skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company I work for is distributed. We don't have a central office. I work from a shared office space and share a room with people in a variety of industries, and so I get my daily fix of "people" through that.

I'm also in the lucky position that I can work from home if I choose and in a particularly lucky position that I live on a boat and so am able to move to different towns or cities (in the UK) and work from there, which I've been doing over the course of the year. Currently my boat is moored right outside my office so have a 0 minute commute.

We have a daily standup where I get to talk to my colleagues, we have a monthly get-togther where we work together from a rented office and have a social time in the evening.

It's not for everyone but for me I can't imagine working in a different way.
I suppose the converse is that any profitable company’s share price will go up continually, as long as they don’t give dividends.
Have all my upvotes. I just cannot work with music on. I work from home and silence can be depressing all day long, so I make a point of turning on the radio in breaks, but never when I code.
kinetic energy per unit time per unit mass, was the plotted relationship. Your counter example is not fully counter without those divisors.

Further, warheads were not factored. e.g. the nuke part.
Yep mate it totally can, stuff like that goes here on daily basis.
There's a guy who makes a playlist on Spotify called Programming with a coffee emoji, I listen to it so often I even found his Twitter or something and reached out to him to show appreciation. Turns out listening to Scandinavian Rock (melodic and lyrics I can't follow) is really good for productivity lol
The media outlet that a person finds unbiased completely gives away their politics. FOX news = Trump base, MSNBC, CNN = Trump opposition base. NYT = moderate liberal, WSJ = moderate conservative.

That is because every media outlet is biased. I have yet to find a news source that doesn't seem to lean in one direction or the other.
I found a related article on an other site today "A Dutch Startup Wants to Train Crows to Pick Up Cigarette Butts" that seems to use the crow box.

http://www.thecrowbox.com/
For many of us, remote work means staying home all day and working. (Or sometimes, traveling somewhere nice and working.) But how many flights and how often is up to you. In my case, it's just 2-3 per year... and I would have probably made those flights anyway for a holiday.
Back in the day they used to have Hotel Detectives, one of whose key roles were preventing premarital sex or affairs from occurring. I think Hotel Detectives are almost totally gone now, but the attitude of protecting the hotel from scandal hasn't.
Even the most remote of the remote workers I know will go into the office at least once a quarter or so. Four trans-oceanic flights is surely going to outweigh all but the most extreme car commutes.
Not just an alternative though.

- Self-hosted

- Unlimited and FREE vs $699 / month

- Create your own agents / integrations

- Process data through shell scripts or JavaScript

- Better filtering

- Liquid templating

- Completely private

I save thousands of dollars by using Huginn.

It's incredibly powerful and quite frankly I don't trust Zapier with my data and visibility of what I'm doing because there are commercial implications.

Run it in the cloud on AWS or on an old box at home.

It's very reliable.
Show HN: Python package to quickly generate a word cloud of Twitter tweets
To be fair, latency isn't a problem at all for streaming 4K movies.
This is basically the plan of The New Yorker, but with (probably) 1000s of people.
How do you plan to make money with this? I understand free tiers. I even understand free early access.
I agree. I have no reason to believe what they say is true, but even if it's all lies it's nice to see their perspective and be able to talk to them.
Not the best article but it's interesting that he's actually doing it.

* "Google senior staff software engineer James Stout programs with his voice because of a health condition he has called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which makes it painful for him to type and makes him more prone to muscular injuries."

He has a blog but it hasn't been updated in a while: http://handsfreecoding.org

Clips of him working:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5k5giZWnpg - #4

https://youtu.be/sQl1UQSf390 - #5
I have solved this in my way, minimized all the data I give to the companies to bare minimum.

You would like registration - here is my mail your.domain.name@mydomain.eu. For each registration in last 10 years. You would like gmail? Facebook? There our bussiness ends.

So, you care so much about security of my account that you cant provide me TOTP authentication and would rather have my phone number. I'll pass. You insist? There our bussiness ends.

100% self hosted.

Fingerprinting blocked (oh dear aliexpress you have a very special place in my heart for that), mostly in ff private tabs, searching goes over my private searx instance, which is also generating fake searches. Surfing over squid (with heavy filtering, even mozilla beacons are blocked) over vpn moving randomly around exit nodes.

Android, home built rom, no google, every app is having its own rules, blocked network traffic by default (netguard). Xposed + xprivacy lua faking all informations, if app doesnt like that, it is uninstalled. If I cant live without it, like online banking, which I am paying for and has decided to block my way of using MY phone, it was reversed, removed safety net, removed rootbeer calls, removed checks for gms.

This is the price to have some privacy. I really hope that US will get its privacy laws and that EU starts charging everyone. This has gone to far, there is a whole branch of industry that needs a seriously large stick. And some slap on wrists for managers.
> heavy tax on all presence-required jobs

It's called a carbon tax -- if you tax jet fuel, gasoline and coal-based electricity for office a/c equally, the invisible hand of company bean counters and employees will figure out the low-carbon compromise.
I use bose in-ear noise cancelling headphones with a custom spectrum of noise from mynoise.net playing which is specifically tuned to the same frequency as certain louder individuals in my office. Completely blocks it.
Yeah I don't care for beaches in third world countries. This right here sounds like the life.
Wonder if you can slip it off the balcony. From one story up, I bet it lands fine into the back of a pickup. Heck, you could probably haul another one up with a winch, and cover your tracks or at least have plausible deniability.
Total Functional Programming (2004) [pdf]
Litigating against someone who steals from a hotel costs more than just banning the person.

Hence, checking IDs and credit cards at hotels to make it easier to ban people.

I'm surprised hotel chains don't have a nationwide blacklist.
The carbon neutral part is when you plant another tree in place of the tree you just cut down. The new tree then starts taking up the equivalent carbon from the tree you cut down and burned. That is what makes tree farms somewhat carbon neutral. You can’t do that with coal.
If you need to manage state and want to focus on functions instead of objects (classes), try ClojureScript - especially in combination with [DataScript](https://github.com/tonsky/datascript), an immutable database and Datalog query engine. Clojure/ClojureScript's persistent, immutable memory model makes it much nicer for reasoning about state.

Maybe I'm just a dinosaur, but I can't keep up with all the changes to JavaScript, whereas ClojureScript compiles to ECMAScript 3 and the syntax hasn't changed since its release 12 years ago.
I'd like to see someone gather up all of the articles relating to water on mars and place them on a timeline with brief summaries of the actual progress being done. To most people it looks like water on mars over and over.
I probably should have left out "engines" from that sentence for it to be the most literally accurate.

One could argue that Quake's tone set the tone for half-life, which was a big advance for narrative storytelling in the medium, which means half-life in turn heavily influence the tone of the medium in future generations. There is a bit of a void in this thread that things run into after ~2010 where things like tone and storytelling are washed away in most games. Romero's influences were games of the time, but also HP Lovecraft. A lot of what is in Quake and Doom feels pretty original and influential. I'd be happy to be corrected though.
Washington, DC, has one car-free street: the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 15th and 17th Streets. The odd thing is that the street was closed after a man crashed an airplane on the White House lawn.

(I except the case of blizzards--with a couple of feet of snow, you can ski or play tackle football in the middle of a main street.)
2 people can easily move a mattress.
I think you're missing a ) for counter-component
A lot of people spend a large chunk of their days on the phone. Having to find a room for every call isn't practical. Companies should make an effort to segregate roles that involve lots of phone time with roles that tend to value quiet. But unless a company is giving everyone an office it's probably not reasonable to expect people not to be talking around you.
How to get more appreciation at work? A guide for engineers
I traded your commute for the parent poster's (train) commute several years ago. It's SO much less stressful to sit on a train, even when it's crowded, than it is to drive in heavy traffic. Plus, you can snooze, read, play phone games, watch Netflix, or even do work!

Driving to work just frankly sux. I will never do it again.
They have them they just aren’t reporting to police so it doesn’t matter
This is a blog post about a new feature in React, not a change to JavaScript.
Hi, author here! Didn't intend for this to wind up on HN quite yet, but I'm excited to answer the good questions coming up here.
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Even if the customer is the user, these "move the button to the left by two pixels" type of requests are very common and really aren't important. I've seen users do this because it makes them feel like they have input and I've seen these types of requests turn into serious bikeshedding. They never actually make any difference to how they use the product, but these tasks end up taking a lot of time (that as GP said, the customer typically doesn't want to pay for because its a small change).

Actual workflow changes, where customers ask for UI changes that make some task easier or faster, are valuable and, at least in my experience, these are very different from the requests you get when a customer realises that UI changes are (by themselves) quick and easy. You can ask for ways that you can improve or speed up their work without them needing to know you can move a that label two pixels to the right in a matter of seconds (which in reality will take hours of back and forward as its never quite right).

> I'm sure tonnes of UI changes seem trivial to developers, but would be the difference between hours a day of a task being frustrating versus a task being easy for the end user.

The types of UI changes GP talked about (moving a button a few pixels) is not the kind of thing that causes an end user task to be more or less frustrating.

> We don't use the end product like they do, so we can't really know which one's are trivial and which aren't.

But talk to enough of them and you'll see that bikeshedding about pixel positioning is almost never something you want the customer to be doing.
If you ask me, if this was to be done, s the following steps should be taken.

1) The government should commission an expert panel to investigate a system for assessing land value (or perhaps even crowd source it). A set of descriptors (size, location, if it's next to a sewer treatment plant, etc.) should be determined. Along with sale price records, a system should be designed to predict land values.

B) Every part of the system should be public information, including the set of descriptors, so that individuals can dispute them and have them updated in the records.

C) Per law, the system should be regularly reviewed and updated, so that it is as accurate as possible.
Just as the industrial age brought on a deceptive transition from hard power to soft power mechanisms, I think the automation age will bring on a transition from soft power and the hard power residuals to psychological warfare first and foremost. Of course it's already implemented, but it is likely to get much worse as the supranational oligarchy begins to corrupt the internet, driving free-thinkers into enclaves that are censored and targeted, while the increase of monopolistic entertainment and mainstream media sources created through mergers and aquisitions backed by banks will become defacto government mouthpieces.

They want a brave new world, where they entertain and distract you and manipulate your information bubbles primarily, secondarily, if you fight, is when the 1984 tactics will be used.

Through these mechanisms other future strategic pushes are enabled, such as for example, the increasing use of manipulated and inorganic color revolution movements to weaken or overthrow governments. Those participating in the revolutions may not even know or understand the shady forces that started said revolution.
Don't those only really work with low-pitched repetitive background noise? They don't do a lot for people talking.

I do have noise canceling headphones and I like them, but they don't really do a lot for people talking.
We use pedestal+fulcro3+pathom

om.next was before that, but it seems to be almost abandoned, also fulcro author have solved a lot of depressing pain points of om.next.

Those three work like a perfect Lego.
FWIW, I have been doing exactly this in the past few months, importing planet data using osm2pgsql.

It takes about 18 hours to import the whole planet onto a E5-1650v3 server, with 256GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. 128GB RAM would certainly have sufficed. The number of cores doesn't actually matter much. I've never seen it use more than 8 cores, even when I ask it to use far more.
People don't use bed sheets / mattress protectors ?
Lying to an investigator actually isn't obstruction of justice, according to the statute. Obstruction of justice is a blanket term for crimes falling under 18 U.S. Code Chapter 73. The only one that comes close is § 1510: Obstruction of criminal investigations. From the name it sure sounds like lying to investigators would fall under it, but if you read the text it only covers certain specific acts of obstruction like bribery. Making false statements to law enforcement falls user 18 U.S. Code Chapter 47, which covers fraud and false statements. In this case it would be § 1001. So yeah, kind of confusing, but that's why there's a separate term for making false statements.
If I had a dollar for every person who says JS moves too fast
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I’ve read plenty about these specific criticism of the FISA system in the media I consume, which is often decried as being “left-leaning”. Indeed the article here by the New York Times is a good example.

So I doubt “the left” is suppressing this issue. The IG report is pretty clear that these issues had little relevance in the investigation of Russian hacking. And if our discourse can no longer achieve this (rather low) level of nuance, we are truly lost.
...and accelerate the concentration of wealth and power to the point where the top 10% are starting to complain about the top 1%. Moving into developing nations is just the system expanding to extract what little surplus value they create.
Backgrounder: EU Right to Be Forgotten
Unfortunately, much of what we read isn't retained. However, the small amount that is retained compounds, so it's not a lost cause.
I truly believe that the only reason most SW developers aren't full time remote is because of some archaic sadistic attempt to maintain control over employees mentally and emotionally.
Don’t know about others but React Hooks look way easier than whatever this is.
I trust "finance professionals" on stuff like that about as much as I trust Mark Zuckerberg on internet privacy.

Insiders may have expertise, but their insider-ness means one should be skeptical of their perspective for all kinds of reasons (including, but not limited to: self-interest, indoctrination, selection effects, acclimation to industry practice, etc.).
You're right about the self-replicating part, that's probably very far away (and not necessary for this). But I think self-assembling nano-mechanisms are closer. We can already sort of do it with self-assembling dna mechanisms and, theoretically, those can bootstrap into more complex tech made out of better materials
For this reason, we must glorify not-egoism and those selfless luminaries of Communism such as Stalin and Mao who would otherwise be forgotten. Indeed, the cult of personality where the middle class seeks anonymous salaryman status is the true danger.
Optimizing garbage collection in a high load .NET service
I can only listen to certain types of music, usually instrumental. Can't listen to anything with vocals in it.
A hacker accessed a Ring camera and harassed an 8-year-old
I love going to conferences, even though I'm an introvert - some would even say a misanthrope. I just need time to recharge afterward. But the fact that some people enjoy them is far outweighed by both the environmental harm and the exclusionary aspect of requiring such travel. We need to figure out how to replicate that energy and easy discovery of like-minded people online. Even as a 30+ year online native myself, I don't quite see it yet.
Sample size of two, but considering you and parent are both musicians I wonder if that’s the reason you pay more attention to the music?
You right! Console and stop button are not necessary. The UI is generated with a UI creation tool that match program arguments with UI widgets (see: https://ibb.co/phQQFxr). In this case there is an option missing to don't show the stop button and the console (These are shown due that you can create interactive programs with browxy)
Nobody clicks the bio links. Instagram has "a billion" of users yet traffic from them is non-existent.

They keep users in their walled garden but preventing linking out.

On the open Web you are allowed to link when and where you like. That's a huge difference.
I once worked about 3 minutes walk from home. That was five job-location changes ago.
I'm curious, why are those remote workers flying? I've started working remotely this year, and only flown once, at the start of the project.
I often say that Kojima takes metaphors to the extreme; either he makes something super abstract, or so intensely direct calling it "metaphor" is a stretch.

There's a line of dialogue in Death Stranding that exemplifies this and wouldn't exactly be spoiler-ish, but I'll err on the side of not including it just in case.
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Ask HN: How to increase organization without anxiety?
I am a big fan of Cal Newport, and I was just listening to his most recent book Digital Minimalism which has quite a few strategies for replacing low-quality digital distraction for high-quality leisure and social connection. Towards the end of chapter 6 he suggests setting goals and scheduling time for structured leisure, which sounds great but got me thinking about why that is so difficult for me.

Organization in the form of schedules, task lists, and deadlines has always been a major struggle for me. I received an ADHD diagnosis shortly before my 35th birthday, which explains a lot of that. I am also susceptible to elevated anxiety, which has never been severe enough for a diagnosis but clearly affects my life. There is definitely a relationship between the two, because my ADHD brain has taught me that I can't consistently rely on myself to stick to schedules and deadlines, so when I am up against those constraints my anxiety gets triggered. But on the flip side, I know that having more predictability in my life would reduce my overall anxiety.

For those of you who have struggled with similar issues: What organizational and planning techniques and strategies have you found that tend not to aggravate your anxiety, and thus are more likely to be adhered to? If you recommend something well-known (e.g. GTD) it would be great if you could explain specifically how you implemented it in a way to minimize anxiety.
I was also going to note that this article is in the Irish Times, so a lot of the author's perspective is based on that country.

In Ireland, there's far less commuting than in the US simply due to the size of the country, and the Irish economy has a different mix of sectors than the US, so the types of jobs are different.

You can tell from the fact that the author targets commuting as a greenhouse gas source that he's talking about commuting by other means than walking. 44% of Ireland's population lives in a single city, so "going to work" may well consist of walking or public transportation.

He makes a number of points which probably only apply to the situation in Ireland, and which would be impossible in the US (despite the enthusiasm on HN) because of the size of the country, the types of employment available, and the fact that the mix of people in the US is simply socially different from Irelend.

Offsetting greenhouse gas use in Ireland by working from home or a shared workspace may well be a workable proposition in Dublin, but it's a complete impossibility in the US, for very many reasons.

I wish it was otherwise, but the US and its economy are built around use of vehicles... it's a big country.
I think this site does a decent job of avoiding music that can be focused on. They mention on the about page:

> we have found that the most effective music to aid prolonged periods of intense concentration tends to have a mixture of the following qualities:

Drones
Noise
Fuzz
Field recordings
Vagueness (Hypnagogia)
Textures without rhythm
Minor complex chords
Early music (Baroque, lute, harpsichord)
Very few drums or vocals
Synth arpeggios
Awesome / daunting / foreboding
Walls of reverb

I personally don't mind a bit of rhythm, but this isn't music that your brain will latch on to and want to pay attention - it's more like pleasant ambient sounds.

However, I also suffer from an inability to get things done with people talking - I'm constantly inadvertently eavesdropping on my coworkers' conversations. I find that I have to push white noise up to uncomfortably dangerous levels to drown out conversation - your audio processing systems tolerate shockingly high SNR - but changing, musical audio like this is harder to tune out than thunderstorms or waterfalls and therefore permits me to turn down the volume.

I just wish someone would build an audio-cancelling headset, instead of the usual noise-cancelling ones that take away background noise but let voices come through clearly...
Trolley Protocol
It seems to me that this is cross-site tracking of the sort forbidden by WebKit (Safari)'s and Firefox's tracking prevention policies:

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention-policy/

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Anti_tracking_policy

If Repixel can identify someone as a golfer with joint pain because they visited a golfing website and an unrelated joint pain website, that sounds like tracking an identifiable user across multiple first parties.

Should Safari and Firefox ban Repixel?
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