skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I worked in offices (sw dev and qa, especially executives), or at survival jobs that mixed with lots of people (security guard, shelf stocking, etc), I was very often surprised at how many people I could smell alcohol on.

We're all drunks.

I don't drink much anymore. I never went to work drunk, but I used to drink a fair amount. Now that I'm a truck driver, it's too inconvenient for me personally to manage drinking, so I just don't drink. Others' mileage definitely varies.
That article talks about multinational companies, not individuals. In other words, American companies are more productive instead of American software engineers being more productive.

That could very well be due to differences in management and in fact that seems to be the conclusion drawn by your link, which states that productivity among European companies increases when those companies are taken over by American firms.

Right from the abstract:

>US IT related productivity advantage is primarily due to its tougher "people management" practices
Hacker News isn't big enough to be a problem. It's not big enough to steer the global conversation. Censoring something from HN doesn't mean that huge populations never hear about it.
Is there any use for SmartScreen when running a proper antivirus, as you should?
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It's almost sad to see the x86s compared to the IBM mainframes...
Yes, that's true. But you do also need to work to change it, or it won't change.

Unfortunately that probably means that if you have a city job, for now you'll be stuck with either long commutes, living right in the city, or expensive housing in the remaining walkable suburbs.

Or you can move somewhere that has already figured this out. :) But I understand that's out of reach for many people; it's out of reach for me.
So are you suggesting E.T. has faster-than-light vehicles that can travel across the galaxy, breaking all known laws of physics in the process, and has intentionally avoided public contact, but still can’t dodge plain ol’ radio waves with radar?

There’s gotta be an XKCD comic somewhere that has an alien engineer telling his managers that the FTL engines work fine but they should probably do more testing on the radio cloaking device...
Last time I took a look at peertube it was tiny numbers of views and a lot of porn, which is fine but not my platform of choice.
Read the actual judgement.[1]

"The employer here, DoorDash,faced with having to actually honor its side of the bargain, now blanches at the cost of the filing fees it agreed to pay in the arbitration clause. No doubt, DoorDash never expected that so many would actually seek arbitration. Instead, in irony upon irony, DoorDash now wishes to resort to a class-wide lawsuit, the very device it denied to the workers, to avoid its duty to arbitrate. This hypocrisy will not be blessed, at least by this order."

Also in that order is DoorDash trying to force drivers to switch from the American Arbitration Association (which is generally considered legit) to some off-brand arbitration company with whom DoorDash had cut a deal. Then DoorDash wanted to seal the details of that deal, which had come out at trial. The judge said no.

The American Arbitration Association is trying to keep from being a tool of big companies to oppress consumers and customers. If a contract requires arbitration under AAA consumer rules, the AAA will allow the customer to opt for small claims court, instead.([2], p. 15.) That's why so many EULAs now call for arbitration under the commercial rules, which are intended for bigger disputes. But the AAA charges the company a substantial up-front fee for commercial arbitrations. Which is how DoorDash got into trouble here.

[1] https://aboutblaw.com/ONJ

[2] https://www.adr.org/sites/default/files/Consumer-Rules-Web.p...
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If you’re averaging 15mph, you may as well ride a bike and just get the exercise in. You’ll be very fit and well off doing 2 hours of cardio multiple times a week. I knew guys at some of my jobs who did these commutes - they were ecstatic about it. Favorite part of their day.
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My comment was about the market viability of native apps when free solutions also exist (not the specific capabilities of either app).
Not just disability — basically everyone in every marginalized group is doing better working from home. My queer friends are thriving in this environment. You don’t have to code switch online to the same degree you do in real life, and it gave people time to consider the cognitive and emotional toll that code switching takes.

Like, I’m trans and have kept it hidden most of my career. It’s always been hard on me, because I have to carefully curate my image because if I don’t I opened myself to discrimination if people could tell.

I started a new job during the pandemic and went full-on “fuck it” mode and I couldn’t be happier. Joined the LGBT ERG and helped organize some of the younger trans people at my company into pushing for expanded healthcare benefits (I don’t need them personally, but they will). I don’t think I would have found the energy to do any of this if I was also worried about how I was being perceived by others — all that energy would have gone into creating an illusion that’s acceptable to the people who do my reviews and sign my paychecks.
They do, it's called Firefox ESR.
Intermittent Fasting Improves Long Term Memory
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I would like to know why he thinks it should have been stopped. At the time of that purchase I think any messaging platform could have been sold to anyone and not been stopped (imo).
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I liked the UI changes, except that they removed Compact Mode due to "Low Engagement" Why is that even a metric for a browser UI? Are they putting ads in the settings?

It's now hidden by this bool in about:config, `preference browser.compactmode.show `
I'm sure they all do that under the covers.
That would make it inActiveState Perl...
Not sure I entirely agree with this. The whole point of Ubuntu is that it's essentially turn-key. I installed 20.04 LTS on my old XPS13 and my girlfriend used it for months before realizing it was any different from a Mac. That's a good thing. That's one fewer user of MS or Apple.

For people like us, there are so many other distributions that align more with our use cases. Manjaro or Fedora are just as good as Ubuntu, but for potentially more savvy users. Or if you really really need complete control nobody is stopping anybody from running Gentoo with OpenRC. Or, the most sensible option, just use Debian.

The whole point is to give the user choices, that's the entire purpose of the Gnu/Linux universe.
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Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from leaving
Just use https://privacy.sexy/ or ShutUp10: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 to do this, probably much safer - and in Privacy.Sexy's case, you get the exact script (and undo script) for each specific tweak you wanna apply.
You can put a stack in a card holder if you edit the table via the toolbox/briefcase icon and add the relevant widget. Then you can move a stack by dragging the corner handle (the number)
I heard FB is most likely doing-away with WfH and going back to ass-in-seat mentality (AiSM).
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/after-75000-echo...
Must be.

On major mobile networks in the UK, SIM cards/data plans by default have an adult content internet filter enabled. Blocks stuff like pornography (obviously) and even some other various adult age-focused content like gaming websites. (I've seen the EA Battlefield/Call Of Duty websites blocked before)

Usually if you try to access, say, pornhub.com, it'll redirect (ala. WiFi captive portal style) to an internal network page and you have to enter a credit card to disable it on your account. A debit/bank card won't work. I'm over 18 now but at the time I came across this (also over 18) I didn't have a credit card but I ended up bypassing this with a Curve (Fintech 1->many card thing) card which seems to identify as a credit card on the network's system.

Alternatively, if you don't mind never seeing the assistant again (jk.), you can go into one of the network's shops and ask the assistant to turn it off by providing some ID like a passport/driving licence.
Pipedream – my new best friend
This is a great quote, and it does summarize things nicely.

One quibble about the quote: companies didn't bargain for this, they imposed it. At no point did they ask for, or negotiate for, or bargain for this. They said "Here's what we're offering, take it or leave it"

But the main point is 100% valid - companies thought they were getting out of liability altogether.
Did anyone else notice that they quote hate speech from this worker who won't return to the office? I have to wonder why we have a quote in there ridiculing someone because of their age. Would it have been okay if she had said that this person she worked for was stupid because of their race or gender? Why is it okay that the person she works for is stupid because of his age?
Doubtful most places will have 22kW AC chargers. Most cars won't be able to accept that much AC. That's a 120A circuit by itself on the grid side, and most cars max out at 40A or less right now, because it's more power than that is usually supplied by DCFCs instead (makes the onboard power electronics much cheaper, and you can go to higher power for DCFC easily).
I do this too! It's especially great when I'm starting to doze but don't want a full nap...I can hop up and do a set of whatever. After that, I'm good to go!
So huh, not to speculate again, but:

irc.porn -> tower.freenode.net

irc.shells.net -> passion.freenode.net

irc.bitcoin.com -> tildes.freenode.net

irc.imperialfamily.com -> no change

irc.blockexplorer.com -> dead

irc.merryjane.com -> happytree.freenode.net

irc.namebase.io -> gotham.freenode.net

irc.marijane.org -> no change

irc.letstoc.com -> niveus.freenode.net

irc.lfa.com -> ace.freenode.net

irc.voat.co -> redondo.freenode.net

If you don't want to turn freenode onto ToC, then why all the servers of ToC are now freenode servers?

(edit: formatting, added irc.voat.co which I forgot)
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Meat Plant Closures Are Spreading After a Cyberattack on JBS
Because otherwise you can structure your own laws to dump externalities on other parties, other they can do it to you. So either you end up playing an unsustainable game of whack a mole craft laws in response... or you need to come to an agreement. It's really the only sane choice.
>> But when you get the relief, you don't have to make mortgage payments for that duration at all... not now, not in the future.

Not now, true. But YES in the future. Deferred payments means you still make your payments, but the whole schedule is right-shifted by 12 months.
I'm somewhat surprised to hear that many GNU projects have copyright-assignment policies in place. That seems to go against what I used to think the FSF was all about. But after watching videos of Linus on GPL v3, it seems that the FSF is all about exerting control, despite having "Freedom" in their name.
I'm not going to claim that living a subsistent lifestyle on your own land is a wonderful utopia - I don't think that.

But, relative poverty in this situation would mean that you don't have your own land, to do this.

Wikipedia comments that subsistence farmers typically have meaningful economic power in their community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture
I'm having similar difficulty on macOS.
In my humble opinion, this is partly why most modern democracies have reduced themselves into two party theater. Much more time is spent arguing optics and deciding who's truly the scotsman in the current crop of leaders than what policies are best suited to achieve goals the electorate might be interested in reaching.
New CSS pseudo class selectors :is() and :where()
That was such a shockingly stupid move by the new Freenode admins.
Great article. Presumably the reason this confusing exists exists is that people don't want to store full rotation matrices, so their choices are Euler angles or quaternions, and Euler angles guarantee gimbal lock by quaternions allow you to avoid it. Is that right?
I believe there was a successful recent strategy for dealing with this clause by submitting a new lawsuit for each harmed user, to overwhelm everything (courts, company lawyers, etc).
Deconstructing Obsession
This is an interesting move. Many companies are still operating on-prem, hybrid cloud or they need to have a multicloud strategy (to operate in certain geographies or to avoid vendor lock-in). If Cloudera can get to the point where they have a big data infrastructure that is competitive with the native offerings from GCP, AWS, etc but easily supports on-prem, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud, I would imagine there would be many ready corporate customers.

Going private could give them the opportunity to make significant RnD investments away from the quarterly demands of a public company. On the other hand, the private equity backers could enact a bunch of cost-cutting, gut the company, cause its top employees to leave and load the company up with debt. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
What does a professional Magic the Gathering player have to do with entreneurship? How does obsession play into entrepreneurial genius?
Simple Reminders app (happens to be Apple's Reminders) with "contexts" -- put in quotes because the way I use them may not be the way the GTD folks do.

I have one list of things to do, simple stuff like "pay bills" "feed cat" etc.

I have sub-lists for every client I'm currently working with, or project I'm working on. I punch in just enough info in to the individual items to jog my memory as to what it was. Often times its something like "read that email" under the "!Client" list.

I have sub-lists for every place I might be where I need to do something while I'm there, i.e.:

@Office for Home
@Home for Office
@Cabin for Home
@Home for Cabin

If I'm at home and I remember I should bring my laptop home because I'll need it this weekend, I put that in "@Office for Home." When I'm at home and I realize I should bring the table saw home from the cabin to use at the house, I put that in "@Cabin for Home," etc.

I bark things at Siri all day and at the end of the day shift things in to the lists they need to be in.
Really? I think it's worse than most headlines make it out to be. I wrote up some thoughts at https://honeypot.net/post/tripping-on-cracked-sidewalk/ , but the TLDR is you're allowing unknown parties to bridge their network with yours. That's one single mistake in the protocol or implementation away from all sorts of horrid failure modes.
Going along with the other reply to this comment, there are a select few individuals who can handle low/medium doses of sativa strains and be shockingly productive.

I use it for focusing on purely creative works, but I definitely can’t use it in a professional setting.
It’s also not the worst way of making sure new chips get supported relatively quickly. Those “giant” header files are mechanically generated from the RTL source for each GPU, it’s not like it’s some horrendously inefficient bloat form an outsource developer that doesn’t care about writing clean code or something.
Agile Simulator
Cloudera / Horton works merger -> President steps down -> Cloudera gets taken private. Interesting trajectory over the last few years.