skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A realisation I had a few years ago was that differential accessibility to websites is quite likely market segmentation technique, whether used intentionally or otherwise.

A website that only works on recent kit in high-bandwidth locales with low ping latencies and little packet loss ... acts much the same as a posh high-street address does in dissuading those people one would prefer not to have to face with or address.

(There may be a similar logic to truly atrocious web deisgn, intended to dissuade (literal) tyre kickers, as with LINGsCars: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/7TOJTiDEF_L4r_sdBRINGw)

Though this explains the behaviour, it doesn't excuse it. And might well form the basis of discrimination or accessibility lawsuits.
The  HW org "open office" concept is just this. 5 linear feet of bench space; no dividers or any other sort of line-of-sight blocking.

The SW org packs people into tiny rooms with slightly more space (maybe 6'), but there is literally nowhere to go to get away from having someone breathing down your neck.
This goes both ways. Why buy a beer for $5 if Bitcoin is going up? You should just buy Bitcoin instead. Why buy $5 beer if instead you can buy index funds?
Hello! Handsfree.js doesn't yet have pupillary distance, but I do plan to implement MediaPipe Iris very soon which does: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/08/mediapipe-iris-real-time-i...
It's a little awkward to criticize it in person. It's not like they will change the office on opinions of a few staff. It's a take it or leave the company kind of thing.
> Colleagues with small kids are unable to get any work done when there is no babysitter.

Yeah, but if they’re small enough to need a babysitter you can’t leave them home alone and go to the office either.
Best meetings I've been in lately have been audio-only MS Teams calls, optionally with a PowerPoint slide deck.
My experience has been similar to yours, with the addition that married people without children never wanted to go to the office. It was basically the best of both worlds; you aren't lonely, plus your spouse (usually) understands that they shouldn't bother you while you're working, while kids don't.
That's exactly why I'm surprised. I don't understand why the birds don't come back after the excitement is over -- except possibly the ones closest to the crash site.
KYC and AML for the purpose of money laundering exists throughout the world. Which regulation is specifically attempting to kill bitcoin if you don't mind me asking?
I think there is a significant amount of companies (and a substantial portion of the government) in the US that operates on a philosophy like "How much can we extract from people before there is any push back?" It is a nation entirely built on micro transactions.. I am sitting in an airport right now. Baggage carts are free to use. The last time I flew in the US it was a $5 fee. Why? Because it's just enough to extract value from us but not enough for anyone to complain in a significant way.

I don't think that companies are deliberately trying to be awful to workers. They are just using the standard American model.. "How much can we get away with?"

The country is in desperate need of widespread unionization efforts.
> Mixed onsite/remote doesn't work because the remote folks become second class citizens.

Having been on both sides of the equation at two different tech companies, this hasn’t been my experience.
What is the focus on numerical computing that you think Julia is missing? The ecosystem seems plenty healthy to me. (Maybe PDEs... but those are so close!)

It's not uncommon for good Julia codes to smoke Fortran codebases, like the DiffEq verse or with staged programming, see Steven G. Johnson's keynote at JuliaCon 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSgXWpvQEHE
That seems plausible but I would think that there could be a lot of other sites the person visited that would be easier to track down. Maybe that’s what they did and the reason they’re dropping this subpoena.
The threat to the empire of English: It is not Mandarin ... it's bullshit
If I had a no-paywall URL I'd give it. I love ft.com because it's harder hitting that many US publications in the same space. And here they are really onto to something.
Every three years seems to long a gap. But two week stretches every few months might be perfect.
I think that largely depends on the location of leadership.

If all leadership is in one location, yes, it'll get one sided. If leadership are spread out, I think it works out fine.

I've spent the last decade working with large multi site companies in the "lesser" location, and was able to move up from a junior to senior/supervisor roles at each company. Obviously my anecdote doesn't scale out uniformly, but I've seen it work out fine for many employees as long as leadership was adequately spread out.
>Colleagues with small kids are unable to get any work done when there is no babysitter.

Speak for yourself. Give credit where credit is due to the heroic efforts of employed parents who got work done and took care of the kids.
You are assigning to me a much more extreme view than I hold. I neither dismiss the desire to do remote work (I express some of it for myself) nor oppose it "categorically".

I am simply saying that the "pros" are obvious to everyone but the cons are more subtle and may not be relevant for everyone. I also think someone's ability to self assess their own productivity is suspect:one may feel productive because they coded undistributed all day - when I'm reality the most productive thing they could have done that day is perceived that two juniors were arguing over a silly point and set them straight - something they'd have done in the physical but not virtual office.
And there's always that one dog that hogs the fetch ball. Good for the vet business.
Not an Apple employee but for me it would be the commute not the office that’s the pain point

Driving or even bussing down or up or across the bay to get to Apple is a huge stressor. Doing it every single day both ways easily kills 2 hours of my life.

If I stay home and work instead I am better rested, more relaxed, and consequently more productive
Misread as assets in seats. Still works
This is why Ethereum put a clever "difficulty bomb" in the code back in 2016.

Basically, what the difficulty bomb does is it forces the network to hard fork every year or so to postpone the bomb, otherwise the math will cause the network to start getting exponentially harder very quickly until the point that the network can't move, the so-called "Ethereum Ice Age." It doesn't lock up the network immediately, but is a few month process, just in case a fork is late for some reason.

If miners wanted to buck Ethereum 2, they have the difficulty bomb ready to go off, and need to have 51%+ of them agree on a new leader, and fast, and then deploy this new leader's code on their machines with the difficulty bomb postponement and rule change. That's what the Ethereum devs are betting they will fail at. Of course, the miners who are in the know are quite aware of the bomb and don't like the fact that if they refuse the death of mining Ethereum, the thing will self-destruct or that the devs would "hold them hostage" this way.

For the dev's perspective though, I get it. How else would you get miners to accept Proof of Stake? There's no way they'd approve if they could help it.
Then he died of cancer because he opted for "alternative medicine" instead of going to the doctor.

There's a lesson in this for all of us, and I'm pretty sure it involves a return to offices with open floor plans.
I think every 3 months is optimal, but I like the metaphor.
Outsourcing usually doesn't work out because of poor management, such as the first principle and primary driver of a project being to cut costs. And the reason for that is often because budgets are insufficient.

They try to find cut-rate programmers by going overseas, then try to save more money by finding the less expensive outsourcing agency. Then, instead of engaging with the problem, they hire a third party middleman who takes a big cut and has no stake in the actual outcome. This is a horrible incentive structure and usually results in poor communication.

The fact that they are from another country is irrelevant. The language skills could be very relevant, but again it is usually so poorly managed that none of the people that should be communicating directly with developers even try or are given an opportunity.
I'm very sorry you don't think Handsfree.js has useful demos. That kind of hurts because I put a great deal of effort into making them useful as starting points (I started all this while I was homeless to help someone). I work on Handsfree.js full time and my goal is really to create simple demos so that others like yourself can run with it!

Maybe you'll find some of these more useful?

- Face Pointer, and accessibility tool to help people who can't use a mouse/keyboard: https://handsfree.js.org/ref/plugin/facePointer.html

- Palm Pointers, scroll the page and even multiple scroll areas at once: https://handsfree.js.org/ref/plugin/palmPointers.html

- Gesture Mapper, map static poses in seconds: https://handsfree.dev/tools/gesture-mapper/

- Face Coding (not ready), to help people with disabilities code by snapping blocks together: https://twitter.com/GoingHandsfree/status/140056015231972966...

- The library itself doubles as a Chrome Extension, here are some examples of what you can do with it: https://handsfree.dev/sites/

I have dozens and dozens of more experiments. Most of them are pretty basic, but the point is to show you what's possible :)
Honestly one of the biggest perks of WFH full-time is being 10 metres from my own private bathroom where I can take my 11am dump with the door open and in relative luxury.
If my memory serves me correctly, I once a used a digital try-on app from an online glasses retailer and they had me hold a common item with a known width (something like a credit card or drivers license) in front of the cam within a bounding box. It could guess the location of my pupils but allowed me to drag the pupil location markers to the exact centers. Calculating pupillary distance was then just a matter of using the distance in pixels between the pupils and converting them to mm using the ratio of pixels to mm of the card in the previous photo.
Let me just say this site is nothing but pure propaganda as the financial motive is to scare people and get them to pay for treatment.
Do you think this is a uniquely American issue? Having lived in other countries it’s worse.
Ah, I see you too are a gentleman of culture.
> self-proclaimed far left extremists

As someone who is far-left (and not cis-white), virtually none of us proclaim ourselves extremists. Progressives, yes, perhaps even militant around organizing around a cause, but I fail to see how this part of your comment can be read as anything other than political straw-man flamebait.
The US government has clearly stated bitcoin is not a currency. But they are still passing regulations saying all transfers of cryptocurrency value over $10k USD equiv have to be reported (as if it was a currency). This kind of obvious double-think has only one purpose.
Beyond the Nation-State
Why Microsoft is calling Windows 10 'the last version of Windows' (2015)
Note that no proper mental health professional would do this either, it'd be highly unprofessional.
That's fair, but I'm only interested in learning C++ insofar as it helps me understand Julia's internals.

I think I did Stroustrup's "Principles and Practice Using C++" for about 12 chapters a while ago; I might revisit it later thanks to your comment.
The issue with the open office is that any given time you can hear multiple conversations making it hard to concentrate on actual work.
Oh man, I empathize. I'm writing this from the literal end of the internet: our cable (Comcast) comes off the last pole with coax on it.

We spent today taking a look at properties, and the internet situation goes downhill fast from where we presently rent from DSL to "unknown". HughesNet is an option, but it's an iffy option for latency reasons, and Starlink is crazy pricey. Cellular is a total non-starter: there is none.

Our realtor lives on a road with a bunch of people willing to pony up to get decent internet, but they can't get the ISP to actually run media down the road because it's too few houses, never mind that there's money on the table.

So if you're a web developer, please know that there are real folks in the USA who have legitimately lousy internet options in 2021. In our case, it's self inflicted, but I'm going to make some sweeping assumptions based on the houses we drove by and say it isn't a matter of choice for everybody.
Imagine the chaos if during war-time the first thing a major power did was cut all the internet wires to their enemy?

Imagine if during peace-time, N. Korea decided to do just this for kicks and giggles and to "flex it's muscle"?

Rich people have submarines, what's stopping some rich dude from doing this and betting against the markets? (Other than jail time if caught)?
Well that thread has an unfortunate answer to my biggest question at the end of the article: what about iCloud Keychain?

>> @colmmacc: Safari seems conspicuously absent from the list, but it has more users than Firefox or Edge. Is that deliberate? superficially it has the chrome problem solved and T1/T2 integration for the password manager across iOS and OS X.[1]

> @taviso: Well, it's deliberate because I don't know how it works, not because I think there's something wrong with it! It sounds reasonable from the docs, but I haven't looked at the implementation.[2]

As I said in thread, that’s a weird response given the opening paragraph of the article:

> I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand the attack surface of popular password managers. I think I’ve spent more time analyzing them than practically anybody else, and I think that qualifies me to have an opinion!

I mean, I think Tavis is qualified to have an opinion regardless. But just blanket ignoring a competitor’s solution that addresses all of the problems in the article, while claiming to have more familiarity with the space than practically anyone else... that doesn’t sit well with me.

1: https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1401336209746673666?s=21

2: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1401373666328203264?s=21
Tying property rights to declared wealth only, is how I envision solving this problem as well. The proposal may have flaws, but I suspect it's still better than what we have now.
No less a pit master than Aaron Franklin will tell anyone who cares to listen that they individually can absolutely turn out a brisket that is equal to or better than what he serves up at his eponymous restaurant. He takes pains to point out it only takes caring attention to detail to that single brisket, which is why I think I run into a greater proportion of BBQ enthusiasts in hacker circles compared to my other communities when categorized by interests. He freely admits his and other pit masters' "secret sauce" lays in how they scale it up and keeps it close to what they produce when they are making only one brisket at home for family and friends.

I generally consider BBQ competitions overblown affairs that are arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. To me, after a certain point it is quite good enough, and any further optimization for "better" doesn't pass my personal cost-benefit filter, and I'd rather spend the cognitive effort on my dining companions.

It is either that, or I possess a philistine palate. The latter is quite possible because I hold a similar opinion of many of the fine dining establishments I've eaten at, from quite fine kaiseki, omakase, Chinese, Michelin-starred French, various fusions, steak, and other restaurants, some with pretty eye-popping per-diner prices. That's mostly because I believe that we're at the nascent, fragile stages of achieving post-scarcity (by no means assured, and still many generations away), and part of that journey involves the elevation of increasingly finer experiences (perhaps some requiring ever-greater cognitive effort to appreciate that I'm not aware of) to a mass market.
That's ok. Just like Twitter operates its platform as it sees fit, blocking and censoring things they dislike, Nigeria is its own sovereign country and operates according to the "laws of the land". If Twitter doesn't like it, they are free to start their own country and do whatever they please over there.
Oh that would be so epic! I did something similar during my residency for Handsfree.js but for "puppeteering" a robot: https://giphy.com/gifs/1XE2rnMPk6BFu8VQRr
It's tricky to move in and quash crooked investigations when you are also trying to be "hands-off" of the Justice Department.

But if the Biden administration wanted to signal their sensitivity to Press freedoms, dropping the Julian Assange extradition and Chelsea Manning harassment campaigns would be clearer.
couldn't they just wrap up the lines at the U.S. embassy, and give U.S. full control over any "snooping" and "transit"?
> couldn’t have become currency under the definition you’ve presented here.

gold and silver were bad currencies back then, when people had no real alternative. People clipped coins, and debase the currency. People horded them when times were tough, and prevented lending and circulation, causing issues with the economy regarding liquidity.

Have a read of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)#Economic_... and educate yourself about the past.
Humanity as in valuing service to mankind over the abstract point value of accumulating money?
Twitter is not an Employee of Government of India;
I hear you and if we were talking about poor people interviewing for retail and warehouse jobs I'd agree with you completely.

However we are talking about tech jobs which pay several hundred thousand dollars per year in many cases, and these jobs require a certain level of connectivity, not out of gatekeeping but out of practicality.
Can you give me a time stamp to the worst parts in your opinion? It’s rather long and it seemed JP rarely talked in it from my skimming.

EDIT: lol honestly asking, I don’t have an hour forty minutes to figure out which part is offensive
Good point. This is also the same for KeePassXC where the browser extension works by communicating with the main app process. The extension itself doesn't store the passwords.

And KeePassXC is open source and does not require cloud storage. So you can build from source and do not need to rely on any claims from the vendor on how the data is securely stored.
Dynamic Payload Generation with Mingw
Also, here is a simple demo that has been helping some of my friends with disabilities. It uses the Face Pointer to play desktop games: https://twitter.com/GoingHandsfree/status/140022171083874713...
This is a confident, and wrong, assertion, if we limit ourselves strictly to the array microphones in 16" MBP.

As I said, empirically, those are my best choice. I use the AirPods for voice-only calls through my phone, but I've gotten lag from them through the laptop-to-Zoom pipeline.

Again, the sound quality and noise cancellation from this array of microphones (please note what I'm emphasizing here) is better than it has any right to be. It figures out what's my voice and what isn't, and passes along what it should.

Sure, if I had to make a call from a very loud environment, I'd use the AirPod Pros and hope for the best. But of the options I have, under normal use conditions, the 16" microphone array is simply the best one.
10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows, updated but never replaced. Either this is a free update that just increases the number (stupid move but not catastrophic) or Microsoft will lose an enormous amount of trust.
Super Body Fuel
Those "hits" were retracted in court and not included in filing. It's unfortunate that this is still being spread.
This is interesting on so many levels. Not saying I don’t feel for a terrible commute.

But has anyone ever been on Blind?

A lot of these people are kind of awful, rich, a-holes. Now coming in the office is too much to ask?

The best part is what can Apple really do here…

I think a reasonable compromise is cut their salaries by around 20% if you optionally work remote and donate it to education in less fortunate communities in these cities.

Be interesting to see how many people show up to the office.
Wow, that's some pretty dystopian stuff.
All3dp.com. It’s a scourge.
When I lived in Mountain View the absolute fastest internet connection I could get at home was 100mbs Comcast that was never that fast and had all kinds of bizarre and inexplicable random latencies. My internet is faster and infinitely more reliable since I moved to rural Southern Oregon mid pandemic.
It sounds like what they were trying to do was identify someone.

It is quite common to know something about the recent behavior of someone that has some connection to a crime but not know who they are.

You might not know who robbed the bank, say, but you know their getaway car was a red Corvette with a license number that ended in 6. Or you might know that a recently killed body was disemboweled with a Kobalt brand model #TRS-5CF-K34714 trenching spade (it was left at the scene) and your forensics people were able to determine that it had not been used before this so was probably recently purchased.

In the first case, you are going to ask your state's motor vehicle department for a list of all registered red Corvettes in the area of the robbery. In the second case you are going to see if any Lowe's in the area (Kobalt is their house brand) can tell you who recently bought a #TRS-5CF-K34714 trenching spade.

You aren't asking because owning a red corvette is incriminating, or because owning a #TRS-5CF-K34714 trenching spade is incriminating [1]. You are asking because whoever did the crime is probably either in the set of red corvette owners for the robbery or the set of #TRS-5CF-K34714 trenching spade owners for the disemboweling, or someone in those sets is connected to whoever did the crime. Even if the connection is innocent talking to them can be useful--the red Corvette may have been a ride share, for example, and the driver had no idea he was serving as getaway driver, but he still may be able to provide details about the robber that will help find him.

Here it sounds like they determined that there was someone connected to the shooter and they wanted to find that person but did not know their identity, but did find out somehow that it was likely they had read that article within a 35 minute window on a particular day (I have no idea how they would have found that out).

[1] I own one. It's great!
Working from home contributes to the well being of employees. While a lot may not notice it, that 1 hour (at least) daily you save (from commute / preparing) can be used for activities that can contribute to one's personal health (mental & physical). Remote work works.
I think rich nations should collect tax on behalf of poor nations from the multinationals;
> for most millennia of human experience, where one worked and where one lived amongst the family and community were one and the same

Hunters and foragers went out. Working from home seems like a blip compared to that.
I started my own company. Not necessarily to get rid of meetings, but because I absolutely cannot stand the modern tech work environment.

I’d think managers would see the elimination of meetings as a direct threat to their job. So I don’t have any good suggestions.

You could just try skipping them? See if you get in trouble? Push it all the way to getting a pip. That’s what I’d do lol.
So much this. Until a company adopts a no-BS policy towards meetings, I do not see the point. 80% of my time in company meetings is just wasted. I have talked to my colleagues about this - they feel the same. At least with remote work, I can politely tune out of useless meeting filler by muting audio/video.

Contrast that with grad school, where every minute of my meetings with my advisors was time well spent.