skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're a small independently owned private company, and not a single person responsible for those decisions made years ago is still involved with the company. It's been over 3 years since we bought SourceForge and we reversed all the bad decisions on day 1 and never looked back. We still support Mercurial https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mercurial/#pub...
I'm glad Facebook chose the name that they did. Hopefully enough people will ask, "why does Facebook care about my activity off Facebook?"
Hurricane Katrina was exacerbated by bonkers priorities on the part of the US Government. Having the national guard protecting property in the middle of a disaster where people were dying from the elements was the peak of capitalist insanity. They were threatening to shoot looters. Madness. As if a life is worth less than some business owner's television set.

Not to mention locking everyone in a stadium and threatening to shoot anybody that tried to walk across the bridge. I tried to find a video I saw once of a newscaster live at the superdome begging for the government to let people evacuate, about how conditions at the superdome were fucked.

People generally help eachother during disasters - then the national guard comes in, treats everyone like they're animals, and make everything horrible. A great book that's documented this happening again and again throughout history is "A Paradise Built in Hell" by Rebecca Solnit.
Have a look at Berkey water filters. These are meant for prolonged home use in tough circumstances.
Reality Composer is Apple Keynote for Augmented Reality
Like GNU, why shouldn't it be deliberate creation of an acronym that spelled a word?

Or if I'm misunderstanding your question: the network already existed due to that name because they already had all the right of way for the same reason UP did.

IIRC (it was a while ago) MCI came first and some VP at the SP was inspired by that to try to provide external service over their existing resource. After all they were in the transport business with a big infrastructure setup, so transporting bits was pretty natural.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
Those sick of a 35% income tax on earnings over $45,000".
Mine comes home for lunch. Quick break brightens everyone’s day.
So if you join a company with terrible infrastructure that needs a ton of work, you don't get paid until it's operational? What if there are organizational issues within the company that prevent you from actually resolving things long-term? Rarely is a single engineer empowered to make a difference in the up-time.

Physicians face similar challenges when it comes to the bureaucracy in the world of medicine, but with the added challenge of working on the unpredictable biology of human beings rather than a bunch of transistors that are predictable in their behavior.

And imagine if the system was setup in the way you suggest, which doctor in their right mind would take on patients where the treatments aren't as clear cut? Who wants to work for months or years with no guarantee of pay?

Honestly, comparing the two fields is pointless. I do not envy physicians. They are working within a broken system and most are doing the best they can. Blaming them will get us nowhere.
Changeset evolution has had the "beta" label for way too long. I started using it years ago and it was fine.

As far as smells go, its whole purpose is to make editing history less "smelly" than git's rebase -i followed by force push.
>The "true market" is like "no true Scotsman" or "a closed system" or "a spherical cow on a frictionless plane".

Come on, what is physics about then? ;)

Even today, systems like my dog are computationally infeasible to predict from the fundamentals, even though everything my dog does is a logical consequence of QED. That's why it is impossible to make progress without assuming a spherical cow and then traveling to every dairy farm in the world in search of the roundest heifer available.

In 400 years economists might still be unable to predict recessions, but I think by then the specific and very true theories of today will have had enough time to evolve into general laws that could predict recessions in principle.
It really feels like there's a vested interesting in this country of destroying this country in favor of short term profits. The government can no longer claim it's even remotely acting in the interest of the average person. It's also pretty clear that one party is far more devoted to this than the other.
Key is to maintain physical and mental health into retirement. Then you can really enjoy it.
> but the current migration crisis in North America is absolutely due to climate change.

Do you have any proof of this?
Two counterarguments:

1. Popcorn button, that uses a sensor to detect when the popping slows down and stops at that moment so I don't need to babysit it.

2. Beverage button, that detects the start of boiling and stops at that moment.
Hmm, I found the Android app lacking - can you link which one you use? I much prefer Simpletask (Dropbox version) which works with the todo.txt format but has neat filter features. I really need to see a list of all my tags of my projects get lost in each other.
Uber bringing 3k jobs to Dallas with major hub
You should get ones that are hand or foot operated. Life straws barely surpass the effort it takes to use them, especially after it has been used already in shit water.
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Indeed. In some ways it's precisely the absense of the limitations that exist in other formats that have enabled things to get worse.

Also, I trust the state of Neil Young's hearing even less than I trust my own.
makes sense. thanks!
You're right, you can.

What's special about real numbers is that, if you have a sequence of reals for which the distance between two consecutive elements approaches zero, then there exists a real number that's the limit of the starting sequence.

This isn't the case with rational numbers, eg. the sequence 1.4, 1.41, 1.414 ... (EDIT: these are increasing approximations of sqrt(2)) satisfies the hypothesis but there's no single rational number this sequence approaches.

This property is called completeness. The real numbers are a complete topological space, whereas the rationals aren't.
You sell it, salt is required for mammals.
This is what anyone does. When someones job is X, and they run out of legit X to do they make things up. We see it everyday in software when people throw away working software to rewrite it in the latest fad.

IRS agents are no exception.
There's one each for Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon at https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html, https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html, https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html, and https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-amazon.html.

Funny there's no https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-facebook.html.
It's practically impossible to get rid of that bit of the cargo-cult thinking. It's funny because it's not even really a part of "Agile", just Scrum. The best Scrum team I've ever worked with (and best team really, that's probably part of it) decided to drop daily meetings and it was great. We did keep the end/start of sprint stuff, because that was important to us.

One thing mentioned in Sutherland's book on Scrum I rarely see repeated is the idea of also delivering happiness, and the sprint "kaizen" (or "improvement").

One person on our team suggested the daily standups were dumb, and we should try dropping them as next sprint's kaizen idea. Everyone else disagreed, but he felt really strongly against meetings, so we did it, it was only one sprint. And it turns out he was entirely right, at least for our team. We kept it that way until eventually that project was completed and the team was shifted around to other teams. We can't convince any of our new teams to try any of these things, but the same dynamic also isn't there to really encourage that.
Co-Ordinated Ransomware Attack Targets 23 Texas Towns
A tool to remove malware may qualify as a backdoor, and backdoors may generally be considered as malware, and malware does generally harm or mistreat users, but it does not follow from all of that that tools to remove malware harm or mistreat users.
Neat. I was unaware of the evolve extension. It's interesting to see things continued to progress since I last read anything on the subject.

All the documentation I spotted currently still lists evolve as "experimental", and that doesn't help with any confidence of which tools/extensions to use in day-to-day operations, on top of how scattered the documentation is. It is interesting, perhaps how hg has a better UI, but git has always had arguably more consistent documentation.

(Similar too, both hg and git are built as sets of "plugins" to the core CLI but hg requires much more explicit installation and git just bundled a lot of them directly together and implicitly runs anything that even looks close [any script in the PATH that fits git-command may be run for git command], making it less clear which hg commands to use despite the better general UI, and easier to get started in git with a smorgasbord of commands.)

I somewhat remember the Named Branches versus Bookmarks discussion/confusion thing from the last time I attempted to use hg. It sounds unfortunate that it still doesn't seem very well documented or well explained this many years later.
Explains why that red lump on my back asked to borrow some cash.
Exactly, which means you're saying that this wasn't a vital part of their success, while the other commenter is saying the opposite, so I don't think you agree with the argument that doing things that don't scale is a critical part of their success right? Unless I'm misreading something.
"Up to" is the advertised rate, so check your SLA if you have a leg to stand on.
How does this work in terms of GDPR? If it’s only rolled out in a few countries, surely this is Facebook admitting they collect this data but we have no way to access it right now?

Shouldn’t this incur a rather heavy fine?
They use it because they get value out of it.
How to get hired when you're pregnant
Never ascribe to malice for people you don't know and for things it is easy to explain with incompetence.

If someone is your manager for some time and you can reasonably expect competence, that is different thing.
If someone is self interested and his actions say so, this is malice, not just incompetence.
> What's the point of using security keys with services that require regular SMS or app-based 2-FA as a fallback?

It addresses the problem with phishing. The main problem with Authenticator is not that an attacker knows the one-time password, but that an attacker tricks user into entering the one-time password to their UI and uses that right away to take control of the user's account.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...
“Coincidences are strange and dangerous things.”

— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Most folks, maybe not. Everyone who's ever used bitcoin though....
really interesting video.
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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.

No conspiracy needed. Many people simply do not think about things in sufficient depth to achieve even basic levels of rationality or consistency. They literally just say whatever springs to mind, all the time, acting on something close to instinct. These people end up being wrong about things continuously, but it doesn't matter because the people around them are the same and often don't even notice.

People like that react very badly to anyone pointing out that they've made an unambiguous mistake. They aren't used to it and tend to get upset, they may claim it's offensive, get territorial, or try to turn the blame around as you saw there.

A very modern defence is to claim that the person who pointed out the mistake is "on the spectrum" i.e. has severe social skills deficiencies. No actual evidence of medical problems is required.

We can see this in the article text itself.

People with Asperger’s syndrome, the term still commonly used for one of the most well-known forms of autism spectrum disorder, bring serious advantages to the financial markets: extreme focus, a facility with numbers, a willingness to consider unpopular opinions, a strong sense of logic, and an intense belief in fairness and justice.

This is a key paragraph because all the qualities cited here are usually understood to be desirable and strongly linked with success. Although this person is describing market traders, you could simply replace "the financial markets" with "tech firms" and it'd still be consistent.

It took me quite a few years to really understand this, but huge numbers of people in the workplace (especially outside the tech industry) cannot focus, are afraid of numbers, conflate having an unpopular opinion with being wrong, aren't interested in / don't value logic and don't care at all about fairness or justice in the sense meant here i.e. treating people consistently.

And what happens?

But, like other autistic employees, they often feel alienated from their managers, colleagues, and clients. Sometimes they simply get fired.

Well yeah. That's not a mental disorder. That's how anyone focused, logical and consistent feels when surrounded by people who aren't!

The tech world tends to attract a lot of accusations of people being weird/anti-social etc (first time I heard of it in relation to finance). But as the years go by I become more and more convinced it's not really a problem with people in tech. It's really the expected outcome of combining extreme demand for very concrete skills (so the rare people who are genuinely weird behaviour are worth tolerating) with programming machines that require correctness, to the extent that everyone routinely peer reviews each other's work. Go look at how many industries have equivalents to rigorous code review culture, and you'll see it's not many. Even in science it's anonymous strangers reviewing your paper, not your own reports.
Do you know any write-ups of personal stories from this on the web? Something like the blog post in this hacker news post.
How do you change the new tab page?

You can set which page to open on startup, but you can't seem to override the page that shows when a new tab is created.
Given that this is the WSJ I have to suspect the telecom cartel encouraged this article to justify caps.
Then you can expect doctors to be strict about which cases they will handle.
Good points. I certainly agree that there's no good comparison between the two professions as it relates to compensation systems.
I always wondered if social media instead of polarizing could actively counteract bubble metrics to lead people to a more centrist view. Essentially by "inverting" the interest function partially.
Or just provide a link to a tarball download.
TFA implied that WeWork has more desks than IWG since the end of last year.
I've been using whatever the current Edge browser is in Windows10 for several years. (I don't know if that is current the "Chorme" Edge or not.)

But I am tired of 2 problems that never seem to get fixed and am contemplating switching to Firefox because of this:

1) Bookmark (favorite) maintenance still sucks. As one example, try moving a folder in the favorites bar from the bar to the ordered favorites list.

2) Edge advertises syncing (bookmarks, open tabs, etc.) across machines with the same user signed-in, but I have never gotten this to work.
Yes, but you can't really control whether or not you're exposed to car fumes. Some toxicity is very hard to avoid

The toxicity from smoking is entirely avoidable by not engaging in it
I think that's what Slack is supposed to be - especially with Threads. So far it's just IRC with gifs where I work.
Honestly, it pisses me off that I even have to THINK about this.
Or better yet, make getting karma data a paid, rate-limited feature. 99% of people would not be willing to pay for it, but the data is there (for a price) if you want to crunch numbers or looks for trends. A "karma tax" if you will.
Company pays ransom of $300k to ex-employee who stole the data of millions
This sound like a use for Rofi[0] and some kind of Todo.txt code that appends to a file

[0]: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
I can live with the locking behavior, but VSS had a tendency of corrupting the entire repo ever few weeks that is hard to accept.
I'd also like to know, but I imagine that the compressed version of the RISC-V ISA would be a significant factor as code density is important for a phone.
Substantial job creation of ceo and accountant positions, that is. Shell companies do not really employ people.
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Luddites were not against the technology. They were against a specific kind technology that in their view harmed them and a society in whole.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
Hope you're better. I had a similarly horrifying experience myself. More and more pain pretty much everywhere, tiredness, headaches, GERD - almost every "vague" symptom you could think of, slowly getting worse over months and years, and no answers from multiple specialists. Luckily it wasn't Lyme (which I got tested for). After getting a large panel of lab tests assembled after weeks of online research, I found high calcium levels, and with follow-up tests diagnosed myself with Primary Hyperparathyroidism (at 28 years old, which is rare). Flew to the USA a month later for surgery (the place where they do it best, the Norman Parathyroid Center, is essentially incomparable to everyone else) and now several months later I am much better.
Your comparison is a little flawed. IRS staff are a net surplus for the government, and its quite silly to get rid of someone who makes money.

We did it in Denmark during our new public management period. It cost us billions in tax evasion and fraud, and at one point someone did the math. Turned out our tax-agents cost 500.000 danish kroner a year, but they gave the state a net positive of 1.5-10 million Danish kroner. Needles to say, there is now support for our tax agency from every political party, even the ones that want to cut taxes. If your tax-agents aren’t needed, then downsize them, but I’m not sure that’s anywhere.

The police on the other hand are an expense you pay to avoid paying a bigger expense.
The purpose is to extend what I as the producer of the files can do, giving me the ability to send you a file and still control your usage.
Even going back just to the 90s, characters like George Costanza were meant to look noticeably overweight but look fairly typical by 2019 standards. And Homer Simpson weighed a very specific 239 pounds, a weight that seems much less extreme now.
"budget cuts"
Seoul National University AI Uses Text Tags to Colourize Line Drawings
I work very far from my office, and on the 1-2 days a week I do go in, it's an hour and a half each way. For the wife, it's 2 full hours each way. Totally not worth it day to day, but it's a nice change of pace for the 1-2 days I go in. Keeps things fresh, and I take a bus the whole way there.

That being said, if my job was, say, a 20 minute commute, I'd go in probably 3 or 4 days a week, assuming the office was nice. I prefer working in person at times, it really depends on what I'm doing, but the option is what makes it work for me. 100% remote would only make me happy for so long, I think.

Also, rarely discussed in these types of posts is that your social abilities definitely diminish if you work from home a lot and rarely interact with people. I've noticed it in myself and made a conscious push to get into the office more often to offset that.
This is the broken window fallacy. If our goal is to increase employment rates then we should support policies that do so where human productivity is most efficient.
Maybe they should replace all of the "low fat" items with "low sugar" (and just reduce the sugar rather than replacing it with artificial sugar).
> The complexity is by design to make it harder to audit and easier to hide cheating.

You ascribe too much to malice, when it is typically just plain old politics. Representative will only vote to tax X if his/her constituent Y is excluded somehow. Add these types of items over many bills/years and you get what we have today.
Actually saw it in practice, I toured KnowBe4's office, their entire C-suite is right there in the open office, a few at standing desk, but all right there in the open
So, hiring someone on the ground...
If this happens, btw, you can always line your toilet bowl with a trash bag, shit in it, tie up the trash bag and try to put it somewhere out of the way until services are restored.
Without making a statement for or against remote work, this:

> People like to harp on the failings of remote work. Loneliness. Distractions. Not unplugging. Lack of collaboration. Dog hair.

> But in reality, people love working remotely. And they’re willing to forgive its failings because it’s just that good.

does not follow from a survey asking remote workers if they like working remotely.
Reflections on a Failed Startup
I'm in the same camp of rm -rf'ing (and when I were a lad we did all our computing on relays...). A fun game to play when you have spare time is to Google for how to do some random thing with git then pour up a cup of coffee and read through the 17 contradictory answers on just one SO page...
Who gets to decide what is extreme?
Because this conclusion is not only far from "obvious" it likely is not the case at all. The majority of the US population was internet connected by just after year 2000. 2/3rds by 2005. By comparison crime is at 50 year lows, and contrary to the public narrative the percent of the population that approves of immigration is at its highest levels [1]. We aren't seeing "so much violence", that's just counterfactual.

For the most part, I see allegations of internet radicalization coming from groups like traditional media and TV that have a conflict of interest with online platforms and have a vested interest in portraying them as harmful.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/us/immigration-polls-dona...
Where does the remaining 0.1% go then 0.o?
Make 2FA mandatory. Apple did just that recently with their app stores. Someone authoring libraries should be able to handle that.
Ok come on guys. Obviously, tax law advice that is ex-post is not bs. Law advice is ex-post per definition, because the law needs to be written first. That's not what the post is about.
I agree. I think it kind of happens now when surgeons are ranked on their success rates. They start refusing complex surgeries that might impact their ranking.
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It's unclear what precisely you mean by 'weaker', but if you mean with regard to completeness - the reals are the so-called completion of (that is, the smallest complete metric space containing) the rationals; so you're kind of stuck.
> a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain

I agree with that. But 15 minutes phone or video call works just as well as a meeting in person.

Speaking from experience, I’ve been working from home for 8 years now.
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Evaluating hg.sr.ht right now. On quick scan I saw that man.sr.ht has no API reference for hg - I was wondering what the status for that bit is. Thanks!