skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fitness:

office: go to an office, sit in a chair 8h a day with barely any breaks.

home: get up any time you want, walk around, lay in bed, go outside buy something, no one looking or making comments.

productivity:

office: too many people moving around and talking, use headphones to isolate yourself

home: no one around you, play music in the background, relax

food:

I think it very much depends on the company you working for. Many companies don't offer lunch, and you're going outside. What's the difference from doing it from home?

Agree with the low productivity and social, but that's temporary because covid. You're forced to stay home and unable to have any fun and social times.
I personally think the only way to handle climate change will be to force the more selfish US citizens to change their lifestyles. Just being realistic I don't think they will change without a civil war type scenario. Or the threat of a war.

They won't listen unless they are forced to. Period.
Was there a separate release for 78 to fix the iirc four potential code execution vulnerabilities? (On a phone atm so I haven't checked myself, but since people are saying no update available for their 78, it sounds like no?!)
There are people who determine whether other countries are price dumping to advise setting up protective tariffs. Why don't you believe that there are people who can produce reasonably accurate estimates for the amount of CO2 it took to produce something? I'd assume that politicians would start by asking domestic producers of stuff what they think. The tariffs are for their protection after all.
My first shot was Biontech and I'm still in for the second one. Would it make sense to take Moderna instead of Biontech?
Nothing come close to icloud photos for me. Because everyone else is using iphone which make icloud shared photo album the easiest way for old people to interact.
I always wonder whether Japan, Korea, Taiwan would be able to preserve separation of powers without US support. I feel like if US one day declines in power and won't be able to support then, they would fall into autocracies pretty quickly.
How well do you think it will work to try to pressure China into cutting their emissions before you've made at least some effort to clean up your own? Effort done here is not worthless at all.
I have worked on very high scale sites including ones that get shit on regularly on hacker news - Jira Cloud. I don't care where you work, there's no excuse for the amount of downtime reddit experiences. It's incompetence, and I don't care if you think I'm being a big meany.
Power naps, workouts, travelling / working from different places almost whenever I want. For me, it's just really really much better working remotely. I don't think I'll ever come back from this. And I hope my circumstances will allow me to continue having this luxury.
In this case the article is available apparently if you disable JavaScript in your browser. Many media web sites show the full text to the search engines but hide them with trivial HTML overlays once visited by a human. Sometimes your browser's Reader can show you the full text (though it's not the case with the Economist for example)
Do you know of any external, authoritative studies demonstrating this? I know it's true from long experience of seeing it happen repeatedly, but I'd like to point at something that can justify a 'refactoring sprint' or something like that to try tackling the impact of this pattern. The other justification is that clean refactored codebases are quicker to change, but it's a difficult sell.
How to Speed Read
My biggest asset as an employee is my ability to befriend and network with boomer middle managers. That is my real job. The software is just a part of the larger game. If I am remote, I will make less money as a result. The only reason I want to go into the office is to leverage my social capital because I want to bring home the most money for my family.
> I love the idea of a digital native currency. But I also love financial protections that have grown up over thousands of years.

Yeah, this is a contrast/friction that exists in the ecosystem. Some people just want something that is like a "digital native currency" that works kind of like banks today (with the same protections at least) but works across banks/applications and somehow also is at a fixed value.

Others want "decentralized cryptocurrencies" that works the same as described before, but without any centralized control or issuance and without the "protections" as the protections can also be used against people, not just for.

Neither is "right" or "correct", just two different views inhabiting the same ecosystem.
Good job, and interesting also how they traced him remotely.
There are different kinds of multilingual. English-German, French-Spanish, Italian-Spanish, basically there is no problem when your languages are co-located. However, try leading a proper multilingual life if you are German-Russian. You couldn't buy a DVD or BluRay with both languages. With streaming, it gets a bit beter, Netflix is actually one of the better players in the market -- more often than not, they do have a Russian translation and subtitles both for their own productions as well as licensed stuff. Disney+ in Germany doesn't seem to have Russian at all, even though they obviously own Russian translations (NB: no streaming service has managed to offer multiple video tracks, i.e. with localized signs in animated films). Maybe this will change when they enter the Russian market (should be this autumn), but again: why does this have to matter to me, living in Germany? The list goes on and on: there is no Russian in Amazon, i.e. Alexa won't understand Russian and also won't understand the titles of any music tracks in Russian (or Japanese for that matter). There is an Alexa equivalent from Yandex called Alice, but you'll be right to guess that I can't just import it to Germany, since it requires geo-blocked russian services to function. It's infuriating, but I guess that's the price we pay for letting US drive the innovation.

Just give me a service where I can pay a €5 per video track, €1 per audio track and €0.50 for a subtitle track with a full catalog of movies and languages from the whole world. Then I can assemble my own Fight Club with English, German and Japanese dubs and Russian, Swedish and Swahili subs without having to resort to piracy.
Fascinating stuff. There nice trajectory animations on wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx

From wikipedia:

> Such asteroids are considered "primitive", having undergone little geological change from their time of formation. In particular, Bennu was selected because of the availability of pristine carbonaceous material, a key element in organic molecules necessary for life as well as representative of matter from before the formation of Earth. Organic molecules, such as amino acids, have previously been found in meteorite and comet samples, indicating that some ingredients necessary for life can be naturally synthesized in outer space.
Firefox is amazing.
It's interesting how you used Taiwan and hackathons as example.

Despite their successes, I'll bet a decent amount of money that after Covid is over, many hackathons will resume to be in-person events.

In fact, think of this the other way, would people in Taiwan be happy if they hear they will be locked down forever? Of course not right? So people obviously derive some value from human interaction. And that value, as little as it is for some people, will very often translate over to working relationship.

>we didn't have spoken language for a very, very long time, and we interacted "just fine" without it insomuch as our entire ancestral history for a couple hundred million years survived to the point where homo sapiens could finally branch off and eventually figure out complex language. Same goes for writing. So, that's kind of the problem with naturalist arguments.

A simple counter-argument to all your examples: when something new comes along, they rarely fully replace what's there before, but merely augmented it or expanding the horizon. We didn't replace gestures and body languages with spoken language, and we didn't replace spoken language with written text. Technology will no doubt expand our interaction paradigm with new methods, but it won't fully eliminate the benefit of old ones.
"master" is a "blocklisted" word now. I also think it's silly to change the word on places which doesn't have "slave"s (e.g. github master branch > main branch switch), but well..
Whenever I visit a country where billboards are legal, I'm always surprised how horrible they are and how the completely destroy the look of a city.

Banning them is such a no-brainer, and it only takes visiting a country which allows them vs. a country who don't to see why.
A PR can have multiple commits.
I prefer to say "they're a bit less developed on some of these types of things". Their attitude is still very much that of the Industrial Revolution, where a worker was no more than a replaceable meat unit with no rights and no expectations of a life of any kind outside of productive work.
Encryption is one of those things where no algorithm is better than a bad algorithm - if you know your data is being sent in the clear then you can at least act appropriately. And the attitude of the Telegram developers when they were called out is particularly concerning.
Ah, cool, maybe my company can get its pentesting report from Accenture earlier than previously thought.
Yes I'm sharing my brother's Netflix account. How could you tell?
TBH if you're a programmer in a 3rd world country you probably earn 3-5 times the median wage where you live and you can afford as much services at local prices as programmers in 1st world. Possibly more when it comes to things like food.
Huh, I misremembered that one as being more complex for some reason. Now I look like an idiot HAHA
Callbacks are still widely used in JavaScript. The "callback pyramid of doom" was horrible and we're all glad that it's sorted out through Promises and Async/Await, but functions as first-class language members remains one of the best features of JavaScript, and if a dev is not passing around functions somewhat frequently I would really question their credentials as a "modern" JS developer. Callbacks remain some of the best and most elegant solutions to a range of problems that are not at all uncommon.
I can also play games while on the shitter for free! Once Gaben's steam deck comes out my steaming turd breaks will be even better! And don't get me started on the free 1-ply toilet paper. What a deal!
I'm trying to name the version of parallelism that can share memory between threads, and so far I have tried "Joint Parallelism" and now lately "Atomic Parallelism" without much success.

What would you suggest?
Odd this won any kind of award. The nonsense mythology made it one of NASA's worst videos of late in my opinion, but I guess that appeals to the non-science type unfortunately.
That link was not available to my region, so I guesss it's the NZWW nowadays. Gaaah.
Pay in low-COL satellite offices of big companies isn’t massively different from pay in Silicon Valley (averages are more different as more senior people will be in the main office) so it isn’t obvious to me that pay far away from the office should be massively lower. One argument for this to be the case is that an employee could reasonably threaten to move to Silicon Valley for higher pay (at another company.)

Obviously there is a larger supply of workers in a time zone than a metro area, but there is a larger demand for them too. And a workers can reasonably threaten to move to the part of the US where they would be paid the most.
Thanks, I agree with you overall. My comment was more focused on the (old and "well-used") adage of "X is not true Y" that gets used over and over again to look down on X, while the definition of anything "true" is most likely just personal opinion and is different depending on who you ask.
It takes 10-15min to prepare your own lunch at home... There's no need to blow tons on money on eating out or ordering all the time.
They job hop in a year anyway.
>But if you call it "pattern matching," and it has less power than a regular expression, it feels misleading or like false advertising. But, as just a feature, I think it's great.

I always it was haskell that introduced the term...
The Perfectionism Trap
Exactly. Our societies/cities were built for in-office workers. The fact that despite that there are many people who still prefer remote work shows how much potential there is for a remote lifestyle.

Every house has a bathroom. Now imagine we lived in a world were the norm was to shower at the office. Then suddenly a bunch of people starts to question whether we really should shower at the office or if we could do it at home. There would be tons of people saying 'But I don't have a bathroom, I have to shower in the sink, that's stupid and impractical!'. Well, that's exactly the situation we're in right now. Most people don't have a spare room for working at home in good condition, because buildings and cities weren't built to accommodate WFH.
Discuss HN: How should tech be used to fight child abuse?
For many good reasons, Apple's move to scan offline data on iDevices is heavily criticised by tech-aware people. But that's surely only half the debate.

Developments in "tech" are without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest achievements of the last 30 years. When used right, they improve our lives, prolong our lives, save our lives. It seems obvious that there should be an application of technology that helps fight crime, child abuse in particular.

But how should that work? A debate where "techies" just say nay to what seems like a win-win for fighting child abuse is incomplete. The world and the big corporations won't stop for us. We need to either suggest better alternatives we can push in the public debate, or at least come to terms with the change, and think about mitigating its negative impact.

I don't have great suggestions off the top of my head, but turning some ideas around:

- Make device searches warrant-driven. Law Enforcement would be able to submit (perhaps streamlined, electronic) warrant applications, to be reviewed by court, backed up by other evidence. For something like matching photo hashes, the bar could be lower than e.g. for searching someone's house. The flipside would be that if the warrant is found to be inadequately justified (even in retrospect), no data found in it is available for evidence.

- On a similar vein, perhaps Law Enforcement only gets very limited information back from such a warrant. For example, only photos matching hashes are available back to them. This severely reduces the usefulness of this as a general fishing tool.

- Sadly, I think just saying "let's not scan users' devices" is like trying to ban nuclear weapons. The cat is out of the bag, it can be done, so it will be done. But perhaps not? Is there an alternative that people with low technology awareness would see as adequate?

- What non-tech analogies can be made and leveraged in the discussion? A recent HN submission [1] compares the change to mandatory weekly house searches; I don't think this would resonate with the general public. House searches are invasive and uncomfortable, much more so than devices, which we all know have a life of their own. Is it like a partner constantly going through our wallets or briefcase/handbag? Or going through our messages all the time? What about mobile phone data already available to Law Enforcement - like it or not, they can access our (approximate) location, call logs, bank transactions etc. with a similarly low level of scrutiny. To what extent is scanning photos on our devices different?

I hope this can lead to a fruitful discussion on the positive ways technology can be used to fight crime, minimising the impact on innocent people.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127828

EDIT: added missing reference
Amazing thanks so much!
Sorry to invoke a No True Scotsman here but if you ask an advocate of truly small government (of which I am one) I very much doubt private prisons would be an example they’d accept as a fair representation of their position. The expansion of criminal law is often in pursuit of and to justify growing government and its reach. By all means end private prisons, they’re only needed at that scale because big government is violating its position and the rights of citizens by criminalising actions it should have no part in.
Also Book Deals and Artwork
>Such things are usually unnecessary to the task at hand, and often detrimental

Have you considered the mere possibility that many people's work have different types of tasks than yours?

It's so hard not to make stereotypical jokes about engineers when reading comments like this XD
Good. I hope this allows me to extract the fTPM keys from the hardware I own.
Where does this data live?

It looks great, I love the idea & UX, but I want it stored in the git repo with the code, so it's versioned and persistent. In a relatively portable format that I can integrate with elsewhere would be great too.
>google drive (I used that at work): on MacOS is it is utter crap as it is not a folder but a mounted thing.

That's Google File Stream. There is also a client called Backup and Sync that works like Dropbox, I'm using it now. These are apparently being merged into a single client to be called Google Drive Desktop.
SRE vs. DevOps Discussion
Cut down trees and introduce large fauna? With nothing to trample it down, the snow insulates the permafrost preventing it from cooling in the winter.

Not really a realistic suggestion though.
I don't have time to dig up anything authoritative right now, but I assumed this was common knowledge and uncontroversial. It is precisely this kind of practices (reusing/selling/buying user and customer IPs - there are companies that specialize as brokers) that allows them their low prices while generally not getting blocked by services like Netflix, and I suspect it's also what's behind the move from NF.
And how much of that is stolen from UK mathematics?
My local grocer is a Safeway (a nationwide American store chain). For most of the year, fruits and vegetables are imported from other states or countries, like cherries from South America and lettuce from California. And I doubt my Cheerios and Nutella are cooked locally. Pretty much the only local impact of grocery shopping is all the low-paying jobs they create, like shelf stockers and Instacart people.
I guess you will hate both Rust and Go ?
I think your assessment of fact is mostly reasonable, but claiming that Google has no power to censor him is a stretch. Google is a primary driver of information discovery, and this is an act not just of inhibiting discovery but one of making it unavailable. Rand Paul is an MD elected member of congress. Even if he were not an MD, his argumentation is representative of the people. This is egregious. I think anything said in congress should be retained, and I welcome any opposing argument.
Except cloth masks are total shit and vaccines aren’t. I’ve been yelling at people to wear an N-95 for months. “Mask mandates aren’t worth it because people just wear shit Etsy masks” is a completely fair point.
let your company pay for it. they dont need the big office space. thats how we do it.
The way I see it, mosh has an advantage over et: while mosh is started on connection as the remote and unprivileged user, et relies on etserver running as root on the remote box (after connection is established, etterminal runs as the unprivileged user, though), so any vulnerabilities in etserver may have serious consequences.
Only if you've fitted each house with a heat pump. Which is expensive.
If every phone (or most phones) collect all messages, because it's the default, only either phone of the conversing parties needs to be eventually compromised to leak the entire conversation, even years later.
I read the other day that in recent wildfire in Siberia, burned as much trees as it was planted in the entire world. And planted trees are young saplings they do not have ability to sequester same amount of CO2 like full grown trees.

I think it is this one:
'Russian fires burned 4.7 billion trees, seven times more than were planted'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/11/siberia-fire...

Just for the comparison 1 trillion trees project as of 30 May 2021, 164 restoration projects participate in the campaign and 13.96 billion trees have been planted worldwide.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_Tree_Campaign

And if we take that idea was founded in 1977 that means 44 years ~320 million trees planted per year...

And that damage is only Siberia, what with Australia, Canada, California, Alaska, Amazon ...
Starting from some version (can’t recall exactly which, maybe 79 or 80), you had to do a fresh install. After that, it continues updating as usual.
When I was up to my eyeballs in debt, I'd eat at the office because it was a way to save money. I consumed a lot of cereal, milk, bananas, snacky things, etc. Often for dinner I'd simply eat 200g of little cheeses.
Can't speak for the European experience, only the Australian one.

Have had friends struggle on skilled visas, whilst relationship visas with no schooling or skills all get approved with minimal fuss. My preference would be to make skilled migration easier.

Would have thought from a nation standpoint we'd want to attract talent.
> for a group of people who seem to believe you're worth a ridiculous amount of money per hour

> I have to say about computer programmers and their entitlement

> you're already overpaid for shit that's not going to kill you

Why overpaid? Programmers create huge amount of value and they are paid accordingly.
> ... what is wrong with blaming them when they actually do above things?

It is unfortunate because although the consequences are seismic the actual problem is subtle and abstract; and difficult to get people excited over. Basically, civilisations that protect the weak against the strong (and in this case, the strongest party is by far the government and the police) are more prosperous. The more the strong are empowered to act against the weak the worse the actual outcome gets. Although not on any one easy axis to measure.

I suspect part of it is that every political movement hinges on a small network of people organising it. These systems are fantastic plausible-deniability screens for powerful people to disrupt and destroy those networks to preserve the status quo. Like, for example, how China tries to operate.

You can see signs of similar systems developing in the US. Note that Trump then Biden were both the targets of official investigations (Trump-Russia, Bidan's son & Ukraine). That isn't going to go away, it'll probably be a long time before we see a president who isn't being investigated for something. The tools that people like Apple are building will be drawn in to the struggle, and not to promote truth or fairness but to destroy their support networks if they aren't friends of the Tim Cooks and Susan Wojcickis of the world. And make no mistake, powerful people aren't looking after your interests because you like the companies they run.

Plus on the way through they are going to be used to target minorities. That part is just sort of traditional, though incidental. Like when they decide to search people's phones for marijuana use but not cocaine and it turns out different racial groups use different drugs.

The only defence is blanket bans on activity that could be used to target people.
Maybe, but "nothing" is still much better than making things worse (first, a rewrite usually needs to be bug-by-bug compatible, so you have almost no leeway to "improve" the product, second, new code has new bugs that need to be found and fixed, don't underestimate the amount of work that has gone into a 50 years old code base that still does its job).
Sony PSN does show the 'van' in some places, and not in others.
Apple, same story. Google, same story.

Sometimes when it is supported, they capitalize it. It's a mess.