skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They never communicate their agenda

AKA schedule unfocused meetings. Unfocused meetings have been a problem for years, or perhaps centuries. Has nothing to do with remote work, or even being an "effective worker" in the general sense.

> They presume availability

The body text for this section has nothing to do with presuming availability. In any case, neither the section header or the examples have anything to do with remote work or being an "effective worker". Sure, they're annoying, but that's about it.

> They disappear mysteriously

If you need synchronous collaborative time with me, let's schedule it. Otherwise, asynchronous communication should have no default expectation of availability. Obviously it would be polite to mention that you have to step out for a bit.

Also, again, has nothing to do with remote work or being an "effective worker". Most of us communicate digitally sometimes, even when we're in the office. I haven't suddenly become ineffective because you incorrectly assumed that you had my undivided attention for an unspecified amount of time.

> They pretend to be useful.

AKA they chime in pointlessly in issue threads. While annoying or pointless, this also has nothing to do with remote work or being an "effective worker".

> They operate undercover

AKA turn off their camera. Plenty of comments here already about this. Also has nothing to do with being an effective worker.

> 5 Habits of Highly Ineffective Remote Workers

This is a short, low-quality list of personal pet peeves about communication and expectations, under a click-bait title. Effective workers solve problems and add value to the company. People can be quite effective despite poor communication skills. At the same time, everyone could probably benefit from improving their workplace communication skills. The payoff for improved communication is greater when everyone is remote, or at least communicating digitally.

A lot has been written about what does and does make for effective meetings and workplace communication, and this doesn't contribute much to that discussion.

Really, I should conclude with a personal list that actually does relate to effective remote work. I've been remote for 7 years. But I haven't found it to be complicated or significanly different from effective work in the office.
WordPress has all of those things. It's fairly easy to set-up and it's secure if you update it every once in a while.
My horror vision after clicking the link: Imagine this merges with covid and the whole John Titor fluff becomes instantly more realistic...
Cryptocurrency doesn't have a "bro" problem it has a charismatic-con-man problem. I do understand how the two might look similar.
Some years ago I obtained a "barn find" vehicle that still had some 1970s leaded gasoline in the tank. After much work getting things ready to run, I decided the best thing to do with the old gasoline was to install a disposable fuel filter and just run it through the engine.

The scent of leaded gas is something entirely different from modern products. Sweet-smelling and rather pleasant, it triggered childhood memories I didn't know I had.

Of course knowing what leaded gasoline smells like could have contributed to other issues...
Downvotes aren't going to fix anything until algorithms stop segregating us into individual groups of uniform opinion. How can you downvote what you never even see in the first place?
There's this: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html

Delightfully, the article itself seems to assess the letter of Betteridge's Law while ignoring, and therefore embodying, its spirit.

And also, naturally, deliciously, walks straight into the obvious trap in the end.
Sorta have to wonder if it's safe to open that pdf locally—the site doesn't quite work on the phone.
South America. This was clear in my sign up data.
> But downvotes? I pretty much won't post on HN or Reddit because of them (and the culture associated with it). I've got no problem being wrong, but when I spend a significant amount of time trying to respond to something in good faith and then someone comes along with their four accounts and downvotes every comment I got because I'm not sufficiently ideological

I've got a tip for that, that HN has rather amusingly trained me at doing. Comment and walk away.

By doing that, you get to engage/participate, throw your opinion into the ring, and not care whether you're maliciously downvoted or not (you have no idea either way). Works on most any forum, including Reddit.

Often on HN you'll get a wave of votes one direction or another, and it'll even out over time. The downvotes usually come on first by people that respond primarily by emotion determining their insta downvote behavior. That later gets offset by upvotes. If you pay attention to the early voting pattern, that process might be discouraging.

My account is throttled and has been for many years. Even though I almost never use vulgar language, I'm one of the highest point accounts in HN history, and I go out of my way to avoid using personally directed language (ie always attempt to focus on the subject/topic/idea, not the person you're replying to), apparently I'm too aggressive for the mod liking here. That means I can't engage in multiple levels of discussion within a thread. So by necessity I learned to just comment and walk away; I only occasionally read replies and rarely notice up or down votes, because none of that matters as I can't engage over numerous replies regardless. It's a wonderful freedom, to not care whether you get upvoted or downvoted. Give it a try.
I know its a minor inconvenience, but this is one of my biggest pet peeves with the whole OS. I wish there was a way to change the setting to actually control things with control center...
Makes me wonder if Zoom or someone is working on an enterprise-friendly equivalent to FaceTime Memojis, so that you can show facial expressions without your actual face:

https://www.howtogeek.com/693237/how-to-use-memoji-during-a-...

Toss in some deepfake and you can map those expressions into a digital version of your face. So a touched-up, AI-generated version of your face- but not your actual face at the moment.
Well, primarily, the eastern lands had access to paper. That in itself would explain a lot of the observed differences - it is so much more difficult to maintain an advanced culture when your only writing material is many dozens of times more expensive than what some other cultures had at the time. But to claim that "Muslims were busy reading Aristotle" and that they were "religiously tolerant" seems like almost a child-like simplification. Aristotle was being read not only by Muslims, and certainly not all Muslims were busy reading Aristotle. Not just that, but even in the Middle East, Aristotle was not even accepted unless he didn't contradict faith, as the existence of The Incoherence of the Philosophers seems to suggest (although early on the social climate might have been different). And more generally, the boundaries of "religious tolerance" were massively stricter than what a modern HN reader might expect that term to mean.

EDIT: Here's what seems to a good dissection of the impact of Greek philosophy in the Middle East: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6stvd6/what_...
Your view is completely toxic and you're a fool, a racist and a sexist.

As a white male-- I have no more control over society than anyone else. I have absolutely no power over these power structures that oppress us all.
For lots of people around the world the ability to love their partner is a very political thing - homosexuality being illegal in a majority of Africa, and punishable by death in parts of the world.
The 2nd Gen Chevy Volt was the Model 3 we deserved, but couldn't appreciate.

40-50 miles EV range meant that most people would have an EV most of the time, and use gas only on one off trips.

And while people 10 years behind on ICE advancements would immediately start yelling about dragging around a dead weight ICE all day, modern ICEs are incredibly light, efficient, and reliable in the type of application the Volt had them in, where they only need to run run at their optimal power band.

It didn't even look bad, and it had the same sensor suite AP1 did (of course GM used Mobileye's sensors as designed, so you weren't tempted to take your hands off to play mobile games, and they didn't end up in the back of firetrucks)
> "If we are to make dramatic progress in electrification, it will require overcoming tremendous challenges, including refueling infrastructure, battery availability, consumer acceptance, and affordability," Robert Wimmer, director of energy and environmental research at Toyota Motor North America, told the Senate in March.

That's the supposed FUD? What about that was wrong? Are we just supposed to ignore the challenges ahead of us? I had to read through most of that article to even get there and that was the big controversy. This article is trash.
No. I got a reply from an automated system with no reason whatsoever. They also state that they wouldn't read any replies, since they don't have the manpower to double check each and every account rejection.
I've actually had someone message me on Reddit (years ago) with several alt accounts that a reply I posted in a programming-related subreddit was wrong (it wasn't), and they were right, and they'd be mass downvoting my account. This was back when reporting actually did something I guess, because a couple of the alt accounts did get banned a few weeks later. Later another new account messaged me a censored screenshot of their bank account with a few million dollars in it and saying some crap along the lines of "I earned this money by selling a software startup, so I know more about C++ than you".

That's only one time I definitely know I was getting downvoted with alt accounts, but it really sucks. And now how do I know it hasn't happened several times since except with someone who doesn't have an inflated enough ego that they need to PM me proof of it.
Do Repeat Yourself: Duplicated code is not always evil
>This is also a black swan[1] type situation

So one that is almost certain to happen given some time?

>The only way you can say something is never something is if you understand all occurrences of it;

"Understanding all occurences of it" seems like a good criterion for allowing potentially mass murderous work or not. That said, it sounds stricter than what it is. We just need them to know how a thing works and not be doing "sorcerer's apprentices" style peek and poke work.

They don't need to "prove a negative". For example we don't asks scientists to prove that "water can't explode and destroy the earth" to let them work with it casually. It's enough that they know it well. Do they know prion as well as they do water?
Funny you should mention 'get caught driving over the speed limit'.... from another link in this thread that did happen.

Like most plans, Birges’s fell apart rather early on. One of his sons got a speeding ticket, placing him near the ransom drop point. His girlfriend drove off the road, resulting in her hospitalization.

https://hackaday.com/2015/09/21/this-is-what-a-real-bomb-loo...
And it will be a decade more until a 60+kwH EV is being sold for <$30k total upfront price out the door, which is where they need to be for mass adoption.

“A decade more” seems way too pessimistic given current EV prices and battery capacities. The 2022 Bolt will have a starting price of $32k with a 65kWh battery, for example.
That sounds like a terrible ad blocker? Why would it trigger from a word in the URL? And doesn’t it even show a "show me the site anyway" page?
A bioweapon that can't be targeted doesn't seem very useful, does it?
It was all made out of parts with standardized interfaces, so components could be consumer equipment.

I also used the same software on my laptop to encrypt it. It's nothing fancy, just using the dm-crypt kernel module and any kind of hardware security module that talks PKCS#11 (which is all of them); On my laptop I just used my existing smartcard (which I used to login to the system and remote systems).

The disk header was just text occupying the first 4MiB of the disk in 2 circular buffers similar to LVM (though 2 copies for redundancy).
Spoken like someone who's never tried to road trip in an EV other than a Tesla. Tesla also beats every single one of the cars you listed on range per dollar, as well as 0-60, handling in several cases, and actually being able to buy one in other cases (Lucid Air should be called Lucid Vapor).

They all charge faster, sure. Where? I can drive two hours and reach 5 V3 superchargers. EA is notorious for chargers frequently glitching or failing altogether.

CarPlay and Android Auto are nice if your built-in infotainment are awful. Tesla has excellent infotainment, so need to lose functionality by bringing in a third-party vendor. That's less of a selling point than you may think.

The Kia EV6 does look absolutely marvelous, and I'm looking forward to driving one. The Taycan is a gorgeous car, and I'd like to check it out as well. Hyundai has been doing great things in the EV space, and they're some of the only cars that can match the Model 3 for WH/mile. Cool stuff.

We'll see if Rawlinson can pull Lucid out of production hell, and how well the end product stands up.

Point is: Tesla is being smart. They have a better product for less money than the competition, and unlike several other OEMs, they don't lose money per EV sold. Making people who are already EV owners stare at Tesla vehicles for hours is a smart move.
There's definitely a downvote squad. I've noticed my comments tend to do much better their first few hours and downvotes tend to come later after the submission has fallen off the front page.
The PinePhone and Librem 5 can both be docked and used like computers.
I feel like the lean on SpaceX in this article is because it's a popular name at the moment. In the article, it mentions that SpaceX received grants for urban areas for things like airport parking lots. Also mentioned were areas already served by one or more companies with 25/3 broadband. Those were the types of locations that funding was being pulled for.
In general I agree with you. Simply taxing things with negative externalities enough to cover the true cost would simply and conclusively fix a lot of things we struggle with, faster and without relying on politicians.

I think it's politically very unpopular, but the economic theory behind it is extremely sound.
It's sick how the US system allows companies to rent politicians.
Is this what BetterHealth does? I haven't used it, but I hear a ton of ads for it on podcasts.
The timeline of events in Scaleway's blog post is very dubious.

If the SSD was stolen over one year ago why do they only acknowledge it now?

In March 2021 [1] they were writing about how great their security was:

> We are proud of our data centers and their security. We consider that we have implemented the best solutions to protect your most valuable asset: your data. We are well aware of the huge responsibility this represents. There can be no compromises when it comes to your data.

Why were customers whose data was leaked only informed in June 2021? The delay of over 1 year is a huge GDPR issue.

The timeline of the incident from public sources:

21 May 2021: Micode tweets a screenshot of the directory listing [2]

26 May 2021: First video on the subject [3]

6 June 2021: Scaleway customer is notified their data was leaked [4]

21 July 2021: Second video on the subject [5]

24 July 2021: Third video on the subject [6]

24 July 2021: Scaleway releases a French blog post stating "Over a year ago, an SSD was stolen" [7]

Storing the data unencrypted is bad, but IMHO Scaleway's handling of the incident creates much bigger questions about their credibility.

[1] https://blog.scaleway.com/how-we-protect-your-data/

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/Micode/status/1395640486715662336

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8PyQ2PGxI

[4] https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3258386/#Comme...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBVZUL1iBA

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf_cKTlOYLo

[7] https://blog.scaleway.com/incident-securitaire-video-youtube...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957471
Turning your camera on gives you an additional channel of communication and all the benefits that come with better communication. Ask yourself: how beneficial would being a better communicator be to me?

A coworker tells a joke and sees me legitimately smile and laugh at it, what effect does that have on my coworkers opinion of me?

Someone is expressing a weird idea and I get to frown and shake my head on camera, what power does this give me in the conversation? If I'm the only one with my camera on I've got a complete monopoly on a channel of communication, and humans only have 2 or 3, one of them is all mine.

People with higher quality audio are perceived as smarter [0]. I wouldn't be surprised if those with video enabled are perceived as smarter as well, and more likeable.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26818774
>Are you SURE that they haven't done that with TSMC?

Back around the time Apple was looking at single sourcing chips from TSMC, TSMC's CEO started publicly saying that deals that dedicated a fab to a single customer made sense.

>The world's leading foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is considering operating single-customer wafer fabs, according to chairman and CEO Morris Chang.

Chang, speaking to analysts on a conference call to discuss the company's second quarter financial results, said that the market is tending to produce fewer higher volume customers and some are so large they need their own dedicated fabs.

https://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4391104/TSMC-says-s...
Will this work in the old piston aircraft? I’m thinking about buffalo airways.
Agree completely. Non-verbal cues are helpful in person, but they just don't translate over webcam meetings very well at all. Instead you have a bunch of heads trying to look attentive staring off into weird directions. At one point my company asked us all to turn off video for a bit to save bandwidth while they were doing upgrades. None of the teams I'm working with turned cameras back on after the upgrades were done. Turned out that this whole time everyone was doing it because they felt like everyone else expected it of them, but on one actually wanted it.
It's not about getting a cake or a website, it's about using the legal system to establish a precedent that it will be illegal to refuse service based on one's personal beliefs about the LGBTQIA+ community. The two services in question are just a means to an end.
Two steps in the right direction, but this one page still sends requests to soundcloud.com, rawgit.com, cloudflare.com, googleapis.com, amazonaws.com, fontawesome.com, sndcdn.com, stackcommerce.com, stackassets.com, stacksocial.com, and gravatar.com.

Their "self-hosted" Plausible content is pulled from tics.techdirect.com, which resolves to 46.101.161.209 and shares a reverse DNS with custom.plausible.io. Can't tell who runs the web server on the other end of this, so it may well be self-hosted.

The site also dropped a first-party one-year cookie, and let a third party drop a week-long cookie.

My browser is set to send Do Not Track requests, so my explicit wishes are still being flagrantly ignored.

There is still a lot of third-party tracking going on here, as well as execution of remote code under the control of third parties. It's remains a privacy and security clusterfuck but it's better than it was.
Smart, but there is a way to force your (faceid/touchid) iphone to require your password by holding the power button to get to the "slide to power off" screen.
Analysis: Tesla hikes electric car prices in U.S.; holds line in China
As someone who recently almost drowned a couple weeks ago this article is spookily accurate. I was surprised how indifferent everyone on the shore was when a wave finally coughed me up onto the sand. My only assumption, post stress headache, was that it just didn’t look like I was drowning.
Has anyone reached out to the two creators of the GIMP?

They're worth many hundreds of millions of dollars from their time at Google, a successful exit to Square, and their eventual exit with Cockroachdb (and they deserve every penny of it)
Tumblr gets a bad rap because it’s connected to politics, but for a considerable time it was the best blogging platform: the themes were simple and clean, it supported code fragments, had different post types (picture, video, etc). I still can’t find a Wordpress theme that mirrors the clean look of basic Tumblr (if anyone has any suggestions, even paid options, I’m all ears)
Aha they do have it! Thanks!

Huh, they don't list that on the keyboard page! Here it is filtered to models with a phone stand: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards?filters=3964

That one is only listed in the "iPad Keyboards" section for whatever mysterious reason.
That sounds nice in theory, but it'll be years until it could pass through actual legislative channels in the US federal government. Neither side wants it, the GOP hates new taxes and loves fossil fuel companies; the Dems hate anything that looks regressive, which a gas tax would at first before the pay-back checks come (if it's a neutral scheme, who's to say how the carbon tax would be used).
There and elsewhere (specifically regarding herd immunity) Fauci has conveyed that he misled the public intentionally. I am not passing judgement on the public value of his decisions to mislead, only that it is a fact that he intentionally mislead the public.

Pretty obvious from his statements that his motivation was to manipulate the public.

The blowback to his reputation is a reasonable reaction. He made a decision to mislead and that was exposed, and the public trust in the value of his words was diminished. That was always a risk he should have been aware of.
>(and then there is a separate question of who makes the call "what is safe enough").

This is hard. If there isn't the right incentive they can decide nothing is safe enough. This ensures safety now, but it means that if a cure is possible it won't be discovered (or anything else useful from the research). The FDA has been accused of needlessly holding up useful drugs on this grounds (I'm not going to comment on if true or not)
How would you connect to the servers with only private IPs?
I just leased a fully loaded Highlander which I intend to buy out after 3 years. So Toyota is getting my money for next 9 years, unless anything disastrous happens. I actually have another 7 year old Corolla, on which I have a spent a grand total of $140 in maintenance (battery). In fact I plan to purchase an 86 or a Supra in next couple of years or so.

Last time I was driving a Hyundai, the engine lost power in the middle of evening rush hour traffic at 65mph on I-85, and the car had half the mileage of my Corolla.

Toyota is going nowhere.
Just for the record, the reply to this comment by bopbeepboop that was downvoted to "dead" status is a good example of the type of downvoting I disagree with.

I also understand that this isn't my site, and that I have no control over the behavior of others on this site. I'm just putting that out there.
products are much more than just their features. Substack have a great narrative..
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27961606
An IP address is fundamentally a 32-bit or 128-bit binary number, and hexadecimal is the most human-friendly base to represent those. Decimal gets pretty hairy once you introduce CIDR prefixes that aren't 8-bit aligned.

The [IPv6]:port syntax is unfortunate, but I'm not sure what they'd have done instead. Dotted hexadecimal would be ambiguous, because "1.2.3.4.5.6.beef.de" looks like a DNS hostname.

Zero compression exists because it's more convenient than writing all those zeroes, especially with CIDR prefixes like "2000::/3".