skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just about making friends. It's about serendipity.

It's about spontaneous and unplanned interactions that provide new paths for you. Yes, you can still have those remotely - but they are no where nearly as frequent, nor anywhere near as impactful. They simply can't be - your fighting millions of years of social evolution if you think otherwise. Heck I doubt most of us remember a fraction of spontaneous in person interactions with others in our day to day life - but let me tell you there are a handful in my past that made all the difference in where I am today. None would have happened if I had been working remotely.

Not one of them.

You simply can't quantize the value of those interactions and I fear for those who are seemingly so willing to casually tossing those away. Yes, commuting sucks. Yes, committing to a schedule sucks. Yes, listening to the same story from Bob for the millionth time while you are trying to focus on something else sucks. But there are other benefits that are irreplaceable too.

Probably the best illustration I can think of in pop culture is the Star Trek:TNG episode where Picard's artificial heart dies and he has that whole near death experience with Q. It's a great analogy for this whole discussion. I'm too am glad I had the bloody nose early on and the much more interesting life overall.
From the study: "Owner survey responses are susceptible to rater bias, including the influence of breed stereotypes." That's all I could find acknowledging that this bias exists. I'm inclined to believe they know this type of bias completely invalidates the study, which is why they didn't want to explore it further.

Imagine a dog owner saying "Strongly agree" to something like "Dog has a tendency to attack (or attempt to attack) other dogs", or "Dog behaves aggressively towards children." (I believe these were questions in the surveys given to the dog owners).

> No no, not my precious Bulldozer, he's a sweety, just gets excited sometimes. I'll only put "neither agree nor disagree", because he only tries to attack dogs who are smaller than him.

I mean, I get it, nobody wants to think ill of their beloved pet, but that's the point. A study like this needs objective measures.
If you had a heart condition and you went to a doctor with chest pain, it'd be a pretty reasonable guess that the underlying cause was the heart condition.
I scored 115.
::cries in midwit::
Wait until you find out what Peggy, Betty, or Tina are short forms of.
> Monkey Island 2 is a masterpiece.

My mileage certainly differs. I loved how it looked, but to me it is by far the weakest of the lucasarts games I played (and I played all but the first Maniac Mansion and Zac McKraken). It is far too difficult! Far too many locations and items, you just get overwhelmed in the middle part of the game.

MI1 was a much better game in this regard.
Helicopters kind of fly like birds don’t they?
'Exocomets' Orbit a Familiar Star
The author says "We found no support for policies targeting particular breeds" [1] which is completely absurd even if you postulate that their study's results were even stronger than they are. Imagine that their study found zero correlation between breeds and behavior. Even if that were the case, the outcomes of that behavior are wildly different. Some breeds will bite you and not even break skin. Some breeds will bite you, and you'll need stitches and antibiotics. Some breeds will literally rip your arms off. How could any reasonable person conclude that "no difference in behavior" leads to "no support for policies targeting particular breeds"?

Is there anyone here who would let their 6 year old child play, unsupervised, with a random pit bull? How about a random chihuahua?

[1] https://twitter.com/eenork/status/1520459786575396869
"I ported Zelda Classic to the web. You can play it here–grab a gamepad if you have one!"
You don't even need location services to be on, wifi alone is enough to derive location if the app can tell what wifi networks you're near.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
Got through the first 10 exercises (out of apparently a total of 35) before becoming bored.

I'd rather do the data refining job at Lumen.
My prediction is this will have just as much impact as the Panama Papers. Basically none.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

The headline does not say "substantially less pronounced than previously thought". The headline says "breed does not predict behaviour (nature.com)". Any fool who works with dogs will tell you that yes, it ruddy well does.
Doesn't load, but its the thought that counts
Spoiled brats.
I understand.

> you can't simply upgrade the software on all the machines

You can update a website. And a website can use the local gpu.

The break the training task in smaller pieces, parallelize and distribute it part is indeed beyond my skills.
I'm not really sure about your second paragraph, that's not something I've tried doing.

Resolve works like this: You set a project parameters (resolution, framerate being the big ones), either manually or it is set by the first clip you bring in. Then you can bring in clips that don't match those values, and they are just, at render time, converted to the target resolution/frame rate.

You can take clips in your timeline and make a composite clip out of it, basically rendering it within the project to a new artifact, I usually use that primarily for combining the 5m clips my camera breaks things down into into a single large clip, but I think you can also put panning on that. I haven't used Vegas Pro, that sounds pretty slick.
Which means systems are not really reproducible, no? And what about rollback of broken systems?
Considering this data is dangerous to far more innocent women and abortion doctors than Republican lawmakers, it doesn't seem very wise to gloat about it.
> Yet in 2016, the European Court of Human Rights found that there was no implied right to same sex marriage in the Convention.

They've ruled EU states have to recognize other countries' same-sex unions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coman_and_Others_v_General_Ins...) and required at least civil unions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliari_and_Others_v._Italy), which puts them well ahead of the pre-Obergefell USA.
Well I guess 80% of the market isn't basically the market by your definition is it and every major institution that uses the S&P 500 as a proxy for the US market is wrong, right? OK. Sure.
All comments here are about the technique. But I found the video to be quite different. Yes, the method of repairing clothes like this takes a lot of effort, time, and huge amount of practice.

For me, the video was about many other things. It was about skill and craftsmanship, of course. It was also about apprenticeship, about a master and his protégé. But it was also about love and affection and a father's guarded praise about his daughter. And a daughter's delight in becoming as skilled as her father. And about two craftsmen who take a lot of pride in their work and use it as a medium to make their customers very happy. This is rare in today's world. It was also about calm and peace, an almost meditative state that one gets into, when one is deeply immersed.

A really beautiful video. It's not often that one gets to pause, reflect and be touched while constantly being swept in this river of information.

Thank you.
Great notes! I recently read Philosophy of Software Design, but decided not to take notes on it because I wanted to finish it in a reasonable time period.

I'm currently a few chapters into a few other books which I chose to take notes on, but it's very slow going and my desire to read those books has decreased because it feels like a slog.

How do you combat the desire to note every little detail (how do you decide what's important)?

Also, do you take notes directly in a text editor, or do you take handwritten notes and then transcribe them later?
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I got exactly the same score as on the WAIS 4 test I took a few years ago. (Enough to qualify for a membership, I guess...)

If you thought this test was a breeze, I think the chances are your IQ is pretty high. You can think whatever you want about that of course.

One the other hand: if you got bored and distracted, lost your confidence, or just got a low score - don't read too much into it. These tests have a good correlation with other IQ tests but are not perfect.

If you are neurodivergent, for example, some sub-tests of the WAIS can be much harder than others. You can still be really smart, but some situations may be limiting your use of that intelligence. It can also be that some aspect of your intelligence (I just think of it as having an "effective" mind) is weaker than you'd expect given your overall strength, so you could be compensating for it using the resources you do have.

Here are my least favorite stereotypes around intelligence:

- "High IQ means low EQ." If dealing with other people is hard for you, you might for example be helped by an autism assessment. You might be running the "neurotypical emulator", which is really costly on your hardware. It's also a shitty thing to say to people.

- "Gifted kids get bored in school and might start getting into trouble." Well, smart kids usually have an easy time in school. If they're bored, they probably find strategies to cope. If they get into trouble more than the average kid, they might have other problems. Don't just let them deal with it themselves. Smart kids deserve help too, even though they seem to be more independent than others.

- "High IQ means you're into X". Rubik's cubes aren't automatically fascinating just because you test high on an IQ test. Signalling intelligence might have a correlation with intelligence but there are also a lot of people (perhaps the smartest ones?) that have little interest in that. It seems like we're pretty poor judges of intelligence in general, but putting a lot of importance on it anyway.
Organizations would deeply resent being saddled with code in a dozen different languages for one application. When some bit of functionality straddles two parts in two different languages, they need somebody skilled in both languages to work on that. Even for a free-software project, the chief maintainer really needs to understand all the languages used in it, and the number of people skilled enough to contribute to a part will often be severely limited, if one of the languages is obscure or if it needs work in two or more.

Thus, there are very powerful organizational forces pushing for a single implementation language. A practical exception to this is that there are plenty of programs coded in a systems language providing a scripting language (e.g. gdb in C++ with Python scripting, Emacs in C with Elisp, Vim in C with Vimscript) made tolerable by the scripting language being extra-easy, very widely known, or known to all users of the program, so familiar to any contributor.

But the need to learn another language, or two or three, just to contribute to a project will turn away people not able to spare that much attention. Businesses would need to pay for the time all the developers need to learn all the languages. And, languages will be at multiple levels of maturity and stability. What do you do when 10% of your system is coded in a now unmaintained language? When you want to port to a new target execution environment, does each language not ported there get to hold you hostage?

This is why languages with a wide range are attractive. C++ and Rust aim for this wide range, providing for both bit-twiddling optimization and system architecture organization. Supporting a wide range is a big burden for a language maintainer, so there will never be very many like that.
I am hoping something like this leaks for UK. It's No. 1 destination for corrupt politicians to park their ill-earned money (atleast for Pakistani politicians).
> That hole is mostly covered by G.729 and AMR-NB.

G.729 seems to be open with many/most patents expiring in 2017.

AMR-NB appears to need licensing, so not as open as Codec2 or Opus.

Regardless: if Codec2 could be pulled up and/or Opus pulled down, then most audio applications could do with really only two libraries.
That's a nice and very extensive collection.

As a follow-up, I can also recommend Effective Shell series. I used to have navigation shortcut diagram from Part 1 (https://dwmkerr.com/effective-shell-part-1-navigating-the-co...) printed out.
More like:

HN is full of users who don't know what $thing is but want to explain how wrong it is to one another.

(Having said that, Economics is still quackery)
Is HN something between Reddit and Buzzfeed now? Apologies if this sounds smartass-y but the quality of top posts in the frontpage has dropped significantly the past two years.
You and I could make such vows all day long without changing anything about the world we live in.
I have no clue about the science but I like to think of time as an illusion, just for the fun of it. It appears to me to be our way of making sense of reality based on our limited senses of what's really going on. There is only "now" in reality - and we can't begin to imagine what that is like - so our minds layer up moment after moment to create the illusion of time. Previous moments are our memories, right now is reality and future moments are our imagination.

If we didn't have the ability to "layer up" moments in our minds, we probably wouldn't be able to make sense of music or speech for example.

Reminds me of my favourite film Memento. If the protagonist forgot everything every nanosecond instead of every 10-30 minutes or so, he would probably be completely in touch with reality and have no concept (or illusion) of time. If you put two Leonard Shelby's in a room and lock the door and observe what happens, they will eventually bump into each other but only from the observer's perspective (his mind observing the layering of moments). Neither Shelby will be aware of how many times they have bumped into each other or what "bumping into someone" is like (because even something as small as bumping into another person is hundreds of little moments layered together in the mind).
Worth noting is that Canada has the biggest uranium company and supplier outside of Russian influence, so any development should help that company.
I think we agree. The cost of installing a lift up a large mountain is incredibly high, and the benefit is relatively low, since the experience will still be so different from hiking up the mountain. I think most people would agree that tradeoff is not worth it.

The people who wrote this letter are arguing that the cost of full remote work is low or even negative, and the benefits are quite high, so the tradeoff is worth it. That's what this discussion is about, how should we balance the tradeoffs.

And yes, I don't know if they were meant to be sarcastic, but all of your questions are worth considering. If you have a deaf coworker that struggles with remote work, you should absolutely consider making changes up to and including in-person work. I can't tell you what tradeoff would be appropriate for your particular team and situation, but of course you should think about it and not just default to the status quo.

I also think many people with disabilities would argue that we as a society have not yet reached "minimum standards of accessibility".
Learnt a neat trick from an old sysadmin colleague.

If you’ve written a command but realize you don’t want to run it right now but want to save it in your history you can just put a `#` in front of it (ctrl-a #) making it a comment and allowing you to save it in your history without running it.

When you’re ready to run it you find it and remove the preceding `#`
I can think of 4 things that would make a science-based discussion around those sensitive topics more palatable: 1) All data is in distributions, and so no predictions can be made about an individual based on distributions. 2) "Better" is a meaningless term in these discussions. 3) Any traits are the result of optimization for a particular environment. 4) Everyone should be treated with respect.
I don't know if you're familiar with Zelda Classic, but it wouldn't be comparable to the 64KB ROM either way

Zelda Classic is a very open ended game engine that happens to have Zelda 1 assets baked in

I recall people making entire Metroidvanias with it
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I got promoted twice in 6 months having never been to the office. 100% fully remote. Without distraction of meeting everyone around the office I spent more time on results and selective 1:1 zoom calls.
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But I had plenty of natural conversations in Ventrilo..made a lot of close friends.
Got a bad result?
https://i.imgur.com/xwnPy8H.png
> It comes at the cost of lower power production

Lower electrical production, not lower power production.
Wait till you find out about "Tiffany"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI (CGP Grey)

(spoiler: he couldn't find out where it came from, and did this video on his research to explain more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ )
I have to ask: you're concerned about the year 9999 problem?
I did read about some military research along these lines. I don't recall noise resistance being mentioned, but that the young male air force pilots responded more quickly and accurately to female voices.
> that didn't require fast user clicks

It absolutely did! Curse that seagull in MI1 tavern, ugh.
Who has complained that the C standard library is bloated?

In C++ the standard library has several entire features that are regrettable and so just take up space (e.g. regex, yes regular expressions are useful, no the standard library implementation isn't what you want), as well as places where they kept thinking of new better ideas and now there's a trail of old busted stuff you shouldn't use in new projects.

So of course people are going to say that's bloated, it is.
The department that developed their own SharePoint app without involving IT
TIL about Zelda Classic which has apparently been around a long time https://www.zeldaclassic.com/development-history/

Very cool port, I like that it tries to integrate it into the browser features instead of calling it a day after compiling. The lack of D-pad support is a bit jarring considering gamepads are supported but it was still very playable.
Cool. Not sure how useful it is considering what other commenters said, but is there anything like this for indices or currencies?

Also, typo: Higest -> Highest
You can’t murder a clump of cells. Otherwise the treatment for cancer or a yeast infection would result in a prison sentence.
If you’re appealing to corporate authority, at-will employment means that being irritating to management can get you fired or perhaps blacklisted.

Barring a union contract, seeking shelter via anti-discrimination laws is the best aircover. So you shift from complaining about work conditions to complaining about conditions that do not reasonably accommodate a protected condition.

Being not “neuro-normative” is a great one to use as it feeds into tech stereotypes and is really difficult to disprove.
He seems to say enough stuff that some of it ends up being correct. He seemed to be wildly wrong on timeframes of some calls.

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/geztt6/why_do_pe...
Anywhere the choice of language is constrained like that, by definition the niche language will not be a viable alternative.
"Why haven't you just tried not being autistic?"
can you expand on this?
`Simply buy a diversified set of investments in a tax-efficient wrapper for a total cost of < 10 basis points annually,`
> Part of the job is getting to the top of the skyscraper

I guess that's the core disagreement here. The people who wrote this letter do not think getting to the top of the skyscraper is an important part of the job worth sacrificing even a small amount of accessibility, and the executives do.
All this is reasonable if the goal is to create obedient workforce: they must be good at understanding instructions and following them. Any sort of initiative, and violence is a form of initiative, is discouraged. That's also why many girls do much better in schools, but struggle later when initiative is needed.
Oh I 100% know - there are a handful of spontaneous hallway conversations that started as idle chit chat and veered off in unanticipated directions that altered my career path. I can see them clearly since they were literally life changing.

None of them - not one - would have happened virtually. There would never had been a reason for me to interact with those people other than I just happened to be in the same physical time/space as them and happened to stop and chat.

It's rather silly when you try to think about it rationally - that so much should ride on random chance; but it's also life. There's millions of years of social evolution favoring in person contact and to pretend otherwise is just silly.
> > commercially exploited

> I feel like this is an odd way to put it

Actually this is the standard way to put it, at least in my corner of the globe (i.e., europa.eu)
> […] May 1 would tend to become a commemoration […]

Commemoration ≠ celebration.
That layout is so smooth.

Smart choice for packaging. Keep it simple should be a rule, not the exception.
If you loved The Dig, you'll badly want a remake after this https://youtu.be/xHJlIhpNS2I
Don't forget Co-Star.

https://www.costarastrology.com/why-haskell
> Can anyone honestly and sincerely tell me that online whiteboards are exactly equivalent to in-person whiteboard sessions?

I've worked in software for > 20 years. I've been a tech lead of a few projects that shipped and YOU likely use in your daily everyday life. Outside of interviews, i've had to use a real-life whiteboard ... twice ...
Of course not. Whoever could cause an "impact" either:

1) Benefits from this;

2) Is very close to someone who benefits from this;

3) Has a glass-made roof and doesn't feel precisely confident in throwing rocks at other people's roofs.