skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much is a HD projector nowadays? A few hundreds bucks maybe? You will be spending more than that over 1-2 years going to the theater every few weeks.

Also, when going with girlfriend or children, the cinema is twice or triple as expensive.
>>>> One recent study, by a pair of economists in Asia, found a link to aging populations. It seems that older folks — perhaps because they’re less inclined to trust numbers on a screen — have a greater affinity for cash.

It may also be harder to be swindled out of your money by telemarketers, if you ditch your credit cards. And dealing with anything online or on a phone can be physically laborious and error prone for the elderly -- then you have to re-learn it when it changes.

For me, cash is actually a hassle. As a part time musician, I occasionally get paid in cash -- often a $100 bill, preferably but rarely more -- and then I have to deal with the bills and coins until it's finally spent.
Exxon is worth $293 billion right now. Its earnings over the past N decades are probably worth more. For that money, you could buy alternative energy providers outright. You could buy Siemens (~$50 billion), who, in addition to transportation and other lines of businesses, have a big renewables business, and are among the world leaders in nuclear ... or, well, they were, until 2011, when they abandoned that line of business entirely.

There is no financial case to be made here whatsoever.
> "The nationwide poll was conducted November 14-16, 2018 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,202 adults. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points."

If somebody cold-called me and asked me if I would be willing to give them $10 to stop climate change, I'd tell them to go fuck themselves... but that would have nothing to do with my opinions on climate change. Rather it would be my aversion telephone scams, as well as skepticism that whatever organization I was talking to was actually able to efficiently use my $10 for what they claimed. If I gave $10 to every organization that claimed they could solve a serious problem, I'd be broke and I wager not one of those problems would be solved.
This is really good advice and the same advice I got from our VP in a similar situation. Make it clear to your manager what you're about to do and then work with your lead to elevate the team up. It will show and in most cases you will be rewarded for it. You may not get to be tech lead of the team you're currently on, but it will work to your career advantage. It can actually look bad on you as an employee if you're aware of certain shortcomings and not really trying to do anything about it other than get a new title.
> It's worth remembering that, because there were no Javascript or HTML APIs for many things people felt their pages needed

The OA states in his article, that he is fine with many of the new APIs. It's not HTML5 vs. XHTML, it's 'applified web' vs. 'document web'. And I agree.
Are you running Chrome on an old phone, or perhaps with some extension which injects a lot of code? Looking at the page, it's certainly showing why ad blockers are popular but it doesn't crash or use unusual amounts of memory on either desktop or mobile Chrome:

https://webpagetest.org/result/191027_BF_57a6cd57fc6fe629628...

https://webpagetest.org/result/191027_2G_fba74afe0c488b99e53...
> Article conflates digital nomadism with remote working in general.

Only a small part in the beginning of the article is concerned with digital nomadism. Most of the article is about working from home, and the general effects of isolation.
Part 2:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191027153729/https://jaylittle...

Part 3:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191027165020/https://jaylittle...
What's with the recent spade of coaching engineers for FAANG companies?

Seems like a niche "industry" with lots of potential cash grab opportunity.
The memory isnt trained -- the PHY is. Its PLL and signal adjustment -- not too dissimilar to how a cable modem "trains" to get settings right for your specific line's characteristics.

PCs have codified it mostly to a set of well known and understood timings that are interchangable, so in that domain its easy. But raw DDR chips used with SOCs is much much harder because you're not beholden to Intel's standards for the PHY or the RAM.
Literally thought this was about npm before I'd parsed the headline.
Sadly, you're wrong, and the phone modem is on the USB bus precisely for that reason.
I have a private email for close friends and family (note, I have no FB account). I had layers of obfuscation on this over the years, which I’ve since walked away from.

I run a few businesses, and have work email at each. These usually cycle/evolve periodically over time.

And I have a public Gmail account. Few filters, most everything I sign up for goes there. Lots of G logins.

I’m not on a lot of chat apps, but I use Slack for a few things. No telegram, no WhatsApp, nothing else like that.

I was reviewing this recently and I’m pretty happy with it. The funnels for work/business are effective enough to compartmentalize them. On my iPhone and iPad I have a subset of some but not all of those email addresses. On my desktop I use Outlook to consolidate every last email account and Mailplane to cover my most important and active email accounts.

Truth is, few humans email me. It’s all business accounts, SaaS notifications, etc.

Email isn’t really a daily high priority for me. And most of the important emails are expected... the result of a conversation or initiation. When I know an important email is coming, my attention to email elevates a bit. Otherwise, email is only a medium priority for me anymore. I clear them weekly, but probably pay attention to them 3x every two days.

Edit: the big burden of emails is calendar coverage and invites. For that, my iOS devices are most important. I care more about what lands on my calendar (Zoom conferences) than most other things (save, contracts I need to sign or payments I have to take care of). I also tell everyone to call me anytime. I hate juggling calendar invites for a ten minute phone call. That said, I do encourage people not to leave voice mail. This is where things get a little more... intentional/picky.
Part 3 quotes /u/whiteinge on reddit¹:

Let's assume the company is in jeopardy. Let's assume the project is over-promised and will be late and under-deliver. Let's assume the CEO is a fuckup and the Marketing Director is a liar. None of that is as bad as NO smartphone alternative to Google and Apple, let alone an open and privacy-focused alternative. I'm a Linux user and I very much want a Linux phone. And there has been so, so many false starts and near misses over almost a decade. My patience and goodwill for Purism and the Librem 5 is effectively infinite. It's not over until they shutter the doors or can the project. Until that happens I will continue to hope they limp over that finish line no matter what.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/dm2smy/is_the_libre...
You’re assuming that they live in the US.
AWT GUI Facade (6): Mouse and Game Loop – Design Patterns and Video Games
> Avoid unnecessary web tracking

Google is just one of 100+ ad networks that show you personalized ads. You can turn off ads personalization from Google or any of the other participating ad networks here at http://optout.aboutads.info/

Source: https://adssettings.google.com
That’s a logical fallacy. Fake accounts and misinformation/propaganda campaigns can (and do) exist outside of mine or your behavior or feelings.
From your perspective, is the Guardian’s article accurate? Is there any bias? What are the main issues?
We May Not Have to Age So Fast
Anyone have recommendations for reducing the uniqueness of the screen size and fonts metrics?
I‘m in Europe where you get players from the UK to Turkey and Russia. There’s often a prejudice from some nations to others.
Given that legal immigration (and from PR to citizenship) is being increasingly choked off by unilateral executive action, and many norm busting actions are undertaken by ICE, can you understand why people feel that counteracting efforts must be taken?
As others have said, in this thread, there are a lot of mixed issues in this article.

Living a nomad/traveling lifestyle =! remote work. Loads of people remote-work from home, but change nothing else in their lifestyle.

I've been working remotely my entire life. 30+ years now. One thing that is key, is looking at the blue sky. Being outside occasionally.

You will note that the article talks about work/life balance, about working a lot, working long hours. And after months and months, become more and more depressed.

What I suspect is happening is, winter! Shorter days! With shorter days, it is harder and harder to find sunlight when you just happen to wander outside. In the summer, at least where I am, daylight lives from 4am to 10pm. I doesn't matter when I wake up, or when I go to sleep.. if I wander out just once, there's almost always light.

Further, there's a much better chance of good weather. In the winter, if it isn't night, it's often cloudy, and therefore darker.

Unless you work away from all windows, this affects the type of light, even when working inside.

On top of all that, in the winter it is more often unpleasant. You think with glee, it's cool/cold, raining/snowing, and I work remote! I don't have to go out into that! Yet, this is a trap, for going out in that is key to your health... just for the light!

My point in all of the above is -- when you work on site, you have to go outside, and transit outside, to and from work. This gets in that vital light, even often in the winter.

It's about the light, it's about blue light from a blue sky, it's about being outside.

That's what 30+ years of remote work has taught me.
The point is that, without storage, no matter how much solar you install you don't lower the required amount of fossil fuel plant capacity at all because the peak occurs when solar is at 0.
Seems like all your problems can get solved by getting married to someone you love.
After hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the blackout lasted for months. I assume no one was getting any money out of ATMs or using credit/debit cards or Apple pay or anything like that. You don't have to distrust the financial system to want cash on hand. You just need to have a rudimentary understanding of the fragility of the current system. I simply cannot see a cash less society ever existing while the only alternative is powered by electricity. Electricity can fail way to easily.
It's like doing extreme sports or visiting North Korea or some such. There's risk vs benefits in every activity and browsing the "darknet" has extremely little benefit compared to the life ruining risk of CP finding its way on your laptop.
The BSD jails / Solaris zones approach is not the same at the path taken by Linux. Linux gives you a facility to isolate network, a facility to isolate process views etc. You put them all together and you get a "container". The former starts off by having a container primitive that can't do much because, well, it's contained from everything. You then proceed to give it access to the network, the filesystem.
>> In the 90s you could make your own white label 12" pressings and distribute them personally to record shops.

This, beyond other physical and fashion products, is essentially the business plan for my music label. It's certainly still doable and is one of the best ways in to local meaningful exposure in your city, or at least in my city of Toronto.

Vinyl sales are huge, especially in terms of profit.
xinetd
super envious of your setup btw! I'll love setting up that kind of thing whenever I get a chance.

My current apartment has woodchip wallpaper and nowhere to hang a screen from, so I'm hacking together ~80inch screen project (have an old bed frame I chopped up and repurposed as a room divider that I'm gonna add a roller blind and curtains onto that I'm pretty sure will kind of work...)
Sadly I am happy to be corrected! :D
Stealing private keys from a secure file sharing service
Hi slowenough! This is awesome. I do have a few questions/comments about this.

1. The rendering quality of pages is quite low. (Like an image with salt and pepper noise).
2. I used ipleak.net to check the IP which points to some provider(presumably you or Aws/Cloudfare/Asure etc.,). So how do you manage illegal usage ?
3. How do you deal with browser history and cookies(why should I trust this) ?
4. Do you happen to the have the source code for this made available ?

Sorry about the barrage of questions. I just got excited a bit :)
This attempt to morally equivocate an international corporation denying people access to popular culture, and volunteer developers giving away source code for free on the condition that anybody who wants to sell it also distribute the source code, is absurd. Bordering on offensive.
I agree, but there are of course other ways to refine the profile. Does the retailer have a loyalty program or send paperless receipts?
Was this because of using cash or simply paying more attention to spending?

I’d love to see a well done research paper to get a sense of the expected value of cash vs credit.
You would have strictly fewer rights if the code did not include the GPL. It lets you use the code with no restrictions whatsoever, provided you place no restrictions on your users. And if you don't like that, you're still free to negotiate different terms with the owner of the GPLed code.

Really, you're complaining that the GPL takes away your right to take away rights.
This is called “bank fraud”. In general, no need for you to insure against this because the bank has to eat the loss.
I love working remotely, I dread the prison of the corporate offices and commuting hours a day. Probably nothing you can do can cut your carbon footprint as much as working remotely.

That said, I am over 40, with solid friedship relations built over decades, have kids, an ex-wife which is a friend, a younger nerdy but social girlfriend.

Basically, I don't need the work environment for social needs. But once upon a time, when I was younger, my life was the office, and my colleagues. School teaches you that you need an organization where you are physically present everyday to have social interactions, you start working with this mindset, probably in a different city, it takes a few years for you to realize that there's life outside work. And YOU WILL learn it after the first layoff in your life.
So, if you are young, I'd recommend starting your life in a office, but never put all your eggs in the same basket. Look to know people outside your company, people that don't even do the same work as you do. Travel, do yoga classes, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, reading circles, whatever, but never believe that you need an office to meet your social needs. You'll need it for a time, it is good to bootstrap your life on relationship terms, heck, you can even do it for the rest of your life. But never, even for a minute, believe that you can't have a social life, friends, meet a significant other without an office.
It navigates to different domains, that wouldn’t be acceptable in real world scenarios.
Robert Bolt's rendition of the sentiment was more dramatic
The other thing is finding decent salaries. Companies that advertise remote work usually want to drop 80k+ from your salary.
The New York Times: a former newspaper.
Firefox Nightly supports this and I use it. It's not perfect but overall I'd say it's better than letting videos autoplay.
My experience is the opposite. Having switched entirely to light on dark (as well as adjusting the blue component of my screens to zero), switching the display of information back to dark on light feels like a nuclear blast of a million Suns into my eyes.

How can anyone stand staring directly into a bright lamp all day long? Well, having gotten used to it, you don't notice how unhealthy it truly is.
Think of how small transistors get. Now you can pack more than double the transistors as 7nm process
Is it true that most remote-first companies only hire people who have already significant (>1yr) experience working remotely? That's the impression I have reading this and other HN threads about remote work.

It's sort of a catch-22 situation, not dissimilar to the one beginning developers find themselves in when looking for jobs that require experience.
According to the Wikimedia page, the duck is from an article [1] by Jordan Wirfs-Brock.

Some quick internet stalking suggests is the daughter of Smalltalk and OOP pioneer Rebecca Wirfs-Brock. Illustrious family!

[1] http://insideenergy.org/2014/10/02/ie-questions-why-is-calif...
Fast buses operate at some multiple of a reference clock wired up to both sides, it's often 1/2 or 1/8th of the actual data rate which each side arrives at by feeding the reference clock to an on-die pll.

This can create ambiguity in which bit of the 2 or 8 or whatever is on the bus, and temperature, board design, bus length, humidity etc change the phase where the best sampling place is for the data signal. So there is 'training' to test which fine delay between the receiver pll clock and the data gives the lowest error rate when used to sample the incoming data. Periodically some buses must pause and do retraining to account for, eg, temperature changes.
> and they pay me for my data.

From the fees that you paid them to begin with.
If there was anything like that, every manager and marketer would be using this tool to artificially inflate their streams (who says they're not already?).
> 50$ bills are frowned on in retail

Where would that be? On every trip to the US I have exchanged cash, EUR to USD, resulting in mostly $100 bills which I've used everywhere, sometimes even for rather small purchases, and there's been no frown upon that (after few purchases I also get my hands on smaller bills which are also more convenient).
I never thought about cashless places doing it because they were worried about theft from employees. I assumed it was to prevent thieves from coming in and robbing the place.

(Makes total sense though that employees would be much more likely to do the stealing)
Why did you spend less?
The CEO Lifecycle
I really hope more folks talk about how deeply disappointing the hardware of this company is relative to their price and sales pitch.

You can't overprice your goods AND be a transparently unethical company betraying the values you claim to uphold on your sales pitch. But that's precisely what Purism has become. When you compare the quality of their goods and software to other competitors, they often fall short even on the stated extra goals (e.g., privacy).

I'm not sure how Purism's brand ends up being so untouchable. It's sort of like Brave, I think it just isn't popular enough for folks to remember exactly how ridiculously badly the company ends up behaving.
this is not a technical position managing security. most tech writers at major news institutions are likely not tested with technical interviews - they are writers with domain knowledge, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that.
It has been very widely covered in US news since the protests / riots began.

CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, WSJ, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, USA Today. All have had regular coverage of it.

6 days ago, USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/21/chile-p...

6 days ago, NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/world/americas/chile-prot...

6 days ago, Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/21/chile-prote...

6 days ago, CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/chile-protests-president-ext...

6 days ago, WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/protests-in-chile-leave-three-d...

And so on.
I only care about meeting the bonus spend requirement. Chasing even 5% on certain category spend usually just incentivizes overspending.

I’ve been lucky to be on some promotion where I can pay my rent for free using a credit card, so usually I just do that or buy prepaid Visa cards, which then isn’t tied to my identity when I transact with it.
>"You don't see too much of that in Manhattan,"

Uhm ... except for almost every single food delivery person. This has been an issue for a long time now as well:

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-increase-fines-del...

And more recently with electric bikes as well:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/04/19/confronted-with-facts...
Thanks a lot for your reply!

It seems the main gain for your is to move between languages and allow initial iterations/bugfixes without touching the application code.

The database has more maintenance issues (like rolling txids) than the application code. I am not sure I want to add more complexity and potential issues to the database.

FYI, a materialized view is a potentially long or complex query whose results are cached, so you can say 'select * from complex_query_result' to get them, and refresh the complex_query_result whenever you feel like it. You can also update the query that generates complex_query_result.

In practice, MV can give you speed (as you can refresh the MV when you need/want, while keeping the results) and also put the data-logic inside the database (as the MV is defined initially, and can later be updated) if you don't need super fresh results. If you do, use a regular view.

In either case, you can use the view approach when parameters are needed, iff you can reduce you query to where parameter=something on the view. Otherwise, you need to use languages like pl sql.

As the materialized views queries just return the results to be processed, and I have very little extra to do, your approach seems overkill for my use case.
The Wikipedia article on the protests [1] makes the run-up to the huge march on October 25 seem pretty chaotic. In particular, the deaths and fires from looting, as well as the destruction of public transit stations, makes the declaration of emergency look like a reasonable response, even if the subsequent shooting of protesters looks less reasonable.

So my question is, just how much chaos has there been, and where do you think the situation lies on the spectrum between "peaceful protests receive disproportionately violate suppression" and "military does its best to control chaos"?

And if I can ask one more, what do you think the general reason is? The claimed main reason, a ~5% increase in public transit fares, seems implausible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_protests
My company is 100% distributed. We have people between California and Moscow.

We try to employ people who have a motivation to work remotely--ability to travel, desire for more flexibility to be with family, reduce commute times, etc. For people with those motivations, remote work can be a real benefit and actually gives us an edge in hiring.

I've been working remotely fully or mostly for the last 12 years. It's great--I can structure my time to ensure I get enough exercise, take naps when necessary, and generally avoid the constraints of some artificial 9-5 clock. It's not for everyone, but at this point I would hate to have a full-time job in an office.