skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you’re assuming that people can work in libraries, cafes and other places. these places are barely ever conducive to jobs that might require you to hop on a call at a moments notice (which is far more common when in remote) or handle sensitive data.

moving to a cheaper location also usually means giving up a lot of things that urban life comes with as well. you cant expect that everyone is going to be happy with that decision
We don't need a rise in social clubs there are already plenty. Find a hobby to share with people works fine.
It does mean different things to different people, but there's a relatively common understanding of "America" as an idea. Interpretations of America generally have a lot of overlap, even if there's some difference. Our rights are pretty much a central pillar of the concept of America, and if they aren't inalienable or taken seriously, then America is fundamentally lost. Even if people have a different idea of what America is, that doesn't mean their interpretation is congruent with an objective viewpoint of America, especially if their idea is prescriptive.
It's not a good chance at this point, it's the height of naivety and ignorance to assume that this isn't actively occurring. There's absolutely no incentive for it not to occur and there's significant incentive for it to occur.
Why would Netflix make it easier for people to cancel?
Wordpress/Automatic is a fully remote company.

Considering that the number of total active websites is estimated at over 1.3 billion according to a survey published by Netcraft, that means that around 455,000,000 websites are using WordPress right now, which means that around 20% of all self-hosted websites use WordPress.

So I’d say they’re doing pretty well for themselves.
Not supported on MacOS.

You'll have to load Windows on Boot Camp to play.

Annoyingly, you aren't informed of the limitation until after you sign up for an account and install their store and client software.
Any compiled language for Linux really don't have these types of issues. Go, Rust, C, C++, Nim, etc.
CIV6 was the first civ game I've played that I wasn't hooked on. I don't know if its the gameplay, the AI or what but I just didn't care and regret my purchase.
Actually this is good news for rework and other co-working spaces. Many of the employees of these companies will prefer working from a co-working space, myself included. Most remote companies are already paying for it.
> (FYI DanG is a paid mod, not a volunteer, which is probably why he's so calm about it, even though he get's riled too: read the New Yorker article about him)

If anyone else is interested, here it is:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Some interesting stuff in there, though I would love to read more about the behind-the-scenes tools they use to search and keep track of everything.
> but I do know what Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson from Imperial college created in his flawed modeling - a world wide panic.

You don't think the tens of thousands of deaths in Italy, Spain, France, and the US had already caused that panic by the time his model was released?
received my free crime pass just today
Check out playthroughs on youtube like Marbozir or just any youtube guide
It’s different strokes. I have never been as productive ever in 5 years of in office work. I find picking up a phone and calling people is just so much quicker than walking over to someone’s desk. Couple that with the fact that I don’t enjoy the office environment means that I hate you cletus for typing out this drivel I clearly don’t agree with and care about.
The auto loan industry is an incredible bubble about ready to explode.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MVLOAS

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DTCTLVENANM

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/STDSOTHCONS
Intervening doesn't have to mean attacking China directly.
Have you seen what the College Board charges for AP testing? I think it's a cost of doing business and they can afford to pay a reasonable licensing fee to process the test results. If they can't, increase the test cost by another $5.
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WW1 ended in 1918. You could theorize that maybe the pandemic made peace.
There's a theory that it caused WW2: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/woodrow-wilsons...
Creating the Federal reserve bank closed the loop. The politicians and corporations are able to control the whole system of money/power independently of what any outsider wants.

Print the money, give it to your friends, buy/create the politicans, make the laws, enrich yourself, repeat the cycle but with more power and wealth this time around.
Ah. Understood.

The Patriot Act is the problem. We knew it at the time. Sounds like we all agree on that point.
"America" means different things to different people.

Well there's one qualifier right there. The American Mythos of "all men are created equal" has failed to line up with the American reality for quite a long damn time and for reasons that don't require much more effort to "qualify" than is needed to lift up an arm and point at a history book. It's been qualified, documented and analyzed thoroughly enough that the qualifiers should be abundant and "self-evident"-to continue the trope of quoting directly from the user's manual.
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> I live in NYC because I want to live in NYC.

It doesn't make NYC sound very appealing if working from your home in NYC is hellish.

Working from my home in the Bay is actually quite nice. The best part is getting an hour of my day back because I don't have to commute to work. That 1 hour commute probably added more stress to my day than any other hour.
I don't think those are all because of telemetry so much as bad product management.
Well, obviously couchsurfing doesn't mesh well with a polished and lovely dedicated workspace. That's not the point.

The point is that remote work allows you to carve out that lovely workplace just about anywhere as opposed to being forced to some arbitrary and thus by definition suboptimal location.

I just rent houses in nice places by a sea. Mediterranean usually, but also Goa and Caribbean and whatnot. I think the shortest strech was two months or so. Median is about a year or two. At these time scales moving 30kg or so of equipment isn't much of a problem.

A desk and a chair - now that I prefer to DIY, desk from some local wood stock, chair - take a nice leather auto seat from some local auto salvage shop, mount it on an office chair's base. Done in an evening, costs almost nothing, much superior to every overpriced office chair, usually given away when I move out.
I think one of the dynamics that we need to look at is the formation of cults. Cults are dangerous literally because persuasion is asymmetrical. It's not a matter of "Oh this guy persuaded these people of this stuff, and you just need to set them straight", once someone is in a cult it's close to impossible to pull them out of it.
Are those hours commuting completely wasted? I listen to far fewer audiobooks/podcasts...
Victory lies etc...
When I get up from my desk and walk to the kitchen, I have to open the fridge and decide what to eat. In contrast, when I was visiting on-site at the office, each day's lunch was pre-planned by someone other than me, made by someone other than me, and all I needed to do was walk up and add food to a plate. Not having to expend much thinking on food was such a luxury, even if it didn't also have the benefit of chatting with coworkers.
It is not subject to CORS, same as any regular img load isn't, but the browser will send an Origin header with websocket handshakes, which you're supposed to check server-side.
On the Epic store? Too expensive.
> You can actually read the article instead of just scratching your head, it goes through the numbers on how they are not being approved for assistance loans at nearly the same rates as white-owned small businesses.

It doesn't (it actually doesn't provide any stats on white-owned business nor even survey results). It merely implies it based on results from a survey of black and Latino business owners.
I'm not saying that everyone who seeks high karma scores is like this, but astroturfing PR/advertising firms will pay real hard cash for accounts with an established history of trust from the community. I've read many stories from people who have gotten private messages from such places with an offer to buy their account. Or perhaps, like gallowboob, you want to parlay it into an actual social media gig (UNILAD for him).

I do believe for most people though it's just a sort of fame-seeking thing, for whatever reddit 'fame' is worth.
Exactly.

As the saying goes "talent is evenly distributed; opportunity is not."

I've known lots of very smart people working what would be considered dead-end, or at least, lower-end jobs.
Opposite for me, I like Civ 6 far better than 5. Give 6 another run with some of the popular mods.
This is, one of, the problems with everything being chromium...

And why it is paramount to not use any chromium browser whilst we have a choice to. Luckily, you don't have to give up on anything.
Personal opinion, Civ 6 gameplay feels like it sacrificed some personality in the name of balance. Civ bonuses are more muted, so it feels like less personality.

It introduced interesting new systems, but the agenda system usually feels more annoying than actually offering interesting long term strategic options. Same goes for religion, the religious combat mechanic is too fiddly, leading to me mostly just ignoring it.

Civ 6 is a deeper game, but for whatever reason I can't put my finger on, it was just a bit less fun.
You can also read the same story in the South China Morning Post if you want to see a different angle:

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3085412...

Two Sessions 2020: Beijing will announce resolution for national security legislation for Hong Kong to proscribe secession, foreign interference and terrorism
Keep in mind in the old days people were probably arguing this exact point when saying we shouldn't invite people arguing to free slaves or let women into higher education, because "they are so obviously wrong it's harmful to even listen to them, African Americans do not have the mental acumen to survive in the wild, slavery is compassionate! You're arguing for their deaths!"

Anytime people argue about having a authoritarian dedicator style of hard line "DO NOT QUESTION THIS EVER" should remember you might end up on the other side of the fence.

We should always listen to the other side. History has shown people can believe ridiculous things for a long time and treat it as common sense.
That's an interesting one, but mostly because it's tied to the collapse of the Soviet Union at the same time. China is not anywhere near the same state of affairs. Poland was also a relatively small economy and war power.
Facebook to Allow Remote Work
If we’re talking about LA or NYC I would agree.

In the case of SF almost every 20-something I’ve interacted with is here primarily for career and plans on relocating at some point.
FYI, 6 feet distance indoors does nothing if you're sitting in the same recycled air in the same enclosed space 8 hours a day.

That rule is to prevent spread from strangers in grocery stores etc during brief contacts
create-react-app may already be doing so according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259803

EDIT: Nope, exploit worked for me against webpack-dev 3.10.3 used by react-scripts 3.4.1
He was caught red-handed doing it so he could get the karma. He was called out by the orignal poster who was not just the original poster, but the creator. He proceeded to ban that user and anyone who commented in support of that user.

I feel zero sympathy for gallowboob whatsoever.
Amazon for now
I worked on project very much like this last summer, a transformer language model applied to code completion.

You'd be surprised how easy it is to get a model that performs as well as what you see in the video. And it's even easier now that people have built great libraries for fine-tuning generative language models.

I encourage you to try it yourself! There are many interesting extensions for people to explore:

- Use bi-directional context (vanilla GPT-2 only sees backward context)

- Integrate with semantic analysis tools.

- Experiment with different context representations. You condition the model on an arbitrary sequence of N tokens. It's not necessarily the case that you should spend that whole budget on the N tokens that came immediately before. What about including the imports at the top of the file? What about the docstrings for functions that were just used? What about the filepath of the current file?

Don't look at something like this as though watching your job be automated away. Look at it as a tool that you can master and use to move up the stack.
Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus
I would shell out money for DLC that just added good AI. Computer players are so important for a game with friendship-ending potential.
How will this result in an unban? Nobody ever gets unbanned. What you said is emblematic of the problem.
Supported on MacOS through Steam.
the surname of the researcher, tenOever, seemed really odd to me, but I found an interview he did a few years back and looks like he's a real person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCXuaLXHP4
It’d be nice if the bitcoin community put their brute forcing power towards something meaningful like brute force factoring of RSA keys. Sadly, that doesn’t make money.
Robot dog tries to herd sheep
The software industry likely is also among the industries with the highest amount of WFH already.
What if you take it up with them politely and this is their response? https://imgur.com/a/jhmGXzJ
> Is it so unreasonable to propose that many of the prematurely-ventilated might have survived, if not for their ventilation?

Yes, because we've stopped intubating people so early and they're still dying.
It is not my job to provide usage feedback, and it is none of their business what I choose to do with my own hardware.

If they want to understand how people use their products they can perform usability research. If they want me to participate in such research, they can offer to pay me for my time. Snooping on me with embedded spyware is not acceptable.
GallowBoob tells a sad story, but the fact remains that they and a few others had far too much power. They were arguably also spread far too thin. So altogether, I'm not sad to see them go.

Also, their behavior deleting posts and banning users over discussion of this issue has been egregious.
I'm a bit confused about what it is you think has been abhorrently bastardized.

There are

1. well-behaved programs that do what I tell them to do,

2. programs that surreptitiously send my data to an external party without being told to.

I thought we were calling the second category of behaviour "telemetry" (or "spying" when we're not being polite). If not, what is the correct terminology?
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It is stated in the Sino-British Joint Declaration that "The [HKSAR] will be vested with executive, legislative and independent judicial power, including that of final adjudication." [1] So it's unclear how this can be legally imposed unilaterally on Hong Kong. That said, the proposed law appears to be one which the HK legislature is required to pass under Article 23 of the Basic Law, which states "The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organisations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organisations or bodies of the Region from establishing ties with foreign political organisations or bodies." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Basic_Law_Article_23
You don't describe your product or service on the site.

As such, this is spam for a vague mailing list.
> "disorder" is in fact just the tail end of a normal genetic distribution

This is pretty much the fundamental question that psychiatry has grappled with since inception: what distinguishes "disorder" or "illness" from healthy but aberrant behavior. Over the years, we've seen homosexuality, being black [1], and increasingly today autism, all be considered "normal". Right now, the big one is how you determine what is sadness vs. depression that requires treatment. There isn't a clear answer yet. But all of these designations are inextricably tied to social/cultural mores.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/witness/201011/how-t...
Allowing conversation isn't tough: FB and Twitter would literally have to do less than they do now.

Creating a culture where people are willing to have uncomfortable conversations instead of trying to silence anyone they disagree with is the hard part.
I prefer the way that FB does it. If you share information that is false, they overlay it with a warning saying that the post is probably false and let you click on it and view it.
Great summary of the issues. I'll add that a nice part about having JRE on Youtube is having a comments section. Spotify does not have any kind of comments section.

#4 is a pretty big deal to me as I'm in Korea and Spotify is not supported here. I don't use Spotify mainly for that reason. I know I could use a VPN, but that's too much hassle only to listen to JRE (also I'm not aware of any quality free VPNs, and don't care enough to pay for a subscription).
18F released a pretty good guide about these topics but I can't shake the feeling that many organizations aren't willing to learn these lessons. https://github.com/18F/technology-budgeting/blob/master/hand...
That link in your first line is redirecting me to 127.0.0.1 (localhost).
I expect you’re familiar with Knuth’s literate programming and notebook-style programming interfaces of Jupyter and Mathematica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

https://jupyter.org/

Re. Lispy langs, agree about improving readability of the actual words by visually deemphasising punctuation. So many key presses to say so little; only traditional C syntax beats it out.

(Alas, nothing can ameliorate C’s swathes of needless line noise, except to stop making languages with C-style syntax. Baby steps.)

I don’t quite agree about structure editors—if there’s one thing 10,000 years of the written word should tell us it’s that the writing part needs to be flexible. Better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. It makes more sense for a code authoring tool to accept (and execute, within limits) the initial imperfectly constructed text, and from there negotiate edits and corrections with the author—a literal editor, if you like.

Another thing I’d like to see syntax highlighting do: provide multiple semantic views onto code beyond just crude grammatical categorization of words. Why can’t I have a view that colors words according to the library they came from, or any other high-level categorization? e.g. Show me all the words that have side-effects or perform “dangerous” operations. Or distinguish all the words relating to string manipulation, or accounting, or UI.

Embarrassing? Honestly, it’s painful the lack of innovation going on. While I’m gradually exploring some of this stuff in my own work, I really wish others would step up to the plate. I’m lazy and very slow, and would far rather smarter people do all the work so I can just enjoy the results.
Facebook says it will permanently shift tens of thousands of jobs to remote work
Usually with Civ, don't play it until the second expansion is released. That's when it's stable and improved enough to be a great game.
>They want to work for [Google|FB|Apple|...] and to do that they need to live in the Bay Area.

This doesn't check out. All of those companies have large offices elsewhere. I agree with your take that you work in NYC because you want to live in NYC so that's where you work but your bias is showing that you can't consider that people feel similarly about the Bay Area.

As one data point, I chose San Francisco when I had the guaranteed option to work for the same exact company with proportional pay (stupid high relatively speaking) in my hometown. People with options move where their quality of life is maximized -- that's the beauty of having options.
Yep. Google also offers a lot of "rich cards" in their search (interactive things mostly) that are only available on Chrome .. unless you change the user agent of another browser to Chrome, in which case it also works perfectly.
But there used to be a stigma around wearing glasses.
I will acknowledge that this is the best community-minded argument for having children that I've seen, but it also has the distinction of being the least convincing on influencing personal decisions. You may as well be selling me on a Ponzi scheme. Your argument presents raising children as if you're farming a resource to ensure our half-asses social safety net doesn't collapse.

This point is not lost on me, but it does lose some power when I'm working for actual systemic change that doesn't create such a stratified, ponzi-scheme style social structure. I'm not going to be a human resources bot to keep the SS fund liquid (which is a far larger problem than just me), but I'm also not just sitting around watching the world crumble without taking action.

I'm sure we can yadda yadda yadda our way into the inevitable debate about the parallels, perils and pitfalls of a society built on unending economic growth, but let's not. A broken system creates an obligation to fix the system, not keep it on life support with my sex organs.
I played a little bit, but what really made the beginning hard for me was that Barbarians suddenly "get away" from you. In V and earlier, a Barbarian came, your warrior killed him, fine.

In VI the Barbarian is faster than you, so it gets out of sight quick, and from then on you get one wave of Barbarians after another.

Also, I didn't understand the mechanics of the new religion system, but I think I got it on a basic level at least by now.

In some ways, I like VI (the district system can be infuriating, but is basically a good idea), I like the graphics, as well, but I never got "into" it as I did with V.
But one thing I don’t really understand is (as someone outside the US) ... how do you really type code (like BASIC) with that thing? The ones I’ve seen had really weird alphabet layouts, and I couldn’t understand how can students be able to be productive with such a finicky device.
I advocate for remote pair programming where the less experienced person is in control of the keyboard and sharing the screen and the more experienced person just explains what he has to do and watches him learn and apply that knowledge.

My team and I have been doing this, I have been in calls with a more senior team member that was helping me (I even got some Vim tips alongside with the explanations I was getting for completing the task).

I also recommend doing pair programming with people on somewhat the same level as yours as you can help each. You can divide a task in two and work in half the task yourself while the other person just watches and comments and then the other way where you watch and comment and the other person has all the keyboard and mouse control. This helps with reducing distractions and it offers the same advantages of Code Reviews but in real time.

Do not do this every hour or even everyday as this is more mentally intense then focusing alone and I think focusing alone also offers great improvements in learning. A balance of the two is key!
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Looks like Facebook is announcing the same:

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10111935689155051
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10111936118050541/
Facebook to shift to remote for some areas