skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's odd to me that they would give current local employees living in high-cost areas a significant incentive to not transfer to remote when a remote worker arguably costs significantly less to employ. The costs keeping a building in a high-cost area are huge and increasing constantly. Moving those costs (rent, utilities, etc.) to the employee is a major cost savings.
>Media format support will always be a chicken and egg problem. You got to start somewhere.

Funny thing to say in support of Apple. Maybe they should support WEBPs/WEBMs instead?
I think the idea that it needs to be tested before just jumping in and trying it somewhere is just a way to state that you don’t support it. Which is fine, but just say that.

If there had been the same testing requirements around say Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism we’d never have seen any of them rolled out.

At some point you have to buy in to the ethos and goals and be prepared to adapt along the way.
I had the same trouble. It's a poorly written headline, the scrolls themselves did not perform the reveal.
This is Manchester, UK, not Manchester, NH nor Manchester, VT.
So here's what she said:

- Prioritizing supply to healthcare workers is of the utmost priority

- Current evidence supports wearing a mask if you're sick to prevent spreading droplets, also wearing a mask if you're in close contact with a symptomatic person

- Masks can provide a false sense of security.

Her final statement is "if people try to use these measures, they have to be really, really careful and wash their hands, absolutely. That's the key. So we're also worried about the potential negative impacts."

All of that is sound advice, and it is dangerous to think that a mask will protect you without any other precautions. But it isn't a statement that one should not wear a mask, fullstop. It's a statement that one should still follow other cautions. IOW, a mask isn't a magical solution.
Git pull request review strategies from three dev teams
HOAs are the vanguard of unreasonableness. What I’m more concerned about has nothing to do with HOAs. It’s zoning, design review, and scores of other unreasonable laws that impact even those of us who aren’t crazy enough to join an HOA.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. Internet threads can't handle denunciatory rhetoric without collapsing. It's the way the medium works, and we have to consciously compensate for it, if we're going to keep curious conversation going here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's what they did.[1]

Also, you didn't answer my question about punishment.

[1] https://nypost.com/2016/01/03/how-chinas-pregnancy-police-br...
What company do you work for? Do they have any openings?
The kawaii style was a few years ago. It’s all about the blob people now.
This doesn't provide any view into pros/cons tho. Mostly statements about what happened and is happening. Not very useful from that perspective.
What's your point?

If you are developing an application/website and it doesn't work with 50% of your market share- then you are a dumbass for not implementing it.

ESPECIALLY for an AP EXAM with consequences.

This isn't like "oh no, 50% can't reach our site about cat videos". This is an EXAM.

Honestly cannot believe people on here defending them not adding simple image support for 50% of the testers...
This is only so if the complaint I always see here that people don't read the articles is false though.
> Indeed, they probably don't censor the people who are truly insane because that's obvious to any viewer. They only censor the people who say things they don't like.

Alex Jones?
David vs. Goliath Microsoft and an Obscure KDE Project Fight over “MAUI”
Because replacing all other forms of social welfare is completely impractical from a political standpoint in either the short or medium term. It would involve huge societal changes that would require most people to rethink how government works. That isn't something that would happen quickly. If you are a UBI proponent, you can either spend multiple decades fighting that fight before you see any progress or you compromise on a more feasible implementation.
I totally agree with you. The general negativity towards remote work seems, to me, to reflect a lack of imagination about how our lives, and our societies, could be organized in a world with more remote work.

The potential reduction in housing cost alone(one of the largest inhibitors to developing wealth for most Americans) should be a massive cause for celebration. We can stop orienting our lives and our cities around commuting (and therefore cars) and start focusing on people.

People complain about the loss of the workplace as a social environment. What about the opportunities to create new social environments that aren't centered around work?

I wrote more about this here, if you're interested https://manyfoxgiven.com/2020/01/21/remote-work-promise/
As long as people realize that virtually all of these distributions are experimental, either as a testbed for ideas that may find their way into mainstream distribution or on a slow path to adoption to become mainstream, the diversity is a good thing. It removes the shackles of compatability that hold most operating systems back.

Unfortunately, the developers of many of these experimental distributions don't seem to acknowledge that they are experimental distributions ...
> If you don't police enough, then users have an expectation that anything goes. When you do decide to moderate behavior, you experience a backlash because you've changed stances.

You experience a backlash from some users, sure. If most users consider it a positive change, then no big deal.

> When you're a moderator, there's often very little that you can do that won't generate backlash unless the user in question is so toxic that the community as a whole agrees they need to go.

This seems to be assuming ban-like tactics. They're a poor option and I don't favour them.

> Your idea of random promotions to mod status w/ limited mod terms is an incredibly bad idea as well, because the moment a bad faith actor gets promoted to mod your entire community will quickly go up in flames.

You're making a lot of assumptions:

1. There's an innate equilibrium between the cardinality of the mod set, the probability that it contains a bad actor, and the probability that actor can cause appreciable disruption. The larger the mod set, the less likely a bad actor can do anything meaningful. You can likely make this probability arbitrarily small if that's a likely threat model. Tandom appointments work quite well to increase efficiency in various consensus-driven systems [1].

2. Mods shouldn't have absolute power. There is simply no way that a single mod should be able to destroy a whole community, any more than a bad judge in the legal system, or a single bad politician could destroy a city, county or state.

3. A transparent appeals process is always needed, in which other mods and community members review mod decisions. It took us millennia to develop our robust legal systems. Technology can eliminate some of the bureaucratic inefficiencies of the legal system in this setting, but it still contains robust patterns that should be copied.

4. You're assuming an open signup process which is vulnerable to DoS/brigading tactics. Maybe there's a way to allow open signups too (with reputation systems), but it's not strictly necessary.

5. Various reputation systems can be overlaid on this, and this interacts well with transparent judgments/appeals process, ie. someone with a long record of violating conditions and losing appeals would be less likely to be given mod power (but never 0%).

In general, today's moderation systems are intentionally vulnerable to a number of problems, because sites optimize for growing a user base rather than fostering community, because that's how they raise money.

Consider something akin to stack overflow, which randomly shows you messages to review or triage. Every now and again you get 5 messages or mod decisions to review, and you vote your approval/disapproval. This narrows the gap between traditional mod status and users status, where true mods would be relegated to reviewing illegal content that places the whole community in jeopardy.

Of course, there might also be considerations for avoiding the tyranny of the majority, but my point is only that the space of possible moderation strategies is considerably wider than most seem to think.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037843711...
You’d imagine that’s what will happen, but you might be surprised.
Yes, it’s that simple. It’s already super expensive as is, it’s gonna to be even more when half of the population stop working. We just not rich enough yet.
> Companies (e.g. Mozilla, Gitlab, now Facebook) often forget another side of the coin - "less expensive areas" most of the time means worse quality of life.

Exactly. Also, if you live in the “middle of nowhere” or even outside a major metro area on the east and west coasts of the US, the quality of healthcare substantially declines. Considering that the third leading cause of death in the US is preventable medical errors, living outside of these areas can literally be a death sentence. It is only a matter of time before it is likely to become the case for an individual, healthy or not.

As somebody with 2 rare neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, plus type 1 diabetes, remote work helps tremendously. But, living in the boonies would literally, in no exaggeration, kill me. So, I need a salary that allows me to live in a major decent metro area, plus allows me to pay for my healthcare. That is non-negotiable. Every day, working in the US is looking less appealing. I can legally work in select places in other parts of the world, and plan on leaving the US. There are other places in the world that have universal healthcare, that do not have huge disparities in quality across similar geographical areas.

You can find out more about healthcare quality worldwide and the US by examining the data on http://HealthData.org
Because Andrew Yang is a people pleasing demagogue, who operates under 'everyone deserves the same number of basic goodies' and 'I am here for the under-privileged' as his core messages.

Facing reality without cherry-picking problems the rich create while ignoring the problems the poor create would undermine his ability to people please the poor and get elected.

It's all bullshit - I don't know how many Obamas and Yangs it'll take for people to realize that there is no benevolent politician that can make the problems of the poor go away without having the poor change their ways, the same way there is no trainer that can make you get in shape without you working your ass off.

UBI or not - smart/creative people would rather not live among or deal with self destructive, dangerous dummies. Self destructive, dangerous dummies are being very actively replaced by robots who don't have the downsides of human beings.

The only bargaining chip the dummies have, is that they are still necessary for the infrastructure to function. This power will be eroded away, until one day, the dummies' only argument will be that of a street beggar - won't you spare some change? And the smart/creative class will throw some change their way, they'll call it UBI.
What will you do with your new free time?
Libertarian leaning myself, sad to say, this is the first time I am now in full realization that monopolies do in fact exist and are very dangerous. Platforms like Youtube are beyond ubiquitous and we all depend on them. The companies behind them have more money than countries. That, combined with the tax free private foundations their founders nearly all have, is taking us down some very bad roads. Of course, those roads are always paved with the best intentions and for our own good. I think it is well past time government step in and limit the power and control mega corporations flex on their platforms and on our public policy in nearly all matters.
There are just multiple opinions on remote work. Simple answer is that there is no right or wrong - it just depends on each individual case.

There are people that would benefit from remote work - they might like living close to the mountains, no commute and they can still stay very productive while fully remote.

There are also people who don't care about mountains, live close to work and are more productive while working in the office among other people.

Both groups are right in what they value most, and as long as there is no detrimental effects to the business/employer - both seem like good options.
Well, environmentally, the preference is that humans live in dense cities & leave as much untouched nature as possible.

Remote work may have as devastating an environmental impact as the automobile (if not more).

Just wait until 250,000 of your fellow outdoor enthusiasts move to Wyoming...
Heads up to anyone who doesn't already know, uMatrix[0] can be set up to block websockets by default from 3rd-party and/or first-party domains. In the UI, websockets are grouped under the "xhr" column[1].

I'm a pretty big Javascript advocate, but I do recommend advanced users run uMatrix and consider disabling at least 3rd-party JS by default. uMatrix is a fantastic tool and it really doesn't take long to get used to. And honestly, a relatively large portion of the web works with only 1st party Javascript, and a surprising chunk of the web still works just fine with no Javascript at all.

This is also why I advise advanced users to run Firefox. uMatrix isn't available for Safari, and it's looking extremely likely that it'll be at least underpowered in Chrome once Manifest v3 comes out. Or I guess run Brave or Vivaldi or whatever. Dang kids running around with their hipster browsers, I can't keep track of them all.

The point is, even though I'm extremely bullish on the web as a secure application platform, part of the reason I'm bullish is because the web makes it relatively easy to take simple security measures like disabling scripts by default. You should absolutely take advantage of that, you should absolutely be disabling at least some Javascript features when you browse.

You can even globally turn off fingerprinting vectors like WebGL[2]/Canvas[3] in Firefox, and just swap to a different profile whenever you want to visit the rare game/app that requires them. Although with more and more people trying to embed their own DOM models in Canvas, maybe that'll be harder in the future.

[0]: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/The-popup-panel#the-...

[2]: about:config -> `webgl.disabled` -> true

[3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967895
> They don't care about image as they can suppress and buy PR - Tibet.

Yes and no. China is almost crazily touchy about their image. They claim that it's an insult to their nation if anyone admits that Taiwan exists as a separate entity. You can't even mention Winnie the Pooh in China, because some people use it as a derisive label for Chairman Xi. (Imagine having the NSA notice every on-line mention of "Orange Man", and ordering the hosting site to remove it.)

Now, they may not care about their image as much as they care about suppressing Hong Kong. But the rest of the world can make them pay a price in terms of image - a price that China seems to find rather painful.
> The survey allowed multiple selections.

No, amongst 5 choices (strong negative, negative, neutral, positive, strong positive) you can't select multiple choices from those.
I mean kids do grow-up you know? Unless your 18 years olds still do nothing.
Unless you have a stake in the "exotic investment schemes", you missed the boat on selling out a generation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HzSAmOQuyjU

We can replace New Zealand with the US, Canada, UK and Austrailia and the story is almost exactly the same (even the bad actors are consistent).

Take the money and run (now that WFH/WFA has gained ground).

Running in place financially does not build character, contrary to popular belief.
Vacationing Woman Thinks Cats Miss Her

https://www.theonion.com/vacationing-woman-thinks-cats-miss-...
This is just a forced wealth transfer to people who have managed to partially capture the government.
It's a tired saying, but no less, true if you aren't paying for it you are the product.

There are no social platforms that are VC backed that aren't going to at some point resort to the lowest common denominator of making a buck at someone's expense. And when you aren't paying for the product, then you are no longer able to control that exchange.

Google started off with Don't be Evil - now they force adverts from your competitors on your registered trademark and force you to advertise your own company name or lose customers - meanwhile for Google's products, no one can advertise in the same manner.

Facebook - well - that one is too long to even dive into.

Twitter - has done ok, sort of - but the problem with it's no policing policy is pretty rampant harassment that is also dealt with in an inconsistent manner.

That's why paying for something you create an exchange where the company providing that service has an incentive to keep you happy, not some advertising company. There is also competition that will naturally spring up, competing for that dollar.
They could just be efficency apartments or have a shared community kitchen or something. No need to dive into semantics, the argument is sound imo. High rise public housing works in other countries, in some cases they are architectural marvels and not prison cubes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edif%C3%ADcio_Copan
It depends I guess, here the average income is 656 euros. Internet and phone services are especially cheap, food and others not that huge of a difference in my opinion (depends where you shop tho). I live in Romania if you wanna research further.
Iceland plans to welcome back tourists by June 15
Gentoo: Project: Council
You can also directly listen or subscribe to his podcast here: https://yangspeaks.com/

I refuse to support what Spotify is trying to do to the podcast market.
I mean, if you extrapolate that, developers in US should really earn min wage as you can get someone in a developing country with a lower wage no matter what
>What happened?

Every single proposed UBI was either insufficient to cover people's basic needs, obscenely expensive, or both. That's what happened. There simply isn't enough tax revenue, even if you seized 100% of the wealth and future earnings of the wealthy, to provide a basic income sufficient for most people to live off of.

Also a lot of proposals would have ended up giving the poor and elderly less than they get under current programs. And the claims of reduced overhead wouldn't have made much of a dent in things either, IIRC admin costs for Social Security are less than 1% of what the actual payouts are
White people who have never been around black people are more likely to hold racist views. Straight people who have never been around out gay people are more likely to hold homophobic views. MLK understood that to change the image of black people as dangerous, he had to get black people shown behaving peaceably on TV. Harvey Milk understood that to change the image of homosexuals as foreign and strange, he had to show people that gays were their siblings, their children, their neighbors. What makes you think that social media has so fundamentally changed humanity?

Trump is president, the American Nazi party is growing, the most popular news network in America is Fox News, the anti-vax movement is growing; and the primary evidence that deplatforming works seems to be a study that shows that bigots left Reddit and declares victory, completely ignoring that Voat started at the same time. If you want evidence, where's yours?
Very interesting. Same happens with some Spanish names, for example "del Rio" ("of the River"), "del" is a conjunction of "de" and "el" ("of" and "the"). But most people have accepted their names being "wrongly" capitalized - in the example "Del Rio".
This is why you use VMs with their own network interfaces to do development in
So the blog should have articles on how to set up and log into Service X using React! This explains why I see so many of these!
> using spreadsheets as a prototyping tool and letting those who understand the business hammer out the logic, before handing off to developers, is a great approach. A working spreadsheet is definitely the best requirements doc in the world

Just FYI, that approach definitely hasn't been my experience. A spreadsheet at a moment in time doesn't encapsulate users' true requirements (and they won't tell you what their real requirements are when you ask).

My story: I built a more "robust" version of the spreadsheet, with a normalized database schema, the very hottest UI framework, etc., and exactly the same logic. Some of this got pretty complex, of course: copying and pasting a bunch of cells is easy on a spreadsheet, but a hassle to build in a custom app. So it took some time.

I came back and showed the app to the users and found that the spreadsheet had actually changed quite a bit. Columns had been added for a new team, the widget approval process had sprouted some manual overrides, and more (the lack of an effective spreadsheet diff tool or change management prevented me from knowing the complete story).

I went off again, updated the app for the new process, came back to a changed spreadsheet, etc. We iterated for quite a while before the developers and the business gave up in frustration. The breaking point was when we were asked to add a calculation engine to the app so that users could add columns of cells with new formulas. (That's when I decided to leave that job and go help build a better spreadsheet).

Spreadsheets don't feel robust to developers, but business people do not feel that pain. If robustness is the main selling point of the replacement, I'd make sure that business users are screaming for robustness. I'd want dollar-signed disasters that were the result of too much flexibility.
Only the rich would benefit.
You are missing the point.

Yes, I fully agree with you that they have the right to remove whatever content they want. And I absolutely don't want that right to be taken away from them. However, I disagree with how they are currently utilizing that power, even though they have full rights to do so.

It's kind of similar to how I support the 2nd amendment rights and don't want them to be taken away from people (including open carry). But I disagree with how certain people use it during protests by open-carrying at the airports or in front of the city council building.
I'm not sure I'm buying the argument that PRs are a repository for institutional knowledge. But I do think thorough reviews are important if you work at a company that has a lot of customers and cares about quality.
First off all, I have not said anything about "investing". Its obvious that bitcoin is controlled be massive whales that swing the price.
But how is that different than FED pumping money into stock market? All of the stories about 'boys club' doing blatant insider trading.

The thing is every game is rigged and you must be actually delusional to think otherwise.
The "invisible hand" of the free market is real and is there always stacking odds against small and weak.
Ask HN: What do you think of generic payment mechanism across paywalls?
I like to read articles, especially ones that top the HN list. However, many of them are behind paywall. I can pay for 1-2, but don't want to pay for all.

Is there any app/market for someone to build a generic paywall integration? Pay upfront for articles and just click one button to read on a paywall.

Apple news and Google news are good aggregators but sometimes they won't have the article I want to read. Are there any alternatives?
> Productivity as an employee is about meeting a bar

This is the path to mediocrity and leaving tons of money on the table in much of the tech industry.
This is a viable way to overcome lots of things. All it requires is hella privilege.