skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on your job and location.

I think the "your boss expects/forces you to" interpretation from the grand parent isn't generally what happens (at Google). I haven't seen that at all. It's rather more common that you realize on your own that a certain amount of travel is highly effective for building and maintaining the relationships you need to do your job.

This is extremely strongly correlated with your distance from HQ and with the seniority of your position in the company.

For what it's worth, I hold a reasonably senior role (at Google) in EMEA and I'm living off of the relationships I built in the two years prior to the pandemic. I traveled nearly 25% of the time then. Ask your nearest director+ in EMEA engineering and they'll recognize this at least in principle. This is likely to be very similar in other companies that are globally distributed but with a strong epicenter somewhere. I don't think it's particularly Google specific except in that Google engineering isn't very top down/command-and-control, so relationships in a complex org are an even more important tool for getting things done than they would be in a more hierarchical environment.
Can't speak for the rest of the country, but I see Russia as a power hungry state that just exchanged some of the less relevant attributes for a new mix.

Communism practiced today in China is rather different from the Czechoslovak version.

Czechoslovak Communist Party was, after the 1968 failed liberalization, very orthodox and "sinning" against the basic principles, like allowing more private businesses, met a very tough opposition from the ideologues. As a result, the country stopped being able to compete economically, which greatly contributed to the downfall of the regime.

Chinese Communist Party took note of this development and allowed special economic zones etc., so the state of the private market is absolutely incomparable to the Czechoslovak one of the 1980s.

What is similar, though, is the vigorous effort to prevent undesirable ideas from spreading, especially any kind of mockery towards the big wigs.
Read the business whitepaper to see what they are doing with the pre-farm.

https://www.chia.net/2021/02/10/chia-businesss-whitepaper.ht...

You are free to agree or disagree with the plan, but need to read it before coming to any conclusions.
There is nothing stopping you from buying your own health insurance. You used to be able to go without, but thanks to Obama care that is now not an option, and you are forced to do business with insurers
Dec-FAQ/Pdp8
New treatment could offer 'a new weapon in our arsenal against cancer'
In things like that I think that more scientific-oriented workplaces would not create this fear. People with a hard science background respect factual information.

And also the ethical implications of shooting 13 unarmed people in a year can still be a subject of debate.
There have been multiple instances of games being anounced to release on Steam/others and then some time later Epic signed an exclusive contract with them. This even happens with crowdfunded indie games [1] or games that had already started pre-orders. Even though moves like that are unpopular, Epic said they will remain a core part of their strategy [2].

(True the developers themselves agree to that exclusive contract, so they share some of the blame of disappointing people, but if you're an indie developer it is hard to say no to that much money)

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-07-03-epic-games-wil...

[2] https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-games-boss-defends-exclusivity-...
BlackBerry Hub is still available and works great. Works with all of my apps, including Slack, Telegram, Teams, WhatsApp:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackberry...
Exactly a few years ago I was doing dialysis at home (UK) and the supplies took up most of the dining room we got a 25% rebate on our council tax.

So should employers start paying a proportion of employees property tax - and that's not counting the fact that employers are using my home network and my BB connection.
Sounds like you also have a really cool forest but are too jaded to write an article about it.
Very violent as compared to what? Do you have data to confirm these claims?
Lot of advice floating about the workplace these days along the lines of be candid, join the conversation, bring your whole self to work, etc. The people giving this advice seem to have no conception that not everyone actively engaged in these topics is acting in 100% good faith. Being too open could so easily backfire. Encouraging this is borderline negligent. Indeed there’s entire branches of activism that rest on bad-faith ideologies. Good advice would be to avoid controversial and political discussions and to keep a strong separation between your private life and your work life. Instead, we have employers, especially universities, asking staff to promote their organisations through their personal social media accounts.
C is Mike Tyson.

Java is Ali

C# is George Foreman

Swift is Sugar Ray Robinson

Python is Sugar Ray Leonard

Go is Glass Joe from Punch out.

Ruby is your little sister.
With regards to swimming, I once read they measure times only up to hundredths of seconds, because the individual lanes of the pool cannot be built to be the same length within a margin of error that would warrant measuring times more accurately.

https://deadspin.com/this-is-why-there-are-so-many-ties-in-s...
Not all of us vote like that, until recently nationalistic candidates were not that popular, but it depends, if your favorite party was in power for say 8 years and did a terrible job then they have to find a group to blame. blaming the opposition does not work all the time, especially if opposition was weack or changed a lot, so the party and it's fans will blame the others , the neighbors, the immigrants, the international interferance, EU, US, China but most voters find it hard to think that maybe his favorite party is as shitty as the other and did a terrible job because many reasons but probably same incompetence and corruption as always.
Bill C-10: The Canadian government’s attempt to regulate Canadian speech online
I believe that liberalism and conservativism concern different values, liberalism is about personal freedom (like freedom of speech), while conservativism is about preserving the existing values in the society.

It's quite normal as we grow up we become more conservative, especially successful people - we want to continue the success that was based on values we grew up with. That's why conservativism is associated with belief in authority - you need authority to enforce the values of the past.

So when you grew up, you perceived freedom of speech as a good value because it meant freedom, and now you perceive it as a good value because it was there when you grew up.

However, liberals moved on, and found other issues that concern human freedom, which were neglected before. So for instance, there is freedom to have a different sexual orientation, and be able to express it. Conservatives disagree with that value because it simply wasn't part of our culture in the past.

(Progressives - or perhaps socialists would be more fitting name - are based on another value, namely inclusion in the community. They are distinct from liberals.)
The city of Charleston, SC has a set of height regulations: https://www.charleston-sc.gov/DocumentCenter/View/14414/Heig...
I think we largely agree, and where we disagree is quibbling over semantics.

I don't consider myself a "speech absolutist", so I wouldn't agree that assigning, say, twitter mobbing to the category of "free speech issues" shuts down further discussion.
I don’t see any of your submissions that need vouching, so you’re likely caught in some sort of abuse prevention mechanism. I recommend reaching out to Dan (@dang) at hn@ycombinator.com to obtain context.
Why you can't compare COVID vaccines: what "efficacy" actually means [video]
Core incentive to play a game should always be to have fun while doing so.

In my opinion, not being forced to complete an in-game day in one sitting, but rather at your own leisure, matches perfectly the chill and leisurely gameplay of Stardew Valley.
There's this common lack-of-self-awareness thing about people that undoubtedly are experts in their fields: "I've been doing X for 10 years and then I encountered Y and, suddenly, everything clicked." And then they go full post hoc / propter hoc and start praising the Y thing as something that one has to start learning from the very beginning.

While the truth is - everything "clicked" because you was doing it for 10 years, not because you started using Y. And Y is extremely confusing and off-putting for anyone who don't have the full context of your experience.
Colour me skeptical. The USA pioneered such abusive innovations as perpetual copyright, pervasive hardware-level DRM and rootkits, and surveillance capitalism. I can't see protections against something as powerful as facial recognition coming from a society that didn't oppose similarly abusive tech.
I thought I might see Luke Slater's name but no. If you don't know it try his 1997 album Freek Funk. It's a very beautiful album of techno.
The parent's point (and one which I agree with) is that the PowerPoint is not the vehicle for details. It's the vehicle for strategy and framing.

Let's take an example. A customer wants to expose my employer's application to external partners / customers / whatever and they need guidance on how to do this. There are a few models on how to do this with positives and negatives:

1. Place a server in a DMZ
2. Reverse Proxy traffic in
3. Have a separate site in a DMZ and programmatically push content there

Sure, I could get on a call and verbally describe those options. But it's infinitely easier to put up a few architecture diagrams which visually depict the options with call outs to considerations with each.

It's fair to ask why can't this be documented in a technical brief / whitepaper / documentation. Well, it is, at least mostly. It's out there. We send links to plenty of documentation. What documentation is extraordinarily bad at is explaining nuance. Best practices are fine, but best practices have a set of assumptions. Those assumptions may be generally true but are entirely simplistic at the margins.

Back to my example. Should we document how the interaction between the DoD's various network segments (think NIPR and SIPR)? Would it shock you that various groups inside of individual branches of the DoD interpret things differently? What about an organization where this use case is the first external exposure of internally deployed software?

Ultimately a good use of the PowerPoint medium is to reduce complexity to the essentials, allow for framing of the underlying issues, and to be used as a pivot to discuss broader strategy. No argument from me that many uses of PowerPoint are laughable. But there's a whole sphere of the technology realm which involve sales, sales adjacent, or strategic discussions where PowerPoint or similar techniques are essential when more formal documentation has not settled things.
Vivaldi 3.8 blocks cookie dialogs and Google’s FLoC component
I have two very young children, one of whom was born during 2020. I can tell you that raising kids that young, with both parents trying to WFH, and the lack of any support of any kind at all thanks to Covid restrictions, was a soul-crushing experience that I do not ever want to repeat. I do appreciate that my experience is a little unique, though.
Oculus will sell you a Quest 2 headset that doesn't need Facebook for extra $500
Ah yes, threats and bureaucracy, the go-to tools of the statist. Reminds me, more than anything else, of all the joy sparked worldwide for the better part of the 20th century by the War on Drugs. In your ideal world, is any cash transaction also "presumed guilty" (hah!) of money laundering?

The real fault lies with institutions rushing to half-assedly digitize so now they're wide open to script kiddies, and with enterprise IT providers doing a piss-poor job at doing correct software engineering. And now you're suggesting more savagery like it's some sort of solution to anything at all?
Imagine a world where being able to not have access to healthcare is a good thing.
This is precisely my objection to anyone who suggests such things are put in place. The Stasi would have simply loved to just inherit an all-pervasive, comprehensive surveillance system from a more peaceful predecessor.
Clearly an asshole thing to do to your subordinate.

A general reminder to people to take accountability for your own actions before starting to hold other accountable though seems very fair here. May he without sin throw the first stone...
the transport infrastructure in paris is really great and something american cities lack in droves which drives up the cost of living and commute times due to increasing traffic and low density sprawl
I hear this opinion a lot when talking to Americans. I've lived in many places (including America for a few years), and I've noted that in first world Asian and European countries, cops very rarely ever use their guns (and in many cases don't even have them to begin with). Deaths on both sides are much lower, and trust in the police is much higher.
"However, I fear the repercussions of offending others who do not have an open mind."

You're dead right and it's damned terrible. I long for both formal and informal debates on many topics but without my opponents becoming annoyed or offended (as so often they do nowadays). These days it seems almost impossible to debate any subject without upsetting someone.

I now long for the type of television programs that I remember from my youth—talking heads discussing and debating serious topics. For instance, I remember Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Muggeridge and A.J.P. Taylor and many others and it was wonderful and exciting television.

What so many people fail to realize these days is that one can learn so much from discussions and debates of this kind.

Incidentally, such discussions always remind me of the wonderful formal debate between Socrates and the sophist Thrasymachus in Book One of Plato's Republic on the topic of justice. It's so good that every time I read it, it sends shivers of excitement down my back.
EU industry calls for urgent carbon border tax as prices soar
I dont even care about who or how she is, but trying to throw mud on author for pointing out truths is so childish way of handling criticism like how the current govt here is acting.
Ever sentence she exaggerated might be over the top, but there is truth which it follows.
Three-digit dollar amounts and the developing world often don't go well together. A phone can be had for comparatively cheaply, in comparison.
This is untrue.

There was a mild penalty for not having a qualifying insurance plan, but now no such penalty exists.
1978 Kraftwerk live performance of 2 songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdubMwbOndo

Kraftwerk's first live recorded performance was in 1970: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI

How many people in the 1970 audience sensed that they were listening to something as significant as what it became?
> I wonder if the real problem here is that people who are conservatively minded are just naturally less comfortable with social conflict. I know my progressive friends are in all regards much more opinionated and seem far more comfortable with conflict, where as my conservative friends tend to be the types of people who avoid conflict.

Exactly, conservatives do not want change, and therefore do not want a conflict associated with the change. However, liberals and progressives push for changes because they simply do not value "do the things as in the past" nearly as much as their respective values, and every change means, potentially, a conflict.
Yes, those are two really good points. What we do is first we have to find a middle ground on color, contrast, brightness between all Viking photographs. Because there are differences between each. Then we make a decision of what an average color looks like.

Filling in an average color for the overexposed areas is what we'll do for version 1.0 coming in a few days. Running locally it does already look quite nice. Hope it will turn out well on the web app!
I never got what people mean with "bad faith" stuff. Like its some inherently bad kind of behaviors and ideas? Can you explain it to me like im 5?

The worst that i can think of is that people are hiding their true interests and thus lying to you.
It's great, instead of dots all over my screen which mean nothing or a disaster of a notification area.
For example, BlackBerry Hub has 'views' so you can create a work view and personal, and select whatever you want. Handy, since I want to see WhatsApp for personal and work as some of my coworkers in Asia use it. Not pushing the software, but it was the only thing I could find anymore that didn't require that my email & data get copied into a 3rd party platform (work won't allow it, I don't want it).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackberry...
My reading of the wiki suggests that the time for your disk to read the data really does matter.

Chia blocks are every ~20 seconds. Within those 20 seconds, you need to read 7 + 64 different areas of the disk. Some read addresses depend on the last, so in reality you need to do 7 sequential reads, all within the block time to get any reward.

So basically, if your storage medium takes over ~1 second to read data, you're going to be throwing away some rewards, and if it takes over ~10 seconds per read, you will barely get any rewards at all.

Tape drives are out then, and so is optical media unless it's already in a drive.
A Frugal Practice: Using Cash in Big Denominations May Help You Spend Less
HN. Your new definitive guide to Techno.

Good one!
Easiest fix could be to tone down the white and red colors by default so that any flashing stays under the accessibility threshold.

It would also be cheap to render frames one second ahead, but I don't know if a client-side accessibility analyzer exists to create a warning dialog in case the frames contain too much flashing.
Weather forecasting in most countries are based on numerical models written in Fortran.

Despite what you may have heard, the language has evolved over the decades and has most of the features one would expect from a modern language.
If you count only flagship mobiles, sure. Many outside the US and on low incomes don't buy those, because you can get something very decent for less than $200 (which is way less than a console) and it will still handle games.
Yea, that should be rather straight forward with the Esri API. We should be able to find some time to add it by next week.
But is that actually an issue if the people playing it are having a good time and like the game that way?
Freedom of speech should have the same protection as freedom of religion, and there really shouldn't be a difference between if someone speech is referencing views from an old book/science fiction author, life experience good and bad, or anything else that is a reflection of the personal identify of an individual.

The European humans right is a good example of this. EU has countries with widely different religions, widely different politics, geographic regions and cultures. If you want freedom of speech in such a diverse area you can't allow discrimination for expressing wrongthink, because any speech is a wrongthink somewhere except for views about kittens and ice cream.

The only major hard lines are explicit and direct threat of violence targeting person or persons, fraud, and national security (the later being a topic of debate).
How could they push it when:

1. WhatsApp didn't want to make an official port for Maemo / Meego, for whatever reason.

2. WhatsApp bans your number if it detects that you are using a non-official port.

3. WhatsApp became the essential communication platform.

The unified messaging on N900 was great, but without WhatsApp, I was that weird guy who was still stuck with SMS.

Jolla, with its android app support, fixes that problem for me. Blame Acton, not Elop.
If someone thinks unchecked immigration makes neighborhoods less safe, do you consider them racist?
> ... It seems ... I doubt ... I think ...

So no real evidence.

> I won't call luxury items "sustainable"

How is wood a "luxury" item. Fruit and nut orchards both require significant man-hour and monetary effort, they would also be considered unsustainable luxuries using these rules.
> But in fact it was Albert Lord, saddled with all those aluminum discs in 1935, who would further establish Parry’s reputation

What are the aluminum discs referred to?
Libertarians have always been favorable to "the freedom to have a different sexual orientation"; it's not a "new" issue that was only discovered recently. However, conservatives and libertarians have always known that the freedom to live one's life as one desires can never extend beyond the point where others' freedoms are curtailed. Otherwise it's not actual freedom, but mere licence.
Nota only it keeps being used, the latest versions support generics, modules and OOP.

It even got modules before C++.
Hypothetical out of thin air: Are you trying to promote something on a brand new domain and there are dns records that haven't propagated? I'm old so maybe this is a solved problem that takes 1 second nowadays, but just a thought.
US Alerts Citizens to Vacate India Amid Surge in Covid-19 Cases
The US government alerted its citizens about the escalation of the COVID-19 crisis and asked them to vacate the country as soon as possible. Source->sentinelassam.com
Had to scroll through almost 100 replies before seeing any mention of WebOS and it’s awesome unified mailbox. For the few fortunate to use it it was an amazing piece of tech. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough to push WebOS into the mainstream. Palm was bought by HP who didn’t have much imagination and eventually sold WebOS and the IP for peanuts.
it can be useful for some coordination problems.

for example imagine that you have N writers and you want only the first of them to write something in a n object.

each writer writes their content into "_foo" and each tries to copy that to "foo", with "x-amz-copy-source-if-match". Only one of them will succeed and "foo" will have one consistent value, which all observers (including other writers) can agree who has won.
Kids have much smaller fingers, and so can use the touchscreen as a higher-precision input method than touchscreen. For those with adult-sized fingers, the precision sucks.
I think most of the issues with communist countries was the supreme leader, this guy always think he is the father of the people, the smartest and the greatest dude in the country(I am wondering if they actually believe it and if most of us if placed in such a powerful position we end up with a giant ego - similar like some present day GEOs/billionaires) ,

I do not see Russia as communist, just an authoritarian state , there might be some in the population with some extremist view but I am sure I could make great friends with most of the regular Russians,Chinese or North Korean citizens.

My grandfather lived in the monarchy before communism, the communism and the current regime and he prefers the communism , I do not agree with him but I understand his perspective and from that point of view makes sense.
"Open" AI deserves all the shame they get.
Long live Drum and Bass and jungle. Drum and Bass day was this month.

It is tough being a fan in the US when the kings of DnB all live in the UK. Can’t wait for Fabric to reopen - its time for a visit.
Fascinating! TFA gave me one new rabbit hole to climb down. This one’s another. Thank you!
The wheel perimeter idea I did suggest (cmd + f for the '40%' bit down the bottom of the article) but I think the tolerances are likely too small to do it properly. Would love someone to give it a go though.
I’d be interested in why the staff that were laid off couldn’t cross train to the new skills required. It seems odd to me to lay off 36 people to get new skills in. I’m not saying it’s wrong but the video left me with more questions!