skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on two separate remote teams over the past year.

The first team had video on and zoom calls and my current team has video off. Small anecdotal sample size, but in my experience with the video-on team there was a much stronger sense that I knew who the team was, felt responsible to them, and generally we felt more cohesive as a team even though I never met them in person.

My current team no one ever turns their cameras on, I only know what they look like from their employee IDs, and I have zero sense of camaraderie with them. Meetings tend to drag on at least twice as long, since people can easily check out and stop paying attention if something doesn’t seem relevant to them. There’s no small talk or banter, and I find I just kind of listen passively while working until I hear my name and then jump back to full attention. I definitely get the sense that’s what everyone else does as well, since very few people ever speak up unless explicitly called on. Everything feels less tight and less personal. It’s great for the individual employee’s ability to crank out work, but if you care about the actual team cohesiveness and productivity, enforced video on feels like it can make a difference.
Indeed. I work for a company whose portfolio includes a well known video chat/collaboration tool, and internally we've not only (unofficially) discouraged video where not necessary (it seems middle management seems unable to catch this clue), but asking employees to start staggering meeting start times to times other than :00 and :30 to keep some "big bang" load off the infrastructure.
> Meanwhile, the expenses required to host and review these apps are in the tens of millions, not billions of dollars. We know that because we at Telegram host and review more public content than the App Store ever will.

That’s some hyperbole from Telegram. How big is the App Store engineering and review team? I don’t know, but one report had at least 300 reviewers alone[1]. Add devops, engineering, management...this is easily a team of 500 people, almost certainly more. And then you’ve got to add hardware and opex costs.

Does Telegram seriously believe a team of that size costs “tens of millions”? Because I’ve never seen a project of that size and complexity come in at that level.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/21/how-apples-app-review-proces...
Right now, the best solution I've found is forecastie. it is open source an available on F-droid. Here is the link to the repo:
https://github.com/martykan/forecastie

It uses Openweathermap for its data.
Republicans. It is Republicans who think more people voting means they will lose.

Now is a time to be absolutely frank and direct with our words and our actions. Our democracy is not invincible. It is not inevitable. It is teetering on the brink and if it falls, there is absolutely no guarantee that it will recover.

There is exactly one party who is trying to undermine the most basic principle of our democracy, and that is the Republican Party.

Every fallen democracy had an election that was unexpectedly their last.

Vote, donate, discuss accordingly.
> So I guess saying video games are bad is way too generic

That's not the argument being presented. No one is talking about people who play 10-30 hours per two weeks, which is not an unreasonable amount of time for a hobby. This is largely about people who spend 60, 70, 80, 90 or triple digits per two weeks in games.
> Moreover, it shows the culpability of most of the elected officials, from both parties.

It shows that after the labor movement was destroyed, the only material base for the Democratic Party was to go looking for money from the same people who give it to Republicans.

Saying we don’t need a labor movement is equivalent to saying “we don’t need a political party that relies on support from workers.”
A Javascript warning when using AMP links in a post could help.
There are much more recent studies showing similar results
https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477023a.html
For a more recent sci-fi treatment, check out "The Girl With All The Gifts" by M. R. Carey, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235026-the-girl-with-a.... A scary dystopian near-future tale of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis infecting humans.
Original research is specifically forbidden on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
I like Ocaml and it would be a good choice of language for most kinds of projects, especially if good performance is desired. OCaml is dead simple to learn (I always recommend it as the first FP language they should learn) and eminently practical.

If you're coming from Haskell or Scala though, OCaml's type system is going to come off as pretty primitive. And in many ways it is primitive, the idea of "type-level" programming isn't really a thing in the OCaml community.

My favorite part of OCaml though is that the compiler generates fast, native binaries, which in my opinion is reason enough to choose it over Scala or F#. The language is on par with F#, but notably less expressive than Scala.

But if you want a simple language that anyone can pick up quickly, one with a well defined performance profile and a practical, concrete ecosystem, OCaml might be the perfect choice. Just don't expect a Haskell or Scala like experience.
> What exactly are you suggesting, other than "be a good person?"

I didn't say "be a good person", so what exactly are you taking issue with, other than what it "seems like" to you? I even stated that I'm not primarily concerned with outcome or others, this isn't advice to anyone, it's a statement of fact.
"...they don't realize that ['fired'] has very negative connotations"

?! Really?

"important to know what language people use"

Thats exactly what I'm saying. There are three terms recognized by your state department of labor: Quit, Fired, Laid Off.

You can be "fired" both in legal terminology, and in common language use, for no fault of your own, but the word has a negative connotation.

What am I saying? It sucks! It's a failure of language. Socially 'fired' has a negative 'connotation' (which is commonly applied at a personal level), and in both real-world practice and in legal terms 'fired' has the 'denotation' of 'termination' where termination can be all of these things (at a relationship level), and the employee is not necessarily 'at fault'.

The meaning of 'fired' is so unpredictable I can't imagine anyone using it as you say, because they don't know how someone is going to take it.

However, your next employer can call your previous employer to verify employment and there is no federal law preventing the old employer from describing your termination as 'fired'. That sucks.
You could just write your will and sign it with a known public key. I don't see any reason why you'd want to keep the will hidden, or require participation to read it
With various embodied cognition or extended mind theses floating around, can't be too sure :)
That all sounds about right. The song was from around the time I was in elementary school.

I suspect that part of the problem is that teaching math concepts is at least somewhat orthogonal to drilling kids on being able to perform basic arithmetic operations fluently. Of course, these days I assume at least some of the debate probably gets into the fact that being able to do, say, long division quickly has about the same utility as learning Palmer script.
Cause, they ... can?

Why would a nation choose to go to the moon, or build something otherworldy?
Now I remember, that was the reason I wasn't more clear about the connection to PG when I wrote the website https://github.com/gitenberg-dev/giten_site/. Since then my co-founder Eric Hellman has been doing engineering work for Project Gutenberg, as well as running the rest of the Free Ebook Foundation, which is the parent org of GITenberg, free-programing-ebooks, and Unglue.it.

I think that the GITenberg collection contains all of the books in PG. At this point, the creation of new repos is automatically done when Distributed Proofreaders creates a new book in PG. Originally, I didn't include around 400 PG books due to their creators claiming copyright, and didn't include Bruce Sterling's book because he wouldn't let me re-license it creative commons rather than his pseudo-public-domain license.

Not much has been happening with GITenberg itself in the past few years. But luckily, a lot of the concepts and code are getting upstreamed into PG. Which in my opinion, is way way better.
Which mask works best? We filmed people coughing and sneezing to find out
This is the result of intentional sabotage by Trump administration.
This is 100% political. A political set of acts by the Republicans.
Depending on your definition of “innocent”, neither does a Horcrux, really.
The cartels could step in as a national postal carrier. Set postage agreements, and postage rates for garanteed services.
Nice, cool idea. Is that a one-time fee or monthly? If one-time then I'd suggest emphasizing that fact and saying something like "lifetime access" (from my experience most people assume monthly for something like this). Also fyi, your PayPal button does nothing when I click it. Best of luck with everything!
I'm sure you're about to get flagged, but you know ISIS is a decidedly right wing group, right?
It should not matter. You just pick the most boring and average no-name advisor from a firm or a bank.
I bought one of these at Target. It didn't have methanol listed as an ingredient. Didn't use much of it fortunately.
> There's also a lot of other issues. A lot of major religious traditions rely on revealed scripture whose meaning is only precisely accessible through a particular language. In Islamic theology this would be Arabic and for Jews it is Hebrew of course. It would be an extreme cultural loss for billions of people to lose this access to their traditions.

I don't see it as a problem in the slightest, and not just because I personally think religious traditions are better left behind. No-one these days speaks classical Latin or ancient Greek; and yet we have some knowledge about the ancient tradition through commentaries and translations (regardless of how imprecise those translations are). We do not experience this as a tragedy or as an extreme cultural loss, despite us not being able to read those texts. Nor is anyone bemoaning the inaccessibility of Beowulf and the inadequacy of existing translations. And if someone is especially interested in the topic — well, there are always scholars who are free to learn those languages and to study the originals.
Fascist strategies plain and simple. This is corruption folks. This is how seemingly functioning democracies slip into tyranny. Greed, lust for power, hatred.
There are other reasons they want to disband the post office beyond just its impact on voting. If they replace it with private entities it becomes easier to surveil and censor the mail, for instance.
Retirement benefits should be funded as they are accrued. That is not the problem. The problem is the USPS doesn’t have the power to price their products appropriately in order to pay for their expenses (including payroll which includes retirement benefits).

If anything, all entities promising retirement benefits should be forced to do it the way USPS does. In fact, non government entities were forced to via the Pension Protection Act of 2006, which is why non government employers stopped offering defined benefit pensions and other post employment benefits (OPEB) as they are simply not affordable.

Too bad it didn’t apply to governments, because if it did, then my kids and I wouldn’t be stuck paying for labor performed 30+ years ago because all the city and state governments decided they can just promise to pay people with future taxpayers’ money by underfunding defined benefit pension plans and retiree healthcare benefits.
This was used as a plot line in Better Call Saul. I wasn't sure it was something real but my understanding is that most of the cases used in the show are either real cases or composites.
That would be a terrible move. Nobody would want to work with a company that acts so childishly. It would also alienate all of the people who support the cause.
USPS has a government granted monopoly on letter delivery end it and these problems will also go away.
I bought into HNS (handshake) hype. I think the only crypto currency I have used so far for real transactions and the motivation was ICANN.

https://handshake.org
its really bizarre that we allow this while in other countries you get fines for not voting
I don't see how the article you linked is relevant to the question of whether or not most academic papers are widely read. That being said, the original article is poorly sourced and poorly written.
Interesting. How did you come up with the ~45h/week thing? Why not ~40h/week or even ~35h/week?
It's not so much about just adding git to books, but git to the transcriptions of books from printed materials. There are errors in the transcriptions, many books are lacking formatting, and many books pre-date Unicode and are in ascii. Tracking the book's source files in git makes it easier to collaborate on making these changes, or seeing what changes have been made.
United States Prosperity Index 2020
It’s frustrating that we have to discuss the current administration as if we assume they are acting in good faith. It is frustrating to have to have a ‘but both sides...’ and ‘actually they just care about market efficiency’ arguments when the current administration, acting against all expert advice, has taken action to create the worst outcomes we’ve seen in decades, at least as long as I’ve been alive: unmanaged global pandemic (ignoring pandemic response plan and so predictable Biden was tweeting about it last fall), attempts to recklessly change policies that are overturned by the courts (often purely because the admin can’t be bothered to follow procedure), and now postal delays like I’ve never seen before, deliberately caused by a Trump-appointed postmaster.

It shouldn’t be political to point out that for Americans, and probably many other people in the world, the current administration has delivered remarkably poor outcomes so consistently that you have to consider the possibility that that is the goal.

America relies on strong infrastructure for our strong economy, and degrading an institution like the post office is just irresponsible.

The whole voting by mail aspect is another angle to look at the continued ongoing attacks on the American lifestyle; apparently empty supermarket shelves weren’t enough.

On top of all this absurdity, while it is clear that the degradation of service at the post office is intended to suppress democratic voters, there is little evidence that vote by mail privileges republicans: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/politics/vote-by-mail....
This permanent work from home theory sits really wrong with me. In particular this part;

> Permanently upgrade all employee’s work from home environments so they are the same quality as their in-office stations. This may come in the form of stipends, lump sum payments, or redistribution of office property, depending on job function.

It's extremely unlikely that a company is going to offer me a lump sum payment that anywhere near makes up for the increased floor space and altered layout of my home to give me a proper office-like environment to work in. Few companies will shell out $50,000 for me to extend my home to build an office, and I see no reason why I should work for an organisation that demands I do so myself. For many people in HCOL areas it's totally unreasonable to expect people to shell out double their rent or more to get an extra bedroom/office space.

Look, I live in New Zealand. I can tell you that this whole "everything has changed forever" attitude that I am hearing from Americans will pass, very quickly, when this pandemic ends. We will most likely see employers becoming a lot more flexible with WFH arrangements, which is a really nice silver lining. But the idea that the office is done for? Forget about it.
You’re being downvoted because it’s the inconvenient truth.
The Joint and Conditional Entropies
This is very cool. One slightly annoying thing I found in these demo is that the width of the labels in the legend isn't fixed, so stuff keeps shifting around. One of those rather annoying to fix things. (Though this being JS maybe not as much)
It’s not about privatizing the service, it’s about disrupting their ability to process mail in ballots for the election.

If they wanted to privatize it, they could have don’t it at any time during the past four years.
Damn, I read your first sentence as "That's called bullshit".

I wonder how much of the world I am accurately seeing.
No, only if the portfolio is on the efficient frontier. There are many sub-optimal portfolios that do not have the best return/risk trade-off, like portfolios with a lot of specific risk. Check out the Markowitz Bullet.

Specific risk does not get compensated because it is easy to eliminate it with diversification.
Have each child make horcuxes of their horcrux :)
> 82 percent of articles published in the humanities are not even cited once.

No references to source data. Hard pass.
I really doubt this guy thinks the first Kindle was mediocre for the time.
I'm not really seeing the problem. It's not like it's the doctor's job to brainwash patients. If patients do not trust their doctor then they can just visit a different one.
National security issues override your freedom to use a spying app by a country's primary geopolitical opponent. That's just how it is. You paint China as this innocent party and the US as the sole aggressor, which is utter hogwash. I'm not sure whether you're intentionally or just ignorantly ignoring all the things China has done and continues to do in the past 20 years such as stealing IP, price dumping, etc. They're not the good guy here and anybody outside China should be wary of them.
Researchers have found correlations between certain infections and certain mental illnesses, and have speculated the infections may cause (at least partly) the mental illnesses. After reading the book Infectious Madness, I think causality is dubious. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/infectious-agents-schi...

Edit: but then again I believe causality has been established between kidney infections and cognitive impairment
> The language is on par with F#,

Isn't F# an Ocaml derivative?
And both a cookie warning with no easy privacy option (yes vs open settings) and an offer to install their app.
What kind of toxic VOCs do these units give off?
Chamber is a tool for managing secrets
Are the western left and left liberals _really_ against ISIS? I think that would be racist.
There are about 400 GITenberg books that have CC-by licensed covers provided by Recovering the Classics. If you're interested in using that art for your PDFs I can find you the index!
> It’s not about privatizing the service,

Yes it is.

> it’s about disrupting their ability to process mail in ballots for the election.

True, but those are complementary not mutually exclsuive motivations.
> People need to say what they think and not rely on nonverbal clues.

Sorry, but this just isn't how human beings work. Those non-verbal queues may not be important to you, but they carry a huge amount of information that is apparently passing you by. And not small, unimportant things, but big things like that quiet shy QA engineer in the corner of the room who clearly wants to say something but can't find an opening or the organiser getting aggravated by a side-discussion.
Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
/Mjg/ Repository (Mahjong)
Why are we using black box models in AI when we don't need to?
In Portland, OR, it rarely snows much, but the weeks when we do get a good storm, oh god, there's dog piss everywhere. & then you realize that people are probably walking their dog less now that it's all slippery & cold + that there's probably usually even more dog piss everywhere then what you can now see thanks to the snow.
Many reward systems around the world reward the number of papers and not the number of readers of a paper. Many biographies simply include the number of papers by such and such author. This further contributes to the crappy situation.
This is genuinely stupid code from a first-week-junior dev who is still learning a lot.

The worst code i've ever seen was a PHP function that printed a menu (with relative permissions) from a database.
Problem: it was O(n^3), 200 lines long, completely unmantainable and with random fails.
Problem n° 2: it was written by our "best" programmer.
It took me one hour to rewrite that into a 10 lines O(nlogn) function that my PM didn't want to use inside the framework because it was my first week.
Well, for my side project, https://www.bilinual.com I needed version controlling for changes that are made on a book (fixed typos, ...) and I found GITenberg project. There are several interesting tools developed during the project accessible here: https://github.com/gitenberg-dev
A lot of them were recalled for containing methanol, which could be a characteristic of the original bulk alcohol. I'd imagine most plants are not set up to do the necessary separation
Voting in person the old fashioned way for all but those with a good physical excuse seems to be the best way to maintain the integrity of our voting process. Yes, in-person voting has the potential for fraud, but mail-in voting has all of the same problems and more. It's hard to find a mechanism for fraud that applies to in-person but not mail in.

Furthermore, the issues with COVID seem overblown. I've waited in line to vote, but the lines were never longer than the lines at my local supermarket on Saturday morning. If we can shop for food in person, we can vote.

If you want to understand the fears over mail-in voting, just imagine what you could do if you control the mail sorting for a large apartment building or nursing home. It is just much harder to cheat when you require a physical body to be present at the polls. Not impossible but harder.
I'm not sure a bunch of techies who have no clue about geopolitics and have zero interest in the welfare of the US or even European or non-Chinese populations to be the arbiter of what's okay or not okay. Apple/Google are turning a blind eye because they're in this to make money. They don't give a shit about our rights or our security.
yeah, uplot doesnt do much in terms of auto-sizing. both title and legend are in DOM, so it's just a matter of some css foo. all the demos in the repo are starting points and not really meant to be fully polished.

if you feel like PRing an improvement i'll certainly review it.
How do you manage high intensity exercise after eating food?
For me anything besides light cardio requires 2-3 hours after eating.
You're confusing two separate things: linguistic complexity and ambiguity.

Linguistic complexity is hard to measure, but it's not hard to show that at least morphologically, English is undercomplex compared to many other languages.

This doesn't necessarily mean that English is more ambiguous, though. Unlike German, English typically has very rigid word order, so in the context of a sentence, you'll know if a specific word is a noun or a verb.

The problem here is that many NLP models inadequately capture syntactic structure.
97 percent of citations are not read either.
Facebook has not changed its policy with regards to hate speech as far as i'm aware, so these companies don't need to return to use FB services until it does. (Unless of course the protest was always meant as a 2 week gimmick at the expense of FB's reputation).
The USPS takes an image of the front of the envelope for every first class letter sent in the USA. It's a safe bet that they're doing OCR of the recipient/sender addresses and store it in a database. USPS Informed Delivery is just a customer-facing result of that long standing program.