skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yup, you could even have multi-threads, hide inside other processes and run from there and all the C++ fun stuff..
> Workplace environments prevent myself from socially isolating beyond weekends at best — I know I’m not alone in that.

Can't you choose to go out and socialise if you want to outside work? (After COVID.)

If we get rid of working from an office, then people who don't want to go out don't have to, and people who want to can still do anyway socially. Doesn't that sound like the best solution? Lets everyone choose what they want nothing forced.
Can you explain the difference, in your mind? I thought you were treating them as synonyms.

When I search for "error of omission" specifically, I only get two things. One is an accounting term, completely irrelevant. The other is a dictionary definition of "not including something such as an amount or fact that should be included" which is basically the same as a lie of omission and doesn't fit this situation. They didn't just leave out a fact, they made a statement that was factually wrong.

Edit: You changed your post slightly, is the difference just the word 'intentionally'? Because I wasn't just talking about doing it intentionally.
Not really true. Ulbricht messed up, possibly just once:

> The connection was made by linking the username "altoid", used during Silk Road's early days to announce the website, and a forum post in which Ulbricht, posting under the nickname "altoid", asked for programming help and gave his email address, which contained his full name.

It's really hard to live a digital life for a decade and not once accidentally break opsec between your public and private lives.
> The consequences are negative and sooner or later we will see them, or it is likely that we are already deeply affected.

This was published ten years ago (November 2010):

> We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called "quantitative easing") should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment.

* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...

Still waiting for said debasement and inflation. Any time now. Real soon.
Hogwash.

Twitter would be a lot more credible (although anything times zero is still zero) if they didn't have the checkbox "Let people who have your phone number find and connect with you on Twitter" on their "security" lockout verification page.

And, somehow, Twitter keeps spamming my email address in spite of my account having been "locked".

Sorry ... not sorry. No phone number for you.
Hopefully we can get some legislation to correct for this. It seems like the sort of thing the labor market should balance out eventually, but... the labor market is pretty irrational all over the place, so I wouldn't trust it.
Time theft is about the most dystopian concept I have ever heard.

A huge chunk of my time (40% approx) is consumed by pointless cargo cult corporate activities which have no direct correlation on revenue, reputation or longevity but merely serve to sustain positions or activities in the company which someone felt needed to exist otherwise it wouldn’t be a real company. This is a universal truth for all companies with more than about 50 employees I’ve worked for.

Who’s the time thief? There’s only one and it’s efficiency or lack thereof.

At best I’m good for 4 hours a day, probably in separate 1 hour long bursts with downtime between them. No mandated attendance, hours, management technique, motivational theory is going to improve that. Pay me for what I can do not when I can do it.
One thing I don't see mentioned is the class action lawsuits that will be incoming for unsafe working environments.

I haven't gotten the flu once last year, yet in open offices I got it like clockwork at the end of fall and at the start of spring.

If covid is dangerous enough to lock down society yet is only x5 as deadly as bad flu seasons open offices are literal murder.
Yea I personally think a lot of the WFH hype is just people wanting to do it because times are stressful and its still new. I have a feeling after the pandemic is over and times seem more "normal", many people will want to return to work because it can provide a decent social setting throughout the day.

Hopefully there will be flexibility both ways
You totally get it and I also LOVE ledger. I hope Traindown helps you like it has helped me. I would love to get some folks working software that lets you do exactly what you describe. I will but I am slow. I would be over the moon if someone built what you described because it would both save me the effort and I would have helped contribute in some small way.

Thanks for looking!
There’s a typo in the title :(
The thing with "flexibility" is that it may mean that you can come into the office but a lot of your co-workers won't be there. (Of course that is already the case with people who work on very geographically-distributed teams.)
Inflation is the amount that prices rise without an increase in real value. And if there is no increase in real value, then you haven’t actually made any money.

Conversely, if people are making money on assets in real terms, then that is appreciation, not inflation.

Income inequality is a difference in real income. It’s growing because the economy is differentially allocating real value, not because of inflation.
What costs?

Even people who work from an office still usually have a home study or office for doing their bills or whatever. Do you mean electricity costs to run your laptop? What does that add up to?
I think that the central gameplay loop can affect people differently. Some people can turn their conscious thought off and just go through a checklist of chores and it is relaxing. Others, like yourself, may find themselves stuck on the concept of "Am I doing the most I can with each possible day". If you don't mind sharing, do you bring a similar mindset to your professional or private life?

Unrelated note to your comment: "fmining" was a great skill track.
I've been 100% remote and run remote teams since 2014 and I promise that it won't stick for the broader society. Here's why:

1. Socializing is the primary activity that happens at work for the vast majority of workers. The gal or guy coming by your desk to "check in" or "see how your weekend was" etc... is literally where they find their social outlets and personal connections.

2. Managers like to be able to watch their direct reports because it makes them feel more in control than they are

3. The commuting routine, even if it's a nightmare, offers a sense of normalcy that most people have gotten used to and in a weird way rely on for grounding.

4. For a huge swath of Americans at least, work is an escape from the drudgery of the home.

To truly work from home 100% of the time you have to be a master at controlling yourself and your ability to be distracted. Most people don't have this control and need a framework to insert themselves into. Add to that the contextual dimension of an "other" place that is a world apart from your home life and you have something that allows for a depressurization for most people.
Don't blame Oracle for this. Page/Pichai sign off on these plans.
> and still cannot produce a compelling product

The Renault Zoe was the best selling BEV in Europe in 2020:

https://insideevs.com/news/467101/renault-bev-sales-december...

Tesla has gone from being the top BEV maker in Europe to now being third. Soon Tesla will become fourth in Europe after Hyundai overtakes them.

Different markets like different cars. The Audi e-tron was the best selling BEV in Norway in 2020 and is currently the best seller in 2021:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2021/01/norway-december-2020.h...

https://elbilstatistikk.no/
See, for instance, https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...
The most expensive four words in the world: "This Time It's Different!"

That's what they were saying when the Dot.Com Bubble was at its height. But it wasn't, of course. And many blue chip companies died a horrible death, as well as the Dot.Com Darlings
"All the $$$ that businesses get to save"

This. And not just on office space - all the perks: snacks, on-site gym/child care/etc. Not to mention janitorial/security staff, utilities. I think now companies have tried WFH/Remote, they'll remain open to it in the future.
Curious -- how feasible is it for an aircraft to simultaneously support multiple systems for redundancy (e.g. GPS/Galileo/Glonass/BeiDou)?
Are you honestly suggesting your managers are unable to assess minimum levels of quality in the work of your teams?
Objective in the sense that someone sitting at a desk for 8 hours without moving a muscle has sat at a desk for 8 hours. But useful to the company employing them - not so much.
Its a maker niche mostly. Its definitely not a microcontroller since it runs a full OS. It is a good tool for any project that needs a full computer OS and what comes with that, along with IO ports. Plus its tiny and relatively cheap
But the results of the hours put aren't objective, so I don't get your point.

I've known people who became masters at imitating work 8 hours a day.
This is only “clear” if you are completely unqualified to make such assertions but do so anyway to fit some narrative.

It’s not hard to discover why some departments have APCs (which are used extremely rarely) and how much they actually spend on them (almost nothing, they’re free). By and large, Police budgets go almost entirely to personnel costs.

LAPD spends 94.4% on salaries. That remaining 6.6% covers everything including equipment, helicopters, cars, body cams, firearms, IT infrastructure, forensics labs, and supporting services. They spent more on servers, radios, and body and dash cams alone than they did on ground vehicles.

http://www.lapdpolicecom.lacity.org/112415/BUDGET.pdf

You’re correct that a lot doesn’t have anything to do with stopping crimes though, but since that is not their primary responsibility (nor should we want it to be), this is expected. They are not psychic, so they cannot really act on a crime until the crime happens. As you can see from this thread, doing anything proactively is not something that the public wants. Most prefer to be left alone until they have done something wrong.

Nearly all of that gear was distributed by the DOD after the war and it was already paid for. Nearly all of it is never used. When it is used, it is in fact used for public safety. It’s not like they use the SWAT team to get groceries.
Giving people more money doesn't make them buy more basic goods, just more assets, so price of normal goods doesn't go up but price of assets do.
I am an avid reader of essays on all topics. This essay unfortunately failed to establish a theme (as suggested by the title) or even an argument after 18 paragraphs, which is where I stopped reading...
I think you're confusing rigorous processes with rigorous theory. The analogy of steam engines seems appropriate - they were initially built with (sort of) rigorous processes for metal forming and joining, etc. It wasn't just people tinkering in their backyards. Yet that was done without the theory of thermodynamics. Those rigorous engineers didn't know a Helmholtz free energy from a free energy machine. Once we had thermodynamics, it didn't directly influence how to form metal parts or lubricate pistons, but it did put hard constraints on the possible performance of engines and made it easier to predict how an engine would perform before building it, even if it was outside the range of what had already been tested - eg. jet and rocket engines that required high confidence in predictions of the theory to invest the money needed to develop working models in the middle of wartime scarcity.
Chromium has open source value besides "not Google".
(2019)

Regulators are slowly catching up, but as you see from Tether, still have a long way to go.
Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's a valuable metric. You can make the same argument about LOC.
So he's not financially incentivized to talk positively about Bitcoin et al - which everyone reading anything positive about Bitcoin et al should keep in mind?
A browser and its bookmarks are my personal window to the world, I wouldn't enable a feature like sync for love or money. What a crazy idea: hey ad company, here is everything I bookmarked that I wouldn't dare even mention to my closest confidants
Hours of asses in chairs isn't really a measurement of goals being meet. The quality of the time spent is what gets the goals met.
I probably agree about container runtimes, but containers as a specification for a preconfigured unit of compute have lots of value outside the runtimes. We don't use namespaced containers at all at Fly.io, and run everything inside of jailed Firecrackers. But we get enormous value out of container tooling, and the most common and simplest way of deploying something to Fly is simply to have our tooling push a Docker image over to Fly's repo.

I think containers have been largely a force for good. They're not as much a force for good as some might claim, but that's a different argument than that they were a waste of time.
>Time theft is a bummer, especially on the team-level where you just want to get things done.

I've dealt with this in execs and team leaders before - why do you care about time theft? If it's about the productivity loss, that should be measurable in its own right.

Most of the time, I find that people just want to be able to see the team working for them and don't like the idea of paying people 'not to work' despite the fact that what they're really paying for are outputs.
Some of us readers are in that country :)
There's modern facebook support with https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/
TBH, I don't think companies will fight it - its still cheaper to give an employee a budget and let them kit out a home office then to pay for cubicles, desks, etc. Office furniture is dam expensive! Oh! can't forget conference rooms! Those tables ain't cheap either.
Doh! Bad formatting. This is what I meant

Clean: 150 2r 5s
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Very few companies have on-site gyms, snacks and child care. These are competitive advantages, and as long as top-tier SWEs are a sellers market, these businesses will have no choice but to spend money to attract talent.

The cost of those things is a drop in the ocean compared to salaries anyway.
Just have GPT-3 produce the tests too! :D
It’s not hard if you start out assuming you’re going to be wanted by the government at some point. The problem is when you stumble into crime much later and have a bunch of online identity you have to dissociate from cold turkey.
There's nothing non-standard about this. The API keys to enable this functionality were provided by Google itself in 2013.
You can hide in Russia.
Whoops. Another bad formatting. Lemme try this

Squat:
# bands: 200lb
# box: 12 inches
# rest: 45 seconds
* wide and medium alternating
225 2r 10s
Followed the links and came across https://small-tech.org/ which is pretty interesting. An example of how technologist can make a dent in how technology has been progressing thanks to an ad-driven internet.
It's because leaving comments enabled invites the worst of humanity to post excrement on your videos.

It's a well known issue.

Unless you have time to devote to deleting offensive comments (and many comments are just swear words copied and pasted a few hundred times), just disable comments.
I do not miss the office one bit. I socialize much mire with my colleagues via zoom meetings than I did via emails while we were in the office.

Conference room meetings felt less organized than web conferencing.

Saving 80min in daily commute on top of that gives me over 7 free hours per week, over 250h per year, enough to get an extra education.

30% or more of my colleagues commute over 2.5h per day, 12.5h per week, 48+h/month.

To send emails and make phone calls from an office.

Let that sink in.

No way.

Maybe also because I don’t come from a culture where work expands to take 100% of someone’s life. Work is work. Socializing is outside of that.
nice concept but efficiency is the deal breaker here. One to keep an eye out for improvements.
Time theft? Is that part of the Time theory of value?
The main argument--and really the only significant one--is that people choosing to live in dense cities near an urban employer suddenly need a bigger place which is $$$. But I don't actually expect many employers to not have an urban office (assuming they have one currently) for those who want to come in--albeit maybe in a hoteled type of arrangement. But eliminating routine commutes is a big win for most people who choose to take advantage of it.
You're also doing it.

I agree that a distributed ledger could under very specific circumstances protect against some very specific types of internal fraud. But again, that's the wrong way to look at it. The way to do it is to look at actual fraud problems that businesses are actually having and then see what measures, technological and otherwise, best mitigate the problem.

Even if the fraud in question was of the very specific type where somebody fiddles records after the initial write (as opposed to fiddling them before, or on output, or making offsetting transactions, or any of the many other ways to hide internal fraud) I still wouldn't try to set up some sort of multi-organizational distributed blockchain ledger. I'd just write a regular ledger to some immutable medium. E.g., AWS's WORM solution. [1] That would not only be simpler, clearer, cheaper, and more thoroughly vetted, it would also be very easy to prove compliance with the sorts of standards used to prevent fraud.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/protecting-data-with-am...
Take a look and you won't regret it
So... why not contribute to Matrix? Or why would anyone get this instead of Swiss-made Threema? Which was audited, has a web version (even if it's super crappy), has contact discovery, and is open source. I can not find a single advantage of Teleguard (even the name, it just reminds me of Telegram) over either Matrix or Threema. Or perhaps Wire if you don't care about Amazon handling your data.

The faq for "why use this" says it uses the best crypto ever: salsa20. That isn't better or worse than aes in terms of security and it's also missing a few components (surely they haven't reinvented digital signatures using a stream cipher). And they say it complies with the law, like okay yeah that sounds pretty standard.

Frankly, it looks shady. No profit model, inconsistent text styles, weird reasons given for why it should be better, a brand name whose abbreviation conflicts with an established competitor (seems like a throwaway name), no source code / f-droid release, handful of downloads on Google Play Store, and claiming with a straight face that literally no user data is stored - what, does it not store incoming chat messages until my device comes online? It just isn't true.

Don't know if this is a Show HN (it's not labeled as such) or just someone who randomly found it, but I'd be curious to hear from the developers what the thought process is here.

Edit: checking out the company behind it, they have paid privacy products. I guess it's not as shady as it first seemed, but it's also not quite ready for launch given the competition's state of maturity. It's a hard market to get into I think, it might make more sense to fork Signal and make it use usernames and European servers to at least have something to work off of.
I get what you're saying, however your "vote" is by not using Google - I understand that's easier said than done when they're conveniently the best search engine, etc. Laws are certainly behind as well, there should be due process since a single internet account at a company can be a critical fabric to our life.
It’s difficult to narrow it down as there are dozens of potential answers that question. It’s possible even that whatever it was planned as a diversion for is not yet discovered.
Huh? The title seems inaccurate to me, considering the page says:

> Google isn't shutting off the API access until March 15, 2021, but I have gone ahead and disabled it starting with this update.

So it seems to be that Fedora has turned the features off early, and Google has not (yet).

(at the time of writing the title says "Google has turned off")
I live in the UK - very few places in London will have the space for a separate home office + space for family. It will get incredibly expensive if we all need to buy more space (and I'm not having my office setup in my living room forever).
vk is a bad example, some e2e encrypted anonymous service would have not effect
WFH makes the new grad experience miserable if you go to college somewhere far from where you grew up. I’m graduating soon and the only place I have geographic ties to is my home town where I tried very hard to get away from forever. Everyone I know from college is scattering all over the continent. Does anyone have tips for choosing where to live as a remote worker, or how to make friends as a young person in a new city without an office? I’m feeling pretty lost. I don’t think I would ever accept a job that isn’t promising a return to the office as soon as possible
> Now start talking the top 1-2% and the story changes dramatically.

Probably the top 5-6%. The numbers are lower but the behavior is similar. You’d be surprised how soon you hit the “More money than I know what to do with” line.

Make 150 to 200k/year (not uncommon on HN) and what are you gonna do, buy a new car every year? Rent is paid, food is paid, clothes are good, 1 or 2 vacations per year, go out to eat whenever you want, one-off nice purchases aren’t a big concern ... it’s cushy. Not enough to buy real estate cash or anything like that, but def more slosh than you need.
FWIW, although this isn't on by default, Chrome can be configured to encrypt all sync data, either with your Google password (which Google hopefully doesn't store) or a separate, offline, password.
Sure, most employers would take 8 hours of quality work over 4 hours of quality work for the same salary.
While I fit the profile you mention...After 20 years WFH, I can't say I find it depressing. YMMV, but I think its how you do it. The lockdowns have probably made WFH seem a lot more isolating (no working from hacker spaces, coffe shops, etc.)
That’s better done by sending the request to a team channel, so everyone can see if anyone already answered (and learn from seeing the answer!)

If it’s an emergency, page the oncall. If you are the oncall, page anyone you need, and then Slack/Zoom become realtime (at least for them).
I have a first gen Pi running miniDLNA and an FTP server plugged into a cheap 1TB USB drive. I threw it together on a lark, but my wife gets a ton of use out of it watching content that isn’t available on Netflix.
All of the tech CEOs I talk to have plans to downsize their offices. All of them. Employee surveys strongly indicate a desire to work remotely as a permanent option, with the office being for meetings.

The OpEx on office space is significant - 10-15% of salary costs. So getting rid of the office or reducing its size and cost is like cutting pay by perhaps 5-7%. That’s a big deal.
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Is the distribution of the money supply similar to the distribution of all types of wealth?
When I commuted to work, I was already in the centre of a huge city with lots of social opportunities after work (with friends who are nearby in other jobs). If I wanted to socialise daily it's likely I'd be doing something akin to a work commute anyway. That's partly why I enjoyed going out to work in the first place.
Not really related to the game design, but this is a wonderful piece of writing that was inspired by Stardew Valley: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/13/stardew-valley-m...
Interesting. Who sells marketing data like this?
Who the heck does that, and why???
I don't see how them imitating 8 hour work a day in say 2 actual hours is any improvement.