skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest positive to companies going all digital especially at Spotify's scale is the cost savings.

The problem with companies that have started in Urban centers is that many of their employees don't have the "extra" bedroom in their house to be able to accommodate for this new work from home scenario.

This is especially true in NYC. Where apartments are usually significantly smaller than anywhere else. And if both adults in the house hold are working from home, often times one of them ends up in a closet taking zoom calls.
Well, here's one that's not.
From the article: "law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and CIA can continue to look through the browsing history of American citizens without the need for a warrant."

There is no evidence that they have been doing this. The objection to Section 215 is that a FISA court could in theory say that they can, not that they are already doing this.

It then links to an article about an amendment providing additional oversight that mischaracterizes it as providing additional surveillance powers (there are no additional surveillance powers in that amendment) that can be politically abused.

In short, it's a sensationalist article from a blog with no editorial standards.
The drivers aren't necessarily more dangerous. They might just be driving more dangerously with less traffic. It's easier to die going 80 on the freeway than if you're stuck in gridlock.

I think we can at least agree that the statement "the roads are safer" is false.
What's surprising isn't that a company like Shopify is going remote-first.

It's that it was ever not remote-first in the first place.

The now-passing era of startups and big tech companies centering their workforce around physical offices will be looked back on as one of the most strange and illogical aspects of early 21st-century business!
No idea if the claim is true, but that's exactly what you'd expect from "pockets of immunity".
The denominator decreased much more than the numerator.
Yes, makes sense.

Per-acre of per-bushel support doesn't work as well when many folks hold such little land. The money required for subsistence is constant per person. Smallholders may not be able to do non-farm work to make up for their low farm-based pay right now.
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Any sites you'd recommend for connecting with students/parents overseas looking to learn English?
Being an extremely British culture, HK residents are almost entirely pacified and disarmed. If you want to have inclusive economic and political institutions, you need to pair that with an extremely bristly population to make China's strategies economically unviable.
> Especially with the .NET implementation we had quite a lot of trouble. Its not following current .NET patterns and has strange quirks.

It would be great to get specific, actionable feedback with your experience, either via a message to the rabbitmq-users mailing list or via a GitHub. The .NET client is an old library but considerable effort into improvement went into version 6.0. The plan for 7.0 is to address old patterns that remain in the library. Feedback would help guide that effort.

I just released version 6.1.0-rc.1 and would appreciate testing if you have time. Thanks!
Exactly. Instead of going out for lunch I can pop over to the grocery store for a few things and grab a sandwich while I'm there.
I have no doubt that believing dumb things can cause you to make bad decisions. I just don't agree that being wrong is "dangerous" in the normal sense of the word, and I don't think that banning people from saying dumb things is a good or effective solution.

It's another story when people are actively running interference. I've seen messages like "don't go to the doctor for your cancer", and I agree those should be suppressed. But that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
This is what I'm personally looking for, are there some kind of tutorials how to configure nix in an organization to do CI/CD best practices etc.
You really do encounter people who think like this with their finances.
The United States used to be an example to the world. As a nation it used to take its founding principles seriously. That started changing during the cold war and became most obvious post-9/11.
...they work as hard to save convicted pedophiles don't think their incentives will change for donors.
Thanks for sharing. Kinda sux, especially for all the work moderators do (and thanks to dang for the hard work on HN!)

Free speech is hard. Really hard. Allowing communities to express themselves in person (aka pre-internet) was much easier, because there was a cost to appear in person (time, society's perceptions, etc).

With the internet, truly anonymous speech has flourished, and much of it really is a waste of time or even damaging.

I hope as a society that we will be able to figure out this conundrum without eliminating free speech. I think that just like credit cards accept some bad debts, we have to be able to accept some bad actors in speech - the trick is limiting it without killing free speech.

To me, communities like reddit, HN, FB, twitter, etc are all huge experiments in free speech and how to manage that problem. Hopefully it turns out right - I don't want the future to look like East Germany.
It is not hard to specify what you are collecting.

If that is such a big task maybe not doing it in the first place is the reasonable thing to do.
There was a huge wave of immigration from HK in the 90s because of this. Children of these families resented their parents. Hopefully, this vindicates the parents.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was another wave of immigration away from HK. Of course, the poor and uneducated are trapped.
Its extremely unlikely that China is going to "take the ROC without firing a shot" after the disaster Hong Kong has been for them.
From memory of articles surrounding this, it was the failure to add a provision preventing warrantless tracking that was scandalous. It is unclear to me if that implies some court decision that allows it without that preventative measure.
The only thing I want for PostgreSQL is a better backup/restore. SqlServer is so easy. You backup a database and restore it and never have any issues. You connect the users in the instance to the users in the database and away you go.

PostgreSQL will allow a backup and then epic fail on the restore if you don’t have users and roles etc pre defined.

It’s the hardest thing to achieve in PostgreSQL.
Sure, everyone has different preferences, which is why I think it would be ideal to both have a substantial amount of people working in the office full time, and also have a substantial amount of people working remotely full time. From the tweets I have seen, it does not seem like this will be the case at Shopify, since they said "The future of the office is to act as an on-ramp to the same digital workplace that you can access from your #WFH setup."
That's neat. Just it just blow it up into a struct?
The show Mr Robot kind of does this. While there is "hacking", they make a point to have the main character explain most of what people think of as "hacking" accounts is just social engineering.
I looked at some of the deleted comments, and there was no reason except hubris to delete them.
I'm surprised you don't remember the Rabbit of Paris Metro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Paris_Métro
(maybe they changed it?)
Would a gimbal/stabilizer be helpful here? Or any other hardware solutions?

Of course it wouldn't solve the problem, as you still have the other hand that has to touch buttons. I ask because I recall seeing a "smart" spoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiVQcgmIi08
Banning is more like pruning weeds than pulling out weeds.
Which almost nobody does

Because they're not asked.

There's a reason that gathering feedback from IVR and web sites is a multi-million dollar industry. It asks people, and they respond.

There's a sports quote about "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." The tech industry has to learn that it misses out on 100% of the feedback it doesn't ask for.
What are some examples of British-ruled HK citizens having less freedom than today’s PRC citizens?

From my limited knowledge, the government of Hong Kong was quite liberal, which created its large economic inequality, low literacy rate, and high spot in the freedom index today. Many would argue it was too liberal in some senses.
This is basically just a repeat of how other platforms locked down code execution on their devices. Hopefully TI is incompetent enough to make jailbreaking trivial, but it opens up a cat-and-mouse game…
It's possible. Lots of people don't like working remotely. They might lose a lot of valuable employees. I suppose over time they might also attract people who prefer working from home exclusively, but they would be losing many older employees with valuable knowledge. One way or another, there's going to be some kind of pushback. Many people threatening to quit, many actually quitting.

The cynical part of me thinks this is a way of trying to save costs (of renting offices) and pass this as some kind of politically correct virtue signalling. We so care about your well-being and we're so forward looking!
Israel did it best, if you opt-out you are still a organ receiver but anyone registered as organ donor on queue has higher priority than you.
While I don't think being able to sell your organs is immoral or unethical, there are practical ramifications that makes it difficult to agree with your position.

If organ selling is legalized, poor people will be coerced by force or by money. And they may not realize the full health implications of that until much later, where they have no recourse.

As a society, we generally try to prevent people from entering such unfair contracts, e.g, you can't agree to become a slave, or establishing ceiling on interest rates to limit predatory lending. People willing to sell their organs are probably desperate enough to agree to anything, and saving them is worthwhile.
The scary takeaway here, in my opinion, is the draconian measures the US is expanding while everyone is too busy worrying about COVID-19 to notice.

The very tactics that "taking the red pill" support. The NYT does it some justice with extensive background information—which the author of this article, it seems, doesn't consider. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/elon-musk-tesl...
> Interesting that a slightly reworded version of the same article is also currently on the Washington Post home page.

The byline of the linked article is: "Anna Fifield and Shibani Mahtani, The Washington Post"
That's an interesting point, I would guess they'd have no choice but to switch to condos or flats.

But then if everyone is working anywhere why on earth would you live in SF.

And why would companies hire in SF if they can pick up comparable talent at a fractional price from Romania.

Lots of questions!
That's a strange way to think about it.

More likely it was a dark matter particle (e.g. WIMP) that just happened to interact with the earth on the way out.

Since they didn't find sparticles at the LHC and the parameters of a possible WIMP means there will be less "naturalness" in terms of the mass scale of the WIMP. It may be that the universe doesn't care about "naturalness" and that a lot of cosmology since the Guth era has been solving non-problems that people have convinced themselves are problems.
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'USA signals plan to take full control of Native American Nations' is a closer analogy....and just as unethical.
The obvious middle ground is syntax that is clear to the compiler, easy for a user to write but harder for a reader to parse at a glance, aided by syntax coloring to make all obvious.

Many programming languages use indentation-based parsing, yet no language adopts the convention that left-justified is a comment, indented is code. I've used preprocessors for years that provide this for me, in languages such as Haskell. I only gave up to more quickly use other people's tools as I switched editors.

Despite using dozens of languages since, the bulk of my lifetime has been C. There's an increasingly lame argument justifying its awful use of punctuation to avoid whitespace significance: Code can be sent through pipes that poorly respect whitespace. My memories of C punctuation are ground glass in my eyes, yet many new languages try to look like C to better attract programmers suspicious of the unfamiliar.

Comment characters in any language are ground glass in my eyes. Syntax coloring can mute these characters, but they're still there. They don't need to be there; syntax coloring can instead emphasize what's a comment, what's not, after inferring from more subtle programmer cues.

I also removed parentheses from Lisp. I tried everything to wean myself from this, believing the experienced Lisp programmer's creed that "you'll get used to how the water tastes in this city!" Fonts where the parentheses are lighter, syntax highlighting where the parentheses largely disappear. Then I'd look back at my parenthesis-light Lisp code, and I'd realize I love reading it more than code in any other language I've ever seen. The truth is that parentheses are just the dumbest, most dated way to indicate trees to the compiler. Editor tools do just fine with far more subtle cues. Lisps have been on the wane for decades, and this is a profound intellectual loss. Lisp programmers insisting on talking an Algherese dialect of Catalan is one factor.

We need to recognize that our norms for programming language syntax predate the prevalence of modern editors, language servers, syntax highlighting. I'm 64, and it's profoundly embarrassing that we're not further along than I dreamed we'd be as a grad student in 1980. We all thought the future would come a lot faster. Tree editors that only create grammatically correct code, aided with machine learning prediction? We're creeping up on this, it should have been the norm decades ago.

Joke or not, designing languages with syntax coloring in mind is a great idea.
Aside from the likely fact that “his” account is run by multiple people considering it’s his actual job to repost on Reddit... he definitely “outed” himself for news articles. He enjoys the fame and not the consequence.
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We're talking about 1920 though :)
Yeah it's a bummer---the problem is commuting not mass transit, and even then the problem really is healthcare policy, as evidenced by denser cities elsewhere that have fared better now and in previous epidemics.

My temporarily hope is to switch tactics and go more streetsblog.org focusing on pedestrian and cyclist issues. It's not a sustainable policy to exclusively focus on those, but hopefully it's an acceptable lie in the short-term. (Cars being workable is also a lie, so hey, at least not stopping lower than the enemy.)
While I'm an organ donor and don't take the supposed risks of that seriously, I don't think your argument is a good one. Not all surgeons are wonderful people. They're only human after all.

A simple web search for "surgeon charged with" will reveal that sometimes surgeons do things they shouldn't, just like members of any other profession. How do you square "They are beyond committed and passionate" with surgeons who rape their patients, or knowingly perform unnecessary surgeries out of greed? You can't.
It's a shame for the people who need transplants, but reducing accidents is overall an improvement. Fewer people are dying overall. If we were approaching this from the opposite direction, nobody would suggest that increasing the number of cars on the road would be good because it would increase the pool of organ donors.

The bigger issue is buried in the middle of the article: we lost out on possible transplants because of lack of COVID-19 tests. There's no upside to that.
I wonder which OS you are using. I would definitely recommend Qubes OS from what you wrote.
Is that practical with the sheer number of different drivers/updates that can be delivered through WU? And wouldn't they get the information anyway when they see your machine in the access log for the update files?
Elsewhere online, someone planned to "lose" their guns while fishing if the government ever wanted to take them. Who's gonna bother diving into a lake to prove one person is lying?

In your case, it's even worse if the gun really was stolen - Now a "bad guy" has it. Most people can't even keep their Twitter passwords safe, much less a weapon.

I would like for good and responsible people to own guns, if only I had ever met any good and responsible people.
Barring that, use something like Wireshark to see exactly where this stuff is being sent and block it at the firewall/router level.
Thanks for posting this. Mainly because of the discussion it brought.

Basically: airing of unscrutinised claims is propaganda, not news, even if done with both sides.
Note that Beijing limited Hong Kong’s democracy since the 60s, threatening invasion.

See the following articles for the historical context [1][2]:

"Even in the '60s and '70s, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London attempted to introduce democracy and free elections only to be told by Beijing, including by Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, that under no circumstances would [China] tolerate a democratically elected Hong Kong because they saw that as the first step toward independence," she said. [1]

"These documents … show that not only were the Brits mulling granting Hong Kong self-governance in the 1950s; it was the Chinese government under Mao Zedong who quashed these plans, threatening invasion." [2]

[1]: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/why-didnt-britain-democrati...

[2]: https://qz.com/279013/the-secret-history-of-hong-kongs-still...
If you’re trying to “rationalize” a decision, that’s already a red flag. Also, Kafka and RabbitMQ are intended for different use cases. One is (the log component of) a streaming data processing system, the other is a message queue. Figure out which kind of system you need before deciding on a particular system. BTW, if you need to really scale, Apache Pulsar is designed to handle both scenarios.
Even this is too little criticism. Why do banks not implement an open standard with credit card processors, that allows the bank to talk directly to the processor and do a direct "push" transaction that I authorized, instead of having to "pull" money out of the card I'm giving to some shady site?

Hell, even having disposable credit card numbers that were locked to a single merchant upon first use would basically eliminate card fraud.
NodeRed or Apache NiFi can help a great deal with that.

Both are great at posting and reposting (on and off Reddit, or between FB, Reddit, Twitter, etc), along with controlling botfarms.

edit: Seriously, why the downvotes? We had a NiFi post a week ago. And those of us who do OSINT and investigative work also use deanonymizing techniques. We automate our defenses as well using similar.
I couldn't agree more. Remote meetings are useful, but I would quit if my company made it the default. I've done fully remote for a total of 3 years. I found it stifled communication and limited my ability to develop friendships and personal connections with the people I worked with.

Even as an introvert that enjoys my alone time, fully remote would be a deal breaker for me.
If the glaring problems with SF were fixed, this is still one of the best places in the world to live quality-of-life wise. Weather, accessibility to some of the best nature in the world, great food, entertainment, etc.
Note that TI-89 is a different “family” of models, which is as far as I can tell still OK with that :)

Of course, they’re only really still relevant because teachers and a number of entrenched institutions (College Board…) keep it that way.
Again, it's not a company selling face masks. If they did that, just said "here's our face masks for sale" it would be great.

Instead, it's a platform that incentivizes affiliates to markup face masks. Like, there's no value add here.
I completely understand friend, have done the very same
SoftBank is a big beneficiary of the Fed's pandemic response
I’m baffled what could motivate someone to get so worked up or angry as to go find strangers from the internet in real life and I’m sorry that’s happening.
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I believe certain site features are gated off to prevent manipulation such as up/downvoting until users reach X points
"Civilized protesters of HK" set a man on fire because he dared to express his own opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kz1YNPD_M
This is almost off topic... but can you explain criddler?

I think I’ve spent enough time around people on meth and bicycles to probably understand it - but I just don’t get it yet.
1. No, people weren't predicting that the virus would "get tired".

2. Even if we generously interpret this as meaning that the virus would be less infectious in warmer weather, the only evidence we had pointed to this as only a possibility, rather than something we could predict.

3. As summer has begun in the Northern hemisphere, we still don't have any good evidence that the virus is less infectious in warmer weather--certainly not in the Southern US where the disease continues to spread unchecked.
I've never understood this line of thought. Things used to be bad, and it sucked. Then, they got better and that was good. But now if it gets bad again it'll be okay because it used to be bad? Regression away from freedom is always a bad thing.
Maybe I'm missing the joke, but even if you use printf() in C you are using C standard library.
Thanks - I remember being really struck by that spoon too. I don't think her shakes are bad enough for that currently though, and it feels like the first step is Siri / dictation and a stylus, and we can take it from there.
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The economy.
This is worse than "kawaii". JP mascots actually pleasant to look at [1].

[1] https://mondomascots.com/index.php/category/japan/
While an official list of customers can't be published, you can get some ideas from the speakers at the last two RabbitMQ summits - https://rabbitmqsummit.com/

Also, see the following articles:

Laika - https://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2019/12/16/laika-gets-creative...

Bloomberg - https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/rabbitmq/keynote-growing-a-...

Goldman Sachs - https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/rabbitmq/keynote-scaling-ra...

Softonic - https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/2019-01-18-softonic-userstory...
Incredible. I wonder, how different were sub-cultural an social aspects, versus the Bay?
Minor nit: Shopify, not Spotify. This mixup happens frequently.
> The default window manager cwm

Just a slight correction, if you meant the "default" as in the window manager that starts on a freshly installed system: It's not cwm but fvwm. With that said, OpenBSD ships with cwm and it's trivial to switch between the two, but they are very different.