skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I'm in full agreement, this is one of the many reasons I left la.

Once I went to car free I got rid of about 25,000 in credit card debt in 6 months or so. Much of why so many Americans are so desperately poor has to do with car ownership. While it's possible to get Uncle Jimmy's Old Jeep running, most people just finance something. Once you make your car payment your insurance and gas, that's easily a third of your income. Compared to a $100 a month bus pass
OK. I WFH as well. I know all the benefits. And as I'm WFH for pandemic only I've been trying to find remote work post-pandemic and there I realized some bitter points:

1. I compete for positions with people all over the world. Who can complete with a fraction of the salary I need.

2. As a remote worker -most often working as a contractor- I'm even easier to be replaced in a heartbeat. No severance or anything alike.

3. Did I mention that I compete with all the planet? That makes competition for good roles really crazy.

4. Work blends into life and it is very hard to keep it from. This gets worse depending on the company/role but in general these things tend to go the employers way not yours.

5. You need to find new ways to socialize (and the motivation to do so is minimal) or you risk mental health issues.

All I'm trying to say is be careful what you wish for because you might get it.
I don't claim to be an expert in politology, but what I remember from school seems to indicate that the common ownership of the means of production is the core idea of communism. I don't understand how a stock market is antithetical to that. As I see it, common ownership of the means of production can be achieved both with and without a stock market. Could you maybe elaborate your standpoint?
Oh dear God, is it like the mobile version? I need to turn off updates asap and test it first.

I was willing to give it more time on Android, but it would randomly stop loading pages and that was the last straw. I begrudgingly use Chrome now :/
In my org of maybe 10-20k, the last time they did a commute survey, a few years before covid, the average commute was 40 minutes each way. So not 2 hours but 1.3 hours. This was the mean, not median so 2 hours of commuting is not a rare outlier in my experience.

This article [0] claims the national average is 26 minutes total, so I guess my org just has a rough time.

[0] https://bestmattress-brand.org/comatose-commuters/
> How do I get the old style of tabs back?

Don't know but:

> I need every vertical pixel I can get.

If this is really important to you (as it is for me), try Tree Style Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...). First just installed it to move the tabs to the side, but now I gotten so used to tabs in a logical tree that anything else is a big hassle to use.
It is a terrible moment to buy. 800V charging tech is just becoming available, Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia Ev6 are like next gen comparing to VW ID3 and ID4, Skoda Enyaq, even Tesla Model 3 will struggle to keep up.

I expect much more clarity in next 3, 4 years regarding long-term ownership.
> What a scientist needs are precise measurements from multiple viewpoints provided by devices that register various wavelengths (visual, infrared, radar).

Fighter jets (Like the Navy HUD showed in the article?) have radars, targeting pods with high zoom, IR, TV, and laser-range-detectors, and fly in formation. These radars show the altitude and airspeed of anything they pick up. They also are always recording displays that would save this information.

My building's concierge loves talking about UFOs. I try to steer him towards articles etc on the latest exobiology info. Real stuff can capture that desire for something exotic just as well. Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is a great read for the psychology and history behind the UFO phenomenon.
There is also Micropython and there are a couple of javascriptish options as well. These are all leaky abstractions, none of these languages actually works exactly the same as the versions that run on full OSs with memory protection. As far as I know, none of it is actually used in industry and the workflow the author describes is the standard practice that is followed pretty much everywhere. Of course, Toit will also face an uphill battle to get any adoption in this market. I think they made a mistake using their own language instead of pretending it is Python or Javascript, even if this lets them shed a lot of baggage. Their platform is interesting though and does I think address some real challenges people would face when trying to get in-house IOT-type work done on ESP32.
In that case, install the Tree Style Tabs[1] extension, disable the tab bar altogether, and get back 100% of it :)

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

EDIT: Ah, looks like capableweb beat me to it by a fraction of a minute!
You're touching on the hidden part of the iceberg indeed: transportation doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's both a cause and a consequence of the organization of our cities, our shops, our jobs, and all of those: since we'll need to reduce the quantity of energy we use, we'll also need to redefine how our cities are organized
I guess i can understand wanting a second QR code instead of the 4 character koppelcode, but it seems hard for me to say that it's difficult or time-consuming to enter it.
Also, there are a variety of interpreted language environments for microcontrollers, including at least one in Python and one in lisp. Saying that microcontrollers must used statically compiled code is objectively incorrect.

Now most projects will use C due to space issues, but that’s a different argument.
A large number of microcontrollers are ARM based, which isn't Harvard architecture. I presume the thinking is that there's some massive number of Harvard architecture chips in mundane things that lets us say "most" are Harvard arch?
Many years ago me and some friends were geocaching late Into the evening.

Around midnight, we called it quits after standing in the middle of a major highway holdings a large metal plate with mag mount on it.

Hooked up to a gps that only displays lat long.
Having a file-naming convention helps remarkably for that.

I tend to assemble mine from:

- Author (if not myself)

- Recipient (if correspondence)

- Project (if myself)

- Title (or keyword)

- Date

There are non-file (or metafile) systems which populate metadata automatically, with email systems perhaps the most familiar (from, to, date, subject, plus other optional tags or headers).

Versioning should be handled by a version control system.

The "New Document" / "New Folder" convention is ... just stupid.

Mind that the above are for documents in a more traditional sense, rather than, say, files within a programming or scripting project. The directory hierarchy itself can provide much needed context, though filename conventions add to that.
All mass market fried chicken tastes pretty similar.
Or Nerves
> Time alone is huge.

Don't forget that could also be more time with your loved ones, like your partner, your children or even your pets.

That's a big deal for lots of people and very understandable.

edit: It's also more time for _everything else_.

Personally, I really enjoy cooking lunch and sitting on my balcony for half an hour, something I can't do when working from the office.
I mean, I feel like the main requirement of it needing to be secure is basically incompatible with pleasure. I think it is about as pleasurable it can be.
Right now for software engineers, quitting is not that complicated. Easy to find another offer. Heck, recruiters can't leave us alone a single day.
Just because they renewed the look does not mean that Firefox is doing very well. The entire research industry was fired. Firefox in the future will be stagnant and will be swept away by Chrome. But I'm sure the community will raise another titan to fight Google's ills.

Automatically translated.
Rent is often the second largest cost after salaries for most businesses. I think it's more likely that work from home businesses will offer more money to offset the cost of working from home, also because they have the money to do that.

I think the biggest challenge from in office businesses will be brain drain why commute to a shitty office when I can get paid more to not do that.
Bring back the station wagon
In fact this guy is swiss, not italian. Swiss people do speak several languages.

See e.g. https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.lang.lisp&mi...

=>

https://ch.linkedin.com/in/andreasnigg
To understand the definitions and apply them in practice, a first course in group theory + a basic understanding of vector calculus suffices. To add the adjective "topology", the first parts of a general topology course is enough.

To truly appreciate groups like SO(3), a course in differential geometry and differential topology is useful.

Edit: This is all assuming you have no background in mathematics (or, alternatively, physics) at all. If you do, a targeted text can teach you these concepts in a few pages.
I wonder if most families with an electric car have a second car with an ICE.

I can see having one car that’s really only good for local driving, but if I were considering whether to go all electric “this car can handle 90% of what your old car could do” doesn’t sound like a great pitch.
When reading on all these work-from-home discussions, it seems pretty clear that the commute is the main factor. If I had to commute to my office by car or (crowded) public transport for an hour or more, I would hate going there.
I am lucky to have a 25 minutes commute by bicycle, so I don't mind that, and prefer the office amenities: a work space provided for me, clear separation from working and living space etc.
Of course, there are other advantages in working from home such as more flexibility in terms of working and break hours. However, my impression remains that commute times and conditions outweigh all other (subjective) preferences for most people when arguing for or against working from home.

It seems to me that the pandemic and the practice of massively working at home has mostly raised this question: how had we accepted for such a long time that so many people go through a commute nightmare every single day of their work life?
How can we establish working standards that require neither turning homes into offices nor going back to the commuting nightmare from "old normal"?
why would they bother? It just doesnt make sense for them to play stupid games. To what end would they do it?
Why make them a cofounder? If you’re just trying to hit a date that sounds a lot like a contractor, just paid in equity.
I love the fact that with WFH I can blend work and life together very seamlessly.

I can work for several hours then put in laundry. Or take a nap. Or collect my parcel. I can sleep until it is work time. I can do work at 11PM as that is when there are the fewest distractions.

It's been wonderful.
This is one of the places where hydrogen might actually be viable.

Use a huge excess of solar power to generate hydrogen, transport hydrogen via oceans to ports, store it and convert it back to electricity locally when needed.
Clickbait yes, but it's more than that. It's a momentum/filler piece. NPR's Marketplace ran a short segment on this last week (although I can't find the link), now Bloomberg, coming up MSNBC and CNN(?).
Does anyone feel that this new UI brings notable improvement? I don't think it is much worse, other than taking some extra vertical space but for the most part my reaction is "meh". I feel like these resources could have been spent much better in other parts of the browser. Am I missing some reason why this is worth the investment?
Athens and Logseq comes to mind.
https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
https://github.com/logseq/logseq
That video only explains the video footage if you assume everyone who were part of that operation are lying.

There were plenty of people who saw it on their radars, and at least one of them was a very highly ranked military.
Commute is the most important reason for WFH for me.
Scientists say active early learning shapes the adult brain
I don't mind the new design, except for the 2-line "Playing" message on tabs playing audio. It just seems really obnoxious.

I know in compact mode it's similar to how it was previously, but knowing that's now hidden away and unsupported doesn't exactly inspire confidence it'll stick around for long…
AI for radiographic Covid-19 detection selects shortcuts over signal
Yeah, it's funny how long-lived chips are in the embedded world. I think a lot of it comes down to inertia and familiarity. "If it ain't broke...". I see that with keyboards, for example, that like you said often still use atmega 328s. That said, if you just look at features versus price (specially if you're not buying at volume) there's a lot of nice things you can get for basically no extra cost (or even negative cost) in newer versus older chips.
That is not how convoys work.

You're proposing using capital ships--ships of which even the largest numbers had single digit numbers--to escort convoys. This takes them out of the action for any other offensive or defensive naval operation you might want to use. Instead, you'd use destroyers (of which you have hundreds) and cruisers (merely dozens). This also lets you have several escort vessels per convoy, which is superior because two ships can be in two places at once which a single ship cannot.

> By contrast, the US would attempt to interdict Japanese supply convoys by using the only tool they'd have left: submarines. Better than nothing, to be sure. But it's much more difficult for a sub to find a convoy, than it is for multiple airplanes.

... Merchant and convoy raiding by WW2 existed almost exclusively of submarines attacking convoys. The Germans did attempt using surface ships to raid convoys, but their record was absolutely abysmal, and it's pretty universally agreed among naval historians that not building those ships would have been better for Germany.

Now, in 1942, the US submarine fleet was greatly hampered by the fact that the Mark 14 torpedo was a piece of shit that didn't work, and the Bureau of Ordinance refused to countenance those claims. However, the US was historically targeting Japanese shipping with submarines the entire time, and once the Mark 14 torpedo was finally fixed, the US submarine fleet would go on to be the most successful of WW2, having sunk virtually the entire Japanese shipping fleet.

There's even more considerations that I'm not including here, but hopefully this should be enough to convince you that figuring fleet carrier numbers are not going to determine the victor of a battle for merchant shipping.
My concern with this is that we'll get result inflation. I'm not sure which is better - enforced butt in seat for 40+ hours or forcing productivity that whole time. Working in consulting I know that it's kind of a unspoken truth that even though you're billing and "working" on something, you're not always 100% working at it.
Not necessarily. Boil & bite mouthguards can help you keep your mouth closed while you sleep, which might be enough to fix your breathing in some cases.
I bounce between qutebrowser, brave, and firefox - could anyone who exclusively uses ff convince me to switch? I've always viewed ff as a solid fine out of ten, and would be interested in hearing more about any unique and cool features.
> The thing is that currently, the multitude of not centralized, authenticated system allows to remain anonymous or quasi anonymous for a lot of things.

I don't really think that is the case.

There was a big scandale in Denmark a couple of years [1]. Where a tabloid had bribed a person at Nets which is the main digital payment processing solutions in Denmark. As a result they could set up trackers on people whenever they used their credit card. Tracking where the went on honeymoon or had dinner etc.

If a second-rate tabloid can end up tracking individuals' people use of their credit cards. I'm pretty sure it should be manageable for most governments _if they want to_.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Se_og_H%C3%B8r_media_scan...
In the Bay Area a two hour commute (an hour each way) is only a 15 mile distance in morning/afternoon traffic
>Bitcoin does not actually displace anything (at least with how it is used right now) but consume electricity.

Even the "bypass capital controls" argument runs into the problem that most of the benefit comes from USD exposure.
No, it's not an order of magnitude, although I find it disingenuous to use the peak load from 20 years ago, when the UK National Grid has changed quite considerably since then, and has lost 16GW in production capacity [1]

We're also apparently in the process of nuclear decomissioning, and I'm not sure where that lost power will come from.

At the moment, we just ramp up gas-fired power stations to meet demand, so yes, we can just burn more gas to generate more power. In this scenario, transmission/distribution and charger losses wipe out a lot of the CO2 gains.

We also haven't even touched on the idea of commercial EVs - I'm not sure of the figures, but I suspect that the energy requirements for making all vans, trucks, and lorries electrically powered will outstrip EV domestic usage (and, for that matter, should be more important from a CO2 reduction point of view).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Engl...
Well, it is of course opinion, in the end, you are right! I just personally strongly prefer West Berlin.
Hear, hear. As someone with dietary restrictions, the ability to make lunch at home every day is also huge (to say nothing of not being in an office which "helpfully" offers the temptation of junk food during moments of stress).
Is this irony? A lot of the fired developers worked on the engine and all the surrounding levels below the UI, there are bugs lasting years in the current engine, but this is the UI lipstick change nobody needed anyway but its convenient for the management to demonstrate that "they" did "something".

A tab that doesn't look like a tab but like a button. Progress!
I think soon companies will begin exploiting teleworkers as there’s lots of cost savings there. Already most people in my org have bought their own monitors, desks, chairs, etc.

Instead of allowing it, companies can start requiring it and save quite a bit not just on office space, but supplies, equipment, etc.

I’m hoping smart companies get on the ball with equipment allowances.

Also, I think it will finally get us to a “green” office place as COVID finally stopped the oldsters around me printing copies of everything. So the sheet amount of paper saved is quite nice.
Not only search, but metadata, and of the computer as a, well, work station.

The desktop metaphor by itself utterly ignores any concepts of workflow. It doesn't even readily assimilate kluges toward that notion.
In about:config, set "browser.proton.enabled" to false. I don't know if this will work in future versions, but it works in v89.
From what I see "being good at writing up specs for other people to implement" could be one of the most important skills out there, but require a huge amount of experience in both business and coding.
I spent quite a few years living in dynamic languages and looking enviously over the wall at those lucky engineers who could use static type systems to catch all their bugs (truly, this is not sarcasm).

Then I finally got an opportunity to work in a handful of those environments, of course the first was everyone's favorite whipping boy, Java.

Yikes!

Maybe I've just been unlucky or unsmart, but wow, I've seen (and even made) some really impressive messes with these languages (specifically: Java, ActionScript 3.0, Closure (.js), Typescript, Go, C++ and C).

In my experience, especially in the context of UI development, the static type systems I've encountered generally make the task of unit testing more difficult and time consuming, while adding little to reliability.

At the end of the day, I just don't bump into major type mismatches in dynamic languages that cause a whole lot of hearteache.

All that said, Go was probably the best static type system I've worked with until I (recently) discovered Zig, which has a really interesting type system (esp. related to comptime) and has testing built into the language itself.

While it might at first look like it, I'm not saying static type systems don't have a home in my heart.

I'm just saying that in my experience (just like TDD and Unit Testing), they haven't led to the bug-free panacea that proponents tend to imply.

I do find it endlessly fascinating that 2 people can walk through similar-ish challenges and arrive at entirely opposite conclusions about how to best tackle them. Thanks!
I guess it depends on the type of job, but for me (software engineering), WFH works extremely well.

I often -often, not "sometimes"- get more done by 8AM, than I used to get done in over half a day (or even the entire day) at the office.

WFH won't work for everyone. It takes real self-discipline, and not everyone considers home to be a suitable place for work.

Even in these cases, I think we'll be seeing alternatives, like small "work hubs," ala WeWork, that are close to people's homes, and allow them to have a lot more autonomy than the main office.
Isn't blaming a government for being authoritarian whilst being authoritarian alike shooting yourself in the foot?
GCC 9.4 Released