skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that hiding in a meeting room or even working in a different building works for me. Coffee shops, coworking spaces, etc.
Wouldn’t apple’s face unlock fall under the purview of such laws? This seems fairly capricious since there is no real justification in relation to what the problem is exactly. It might be better to introduce some penalties for wrong doing before introducing an outright ban.
Don't have much to say to most of this. Agree with some of it.

> Let's stick to debating the topic, not my character.

Read this thread and tell me the character of my industry in general and of myself specifically have not been the subject of debate. Attack my character and I consider it perfectly fair to attack yours. If the worst thing I've said about your character is that you're being hypocritical (and I think it is), I'd say you've taken fewer lumps than I have.
It's tolerated that you are on your phone, for instance, but I think having a book wouldn't be..
It would really help to have more details, like what country you're in and what industry, e.g. Banking, Defense, etc.
And if you did, you would probably bring the diseases that wiped out this species that used to cover all of Australia and Antarctica and has some how miraculously survived in 1 hidden valley.

So just don't.

And if you know where it is, don't share it.

Thanks.
luckily I would know if someone ate some of my pizza
RPi = Raspberry Pi ? Not sure that's commonly used enough to use without a parentheses long version :(
Test your SQL fu: https://mystery.knightlab.com/
No installation needed. All online.

Pretty sure there is a codepen like site for nodejs too.
Find it, build something.
I just quit my last remote job of 6 years.

The benefits:

1. Live anywhere as long as the timezones are reasonable.

2. No commute.

3. Optional meetings actually stay optional.

4. If you are in a later timezone, you can work late relative to the home office hours; making you pretty valuable to clients for adhoc issues at the end of the day while your team is busy commuting home.

The negatives:

1. Very lonely, I ended up spending a lot of money going to cafes to fill a social need.

2. Office meetings suck. If you are the only person dialing in to a meeting and the rest of the team is local there are tons of issues. Noise, missing out on sidebar conversations, etc.

3. You are obligated to overcommunicate to your coworkers or managers to compensate for your lack of presence, but often they leave you in the dark.

4. If your technology breaks down, you are your own support.

5. If skype is signed out without you realizing it, management gets paranoid.

6. You have to work very hard to keep from getting distracted. This gets harder if you aren't interested in your workload.

7. Lack of visibility means lack of opportunities at work.

8. Its very easy to get in a rut where the "remote guy" only works on certain specific things and can't grow their career.

If I can help it, I will be 100% local from now on. In my mind, there are too many opportunities missed by not interacting with the rest of the office.

I imagine this list would be different if the team was 100% remote.
> As far I can tell, no actual product or value is generated, it's like a "business virus"

I believe that is what the OP means by MLM (multi-level marketing)
It also means that dynamic of political polarization become more prevalent. Imagine being accountable to only one side of the electorate and how that shapes media and institutions. It will only make the divisive, angry rhetoric worse.
Your site doesn't seem to be loading. I also had a security warning when visiting it. I'm on Chrome, MacOS.
They are working on WebExtension support [1] as well as built-in basic ad-blocking [2]. Anyone can follow the progress on their public issue tracker on GitHub.

1: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5315

2: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/96
That's only if you are planning to stick around. If you are thinking of moving on soon it's a good time to learn and practice.
That may be how Uber wants to phrase it, but I'm pretty sure the thing that shows up on my CC statement is Uber, not the driver's name... IE, if they're claiming that, it's a legal fiction. Whether that legal fiction would stand in court is up to the court.
Damn dude that’s a pretty harsh view.
I indeed cannot bring my laptop. It's a bank and they are taking security seriously apparently, which is good on one side, but bad on my side because I cannot do anything.
Company. See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/rep...
This sounds exactly like Twitter, and many email newsletters.
A question to Americans, is there nothing a common citizen can do about it? In India, in a similar situation anyone would be able to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) with High Court (highest court at state level) or Supreme Court (highest court at central/federal level). If any of the courts decided to take up the PIL, they could ask any investigative body, including law enforcement or ex-judges, for investigation.
That system has never acted as a deliberate body. It’s merely a way to further the tyranny of the minority.
I had a professor from college who recently passed away. He was an unconventional teacher. High energy and sort of rambled on about the subject, his experience, and how non-tech folks experienced and reacted to tech.

His stream of consciousness communication style plus his decades of industry (steel mills) experience and expertise of the subject matter made him an excellent teacher. Computer Programming and Logic and Database Design classes were my favorites.

Also, he rewarded unconventional solutions to projects and test questions. One memorable example - I turned in a project and before he gave it back asked me to explain my thinking. After I defended my work he complemented my "creative" solution and followed it up with why, while it might work, was sub-optimal.

I really learned a lot from him.
I started trying to read through the slides in the link and I felt the same way - this looks like fascinating stuff that I wish I understood better, but I got lost trying to just read the slides without a lecturer going over them. There were a few textbooks listed (including Hennesy & Patterson's excellent "Computer Organization"); I might check out the other two instead.
The raspberry pi is a good suggestion, but if you don't want to be seen bringing outside hardware into the building, you could look into Amazon Workspaces or another remote workstation service, or host your own box and remote into it. Workspaces has a web client for accessing your workspace, so unless Amazon cloud services is specifically blocked at work, you should be able to access it. There's a small monthly fee, but I'd think it'd be well worth it.
The benefit is that I prefer the lightning cable. It’s lightweight, small and looks nice. That’s the only reason I should need, but also competition means that in the future we will be able to have better chargers.
At my work we organized group trainings, where we all learn X technology together that is related to our jobs in that we could do more if we knew how to use it but don't actually need to use it. Maybe there is some approved software that could be installed that is semi-related to your job.
I think two key points as to your question of _why_ he wrote it like that. First, it is not a novel that he planned out and then sat down and wrote. It's an amalgamation of disparate stories that Christopher cobbled together into a single book because that was the only way they could sell it to the publishers. It's also the quasi-religious tome of the Tolkien world, so rather than comparing the readability to a Stephen King novel, compare it to something like the Bible or the Torah.

All that said, it took me several reads before I felt like I really 'got' it. The hardest part for me was grasping the long timelines since most of it is a story of the elves and they are immortal. You might be following the same character arc for thousands of years. All that struggle was worth it though, because when you reread LOTR _after_ reading The Silmarillion, you pick out things in LOTR that you didn't even know were there before.
Can somebody please remind me why the mobile firefox is stuck at version 68.x whereas other platforms have moved on to 72?
Beeturia
If there's nothing to do, there's nothing to do. Also, aren't you at work? Also, in Office Space, Peter Gibbons basically gets promoted for slacking off - contrast this with Milton.
YouTube broadcasts climate disinformation to millions. Brands make it profitable
It does not pay $0/hr. Even the TFA states this. Only if you first disregard 88% of the total pay (the tips) and then subtract an overstated expense line-item do you end up with a number close to $0.

The actual number is that Average Gross Earnings are $18.54 per hour. Obviously there are also some expenses, but average expense is not actually $0.54/mile. $0.54/mile is what you get to deduct from your income on your tax return. (So there's actually a tax advantage here too.)

In other words, the guaranteed amount covers more than your expenses, your earnings come from tips, sometimes in the form of cash, and you get a preferential tax deduction on top. It's actually a great deal.

The simple answer to your question is that DoorDash has so many drivers because the job is easy to do and pays well. But for ideological reasons, some people think this kind of employment arrangement should be illegal.
Over 80% of the stock market is owned by a fraction of the 1%, lets stop pretending that "shareholders" means "everyone".
Researchers find serious flaws in WordPress plugins used on 400k sites
Joy of Underconfidence for Founders
What was a simple business idea you had but thought it would be too vague to implement, only to find out years down the line a multi-million dollar business operating on it?
population will plateau
FWIW to expand: I am that person in my company. My title is "Technical Lead" and my job as I eventually discovered is just to be "chief enabler" for the team of engineers under me, and a "crap umbrella" - to keep crap from coming down on my team directly.

My company originally wanted me to micromanage and direct everything, but I've found that real leadership is when you can give smart engineers autonomy and entrust them to build and execute a plan. I am there when they need me and can jump in as needed if they get in over their heads.
Excuse me, how can people be so concerned about this while we have a major climate crisis going on that affects 7 billion people? It blows my mind.
Pretty sure you employer expects you to be making them money with your time. At the same time, you should be expecting to do as little as possible for your compensation.

It's funny how culturally, we paint business practices of optimizing profit as picturesque but paint labor optimizing their profit as a sin.

It's really all a matter of perspective and somewhere, most the labor force was convinced to take the capital owners perspective.
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Tried reading through this but without context it’s very unclear what has happened.

Can someone familiar with Rust and it’s communities explain from a high level what all this is about?
I agree that it seems like engineers of the past were more clever than us today, but I suspect that we feel that way only because a lot of the garbage systems and code have been lost to time. The good stuff gets immortalized and passed down, while the bad stuff isn't, much in the same way that nobody will see my hacky Python scripts in 30 years (with any luck). It's a selection bias.

See also people who are convinced they were born in the wrong time period. Much more annoying that you or me, I'd say, but the same principle nonetheless.
If they couldn't get the bugs off the screen, what might they have done?
It brings up the question — as a developer, how can you best set boundaries on your customers so that you can have some degree of control over the toxicity of the culture that you're exposed to when interacting with them?
Thank you for reminding me of that. I'll try to keep that in mind and hold my judgements.
That is a fascinating example of sourcing. Do you happen to have an article or source where I can read more about this?
Can you use https://repl.it ?

You could learn some new tech/patterns on there including NodeJS (https://repl.it/languages/nodejs)
MLB: Use Electronic Surveillance to Capture Fans' Data, Not Opponents' Signs
There're like three sub-threads to your comment now of people getting it wrong. What you are describing is Gross Bookings. If you don't believe me, Uber's quarterly financial results are here and you can see for yourself.

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
This is not how the actual GAAP accounting works for a company like Uber. The total the customers pay is referred to as bookings. There was a similar issue with Groupon when that was the hot stock of the day:

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/groupon-changes-its-...
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Maybe in the US, but that wouldn't be permitted in the UK.
Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22073908
I've been remote (or mostly remote) for 8+ years, and I would describe myself as extraverted and desiring social interaction.

Nevertheless, remote work has been great. I feel like I've had enough time to experiment with what works and what doesn't work that I'm now very comfortable working remotely and hope to do so for the rest of my career, if possible.

Granted, some of the things that make remote work tolerable or intolerable are under the control of your employer and some are under your own control, so both you and your employer need to be committed to making it work.

Being one of the only remote members of your team can stink, because you know that the other team members are mostly having their water cooler chats by the water cooler. But when you're on a team that's majority or fully remote, a lot of that happens via chat (text or video) and you don't feel like you're not being included.

Having a remote-friendly culture is important. For instance: People remember to add a video chat link to every meeting invite. Your employer invests in quality teleconferencing equipment to make meetings run smoothly. When company swag is given out, remote employees are included as well.

I've found that I get stir-crazy after sitting in my home office for more than a day at a time. So I like to go out to a library, a coffee shop, or a park (when it's nice out) for an hour or two. Even if I'm not directly interacting with other people, it helps.

I'm at a stage in my life where office friendships aren't my main source of friendships, and so while I enjoy forming friendships with my coworkers, I don't feel like I need to be going out to every office happy hour or rec league softball game. And that allows me to make time to cultivate and maintain other friendships.

I'm also at a stage in my life where having kids in the house helps a lot. My wife homeschools, so our family is able to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner together most days, and throughout the day there's a sense of liveliness in the house. Again, that can make a big difference, even if you're heads-down and not directly interacting with them during work hours.

P.S. One life hack I've discovered is that if you can find a remote position that's within about a 90-minute commute radius, and you can commit to driving in occasionally, you can still (mostly) get the benefits of face time, and you can make the case that you deserve the same market-rate salary as the in-office people, as opposed to the "adjusted cost of living" rate that is sometimes offered to fully remote employees. That opens up a lot of possibilities, in terms of where you can live. I live about 75 minutes from my company's headquarters, but in a state with a lower cost of living.
Heme is also what makes a burger taste like a burger.
https://impossiblefoods.com/heme/

If you feed cows corn all day every day, yes they need B12 injections. I buy beef from a local butcher and the beef comes from our local farm of pasture-raised cows. It's more expensive but because of this it limits my beef intake to a few times a month.
If research is something that might be considered work during the day you could hop on Sci-Hub and read some interesting papers.
I don't know how to word this so I'll say it bluntly (and probably bear the blunt of this community as a consequence): If you're a developer of a project that is used in a security-sensitive context, you either be receptive to security concerns or you clearly label your project as a toy project.

No one expects you to write perfect code, but we do expect you to fix flaws when you learn about them.

Of course, you could do neither, but don't be surprised when people call you out on it.
You can take a look at the actix-web repo, which has been wiped. A message has been added:

https://github.com/actix/actix-web/
> It’s unfortunate that a well-known project had soundness issues. It’s unfortunate that the maintainer wasn’t receptive to fixing them. At the same time, I’ve been there: being a maintainer is tough. It’s also unfortunate that there’s this style of response, and kind, and volume. It is true that the situation was dangerous. But did it have to be handled this way? You have to understand a lot of nuance here to even know the main points of the story. One version of this story that will certainly be told is “The Rust community says they’re nice but they will harass you if you use unsafe wrong.” Is that what we want? I, for one, do not. If you’re a part of Rust, you gotta ask yourself: are you happy with this outcome? How did your actions (or lack thereof) contribute to it? Could you have done something better?
mostly i don't like autocomplete. but MVS implementation is superb. the closest i've seen to something usable (for me).
I've been using Firefox Preview on and off since last summer on a low-end phone running 5.1 with no issues due to Android version.
Curious, where does 40% come from?
> when I want to edit an url I first have to click on the bottom and then at the top as well.

Another annoyance is how it never disappears. I get that it would be less intuitive to have a bar at the bottom disappear when scrolling down a page and reappear when scrolling up, but the way it is now, with the bar always there, some websites are simply unusable in landscape mode on a regular phone.

All in all, a great and brave decision, but poorly executed.
It's wrong on nigh-on every point in its descriptions both of the 1980s and of today, however.
I can see where Steve is coming from about the difficulties of maintainer-ship - I only have a few projects that I am actively maintaining and obviously nothing close to the scale of a popular library. But at the same time I really think almost all of the blame in this case rests solely with the reception (or lack thereof entirely) of PRs/issues that are intending to improve the quality of a library that many people have come to rely on.

Our entire ecosystem that we have built (for better or for worse) by using these libraries as the foundations for countless projects necessitates that when a community is willing to give their time to improve a library that you maintain, the minimum that is to be expected is that you treat sincere contributions respectfully and not dismiss them out of hand.

It's unfortunate that the maintainer has stepped down entirely instead of changing how they are interacting with the community, but purely from a security standpoint I would rather a slower (but more secure and receptive) library take it's place than have a very popular library maintained by someone who doesn't seem to care about the overall code quality of the library they are a steward of.
in other news "Drunk man wakes up with hangover"
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

and yet, we do it again and again...
good, I didn't know it.

EDIT: Tried, blocked (failed to connect)
Label and present your project clearly, both explicitly and implicitly, so that nobody could reasonably get the wrong impression about what level of development and support can be expected.
I'm curious how remote work correlates to playing MtG?
>> Chaining.

Agreed. That's about preserving context. Pronouns are also mostly context dependent shorthand. Very, very useful IMHO.
On the upside, you can open a beer bottle with it.
I actually think the "code of conduct" culture that Rust embodies exacerbates this kind of drama. Ironically, it creates a more unsafe environment where everyone feels anxious and judged by the CoC Police. Under the CoC, I am entitled to a wonderful experience, and if I don't get it, the culture has failed in its commitment to me.
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Uber paying drivers does not make the drivers employees. When I have worked as a software developer as a 1099 contractor and someone bought the resulting software, does that mean that the customer who bought the software was paying me? Would the payment for the software be counted as revenue for the company?

When I was a part time fitness instructor, I taught at corporate gyms where the employees had free memberships. I got a 1099 every year from the gym. Did the employees pay me? Would that be an expense of the corporation?
Re 1, if they're small communities, you don't hear much about them in the first place. And if it's a language community, then the language is probably pitched long before the quality of the community comes into question.

That is, I've never heard anything about the communities for zig, D, beef, futhark, pony, Julia, etc.

But then, I don't think ever seen any comment on their community... Their supporters are too busy trying to justify the language's existence!
I use https://observablehq.com/ when in constrained environments
"Office hours" as an individual contributor developer will never happen. But for the sake of argument..

1) Do you have the organizational and political clout (and skill) to institute this?

You can say "no admittance!" all you like, but if you're a mid-level dev and your lead needs something, you're going to get interrupted. Like it or not this sounds like a big culture change and it's not something even most senior devs have the organizational power to implement.

2) Are you prepared for the objections and potential backlash?

Whether we like it or not software has gotten written for decades with the devs fighting against constant interruptions from peers, managers, and other random coworkers.

3) Do you really need this?

Sort of building off #2, what makes your project or your work so special that you need to be available for only certain specific times of the day?

4) Are you prepared to push back?

So let's say you actually get this implemented. Then your boss's boss's boss comes up to your desk in the middle of your working time and asks to talk to you. Are you going to tell them no in front of all your peers? Are you prepared for them to get upset with you? There's no way your "no admittance" time would be on their radar unless it was a team-wide change (and even then, maybe not).

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In reality, most of us are not working on anything so complicated and important that the occasional interruption is a terrible thing. The same way 99% of companies do not need to hire the best rockstar developer they can find, most developers are good-not-great at their jobs and realistically being interrupted is not going to cause us to miss deadlines or put out terrible code.
I'm sure many people have headphones on, download courses on your phone and listen to them, or audio books, nobody needs to know where the sound is coming from !
I have the same issue
I used the site glitch to learn
Hopefully it works for you
No, he didn't break into people's house, started their computers and started deleting stuff. It's all the same as the day before yesterday.