skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * Maybe it's just me, but I find it much easier to explain difficult technical things in person. Yes, screenshares are very helpful, but sometimes a hard problem involves going back and forth between monitors, for example.

To an extent I can see the issue, but when screen sharing this usually ends up with the other person then showing their screen and how it's working.

I am at a remote-friendly place currently, and depending on the project I prefer to work in the office, but longer term I may consider more remote work due to commute.

We are but one of many offices throughout the country too so it's not a huge deal if I don't meet everyone in the company, so long as I know the people part of our division.
I don't believe hg is any better in this respect.
Why would it be a good thing to redefine "strong"?

Or why do I think that's the most plausible explanation for an unlikely event?
Nanosheet Transistors: The Last Step in Moore’s Law?
I was full-time WFH for 6 wonderful years. I was happy, my productivity was off the charts, I was saving tons of money because I didn't have to spend it on my car and clothes, I had extra time that I wasn't wasting on my commute, etc.

Then, we had a big shake-up. A bunch of senior people left, and new "leadership" came in to "transform" our workplace. All WFH was cancelled in our division (in spite of still being officially encouraged by corporate policy). The big boss said "a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain". My response to that is "What about the other 99.9% of my work time, when I don't need to interact with anyone?" Sigh.

Since I had left the office, they had redone everything to be open plan, low walls, brighter lights, white noise over the speakers, etc. Contractors are packed like sardines, the noise is insane. We're also "Agile" now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.

I'm not very happy anymore.
It's the reason libguestfs exists.
Lyme has a great young hacker: there's a kid who got Lyme, and she learned how to build an app, connect doctors, start a foundation, and create a self-reporting network of hikers, campers, and outdoors people. Very inspiring!

https://ticktracker.com/

https://livlymefoundation.org/
We're sausaged?
My only axe is with people who make sweeping claims without evidence.
Not really. The attacker seemed to target bitcoin once again... surprising this shit is still profitable, though.
>which is pretty hard to accomplish

At my last two companies we used Terraform and Kubernetes with everything stored as text in git. Has worked pretty well.
I definitely agree with the part about long commutes. Between the drive to work and having to put on work clothes, brush my hair, etc, it's about 1.5-2 hours out of my day that is completely wasted when I can't work from home. I'm more productive at home as well, since I can take breaks as needed instead of having to look busy for 8 hours and getting bored after 4 hours at the office.
Awesome, wasn't aware of git aliases. Thank you.
I have worked from home for many years now and identify with ALL those drawbacks, but I still wouldn't want to change to a full time in-office position. The drawbacks of that (mostly an hour wasted commuting both in the evening and in the afternoon) is just too big.

Being able to work remotely on occasion, or perhaps the ability to not work remotely on occasion (e.g. work remotely from a coworking space 2 days a week and from home 3 days a week, or work in the real office 1 day per week) would be ideal.
Why we Decided to Get Rid of the Google Play Services – Location Library
I don't know enough about the subject to say you're wrong but I'm inclined to given what I know about testosterone's effects on physical development, and I can imagine having stronger muscles means better or longer running. Do you have evidence that testosterone and its effects on muscle development have no effect in such competitions?
Animal Extinction Hidden in Plain Sight (2018)
I don't see that as the same at all. They're providing a necessary service. People need to eat, they don't need to gamble or smoke.

Burgers and Pizza aren't the healthiest food in the world, but they're not the worst either. A typical burger consists of bread, meat and salad. There's nothing inherently wrong with any of those things.
As users, I guess we can start with paying for good content, tools, apps etc. Most of us don't even pay for something as important as email, and then complain about Google's non existent support for GMail etc.

The other thing we could do is intentionally support good, honest indie makers over mega corps (but there is no guarantee they won't sell to mega corps).
Most commercial projects are orders of magnitude more complex than that, and the performance differences are stark.
Elephant in the room: how many of these people would prefer it to having a private office? Strangely, this article/survey/infographic never mentions that option.

I'd prefer remote work, too, over sitting in an open floorplan office, but I'd much prefer an actual office to either one. The easy "why" is: despite all the drawbacks, a lot of us will do pretty much anything to get out of an open floorplan.
Hmmm; Is the Scientific American's "Observations" section equivalent to newspapers' "Opinions" or "Editorial"?

Because while I agree with overall message ("Let's get serious about battling ticks and diseases they spread"), there is a strange mix of scientific/data-based; political/opinion-based; and just plain emotional imploring. It brings up the highly controversial Chronic Lyme topic right front and centre, but then attempts to steer itself ambiguously away from it (essentially, "Whatever the case, we need to fight it"). Can the author really be unaware of the immediate guard that will go up on every side of that thorny issue?
I work remotely and have been at both remote-first and traditional cos...I would “never” go back but I have kids and maybe once they leave I would reconsider.

That said I have lost multiple (mostly younger) employees due to several of the reasons you mention.

I think you nailed it as far as the biggest challenge at traditional cos - remote will definitely kill your career path. It really is only good at those cos once you are an expert in a niche and don’t care about the Corp ladder. Definitely try to find remote first cos if you are not at the zenith of your Corp climbing.
> higher pain tolerance

myth
Or just any gem, period, regardless of download count? Seems like a fair minimum baseline for publishing to a public repository. MFA in modern times is low-effort.
There's AmigaGuide (http://code.iamkate.com/articles/amigaguide/ , most screenshots look like they have a dark theme but generally not purple/pink).

Dark theme with purple/pink sounds like the windows 'high contrast dark' theme, which shipped with Windows 95 & 98, and might have shipped with 3.11 / Workgroups as well. In that case, any card-based hypertext system that ran on Workgroups is a possibility. It looks like that includes Authorware (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Authorware), StorySpace (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyspace), and probably KMS.

Early versions of HyperTIES ran on DOS: https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/ ; some HyperTIES images resemble what you describe: https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/ecs_intro.gif
>Good content is not easy.

Especially when the scuttlebutt is that they're not going to be doing anything more risque than PG-13. It's true that not every good TV show needs constant swearing and gore and T&A to be good, but artists need the freedom to push envelopes. Apple TV+ is likely going to be as bland and generic as a friday night broadcast TV lineup.
I would love something with a UI like Grav to edit and create my site, but with a static web page export to publish it. I'm fine with running the UI only locally on my computer so even a desktop app would be fine.
Related : Accelerated phenology of blacklegged ticks under climate warming (ticks can survive in more areas and breed faster)

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...

Ticks (and tick-borne diseases) will become widespread as the world is warming.
“a single proprietary solution Github by Microsoft”

Moving (Edit: Just the code, not issues and not pull request information) away from GitHub is trivial, since Git itself is open source and distributed, requiring merely setting up a repo on the new server (such as the open source Sourcehut) then running these commands:

git clone https://github.com/foo/bar
vi bar/.git/config # Add new remote location
cd bar
git push baz master

(Replace foo, bar, and baz with real names)
Actually publishing new versions seems like something that happens infrequently enough that it would be fine to require a manual auth to complete it. Given the potential risks it seems prudent.
I'm no expert but seems to me your country (Germany) has long been in front on these issues, you have a strong green party and activists since the 70'. But hidden forces were and are nevertheless still looming, see the automobile industry and the scandal with diesel emissions, I'm sure there are scrambling to transition toward EV but in the meantime I would not be surprised if they battled behind closed doors to slow the adoption or proposal of measures that could hurt their business and in the end German economy.
Crystal and Julia is not alike at all? Crystal is a static compiled OOP language. Julia is dynamic with multiple dispatch, and is not OOP.

The crystal guys should have but their effort into nim or something like it imo
That is a fair point. It used to be that way, but around 2016 we started noticing bots and scrapers that use that use full webkit implementations to run JavaScript. Those clients should be triggering Google Analytics just like a desktop browser, but it was difficult to make the correlation due to information hiding in the GA dashboard (tuple of IP address, timestamp, resource would be needed, but they do not provide that, so it was impossible to test).
POWER9 and ARM Performance Against Intel Xeon Cascadelake and AMD EPYC Rome
panel of witnesses featuring Seymour Papert & Alan Kay starts at 8m:20s
git was faster.

i was using mercurial and svn before git. git was hard to learn but i went with efficiency and speed over convenience. also, if you have a good shell or a good GUI you don't need to memorize git commands. and if you are not a game developer uploading large binaries, git is the best around.
Not only the data could be accessed, it's entirely possible it was modified. Unless you have good logging of all data changes (at DB level) it can be very difficult to detect these changes.

The first hijacked version was released on August 13th.
For me the main perk of remote work is that the status of pants is by design entirely unknowable.

In practice, this also covers data points such as status or style of shirt, whether I’ve showered that day, where on the planet I happen to be, whether I’m actually in a pool, how far from civilization I am, or whether I’ve injured my leg and didn’t tell anyone because it’s not a big deal and I don’t mind typing while my leg hurts, or whether I have loud death metal playing at top volume.

I’m content with all of those things remaining a mystery for my coworkers because none are correlated with quality and timeliness of my work.
> Security keys offer almost unbeatable security and can protect against a variety of threats, including nation-state attackers.

Alright, I'm not a security expert, but I'm not completely illiterate to basic computer security. Anyone care to chime in how this is much more secure than a two-factor app?

Sure there's the obvious, nobody can just copy the two-factor app off my phone with all the codes and have the same codes (I've upgraded phones and taken my codes with me before...) but whose to stop someone from cloning a Yubico key?

Again I'm not an expert, but I do want to know if this is purely marketing hype or if there's some security to Yubikey and friends that I'm not aware of.

Also pardon me if I confused two-factor as the Google Authenticator app. Too many "factor" terms get a bit confusing after a while.
nice language! great examples! very simple, very intuitive! GREAT WORK!
Coming from a place with an endemic Lyme disease problem, I whole heartedly agree with the thrust of the article. I’d add however that in addition to funding and research into tick-borne diseases, there needs to be significant research and funding directed at reducing tick populations in an environmentally safe manner (current methods mostly involve spraying your lawn with chemicals, or applying permethrin to rodents and deer in some ridiculous fashion)
As long as there are men who think men are inherently better than women at all things, then we need to celebrate when women smoke them in a race.
This looks great. I wonder why it's not getting more attention. Thanks for building it.
I started with CVS then moved to svn. From there moved to bazaar (bzr), from there moved to git and at last used mercurial and settled on it. I still keep an active look at fossil SCM.

In my earlier team at fortune 100 firm, most developers use Windows with svn. We tried git and it did not work well due to UI and windows support. They were able to pick up UI easily and were quickly productive in mercurial. It worked pretty good on all 3 platform Windows, Mac and Linux. I am talking of time when GitHub was not that popular in corporate world.

Performance was never an issue.

Also at that time mercurial followed philosophy of being explicit and every merge needs to be explicit and committed with immutable history. So can see the evolution of code along with the mistakes made.

I believe the success of git is due to GitHub and for many it's synonymous.
Germany is continuing to burn coal, that is why axing their nuclear was such an unforced error.
People like what they like and they don't like what they don't like, there's an art to conveying what you don't like about particular art, this art is called criticism. When criticizing art, the only sin you can commit is not being expressive enough.

If you start to place positivity above expressiveness in art criticism, you get puff pieces that don't teach anyone anything. People love this guide not because they want to feel good about being a snob but because they actually learn about music.

For example, in the guide for New Jack Swing he makes the argument that Thriller aged better than Dangerous or Bad because of the drum sounds, I might or might not share his assessment, but the point he made about the tinniness of the drums was well-taken.
> The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
you'll be distracted by that regardless
Could you explain/describe what happened and why and how to prevent it?
I don't know. For me commute is the most pointlessly wasted time a person could do. And I have played lineage.

So as long as your commute is 10 seconds home office beats real any time. At least until we get the whole teleportation thing nailed down.
He's too small and his defense contribution is too low. You'd just chuck 11 prime Yaya Toures at him and watch them dominate the game :-)
True but all you need is one of the bigger ones to spoil the party and that gives cover for everyone else. This problem cannot be solved by committee. I don’t expect anyone to agree with me, I just plan to move to higher ground.
> It's important to understand that there is a reputation and perception that PHP has because of its colored history.

Because no other language has a history?

Look at C it has a coloured history, it has a reputation like any other language, C vs C++, it has bad things like the lack of memory safety, it lacks concepts like object orientation and so on and so on.

No PHP is not special in its flaws.
I'm an author of gems with a total of more than 4 million downloads. I just setup 2fa now after seeing this.
I heard THC technically it could indicate a lack of quality control in their products or delivery mechanism. Like bathtub gin for blindness - while alcohol isn't healthy the methanol was the actual cause. Expired vaccines have killed people for instance.
Enough that we can spread humanity into space and/or develop sentient technology.
Good points. What you described is one of the main reasons the vast majority of remote companies are small. Less than 100 people. Company wide retreats help a lot with some of these issues.
My first real computer when I was a kid came with Encarta and Dangerous Creatures. I spent hours on those things and when I couldn't I would be brainstorming what to look up next. I'm not sure what the equivalent of that would be now, but it sure is upsetting to see what kids are using technology for now - shitty YouTube videos with questionable visuals, mobile games with predatory micro transactions and gambling mechanics, no doubt covertly collecting data on them.
Don’t most ruby projects vendor gems? So projects using 1.6 that didn’t bundle update wouldn’t be affected either. It sounds like only projects that were pinned to 1.6 that ran bundle update would be affected.

I only have a passing familiarity with ruby gems, so I may be completely wrong.
Does it do U2F on an iOS device?
> "Being able to work remotely on occasion, or perhaps the ability to not work remotely on occasion (e.g. work remotely from a coworking space 2 days a week and from home 3 days a week, or work in the real office 1 day per week) would be ideal."

Being able to work in an office one day a week makes a big difference. Some things are easier in person, but they can be delayed until that day you are in the office. I had a boss at a previous company who did two days at home and three in the office and it was an ideal mix. He could get the benefits of being able to do things face to face and the benefits of being able to do deep work at home (personally, I do deep work better in the office, but I understand why many people do better at home).
In firefox, I get a partial page.

In console, there is a warning as "no wasm support" -- easy.js
A guide to becoming an admiral in the Russian Navy
Read this profile a few weeks ago on a flight, what a badass. Patagonia’s summer sale is currently going on [0]. They seem to be one of the few companies that actually takes sustainability seriously so I don’t mind the more premium prices of there garments. There 5" baggie’s shorts are a personal favorite of mine.

[0] https://www.patagonia.com/shop/web-specials
If anyone would be serious about co2 emissions then we would go nuclear. The green party is not pro-nature.
I'm not really seeing any similarities other than both languages having type inference (which is a pretty standard feature of newer languages and as mentioned, Julia was earlier). Julia is competing with Matlab/R/Numpy. That's not what Crystal is targeting at all. I suppose you could imagine that libraries could be written for Crystal, but except for Python's Numpy, these tend not to go anywhere in practice (Ruby itself has the now mostly dead Sciruby for example).
It feels a bit overkill to pay $29 per month just for a hosted blog UI. And if you're running Ghost yourself on a server or on your computer, it's not really a static site anymore.
You can get phised to enter your two factor in a random web forms but it is not possible to do this with U2F (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor).

For example, Google reported that deploying U2F blocked all phising attempts of their employees : https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu....
It's hard to tell how much things like that reflect the shape of the maximum human performance curve, vs which sports are worth it for which athletes to reach peak performance.
It's got nothing to do with being relevant, or having delusions of grandeur. It's just a matter of not having terms dictated by the US, Russia or nowadays China within our effective perimeter. Back then acquiring nuclear power was essential to those aims, and building a European block was also the right answer for the foreseeable future. Stumbles aside, it seems to be fairly reasonable and workable to me. You can't just pretend everything's fine and be a good boy for the overlord of the day.

In the 50s a number of people were acutely aware of the bullet we dodged in WW2 (we came quite close to being scraped apart into rump states).
If companies paid for commute time I'd feel a lot less strongly about in-office requirements.
https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm

"Don't use your fingerprint to lock/unlock devices."

"Use a long passphrase to lock your devices."

Seems touch id and face id is exactly what security experts tell you not to do.
Paper used to support ban on Caster Semenya competing earns correction
And maybe three of those could lean towards morality. Someone could be a gifted sniper, a talented warmonger, an evil genius, an accomplished pick pocket, a creative criminal, an educated Ponzi scheme operator, or a profound mass murderer.
> There's a "human being" class, and a "human beings without the testosterone gene" class. The only reason to have the second class is because only half of the human population has the "testosterone" gene (aka the Y chromosome), and the other half still like to run.

While it's always cute when people pretend that human sex is simple and things only get complicated when gender identity is considered, chromosomes aren't genes, the Y chromosome isn't the “testosterone gene”, XY females exist, XY females with a normal copy of sex-determining region Y (SRY) exist, and, as was discovered recently, XY females with a normal copy of SRY who have borne children exist. Also XX females have testosterone at various levels.

It's true that recently was part of how to deal with the evolving understanding of gender in the context of sport, a number of governing bodies have redefined the criteria for competing as a woman to be based on a combination of identity and serum testosterone levels, but that's also not about a “testosterone gene” and at best imperfectly correlates with any particular gene.
CrateDB, Machine Learning, and Hydroelectric Power: Part Two
For me it's:
Office with my own office > Working from home > My own cube > the middle of a busy construction site > open office

I'm currently in a cube, which is miles better than open office. I say I like working from home, only because I don't foresee getting my own office anytime soon.
Nervana NNP-T: 27B Transistors, 32GB of HBM2 Packed on 688mm2 Die
To do away with any good done, just because evil was done, is sad and shortsighted. I am glad people can move forward without dragging around the past like a corpse. Annoyingly, much of our best tech of a certain era was developed by Nazis, but I sure as hell am not about to unlearn rocket science as a consequence.
Except that climate change response is the best wealth generation mechanism for the 21st century. No company will bankrupt themselves by being more efficient, using more renewable, buying some batteries, EVs. These are already good investments. The problem is corporate greed driving down investment and morality in exchange for buybacks and CEO compensation.
Sourcehut supports mercurial, too!
Confirming: there was an ultra marathon swimmer on Rogan a few months ago who does various swims between the Hawaiian islands - he said the exact same thing.
> cloning a Yubico key

This should be impossible.
Except that you couldn't get the revenue from the railroad until the railroad was built... which would be difficult without land.

Connecting the entire country was probably considered a 'strategic' decision rather than just a commercial venture. See also interstate highway system.

Governments often subsidize early efforts in areas that they deem are maybe important to have a lead in the future. See also ARPAnet / Internet.