skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However (from same sources):

Criticism Edit
Critics said that voters who favor a developed version of the current status of Puerto Rico (a commonwealth which is part of the United States with internal self-government) had no alternatives on the ballot. As a result, leaders of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) instructed such voters to leave the second portion of the ballot blank, or to invalidate the ballot.[27]

Because there were almost 500,000 blank ballots, creating confusion as to the voters' true desire, it provided Congress an opportunity to ignore the vote, which it did.[28]

History professor Luis Agrait explained the result in this manner to CNN: "If you assume those blank votes are anti-statehood votes, the true result for the statehood option would be less than 50%."[29] Considered as a percentage of the total number of votes cast in the first ballot, 44% voted in favor of statehood on the second ballot.

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“Scotched” was the wrong word, implying not held, I apologize. Interpreting the vote got destroyed, was what I meant.

It’s clear that the folks who run PR see their jobs in danger if the island becomes a state. Hurricanes have now made it clear what second-class status means to the average person.
Back in 2019 there was a small outbreak of a highly contagious virus. Some in the Federal government made a big point of how small the outbreak was.
There will always be jobs with offices. There just may be fewer of them, which is a good thing, because it means there are more jobs that allow for flexibility of location, which benefits those who are disadvantaged in where they happen to choose to live.
The way Google is communicating in that topic is downright horrible - like talking to a corporate robot.

Hiring Oracle managers is seriously starting to show it seems.
I agree with most of what you're saying, and again, I don't want to be taken to have said "you should go out of your way to use US companies". Also, there are other important concerns! If you don't trust how a US company is going to handle your data --- cough Facebook --- you shouldn't use them, no matter what you think NSA is going to do.

But: the protections I'm talking about aren't rights accorded to non-US persons abroad. I agree, you have very few legal protections against the US as a non-US person in (say) Europe. But the US company itself does have protections. It is not lawful for NSA (or the DOJ or CIA or whatever) to hack into Google's servers; on the flip side, it is probably lawful for NSA to have pre-hacked every major information provider and telecom in Europe, if they really wanted to. My point is, if you're overseas, the largest SIGINT agency in the world doesn't even have to ask to get access.

(Obviously, they don't have to ask in the US if they simply ignore the law, but then, if you ignore the law, none of this matters, and everything is up for grabs).
Has your team productivity actually dropped? You mention things that are supplemental to productivity but nothing about the actual productivity itself. If not, then I suspect there is no more "time theft"* than usual and you shouldn't get wound up by it.

* that is a hideously obnoxious and entitled phrase to use - instead of "distracted" or even simply just "not working".
I think remote work will be an option for jobs where it's less about time in the chair and more about what tasks are accomplished. That should honestly be most jobs, and almost all white collar jobs.

Time theft is an interesting concept to me because it implies you're being paid for the time rather than for the utility of your labor. Why do you think time theft is important in your job?

>But even some of my direct reports will slack significantly more if they think I’m not online. Responses that are normally in minutes take hours etc.I have to now probe for updates etc. Much less time is spent on projects of interest (that also benefit the business) during periods of less “fires”. Instead it’s more bare minimum. I know many try to be understanding (myself included) because many have more than just work to deal with but it would need to be addressed if it’s becomes a norm.

Are you saying people are less productive generally? If I noticed the same I'd look into a few things: Are you sure that your KPI's focus on productivity properly? If people are performing at the minimum, are you setting the correct goals?
Design for the Age of Disorder
I miss parts of the office. But I sure as hell don’t miss commuting, staying until the of end of the day because I feel like I need to, and being forced to wear pants.
For a hilarious and sharp rap-battle comparison of Keynes vs. Hayek (which... is basically the framework for all competing conversations on this topic) check out:

Just a reminder - this is a rap-battle music video about economic policy. This is why the internet is amazing:

Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!(Youtube)[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
well in this case there was. The article is from summer 2019. Hayes is facing 10 years in prison and is currently camping out in Hong Kong I think.
Sure, this makes sense to me.
QEMU can start a VM quite quickly:

https://asciinema.org/a/jlTamarDTOVpO9wYAjXcnNZZt

For a generic build like you'll find in a Linux distro, QEMU startup is slow mostly because it links to dozens of shared libraries (103 on Fedora 33).
I think it's more, "don't consider any part of it private."
I always ask people for their email password when they say "I've got nothing to hide" I think it's rubbish..
At the same time, I treat facebook (all of it) as if it were public. If I wouldn't wear a t-shirt with my DM's on it, then I don't write them.
> I'd argue as a general rule that there are no important websites that require Facebook to access your account.

Many local governments, for example, use Facebook and no other mechanism nowadays.

I don't agree with this but that is reality. Until you change reality, you have to deal with it.
At $250,000 with one tech and one sales founder in place with a stable product and no backlog of required features you could go several ways.

8 killer sales agents. Part salary say: 24k commission 25% of new contracts or

2 killer sales agents. 95k 2% commission or

1 marketing person 75k and two killer sales agents 75k plus 10% commission

50k+ could pay for everything else provided no rent is involved.
I’m with you in regards to missing the office. I posted this before but I wonder how many of the newly WFH are merely in the honeymoon phase of remote work.

We should have flexibility however.
> Clinton's cameo was unauthorized

Wikipedia has a good discussion on this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)#B...
I think so. It's true that there's a time limit per day but you have as many years as you want to accomplish any task.
What is your metric for "screaming fast"? A user-mode cache with direct I/O can outperform any kernel-mode design several-fold. That's empirical fact, and the reason all high-performance database engines do it. I've designed systems both ways and it isn't particularly close; the technical reasons why are well-understood. Typical direct I/O designs enable macro-optimizations that are either not practical or not possible with mmap().

The main advantage of mmap() is portability.
IMO, if people are asking this question again, then, no.
The security models really aren't comparable. Again, see the blog post, which offers two examples of attacks that break the model you're proposing. I don't want to get into too much detail in this thread because I really just wanted to add some data to questions Julia Evans specifically asked in her post.
Given that this is the BBC and not a technical source, I'd be more willing to write this off as the author having no idea what a self-propagating network worm's implications are.
As someone who has interviewed maybe 30-40 sw and devops engineers over the last year, I wish more interviewees would ask things like this. It shows engagement and ability to speak up, as well as a healthy level of self care. Keep it up.
What's the goal of sponsorship? To pay what it's worth or support it's development? Anyone could live a good life off $144k, but is that what Babel deserves?

I'll be honest that when I see a repo making more than $100k I kinda feel they don't need sponsorship. Although how does health insurance and the like work for full-time open source devs?
I think WFH continues until a company misses financial numbers for a quarter, or a competitor brings their people back into the office, or performance slips. This won't last beyond that.
I was always a little confused about the relationship between Scheme->DrScheme->DrRacket. I had always just considered them all interchangable.
I'm attached to this window. This idea from religion has always bothered me.

Yes, the cosmos remains intact even as the ego dies. But it seems dismissive to say the ego is less precious and can be calmly dismissed because the eternal universe which gave rise to it persists intact. It gives me no comfort at all to know that the eternal fire will always burn, and everything that constituted my fleeting ego will always exist as well. My self-awareness will be gone forever. That is a real and impending loss, although i'll be blissfully oblivious to that loss soon enough.
Ijq: Interactive Jq
> While this is entirely anecdotal I have observed a LOT of time theft by employees.

Are these employees paid hourly? If not, it’s not really time theft if the work gets done on time.
I suppose it depends on how you view “stranglehold”.

They certainly are listening to their customers who prefer “open” in some contexts. So in some ways they’re better behaved. And most excitement and activity in server side ecosystems tends to be open source.

But in terms of economic might, ie. revenue and equity, open source has been a weapon wielded by the tycoons to add to their might.

Linux is successful but the dominant vendor is owned by IBM. Canonical some day may also get scooped up.

Intel is finally feeling the pressure of custom chips and portable languages (it’s market cap is down to $230b), but Microsoft is nearing 2 trillion in market cap, Apple is 2.3 trillion, and Google/Amazon aren’t far behind either.

The result is that we arguably have more open and higher quality infrastructure than ever before. But the ultimate tycoons remain the same - with Google + Amazon being the new entrants.
This is a weird niche, though. It's basically "I want a microcontroller, but don't want to program a microcontroller."
an alternative to that would be a culture among open source projects to share your donations with dependency projects
in the way that the 1st enlightenment lead to the separation of church and state, crypto is the 2nd enlightenment that will lead to the separation of state and money.
This.

Economists may not studied hyperinflations much, they've spent a lot of time looking at inflation, the one economic variable public policy designed by mainstream economists is very good at predicting and influencing. They know it's the result of the amounts people are willing to spend on stuff (including labour) rising faster than the amount of stuff available. They know that government spending more money into the economy can does increase the amount people are willing to spend on stuff (but seldom 1:1) and that it can also increase (or decrease) the amount of stuff available. They know this relationship depends on how the money is spent and also on the structure of the economy and this varies over the economic cycle as well as between countries. They know people look forward with inflation expectations when setting contract prices and wage demands.

There really isn't much reason to assume inflation, a rate of change, has a stable relationship with the absolute size of the debt. It seems like the article was inspired by Rogoff and Reinhart's similar argument that a particular debt/GDP ratio was an inflection point leading to a drop in economic growth. But that paper's arguments for there being a specific amount of debt that was the problem were empirical rather than theoretical, and more importantly, were wrong (infamously the paper's main result was shown to be the result of a coding error accidentally excluding countries from their calculation)
Quality of work is something people can argue about until they're blue in the face, but hours put are objective.
What might your (social) life look like without work? It's good to diversify opportunities to socialize. Better to avoid putting all eggs in one basket.
I'm confused how projects like GCC manage bugtracker. I thought of bugtrackers as sort of TODO list, where bug is verified in reasonable time and is either invalid/unreproductible and closed, or is valid and needs to be fixed.

But there are like, thousands of bugs opened, dating back to 2005: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIR...

At this point, is it still bugtracker, or slightly different mailing list archive?
There are benefits to working remotely- nobody is questioning that.
I used to be really into strategy games. When Starcraft 2 came out, I went hard on the competitive ladder. Then I got my first management job, and overnight I felt like I had no energy to play strategy games anymore. I found I needed to play FPS games to relax, which I had never done before. It was comical how immediate the switch was.

In the past year, I've taken a sabbatical from work in a conscious attempt to slow my life down. When the Stardew Valley 1.5 update came out, I tried to get back into it, having fond memories of the game years ago. I found it to be the most stressful experience. I couldn't handle playing something with such loosely defined goals.

The more time I spend analyzing what games hit and why, the more I feel like this is a poorly understood phenomenon that typical game design analysis cannot comprehend. 2020 saw many games hit purely because they complemented quarantine life well, for example. Among Us and Animal Crossing exploded in ways they wouldn't had we not felt like the world was chaotic and isolating. Stardew, I think, has a similar appeal that goes far beyond its game loops.
Yeah. For users that had to worry about disabling these features for privacy, now they can rest assured the features won't work even if they wanted to.
>I wasn't excited to watch it, because I don't find McFarlane funny (as a writer/showrunner and especially not as an actor), and because I think I've only ever enjoyed maybe one sci-fi parody ever. (2 if you count MST3K as "sci-fi"..?)

Yeah, his comedy's a bit much for me most of the time. He's got some funny stuff, but it's usually in between a whole lot of meh stuff.

I was honestly expecting family guy in space or something. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised and happy to be wrong.

>I would fully support McFarlane (or whomever is responsible for that "essence" in Orville) doing a dramatic space opera, hands down, no question. That would be one hell of a show.

I ended up looking up more about the show and to be fair, the show does actually have some long time star trek people involved. Johnathan Frakes(Riker), Robert Duncan Macneil(Tom Paris) and Brannon Braga(worked on Voyager and enterprise) directed a bunch of episodes. There were also a ton of cameos by star trek actors throughout the show. So there was definitely a bunch of people working on the show who had been involved in star trek.

Oddly enough, back to the video game world there's also a few examples of tribute games playing off nostalgia made by members of the original staff that don't hold up to the originals they're emulating, which also shows just having original staff members isn't all it takes to capture that old greatness.
That's a nice fantasy. They're supposed to enforce broken laws. It isn't unusual for them to abuse their power with mental gymnastics to violate the civil rights of law abiding citizens.

I've had two illegal stops in the past year because in one I took a swig from a soda bottle going by a speed trap and the cop wanted to see if it was alcohol. The other, a cop in an unmarked car tried to run me out of my lane to follow a speeder.

Some years ago I had to deal with a small town gumshoe in Indiana who had staked out an intersection of IN route 55. This was late at night in pitch black darkness. Indiana highway signs look like speed limit signs from a distance and IN55 in particular is hard to distinguish from the 55MPH speed limit signs. The local cops know this and abuse their power to make illegal stops.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2361263,-87.2433936,3a,75y,1...

Indiana requires signals 200 ft from an intersection in rural areas rather than the normal 100 ft. The county couldn't be bothered to have an advance sign for the intersection so I didn't know when to signal for the turn. He and I were the only two people on the road but clearly I was a major threat to public safety.
Have you considered asking him to cross-post to a Telegram group or similar? While it's imperfect:

* It can still be bridged to Matrix, ensuring you don't have to use Telegram if you don't want to

* There are open-source Telegram clients (at least for Android)

* It doesn't sound like too much more effort: One extra message weekly (for sales), and one extra message daily (truck location)

* Using one doesn't preclude you from using the other - you don't reduce his exposure or sales, and help him reach customers who hate FB as much as your Snap-On dealer.

* It reduces everyone's dependence on Facebook

All that said, my Snap-On dealer just has his cell number available, and follows a predictable route - we know he stops by every other Monday, and we can text him if we need something swapped out. It works for us, but I won't pretend to know your guys business better than him.
Are you sure you need a USB capture card? I'm using an EOS M50 and I followed along with this guide: https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-use-your-dslr-as-a-webc.... Works pretty well, all FOSS stuff and avoids needing a capture card.
This looks really cool, however the long setup leads me to wonder how much time I'll spend maintaining this over something like a Ghost droplet on Digital Ocean.
Unrelated, but when I saw this first comments were still allowed.

Everywhere on YouTube it seems comments are being disabled on new and old videos :/
> But I still see the need for brick and mortar work for certain....job types

Maybe you wanted to say "certain people"? Working from home is definitely more difficult for some people's work style than others, plus a ton of other factors like how well one's home is suited to working in, how much skill a person has working in that environment, etc.

Time theft is a bummer, especially on the team-level where you just want to get things done. I wonder what causes it? Off the top of my head I can think of:

- People are naturally lazy (I really disagree with this, but it feels like the default "robber baron" answer)

- People are having trouble adjusting to different and various work environments (probably a good amount of this)

- The nature of how we work in America is fundamentally unnatural for many people, and the lack of supervision allows people to assume a better work/life balance

#3 is maybe just my experience in the workplace, but it feels pretty true — I wonder how widespread that experience is.

In any case, I'm glad the pandemic forced many people to reevaluate what "going to work" looks like, and hopefully we settle on something closer to how we'd each like to work.
I remember being told in 1996 that Java would eventually be faster than C++ thanks to JIT compilation and certain language features (like `final`)...

(Edit) Oh, and discovering that AWT was useless for just about anything.
If you use a Canon camera, you might be able to get the EOS Webcam Utility working: https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/se....
20% is 1 of 5, hardly easy to miss. A lot of that money goes toward expenses in HCOL areas, where more people live, and the salaries are higher. A lot goes into consumer goods. People buy stuff, a lot of it. A lot of the rest is in the stock market in retirement accounts because nobody has pensions anymore. Americans don’t save a lot of money, and are not particularly fiscally responsible, that money is not hiding in slosh it’s being spent. Now start talking the top 1-2% and the story changes dramatically. A few of those people are wage slaves who spend a lot, but the majority are not, and really do live different lives.
So I do that very thing with it! I train Westside style lately coming back to it after 15 years.

I use the metadata to capture partial ranges and accommodating resistance. For example

Bench:
# grip: index on smooth
# pin height: 16 inches off bench
# chains: 100lbs
135 5r
225 3r
...

And on and on. I have added pieces to the language over the two years I’ve been using it and I hope to write a better guide (maybe short book) on how you can capture different kinds of training.

Thanks for looking!
> ...GKE uses gVisor

Another commentator on this thread points out that GKE uses trimmed-down Chromium OS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25884851

Edit: I guess container-optimized Chromium OS and gVisor are complementary (that is, you're welcome to run your app in gVisor sandboxed containers on a guest VM running Google's container-optimized OS). Ref: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/playground/+/195983
Not sure where you live, but in most places in the world the workweek is regulated.
I believe data transmission between the satellites is planned, or at least it was, maybe they dropped those plans entirely.
And yet MS, Apple, and Google still have a stranglehold on desktops, outside of a tiny minority of restricted fleet use cases.

The web, not open source, was a potential escape, but after a brief window were seeing that fall back as the walked garden app world takes over.
The Government won that vote with a majority of nearly 300. Johnson’s absence didn’t make the slightest difference to the outcome.
Most of the difference in value was captured by banks and central banks giving out low interest loans. I think it will revert in the next 15 years though.
This looks... awesome, from a first glance. Takes up more screen real estate for sure, but it seems like a cool way to inject a bit of fun into remote work.

I can imagine some people would totally not be into this, but I'm not one of them.
You could even call the win32 api from 16-bit VB3 by going through the wow thunking api. It worked well but the declarations were quite hairy.
Tesla is doing a good job after all. Given the discussion going on here the stock price needs no religious interpretation. Shareholders are simply betting on (semi) autonomy, climate friendly energy storage, next gen vehicles. Doesnt seem mad to me.
Are you talking about the day/night cycle or the 2-year "timer" before you get evaluated?

Once you get evaluated at the end of two years you can get re-evaluated whenever you want and you can still get the reward for the highest evaluation tier. You don't lose anything from not getting the perfect evaluation the first time.
How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?
Ultimately micro transactions make less money than subscriptions because of human psychology. When you are charged a flat rate per unit you consume, you tend to consume less because you know the cost is proportionate to your action. They receive immediate positive feedback that their consumption has a negative consequence: cost. The profit in this model is limited by not only the rate of consumption but also for the rate at which the consumer learns not to consume. With the monthly model, the cost per unit gets cheaper as the consumer consumes more of the service experience, allowing the user to “intend” to utilize more than they are paying for but in reality with a majority of the platforms userbase, the opposite happens. This leads to a system where the actual cost calculation is abstracted from the user and they are left with just the question of whether they can afford the maximum cost per time period or not.