skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars are the only practical way to go where you want, when you want, how you want. No bus schedules, complicated connections you have to double check and run full speed between (across the whole Port Authority terminal once in my case between trains), or drop off points you have to walk long distances from once you get there.

Bikes are close but only work for short distances in good weather. Add personalized climate control, no strangers in your car, more comfortable seating than any tram, music, and I have no desire to seek alternatives. Only thing I'm left desiring is self-driving so I can use my phone or whatever, the only tangible benefit to transit that appeals to me.

Yeah, they're a bit noisy and worse for the environment and take up space. I see that as part of the price of living in a free society.
I've combed through minified JS a number of times. Not enough if you want to prevent someone from going through your shit.
This ignores geopolitical realities and the Chinese struggle to do away with foreign aggression and a decadent trend over the last 3 centuries.

I am not trying to dream up what China could have been. I am saying that the tensions between China and the West stem from a trend that is more profound that the current Chinese regime. For example I think that virtually everything China is criticised about in its geopolitical policies and actions would be unchanged with a different regime because these are not things dreamed up by the communists but are deeper both in historical terms and in geopolitical interests terms.
The communist party itself is a product of these trends and this struggle, not the cause.
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I came pretty close to playfully trying to have Microsoft cover a portion of my monthly electric bill.

Why? Because I set my dual-GPU gaming rig to sleep every night, and Windows feels the need to wake it up about an hour later, fail to do updates, and then leave the machine on the rest of the night, even with auto-sleep set for 30 minutes.

I noticed the problem a few weeks later, and by then my electricity bill had increased by 20 bucks.
just went and looked, many of the most popular posts are still a cesspool once you dig in, and the moderator list looks little changed from 10 years ago. I'm glad you're enjoying yourself, and have drunk the koolaid, but this just reminded me why even r/politics is a nicer place to visit.
It turns having an an office space into a gig like economy where the burden of maintaining the benefits of an office space is on the worker. A possible result from this would be having an actual company office in a desirable location to work from turning (if it isn’t already) into a perk.
It’s impossible to spy on people without someone complaining!

One wonders how we ever came this far without looking over the shoulders of users.
Exactly. And TFA jumps to conclusions about speeding and reckless driving with only some quoted speculation. FWIW, your speculations make more sense to me.

Your speculation about "fatalities [being] higher in areas where there are larger concentrations of vehicles going drastically different speeds" is consistent with what data I've seen. And it's not just about intersections. In some states, ~official policy is that drivers ought to move with traffic, even if traffic is moving faster than the speed limit.

Edit: carelessness
One would think a country that was, for want of a more specific term, "doing it right" would have fewer criminals.

That the US has so much incarceration per-capita suggests something ain't working, if we respect freedom on paper but have to deprive more citizens of it than any other nation.
Thanks for the thought. She's in regular contact with her doctor about various conditions and medications that come with old age, so I think she's probably talked to him about it, but that's just an assumption so I will ask her to be sure.
> Blame those who have changed the rules of the game such that assuming the worst is the default.

Ah, so blame lawyers, product managers, anyone who releases free as in beer software, the open source contributors making all that software everyone else is stealing, the customer’s unrealistic expectation that someone else should pay for things, engineers for lacking the affect to care about any of this or to empathize even one iota with the real economy, product designers for being outwardly countercultural while authoring the literal dark patterns that get the telemetry in the first place...
I think the seeds were planted in the pacific theater. After such a terrible surprise attack, the USA probably feels justified in preventing future attacks by all means possible. Isn't that what national security is all about? Also, cryptanalysis was highly successful in the second world war: the outcomes of many battles were determined by successful interception and decoding of enemy communications. The importance of knowing enemy secrets was proven.

The cold war marked the beginning of global surveillance: the USA and other world powers launched satellites pointed at the Earth in order to constantly watch their enemies. After 9/11, the definition of "enemy" apparently expanded to include a nation's own population. Thus the 21st century is the beginning of total surveillance of all humans on Earth, not just enemy military forces.

Terrorism really is effective. America was not defeated but it a certain way it was destroyed. It abandoned all the principles it stood for in the name of national security.
Video Chat Juries and the Future of Criminal Justice
Dolphins at popular spot miss tourists and keep leaving 'gifts' on shore
I think US people are incredibly naive in thinking that they are going to oppose government military action with their personal guns. It won't work, the only difference will be many more dead.
In that category experimental is a much better option than a certified aircraft; your 'killer plane' is an RV-10 or Sling TSi.
> It has achieved a lower spread of misinformation.

Has it? I'm not really sure how you came to this conclusion.

If kicking Sakora off YouTube causes his followers to become angry and go share his personal site through a bunch of different channels, that could easily outpace the impact of a YouTube channel where refutations are included.

If someone censored your views, what would you do? Why do you think people who disagree with you won't do all the same things?
I wouldn't even say it is just the threat model that changed. Humans in developed markets now have a very unhealthy relationship with death to the point where any policy that minimizes death is acceptable consequences be damned.

We no longer see death as a normal and natural part of life like previous generations did because it's not as prevalent as it once was.

The threat model you just described in another era would have more likely been met with acceptance if the alternative was to give up our hard fought for freedoms.
> Non violent, persistent, civil disobedience has worked in modern history.

Against the British empire in places that Britain didn't actually make much money anymore.
Chipotle uses DoorDash behind the scenes
Yes. Genserver is quite frankly a mess. I just want to discourage pushing that object metaphor. Have you seen the Dave Thomas ornery video where he calls a genserver a dog's breakfast?

https://youtu.be/6U7cLUygMeI
Another idea: an online json editor
Some mods have already openly discussed taking their subs entirely private and invite only in the event of an IPO. Reddit gets no ad revenue from private subs.
So I've now been WFH for 2 months and honestly I hate it. Work was already flexible enough such that if you wanted to WFH you could. By convention, people would most often WFH on Wednesdays. I liked this timing of people doing it at the same time.

But communication and collaboration is just much harder work remote and you can't change my mind. I'm sure you can work hard to make it almost as good but it's never going to be better (IMHO).

I of course miss the meals and snacks.

Many people who work at these companies live in big cities where they don't have huge amounts of space and it's not conducive to being productivity, particularly if you live with other people, if you can't get some form of separation.

Those of you who are claiming this will be some form of revolution I think are naive. I've found that advocates of WFH are mostly motivated by that's what they want to do more than anything else. I mean that's fine but it often leads to thinly-veiled, self-serving, biased arguments and proclamations of the benefits to everyone.

If you need an office anyway you don't really save anything by WFH unless you oversubscribe your work areas (eg hot-desking) and that has its own problems.

All-remote might work best. I've seen this claimed but have no direct experience with it. I do know that mixed WFH and in the office is nearly always detrimental to the remote people and the team as a whole (IME).

I just don't think a company with 50,000+ employees can operate this way indefinitely.
How to optimize for Deep Work when working remote
that reactOS kerfuffle is just one of many, many examples of how a tainted clean-room design can completely derail an open-source project, and most stories have a nastier ending than that one.

the dolphin emulator team (gamecube/wii emulator) made a statement on the nintendo leaks:

https://twitter.com/Dolphin_Emu/status/1257051968045899776
How do we know they aren't?

King letter only came to light because citizens stole it from an FBI office. Maybe the FBI just has tighter security now.
Sure, but in most systems you wouldn’t have much of a choice; if you’re using Debian or Ubuntu, you’re probably using binary packages built by someone else. It takes a lot more work to build everything you want from source in a traditional distro.

It seems like a pretty straightforward tradeoff: do you want to rely on prebuilt packages for speed, or do you want to rebuild it all (and accept the extra time that takes)? Nix and Guix at least make the latter pretty straightforward to do.
Do you have so many chores that you spend every day until 4pm doing them? Of course not. Because when you worked at an office, you also did not spend that much time on them. I love to mix chores with work, because your mind gets a break and you're still doing something useful. And most of the time, in the back of your head you're unconsciously still solving the problem that you were working on. So when you get back at your keyboard, you can continue right away. How can anyone not like this enormous productivity boost?

I think that working from home will stay and that some kind of work discipline will be a skill people are just required to have. You know, like being able to communicate professionally and to keep promises.
a few points

How will local governments adjust for loss of tax base as it is likely real estate values for office properties will drop and in turn the cascade effect on businesses which serve them; from restaurants to small services.

Companies that own their own head quarters and other facilities may be less willing to have people work from home. Some companies put a lot of pride in their head quarters and other facilities.

How many companies who do swing to this type of work will expect reduction in salaries as compensation? Would you trade a percentage of your salary for the guarantee of working from home? How many days would you be willing to meet at a central site or would they even be a thing?

Personal experience, it took till COVID19 for where I work to make quarterly meetings available to those who are remote. For the most part they have done pretty well in this regard to even offering streaming of past events and presentations normally done by phone to using survey monkey to gather questions to be addressed.
> No one is forcing you to work from home.

> And after that, most will permanently work remotely. Office centricity is over.

It does seem like they plan on forcing their employees to work from home in this case.

I think that's the problem that most people have - not having the option to work from work.
I wish this were the case, but they seem to disproportionately lock up African Americans while giving the rich white people a free pass on crime.
I think this is what a lot of people who complain about Slack don't get. It's just a better message queue for your business. The fact that you can funnel all your business events, regardless of whether they originate from humans or bots, into one place and then each worker (again, either human or bot) can subscribe/filter/react to relevant events is super powerful. However, if you try to use it as a corporate SMS platform or email replacement, you will very quickly feel overwhelmed because both of those message queues are designed for much lower throughput.
Exactly. This isn't websockets specific, you can portscan happily with pure JS. The issue is that browsers are allowing connections (from untrusted code) to private/loopback address space. This should really be behind a permission.
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US: Almost 40M people lost their job since Covid-19 pandemic
In America with Civil Rights also.
Sounds a bit like my street. It isn't remote, but originally developed as large 2 acre lots with far setbacks. Now a lot of infill has occurred but most homes still sit farther from the road than a typical residential neighborhood, so it feels more rural than it is.

It's signed 25mph. Normal speeds are about 30-35mph. Now, every morning starting about 5:30am, drivers are using it as their own personal drag strip trying to lay down their best 0-60 times.

Police don't really seem to care.
There are multiple possibilities that governments have refused to implement. Strong economic and trade sanctions, restrictions on China-based investment in foreign property and businesses, restrictions on businesses that do business with or setup factories in China, travel restrictions for Chinese nationals, etc. The fact that none of these have happened for the most part shows where the values of the rest of the world actually are - economics is more important than ethics.
'a country? It's a free-range farm.'

[OT and (hope so) un-biased:] 'From the Land of the Free,
to the Land of the Lost' ?? We used to love America. Is there something your blind at, maybe ahead ?

You know...there once was a story, about a snake not understanding 'step'... (-;

Sry, too offtopic...^^
It was 1997 (I was old enough to remember it.)
New grads, almost by definition, have absorbed whatever they can from reading, the internet, and education; what they need is attention. How to interact in a professional environment; the details of the company, industry and role; the office politics... all are "unknown unknowns" to a new grad. I learned about them from mentorship, 1:1 conversations, and by reading the body language of people around me. It would've been a LOT harder to do that over Zoom...

(That said, anyone smart enough to be concerned about it is also probably smart enough to seek out what they don't know so I'm sure the author of the parent comment will be fine.)
DigitalOcean is not a managed hosting provider. People who run applications on DigitalOcean need to have some understanding of the administrative principles involved in running cloud servers (Linux, web services, et cetera).
Implementing any of those require more work. The issue lies in the fact security is an afterthought for the Web.
Yeah, it sucks. From my few visits to Seattle, it seemed similar in parts but I haven't spent enough time there to make a confident assertion.
But it was liberal, except when it wasn’t. It’s not whitewashing to characterize the end result as liberal, and I don’t think it’s necessary or productive to add a disclaimer to every description when the discussion revolves around comparing today’s liberalism (which was a result of British rule) with the CCP’s (which would undoubtedly be less so).

(Edited to specify that the end result was liberal, not the whole thing)
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In the case of the laws discussed in this article, the FBI can gain access to the logs of one's ISP (or VPN provider) without a warrant. So they can trace a suspect's TCP traffic without any duty to notify anyone they're doing so.
Is it really that surprising that people want socialization after going this long without it? Waiting in line at the DMV would be the social event of the year given our current climate.

You might get more honest results after people are back in the office for a bit.
Apples to apples--I'm comparing Hong Kong in 1995 to the rest of the mostly-self-governing British territories in 1995. I'm not comparing them to India in the 1940s (as the most obvious example of the Brits' abuse of other peoples they ruled).
Given the historical, cultural, legal, and linguistic differences between Beijing and Hong Kong, perhaps the UK and Ireland are a better analogy here.

"London signals plan to take full control of Dublin" would not go over well. Or Belfast, for that matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_rule_(Northern_Ireland)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
Sounds like we don't need to worry about that...government does all on its own...https://nypost.com/2020/04/28/more-blood-on-gov-cuomos-hands...
Fake though the example may be, I wouldn’t underestimate its ability to stumble upon something useful if you could garner enough traffic.

- you would probably only need a handful of ports

- it really only takes one person pasting that AWS key into their file to get pwned and I’m sure someone has those keys committed to GitHub right now.

- how many tabs do you have open of random tech blogs right now? Excluding HN, my guess is the average dev has at least one.

Not a super plausible attack, but over a long period of time with decent SEO, could probably deliver some interesting results.
I'm amazed how many people responded to you with this broken idea of "let's hear everybody out."

Broken because the talent of listeners to fully evaluate every statement is not distributed evenly.

Germany and Europe learned this the very hard way after WWI and they drew consequences after WWII.

Yes, I fully agree with you: not all opinions are created equal. Because some are scientifically accepted while others are scientifically rejected. Some are philanthropic, some are antisocial.

And we have to take a stance if we want a more humane World, and media have to preselect if we don't want war.
I had assumed that there were many hundreds if not thousands of employees that would object. Maybe not--perhaps there were just a relatively small number making a lot of noise in the press.
If I were to bet, it'd be that this is a knee jerk reaction to feeling helpless currently with everyone forced to WFH / lack of clarity on timeline and won't become the norm.
It's so exciting to see science begin to gain such a deep understanding of the mechanisms at play. I'm hopeful we'll get an effective treatment long before the vaccine is available.
Ahhh gotcha. I think it's just a different way of thinking. "I'll pop over to Alex's desk" vs. "I'll ping Alex to see when he's able to chat"
I think what makes it a disorder is its severity makes it difficult for an individual to manage it properly without treatment or intervention.

Everything you've suggested are things that most people who are aware that they have the disorder try or do already in order to manage it, I would be surprised if a lot of people found out they had ADHD and used their diagnosis as "an excuse for mediocrity or failure!"

If I were being uncharitable I'd say you were just using this comment as a way to dole out unasked for advice to either make yourself feel better or put down some straw-man you've made up. But since I'm not, I'll just leave it at you ain't said nothing slick to a can of oil.
> I'm not sure how best to fix that.

At a certain scale, I think threaded conversations are incredibly difficult to follow without a voting system to sort it out, and once you introduce a voting system you end up with voting system problems as you mentioned.

I honestly think that flat forums are more fit for purpose. Multiple concurrent conversations end up being a bit messy, but there was at least a reasonable chance that someone would reply to any given post, since everybody in the thread was on the same page.

Heck, you can even gamify engagement with a flat forum - one of those that I still frequent allows you to "react" to any given post. It doesn't actually do anything except have a number beside the post tick up, but people still use it.
I didn't say seriously considered. I'm talking about what it's known as suicidal ideation. You can be sad and down for weeks because you got rejected from your favorite company but I would be surprised if some suicidal thought pop into your head because of this. For people that are depressed is not rare at all. Even people with anxiety disorders have them often.
I can comprehend imperialism just fine, thanks. In fact I get to see my government do it even today, despite my literal protest.
Solidarity, leading the way to the Polish revolution of 1989 and ultimately the restoration of democracy to the Warsaw Pact?
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The 'spam filter' enabled on most large subreddits greatly adds to the 'echo chamber' nature of Reddit and leads to a tyrannical majority. If you get downvotes in a major sub due to not agreeing with the prevailing opinion, you are rate-limited and you can only post once every 10 minutes.

Imagine being in a debate with dozens of people and being rate-limited to only posting every 10 minutes because your opinion wasn't agreed to by people doing voting.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components

Yes! Component design and rendering state changes does not require Vue/React/Angular, wake up people!
I don’t understand why more people aren’t demanding walkable cities. Deaths from cars (pollution and accidents) easily exceed that of Covid.
Isn't it common to assume that everything connected to the internet is illegally monitored, recorded, and exploited to the fullest extent?

After Snowden, how could anyone not be aware of this? You see the director of the NSA blatantly, and provably, lying under oath. Multiple whistleblowers saying this stuff has been going on for almost two decades. These agencies operate outside of the law already... regardless of what any legislation states they are, or are not, allowed to do.

Isn't this already obvious? Not in a conspiratorial paranoid sort of way, but I mean, just look at the world pragmatically. Maybe I lost all faith years ago, but this is not surprising to me in the least.

All you can really do is look out for yourself, if you have the technical know-how, and understand what to avoid doing. In an ideal world you don't solve problems like this, you solve them through public policy, not technological workarounds. But we don't live in an ideal world... most of the public is unequipped to discuss the gradual, invisible, insidious undermining of their civil liberties through ever-present opaque technologies.
It's interesting, they actually might not.

I've always assumed that since I have money I can just walk into a hotel and pay "room rate" on the spot unless they're actually full, because why wouldn't they take the money? The advertised room rates are high, but in a pinch it's much better than sleeping under a bridge.

And then one night (after midnight) I arrive at my pre-booked hotel for the night and as I'm checking in an obviously drunk person in a tuxedo staggers in with a half-full bottle. He wants a room, he has cash, and I stopped for a moment to see if that works how I'd expect. It does not, the night staff tell the man their hotel is "full" (it's a quiet weekday night, fat chance) and so it's impossible to give the drunk man a room. The man tries arguing, displaying the cash, it makes no difference and he is escorted out of the hotel. Interesting.