skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah you can emulate this behavior in other ways. You could also use vim splits, a tiling window manager for some of it, etc.

That’s fine. I would probably argue that it’s easier to get there with emacs, and having one language is a lot nicer than having to learn vimscript, whatever tmux uses, etc, though neovim makes that a totally different discussion because iiuc you can script with many different languages, and emacs lisp, while pretty decent, isn’t great.

Probably the biggest issue facing these environments at this point is that need stronger types to scale better. Doom emacs helps with this because it locks packages down, but for example spacemacs was always broken for me. So eventually I switched.

Anyway if you want to try it I’d recommend doom emacs. It uses vim style bindings so your muscle memory won’t atrophy
I transitioned from FTE to ~25 hours per week as a contractor and it definitely works for my situation.

If you go this route, make sure when you calculate your rate that you build-in the benefits such as paid leave, health insurance, lunch break, and company holidays. The number might seem high but you can justify it.

We arranged a deal where I work between 0 and 40 hours per week, with the option to work more hours with approval.

Also you might enjoy The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
If you need flawless docx support then Word is the way to go. LibreOffice can never do docx perfectly because the implementation is archaic and some parts of the spec aren't properly-documented.
Some countries have the Universal jurisdiction [1].

The idea is that whenever the crime happens, it can be tried in the country. Even US had a couple of cases where Universal jurisdiction was applied.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction
Is there a Chrome extension that can just do this sort of thing automatically for content that's linked to from forums like HN?
This essay provides a highly thought-provoking answer:

https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/

The argument is sophisticated and hard to summarise, but essentially, the author argues that "enlightenment liberalism" (i.e. the sort of philosophy that dominates universities) has a flaw at its centre that both creates Marxists and causes "enlightenment liberals" to constantly give in to the demands of those Marxists. The cycle goes like this:

1. Liberals assert that henceforth all with be free and equal, and that these things are self-evidently desirable (i.e. using reason alone).

2. Some liberals observe that life is full of inequalities and lack of freedoms. Because everyone is supposed to have equal opportunities, and because liberalism is generally uninterested in historical or traditional justifications for things, unequal outcomes demand an explanation which they find in the assumption of oppressive hierarchies. These liberals become Marxists.

3. They demand affirmative actions be taken in order to rectify these supposed oppressions. Embarrassed by the existence of inequality and lack of freedoms after declaring that their society is meant to have neither, liberals agree to these demands.

4. Realising they got what they wanted with little resistance, and that inequalities and lack of freedoms still exist, Marxists return to step 1.

In this framework the cause is nothing as simple or skin-deep as bad PR or lawsuits. Perhaps fear of those does play a role, but the author argues that the core reason is that the university is staffed by people who are genuinely embarrassed and upset by Marxist critique. Lacking intellectual ammo or a coherent philosophy of inequality, they invariably cave in when faced with outspoken demands that appear to align with their own agenda of equality.
25 years ago (give or take), a man filed a lawsuit against Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia. He was helping his son write a report on Niger but accidentally added a letter. The emotional distress it caused to him and his son led to the lawsuit.

TL;DR: There is nothing new under the sun.
Mount Rushmore’s Six Grandfathers and Four Presidents
I would posit that a lot of those negative reactions to remote work is because the company culture has been sufficiently altered to support it.

Most negative experiences I've observed have come from split companies, where two classes of employee occur, or from companies who say they're "remote first" but have a culture that hasn't evolved past the office. With the right process changes and the right culture, remote work can be enjoyable, rewarding, and more productive. Not to mention the big advantage: no commute.
I am guessing the word here is "neger", and is more akin to the US use of the word "negro" than the slur "Nier"[looks like HN censors even my censored version of the slur to "Nier"]. Even in the US "negro" has mostly fallen out of general use, and is considered derogatory in most casual contexts.
About the same as a bluth banana.

Generally $3-$5.
"Batteries" was a shortcut for whatever storage mechanism we may come up with. Some of them are promising, and hopefully cheap enough to reduce the cost of "on demand" renewable energy. Right now, though, proper storage makes renewable much costlier than they otherwise look.

Without enough storage, you get energy when you have sun or wind, not when the train must depart the station. So what happens in practice? We use other energies to compensate. Now if renewable end up partially replacing fossil fuels like coal or oil, that's good: every joule we get from the wind, we don't have to get it from coal.

If however you compensate with nuclear plants, that's almost a one sided loss for the environment: you still need to maintain the nuke plants to guarantee minimum available power, but you use them less because renewables offload some energy from them. Carbon wise, this is a pure loss: you end up using more concrete & more steel to get energy from the wind (or the sun), and you don't even shut down nuke plants in return (or if you do, you end up trading nuclear for fossil, which is beyond ridiculous). Moreover, those nuke plants are now less profitable, since we need less total energy from them. If you want to reduce risks, that's not a good idea: less profit means less budget, and maintenance may suffer. The only advantage is a slight reduction in nuclear waste, and those are mostly not a problem (just bury them).

Don't get me wrong, renewable energy is the future, one way or another. Nuclear power is only a stop-gap measure, it won't last forever — just like fossil fuel. Right now though, that's a stop-gap measure I welcome with open arms.
Nigerians today have to deal with the legacy of colonialism, war, pogroms and famine. (1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War
"The Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War and the Nigerian-Biafran War) ... between 500,000 and 3 million Biafran civilians died of starvation."

This is just scratching the surface.
For those like me who didn't know what a "Real Time Processor" was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

(somebody correct me if this is wrong)
I don't think you'd want to. One of the primary usages of this kind of thing would be like when you need to pass in some massive struct of options to some dumb API function (you know the ones!), and then you'd absolutely want default values for all the things you don't want to specify.

Also, some might argue that what you're describing (call sites not becoming invalid when you update the function) is a feature, not a bug. This way, you can add options to your functions and still have everything compile like it should.

I wouldn't personally argue that though, i think it leads to bad practice where functions take a bazillion options and they become horrible tech debt. I'm working in a mixed C++ and Lua codebase, and the Lua codebase is littered with functions that take, like, 9 different arguments that change the behavior of the function. When I asked one of my colleagues about this style, he said it was one of his favorite features of Lua, that you can add arguments to a function to change the behavior in certain cases but keep the original functionality (guarded with default values or if's or whatever). It's made much of the code a living nightmare!

So, I guess, in the process of writing this comment I've come over to your side :) say no to adding arguments with default values!
Eh. This is sadly a clickbait headline with a murder-mystery writeup.

The seismometer on the lander (sitting on Mars) registered a tiny tilt:

> “But we didn't expect this seismometer reading; it's an unusual signal," Stähler said. "Imagine a 5- franc coin; now, push two silver atoms under one edge. That's the incline we're talking about: 10^-8."

Their theory is that the ground got cooler in the shadow, and therefore the instrument shifts slightly. So nothing “strange happens”, it just took them a while to debug it.

tl;dr: the shadow cast by Phobos during an eclipse affects the ground of Mars just a tiny bit.
That's a neat idea - maybe we can start with this small group?
From my experience at some workplaces, Netflix was 'a pure negative' for office work. Every time there was a popular show, which was several times a month, productivity at the office noticeably took a toll.

I particularly remember some colleagues behaving like zombies for a couple of days after spending their night sleep hours binging on the platform.
It sounds like you are talking about the present as being the peak of "it's who you know". But has this ever not been true? I feel like what you are describing could easily apply to hundreds if not thousands of years of business history (admittedly not necessarily across all cultures).
What about turbulence? I've been in some doozies where it felt like the pilot was fighting it hard, constant up and down and left and right corrections. I wonder what effect that fast change in altitude has, if any? Just G Force?
> We need to accept the truth that there are real differences between people (even groups of people) and celebrate those differences and not pretend they don't exist.

Is this a position that lots of people disagree with? You see the left talk a lot about the value of diversity, and you see the right talk a lot about differences between groups of people.
Mutation Testing [1] is a generalized form of fuzzing. It is also analogous to Sensitivity Analysis [2]. As part of closing the feedback loop between the code and the tests, if one had a repeatable way to break the code and measure the selectivity in the test result, one could ensure that they are testing the same thing as the code evolves.

Automatic program repair [3] tries to find patches to broken code, maybe goal directed program breaking (possibly using DNNs) could be used to infer properties for code so that better invariants could be discovered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_analysis

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00515
Aconite and mandrake: Crypto-pharmacological botanicals in Shakespeare
> back to the root of it all

https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Carpenter-Josh-McDowell/dp/...

https://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-S-Lewis/dp/006065...
Am I though?

The preambles of the articles that you're citing do not agree with your position, neither does a number of other definitions found easily online, neither does the academic publication record (you'll easily find 500+ articles on Contractualism penned before Scanlon).

See: "There is no necessity for a contractarian about political theory to be a contractarian about moral theory, although most contemporary contractarians are both. It has been more recently recognized that there are two distinct strains of social contract thought, which now typically go by the names contractarianism and contractualism."

[...]

"Contractarianism argues that we each are motivated to accept morality “first because we are vulnerable to the depredations of others, and second because we can all benefit from cooperation with others” (Narveson 1988, 148). Contractualism, which stems from the Kantian line of social contract thought, holds that rationality requires that we respect persons, which in turn requires that moral principles be such that they can be justified to each person. Thus, individuals are not taken to be motivated by self-interest but rather by a commitment to publicly justify the standards of morality to which each will be held. Where Gauthier, Narveson, or economist James Buchanan are the paradigm Hobbesian contractarians, Rawls or Thomas Scanlon would be the paradigm Kantian contractualists. The rest of this entry will specifically pertain to the contractarian strain wherever the two diverge."

In other words, this isn't about Scanlon the person, it's about two different schools of thought regarding people and their relationship with society. To dumb them down significantly, one's about the selfish, desperate flight from the state of nature, the other is about the crafting of a persuasive encompassing rationality of co-operation.

----

Also, just as an aside, while this difference might seem like it's a small nitpick, it's actually one of the fundamental theoretical divides between continental European and American/British legal systems. So yes, there's a reason why the terms are distinct.
Maybe it was mounted poorly and the g force ejected it?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309401
If we have to live in this kind of world can we at least go the full Shadowrun way pretty please. I could see myself mutated in a giant troll wielding a massive minigun ... and I want to see a dragon fly too!
Nice hypothesis, but incorrect. This is at a company that has always had a large remote workforce, and if you do want to work remote, it's always been an option, and there is an actual culture to support it (and in fact, all of our internal tooling is built with remote work in mind. All meetings happen via Zoom even if you are in an office (partly because of lack of meeting rooms, but also because we don't want to disadvantage remote workers)). We've been trying to grow our remote work force because of lack of office space, but filling these remote roles has actually been hard. It turns out that there's a reason that most of our people choose to not be in those remote roles. They genuinely do not enjoy it.
> If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest?

Like... None? This seems like a complete waste of resources. It's probably a life-like toy from someone with too much money? The world needs more 10,000 year clocks, we don't have any other problems...

If you want a 10,000 clock, you bury a radioactive rock with a note about the decay pattern at the time of creation and future radiologist will know how long it's been "ticking". Problem solved.
For Tunisia (or Egypt), the key element was the army stepping in against the dictator.
Lol, no. "Often or always" is used by people who realize the world is rarely black and white.

It's weird, you're arguing against a point that no one else is making. Of course there are many billionaires whose individual intelligence, innate gifts, hard work and diligence were crucial to them earning their fortune. Just as obviously as there are many billionaires who earned their fortune through family, connections, graft, etc. (It's also pretty easily arguable the majority of the wealthy earned their money this way, given that for every "self-made" rich person there are usually loads more family members/connections who inherit or benefit from that wealth).

But the larger point is that nobody makes their fortune in a vacuum - even all these "self-made" rich relied upon the structures of their society to enable their wealth accumulation, so it seems more than morally fair that that society has a claim to some of that wealth so the next generation can reap the same benefits. Just look at all the Internet billionaires, or billionaires who rely on GPS. Both the Internet and GPS were created by the government, and it seems fair to me that the government take a chunk of the wealth enabled by the enormous investments into those systems.
I've been using Kolab [0] for years for self hosting the email, calendar and tasks. There is an official integration with Seafile which gives you a "Google Drive"/"One Drive" experience (you can also integrate it with NextCloud), while recently there's been Libre Office integration available which gives you word processing, spreadsheets and presentations in your browser; I'm also using it.

The overall experience is not as smooth as with Google or MS, but I do have Exchange protocol, file storage with management and online document editing and it works.

First time it took me almost two weeks to setup everything, but I've been doing the same setup for my friends, for their small to mid sized companies for less than a week.

Their main website is not managed well but they have a pretty active development community, very useful mailing list (you can browse the archive) and somewhat dated documentation but the changes are not that hard to figure out.

Once everything is set, the update process and maintenance are almost automatic through the native linux package manager.

[0] https://www.kolab.org/
I am reminded of what an uncle of mine who raised chickens said, "It only takes time and patience to feed a family of four on one egg."

Raising ducks though can be pretty challenging, especially if they imprint on you and follow you around everywhere.
Fair point, but FWIW, even a little Baofeng F8HP[1], which sells for around $70 can do cross-band like this. I'm not sure this feature really qualifies as "exotic" these days.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/BaoFeng-BF-F8HP-Two-Way-136-174Mhz-40...
Reminds me of this (2011):

https://www.amren.com/news/2011/08/foreigner_on_ko/

> “A video is circulating on the Korean Internet of a black gentleman yelling at and threatening an elderly Korean couple. His violent behavior was the result of him misunderstanding the elderly man’s comment to him. The elderly man reportedly said “니가 여기 앉아” (a sign of consideration) (“You can sit here” = Niga Yuh gi anja”), but not knowing Korean, the man in question interpreted “니가” as the N-word which led to his violent outburst.
I think the simple answer is we are mammals and feed our newborns milk and since they usually don't die from their breast feedings we equate milk to being good & nutritional. The fact is, we've discovered clay feeding vessels with nipples that contained animals milk from 2000bc near infant graves. The horn was a popular material for feeding bottles during the middle ages.

We've been giving infants and kids milk for a very long time to supplement their diets because the dairy industry was able to reach that far back in our timeline. I think we all understand that the dairy industry has been lobbying and marketing, to get a spot at the table, but so has every other commodity thats available in a global market.
I would love a non-RPI based ARM palmtop with Linux or BSD.
No, Gemini is too expensive.

A device with a monochrome screen, 800x480 resolution, 3D case with a qwerty keyboard shoudn't exceed $100.

They day a little netbook/palmtop arrives with Linux at a ridiculous price (the one of an RPI), it would be almost a second revolution as the zaurus.

Portable Nethack/IF/SSH/IRC/Usenet + coding, PDF/image/video viewer with framebuffer support, cheap audio from a SOC if any.

That would be my dream device.
The first paragraph seems to be pretty much all misleading or wrong:

It’s one of the oddest tenets of quantum theory: a particle can be in two places at once—yet we only ever see it here or there. Textbooks state that the act of observing the particle “collapses” it, such that it appears at random in only one of its two locations. But physicists quarrel over why that would happen, if indeed it does. Now, one of the most plausible mechanisms for quantum collapse—gravity—has suffered a setback.
How many times have you read a story like this? Like 5 times in the last 10 years? It gets a lot of headlines because it's ridiculous, but it isn't common.
A specific note about this quote:

> However, this eight-hour movement didn't become standard until nearly a century later, when, in 1914, Ford Motor Company astonished everyone by cutting daily hours down to eight while simultaneously doubling wages. The result? Increased productivity.

What happened was the shift from craftsmen at a workbench to a deskilled assembly line had significant turnover. The cost of training and retention was high enough that Ford instituted the lower working hours and higher wages.

From one of Ford's biographers: “So great was labor’s distaste for the new machine system that toward the close of 1913 every time the company wanted to add 100 men to its factory personnel, it was necessary to hire 963.”

You see this in shipyards during the war war 2 years where once the initial pool of workers is burned out, you need to raise wages to bring in more workers.
Some things are working for some companies some not. I work from home/remote most of my life. But honestly most of companies I’ve worked was never effective as it can be. I must admit, that many companies can be more effective when people work face to face. But they never try to be productive on any reasonable level. And I’m not talking about sacrificing all time, life and energy to boss. I’m about not wasting time on visibility of work.
Telegram channels like https://t.me/terroristybelarusi collect personal information of state officials involved in atrocities. Makes for interesting reading, especially when you see photos of pretty-looking girls that tortured dozens of men and beat women out of consciousness.

Check this one [1], the first 4 photos are of the most famous torturer.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%...
> Once the boundary between home and work gets blurred, stress from work starts seeping into your personal life.

For me the fact that the line between work and home gets blurred reduces stress by a huge amount. No longer do I have to do all my work in a specific 8-hour window. I don’t have to be ‘on’ for 8 consecutive hours anymore. I can do a few hours of work, do some mindless chores around the house, then go back to work. If I’m stuck on a problem, I can just take a break instead of sitting at my desk going in circles. I’m more productive and more relaxed since the start of the lockdown.

In addition, just the fact that I have access to a fully equipped kitchen makes a world of difference when it comes to breakfast and lunch.
I would like US diplomats work quietly and substantively to produce results rather than making often-toothless public denouncements.

This administration seems to be working towards a diplomatic solution.

They have demonstrated some success with this technique in the past.

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-stands-with-eu-to-push-fo...

edit: removed spurious 'to'
Propose a "memo culture". That was how we managed larger meetings at Netflix (and I'm pretty sure we stole it from Amazon).

Before the meeting, everyone who has a stake in what's being discussed contributes to a memo outlining their thoughts on it. Then everyone reads it ahead of the meeting.

The meeting is then just to hash out what's in the doc and agree on which already proposed solution will be adopted.
This is quite interesting, a very elegant struct hack. Dlang is working on an RFC for implementing this feature right into the language, which would probably make it the first systems language to implement this without structs.

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1030.md
Found seed of minecraft texture pack icon [video]
Wow... you could have picked any Democrat and possibly found examples within this century, but you just happened to have a list of vague and unsubstantiated bullet points about how racist the current Presidential candidate is at the ready, huh?

Could you be any more obvious of a Trump stooge?