skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electricity generation, residential (space heating, hot water heaters, cooktops), and as a feedstock for hydrogen, fertiliser, etc. production.

I'm in Australia, and we export most of the gas we produce - mostly for power stations in Japan and other places in the region I believe. We actually burn more gas to compress (liquefy) other gas for export than we use for electricity generation or in homes locally.

But yeah, it's really good to replace gas hot water, heating and cooking with heat pumps and induction stoves. Way more efficient and a good induction stove is just as good or better than gas (even though people who haven't used them will swear it can't be true). Heat pumps tend not to be able to fill your house with poisonous carbon monoxide (as can happen with gas heaters) or leak methane into your living space (which can be bad for a lot of reasons).
Took me a little more than an hour, but you are right. This worked for me, thank you :)
Personally I find this classification oddly specific, I mean do we really know what all meteorites are made of? Isn't this possible excluding the chance to learn more? Yes, the surface shd have been molten, but apart from that? Why not metal color? Isn't it believed that Guten Hammons dagger was made from meteorite iron?
That does indeed sound like a trivial problem to solve. Pick a local restaurant and treat it as your new cafeteria. Come lunch time, go there. Ideally, your employer would compensate you for the office benefit you're missing (at least when talking about pandemic-induced forced WFH), but WFH is likely already saving you more money, so you can probably afford it anyway.
Semi serious answer: couple of years ago we devs used to joke about putting ourselves out of business by teaching AIs how to code. I guess the joke's no longer funny; I also guess current situation shouldn't be a surprise.
The countries with the highest emissions have already embraced that. Birth rates are well below replacement rates in the developed world.
but then again the "master key" once probably was the key to the barn where the slaves were held or the one to the "master bedroom" or such.
I guess this all goes under falsehoods programmers believe about where people are.

>Whatsapp voice calls are blocked in Qatar.

that's probably a legal thing that you can't get around just because you happen to be visiting that country.
I've thought deeply about at lot of the points you lay out, but at the end of the day I don't think the answers are so clear-cut.

I think about these issues a lot because I run my own consultancy - I'm currently hiring freelancers 100% remotely, but as the moment to hire my first few full-time employees looms, I'm having to think very deeply about my hiring model.

I've had very positive experiences with remote work thus far, but none of the work has required outstanding creativity, it's mostly been execution. I will however need a full-time designer and a technical project manager as "captains" who pull their weight creatively and in terms of leadership, and I don't know if going 100% remote would work in this scenario.

There is another area in which I feel in-person meetings are better, and that is business development. I find I'm much more effective carrying out commercial activities - whether it's a speculative prospect meeting or a business pitch - in person that via video call.

On the other hand there are plenty of counter-examples of organizations that carry out creative, high-performance work at a decent scale: Basecamp, GitLab, Buffer, etc. I suspect we haven't seen yet a 100% remote company deliver results at hyper-scale and from scratch because the trend is novel. But large corporations - tech, banks, etc. - have had exceptional results in the last year while working remotely which suggests that it's possible to at least continue ongoing work at a very high level.

Regarding traditionally people-oriented activities, we've also seen in the last year people who have adopted remote workflows for areas like business development or fund-raising. I remember an article a few weeks back interviewing VCs and founders who claimed they were much more efficient at closing deals remotely, given the productivity gains of not having to be on the road as often.

So at the very least there is good evidence that, up to a certain scale and timeframe, 100% remote work can produce really good results.

Whether in-person work is more likely to produce ground-breaking, truly disruptive, innovations, as you claim, remains to be seen. The fact that, as of today, the vast majority of disruptive innovations have come from in-person environments does not prove that producing them remotely is not possible. And I understand why a company like Apple would not take the risk in this regard, but again, this does not prove anything.

I think the question will only be answered in time.
I've worked remotely for four years now and I think the primary advantage for me was being able to have my own - quiet - office.

I found working in an open office to be incredibly distracting and the productivity uplift in working in a private home office was significant. I would be more willing to work in an office again if I could be given either a personal office or one shared only with a small number of colleagues.
I'm the same. Working from home means i no longer have to spend 2-3 hours commuting each day (add many hours to that for times when the trains breaks down, which is annoyingly often in Sweden).

I have also noticed that my own productivity has skyrocketed now that im working from home and dont have the regular office distractions. I can put on music that i like myself, sit in silence while drinking coffee and think about what im currently doing and how to solve a current issue.

However! It should be noted that i do miss the office from time to time, i havent been there in 1,5 years now. And will probably visit a couple times a month in the future when things start to clear up. But i will never go back to full-time-office-work.

P.S. it should be noted that i do have a dedicated "office" room in my house which is a luxury not many have. This helps alot with working from home. Had i had to do this from my living room or my kitchen i would have not survived this mentally.
For the same reason congress keeps passing appropriation bills without fixing the problem that makes them keep on having to pass appropriation bills.
> Every so often one needs to go back to the drawing board and rebuild things completely in order to soar to ever greater heights.

No you don't. When you have an awesome product that people love, you just fucking leave it alone. These "rebuilds" always make things worse. See also: Spotify.
> Google rightly defaults to Arabic if you're not logged in

I dunno about rightly if they're using your IP to determine language instead of the language setting (Accept-Language header) from your browser
Finally, software that is considered finished and no "featuritis" taking over. I love that!

KISS all the way!
Netflix branding is routinely applied to content that Netflix has licensed for distribution in only part of the world. Their FAQ[1] suggests this is because Netflix wasn’t available worldwide at the time, but I’ve seen some internationally-produced shows arrive on Netflix in the US as originals when they aren’t branded as such elsewhere.

1. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/4976
That would make sense if this word in this connotation had any connection to slavery. It doesn’t.
Very very very expensive.
Or you can use curses (or ncurses, or any other terminal-independent library) like an adult, and not create yet another “works best in iTerm” application. We’ve been down this road before, and we settled on curses and similar libraries to be terminal-independent.
Great!

Wow, hardware already made it to low-orbit, https://upsat.gr/?p=418 (2017-04-20)

> At April 18th 11:11 EDT at Cape Canaveral in Florida, an Atlas-V rocket launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to dock to the Internation Space Station with supplies and scientific experiments. Among its cargo UPSat, the first open source hardware and software satellite bound to be released in orbit by the NanoRacks deployment system on-board ISS in the coming weeks.
It is a feature, not a bug. Moreover, I want to be able to roll back the update or install an older version and pin it.
Wireless Earbuds Charge Themselves
Exactly what I was looking for thank you!
I don't know why but people love the idea of scarcity and exclusivity. If we had a star trek like post scarcity society in 2031 and transported people from 2021 to it they would try and figure out how to reintroduce scarcity back into the system.
> Is electricity so expensive in some countries that burning fossil fuel for heat is cheaper than using an electrical heat pump?

Yes. I can't remember the exact source but this charity covers it well. Up to 30% of Africa still burns kerosene for light.

https://solar-aid.org/news/black-carbon-and-the-kerosene-lam...
Very much so. I remember patching binaries to remove dongle-checks back in the MS-DOS days, in those days the dongles were plugged into the parallel port.

I guess these days you could have a USB-device that did useful calculations, so without it software would give the wrong/broken results. But I've not come across anything like that in recent times.
Love Syncthing. Use it extensively across my Linux-Android-Windows devices. Where I really miss it is on iOS (I have just one Apple device - an iPad) and can't find a reliable Syncthing implementation/wrapper on the App Store.

That doesn't stop me using Syncthing though. I just use my iPad less. Which is a shame. I like the handwriting recognition it has. There's an app called Mobius Sync which promises Syncthing support but doesn't work quite as well.
Looking into the future with AI and advanced pattern recognition does not work for the stock market, why would it work anywhere else?
Your guarantee is worse, because Apple has shown themselves as pro-copyright and pro-scanning.
Your reasons are mostly individual and to some extent based on a lifestyle that you got used to because working remote wasn't an option. I often hear "i don't have a workspace/desk at my home" as a pro-commute argument. But the reason you don't have that desk is because when you moved into your flat, you didn't think of this. But if more and more employers allow to work remotely, people will make different choices on their rentals / housing construction.

I personally worked remote numerous times before the pandemic (self-employed contractor but very often onsite) and made arrangements that WFH is a pleasant experience. That also included getting a coworking desk for limited periods of time, because socializing with other people is an important part of your wellbeing. The benefit of a coworking desk is, that if you go out for lunch with your collegues, you don't talk about work during lunch.
Sounds like they learned their lesson
The laws of physics permit (physically allow) me to punch someone in the face. The laws of my country say if I do that, there will be consequences.

This is all about the level of abstraction

The ‘laws of physics’ in a game may allow you to do unintended things, it’s a complex system. Doesn’t mean that it’s OK at a higher abstraction.
Cheating in a game ruins other customers experience so does have a direct monetary impact which is why games companies care about it so much.
Unless you want to reduce the population to ca. 0 by 2035, I don't see how population control can get us carbon neutral.
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Couldn't this be an example of naturalist fallacy? Or also false dichotomy? Let alone that I'm not sure I agree that what you're defining as "human nature" is even "human nature," but perhaps just some aspect of the interaction of some kinds of people in some cultures.

Taiwan's on a soft lockdown right now, and through g0v we've had a couple online hackathons via gather.town that went swell in my opinion, with lots of discussions and cool ideas popping around. And, a vibrant and highly active community across a huge volume of projects is maintained on the g0v slack. Off the top of my head, through online conversation only, the idea of scraping all Taiwanese hospital websites for vaccination registration information, through implementation of said app, was completed successfully. We also have the advantage of instantaneous response at nearly full capacity. That is to say, we don't need to wait until we can all get together physically to begin brainstorming and solution implementation around a given issue, such as when our COVID breakout happened and a lot of solutions arose quickly, such as translations of information, easy ways for businesses to register and print out QR code posters for our contact tracing system, and the sharing of COVID data.

I wonder if that's because there's no physical interaction whatsoever. I admit that when teams are mixed physical/non-physical, there can be information shared between physical people that the non-physical miss out on, but as others are saying, while that might seem faster, I'm not sure the added sloppiness is necessarily an advantage. In any case it seems like a very difficult thing to measure, especially when right now companies are trying to measure their productivity changes due to shifts to remote during an immensely psychologically traumatic time for everyone on earth.

Elsewhere I'm seeing further naturalist fallacy arguments, like we've "evolved" this way. I think that's a good counter to the "rugged individualistic" types that think humans would be better off living alone in the woods with a crate of beer and a shotgun or whatever, but in the far more complex social web of civilization, where you can still have social interaction but modulated to your needs, I don't think we can say "in person is better because we didn't have computers for the first 200,000 years of humanity. I'm sure one can see what else I can apply here: we also didn't have, I dunno, vaccines? Actually, better yet: 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.
I've been looking at Faiss, it's on its way to Debian ...

https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/faiss.html
Once all the furor has subsided and the pandemic ebbs, I think it's safe to say that many companies will got back to in-person collaboration and others will remain remote. It's clear that remote work is feasible, but not everyone enjoys it.

Rather than argue the pros and cons, I'm more interested in seeing how distributed organizations will evolve. Slack and Zoom are getting the job done, but they are wearying. Organizations that aren't deliberate in designing their collaboration process will probably spin their wheels a lot.

Software development does have more focussed tools for collaboration, like GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Basecamp, Trello, StackOverflow, Figma and so on. So what are remote-first companies doing to improve productivity and minimize coordination overhead? Is it about finding the right modes of communication? Is it about distributing work differently? Is it building shared context to make communication more efficient?

I'm aware of (at least some of) the things that companies like GitLab and Automattic have written about their practices. Who else is thinking and writing about this?
Just as long as one remembers that this was the first release of Telegram and that WhatsApp ran not weakly encrypted but actually unencrypted until about a year before these events ;-)

I don't defend Telegrams history when it comes to crypto,just pointing out that there are massive double standards here:

- WhatsApp is the good one (sending data unencrypted until 2012, and to add insult to injury they sent it on port 443)

- Telegram is the bad guy (sent data encrypted but used a dodgy algorithm early on)
WFH works OK, but the majority of staff needs to be WFH. When it's the other way around, I find it just becomes a political nightmare. Office workers band together and it's rather trivial for them to sideline WFH. (eg, lunch / hallway / watercool, etc)

Also, it takes awhile for the DNA of company to become WFH. Just sending office drones home rarely works. Ideally it would start out WFH.

Likely these big time ceos that talk about going back to the office understand all this and would prefer not to kill their company by completely changing how work is done. No doubt the pandemic was largely a set back in terms of innovation and real (ie, money making) productivity.

That said, starting up new teams as purely WFH with new hires and WFH culture is a good way to stick their toes in the water.

Don't expect immediate success, however, unless you have some senior / veteran WFH managers with a track record of excellence.

It's really a different biz. Even trickier, the products you build will likely reflect the organization and therefore seem alien compared to what you're used to.

But it's all good! Everyone is remote (one way or another) these days, so why not have a workforce that reflects that? And, after all, the probability of finding the smartest people in your timezone(+/-) within X miles of your office isn't that great, even in SV / Seattle.
Don't worry, with new laws requiring x% of content has to be made in a country, we can ensure that geolocking is enshrined in both old and modern laws.
Yes, flaring gas is a slightly lesser evil. But I think it's the gas that misses being captured (even when they're trying) from the gas wells, the big pipelines and industrial facilities that are the real big problem sites for fugitive emissions.

I read a report that claimed that properly accounting for fugitive methane emissions (which have tended to be massively underestimated) actually brings gas back to being just as bad as coal in terms of global warming cost. But coal plants do emit huge quantities of other nasty pollutants apart from CO2, so gas is still slightly better in that way.
And he will be alive for 100% of his life - until he is not.
There's local groceries though, also local services that can't be remote or online. Groceries alone is a big part of my budget after rent. Clothes & stuff I have managed to bring to the minimum: one or two online purchases per month at most (some months even zero)
I don't know what Google does exactly, but at least in my case the header works as expected. I live in Germany, have set the language to en-US everywhere and Google serves me an english page just like I want it. And I'm not even logged in to Google.
You make it sound like this is Netflix's fault, whereas tlit seems to me that 10 years ago it was mich easier to acquire licenses for streaming. now some of the big studios have their own streaming services, so licensing isich harder/impossible
I think that the salary should not be a percentage of your life cost rather of the value you create.

Therefore the salary should stay the same wherever I am located.
Ah, fantastic! That sounds like a really good solution. I also have my carefully crafted configuration preferences for Neovim, and wouldn’t be happy with codespaces it didn’t allow me to configure it. But for what you are telling me, they have done it in a smart way. Nice. And it’s nice that they had the people who work mostly in the terminal in mind when creating this. Neovim is a great editor right now, it has been such a fantastic evolution over Vim, adding a language server, for example. Cheers, thanks for replying.
If you think that you’re completely wrong. I have been asked about it by four non technical people so far after it made national news in the UK. There is a lot of anti surveillance sentiment here and it’s appearing in general public regularly.

I regularly go out with groups of random people on Meetup with no shared technical interest as well and I’m surprised at how much anti tracking and surveillance sentiment there is. It got to the point that out of 25 people on a trip out no one used NHS track and trace because they don’t trust it or don’t own a smartphone. This is across the 20-50 age group.
I remember the first time some web site I visited assumed the language based on my IP (just that, not even localizing the content). I felt indignation: the web was the place to get away from assumptions, borders and other crap, but here it was, being dragged in. Didn't they understand they had started to replicate the idiocy of the old off-line society? What a fool I was.
The word master has to be removed or avoided in all software.
Probably a hacked account that would send law enforcement on a wrong lead. Having some one else sitting in jail for you is the best way to get away with a crime.
Check out MessageDB https://github.com/message-db/message-db. It's basically Postgres and can be installed into any Postgres DB.
You should call your political representatives and ask for a carbon tax with tariffs on imports then.
Completely tone-deaf. Those mock-ups would be pretty scary, were I visually-impaired (as an example): accidents waiting to happen everywhere; chaos, from a guide dog's perspective (if they were lucky enough to have one).

One wheelchair in all the mock-ups; and one of the smaller ones at that, that you can't zoom in on.

No prams. Anywhere.

This one's tricky, I'll admit, but, well, it looks really crowded. Any thought to low-arousal environments?

I guess this was designed. But for who?
They were the only one that mattered, for a long time.
Per kWh gas heating is about ⅓ the cost of electric, unless you already have a heat pump. And fitting a ground source heat pump costs about £15k, so most people don't have the spare cash to switch over. We need government subsidies to make it happen generally.
“Master key” goes back to 1577, which predates English involvement in the African slave trade.
Yes, by "great" I guess I meant "great in comparison to other desktop email clients". KMail for example comes with its own set of quirks and annoyances, many that are similar to Thunderbird's with regards to general UX.
I don't live alone. Having multiple people in the house all joining calls for different jobs around the same time is really impractical. Also I don't have an ergonomic workspace at home. I miss my coworkers and actually leaving the house.
They don't have to break the vault encryption. They just have to gain access to 1pwd's git and push out a compromised update. And then watch the passwords roll in automatically.
The Bitcoin Mining Index – Regulated Exposure to Bitcoin?
I can get some co-working spaces that look infinitely better than the office I was going to for $480/mo. For a dedicated desk with locking storage, etc.

I'm saving at least $400/mo just on parking and gas right now.

Even if my employer wouldn't reimburse anything (never asked), I'd eat the $80/mo to save myself 2-3 hours a day commuting.
That was iTunes, but the story checks out.
There is a future for specific use cases. For simple CRUD apps, workflows, admin panels there is a future. For SaaS applications, I am not as sure due to its feature-evolving / bespoke nature.
Nero was an OK emperor btw, certainly wasn't actively malicious. The popular image is (christian?) propaganda.
There are always people on the margin. Those who barely get by with FIRE will be the ones to go.
And how does that go against any logic?

I have seen this kind of criticism against several other movies (e.g. also much of "The Last Jedi", although I don't like that one for different reasons) and I don't get it. In real life, the things we do aren't part of a great scheme that always leads to some grand goal, sometimes they can be just inconsequential. I don't understand what's wrong with that happening in a movie, in fact I even find it refreshing when a movie forgoes the standard clichés where everything has to "fit" perfectly and if they focused on a seemingly irrelevant object in the initial parts of the movie, you know it has to play a role in the end.

The character did live experiences and learn, and we were entertained along the way.