skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like... do inflamed Canadians hold the door open for you but not tell you to have a good day...ah?

Jokes aside, Canada actually stands to profit well from global warming. With thousands of years of resting, fertile top soil, lands not suitable for agriculture due to short growing seasons... well, you'll have better growing seasons. Plus still be cool enough to not be a scorching wasteland. Just being realistic. Many countries used for agriculture will dwindle in the average increase of temperature. Canada will actually increase. Same with Russia, most of Siberia is fantastic top soil, just really, really shitting growing seasons... well, lack there of.
> There's no reason to leave gender out of culture shifts, except that you don't like it.

Or that it's illegal in many jurisdictions to select a candidate because of their gender. Can't speak for others, but if I see evidence of this happening in writing, I have no qualms about forwarding the docs/emails/whatever off to the Dept of Labor and a labor attorney to pursue this discriminatory behavior (discrimination is discrimination, whether "anti" a specific gender or "pro") by an employer.

Culture shifts should be a byproduct of effective, non-discriminatory hiring practices (which includes blinding to protected classes).
Worldwide, only 1/4 of oil is used for industry.

46% of oil is turned into gas. However, include diesel, aviation, plus boat fuels and transportation adds up to 69% of oil used.

Home heating is 3%, and electricity is 1%.
Which is the problem. We're trying to say we've generally exhausted our productive capabilities after 4 days of work per week, which is what this article was saying as well.

If I've contributed my maximum amount in 4 days rather than 5, it should not be called part time. Part time should be reserved for instances where you are indeed contributing less than a full amount per week, such that you could hold two part time jobs.
That doesn't really make much sense. Why should it matter if the identity is immutable or not? What matters is whether or not it is a useful way to talk about an issue and people.

It's immutable that a kid is a kid. It's immutable that some kids have cancer. What's so wrong to use identity politics to say we should help kids that have cancer?
Microsoft to store Superman on new glass storage
Microsoft’s New Office App for iOS and Android Combines Word, Excel, PowerPoint
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/

Maybe a slight left bias although personally I think it's more a bias to the current sitting government.

However there is plenty of UK media that sees the BBC as unfair competition and would love to see it disappear.
Meta/mods: please shorten the title, to remove the needless duplication of the site's name. Thanks.
Java in a Container: Resource Allocation Guidelines
"During the month-long trial, electricity consumption had been reduced by 23% and paper printing by 59% compared with August 2018, Microsoft said."

Oh I think MS didn't say that. [1]

Paper and electricity was compared to August 2016, as far as I can see from the image.

Actually they look like on the trend line.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1189857355908833280/Pz8s9574?...
I have left a restaurant after ordering, but it's because I was waiting nearly an hour after ordering and needed to get back to work.
To answer your question honestly, it has been a long time. At this company I transitioned from a Graphic Designer to a Software Developer. After my first year I took the role of a Web Developer and ended up building a custom internal application for the Art Department which opened a lot of eyes at the possibilities of what a Software Department could provide.

I was employee #1 in this new role and have since made a lot of really awesome things such as a company directory (mobile app), dashboards for our fabrication department, license management software for our IT folks, visitor check-in/out kiosks, interactive surgical simulators for our R&D/Sales teams, to name a few.

I hold a BS degree in Art. While in college, I took some web development courses and that is when I first started noticing my interest in programming. Despite having ~10 years of programming experience (~4 being as a professional software dev) I am not the most confident developer and the horror of software dev interviews scares me. Maybe it is time to go for it - worst they can say is no, right?
Seven years only applies only to certain delinquencies, not all information in general. Most "aged" reports will have information dating back well past seven years (loan origination dates, address history, former name(s) used, etc.).

Usually a closed account will stop being reported to credit bureaus 10 years after the last activity on that account. I don't know if that's due to law or custom. My own credit report contains accounts closed more than seven years ago but less than 10 years ago and it does NOT include the one account closed 13 years ago.
My favourite one shows the orientations of all airport runways [1]. Since they runways align with prevailing wind directions, it's effectively a map of the winds.

1. https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/4502-t...
> Yikes, that sounds depressing.

Perhaps - but more depressing is losing a high paying job and earning a minimum wage with no hope of living a comfortably life, in that local context. Taken it out of context makes it further apart from the true meaning.

Success has no shortcuts - it requires 100k+ hours of hard working and perseverance. Working leisurely is for the folks that are already prosper (read: take a look at Microsoft employees' avg. salaries.)

Working less and living a good life? No, you can't have it both ways, unless you're already rich.
Learn React.js in 30 Minutes from a Pro (Free Crash Course 2019)
While I really appreciate the conclusion and goals of the study, I wonder how accurate this test really is.
Imagine your boss told you, "we are going to test out 4 hour work weeks". You are naturally going to be productive during the entire experiment because you want to keep the 4 day week.
If left as a permanent perk for longer than a year, does productivity slink back down below the 5 day?
Project Cortex: AI-Generated Knowledge Graphs for Microsoft 365
You're quite right! Just looked again in Firefox.
I watched someone dismantle a jump bike lock last week outside my apartment while walking my dog. Considering that and how often I see homeless riding them in sf, I suspect they are more easily stolen than you suggest.
There is a startup here in Austin trying to create a business around the idea:

https://coder.com/

I think some people see value in it as a security feature, or ease of development environment setup. There are also collaborative code editing features. You can both get into a file and type in it at the same time. You can get into your project and work on it from any machine, anywhere, even a phone, potentially.

Personally though, I would never take a job where you do most of your coding in the cloud.
In some schools it refers to courses that are taken by undergraduates in their first and second years (the earlier/lower half of the four year degree). It happens to also be the case that you can transfer into a four year university from a community college/junior college after two years, thus bypassing lower division coursework. However this can vary a lot school to school and degree to degree because sometimes four year schools want you to complete certain coursework at their standards rather than external standards (especially if the course is directly a part of the major you’re pursuing).
I've been reading for 30 mins to an hour before going to bed for the past 6 months as part of my "sleep hygiene" routine. Honestly, this has been quite the game changer for me. For one, I'm always looking forward to it, since I really like to immerse myself into my current book's world (I'm reading a really good book right now called "Cibola Burn" by James S. A. Corey, the fourth book in The Expanse Series). Additionally, it helps me to fall asleep much better and my sleep has improved a lot, too.

I can recommend this to almost anyone; IMHO sleep hygiene in general is quite important, and this is one of the approaches that might improve it quite a bit.
8 days per week. 5 days of work. The calendar has been conspiring against us.
Searching for the URL on facebook and clicking through from there should still work (if you have facebook)
Well, if enough people do it then it will be full time. It's more about what is considered to be the norm than anything else, and of course you will get paid for four days, not five. But over time pay will go up again and then we can repeat the cycle with three days. The interesting question is not 6, 5 or 4 but what the lower limit is. I suspect still quite a bit lower than 4.
Stack Jobs has, or at least had, a feature where you can specify you're interested in "remote only".
That's nice for you, do you work for Apple?
true to a point, but difficulty to transition is real. I would be the first to agree that a lot of the elements in the remote manifesto are good things in absolute (written down processes, etc.). In fact, that's one of the first thing I focus on as a manager in a new position as those are often lacking.
They've been subject to fraud scoring across a large group of disparate companies for decades?

I would say that's absolutely not true at all. And to the extent that it is true, via credit reporting agencies, it's extremely aggressively regulated to allow consumers to see and challenge how that data is used, as well as to completely opt out of that system.
Remember when everyone was talking about peak oil?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellynch/2018/06/29/what-ev...
Social Reform Isn't the Goal; Even If the Goal Is a New Christendom
That's just "I" not "AI"
>Furthermore, the whole point of anti-discrimination laws are to prevent judgement based off traits that cannot be changed. Where you live is not the same thing as your skin color.

This is very true. People are getting very caught up on discrimination without taking into account all of the "acceptable" forms that happen all the time. If you're a violent felon, you are likely going to be discriminated against when looking for a job in child-care. Yeah, this is an extreme example, but it's a form of job discrimination most people see as reasonable. Like-wise, people are discriminated against all the time in jobs for things like lack of qualification or lack of relevant degrees, etc., and again most see this kind of discrimination as reasonable. The kinds of discrimination that aren't reasonable are things like no hiring somebody because of their race because there isn't any reasonable connection between that fact and their ability to do job.

The question here isn't whether it is discrimination to not hire those who live in Russia or China, the question is if the underlying premise that those people are more of a data liability than other people. I haven't read the entire thread, but so far I haven't really seen much discussion on this point, just lots of people saying the policy is outright racist (even though I believe the policy only affects people who currently live in those countries regardless of race rather than not hiring people of Chinese/Russian descent who live elsewhere).
In dense urban areas, there are probably a lot of scooters within a 100m x 100m block.
If you have a moment could you send me an email? Mine is in my profile. I'd love to try out this product but there is something that has prevented me from using it. I'm hoping you might be able to get me to the right help I need.
> It seems like Uber can't win.

Which is fine. They chose to collect the information, and they are facing a bad look following that decision.

Of course, their business model might not work without the collection, but not every business model is guaranteed to look good.
If you're passing down a single bitcoin as an eccentric memento, okay. Otherwise you should take into account:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
A few years ago I came accross Systems Theory[1] that seems to explain phenomena (like ant colonies) quite well. But I think they call "systems of higher order" or "emergence", not collective intelligence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
I'm gonna borrow OP's mindset for a second:

Fuck this.

In the United States the benefits of full time employment are mandatory if you want to live a much less stressful life. Tying benefits to employment has given employers far too much control over their employees lives, without a huge savings or secondary income source anyone without insurance is one bad day away from bankruptcy (and too many people /with/ benefits are as well).

If a 4 day work week lowers stress and increases productivity that much, I don't see why many industries shouldn't adopt it. And don't tell people that "You have a choice, just get a part time job instead". Thats not a choice, thats a financial death sentence.
Lock-in and future abuse when you can't escape the relationship.
Dai is explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnoQOlVTMeg
I discussed the same points on Reddit recently and the one that I focused on as well was the aspect of just my physical health.

When I'm at home I have a fully stocked kitchen, my fridge with all my ingredients and no competition for any of it. What it means is when I'm working from home, I eat healthier and lead a healthier lifestyle. I save money on food because the laziness to not pack a lunch doesn't exist.

The commute in mornings is stressful (especially around this time of year where roads become treacherous with rain/snow with melt+freeze cycles). Without that commute I can wake up at 6:30, shower, eat and be "at my desk" by 7:00 while the on-site work has me waking up at 5:30.

There's just so many benefits to remote work. I'm happier, and therefore more productive on that matter alone. I don't even need to get into all the reasons you covered why work at my office is far worse
Imagine you are in a cave, for no apparent reason, and your computer is no where to be found. The only computer there is a n old school terminal that is somehow running IE11. Your colleague commits something with tabs instead of spaces and you get the notification on your phone. Now you can easily login to VSCode online to re-indent everything with spaces, commit and push it back up, all through your web browser.
Upstart companies can compete with such employers by offering workplace flexibility. They can score deals on highly qualified personnel for whom 40 hour workweeks are not feasible.

I'm helping out aging parents. I can do that, and keep my skills up, and have a life, if I work 4 days a week or less. That's what I negotiated at my last gig — but it was with a great small company and not one of the typical major employers where 40 hour workweeks are a baseline requirement.
High frequency trader, I presume?
and if you're curious about the back-story, as I was:

https://today.duke.edu/2012/11/lock5stat
I'd consider myself a Democrat, and I'm willing to pay more taxes for it. If people take a good look at their paychecks, I think most folks would be better off. Instead of paying (made up numbers) $800/mo to an insurer, you may pay an additional $600/mo in taxes. That's a win. And like someone above said, it makes people less tied to their jobs, which I think all workers should support.
Is it possible that your personal productivity soared but the trial was still a net negative for the company?
Is this open source? If not, are there any plans to open it up?
Build OpenJDK for a Nice Speedup
And Venezuelans don't really buy to store value either. It's just one of the ways to go around currency controls. And lately not even that, as more and more local business are accepting US Dollars either by cash or bank transfer.
A clean online, and shared, environment seems like a better way to do PR reviews with the author than doing a Live Share.

Does the platform support that? Or wants to?

What I would like to stop a comment thread and jump to online-video-session to review some code. Live Share works but requires a stable environment by one of the parties which might be troublesome with some code.
This gets even more powerful when you have DDG as the default browser search. I use !w in the address bar to jump to a wikipedia page when I know what I'm searching for will have one.

An even better one, something like "30GB at 20Mbit/s !wa" brings you to wolfram alpha and starts the calculation automatically.
Network is under user control, pretty much all devices require active cooperation to connect device's internal network to any external network, it doesn't happen on its own.
News via Chinese Whisper? This is getting a bit out of hand since the actual paper/study is not available. Even the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440947 only links to the previous paper these guys published.

* No one seems to have read the full paper
* Is the title misleading? Discussion seems to indicate that this study only addresses the end of year Surge and not the year long surge through 2017.
Very very few people do this. If people are unproductive, they'll be just as unproductive in the office as they would be at home.
How Microsoft VS Code is helping attract developers and take on AWS and Google
Edit code directly on Azure Services (e.g. Azure Functions) and real-time test the results of the changes. Aside from that just convenience for developers if you want to develop across multiple devices with internet connectivity (or using an iPad's web-browser), and as an alternative to a remote VM/Nano on a terminal.

The use case for VSCode Online is the same as any other remote development environment, combine it with deployment workflows and or integrated services like Azure and it practically sells itself. Just like Slack the secret sauce here isn't the service itself, it is how it ties into everything else.
Given the volatility, few if any actual uses, the fraudulent exchanges, crackdown by the SEC, value based entirely on speculation, and not producing anything useful, you're right.

It is way worse than penny stocks, and it is unfair to penny stocks to compare them to crypto currencies.
I think I agree in an idealized sense, but also think if this approach was taken it would decimate the ability to create certain vehicles, especially those used in heavy-duty applications. I don't know the history of CAFE standards but it may very well have been a practical choice...either get some form of progress or dig our heels in on an idealized version that never gets adopted.
This is a scam, of course.
Thank you for releasing this wonderful application! It really made my day.

I did demonstrate it to my daughter to show how mathematics can be beautiful.

Congratulations on your use or Dear ImGui, it's a nice use of this API!

I could run it on Windows X but had no luck with macOS. 2 systems have old NVidia GPUs and one is a MacMini with an intel GPU.
I'm missing two things:

- docker-compose support

- ability to run multiple services from different repos
To be honest, no, it wasn't really made out to be a trial when this came to be.

As a growing company of around 400 employees, we were really short on space and software is one of those fields that do quite well remotely. We were asked if we were interested and we officially went remote a week later. Since then, a new building was built solving our space issue so I think that had a lot to do with our return. The communication "disconnect" I think was just a way for management to justify the reversal of the decision.

We used Pivotol Tracker[0] to track our performance so if anything we had proof of how well remote worked for us - but some people fail to see the positives of remote work even with the proof right in front of them.

[0] - https://www.pivotaltracker.com/
Thats easy, the one VW ships with.
I agree with your sentiment regarding benefits in the U.S. Couldn't companies provide the important benefits (healthcare, 401k matching) to employees who worked a 4-day week as well?

One potential issue is that I think there are fewer legal requirements, but competitive employers already provide benefits that exceed the legal minima.
To date, the answer to that question appears to be: Sternly worded letters, which will be promptly ignored.

There's no actual enforcement mechanisms against an entity that does not exist in the EU and has no financial exposure to it. That includes with the US, as far as I can tell.
Have you ever worked in retail or service? I have, and I know people who still do, and it’s hard work. Restaurants, for example, will usually send you home with no pay if there is so little to do that you are warming a chair, and I’ve worked minimum wage retail jobs that do the same.
Cryptocurrencies store everyone's transaction records in a public ledger. It is, in general, less anonymous than cash.
There's a fairly recent Numberphile video about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYfpSAxGakI
“The Democrats have decided that the rich must pay for it. Republicans have decided that it's too costly”

When you look back at the last few decades you will see that republicans have decided that rich people should pay an ever decreasing share. the Democrat proposals i have seen don’t even try to roll back to tax rates during or before the Reagan years.
I think we humans commonly use the word “intelligence” as a placeholder for human-like ability to learn new skills, absorb new knowledge, process said information to filter/transform it, and the ability to apply it. It might help to distinguish effectiveness or usefulness from these capabilities - trees are effective in reproducing and useful perhaps, as are insects. But we wouldn’t consider them to be intelligent per my prior definition, unless you consider their species’ changes in response to selective pressure to be semantically similar to human intelligence. However such changes are passive not deliberate/active/intentional, and so I don’t count them as intelligence. Ultimately it’s just about our definition and semantics.
As a capitalist, I want to own all the lithium mining rights in the world. I dictate the price and flow when I seem fit. Like De Beers in blood diamonds... cough, sorry, "ethically sourced diamonds".

As a consumer, I want many, many capitalists owning different lithium mining rights in the world. They fight each other to lower the price and be competitive. Then find cheaper and cheaper ways to obtain lithium or even figure out better alternatives.

I am a capitalist. But I'm also not a total fucking monster. Oil companies don't play massive competitive games. They like working together. So no. I don't want them to have a hand in the future.

By the way, research lithium mining. A lot of big media have reported on it. It's fucked up and pretty much a modern day humanitarian/slave crisis.
Out of curiosity, why do you feel it necessary to use a throwaway? I echo your thoughts entirely and feel strongly enough about them to attribute them to my name.

I think we (as a society/industry) need to start publicly having this discussion.
Any book recommendations for somebody who ignored stats as an undergrad but is now realizing how important/useful it really is?
Good point. Whoops.
How is the REST API document generated? Looks neat!
"DoH is outright anti-privacy tech" in what way? DoT and DoH are functionally equivalent, the only practical difference being that DoT can be filtered by ISPs and network operators, and DoH can't. DoH is simply DoT without the kill switch.