skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, having a 1000/400 Mb (roughly, can't complain for 49€) at home not only helps to download stuff as plenty others mentioned but it also created new opportunities.

I have roughly a half a gigabyte of pictures (digital and digitized from films). Before having fiber, it wasn't doable to do backup in the cloud. But now it's just a piece of cake and it doesn't take that long either.
I'm pretty sure this describes exactly what went wrong for me. I worked in an open plan office for 6 years and then for a variety of reasons fled for a WFH arrangement for 2 years with the same company (under the guise of moving to a different city where an office didn't exist). I think in the end I liked being in the office much more than WFH but that what it really represented was a private workspace for the deep no-interuption work. However, I missed being near my co-workers so much that I eventually gave up on it. There's no doubt that I would have never left had I had a private office at the main office instead.
> Tldr: If the rural population is decreasing, then your denominator is smaller and estimates of disease proportion would increase over time.

This wouldn't happen from the denominator decreasing per se, but from the emigrants being skewed healthy. Which is pretty plausible, given that you'd expect emigrants to skew eg younger.
The second it starts going off the rails it needs to be switched over to a private conversation, ideally face-to-face but by videoconference otherwise if someone is remote.

That's bad form on both people's part to have that kind of argument in a public forum.
That is an exceptional situation. Far, far, far outside of the norm.
Sometimes a development task can prove to cost so much that continuing to do it is not worthwhile.

Similarly, I've had a team member make the rest of the team considerably less happy and take up most of my time on oversight and trying to fix these problems. There reaches a point, where if it cannot be improved, that you terminate the employee's employment.

I look at these cases as personal failures, BTW: always wondering if there was a better way to handle them that could have resulted in the employee being productive, the rest of the team being happy, and me being able to complete other important tasks. But at some point you have to make a decision to move on.
Yeah Softbank is awful. They'll be the ones leading a group of companies into the black hole. "Follow me!"
Have you amortized the value of that time over 24 hours?

I'm probably not going to apply that MacOS update until the weekend, so I can download it at 3AM. I don't care if it takes 2 minutes or 20 minutes (or, heck, 200 minutes!) to download season three of The Wire as long as I can start episode one "quickly enough" because the rest will follow.
What I found interesting about this article was that data scientist/machine learning specialist was in the top 3 happiest jobs whereas business/data analyst was dead last. As the article notes there is a lot of overlap. Working with data scientists, I found that many thought they would be doing applied ml and ended up doing mostly data analysis.

Since the role of a data scientist varies dramatically based on the organization and even the needs of a team, it seems like a job with a very broad spectrum of experiences and satisfaction.
While the resulting codes you get at the end of the process are only six digits, the TOTP secret can really be any length.

Everything is fed into an HMAC after all. It's only the last step where truncation occurs.
This stuff is definitely highly dependent on the local culture. In the US specifically, though, I’d take this as a genuine question. Any manager who didn’t get that is going to either learn to change their ways or will be perpetually frustrated.
Why should everyone care why X left Medium? There's at least a couple of articles like this every month. If you're not happy with a service, just stop using it.
Why are you assuming that having poor social skills creates added work for management? I am on the spectrum, have trouble with social skills, and I certainly don't take "a disproportionate share of a manager's time" as an engineer. In fact, I regularly out perform the rest of my team and get great performance reviews. While everyone else is wasting time socializing I get my work done, and when I do need to communicate with management, customers, peers I suck it up and get it done even if it's uncomfortable/challenging. My manager spends far more time managing the "neurotypicals" than myself
Thinking about my own communication patterns, I wouldn't give my own boss a direct "no" to a question like that. I'd most likely give a brief explanation of what my focus and priorities are at the moment, and if I'm sufficiently plugged into the context of the task I might make a suggestion about who else could do it now. Basically, I'd look at it from this perspective: this is something my boss probably has reason to believe needs to be done, and he/she is clearly trying to figure out how to make that happen, so I'd try to help them solve that problem, even if I didn't personally do the task.
I think you are thinking about the old and nasty sourceforge. They have since been bought and the new owners have changed what nasty old sourceforge used to be
To be frank, I've no interest in selling anything so don't need a sales technique. To be franker, I think the OP was talking crap. No-one loses a month of work and doesn't think to get advice on how to fix it. It's just a stupid "git is bad" story.
Because that would not get to the HN front page.
This was flagged for a while. How strange.
I had a private office for a couple of years. I've also worked in open plan landscapes as well as offices with 4-8 people.

This year, however, I've started working from home a lot. I like it much more than any of the above and generally get so much more done. I can relax and breathe in my own home. Make some tea and sit in the garden when I need to think. My focus, productivity and well being have been through the roof. It also helps that connecting from home saves me an hour's commute each way.

Some things can't be done effectively over VPN (mainly working on Xbox or PS4 specific bugs), but for most tasks it's great.
> Arbitrage, startups, and other asymmetric, high risk plays could seem to benefit from high performing people on the spectrum

One person who I've met who is on the spectrum isn't very smart, but is able to talk in a way that some people think he's smart. (IE, this person believed that someone invented a free energy machine.) He can only work in situations where he has intense coaching, so he stays on task.

In another situation, when I was working for a startup interviewing candidates; we had a candidate come in who was probably on the spectrum. I don't remember if he was a capable programmer; but what I remember was that he was extremely hard to work with through the interview. I suspected that he'd need 60-120 minutes of someone's undivided attention a day just to keep on task. Furthermore, based on how he acted in the interview, I suspected that all collaborative design work would be high friction. Everyone who interviewed him said no. If we were a larger corporation we could figure out how to give him the attention and coaching he needed.
> The outage lasted 2 days and a bit.
In both governing parties, SPD and CDU/CSU, many people including government ministers and the chancellor-to-be are now willing to give up on "no debt"[1].

Even fiscal hawks are now playing ball with that new party line.

Expect Germany to make debt again.

[1] This refers to the policy of "Schwarze Null"/"black zero" which means revenue and expenditures shall be balanced. This has only been a policy statement that the former finance minister achieved for the first time in decades and the current finance minister adhered to.
This must be distinguished from the "Schuldenbremse"/"Debt Brake" which is actually in our Constitution and limits the amount of new debt the state is allowed to take on.
Autism is called a disorder, but I think that that's a pretty negative term for it. People with autism may be a minority, and that makes the condition abnormal, but in itself autism isn't a bad thing; it's how they relate to the world that make autism "bad." Instead autism is merely different.

I think we can treat autism like any other subject. For example, some children start reading earlier than others, and other than extreme cases we don't say that they have a reading disorder. We simply recognize that some people have more difficulty than others learning to read. Can we do the same with social skills? Simply have a dedicated class with structured learning, and recognize that not everyone learns social cues at the same rate?
Of course you don’t use it most of the time, you pay for it because when you need it you need it.

Someone decides they need some crazy tool in NPM and without a fast connection you’ll be waiting for a while.
OTOH, you also have at least somewhat of a trend of those young urban professionals wanting to live near those city centers rather than commuting out from the suburbs. And those that do end up living in the city probably don't have nicely appointed offices in their apartments.

People's preferences vary of course but I imagine that, under those circumstances, a lot of those remote workers would like an office they could go into--at least some of the time.
The very second sentence of the link:

> This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity

The study's findings are that the rise in overall weight is attributed primarily to rural areas, contrary to the current consensus that it's driven by urbanization. Let alone not reading the link before commenting, it seems you didn't even read the full title of the post.
That's true in a way, but only for multithreaded code. Multi-process code with full isolation uses different metaphors like joining threads within higher order functions to achieve parallelism in code that looks single-threaded.

For example, lisp-based languages like Clojure can be statically analyzed and then parallelized so that all noninteracting code runs in its own process. This can also be done for code that operates on vectors like MATLAB and TensorFlow.

For me, isolated processes under the Actor model in languages like Elixer/Erlang and Go is much simpler conceptually than async/await, which is only one step above promises/futures, which is only one step above callback hell. I know that the web world uses async/await for now, but someday I think that will be replaced with something that works more like Go.
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Exercise is good, even necessary, but it doesn't really help you with weight loss since your body compensate for it in other ways.

It's what and how much you eat that matters.
> I fear my neighbors much more than my food spoiling

Find better neighbors? Large parts of Puerto Rico lost power for weeks and it didn't descend into The Purge. It wasn't great, but people survived because of their neighbors, not in spite of them.

> I'm baffled at the lack of redundancy.

10K is not a huge tax base, how much property tax are you willing to spend to increase uptime beyond 99.999%?
Yes! Got my Pixar movies mixed up - thanks for the correction!
Companies entering a new market will rent a spot for their "6 person team" at WeWork. And within a year they'll transition to a real office.

WeWork is indeed a pitstop. A pitstop to better offices for companies on the rise. Or a pitstop to working from home for people who think they need an office to work from but eventually don't.
It's not going to put your life back together, but these earmuffs really changed my quality of life for the better when I was working in offices; particularly those offices where people say things like "it's just white noise".

https://amazon.com/dp/B00CPCHBCQ/
Scenario 2 isn't actually so clear. Over time, humanity can decrease its suceptability to being wiped out by unlikely events at a faster rate then the events themselves over time.
This is after all, the same people who still insist on "GNU/Linux".
> When was this mythical time when "corporate governance worked"?

When most shareholders were individuals instead of mutual funds and other financial institutions, and held shares on fairly long time horizons. Things gradually evolved away from that during the post-WWII boom.
The point is I don't want to wait. For example, Firefox broke in update 5, and I really need Firefox to work for some testing. So I can't put off that update until night.

That's just a small example, but not having to plan my life around large downloads is in and of itself a benefit of the fast connection.
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Comcast Business operates on a 10:1 dL/uL ratio, at least here in Colorado. We have 300/30mbps, no option of 200/100 etc.
You're putting words in my mouth. Let's say elite men are top 5 overall at UTMB; that's why I asked you to give me odds for women making it there.

But please prove me wrong by answering my question directly. Which race had an elite field of men that she beat. Not just one runner, because by that definition I have beaten sub 2:05 marathoners who DNF-ed.
They tend to overemphasize "manners", while being blind to anti-social and trollish behaviour.

It just incentivises commenters to get more sneaky, back-handed and dog-whistly

I can't express how surprised I am (in a good way) to see this finally addressed and vocalized, because I myself have struggled with a way of putting it to words, and wishing to see others communicating it publicly.

Among women and people of color this site has a VERY unfavorable reputation for how our opinions and thoughts are moderated rather strongly because of the frustration we express with dog-whistle arguments that are delicately delivered with kid gloves, while the harbingers of opinions and principles that dehumanize, otherwise, minimize, de-legitimize and/or otherwise ostracize our lived experiences as women and minorities in tech are left alone and allowed to promulgate throughout the rest of the community unmolested.

Thank you both to the two previous commenters for giving my frustrations with this moderation style a voice.
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Do you have that TPS report?
The fact that they don't already live in their bunker suggests it would be a downgrade to their lifestyle. So why wouldn't they want to avoid it?
Cloudflare S-1 Analysis – Do they have an edge?
>1. You get better value for your money on an Airbnb if the Airbnb is honest and good. Stick with ones with high ratings and many reviews, and talk to your host if there is a problem.

Sure, the issue is the if (which should be guaranteed by Airbnb and isn't).

>2. Price. We've hosted via Airbnb for a year. We rent out a room and bathroom for $30 a night. It takes us a half hour to flip the room, plus an occasional outlay of supplies like soap, etc., so this is a good investment for me. You won't find that price anywhere in or near the major city closest to me.

Your case is the "right" way, you have a spare room in your house and you rent it, but a large part of Airbnb accomodations (even the good ones) are like the ones described in the article, a self-standing apartment (actually - if it is good - more suitable to a family than a hotel room) somewhere you never meet the host, not when you arrive (either combination lock with code sent via text or physical keys in a box with a combination lock) not when you go away, if you have an issue of any kind during the night, let's say that the electricity goes off or there is no water all you have is a mobile phone number (and it has to be seen if anyone will answer your call).

For domestic travels (and with a car) you still have some ways out in case of issues (an hotel nearby, if any), but think of an international travel (in a country you don't speak the local language) and with no available infividual means of transportation ...
My office has the suffix "AFRAID SPEAK" - I'm not sure my bosses would like that!

It's one of the problems with word lists. At any sufficient length, you'll get an offensive combination.
"my dsl goes down instantly"

Put your dsl modem & router on a UPS. Telephone lines have independent power and generally stay up during power outages.
Live near real-time diverse independent detection for all providers in all regions/locations.

Think Tsunami early-warning system for the Web...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_warning_system
Look, they didn't even make a case for why Petreaus had anything to do with anything else in this rambling, disjointed, largely useless article. Using a ding dong like that as the sole non-fictional example of "Leadership" pretty much invalidates anything the yoyo author said. Though he did get me to reread "Heart of Darkness" last night, so I got something out of it.

Honestly if you want actionable examples of actual leadership, any example from Plutarch's lives is going to be more informative than 50 paragraphs of hokum from some guy who makes his living flattering people who went to Yalevard (he apparently wrote a whole book filled with this crap).
Motivations and pitfalls for new “open-source” licenses
There's a great book, The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, talking about how to recover from an apocalypse where most people die. They recommend as a first step going out to the nearest golf course to grab the batteries in the golf carts because those are things you'll really need and won't be able to re-make for a while.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114087-the-knowledge
The GPs comment has a link to a Vox article that indicates that "Lymerix-triggered arthritis" was never more than a hypothetical posed by some of the members of the FDA review board.

No hard evidence of that condition exists. In a sample of 150,000 recipients, only 59 people later reported arthritic symptoms later - no higher than unvaccinated rates.

The vaccine was withdrawn before additional studies could provide full empirical evidence that there was no relationship, granted. But the preliminary samples for a lack of full study seem to show the vaccine was just fine, but for some reason the market got spooked.
If they’re a minority it can’t be a particularly extreme one. (Or maybe it’s just because most of the people I spend time around are technically inclined and for some reason that attracts people who are on the spectrum.)

I don’t think I’m autistic but personally I know I would have benefited from a course on social cues.
On-demand is a term for a reason.
Strange, I never feel more abused than when I have to use GNU.
WeWork leases entire office buildings. Regus only leases a floor of one.

So essentially, in far fewer locations, WeWork has more customers.
It’s rolled out in Ireland, South Korea and Spain to start, more countries are coming soon.
The Impact of Anti-Network Effects on Companies
It's not just single downloads though. It's also not having to hear from the other room "are you breaking the internet again?!" every time I need to download something large while my wife is watching Netflix.
Some surprisingly interesting companies this round, including quite a few leveraging hardware and robotics in cool ways. That being said, two stuck out to me:

I can't see Lumineye as something other than military and police state tech pretending it's going to help first responders more than it will help special operations units kill people and police/FBI violate privacy even further. This should be disturbing, not cool.

I like what Well Principled is trying to do, but having worked in the consulting space for a long time, the disruptable segment of the management consulting market is not that big. A lot of clients don't hire McKinsey for actual insights or results, they hire for the brand name, someone to point the finger at when things go wrong, and as trusted outsider confirmation of what executives wanted to do in the first place. I have a feeling this will pivot into the financial engineering segment of the market pretty quickly or get bought out by one of the big 4.
That doesn't negate the point. Your example simply demonstrates incomplete osmosis of information. Ironically, something every CxO I've encountered seems to embrace and delight in maintaining.

I've not come across a single business problem that cannot be solved by breaking down knowledge silos. Does the lathe operator need to know from whence the reqs come? Maybe not. Will he be more likely to crank out stricter tolerance parts if he knows? My experience says yes.

The issue is one of personality and power however. Perception management is a tool of VPs/Execs, and they will fight tooth and nail to maintain as tight a control over their informational asymmetry as possible.

In each of the several companies I've worked Quality management at, I've managed to streamline operations and improve the Quality of the end product by punching holes in every knowledge barrier I encounter. Generally, you end up with a small network of tribal knowledge keepers/emitters. Without fail, though, this practice tends to lead counter-intuitive pictures of the health of the company not painted or represented well by the metrics most management track people seem to focus on. I end up demonstrating to at least one CxO that what they're getting fed in the form of spreadsheets is nothing like what's actually been going on on the working floor.

The effect of out of touch management pales in comparison, however, to outright malicious management, who are just out to make a mark without sitting down and really thinking through what a company needs. These are your VP's that come with their own posse and promise the world, come in and break everything for 6 months to a year, and then leave the company treading water trying to recover in the wake of alienated or laid off employees caused by their mismanagement. There is no greater threat to malicious management than an employee that is connected enough with the internal knowledge network that is the company that to call them on their shenanigans. Unfortunately, this tends to run into hierarchy issues, where the people most effective at punching through silos and integrating what they find in order to streamline the day-to-day are infrequently in management positions. Most of the impetus to do such a thing tends to come from wanting to get something done within the system as it exists. Managers (or at least the one's I've had) tend to be a bit more reserved in such things based on the politics around their position.

Therefore you can end up in the unenviable position of the person outing the Emperor's New (lack of) Clothes. I've made the personal decision to value my integrity over the job before, and called a spade a spade, and I'd do it again.