skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely right, and that's an exciting area: viewing conditions matter!

Well, different monitors aren't really different viewing conditions, but it's a similar idea.

When people can't see colors too well, they turn up the brightness. But that changes the problem entirely.

Even something like whether a window has curtains or not will completely change whether you can perceive a certain "vibrance." Lots of the conversation in parallel replies has probably suffered due to such confusions.
What I've noticed at my company is, the people who were massive fans of working from home are now the people who are missing the office the most, except for one or two people. Working from home has it's benefits but it's really not for everyone. I, personally, am looking forward to going back to the office full time. I can go to the office just now but without other people there it just seems pointless to go.
> It would be very unusual to require UK-based storage specifically.

Maybe not so unusual post brexit?

I'm not sure how UK domestic equivalent of GDPR ends up now and after re-negotiation with EU/EC?

ed: see also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398861
I was not meant to be demeaning, I have been following the situation very closely and know about each of the events you listed. I want them to succeed!

I do think that it's a success they can even demonstrate, the regime is so brutal.

However when I look at further ahead, it feels bleak to me. 1990s criminals and their entourage have became the heads of state, how can you unseat them with leaderless opposition?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291362
> e.g. you don't see those traits associated with MIT or Harvard

Didn't this entire movement basically start with Larry Summers?
".. Commission-free"

"click here to read about our fees"
I don't believe 2.5 hours is representative, so please cite these studies. Personally,senior engineers (individual contributors) that I have worked with spend 4-6 hours per day making significant contributions on their own and the other 4-2 hours working/coordinating with their team and sister teams. The only plausible scenario where one can do an acceptable job in 2.5 hours per day is where a senior person is doing the job of an entry level person. For people managers, having effective 2-4 hour days on an ongoing basis are very unlikely in my experience. I am open to be surprised with examples that prove otherwise.
Yeah, I mean I assume most anyone with younger kids is going to have trouble being productive (kids stuck at home, no childcare, no babysitters, no older relatives to help, etc.) which says little about WFH in general.
During boot camp I remember the kitchen staff storing bread in the fridge because then soldiers would eat less bread.

Of course some soldiers just ate more jam, ham and smoked salmon instead.
Nitpick: Clojure does not use the new CHAMP encoding
I work at $BIGCO, 3 days on, 4 days off, 2 of which I usually spend learning tech and non-tech related things and/or working on side-projects I'm interested in.

I think there are multiple reasons why I was allowed to do this:

A) I'm working on a stable, long-term project. So there were no objections by colleagues that this might impede short-term progress (and, as a side note, I think I'm far more productive now than previously).

B) My manager is a reasonable and kind person. I know other managers at $BIGCO who, I'm sure, would have objected.
Contracting is your best bet.

I set my own hours + fully remote. Typically about 2-3h of team meetings (sprint kickoff, retro, grooming etc) a week. Rest of time is off on your own dev work.

Bill by the hour. As long as you work predictable amount of hours, you can do 20h or 60h week.
> However, journalists absolutely believe in a number of values and, as a whole, hold themselves to them.

The last couple of years has really hammered home how false this is
Journalists are more interested in propaganda for their political parties as well as doxxing & harassing people.
You could add a rail on the edges, and have the trolley ride it.
It sounds like you are disappointed in what people who are in the modern church, publicly speaking that you have access to, are saying. There will obviously be an availability bias on how we each perceive the "modern church".

If you don't believe in what the Bible says, then disregard everything below.

Try reading the Bible. As a whole. And if you have, do it again. Don't let individual versus taken out of context influence major decisions. Know who wrote each chapter (if we know that), who they were writing to, and why they wrote that chapter to put everything in context. I found I was reading too fast and missing major parts. Also translation makes a big deal - some words just don't translate properly - and a good Bible will have footnotes to explain the original word. There are lots of plans out there.

Then, I think, you will realize that what those in the modern church you are referencing are saying should disappoint all of us... and it's not in alignment with the Bible and Jesus' teachings, and you can see where they don't align. Not all churches are that way. Anyways go to the source (if you haven't already).
Most racial justice activists don't agree - they believe that there's significant ongoing racism in addition to the legacy of slavery.
It's possible. If not an option for the company you're working for at the moment look for other companies with openings for 80% or 60% of effort.
I am currently working 80% (4 days per week) after almost 1 year at 60% (3 days per week).

Good luck!
Nope, use C/C++/Perl/awk with UNIX, Java with the JVM, C++/Swift/Objective-C with iOS/macOS, Java/Kotlin/C++ with Android, VB.NET/C#/F#/C++ with Windows, JavaScript/WebAssembly with the Browser,.... and naturally Erlang/C with BEAM.

No need for extra build tools, FFI with the platform language, additional debugging tools, the urge to create wrapper libraries that feel more idiomatic into the guest language, waiting for the guest language to come up with ways to expose new platform capabilities,...

Guest languages are good for experimenting new ideas that eventually get adopted by the platform and then the world moves on, and they turn into the next CoffeeScript.
I would say that's the most likely explanation. Plus, we see very similar things happen in primary education, where the loudest craziest parents cause the biggest potential PR/legal kerfuffles, so the schools often bend to them instead of standing on educational principles.
Could someone explain why the thin flatbread known as the tortilla seems to last much longer in a sealed bag? Ordinary bread molds on me in 4-5 days. I have kept a bag of tortillas around for a couple weeks without any mold. They do get stale if one forgets to seal the zip-type bag.
This is great, thank you for sharing. I really treasure this game.
You could probably define the arguments struct so that all its members have types without default constructors / with deleted default constructors.
> It’s also critical in Python to make heavy use of metaprogramming with decorators

Interesting use case, thanks for sharing! Out of curiosity, when are some scenarios where it's "critical" to write code this way? I mostly interact with small pytorch / numpy codebases that don't grow large enough for this sort of thing.
Fully agree. Working from home is pure hell. I can't wait to go back to in-person office, once the vaccine is out. And if my employer mandates WFH policy even after vaccine, I'll look into renting a personal office space at least 2-3 miles away from my home. Just so I can get my commute and structure back into my life.
You are still confused.

Numerous governments have never instigated wars despite ample opportunities.

Fascists do not need your defense.
Enhanced Aliasing with Burst
The Wall Street Journal newspaper asked Mr Hastings if he had seen any benefits from staff working from home.

"No. I don't see any positives," he replied

Not even a tiny bit of positive? I would be curious to know Netflix's workers point of view on this.
yes, you hear it in chinese dramas all the time (which i watch subtitled), usually as a phrase trailing off ambiguously/uncertainly. the incident seems much ado about nothing.
Yes but not everybody works in it/engineering.
>I would've hoped that an expert who was lecturing about language and culture would've anticipated the problem, and been more sensitive to it.

If you're speaking Mandarin you are going to hear this homophone with even less context than the professor is giving. Should professors slow down their lectures (which he did explaining the context) or compromise their education by simply not covering the topic to protect the sensibilities of adults?

>One reason I would suspect it's a problem (which I heard in a TV show, in which a character explains how an anti-gay slur is hurtful to them), is that they grew up hearing that slur hurled in the context of other injustices, from childhood. I can also imagine that insensitivity to how hurtful a slur is could feel like a signal that someone doesn't understand or care about the associated injustices.

Trigger warnings are not meaningfully helpful or harmful https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/216770261982701...

I've at least experienced hearing slurs in negative contexts, and people discussing them brashly without "contextualizing" it. Sometimes it's pretty jarring, sometimes it feels bad. I still have absolutely no patience for not even engaging in, but enforcing under threat to somebodies career that they engage in the practice of trigger warnings. That is just using peoples suffering to push a personal agenda which nominally will help other people but which evidence shows will not help other people.
whats the point of that random devils advocate scenario when that isn't at all what happened and doesn't have any bearing on the current scenario
This doesn't surprise me. Netflix was always very anti-WFH. When I was there I know of only one team that did it, and that was the OpenConnect team (Netflix's custom CDN). And the main reason that was allowed was because the team was spread all over the world.

The Netflix culture is very strongly built around in-person collaboration.

One interesting way this manifested itself was when the new HQ was built, it had a ton of 2-4 person meeting rooms, more than I've seen at any other big tech company. This was a reflection of the many 2-4 person meetings that were scheduled every day. In the old building, you'd often see a 10 person room being used by two or three people because there were no small rooms left.

Sure you can replicate this on zoom, but it's just not quite the same as sitting across from someone reading their body language.
Wouldn't it be better in the last case to use a different term that's less likely to be misunderstood/misinterpreted, especially in technical contexts that lack much of the cultural baggage that would prevent such a solution offline?

So much miscommunication, wasted time, hurt feelings, etc could have been avoided if, say, GNU decided not to muddy the term "free".
Examples of adapting everyday objects using informal engineering
Why is this flagged? I found the article interesting and relatively well-balanced.
antitracking for power consumption

https://www.grainger.com/ec/pdf/45MT59_1.pdf or someting like it.

using a battery bank with charger/inverter will disconnect the fine granularity of your usage habits and leave them with the charging utilization data. further confounds exist with solar power charging of your battery bank.

you also have an UPS or emergency power system for a while, in an outage these seem very doable in a place like australia
I had to provide them for a Chinese visa last year.
I never liked WFH, but even I didn't realize how much I enjoy working from office. It has made me absolutely resolute not to EVER consider remote work as an option ever again.
Ubuntu also seems to run perfectly fine on the GPD Pocket 2:

https://davejansen.com/installing-ubuntu-18-10-on-a-gpd-pock...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32968851612.html
In case you don't have a bread box: After bringing home the bread in a paper bag, put it on a cutting board with the cut side down. Pull over the paper bag. This is offcourse for real bakery bread, not the industry rubber bread that comes presliced.
Most laws govern interaction between two or more people, how exactly are you going to have that work with privately selected sets of laws? Is everyone going to have a little glowing icon above their head so I know what
agency I'm dealing with? For N law sets, will we have N * N law set combinations when people from two different law sets interact? What about if there's three or four or five different ones at once?
Senior implies quality, making money off of software often doesn't require quality.
As long as Netflix continues paying top-of-market they'll have no problem attracting talent regardless of whether they allow WFH. It's the companies that don't pay top-of-market that have to think longer and harder about WFH.
Neuralink and Woke Studios AI chip implantation robot
Nothing new. But we hope for the best.

Twenty years ago, some leading Belarusian opposition politicians disappeared without a trace. In an exclusive interview with DW, a key witness tells how he assisted a special unit in committing abduction and murder. [0]

And headlines from 20 years ago [2][3]

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-how-death-squads-targeted-oppo...
[1] https://www.dw.com/en/alleged-killer-of-belarus-politician-m...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jul/20/ameliagentlema...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/04/world/belarus-sees-its-di...

Or this:

Classified By: AMBASSADOR GEORGE KROL FOR REASONS 1.4 (B,D)
1. (C) Summary: During the first two weeks of May, GOB
authorities announced that investigations into the 1999-2000
disappearances of two opposition activists and the 2004
murder of a journalist were suspended. Independent
investigator Garry Pogonayilo believes the lack of progress
is due to the authorities' own participation in the crimes.
Therefore, as long as the Lukashenko regime is in power, the
cases will never be "solved." Pogonayilo and international
lawyers are building a case against the GOB leadership and
hope to get international warrants of arrest for GOB
officials suspected in these crimes. End Summary.

[4] https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06MINSK559_a.html
Fwiw, 2 years ago I tried to develop an app at work on Windows IOT on a Raspberry Pi 3. I abandoned pretty quickly, the thing was having a hard time just scrolling some text.

At the time I thought Windows IOT was not optimized, but maybe it's just the whole x86 ecosystem that hasn't been adapted to ARM computing.

I think you can install Android on a Pi, it would be interesting to see if Chrome is fast enough there.
Awesome talk. And, looking at the video connection quality, a spotless live demo!
Blinking used to be accomplished by XORing the pixels with '1'. The nice thing is it doesn't use any memory to restore it since you just XOR a second time to get what you had back.
This is exactly the right thing to do. I make bread every week, and this is how we store it.
Wait, we can fix it by adding another syntax in C++22!
When the world turns into a Chrome monoculture, there won't be Web any longer, job offers will turn into ChromeOS developer kind of ad.
Been doing this for 6 months (50% time), and loving it. In my case, a former employer reached out and asked if I’d like to work part time. I’ve got a friend who’s working 2 full time gigs; 15hours each. He’s more productive than his peers in each company, and only puts in a fraction of the hours. If you deliver high value, you can negotiate.
I don't have anything to say other than I'm very sorry. I know it's not enough but I really feel for you.
Deans, just like CEOs, are at the top of the leadership chain to protect the interests of the institution, and especially to maintain a long-term vision against short-term gains and speculation.

Most people cave in when it's time to make such decisions. A lot of folks would chose a cookie in the short term, while desiring to have a six-pack on the medium outlook.

In business or education, you fail as a leader every time you don't make that trade-off: every time when you take a quarterly one-time gain against the long-term interest or profits of the corporation, or when you fail to protect freedom of speech and the right of innovators to take risks just because the "safe path" is easier for now.

I think Paul Graham touches on this very well in his latest essay:

>> Why do the independent-minded need to be protected, though? Because they have all the new ideas. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be right. You have to be right when everyone else is wrong. Conventional-minded people can't do that. For similar reasons, all successful startup CEOs are not merely independent-minded, but aggressively so. So it's no coincidence that societies prosper only to the extent that they have customs for keeping the conventional-minded at bay. <<

>> For the last couple centuries at least, when the aggressively conventional-minded were on the rampage for whatever reason, universities were the safest places to be. That may not work this time though, due to the unfortunate fact that the latest wave of intolerance began in universities. perhaps the decline in the spirit of free inquiry within universities is as much the symptom of the departure of the independent-minded as the cause. People who would have become professors 50 years ago have other options now. Now they can become quants or start startups. You have to be independent-minded to succeed at either of those. If these people had been professors, they'd have put up a stiffer resistance on behalf of academic freedom. So perhaps the picture of the independent-minded fleeing declining universities is too gloomy. Perhaps the universities are declining because so many have already left <<

http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
I was super into TDD and never thought that there was such a thing as "TDD going too far" until I read that post by an ex-Oracle employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
No, they are part baked, and sealed in a protective atmosphere (nitrogen, I expect).

Here:

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/fitzgeralds-2-sourdou...

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/bakery/bread-and-...

They last about a month in a pantry, unrefrigerated.

A significant fraction (if not all) supermarket bakery bread is shipped as frozen part-baked. This is roughly the same thing but in nitrogen rather than frozen.
Religion-wise, Belarus is mostly Orthodox with a Catholic minority.

But the vast majority of the population is not religious, so while this matters a bit culturally, it has no impact on current events.

Ethnically, it is rather monolithic, indeed.

And there are no big geographic differences.
- Prenups made null-and-void at the whims of the judge are a thing.

- Unenforceable prenups are a thing
The layers of "Yes men" are likely in agreement with whatever he believes
Mix doesn't exist in releases. You can get config options like normal, but not `Mix.env/0`. You can compile your current env into a config option though, and use that at runtime.

Here's an example how to set up an Ecto migrator task with Mix releases: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/releases.html#ecto-migrations-and...
Earth is mostly water and large portions of land are covered vegetation and the atmosphere could serve as a larger thermal buffer. It could be that on mars that the surface is more connected structurally and has a much thinner crust, local cooling could have a much larger affect.

If my hypothesis are true, I think it would show that meteor impacts would cause longer spherical ringing. In a quick search I can't tell if there are multiple seismometers on mars, which would make it much easier to infer the structure of the core and the crust.

(disclaimer, just a dog on the internet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonics_of_Mars
My point is not to say what is preferable.

I was just pointing that saying "A part of not assassinating Assad is that he was fighting the extremists (aka ISIS)" is not true, as ISIS was a minor player at the beginning, and as Assad and ISIS shared some interests during the first half of the war, and somehow helped each other. It is not a judgement, it is a fact.
And users would know this, and make their own choice whether to rely on the project.

Removing agency from users of your program or programming language is not a recipe for success.
There's also the moving goalposts of what's considered "extremist", especially where it's reduced around extremely small confines of acceptability, and invoking long-tail assumptions as direct accusations of intent against people.
>> Uttering a word someone finds offensive "with the best intentions" doesn't make it less offensive.

It was a Norwegian word probably new to those offended. Isnt the offense absurd? Nobody should bend for that.
With Twitter, now all it takes is one person and maybe 100 stars (none of which may actually be real). The "mouthpiece of democracy" is completely broken.
I'm going to go against the vibe on this site and agree with him. The next Apple or Google definitely will not come from a remote working startup, and there's undoubtedly a lot of value from in-person collaboration. In a bigger company like Netflix this might be less important. A big part of this is the transfer of knowledge, which isn't as easy over Zoom calls.
I'm in that camp, but for other reasons. I live close to work, but others are doing 1.5-2 hour round-trip commutes. I was pushing for more WFH to keep them sane.

It also helps with recruitment: Your catchment area is bigger if someone only has to come in the office 3x/week vs. 5x.

I guess we need to differentiate between 100% remote, and partial WFH. Just about everyone will be in favour of the latter, but pushing everyone into the former has its consequences.
A Tiny Newsletter about JavaScript
Have never tried it. But have been on the other side of the situation looking to hire developers half time.

Look for small companies. Startups, small businesses, anyone who needs a developer but can't afford a full time employee. This can especially work out if you are a senior developer whose 20 hours are often more valuable than 40 hours of a junior dev.
That's odd - I've flown RPis on drones with far more vibration than the relatively smooth linear acceleration of a model rocket. In such setups it's recommended to directly solder power and USB connections, but I've never heard anything about the microSD connector. Did he say how he diagnosed the failure?
Radical ideas can be presented just as civilly as conservative ideas. Noam Chomsky does a perfectly fine job of being civil.
The Chorleywood process which industrialised bread making is credited by some with destroying bread as a staple and replacing it with tasteless and nutrition free alternative.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl...
How a Soviet Triple Agent Recruited New Spies in the West
September 2020 security update has reached the Galaxy Note 8 in Europe
I don't work part-time at the moment but have before and have part-time positions currently hiring for in my team and I manage part time employees and have before.

It's not unheard of just uncommon.

The biggest drawback is that you feel less belonging and you aren't always there for all the decisions. At certain times I am OK with that.
The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s
If you could guarantee every individual in a system would be competent enough to be afforded a greater degree of independence, we would not need bureaucratic complexity. Unfortunately as the number of individuals grows larger, you cannot. Bureaucracy provides resilience against incompetence.