skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had teams that were in the office but fully distributed, with only one of my team members even in the same country as me. People could, and did, still chat to me. The big difference is that it required discipline. Especially from me in order to deal with team members who were reluctant to speak up. I solved that by ensuring we always had at least one weekly one on one call scheduled to speak about nothing in particular. If nothing else came up, we'd discuss ideas or training or general improvements we could make, but on purpose those calls were always explicitly not for project discussions (if anything came up during these calls I'd schedule other calls for that).

Sometimes we'd have "nothing" to talk about until people realised I'd still insist on doing the call and it turned out they had stuff to talk about when I was there on the phone anyway and they didn't feel like they were wasting my time because I'd made it clear this time was already blocked out.

Doing fully remote requires managers who understand how to ensure they pick up on things from team members when they can't see them, and that will be an adjustment for a lot of companies.

But once you have that, and managers learn how to be available in the same way, it'll work just fine. Consider that lots of managers don't know how to be available in person either, but lock themselves away in offices and only emerge for meetings with agendas that does not leave much room for raising issues or general chat other than for a selected few, so this is not a new issue - just a different version of an old one.
It is indirectly due to EU's regulation. Average user doesn't care about your nuanced take, people around the world, billions of times have been annoyed by the cookie banner. If anything, the GDP lost due to this annoyance on a daily basis is probably in the millions if not billions of dollars.
"I could see a good argument for making an ivy league school with an enrollment of 100k, simply to break the ivy league elitist bullshit."

The elitists would simply view that larger school as inferior.
Maybe I’m just being too cynical about Merced as a future growth center, but to me the California high speed rail project is the textbook example of sunk cost fallacy. At present, it mostly serves to signal the level of corruption (or ineptitude) of anyone shameless enough to publicly support it. If one day it should actually connect Fresno and Merced, with a 100 billion dollar (and counting) price tag, what’s the cost per rider?! And they’ll probably vote the guy in again!
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If DLTs push forward, maybe traditional centralized services will have to keep up.

Smartphones are like thin clients. If you already subscribe to bandwidth, why not compute too?
But people like coldplay and voted for the Nazis!

If you don't want a weed on your garden, fair enough, but what's the point of the homogenous-lawn ideal Americans seem to have? It feels like a holdover from something like cold-war cultural propaganda.
Good point about the meaninglessness of a “no filter” concept. The article is very interesting in regard to lightness mapping, and there a another, related subject of hue mapping. This is a good part of the reason why pictures from different camera brands look different.

Your description of reciprocity failure is not quite right. The idea is that if you double the time the shutter is open and also decrease the aperture by one stop, you should not change the amount of light hitting the film (you will change other things, of course). The overall brightness should be the same when you make these “reciprocal” adjustments. This does in fact hold pretty well within a certain range of shutter speeds. Reciprocity failure occurs at longer or smaller speeds, where the reciprocal relationship doesn’t quite work.
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When I was younger I would look at technology like this and wonder in amazement at all the things humanity could do in space and expand our reach beyond the Earth.

Nowadays, I think what’s the point. Life in the universe may be extremely rare but we are going about the process of spreading it all wrong. Rather than sending humans to far off worlds we should focus on a simpler task of inseminating worlds with microbial multi-cellular organisms that can survive and evolve over the course of millions of years into full first class citizens that can thrive on these worlds and their environments. Humanity may die off soon but if we kick off a process on several worlds that triggers new forms of life to grow and reach sentience, then perhaps we will have done our part in the universe, and all of the human race could rest in peace knowing we have passed on the most precious resource the universe has to offer.
There is also crowdsec that promises fail2ban functionality from a crowdsourced data feed.

https://crowdsec.net/
The speed you want them to run is a factor also. The rule of thumb hasn't applied for a while, he's right in noting that in the post.
One of the smartest things I ever did was to just sort of quietly quit putting so much effort into pleasing all the people I used to depend on to reinforce my self-esteem or sense-of-self or whatever-it-is. I kind of died, and was reborn as myself. It's way better. But the self I am is much smaller than the one I wished I was or thought I could be or whatever... the one I conceived of. (There is no limit to what we can conceive of, so it's not super impressive to dream up a big version of yourself. Just be who you are and forgive yourself for not being the outsized caricature.)

The emptiness in your life will never go away. The error lies in thinking there ought to be more. More more more, it ought to ring a bell, and be recognized as a form of greed. Trying to fill the hole with friends is just as bad as filling it with drugs or booze or work. Just let it be empty. What's the big deal? It's empty, so what? Don't dwell on it, because that's the same thing, except you're trying to fill the emptiness up with an obsession about the emptiness itself. That isn't going to work, the emptiness will just grow to accommodate itself and eventually swallow you too. Get back to work. It's the one thing everyone has to do to survive, even if you're rich and it's just the work of showering once in a while. But don't try to fill the emptiness with work either. Just be like an animal (the animal you actually are). Get a dog if it helps you remember.
There's probably a list somewhere. Aunt Jemima? Uncle Ben? Colonel Sanders? Betty Crocker? The Quaker oats guy?
> However, my gut feeling is that "protecting the interests of
ordinary people" is what rich oligarchs (from whichever nationality)
will eventually tell ordinary people to sell us on the idea of a
trans-national, untraceable, currency, but that such a beast will be
much more in their interest (tax fraud? money laundering? milking
clients with online casinos? good ideas!) than in anybody else's

It is incredibly complex isn't it. Those are solid fears you offer.

Perhaps it's a question (formula of moral arithmetic) that extends
beyond money - that given a magic wand that offers equal gains to good
and evil, do you wave it? Do the wrongs of elite corruption cancel
out the freedoms of the working majority?

> buying from a black-market salesperson without attracting the
state's attention?

That's a severe example. But I would just like my 5 year old kid to be
able to buy an ice-cream with the pocket money I give her. That is
_literally_ the reality of how this affects me in real life. And if
this is just the early days of digital economics I really do not want
to see where this road leads. We already have cash, a perfectly
fungible, widely accepted and non-traceable (actually slightly
traceable) peoples' coin. Oligarchs don't trade in bags of cash. So
attacks on cash seem nothing but spite against common economic life.

> frauds without any recourse because of anonymity? not something I
want to deal with on a daily basis).

Don't forget that digital transactions can give recourse against fraud
without actually having to break client anonymity (Taler) or even
vendor anonymity (underwritten/insured escrow systems). Most of take
that risk everyday for smallish sums < $100 when we use cash.
I fail to see why that would be an ideal situation.

1. People should not be interchangeable. Polish hold different values than Cuban. They have their own languages, cultures, values, traits, physical appearances. Keeping borders is also making the world richer. I will be saddened for the rest of my life because I will never experience a massive culture shock like navigators experiences a few centuries ago. Now, I can pretty much have raclette anywhere, Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC, coke, Netflix, Hollywood is pretty much everywhere, and it's sad.

2. If we let go of the borders, we will give up on a vast amount of literature. Fiodor Dostoievski's masterpiece would have never existed if 40% of his population were French, Italians, Nigerian, Polish, Germans.

3. People would just abuse the system, using highly capitalist, low tax countries during their youth and move to socialist countries as they as getting older (of course that does not work, you need borders for this) and it's utterly unfair to let people from outside abuse a contributive system.
YouTube to Remove Videos ‘Denying, Minimizing or Trivializing’ Ukraine Invasion
Less regular mowing will encourage the flowers.

In my experience (I am at 45°45′S 170°34′E in the South Pacific/Southern Ocean area) the lawn flowers do not mind being mowed. It seems to encourage them if you mow like I do (a bit irregularly, when it looks too long) they seem to thrive.

I am really pleased to see this article. (I have only read the abstract) It matches my experience.
Freedom isn’t about being allowed to do _anything_
Saying gas is about 4$ right now is vaguely accurate, of course it’s also wrong. Consider the phrase “not even vaguely accurate” means it’s not just wrong it’s very wrong.

Being vaguely accurate on a history test may give partial credit, but the news should to be held to a higher standard.
> Basic case is "I need to borrow a tool sometimes next week" or "I need help with X, if youbcan please tell me when it suits you".

Sorry but people who I met 1 time will do that. That has nothing to do with friendship for me. I keep mentioning that this is probably different for different people. But that (borrow tools or help out with whatever) really is something literally everyone, even complete strangers, do here.
I get less confident in my C working with each standard release. The march towards pointer provenance combined with optimisation passes written for C++ means the pointer hackery I use C for has a finite lifespan.
It's never been easier to be a check writer, money printing with wreckless abandon, venture capital throwing money at anybody with a pulse.

This is what a market with an oversupply of check writers looks like.
Not an option for me, but thanks for the suggestion. I don't want to erect a geo-fence here.
My yard is a mix of shade, part shade and full sun. Different areas of the lawn grow at different rates, but some definitely need to be cut more than once a week during the worst of the year to avoid constantly clogging up the mowing deck.

Bear in mind this is a 5 acre lot that is 4/5 forest or water- definitely not a stereotypical suburban uniform green carpet. No pesticides or fertilizers used at all either.
Recurring meetings cannot be expressed as timestamps (unless you want all the humans to hate you). The recurrence has to be expressed in terms of local time (and date/day of week) in some (ideally per-event) timezone.
This will only work in an extremely rich and well education population like Switzerland or Norway. In many places the consumer doesn't have a choice or time to do the research against the advertising and PR of a large corporation.
I believe that the commenter above is referring to instant playback when you click on a YouTube link, not about autoplaying the next video.

Though I have that in vanilla Firefox and it works fine for me on YouTube.
No actual person thinks this but it’s the take away when you compress it down to memes / read about it in media.

America has no room for nuance, it’s either every police shooting is justified or every shooting isn’t justified. It’s probably not a great way to actually run a country but it makes for great media sales / entertaining politics.
Any civilisation that can detect an object of that size and categorise it as being unnatural in origin would have vastly more advanced technology that would allow them to detect humans on Earth in the first place.
Do you know when userchrome is going to be axed? I haven't seen anything about it.
that's the one i have, and for whatever reason, my set up does not allow me to create passwords on the android app. I have struggled with SSH multiple times (i always need to create a new ssh key rather than importing a stronger one), etc.

That said, haven't checked for fixes in a while - the actual functionality of the app itself (when in working condition) is very good.
And also legitimate Chinese visitors will use VPN to access foreign websites anyway. Because of the GreatFirewall, a Chinese person must use a VPN to reliably visit foreign websites.
I'm in the same boat! May be more challenging if you, like me, have other obligations competing for your attention. I've also noticed that I'm a bit mentally slower than I was in high school and college. But I am more emotionally stable, so that's good. But in terms of feasibility, I don't think age in itself is much of a factor, especially if you stay humble and open to constantly learning more.
Russian strike on base brings Ukraine war close to NATO's border
Mine is to open about:config, search for sponsored and turn of the relevant ones.
Sorry, S.A.C. Capital Advisors didn't shutdown. Rather, it repaid outside investors, and then was reborn with insider-only money as Point72 Asset Management. (Yes, I know that a few employees of SAC were found guilty of financial crimes.)
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Do you have tall grass too? I planted clover a while back over my existing grass and if i didn't mow i'd still have a foot tall grass, which i find really annoying.

I still love the clover, and it helps keep the grass a bit more sane - but the length of the grass is my primary fight.
This is why I don’t see hybrid lasting. It breaks what most like about their preferred option.
NewPipe [1] is an open-source alternative, although latest versions of Vanced will supposedly keep working for the foreseeable future [2].

[1]: https://newpipe.net/

[2]: https://nitter.net/YTVanced/status/1503055442506915846#m
I don’t think there’s any set date, but it’s been deprecated for a while now. That’s why you have to go into about:config to turn it on.

I’m sure it’ll make waves and be all over the front page of HN when the date is decided upon.
This is an excess mortality study, not going off of positive covid tests. And there's some meaningful research that suggests that those are relatively accurate because indirect deaths have gone up and down in a way that could be a wash (e.g. less traffic deaths because of shutdown, but more deaths from untreated illness because hospitals were overwhelmed).

And this is Academic modeling - they don't have an incentive to inflate the numbers.
Time for those founders’ kids to leave the nest methinks
So, my heuristic for appliances:

Find a vendor that targets customers who lose money if the appliance fails, and is unable to be quickly repaired.

So far, this has been a good way to locate Vulcan Ranges, SpeedQueen washers/dryers, and True refrigerators.

Now...there are drawbacks to this approach. Many of these brands don't target the price-point, convenience features, or aesthetic that consumer brands do. But, if the price is right, you may find something reliable you can live with.

https://true-residential.com/
Off topic, but is anyone interested in learning Godot? I want to learn Godot, and looking to team-up with someone.
Perhaps. I cannot argue, I live elsewhere.

But I have a lawn that takes me an hour of hard work to mow. It is not visible to the public. I adore it. The dogs adore it. The children are too little to appreciate the effort, but they like it too.

There are other reasons to have lawns.

Also maintains an area around the house that does not burn
hmm I reason sooner or later a scanner will find an xss/sql exploit/whatever? why give scanners free access to search endlessly for possible exploits when you can fail2ban? all servers have possible exploits if they expose a medium complex service. (if ssh is all you expose and you only allow keys, fine!)
There has not ever been a reason for memory to be correlated with storage capacity nor any reason to believe that such a correlation ought to exist.

Nobody ever said well I plugged an 20TB external hard drive so I better plug in a few more sticks of RAM so that works.

Dedup needs RAM in proportion to storage because for each duplicate block it maintains an entry in an in memory table.
Lorentz factor at that speed is very small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor
In the early 80s, bulge bracket investment banks figured out that they can just hire hungry and ambitious analysts straight out of college, work them to the bone for 1-2-3 years, and then send most of them off to grad/business school or somewhere else.

That's why, IMO, jr. investment bankers work such horrendous hours. They know it's a temporary thing, and that the real payoff comes later.
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I don't think it matters if the geo-location table is correct or not. If traffic from an IP range is entirely malicious, block that IP range. If that range happens to be Chinese or from Florida it doesn't really matter, does it?
This sounds like keeping up with the Jones' more than anything... these are not middle America public schools or even middle class neighborhoods where this family is residing - these are feeders to the upper echelon of American society. Do I wish my public school rural America kids had different homework? Yes, we could make many points about quality over quantity. But, if this guy and his kids feel the work is too onerous, there are plenty of regular public school options that will be a shocking step down in terms of rigor, but that might be more in line with their expectations.
After living in the US for 35 years (my whole life) I finally live in an area where I can walk for 98% percent of my needs including markets, bars, restaurants, book shops, some good little museums, libraries and even a little indie video game store. For whatever its worth its Sacramento and the only other remotely walkable city I lived in was New Haven.

I didn't find New York, LA or SF very walkable at all. But I was super poor when I lived there.

Writing this I realize that homelessness has been most problematic in the walkble cities I've lived in. Maybe it's obvious but I'm wondering if theres a more complex connection there.

And weirdly I've had kind of a hard time adapting to having no meditative reflection time during long commutes. Not that I would ever go back to that insanity.
For those not familiar with it, this is talking about the very first network malware, which spread across the entire internet and took down pretty much every connected server (that wasn't the intent, but a bug in the code caused it to attack machines far more aggressively than intended leading to overload of the infected machines).

Mark Eichin, who shows up in that interview, led the MIT effort to de-compile a snapshot of the payload in real time as it was spreading. Today that's a common thing, but it was seriously badass stuff when this thing hit back in the 80's (the first Internet "virus"/worm forced the community to figure out how to respond to such things in the moment as the net was under attack and machines were going down around you).

If you're interested in this kind of history, Cliff Stoll has some great notes on the experience written as it happened in The Cuckoo's Egg[0] (the worm hit as the book was in production, and Cliff was able to add an extra chapter at the end to cover the worm just as the book was going to press).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/CUCKOOS-EGG-Clifford-Stoll-ebook/dp/B...
I live surrounded by hundreds of acres of forest. Wildlife is abundant, but there is absolutely no keeping up with the mosquito and tick population. Using deet and grooming ourselves and our dogs after they come inside every single time is just a fact of life.
> Replacement battery would help with reparability, which is one step toward the sobriety needed to fight climate change.

I have some bad news for you: https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/shipping-emiss...

Where is the sense in greenwashing yourself about recycling your lightbulb when it was made 6000 miles away, and added more CO2 emissions than manufacturing it end-to-end?
AFAIK from about 2004 (fast rise of oil prices and rising salaries in Moscow) until about 2014 (Crimea annexation) it was realtively low.
To my that implies wandering around in a forest or tracking the edges of farmland (this is a very British thing keep in mind, YMMV), I don't think I'd get the same effect from some grass.

I count myself fairly lucky that I can walk from the sea to a suburb to a field full of cows in less than an hour where I live.
Yeah I learned about shibboleth here in HN, remember reading about Spanish using pork/ham foods as it's own shibboleth-like device. And how some portuguese butchers offered vegan kosher options to the travellers that wanted to not stand out in a cantina, hahaha
> the remote people find that they routinely hear about things much later than everyone in the office knows about them.

I'm not sure this tracks with my experience. It seems like the organizational structure of a company is what keeps people from learning about things, not their location. The common case I can think of is that some meeting occurs in which a decision is made, and that decision and the context around it are not communicated outside the meeting (in a timely or efficient way, that is).

Some people are "in the know" and others are not, but it's a function of who they work with, not who they meet in the hallway.

If you mean gossip, watercooler chat, that kind of thing, sure. But, I don't miss that stuff.

Maybe you're thinking of some other example that I'm not.
A friend of mine started raising chickens for eggs last year. One of the unexpected upsides is that they will prevent grass from growing too much.

Not for everyone, but sure an interesting solution.
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Where I am, having a lot of clover in your lawn is considered to be a sign that the soil is short some nutrient. Nitrogen or potassium or something.

My lawn is about 1/3 clover. Just grows wild.

The dirt here is mostly clay, if that significates.
A couple lists from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_characters_in_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Male_characters_in_ad...

Unfortunately they mix the obviously fictional in with the less obviously fictional (like cartoon characters with more plausible characters).