skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're more likely to have something worth saying, and a work product worth talking about, if you aren't wasting time on your commute and shooting the shit in the office.

The problem is that no one actually knows if that's true, or whether it's universal or individual. I used to commute by train, and I got a good hour of time to myself to think. I did great work thinking through problems in that time. Now I work remotely I try to carve out an hour to just think about stuff, but it's less effective because I'm easily distracted by house things like washing up or playng with a cat. Similarly, I got value from hearing conversations around the office, and now I don't have that. Slack can be the same thing if people join in, but so far it's rarely as effective.

All of that is tempered by the fact that I do much better work at home. Fewer distractions, more time, and longer quiet periods, all sum up very productive times.

Ideally we need some from column A and some from column B. I absolutely don't think remote is perfect, but it's certainly better. With work on how to collaborate in remote environments I can see it being even better still.
Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure
What sort of alternatives? Chicken, sheep and goats?

Personally I want to stop buying meat. I'll probably start hunting once or twice a year and fill a freezer.
The question I’d have is whether they can hedge around that with freebies. It’d be an interesting lawsuit if, say, Epic started including some in-game rewards rather than direct monetary discounts and Apple sued claiming that those should count as a violation of the contract.
Any data to support this?
Except he is reading HN which will link to personal blogs.

I am not saying write good context and they will find you, but Medium isn’t that great. Only ~9% of the writers made over $100 in a month, and the top earner fluctuates between 20 and 30k/month. You basically get a handful of people making a living and most people getting little more than free hosting.
The operator of archive.is is circumventing copyright law in close to every country on earth, including all the democratic ones. Its unique selling point is that they do not comply with site owners' requests not to archive content or to delete content archived in the past.

While that doesn't exclude them from the protection of law, my conviction is slightly weaker when it comes to arbitrary standards of behaviour people on reddit invented. How many pages to they happily serve that contain private information long deleted from the actual websites? When they mutter under their breath, "information wants to be free" (as they are want to be, at least how I imagine it), does their definition of information include their identity?

(I'm slightly irritated by the "research" in that post, though... I really don't need Wikipedia to believe that -vich is a jewish name. And jewish names of Ukrainian/Russian origin are certainly not specific to that location today. I bet there are more people with that last name in Florida than in all of Eastern Europe combined)
> Do you really believe that their was a massive conspiracy perpetrated by experts

The conspiracy theory about explosives is even more idiotic than that. It's not merely that the conspiracy would needed to have been extremely complicated and involve 10s or 100s of silent accomplices, which is true. It's also that it would have been completely unnecessary and redundant, and is therefore a violation of Occam's Razor.

Whatever the purported political objectives behind a conspiracy to put explosives in the towers, the planes themselves should have been sufficient to achieve those objectives, and so what motivation would there be to tack on yet another entirely different conspiracy (different in terms of operational details, skills required, additional headcount, etc)? You're multiplying the difficulty and complexity of the operation and increasing the chances of getting caught by a good 2-10x, for little benefit due to that redundancy.

> Common sense discredits the story.

They say things like "jet fuel can't melt steel", when nobody even makes that claim. The claim is that the burning jet fuel made the steel weaker. So don't expect them to exercise common sense when they're insisting on these strawmen.
It's not Gentoo based. It just uses portage as a package manager in dev mode. ChromeOS has it's own rendering system separate from X and Wayland entirely.
The DDR achieved about half the GDP per capita of West Germany. That would be considered quite good in most of the world.
Are you aware that life itself is temporary? When do the restrictions end? 2 weeks? 50% vaxxed? 100% vaxxed? How many booster shots? How many cases? Is it just until civilization itself is but a distant memory, then the restrictions can end?

Bad news: the restrictions last until the end of the universe.

Good news: the universe is only temporary!
Common sense is a weak argument.

common sense is only common sense when it’s in the favor of your narrative. In the other direction, it’s not. Right?

“Everyone knows the towers collapsed cause we studied it for 10 years. Everyone still asking questions is a conspiracy theorist. Common sense”
vs “everyone knows that jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt structural steel cause we studied it for 10 years. Everyone still believing otherwise is … common sense.”

See my point here with your logic?
Or somewhere else. Looking at prism it seems possible that they would be totally reflected.
"It works for me on very specific, ancient hardware, and also don't use <software you use>" isn't a great selling point for people who just want their machine to work and aren't bought into Linux On The Desktop as a philosophical ideal. That's why people use WSL2! Popular software works, popular hardware works, you can run Linux programs from the command line without installing and managing a separate VM yourself (yes, yes, it's virtualized under the hood by the OS, but you don't need to manage the VM yourself), and now you'll be able to run Linux GUI apps too.
Roster/conversation capability (server holding message until recipient comes online) is a basic extension to XMPP. I don't think I've ever used a Jabber server not supporting it, and all the popular clients support it.
I don't know on what basis you make these sweeping generalizations. If nothing else, commutes made people miserable in terms of time, money, stress, and difficulty scheduling outside life.

Time will tell whether you are right or not.
Cloudflare (Matthew Prince personally, here on Hacker News few months ago) said that they do reverse that their global stance for Netflix and some other megacorps.

So this is a super-premium feature unavailable to small players.

CloudFlare just changed how DNS behaved and charge corps to make it work as it worked before CloudFlare entered the stage.
The observation is not just glib and insensitive, but also wrong. While the poor do use less energy, they use higher-carbon energy sources, like burning things for lighting. And poverty is a big driver of land use change and deforestation. Generally getting social justice also improves environmental justice.
This is a thread about the cost of gaming computers, on an article about Steam games on Linux.

I don't think business-targeted sales are particularly in-scope. And even if they are, that only makes it worse, as it implies they're getting an even more significant profit margin.
> Random encounters that create value sound good. It sounds less good when you flip this logic, and ask whether the reliance on randomness is a function of weak information-sharing within formal structures. It is easier to break down silos if you put this online, then there is genuine sharing. That is what the internet is for.

Probably why I've never seen a Confluence that wasn't a disaster, magnified by turnover. This kind of stuff isn't interesting to business because it forces them to be accountable rather than deflecting accountability on the people in the trenches. Those people are expected to do all the heavy lifting for the org while business focuses on 'the bigger picture'
What's the burden of proof for calling someone a nut case?
We've already asked you once to stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. If you do it again, we will ban you.

It's not what this site is for, and—what's worse—it destroys what it is for, so this is somewhat of an existential issue for this forum.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
This is more or less the same train of thought that people first had about online dating. "It won't work", "it's not the same", "it's weird to meet someone online" etc.

I couldn't disagree more that remote relationships are more difficult. On the contrary, technology continues to make it easier to stay in touch with 500 friends, coworkers from your last 3 jobs etc.
The EMDrive is a better example, I think. The OPERA people knew from the start that they likely had an "uncontrolled systematic" and their measurement was likely to be wrong, so very few people got excited. The EMDrive got a lot of people excited over a minor error in a very difficult measurement. In both cases the general "science" public picked up on it, inappropriately, but in only one of the two cases were the flames fanned by the research team. (Compare also the Pioneer anomaly [0].)

I do suspect this is just another EMDrive. Interacting with the vacuum to shift energy around is well-known (again, see Hawking radiation [1]), but holding on to it overall for long enough to violate the uncertainty principle (the one for the E-t commutator [2]) doesn't work. And I don't think you can hold it just long enough to reverse entropy... though that doesn't sound prima facie impossible. Making a measurement incorrectly, though... I do that every day I'm in the lab.

Addition: Also, the MDPI journals are kinda-sorta just one step up from trash-tier, at least in my mind, so I don't pay much attention to work that can only manage to get in to one of them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle ...at least I think it's in there somewhere. Otherwise grab Griffiths!
I don’t understand why being set in a particular period would cause a program to not age well?

Does Sherlock Holmes not age well because now we have DNA to solve crimes more easily?
"We used to pay for entire buildings to house our employees, but covid made us realize we can pass that cost on to them!"
archive.is has some sketchy tracking built into it.

I still use (the discontinued) umatrix with firefox and any archive.is request makes a lot of specific-to-you tracking pixels. like *.pixel.archive.is that drill down to your browser address
Ask HN: Aren't NFTs sort of centrally controlled?
If the content of NFTs is hosted externally (say, on IPFS) and is controlled by a central authority, doesn't that make the "owner" of the NFT forever subject to the whim of the host? Is there a content digest stored on chain to keep the host honest? I'm asking as someone who's genuinely curious and trying to figure this space out. Not trying to "dunk" on crypto here.
Yeah but they can capture the whole thing when they confuse the ai and it loses connection
I don't think so. Though it is possible that you decided so on your own.
LARP security stads for Live Action Role-Playing security?
Wow, I didn't know this site still existed! I seem to remember that ~15 years ago it regularly showed up in Google search results but it doesn't anymore. I'm wondering what happened – did they stop spending a ton of money on Adwords?
No, why would they? The stance of Salesforce is clearly, implicitly, in opposition to the law.

The article claims the announcement was "without taking a stance on the law". But that's wrong. Salesforce hasn't proclaimed a stance, but their actions (well, statements about their intended future actions) speak sufficiently loud.
There have been at least two past threads about this:

Tell HN: Unexpected errors with Archive.is on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23315640 - May 2020 (10 comments)

Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 - May 2019 (197 comments)

as well as god knows how many comments...
Sounds like someone should create a discoverability and curation service for independent blogs, independently of the hosting platform.
What about for communicating with darknet vendors, where PGP is the established standard?
This reminded me of my aunt, who recently expressed concerns like this. Someone uses my toothpaste, "I just bought this tube a few weeks ago and it is almost empty" for example. And similar with ice cream etc. Thing is, it was her. She has recently been committed to a facility with Alzheimer's. At certain times, as the disease drifts in and out, she is quite present and sane, and cannot explain to herself the lost time any other way.
You've identified a major weakness of the study, which the authors acknowledge themselves (and then ignore when reaching conclusions).

> For each month, we classified ties as strong when they were in the top 50% of an employee’s ties in terms of hours spent communicating, and as weak otherwise. Although we have not seen strong and weak ties defined in this exact way elsewhere in the research literature on social networks, the research community has not, to our knowledge, converged on a standard way to measure tie strength.
The guerilla growth marketers working for Signal would probably be unable to resist the viral temptation of spamming all your email address list who have already joined signal to "let them know" about your newly installed contact channel.

I was super-annoyed when two people from my distant past started trying to contact me via Signal purely because of the unwanted and un-asked for behaviour of vacuum-and-spam notification of my phone contact list (which had accumulated from before 2000) who were in the subset of already-Signal-members.

In particular one huckster I lost $22k to, and who I came close to being liable for taking illegal action on behalf, through his fraudulent lack of full disclosure, who I had thoroughly removed from all my social media, plus filtered his email straight to trash, and permanently blocked from calling my phone.

Because his phone number was in my address book (so I could block him) Signal thought it had the right to let him know he can now contact me.

Poor form there Signal...
I believe they mean the messages being held on a server even post delivery.
Archiving the Internet is not stealing the history books. It’s writing them.
"Archive.is is unironically one of the most important websites in the world"

Are you sure you're not confusing it with the internet archive https://www.archive.org/
There are two sides to this, though we often only hear one.

For readers who aren't subscribed to Medium, it can be annoying. You go to read an article, and if that article is monetized, you see a banner to sign up. Plenty of people leave immediately.

Now let me tell why, as a writer, I still use Medium and will continue for the time being.

I only post 2-4 articles on there per month. But even then, I'm seeing ~50K views per month and this month I'm on track to earn $1000.

To see those same results on my own blog, I would need to learn a lot about SEO, affiliate marketing, and have a large Twitter following to direct traffic to my blog. I would also need to maintain it myself.

Sure, I might have a higher chance of going viral on HN, but how likely is that even anyway?

As a full-time developer with a newborn who's just looking to earn some fun money, Medium is perfect. I write, submit to a publication, and they take care of the rest.

People may say, "I'm not going to read your posts on Medium." My answer is: okay? Can't make everyone happy. But I'm still getting 50K views from people who do want to read them, and I'm okay with that.

The other point to make is that Medium only pays for views/reads from other Medium members, so I don't necessarily care if I go viral on HN or not. If I really cared about going viral, I would just post my article to something like dev.to and then submit it to HN.

If you're just looking to write and get views/go viral and don't care about money, then it might not make sense to post to Medium. But if you want to earn some money with relatively little effort, Medium is hard to beat.

Edit: Here's proof of my claims for people questioning them (https://medium.com/@SunnyB/proof-of-medium-stats-700c2b0b638...). Note: it is a Medium link to an unlisted post. Didn't know where else to put it.
Just like Norway?
Is there a reverse version? Ask me questions about the dog to determine the possible allele combinations?
Do you have a citation for that? Sourcing from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702 , they don’t reverse their global stance for large providers. Their stance is ~”Including client IP via EDNS violates our goal of maximizing user data privacy”, and what they’re working on with other large-scale providers is a way to improve geo-resolution without weakening user privacy.
People can recognize you with face recognition. Cops spend time looking at picture books of wanted people. Store clerks remember customers. Vegas casinos hire people with unusually good face recognition skills.

We're looking at the wrong end of the problem. We need to limit what consequences can come from being recognized. Like an "you can only be hassled once a year" policy for cops.

Meanwhile, watch the Hikvision Corporate Channel and get over it.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trCnFdh6i8
And we shall call it:

Real

Simple

Syndication
Confluence does the bare minimum to support organization, imo. It is too easy for documents to become orphaned.
Sounds like someone needs to build an MRAD. You can put out as much noise as he does, and make sure it is very carefully aimed at the only suitable target.
That's an interesting point, trying to accommodate a new hires preferences into an existing teams flow. The reverse is often the expectation, but a healthy team is made up of many members, so accommodating individual needs is going to be important.

I look forward to reading the doc. Perhaps you could post a link when it is published?
write a big report?
Right above the title is "The cost of misogyny".

The author(s) _clearly_ want to manipulate you into believing [0].

[0] might be true nonetheless, but that doesn't change the fact that this article is the mother of all fallacies.
They should do a follow up study on how many people will die from Covid by working in the office. I rather wonder how preventable deaths impact innovation in teams.

From Israel we can see that that death rate per million with 90%+ of adults double vaccinated is ~4 per day. In the US that works out to ~1300 deaths a day. This is the new normal until everyone susceptible dies.

The office doesn't sound so good when it's sold as the place which ensures you can't live past 70 for your line managers convenience.
Confluence is the dictionary definition of "tragedy of the commons"
Not literally, but you can dedicate time for everyone to occasionally talk to a mix of people they don’t talk to every day.
> When you are actually losing weight the way that mass leaves your body is as CO₂

Yes, but it happens only once. When you maintain high body mass you consume more food and release more CO₂ every day (compare to a similar person with lower mass). Though physical activity likely affects human CO₂ more than body mass.
According to The Source of All Truth, it's number 26: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

I wouldn't be at all surprised, though, if it ranks much higher for mean income.
This is exactly what I want.

A modern Wordpress. But with strict guide rails and simplicity.

Does such a thing exist?

I’ve seen ghost but it’s quite expensive for personal use.
Not sure why this is downvoted. This is factually accurate and a major factor in why we haven't seen tax reforms.
I was 10. My classroom “job” was to take the attendance to the office. No one was in the main office, I could hear them in the back room so I wandered back. I got there right as the first tower came down. The way all the adults were screaming, was clear it wasn’t a movie. I stayed for a few minutes listening to the news anchor going over the events of the day before being sent back to class and told not to tell anyone.

My fifth grade teacher, who I’m still friends with today, said she’d never seen a kid with that look. She eventually got me to tell her what happened. I guess I said something like “Americas being bombed. The big building in New York is on fire and the other one fell over and the pentagon blew up.”

I don’t remember saying that, but I do remember how furious she was at me saying that was a horrible story to make up. We had TV’s in each class, she was going to turn on the news to show me it wasn’t true, begged her not to. She called the front office, couldn’t get through (assuming they were still watching TV).

She went on her computer, started crying. Composed herself, dropped whatever we were learning that day and she put on The Princess Bride - still can’t enjoy that movie.

She let me sit behind her desk and we’d attempt to refresh websites to get updates on what was happening, both of us occasionally crying.

They didn’t send us home for a few hours, but it’s always been a weird feeling knowing that of all the 600+ kids in that school, I was the only one that knew what was happening, and only a handful of adults did, the rest going about their day without just sitting there knowing what was happening.

Her and I are still friends to this day, that experience really bonded us. She’d suspected I was on the autism spectrum, my parents wouldn’t get me evaluated, and school was pretty rough for me. I’d have been held back in multiple grades, possibly not even graduate if she hadn’t gone to bat for me with every “problem” teacher I had at various schools in my district year after year, getting me put in “good” teachers for various subjects, getting me into advance classes even though my grades hadn’t previously warranted it, etc.

No idea where I’d be in life had I not wandered into the back office, and her and I had that experience.
Men are treated worse in almost all societies by any logical analytic.

The woke always jump to the village leaders, not the men who die of hepatitis from cleaning the sewers. I guess if you look at averages, one billionaire + many dead men in a bar equals richer men.

Targeting men/women in programs will work, and women have had preferential targeting for decades.

It's so bad, if a project might also help men it won't get funded.

Clean water projects that stop 'humans' dying of diarrhoea will not be funded. If it allows a women to walk less to collect water then it will get funded.

If the world cared about the 10,000 kidnapped boys of Boko Haram (Many more were killed of course) then the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping would never have happened.

We don't need more emotive talk about girls not going to school. The fucking solution is simple, as we've seen in every country in the West, raise families out of poverty.

We need to get back to helping humans.
Actually I know a therapist who told me that he considered this one of the twenty aspects of emotional maturity. He pointed me to a YouTube video made by Alain de Botton et al, quote: "You cease to believe in perfection in pretty much every area. There aren't any perfect people, perfect jobs or perfect lives. Instead, you pivot towards an appreciation of what is 'good enough'".
With XMPP that's thankfully up to you to decide through client preferences, and in this way your choice also propagates across XMPP servers.