skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was on a team where the team jointly decided to convert their half-cubes to an open office. There were two hold-outs, myself, and another guy next to me who just wanted to keep his cube. (He had a loud voice to begin with, but now he would have long conversations by yelling across the office.)

Like any strongly held belief, you're going to find like-minded people and convince yourself that you're a majority. And, especially, we're unhappy and that means we want to justify our unhappiness, and if we were the majority we'd obviously be justified.

But I think all these things are true at the same time:

1. There is a minority of people who are genuinely miserable in open offices.

2. A sizable group of people dislike specific things (too much chatter, clicking pens, etc.) but they don't think about it much.

3. A plurality are oblivious to the noise and are having fun at work.

4. And open offices decrease everyone's ability to focus and are no better for collaboration than any other design.

5. The raison d'etre of an office is to get work done and silence facilitates that.

So we're a minority, but regardless there's a solid case against open offices.
I wonder if some of this could be due to people feeling that what people believe is not as relevant of what they do.

E.g. it seems like a lot of Republicans genuinely believe in family values and integrity, but whenever Trump violates them there is some excuse for why they don't stop supporting him.
49.8% in BC. 33% to Canada and 16.8 to the province.
Anyone have any idea how this self reported statistic is verified?
As an intermittent toy collector, I've had the same frustration with a lot of childhood favorites. But the nice thing about Lego is that it's...well, Lego. You can be just as creative and have just as much fun with new sets. If the only thing you want to do is build the same set from your childhood in exactly the same way, and then sit back and admire it, then yeah, unfortunately, you are kinda compelled to pay collector's prices for it. I'm just not sure why you'd limit yourself to that.
It occasionally happens that Atlanta carries Georgia, but if you look at the composition of our state-wide representation (major office holders), it doesn't historically trend blue.
Ask HN: Remote workers, how could your email be more focused/helpful?
I'm working on making email better for people who want to work remotely / work from home.

I'm interested in what ways you'd like email made better for you.
An example of the feedback I've gotten is
- to have only the most relevant emails appear (conversations with other people, meeting invites)
- to group emails by labels

I'm curious if you've got ideas of how to make your life easier.
Thanks!
I have an arduino uno hooked up to CCS811 (a tiny air sensor chip). We're floating around 550ppm C02 right now, but earlier I was terrified as I watched the levels spike to 4500.
Likewise. At massive scale, conserving water by adding more artificial/industrial runoff doesn't seem like a good approach, at all. This version of the world is behind us.
My brain immediately filled in the imaginary clickbait headline:

Local Linux User Tries FreeBSD - You Won't Believe What Happens Next!

(Actually nothing much happened at all. A few differences, but nothing major.)
> Google and most of the other major tech companies don't actually sell user data

They certainly buy data [0]. Whether they are the seller or the buyer, they have vested interest to make sure the trade can continue.

[0] e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
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Spotting the starting point is easy, but I doubt even a human can order the text correctly without taking cues from the textual information.

It is indeed doable, calling it obvious is what I react to :-)
> Uncanny Valley has only been proven on 2d to my knowledge.

I think that it's probably just far more likely to be encountered with CG than something most of us see in real life. Plenty of researchers are working on the issue because it does make some people uncomfortable, not just so that their perfectly fine robots will look better on instagram. I occasionally run into real life examples around Halloween in some of the masks but the effect isn't ever consistent. It's just certain moments when movements (or a lack of them) seem to defy what the brain expects. I've heard the Uncanny Valley used to help explain the reason people can find disabled people, taxidermy, the dead at open coffin funerals or clowns "scary" in real life.

It's not even something everyone experiences, or maybe it's better to say that what triggers it in one person might not bother another, so it's hard to pin down. I'm guessing familiarity and time helps a lot too so even if a 20 second video of Repliee R1 creeps you out you'd eventually not be bothered by it if you had one in your house all day. I wouldn't be surprised if a sculpture, properly contextualized in an exhibition environment, was less jarring than a random photo online for the same reason.
I used to manage a company in that industry (and wore a number of different hats along the way, including copywriter).

I can't help but picture a copywriter that threw it out as a joke and when no one caught it just decided to run with it. Maybe a burned out copywriter planning on leaving the industry.

Either that or it's genius-level attention engineering.
For me it's more of a suburbia vs inner city thing. I want to live where I'm a few minutes walk from a grocery store, a few bars and other amenities along with easy public access (walking, riding, public transport) to work. I could live in a large rural town if they catered to this but few seem to.

The other big thing is the lack of job opportunities in smaller cities, solvable via working remotely but still relatively uncommon, particularly for new hires.
I agree with your point, but there's just no way that's true. A bare minimum MD5 signature is 16-bytes (Obviously not secure, but this isn't safe from replay attacks anyway), with a more acceptable SHA256 obviously being 32-bytes. Any type of signature should be sufficiently random that Nintendo is never going to accidentally match them, so that means the odds of matching a random 64-bit integer is already 16 quintillion to one, and just for MD5 we're talking 16 quintillino times 16 quintillion - that's beyond hopeless. It's the same thing as calling heads or tails correctly either 128 or 256 times in a row.

If I had to guess it's probably something silly like not actually checking the signature for validity, or (more likely, IMO) incorrectly checking the length of the packet and getting a buffer overflow/underflow that eventually crashes the Roku.
When you belong to a franchise, capitalism becomes indentured servitude and any rule goes.
So what about something like marble countertops?
That's the problem with making zero tolerance the ultimate goal of society.

Either we accept there will always be a few bad apples or everyone has to prove they aren't one of them.
This sounds like a way to maintain an Instruction Pointer in working memory. Keeping track of one’s current task can be a challenge. I find it better to type that into a notebook app like Bear.
Jimi Hendrix and Morrowind for me
Maybe the scale at which you love your neighbor comes at the cost proportional to how much you hate your common rival.

To put it another way, humans might be incapable of emotional empathy outside of tribal brotherhood. That is, people they can identify with.

It'd make sense in a sort of selfish gene way. Emotional actions just seems wholly negative at the scale of our society. This may be the core of our division. We shouldn't be encouraging broad emotional responses to global events.
THREE employees? Y'all should just rent a studio apartment. Or a garage.
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Likely not. I would assume they use one of the big five traits which is called agreeableness, or something that's close enough it, and this result seems in keeping with how that trait would be described. People who are high in agreeableness are more likely to see the world in prey vs. predator terms - in my speculative opinion because this trait evolved as a maternal trait primarily to deal with the protection of infants - which takes its form in the political sphere as a very nasty type of behavior where if someone is found out to be the enemy everything's fair game to destroy them, since they're predators and you need to protect the prey on your team.
Beautiful MVP. I really love this idea.

I have been tinkering around with some enterprise solutions for delivering desktop native experience for web based apps.
It is more difficult to focus in a noisy office, so you might get into the habit of trying work more hours in order to avoid getting fired.
IMO, the reason they always use the child abuse excuse for encryption backdoors is evident in this thread discussion.

Nearly all people are against child abuse / porn. But if a person says "I'm not willing to give up secure encryption worldwide just because it is used for child abuse / porn", a pile of people will say "It's not acceptable for one child to be abused!"

Of course it's not acceptable. But should everyone in the entire world lose their privacy, even if it eliminated all child abuse, which obviously it won't?

To me, these encryption backdoor ideas are rarely about law enforcement. They are about people in power wanting to maintain and extend their power.

Criminals who want to use unbreakable encryption will always have easy access to it because encryption is an easy technology that anyone can use. Governments can make whatever laws they want, but it will mainly affect law-abiding citizens. The criminals will just ignore them, as always.

The people pushing this backdoor encryption agenda are not stupid. They know that criminals will ignore these new backdoor rules, which is why I believe it is really about power, not child porn.
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> It gets worse. These high-empathy students were also more likely to be amused by reports that students protesting the speech had injured a bystander sympathetic to the speaker. That’s right: According to this study, people prone to empathy are prone to schadenfreude.

I can relate, as I am certainly someone who would probably laugh in this situation, as I also find myself laughing at the idea that people trample one another during Black Friday.

If someone were to physically injure someone during a controversial debate, I find it amusing in the sense that I am thinking "Hah... That's the way to get people to listen to your viewpoint", sarcastically.

It's not that I'm laughing at the injury. I'm laughing at the absurd immaturity of it all. Laughter is frequently used as a coping mechanism for dealing with unpleasant realities. Personally, it doesn't diminish the tragedy of what happens. It allows me to process it with a sort of mental "buffer".
Whenever I listen to Joy Division I think of Emacs Lisp.
From the tech side it was the heavy, and smart, use of scripting that made HL1 stand out.

With HL2 it was the added physics engine trough the change to Source, back then that used to be a big deal and whole gameplay mechanics revolve around that (gravity gun).

In that context, I do not really consider it that surprising for the next HL project to focus on VR because even early demos of that combination looked already very promising 5 years ago [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/-RehCTRrWM0
No, but photographs can destroy vivid memories, or at least commingle and taint in ways that make them impossible to distinguish from the original memory. I avoid looking at photographs of events I've personally experienced. Taking photographs is disruptive in a different way, but it's difficult to take photographs and not look at them later.
Isn’t it just data mining? I assume the big credit card companies aggregate spending by vendor for their customer base and make projections about each vendor’s quarterly revenues then sell metrics to hedge funds.
a good story will hook gamers all day every day. Between HL1 and 2, there were side stories that expanded the world. Let’s not forget the source engine powered counter strike and so you got half life “for free” or vice versa.

HL2 has dynamic gameplay and HDR and really just made the game play really immersive. From the
agents that try to break down the door and all of the chains and razors shake as the walls rattle.. the deep black of the dark nights contrasted with the next morning when you’re on a boat getting attacked by a flying death drone. Or the massive walking robots that you fight along side Npc teammates that you legit feel bad for when they die. It was beyond well done, it set a standard for how cinematic gameplay should be done.

People will look back at Newell in 40 years like he’s Scorsese.
Switchfoot and Morrowind.
Wow, that's very cool, thank you so much
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> You can be just as creative and have just as much fun with new sets.

You absolutely cannot. Don't get me wrong, I love Lego to this day but late 90's Technic is unmatched in it's versatility by a looooong shot.
Django 3.0 release candidate 1 released
There is no reason it couldn't run a wasm file? As long as the OS browser supports it.

I feel like this is the UI abstraction layer. If you want to run chromium, there is no reason you couldn't extend it.

Code is prime for extending and enhancing.
Plus if the leaks involve air circulating though insulation in the cavity or attic, whatever is in there will end up in your house air. That could be dust from construction, parts of the insulation material, or decomposing rodents.
> Another thing is that these neobanks have withdrawal amount limits and ATM limits

Every French bank has these limits. I once had a French bank account that limited my debit card to €2500 in purchases in a month — for no good reason other than trying to limit access to my own money. Cash purchases over €1000 are also illegal in France. For the most ridiculous banking rules and limits, France is the place. My chase account in the other hand, I could withdrawal $100k in cash if I wanted. Still have a (high) debit card limit, but I can call them and immediately get it lifted for a specific transaction (such as buying a car.)
The Case for a Falling Dollar
Related, open resources for chaos engineering:

https://openchaos.io

Including:

https://chaostoolkit.org
You claim that FedEx added some square footage to a warehouse, and then a comment replied to you saying "that's a much larger investment than the NYT has ever made" and then I cited a large investment that the NYT has made. The time range was expanded to "ever" with that comment.

The New York Times building has twice as much square footage than the claimed 800,000 square feet that FedEx added.

So you can kind of see where I'm going. Although it's stupid to argue that a newspaper can't write an article about something if they haven't invested as much money in real estate as the subject of their article... it appears that they have, so as dumb as that argument is, it's not even correct.
https://archive.is/6Um7j
Besides reliability, the problem with the butterfly for me was the close inter-key spacing. It was too easy to hit the next key over while I was typing. I kept having to back up and retype. it took most of the last year before I, mostly, got used to it. The travel or stability was never a problem, but then it was never a problem on the 2014 either. :)
Intel First Discrete GPU for Supercomputers 7nm Ponte Vecchio Leveraging Foveros
Chinese Hackers Break into Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari in Competition
On centos it was pretty near zero config. With Wamp it was a windows install file and had a neat stack together.

Back on my c64 I turned it on, no booting and could just start writing code.

We've moved away from this sadly.
I thought I'd try out Disney+.

Then I found out it doesn't support Vizio Smartcast/Chromecast.

That's...bizarre. I guess I'll watch on my little laptop screen.

Turns out it doesn't support Linux either.

:/

EDIT: I eventually downloaded a Windows VM and watched it there. What could they possibly be gaining from that though??
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There is no transaction cost to pay with a card in the US either. ACS transfers are free and, if you have the right account, wires can be free as well. I bet at that Netherlands bank a non-SEPA wire isn’t free. There are plenty of options for “good” bank accounts in the US, they just aren’t always obvious.
Here's a nice run-down from Valve News Network after he/they(?) dug through every patch for all of Valve's games in search of anything related to HL3 and VR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaXGA_wSWDA
Compliant Method of HDD Mailing
What is a good publication for shipping a hard drive to a client? This has possible consumer information.
I used to conduct arbitrage of individual Lego bricks on bricklink.com when I was in high school. Was a great way to make a couple extra bucks and amass the Legos I needed for some really big builds. Surprisingly the most lucrative investment was not sets, but rather the minifigures - discontinued minifigs, especially the Star Wars ones, could 10x in value within a year.
You mean banged around the foam lined cushioned box it lives in? How about an analogy:

My hard drives get banged around in shipping but they are relatively safe from failure in that shipped state. When it is unboxed, banging it is a bit dubious but may work without failure. While it’s running and banged around is a sure fire way to drive failure.
Over a third of cyber attacks come from state-sponsored hackers – CSO Australia
Yes, I am aware that you need to re-authenticate every 90 days.

My comment was specifically in response to GP being requested for SCA multiple times per day to refresh their accounts.
Reminds me: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-forgetting-pill apparently recalling a memory rewrites it in your brain, and taking certain drugs causes the memory (or emotions) to not be rewritten, or lose emotional intensity. This may be a PTSD treatment.
The college your kids attend isn’t as important as the majors they choose
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Hospitals use fax because A) they think it's secure (it's not) and B) they think it's easier (it isn't)
Design–you’re complaining about it wrong
Empathizing with the master is difficult for many people. Not realizing that a person, born into the lucky privilege of being the master, doesn't see what they do as victimizing to a slave. It's just how life works for them.

Tim Minchin did an interesting bit on empathy a while back. Discussing the nature of empathizing with the shooter, as well as the shooter's victims, in incidents of mass shootings. The podcast is available here if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrPkI4xkWA
> It's easy to see if the other end successfully received something

This was not the case when I worked in healthcare. It was a constant back and fourth of "did you receive it?" over the phone.
Agreed. In a data-driven world, any claim not backed by data will be quickly dismissed :)
QuarkChain 2nd TPS Competition Is Launching with 3 BTC Rewards
So what? People with billions don't get in trouble, as evidenced by the 2008 financial scam, er, I mean "crisis".

The kind of people who get in trouble is a mom stealing a pair of socks from Walmart. That, they will throw the book at. Hiding or stealing billions? No prob.
Prices for renewables are dropping today precisely because there was a push for them in the 90s and 2000s. These shifts don't happen overnight.
There’s a similar app we have in India called “ClubFactory”
All products are Chinese made though they do a good job making it look Western and branded
That’s an interesting perspective. Related to it, I often feel like entrepreneurs in tech don’t realise how much their innovation is restricted by capital markets.

OP’s startup is actually a great example of this. Medical debt is indeed a troubling problem in the USA, but OP’s solution is yet another financial product, something that can get funded. VCs can’t fund single-payer healthcare policy entrepreneurship even if that’s actually what would solve the medical debt problem.
You’re curious about them from the perspective of a normal citizen

Politicians don’t know and have no desire to know, if you can’t tell by their willfully ignoring official political processes (regardless of whether one agrees with the motivation or not, to simply say you’re going to ignore it as folks like Sen. Graham have is nuts).

If they did they could be held accountable. Plausible deniability is a key legal position.

So politically zero fucks are given.

I mean we know more than one President was pals with a man the elite knew to be a statutory rapist. They don’t give a shit about human lives themselves.

You think they give a shit about ephemeral shit like money when they don’t worry about that?

The financial system has us mining bitcoin: ephemeral bullshit other people live big on.

How this forum can be so smart and so clueless is beyond me.
Would you seriously argue that in 1864?
Varnish? Wow I remember that.

Maybe your opinion could use some refreshing. Even Javascript is very different nowadays.
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> Like many past studies, this one gauges people’s level of “empathic concern” by asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with a series of seven statements such as “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.”

Does this really signify empathy? I consider myself empathetic, but I wouldn't agree with the above statement. If anything, having concerned feelings for someone solely because they're less fortunate than me seems a bit patronising. I wouldn't want someone to think I thought less of them just because they had less than I do.

This is why I'm skeptical of studies based on surveys in general -- by playing empathy chess, and wondering how it would make the other person feel if they knew how I was feeling about them, I'm placed into the "not empathetic" camp.
I don't think you need any citation or reference to know that even as early as 20 years ago there wasn't as much pervasive computerized record keeping and surveillance as there is now. By "worked well" I mean people paid their taxes and the overwhelming majority were law abiding.

Here's one example to ponder about: if we had this kind of surveillance earlier, would things like the Civil Rights Movement and generally the 60's counterculture come about? I.e. the era of "sex and drugs and rock'n'roll"? If only the authorities had the tools that they have today, oh boy! Don't like the liberation of sex? Is rock'n'roll the Devi's music? Fine. We'll close your PayPal account.

Privacy is very important for having a free society and freedom of expression. Financial privacy should be no exception.
I created an account to say this:

Someone has written a wrapper for Local/Session storage for you, so you don't even need to write your own jsInterop for them: https://github.com/BlazorExtensions/Storage
I've had two jobs for more or less public sector entities, and they were conspicuously more interested in new employees understanding the complete organization and its purpose.
They have something similar in Aus called the Capital Gains Tax and it is something that is inherrently political, unfortunately you can't uncouple the government from as they provide the public service that maintain and collect taxes. Honestly the public service should be answerable to parliament, not government.

Not to mention CGT been tweaked to ineffectiveness by previous governments by excluding assets from its calculations, notably housing, which has skewed CGT away from its original purpose and it's now more of a stick to whack at industries that aren't cozy with the current government.
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