skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if employers were serious about giving you as much holiday as you need it'd be better to just say "You've got X days of holiday, anything above this must be approved by your manager, but should be fine". That way no one is getting less, but those that want more can take it as long as it is inline with the team's business goals. The underlying subtext of free is always "there's no lower limit and we're hoping you guys average out lower than the previous minimum".
GNOME isn't dropping themes, that was some misinformation that went around twitter. See this blog from a GNOME developer for more info on what the situation actually is: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-a...

Also, there are other wayland environments besides GNOME, so don't feel you have to use that.
Nope. What is the irony?
Europe and the UK have the same problem. I wish they looked at this situation (inflation, stalled supply chains, energy price raises) from a global perspective instead of focusing on the US only

I have the impression a long awaited crisis is finally coming. Remember the stock market going up and up and the busloads of many invested in tech and ML?

At some point the bubble had to explode. The COVID-19 crisis was an unexpected black swan which is acting, belatedly, both as a retardant and as a trigger for the global, systemic, financial and economical crash that usually happens once a decade.
> Can apple still dictate things about the payment systems, even if they can’t force you to use theirs?

I read through the decision when it first came down, and while Apple was blocked from restricting third-party payment systems, there was no language preventing Apple from mandating their own payment system alongside third-party options.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple dropped their 30% cut for their own system, but kept a 30% commission for third-party systems.
The internet hollowed out the legacy media's business model, but it's more than that: It also destroyed the ability of the ruling class to control the narrative. Now everything they say and do is endlessly scrutinized by the internet hive mind, which embarrasses them on a daily basis. Nor does it forget `weapons of mass destruction`, `mission accomplished`, `masks don't work`, `wuhan lab leak hypothesis is a racist conspiracy theory`.

“All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public.” --Marc Andreessen

This coordinated attack against facebook is merely the mechanism through which they are trying to reassert control over the flow of information. It's the justification to create a new federal agency with gatekeeping powers over the internet: https://twitter.com/gillibrandny/status/1445451624005001217

Is there any doubt this agency, The Ministry of Truth let's say, would have flagged `Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction` as misinformation in 2003? Or `masks do work` in March 2020? We're not far from this as it is. Indeed, facebook was removing counter narratives with regard to the origin of Covid-19, which it only reversed when it became untenable: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-...
A CTO of a startup I joined said "we are moving fast and break things". Sounded great! But after the first outage they were looking for someone to blame and quickly revoking production access)))
TBF even the spec authors are a bit confused about that attribute: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5466

It has complex and non-obvious effects. greggman on the three.js issue wrote a really nice summary on why it shouldn't be the default.

It's really only appropriate for highly latency sensitive applications, like drawing or certain games.
> The reason we are here today is because Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram are 1 company. This should never have happened

That’s not Facebook’s fault.
i assume you have a direct mapping in your mind between squares and colors or actually visualize the board but for those that don't you can convert the column letter to a number then add the two numbers together and depending on whether the number is even or odd the square will be black or white. ie: d1 -> 4 + 1 -> 5 -> white.

there are a bunch of tricks you can do if you use number,number notation but being able to visualize the board is probably better than relying on numeric tricks.
Anybody have an example of progressives advocating redistribution of something that we don't have an abundance of? I can't think of one.

You might say housing, but I don't think I've heard anyone call for the "redistribution of housing", because that doesn't really make sense. Progressives generally call for universal housing, and redistribution of wealth to achieve that goal.
The causal relation to WFH is ... tenuous ... but now can see how losing all internal comms to an incident could make managers more nervous about WFH.

Of course announcing a policy change now is closing barn doors behind horses.
That’s fairly standard “brand-building.” Ever notice how, when a new movie or album is about to drop, you start seeing tabloid stories, featuring the stars?

On the one hand, it can be argued that “people are interested, because of the movie.”

Except the stories usually start long before any “official” advertisements appear.

It’s about “building buzz,” and the American advertising industry (they refer to themselves as “communications”) is the best in the world, for this kind of thing.

The term “dog whistle” is used in a derogatory manner, but it’s actually a fairly apt metaphor. Dogs won’t respond to the whistle (which they hear just fine), unless they have been trained. "Building buzz" is training, so the paid ads will be much more effective. It works very well.
I feel like this idea that the limit must be set in stone comes from anchoring bias. Obviously drinking 10 bottles of beer in one sitting will get you totally wasted, so there must be a limit between 0 and 10 bottles. Where exactly is it? Well, it depends on the person. Tolerance levels differ and people moderate to different degrees (and levels of moderation may not even be proportional to levels of tolerance).

With work, there's also different degrees of how much vacation one needs and also how much they feel comfortable asking for. A workaholic might be less inclined to take vacation than someone who likes to travel, and a more confident person might be more inclined to book more vacation days than one who isn't as confident.

Let's not generalize and assume everyone is too spineless to ask their boss for vacations they're entitled to.
There is no theft in Somalia, just law of the jungle
Surely they need easy comms fallback options that are independent of their own tech / infra. Even if they were on site this would still be pretty terrible to have everything so coupled right?
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That would be (if at all) for the first mission only. The 'bootstrap'. And in-situ utilizing the shit out of anything available to build as much as possible of the equipment up there. And why would I care about the money? That's just a few wars, peanuts so to speak. By stopping that shit alone you'd burn way less carbon! See? Wheee!

Anyways, read the book I suggested and see if it changes your assumptions, or not.

edit: Btw. nobody needs gold from space. Maybe infrastructure needs gold in space. Be it for reflectors, wires, chips... don't know. Don't care about your experience either, because that tends to lead to institutional blindness and inability to think 'out of the box'.
Surprised you didn't mention "analyzing games I played to find viable alternatives or understand opponent blunders." The greatest improvements to my score came from reviewing every game and using the "Computer Analysis" feature on Lichess to see other, stronger moves. This helped a lot in breaking out of old patterns and not making the same mistakes twice.

There is a famous series of chess textbooks they use to teach kids in Russia, and two of the important "commandments of chess" if you will, are: be able to visualize the board (seems crazy to me, still) and review/learn from your games.
Many online lefties are of the "fully automated luxury communism" flavor that presumes everything is plentiful and made by nobody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuO6yJrRAYw

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/07/can-physics-be-too...

https://hongkongfp.com/2020/03/29/video-top-doctor-bruce-ayl...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-jeffrey-ep...

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/01/11/are-experts-real...

Wonder if that evidence, potentially implicating the rich and powerful, will ever come to light...
Is that the main reasoning for the republicans sitting out on it?
This is a good tip, I didn't know about that mode. Cheers.
Alright, find something recent. We're talking about current censorship. No amount of whataboutism will make what the Dems are currently doing ok.

As a libertarian in the wing I know full well about the past of the evangelicals, doesn't make censorship okay does it?
I think the "dynamic" jab is a bit of a trap, itself. It is easy to write bad code in most any language. Anyone that tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
>This is the economy now. One-hour errands are now multi-hour odysseys.

Yes. I needed some simple parts for a home repair job I'm doing. In the before times I would have been able to find them all at one Home Depot, in abundance. I had to go to three Home Depots, two Lowes, and one Ace Hardware to find everything I was looking for.
If you average those clean-up costs for every nuclear plant in the world and how long they have been running then it isn't expensive at all.
You’re missing the point. In all accounts you are either taxed now or later. The exact same amount of $ value in incremental capital gains are untaxed in all qualified accounts, by design and intent.
Remember when Covid tests were scarce, and the rich and powerful were getting special access to them?

The argument here is that without abundance Covid tests don’t make it to the mediocre everything store.
The wealthy dont create products. Working class people do. It is a brain worm that has convinced you that the managerial class deserve to be rich but the working class dont
Project Verona
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There are Roth 401ks.
Nothing in your article contradicts the OP -- a RTO for non-remote workers being delayed doesn't mean that all workers had to RTO. (But now it seems like FB may have changed that policy.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/facebook-will-let-all-employ...
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The average person lacks the resources and intellect to accurately assess covid vaccines. They have to rely on trust. Can you provide a trustworthy source on whether or not an individual should get the vaccine?

I think I get what you’re trying to say but I’m arguing it doesn’t matter. Any bad media (especially of the ideologically motivated kind) is an absolute failure.
There's no such article that came up.

There's a long tradition of psychologists making grandiose claims that are short on facts. B.F. skinner claimed "Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything."

Not sure why you would assume the Cambridge thing did what someone selling it said it could do.
> When the OP says "politicians prefer it when objective media goes away and gets replaced with advocates" and you say (paraphrasing) that "the objective media has responded to financial incentives and become advocates [so they can gain viewers and credibility with Congress]" you aren't saying anything different.

I know, hence my "to your point"

> To then say "gosh I'm really mad at the media because they're bad" is like being mad at raindrops because they're wet.

The media landscape degraded in the last ~decade. Raindrops have always been wet. I don't propose a solution because I don't understand the dynamics exactly. I don't think I have to understand the dynamics exactly (or have a solution in mind) in order to talk about the problem.

> I see too many people saying "I hate the media, and [my preferred politicians] rail against the media, ergo I will vote for [my preferred politicians]" failing to recognize that this dynamic simply reinforces the feedback loop rather than changing anything.

Of course, this doesn't describe me. Contrary to the media portrait, you can't draw any reasonable inferences about someone's politics based on whether they support or criticize the changes to the media landscape.
As power becomes increasingly unreliable in California, even more businesses and people will leave in the growing exodus. (I bought a generator last time)
No it's not. As long as Facebook provides the increasingly obese population of the West an outlet for memes, child photos, and uniformed political opinions, Facebook will rake in money.
This is why I believe Bill Gates' statement that "90% of software hasn't been written yet" is (perpetually) true.

Alas, the Venn diagram of domain knowledge (for any given niche) and any measure of competence developing products is tiny.

And the work just isn't interesting. A friend made good money writing property tax administration software for municipalities. Tried to recruit me for years. I helped on some stuff, enough to verify I wasn't well suited to that type of work. Older me could probably do it happily.
> ... a 5% fee. This is roughly in-line with baseline credit card transaction processing fees ...

Dutch consumers mostly pay using IDeal, a payment standard created by all Dutch banks, that costs < 0.5% in fees to merchants. It has fewer consumer protections than what credit cards offer, for that there are consumer protection laws.

These same consumer protection laws should make things like cancelling a subscription easy. Of course many companies fail to do so properly. One day I hope the government will enforce these like Apple protects their platform, and we'll end up having what we have now, just cheaper.
>"Democracy is tyranny"

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
So, it sounds like there likely is unavoidable complexity if you want the screaming performance we're used to.
How can anyone trust the media when it seems to have become a target of institutional capture for political and ideological gain? Journalism is not really journalism anymore - it's propaganda. It's duty is not to inform, but to persuade. This tendency towards advocacy journalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_journalism) has been very apparent in the trend of newsroom revolts. See the following example stories about this phenomenon:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/business/media/new-york-t...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/07/30/7-woke-rebellions-in-...
Readable varies by person. Myself, I find the decision on significant whitespace to make reading Python like reading English with no punctuation or capitalisation.
Everyone keeps leaving Instagram out of the discussion. I wonder why?
> And even worse: most of them don’t give a shit about the reputation of FB. They just want to send messages and share pictures through those apps.

Group messaging and engagement algorithm amplified social media are different things though.

Group messaging like WhatsApp, iMessage, and SMS, and photo sharing like Google photos or iPhoto have an inherently limited distribution of a given piece of content. It's not that you can't do nefarious things using these products, it's just harder to scale those.

Engagement amplified social media, as found in varying degrees on Facebook, TikTok Instagram, YouTube, etc, have far more potential to move society as a whole - for better or for worse.

Therefore it's not unreasonable for people to continue to use something like WhatsApp for limited group conversations while refusing to use Facebook or similar products due to the increased risk of exposure to harmful content.

One is free to despise any product Facebook or any company creates just because they are Facebook, but that's a whole different discussion.
I wouldn't call them progressives. They are nihilists. They hate seeing the triumph of success.
> there was a round table interview with different journalists from various media on NPR. They essentially all agreed that it was their duty to make Trump look as bad as possible, though they worded it slightly less audaciously. I distinctly remember them saying that they should no longer be objective.

Sorry but …you're gonna to have to back that up with pointer to some kind of records of this event .
FAQ that's asked but not answered:

* So does this mean I'll be paying more?

Second price auctions were intended to remove "auction winner's remorse" -- it doesn't matter how much you bid, because you'll only pay the next highest bid.

So why did Google do this? "streamlining"? Oh, please.
Maybe do some further research then, she is a former CBC reporter:

"Prior to her academic work, Candis produced, wrote, and reported for television, the Internet, and radio in Canada (CBC, CTV)"

Source: https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/

Also from the same article:

"However, Candis Callison calls objectivity "the view from nowhere" and considers it potentially harmful. She has worked as a journalist in the United States and Canada for television, the internet and radio, including at the CBC."
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You're lamenting divisiveness while blaming one group as the sole source of the problem. That itself is divisive.
Changing a network of this size to first price auction will have a huge impact in online advertising. A lot of strategies and algorithms will need to be reviewed to try keep up with current ROIs
Yep, The closest thing is ?:

editor = config::get("core.editor")

if (!editor) editor = ENVIRON["EDITOR"] ? ENVIRON["EDITOR"] : "vi"
I feel like I'm living in bizarro land. The lesson from a society that lives on the edge of over-consumption is ... more abundance?

We need a name for this ideology, the Mad Max mentality? It legitimately reminds me of those monster trucks driving through the climate change wasted landscape with people spitting what little gasoline they have left into the engine. shiny and chrome!
You agree it's a "fair point" that this would be incredibly expensive, but then you say you want it to be free.

Is it simply that you don't understand why it's incredibly expensive? It means everybody who does network routing has to buy extra hardware to track all this useless noise you've decided ought to be "free", that hardware costs money.

Your ISP choosing to charge you for stuff that doesn't cost them anything is completely separate. I would say "Choose an ISP which isn't shit" but you're probably American and have no such choice. Too bad?
To be fair I don't think the cited paper being profitable before necessarily means they are not now they've been bought out, though I take your point that in aggregate their parent company is paying off debt.

Once the papers are reduced to sources that come in via weekly feeds, you no longer need boots on the ground journalists to report the stories. You can write the stories from anywhere, predictably, with automated or offsite writers.

The end goal seems to be: look at this huge organization with a fraction of the overhead, with vast reach, that has predictable if small margins, but that's profitable across thousands of publications. That's the sort of thing that keeps shareholders happy, it just happens to be at the expense of a public good.
34. My net worth is negative. I don't even know in which country I'll be retiring. Moving from a "currency challenged" country to the US in my 30s meant all the money I saved during all my life became pretty much worthless, I could use to all to buy maybe a car in the US. I don't know how much coming back to it will be a possibility due to my kids starting to develop roots here. They may not want to go back once I'm in retirement age, and I probably won't want to stay away from them and grandkids.
Agreed. The Pullum article is one of my favorites.
A cheap $40 model on Amazon. I'm in Texas so don't need heated.
Not available in my region, and doesn’t support a server in my country
_static_ typing.
You bring up a good analogy, I feel like it doesn't take away the remarkable feeling for me however!

I can only come up with three-ish words for sea-ice. Although I do have many more concepts in my mind

Ice, iceberg, floating ice..

The fascinating this is when I learned that what you can communicate influences how you see and experience the world. Language has always fascinated me in that way

I do know more _concepts_ for sea ice though!

Meters-thick ice plateaus safe to live on for years (where ice bears live and hunt and so on)

Watery slushy ice you can easily sail navigate through with a boat.

50-200cm thick ice you can't go through with a small boat, thick enough to walk on.

Small ice platforms floating on the water, technically thick enough to stand on but what's the point since it's maybe 2 meters in diameter?

There're probably many more types of ice worth having a concept and eventually even a word for. If hunting is important for you, and there's a specific formation/type of ice where sea-lions typically gather, it's great to have a word for that!

A lot of a people's culture and a lot of individual's personal experience is embedded in the language they speak.
I'm a big fan of tying the basic income directly to tax revenue collected (ideally monthly instead of yearly). That way, people can adaptively choose how much work they want to do, and it feeds back from what the actual economic production is.

Basic income is really complementary to capitalism. It provides a cushion to people on the very bottom, allowing them to stay in the game, and for other people it helps push them out of a subsistence loop and into "maybe I should start a small business" or "Hmm, I've saved enough that I could pay my bills with basic income so I could retrain on this new technology" etc.
Question: could it be possible to translate/"compile" perl into equivalent AWK-lib version?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I though perl code tended to be "higher-level", whereas AWK is optimised C throughout?
"The Facebook whistleblower is heroic but I think she got one thing wrong"

would be a better title.
This headline is misleading at best, and outright false at worst.

It's technically correct, but the article doesn't actually say that the the end of the WFH forever is _because_ of the outage, just that they are going back.
Surely each co-worker had the phone number of their colleagues ?
I take that as "keep running pip install on yet another discovered dep until the script works."

And heaven help you if you accidentally get conflicting versions installed in the same venv. (By conflicting, I mean two libraries that both depend on different versions of the same underlying library. Odds of this increase dramatically the more you use.)
Hmm, I've sort of accomplished this with Notion already, by working around in a single Calendar view with tasks written in pages and such.

Of course, this looks a lot smarter with proper calendar integrations and nifty time adjustment controls, but I actually just needed a Calendar view of things and with the rest working like a to-do list with the occasional power to backlink with existing pages.

Maybe I should give this a try.
Isn't this another example of "how does a company with 1000s of the most able employees not notice a massive risk to business continuity sitting there waiting to happen"?

DNS hosted on your own registrar, within your own data center for a whole host of domains. Somehow integrating your office security so that it also depends on that same DNS and running BGP updates without an emergency "undo" plan?

I hate to over-simplify but Single point of failure is the first thing you ever learn about Business Continuity. We shouldn't need to learn these lessons from a big mistake, that's what college is for.