatory way, some people are just not capable of emotion, often due to past trauma), or you might have anxiety, or it might be ADHD.

My advice would be to try more drugs to try and get a better perspective of why you feel the things that you feel. If it's ADHD, Ritalin or Adderall will cause a positive change. If it's anxiety, Xanax/Klonopin/Ativan/Valium might help. If it's an empathy thing, there aren't many legal pharmaceuticals for that, but you could try weed or MDMA or a traditional psychedelic. IMO the relatively low risk of trying a few chemicals a few times is well worth the gain in perspective, so you have a better sense of what you're trying to change and what levers can be pulled.
Neither. There are valid arguments against both companies, but these aren't it.
The eiffel tower search result is the whole park, which is larger than the area spanned by a single plus code and therefore does not display it's plus code.

picking a smaller location displays the plus code, for example https://imgur.com/0YoSuWz
This has basically been the story of every job I've had, except instead of being 100% remote I was wfh once or twice per week.

I'd join a company under the condition that they allowed flexible hours and wfh. Then 6 months later managers would change and all of a sudden the way we'd been operating would no longer be acceptable. Always the person leading the charge towards eliminating wfh and remote work is some non-technical idiot who wants to make his mark by demonstrating his "leadership skills" and has no idea what engineers actually do.

So D don't even take promises for flexible hours and remote work seriously anymore unless it's a fully distributed team. I hope the trend of increasingly distributed workforces continues to rise so that developers don't have to deal with this "ass-in-seat" nonsense anymore.
Does reverse osmosis retain the minerals?

And wouldn't the minerals in food compensate for their lack in water?
> Is there anything these guys like? Stallman and Gnu are extremists

People fighting for human rights have always been labeled extremists, it's not a particularly original idea you had there.
Exactly. I'm currently working from a co-working space that I like far more than any WeWork I've ever tried, and it is cheaper.
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Social media has became incredibly complex. Facebook now has a mini-site to explain the purpose of a single button.
4:1 is a reasonable ratio for consumer connections, at least. I'm sitting here on a DOCSIS 3.0 modem but it's set up as 10:1. And going up a tier doesn't increase upload speed at all.
No. Evolution was usable since 2015 at least. Supported by Bitbucket and others.

Evolution requires no effort whatsoever to maintain.
* Search "Who's Hiring?" for remote - https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com/#%22remote%22

https://weworkremotely.com

https://remoteok.io/

and of course, word-of-mouth / loose social connections.
Is there a second independent manufacturer for Power processors?
And fired under exactly the kind of circumstances you'd expect someone on the spectrum to accidentally wander into without understanding the gravity of.
TL;DR: Some bones were found on an island infested with huge crabs where Earhart’s airplane might’ve executed an emergency landing, and subsequently lost. Now they’re searching to see if aforementioned crabs might’ve buried some of the bones that weren’t found (and that therefore haven’t been misplaced).
Or they went outside in the rain.
“Though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love? … So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?”
Use xlc once. I'm done thanks.
There's this beautiful scene in the movie 'Margin Call' that I liked about engineering and building things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNX7u_8KL7g
Yes, I have also been in shitty situations working with idiots. But the saving grace is, at the end of it all, you have built something that hopefully helps people. In your case, you clearly did and you should be proud of that.
> We had someone go completely mental at a manager on Slack the other day with the whole team on the same channel.

This is what happens in a tight labor market where someone can do whatever they want w/o any consequences. In a normal labor situation and when the money stops there would be the typical way this would (and should) be handled.

Maybe what people aren't recognizing is that acceptance of behavior like this not only encourages it with the same individual (who very well may be able to control themselves but is hiding behind a label) but also with others who see that it is acceptable to do so.
Working remote for 4 out of 5 days is the sweet spot for me. It’s good to come into the office and do a brainstorming and sprint planning session over a physical whiteboard once a week, but also to just do relationship maintenance with colleagues and talk to other people since loneliness can be a real problem over time when working remote all the time.
They do, automatic = electric. If you're not applying force from your muscles to move something, that force is being applied by electricity.
Is that just salt? Or a heterogeneous mixture of salt and minerals? You want just the minerals, no salt. How do you separate the salt from the minerals in that "white stuff"?
> Middle management is often desperately trying to justify their job by creating purposeful confusion. I swear he's trying to trip me up looking for reasons to put marks on my record.

Or he, like most of us, is primarily self-interested and is mostly concerned with not looking like a self-contradictory idiot (and keeping marks off his own record).

Never ascribe to malice, etc.
Install f-droid (https://f-droid.org/) and take a look around the repository to see if there is any software that can replace some other application you are using.

Maybe some alternatives might not be as polished as you're used to, but having to approve only logical permissions and software doing exactly what it should do and nothing more provides for a peaceful state of mind.