skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropbox has 2500~ employees, and obviously this is just an anouncement. In some years we will have a clearer understanding of the tradeoffs.

My suspicion is that companies that will fully embrace the "internet way" of doing things will have success.
These seem totally reasonable given the circumstances. I wish people would read these specific examples instead of jumping immediately to accusations of widespread censorship and accusing Youtube of being arbiters of disputed science.
It boggles my mind how other companies, and people who resort to ad platforms like this, still use these tools given how those ad platforms treat them (no or very poor human support). I find their behaviour so unbelievably disrespectful.

What other alternatives are there?
> I would not characterize this story as speech but as carefully designed viral marketing content.

God. I’m on the Left, but can you all not see the blatant paternalism behind stances like this? It’s a pretty explicit: “we know best, don’t worry your pretty little head about this misleading content, we will take care of it”
Worth noting the fix has been sent to linux-next instead and distros were not informed: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1316484882877435904
Devon Zuegel on bounties in open source
There would be consequences for that. For example you would need a universal world wide social safety net.

We would all fit easily on Iceland, but most would die of dehydration or starve in a short amount of time.

I could be an early adopter of "cheese for everyone", but I would need to get a lot of cheese first to make that happen.
I'm sure you have talked to your exec team at length about the pluses and minuses of that type of structure. That structure feels like a great trade-off that gives employees enough flexibility to reduce their housing costs, while also keeping the culture in place.

Would you mind sharing some of the thoughts your team had while you explored the options available? It feels like such a good move IMHO, I'm very interested in learning how you got there.
I started using Hubstaff for time tracking for myself and a co-worker, and I was kind of disgusted that one of the headlining features they advertise is "the client will take a screenshot of everyone's screen at any interval of your choosing". Yuck.
Brain Implant Bypasses Eyes to Help Blind People See
Nim is strongly, statically typed. It's very type safe.

Nim being able to compile to Javascript and, say, C means you can write your server and web client in the same language. This means you can share code between client and server which is particularly handy for having modules with type declarations imported by both for example, so you have a unified place to update them.

You also get to use Nim's strong type guarantees and metaprogramming when outputting Javascript. An example of why this is useful is generating say, RPC calls from a static JSON file that are automatically unified between server and client.
Yes this is why my OP is about making freedom of speech a civil right and extending its protections to private entities. Similar to how anti-discrimination protections are currently extended to private entities.
Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away
That has nothing to do with expanded hate speech laws, and the in fact the provincial human rights council in British Columbia ruled against the complainant in the article, and ordered her to pay restitution to the salons.

I assume the GGP is referring to the C-16 bill passed by the federal government of Canada in 2016, which added gender expression and identity to existing human rights laws on discrimination.

I have repeatedly seen a perhaps willful misinterpretation, popularly stemming from Jordan Petersen, that this bill criminalizes misgendering people when that's not the case.

https://factcheck.afp.com/no-canadians-cannot-be-jailed-or-f...

>"After Bill C-16 amended the Criminal Code, Canadian law prohibited hate propaganda against groups
that can be identified based on gender identity or gender expression. The bill also allowed for more
severe sentencing if it is proved that a particular offense was motivated by a bias or prejudice
against a person's gender identity or gender expression.
>

>However, experts say misusing a pronoun would not constitute hate propaganda, nor can it be used as >sole evidence of discrimination.
>

>"If it's just the pronoun, not much is going to happen," explained Cheryl Milne, director of the Asper >Centre for Constitutional Rights at the University of Toronto told AFP."
Thanks for highlighting the set of challenges (and also right near the top of the blog post).

Do you or the EIU intend to make the study results more broadly available? (There was a good discussion of Nick Bloom’s recent surveys yesterday, and this would be a nice addition to that body of work)

Edit: it was in the blog post... https://lostfocus.eiu.com/

Edit 2: the survey writeup is great (and I’ve submitted it separately if people want to discuss that; Dropbox itself moving to remote allowed w/ studios is its own discussion)
Securing Sensitive Data in Rails
Materials do a little better under compression than tension. But yea, 267 GPa is a lot. The working stress for most high strength metals is about 1 GPa. With that being said under shock conditions for instance.

That said you can locally get huge stresses without out breaking the material.
> the NYT isn't highly likely to publish things that source to Russian propaganda ops,

The people who lied us into Iraq?
Is it silly to assume that a nose would break of the easiest? Like how stretched out arms are usually broken. These statues are very old.
Loved section 1.5.1, "Bytes in color". The author wrote code to help them understand a custom binary format by coloring the bytes based on their value, making patterns in the format visually obvious. The structure of the binary becomes much more clear when visualized this way. That's a handy approach I've mentally bookmarked for the future.
> You tried to twist my words.

I did not try to twist your words. If I did, it was entirely unintentional.

> I called the content bullshit and not one of those services say it is.

You said:

> I applaud YouTube, Twitter and FB primarily for trying to not facilitate distribution of bullshit all because free speech.

I may have misunderstood what you were trying to say, but it sounded to me like you were happy these services were trying to filter out bullshit.

> Anything they ban is considered to be violation of their ToS. If you have a dispute with the determination, you can file a lawsuit against them and have a judge determine if it was a violation of their ToS.

I'm not claiming anything about the legality of what they're doing. Only that I disagree with filtering content based on an arbitrary definition of "bullshit". If that is not what you were arguing, then I apologize for my misunderstanding.
I don't think the cities have a lot of leverage in this scenario.
Tracking Amazon returns: Here’s where they really go
There are trade offs with that too. If you use a home office for a write off, you have to pay tax when you sell the home
In NYC, things are actually moving in reverse. In properties where the poor lived 10, 15, 20 years ago the rich live now.
Why do they need to survive if they are not needed?
Slack + Dropbox: Let's embrace WFH

Microsoft: Getting tired of WFH.

Shows who really believes in their own "Team" tools and remote working software :)
I mean.. I just tried and it stopped me.
I was intrigued enough to look it up. According to[1], Laos has 54,784 addresses. The smallest is Santa Lucia, with a /24. North Korea and Dominica have a /22.

(Apologies if I'm getting that number wrong. I don't do much with subnetting.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_addr...
Go packages can have more than one init() function
Leasing is only a small fraction of the costs compared to salaries, though.
Maverick Rewilders Are Trying to Turn Back the Tide of Extinction
Ok, and the difference between discussing it in the US is?
My assertion was exactly this: "Boehm violates ISO C". A C program stops being an ISO C defined program when it calls into a translation unit that invokes ISO C undefined behavior, even if the call takes place through a good interface. If you call a library for loading a JPEG image, through a nice interface, but that library segfaults, your entire program has undefined behavior.

A C program also stops being an ISO C program when it calls a function that is not in the standard C library and that is written in Fortran. However, that Fortran code can be well-defined Fortran, and the call can be taking place through a C-Fortran calling mechanism documented by the compiler suite. So that even though we don't have a definition of behavior entirely coming from ISO C (so that the program is undefined as far as ISO C is concerned), we can piece together a definition of behavior from ISO C and additional sources, like the Fortran standard and the reference manual for the toolchain.

We don't have any such definition of behavior with Boehm GC. The behavior is empirically validated. No compiler document says that it's okay to scan memory looking for pointers, as a documented extension.
Anyone care to write an abstract for this article?
It's very different once you get the top job. And Nature, as a scientific publication, shouldn't be in the business of predicting that.
not trying to sound like a dick...

everyone has to get out of the house and making actual friends in life. co-workers aren't friends, bosses aren't friends, clients aren't friends, work relationships aren't friends. we all need human interaction... join a club, a gym, yoga, bike club, whatever, just interact with people that doesn't involve talking about work. and sitting home and playing video games while good, isn't getting outside.
People responding to someone with "that's racist" isn't censorship. It's others exercising their free speech to strongly disagree with the points raised.
While I am not printing much code lately, I do print a lot of datasheet sections that usually force me to go back and forth through a PDF, like complicated clock trees and memory maps (embedded development).
SLA printers are considerably faster and quieter, but the resins used are also much less safe than a spool of PLA (noxious fumes, gloves requried), and the post processing is more of a hurdle. I think FDM is already incredibly fast though, considering the achievable quality, precision, and ease of creating a single instance of something.
Hm, would make sense. Can't loose anything and they would always have an advantage to competitors.
Did you read about how this thread is about making freedom of speech a civil right where its protections extend to private entities?
I've only skimmed this, and the content may be reasonable, but the false premise is the same as that of the ubiquitous "why are people surprised" commentary: Strong reactions look like surprise. Sometimes people even say colloquially "I can't believe...". But a reaction's strength isn't necessarily due to surprise - it may just be due to the drama of the subject. If something awful keeps happening, it's good if you don't stop having a strong reaction to it, no matter how unsurprising it becomes. So, it's not surprise in such cases - it's anger/sadness. Unhelpfully, accusations of "surprise" are also an easy way for bad-faith actors to imply naivete. They will even contradict themselves by using the word "outrage" to describe the same "surprised" reaction, under the implication that "outrage" means "unjust/naive anger", when really "outrage" is often the right word, sans that unspoken implication. "Outrage" can be justified, and people can express it when they are not "surprised".
Advertising has more competition than probably any other industry except restaurants. In addition to the big digital advertising shops (Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Reddit), you can also buy print advertisements, radio advertisements, television advertisements, billboard advertisements, bus advertisements, etc, all from hundreds of different sources.

They have plenty of options. They choose to use Facebook because it's one of the better options.
And if you're one of the lucky 10,000 today, Bill Hammack over at the EngineerGuy youtube channel has this[0] fantastic video explaining how piezoelectric microdot printers work.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DckWNwE7R4
Josephson junction is a very interesting device with many uses, including low energy consumption per FLOPS.

But one big part of the reason the consumption is so low is low temperature. When you try it with room temperatures, switching energy will go up by 2 orders of magnitude (due to higher thermal noise) and this makes the JJ computer efficiency only somewhat better than CMOS. I agree this would still be interesting as refrigeration can be much simpler then and researching JJ-based computers would be easier.

But if we talk about best power/watt, the 4.2K systems or 77K systems are likely to be better than room temp superconducting computers.
Yeah I should have stressed that it's just the productivity that matches Python, not the operation. As you say it's similarity is only skin deep with significant whitespace.

In terms of use I find it feels a lot like a better Pascal but with powerful metaprogramming.
This is what Facebook already does. It turns out after a few years of this, it actually becomes pretty easy to recognize.

For instance, many left news organizations that were critical of NATO have seen their posts substantially deprioritized on FB.
I suppose I don't feel overpaid, given that I'm living in a 1BR apartment. And now with my office closed, I'm somehow supposed to find a dedicated space in my tiny-ass apartment where I can:

a) Setup the same configuration of laptop, multiple monitors, a desk phone, and an Ethernet jack into my router.

b) Sufficiently insulate the background noise on the hours of Zoom meetings I'm expected to join every day from my girlfriend working in the dining room, and the cacophony of screaming children in the apartment above me.

This solution reeks of tone-deaf executives who would think, "What? You mean all of our employees don't have freestanding houses with a spare bedroom or basement that they can easily convert to a home-office?"
A certain Noam Chomsky quote comes to mind: "If you want to stop terrorism: stop participating in it"
This article on the same news is also well written and detailed: https://www.ft.com/content/beb9a517-ea27-4d52-8544-43c8fdfa2...
I read it as such and assume most reasonable people did as well. I personally think online discourse would be much less noise if the Principal of Charity were more widely applied, as opposed to wanton application of the Principal of You Are Trivially Wrong and I Will Prove It.
The computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. Yet the modern computer is the equivalent of a bicycle with stabilisers: the added support might be nice for children, but comes at the cost of agility and manoeuvrability. Do we really need the PC to become another device used exclusively for entertainment?
Trello has been remote first from start and doing just fine.
Network Standards Through History
Yelp doctor reviews: the pitfalls of untrained people reviewing healthcare pros
I don’t think it’s family vs not family. It’s all about personality. To wit: If you’re single, work from anywhere you want is great. But if you have a family, not having a place to escape the distractions of home life can be a disaster.

It’s all just how you manage it. :)
This is the least of all expenses. Tech workers in SF can charge more because they expenses are universally higher. Remote workers in cheaper places can (and will) charge less.
Show HN: Workbench – DIY Home Shop
Their prices are in fact set by the market. Do you not understand the concept of an auction?
Fixing, thanks
> YouTube said in an email that this would include removing claims that the vaccine will kill people or cause infertility

> I don't think it takes a scientist to call that misinformation.

Are you sure? If you haven't done the experiments, how do you know the safety of the vaccines and the likelihood of becoming infertile or dying?

I'm not saying most of that isn't misinformation, because I don't know. What I am saying is that I don't trust YouTube to make that determination.
I feel like this could become a go-to service for experimenting and prototyping APIs for me, given a reasonable pricing model.

A few oddities caught my eye, though, e.g. duplicates of the edited field were created when leaving the field panel.

Is there a plan to add a feature to export the API in a standard like OpenAPI?
Possibly out of privacy concerns?
Let’s be honest, that’s where most of the money is going to go.
How does that work for a rental?
I love the idea.

REI I believe is moving to a model, after having just sold their massive new HQ to Facebook, where they will establish a handful of micro-offices around the country where their now distributed team can meet.

Plenty of kinks to work out I’m sure, but feels like the future of work to me.
Well said. When they talk about "misinformation" they're talking about people who question the narrative, under the guise of labeling this group "dangerous". Nothing changes. The new terrorist insurgent posts youtube videos about Bill Gates tracking those who have been vaccinated through smartphone-readable quantum dot tattoos. But that's a mouthful, so the announcement comes "No, the vaccine will not contain a microchip". And that may be construed as literally true, even if there is an RFID-type device in there. Not that the "authorities" have ever risen above outright lies, which it seems people sometimes forget. All this talk about suppressing "conspiracy theories" is a mission to create an army of militantly obedient and broken people, who are trained to remember that the television is the arbiter of truth because it brings together panels of experts to tell you what to think. You may not question vaccine safety or efficacy. You may not question scientific legitimacy. "Chemtrails" are for quack conspiracy theorists, but "stratospheric aerosol injection" is a promising new scientific field. Everything is a distortion.
For better and for worse, this is a part of the standard where the committee deliberately under-specified things to allow room for improvement.
Wow, great article! It's astounding how forward thinking this was 20 years ago, and how relevant it still is. It's even more amazing how many companies still don't live up to these standards today!
I’m the founder of a startup that has eliminated the issue you mention. Our documents-to-database service handles arbitrary rotation, skews, and offsets.

Example of it handling a scan of a document that’s rotated ~100 degrees and physically cut in half with scissors here: https://siftrics.com/hydra.html
Decentralized storage project Filecoin launches long-anticipated mainnet
> co-workers aren't friends, bosses aren't friends, clients aren't friends, work relationships aren't friends.

I consider my coworkers to be my friends and it's one of the reasons I like working at my current company.

I agree that having lots of different outlets for connection is great, and I also acknowledge that there are a variety of ways in which work can complicate friendships. But, if I'm going to spend 40+ hours per week on work, I'd like to do it alongside people I genuinely like and care about.
Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
Or washing machines, dishwashers, cars or even planes?

I'm afraid the answer is due to the fact that we live under a corporatocracy, and that this is the way things roll round here!

Good luck with anyone who is trying to get a open source version of whatever out there. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, I suspect it won't work out, but I have my fingers crossed for you!
I’d expect this to occur (recording the elevation data) during surveying to build out the dataset. To your point about pico cells, I could see 5G high station density being beneficial. Very excited to see how data from new Apple mobile device LIDAR sensors are going to play into indoor mapping (hoping it nukes the premium Matterport charges).
I think we are already seeing it. I think the increased polarization I am seeing this US election cycle and here in Canada is partly due to this effect.
Emerging Architecture for Modern Data Infrastructure
Also for tax reasons. If they reimburse you $1000 for equipment, you don’t have to pay income tax or any other tax on that $1000 and neither do they.
I'm still so incredibly pissed about the (non-)end of Dark Matter. Absolutely criminal, indeed.
MTG: Magic the Gathering and Metagaming
Make your website a PWA in 42 seconds
That assumes all players will use the number correctly. SSN is an example where that did not happen and is used as an authentication and authorization token at the same time.
A fun fact related to this is that in Israel, the term "liberalism" avoided the hijack, is used in the freedom sense, and has the same meaning as "Classical liberalism" has in the USA.
Kind of. It depends how much people are expected to return to the office for team syncs. If you have to go into the office once a quarter, you can relocate to a more affordable area if you want to.

With WFH being permanent I’m about to move out of my 2bd apartment into a 5bd house all while saving large amounts of money. This is a win for all parties; work pays less for an office and I pay less for better housing.
Seamonkey is "all your Internet needs in one application". Somewhat surprising it is still maintained

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Hacker news operates in the US and if the 1st amendment were made a civil right, it would have to obey that law.
In awe of this professor: Robert Morris
Yeah laser is overwhelmingly the way to go. The only problem Ive encounteres is that the costs for wide format go through the roof. I need to print 11x17's regularly but infrequently. The solution i figured out was to get a good consumer all-in-one laser for normal size paper, and then a wideformat inkjet. I hate havung two printers, but the total cost is like $600 instead of $2500+.
I completely agree. I'm single and have worked from home for years, minus a brief contracting gig in an office a few years ago. I made sure to make time for seeing people though. I have friends in my neighborhood and we would meet up for lunch or tea during the week and I would always go out on the weekends. With social distancing it's been really challenging.

I'm fortunate that I have friends that are also careful that live close to me that I can still see. It's not as safe as completely isolating, but I also weighed the risk of completely isolating myself from everyone and I decided that I had to be okay with a certain amount of risk of infection. People don't really talk about the death toll of mental health problems, but it's substantive in certain demographics. I keep telling my friends that you can't eliminate risk, just mitigate it to an amount that you're comfortable with, and that amount is different for everyone.

Complete isolation is not a sustainable plan. I've been looking at what my lifestyle is going to be like until we start getting this under control, which doesn't look like it's coming in the short to medium term.
If I recall correctly, a couple years ago aws switched from one central team owning all of the cfn implementations to pushing it onto the service owner, so it’s no longer bottlenecked on a single teams queue. Given that the serverless teams are all invested in sam, it follows they’d make sure the things are implemented
I read a funny article about a 2 billion dollar Cisco vs. Zoom trial that occurred during the pandemic. It all took place on ZOOM.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/10/06/cisco-fi...