skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely takes getting used to. I've been exclusively WFH for 8 years now and it's hard to imagine going back at this point, but it took a while to develop that groove.

My first job out of college, my boss actually told me "Don't miss meetings, don't miss deadlines and I don't care when you're here." About 3 weeks in I was dying to go to the office and just stayed there all the time.

In order to make WFH work for me now a few things had to fall into place:

1. My wife got so busy with her business that she has no free time to deal with anything at the house during the day, so any random person that needs to come by (contractors, cable repair, etc) I'm already here for. Additionally, most days I can use my lunch break for any errands that need to be run without it interfering with my after work hours.

2. I have 2 dogs that keep me company.

3. I've found other friends of mine who work from home or are up for grabbing lunch in the area. I tend to meet somebody out for lunch at least once a week.

4. I keep a TV on in the background, out of sight (usually the weather channel). I don't know why, but it makes the house feel less empty all day.

5. Facebook and some relevant community message boards (Clemson sports, local programmers Slack). Just need some type of social outlet.
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I feel obligated to mention this, which was posted a mere 8 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25550685
Thank you fellow Andy — Hear you about the homepage, hoping to completely redo it soon and create more abstracted visuals. In terms of the pointer, my current logic is to use cursor: pointer on anything that visually looks like a link (e.g. unstyled text), and to leave it as default for components that have a visual affordance that they are clickable (e.g. buttons or tabs). I realize this might not be the most web-like convention though - might be worth it to just move all clickable components to the pointer cursor.
The Drive-In Markets of the 1920s
See also dysania / clinomania.
HN seems to be working well for me all day.
What an opportunity. A group of people emotionally tied to a financial asset is a shark's dream. Any thoughts on how to capitalize on this?
Oh man this is super cool! I've never heard of this but this is exactly what I think the future will require. Being able to create your own power and then desalinate it and use it to grow crops in the same space is crazy powerful. I wish them all the best luck.
> it shows WikiLeaks had the intention to redact

No, it shows that Wikileaks can be just as disingenuous as any other "journalistic" organization. Wikileaks made a request to the US government that it had to know the US government would refuse (for the reason I gave in my other post in response to you upthread). It did that so it could disingenuously claim that it gave the US government a chance to protect people's names and the US government refused, making it seem like it's the US government's fault, not Wikileaks's fault, that the names got published. That's not "responsible journalism"; it's Wikileaks playing power politics just like governments and the media do.

> published vital information to inform the public that the government is committing war crimes of foreign soil in their name

Wikileaks could have published that information without publishing anyone's name. They chose not to do it that way.
You absolutely could use gold to back your personal economy. Put dollars into an InteractiveBrokers account, buy GLD. Use your IBKR debit card to borrow against your GLD on margin. Pay it off at the end of the month. You can back your personal economy with literally anything you want that way.

That's the magic of fiat currency.
https://www.sis.gov.uk/ is much nicer, I feel. SIS are also slightly odd for an intelligence agency in that they explicitly say they are looking for people to manage people with "secrets" as opposed to vague statements about safety and things like that.
And it ends with

Although our work is secret, everything we do is legal
and is underpinned by the values that define the UK.

We’re #secretlyjustlikeyou

I bet someone had fun drafting that
Watch whether Facebook (or a partner) duplicates Shared.com's content. This may be a very clear example of monopoly behavior.
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Yes. Also, why do people insist in wearing any clothing except baggy brown overalls, and any hairstyle other than shaved bald? Don't get me started on music that has melody, rhythm, and harmony to interfere with it. Aesthetics are such a waste of time and materials and there needs to be some formal accounting for taste.
I was thinking that going after Ma so publicly could be one such decision, however what news is the CCP allowing regular citizens to see - what propaganda they're promoting to demonize Ma, etc. makes me realize it's probably a non-issue; even other billionaires in China may not be much wiser.
I read the earlier comment as making aggressive, common-sense inteferences from 'facts' sprinkled through the original posting-- FB ended direct engagement with shared.com a long time ago, the shared.com ads were placed through 3d party contractors (maybe this is less exceptional than it sounds) and the OP says the reason he's sure FB was ok with the whole thing was shared.com's transparency about its business model ... which sounds like an admission it's low quality, that FB initiated communications about quality in the past, and that the OP was aware the shared.com content had implications for FB business standards. Those might be incorrect inferences, but they seem fair from the OP's marketing release.

An alternate hypothesis is that most of the spend referenced by OP is ancient and relevant only for old-time sake. Again. OP didn't say that exactly, but it's a fair thing to question based on how the OP wrote the posting and selected the relevant time period.
Melancholy Elephants is about how eventually every possible permutation of content will have been created and recorded because they belong to somebody and it will become impossible to create anything new (the story is less concerned with the ability to create anything non-infringing). Frankly, I think that particular worry is overblown as it presupposes that no knowledge will ever be lost.

Personally, I'm rather more concerned about the works that will be lost because they are owned.

BTW, would it surprise you to learn that Spider Robinson is a copyright maximalist?
Sounds like exactly the type of stuff Coinbase was wise enough to smother recently.
This is a great counterpart to this slightly more implementation-focused article on the Obra Dinn aesthetic: https://danielilett.com/2020-02-26-tut3-9-obra-dithering/
Neither have I!
When someone on proggit writes — "Yeah it's really hard to submit code. Not only do you have to sign up for their site but they don't accept Gmail addresses." — they may just be repeating something they read on proggit.
I'll bite. I play D&D remotely with my friends. I need to be able to have low latency voice and video communication, but I also need control over the audio codec and bit rate. Zoom and other video conferencing solutions use codecs optimized for voice, which makes music and sound effects sound like a Himalayan AM radio broadcast. Twitch and Youtube give me control over the video and audio quality, but the latency is 5+ seconds even on low latency mode. I tried running voice over zoom and video and music over youtube, but then drawing on the map is 5+ seconds out of sync with me saying "look here".
It's an argument against referendums, especially when they only require a simple majority required to pass. The Brexit referendum passed with about 52% of votes in favor -- not exactly a landslide.

Really big changes ought to have a higher bar than just a simple majority. A 2/3 majority is a much higher bar to overcome, and in the case of a referendum, it would mean the result represents the consensus view of the people, not just one side in a bitterly divided close fight.
Well, Satoshi was more than likely Paul Calder Le Roux who wanted a way to launder the proceeds of his crime network.

> Instead it was a concept that had been iterated on for decades until Satoshi discovered the right combination of cryptographic technologies and economic incentives to make a so-far-unstoppable decentralized digital currency.

You know how that sounds right? Like religion, not clear-headed thinking.
Amen! It was digitally rustic (comparatively speaking) and each site was oozing personality.

Not saying I don't like the standardization and trends of today -- just that everyone's general inexperience with the web led to a lot of really weird and fun quirks at the time.
Historic sale of a Gala Games Fantasy MMORPG in-game NFT item for US$800K
> Except the US is not.

They're trying to prosecute someone for the exact thing we need journalists to do in a free society. That's what China does, it's wrong, and we shouldn't be doing it.

You don't get to say we're not doing it until we're not doing it.
> Why do we need tether?

You only get taxed on gains when you transfer coins to "real" currencies like USD... so you can use Tethers instead and buy Bitcoins back after a drop
Google keeps rabble rousing when it comes to certain political issues of nonsense. Here Google, how does it feel to have have it back onto you now.
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> What government can't do is to steal your money or block your access to your money.

Gov: “Here is our wallet blacklist feed. If you transact with these wallets, you go to jail.”

On the plus side, FinCEN can automate currency transaction report generation and monitoring on a public distributed ledger.
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People are learning, glad you did too.

I wish I could withdraw my stocks easily, and it takes a very long time to transfer stocks between accounts or even exchanges. Thats a bug, to me.
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Why? Recycling it could be very energy intensive. Recycling is only preferable in particular circumstances, and until you have a specific recycling process to evaluate, you can't make general conclusions about the preferability/environmental superiority of recycling vs landfill disposal
This comment is a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25630456 but I've lifted it to the top level in a feeble effort to reduce the steam coming out of our server.
City Skylines is a one-dimensional "game", in that all problems revolve around traffic.

There's NOTHING wrong with that!! Traffic simulation is incredibly hard, and its very fun to resolve that issue (or "attempt" to resolve the issue). To truly solve traffic problems requires you to understand how and why all the cars are moving the way they do.

The main issue IMO with City Skylines, is that once you "solve" the traffic problem (which is almost always a combination of Highway -> 3-way Artery road with few intersections -> "cul-de-sac" style distribution of cars to their final endpoints + a few mass-transit options), there's nothing else to the game. All problems start, and end, with traffic management.

As such, if you're already a "traffic expert" (due to playing games like Factorio or OpenTTD beforehand), you can quickly build an optimal City Skylines setup and then have not much else to do.

SimCity was truly a game with multiple dimensions. Skylines is mostly a traffic simulatior (a good one, but still... "just" a traffic simulator).
If I suspect something is flamebait (ie, responses are not discussion I think belongs on HN as it's redundant/religious/reactive) and the content's value doesn't exceed that flamebait characteristic, I'll downvote.

ie, I downvote things that I feel have an aggregate S/N degradation multiplier.

I kinda miss /.'s moderation qualifiers.
It's hella volatile on any timeframe. Volatility is both increases and decreases in asset price.
Plenty snappy for me, although I wasn't on much this morning.
But isn't Octave supposed to include the same built-in functionality as MatLab?
Did you just call Julian Assange a journalist?
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I've always been about the red because I game so much in the dark. I set mine to pulse on/off gradually, almost like breathing and don't find it distracting at all.
It's amazing that you could write this much and have it be 100% wrong.
I wish there was a term for "means of production" that was clearer or more succinct but I don't know one. The term is sometimes a discourse killer because it triggers a kind of (understandable) reflexive distaste for extremism and a certain kind of annoying radical personality or whatever.

But whatever synonym we use for it, MoP is a concept that you can't really dispense with if you want to talk about this stuff productively. You don't have to buy into a Marxist worldview to use it.

I'll take a crack at a definition: The means of production is the conditions required for making the things that the economy makes, whatever that is. For oil production, it's land and mineral rights in oil rich areas, oil derricks, trucks, private roads, refineries, all the plant equipment to make a refinery work, tools, maintenance equipment, barrels..., I'm sure there's 65,000 more things...whatever happens to be required to convert dead dinosaurs into 10W30.

It sounds Marx-y, but it's a simple, straightforward idea.

In tech, MoP is things like intellectual property, data centers, etc. The lines are blurred a bit because when work takes place inside a worker's brain instead of in a mine or on a factory floor where workers push things around with brute physical force, it's not exactly clear who owns what. In my view that ambiguity is something employers have used to mystify the relationship between employer and worker. They try to convince us that we are all just working together to make the world better, and anyway, we're paid well enough so why complain and rock the boat?

But in the end the rules are the same. You can't make it in this system unless you own some means of production (or get access to them by starting a company of your own and becoming a capitalist yourself--which is fine, but by definition not everyone can do it), or you work for someone who has them.

A related point is tech production is not actually as ethereal and abstract as it sounds. Yes, code is just a bunch of immaterial mental abstractions, in some sense, but it's useless without a shockingly large array of computers, buildings, massive data centers which are expensive, difficult and labor intensive to secure and maintain. They suck up a ton of electricity and water and require armed guards, etc. There's a huge amount of hidden physical infrastructure and somebody is going to own it. Whoever does will wield a ton of power in our society, especially as we become increasingly reliant on tech in our everyday lives.
It's just a classic financial bubble. Once it pops then the fun will be over.
> they're simply trying to curb abuse

I thought this is why we have laws. What aspect of the industry is abusive that you are referring to?
No, people don't get to retroactively make up new excuses as for why this doesn't count.

This is was what always was going to happen. The motivation for the US to extradite him was always clear. And exactly what people predicted was going to happen, did indeed happen.

And the people who predicted otherwise were wrong, and should be made fun of for how wrong that they were, and how misinformed they were to think anything else could have happened.

The Obama administration prosecuted Manning, and would have had an equal amount of reason to prosecute Assange, and the extradition request is exactly what happened at the end of the day.

The only possible situation for me to believe that they were not prospecting Assange would have been if Obama simply pardoned Assange, which did not happen.
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While not totally unreasonable, this does sound more politically motivated than many traditional unions.
> No one imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay is a US Citizen and neither is Assange.

That's a glib retort.

A takeaway from your position is that it's ok so long as you do it to citizens of other countries.

> it is not the same as ethnic cleansing.

See the above.

That's always been the difference between the US and China and why so many countries have hatred for us and yet little to none for China. They don't fuck with other countries on the level that we do.
The link to the Sr. Front-end position is wrong. It points to the Sr. Web Security Eng. position.
Unit Testing Is Not the Same as Integration Testing
Oh now all of a sudden HN cares that China went too far?
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My Brooks was the first to ever give me saddle sores, and that's after having used some pretty serious ass hatchets in the past. It's definitely a quality product and it's better now, but break-in is a bitch.
I actually really like the concept of naming collaborators. Most great work is done in teams. Either through sparring or checking. The individualistic view on cvs does injustice to the complex dynamics of teams and performers.
That's exactly how I read it. And that's probably the same position of lots of Americans, which in and of itself is quite fucked up.