skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a huge problem with UK journalism and these faux business stories.

Very simply: the people who write these stories are on other beats, they are usually people who don't know about business or technology or anything, and the "story" is about something else (i.e. overcoming adversity, something that gets clicks).

This may sound trite but has consequences. Various types of financial scammers (a big industry in the UK) use media outlets to write profiles on them, which they then use in marketing. Tens of millions (maybe more) have been lost because of stories like this (it isn't only newspapers, a TV show about "rich, young people"...obviously all scammers...covered one of the biggest binary option scammers, before binary options were banned, he ended up in jail shortly after for trying to run over someone he owed money to).

Slightly more worryingly: you see this kind of coverage in the business sections of some major newspapers now too (i.e. even business journalists are clueless). It is what happens when you tell students repeatedly that business is bad, and anyone who starts a business is a thief (ironically, that primes you for scammers). Additionally, journalism is mostly an upper-middle class occupation in the UK, rich ppl are left-wing here, and regard anyone who wants to work to acquire wealth with suspicion. The only exception is the FT (not always good, but their staff actually understand business at some level...surprising given that they mostly hire toffs too). But yeah...it is a real problem that feeds on itself: low integrity reporting, ppl question reporting, they just see scammers in the media, they question business...circle of ignorance.
They re not either in Hong Kong. I do all that and am not arrested. The arrests are for slogans or song that sound independentist.

An insecure phase other countries went through and usually grow out of with time.
Exactly right. A man made virus wouldn't be made from scratch. It would have extensive homologous runs of DNA and be a small variant on existing viruses, with some tweak to enhance function.

Dark horse podcast had a good interview with an expert on this week last.
They can certainly shape implementation details not defined by laws, but they can’t create laws or change existing ones.
I used to want to be a lawyer. I even applied to law school once but didn't get in. Probably if I kept on trying I would have gotten in eventually but just decided to stick with software engineering instead.
You NEVER say this in a team context. It doesn't matter if you're right, and it just reeks of obstinacy and self-dealing even if it shouldn't. Unfortunately I have seen things not work out, that I knew wouldn't work out, due to not saying this. Because this is just not a thing you say in, I would speculate, most tech companies, even the "good ones". Part of the problem is silent evidence, nobody sees the train wreck you prevent, so even when if you successfully shot something down, nobody can ever know that.

I should probably clarify that I have this thought a LOT, I am not advocating against it. I'm saying for the most part tech biz culture doesn't like this. The slogan you'll sometimes find is "disagree and commit". After it's obvious it's not working, the org will switch directions and everyone forgets the idea that was never gonna work. The new direction is communicated out, and the old one becomes a distant memory.

Oh and by the way- not only do you not ever say "that won't work", you super duper double NEVER say "I told you so" when it doesn't work. Not even in a constructive way, like "here's what I think led us astray...". Nope. You have to just drop it.
I think maybe they have a phone, with the story in the browser history, and they want to link it to a wifi point.
Scientific fact is no longer fact, but merely a social construct. Even though it is scientifically impossible for a man to get pregnant, that statement might hurt someone’s feelings so it must be banned.
The sole arbiter? This man can post on a million different websites. He can go on TV or the radio. He can place an ad in a newspaper. He can hold public meetings. He can stand on the corner handing out pamphlets.

Twitter is not, in any sense of the word, the sole arbiter of acceptable speech. Nor are they even remotely trying to be.
On point 1., EU countries can't do state subsidies. It's illegal under Single Market rules. It was one of the arguments for Brexit that if they leave they can engage in state subsidies again.
How does a USB keyboard work?
> Taxes are not primarily about raising revenue

That’s an intriguing comment. Can you explain further?
If you believe that, I have a pizza to sell you. Same eternal price as that famous pizza from 2010: 10,000 bitcoins.
That’s an interesting thought experiment:

What if we got rid of all taxes, and the only thing the govt. could do was print money at some fixed %GDP rate to induce inflation.

Then everyone would try to spend faster than inflation and the velocity of money could be quite fast (to increase GDP and spending, etc.)

Maybe a flywheel-economy?
What? You need HTML to write a React site.
I wonder if the open office is broadly disliked or hater by a very vocal minority on the internet
I haven’t heard in person hating on it

Assuming people don’t mean some dystopian 30 rows
You say that like the company's purpose is to be as bad to employees as possible. I get where the idea comes from, but that's not true everywhere and companies did remote work before it was forced on them. It doesn't have to be "bend to some of labor's demands", but rather "choose most effective hiring and working strategy".
I thought in US you pay the same capital gains tax on currency exchange sans some relatively small allowance for tourism.
Well there's no whataboutism when the US block us (Im in HK) from a peering connection because they re scared we ll betray their precious secrets to our chinese overlord while frankly, when we took Snowden, they didn't make it easy either. And that was way more important for national security and freedom to protect americans against the NSA outreach. I mean, it's annoying that when we point the absurd contradiction of the US claims, we get turned down to whataboutism.

For Americans, freedom and security only matter when it apply to their own economical interests (rarely their oppressed citizens), which is fine, but you cant claim you d prefer NATO to the China model: they are both exactly the same from the point of view of someone a external...

Whether you're american or chinese doing the right thing when the State does the wrong thing, lands you in jail after monitoring turned you to secret services. The diff may be the US State does less wrong things, and that jail in the US is a bit better, but you know... you still cant do the right thing when needed so a cable or not with Hong Kong, what exactly are they trying to protect...
1 second on a CPU can easily be 100x faster on a GPU, then distributed over 1000's of GPUs. For reference argon2 was supposed to be an ASIC-resistant, GPU-resistant memory-hard hashing algorithm, but a K20X from 2013 is 5x faster than a CPU [1] and GPUs have only gotten faster since then compared to CPUs.

[1]: https://github.com/WebDollar/argon2-gpu
I think we'll definitely see a small rise in rented office space like that as well as retreat type areas for companies to rent a place for a week or two to crunch or work out things that need special attention
This depends a bit on the scale of your startup and where you want to focus. As the startup develops, if you will be building, growing, and directly managing the technical team then a focus on people books is appropriate (e.g. "Peopleware" and my personal favorite "Turn the Ship Around").

If you are also leading product, then "The Principals of Product Development" is an excellent book.

If you are tasked with research and innovation then "The Innovator's Dilemma" is a must read.

Happy to share more recommendations if you get in touch.
> Consider the incorrect solution, and unless you can come up with something better, say nothing at all.

I don't think this is a good conclusion. Some problems are just hard, and avoiding talking about hard problems because you don't have a solution is a great recipe for never solving hard problems.

Good communication skills can be helpful here. It's certainly possible to offer critical feedback without hurting peoples' feelings and without discouraging them. You can frame things to excite people about finding a difficult problem to solve, instead of sounding like a poo poo head.

I think this article is creating a false dichotomy. You can point out flaws in a constructive way, without destroying souls.
Nice try, but my price is extremely high and I’m not budging.

Good luck hiring.
an analog black book beats a far away cyber coook.
Embeddings were not invented by Nash, were they?
You don't have to believe in Unidentified Flying Objects. By definition they exist when people observe something in the sky that cannot be identified. When we can identify an object as a flying spaceship from Mars it is no longer a UFO.

We have some nice footage of a meteor in Russia [0] that would have been a UFO in previous time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
If that "productive thing" isn't productive enough to yield better than an asset that just sits there in a cold storage, I would argue it wasn't all that productive and/or efficient to begin with.

People will always spend for things they need, they'll also spend it for things they want, but the current fiat system is forcing to spend it just for the sake of spending it forcing over/pointless consumerism on everyone.
This is very similar to Modern Monetary Theory, which views taxation as a means to control inflation rather than a source of funds for a sovereign government. Maybe only applies to a country whose currency is the reserve currency of the world tho…
Spain (nor any other country) doesn't have a say on what's allowed on the platform when it comes to its own citizens. That's supranational control. To use a throwback phrase form the old guard, it's "Imperialistic".

What if WeChat, if TikTok, etc., etc., went all out with CCP propaganda and undermined Biden on all things China with regard to their US users? What if they decided they wanted to back a friendly candidate and have anti Biden propaganda? Are we cool with that? Or are they only cool when they carry water for you?

Let's suppose Mark Z decided he wanted to forgo US citizenship and went out and got Russian citizenship and then decided it was okay for FB to carry his new message? Cool? Oh, oh, do I hear calls of "interference"?
A Graph-Based Text Similarity Method with Named Entity Information in NLP
I dare say the underlying issue hasn’t been addressed and Perdue’s loss is due to a confluence of other factors. Most senators get re-elected in each election cycle.
Another thing that gives it away is that Udo's fellow monk is Thelonius.
I'd even take ~99.99% daily drops (which is a great opportunity to harvest some capital losses btw) if it means I'll get 300% YoY and needless to say that has paid off very well so far.
Stainless Steel – Elwood Haynes – PDF Drive
> Seems like everything will work out in the end.

Except for those of us who want to work remotely but don't want to be the squeaky wheel.
> The prevailing wisdom previous to Covid, was that you had to be colocated in an open floor plan, sitting next to each other, and overhearing conversations, in order to facilitate collaboration.

That may have been the prevailing trend, but programmers were pretty clear in pointing out how destructive for performance and focus this open office trend was. There is an avalanche of data pointing to how harmful the openoffice layout is for everything from declining morale to decreasing productivity hits to faster spread of disease and increasing worker stress levels. This clear and unambiguous data was widely disseminated in the popular press. The only reason firms ignored all the data and did this was to save on real estate costs and to mimic other firms. To anyone who bothered to spend 10 seconds googling the topic, all the research was obvious, except no one bothered to do that very basic due diligence and see if there was any data whatsoever to support the openoffice thesis.

https://www.workfront.com/blog/what-science-says-about-open-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jiawertz/2019/06/30/open-plan-w...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/in-open-offices-work...
nice, is there any way to disable the auto-suggest dropdown box when you're typing?
I do not use a browser-based password generator, because of the Javascript insecurity issues (edit: And because I’ve been using a system like this far longer than online password managers have existed). I use a shell script, with a small C program to handle the core cryptography, to generate secure passwords.

I run the password generator in a terminal window, then copy and paste the password in to the site I am trying to log in to.

It’s a fairly complicated shell script, since it also has to deal with nonsense like stupid arbitrary password rules (e.g. Southwest considers an underscore to be a letter, and insists at least one non-letter non-number punctuation is in a password; some places require a password to be 8 characters or shorter; etc.) and also provides login information so I can also remember my username.

As recently as 5 or 6 years ago, there were issues with websites which wouldn’t let you copy and paste a password in to their password field; Firefox has always had a “ignore any Javascript which stops pasting” special rule in about:config I had to use. I haven’t seen one of those in a while; developers finally got a clue and realized that password managers exist.

One weakness this setup has is that anyone with the “master key” can get all of the password generated by the password generator. My workaround is to use a separate master key in a virtual machine for critical passwords, such as online banking ones.

Shameless plug time:

https://github.com/samboy/PassGen/
From the same article: " “In late 2008, I started developing “Tracker”, a software program that receives GPS signals to determine the location of any cell phone, whether it is turned on or off."

How is that possible?
I would say, be aware that major inforface changes mean that you might need to support the previous version with security fixes for a long time or leave non-adopters exposed.
screenshot is not the mail problem blurweb is solving it video
The doctor's note is fucking brilliant, and probably would have saved me a few thousand headaches.
Part of me suspects that at least some of the WFH productivity boost companies see is attributed to home offices being quieter. My home "office" is on the attic landing, with no door, and I have a 3 year old running around the house. It's been quieter and easier to stay focused here compared to my company's open plan office. I went back to the office for the first time in over a year a few weeks ago and I was flabbergasted at how low my productivity was despite working hard the whole day.
> It’s only a blip in post-industrial history have we had this situation of leaving the family (et al.) behind to pull levers and receive $coins.

A bit of history: actually that was the industrial revolution and until the the 1970s the open plan office was the norm even for white collar workers (the cubicle was invented in the late 60s as “liberation” from the open plan). I remember being shocked when I first saw the open plan return, back in 2000, and since the productivity of offices (for programmers) and cubes was so well documented I was sure it was simply some weird experiment.

In the end though it will be trade off between the value of the ad hoc interactions vs the cost of real estate.

The kind of close-minded people who consider their colleagues (ahem, “workers”) to be merely fungible resources will make their decision solely on the price of real estate.

Note I started my first “mostly remote, work over the net” company in 1989. It’s not a new idea either.
If you want to be really subversive tell them X is a great idea. But if you want to do X you have to do Y, and Y is impossible. Worked at Bloomberg for a couple of years. That was standard procedure to discourage any innovation.
I think this idea of a default shitty working experience for everyone, and then only if you manage to overcome that and contribute more you get a quiet space, is ridiculous.
At least 10% of Americans don't live within 5 miles of any pharmacy, and nearly 10% don't have access to a vehicle, a number which is higher among no non-white populations.

Depending on what area they're in and local policies, undocumented immigrants may have difficulty getting the vaccine.

Those are just a few examples of situations that, due to your unexamined privilege, you're apparently incapable of imagining.

We've only just reached the 50% mark for vaccinated people. Certainly some percent of those don't want the vaccine, but included in the remainder are people who have difficulty getting time off work, difficulty with transportation, etc.

Similar issues apply for voting. If these factors weren't important, Republicans wouldn't spend so much effort trying to disenfranchise voters by exploiting these factors to make it more difficult for people to vote.

The idea that pointing these issues out is "posturing" is either a sad commentary on your obliviousness, or indicates that you're perfectly aware of the status quo and want it to stay that way. Neither is a good reflection on you.
I thought open-offices were mostly a dud: they were trendy a few years ago, then most companies switched back when they realized the open offices actually decreased productivity.
Let me tell you how this plays out, from an Irish perspective.

1. G7 countries can't do anything, trade treaties are sealed, Irish taxation rates are their sovereign right. Vetos baked into things because of the first rejection of the Nice treaty.

2. Even in the event of international pressure forming, (And the US can of course strong arm an arm or two), I don't think the international state understand or wish to see where Ireland is coming from. A country with no population pool, geographically isolate, and no real natural resources to exploit and a worker population very demonstrably willing to flee at the first sign of a failing economy. Enforce this rate, the only real thing that is seen to have made Ireland not a back water farming country, and Ireland engages in what it's government has ever really achieved successfully. Invent tax loopholes. The second an Irish government agrees to this, those politicians will be metaphorically taken out back and shot in the head, to be replaced with someone who won't doom the economy. Even the former terrorist party if needs be. And then they get straight back to the economic gurella warfare, because there's no chance of taking on the G7 mono-el-mono. Every system can be hacked, every tax law has a tax loophole. Ireland just needs to look hard enough, if incentivized to do so. And it's entire stability and economic future is quite the incentive.
Anecdata: I experienced as frequent internet outages at various offices as I did working from home. With a fallback to mobile internet, it was never a problem for people in my experience. It's actually less disruptive when one random person has issues than when the whole office goes down.

Mouse issues? Get out and buy a new one, submit the receipt to claim back money. This is likely much cheaper than the IT person's time. As a bonus you choose a mouse rather than getting corporate-issue-mouse-01.

I get that there are other issues that can come up, but in practice, I've just not seen it from the employee point of view. Maybe the IT dept has some better stats to publish.
I don't see why they would be denominated in BTC, given that BTC will be legal tender alongside USD, and USD is a much more stable currency.

Making it a legal currency won't even force anyone to accept it. As far as I understand, it will simply mean that the government will accept payments in BTC.
> Spain (nor any other country) doesn't have a say on what's allowed on the platform when it comes to its own citizens.

Except, they absolutely do? If Twitter wants to do business in Spain, it has to obey Spanish law. If it wants to succeed in the Spanish market, it has to appeal to Spanish consumers.

Your hypothetical scenarios are all based on a misunderstanding of my position here. It's absolutely the US's prerogative to take action against foreign companies that disseminate agitprop. Likewise, if Spain wants to step in and stop Twitter here, they can (and should!) do so.

That said, I think you're skipping the crucial middle step here where the citizens actually object to what Twitter is doing. Obviously, you think this is "propaganda" and "dictating the rules", but I don't see any indication that most people in Spain feel the same way. Where is the outrage from anyone other than a far-right political party that got ~15% of the votes in a historically low turnout election?
We use fivetran for Heroku postgres, but also use it for other random sources to Snowflake.

It's decent.
> "I think this is a discussion which needs to be had, though."

How do you foresee this discussion being different than the one about Nigeria and Twitter [1] or Trump and Facebook [2] (both within the past day or so), modulo some details? Coupled with the distraction that you yourself pointed out, I think this is an ongoing discussion (has been for years on HN), and will likely be unchanged with this particular entry.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27404125

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395366
Yeah "exactly the same as C++" is really very accurate here, and there's really not much else to say. I find it a little odd that the Wikipedia article even mentions "reference counting is optional", because it makes Arc sound like a central feature of the language, but I don't think anyone thinks about shared_ptr that way.
Lol time to leave before that wokester destroys the company.
Consider the two data points being discussed:

• When asked "whether their job made a meaningful contribution to the world", 37-40% of respondents thought their job didn’t qualify. (And this is what Graeber [not Gerber] wrote about.)

• When counting those respondents who thought that the statement “I have the feeling of doing useful work” applied to them “rarely” or “never”, this was only 4.8%. (The newer research.)

It is hardly surprising that fewer people thought their job failed to clear the lower bar represented by the latter question (this is precisely what one would expect); so it's not clear what is being contradicted or refuted.

Even the data that the latter number is decreasing over time, or has a different distribution across kinds of work (than predicted by Graeber for the former question) is not necessarily a contradiction: those working in several "bullshit" jobs (under Graeber's definition) may well more frequently have a feeling of doing useful work, while also being less confident that their job itself serves a purpose and ought to exist. I can imagine this especially for the "goons" and "duct tapers" kinds of jobs (in his classification).

(In fact, if you look up and examine the full results of the YouGov poll at https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume... you'll find that even among the 37% who said their job "is not making a meaningful contribution to the world", only 21% of them said they found it "Not at all fulfilling"!)

The Economist article dismisses the former question with "This seems a high bar to clear; it is unsurprising that 37-40% of respondents thought their job didn’t qualify", and you dismiss it by calling it "vague aspirational follow your dreams guff" and a "very heavily loaded" question that "hopelessly biased his conclusions", but this is all value judgement. It is not at all clear to me whether the "correct" question to ask is the latter one rather than the former one; surely it depends on what one is trying to conclude.