skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the moment one big reason remote work looks very attractive because 9-5 is still seen as the norm.

I'm all for remote work and think its superior in pretty much every dimension you measure workers on.

Having said that in a world where remote working is seen as the norm I do wonder how I will feel. I can see more and more technology being introduced to monitor staff at home for example. And the competition for jobs might spike.

Personally I think I'll be ok. Here's hoping I can never go back to an office. But yeah I wonder if I'll still feel the same in a few years...
GM had HUDs in many vehicles 20 years ago. It's a shame they aren't more widely available.
It's a thing: https://old.reddit.com/r/CovidVaccinated/
Uhhh:

>” A market correction would probably slap [banks] in the face without knocking them out. Instead, more of the bill will fall on equity holders, not least pension funds and insurers which, in their hunt for returns in an era of low interest rates, have been loading up on property for years. The sooner they admit that losses are coming, the sooner they can try to limit the damage.”

So holders of that debt...
An Interview of Ginger Bill for the Odin Programming Language 2021-06-09
Preach.

On the internet it's very easy for people to talk themselves into incredibly high standards for anything. But in real life most people are pretty astute at marginal trade-offs between risk and cost.

While it may look like you have a product with no competitors that will save lives, your actual competitor is "being slightly more careful" and it's free and people still aren't buying that. You still have to justify the value.
Yeah, that's fair. Not being able to opt out of them can be a problem. Though its tough as there are some safety related ones mixed in with the others.
> require no shared libraries

One amusing downside: the Golang hello world binary takes 2 MB; when compiled with gcc though (against libgo, therefore, dynamically linked), it takes an astonishing 60 KB - not even 64 KB!
Paddle is fundamentally different to Stripe. As you said they a merchant of record. Your customers purchase via Paddle, manage the subscription etc via them. Disputes would be via them too. Something to bear in mind.
Bridge building dates back to antiquity and has developed a rigorous knowledge base of tools, materials, and techniques.

Software development cannot even pick a language or paradigm with less than a century of experience. We do bridge builders a disservice for thinking that we are in their league with big project engineering.
Someone means the building owners.
Comparing Chromium project to Internet Explorer seems disingenuous.
> Unfortunately I don't think Android Auto or Apple Carplay's navigation can be displayed on the HUD - only the OEM Kia nav.

From what I understand Android/Apple have software capability for second screens/HUDs now, but it's on the car manufacturer to support that. There are some BMWs that have it.
Whether we exchange gold or certificates representing gold is immaterial.

Some quick googling tells me the total value of all gold on the planet is 187000 tons x 35273 fine ounces per ton x USD 1897.93 per fine ounce = 12.5e12, ie, USD 12000 Bn. Sounds great, that’s a lot of money. But it’s not annual production, it’s total amount mined so far in human history.

However, according to [1] the global GDP last year was USD 84537 Bn. That’s annual economic activity.

So there’s no hope in hell that we could produce enough gold every year to represent all the economic activity.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268750/global-gross-dome...
Works on TinyURL and others too.
I'm often firmly in the "this meeting could have been an E-mail" camp, and have sadly sat through my share of those. Unfortunately, often the reason this meeting isn't an E-mail is because the people who need to know and need to act don't read their damn E-mail. Or they don't read it completely, or they read it and don't comprehend it, or they read it but don't take the needed action, or for lots of other reasons. I'd love to treat people like grown-ups and reap the benefits of purely asynchronous office communication, but it's so rare that this happens.

My method now is as follows:

1. Send the E-mail asking for whatever, and an expected time frame

2. If I don't get the requested reply or action in the time frame, gently ping with a chat message

3. If still nothing... Well, here we go: it's meeting time, regrettably
This is something that has come up within our company (we are still waiting on official guidance). I love WFH, for all the reasons you've read in other posts.

If we have to return, I won't quit. That's reckless, imho. But my resume will be updated and I will be open to remote positions. Many of my colleagues feel the same way.
This is true to some extent, but the biggest burden on automotive computer performance is actually safety compliance. Most modern automotive ECU's have an entire core dedicated to cross-checking the validity of the other cores execution. Protection against an extremely hostile EM environment ends up resulting in very low clock rates (150-300MHZ). And software safety mechanisms mean, at some times, 50% of core allocation could be consumed by safety related code.
The entire sandbox thing is foolish. Obviously it won’t be sandboxed anyway because of what you’ve pointed out. But any sandbox we design won’t be good enough.

GTP is not supposed to exist according to computer science and machine learning experts in 2017. They were all wrong. Same with deep dream, styleGAN. And it will be true with the next thing.

The mental gymnastics refers to the fact that people have cognitive dissonance about GTP. They have amnesia about the decades of stagnant progress in text generation. All anyone can do is point out that it’s definitely not sentient and it’s not AGI so what’s the big deal? All of a sudden the goal posts have been moved… this is the single biggest quantum leap in text generation ever, a mind-boggling level of lucidity with grammar, punctuation and more all without ever being given a single deliberate instruction from a human being. It is objectively amazing. Objectively. And people have no reaction. Because they are not emotionally ready for it. It’s cognitive dissonance, mental gymnastics, whatever you want to call it.
Amazon Faces Possible $425M EU Privacy Fine
I really like this mindset. It's compassionate toward your co-workers and would make your entire team more effective. And best of all it's accepting reality and would make you happier too. Thanks for this.
Yes, to be clear, it makes sense for back then. It was weird to see it on HN frontpage as if it were new.

However the Go 2 thing is not in the same state it was in 2014; the design proposal was formally accepted and a compiler exists. It will likely take a long time to see how it hashes out, but it’s probably fair to treat it as an inevitability at this point.
For anyone wondering what progress in terms of safety looks like, give this 77 second video a view: https://youtu.be/xtxd27jlZ_g
Running a business takes on risk in return for reward. One of the risks of being a landlord is having no tenants. News at 11.
REIC's own a lot of office space. A lot of shares of REIC's are owned by retail investors, 401ks, state pensions, etc. Our economy is highly networked.
> Driving is faster

It's not, if you build correctly. It's only "faster" when you spread things out into suburbia.

Is it faster for you to get in your car and drive next door or to just walk over there?

Of course its faster to walk.

Walking is faster.

You can't just say "driving is faster" without qualifications.

> your car is available virtually 24/7

So are your legs. Walk and bike.

I don't see the relevance of many of these other items you mention. Who cares if you can personalize your car? I'm not saying cars should be banned, but we should stop optimizing for them at the expense of everything else, especially when they aren't necessary.
It's a venerable idiom that means something like "I think X, but am more uncertain than 'I think' normally implies."
Thanks for the article, an interesting read for sure. It’s nice to see there’s been plenty of follow-up study on this.

Respectfully, you’re wrong to say “thoroughly disproven”. Even the article ends with the suggestion that it’s a side-effect of covid, albeit a rare one.

The article’s position is more that it was overblown to worry about stopping young athletes from competing for fear of myo being a common side-effect as opposed to the ~1% rate the studies have since shown.
To the extent you can credit a single person, it's probably Martha Lane Fox, but yes David Cameron gave it a lot of political support.

Directgov 2010 and Beyond: Revolution not Evolution - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directgov-2010-an...
Oh! My first "451: Unavailable due to legal reasons"
I love the future.
Speaking as someone who knows farmers- they do, in fact, consider going into the silo a dangerous task, because everyone knows some family that had someone die because of it. They do it anyway, because it needs to get done, but they are quite aware of the risk. Everything on a farm has to earn its keep in terms of ROI, and so will this robot. It may or may not be cost effective, and we'll see. But please don't downplay the very real danger, just because some folks have to manage it because of their job.
Try popping in an aftermarket radio/stereo - you can get a nice Pioneer with a USB fast-charge port and Bluetooth/etc for ~$100-150.
Yea so you just go do those things. I'm not sure what this has to do with driving or commuting to a job on the highway?
> They want a device that is easy to use, and as simple as possible.

I'd add "reliable" or maybe more accurately "repeatable".

When my mother runs into technical problems, she will literally get frustrated to the point of tears. She doesn't give a single fuck whether she can change the OS or install unapproved software to tinker, she just wants the stuff that was working yesterday to still be working today.

When she wakes up and an OS update has broken some app she uses, she's never gone "Let me dig into why this happened, maybe I can fix it." and she never will. That's simply just something that has gone wrong in her life and ruined her day and now she needs to find a new way to do the thing that she wants to do.

But you're wasting your breath. A very vocal segment of HN are effectively fundamentalists about this. The fact that there exists a market segment best served by devices which do not conform to their fundamental ideals because they have different priorities is simply unacceptable regardless of any other consideration.
Maybe not if OP, despite attributing an importance to "leftist orthodoxy" that I think is silly, does take into account factors beyond Good Side or Bad Side. I could imagine someone finding a subreddit that matches their opinions very well, then leaving it because the culture surrounding those opinions is so toxic.
It's still used at those companies. Arthur Whitney wrote an APL variant called A+ still in-use at Morgan Stanley. He then left and wrote the "k" language, which is just ASCII APL (although definitely some major differences). K is the language of the extremely expensive kdb+ time series database (normally used for stock price data analysis I think). It's all in-memory data on a giant SSD (very fast and elegant design). He since left kx systems (company he made kdb+ with) and has a new startup called Shakti. Finance are generally the only folks that can afford the prices I believe.
I’m listening to the livestream on Bret Weinstein’s channel and they are discussing data that states the opposite including data that shows a concentration in the ovaries.
No one's interested in adverse vaccine side effects?

That seems rather counter to my impression which is based on the number of adults who're hesitant and the fact that FDA halted use of Johnson and Johnson vaccines once already and Europe has had it's own fair share of hand wringing about the Astro-Zeneca vaccine.
Toshiba and Japan colluded against investors
I am frustrated with music streaming. Whenever an artist or label revokes the right your precious music turns “grey” and when clicked on the “fantastic with over 600 million tracks available” streaming service throws a popup in your face saying “this song is not currently available in your country or region” which I read as “you pay for access to our library, you don’t own anything mate, get lost!”

I want to purchase songs and access them in the “cloud” from around the globe and from Mars and I want to own them!

Haven’t researched the question. Are there any approaches to throw your library behind authed CDN or aws s3 with a frontend ios/android/desktop app to get rid of those fancy subscription models?!
It's also an excellent example of second-system syndrome.
We also don't know if the shortened urls are random.
Oh thank you, fascinating. Hmm I notice now that "I think" is similar to "I want to say" in literal meaning—not stating the uncertainty, but they're both like "Warning, about to report on what my brain is doing, don't blame me!"
Correct.

The fact remains we should not socialize losses.

Insurance and reinsurance exist.
OpenReplay is developer-friendly, open-source session replay
This kind of thing is already against the App Store Review Guidelines:

> Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages. Abuse of these services may result in revocation of your privileges.

Apple has now introduced a way for developers to report other apps that break the guideiness. Rest assured I will be making reports every time an app sends me advertisement notifications that I did not opt in to.
>Scene, hipster, emo, goth, etc. all but disappeared.

I don't know where you have been for over the past 5 years, but not only did some of those not disappear, they had a massive resurgence (in the US/Canada, at least).

"Emo rap" has been all the hotness over the past 5 years, just look at artists like Lil Uzi Vert or Frank Ocean. Skrillex, one of the most successful producers and artists of our time, went back to his original emo rock band and recorded a single with them to a wide applause. Goth-related discussions have seen continuous increase in numbers on social media.

>Most of the people who would have fallen in one of the aforementioned groups a decade ago are now non-binary, gender fluid, etc.

I don't see how those things are mutually exclusive. Plenty of non-binary/genderfluid/etc. people would count themselves as a part of those groups, just like cis/straight people would.

I will give it to you with scene and hipsters disappearing, but "hipster" as a term has been used almost always with negative connotations (as others in this thread have pointed out already the specifics of why people scoffed at "hipsters" as used the term as an insult). Even at the peak of popularity of that term, I don't recall almost anyone using it to refer to themselves, though this point is entirely subjective and anecdotal on my end.

The point you were trying to make would have been indeed interesting to look into, if the reality matched a bit closer with what you were claiming was happening to those emo/goth/etc. groups.
I assume weight is a part of what entraps someone. What if you used bungee cords to reduce your weight? Or had a rip cord you could pull that would yank you out.
I think it did need helpers in the past. It's all integrated now.
I love this article to bits. The elixir community loves blogging, but so much elixir content is absolute beginner stuff, and so much of the remainder is unopinionated, descriptive stuff. I've found it really hard to strike on some good "how to best do xyz, what are the tradeoffs" style knowledge. This article is the first elixir thing I've read in a long time that really made me go "o wow yeah, I've been doing that wrong". Cool stuff!
> We need to stop privatizing gains and socializing losses

Nobody here is advocating this. The article is about measuring how the costs and benefits could get allocated in various scenarios.
ROFLMAO you think the car will be roughly the same price.
A letter can actually benefit from easier to type links, though. There's at least a point to it there. Too bad that bitly links contain more entropy than the password of the person typing it and doesn't avoid similar characters..... they could have chosen a service that actually optimizes for copying from paper instead of highest entropy per character.
Hospital suspends 178 health care workers for failing to get Covid vaccine
It was pretty rare that you'd know someone on another continent and want to face time with them, but if you did (and didn't want to spend months travelling), I think you'd be stuck using magic. Doctor Faustus for example used his deal with the devil to allow him to travel rapidly around Europe and visit famous people like the Pope.

I think it's fun how much of what a modern mobile phone gives us is an amalgam of magic from fantasy stories - Jack's harp that plays itself, Aragorn's Palantir, predictions of future weather and harvest (without even having to consult any entrails), summoning physical items to your location (with 1 hour prime), inhabiting and controlling remote drone servants, imbuing talismans you wear around your wrist with the power to keep you healthy, or binding you with someone else so they always know where you are.

And of course one of the main functions of magic in the ancient world is accessed through twitter - the power to curse an enemy.
Good stuff. I disagree about the first point, though, and have actually gone the opposite way, going from generic Access via `[]` to specific `Map.get` and `Keyword.get`.

The reason is that the underlying data structures are quite different, and operations and access patterns on them shouldn't be agnostic.

You should use Keywords basically only as options to functions, in my opinion, and that's just for historical consistency and interop with Erlang. Otherwise key-value pairs should be a map. And using `Keyword.get` and `Map.get` make it immediately obvious what the underlying data structure is, as well as prompt you to think about whether you should use the `!` version or provide defaults.

Otherwise, I think the tips are all decent to great. I am a little on the fence with exceptions, though. I know there's a meme in the community of "let it crash", but in my experience, that rarely feels like the right thing to do. I much prefer a Rust-style, "Result-all-the-things". It seems hard, in practice, to rely on crashes and restarts to maintain the right state invariants.
For reference, that'd be around 800 km by road.
meanwhile the many experts who don't recommend it are widely and very vocally shunned as 'science deniers'.

Andddd downvoted. Cant even point out that there are actual experts on both sides of the argument without people being upset about it.
Did it really double, or did boundaries erode? My company has been very clear in that they are measuring our productivity and also our working hours. Managers are being instructed to be very clear about establishing work/life boundaries (with the specifics being based on individual need). We similarly saw an increase in productivity, but the increase was far smaller once normalized for hours worked.
Then you may be able to use Airplay to project your display onto that managed Mac.

Is there a reason that you don’t login to iCloud when you are logged into your work iMac? You can control which data is shared between them if you want to keep personal stuff out of the work computer.
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Wrong: Some Bozo does have a stake.

The existence of human crafted general AI forces him to struggle with the possibility that there is no such thing as a soul.

I know a lot of people don't fall in that camp, but I heard enough "serious" people make such desperate claims to avoid thinking about the topic in a way that might challenge their underlying religious beliefs[1]. I think no one likes to admit that religion and spirituality often force someone to reject the possibility that AI is actually really much simpler than they think it "should" be, because then humans aren't special after all.

[1] Numerous arguments boil down to an argument that complexity is non reducible. You see it here, hidden in various comments as well.
> things that seem so obviously safer are taken without question as better, but in many cases, such features really only provide a false sense of security along with substantive unintended consequences

This is not true at all. There is definitely testing of cars by groups like the NHTSA and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. For example, they've found crash rates were 14% lower on cars with blind-spot monitoring. Modern cars are far safer than older cars.
I've driven rentals in Europe with reversing cameras, in fact my current car had it as an option (I didn't bother). They still had physical controls. Sure the screen is a touch screen too (so when the phone rings you can press green or red on the screen), but the button to select radio, or bluetooth, or whatever is physical, the volume (and off key) is physical, the radio selection is physical (both centre console and on the steering wheel). The dashboard is multiple different guages - there's an LED screen with selectable stats like 'time driving, average fuel consumption, current speed', but there's an nice analog speedo, fuel needle and temperature needle, and several warning lights.

I think the only car I've driven without physical volume controls was a Ford, and that was nearly a decade ago, I get the feeling there's been a bit of a push back, at least in the UK.
They're probably using the music and film industry definition of stolen (meaning downloaded).
After reading various comments here, I think I might have experienced this after my first dose (Moderna). Noticed some slight chest pain the day after during my ride and my heart rate was about 10bpm higher than normal.

Never had any noticeable symptoms after, please take this with a grain of salt because I do cycle a lot (~2-400 miles a month) and I'm not representative of the general population.
So if this product does not file VATS in 50+ countries (seems impossible anyways) and it does not actually pay these fees. This product is solving a solution that no online retailer should even bother with.

Honestly, until congress fixes interstate commerce and that terrible Wayfair decision, until the VAT process is drastically simplified/unified, nobody should collect or pay these fees to anyone. When they come for it, sue.

The bottom line is this maddening confusion isn't worth dealing with for the business or the state/country.
I think there are many reasons this is morally and politically unacceptable.

But to name just one practical objection: this would only intensify policing of borders (internal to a state's territory or otherwise). Siberian exiles of Tsarist Russia were quite frequently able to make it back to the urban west. Leon Trotsky is one famous example.
I went to the doctor because of general shortness of breath all the time, heart rate spiking during normal activity like standing up, palpitations out the wazoo, and general fatigue. If I felt “sick” or fluish that’d be one thing.. this seemed different.
E-ink is slow/inefficient to react, so probably not suitable for speedometer and tachometer type gauges. Apart from that, I agree.
If a single named security falls through the floor because they couldn't pivot from B&M to E-comm, there is no insurance that is going to pay out for an investor's loss (securities fraud aside). Likewise, if you made a bet that's going sour (office space), you are going to eat that loss.