skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because designers decided that this[0] is terribly ugly and instead we have to put up with all possible crap, with thin or small fonts, low contrast between the background and foreground, and otherwise unreadable text.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/19980126185208/http://www.gnu.or...

https://web.archive.org/web/19980126185208/http://www.gnu.or...
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Ah, interesting idea, saves you the calculations in the morning. ;-)

My baking oven has something like this, too. I still wonder how that is supposed to work, though: I have to dial in temperature etc. before, then set it to finish at a specific time. Seems impractical for rolls oder pizza, but maybe I'm missing something on that feature.
Original report here: https://disinformationindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/G...
> We have all worked for a "John" in the industry.

Agreed. But since so many middle managers are twits isn't it incumbent on the employee to learn a set of skills to deal with Johns?

Managing people is hard. Being a good manager is really hard, which is why there are so few of them.

Rather than rail against how terrible Person X is as a manager I feel like it's more productive to say, "Unless I start my own company there's always going to be some clueless middle manager above me. How do I deal with him/her effectively?"
Oh, John, there you are again! How do you manage to be in so many places at once? Which reminds me to ask: which firms have implemented the "No Asshole Rule" well?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule

Here's a list by the author from 2012, FYI: https://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/02/the_no_assho...
Especially for cars, they sell you the product with a very low margin betting on high returns in after sales (spare parts). In the long term regulating spare part prices would likely result in an increase of the full product price. Not sure if it good to regulate prices here, maybe it make sense to leave this task to the market (see third party spare parts vendors).
David Brin's Uplift saga is essentially about that. Highly recommended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_Universe
I hate commuting. I like being in the office around people once I get there though.
I read about it in Dutch news, which also mentioned that other countries also have volunteer firefighting forces, but I didn't look up their numbers. Various officials here said it would have big implications and keeping the system as it is would be impossible. So some law or regulation would have to change. Incidentally this is a good example of why EU regulations can be so problematic: if this example is fixed, it will be because many countries have large volunteer forces so the problem cannot be ignored. But if the regulation happens to affect just one or a few smaller countries you might be out of luck. Not everything can be regulated centrally without unintended consequences.
The quoted sentence addresses the parents or potential parents who purposefully make mentally handicapped children, not the handicapped children.

It's easy to make these kind of reading/comprehension mistakes when one gets caught up in cancel culture and their outrage mobs.
I was specifically talking about Vulkan. You can use the GPU through higher level APIs like OpenGL or D3D11 just fine and those are supported on more hardware than Vulkan.
Attractive stock vestments are potentially what will make it possible in the futures to walk away at any time...
Do you even need to store ips? Just count accepted connections and every, say, 1000th connection check current time, if less than a second elapsed since previous check, close the listening socket. Isn't ddos caused by packet congestion rather than server processing?
They have 5 good minutes per day.
That page is fine on my fairly old android phone while using brave. It might even be a bit jarring because the text is a bit too big.
It's the web designer's equivalent of showing a finger to all those of us who prefer a clean and readable web by disabling JS.
In a Week: First Meetup for Open Source Developers at RedHat's London Office
> “I'm scouting for companies who are all remote because they have a much easier time attracting and retaining talent”

Is there any data to support this, especially considering that compensation is usually the number one way to attract and retain talent, and remote workers are often not paid well (even after adjusting for cost of living) compared to on-site teammates doing the same job but physically present in an office location?

There are rare and uninformative exceptions sure, but largely remote work pay sucks for doing the same job. The company is treating you like basic needs (quiet & private workspace, avoidance of crushing commute) are perks that should be offset with lowered salary, even though the salary is for the job you’re doing.

Edit: Gitlab apparently even publishes their own policies about this:

- https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

It actually smells like outrageous bullshit pay policy to me. That’s actually kind of sad given they are held up as an example of more healthful & open-minded work policies.

I can say for sure I’d rather deal with the downsides of an office commute & environment than to be paid less than a teammate doing the exact same job potentially solely because they are choosing to live in a higher cost region. That’s a pretty clear signal the company is looking for fungible, cheap talent and views remote as a cost-cutting tactic, not some corporate ideal.

> “If we start paying everyone the highest wage our compensation costs would increase greatly, we can hire fewer people, and we would get less results.”

Wow, what complete horse shit. So what about companies located in expensive urban centers that don’t offer remote positions? All their hires are at the highest local rate, yet companies like these are thriving, hiring plenty of talent, growing, etc.

I see the “location factor” between San Francisco and NYC is 0.85. I would be laughing my way right off of that negotiation video call...

I am frankly stunned to learning it’s such a sham with Gitlab!
That's nice and everything, but when I submitted the story it wasn't flagged as a dupe. Sorry.
This is only a reply to: "ENA (one if not the most prestigeous uni in France)", and not to the ENA->ISF name change.
Is there something like Netlify but for back end (Express / Flask) servers?
I just want something where I can:

1. Choose a boilerplate server / template application
2. Click deploy
3. Make changes using a simple git push.

No docs. No new tools to learn. No fancy SDK or CLI client. Just Click to Deploy. `git push` to Update.
No reason, you should definitely have at least one other than your main though.
For centuries a posh accent and certainty was enough for the class that ruled the UK.

One thing Brexit has successfully done is illustrate to all sides just how mediocre our leadership actually is.

Mediocre leaders are fine when the ship is sailing in calm waters to a known destination.

At the moment it feels like half of them want to steer into the iceberg and the other half want to abandon ship, with a few lone voices pointing out we could have just turned to port and swerved it.
Isn’t this exactly what Steve Jobs hoped would happen when iBooks was introduced? That a new, multimedia format where books “come to life with animations and video” would be born... granted he hoped such creators would do this for the ipad’s ebooks and not Insta-Face-App.
According to [1], what happened was that volunteers were recognised as workers by ECJ and as such their time on call at home can count towards their weekly worked time. An older directive (2003) sets out a maximum working time which I am sure nobody is complaining about, and if anything in many member states people claim to be working to many hours. Individuals can and could previously opt-out of these limits. Nothing new under the sun here.

It is also clear that no "regultation" is being planned.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2019-00020...
It's downvoted because some random user with >=500 karma didn't like it and clicked the down arrow. That's all downvoting means here. There are no ethics for voting here.

In effect, voting is simply a measure of whether random HN users were pleased or displeased by your comment.

And you're not allowed to mention it, either. If your perfectly reasonable and polite comment gets downvoted to invisibility by random, angry users who won't tolerate diversity of opinion, then suck it up, comrade, and learn to please the hivemind--no complaining!

Of course, certain very-high-karma users can get away with saying things that would be flagged and downvoted to death if said by anyone else.

And that's what HN wants voting to be. Welcome to HN. Enjoy your stay, if you can.
Are there videos like from pycon? The conference sounds really interesting
It's always impressive to me that OSM has (or at least exposes) better off road walking data than Google does.
Light font weights are often reasonable on Macs because of its stroke thickening, but for most fonts the light weight should never be used for body text other than on a Mac.

Lato 300 is too light for body text.
My objection is about Vulkan specifically, not about using the GPU. It makes this software less portable than if they had used OpenGL, and for no benefit that I can see.
As long as GitLab continues to pay location-adjusted salaries for remote employees, talented employees don't want to work at GitLab either.
Planned obsolescence should be a criminal act.

It's worse than any standard pollution offenses we have in place.

It's surprising we even let companies get away with these practices for this long. The practice is against consumer interests, socially irresponsible and utterly reprehensible as a business method.

If you still sit squarely on the side of the companies on this one, realise capitalisms current growth or bust model is entirely dependent on continual expenditure of Earth's resources.
Nietzsche made observations, rightly or wrongly. I don't know that he had anything in mind other than neurosyphilis
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Archaeology of light and sound in Eastern Medieval churches
PhD in CS here, currently working for start up.

TBH, I wasn't deeply committed to research but got a position offered at my institute, which I took. Plus, I had to relocate to another city, because my adviser took over another institute. My wife had to stay at our former place, because of her job. And a lot more trouble I had to undergo for the entire process. On the other side, having these three letters next to my name was super appealing to me. This let to mixed feelings about doing a PhD. Some examples.

Pro: I was really free to do what ever I wanted
Con: But I also had to get my own funding and couldn't save any money

Pro: I focused a lot on methods I was interested in and developed some on my own
Con: I left new technologies behind, which made my start into industry quite bumpy

Pro: I learned a ton of interesting things in great detail
Con: No one cares. Just as with technologies - models, paradigms, methods come and go. The PhD is, in most cases, only a certificate of your "self learner attitude".

But what really hit me hard was something else. During my time as a PhD I mostly worked on stuff I enjoyed and I was surrounded by people doing this for the same reasons. In industry, in special CS/coding related fields, you likely work on a ticket system. You arrive at your office, grab the ticket, machine it off, take a another one... From now and then your agile coach wants you to wright words on colored post its.
I didn't expect the change to be that dramatic. Especially because I already worked as a developer in such systems during bachelors/masters degree. The PhD changed my perception of work.

In summary: I enjoyed doing a PhD, but the PhD left me with wrong self-assessment (for the industry). After getting fired I joined a fresh start-up, which turned out to be great. Here I found the freedom and creativity I was missing. Looking back I would probably skip the PhD for a start-up with a good team. Pay attention to the team - it's key.
In general, yes, though the article mentions one in-hub motor with a single rotor, for reduced size or weight. I guess an in-hub motor, which also acts as the wheel's axle, has to deal with much larger axial forces, from cornering, than those generated by the motor, so the latter are moot.

Also, during operation, is not each magnet in the motor being simultaneously pulled by the pole it is moving towards, and pushed by the pole it is moving away from? If so then, at any given point in the rotation, the axial force would be the net of the two effects.
I acknowledge it, yes. And I should be more thoughtful of people with. for example, heavier levels of introversion than me.

A really good setup would likely be something that respects all sides on the spectrum - people who prefer to be quiet and working in solitude should not be judged for it.

Neither should people with more social approaches be dreaded by the introverts. That would be ideal. In essence, we need a system that is able to integrate all preferences and make use of them in the most productive way.

Thank you for reminding me that I should be more considerate.
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Note that there are plenty of US cities where this is illegal and the police will confiscate and destroy your tent.
People often talk about sacrifices, but we don't even make much progress on the stuff that's actively harmful and therefore a net benefit, like phasing out coal for cleaner energy, or building well insulated homes so I don't think that's the whole reason. In fact it seems like a talking point from one side.
I agree. And his “Low Performer” review and denying the remote work request are obvious attempts to manage him out the door which worked.
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@dmonn, as I see no any contact info on the NoHQ page, only to the Twitter account where you encourage people to upvote your submission: could you do us a favor and remove the meta refresh from the noscript tag on your pages? Thanks.
Fact checkers would have me believe that we are constantly victims of Russian disinformation campaigns. I think the worth of fact checkers has already been concluded.

The truth is that you should be aware of the general bias a publication has. Also how they can be linked together via parent companies. If you have multiple sources with different bias, you should be fine.

The WSJ for example belongs to the Murdoch conglomerate. There are a lot more of those. Of course it is unknown how much influence there is on their editorial board. But still important to keep that in mind.
I have noticed this as well. Hacker News generally considers itself liberal but actually holds very conservative views (see any thread on gender equality). The EU is being positioned as a liberal organisation (whether it truly is or not) so in every EU related thread the free speech / anti regulation commentators come out in force
I agree with this. I often prefer desktop pages because they have more functionality. Even Google's search gives you better search settings in desktop mode compared to mobile (you can't set arbitrary search dates on mobile, you can on desktop, oh and mobile search forces the horror of AMP on you). I also loathe the mobile version of reddit, even more than the new UI.

The only pages I prefer in mobile view are ones that get rid of their backgrounds and useless white space on the sides. I use HN in mobile view, but the difference is small enough that it doesn't matter.

Even the htmlhead.dev site that is linked works better in desktop mode, because it doesn't force you to scroll the code tags.
Why don’t we have good code editors?
For me the advantage of the pager, is that it is loud, much louder than a mobile phone and easy to hear outdoors in traffic. I have found though an iPad is equally loud, if not louder but is a lot bigger and less robust. For my use if someone can come up with a way of making a mobile phone alert to the same volume, I'd move to that as in any case I have to acknowledge the page on an app and the monthly service fee on the pager is four times what I pay for my mobile service.
> so if I have no problem parsing that, it's possible

That's still assuming your interpretation was what the writer intended. As a native English speaker, I can tell you that it's not 100% clear.

> what necessitates knee-jerk responses or downvotes?

The meaning of a down vote is not defined by HN itself, so it's personal. For me, I use it based on value. I up-vote comments that add to or improve the discussion. I down-vote comments that add nothing.

I did not down-vote the root comment here. I replied because I found the content to be locked away by the presentation, and the content seemed to be a worthwhile part of the discussion of the article.
It’s not even a regulation. It was a court that decided on this matter.
Would you kindly expand on the issues with ToM and embodied cognition that were affected by the Replication Crisis?

You mention a main component that was badly hit, what would that be?

Thanks in advance!
I sort of agree with that, but currently work 100% remote and hang out with neighborhood pals after work.
So why not continue to refuse to pay the sanction-risked funds and enter into a private settlement for an amount of, say... $14,159.26 for failing to comply with their agreement and Canadian law?
Seems like they've removed it now, maybe they noticed they were DOSing themselves ;)
Holy crap. This must've come with a starter template. Gone now. Sorry!
As you go down the age scale, and up the education scale, you get higher support for Remain. Freedom of movement is probably much more important to entrepreneurs too -- if you support Brexit you're probably in a small minority on HN. Would make an interesting poll.
Comedian at a court at the height of power seeing the beginnings of the inevitable fall but unable to persuade others or be treated seriously.

It depicts "good old times" and was painted when Poland was partitioned between Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary, and doing a failed uprising every 20 years.
Apparently it can be nearly any other meat than beef, except maybe lamb. Beef is multiple times as potent as any other form of meat when it comes to climate impact. Aside from emissions, it has a large effect on water pollution as well.

For starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
I am starting getting used to mapping right now and I got much value out of this post. Ty!
I switched to Open Sans for now. It looked okay on my machine (also not really a web designer, forgive me!). I hope it's more readable now.
Well then it's clearly in the best interest of the business to comply with the law as soon as possible.
I didn’t specifically say spam filtering, because there’s technically lots of spam filtering you can do with only metadata. But yeah you’re right, any form of server side content filtering (including search) would be impossible.
It absolutely holds up, I'm not sure why Consultant32452 is being downvoted.

No one stops a manufacturer from offering a product with a 5 year warranty, and in fact they do. Shop for products made for businesses and you will find 5 year warranties. However, they cost much more, and consumers are choosing not to pay more for the products with 5 year warranties, and instead choosing to go with the 1 year warranty.

Miele was known for making very durable products, however, even they over the years had to acknowledge that consumers were opting to purchase cheaper products from competitors, so they had to do the same to stay in business.
He's still all over Youtube.
You cited skepticalscience.com, which is John Cook's web site. He's a known scientific fraud, behind the paper Cook, et al, which is cited as the source of the "consensus" claim. If you're interested, you can google up information about their fraudulent paper, the conclusion of which they decided before writing it.

It's because of claims and citations like yours that people don't believe alarmists. It's dishonest (or ignorant) to cite a fraudulent paper as the source for a claim that the science is settled. Real science is falsifiable and can withstand dissent.
Once is not a pattern.

Without a pattern this is simply Twitter being Twitter. That is,misguided people - the type that don't understand correlation from cause - are having their free time sucked up, and they like it that way.

Find a pattern. Let's discuss that.
He got a scholarship to Eton and then one to Oxford. They don’t give those out with the papers, even to rich kids. We can say he is very bright without any qualification.
Our company is fully remote. We have an always-on Google Hangout that everyone is on all day.

The key for this to work is that everyone has their mic + camera turned off except when we have a scheduled meeting (ie. standups, team meetings).

Throughout the day, people often pop in the hangout by unmuting themselves to ask the team a quick question, which also works great. In practice, this doesn't cause very many interruptions because people know to ping someone 1-1 if they have a question meant for a specific person rather than the whole team.

Even on days when everyone's mic + camera is muted all day except for standup, it's still effective at creating the feeling that you aren't sitting there working alone (I guess it acts as a reminder that you really do have teammates working alongside you, albeit virtually).
Thanks for the rapid fix!
You have to charge your customers the VAT, so if you're employed as a plumber, you actually have to charge the customers directly everything including the VAT. It's not the you who pays it directly, but you have to earn your company the amount including the vat.
I rented a Fiat last week and the quality is way up from the old days. I gather the headquarters have moved to Holland. Maybe a bit of foreign control is the way forward. I think Lamborghinis are also now reliable since VW took over.
At least when the government does it, you have a presumed outlet of voting for one that doesn't. When a corporation does something you have no outlet if it has an effective monopoly or they all do it or you just have negative net worth and cannot possibly vote with your dollars.
Speaking as a Brit

Read the replies to your original post, there was no new regulation, whatever you read in the news was made up. In the british press there is a constant stream of fabricated stories about EU "regulations" that take a cursory google to disprove.
Veeery narrow, only for lighting, washing machines, dishwashers and fridges....
This is the thing - while there does appear to be a foreign covert disinformation campaign, it's dwarfed by the domestic "legitimate" disinformation put out by Murdoch and other press outlets. Or people like Alex Jones.
English is my third language and I had no problem parsing that either.

On the other hand, I was taught early on not to trawl the thesaurus for word substitutions. It’s just pretentious.
We ditched the FIRE movement and couldn’t be happier
I am looking at Singularity for my Go program developement

https://github.com/sylabs/singularity
NASA Hiring Engineers to Develop “Next Generation Humanoid Robot”
I just learned something because of his post.

I always thought that the ENA was similar to the Ecole de Petrole (a prestigious engineering school) but for economics or something like that.
Personally, I agree with your summary of the Fountainhead.

If you choose to read Atlas Shrugged, however, her opinions start to get more extreme and unsettling.
Interesting to know! I switched to Open Sans 300 for now and looked at it from the phone, hope that makes it a little easier on the eyes!
Do you have an example of the same quality hard drive being cheaper as an external hard drive? I find that hard to believe, and would presume inferior hard drives are being sold in external cases.