skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coal isn't exactly great in terms of methane emissions either. If I remember rightly, a bunch of unexplained methane in the atmosphere was tracked down to coal mining in China in particular.
Am I missing something? The FB blog proudly states how they improved accuracy "10 milliseconds to 100 microseconds".

Surely that's a lot of effort that anybody with in a datacentres with decent connectivity could replicate with a Chrony instance ?

100 microseconds is 0.0001 seconds, right ?

Seems to be something Chrony can do with its eyes closed:

System time : 0.000003297 seconds slow of NTP time
Last offset : +0.000000549 seconds

There are lots of great NTP servers out there hosted by trusted parties such as national time labs. Most people don't need fancy GPS hardware (and the expense of paying someone for roof access to put your antenna !). If you've got good software and good connectivity you can replicate 99.999% of the same thing.
If you're not living all the way till dark energy rips your atoms apart, what's the point?

Seriously though, what is the point? You're gonna have the same fomo with death in the future as you do now.

We've already found out how to reactivate those growth and healing mechanisms. Have children, then grand children, then great grandchildren, etc. Each generation gets its own activation
Are there any plans for full integration of Thunderbird's calendar with iCloud Calendar? I still have to use a web browser to access iCloud Calendar when on Windows, and I don't want to use Outlook.
Starlink is still in its infancy and needs 10 times as many satellites up there before it can really provide a global coverage.

I believe they will make it by 2024 or perhaps a bit sooner (if Starship development goes well - that ship has an enormous cargo capacity to LEO), but it isn't an option for most people yet.
> This seems unlikely.

It doesn't

> In many cases multiple companies may own the rights to the same show for different regions

Yes. And the only reason for many of those "different right in different regions" is greed and shortsightedness.

> Probably worth much more than the 1% of people who switch countries AND have picky preferences on languages/subscribing to multiple services.

You're completely ignoring all the other people who are willing to pay money and watch content that is region-locked for no reason. A German will happily watch original content from the states. Because it's not middle ages anymore, and people are quite happy watching content in multiple languages, because they know them.
Building an Editor by Sharing Code Between Android, iOS, and Web W React Native
This whole post sounds like you don’t have control of your life. Why do you need to find an excuse to do things you want to do?

Commit to a workout routine, commit to getting food or learning to cook to save money, commit to some mindful exercises to have more focus
Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization
OT, but how do archive sites work? I assume they don't have full subscriptions to everything, so how do they get around all the different paywalls?
There was a famous German Jewish Socialist journalist from Prague, Egon Erwin Kisch, who was barred from Australia when they asked him to write a dictate in Scottish Gaelic.

It led to an outcry and the policy was modified.
Just because a fart can propel a person, doesn't mean it will take you to the moon...

i.e. just because analogs exist, don't expect their performance characteristics to be invariant
Valid point, that was some hand wavy analysis on my part. Here's a new graph [1] showing the frequency with a denominator. "remote" seems to show up in every post these days, could be something like "no remote" throws this off...

[1] https://github.com/iblaine/hn-whoshiring-analysis/blob/main/...
Delta is not far from as contagious as measles - the most contagious disease known to man. Let that sink in for a while.
> I can't wait to get back to the office.

> being home and having no external pressure to keep working

> it was easy to get out of the bed and go work out

> I get to just eat lunch from office's cafeteria

> still in my underpants at home after work it is way harder to dress up and go do stuff

The paradox in this situation, is that some employers are considering cutting the pay [0] of people who have the self-discipline, drive and focus to not need the artificial crutch of going into an arbitrary office-space to find the motivation to do their work.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/12/google-st...
We also found that bug-fixing commits by authors tended to be larger in size and scope, and address multiple issues

Too bad I cannot see examples of what this actually entails - for us one commit which fixes several issues is a complete no-go: that should be separate commits. So now I wonder whether the paper really means single commits which address multiple things, or groups of commits?
Those four things are absolutely what the discourse morphed into, but it goes to show the success of the campaign. Because Trump called it the "kung flu" and is almost always racist with his rhetoric, liberals piled onto anyone that tried to dig into the origin of covid as being racially motivated. TikTok made that culture war really simple for liberals to fight. Trump is a nasty guy full of bad ideas, but the culture war and Trump Derangement Syndrome are real things that shut down legitimate inquiry.
I can't help but think Facebook (the app) is on the way out. They've been around long enough and the scandals have damaged their rep. It's time for Mark to focus on one of his other toys.
Fair isn't what we're optimizing for. The goal is to have knowledge work cost the company the same regardless of where they source it.

So yes, it's true that your cost of living in rural Italy is less than it would be were you to move to an apartment in Palo Alto, and that there will remain a surplus after you have accounted for those expenses. But I'd prefer a world where that surplus was captured by you rather than J. Random Software Company.

After all, you're the one who has to tolerate all those walkable streets and good cheap wine day in, day out, to live there. Gotta balance that somehow...

> companies would find equally qualified people for less money

That's where you're mistaken. The software industry has spent the entire time between 1994 and today hiring every one of those people all over the world. There are only so many of them left who haven't figured out their true value. You certainly aren't going to build a Facebook off of the remaining people who are willing to work for $10/hr. Anybody who is any good will demand a market rate. And that market rate is set in the Bay.
I fully agree with the social aspects, but the gym and food argument feels like a lack of self-discipline. Don't start your work if you are still in your underpants !

> Food is also big draw. Now I have to worry about what I eat every day and make my food. That's extra stress and cognitive pressure that is completely avoided when I get to just eat lunch from office's cafeteria.

Just use money saved on the commute and spend it at the local restaurant or order a catering.
Does it work well with Θ/0/O/o/8
Computer rendered kitchen and CEO are used to make Nvidia GTC 2021 keynote
Or simply to be used as sites for non-violent demonstration?
I’ll switch to Bitwarden!
Wait… Bitwarden is cloud only?
Wait… Bitwarden doesn’t allow offline editing?
Wait… Bitwarden has a self hosting docker which will end up using more RAM than an electron app?

Uh, I guess I’ll use KeePassXC then.
For a small app, you may simply create a `events` table in a pg, with a json field storing the payload.

It works pretty well this way, not everything needs to be streamed.
I disagree. SSH is fine for short connections (like git push or running some Ansible playbook), but it's far too fragile for longer uses. For example, if you're running something like dd with no output, you end up in a situation where you're not sure if dd is still running or did your connection just break.

With mosh, I could start dd, close my laptop, move to a cafe, open up my laptop, and know for certain I'll re-establish the connection when I'm back online.
I wonder how they handle criminal records from obviously totalitarian countries.

Charges of sedition, vandalism or corruption are a favorite tactics against dissenters.
Google about to shut down the search Engine
You sound a lot more confident than you should be, considering the lack of data.
I am pro remote working as i do not see a need for physical presence in office for software professionals. The commute kills my soul, and the pointless dressing up for office chores do not excite me at all. And i have observed that am far more effective / productive working from home than i am working from office and the commute time which got freed up, i can spend with family which is great for me. But i can understand if some would like to work out of office. I guess it is individual preference and i hope in the near future both choices are available to employees with no disparities in pay between remote and office workers since value shouldn’t be determined by location.
The business incentive is quite easy. It is to evaluate code monkeys and to quantify development efficiency in the eyes of a salesmen, those that approve projects at Microsoft and possibly GitHub. They want to offer services to large corporate entities and they deem this valuable. Call it collaborative and something-cloud and you have your green-lit project.

The road is to quantify the work in small packages is a decent one though, dissect a problem until only trivial tasks remain.

Still, I think your intuition is pretty much on point. But with anything, just take the features you like. If your business can dictate this for you, search for other businesses. Contrary to popular belief, there are a lot of those, although pay might indeed be a bit lower.
I've been using KeePass (KeePassXC and similar) for years. macOS, Windows and Android. I've also had 1Password for a shared business vault for years as well.

I much prefer KeePassXC. I find KeepassXC substantially easier to use than 1Password on macOS. I strongly dislike 1Password's UX. It feels very cumbersome to use.

I have a shared family KeePass database as well. Works great.
Show HN: Encrypting server-side emails using serverless workflows
The premise of this article is complete BS (and it's a particular type of BS thats become very common, but I digress).

Imposters aren't even the thing they are faking at, so comparing them to that is totally absurd.

They likeky see themselves as being some degree of successful criminals/social system hackers or as successful impostors. Or maybe they don't feel successful. But they obviously don't see themselves as a legitimate but inexperienced employee struggling to legitimize their presence. Why the hell would they??
You've tried remote and it doesn't work for you. Great, more power to you! However your comment about other people is out of place.

Is other people taking longer breaks affecting your productivity? If so, have you brought this up to them? Otherwise it shouldn't matter to you.

Personally I find remote a bliss, and I'm one of those. Almost every day I take 1 or 1:30 hours to cook some homemade meal and eat with my wife. When I feel extremely sleepy or tired in the early afternoon, I can take a quick nap and go back to work fresh and full of energy. I also take a break for exercising before my meetings in the late afternoon.

To a casual observer it might look like I'm taking breaks and working less, but actually I end up doing overtime many days. I just found a flexible schedule that works for me. Butting into other people's schedules is not so different from micromanagement.
SC of India already reversed the ban on crypto. The author couldn't be bothered to research before making half-baked remarks
>Your point is not very clear, sorry.

I honestly don't know how is my point not clear. Being able to have both face to face communication and technology based remote communication is better than being limited to the latter alone. I thought that was a pretty straight forward point.

I was simply reminding you that whatever advantage Slack/Email has over in-person communication for technical discussions, they lose that advantage for non-technical discussions, which are just as quintessential for an organization.
Hot take: learn to cook
Looks really good. Are there any good resources of building complex extensions like these?
What if we build an AI that believes it has a soul? How would it be functionally different from a human with that same faith?
Conversely I do less work but generate more ROI at home.

I rather like worrying about food. I made myself jerk chicken and rice for lunch yesterday by taking ten minutes out to pop the chicken in the oven and then an hour out for lunch to do the rest.

During the chicken prep time I thought through a problem and solved it in half the time while the chicken was in.

This is a much better way to live than being time sliced into a corporate convenient canteen.
Still sounds like death to me.

The computer could be a near copy, but the actual me dies
Frankly, this sounds like you are an actual manchild.

> I can already see any breaks people tend to take are way longer than what they would take at the office

Just because you don't have any self discipline or work ethics doesn't mean everyone else has the same problem.

Just because you have no control in your life and need the structure of an office work day to get stuff done both at work and privately doesn't mean this is normal, or that it's a good - or even any kind - of argument to force everyone into the office.
That's not a rule of thumb. That's what idiots use as a measuring stick when they can't bother to do any research themselves.

Common Self-Ascribed HN Logician:
"Wow, the Wuhan lab leak sounds CrAzY!! CNN is telling me it's a whacko conspiracy theory by our CrAZy SeNsAtIoNaL PrEsIdEnT! Checkmate, Mister Frump!! Crazy things don't happen! RuLeS of ThUmB!!"
“Would would anyone need elevator buttons? There are already trained elevator operators everywhere that do the same thing.”

“Why would anyone need light bulbs? There are gas lamps and oil everywhere that do the same thing.”

“Why would anyone need email? There are post offices that do the same thing.”
It may look reasonable from your viewpoint, but imagine applying the same logic across the board: my parents are retired and get their pension from their former job in the city, but they moved to the country side. Should they get their pension slashed because living costs is now lower to them ?

Or try applying that at a micro level, and renegotiate your salary every time you move in a city because your rent has changed, or you finished paying your mortgage.

Your living costs shouldn't matter to your company or people who own you money in general.
Didi in talks with state-backed Westone to hand over data control-sources
50-60 seems very implausibly high, and I note you only quote the very highest estimates not the full range of estimates. Only 8 victims were ever identified, and it's extremely unlikely 90% of victims would not have been identifiable. Most likely with the higher estimates the number of killed was conflated with the number of injured, or the number of people on the train.

The fact is the bridge was a legitimate target and no evidence was found that the train itself was targeted. NATO opened itself to an independent investigation and was committed to abiding by it's findings. We should push other countries and organisations to do the same, and face the same standards of scrutiny.
> Apple can reach in and turn those on and trigger a backup whenever they want.

And they can start showing ads on your springboard, but they don't because its not in their self interest. Certainly if Apple did this, it would be the end of iPhone dominance.
And if you're multilingual within "monolingual" countries, especially the US, good luck. (microrant: there's no such thing as a monolingual country, and the US has no official language!)

I've gotten emails from multiple bigtechs -- dropbox was one IIRC -- that were half in German, half in English. Or more relevant to Netflix -- your language setting for content has to be the same as your language setting for the UI. I'm sure to some people these things seem like nitpicks, but that's exactly the problem: treating language as an afterthought is such a profoundly middle class white American view. The vast majority of the world works differently, and most tech firms simply don't care. This isn't something trivial. It's a core part of how people interact with the world.
The Six Ways People Deflect Inconvenient Data
Aubrey de Grey placed on leave over sexual harassment allegations
Tesla’s new ‘mind of car’ UI signals a future we’re not prepared for
it's good to know what you need so you can select for environments / help create environments that support you :).

i personally want local offices so i can have somewhere that isnt home to work without a commute. like a library for work. id hope i get to finally integrate into the local community a little better then too.
But Turks got invited from the side that is officially recognized by the UN.
Death is the only working solution we've got.

Once you've solved the other problems, you can work on death
I'm looking to setup Unison to replace Dropbox because I think their service is a bit overpriced, how did you find it?
It is possible that people are only slacking when you can't see them. If all of them had impostor syndrome they would pretend to work hard around you.
The way these things happen is someone makes a suggestion in the company. Anyone who wants to oppose this change has a risk of being labelled racist. Now, you don't want to be "one of those" people, do you? So, these things get pushed through without anyone challenging it. It is self-censorship.
deel‘s employer of record program has been expanding to more countries quickly. Maybe check them out.
> Because apple has to change terms of service to permit this

Apple's ToS change with every iOS release. You have to accept to continue. Do you ever read them?
This is me exactly too.
If you don't want the atmosphere full of toxic corrosive oxygen, don't breathe it out during photosynthesis. (we were here 2.5 billion years ago, worked great for methanogens)

If you don't want to live in oppressive stratified sedentary society don't invent agriculture. (we were here ~dozen millenia ago, worked great for hunter-gatherers)

etc.
It's not that trivial to have a one-hour lunch break if the local restaurant is 30 minutes away, near by the closed office. In some countries the suburbs have very few services.

Also, if the subsidized commute costs 3 euros a day it is also not trivial to spend 14 euros for lunch.
I feel you understand what I meant, so let's not get hung up on the exact word. I called this "slacking off" because it connotes "slack" as in a good thing to have in any system, and because if you (as a lowly IC) were trying to explicitly set up "hallway conversations" with your remote co-workers, your boss would tell you to stop the bullshit and get back to work.

But yes, you can view this as mental hygiene or morale management. Point is, being in the office gives plenty of opportunities to talk with random people about random things, with no strings attached. Most of hallway/watercooler talk isn't "learning about other projects and initiatives" - it's just random non-work-related talk, which absolutely helps build trust and new relationships, but isn't the "serendipity" the management is expecting. But you can't have one without the other - all those sparks of innovation happen when you let people just relax a bit, and talk about whatever they feel like.

My point thus being: it's not impossible to have this in remote setting. But because most companies are relying on "serendipity" as side effect of office inefficiencies that are missing in remote work, you have to explicitly add them back. Or, you can accept that you want actual R&D work to happen. Surprise surprise, R&D work involves... giving people a lot of leeway and little day-to-day pressure. I.e. slack.
They didn't pull out. Apple discloses over 30,000 customers' data each year without a warrant under PRISM (aka FISA 702) as disclosed in their own transparency report (listed under "FISA orders").

PRISM is just the internal NSA name for it. It continues unabated.
Take Hitler then as someone malicious who took advantage of existing laws and systems to abuse the population.
It seems about as multicultural as HK is, which is not very.

You can tell by the amount of racism that is permitted.

Also, can a White person truly be Singaporean?
Breaking news;

"Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome"

"Rabbits who are pretending to be ducks don't get anxiety over when they will lay their next egg"
This is perhaps why many people look at the drive to lower the salary of people working from home with some suspicion. Wfh saves employers a lot of money in terms of providing office space. And in some concrete ways increases expenses of employees at home. (If gives back some commute costs as well as other freedoms too though). I think both employers and employees will take some time to sift though how the benefits/drawbacks rebalance from the changes that come from wfh.
Even if true, that is still no reason to remove any information stating otherwise.

I think promoting cloth masks is misinformation if you don't suffer from an acute respiratory disease. And in that case you should be the one to wear one.
Depends on priorities and how much you are working to help junior devs create better code in the future.

Sometimes, teaching other developers why something is a bug is the best thing for your team long term.
The joy at a standup when you hear someone talk about fixing bugs they had to fix the first time they wrote the thing in a different language. We learnt nothing
We used to do this in Habbo Hotel. I don’t know how RuneScape worked back then but in Habbo you could buy virtual furniture dropping their valuables into one of our rooms and then kicking them out and making the room private. So, it is different from your example in that “killing” was by-design meant to take stuff from other people, whereas what we did was closer to “fraud” (good luck regulating that in 2006) as other comment said.
Maybe you do benefit from going to the office then. But here's the thing, I don't mind if you go to the office. You can even take your free lunch, I don't mind. Just don't expect me to come in every day to make you feel bad about how long your breaks are.
Given our current understanding of the universe, you are already immortal since there continues to be minute probability that you didn't die, and events can be entangled to that.
Buying any Soviet propaganda at face value is like buying a stretch of fine Pacific beach in Nevada.

People in the Eastern Bloc, with the exception of the very gullible, developed such cynicism against any official communication that even 30 years later we struggle with the concept of "whatever the government says and does is blatant lie / corruption / theft".
Let say we succeed to stop methane leakage from cows (algae feed, etc.) and also leakage from coal, oil and gas extraction.

How are we going to stop Siberian permafrost melting (it has huge amounts of methane ice) it has potentially 100 to 1000Gt (currently 5Gt in atmosphere CH4) which is enough to tip the temperature to 2-3C?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/02/climate-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osmzTSYRJJE

This is from 8 years ago but it is very relevant today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx1Jxk6kjbQ
That article underlines my point. There is a significant rise in gang violence. But the people being shot are from the migrant communities, too. I think you may make the mistake of reading “Swedish person killed” and assuming that Swedish person was not an immigrant.

Which isn’t to say it’s not a problem. It’s a huge problem. But it’s also important to keep in mind who’s actually suffering here.