skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried sharing these studies at my ex employers in Europe hoping they'd spare me the hellish 40 minute commute in stop/start traffic and they weren't interested at all.

Management there only values "butt time in seats" and the ability to come over and interrupt you by tapping you on the shoulder whenever they need something.

As one of my ex CEOs put it: "If I don't see my employees stressing out at thier desks I get the impression they're not working."

Until we get over this psychological attachment of management loving to visually see their slaves on the open office plantation through their private panopticon[1] offices, remote won't take off no matter how many studies get published.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Wow, that site is awfully bad. I had to go through 3 pages + one excruciatingly slow video all of which just told me how amazing their organization is, but I still didn't know what "Clever Never Goes" means.

tl;dr for the rest: it means: "Never go anywhere unless it was planned beforehand".
> With a U.S. population of ~200M, let’s call it 4M infections/year. We know that 4% of respondents paid the ransom, so that’s 160,000 ransom payments. If we say $200 per paid ransom as a guess, that means the ransomware ‘industry’ is making about $32M a year.

The U.S. population is actually ~327M, but since we're talking ballpark figures, let's just say that ~200M represents the adult computer-using population. It strikes that ransomware is both much bigger and much smaller than I thought. The 160,000 ransom payments is much bigger than I would have guessed. It's not like being struck by lightning; it's more like a serious car accident. But the actual revenue generated, $32M as he's estimated, is pitiful. There are all sorts of illegal, quasi-legal, and legal ripoffs that generates billions per year. For the amount of attention ransomware gets, it's just noise.
> Third, modernism was built on the principle that formal experimentation is the only thing that matters.

This is the most appealing thing about modernism to me — instead of continuing an exploitation of techniques that had been perfected, modernism was an exploration of what was possible — an attempted unbundling of the things that strike us about art like color, shape, texture, forms, frames, etc. The fatalism is a necessary consequence of this idea of taking some simple axioms and carrying them to their extremes.
In theory, C and assembly will give you the fastest possible implementation. However, in practice, we're just not smart enough to write this code without introducing bugs. High level languages allow us to specify what we want the program to do in a concise form and then allow the compiler and runtime to optimize it for us. This works to varying degrees in reality.

A simple example is that pure functions can always be inlined and memoized.
Nobel Prize outside of the sciences is a total anachronism. Obama increased drone strikes by an order of magnitude compared to his immediate predecessor, compounding civilian deaths in an already tenuous situation, with civilian deaths still unrecorded in any meaningful manner, and yet he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. I voted for Obama to give you some context but still, it is a farce.

This year, in another category, you have three winners who have "contributed" to the systematic analysis of poverty and solutions towards alleviating poverty. Glad they have their 1.5 million/3 each. I wonder what the truly impoverished would think about that.

`Panem et circenses` for the elite, that's all this is. Revolution is coming, don't doubt it for a second.
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Violence isn't always physical.
By co-incidence I saw this on twitter today:

> A beautifully preserved thermopolium (cook shop), one of the places in #Pompeii where one could purchase hot and ready-to-eat food.
Most Romans resided in insulae and did not have facilities to cook at home and relied on thermopolia to buy their hot meals. (photo)

https://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/1184381800656920577

The baking ovens in Pompei are - of course - wood-fired brick structures with domed tops on the inside. Like a pizza oven.

http://www.pompeiin.com/en/Bakeries_in_Pompeii.html

I would be completely unsurprised if there is an unbroken lineage from these shops (in other towns that were not obliterated by Vesuvius) through to Pizzerias in present-day Napoli.
Hacking 20 high-profile dev accounts could compromise half of the NPM ecosystem
In my experience, it's even more precise to use multiple fingers at once. I use two or three on symmetrical trackballs like that.

Using software for a scroll button like that is often annoyingly flaky and inconsistent in practice, as too much software isn't expecting it or tries to do its own special thing (websites in particular for the latter). I haven't used a trackball that does it in hardware, but that may run into issues too, as a lot of software is built to scroll in whole numbers of lines, and so feels unresponsive to more precise scrolling methods (e.g. scroll button or touch screen).
The venue should be available for free if your meetup is attractive to people that could be potential employees of the hosts. And why do you feel the need to give people free food and drinks? Reframe the issue : Everyone who attends should be motivated to come to the event for the content, rather than free food on their way home.
Remote companies come with a redefinition of what a social workplace is and how you get to know someone. In my past years, I've mostly worked remote and still I think I know the people I've worked with very well.

Communicating regularly every day and doing things like online gaming or company retreats can help to redefine social interactions.

The support system is really important, if you are remote it should mean that you prefer to be close to your support system. If you are not, then something is wrong and that's going to be a challenge.
It’s kinda funny how the world has converged on USB as a universal charging standard. I have a tote full of old AC/DC transformers in the garage; I used to save them as you never knew when you’d need one of a specific connector/voltage/ amperage combo. Now they’re somewhat obsolete.
From watching others at raves: strongly avoid LSD (or psychedelics) if you have any tendencies towards anxiety/fear/worry. When you meet real demons or your body reconfigures itself, do you go "awesome" or "quivering panic". Do your friends help you, or go awol.

Also generally drug quality is highly variable unless you are very well connected and informed: I've seen young kids take whatever is available and then things go ugly pear shaped (surprise, surprise). Very very bad for health and brain to take what you can get: bad effects can permanently scar your mind and body. At least only take something you have seen someone else take more than 24 hours ago, and take from the exact same batch, as that will filter the very worst stuff out.

You also know the upsides, so there is a risk vs reward calculation.
I work remotely for about 80% of the workweek. I am most effective at home. At work people talk to me and interrupt me quite often. You get interrupted by people walking by etc or just striking up a conversation.

At home this obviously never happens for me. The only distraction I have is Slack and my dog that reminds me that it's time for a walk.

So I can attest to this.
> In fact, "some psychologists concede that an element of self-deception may be necessary for well-being," Feltham says.

I think about this every day, I thought it was an established fact for some reason. Perhaps I thought it was established since I know the saying "ignorance is bliss"
What I quoted is talking about the 2nd version of the code, that tries to count without iterating three times and then encounters a laziness problem.

The first version iterates three times and the reason it takes long has nothing to do with lazyness, we agree on that.
Way to miss the point.

Clearly he's not a fan of CCP, but his hands, like many others', are tied, largely by money.
I don't live in China or Hong Kong so I insist on being able to live my life without having a position about all remote kerfuffles.
My communication style is regularly challenged by myself, on reflection, and others to explain why something is important instead of what is important. To help avoid misunderstandings around my intent about presenting a fact, I have found that explaining the reason why something matters to me or the situation and then followed by the supporting fact improves my interactions.

I personally have found it a useful lens to look at communication in this form of presentation model after watching this video.

https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_insp...
> They simply recommend things that you may like

That's the misconception here. Youtube is recommending things that make you watch more Youtube. Their customer base is advertisers, not viewers.
> ... I wouldn't put misgendering or deadnaming in the same category as inciting violence or advocating for child exploitation.

Sadly, this is a point that is lost on many people.
This is incredible, something like this becoming mass market would remove the issues we have of older laptops not having easily replaceable power bricks.
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I’ve grabbed the wrong Air out the airport scanner. It even had a dent in a similar place. I opened it to check on it as I walked off and the saw it was wrong. The other laptop was just leaving in someone else’s hands. Close call.
Try finding any kind of mechanical keyboard, no matter how old or for what obscure platform, for $25 these days.
> Individuals may have freewill, but general populations certainly do not.

So free will is when we have not zoomed out enough to see patterns? That actually explains a lot.
Really nice!

If the optimal result is known maybe you could present that somehow? To see how good/bad the current solution is.
In Hungary, I have been conditioned that if somebody approaches me on the street 95% of the time is a homeless person begging for money or somebody trying to sell me drugs or sex. The other people just not interacting with each other.

When I moved to New Zealand it was the opposite. There is more interaction with "regular" people. They are helping me or asking for help.
Fun Fact: Every time I try to use non-violent communication my partner gets really angry at me :D On a more serious note: I think trying to be non-violent is good, but it will also cost you a bit of your human soul.
I'm interested in the role of genetics in pain experience, it's interesting to see studies looking at the role of CYP2D6 in the amygdala, I look forward to more research in this area.
How do you deliver a pallet of Fruit Loops on a cargo bike to the corner store?
On the guide, we wrote we have by default ALLOW ANY, DENY SOME. If you are online then you can be interrupted unless you set your status to the headphone emoji.

Otherwise posting office hours may force the idea of how many office hours each person is doing and that's not something we want to measure.

It depends on which things you need to measure based on the type of company you have or you want. A D2C company clearly needs a fixed amount of office hours where a SaaS company may not.
I share your general sentiment, but to be fair the decision to honor Obama wasn't made with his actual policies in mind - they hadn't been enacted yet, he received the prize within his first year in office. I hope and do believe they wouldn't have awarded him any peace prize at the end of his second term.
In looking at rat studies a couple weeks ago, my napkin math said that it would take a human between 1 and 10 KILOgrams of LSD to cause death. Tartaric salt may be more toxic that the LSD bound to it. Most people would struggle consuming this much before entering a catatonic psychedelic state, and few have access to these quantities: street value would be ~$10,000,000.

There are certainly risks of engaging in dangerous behaviors while intoxicated, and possibly risks of precipitating latent psychotic predispositions, but its really amazing how non-toxic it is in the physical sense.
Regarding your examples. If you say "We should restrict immigration to limit labor supply so that the native born can earn better wages", you will be read by many people as if you were saying "immigrants are cockroaches". These people will group you with people who say the latter thing, and with people who imply the shooting part.

I know that for a fact. I live in Europe. We had a migration crisis recently, and no matter what you believed, how nuanced your position was, you always ended up being called either "a compassionless monster who doesn't care about other people dying", or "a traitor supporting parasites in taking our jobs and destroying our economy".

“We should reject colonial oppression of our country” very much implies “we should wage a war against our oppressors” (not sure why you bring religion into this). Suicide bombing didn't enter the western Overton window just yet, but it surely will if things ever get bad enough. For evidence, just skim [0].

> “We should end affirmative action on the basis of race because it isn’t fair to individual members of the majority group” is not the same type of message as “all members of X minority are inherently worthless, and we should purge them”.

That tells me you haven't been on the Internet recently. It absolutely means the same thing in the eyes of a certain vocal minority that currently dominates all social media, and has an uncanny ability to summon Internet mobs in order to ruin people's lives.

> “Rape accusations should be handled by law enforcement professionals rather than by school administrators, and the evidence should need to meet a high legal standard to be actionable” is not the same type of message as “X person claims they were raped but everyone knows they are a lying slut and were asking for it.”

Except in practice the former is understood by many as the latter, and can end up with you in the news headlines and having your life's work taken away from you.

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Point being, rules like Terms of Service or Codes of Conduct are easily weaponized and used as tools of oppression if they're not backed by impartiality, rationality, a firm commitment to uphold the spirit of those rules and to nip all attempts at rule lawyering in the bud. Otherwise, either the service itself will abuse the rules, or the users that are best at escalating minor disagreements will. I have zero trust in Twitter on this matter.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack#History,_pre-19... One of the interesting things I've learned here today is that apparently, the US trained people to perform suicide bombings with nuclear weapons. The Cold War was an insane time.
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And finally we found an utility to wasp stings, trolling this Sauron's eye system for fun and profit

On the other hand for some people addicted to lip implants the system will need a perpetual and constant fine-tuning and upgrading (that will divert resources just to adjust the eyelid position and nose shape). I don't see plastic cirugy being forbidden in a near future if we take in mind the number of rich clients that use it.
A few weeks ago, my partner and I, together with our 1-month-old baby, were rushing to a courthouse as she needed to do some paperwork for a case she's involved in. We were under high pressure as the courthouse would close in like half an hour, but our son was especially hungry that day and we had to stop several times to feed him, etc.

In one of these stops, probably due to the stress and rush, we left her handbag behind. We noticed when we got to the courthouse (with around twenty minutes left until it closed). This not only implied losing her credit cards, house keys, healthcare card, some money and her phone, but also her ID card which was needed for the paperwork in court. The deadline for the procedure was the next day so we might still have a chance by going to the police and asking for a temporary ID or something, but I'm not even totally sure it would be possible, and in any case it would have been an absolute mess and we would have spent the next morning running here and there.

One or two minutes after we realized the handbag was missing and we were feeling like crap and powerless to do anything, my phone rings. Someone had used my partner's phone [1] to call her mother (because "Mama" is usually a reliable contact, I guess) and she told them to call me. I met the finders in a nearby square five minutes later. They returned everything, and refused any compensation. We completed the paperwork in time that day.

They will probably never know how big a favor they did to us (of course returning cards, phone, money, ID, etc. is always a big favor, but in this case it was even more important than normal due to the court issue, having very little time due to a newborn baby, etc.) and how grateful we are.

[1] In case you are wondering, indeed she didn't have her phone locked with a PIN number, pattern or similar... I know, this goes against every security recommendation. It's just laziness. In this case, it probably helped by accelerating the return, though.
Completely agree! Being remote in a non-remote company is one of the hardest things as those companies don't have procedures in place for keeping everyone in the loop.
Fewer connection types that you frequently need is quite uncontroversially a good thing isn't it?

So it's quite natural that for merely charging we'd turn to something that's capable of charging and data, since we couldn't do the reverse.
There’s a significant fraction of drivers that interpret a turn signal as a sign that it’s ok to pass unsafely because the signalling driver is safety-conscious and will act to avoid a colission,
Perhaps one can see them as simplified examples of the type of message you're aiming for, and it's left as an exercise to the reader to phrase it naturally.
That's one of the reasons why it's really weird to generally characterize Twitter's rules as heavily ideological -- whether you consider rules against misgendering and deadnaming a matters of courtesy, or a key rights issue, or an ideological plot, there's so many other rules that are uncontroversial (unless you find yourself in a position where you want to incite violence or advocate for child exploitation).

(Thanks for the text under the subheading, comment above edited with link to it.)
Yes, but the leaders admitted they're left leaning, therefore, anything anti-trump, conservative or something that is remotely center-right is subject of bans. They banned so many people at this stage I don't need to do examples.
Mate, 3 is a single order of magnitude more than 0.3, not two.
Work laptop came with an M.2 SSD and had a sata connector as well.
Due to size both wouldn't fit buy you can fix it using an mSata disk and an adapter.
https://imgur.com/ax7epyg

It's easy now to keep work and private separate since I need to shutdown one to boot in the other.

The disk in encrypted so my data is safe if they would ever take the laptop back without asking. But pulling out a disk is going to be way faster then copying or erasing.
Yes: https://dod.defense.gov/OIR/gallery/igphoto/2001245589/
No that's a pork dish. IIRC (although I can hardly claim to be an expert on UK Chinese restaurant dish naming) it's also called 'chop suey', or 'chop choy', in the UK. In the Netherlands it's 'tjap tjoi'.

Then again, I'm not sure what makes 'chop suey' anything else than 'toss a few vegetables in a stir fry pan and serve on rice', as several recipes I found are just that. In my experience, for it be recognized by people as 'chop suey', it needs a certain brown liquidish sauce, for which I use a mixture of Shaoxing wine and light soy sauce - but even there, there seems to be a lot of leeway (e.g. sauces based on fish sauce, Indonesian soy sauces etc).
Thanks for posting this, is a really good analysis
Being an engineer means finding/building the best tool for the task at hand. Sometimes it feels great to write a short and effective snippet of code instead of examining how some bizarre API works.
It's been ten years, it's not ancient history. A decade may be a lot in internet years, but I don't think that translates well to the real world.
"Some even had tomatoes on top. Only recently introduced from the Americas, these were still a curiosity, looked down upon by contemporary gourmets".

Well that settles it. Next time a pizza traditionalist blasts me for having pineapple on my pizza, I'll counter that he shouldn't have tomatoes on theirs.
This is my experience of British management over the last quarter of a century. I am an expensive contract resource but I still get paid for turning up and not so much for providing working software.

When I am working remotely, due to the organisation's inability to measure productivity, fostered by their management's "bums on seats" culture, I can't demonstrate that remote work is a benefit to them.
Можно ли пить соду от изжоги при беременности
While that works well on the same network, Assist uses a publicly accessible tunnel to allow connections from the internet, regardless of wherever you are / local network configuration.
There's also teleconsole, which works great and is free
Logitech is horrible when it comes to names, apparently every trackball they make is a "Trackman Marble". I think you're talking about the ambidextrous one with two big buttons, two small buttons and the ball in the middle.

I had the one where the trackball is operated by the thumb[1], which was quite great, at least until I "felt" it. Probably not that bad, but I was worried enough about RSI, and had to use a mouse at work anyway...

I actually bought one of the ones you mentioned recently, let's see how that works.

As for scrolling, I only rarely use a scroll wheel and do most of my paging with the keyboard, so I always missed a proper third middle button more. So the original design was quite close to my heart. (I also once had a Kensington trackball where you scrolled with a ring set around the ball. Not that great for scrolling, but I think I managed to connect it to the volume in Linux back then…)

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/K8tDHfN.jpg
There are. But downsides are greater as they lead to destruction of very places they visit for their beauty.
> Biometrics of any kind are not protected if the police have a warrant

It is not as black-and-white as you make it out to be (which was my point -- this will likely end up in the Supreme Court at some point). Specifically, some courts disagree with your position, and hold that even with a warrant, you have a fifth-amendment right not to incriminate yourself.

See for instance https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-...

> But in a more significant part of the ruling, Judge Westmore declared that the government did not have the right, even with a warrant, to force suspects to incriminate themselves by unlocking their devices with their biological features.

The issue is, of course, in the meantime, it's far easier for law enforcement to execute a fait accompli and get a suspect to look at their phone to unlock it.
Illusion in the spirit is as nothing,
behold a world that runs on illusions!

Their war and peace are made upon illusion,
their glory and their shame are from illusion.

- Rumi [1]

[1] https://bit.ly/31jwRUb
How is NVC way any different? "I feel sad because you did X" is just sugarcoated "You are the one who made me feel sad by doing X".

I find the "uncover your feelings" the most questionable point of the whole framework. Instantly reminds me of Stephen Fry's

— I am rather offended by that
– So fucking what?

Long ago I made an observation that anger and other feelings are more of our perception of someone's actions than the actions themselves. From that time on "90% of everything is attitude" became one of the my favourite sayings.
Also, I am not sure if NVC sits well with the fundamental attribution error.
You don't, you use a dedicated loading zone.