skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It honestly really depends. I'm a Googler and work in a team/org that was already heavily distributed all over the world. I am located in Japan, work with people in Europe, US (both coasts), Australia, Taiwan. While me being in the office means I get to talk in person with some people that are in my team (but which I'm not directly working with because my projects are with people located elsewhere anyway), and it's a nice social environment, work-wise it makes no difference for me because the people I have meetings with, I exchange emails, IMs, send code reviews, etc are spread all over the world anyway.

I personally prefer working from home, I have my test devices here, I set up my own home office, I don't need to waste time commuting, I have more time to take care of things around my house and/or my family if needs be, and I actually find myself working more focused and wasting less time than I did when I was in the office. I know this is not for everyone but the fact that my other team members might or might not be in the office has pretty much 0 effect on my work performance because I wouldn't even know nor care about.

Just my two cents.
that's not true at all, he doesn't need anything to remain in power, but if he wanted to get more popular among general population he could provided economic growth
> you can do it perfectly on zoom

Do you experience Zoom fatigue? The sensation that, while this technology is convenient and useful, you're missing something important?

I think this whole debate is really about whether people have this sensation or not.
> I’m not against walking. I’m against having to walk just to get to and from a meeting.

You aren’t making any sense to me
The link to it is in the readme in the same directory: https://github.com/phqb/oneliner
Yeah, webstart was an unusable shit-show.

I remember writing a first SWT app (with embedded JRE) ~2004 and it looked nice and worked fast enough.

I think if Sun/Oracle didn't legally ban JRE trimming, added offical Swing browser widget and added a free cross-platform good-looking and developer/user-friendly installer - the story would've been different.
Agree, but recently Minecraft mod (written in Java) is a popular way how to learn code with joy.
https://www.courier.com/docs/guides/tutorials/how-to-configu...

Leonardo DiCaprio sitting up in chair pointing at the tv screen

I kid you not two days ago I said to my Jr. SRE "We need a way to bifurcate an alert to multiple channels via webhook" due to our unique observability needs and slaps knee here it is. We were about to launch off and try building something this quarter, and then here you come down off the mountain.

Congrats on launching, looking forward to kicking some tires tomorrow morning.
> charge fees for those services based on actual free market supply and demand

There's something to be said for this, but it doesn't work to just flip to the opposite extreme. As long as there are wealth inequities, then free-market supply-and-demand turns into the idea that anyone poor shall have nothing, not even the capacity to travel on streets or drink water. If they don't want to just up and die, they can get a loan to do these things and go into a cycle of indentured servitude for life.

The free market has never had any solution to such issues. Supply-and-demand works best when all the players have the same overall capacity to pay for things, and that's not how reality works out.

Societies prosper when efforts are made to make sure everyone has the foundations from which to build a productive life. That means health care, shelter, basic food and water, safety, capacity to get around (transportation of some sort), and access to information (education, libraries etc). If everyone has that stuff, they have the chance to add productivity to society rather than be a drain in the form of disease, crime, and so on.
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1498491107902062592 has history too
> He didn't punch a toddler in the face.

If your defense of someone has to start with such a hilarious strawman, it might be an indicator you're defending something not worth your time.
Looks very interesting, though the Javascript demo doesn't seem to work (Firefox 97.0). The following error gets logged into my console:

> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://registry-cdn.wapm.io/packages/_/sqlite/sqlite-0.2.2.....

Looks like you'll need to add a `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to your repository to get it to work right.
The Petrov movie you linked to, The Man Who Saved The World (2014) is a very good documentary. In it, among other things, Petrov meets his favourite actor, Kevin Costner, who asks him how many people would have died had he followed orders. Petrov says, everybody. Also he gets an award at the UN and visits a US missile silo. With reenactments of him saving the world.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2277106/
"Former co-founder" sounds so weird.
Ask HN: Hearing Aid Industry Disruption
Isn't it time to disrupt the hearing aid industry, which is pretty scammy?

Seems like with modern technology, you could leapfrog all these existing, expensive, old hardware solutions.

Or am I missing someone already doing that?
When SPA started picking up steam, I thought it was an amazing development! We had gone from mainframes, to personal computers, and were back to mainframes and using our powerful machines as glorified dumb terminals. This way, we could have UI code running locally, and servers only handling state. Plus, less data to transfer!

Then the frameworks ballooned in size. What previously was seen as wasteful (rendering and sending HTML) started to seem pretty frugal in comparison to the multi megabyte pages. Not to mention that one could always send just page fragments.

Other than specialized apps, I think most single page applications are a mistake. Sure, some may benefit from a nice UI - say, I'm writing a 3D modeler. But most apps there are could just re-render pages. 'Refresh' is not much of a problem in an age where simple REST API calls are returning megabytes of JSON data...
I feel like this actually somewhat overinflates the impact that meditation can have, at least on an acute level. There's a marked difference between taking a psychoactive substance like LSD and meditating. Conflating the two is somewhat disingenuous in my opinion.

This isn't to say that meditation doesn't work, which I highly recommend for improving focus and de-stressing. You probably actually often end up meditating without even realizing it (e.g. anytime you exercise or listen to music).
I don't think anyone is inherently evil, but I can proudly say much of my work was oriented toward humanitarianism and democratic initiatives. Call it cliche, but you do win people over with kindness and decency.

We worked to build schools, teach farmers about modern agricultural practices, provided medical services, and let women vote or shop by themselves in the local bazaar without fear. We helped reduce IEDs placed in the area to prevent civilian casualties, encouraged safe driving practices, and worked to convince young kids to stop fighting.

I cried when I read that the city in which I lived for a year was recently retaken by the Taliban after we left. I could only hope that the people with which I shared hot tea on cold desert mornings, or potluck style meals, or laughs around a hookah, were able to stay safe.

Does any of that sound evil to you?
SEC Says BitConnect's Indicted Founder Has Fled to India
From: https://www.metacareers.com/life/what-remote-and-flexible-wo...

> As of June 15, Facebook is opening up remote work to all levels across the company. Anyone whose role can be done remotely can request remote work.
For me, meditation started a fundamental shift in how I think about free will, and oddly nobody I've mentioned it to in real life has felt this.

I used to feel very in-control of my own mind, but after intentionally sitting and monitoring for thoughts, labeling those thoughts, etc, I became sensitive to how thoughts can really come out of nowhere. You can't predict what you will think next. That strikes a little deeper than a nature/nurture argument where you might say "oh, I just behave a certain way I guess, its in my genes". You start to wonder if you're just being forced to watch the movie that is your own life.

I personally feel like my life is a mostly-good movie, and there's reason to predict it will continue that way, but for many people, they're stuck in a bad movie. Some people may feel imprisoned by that. But not feeling in control can also be liberating, depending how you look at it. So I definitely agree that it's a double edged sword, or that YMMV.

(Overall, I've enjoyed meditation, and I try to do it about once a week, just to remind myself that there's another mode of thinking that's available to me.)
I’m glad you found a combo that works for you. I don’t know many Christians that demonize meditation, but I’m sure they’re out there.
There’s a distributed system of loosely coupled organizations in charge of making cities work. They coordinate by a price system for many urgent voluntary transactions and by bureaucratic organizations with supervision for others. In neither case do they rely on people just doing their jobs because it is the god and honorable thing to do.
I've been going back in to work 1-2 days a week and find it's been insanely productive and had allowed me to reconnect with coworkers in a more effective manner. I was previously sold on 100% WFH but now I understand the importance of some face time. That said, I will never voluntarily come back 5 days a week. For me, the office is for discussions, socializing, and working out problems in real time. Home is where I get actual work done. That would be different if I had an actual office at work, but I don't.

Another factor to consider in the rush back to the office: gas prices may dramatically spike depending on the situation in the Ukraine. It will likely be a significant driver of inflation (and stagflation) and may keep folks from willingly commuting at pre pandemic levels.
Someone messaging on Slack can be ignored quite easily, without it being rude. If someone is starting a video call with you without arranging a time with you first then I agree you need to get in physical proximity with that person, but only to smack them.

Slack is not usefully searchable, true, but its purpose for documentation is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be. If you have a link to the conversation you have the whole conversation; that can be useful to share context. Likewise meetings; being able to record them is HUGE. But either way, you mention Slack should only be used for ephemeral communication...all in person communication is ephemeral. Slack at least has it saved, even if it's a pain to find; in person does not. I can share a Slack link; if you missed it, forgot it, or disagree about what was said, you're out of luck with in person.
Steam Deck emulation can handle Persona 5 and more
Wouldn't asteroid (more common due to no atmosphere) impacts cause similar pollution?
You massively underestimate the complexity required of any such conspiracy. NATO has 30 member states, EU has 27 member states. Most have leaders who can not ignore domestic public opinion and they almost never agree on anything. Some have leadership positions with more ceremonial role, who nevertheless have access to classified material and/or are formally the commander of the armed forces. The likelihood that even the eurosceptic leaders who were widely considered to be Putin's allies were all in on some secret plan is nil. They are simply not capable of keeping this a secret. Conspiracy theories all have this same problem, where they underestimate how many layers of bureaucracy are involved in running something as large as a country or an army.

It's much more likely that many politicians were genuinely surprised by the invasion. They ignored the Eastern Europeans, as always, who were just being paranoid about Russia, as always. People tend to ignore problems that are hard to deal with, especially when solving them seems costly, until they can ignore them no longer.
Says the group arguing about someone being wrong on the internet about nothing of importance.

https://xkcd.com/386/
I’m so sorry to hear that and I hope you’re doing better now.
Ukraine ask satellite-firms to public-share real-time Images of Russian Invasion
$200 will get you a machine that performs way better and can last much longer on battery: https://slickdeals.net/f/15646300-new-customers-hp-laptop-ry...

Alternatively, you could go all in on security and buy a T400 for $100, spend another $100 to $200 upgrading its CPU, Screen, RAM, SSD and battery, then Libreboot it: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/t400.html
TikTok has changed the way we consume war
The article glosses over a couple of points I recall from living through the same period:

- JBuilder was performant (and as I recall, for GUI development, awesome). Not sure if it was Swing-based, but it was a counterpoint to the idea that you couldn't build performant Java GUI apps.

- Applets were stifled by Microsoft refusing to include a contemporary Java runtime in IE, which was still dominant around 2000. My recollection is a bit vague now, but I seem to recall that Java applets in IE were stuck on a 1.0 JVM when Java 1.2 was contemporary.

It's worth noting that I was developing on Linux and Windows. The author's experience would have been coloured by his use of the Mac platform. Up until quite recently, Macs were stuck on Java 6 while the rest of us were using Java 8, at least. I can't help but wonder if Apple considered Java to be a second class citizen.
Cancel culture is definitely a reality, but is mostly concentrated in the various social media forums available. It is human nature to want to be on the team that is correct or winning, not unlike rabid fans of a sports team. Because of that, people tend to do and say things before rationally thinking things through, and I have witmessed here on HN also.

My point was not necessarily this issue, but all things regarding Russia, or the crisis/issue du jour.
But the moon doesn't have an atmosphere. Surely there's nothing for the dust to "hang around" in. It would either achieve escape velocity or continue in an arc until it hits the ground again.
I think the one thing that has unequivocally been proven though is that it works. To what degree it fits/supports peoples’ subjective state of mind is up for argument, but most professions got by just as they did prior to the pandemic. Heck, I’m a trial attorney and I never thought remote work would be feasible. After doing multiple 3+ day trials entirely by WebEx I never want to go back to a courtroom. I can skip security, use multiple monitors, seldom drive, cook my own lunches, pet my dogs on breaks… everything for my job is easier remotely. It’s a dream come true.
In this article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/14/tommy-thomps...
1994 blog post: "java.lang: A New Kind Of System Interface"
Performance Improvement Plans.

Basically a company's last effort to cover their butts before firing you. If you contest the termination, they can claim they gave you fair warning and a chance to improve.

If you're ever on one, the sensible course of action is to look for another job. You're next on the chopping block.
It is now a preventable disease. It wasn't at the start of the pandemic, before vaccines.
I worked at Google in KIR for the past 5 years. You calling the working conditions "atrocious" is hilarious. This is why people call Googlers entitled.
This would make sense if it wasn't for the fact that Google (at least my org) is already spread around several offices and project work already happens across different timezones and locations. We have regular meetings with people joining in remotely. I work mostly with people from the other side of the world (despite my immediate team sharing the same city as me), this is because my actual projects don't reflect necessarily my local team composition. We make it work, we've been making it work for the past 2 years and even before the pandemic we had people working remotely. My previous team was split across Europe and NYC and it worked just fine. Honestly, hybrid work with some people being permanently remote and some people working in the office would have very little effect on our already-existing working culture. Just my experience at least.
A product that is 10% better to use is a lot better... people routinely put tons of effort into much smaller amounts of benefit, as benefit is difficult to pull off; and the reality is that servers probably aren't costing the majority of your revenue.
I joined a new org earlier this year, fully remote, and my last gig was only a week in person before the pandemic started. I have also onboarded half a dozen juniors in the last few months, again all remote. Your comment is completely out of touch.
Was she feeling the spirit and didn't feel the proposal was necessary?

(This is a reference to her response when she ignored the city's indoor masking requirements, and then doubled down.. because "she was in the spirit and she felt like getting up and dancing" https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/mayor-breed-says...)
I am confused. Why was this downvoted? Is GCC and Clang doing better? (Or another C++ compiler?)
Not true of Syria.
I love how mad you’re getting that someone called you out. Guess what? I’m going to keep calling out bullshit.

Long Now doing NFTs is bullshit. You can choose to show your love for them and people should absolutely call you on that.
wow, I remember visiting that site in the 90s and had no idea it still existed and was still being updated. Amazing.

Do you know of any other sites like this you'd recommend?
I'm in a similar situation: the pandemic destroyed my ability to be comfortable in the office.

I like keeping the windows in my flat open, and two years of working from home made me extremely uncomfortable breathing the bad air of an hermetically sealed office.
My old company is this way. You can work from any of several offices, but work from the office you must.

So even when I went in, I never dealt with team members.
Wouldn't the dust technically become the atmosphere? There is still gravity on the moon.
I wasn't aware either, but your guess appears to be correct: "Between 1848 and the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the principal mode of transportation between California and the east coast of the United States was to travel by steamer from San Francisco to the west coast of Panama, cross the isthmus by train, and take a steamship to New York."

http://www.columbia.edu/~dj114/SS_Central_America.pdf
Too bad it’s not headed to Purim’s location. Just sayin’
I wonder how much of this consistency is for the sake of feeling in control. (i.e. I hypothesise, that it is only about emotions of the boss)
> If this were true, you wouldn't need a REST API. I don't understand what you're trying to say here. When you make a REST call to get data, you instantly have two different sets of state: the client and the server. It's no different from SSR, it's just transmitted in a different data format (json vs html).

SSR means you don't have a clear representation of the client-side state (as distinct from the presentation) - by definition you render on the server and only serve the view layer to the client, whereas your data model only lives on the server. There will naturally be state in the client (e.g. form inputs), but you don't have a good representation of that in your model.

> You do the exact same thing with SSR. Stateless shared nothing app tier instances. Been doing it for 15 years now.

OK so where does the UI state live - not the long-term persistent entities, but things like unvalidated form input, which tab is enabled, which step of an in-progress wizard the user is on? Either you manage that on the client (at which point you're halfway to an SPA, and getting the worst of both worlds), or you manage it in the application layer on the server (in which case you have all the scaling issues), or you make every UI change go all the way into the data layer which has even bigger performance issues.
How do I know, and keep track of over time, whether a server/company is in the EU or not
When we had an acquisition of a major European company we had multiple people from our team flying to Paris, Budapest, and some city in Switzerland multiple times per month for the better part of a year. What a time to be alive.
> "White supremacist has now become a label for a larger and larger group of republicans/white cisgender traditional-valued people. "

White supremacist beliefs aren't even illegal in the US (whether or not they should be), so the idea that the label of white supremacist itself absent of any other crime is somehow being used to legally prosecute people who are guilty of nothing more than "traditional beliefs" or "being Republican" is quite a stretch.

Not as much of a stretch as placing white supremacists and BLM as category-similar examples, though.

> "it just depends on who is in power"

Also how the law is written.
I suppose taken to the extreme they could try to control which transactions miners who are subject to US law or influence accept, which would be an interesting experiment likely doomed to fail. But they don't really need to.

From what I can tell the immediate concern is about strengthening guidance and making sure Exchanges (and other entities dealing in crypto) enforce OFAC blacklists, etc. The volume of real world trade settled in cryptocurrency is still so low the article suggests it wouldn't have much impact at scale (per Carol House, the director of cybersecurity for the National Security Council "The scale that the Russian state would need to successfully circumvent all U.S. and partners’ financial sanctions would almost certainly render cryptocurrency as an ineffective primary tool for the state").

More likely her comments are intended to paint the crisis into a narrative Warren and like-minded legislators want to construct around crypto in advance of debate that will occur after the upcoming Biden announcement [1] and moreso once the agencies he will task to examine it report back (most of whom I anticipate will come back with fairly crypto-unfriendly stances).

[1] https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-order-on-crypto-over...
So don't replicate it online. Having a different venue beyond a job is also an option.

That's the real part highlighted by the pandemic: people are extremely reliant on their jobs for social interaction. With all the problems that come with it. We're practically raised to be dependent on jobs for way too many things.
I cycle between having too many and going minimalist.

Cookie Autodelete, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere are some of the usual suspects.
Well, they are regulated medical devices, so that hinders disruption a bit. But they're pricey and probably not quite worth all that's paid for them. But, when you need them you need them and the DSP's needed to do some of the noise reduction (and their size) prevents a trivial alternative. Unless you figure that the brains will be in a watch or smartphone...

But they have to sound pretty good, which makes for expensive small speakers. High-end earphones, I think, are at least as pricey as the mid-grade hearing aids in that both have to be sonically clean at worst.
Moon gets struck by meteorites all the time... dust kicked up by landings or man-made impacts isn't really a problem that warrants concern.
I'm also slightly annoyed nowadays by "A New Kind of X" simply because of Wolfram's self-aggrandizing book A New Kind of Science.
The daughter of a friend of mine (just a grade-school-aged child at the time) demonstrated for me how she could hold one eye completely fixed (staring straight ahead) and move the other eye independently, turning it outwards as far as she could had she been moving both eyes. The motion of the eye being moved was very smooth and deliberate. I found it absolutely fascinating and baffling. How does one even discover they have such an ability?
I've never heard it before and I watch Rick and Morty.