skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked remotely as a consultant for 12 years, before going back to full-time in an office job. The main driving factor for going back was the lack of consistent social interaction. I started my remote career in San Francisco, where I had non-work activities that were very active in the local community for nearly a decade. I was going out regularly and had many close friends. Being in a walkable area with decent public transportation was perfect for ease of social interactions.

I later moved to a city in southern California, which was a more suburban environment. It wasn't walkable, you had to take a car everywhere and I didn't know anyone other than my partner when we first moved here. I now was in a situation where I had to re-establish my social connections without my previous activities (I had stopped being involved a few years before the move) and I also didn't have a work environment where I had also made many social connections over the years.

For the first 5+ years, this was fine, I was able to make a handful of new friends but many of them started moving because of cost of living and starting new families. At this point, I feel like it really started to become determinantal to my mental health. Honestly, it took a long time for me to even notice and admit it was affecting me, but eventually, it was pretty debilitating. This wasn't the only source, but it was a major factor to be sure.

That being said, after being back in the office for 2 years (they have pretty strong no work at home policy) I am ready to go back to remote work. I loved the benefits of remote work but I also now am much more aware of the importance of getting out and finding more social activities to balance this out. Also, I wouldn't go back as a consultant. Having a rotating cast of people you interact with made it much harder to form longer-term social bonds and also there was never dedicated time planned to meet in person at regular intervals, as a lot of remote-first companies do.

I love and really miss the flexibility of my schedule and if I can find an environment that supports stable interactions with people and I continue to re-engage in more social activities outside of work, I would jump back into remote work in a heartbeat.
Yeah should be for all gems, and same goes for npm and pip registries. If you're publishing code to an official public registry for pulling and execution by other users in the ecosystem, multifactor authentication should be required. Agreed that the effort required to add this nowadays is fairly small, such that it should be more widespread.
Throwing my failed side project into the ring as well - Ultralist[1][2] is very similar to todo.txt but has a bigger focus on Due dates. I use it every day.

The CLI portion is fully baked and works great, but the webapp and syncing part never really gained traction.

[1]: https://ultralist.io/

[2]: https://github.com/ultralist/ultralist
> Ok, maybe that's just me, but I do not find that compelling either. I never really managed to work efficiently on a laptop or with a lot of strangers around.

That's corporate hot desking for you.
Weeks is a long time. As long as food and water can be minimally supplied, people can get along pretty well even in awful situations. Stuff only deteriorates once people can't feed themselves.

NYC is already reliant on others for food and water. Supplying it without electricity would be a severe logistics challenge but easier in some ways than in Puerto Rico.
Well in this case it would be like if you went to home depot and bought a new saw.

But the saw needs to be connected to the internet all the time for it to work, and ToolCorp can remotely disable your saw if they detect you are using it to cut something other than wood, and ToolCorp will only let you buy ToolCorp brand blades, even though CompetitorCorp makes high quality cheaper blades that have the same shape. Furthermore, your new saw has a computer that can be used to program it to cut different patterns, but all patterns must be approved by ToolCorp and indeed they can remotely go in and delete unauthorized patterns if they want to (remember, your saw needs to be connected to the internet all the time). Also, you'll probably need a "ToolCorp Hardwood Premium" monthly subscription if you want to use hardwood cutting features.

The complaint here isn't that Apple is making tools. It's that they are making tools that act in the interests of its creators more than in the interests of its users.

You wouldn't buy a hammer from home depot that failed to work if your interests didn't align with HammerCorp's interests, would you?
Restore faith in government; which entails restoring faith in elected officials; which involves electing people who support the common good; which requires people to take an active, thoughtful place in political discourse.
> Would you really say just a blunt "no", or would you provide some context as to why?

This reminds me of some party of math students. One math student (clearly not on the spectrum!) X asked another math student Y: "Do you know whether Z will come?". Y answered: "Yes, he will come, but later.", to which X answered: "I didn't want to know whether Z will come, but only whether you have the knowledge whether he will come. If I wanted to know from you whether Z will come, I would have asked you 'Will Z also come?' and in the worst case gotten the answer from you that you don't know. But this is not the question that I asked. So, you should immediatelly have concluded that I am not interested whether Z will come, but only in whether you have the knowledge about that.".

I could tell lots of such stories about such ultra-precise questions and expecting precise answers among math students.

TLDR: Communication styles differ.
>I don't disagree with you, but I think most HN readers are power users.

A percentage of HN readers perhaps. Gigabit isn't even available here in Indy for the vast majority of people.

Fastest I can get is '100mbps' for 60$ a month plus fees with a 1TB cap and it's not even close to actually being 100mbps from AT&T. Netflix degrades itself probably once an hour on average while watching HD (not 4K) and if nothing is running I'm lucky if I can pull 500-750 kilobytes a second (a whopping 4-6% of my advertised speed) from my gigabit server I rent (but a friend in another city with gigabit can almost max out his advertised speed pulling from it).

Allegedly AT&T has up to gigabit for about 20% of the city if you happen to live in a fiber neighborhood. If I went witha business line, at a considerably higher cost (if they'd even allow it at a residential address) I could get up to '300mbps'.

I've been seeing people talk about gigabit at their homes for years no and I'm just like "whatev!".
Heroku did this about a year ago. They have a list of known pwned passwords (probably haveibeenpwned, but honestly I'm not sure), and disallow accounts to use those passwords. When that change was implemented, any account using a pwned password had that password expired.

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1625

(source: I work for Heroku Support)
Sensor that can work underwater without a battery and send back data
They are supposed to be recycled with plastic shopping bags. Most residential recycling doesn’t accept them (but the grocery stores do).
Why does calculus involve so many irrational numbers?

Because there are uncountably many more irrational numbers than there are rational numbers.
>0&0 ShutUp 10

What is this?
DigitalOcean launches managed MySQL and Redis database services
That's buffer bloat. Your router is putting your wife's Netflix data in a queue behind seconds or even minutes of data from your connection. Completely pointless but it made some microbenchmark 0.1% better so they shipped it. Buy devices that don't do that.
The Role of the Study of Programming Languages in the Education of a Programmer [pdf]
Hecke.jl: Computational algebraic number theory in Julia
I usually assume the phones will keep working as long as we can charge them, but I suppose the towers need some juice too.

It was interesting to observe when the power went out in Redmond, WA for two weeks about ten years ago. Towers stayed online for a while, until some (I'm guessing) lost their batteries. Still had a little signal, though, because (again, guessing) some towers had generators. Then the diesel ran out (again, guessing), and we had no cell signal after a few days.

That's why I keep the amateur radio skills practiced.
Definitely sounds like a problem. Do you think an alternative source control solution would handle that situation better? At some point huge with a large number of small files takes its toll.

It would be interesting for someone inside Microsoft to write a blog describing why Git works well for the Linux Kernel but not for the Windows Kernel. They cannot be that different from a layout perspective, can they?
Topically on teeth, flouride might have benefits. Great, use flouride toothpaste.

Internally ingested, zero benefits and possible risks, why take the chance.

/Debate
I've tried using few pieces of paper tied by strong paperclip.

Doesn't work for me - I've lost some notes that way. For me notebook as temporary information storage is better.
From what I understand, it will actually create a shadow profile not linked to your real profile, instead of actually not tracking you. (I have the french version, which basically says : 'you can disconnect tracking informations from your actual account if you desire')

So there's no change for people not using facebook, you'll be tracked like before no matter what.
> It's what and how much you eat that matters.

It's only how much you eat. Conservation of energy still applies, and 3500 kcal are still a pound of fat. It doesn't matter where the calories come from, they always end up either burned or as fat.

The "how much" is regulated by negative feedback. Whenever you eat sugar, insulin is secreted, which ends the craving. Whenever you eat fat or protein, leptin is secreted, which causes a feeling of satiation. Leptin is secreted by fatty tissue, so the fatter you are, the earlier you are satiated. As a result, everyone has an equilibrium weight at which he will eat exactly enough to replace the expended energy.

But that's not what's happening right now. We tend to constantly gain weight. Slowly, but without an apparent limit or any kind of feedback. That's where the "what you eat" comes in. Something is fouling up the feedback mechanism. Maybe something that causes the release of neither insulin nor leptin. Something we now consume in bulk, but didn't use to. Maybe we shouldn't do that.
There are many who have quit cigarettes that rely on e cigarettes to keep from relapsing. Banning e-cigarettes would just screw them like crazy. As someone who had to quit cold turkey, I can appreciate how hard this is, and how easy relapsing is.

Even if the market is apart is partially grown, peer pressure and acting out was going to get many of those teens on something. If it is just vaping, that is much better than cigarettes, marijuana, heroin, meth, ... really, perfect is still the enemy of good.
I deleted my Facebook account about 9 months ago. My life has been noticeably better without it!
Wow.... this strikes me as a really insensitive clickbait headline.

I've had the privilege of managing SW Engineers who've confided in me their diagnosis of Aspergers or Autism.

Over time, I've generally helped Engineers understand that doing "deep work" is a characteristic of the craft and not an illness.

Most Psychology books and Academics have been back peddling on the definition of Autism in recent years.
>"The obvious competitor is a company called IWG, with 3,306 locations and 445k workstations at the end of 2018. WeWork, in comparison, had 528 locations and 604k workstations as of June 30, 2019. Note the date mismatch — this isn’t a perfect comparison — but that only makes the point that these are two very different companies: WeWork had only 466k workstations at the end of 2018; a year earlier, when the Wall Street Journal pointed out that WeWork’s then-valuation was 5x IWG’s (it is now 13x), WeWork had a mere 150k, while IWG had 414k."

There are a ton of obvious competitors, they are not big, but they are everywhere, at least in the UK. Hotdesk rental has been a common SME thing for ages.
My family lives in rural areas and a lot of people there do manual labor jobs but are still overweight. I think it is more of a cultural thing around food. When I visit, I am always shocked by how much food people eat. The amount of exercise needed to overcome eating 4k calories per day is not going to be provided by any job.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Good to know! I'll stick to a tiny diary. Will make a habit out of it. :)
Do you know whether that includes websites in Safari? If I can’t use 2FA for that, I don’t see how I can use a Yubikey.
The demand is that they run self contained free software, not that they run got and docker with text confog files.

Its possible to have GUIs and ease of use with free software.
I also miss hginit.com. I've been referring new devs to https://web.archive.org/web/20180924182907/http://hginit.com...

I guess hginit.com disappearing was a signal of things to come.
I don't know what happened to it, but I was just searching for it as well... I found it on the Wayback Machine. Is good.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170320142857/http://hginit.com...
I don't like clickbait... The article starts to suggest that calculus is hard to reason about and "irrational". In the end all it is really saying is that calculus requires irrational numbers, well doh! And guess what, you even need complex numbers. And the question is not about "shopping" numbers, there is a history to all of that. If you want something universal, use complex numbers. Try to teach that to a pre-schooler and you will find that you might wanna start with something simpler.
Germany has invested substantially into tackling climate change. Google "Energiewende".

Maybe also do some research on the internet infrastructure in Germany. It's a cartel. That's why service is so bad.

I'm not saying I'm against good infrastructure investments. But just telling us to "keep spending" because "debt is cheap" won't cut it.
I've been doing some thinking along these lines and I always end up with the realization that if most infrastructure around you is down, there isn't that much you can do with electrical power in the amounts that could be available.

I mean, you can get light when it's dark, and possibly run a refrigerator from a solar installation, but otherwise what would you use the electricity for? Not for heating, not for transportation (not enough of it), your cell phones and other computer devices won't be of much use without the network anyway. Perhaps if you have portable radios you could charge them, but otherwise — what?

My conclusion was that we've become alarmingly dependent on infrastructure. I decided to get some maps, old-style paper books, and started considering getting radios and tiny solar panels to re-charge them.
Ireland's non unique addresses aren't a problem for any of the open standards around this I've seen. Eircode is unnecessary. Using one of these geo location centric systems also means no central system is required to add new ones etc.
Yes, we should all try.

But-- it can be difficult to tell apart "he acts with apparent disregard for you because he doesn't give a shit about his work/you" and "he acts with apparent disregard because he has autism and requires different management practices." And the former cases do need to get eventually detected.

Our social expectations and instincts are a key tool that we ordinarily use to tease these situations apart, but one that might partially fail us when dealing with an employee with autism.

Information and additional context frees us, then-- it provides us the context we need to be compassionate. It also suggests strategies on how to deal with e.g. the low-social employee appearing uncooperative to their peers.
This seems nearly useless. It doesn't remove the data when you clear it. It simply "disconnects it from your user ID". But we've seen before that the collected data has so much personally identifiable information in it, that the user ID isn't needed anyway. So in reality, this does nothing. And Facebook absolutely knows this.
> 1. Lower cost to the company. Private offices are expensive to build and maintain.

You're just pushing that cost to the employee. Are you paying them the amount saved, to furnish their own private offices? Or are you just penalizing the worker to save a buck?

> 3. Job flexibility. Home workers have (or will have) more options for employment.

I have not seen this. Most companies still don't offer remote work.

> 4. No relocation expenses. Relocating an employee costs a few thousand dollars, hiring them and letting them stay put is cheaper.

Again, maybe it's different now, but I've worked at several tech companies, and never been offered "relocation expenses".

> 5. Maintain ties to community.

What does this mean? The company? The worker? It seems like the company not employing local workers, and the worker not leaving their house, would be worse for community all around.
>> link the paper disproving the existence of chronic Lyme.

I mean, regardless of the "side" or "stance", this is kind of the oldest, least honest logical fallacy in the book [1] - you're requiring somebody else to disprove existence of something? How, exactly?

Typically, the burden of proof is on the entity making a claim.

>>Are doctors no longer permitted the last word in treating their own patients?

erm... no?
I'm assuming there's a more profound intent behind this statement, but as it reads, no absolutely not. Doctors are not researchers, they are (to simplify, for purpose of this discussion) expert [and hopefully experienced] appliers of knowledge gained by others, over generations of hard work.

"In case of discrepancy between sticker and system, the system price will be held correct": in case of discrepancy between some random doctor and accumulated body of knowledge, body of knowledge wins.

For example, if my doctor tells me to ingest my own urine twice a day, and CDC & NIH tell me that is bollocks, the doctor empathically does not hold the last word.

----

As to the particulars of your claims when it comes to Lyme, observationally, people actively "shop" for a doctor that will prescribe them the treatment the patient desires. So the last word here is actually typically the patient's. :|

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
They also probably farmed and were able to busy themselves with heavy farm work.
Public Support Grows for Higher Teacher Pay and Expanded School Choice
I switched to this format a few months ago and I love it. The file is kept in a Google Drive folder and synced to all my devices. Aditya Bhaskar's Todo.txt for Android app[0] is probably the best app there is for it and is my preferred way of interfacing with it. I haven't gotten the hang of the CLI, and the configuration documentation isn't great. When I use it on a computer I just use a text editor, but it isn't as nice.

The only con I've run into in the few months is that there is no built-in support for re-occurring tasks, but I've moved around that by adding a manual tag like "repeats:every-saturday" or "repeats:last-sunday-of-month" and then changing the due date to that instead of hitting "complete"

[0] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.c306.ttsup...
Well, family connections are true, here's excerpt from Bill's mother bio:
"Her tenure on the national board's executive committee is believed to have helped Microsoft, based in Seattle, at a crucial time. In 1980, she discussed her son's company with John Opel, a fellow committee member and the chairman of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other IBM executives. A few weeks later, IBM took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates
Upvoted for being pithy and beautiful. Where's our manifesto? Can I suggest you write it?
To put it one way: "You can either be a shit funnel or a shit umbrella"
> ... a transmitter that sends out sound waves underwater, which then hit sensors with embedded receivers, transmitting a tiny amount of energy in the process. The sensor then either uses that energy to answer back – or doesn’t ... effectively communicate in binary.

O yes, fish will love us even more.
There is nothing about bioaccumulation there.

Fluoride is one of those ions that diffuse thought and out of our bodies almost like there is no barrier anywhere.
Actually 0.3 to 0.4.1 is a major release with many changes including new mercurial versions and better git support with updated UI and celery for background tasks. If you see a new ssh feature is just added with documentation.

Kallithea is pretty easy to work with and extend. We recently updated and built a CI using buildbot. Rhodecode and Kallithea have diverged enough and are moving differently. Also its a Software freedom conservancy project so it will be supported, hopefully it can attract bit larger community.
>Objectively measured physical activity may not be the key determinant of unhealthy weight gain in children.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044163/

>Prospective studies, however, find little evidence of the more physically active members of a population gaining less excess weight than those who are the least physically active.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21832897?dopt=Abstract

>TEE adjusted for weight and age or PAL did not differ significantly between developing and industrialized countries, which calls into question the role of energy expenditure in the cause of obesity at the population level.

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/93/2/427/4597724
> If you’d like, you can disconnect that information from your account, and it will not be associated with you personally.

“But we still keep it and the entire unique fingerprint”
The "censorship software" point is extremely dumb.

I have kids. I want them to have a phone for communication purposes when they move from place to place (come back from school). I also want the to lock down the phone so if they sneak it out or something, they can't watch it for 12 straight hours.

That's it. That's what this does.
I don’t think we disagree, vodka is hard liquor and will kill you, a wine cooler just has a touch of alcohol and probably the sugar is more harmful overall.
Hey Guys,

We here at Facebook realized you don't trust our apps, so we made another app that makes you think our apps are safe. Despite this just being another app within our portfolio of tracking tools. Please download and install, otherwise the other apps may not work eventually. Trust us. ಠ_ಠ