skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working remotely as a programmer for 7 years, but I still find that even in the current situation, a lot of companies insist that once the current crisis is over, they NEED people on-site. I'm still waiting, and hoping, for the fabled "remote work is the norm".
An introduction to Loki, the Prometheus-inspired open source logging system
It lives on in web APIs
Not at all, I'm actually quite happy with all the comments, ideas and feedback I've received on this, really encourages me to keep improving the project
I was assuming after widespread adoption, some friendly obscurely worded legislation and the current supreme court.
My wife is a plant pathologist and mycologist and had a similar opinion: "some interesting bits, is too preachy".

The SAH has always seemed empty to me. If you don't propose an actual mechanism, do you even have a hypothesis?
Both? Github, originally, Gitlab, more recently.
IIRC, Kant said that "true" reality is unknowable. Our faculties for understanding reality are constrained by constructs like space and time, and so any truth about reality that lays beyond those constructs is likewise beyond our grasp.

I'm not sure what poststructuralists in general have to say about "true" reality. I take your word about what Baudrillard was getting it (it fits with what I've read about his writing and his activism, and the one or two essays of his I've read), but the legacy of poststructuralism--the body of thought unified by the notion that the reality we experience is socially constructed and arguably "arbitrary"--is a skepticism and even cynicism about the existence of objective truth. Poststructuralism didn't invent skepticism toward or rejection of objective truth, but they gave it an embodiment that at least superficially fits into our modern scientific age.

I have read Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism", written around the same time as "Simulcra and Simulation" but arising in a completely different scholarly niche (international politics). IMO, it provides a more descriptivist, concrete explication of constructed social spaces and how we conflate them with "reality". After reading "Imagined Communities" you easily buy into the basic thesis that culture imbues our physical space with meaning and substance, often completely subsuming whatever "objectively real" characteristics we might use to describe things or events. And so it's easier to see where Baudrillard is coming from. But it's also easier to see where Baudrillard and other French poststructuralists go off the rails with unnecessary claims and conclusions. Notwithstanding the diversity in claims, they all basically seem to turn what Anderson deftly makes a trivial and obvious (in hindsight) observation into a pretense affirming their own personal beliefs--for example, tired and entirely predictable continental leftist ideas about the class struggle.
When I was a manager I'd always just say to the people under me that they where driven, until they actually started to be motivated. It's a great little trick that made everyone happier, works on teaching programming too.

I don't think it's that easy as self-motivation as a scale, it's all about the environment and task that makes people the most productive.

I always want there to be someone with insane amounts of grit and ask how they do it. Insane amounts of grit would be:
- Six pack and can run a marathon when old.
- Recognised in their field.
- Earned enough through work (not through the insane rise in housing prices)
to be able to stay in their home for a decade without working.

Checking all these boxes, would be the master of grit.
Political discussions can't ever be very high-quality when they're open to literally anyone who wants to create an account. All it takes is enough activation energy to start flaming. But there are still many topics here with political overlap (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...) that it doesn't make sense, or wouldn't work, to exclude.

Thanks for the kind words about moderation.

(We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23158853)
This is really overdramatizing things. People in the region are no less healthy with the factory open, unless it’s a pollution source or something.

It’s not like a meat plant where people are working with wet protein items all day long. They are probably more spaced out and socially distanced in the factory than they would be at home or visiting their local supermarket, hello kitty store (Daiso), or car detailing shop, all of which are allowed to be open, and are in fact open in Fremont.
People who actually care can drill down into the appropriate codes and see that your derisive tone is wholly unsupported by fact.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164535

You have an ugly habit of trying to silence critique by talking down to people using specific claims and relying on their inability to research when it is your claims that are false.
Agree that it is an enticing and certainly plausible theory, but it doesn't seem to line up with the actual events of Gavin visiting the CIA and Satoshi disappearing right after that, even if you grant them n-dimensional chess plot mastery, unless Gavin was either a mole all along, or inexplicably turned into one.

Edit: I won't delete this, as I think it's an interesting discussion, but I immediately realized they could have just been playing Gavin all along. And his scene with CSW certainly highlighted his gullibility. Hmmm...
From an implementor's view I decided to not implement Gemini as it is specified, because I do not like its text/gemini default format.

They should either decide for a specified full file format, e.g. CommonMark or HTML5 (with index.html as default routes) or don't try to implement a file format inside a network protocol at all.

In my opinion, file structures (and layouts thereof) should have nothing to do with a network protocol.

The reason why the web exploded was because HTML was the best technology to allow custom web pages, and more importantly, while in parallel to allow them to interlink. If either of these two aspects are separated, the concept won't work for the discovery and exploration of new content.

Remember the sparkling unicorn gifs and construction animations everywhere? That's what the web was about.

I do not agree with how JS has exploded over the years, hence the reason for writing my own web browser/scraper/proxy [1] - but I do agree with the "why" HTML5/CSS3 makes sense for themselves while ignoring the scriptable aspects.

For me, as someone trying to build a web browser, the text/gemini concept makes it super-hacky and very much prone to future errors to integrate it with the rest of the web. Faking and rendering another file format (based on the runtime environment) should not be its recommendation.

A much simpler approach would be e.g. simply using "gemini://" for resources inside an HTML(5) file.

Additionally, a killer feature for HTTP/1.1 is the continuous download of files that have been partially downloaded. While I think the practical implementation of 206 ranges is pretty messed up (looking at you, nginx, who cannot count the amount of ranges requested), I do agree with the positive aspects of it.

Something like this has to be integrated into a minimal network protocol, otherwise it cannot be adopted in mobile/2G slow areas.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/stealth
The elites will always be able to secretly transfer money around with the help of the government. What they do not want is for average people like you and me to be able to do the same.
Oh Dear identified a certificate problem at a large CDN provider
Tangent, but the killer app for VR devices is space sims with a joystick, something like Elite: Dangerous.

Space sims are the only thing where you realize there’s no going back once you do it in VR.
Both I think. Met a Github guy at a conference once and he told me he worked remote.
The yaw axis certain is. Probably the difference between X-Nadir-Normal and XYZ frames.
Your quote directly contradicts you. And way to cut out the context of the quote

> Ancient Greek philosophers disputed whether the seat of consciousness was in the lungs, in the heart, or in the brain. The brain's pre-eminence is now undisputed

Yeah, everyone agrees consciousness is in the brain. Not exactly news. What's worse is if you just keep reading you'll see that the answer they come to is pretty much a cop-out. What exactly interacts with the thalmocortical system? Well, the cortex for starters:

> the cerebral cortex is subdivided into systems dealing with different functions, such as vision, audition, motor control, planning, and many others.

In other words, basically half of the functions of the brain. This is barely a few steps past where the Greeks got 2000 years ago. The closest we have is it's probably this highly connected system in the brain. But not much more than that. And a quick Google search shows this is not exactly a small piece of brain. The researchers are basically doing guess work. Now I happen to think it sounds like a reasonable hypothesis. But it's a far cry from understanding where the consciousness actually it's located. It's barely more specific than "your noggin".

Now, I don't claim to be a neuroscientist... But I have full faith that there is nothing magical happening in there that we can't model with a neural graph.
The faded beauty of abandoned cars across Europe and the US
Should self-driving cars be required to have a failsafe where under specific parameters of disuse and remaining power they drive themselves to a repair or storage facility, like my robot vacuum does? Probably not.
I generally welcome this but I feel bad for the boutique banks that were providing this service: now they've taken all the risk and proved it's profitable, JPM etc will swoop in and take the business.
I thought HolyC was God's own programming language.
I just sold my house by owner (high end home) inside of a week for significantly higher than market comps. For anyone willing to do 20 hours of work and spend a grand or two, this will save tens of thousands of dollars.
Wuhan to test entire population after new virus cluster: State media
This was solved in the sequels. The real world in the first movie turns out to be just another layer of the matrix. You can try to peel back these layers but you can never know when you’ve reached the centre of the onion. Thus the real and the representation have been blurred together completely.
I'm unconvinced. The current WFH environment is not representative. It's only been a couple of months so the effects aren't fully understood and we are still in the honeymoon period. More importantly everyone has to work from home so there is no comparison between people who are WFH and those in the office - when WFH goes back to being a choice, I think we'll remember all of the frustrations remote workers had at non-fully remote companies.
Surprised they don't have a computer do this.
We did that for about a month in 2015; made it for Songkran. It was pretty great. Frustrating with time zones and car pollution, but otherwise solid. Ristr8to remains a favorite.
You've missed that Tesla was already negotiating to open up one week from now. This is a 7-day advancement of a plan that was already likely to happen with complete legal support.

We could still debate the moral wisdom of resuming production with significant additional safety procedures. Tesla is communicating that they've managed to do this successfully and safely at a similar factory in Shanghai.

There's really three aspects to this:

(1) The wisdom and timing of resuming normal activities with sufficient precautions (and if not now, then when?)

(2) The specific legal problems of doing this after the state has allowed re-opening, but before the county has done so, and one week before it would otherwise be allowed

(3) Musk's seemingly-irrational and spastic way of communicating his intents and opinions on Twitter

The US debate on the quarantine measures is so polarized it's ridiculous. I personally disagree that all nonessential economic activity involving face-to-face contact should be shut down for >12 months until a vaccine might be ready. So it follows that a return to workplaces that can mostly be made safe must happen at some point. Should this happen when it's safe, or at some predetermined point in time? Who decides? How should companies behave if their competitors choose a specific strategy?

I was the first person in my area to call out for social distancing, shutdowns and quarantines, even before any official response was in the cards, so please don't write me off as a right-wing parrot for pointing this out. The US response was atrocious, cost hundreds of billions and tens of thousands of lives already. But now it's the reality we have.

Musk's apparent Twitter insanity is its own story. I think it's mostly relevant for the court of public opinion. He obviously has other motivations for his tweets than seeking the truth, but his plays are quite rational. He has a history of framing reality in ways that aren't compatible with the most objective interpretation. Calling it lying would generally be an overstatement, but some of it has been very dishonest.

In this case, the most likely explanation is a strong wish to not lose the competitive position of Tesla, along with playing an existing political divide to build support with the right-voting population that would previously dismiss him and Tesla as liberal tree-huggers.

This is actually a decent marketing strategy in the social media, Twitter-fuelled post-truth world. But as many other things Musk has done over the years, both in public and out of it, it's a balancing act on the edge of the abyss.
To Revive Air Travel During Pandemic, Bring Back 747s,A380s,Use Federal Subsidy
Yes, I think it's a great idea. I'll work on this through the weekend and update the website with other feedback received. Thanks
HTML is for document/flow.

Only with flexbox it became kind of usable for "apps". But still, the widgets are not native. You can keep emulating and emulating, but it's very easy to spot and quite frankly super annoying.
One of the early hope for Bitcoin was that Bitcoins would be 100% "fungible", as in : one coin is exactly like another.

Unfortunately, because the Bitcoin blockchain is fully transparent (all transactions can be seen by everyone) that assumption has turned to be largely incorrect: where you coin comes from matters a great deal, and if it came from a suspicions source, it is "tainted".

There are numerous effort to fix this gaping flaw (Monero, ZCash, the various mimblewible based coins, and even some efforts in that direction on the Bitcoin chain like coinjoin), but tracking where from an where to money flows on the Bitcoin chain is still very easy today.

Coinbase is taking full advantage of that to rub the regulator the right way.
Yes its faster, for majority of cases.

But if you overload the bridge, you not only hit a bottleneck, you hit an async bottleneck between your UI code and native. Very rare for that to happen in my experience, and well worth the trade-off.
Replace j p Morgan with Rothschild's and that's more correct!

You know, JP Morgan, 79% owned by Rothschild's, funded white star liners, the people behind the Olympica,titanic and the unbuilt Britannica.

JP Morgan and friends were meant to be on that maiden journey but cancelled the day before. Others on that ship were opposed against the formation of the federal reserve bank and died.

6 months after,the formation of the federal bank went though! Also, white star liners were refused an insurance payout over an accident testing out the titanic engines so it was a way of getting that too.

See, these people do multiple things with one stone, 1 way of spotting their work. 9/11 and building 7 where the billions of debt was held and disappeared.

Every fucking time!
If it's got a smaller percentage of on-line users on it, is it really peaking?
> haha jokes on you now JPM!

The joke is very rarely on the banker.
Not much, at least here. I was a Sublime Text user for years. I tried Atom but it was an ugly, janky mess. I switched to VScode quickly after its release because the features it provided over Sublime Text were worth it, and the performance was good enough, even though not on par with ST.
This depends on how much coronavirus ends up spreading among Tesla employees in the next weeks.
The hard part is doing everything written down instead of talking about it over the desk. And a lot of people hate writing.

Also chat tools are causing huge distractions and work needs to be better organised than that.
> The main problem with a "concious AI", I suspect, is that nobody will actually want one.

Why do you think that? Can't accept "fake humanness"? or maybe ego(superior) or not relatable

The one thing I wonder if they were truly sentient why would they care/try to serve you
I'm not 100% sure but I think the slack design can be achieved in wxWidgets. Yes the native apps look bland but why would I use an app that requires 500M to play music?
You severely, severely, underestimate the complexity and business value of a CRM
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Many other businesses of the same size are probably already doing or will do the same, but it is Tesla who is always disgraced in the media.
Lack of propellant limit makes this game fairly trivial after you "get" it.
I only watched part of that interview, but it was cringeworthy how eager Joe Rogan was to try to impress him. He only seemed to agree with him that the response to COVID-19 is an overreaction without any pushback.
The actual paper is Open Access and linked at the bottom of the article. After a cursory read (I can't read it thoroughly, there is far too much story telling in both the "introduction" and "discussion" sections), I suspect this is merely an artifact of bad statistics combined with Munchhausens Statistical Grid.
Is there another way you would define Grubhub hosting restaurants on their site without the restaurants permission so they can skim money off the top?
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Absolutely, but I thought I was talking in the context of grocery stores, not e-commerce giants without comparable alternatives.

I am very skeptical Amazon would be able to take significant market share from Aldi, Lidl, REWE or Edeka.
I hear you.

WFH without a choice to come to office is pure suffering. I really miss the interactions with my coworkers before COVID. I also miss time I can grab a book from the shared book-self and find an empty office and just do reading for one hour.

If I have a choice to go back to office, I will take it anytime.
A Short History of Color Theory
Tock To Go only charges 3% for this service.
I have seen its use in Symantec. They were happy with the performance and the looks even though limited. It does a few things and does it well. Comparison with electron is not appropriate here as its like an OS altogether.
This time is not a great example of Remote working, it would be as sad and stressful (maybe more) if you were forced to live in the actual office and share the same space with all your coworkers every day without being able to leave.
on top of the actual stress given by just looking at the current state of the world.
People don’t care. The vast majority of people don’t ever use their computers for anything heavy, so it’s not like saving a few hundred mb of ram is going to be noticeable for them. It’d be nice to have a lighter, more performant app but if the cost is that it looks like what you posted (no offence to the dev of ripcord; IMO qt and gtk stuff always just looks super outdated) then I’d bet most people would prefer the more modern/pretty looking app.
I can't really help you much here. When I first needed it few years ago I did google search and found bunch of articles on motor control (from Microchip I believe) that also had some designs, Once I understood basic theory I then designed my own circuit that after few tries worked fine. It is highly specialized for my particular product.

What is out there now in open designs I have no idea as I do electronics extremely rarely. I am developing mostly software products.
I'm currently living in Switzerland and I was going to post something along these lines.

That being said, in the US there are also plenty of interesting grains/lentils/legumes available in stores thanks in part to inherited culinary traditions: cornmeal, corn masa, wild rice, couscous, black beans, pinto beans, various types of quinoa, various types of lentils, etc.

Spelt seems less common there but there isn't a tradition of cultivation of it so that makes sense. I do think the bean selection here in Switzerland is lower than I would prefer, but a few specialty stores mitigate that.
"... we don't even know how to measure all of its properties at the same time ..."

I assume you're referring to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle [1]. If you are, then this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of it. The uncertainty principle describes a fundamental property of quantum systems. It has nothing to do with our measurement technology.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
I used to do that, but nowadays I tend to sign things on iPad. When using the stylus it looks exactly like it was hand signed (even without the stylus, I can just zoom way in and make it look kinda hand signed). The pdf is of course not scanned looking, but nobody had complained yet.
Nearly every native UI framework I’ve touched allows for a rich customized look of UI components. Often this means subclassing an abstract view thing that opens a toolbox of fine grained drawing commands.

Your examples of boring native UI is the result of developers that don’t bother to exploit these features for whatever reasons- probably because it can be extremely time consuming to build native custom UI and adds mental overhead unless one has/is a dedicated designer/artist.

I’m not sure which part of the Slack UI you believe can’t be done natively? Flat colors or the revealing menu?
From browsing the docs, it looks like scripts can open sockets so it makes it much easier to jump from exploiting an app's Sciter frontend to attacking other targets
We're not just working from home, we're working from home while there is a pandemic
Please tell me this was somehow inspired by “The Good Place”...
I don't usually have cash on me other than a tiny amount for emergencies, and looking at my Facebook page I see a smaller and smaller portion of my connections are online regularly.

To me a business that is only on Facebook doesn't exist as far as I am concerned.
I like the Prolog story "PROably the Language Of God"
I can heartily recommend Teamcity for anything CI. Comes fully baked (i.e. no plugin hell), has nice handling of inheritence and exposes all the options in a still manageable UI.
> ..78% of the world’s food all flow through SAP?

Having worked in food industry as IT about 20y ago, we used to have fragmented system portfolio, and were struggling to pull data from one system to another. The around 2002 management decided to switch to SAP. I remember working on the storage/capacity/CPU aspect of it (and mid-migration I left the company and completely missed on the SAP train in my career). That food company was providing milk, yogurt, cheese, juice, ice-cream to about 25mil people (customer base). That's SAP for you right there. So that 78% doesn't surprise me at all. I believe the remaining 23% is too small to invest that amount of $$$ nad just hasn't done it yet.

When you get the ability to "track every cucumber" from pick to sell, cut down on fraud, errors, be able to calculate every bit of profit, loss, why would you go anywhere else? I understand the initial cost may be hefty, but once you set it up (good and well), you can stop focusing on that, and see how to grow the business parts of your business, and not the admin.