skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss having a place to meet the people I work with but I don't need to meet them every day. I actually have been working with remote teams for the last six years or so. So, I've been used to not having a permanent office for quite long. I actually signed up with a co-working space four years ago just so I would get out of the house a bit more.

And during the lockdown they were open throughout. My frequency of going there roughly stayed the same (once or twice a weak). A co-working space gives you most of the comforts of a workplace. Except my direct colleagues are not there and I don't have a fixed desk.

It's great. Even just the bustle of other people around me doing whatever it is they are doing puts me in a mind to do something myself. I actually go there when I want to focus. When I have online meetings, I prefer taking them from home. It's more quiet there and it's just easier.

During the lockdown, I actually joined a local startup as the CTO. Most of us are in the same city (Berlin). But we rarely meet in person. I meet some of the people for coffee or socially once in a while but we run the company like it is a remote company. We don't even have an office. It works but it's not ideal and we are eager to fix our office situation as soon as funding permits. Specifically, I'm eager to get our engineers (the usual selection of mostly introverted types) in one room to force some communication to happen a bit more naturally.

We use a mix of discord, google meets and slack to meet online. None of these is ideal but collectively they have a feature set that's workable. Google meets, makes my CPU spin like crazy. It's alright when all you are doing is attending the meeting. Slack is on permanently but we never use its audio/video features. When I want to do pair programming with engineers, we tend to use discord. We could probably lose slack completely since discord has most of the relevant features. But for historic reasons we just have it and we get very little out of moving over. We are on a freemium plan with both.

During the lockdown, I also started doing long walks. That's something I now actively make time for since I usually feel great after having one. I can walk for hours if time permits. I'll put some BT headphones on and listen to podcasts. Sometimes I bring my camera to shoot some photos along the way. For a lot of people, a commute more or less fills the same role.
> 1) “How to win friends and influence people”

The folks I know who have this on their bookshelf tend to be dishonest, manipulative, self-centered pricks.
AFAIK Tesla doesn't rely on map data for the driving itself, only for routing. Which sounds like the right approach considering roadworks and how often maps are out of date.
"How to win friends and influence people" contains so much self-repetition that it should be easily compressible to four pages, no doubt many people on the Internet have done that. Read one of those instead.
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Lecture notes is what I would call these (as I do my materials).
One judgment error that people often make is to assume it's about "cops" or "doctors" or "politicians" or whatever. Like, take any large group of people - some of them will be good, some will be bad, some will be weasely, some will be cowards, some will be heroes, some will be psychos.

If your reaction to group X is "it needs to be disbanded because <incident>"... I suggest that this is not a wise reaction. In this sense, all "establishment" is corrupt, to some degree, by definition. To try to create brand new "uncorrupted" replacement is often a recipe for disaster (especially if you only rely on "new people", not on actual new systematic ways of weeding out said corruption).
If I'm not occasionally in the same room as someone else, I find that in very small ways you lose an abstract, almost ethereal sense of being in connection with another human.
Basic yet eye-opening for me was "Talking to my daughter about the economy" by Yianis Varoufakis (ex Greek finance minister).

It does an "explain like I'm 13" for how the idea of markets and money started, how and why it changed through the centuries and where we are now.

It's so easy to read, that it took me a couple of days to finish it.
This article should be obligatory reading material for everyone. Considering how it focuses on empathy and leadership I find it a little odd that they use the terminology "hire/fire" which in my opinion is hostile/negative loaded words. Imo it would be better to use something like

allocate/re-allocate
assign/reassign
delegate/replace
on-boarded/off-boarded
hired/let go

words have meaning and should be used carefully when writing and discussing. especially if you are a leader. Fear based management is a real thing and something that is easy to fall back into if any issues and you are unwilling to accept responsibility. it is always so easy to blame someone ease. A true leader/manager knows this and accepts responsibility. This is also the essence of the article and why I think some of the words used is ... a little off ...

*edit, I'm European and rules are a little different here, firing someone is very hard to do. When you get fired it is usually because of something very serious.
Reminds me of the "company hierarchy" as discussed e.g.:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
> The whole system would collapse if a train is 10 minutes late...

Short-term collapses do happen fairly regularly. For fifteen years, until COVID, I commuted every day between Yokohama and Tokyo. In the morning, I went from Yokohama to Shibuya on the Toyoko Line (a non-JR private line); most evenings, I returned home through Shinagawa on JR. I remember many mornings when the trains to Shibuya were delayed by ten or twenty minutes or longer; like other lines into Tokyo, the trains ran at full capacity and at maximum closeness to each other during morning rush hour, and the slightest problem could cause a backup. (Evening rush hour is more spread out, and I experienced fewer delays then.) Anyone who rides Tokyo trains regularly has similar stories.

But it is true that, overall, Japanese trains, including the trains in the Tokyo area, are reliable and even pleasant to ride. In the ongoing discussion of working at home vs. office [1], many people have named commuting as a negative aspect of working in an office. I actually didn’t mind my commute—the walk to and from the stations was good exercise, the bustle of stations like Shibuya and Shinagawa was stimulating, and the train rides gave me time to think, read, and listen to music. While I am now happy to be working at home, I hope the pandemic quiets down enough for me to start feeling confident about going places by train again, both in the Tokyo area and throughout Japan.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30239441
I have gifted numerous copies of the book - “Siddhartha” by Herman Hesse. I think the book changes the way you see the world.
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> If you don't mind me asking, do you suffer from any of the things he discusses in the book?

Yes, the book was recommended by my therapist. There were interesting and helpful parts to the book, in my case specifically the idea that it's hard to be anxious in a relaxed body, the yoga part, and the chapter about psyche being composed of different parts that protect one another and you can ask them to "step aside" were the most influential.

So I took useful things out of it, but I cannot say it is well written. In particular a lot of "meta" conversation would have been better left out. Like coming back to the DSM classification and ranting how it doesn't include childhood traumas even thou the author feels he demonstrated they should be a separate entity. And on research - I don't know much, but I know something about epigenetics. There was a chapter that touched upon epigenetics (about how stressors change the expression of our genes), and the papers were cherry-picked to agree with what the author was saying. I didn't like that and this made me doubt some of the cited literature in other chapters that I cannot judge on my own.
I work two jobs, the second one is not possible remotely. Now that the first one (SWE) is fully remote, my interactions with coworkers in job 2 are more intense and I feel much more a part of Company 2 than before.

So I need human interactions but it’s fine if it’s another group of people. I have hobbies outside with people too, but the mandatory aspect of a job, and the variety of people (compared to a hobby where we all like the same thing) just makes it better.
It's like the old parable of the stone soup. You get 8 different people to "help" you with parts of the task, then present the completed task as your project. I have seen this done before although thankfully not very often.
Good for you :), but it's not about individuals. Only a small portion of unvaccinated people are hospitalized. However, even 1% of a dense population is still a lot of people and hospitals + ICs get clogged up. The probability of hospitalization is 17x smaller for vaccinated people and the probability of needing IC treatment 33x smaller [1]. So, if all people were vaccinated, we wouldn't have the issues we had last 6 months. Now we have a lot of delayed surgeries, including cancer surgeries, etc.

It’s a bit hyperbolic at this point, don’t you think?

As the statistics show, no. Though luckily, things are changing now that Omicron is dominant, so I think all limitations are lifted pretty soon here.

[1] https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/ongevaccineerde-COVID-19-patiënte...
I read Discworld novels for relaxation, they are hilarious and full of humanity, wisdom and insightful fury at injustice. But it's very hard to recommend just one.

_Small Gods_ is about religion, belief and humanity's relationship with their gods, and about eagles dropping tortoises onto stones to crack them open.
A very classic one, also recommended by many other people:

How to win friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie.

It was the original "self help" book, and the principles there are so simple yet powerful that will resonate a self evident. However these are mostly ignored, and the same as with common sense which happens to be the less common of the senses.
Is it original though? For example, the story of the flood is a very close copy of an earlier Babylonian flood myth.
> If you use terms in an unexpected way, it will create a barrier making it harder or outright prevent you from influencing others and will likely add unnecessary frustration to all involved. We need to consider not just the literal meaning of a word, or its denotation, but also its connotation.

> I believe the author was intending to say that some crate authors are not adhering to 100% of the semver spec.

Article is being disingenuous here. The original author absolutely intended to call this a violation of the semver spec, with all of the connotations that brings. And frankly they're right: by "not adhering to" the spec, you break their expectations and break their builds.

> With this continuous release model, what value am I providing users by bumping minor on all API additions? Most API additions end up being small and drawing attention to them with a minor release creates just as much noise for the user to sift through as patch releases.

The rest of the article answers that: if you bump minor on all API additions, you allow others to specify a caret version with a minor version number, as the spec says they should be able to.

Either follow the damn spec, or make it very clear that you're not following the spec so that we know not to use your libraries. Certainly don't try to blame other people for being rightly annoyed that you've made more work for them by violating the spec for the sake of what seems to be essentially your personal aesthetics.
> WebIDLs

Exactly. One of the reasons was that WebKit implements its APIs based on the WebIDL schema files (iirc Firefox does this too since Aurora).

Though the C++ code generator is a real old perl script, it's generally feasible to spoof the APIs as they would behave while providing behaviour profiles of the most commonly used web browsers (e.g. chrome/edge on windows).

The real challenge is to implement behaviour profiles that are also timing specific because some Browsers have different timings in incognito mode vs. normal mode due to how the memory is allocated directly in-RAM. That's usually how incognito mode Browsers are identified by recaptcha.
You will become a master developer when you can explain why the thing never should have been made in the first place and then lead an effort to tear it out and throw it away.

The best commits have more red than green.
Tell me you haven't touched economics as a science, without telling me you haven't touched economics as a science.
Oh yeah, it needs 1st party cookies enabled.
Thanks for the reference. I haven't seen this information before.

"In one scenario, the bits chosen first told the computer that MCAS was engaged when it wasn’t. This had the effect of disabling the cut-off switches inside the pilot-control column, which normally stop any uncommanded movement of the horizontal tail if the pilot pulls in the opposite direction."

The cutoff switches cannot be disabled on the airplane.

"They flew the same fault scenario again, this time deliberately allowing the fault to run for some time before responding. This time, one of the three pilots didn’t manage to recover and lost the aircraft."

That's kinda vague.
Going to the pub or a cafe with a friend is completely different from the interactions you have in your work. Most (all?) humans need both - we need to work together, and we need to relax together.
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- Stephen Few, August 2007
Biggest annoyance with Python GUI applications - how big is the executable constructed with this once you start adding a few libraries in?
> Of course JR works well as a whole now and it's not like society is worse off, but it's always left a bit of a poor taste in my mouth.

Wouldn't it be the case that society is now better off because of it? The "poor taste in your mouth" is a mental block from extensive propaganda in the last few years especially against private ownership.
"he noted that there exists not just a right to speak but a right to hear"

Is that so? I don't see why a speaker is entitled to an audience, let alone access to mass private communication.
Gonna add to the noise. I know this will go mostly unnoticed so I’m gonna unhinge my jaw here.

I like a mix. The last 2 years has been basically hell on earth for me. I live in the peninsula - one of the most expensive parts of SFBA. I feel my money is mostly wasted due to this. I’m unfortunately unable to afford SF proper in the way I’d need to in order to be happy. I can afford the peninsula in the way I need to get by. (Detached in-laws are more common here) I live where all the children and spouses are but I am a childless divorcee. It’s miserable AF area to live because of that - yet I can’t move due to needing to be in the area.

The big issue is that I fucking cannot stand the way people interact online. Zoom calls are a plague. Most of my coworkers are already socially awkward - add in another layer like Zoom and it just goes through the roof. It feels like everyone has Asperger’s when they’re on Zoom. Even for my more “social” coworkers who definitely think they’re highly socially skilled (PMs, execs, directors, biz ops, sales, etc) - they are 10x more inept over Zoom or especially Slack. For some of you, this might not be an issue. You’re anti-social yourself and treat your job very much as a 9-5 clock in and clock out thing. I’m extremely social and don’t have the mentality of someone who can clock out. I’m someone who is obsessed with getting ahead and being at least 2nd best at everything. This means that my ambition levels are unparalleled and so anything that gets in my way (e.g. social stupidity) is very aggravating. I’m not going to explain how this aggravates or gets in the way of advancing - someone who is social already knows what I’m talking about.

Not being able to work with people in person has shown that most of my coworkers treat each other like they’re not real people. They’re just faces on a screen like hostages in a cs_assault. They don’t care and really see them as an objective and a means to an end. Again - for some of you - this is ideal because you’re a borderline sociopath who shouldn’t really be interacting with anyone to begin with. For the rest of us - it’s banal spoon death. This treatment is lessened when people see one another in real life. Thus, I prefer hybrid. I’d like full in office being the default with the option of being at home if you want - but the office would need to be really good. I’m not into shitty loud open offices where loud sales jockeys with gongs and noise makers are going off and shitty music playing the same 60 minute set in the background - I’m not talking that. I also don’t need offices or whatever. I just want a sane office environment. Not a bull pen. Not a library. Something that has a reason to go in besides all your coworkers being there too. (A gym, basketball court, parks nearby, good meeting rooms, food, etc.)

Anyway - I’m annoyed. I lack all of the good of WFH and the good of office. I mostly experience the worst of both so far and I’m very bitter about it.
Asking for clarification is not like asking for more training.
You forgot to include long walks to and queues for oversubscribed W.C.s
They didn't read it then. I read it a while ago and from what I can remember there was nothing about manipulation or dishonesty. In fact I'm fairly sure manipulation and dishonesty were explicitly discouraged.
By and large, modern mass produced monitors are more than good enough. In fact, the best programmers in history had no problems running big CRTs.

These people don't need any fluff, and don't blame underperformance on lack of technology. People nowadays are so spoiled.

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Except censorship of radical ideas has been shown to be effective, over and over again.

I’m on my phone, but there’s a whole bunch of studies that show the effects of banning radical speech on Twitter (think ISIS), and the outcome was, unsurprisingly, less radical speech on Twitter. It didn’t return, it didn’t evolve, it just… died.

Free speech is an important concept, but it’s important at both ends; it’s also free speech to deny someone access to your megaphone, should you happen to own one.

[0] https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~dyang888/docs/jhaver-2021-dep...

[1] https://theconversation.com/amp/does-deplatforming-work-to-c...

[2] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deplatforming-parler-bans-qa...
sadly uses blockchain which is no longer acceptable to many people at least until the environmental concerns and other issues are resolved.
Awesome. But it's not really great software if the packaging isn't reliable, is it?

"Look how easy it is. All you need to do is to do is to install miniconda, and wait for it to download 1GB of software. Hope it doesn't break any installed pythons or your pythonpath or any existing packages!"
I guess some people can train their muscle memory quicker than others, as I've found myself to accommodate to changes in keyboard layouts quite fast. I also like the island-style keyboards on newer Thinkpads nicer to write on, clickier and more precise compared to older keyboards. I have X220 and T470 to compare.

Recently I've made the switch to Macbook Air, and while initially I missed some keys and the keyboard felt shallow, now it feels quite good and nice to type on.

Also, I'd take the Macbook any moment over the above Thinkpads, just because it will last a day without charger, and is faster and lighter.
They should have included the impact on parents in the study - although as someone pointed out, in 1918 there was a good chance of one parent being home full time, unlike today.
That’s true to an extent, and one of the good reasons that people give is that even if it’s easier to take the train to Hualien than to drive, once there, you’ll need to rent a scooter for the weekend because local transit outside of the cities is limited to busses.

That said, there are plenty of times that friends will want to drive, for the sake of driving around, to places where transit would do just fine. To me, it looks like the current generation is far wealthier than the last one, and being able to own and drive a car is a sign of having made it. Trains are awesome to me, having grown up in a place without public transit, but some of my friends act like riding TRA is more like a poverty decision. I may be reasoning from a too small a sample set of just my friends, but the voluntary gridlock weekends to go ‘camping’ drive me nuts.
The Tao Te Ching
Not sure why it's called Neutralinojs, neutralinos (if they should actually exist) are a lot heavier than electrons.
What a strange and salty message
We're still working from home, but I get together with a few people from the office once a week for lunch. I'll admit that we might be lucky in that we all live in the same city so it's easy for us to meet for a weekly lunch.
Words have meaning so people feel better about being offboarded instead of fired.
Completely agree. I'd like to also recommend another book in the spirit of Ecclesiastes: Tolstoy's Confession. A Confession was published shortly after Anna Karenina and at a time when Tolstoy (in his fifties) was widely considered to be one of the world's preeminent writers. He had vast wealth, fame, and a large family. Nevertheless, he was so overwhelmed by the vanity of existence that he was convinced suicide was the bravest, most reasonable course of action.

Apart from pure cowardice, he writes that what stopped him from taking his life was a vague intuition that his own logical reasoning about life's purpose was sound but somehow incomplete. His eventual insight is as follows: life is not meaningless because logically it must be so. Logic cannot 'negate' life because it is itself a byproduct of life. If one reduces life to a form conducive to logic, one reduces it to a cold, dead simulacra that may indeed not be worth living. Instead, Tolstoy argues, the life that is worth living, and the one that so many of the peasants around him lived, was one guided by (potentially unconscious) faith. He concludes that this faith in the transcendent must be the source of life ("God is life") and that life is a logically impossibility save for this faith.

His post-Confession writings are all dedicated to his interpretation of the Christian scriptures. I'll also note that his advocacy and envagelism of Christian pacifism was a direct influence on Gandhi and MLK Jr.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession
[2] http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/confessions-tolst...
Honestly surprised that "Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan was not mentioned so far.
Can you elaborate a bit about smelling it?

I've been a bit in hole for the last few months and I noticed that my armpit smell is different. My food all stayed the same.