skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this attitude. This is also why sites like the-eye exist.
It would seem that much of this problem could be solved with microphone arrays and software. Bandwidth isn't that much a limitation, but latency is.

I'm not sure of the state of the art in 3d positioned sound in a data format, but you could do that pretty easily.

I thought of a startup back in 2016 for selling auto-transcripting, voice-signature tracking, meeting logging microphone arrays for businesses. Never had the capital to do it.
How about providing evidence and reasoning instead of spouting off?
Every company that has your data will either sell it or else they're in enough verticals that it makes more sense for them to monetize it internally. It amounts to the same thing.
> His latest game death stranding was panned by most people

Clearly not.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/death-strandin...

> rightfully so since it's just a walking simulator.

I haven't played the game, but even I know this is not true.

Is Super Mario Brothers is just a jumping simulator?

Call of Duty is just a point and click adventure.

Tetris is just a matching game.
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When under the table payments are the norm obviously no one would give you an incentive.

I would agree with you in a place where everything is cleared in books, like the stereotypical northern Europe.
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I need that last sentence on a T-shirt. Bravo!
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Is there a name for this phenomena? Where we know that everybody blunders around like a caveman at our workplaces but assume infinite sophistication for everyone elses.
If you work remote anyway, take the train! (only partly joking)
Yeah if dystopian bubble is your dream of governance then yes. They fared financially better than neighbors, but its a far cry of society I would like to live or raise kids in. Many things we consider progressive in the west are not upheld there, and people are definitely not equal in front of law.

But as colleagues who worked there described it, you are on top of the pyramid as a well-hired westerner. So you don't have to give a fuck about tons of things that make decent human being, as long as you don't cross often draconian local laws and align. It takes a bit of specific personality to thrive there, but many do...
There should simply be a heavy tax on all presence-required jobs, payable by the company. Suddenly, as soon as there is monetary incentive, things will work quite fine remotely, "concerns" be damned
It's not, although I believe I see why it was unclear.

An untrained 'wild' human doesn't develop the language facility. Absent that, there's little to distinguish us from another large apex predator.

There have been a few humans raised away from their own kind, not many, but enough to make this observation.
Wow, the documents for the user blocks are very thorough. Here is a fun snippet that (blocked) user sorein sent to the OSM Data Working Group:

"YOU MORON WHO PROMISED T INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN ME AND THE GYPSIES TAKING OVER IN THE ROMANIAN NEWSLETTER, AND THEN YOU JUST RUDELY FORGOT NEED TO STOP!!! GO DO A JOB FOR WHICH YOU ARTE QUALIFIED"
cmd.to is also cool.
Pliny the Elder, the beer?
> In a completely decentralized architecture, every client would also be a server. [...] There is no good example of this architecture out there right now.

BitTorrent ? Git ? Bitcoin ?
(They can also become centralized if there's a will, see Pirate Bay / Github / MtGox.)
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When you read a story about Death Stranding, I'd be willing to bet the plot of Kojima getting fired from Konami would appear more than the actual plot the game. Deep down, the tale of a renegade creator is a little more interesting than whatever the hell Death Stranding is trying to say. I'm not sure to the extent he realized it, but he became a symbol.

When Notch sold Minecraft, the reason he gave was that he didn't want to be a symbol#. I think in our hyper-connected world, shared narratives can grow like viruses spread. And people can easily lose control of how they are perceived, and what they represent. Kojima and Notch both represented daring, avant-garde creators, with vision and creativity strong enough to go head to head with soulless corporations. But in reality, it just lead to really high expectations for Death Stranding and major shocks to Notch's life.

I'm not sure how creators in the future can avoid things like this. The internet sure as hell won't get anymore nuanced, and corporations won't get any less soulless. A lot of people love the idea of fame, but I think in reality it just means you have no control over the narrative of your life.

# https://qz.com/265753/minecrafts-creator-sold-out-because-he...
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Even with indie, it's often the studio that has the reputation more than the individual— thinking like Klei, Supergiant, Drinkbox. Unless you watch GDC talks or Noclip docs, you wouldn't really know who the people are who are involved in those companies.

That said, there are of course exceptions— thinking Jonathan Blow and Edmund McMillen. But even in those cases, their name recognition is probably more about them having been featured in widely-watched documentaries than because their names are front-and-centre in their creations.
For ambient stuff which is not distracting I usually search for "liquid drum and bass" mixes on youtube.
I searched this article on reddit to see how the usual left leaning subreddits are reacting to it and was surprised to see it is nowhere to be found. Truly both sides are living in their own echo chambers
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/63/3f/72633fcf833f46966dbd...
What a surprise that the stateful edges of the application are the most complex! I didn't mind component in the past but we just started a project with mount and I really dislike working with that. Seems like there are a lot of ways to shoot your own foot with any of these libraries because there is no "one true way" to integrate them into an application. I haven't tried integrant yet but everyone and their dog seemed to be using it at the 2019 Conj.

I would totally start a project with pedestal today though.
> she was denied a formal education–yet went on to obtain an Ivy League degree

Now an editor at NYTimes. Amazing resolve.
I don't care

My $500 device should not be exploiting me

Full stop
>FB ads engineer here.

Just wanted to stop by and say that your work is actively making the world a worse place to live, and you should feel bad about it. I hope those RSUs are worth your soul.
If this video is to be believed, they understand the concept of using a card at an ATM, but can't quite grasp exactly what to do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWfVIjSdxTk
I loved the game and didn’t care much about what really happened at his work place
Ditto -- I'm curious what's people's opinion of working at Netflix. You don't hear it very often.

I've heard from friends that they pay very well, that it's very challenging, but that "they treat people like adults". Which can mean a lot of things. But to me it sounds positive overall. (But again, small data set).
High BPM music is fine for non-thinking tasks. If I have to actually debug a complicated issue it becomes counterproductive.
Optimizing my work-life to just sit at home alone all day sounds dystopian.

I like biking to work, and meet my colleagues and have some kind of social contact during the 8 hours. If anything, one could optimize for remote teams, not everyone has to be in the same building. And not all companies have to have their office in the same street down town.
I found The Social Network soundtrack works decent for me. Of course I also like Retrowave/Synthwave and Eurobeat. They may not be the "best" for concentration and working, but I like them and they seem to help.
Why do people generally assume that law enforcement is clean? There are sufficient examples of cops informing for drug gangs (https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/07/29/during-steroid-scandal-f...), and somewhere in Mexico a blogger whose subject was gang atrocities was discovered and killed by cartel members because the cartel had an inside man at the local telco (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/me...).
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Věra Jourová: Platforms ‘need to open up’ algorithms to deal with disinformation
There is a monetary incentive: owning or leasing office space comes at a premium expense.
Past submissions:

2018-07-20: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17573053

2016-11-01: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12844434

2012-02-18: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605957

2012-02-03: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694
An e-bike would go a long way to materialize the convenience promised by biking. Prices are coming down quite a bit as well. Maybe look into that, they're fun too.
Isn't it harder to learn from others if you're working remotely? I don't mean to say that it can't happen, but I imagine that overhearing complaints from coworkers about their problems or them sharing knowledge with you is more likely to happen when you're physically in the same area.

I do think that remote working should be more common, but it's important to think about the things we might lose if it became the norm.
It crashed because it was a prototype with stability issues, quite likely tied to some of its stealth characteristics including the muffling of the blade and it’s weight distribution due to the use of composites.

The scene in the movie where one of the SEALs breaks through the fuselage when walking on top of the downed helicopter to plant the demo charge was taken from the redacted after action report and interviews with the team members so it’s quite possible that a normal Blackhawk might have managed to perform a hard landing instead of a crash.
Sort of saying movies made by Spielberg automatically makes it great, but it doesn’t
My neighbour has a fancy Persian munchkin cat everytime she comes out on the apartment balcony all the crows from the neighborhood gather at the tree in front of our building and watch her until she leaves.
This is one of the last bastions of the internet I remember as a kid. People publishing knowledge because they could. Sharing things that were interesting. Giving to other people. Sure there has always been seedier elements or commerce, but by and large this was a place to grow and share knowledge. By most every measure today the internet is a better place than it was but I still miss those days...
Eh, I wouldn't be so sure there. Not sure if Garmin OEM stuff is any different, but many factory head units only load maps signed by the manufacturer.
I would be supportive of this as long as it is done with some degree of discretion. On every traffic light cycle each side must release at least one car for the system to work out (traffic light timing must accommodate this). Sometimes that first car has to get into the intersection. I don’t really fault that driver for doing so.
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While I'm not a fan of most organized religion, I do think the loss of the church is likely having a negative affect on society. Millennials are very lonely [1]. A church is one place that provides a community, and it doesn't seem like it's been replaced with anything else for the non-religious.

[1] https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2...
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Just thinking about it would have a chilling effect which to the authorities may be better than actual access.
My commute is 1 hour drive daily (each way). The traffic takes a toll on me - hard to be energetic when I had to deal with 1 hour of stop-and-go nonsense.
More likely you would be pressured to cooperate under a plea bargain to avoid getting Martha Stewart'd.
For me I don't like having to keep track of what's default and what's not. What if I change a default, things change unexpectedly somewhere as a result, and I'm not able to work out what change it was due to? Fewer options decreases the odds of this happening. Other good approaches are highlighting settings that are different from the default. Many UIs do this, but unfortunately it's hard to get a birds-eye-view.

Now, config files! Thousands of options, quite happy to hack on that. You know why? Because I can diff against the default and get a birds-eye-view of what's different. I'm not sure if KDE's settings are all text files underneath, but that's the issue. If there were a settings dialog somewhere saying "here's what's different to the default, out of all the KDE settings", that would help a lot. Otherwise it's just too hard to keep track of. This would help on GNOME too, but in the absence of that, simply having fewer settings is a kind of reassurance that there aren't many you've changed and forgotten about.

A separate point, but running default settings is also sticking to the "happy path". It's more well-tested, and I've learned I shouldn't change too many settings different from the defaults, even if they are officially supported, because things aren't as well tested - even if everything official works, third-party things tend to make assumptions that are violated.
If we credit all of valve's accomplishments to Gabe I would argue he is up there as well, for the games, but even more for Steam, given the influence it has had on pc gaming, and indie games in particular.
Wow, you managed to pack so much wrong in such a small space, I'm a little impressed! First, at worst I've induldged in a slippery slope fallacy, not a strawman. However, I'm not making an argument, really. I'm asking a hypothetical question.

As for the absurdity of placing monitors in every room, I'm surprised someone on HN would raise that objection. IoT devices are dirt cheap, and whats more, many people voluntarily install them. The government could easily choose to subsidize Nest/Amazon/Google devices - for the low low price of free access for your protection. Maybe you would get insurance premium discounts. Many would jump on that deal.

Then you use a straw-man yourself, implying that this system would require constant human monitoring to be effective. It wouldn't. The data would be used in the same way security camera footage is used now, to be used as evidence after-the-fact, and so, as a deterrent.

So, rather than reflexively attack me, how about engaging with the thought behind it?
> also leave the roads free for people to walk.

I don't think the kind of truck they're aiming to automatise ever enter cities.

What kind of drones and what kind of goods are you talking about ? Let's say you want to transport 40T of potatoes over 2k miles, how would that work ?

Drones are good for the last few miles of the delivery (for small consumer goods), and even then there are tons of issues to fix before they'll be viable.

https://www.trucking.org/News_and_Information_Reports_Indust...

> 11.49 billion tons of freight (primary shipments only) transported by trucks in 2018, representing 71.4% of total domestic tonnage shipped.
>Las Vegas?

Yup! I wonder what happened to Dave James and some of the other heavyweights from the local sysops. A few still have boards that are Internet accessible. I hadn't thought about it for years now but my first Intel PC was a cast off from Dave's bbs - a 33 MHz 386DX that had DIP and SIMM memory - 4MB of each. A beast back in those days. Was in a AT case - I still miss the big red on/off switch in the back right corner of the AT cases. Such a satisfying thunk when you turned the machine on or off.
Nothing better than Gamelan, the album Degung Sabilulungan vol. 2 in particular[0]

The repetitive, gentle sounds put me into a high efficiency mode without putting me to sleep like most ambient.

[0]: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nrgTossoB0
> you could just name those equivalent 180 rotations as a single operation anyway.

That isnt true insofar as there are decisions that are based on arbitrary perception and categorization. What you could do is irrelevant because that is an assumption to create a generalization. GL with whatever.
With regards your last paragraph, is there any evidence of this? Any place Facebook says "we do not, and will not, use information X for ad targeting"?
> and save the symphonies for consensual sex...

mmkay, thats nice, but what do you listen to for non-consentual sex?

/s
Upcoming 2020 flagship phones will have hardware-based baseband isolation
Even if you don't need the power (and you sometimes do, and even if you don't right now there'll be some electron app that will make you wish you had a 1.4nm CPU eventually) improving the process usually means better efficiency too which is important to make batteries last longer and datacenter less wasteful. It'll probably make for some good looking videogames too.
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Nobody says Canada Geese unless you're on the internet. It's pretty much Canadian Geese.
Got to store that energy somewhere, right? At a certain point your just re-inventing X-ray lasers via nuclear explosion.

I think the hard part about modern war technology is making sure you quickly neutralize adversaries whilst minimizing collateral damage. That's why drones are exciting. In theory, anyway.

Also defence against cyberattack is hard. So far it's only nationstates that seem to be able to hit infrastructure and autonomous systems, but I worry about proliferation to terrorist groups.
As someone with a rather annoying tinnitus, silence freaks the shit out of me. To stay productive, I need music.

What kind of music I listen to really depends on my mood. It could be dubstep (Excision, Teminite, PsoGnar, to name a few out of my current dub playlist), various forms of metal (anywhere from After Forever to Xandria, In Flames, you name it); some times even Happy Hardcore / Handsup.

Generally, if I'm feeling well I prefer high BPM happy sounds, which -- together with some caffeinated drinks -- makes me incredibly productive. The darker my mood, the darker my taste of music gets, with also a few slower sounds. I can't really put numbers on my performance here, as on those days I prefer work that isn't easily evaluated performance-wise.
It only adds to the learning curve because some people are adamantly against it, causing unneeded stress for adopting the standard.
> This is cool, but what makes it "music for programming?"

Marketing. /s
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Maybe you don't have the capabilities to make meaningful predictions that you can sell to marketing departments at the moment however, you still have all of the data that you collect and free reign to do with it as you wish. The problem we have is less about what you're doing right now and more about what you could do in the future. Let's face it, Facebook (and other surveillance capitalists) don't exactly have a track record for respecting privacy rights.
As I recall - from the mid-90's so my memory is probably a bit wrong...

IBM discovered that the level of details changes the type of information they got. A couple pieces of paper with hand drawn UI would get great comments on work flow. If you move to more and more realistic simulations of the real environment the comments focused more and more on trivial details and less on the big picture - if the UI looked like it was complete and ready to ship the comments would be about moving things a pixel (never to a different part of the screen even if the screen was designed to put things that belong together apart), or changing the shade of colors.
There are already outposts doing science in Antarctica.
I agree, i also saw it happen even with technically minded persons - but I really hope they don't take away that powerful interface from me. I find it invaluable since I got the hang of it.
> Kojima and Notch both represented daring, avant-garde creators, with vision and creativity strong enough to go head to head with soulless corporations.

This is an interesting retelling of Minecraft if you'd ever seen or played Infiniminer first.

There wasn't much "daring" or "avant-garde" about Minecraft. Right place, right time for a toy side project, which mildly iterated on the last thing in that genre, to blow up. That doesn't mean that Minecraft isn't good (it is, and it works even better as a platform for mods on top of it) and it doesn't take anything away from Notch (though his hot-garbage bad-human behavior over the last few years certainly should), but comparing that kind of thing to Kojima's output is pretty dang revisionist.
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Clinton was impeached by the house. He was not convicted and removed from office by the senate. While "lying about sex" may have sounded innocuous at the time, in a post #metoo and Epstein world the behavior has different cultural meaning. In addition, Clinton's impeachable behavior went beyond lying about his own behavior, but witness tampering. In of itself Clinton's behavior might have been a personal matter or an HR issue, but the lies and witness tampering were related to his defence against an previously filed workplace sexual harassment lawsuit.

On December 19, 1998, Clinton became the second American president to be impeached (the first being Andrew Johnson, who was impeached in 1868)[a] when the House formally adopted articles of impeachment and forwarded them to the United States Senate for adjudication. A trial in the Senate began in January 1999, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding. On February 12, Clinton was acquitted on both counts as neither received the necessary two-thirds majority vote of the senators present for conviction and removal from office – in this instance 67.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
I agree, I hope it catches on.
"The thing to keep in mind about Prolog is that it's not really a logic language [...]"

WWWut? Eh??? Come again? Plz esspalin.
I've found it's so easy to start a slack call with my coworkers (especially when they too are working remotely and don't need to find a room to start the conversation).

There's only been a few days out of the year that I ever overhear anything where I could be useful or someone would be useful to a conversation I was having with someone else.

Steep price to pay.
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As an aside, what a great 2019 reading list!

https://www.susanjfowler.com/reading-list
> Anyone can settle the debate empirically by starting a business that doesn't rely on them, though

Advertising might be a zero-sum game. Or even net negative. Yet a business without it will likely fail if other businesses use it. In other words, if advertising adds value like Mafia protection adds value then the empirical test proves nothing.
novelist michael crichton named it 'gell-mann amnesia' in a news-reading context
How about treating commute time as hours on the job? It's not free time for you. So if an employer feels that it's very important to see your face in person, they should compensate for that privilege. And yes, commute should factor in as overtime as well.

Imho economic incentive is best incentive. If employers saved money by not paying you to sit in a car 10 hours a week, it should make a compelling argument to try minimize commutes.

It's a shame society can't bill them for the emissions & congestion & noise & other harms too.
Do you have a source for the story about the Castlevania director? That sounds wild, and I haven't been able to find anything about it.