skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked working in an open-plan office with my team around me. We were a team of 4 who had been working together from 2007-2008 through to 2017 (for a while, we were 4/5 of Sensory Networks, acquired by Intel). We talked all sorts of outrageous shit, got lots of work done, etc.

After the Intel acquisition it was still good, but having other people in hearing distance of us wasn't nearly as fun (likely for either side).

I enjoyed it a lot more than sitting at home. Conversely, I think sitting at home is way better than being wedged in with a bunch of random semi-connected folks.
Not geopolitically worthless. All three abrahamist cults want it and historically have killed 10s of millions of people fighting over it.

There is political value in having something you can use to control the sheep.

Most of Israel’s modern power comes from the “evangelical” sub cult of christianity. They’re utterly terrifying in their fanatacism. Think ISIS but mostly white christians and they murder with politicians instead of suicide bombers.

https://youtu.be/Fo77sTGpngQ
I'm still wishing for T9 to come back... Every generation has its thing. Maybe it's time to try dictation and get past the feelings of silliness ;)
And also maybe "former"? Is conference really better value than employing somebody for a month?
I just wish I could just have a list of favorite channels. There already is a forum post on their website.

Servers have an obscene amount of channels, while IRC has a single channel per topic, and sometimes has one or a few more (ubuntu, for example).

I honestly have a hard time using discord because of that. Discussions are atomized. Some channel are just pointless and often silent. The notification system is stupid and you just mute everything because of it (the tray icon is always red while you have nothing to read, and you are not going to scroll all channels you're not really interested in).

Oh yeah, and displaying the user list is pretty pointless when there are more than 40 users. Just my opinion.

I just keep a very small amount of servers.
HashiCorp Is Becoming an Important Part of Spring Cloud (Part 1)
I think it's the other way round: having kids means you have other demands on your time. WFH means it much easier to take the kids to school, go to parents evening/school play etc.

Plus, senior workers are likely to have a larger house with room for a separate office.
> This may be a Dutch phenomenon, but many shops and amenities are closed on Monday morning. Especially with the gradual increase of shops being open on Sunday afternoons.

This is the case in France too, it's common for small shops to close Sunday and Monday, and be open the rest of the week.
This tight community also did have to accept a high loss to the value of their properties as their houses became unsaleable. It is a mystery to me how all property owner would accept this, when only one or two have an improved view.
I fundamentally disagree with your Coca Cola example. This is a prime example of introducing a new use case for a product which is traditionally associated with summer and warmer climates. It’s done directly to increase sales during the winter time and to associate the brand with Christmas.
>It would add 90 minutes each way for my 15km commute.

Oo

I've been commuting 40km each way before pandemic with public transportation and it took me (65min of travel + waiting for train + 10min of walking) each way
Again my point with Aum is that, like NSU, they're microscopic in terms of percentage of population (NSU membership being 0.0002% of Germany, Aum being 0.001% of Japan) so it's missing the point of discussing behaviours that may encompass a more substantial percentage of each society.

The bar example is way worse than the train example, to the point I already mentioned that said behaviour is illegal in the European countries I've lived in; and I only described two examples as I didn't feel like writing a whole essay on the good and bad, but those certainly weren't the only issues we faced (nothing as severe as death threats or whatever, but enough to make me not want to settle there).

Anyway, I'm pausing this here; hopefully you're not arguing on bad faith, but it's clear this conversation isn't going anywhere productive anymore...
All we can do is to agree to disagree. I know that if I couldn't communicate and needed someone to take care of me 24/7 then I'd rather be dead.
You can get 2020 data from the same source that the NFL tutorial uses but that's only two years. It must exist I guess?
What did you personally do in 2020 to support least achieving?
Property rights do not exist in nature, they are just stories people tell each other. A house is just a pile of bricks. There is no objective concept of ownership.

Ownership only appears when people tell each other consistent stories, and it becomes a social norm in some society that if you follow some rituals then you can do things like having a say on how a particular pile of bricks is used that others may respect.

On occasion, different people will tell different stories about things and there will be disagreement. Here it seems the islanders do not consider such an outsider can "buy" and "own" a house according to the law and rituals of the mainland. The mainland is like a colonial power they resist. They just have they own laws in effect, that they can enforce (to a degree, someone still got a fine) through the community united in not collaborating with mainland agents. It's neat.

Social norms vary, and elevating your norms above everyone else's is very ugly indeed. The islanders are as human as you, they just have a moral code that's not the same as yours.
The guy was from Northern Ireland (where the “civil war” you are taking about was happening) and bought a house in Ireland (where it wasn’t). Also comparing NI during The Troubles to Iraq is a bit of a stretch.
Dieting and Healthy Snacks- Is There a Balance?
Product Hunt Launch for Product Fruits
No, because netcat requires no signup, no "support", no "updates", no license, no fees. It is not closed source and there is no third party company such as "Slack" that needs to be involved in private communication. Netcat is a small, fast, open source program that is easy to compile on any UNIX-like OS. Whereas IRC, and presumably Slack, requires at least two programs, a server and a client, netcat requires only one.
Games, 3d modeling, novel UI - better than 1080p resolution and 60hz refresh means the experience could actually be good, and not feel like a cheap hacky "pepper's ghost" type trick.

That price feels right, and the product is pretty damn cool, imo.
Indeed but not in children. You're comparison is a red herring. Two things can be bad in different ways.
Macroquad: Cross-platform game engine in Rust
In 1982 I started my otherwise fine career a complete jagoff failure with a boringly bad honours degree given in charity. I was stupid and missed the hiring fair, failed an interview at the IBM chocolate factory (truly: this was york) and was despondent. My database lecturer (the only one at the department who wore 3 piece suits) hooked me up with a sole trader nearby. I was launched. Junior programmer.

He hired me to be a clean room, and reverse engineer a competitors protocol to buy his way into a hospital data management gig: he needed somebody naive enough not to know the issues with the role, handed me the reverse compile dump of the binary and set me cracking.

He was also a three prayers a day fundamentalist Christian who insisted I broke bread with him and his lovely wife every day, and somehow my athiest principles swallowed this whole for a living.

I moved on as quickly as possible. I still regard this as a blot on my escutcheon 40 years later.
Yes it is helpful, thanks! That sounds very "stoic" what you just wrote, it's not much about what happens to me, but more about how I react to it. Did I get it correctly?
> you need a device that takes just as much space as an independent device but can't be used unless you plug your phone to it

Flip side: it’s a device that just works, doesn’t need to be kept patched and updated and where syncing is never an issue. It’s an external monitor for your phone plus a keyboard.

The prediction has fallen on its face due to the mobile component not being central enough. If half my life is on my laptop and half on my phone, a desktop makes sense. (Though I go for external monitors to my laptop.) But if all my stuff is on my phone, losing the syncing tax becomes more meaningful.
Most probably not, but it's worth to try and ask indeed.
I did write a blog post or two on it on the train using termux and nano. That was cool. And the occasional SSH session.

But as a phone running Android it's not quite there. Features like the LED controller app are half-baked vanity apps, and I'd rather they'd spent the time getting the lower level stuff right. Low quality phone call audio, random glitches, and software updates were mostly forgotten about. If I did want it as my primary phone I would also want a camera. The only camera was front-facing and low quality, which ruled it out. So it became a novel supplementary device rather than a daily driver.

To whit, the hinge mechanism isn't well designed. In theory the spine rotates back to form a stand, but it's incredibly wobbly. So it's not much use for typing on a table. And it can't be held in the hand, as there's no stiffness.

Why do I think PinePhone will be any different? The prototypes I've seen look like the hinge is stiffer. I'm not a kernel-compiling Linux enthusiast, so I don't expect to use a PinePhone as a real phone. But I do hope an SSH terminal to be simple enough to just work. So that puts it into the realm of mostly offline with sync. And org-mode is both simple and exciting, in a weird kind of a way.

And that appeals to nostaliga for Psions, Palm PDAs and Newtons.
Almost all my code is heavily aligned, and I rely on monospace.

I’m pretty anal about that kind of thing. My cloc score is generally about 50% comment-to-code.

But I’m an outlier. Most folks have almost no comments at all in their code.

I guess I could use tabs, instead of spaces, but I’m not interested in doing that.
PID Tuning: A Practical Guide
As a counter-experience

I've been traveling 40km in 65mins each way using a train from the village "at the end of the world :)" that has a few thousands ppl, so definitely not capital city
I used to like The Bill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bill), back when it had 30-minute episodes, each of which was in effect a self-contained little play using the same set of main characters. The episodes were written by different people, who were credited quite prominently at the start, so the quality of the writing varied, but in a way that made it more interesting. Unfortunately, more recently, that's not what the market wanted, apparently.
I don't understand what distinction you're making -- the Earth is getting polluted all the same. It's still an exemption.

That's not how laws work. For something to be exempt there would need to be a clause that specifically states "Consoles can pollute as much as they like". There isn't such a clause.

Saying they're exempt is like saying cars are exempt from the EPA's Cleaner Trucks Initiative (https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engin...). They're not exempt, they're just not trucks.
The title music of Fantasy World Dizzy is so memorable! https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70

Or the Amiga version: https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY
The name is a good representation of times we live in. I wonder if this is a sign we are nearing the top of the current bubble.
“To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in.”

No. Stop using Medium, please.
Your are still allowed. I self-host personal mail in a VM and still can send mail to gmail.

The problem is that big players (Gmail/MS) care about an anti-spam false positives only when they affects a relatively large fraction of all messages. Small mail servers account for a small fraction of all messages, so big players don't care about them at all.

I will not be surprised if they have SLI/KPI which allows them reject by a mistake millions of non-spam messages daily because it is a small percent of all messages they process.
> Now, with all that horizontal whitespace, my eyes have trouble tracking what is assigned to what

If it's not aligned I have trouble identifying exactly what I need because it's so chaotic. When everything's aligned it's a bit like a table and my brain immediately knows where the right-hand side is no matter which line I want to read.

Now I don't do that everywhere, often it just doesn't bring any benefit. But generally I often find it helpful and it's one of the quickest ways I can make some code blocks more readable, as it takes just a few keypresses.
> The median is specifically the mid point of the data set, so it won't be "any number between 0 and 2", it will be one specific number depending on the data set.

No. The median is not necessarily unique (just like the mode, and unlike the mean). For more information, you can check here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tendency#Uniqueness

A median (and not necessarily the median) is any point that minimizes its distance from a set of points under the L1 norm and often you have several points that minimize such distance (such as in the example you provided, assuming perfect 50/50 split between men/women).

> If you look at ten people with 2, ten people with 0, and one person with 1, then the median will be 1.

Correct.

> If you make it twelve people with 2, still ten with 0 and one with 1, suddenly the median is 2.

Sure.

But, again... you are choosing cases where the median of a set of points is unique (odd number of points aligned along a single dimension)... this is the exception, rather than the rule (particularly in higher dimensions than one).

> Across an entire population, I would hazard a guess the median would be 0 or 2 unless the difference in numbers of each sex is small enough that people with 0<X<2 testicles might fall right in the middle of the distribution.

Yes... as I said. The actual median is not 1, but actually either 0 or 2 (because the ratio between men and women is not exactly 50/50). But, again, even in the (rather unlikely) case that the ratio between men and women would be exactly 50/50, the median would still not be uniquely defined as 1 (in such a pathological case, any number between 0 and 2 is a median).

EDIT: after re-reading your comment carefully... I have not considered the subpopulation of people with a single testicle (which is nonzero); so I stand corrected... the median could be 1 (but it is very unlikely that it is the case... it's probably either 0 or 2).
Apple already made it possible on macOS to run x86_64 software on their ARM computers, with Rosetta 2.

Any company with enough resources could do the same if they felt so inclined.

And if Apple wanted to, Apple could make Rosetta 2 run on iOS devices. For now they want to keep them mostly separate, and are more about running iPad apps on macOS than the other way around. But there is nothing stopping Apple from running desktop software, whether compiled for x86_64 or for ARM, on iOS devices if they wanted to. And if convergence turns out to be the future then I think we may see them do that eventually. But I am not convinced that it will.
If the car takes over-the-air software updates, they are advertising up front that they don't believe themselves able to debug the car before they sell it to you. Normal ECU's, ABS brakes etc. do not need OTA updates. There is no absolute certainty about anything, but such issues are rare enough to be handled with product recalls.
I'll go you one further.

Outsider visits island for a few months and enjoys their time there, makes some great friends. Outsider's friend has a hotel, and wants to attract more clients. Outsider has a knack for storytelling, but hasn't been successful for a few years.

Outsider spins yarn, friend fills up his hotel, both walk away happy.

End of mystery.

There are a million ways to fill in the blanks. We can't know _the truth_. I find this upsetting, and it'll bug me for days. but then I'll forget and it's ok.

Your pat story is fine too. I REALLY want to know the truth, which is a fantastic hook. so I'm stuck with this story longer than you are.
Your "finely tuned sense of justice" is just a way to say everyone who disagrees with you is a piece of shit. Very nice.
I didn't reject your original post.. I was merely giving my experience. I did preface what I wrote stating that it may depend on the company and team.

I have found video calls can help me and others keep to the point. It certainly may not be the same for everyone.

I'm certainly not 100% against office meetings or working some days in an office.
American law enforcement doesn't dictate how law enforcement ends up working in Portugal...
I’ve never really had a good idea of what Percolator is. I understand it to be a “streaming” indexer that replaced a “batch” indexer based on MapReduce. ES allows indexing individual documents (or small batches) vs. rebuilding the entire index; is that the connection you’re making?
Compared to time travel, carbon sequestration is easy tech.

And you would need nothing less than time travel in order to persuade the mining companies of the 18th-20th century not to mine coal.
The article mentions that the damages awarded by the judge wouldn't suffice to even buy a chicken coop on the island. My guess is that property prices are quite unaffected by this stunt.
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by new technology
> For people living in U.S, U.K not so much.

If you live in San Francisco or London, probably, but there are lots of places where the cost of living is lower.
With only 150 inhabitants, properties will not go at market value. 54k will not pay for a chicken coop, because nobody will sell him a chicken coop.
dvgrab is great for set-and-forget archiving MiniDV tapes.

betamaxthetape mentioned[0] DVRescue[1] which looks very useful for error correction. The tools expect the raw .dv files, so check before compressing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971246
[1] https://github.com/mipops/dvrescue
but how is that different what you are doing now?
Did anyone notice you can run the real Windows 95 in dosbox by installing it from the package manager?
Is that really a problem? Isn't it so dense it will pretty much stay put?
I do the same. It's extremely sad to know the United States has lost more people to this than every war casualty since the Civil War.
So much this! Unfortunately instead of keeping unnecessary work away from their team many managers instead delegate the work they don't like to do to their team. Thus they essentially decrease the productivity of their team.

Being a good manager is actually a thankless job, because you have to deal with all the crappy stuff, like keeping office politics in check, shield your team from budget and bikeshedding discussions, order equipment etc to keep your team productive etc..
> it's very common for office life and social life to be highly intertwined

Until there's a conflict of interest between the two zones or between two colleagues and it all goes to shit.

Trust me, keep work and friends separated.
For the orbitally inclined, CeleTrack provides an excellent viewer with all NORAD objects:
https://celestrak.com/cesium/orbit-viz.php?tle=/pub/TLE/cata...
I only read the article and not the entire story but what baffles me the most is that Neville claims that the house he left unattended for 8 years disappearing made him so mad he had to go in and out mental health ward several times and collapsed his marriage.

Why would he become so startled(and obsessed) by a house he never visited for 8 years? To the point that a marriage had to collapse, nevertheless.

My guess is that Neville probably had schizophrenia, and thats unique thing about this story;
I've heard a lot of stories of closed rural communities treating newcomer as pests.

As a example from my life, as a teenager I went to help a family-friend that had newly switched to agricultural lifestyle in Japan, over the summer holiday. I remember arriving at the rice field for the first time, noticing that the field was dried up and there was cracks in the soil. I asked the friend if this is how it is supposed to be, and he replied "no, probably some of the old farmers clogged the water channel". I asked why they would do that, and he said that the old farmers here didn't like newcomers, and would in the night go out and sabotage his farm.

I took a look around the farmland, and noticed a rotting hut, rusting tools, and how most of the rice field was now filled with bushes and weed and in no condition of agriculture. I again asked why, and he told me that because the old people can't take care of the land, and because they bully away any newcomer, most of the farmland have been taken back by the nature, pointing to a forest telling me that it used to be farmland. It baffled me how these old people would rather see their entire village, way of life die out than letting any new person in.

Someone that just bought a house and left it unattended 8 years in such community, is to me not surprising at all that someone there took an ire. Maybe Neville just didn't catch that in his documentary about the island, and couldn't process the deeds done to him
I really like Consolas. It looks nice and it has neat italics, which I usually use for comments.
> Hasn't it been common knowledge for over a decade now that self-hosting email isn't "allowed" in practical terms?

Well I've been self hosting my emails for 10 years now, and my emails still go through. I'm sure there must be cases where you face issues, but not my in my personal experience.

Only thing I've seen once or twice are websites with "validation" rules like /.@(gmail|hotmail|yahoo)./
What do Medium users (i.e. authors) get in exchange for having this annoyance put in front of their readers?
Yeah maybe the point is that it isn't the actual code that's hard, it's the thinking. Like, you wouldn't try to make a no-equations maths system. It's not writing down e=mc² that's hard, it's figuring out that's what you want.

That said it's still way too hard to make web apps the "proper" way. I think there's space for something easier but I bet it will look more like Mathematica than LabVIEW.
You can install Windows 95 from the package manager (runs in dosbox), and both minesweeper and freecell are present.
No, I'm not claiming they aren't spending money. They clearly are, but it's all going on business development to create growth. Unless they mis-manage things in the typical way and end up with 1000 engineers building their own programming language or something, they can scale back on those deals at any point. In fact they have to. The deals that are winning so well for them can't be repeated because they awaken authors to their true value, so next year they won't re-sign them. Nonetheless, the business calculations for this are presumably quite easy to do, so I doubt they will have difficulty converting those writers to profitable revenue streams even if the profits aren't as high as when Substack is exploiting some kind of apparent informational asymmetry.