skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can second this type of experience. When I (more actively) moderated the subreddit for my university, there were a few repeat offenders who took most of our time, and one who went out of his way to try and dox and threaten me specifically (which wasn't hard since I ran the account under my real name), and who I finally dealt with by involving the police.

Politically motivated reddit people are, or at least can be, scary.
Because nonverbal communication is very important. There is a reason why people have to put /s on some posts [to indicate sarcasm]. In some ways emoji/gifs try to fill that niche, but I don’t think they are a sufficient replacement.
An anecdotal data point ...

We (rsync.net) established Hong Kong as our Asian POP in 2009 for a variety of high-minded, conscientious reasons. I wanted to cast the firms dollar-votes for open, democratic societies and further the establishment of Hong Kong as a business and network hub ... obviously a very small impact but that was the idea.

I am now seriously considering moving our operations out of Hong Kong and Singapore is an obvious candidate for the move. The trouble is, Singapore is not exactly a paragon of free and open society. Australia makes some sense in terms of Internet topology but I'm not sure it's a fit, either.

I'm upset about this because I love Hong Kong. I think it's the most interesting city in the world and I love being there.
What difference does it make if we're comparing apples to apples? I don't think a company that offers free lunch deciding whether to go fully remote or not has any effect on another that doesn't offer free lunch. Privilege or not doesn't make my opinion any more or less invalid.
Our only tool is economic policy. The elephant in the room is that the pro-Democracy West is actively funneling money to the PRC.
It's unfortunate that donors cannot be compensated for their surplus kidney. The restriction is essentially equivalent to the government murdering large numbers of its citizens.
Anecdotally, “it is a republic, not a democracy, by design” is something I hear from people who bring up in conversation that they voted Republican. (Note: I’m not American, so I imagine the sort of person who tells me that isn’t representative of Republican voters).
Companies will make huge savings on office space etc., how much will they be paying to rent a room in our homes?

Hear me out.

I’ve been freelancing remotely for 15 years so my setup isn’t affected. My partner is working from home now and has her office setup in our garden cabin which I built a couple of years ago. Now when the weekend arrives (or weekday evenings) the last place she wants to relax in is the cabin. It’s now her employer’s space in our home.

I’ve not seen anyone discuss this side of things before so I’m interested in opinions.
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Dolphins probably have a multi-tiered approach to dealing with humans. When they can get free food without trying, they don’t bother performing high cost activities. When humans stubbornly refuse to give food, they escalate “pro-social” behavior. When humans don’t show up, they resort to the highest cost way of attracting them.

I don’t believe they actually miss the tourists themselves. Tourists are merely delivery vehicles for food. People are probably projecting their fantasies about animals being fundamentally better than humans.
It talks about two processes that happen.

The first is cells emit a signal to other cells that it's infected, which causes the cell receiving the signal to shutdown replication facilities.

The second message sends out a call for the cops.

Covd2 stops the first signal but allows the second.

Suppressing the first signal means it can replicate faster because the cells in the area didn't stop their replication facilities.

Allowing the second means you get tons of cops showing up because every cell is now calling the hotline. So many cops in one area causes problems of its own.

The cops can't kill them fast enough because the cells aren't slowing down replication. So you get tons of virus cells and tons of host immune cells, and not enough organ cells doing whatever they do.

Anyway they're saying possibly manually taking replication inhibitors would substitute for cells 1st message not working, and allow the runaway infection to be killed by the cops.

There are issues with just blindly taking drugs for this. So they'd have to find out when its appropriate.
That looks like it's from NT 3 rather than Windows 3.x as it does support long filenames.
The only way to combat this is to continue researching methods of securing data before transit, through cryptography (until that too, is outlawed), and researching communication schemes that obfuscate the meta data/sender-receiver.

What about Tor?
Tor’s known to be compromised by the NSA, (as well as much of the internet backbone) so it’ll be interesting if such research comes to fruition soon-ish.

Politically we can try electing officials and such, but it seems even the most promising candidates are too tempted by lobbying groups’ deep pockets.

Hopefully emerging decentralized tech will enable us to more easily hide our tracks, since even with end to end encryption, they can still get the meta data and track where you’ve been. (I understand being decentralized doesn’t necessarily mean the data in transit can’t be traced, but I think we need a decentralized system before we can realistically work on the aforementioned problem)
Somewhat agree with you, but I think right now is not representative of what WFH can be. I miss face to face for sure. Am having a hard time being motivated. And projects don't really seem functionally well managed right now. But I also think this is an artifact of how the WFH transition has happened. I think it's likely in the long run it will get sorted out.

Also after this lockdown period I suspect there will be a longer period of low% office usage. So we will still be face to face meetings and the like, but less frequently. And that I think will help smooth things out.

I've been wanting a lifestyle change for a while, this might be the gateway for that. I already live rural, but the commute has been unpleasant for me to where I work. I am enjoying not driving.

If this scenario continues, I could see our family moving closer to what we like -- skiing, outdoor recreation, etc. -- and having lower cost of living in the process.
> you seriously can't provide your own meals and snacks working from home?

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wish this were more well understood.
Dana Lawson on Kubernetes, Local Development Loops, and Constant Learning
You'd think at this point it would be worthwhile to use ML to train your AI for basically every big name game. It's fairly clear that such methods can make computer players that are better than any human player, and once you have the net it would be pretty easy to have different level computers based purely on how many epochs the net is trained for.
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> Luckily, you don't have to give up on anything.

Except, you know, Microsoft products. Like Skype.
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Open access article: https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2020/5/21/21265699/faceboo...

> In a move that illustrates how swiftly the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the global economy, Facebook said today that it would begin allowing most of its employees to request a permanent change in their jobs to let them work remotely. The company will begin today by making most of its US job openings eligible for remote hires and begin taking applications for permanent remote work among its workforce later this year.

> “We’re going to be the most forward-leaning company on remote work at our scale,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with The Verge. “We need to do this in a way that’s thoughtful and responsible, so we’re going to do this in a measured way. But I think that it’s possible that over the next five to 10 years — maybe closer to 10 than five, but somewhere in that range — I think we could get to about half of the company working remotely permanently.”
I'm sympathetic to the AAA publisher / developer plight, where they're basically doomed to give Steam a cut.

But for god's sake, take the Hulu approach.

Both Origin and Uplay were a hot mess last time I tried them, when if they'd cooperated they would have had the resources to surpass Steam. Short term thinking at its finest.
Yeah, I concentrate a lot better at an office. I hate being in my home all day every day. The little distractions are what make me love a job, some of my best memories are the random interactions and happenings with my coworkers
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with that quote? As I mentioned, HEVC is subject to licensing costs. If you try to wrap your HEVC video content in an HEIC container, you don't suddenly get to skip paying the original licensing costs.
I think there is a design issue in that language. X in a fixed width font should be a constant. X in a variable width font is a variable.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/legal-loopholes-unrestrained-n...
This is the best summary of everything I've felt about it.

> I just don't think a company with 50,000+ employees can operate this way indefinitely.

The other thing is that those-sized companies have made significant real estate investments in their office space. If suddenly their own workforce didn't use them, what would the value of those be? I imagine e.g. Apple Park would not be worth even close to what Apple paid for it if Apple wasn't going to use it.
Telemetry is often used to replace good product management.
As someone who's been playing since Civ 3, agreed. Every wide, lategame empire turns into a management quagmire eventually.

Previous games did have a feature where you could assign AI governors to handle the city for you, but they were all so bad at their jobs that I could never being myself to use them.

If anything I think Civ 6 is the least affected, because now cities can be set to perpetually produce "projects" (which produce empire-wide resources like science or faith) rather than working through the tree of buildings or units. It still doesn't make the lategame nearly as good as the early game, though.
So .. you go through GS to make remdesivir and it then goes through GS to be activated? (I thought you were disputing this point)

If so, then in what way is remdesivir better?
This is why you don't let @wongmjane inject code into websites. Imagine what features she'd learn about with tracebacks from developer machines! /s

In seriousness, this is all because websockets aren't bound by CORS, for good reason. https://blog.securityevaluators.com/websockets-not-bound-by-...

There's a simple fix though - hot reload websocket listeners like Webpack should only consider the connection valid if they first receive a shared secret that's loaded into the initial dev bundle, which itself would never be transmitted over a websocket and could be set via CORS to not be accessible to non-whitelisted origins. It's a dead-simple protocol with no ongoing performance impacts. But understandable it hasn't been implemented yet.
I can't comment on the technical challenges here but I sure can express sympathy with the students and teachers. I used to teach AP Chemistry, a very challenging course, like all APs I guess. My first reaction was they're still giving the exams? The security around the exams is usually so tight.

Well, I always told my students that even if you didn't do well on the spring AP exam at least you got credit for the course (AP students got a gpa bump at my school), learned a lot of wonderful chemistry, and you got a good taste of what a college course is like.
According to National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) numbers, across all races - African Americans included - the arrest rates for violent crimes correlates with the actual amount of crime committed by that race.
30 years ago, trying out the distribution of the month was kind of cool, nowadays they just contribute to the endless fragmentation of GNU/Linux ecosystem.

I bet that during high time of UNIX wars no imagined it could get even worse.
It's weird I loved 3 and 4, hated 5 and enjoy 6 a lot I think it has a lot to do with expectations/current trends
Wait how is this easy on macOS? Do you mean with Little Snitch? Or is there something built into the OS?
I'm a pretty big foodie and love going to restaurants and trying new things.

That said, I've had catered lunches at Google when visiting friends, and that's way better than eating gum restaurants every day.

The decision fatigue is real. But also, there are relatively few options that are genuinely good in the area, especially if you're trying to eat somewhat healthy. You get very bored after a while. Lunches provided by an in house chef are very good, tend to be healthier, and more interesting. I think - like I said, I mostly ate a meal here and there.

(and if we're comparing to cooking at home, obviously that incurs greater time cost)
This is why I don't read the news anymore.
My point is that "decision fatigue" is not a valid point to begin with since most people don't deal with such issues therefore it's not really relevant in the grand schemes of remote-first discussions.
Does min account history + min karma to comment enforcement helps?
Looks like they're on archive.org, if not from EA itself.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Red+Alert%...
don't play total war.

try Settlers, maybe Age of Wonders? though both are fairly different from Civ and Total War
Windows 10 is already ad supported. Unless you find the right options to opt out, you're bombarded with ads in almost every aspect of the UI.

Additionally, mandatory telemetry was in no part of the purchase process (well, neither were ads). Instead, it's in a completely separate clickwrap 'agreement' (that's subject to change without warning) that's only made clear when you're install the software.
So you think because sometimes ebay listings are stolen goods that G2A selling stolen goods is fine, gotcha.
Seriously what is your point here.
Did you know that Python caches integers?
I agree that Civ 4 didn't really take the game to new heights the way 2 and 3 did, but it is probably the most sound and deep iteration of the series. It fixed all of the problems with degenerate gameplay that plagued the previous games and balances the viability of all the victory conditions. The tech tree and wonders are well tuned to make a lot of interesting strategies workable. The BTS expansion has the best vanilla AI in the series too.

On top of all that, it's the most moddable game in the series! I might just go see what people have done with it in the past couple of years... oh no...
There is a proposed change that improves connection scaling signficantly:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200301083601.ew...

This should be either in Postgres 13 or 14, not sure how they decided in the end.
The writing was on the wall once it became clear that the West isn't going to do anything about it.
>I won't ever willingly donate them.

>I hope you'll reconsider.

Yeah well, I hope you'll reconsider too.

This is all basically a "greater good" argument end of the day that you either agree that if your body can be used to help others then it should be or the alternative is you are a selfish ass. There is honestly no inbetween here.
Wow... this and the stabbing story are making me happy that I only mod relatively tame subreddits.
> Several logins to manage. Apps that erase your work if you hit the wrong thing. Weird interfaces. Jank galore. Just use the fucking basics. You don't need a custom app for every single thing. Email exists. Use it.

Yeah, but if you do that, how will you funnel money from the school system into private companies?
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN generally? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261569 is another example. We're not here to cross-examine each other or make each other look bad. We're here for curious conversation and to learn.
Hm, Linux port from Aspyr works fine for me.
Why was it odd to be a surname?

Maybe I'm wrong, but when translated it's more probable to be a surname than anything else.
Does the HTTP "accept" tag play a role here?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
I think it's a pure numbers game. Smaller offices will have fewer open positions so there will be relatively more flow to the big offices and HQ. There also needs to be critical mass for a team to develop in a new location so you can't just be the first person on a team for a product that's centered somewhere else unless you're a very senior person. It's a bit less flexible and expansion tends to happen in waves.
Show HN: I copied SoundCloud's playcontrol with a offline local storage pubsub
http://archive.is/J8tpy
So was a number of other perceived biological outliers, including left handedness and melanin content. Although not perfect, as society progresses, these outliers are accepted more over time.
Guidelines are well and good, but they aren't really helpful when the people who care about them can't enforce them and vice-versa. What we need is accountability when it comes to the engineers who work on systems that are critical to large swaths of society.
I definitely get it from the capital perspective. I just want you to give underemployed a fair shake before making a judgement.
Sorry if I sound snarky, but why use this if you can just write:

<div style="margin-inline:auto">Center</div>

It looks like these are just single rule classes. In my opinion, If you are going to write one class for each style rule, you might as well use the style property.
Amplitude Raises Series E at $1B Valuation
It's way too easy for bad actors to create throwaway accounts on Reddit. If I remember correctly, there's no captcha and no email confirmation required. I suspect a large swath of Reddit activity is bots and paid political actors.
Why Traditional Marketing Will Turn Your Startup into a Garbage Fire
> But in the latter case, as we saw with New Jersey's unemployment system, that "reliability" was fragile and contingent on the current state of affairs, and had no hope of withstanding a sudden shift in usage patterns.

"Reliable" and "Can survive a sudden shift in usage patterns" are extremely different things.

I think you have the causality backward. Engineering is about trade-offs. No quality guild will be able to wave those away. As long as the primary pressure is "get something that is functional enough at minimum time and cost" you're gonna have this.

(Software is particularly complicated because engineers, not just managers, have poor understanding of system quality and of each other's contribution quality. There's a combination of "it's not that complicated" complexity-blindness to business requirements and trade-offs that have to be traced through deep call stacks and across networks. We build things like chaos monkey - to prove resilience by seeing how hard it is to break the thing - because we don't have cost-effect techniques for actually understanding the system well enough short of operating it.)
If you are willing to stretch beyond "Empire Building", I find Prison Architect amazing.

The PC version is the best, but there are Console Versions (even Switch), and IOS versions that have about 80% of the game.

I admit my thinking might be effected by quarantine but Prison Architect scratched my strategy simulator itch in a way CIV used to and hasn't for the last couple years.

It's way more contained, and more supportive of fun play sessions that are sub 30 minutes which is all I can squeeze in now.
Thanks for your story, and good luck. I will be joining your plight in a few years...
Am I the only one who enjoys my commute? To be fair, I bike or take the bus in the winter, but I listen to audiobooks, podcasts, music, and get a good amount of exercise.
It worked in the US, even without shooting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff)

(independent of whether you think the Bundys were in the right, the fact is, armed ranchers did deter armed BLM intervention, basically indefinitely)
"they are essentially violating the Hong Kong Basic Law (Constitution) and invading what would then be (through their actions) a foreign country."

Sure. In that case, it would revert to British sovereignty, Britain wouldn't lift a finger to defend it, and it would go to China anyhow by right of conquest.

Treaties are nifty and all, but ultimately, no matter what pieces of paper are signed, you can't hold territory you have no intention to defend.
What good is a government in exile going to do? The 50 year phase out at least kept Hong Kong democratic for awhile so people could normalize it and expect and demand it, versus has China just rolled in many people would have died and they wouldn’t have enjoyed democracy at all.
Discussing problems with software is fine for Hacker News, but claiming that there is no point because there is a cabal that hides answers requires evidence which should probably be directed at the site moderators instead.
so... they are bringing offerings presumably hoping this will make their free meals return...

so curious reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propitiation
Native bees are better for the environment and altogether cooler than honey bees
"Thing flips" on Addams Family ~6 years earlier. A few machines had things like that.
Yeah but apparently there are people who can't make their own sandwiches because that leads to decision fatigue, and as such remote work sucks. Anyway, sarcasm. I totally support WFH due to less commute time, more money saved, increased productivity and overall higher quality of life, oh and it's much more environmentally friendly.
Isn't that still ok for keys ? You typically want keys to be human-readable and -writable strings anyway
The unsafeness of C is pretty widespread and fundamental. Whatever code you end up with is either going to be incompatible with normal compilers, or it's going to be so full of library calls that you can barely recognize it as C anymore.

Unless you count sandboxing the entire program, and allowing errors inside the sandbox as long as they don't escape. Then C-to-WASM would be a safe C compiler, I guess.
>7. I use my own local dns resolver.

Does that provide a usable amount of privacy? It doesn't seem like it would given your local BIND instance would have to talk to DNS servers on the Internet -- over plaintext -- and so would reveal your lookups anyway. I never bothered with a local DNS stack because I felt it wasn't worth the effort. Can someone say if I've missed something?

Caching / performance seems like the only real benefit to me.

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EDIT: >4. I made myself a rss client similar to rss2mail

By the way, is this open source? I wonder if you could document some of your setup along with guides / links to software you use in case others are wanting to adopt some of your techniques?

I really am a bit impressed and would like to try some of these!
That's exactly what someone who's been bribed by the lizard shapeshifters would say.
The capitalization is a bit odd, but it's not an uncommon Dutch surname. Usually spelled in two words: "Ten Oever". That would probably be "Banks" in English, as in a river bank.

While I'm on the subject, the Dutch (as in the nationality, not the language) are a bit unusual when it comes to surnames. It's common to capitalize every word in a name in many parts of the world, but the Dutch usually don't capitalize words like "ten" or "van" ("from", "of"), which can make for weirdly capitalized names like "Jan ten Oever". Were the same person to live in Belgium, the same Dutch name would become "Jan Ten Oever".
You realize the database server was misconfigured to drop connections transparently after 30 seconds? If it were not for that, TCP race conditions are extremely rare.
Yes, see edit.
Civ V is where it's at