skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked remote full time for 5 years in a job where I never met any of my coworkers.

I think this fails the normal sniff test I have where if you wouldn't do it in an office environment, you shouldn't do it in a remote environment. It's not really all that different other than communication being harder because folks don't talk as much.

Remote work has many of the same problems as office work. People can be just as abusive. I had a remote coworker halfway across the country say openly and in anger in a team meeting that he was going to drive to my house, knock on my door and shoot me in the face. Because we were remote, HR didn't treat it as a real threat.
Why not just start the meeting by asking people what they did that weekend? Take an honest interest in their life rather than having them... fill out an emotional intelligence wheel?
Yes, interrupts and events are distinct.

Would it be clearer to say sequential vs asynchronous?

Or to say that interrupts are one form of event, but not all events involve interrupts.
The article refers to the analysis of Bruce Rule. For those of you interested in the loss of Thresher, Scorpion and especially the loss of K-129, I really recommend you read his articles. See

http://www.iusscaa.org/articles/brucerule/

The analysis of the loss of K-129 is especially interesting in that he posits that the SOSUS data shows that it had a "dead mans" capability to launch its missles.

See

http://www.iusscaa.org/articles/brucerule/acoustic_detctions...
Actually, it would take me more time to write the spec, than it would be to just sign up for sigma.
It's a bit like saying "We found this store and it doesn't label kitchen knifes as potentially dangerous"... Nobody in their right mind would use this data set for developing a self-driving car and if one does, then they will not get a license to operate... And if by any chance they do it's still like stabbing other people with a knife snatched from the shelf a supermarket. You just don't do it.
you can try reading https://www.fullhn.com/ while it's on the front page
Note this line in the link you just posted:

> It's worth pointing out that this scheme is not currently in place
> It may also be that the EU banking system has customer tracking, the UK does not.

Can you explain a bit more what you mean by this? Tracking exactly in which sense?
Rail crimes are one of very few criminal offences in the UK where you don't have to intend to break the law to be convicted.

That means if you can't show your ticket to a guard when requested, even if you did have a ticket on your phone, did have a mobile battery pack, did have a spare wifi hotspot for signal, did have a spare phone incase the first failed, and did have a spare finger in case of your finger suddenly falling off, you are still breaking the law, and can still get a criminal record and go to prison for it.

And due to the way rail companies are allowed to prosecute you directly rather than involving the police or CPS, you can be sure they will prosecute in these cases.
Wow! I have never seen it stated that well. I always said this one team got hero status for saving a contract that was horribly underbid in schedule and budget, so they proceeded to underbid contracts to recreate the success. If we treated heroics as a
red flag we would all be better off.
seriously how do I get out of this parody of a Bruce Sterling novel
EU budget is a “puddly” 150b/year. Still, with the vast difference in economic development it adds up to a 500+$ per person per year funding differences between several country’s. Which as you say is not going to change things dramatically in a given year, but it’s still meaningful over decades.

Of note, England negotiated a rebate before joining. So, it’s a demonstrated issue for them.
The NSA hires neither, but mathematicians, programmers, electronics engineers. But the secret lives of computers are more dramatic than any movie!
Depends on the tabs. I can get the Slack tab to eat over 6GB of memory if I just let it sit there without periodically reloading the tab... auto-reload extensions FTW.
I think a prerequisite for doing this would be an absence of power dynamic - like everyone with the same authority, pay, and upside - but I'm not sure even that is sufficient.

As a manager, to protect your team's emotional health your job is often to do the opposite of what the company would have you do. Rather than aiming for peak utilization, introduce slack time (the concept, not the app). Rather than prescribing duties, trust your team. Rather than encouraging them to go above and beyond, mandate they go home at the end of the day. Etc, etc. But I don't think the answer is to demand intimacy from them - instead, it's about giving them space to feel safe on their own terms.
This is insane.

No one is ever going to be honest since continually being seen as negative or passive can result in your colleagues/boss thinking you're a drag on the team. Or that you are being seen as weak and so not given important or interesting tasks.

Also a workplace is supposed to be a professional environment. I want to be discussing issues affecting my work. Not how we can fix my relationship breakdown which is the cause of my negative emotions. For many people who are dealing with significant issues e.g. death of a loved one a workplace can be a sanctuary for them.
suggest that a "token" instead of a PAN is used for the transaction

Maybe because people know the word "token" and don't know what a "PAN" is. Apple has built a trillion-dollar company by speaking at the level of its customers, not technobabble.
iPhone 8 - it feels super smooth
> IRC

You may have been doing this for long enough that you're pretty good at it. Most haven't.

Also: one thing are friends online, another is a random assortment of coworkers, who you may not have had the time to get to know that well, or have somewhat different personalities, that are all under pressure to get stuff done together, and quickly iron out any disagreements.
I'm starting to see QR codes on food trucks downtown that used to be cash only. Not gourmet ones but your average Chinese, Halal, breakfast/lunch etc.
> "keyboard/mouse-oriented UI and ergonomics and a touch-oriented UI and ergonomics cannot successfully co-exist"

I'm not sure that's necessarily true. Are you aware of Mac Catalyst?

https://developer.apple.com/mac-catalyst/

(Of course, the user experience will always be somewhat different on a small phone screen compared to a big Mac screen. But that doesn't mean you can't build an app that works well on both from one code base. And certainly an iPad app is not all that different from a Mac app.).
Because I have to use it for business, I also have a couple other paid email services that pull and archive all my Google mail, and I similarly mirror my photos/files.
The post URL returns a 404 for me, so here's the correct one:

https://n4r1b.netlify.com/posts/2020/01/dissecting-the-windo...
My last company did stuff like this all the time, and it always felt hollow and very kumbaya. I think there is a less cheesy and even demeaning way to handle people's emotions and disagreements.

This is probably a pretty personal opinion of mine though. I do agree with the mindset, just not the execution.
That is a 7 year old laptop cpu.

(Also if the demo is single threaded and not frame rate capped it probably eats as much of a single core as it can, and that's a dual core cpu so 50% checks out)
The "good guys" (telco/law enforcement) have strict criterias to access it, like court order. Thus it is regulated by the local government.

Meanwhile Huawei is supposedly actively created a workaround:

> U.S. officials say Huawei has built equipment that secretly preserves the manufacturer’s ability to access networks through these interfaces without the carriers’ knowledge.
Let's rewrite everything in JavaScript:

https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git
"write yourself a git" is an online book that walks you through implementing git in python.

https://wyag.thb.lt/
Anatomy of Linux process management (2008)
JavaScript Saved My Life
So? I literally just ordered this last thursday. It cost me $4.15: https://www.ebay.com/itm/323865336446
And that’s not really how Costco works. I don’t buy coffee there either, to be fair.

Yep. However I went in looking for coffee that Costco does stock (Peet's Holiday Blend) and only saw it pre-ground. I looked around for other roasts that grocery stores sell as whole bean in 2 lb packages (e.g. french, espresso, or italian) and only saw pre-ground on the shelf. The prices were on par with what Safeway charges off-sale.

Even for other items where I largely don't care about a specific brand the quality or price wasn't worth maintaining a membership.
And you get to invest the money in the mean time. If you manage to get a bunch of cards you can just roll over your credit and earn bond or equity returns on the deferred payment. It’s totally worth it, you can make thousands of extra dollars this way.
I'm suspicious that it's difficult to know someone's work-related emotional state if you're in a position to affect it. And are you in a position to do anything about it if you find that they are stressed? Just ask in a more-frequent one-on-one if you have an employee who is hard to read but be prepared to follow through on supporting them. And (assuming you are their manager) tell them your frustrations and stresses proactively to model what they are allowed to tell you.
Added that to https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-loginless. The company behind it apparently specializes in making these loginless useful apps, they also have TinySheet.com and TinyMonth.com
I'm still rocking MATE+Compiz on Arch and it's a pleasure to work with (as much as it was back in 2008). Really appreciate the work of all the devs who keep maintaining both of these to date.
> So basically dont buy Seagate.

Or do, because they're cheaper than the competition and modern systems can handle failures.
Thanks for pointing out SciHub. I never needed to use it because I had good access via my academic institute's eLibrary.

Out of curiosity I looked up some key papers in my area of MBSE and was able to find them on SciHub. In my mind that amply demonstrates that a non-academic researcher should be able to access many of the recent significant work in at least that area.
iPhone 6, so smooth. In Firefox, not that it's likely to matter on iOS
Companies could add anti-ghosting clauses, like an employee needs to give at least 1 day written notice even for the trial period. In that case if he starts working at another company on the same day when he was expected, he can be sued for damages.
Ah, yes, I wasn't thinking about throws during destructors. IIRC, that's considered bad form but not forbidden, and so a compiler would have to handle that. (Feel free to correct if I have that wrong.)

As to your first paragraph: That's just calling the base class's destructor if the derived class's constructor throws. That's easy - that's what the base class's destructor is for. It's essentially one function call. The harder part (or so it seems to me) is correctly destroying the only-partially-constructed derived class.
I've seen it demonstrated on local news programs, and sometimes I see TV commercials for metallic sleeves you can put your NFC cards in so they don't get skimmed.

When I had a Washington State combined driver's license/North America passport, it came with one of those little sleeves. So there must be some kind of threat, or the government wouldn't hand those out.
"Blockchain Wikipedia" exists and the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, was involved for a while. It's called Everipedia and it uses the EOS blockchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everipedia
Actually remote teams like Gitlab seem to have perfectly normal interactions. If you have a half decent video conferencing solution like Zoom then it's as if you're in the same room:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtZ0sc1HHNtGGWZFDRTh5A
> There was high profile case of an iPhone user who got fined over £600 because the phone died and they could not show the rail ticket to the guard on the train.

With certain NFC transit cards, the iPhone can now emulate them even when the main OS shut down due to low battery!
It's definitely responsive enough; performance is not the problem. It is software availability that the biggest problem -- Android doesn't even really have a decent desktop-class text editor. But email, web browsing, games, etc is all fine; I can multitask all these things in a Dex desktop.
Not a Chrome user, but didn't they recently bypass the system DNS in favor for their own? If so, a slow DNS could explain it as well.
Is it designed for general purpose computing then?
This is exactly it. RMS has been suspect for a long time. This was just he final, long time coming takedown.
Albion’s Seed is an important book. Highly recommend it.
Still waiting for when Firefox starts supporting Matroska container for videos. Right now it cannot play h264 recorded by Chrome as Chrome puts it in Matroska for some reason.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422891
unfortunately, this is true.
About time! This has been the single thing keeping me from making the switch to Firefox for my personal profile. The Chromium-vaapi patch works well enough to justify being my default browser so far.
I thoroughly enjoyed that.
KYC laws are going to make this a lot harder, perhaps impossible.
If only we could do this with the C++ spec.
Median YouTube views/subscribers ratio – 30% (among channels I'm subscribed to)
True, it's only minority-owned by the Cooperative Group, though it does supposedly now also recognise the influence of an independently-founded customer cooperative on its ethical policy.

[any fintech enthusiasts trying to think of a challenger bank niche the UK hasn't already got multiple heavily-marketed competing alternatives in might like to go down the ethics route...]
Isn't this how Git was originally done?
Yes, you can make a consequentialist argument within that system. But you can also make a recursion-free virtue-based argument.
Considering how frequently people use their devices while sitting on a toilet, I'm not so sure.
It was my suspicion that the change is a result of deliberate human action, but I am not a biologist or a farmer so that's not something I'm certain of. The trend, not the cause of the trend, is what seems more important in this case.
i/o, exceptions, system calls.. all these (usually) involve stopping the sequential flow of your program and doing something else.
Recently I found a cooking channel with 139K subscribers, but less than 500 views per new video.

I was confused and still don't know what's the deal, but to dig deeper firstly wanted to check if this channel really stands out and find:

— if it's unusual to have <500 views per video for 150K channel,

— if there is any visible relation between subscribers and views count.

So I used YouTube API to fetch data about all 346 channels I'm subscribed to and found that:

— some channels provide no stats, so after filtering them out only 333 left,

— having less than 500 views per video for 100K+ channel is unusual, and

— that in general 30% of subscribers watch new posts.

If you want to repeat the exercise with your channels, you'll need some basic Git and Python experience and get YouTube Data API key.

Post with more details on GitHub: https://github.com/efojs/yt_views_subs
It helps, but you have to turn on zoom and all agree to talk. It's a bit different from being in the same place all the time. Also there's usually an agenda to get through and less time for chit chat, and IDK... it's still just not the same as seeing someone right there, with all their body language and nuance in their expression.
I want nothing. I merely stated a fact, with which for some reason you seem to take issue.

The choice of database, much like the choices of the rest of the architecture, limit it in some ways. That's it. It's not a "red herring". And of course, other choices would have limited in different ways, no doubt.

By the way, the use case I was thinking of was updating pages over sneakernet, which is how information is disseminated in countries where Internet assess is not just censored, but also quite limited. TOR and other tunneling systems are no help at all with this. But like I said, I do not want Wikipedia to be changed. I just want to note that it's a limitation it has.
Back in the 90's Mobil had a little thing you put on your keychain that did this. It was shaped like a plastic tube about the size of a match, but thicker.

I don't know what happened to it. My guess is that since most gas stations are small businesses, they didn't want to pay to upgrade all of their pumps.
We're Underestimating Coronavirus
As mentioned by others, the limit was raised to £30 over 4 years ago. Although, there is SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) regulation in the pipeline. I received an alert from at least two providers last year, albeit it does not apply to Apple Pay or Google Pay. However, due to Brexit, it remains to seen, if the banks will continue to implement it, or maybe change it to fit a new framework or renege on this pledge entirely.

Every time you make payments totalling €150 (£127) since you last entered your PIN, the contactless transaction will be declined. And a payment will be declined every time you’ve made five contactless payments in a row.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/02/06/new-europe...
Personally I don't know. But you have to remember that most of the researchers at those bodies do have PhDs. Why don't you read up some of their papers and decide for yourself.

I think you should read @impendia's comment above. If you are really driven to do relevant research then grad school improves your chances of success.
Fintech: Working with Banks Is a Hustle
Nope! The choice of backend is entirely independent from the choice of front end. React pairs nicely with Django, Rails, Elixir, PHP... anything that can serve static files, basically :)

The only time it could start to matter is if you want to do server-side rendering of the React app, in order to serve complete static HTML for the first page load. It can matter for SEO and page load speed. If you need SSR, you need a backend that supports it. It looks like it's at least possible with Django, according to a 30-second google search: https://github.com/nielslerches/django-react-ssr (ymmv, that repo has 4 stars, so I dunno :)
To me, it's really simple. I don't throw the switch. I trust the five people to get off the %^$#@ tracks before the trolley gets there. And I trust the trolley driver to get on the horn to alert the five people that they'd better start doing so without delay.
In Australia I would say that about 90% of card transactions are contactless and of them a good 30% use some type of phone payment. Isn't even blinked at any more.
Related devices, where related mostly means "a computer that plugs into a USB port", roughly in recency order:

- Serpente, $15 Cortex-M0+ https://www.tindie.com/products/arturo182/serpente-a-tiny-ci...

- Somu, $35 Cortex-M4 https://www.crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu

- Fomu, $50 ICE40UP5K https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu

- GL.iNet GL-USB150, $30 MIPS 24K https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-usb150/

- Bash Bunny, $100 Cortex-A7 https://shop.hak5.org/products/bash-bunny

- Espruino Pico, $25 Cortex-M4 https://www.espruino.com/Pico

- IceStick, $25 ICE40HX1K https://www.latticesemi.com/icestick
I too am amazed. He wrote a code which will throw in 50% cases or already very fast code `(random() % 2 == 0)`. Hell yes, a huge performance penalty is expected. But what about `nullptr == fopen(..)`? I bet the performance penalty would be negligible here.
I wasn't aware of the plumbing / porcelain metaphor in git until now.

It's fantastic to what lengths some of us go for a good pun :-)
It's now officially named COVID-19 by the WHO.
You're not the right person to ask about this, but if Drew is around I would love to hear high-level details about what how this setup works and what the average monthly cost is.

I can see that it's open source[0], and I'm very tempted to copy it. I'm already in the midst of migrating all of my video hosting to peertube, but I don't have a solution I'm confident in for livestreaming other than Twitch -- especially because when in the rare instances where I do stream coding sessions they can go up to 5 or 6 hours, at which point archiving and storing that video starts to look a lot more costly.

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/live.drewdevault.com/tree
Probably not until you see ARM Apple laptops. Even then, I'd imagine they want you to buy that mac to do development. A better feature would be to have hypervisor on the Ipad Pro and be able to spin up linux or ARM based macos.
Apple Pay is great, but I wish it was more universally accepted at point of sale. But in the US we're not even at consistency in any form of POS payment method.

Disney World (Florida) notably spent a BILLION dollars implementing a wonderful contactless payments++ system called MagicBand. [1]

Last week I was shocked that at Disneyland (California), where they haven't implemented MagicBand, they not only don't accept Apple Pay or other contactless payments, they weren't even consistent about chip vs. mag swipe!

During one transaction, after unsuccessfully swiping, the teller told me to insert the chip in a tone like I've been living under a rock. I had defaulted to swipe after the previous 3 transactions had been. There was no post-it note like many businesses resort to.

If even Disney can't get this right in their highly-curated-experience theme park, I'm not holding my breath for universal adoption anytime soon.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband/
A big problem with slapping huge statutory damages / fines onto data breaches is that only the "suckers" will ever pay or even own up to it.

Recently in Washington State, a small research group at WSU lost a couple of hard drives that had PII data on them on order of 1 M people. They even had them in a safe; the safe was stolen and no real evidence of the data being the target of the theft was found.

Nonetheless, being good civil servants they scrupulously reported what happened and carried out required notification procedures to the million folks.

Their reward was to be sued for basically the maximum that their insurance would pay out.

How many thousands of times per year do similar things happen in private industry? Nobody knows. You don't even have to posit malice or a coverup; just think about how many times a year a hard drive backup of a database with a mere million records gets accidentally thrown away or sold off with surplus.
I couldn't agree more. It's like the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
Rust at speed talk from jonhoo actually adds some context around this project. https://youtu.be/s19G6n0UjsM
Their coding guidelines on the topic lay out the pros/cons and ultimate reasoning pretty well: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions
FF dev tools are on par or even better (IMO) than Chrome, but the last few versions, it seems they have changed/dropped sourcemap support so it doesn't work at all. I went back to FF a couple years ago, but now I'm disappointed that the dev tools are not working properly and will go back for dev purposes only. I hope FF gets it working. I'd file a bug, but 'sourcemap support not working' isn't exactly all that helpful. Anyway, it doesn't work on any of my apps and works fine in Chrome. I hope they fix it at some point as I think their dev tools are generally better than Chrome (esp. the console).
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a thing that happens. Usually because the cashier hasn't been trained.

These days I don't generally need to ask because the terminal have very conspicuous Apple Pay logos on them. But sometimes the terminal is kept behind the counter, so you can't see.

I've had several occasions (most recently at my vet) where I was told that it wouldn't work and I said, "Let's try it anyway," and it worked just fine.