skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah. My father and grandfather's generation had regular community and social groups to attend - usually very regularly. Lions Club, Rotary, Townswomen's Guilds, Women's Institutes, Working Men's clubs - often tied to the ship yard or other major works. Dozens of others, some tied more to place, church or community than others, but all roughly performing some combination of social and doing worthy works.

They were hooked into the fabric of society enough that they contributed to social care, elder care, welfare, special needs and a whole selection of other roles that modern government have placed on the individual. Spun as giving "choice", the intent was to remove that bedrock foundation.

The removal of that foundation was as much part of 80s monetarism/neoliberalism as deregulation or privatisation. We gained individualism and private everything, and lost all the community resources that glued those individuals together.

Someone inevitably mentions Bowling Alone in these threads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
Kamyar Azizzadenesheli on TalkRL: Reinforcement Learning Interviews
I'm not sure what all is wrapped into "TV" in today's numbers, but average household watching as been, to my way of thinking, astoundingly high forever. It was 7 or 8 hours a day going back to the 70s and 80s.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-...
Voice Over Vocal Chords as a new NFC RFC.

But seriously, your comment makes me want to find an article on how the Chinese have been thwarting bluetooth mesh chat in HK protests.
My understanding is that it depends on how common/accessible water is in asteroids. If there is a source of water then it can be split into hydrogen and oxygen for "free" using solar power.

Throwing rockets' worth of water away seems wasteful, but if we have it then it isn't that expensive.
Makes, sense, however video conference interviews usually take up full day from a candidate, as you have to free up your day (and your mind), stay at home and be ready to answer a rapid succession of questions/perform live coding acts.

At least that what my experience when I was a job candidate.
No, I don't think I need a robot on wheels to roam the office and join a meeting room when I can just join a video call.

All the tech for remote work is here already, all we need is a change in mentality to get wider acceptance of remote work.
I love this concept and I love that it is proliferating. Purism offers what I'd consider to be more attractive hardware, but that's very subjective. As of Kubuntu 19.10, I actually consider Linux to be the best operating system for a laptop.I look forward for 20.04 and a few years of near total disregard for updates.

I want to be an AMD fanboy! I want (at least) 16 cores, 32 threads, a fully open source graphics stack, Wayland, flicker free boot, and open source firmware as described here. As it is, I just had to go with Intel/NVidia because it's more seamless. Even though I'm not really using the NVidia GPU, I do have it available if I want to work with Tensorflow etc. Ultimately, for me it is a question of stability but I hope that these systems can really close the gap.

I want something like this System76 machine with very good support for encrypted ZFS right out of the box. I don't know if that would entail LUKS or ZFS encryption, but I want it to work. I want a USB key that actually serves as a key and allows me to boot or otherwise unlock the system. Again, I'd prefer this to be a fully open source AMD/ATI system based on Kubuntu. With ZFS, bpftrace, and Docker... this is what Solaris wanted to be when it grew up.

I'm not sure how big the market for this would be, but I'd pay good American money if anyone catered to it. Right now I'm using a Dell G3 Intel/Nvidia laptop which, in fairness, is obscenely fast.
But in this concrete case his point is valid, I'd likewise expect Erlang's BEAM to outperform node.js in concurrency any day of the week. Elixir being new is fairly irrelevant because it compiles down to the same erlang BYTE CODE. Erlang is 30 years old.
yeah, right
I think that's their point, Teams is the 18 button baby outfit.
Based on what? What a manufacturer of said robots claims?

This is nothing more than marketing fluff.
Echoing another comment: does anyone here know how this block is implemented? Is it a DNS block?
Your explanation makes much more sense than mine, with illustrations to boot – kudos! :o)
This is right on. Enterprise software sucks because the entity paying for it is not the entity using it.

The same issue is one of the factors that causes health care in the US to be so maddening. US health care is essentially enterprise medicine. Patients receive it but insurance companies pay for it, and the two agendas are not aligned.
Sweet, didn't know about nchan too.
Exactly my point, I wasn't refering just to kids (even the 16-27 year old kind). I meant all of us who now consume hours of media on our phones. Otherwise, I wouldn't have underscored the _get off my lawn_ aspect of the comment. Clearly, the majority of working stiffs with these issues are not millenial.

Furthermore, yes "these kids" can afford to drive, but would rather someone else do it for them, because the independence of driving is no longer of such high social importance while posting on social media is.
Heck, even within my niche corner of the enterprise world (coincidentally a similar niche as Blackboard), there's always a noisy client who demands X. I can make all the good-faith arguments about why X really isn't needed, but if that client is threatening to go to a different vendor or sue, X is getting built. As a developer, there's only so much I can do before an account executive or C-suite tells me to quite bitching and just do it (and more often than not, they don't disagree with me in principle, but money makes the world go around).
The reactors work in that they produce measurable fusion reactions. They only don’t work in practical terms of being a power plant.
Perhaps someone in the property business can illuminate something for me.

I read somewhere that WeWork runs each site as a separate business. Can this really be true? It would seem to allow them to let each entity go bankrupt, which doesn't seem to be a sensible thing for the landlord to want to expose himself to. Sure he gets the building back, but you'd think there's then no advantage to renting it out to WeWork, since despite being a large entity they can just default on you anyway?
Thanks! That was really helpful to me in understanding how it works. That implementation shows the concept very well.
No, it can just be one or two bad decisions that cascade and wind up being hard to get undone. The decision might have come from a committee or might have come from a single executive that turned out to be a bad hire.
Can confirm, I've been the Unix guy.
It'd be interesting to look at data from countries that have really bad air pollution levels and see if this trend is seen there too.
Yes; "dinner parties" have -- in some circles, at least -- become such an exercise in aspirational status-signalling that few of us have the time/energy/inclination to participate.

In our home, it's perfectly OK to have a friend drop in and share a pot of soup, a loaf of bread, and a couple of cheeses from the supermarket. Socializing doesn't have to be elaborate or burdensome.
> “I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank-you email, don’t hire them.”

I was contacted by a recruiter a short while ago asking my availability for a phone screen- and I replied simply with my availability. The recruiter still hasn't gotten back to me, and I think that it may be because I didn't go out of my way to thank them for reaching out to me.

Are all of the niceties in your email inbox really that important to people? It seems pretty manufactured and boilerplate when people send me emails that they "hope find me well".

I may just have to get over it and start letting people know how "excited I am to speak with you and learn more about this opportunity!"
Can you reply to my email with your invite code, please?
Can you point out what identifies these tweets' content as "misinformation", in a way that's consistently operationalizable among the massive scale of frontline human reviewers that you're expecting? On its face, the content of the tweets is "the Indonesian govt built roads in West Papua", which hardly qualifies as misinformation.

The author's analysis that this is more sinister than simply a promotional campaign is, of course, correct: the coopting of the genocide hashtag to promote the government and the use of fake, international-sounding accounts are both skeezy as all hell. But to get to that conclusion, you have a professional journalist doing a level of post-automation analysis that's too complex to operationalize at scale. It requires too much critical thinking and discretion, and throwing a million human reviewers at it will just result in the kind of capricious false positives that are also railed against on HN and elsewhere (perhaps rightfully), with an undoubtedly high amount of false negatives too.

There are constant ignorant-layman calls for magical tech moderation that only touches bad targets and never steps on the good little guy, but none of the people making these blithe demands ever stop and think about whether this is possible, beyond "they're rich and smart, they definitely know how to do it".
Skimming though the article did not explain what the scandal is about.
I am currently an adult going to a driving school whose parents don't drive and who lives in a urban center with no parking, AMA.

I also have a full-time job. It is the first time in my life (since I started working FT at 16) that I have been able to do this though.
I do not want to work for a company that does NOT test my technical skills; if they don't verify my skills that means they don't verify others and I'd prefer to work skilled engineers (with exceptions for entry-level or junior engineers).

Most people seem to agree that white-boarding is a poor way to judge technical skills. Coding challenges seem a good compromise, assuming they don't require more than a few hours of time.
>In addition to Google’s request in the Charleston area, mega farms in central South Carolina have been under scrutiny over the amount of groundwater they use to irrigate crops each summer.

549 million gallons is about 1685 acre feet, which isn't very much irrigation water. South Carolina golf courses alone use 9.7 million gallons/day of groundwater for irrigation or 3,540 million gallons per year. SC golf courses use a combined total of groundwater and surface water of 14,991 millon gallons per year.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/sc/nwis/water_use?format=html_tab...
Yes but this effect could be caused by people becoming angry at high(er) amounts of traffic on the roads which causes the pollution no?

I would be more convinced if ozone/pollution was released by the scientists in an area and they found the same effect.
Created 2 days ago! I’d say I’m shocked this repo is still going strong, but with the amount of SaaS fodder geared towards dev teams these days, seems like we’ll never have enough time to incorporate them all. Throw em on the backlog.
If you aren't using a GPU regularly, Why not use a cloud gpu? Cloud CPU is cheap as free if it's just occasional playing around, vs $100 to $1000 and all the manufacturing pollution to be stuck with a GPU you don't use
Postman also has the ability to import a curl command (from chrome dev tool) and then export to many programming languages.
this is one of the most useful little tools on good's green earth. I used to work for a scraping company and I used it all day every day - load a page with inspector open, find your request, right click copy as curl, paste into trillworks and boom you have the request you want to automate (modulo fiddling with cookies). A+ bang/line of code
One of the motivations for toolbars (and the ribbon) is that there is a large group of users who never look inside any menu. Many users do not know about Undo. Many word processing users are unaware of things like tab stops, automatic indentation, line spacing, and styles. I have known an otherwise intelligent user who did not know that the shift key could be held down to get a capital letter - they used the caps lock key to get a capital and turned it back off after typing it. It's pretty amazing what is not obvious.
Who knew venture capitalists would unknowingly fund this socialist dream?
In case the creator of this tool doesn't read this thread, you can report the issues on GitHub: https://github.com/NickCarneiro/curlconverter/issues
Sneakernet is the most future-proof solution. It's impossible to stop by design. It can be discouraged with arrest, but not stopped completely.
dirmod: Auto mod statements with visibility, reexports, conditional compilation
Don't know for sure but they might run each one as a separate business but have the parent company guarantee the rent. I don't think many landlords would sign long expensive leases otherwise.

[Edit] Actually looks like the parent company only guarantees a small percentage of leases:

https://allwork.space/2019/08/wework-guarantees-a-small-port...
Who says video/phone interviews need to take up an entire day or have "live coding" (which will be super high stress and don't indicate in any way if someone is a good candidate)?
I get why companies like them, and there is nothing wrong with them. The truth is that I probably don't want the job enough to actually do it. It takes time away from my family, and my friends and most of the time, it's not that stellar of a place to work anyway. If I'm desperate for a job, I could feasibly see doing it, or if I thought it was a really amazing opportunity. The truth is that I'm probably not going to be in either of those positions. What really does irk me is when a company says you have to do it before they'll even talk to me. I'm definitely not going to spend several hours on something without even knowing anything about the company.
Unfortunately, the idea behind coding challenges has been cargo culted into a lot of weak hiring cultures:

* The challenges often don't actually matter, and are simply part of the recruiting hazing ritual.

* They're totally subjective and just a proxy for the same bullshit friends-and-resumes process people were using already.

* No consideration is given to the amount of time the entire recruiting process is taking.

* The challenges themselves are totally divorced from the day-to-day expectations of the job, so people are doing CS102 algorithms problems for jobs that will mostly be about moving bits from one place to another.

I understand why people don't like them. But that doesn't really matter, because code challenges are so much more effective at qualifying people that it would be crazy for any competent shop to stop using them.

For a couple years (and, of course, for many years before at Matasano) we've been hiring resume-blind and with almost no interviewing (we do a final on-site, but it's a formality with no tech-out, which is something we tell candidates). We calibrate our challenges so that they'd ideally, for a qualified candidate, take less time than interviews and phone screens would, and have the advantage of being scheduled at the candidate's convenience (all in one night, spread out over a couple weekends, whatever).

We have candidates coming out of our ears (volume has been the single biggest problem with our recruiting practice), and the quality of those candidates is just as good as anyone else's comparable funnel.

This is the right way to hire technical staff.
It doesn't help your case to just try and pretend you're logical and everyone else is just biased. The situation in Iran has been actively built up by Trump, partly through his hiring and support of John Bolton - one of the architects of the foreign policy disaster of the Bush years. Partly by completely unnecessarily walking away from the JCPOA against all the lobbying of his allies. Trump has been actively making the prospect of war with Iran far more likely since 2016 and giving him a Nobel prize for stepping back from a brink that he himself walked up to is pretty ridiculous in my opinion.
I like some of the applications of this product, but as a long term remote worker this seems kind of silly to use for remote IT work.

Video calls through Slack have worked really well and I find it motivates people to do some preliminary research before they reach out; as opposed to inter-office interactions where co-workers might inconsiderately interrupt work frequently with trivial questions.

I would think a virtual office environment in VR would be another (and cheaper) strategy for this, but I understand wearing headgear for extended periods of time comes with some consequences.

I do think this is a good step forward in terms of technological progress however.
Same with dinners parties too, and the only alternative seems to be placing the whole burden of cooking on the host. Whatever happened to just making a giant stew and someone bringing a few loaves of bread?

Yeah, that's the way to do it if you really want to see friends regularly and not Make A Statement about cooking. Stew, slow cooker, something relatively easy. The friends grab a bottle of wine.
Management, location, and community. Hospitality. Basically, Wework is a hotel for awake business-focused people, with all the tweaks needed to make that work. It's kinda why Arlo SoHo NYC (hotel) reminded me of one. The real estate line never made much sense to anyone who ever was in one, I think Bloomburg started it. (Though real estate was the business that Adam used to screw everyone so, maybe that was his personal business lol)
> There’s _tons_ of other reasons to get a PhD than to become a professor.

Sure; that's why I said, "PhD student looking to enter academia". CS PhDs for the most part go into industry (as I did). But if you're a CS prof, you should basically default to telling all of your students except maybe three in your entire career to plan to go to industry. The same thing should hold for physics/chemistry/biology/history/whatever profs: if you have more than one PhD student per decade going on to get a post-doc, you're failing your mentorship duties.
If you think the greenhouse gas problem is comparable to the acid rain or ozone problems then you fundamentally do not understand the science, and you as an engineer fundamentally do not understand what "orders of magnitude" are.

It is only from a position of wholesale ignorance of the scientific reality that you can make such a facile equation.

To put it in a simple analogy, you just said "those alarmists told me it was going to rain last week and it didn't, therefore this hurricane warning is bullshit i'm not evacuating".
uhh... including Usenet?

hmm.. Looks like the Morris Corollary won't work on this version.
This could be data dredging since it seems they may have looked at lots of dimensions and picked the one that correlated. It doesn’t make sense to me the effect of air pollution would be so acute and at such low levels:

The effects are present in and out of the home, at levels well below Ambient Air Pollution Standards

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
I would guess it's traffic + engagement.
Yes and it would eventually become the thing that everyone hates...with code written by academics and not software professionals.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/13/us/pilot-complaints-boein...

Back in march there was a link to a raw CSV dump of that database here on HN, but I can't find it again...
I don’t understand how this company employed 1500+ programmers, PMs and data science people. What did they do? I guess not much, as 500 of them got laid off recently.
> And I have no idea where the recovery codes that I printed on paper are since I last moved.

It should be right next to the document that explains your loved ones how to get into your password manager, if you ever get hit by a bus.
No, office work will take on more of the practices of remote work, not the other way around.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a programming-by-demonstration system that lets you interactively develop a filter on one image, then apply it to many images?
Her iPhone died. It led to her being charged as a criminal
Turkey used to implement DNS blocks but these days (because people learned to quickly circumvent DNS blocks by Google or OpenDNS) they straight up don't route the IPs.
yep. its pretty incredible. Old redwoods have entire ecosystems in their crowns. full on bushes that bear fruit, ferns, etc...
If only there was some method of exchanging money for the time of professionals capable of vetting a technical product and giving a summarized report.
And what happens when there are more telepresence robots than actual people? Is there even any point to having that office?

This is one of those things that'll get even more silly, the more popular it gets.
Why are they using plain groundwater to cool servers? Maybe I'm being naive here by thinking there is something much cooler they could do.
Very cool. This should have a great deal of application in many signal processing tasks.
I think their comment is a little apocalyptic but I can say that wework going under could possibly trigger a large number of mid-small-size startups losing their spaces and possibly ending up out of business.
I did some consulting once for a company that managed rooftop space for building operators to lease to telcos and what not and it was totally normal one company to "own" multiple buildings but for each building to be its own LLC.
> It's not incorrect, but the Apollo astronauts would have covered the entire curiosity rover distance in 7 years in about an hour.

Of course they could move faster but Curiosity isn't just travelling it's also taking a lot of measurements and doing experiments while it's moving. Additionally they're very careful with it because one the the main limiting factors for Curiosity is the lifetime of its wheels. It could move faster but there's no need and maintaining resources like wheels is more important than moving quickly.
Spending a week doing off-and-on phone screens and then a day on-site doing an interview loop is a bigger hoop to jump through than banging out some code on your couch. But, I mean, people have all sorts of reasons not to apply to a job. Some people don't want to touch Java code. Some people don't want to work for a company in Santa Clara. You don't want to work anywhere that asks you to complete a code challenge. That's totally fine.
Hong Kong's hatred of mainlanders feeds the xenophobic undercurrents of protests
When Chinese Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices
Though sadly there are a fair number of folks who both live for tomorrow and also fear ending up in the street tomorrow.
I wrote this article. Thanks very much for posting it here and for everyone who read/commented/corrected me :) It's also great to hear about the other projects in this area, so thanks again!
I do not mind a coding challenge in the hiring process if it is the last step, not the first step.
Just to make it clear - I posted this as an example of anti-pattern, not the actual advice to follow :)
VIEs: China’s Nuclear Option
I think you need to go up one level, to the wholesalers who manufacturer the barebones systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevo
For their release in the US it's assumed that your ISP is shady.
How clouds are made! As my friend Tanya would say to keep me cheerful near those smokestacks.